Debate on Flooded Corn for Duck Hunting

[@brianjure2683]

Yes, that's exactly what you do, hide in the corn rows, it works, been hunting flooded corn in Missouri for 20 years now

[@colt10mlb]

My position on corn is what is the difference in adding corn to water or water to corn. If you can raise water levels right up to the top of the corn then I see no difference in baiting.

[@brianbasford5469]

i watch both of you guys , almost every video . Y’all are two of the best in the game . I hunt ducks in florida , usually 30+ trips a year . Where i live we have such a huge problem with the old southern “ plantations “ who flood out corn ponds. Every public lake we hunt has multiple private ponds literally right thru the woods . We get new birds and literally the next day they’re sitting on corn ponds . I used to work on one of these plantations and have a buddy that does still . There are thousands and thousands of birds rafted up a quarter mile or less thru the woods . They only shoot these ponds a couple times a year . When they do shoot the ponds and you’re on the public lakes , you can hear the war zone thru the trees and here come droves and droves of birds . Something needs to be done because it has ruined public hunting . The problem in that is i know for a fact that these rich plantation owners have pull and power within the wildlife organizations and the rules are catered to help them .

[@FreelanceDuckHunting]

That has to be so frustrating!

[@marketingarmllc7753]

Similar here in South Carolina. We basically have no food on public land. In fact in most of the big lakes they release grass carp to eat the hydrilla etc which would at least give public a fighting chance… And honestly, I still don’t understand how flooded corn is not baiting

[@jakewaddle1801]

Put the sun at your back and use the shadows. Sometimes you gotta hunt a cross wind, or on the end of a row, but it’ll be worth the show when they do it right.

[@terryporche9059]

Missouri, Arkansas is short stopping the migration with flooded food sources. In south Louisiana the juvenile flock has no imprint on food all the way to the coastline. They Louisiana hunters are very excited about seeing any mallards or pintails.

[@goldxpeak3842]

Oh no they are hot cropping oh no. No Louisiana has completely changed farming practices in the last two decades that’s a huge factor and migration has shifted it’s been scientifically proven.

[@Bret55]

@goldxpeak3842 You keep thinking that bud. I hunt north LA well north of where a change in rice farming would play any part in the migration. The first day I hunted (Jan 9, 2010) was a grand passage day. When it got daylight, for the next 8 hours, there wasn’t a minute you couldn’t look up and see 30-1000 ducks or 50-2000 geese. It was incredible. Every waterfowl in the MS flyway knew only one thing…the gulf was not going to be frozen over and that’s where they were headed. It was 17 degrees and bluebird skies. I’ve since hunted more days than I can count at 17 degrees and colder with a stiff north wind and seen less than 100 ducks. That’s not about what’s going on down here. It’s about what’s going on above us in the flyway. More and more flooded corn up north means when it gets like that, they can ride it out. They’ll land on ice and eat corn and then fly back to a river or reservoir where there wouldn’t be a thing to eat and hunker down. You will NEVER make me believe different because I’ve seen enough videos to prove it.

[@harduckn]

You can hide in corn easier than moist soil for the average hunter. Also, all the corn gets eaten. Probably every time. If ducks don't eat it all, the snow geese will finish it off.

[@FreelanceDuckHunting]

If the average hunter is a guy who just walks out into the marsh and has no plan for concealment.