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T-Bone 12-11-2013 11:19 PM

Vermilion Bay Duck Hunting
 
I have not had the opportunity to make any fishing trips this winter out of the point but last year I would always come across flocks of ducks from Blue Point all the way to the Trash Pile. Just wondering if anyone hunts the open public waters of the bay from Blue Point to the Trash Pile to the Commercial Canal to the Avery Canal to the Boston Canal?

redaddiction 12-11-2013 11:23 PM

I always wonder the same thing. I bet you could cut a few down early in the mornings. But I'd feel like a doopty doo when the fisherman passed by me shaking their heads. LOL

meaux fishing 12-11-2013 11:24 PM

Not I, but the thought has definitely crossed my mind. I think the big white triton might flare em though...

MarshRat89 12-11-2013 11:25 PM

Never heard of anyone hunting it. Semms to me like you would only catch birds some birds out there rafting. off the top of my head the only place I can think of would be feerman.

T-Bone 12-11-2013 11:37 PM

The only ducks that I hunt are wood ducks at my lease which is off of Bayou Tortue in St. Martin Parish. I am not at all familiar with identifying ducks......heck those ducks I see in the bay could be the coots everyone is always talking about.

Goooh 12-12-2013 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by T-Bone (Post 651138)
The only ducks that I hunt are wood ducks at my lease which is off of Bayou Tortue in St. Martin Parish. I am not at all familiar with identifying ducks......heck those ducks I see in the bay could be the coots everyone is always talking about.

Negative, I've seent them for myself.

Montauk17 12-12-2013 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by MarshRat89 (Post 651135)
Never heard of anyone hunting it. Semms to me like you would only catch birds some birds out there rafting. off the top of my head the only place I can think of would be feerman.

Fearman is on a wildlife refuge,no hunting.

MarshRat89 12-12-2013 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Montauk17 (Post 651186)
Fearman is on a wildlife refuge,no hunting.

Yea I just looked at the map I thought it was right on the edge for some reason



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jopete 12-12-2013 01:07 PM

it takes a good setup to do it, but yeah, a man can shoot ducks in the middle of the bay.
it would be more than i could stand to go thru several hours of putting out my decoys and getting my blind just right, only to have a family of dipsheets come throw mirrolures at my decoys and tangle them up. AND WE BOTH KNOW THIS WOULD HAPPEN, quick!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

cmac23 12-12-2013 01:08 PM

Most of those ducks are probably divers.
Stick to hunting those wood ducks, much better table fare!!!

MarshRat89 12-12-2013 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by cmac23 (Post 651264)
Most of those ducks are probably divers.
Stick to hunting those wood ducks, much better table fare!!!

Actually lots of pins and Greys will raft in huge numbers on the bay. I used to have a blind on a lake about 200 yards off the bay shore and lots of birds would come from the bay some mornings. 1 week when my mud boat was down we parked my boat on the bay shore and walked in. When we would leave we would jump up big rafts of birds.


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Montauk17 12-12-2013 02:51 PM

I bet the area around little bay would be decent duck hunting. Not sure if the public is allowed to hunt the area though.

MarshRat89 12-12-2013 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Montauk17 (Post 651294)
I bet the area around little bay would be decent duck hunting. Not sure if the public is allowed to hunt the area though.

That would be where I would start. Might be shallow enough by the new terraces


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Montauk17 12-12-2013 03:19 PM

Oh yeah it's shalllow fo sho...mud boat shallow in alot of spots.

MarshRat89 12-12-2013 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Montauk17 (Post 651297)
Oh yeah it's shalllow fo sho...mud boat shallow in alot of spots.

Hard north wind might even be high and dry


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Montauk17 12-12-2013 03:25 PM

No doubt....used to run trout lines in the winter in the area. Got stuck more times than I care to count.

lake runner 12-12-2013 07:44 PM

Ownership
 
Anyone know of a map that shows what's private/public in in coastal Vermillion parish?

Quackhead62 12-12-2013 08:06 PM

Hell some spots in Vbay a mud boat won't even help u. Been in the bay with a north wind blowing in my Pro Drive and was stuck for a few hours

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MarshRat89 12-12-2013 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by lake runner (Post 651363)
Anyone know of a map that shows what's private/public in in coastal Vermillion parish?

Look up state wildlife refuge. On the PDF map they show what's private and public in little bay. I can tell you anything east of there from lil bay to Avery island is private.


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grizzon30s 12-13-2013 01:10 PM

i had some friends hunt the bay a couple years ago. I thought they were nuts. But, they had some success shooting gaddys


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