Found a Flight ponds, my new hobby me thinks

[groach1234]

Just yesterday with all this talk about people wild fowling i thought i would give some pond/lagoons on the farm a look and see if they turned out any duck as the idea of shooting wild duck had never crossed my mind before so anyway i went for a look and stirred up 10 mallard so now im thinking some sort of duck shooting is in order.

 

My plan is to start feeding the ponds to draw in more ducks so the question is simply how do i go about doing this? i have no real idea as am new to the whole idea of make shift keeping so basically i would like to know first of all if it will work, secondly what to use and how to use it so far as what 'bait/food' and how often? any help for yet another thing i am a complete noob about will be both kindly and gratefully received. Thanks,

 

George

[3xspringer]

Feed it with barley in the margins [shallow water] needs to be fed daily, if it goes well buy a electric feeder and program it to feed twice a day early morning and late afternoon, good luck and have a great time. :blink:

[mudpatten]

........and don`t forget to use non toxic shot!

[gixer1]

My keeper freind mentioned a good idea, put 4 stakes into the water so they stick out a foot or so above the surface, attach a piece of wire mesh to this and leave a couple of dead rabbits on it, eventually the maggots on the rabbits will fall into the water and the ducks will chomp on these.

 

Regards,

 

Gixer

[henry d]

I imagine that would work during the summer/early autumn, but not from now until the late spring.