[powerstrokin247]

Hey guys I've got an Ag question regaurding planting for waterfowl.

So i have drained down my 5 acre pond and exposed 5-20ft mudflats around it. I planted Japanesse Millet back in the middle of july to be ready for the early season. If all the millet matures out what do i do to get the millet to re-grow for the late duck seasons?

I now realize i should have planted in sections each a week or two later than the next (next year)

Do I:

1- weedeat areas to reseed
2-reseed more millet in with it now
3- or let it hopfully re-seed its self for Dec. and january hunting

I hope theres atleast one another Duck hunter on here!

 

[fishinfool98]

can you stage areas
if so build up areas to hold the jap millet in certian places so it doesnt spread through out the pond

i sectioned off three spots in my pond so even if the water was low there will always be alitte water there

i always cut mine back every 2 months to keep it from over growin
then again at the begining of the season we at least 2 weeks before we dumped all of our left over p nuts out there

and every season was nice but 2000 it sucked then no water
havent hunted really since i joined the coast guard

 

[powerstrokin247]

Not exactly sure waht you mean by section off but i could deff. only plant 1/3 of the shoreline at a time in the future.

for now should i let a majority of it finish maturing and then cut the heads and let the other smaller ones continue to grow?

 

[fishinfool98]

by sectioning
i mean staging the pond
build little dikes around where you plant at the height of normal water level but it you have to leav a way for water to enter it
kind of like making a pond in your pond

 

[fishinfool98]

i would go ahead and cut the mature let the little stuff grow

when you cut it leave it where it lays

 

[powerstrokin247]

i would go ahead and cut the mature let the little stuff grow

when you cut it leave it where it lays

Alright, so in the next couple of weeks knock the heads of the mature stuff and let the smaller stuff be.

 

[fishinfool98]

yep thats what we always did take an old sling blad to it if you have one
we would also run through it with troling motors during season to kind of thin it out alittle

 

[powerstrokin247]

yep thats what we always did take an old sling blad to it if you have one
we would also run through it with troling motors during season to kind of thin it out alittle

Alright good deal, thanks abunch.

Yeah it hasnt flooded yet, we need rain bad here in NC

 

[JR44]

Sounds like you may end up with a nice Duck Hole to hunt over...

Do you have an early Teal Season in N.C. ?

I've been doing most of my Duck Hunting in Arkansas and I'm lovin it!

When they get enough water, They get enough Ducks!

During the drier years, all the Ducks get HAMMERED wherever there is water!

I don't bother with the early season in November, I like to wait till January to see if it get's cold enough up north to push them that far south.

If it does, LOOK THE %#*^ OUT!

All the luck on your pond and remember:
Call em in close and Shoot em in the face.

JR44

 

[bigcountry250]

Looks like you found your answer bro, thanks FishinFool for helping out my brother, now Thomas go kill some ducks and cook em up for me!

 

[powerstrokin247]

Sounds like you may end up with a nice Duck Hole to hunt over...

Do you have an early Teal Season in N.C. ?

I've been doing most of my Duck Hunting in Arkansas and I'm lovin it!

When they get enough water, They get enough Ducks!

During the drier years, all the Ducks get HAMMERED wherever there is water!

I don't bother with the early season in November, I like to wait till January to see if it get's cold enough up north to push them that far south.

If it does, LOOK THE %#*^ OUT!

All the luck on your pond and remember:
Call em in close and Shoot em in the face.

JR44

We have a early teal season at the coast but not near here. Yeah i want to go to arkansas so bad, im trying to get a trip up this year but my buddies all bail on me.

I dont even know were to begin to go even if i went, do you hunt the Bayou Meda*?