Rice Fields........... Stubble vs. No Stubble

[BW Dux]

What you guys think , or prefer? Rice fields with Stubble or Without??

[deltaman]

Personally I wouldn't prefer hard stubble prodded up my rectum, that's just me and I'm not a duck..

[JaMak84]

A little bit of both. Been my experience they don't like landing in it, but they like the cover. Most of the fields I've hunted are smoothed up due to the farmer wanting to get his field prepped for the spring. The few I've hunted where stalks were left, they disced or rolled opening around the blinds if they could. Also used layouts to hunt the edges of areas where the the rice was laying down and they had to keep the header low during harvest.

[goosebruce]

Stubble around the outside of a field makes the field hunt 'bigger'.. they like the security of the stubble around them, but they dont want to land in it. i like the stubble standing, even better if they burn it first... then i can roll holes in it only in places i can shoot a duck... dont roll where you can't hide to hunt. a 4 wheeler with mudtires, and a 10-12 foot pipe, with a towstrap will do great rolling flooded stubble... wrap the strap around the pipe instead of tieing it, so when you get to dragging too much you can hit the turn row and the pipe will roll and fling a bunch off and you can get back to rolling. chisel plowed or rolled makes no difference to the ducks coming in as far as one better or the other, but it sure is a helluva lot harder to hide in a chisel plowed rice field. also, the big piles of stubble on the turn row that slid off your pipe, makes perfect piles to grass coffins when you get ready to hunt. rare is the farmer that will roll exactly where you want him too, cause the 'help' normally gets that job... so we just roll it ourselves. travis

[the doctor]

study from MSU outlined rolled was best practice for waterfowl, not necessarily for waterfowl hunters but the ducks

I like burned and rolled, behind that I'll take disked

stubble standing is last on my list

the doc

[GAHEEL83]

I prefer waxed

[ScottyLee]

roll the field where teh dux are gonna be using in standin water, and leave stubble on the leavees to help break up the coffin blinds better?? best of both worlds...

[pondman]

I prefer waxed

Well played!

Pond