Wetlands
Pot hole duck hunting.
The view from the blind looking out over the shooting pool to that portion of the water the ducks seem to favor from past experience.
The blind immediately after covering it with rippy grass and Pin Oak limbs.
A long range view of the same pot hole. This one does not drain post season and has deep water well out from the blind. The shotgun range shooting pool requires chest waders or dog.
Not all duck hunting is from a blind. We offer layout boat and wade-in areas.
The picture above is a wade in area completely maintained and planted by what an ATV can haul in. The millet shown is just heading out at late summer. By season start all the area covered by green will be flooded. While small appearing in this picture the far ground is a couple of hundred yards away.
What motivates a wade-in or layout boat area over that of a blind placement has several aspects. The first is to grow rippy, cut and haul enough and to cover our current 34 blinds is a good bit of work in both time and effort. The next is the ease at getting into some of the wetlands to get the blind in and then the rippy is too troublesome. Finally, the water dog hunters use wade-in and layout areas for their dogs as much as the blinds. Those without dogs may not seek these areas due to their frequently deeper water and that most do not receive any bottom maintenance for lack of tractor access.
What we like to see second to a flight of greenheads coming in.
