Flooded Timber Duck Hunting Tips | How to call ducks

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On this video Joel gives tips for hunting in the flooded timber. He also gives a calling demonstration in the flooded timber where he hunts. Hear what the ducks hear in a real hunting environment!
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@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Thanks for watching! Let me know what you think about flooded timber duck hunting!

@GRANTKEEL 4 года назад

Never have hunted flooded timber, primarily hunt the marsh, but due to hurricane Laura it looks like that’s the move we’re going to have to make. Thanks for the video, definitely good insight!

@Drblood6721 4 года назад

Loved the video as always Joel. Up in VT, we don't really have too much flooded timber. Mostly lakes, ponds and fields. This tutorial was awesome. I sit here with my call and practice every week! Can't wait for the next one.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Thank you!

@jackpinkerton7803 4 года назад

I do all of my hunting in Arkansas! I love the flooded timber and it has always been my favorite way to hunt. My first duck hunt was in the woods and it was a blast. Bein from Arkansas I am blessed with the places I can hunt and the amount I can hunt for sure.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Jack Pinkerton that’s great! I feel the same 👍🏻

@jeremybreeden77 4 года назад

Thanks again for the great video and tips on getting wings locked! There's a decent tract of flooded timber near me in southern Illinois named Oakwood Bottoms (~5,000 acres) that is managed by the USFS and DU. I've had some great hunts out there and I would like to pass on what I've learned for that area that might apply to areas your viewers are in. They have man made timber holes that are published on a map published every year, which are great on the opener and good flight days, but also get all of the pressure and get shot out quick. When birds are stale I'll look for an area that has one or two trees down and a small gap in the canopy, and if there are birds there, you can bet I'll be there in the morning. Nothing beats Mallards slapping their wings on limbs coming into your spread. Again great video Joel and I hope my bit of advice helps your viewers as well!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Yeah, the hole get tough later in season... they like to get in tighter spots. It's often surprising the little spots they can get in to. Thanks for your comments!

@idshoot4ya 4 года назад

I love hunting in timber! Been several years, but it’s an incredible experience. Thanks for another Great video!

@prestochango1800 9 месяцев назад

Today I got my first duck and it was in flooded timber in SE Missouri. Thanks for the video.

@WhatupG 4 года назад

nothing better than hunting flooded timber. believe it or not, Missouri does have some places to go. I do want to get down to Stuttgart, someday.

@richardjohnson9867 2 года назад

I’ve hunted Ar Bayou Meto for 40 years. This video is spot on for calling in “real” flooded timber! I would love to meet you one day! I have a duck cabin at Bayou Meto, we would love to have you down!

@jimkeithley7910 4 года назад

Certainly want to do a flooded timber duck hunt it’s on the bucket list!!! We hunt timber wood ducks here in Wisconsin. Fast and good action and great tasting ducks.

@jamiegrady9334 4 года назад

I’ve never hunted flooded timber. I first got into duck hunting in 2014 while stationed here in Colorado. High country desert territory with man made dammed lakes with few rivers that are more like creeks. The one area I’ve found for flooded timber is in Pueblo, CO on the dammed Arkansas river which is flooded in the spring with tons of ducks. By time the September teal season rolls around, they’ve let the water out to flow to Kansas. I would love to hunt flooded timber for woodies and green heads. I do travel to Wyoming and Kansas, but need to find those flooded timber spots for the experience. Thanks for the great calling tips and wonderful content. Love the channel!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Thanks for the comments!

@thesimplelifecrewoutdoors5057 3 года назад

I have never hunted flooded Timer. Definitely on my bucket list

@huntersears3109 3 года назад

It’s wayyy more fun man

@woodduck635 4 года назад

Probably 80% of my duck hunting has been done in the timber. I love watching a greenhead circle the river bottom, low over over the trees, then disappear............knowing he will be back in about 45 seconds. I have hunted a long time, but the sound of a mallard drake calling right over my shoulder still gets me excited!!!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

I know what you're talking about brother!!

@kanegraham1488 4 года назад

I would love to try hunting in flooded timber as I I live in New Zealand and we dont have any thing like that here it has been on my bucket list for years to do a hunting trip in the U.S.

@halfblindbear Год назад

If I remember correctly first time I hunted flooded timber, a guy who was use to hunting saltwater marshes, it was opening day of our short October season. My hunting partner and I limited out 28 minutes after the start of legal shoot time. Seeing ducks coming through the trees is impressive but seeing geese do it is mind blowing.

@jeffhoose2504 4 года назад

That's one of my bucket list hunts. Just once I'd love to see green heads weave in and out of the timber

@zk2939 3 года назад

They don’t really do too much weaving in and out as they usually land in the open potholes within the timber.

