What are the secrets to a good duck and goose pond?¿
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What are the secrets to a good duck and goose pond?¿
Hey,
I'm trying hard to locate a awesome spot to put a blind, put i don't know what i should be specifically looking for... Like it needs to be on high ground, or it needs to surrounded by grass and have a feed plot some where near by...?? those are the kinds of tips and secrets im looking for..
If you could reply i would appreciate it
Thanks,
FESTIS
I'm trying hard to locate a awesome spot to put a blind, put i don't know what i should be specifically looking for... Like it needs to be on high ground, or it needs to surrounded by grass and have a feed plot some where near by...?? those are the kinds of tips and secrets im looking for..
If you could reply i would appreciate it
Thanks,
FESTIS
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RE: What are the secrets to a good duck and goose pond?¿
well the first thing you need to do is find a pond that at least some ducks and geese use. then you need to keep people off of it and dont hunt it the first year. when the ducks and geese are gone pump it dry and plant some kind of food source in it like biologic waterfowl forage. try to plant japanese millet around the edges. keep it relatively dry all year. depending on when your duck season starts you need to start pumping water about two months before your season opens. the birds that were using it last year we'll see that it provides them with everything they need. it wont be long before they start bringin more birds into the pond. hope this helps you kill some birds!
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: NW Ohio , 5 min from Ottawa National / Magee Marsh
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RE: What are the secrets to a good duck and goose pond?¿
It need to be next to a major interstate hiway and have houses or even better a police station right next to it.
Posted no hunting helps .
HA HA ,but it's true ,a few miles from my house is a 4-5 acer pond with 300+ geese on it or around it and 100+ malards ,the township police station is right next to it ,its 100' from a 4 lane road.
I like a shallow pond that is away from the road and houses .
Low banks so the geese can feed on the banks and walk into the feilds to feed.
No or few trees on the banks help
It needs to be in a flyway ,I live nere lake Erie and the geese and ducks stay out there and come in to feed and loaf.
The biger the better for geese and ducks but harder to hunt
It needs pond weeds for the ducks and geese to eat.
I dug my blind into a bank, on a point that runs into the pond with less than 2' of water depth on either side of point.
The blind top is less that 1' over the ground height and the grass grows this high.
The blind needs to be bailed each time I use it .
You don't want your blind to stick out or up above cover ,and remember the birds wlii be looking down.
You don't want it to have a black hole where you are looking out of.
Posted no hunting helps .
HA HA ,but it's true ,a few miles from my house is a 4-5 acer pond with 300+ geese on it or around it and 100+ malards ,the township police station is right next to it ,its 100' from a 4 lane road.
I like a shallow pond that is away from the road and houses .
Low banks so the geese can feed on the banks and walk into the feilds to feed.
No or few trees on the banks help
It needs to be in a flyway ,I live nere lake Erie and the geese and ducks stay out there and come in to feed and loaf.
The biger the better for geese and ducks but harder to hunt
It needs pond weeds for the ducks and geese to eat.
I dug my blind into a bank, on a point that runs into the pond with less than 2' of water depth on either side of point.
The blind top is less that 1' over the ground height and the grass grows this high.
The blind needs to be bailed each time I use it .
You don't want your blind to stick out or up above cover ,and remember the birds wlii be looking down.
You don't want it to have a black hole where you are looking out of.
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