Killintime88
UAEC
IF I BUILD IT... WILL THEY COME???
My wife and I recently purchased 30 acres in the Toombs/Appling/Tattnall county area. The property is 8ish miles (bird flight) from the Altamaha, and less than that from the Ohoopee rivers. The area is saturated with farm ponds and has a fair amount of agriculture. Our property is rolling hills, and covered with dense cover. The water shed keeps the bottom puddled up nearly year around, and the run off feeds the neighboring property owners 4 acre pond. Luckily his pond dam keeps roughly and acre or more of our place flooded. This wet weather creek is full of the "Ogeechee lime trees" and we harvested 15 hooded mergansers during the '17 season. Most every evening, the place would just swarm with woodies. However, all coming in to roost and they would be gone prior to first light. So this leads me to my reasoning for this post....
I will be having heavy equipment on site to clear the house pad, property lines, and road ways. I have a small 18" culvert slap square center of the property, and an almost irresistible potential to build a 1-3 acre "official puddle duck" impoundment. THIS WILL NOT BE CHEAP.... I AM NOT RICH... a lot of big trees, and low land. However, I'm dreaming of many Thanksgiving mornings on dry Levies with 24" of flooded millet, on my own turf, with my young boys folding up triple banded birds till 11.... I have hunted Georgia for years... I understand the severity of my previous statement...
Has anyone ever had success with wet soil management for ducks in south Georgia...... I really hope the answer is yes....
My wife and I recently purchased 30 acres in the Toombs/Appling/Tattnall county area. The property is 8ish miles (bird flight) from the Altamaha, and less than that from the Ohoopee rivers. The area is saturated with farm ponds and has a fair amount of agriculture. Our property is rolling hills, and covered with dense cover. The water shed keeps the bottom puddled up nearly year around, and the run off feeds the neighboring property owners 4 acre pond. Luckily his pond dam keeps roughly and acre or more of our place flooded. This wet weather creek is full of the "Ogeechee lime trees" and we harvested 15 hooded mergansers during the '17 season. Most every evening, the place would just swarm with woodies. However, all coming in to roost and they would be gone prior to first light. So this leads me to my reasoning for this post....
I will be having heavy equipment on site to clear the house pad, property lines, and road ways. I have a small 18" culvert slap square center of the property, and an almost irresistible potential to build a 1-3 acre "official puddle duck" impoundment. THIS WILL NOT BE CHEAP.... I AM NOT RICH... a lot of big trees, and low land. However, I'm dreaming of many Thanksgiving mornings on dry Levies with 24" of flooded millet, on my own turf, with my young boys folding up triple banded birds till 11.... I have hunted Georgia for years... I understand the severity of my previous statement...
Has anyone ever had success with wet soil management for ducks in south Georgia...... I really hope the answer is yes....