@hamrnguns 4 года назад

I’ve never been on a flooded timber hunt. I just got back into duck hunting last year after I bought and trained my own pup which I’m extremely happy with. I’ve worked very hard training almost everyday training him. He’s amazing. My dream is to take my 27 year old son on his first ever duck hunt with my dog and have it turn into something we can do together for the rest of my life. Your videos inspire my and teach me a lot. Thanks so much!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

That's so great, make that dream a reality! Thanks for sharing!

@mikeries8549 Год назад

I started timber hunting at oakwood bottoms in Southern Illinois in 1975. It's addictive.

@danielfuller6679 4 года назад

Always wanted to hunt flooded timber.

@micahlowbe9067 Год назад

Very informative. I needed to know this. I’ve only hunted fields.

@richiecaelwarts7873 4 года назад

WITH THE WATER BEING HIGH I HAVE BEEN HUNTING FLOODED WOODS FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS HERE IN WISCONSIN LOVE IT ALOT WE HAD IT YEARS AGO THEN THE WATER WENT DOWN NOW ITS CAME BACK,

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

fun times!

@isaaccrumpton8686 4 года назад

Got me a new havoc duck boat

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Nice!

@HangingMossMedia 4 года назад

There’s nothing better than wading in the timber. Fortunately, MS does have some good tracts and we spend most of our days there. It often seems like calling and mojos go in the same category... never know how much is enough or too much.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Very true!

@gooseflatwaterfowlers 4 года назад

This is my opinion timber hunting it’s true to the core duck hunting. No frills about it it’s back to the roots of duck hunting. To me a cutdown call either keyhole or just regular cutdown is the best call in timber. The old school PSOlt cutdown is a true timber call the cutdowns that Rick Dunn at Echo and the ones at RNT bring back to old Olt sound

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

right on!

@ducksinmyhearttaylor3957 4 года назад

Very impressive calling

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Thank you!

@jeremynewsom5496 4 года назад

I hunt public flooded timber 40 days out of the 60 day season in arkansas it is by far the best hunting known to man. There is absolutely nothing like watching huge volleys of greenheads falling down in your face in the timber! Great video. I feel like you should make a video to help the new comers on decoy tactics in the timber.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

My next video has some decoy strategies and spread designs including timber!

@rwbrush5784 4 года назад

I’ve always wanted to do a flooded timber hunt....hopefully one day maybe. I guess I should get busy trying to set one up...I’m 70 yrs old so may not have many more years to do it. 😀

@hankandrews9051 4 года назад

Great video! I love to hear those calling sounds.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Hank Andrews glad you liked it!

@pastp3805 4 года назад

Thanks for the video ! Looks like those High N Dry waders are still holding up great ! I’m going to need a pair this fall !

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Yep still going!

@DaddyDuck365 4 года назад

Would rather hunt what you call the flooded timber what we call in SC the swamps......great content

@kylebuzzard9920 4 года назад

I don’t think it can be said enough, that aggressive can/does work here in KS, but I think trial and error needs to be taught call softer and work up.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Whether calling loud, soft, lots or sparingly, the most important part is timing. Calling with purpose at the right time will kill more ducks! Novice hunters should should always test out new techniques to understand how it works (or fails).

@ducksinmyhearttaylor3957 4 года назад

Great video Joel.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Glad you think so!

@brandoncorley1514 4 года назад

True Arkansas Flooded timber is on my bucket list!! Ans want to do it with my wife one season! Might actually come see u guys @ Cypress Crossing! I hunt TX style flooded buck brush and river bottoms and love it!!!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

That's great!

@randyarmold7387 Год назад

Just wanted to say thanks for the information I’m a disabled combat veteran from Michigan and I normally hunt big water, I am actually heading to dale bumpers wma as of tomorrow with another disabled veteran we are going to camp for around ten days and god willing hopefully shoot some ducks but either way it will be nice to just get away and try something new thanks again

@Matt-P1 Год назад

How’d it go? I’ve actually never hunter there. I have hunter everywhere around though

@Toga_Noga 4 года назад

Up near Augusta AR usually.

@leesonwineski8067 3 года назад

Me and my buddies only get to hunting flooded timber here in west Tennessee.

@danielfuller6679 4 года назад

What choke tubes would you recommend for flooded timber? Modified?

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Modified or Improved

@ducksinmyhearttaylor3957 4 года назад

Daniel Fuller I use the Briley timber and teal choke

@clintsmith6111 3 года назад

I love flooded timber I hunt in Mississippi and Tennessee

@halfblindbear Год назад

So what's the difference between flooded timber and a swamp

@joshuadoane3371 4 года назад

First!!! Haha finally!!

