Ericdc wrote:Rick wrote:Whether or not a field is planted that particular year would be last on my list of considerations, though given half decent water control I'd much rather rough plowed fallow ground than rice stubble.
Maybe down there. I hunted a fallow field about 5 years ago and it was terrible. The field we moving too has better water control. And it'll have a plowed area around the blind just like the one we've been hunting has had. I know that's frowned upon down there but it seems to work ok up here.
If subleasing has taught me anything at all, it's that everyone and his three cousins wants rice stubble, and I know you're one of the above. My point, however, was that good ol' "location" with regard to predominant flight paths and possible impediments to using the spot (houses, trees, other blinds, etc) and the ability to keep water shallow are what I look for first in an ag field. IE: there are things that can nix the draw of a spot with tons of any feed you'd like and things that can make spots with no feed whatsoever attractive to game.