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Oct 8, 2010 · People can also hunt Rodman Reservoir and Orange Lake, one of the top Florida duck hotspots during the 2009-'10 season. Shallow and weedy, Orange Lake covers 12,708 acres near Gainesville, with the adjoining Lake Lochloosa system spreading across 8,348 acres.
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Few places in North America offer better duck hunting than that found in south Louisiana. The coastal marshes surrounding Lake Calcasieu, near the town of Lake Charles on the Texas border, are famed for their consistently outstanding gunning. While commercial duck clubs abound in the area, few offer as much privately owned marsh to hunt as Hackberr...
Most people don't think of Florida as a choice waterfowl state. But the Sunshine State is loaded with open water in winter, and no place is more than 75 miles from tidewater and its coastal attraction to migratory waterfowl. Some years during severe winters (and that is key to the best duck hunting), up to 25 percent of the Atlantic Flyway ducks ho...
Stuttgart, Ark., is synonymous with classic American waterfowl hunting, most notably standing in green timber with hip boots taking close shots at greenheads as they parachute down through treetops. Several factors are necessary for quality "green timber" duck hunting. First, cold weather farther north is needed to push ducks south. Second, hunters...
Mallards and wood ducks pretty much make up the winter duck population in Malmaison WMA and in several nearby public hunting areas close to the Mississippi River in a Mississippi state region affectionately known as the "Delta" (located just northwest of Jackson). Greenheads in green timber at Malmaison separate the WMA and much of Mississippi’s De...
This "Big Bend" region of the Lone Star State coast is shallow and attracts many thousands of migrant ducks. The rougher the winter up North, the better it is for Texas hunting. All types of ducks are found along the coast, with teal, redheads, pintails, gadwalls, shovelers and wigeons among the most common. Freelance duck hunting is good, but gunn...
The Show-Me State is best known for great deer and turkey hunting, but it shines for ducks, too. And with a wealth of public hunting spots, the odds for top duck busting are good in many areas, especially along the eastern part of the state where the Mississippi River flows. The Missouri River bottoms also can be full of migrating ducks. Plenty of ...
- Northwest Florida coast (Perdido Bay east to Piney Island) A variety of divers and dabblers sporadically use the shallow bays and inlets throughout the northwest Florida coast (Perdido Bay east to Piney Island).
- Lake Wimico. This is a large, shallow lake accessible by boat from Apalachicola via the Jackson River (Intracoastal Waterway). When heavily vegetated with plants that grow underwater, Lake Wimico supports a wide variety of diving and dabbling ducks.
- Lake Seminole. Lake Seminole is a large, man-made reservoir in Jackson County that straddles the Florida-Georgia state line. The state line approximately corresponds to the marked navigation channel up the Chattahoochee River.
- Tallahassee area lakes (Miccosukee, Iamonia, Jackson, Carr) Being close to Tallahassee, hunting pressure can be high at these lakes. Lakes Iamonia and Miccosukee are large (approximately 6,000 acres), shallow, sinkhole lakes, with areas of abundant, thick vegetation.
Apr 26, 2017 · There's duck hunting about 1 1/2 hours west over in some phosphate pits near the Suwanee River. Also there's supposedly duck hunting about 2 hours south of Jacksonville around Rodman Reservoir, Lake Lochloosa, Orange Lake and maybe Newnans Lake.
Jan 2, 2019 · The big lakes of the state can be daunting to run in small duck boats long before daybreak on a hunt. A couple teams of duck hunters in two or three boats working together is a good safety rule. Know where you’re going and how to get back via compass, portable GPS, and good old fashion maps.
Jun 26, 2019 · While big lakes like Kissimmee, “Toho,” Okeechobee, George and Rodman Reservoir, and rivers like the Indian, Banana and St. Johns harbor hundreds of thousands of wintering ducks, often the smaller lakes of the state have the most overlooked opportunities for Florida waterfowlers.
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Rodman Reservoir is in Putnam County, Florida, and considered a premier largemouth bass fishery located in Northeast Florida, covers 9,500 acres, and is about 15 miles long. It is located south of Palatka Fl off Hwy 19 and connected to St Johns River.
