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    Quote Originally Posted by YoungBuckTX View Post
    I think I mentioned in my post I have already hunted it 2th. Are you ever in a good mood?

    I have given thought to this though. I only plan on hunting it a few times this season. Ducks were already here before. And it's already been hunted before. So, why would they all leave now?
    you havent hunted it when planted, have you? Maybe I cant read. Or maybe I am just grumpy. OR OR OR I could be giving you good advice that you dont want to take so you use an excuse that its MY mood that is the issue here.

    Go hunt it. Have a ball.
    Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.

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    No, it wasn't planted before. But there was lots of natural food before, and still is. Much more than the millet. I get it. It won't be over hunted. Thanks for the advice 2th.

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    Love it but I'd have just sunk back into those small trees on the edge on a swamp seat, maybe built a bench so nothing is talle than surrounding vegetation vs a blind right in the middle. That's just me though. How I like to hunt swamps.
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    Nice work Phillip.

    Give me a shout if you need any duck potato or arrow arrum seed in the Spring. I froze plenty this year

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Duck View Post
    Love it but I'd have just sunk back into those small trees on the edge on a swamp seat, maybe built a bench so nothing is talle than surrounding vegetation vs a blind right in the middle. That's just me though. How I like to hunt swamps.
    agree with this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Murray View Post
    agree with this.
    Murray I pm'ed you but your inbox is full.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Duck View Post
    Love it but I'd have just sunk back into those small trees on the edge on a swamp seat, maybe built a bench so nothing is talle than surrounding vegetation vs a blind right in the middle. That's just me though. How I like to hunt swamps.
    Agreed. My BIL built it last year without consulting me. I did brush it in as best I could. It is also facing due east.

    I wanted to see how the ducks work before I went through the trouble of moving it. I don't expect the wood ducks to care. They hang out on it already. We will adjust wihen mallards show.

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    Murray-
    How much success have you had transplanting arrow arrum and duck potatoe? Looks awesome and curious how many moccasins you saw while harvesting.
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    Murray -

    How much migratory duck usage have you seen on the Arrow?

    IE: Other than your local, early, wood ducks.
    Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOGSTER View Post
    Murray -

    How much migratory duck usage have you seen on the Arrow?

    IE: Other than your local, early, wood ducks.
    almost none. it's pretty much gone by this time of year.

    local/early wood ducks, geese and maybe a few teal.

    Resident geese will mow it down.

    SAVs for migratory birds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Murray View Post
    almost none. it's pretty much gone by this time of year.

    local/early wood ducks, geese and maybe a few teal.

    Resident geese will mow it down.
    That is my same experience.

    To me it's not worth the effort.

    I judge my places by migratory usage.

    IE: I don't care what the local summer ducks are eating, I pay attention to what the teal, gadwall, and fat December wood ducks are eating.
    My experience is the Arrow doesn't make a difference to them.
    Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOGSTER View Post
    That is my same experience.

    To me it's not worth the effort.

    I judge my places by migratory usage.

    IE: I don't care what the local summer ducks are eating, I pay attention to what the teal, gadwall, and fat December wood ducks are eating.
    My experience is the Arrow doesn't make a difference to them.
    I get that, but it can only help. Jap Millet is not much better for me. Millet will last a few more weeks, but what does not get eat lays over after its flooded a month.

    AA would be awesome in FL.

    Easy to promote "useful" perennials, and change a swamp filled with burreed to a swamp filled with duck potato and rush

    Spray in March when growth starts, wait a couple weeks and broadcast seed.

    Give it a little help and duck potato and rush's will out compete reeds.

    If you can't add water to corn, then I think SAVs is the best thing you can do for migratory birds in SC.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Murray View Post
    I get that, but it can only help. Jap Millet is not much better for me. Millet will last a few more weeks, but what does not get eat lays over after its flooded a month.

    AA would be awesome in FL.

    Easy to promote "useful" perennials, and change a swamp filled with burreed to a swamp filled with duck potato and rush

    Spray in March when growth starts, wait a couple weeks and broadcast seed.

    Give it a little help and duck potato and rush's will out compete reeds.

    If you can't add water to corn, then I think SAVs is the best thing you can do for migratory birds in SC.
    same for duck potato as AA? wont last past November?

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    SAV?
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    I know of swamps in central NC that hold mallards eating AA in December
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    Quote Originally Posted by YoungBuckTX View Post
    same for duck potato as AA? wont last past November?
    seed drops and the plant dies shortly after the first frost for AA and duck potato . Gone by December for me every year. I'm north of 85, so it's a little cooler up here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Pride View Post
    I know of swamps in central NC that hold mallards eating AA in December
    Early December at best, or I would have to see it to believe it.

    It's a perennial.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmetto Pride View Post
    SAV?

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    What would be your "perfect" pond with multiple types of vegetation? What would last ?
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    Really cool pics showing your progress.
    Well done.

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