ghadarits
Senior Member
The best place I’ve ever had access to that consistently pulled in mallards was in Forsyth County. If it really iced up with snow cover up north there would be hundreds of them in only 10-15 acres of swamp. I really miss that place. This was in the late 1980s and there were more ducks around with less people going after them.To address a few points:
1. Where you are in the state DOES matter. I have heard of private areas around the Atlanta area and Millen area have huge numbers of woodies come in along with ringnecks, but they wont see a gadwall or mallard but once in a blue moon or none at all.
2. However, where I hunt (east GA) we get the woodies yes, but I have limited out on gadwall multiple times, and have seen very large groups come through this area. Same state, but different results.
As highlighted before in this topic and other topics the ducks change over the years along with their patterns. This used to not be the norm for the area. There used to be a much larger population of mallards that would come through this area, but no gadwall. The gadwall have made a comeback and adapted to the food in the area (primarily duckweed it seems) but the mallards have demised. In 20 years it could be a whole different story.