Central Oklahoma

[cpriest]

Have a buddy with a deer lease that's been telling me he has some ducks out there. He's never duck hunted but I figured it's gotta be better than NWA right now. Set up Saturday morning real early on a shallow pond named the Honey Hole from the previous group that had the lease. Well....had 1 small duck land 75 yards out of the spread. Decided to go drive around. There is a lot of water on this property. Managed to jump a big group of wigeons off a pond and got 2. Then we found it. An oxbow that birds were just falling in non stop. It was so densely covered in cattails it took us 30 minutes to walk maybe 150 yards. Finally see water with hundreds of birds. Bingo. Set up there Sunday morning and jump a lot of birds. We wait, and wait, and wait. Nothing flies in that morning. At this point I know there are ducks all over the property but not sure what to do. We decide to leave the spread and come back early afternoon. About 4:15 it starts. There is 4 of us, I'm the only one who has ever duck hunted. A few singles fly in and the guys were stoked. Then the groups get larger with 7-10 flying in. Then it was on. Groups of 20-30. We limit out within an hour. Mostly greenheads with a few gadwalls. Still 30 mins of light picking up the decoys and the birds just keep pouring in. By the time we got to the truck hundreds of birds roosting there. I have never had much luck late in the day, but that was something special especially for the 3 guys who's first time it was out there. Had a good lesson teaching them how to clean the birds then fired up the grill for a quick dinner. I made it home by 1am and it was a long day at work but well worth it!

[JohnP]

Congrats on finding some birds and converting a few more goat hunters to the feathered side. Still waiting on em to show up over this way.

[BilletHead]

Thanks for your report cpriest. I have never tried an evening hunt over water. May have to give it a go sometime,

BilletHead

[cpriest]

Thanks guys. It was a unique hunt for sure. Hopefully this weather and rain gets some new birds here in AR.

[Feathers and Fins]

CP that's a good hunt. I always seem to do well in the PM most people are gone home already so no skybusting going on and less competition .

[cpriest]

Found out something interesting about the property we hunted. The neighboring land is nothing but huge peanut fields. Apparently the birds are in the fields all day eating. I knew the guys in SE AR got them like that in the rice but didn't known peanuts attracted ducks!

[Feathers and Fins]

CP Peanuts and Barley fields will hold more birds than rice will at times. One of my best goose/mallard hunts came from a nut field, even as we were picking up they were still landing in it.

[JohnP]

Awwwww peanuts .