Tips for managing this duck hole?

• Dec 13, 2017

• #1

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WaterwackerSiah

Member

This hole used to be a good bid duck hole years ago, with mallards, gadwall, and a few woodies.

The smart weed has taken over the area and there really isn't a good place for the ducks to land?

Any ideas on how to control it? Hedge clippers?

The hole is approx 3-4 acres.

 

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• Dec 13, 2017

• #2

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jakebuddy

Senior Member

Smartweed is as good as it gets for food looks like a lot of other debris, looks like a good roost hole though. If it's a beaver dam bust it out in the spring get some new growth.

 

• Dec 13, 2017

• #3

Mexican Squealer

Senior Member

Clemson leveler and a match at the right time

 

• Dec 13, 2017

• #4

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WaterwackerSiah

Member

Its actually not a beaver dam but just a flooded area (floods from a creek) that holds water year round. I was thinking about burning it, but would not know how to do it safely....

 

• Dec 14, 2017

• #5

Pate55

Senior Member

Just get in there and thin it out.

 

• Dec 14, 2017

• #6

mbentle2

Senior Member

We cleared out a huge beaver swamp that was choked out with lue strife using one of those narrow shovels and a small Jon boat to load it in and haul out. Was a lot of work but gave the ducks somewhere to land.

 

• Dec 14, 2017

• #7

DRBugman85

Senior Member

Get a mud boat with a surface Drive and it want take long to open it up if its not to many stumps to use a surface Drive.

 

• Dec 15, 2017

• #8

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WaterwackerSiah

Member

mbentle2 said:

We cleared out a huge beaver swamp that was choked out with lue strife using one of those narrow shovels and a small Jon boat to load it in and haul out. Was a lot of work but gave the ducks somewhere to land.

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Interesting, so I am guessing the work paid off, and the ducks used your hole? Can't imagine the work it would take to try and haul the vegetation out of the pond.

Can't get a mud motor boat in there, not accessible enough as of now.

 

• Dec 15, 2017

• #9

Long Cut

Senior Member

Spot spray herbicide (carefully)
Weed eater
Hand pull larger shrubs
Set decoys
Shoot

 

• Dec 15, 2017

• #10

Big7

The Oracle

WaterwackerSiah said:

Its actually not a beaver dam but just a flooded area (floods from a creek) that holds water year round. I was thinking about burning it, but would not know how to do it safely....

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Forest Service will help you burn it.

 

• Dec 15, 2017

• #11

tucker80

Senior Member

pump it dry as possible. Then burn it. One of those torches you hook to a 20 lb propane tank. Harbor freight has them pretty cheap.