Marsh or Timber
 

For duck hunting what do you guys prefer...marsh or timber?

I hunt timber for woodies

I love marsh hunting, I've never been on a timber hunt though.

i'd trade a wood duck hunt in timber for a marsh hunt !!!

for sure flooded timber or open water.... only made a few marsh hunts on public property and that is way to much work walking through that stuff

We go to Shell Island opening weekend every year, you're more than welcome to come along. Usually leave Friday afternoon and come back Sunday. Other than that, we make day trips out there a few times a year and I tag along with friends the rest of the season. I don't have a lease or property so I gotta go with other people but I can probably line something up.

Two completely different experiences....I like them both cause either way i'm duck hunting so i'm happy

lets see..gunna try the actual timber hunting this year...(hope its not private land where i want to hunt...) going to be hunting ponds/creeks in timber on my deer lease...hunted marsh last year alots of ducks, the walk doesn't bother me.

i prefer timber area though..hard ground,easier to walk :)

Yep I bet you can glide through mud...try weighing 250lbs...

exactly... it sucked for me but my buddy is pretty big. it was horrible for him.

bellpepperhead,do you hunt the timber area in north la,or around where you live? Let me know and maybe we can switch a hunt out....have a camp and farm in klondike la..good speck hunting but ducks where slow last year... I have always wanted to hunt the timber!!!!give me a shout

doford, you go deer hunting often? I've never been on a goose hunt and have always wanted to, I would be interested in swapping a deer hunt for a goose hunt if you're interested.

i'd be interested in swapping a duck hunt on a creek for a deer/duck/hog hunt anywhere else i'll do a 3to1 hunt... 3 hunts from me for 1 hunt from anyone else..

Same here, I can promise a deer/hog hunt swap for a duck hunt. Jfranovich, let me know if you are interested. I hunt in a lease in Franklinton, La. We have some nice decent deer and kill a few hogs every now and then.

shoot me a PM... its a guaranteed limit on woodies here where i hunt, its only 2, but its fun, bring no calls... just gun and shells !!!

thought they changed the limit to 3?







yup i just walk clean across the mud in swamp/marsh, rather timber/creeks since i drive my fourwheeler to da spot,and i can wade the whole pond without sinking

it was 3 last year

just seen they set the dates for teal on the site...anyone know what day duck season opens this year??

Timber Hunting in louisiana just aint the same when you go to stuttgart for 2 weeks every year...thats my happy place...Bayou Meto WMA in Stuttgart Arkansas...the most amazing 2 weeks of my year....now marsh hunting..thats where the bread and butters att here in south La...i love it..aint nothing like watchin Pintails dive bomb you in the marsh...

Marsh
 

Marsh without a doubt. I have hunted timber before and enjoyed it, but something about sitting in the marsh is just a lot more enjoyable for myself. In my few hunts in the timber, it seemed as though we shot very few "trash" ducks. One advantage to the timber. But I love the mudboat rides and watching the greys cupped up and sailing into the decoys, so the marsh is where I call my home.

Love the marsh, have a lease southeast of Heberts Landing. Doford33 maybe we can exchange a morning marsh hunt/afternoon ricefield hunt for a flooded timber hunt up north with some of these guys, what do you think? Anybody interested?

Marsh any day of the week. That is really the only place in South LA to kill ducks day in and day out....Especially Pecan Island.

down here in gueydan we hunt the marsh...my dad an i own 40 acres that we hunt

Love the marsh! Got a beautiful pintail off of Wax last year(He's on the wall now!). I'd never seen any place where the sky turned black with birds prior to going there. I do have to say that the speed of bustin woodies is pretty dang cool though. They come in FAST and you better be on top of your game or, they'll be on top of you and gone before you know it!

only time now that i will be hunting "marsh" is when my cousin takes me ( 1-3 times a season) to lacassine. other then that, its gunna be a timber/river hunting for me this year!





too bad i got kicked out the lil burns..:(

Timber all the way!!!
 

DoFord I hunt in Avoyelles Parish, where exactly are you located? Anyway it is timber for me all the way...nothing like greenheads back flapping in a lil' hole in the woods...