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Does anyone have any insight (knowledge) to share on how heavy rainfall affects ducks' behavior, or better yet, duck-hunting?

ducks once the rain is more than a drizzle stop flying like all the other smart birds do...now there are a few dumb birds around.

If you are already set up, birds are flying, and it begins to rain then get ready. They are coming down! Same with sleet.

GILREATH wrote:Does anyone have any insight (knowledge) to share on how heavy rainfall affects ducks' behavior, or better yet, duck-hunting?

it is very likely heavy rainfall will make the ducks wet, and it is very possible hunters will be wet while hunting in heavy rainfall

the doc

stand on toilet, have pee on ground.

Dogzeye wrote:stand on toilet, have pee on ground.

I thought if you stood on the toilet you were "high on pot"

Super Black Eagle wrote:

Dogzeye wrote:stand on toilet, have pee on ground.

I thought if you stood on the toilet you were "high on pot"

fall off and have peace on earth

Dogzeye wrote:

Super Black Eagle wrote:

Dogzeye wrote:stand on toilet, have pee on ground.

I thought if you stood on the toilet you were "high on pot"

fall off and have peace on earth

now fellas, there are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
just never hunted in a real heavy downpour; wondering what it will be like this week when i do??

I had the best hunt of my life when it was heavy rainfall and tornado's all around. Ducks were pouring into our hole. The only bad thing is the shells would misfire a lot more. I will be hunting in the rain for sure this week, and I expect to get wet.

I find they don't fly well at all in a heavy rain. When it first starts, they will be trying to find a place to call home. Then if the rain slacks some, they can and I find often times do get up and fly around to nock the water off of them. I like to hunt in a light rain, however I try and avoid the heavy stuff. Sometimes you get stuck in it no matter what though.

The question is irrevelent. You're going anyway. WTF. Tell us how it was. Its duck season. Must be ducks to shoot.

I agree bank man.

Likewise some of the best hunts I ever had were in the rain, and it does occasionally get hard to distinguish when it only going to be a light rain so I have had the opportunity to hunt in heavy downpours on occasion. Prefer not to remember those days, but just after a heavy downpour get ready cause they are going to get up and move around. You're standing waist deep in water anyway add a raincoat and wait it out. It is defineately worth it from my experience.

How about a question on a similar note:
If you had an option of hunting a field, flooded cypress, or flooded hardwoods on what is being forecasted as a rainy day with ~20 MPH winds and periods of heavy rain, which would you choose? Holes or more open spots in the timber to let the ducks get down out of the weather or the field as the ducks often seem to favor fields on cloudy days?

brake man

That ducks favor fields on cloudy days is a myth. We always killed 'em best in our rice fields on sunny days. Likewise, I've stomped more than a few in the timber on dark, cloudy days.