I'm thinking of building a duck impoundment, but I'm not really sure where to start. The area I'm looking at is in a relatively low/damp creek bottom. The adjoining creek has pretty good year round flow, even during this past dry year.
Is it as simple as clearing the trees, building a levee around the area, planting for ducks and flooding it?
Are there any permits I should pursue?
What would be an adequate size to attract and hold ducks?
Should I even worry about clearing and planting the area or should I just create the levee and begin flooding it?
Any idea what kind of cost per acre there would be to do something like this?
I dug up and old post under the food plot section where someone created exactly what I'm talking about. I did a search for "Duck Pond". Unfortunately the member has since been banned. It really looked good. His impoundments were 3 and 4 acres in size.
Any help would be great.
Is it as simple as clearing the trees, building a levee around the area, planting for ducks and flooding it?
Are there any permits I should pursue?
What would be an adequate size to attract and hold ducks?
Should I even worry about clearing and planting the area or should I just create the levee and begin flooding it?
Any idea what kind of cost per acre there would be to do something like this?
I dug up and old post under the food plot section where someone created exactly what I'm talking about. I did a search for "Duck Pond". Unfortunately the member has since been banned. It really looked good. His impoundments were 3 and 4 acres in size.
Any help would be great.