@garylensing 3 года назад

have some property near the Cache River if we are lucky enough to get the rain and a little help from the beaver dams we have real nice timber hunts

@Cameron-b1z 11 месяцев назад

ive noticed your call has a sort of squawk like a high pitch box turkey call sound. im new to calling how do you get that noise?

@eriknelson8761 3 года назад

Well, this will sound impossible, but I hunt a willow flood basin in Southern California. It's not like you guys with as many trees ,but we have half a dozen 1 acre ponds in the flood basin.

@ducksinmyhearttaylor3957 4 года назад

Looks like a lot of your bands are goose bands. I have 32 bands I have collected off of birds I have killed and mine are mostly speck and snow bands. I have a killed a handful of sprig bands and teal bands. I also have killed some banded red heads. Have you ever shot a banded weidgon? I never have. I was wondering if you know of anyone that has?

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

I think there's like 7 goose bands (Specks and canadas). Believe it or not, as many snows as I've shot, no banded snow geese. 1 Teal, 1 gadwall, 1 wood duck, 1 pigeon LOL... and the rest mallards (probably 15 or so). Even though I've seen many wigeons shot, never one banded. Thanks for watching!

@ducksinmyhearttaylor3957 4 года назад

Surviving Duck Season love your video’s. Something about the way you talk to camera that makes your channel very appealing and informative. Please keep the videos coming. I wonder if anyone has ever shot a banded weidgon. They are one of my favorite birds.

@aaronkeistler8217 4 года назад

I've never been on a flooded timber hunt in any of the typical places. I have only been to a couple isolated spots in Southern Illinois at Oakwood Bottoms and a place called the Firing Line. Oakwood will get a handful of mallards with lots of woodies, and the timber at the Firing Line will get very few mallards and a decent amount of woodies. It is definitely on my bucket list and on a future property to own list of a flooded timber tract. Do you know of anyone buying land and planting acres upon acres of oak trees to create a flooded timber tract? And if so, any advice on how to do it? Obviously it is a very long term investment, but something to leave the future kids and grandkids.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

There are lots and lots of people who do that. Some have their property enrolled with CRP or WRP and get help from the NRCS. Some just do it on their own. Some day when I'm rich I'd love to do it haha. As you say, a long term project that we would likely not see the benefits of. I would do it on fairly flat ground, that has the soil type that will hold flood water. Ideally have it zero graded or a very slight grade on it. Then put a levee around the area that you would hold the water. I would also have enough land around it that can be different habitat for waterfowl. If you were to want to seriously do this you really need help from a professional. Please reach out to me if this is something you'd want to pursue.

@harrisonlee19 4 года назад

What call are you using?

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

DC Mondo (short barrel) from RNT

@gooseflatwaterfowlers 4 года назад

I personally think that hunting in timber is duck hunting at its bare roots. Nothing like watching mallards verta-drop in the hole and something about a true cut down keyhole call in the timber can’t beat that sound. A trick I use when working ducks so I don’t look up at them is I watch them circle off the water and read them that way. I’ve never seen or anybody doing that I tried once and figured out it was a good way to watch ducks

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Yep, that certainly works when they are right overhead.

@Swygard 4 года назад

Joel, how does the flooded timber come about? Is it there all year? Is most of it pumped in? I have heard the rivers flood .Is that man-made-flooding? I have always been curious .

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

Good question. Green timber areas are only flooded during the winter... otherwise it would become dead timber. A lot of the Duck clubs have levees and water control devices to hold water. Then they either capture rain or flood water, or the pump the water from ditches or from wells. There are flood prone areas along rivers that also flood in the winter but they don’t always flood every year.

@Swygard 4 года назад

Surviving Duck Season thank you

@dandeaton6511 2 года назад

Hunting flooded timber is on my list, being in Maine I don't get to do it. Also, if you like duck hunting you must try sea duck hunting. FYI it is best to get a guide and I am not one.

@ethanmathias7974 4 года назад

Hey Joel, you mentioned in a previous video you should have just as much motion as you do decoys. Would you say three to one or what do you recommend? Talked to my buddy who runs a club on the Languille and he mentioned they use 35 motion decoys as a minimum in their timber. Wanted to get your thoughts.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 4 года назад

What I mean is having enough motion to move your decoys, whether thats wind, or devices. It all depends what kind of devices you may use... and the water depth and cover. Certain things move water more than others- a well made and properly positioned jerk cord can be the best thing!