DIY Duck Hunting Pond Results

Results for my DIY Duck Hunting Rice Planting and comparing it to other duck hunting food plots.

[catchyoulateroutdoors]

Wow, that looks so good! I’m excited to see an update come this Winter. Hopefully it will be full of ducks!

[HunterCleve]

Hope everyone enjoyed the update hopefully will be doing some beaver hunting in the next video!!!!

[fowlplayoutdoors]

Glad its doing well. Using the water to keep weeds out is a definitely plus of rice. Japanese millet can take some as well and Chiwappa millet is even better. If you plant it next year, get regular Ag rice. I'm able to get it locally from a place that does pond and waterfowl habitat management for $50 a bag and no shipping.

As I think you are finding, you do not need to soak the rice first. You can just throw it in the water and then drain it a couple days later. That isn't to soak the seed but to let the seed stick in the mud. Or, you can just throw it on teh ground after it is drained. Just like Japanese millet. I did lightly disc mine last year and it came up great. It will need rain to get started.

Unless the ducks eat it all first, you will have seed heads in the water after the season is over. In fact, if you drain the pond next spring and leave it alone, it will start to grow again.

Keep in mind rice really like nitrogen so feeding it some 17-17-17 will help. Get that at a farm supply store instead of a big box store as it will be much cheaper, around $20 for 50 lbs. 200 lbs an acre would be good.

FWIW, you do have time to put out some Jap millet in those open spots if you want to take the time to drain it down to a mud flat.

Keep us posted!