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Re: "Best brush" (not "bush"...Rice) but will accept pics!

Postby Anatidae » Tue Jun 24, 2014 2:45 pm

Thanks, Dan & Ted.....re: Baccharis ('Pigeon point' and 'Dwarf Coyote Brush') - there's only a couple of varieties that look like the leaves on this stuff.

Others: the oak limbs/leaves look good - lotta work. We've used oak a few times.......like when we're sitting in the boat 'under' the oak tree.

......View from the boat blind......12/30/98 'tight hole in high water.......2 greenhead limits - they never knew we were there.
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Re: "Best brush" (not "bush"...Rice) but will accept pics!

Postby davidees » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:45 pm

Anatidae wrote:Thanks, Dan & Ted.....re: Baccharis ('Pigeon point' and 'Dwarf Coyote Brush') - there's only a couple of varieties that look like the leaves on this stuff.

Others: the oak limbs/leaves look good - lotta work. We've used oak a few times.......like when we're sitting in the boat 'under' the oak tree.

......View from the boat blind......12/30/98 'tight hole in high water.......2 greenhead limits - they never knew we were there.
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Re: "Best brush" (not "bush"...Rice) but will accept pics!

Postby Anatidae » Tue Jun 24, 2014 6:17 pm

Thanks.

I was just recalling a memorable hunt........and it was all about 'the details' and completely fooling the ducks.......with oak limbs...... :mrgreen:

I agree it's kinda 'slow' around here.........

Sam Clemens said "life is what happens while you were making plans" - lotta truth to that. :wink:

Here's a view of the boat blind with broom sedge, baccharis, and natural grass........

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Not many folks go to that much trouble to 'hide'..........Bummer :?

.....but then, here's another tight hole......like 15 yds across and 30 yds long..........AND a boat. This hunt was over in less than 10 minutes........using cane and grass. Yes......it's a boat blind. And the amazing thing is......they pitched-in over our heads from behind us....which meant they had a bird's-eye view of the entire hole.........and never knew we were there.

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The dog ('Sprig') was so mad that the hunt was that short, that when we got home and I let my Brittany out of the kennel, she jumped him and had him down by the throat. Sprig was serious about her duck hunting.

So, there's a variety of things to 'hide' behind.....cane, oak limbs, grasses, bushes........just have to be creative. But the main thing.....the more natural it looks.....the better your chances.

Bottom line - Black holes and white faces don't cut-it.
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Re: "Best brush" (not "bush"...Rice) but will accept pics!

Postby Wingman » Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:25 pm

If you need baccharis, come to the Delta. It is everywhere in crp.
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Re: "Best brush" (not "bush"...Rice) but will accept pics!

Postby davidees » Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:47 pm

Wingman wrote:If you need baccharis, come to the Delta. It is everywhere in crp.
That's some good stuff. Me and a buddy squatted amongst a bunch of that stuff one day at a certain draw only WMA in the delta and had one of our best ever public land hunts. We were invisible in it.
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Re: "Best brush" (not "bush"...Rice) but will accept pics!

Postby davidees » Tue Jun 24, 2014 8:13 pm

If hunting a bean field, I like to use bean stubble:
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Re: "Best brush" (not "bush"...Rice) but will accept pics!

Postby Anatidae » Tue Jun 24, 2014 8:36 pm

davidees wrote:If hunting a bean field, I like to use bean stubble:
That's what I'm talking about...... :wink: Nice photo!
Wingman wrote:If you need baccharis, come to the Delta. It is everywhere in crp.
'Got plenty over here, too......just gotta get permission from the landowners to cut it. :wink:
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