Duck Hunting: When to Flood and Duck Food

In this video from Freelance Duck Hunting Elliott and Carl aka fumblemitts are out at the lease. The marsh is slowing being flooded in the hopes of attracting some early migrating teal. Carl and Elliott discuss their September strategy and what types of vegetation is growing in their complex.

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[dhoutdoors]

The lease is looking good. We tried to push some teal your way, out of southeast Nebraska this past weekend. I hadn't seen much teal prior to opening day, but on opening day we had good amounts of teal on the lake we were hunting.

[Stinkyjo]

Nut-sedge and barnyard grass ducks like so that is a good sign. When did you plant the millet? Did you fertilize it at all?

[cleetusjohnson]

That second type of vegetation you pointed out is watergrass. Lots of duck clubs here in California purposely irrigate to get that stuff to grow. Ducks love it!

[teamnorthfowl]

I would open a small 25 foot hole of open water .. give the ducks a sight of water and food .. we did this to my ditch and we have teal in it right now they land in the open water and go eat our vegetation on the out side .. pretty neat to watch .. the water is at 3 foot right now

[jeremykruse]

What kind of millet did you guys plant? We plant Japanese millet and it can be grown in water.

[davidmiller]

I hunt everyday of the season hunting public land. True freelance hunting!! You should rename your channel to part time freelance hunters!

[sacalaoutdoors]

If you have an area where you cannot flood but it’s adjacent to water would you still plant millet

[chasekellerman]

Looks good guys! I'm down in central fl and all of my food plots I put in for bow season are already already flooded from a tropical storm we had a few weeks ago and we have a big storm headed right for us. I was standing in 8" of water in my flooded soybean field early in the morning field cussing up a storm until a flock of teal and 2 black belly whistlers landed right in front of me and my truck and I continued to see groups of ducks landing there all morning. Thank god for teal season!!!!

[tuckerwhitmire]

Great video!! how much water will there be in there in regular duck season?

[ampman]

How many birds did you get that season off the lease?

[ZAKOutdoors]

Looks like it's going to be awesome! I cant wait, youth hunt is this Saturday for us. our dad said he has a degree in deer plots, what does he do for a living?

[nickboehm]

How much do you think it's going to cost to flood it all said and done? I've always been curious about that portion of land management.

[BigHFM]

Looks good, how far are you from the refuge

[Outdoors]

getting exciting now! good luck to yall this weekend! this will be my first hunt this weekend too. our season opened last weekend but i had to work.

[jaronhoda]

If you ever need to cut down cat tails roso kane for blinds or to remove use a foresters chainsaw brush blade 9" on a good weedwhacker and use it like a sling blade. It will do quick work of that kind of stuff.

[Diffidentone]

Well the public land we hunt had a nice about acre pool of water left from spring rains about 2 weeks before the season with hundreds of ducks and geese using it. Then Day before the teal and early goose season my nephew and I went out there scouting and some brilliant minds decided to turn on the pumps and nearly drained the whole pool out. We saw a couple DNR employees out there and they said the pumps turned on by themselves but the pumps have a physical switch to activate them so someone purposely turned them on.
We (Brother, his son and I) managed to get 16 teal (14 blue and 2 green) and a goose out of the little 10 foot by 20 foot pool that was left but could have been an amazing teal season if the pumps were not switched on. By the 4th day of the 7 day teal hunt the water hole was pretty much just a mud hole.
We were so looking forward to having all that water to carry us through the whole upcoming season and to go out there and see it all nearly drained was depressing to say the least. Well at least we all got our very first blue-wing, my first ever in my around 40 years of hunting.

[kylewatkins]

What degree does your dad have? I have wondered what he does for a living and was intrigued when he mentioned a biology degree.

[silveradoman]

Are you guys already starting to see birds on the lease?

[noahtheis]

I would love to get y'all over here to the Chesapeake

[carlcsnider]

At the time I graduated there we very few jobs. So my career took a different path