Rick wrote:Looks like second crop water and that that crop may be late (to my non-rice farmer's eye).
In the past, anything growing this time of year has largely been left. Think they'll pull the water off and try to harvest?
Rick wrote:Looks like second crop water and that that crop may be late (to my non-rice farmer's eye).
Rick wrote:Or they might leave water and standing rice for crawfish. Or harvest in the water, also for crawfish. But it looks like a lot of water to have been rain.
If they aren't cutting the rice and leaving it for crawfish, as is becoming common as an oxygenater to produce earlier, highest-dollar crawfish, you'll want to be sure your ponds are made before the heads get past milk stage or that the pond areas are harvested first to stay legal.
'Course if Dave and his pals get their way and flooded standing grain becomes "bait"...
Johnc wrote:Appears you are hunting in crawfish pond
Johnc wrote:They open up a place to hunt in that I gather?
Darren wrote:...though from what I've seen most everyone just makes a tell-tale hole right in front and back the blind, thus showing birds exactly where the blind is.
Rick wrote:Darren wrote:...though from what I've seen most everyone just makes a tell-tale hole right in front and back the blind, thus showing birds exactly where the blind is.
Gots to make you some nice round holes, so they'll know where to go - or not...
Rick wrote:Just have to cut enough bundles to make more of the levee look like the blind.
DComeaux wrote:The decoys were placed in the combine ruts only, or in other open areas in the stubble around the blind. I could never see many of the decoys from those pits once inside.
Johnc wrote:Funny that farmer allows geese too eat that field out. Especially if used for crawfishing
They sure are diligent to run birds out of stubble meant for crawfish around us
Rick wrote:Our experience with geese and duck decoys in flooded stubble, pasture growth or second crop has been that the contrary things will roost and mash all around the decoys but not in them. Have had my best luck getting them to take uncut stuff by getting out there before it's past milk stage and mashing openings for them to start in where I want them to take it. Seems they're like doves in not wanting to land on standing stuff and being much more likely to hit the ruts or thin patches and work their way out from those.
Rick wrote:Praying the sub-50% humidity afternoon or two forecast to follow it actually materialize. Still have a mess of specks, ducks and mallard heads to clear-coat, and time's getting short.
Oh, suppose it would be nice if a few birds tagged along, too.
Rick wrote:Took 14 to LC and back this morning in the kind of rain that usually draw ducks to the rice - and saw one. Mottled, I think.
MARSH BEAR wrote:Darren - another storm in the gulf - more high tides. I know we don't need it, but it appears your area will get more of the storm than my southwest louisiana.
Good cold front coming next week, but if the water is too high won't do me much good.
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