If you looking for ducks. They usually like to find some body of water.

Just when I thought the fishing forums were bad when talking about spots on public water.....

Perfect. I had a guy drive up to me the other day and asked where my blind was that I killed my mallards. I politely pointed him to the giant brush blind in the complete opposite direction and told him that was the spot.

That's asking too much info.

In your case it does.

all i am saying as i am sitting in the ole mallard hole of raybob right now... cooking eggs over a open fire and about to rack out as soon as my dog gets done running up and down the bank... already waved 4 cars off trying to close in on my location. gonna be crazy here see yall tom

You are too funny

Oh and you are this guy too... As my 13 year old little girl would say OMG!!!!

ok ive had enough...can someone please take to my there private place and let me kills ducks.. sick of the only place i know to hunt a guy took me there and i am too lazy to find any new spots.. sick of barney sky blasting all my ducks that just happen to fly with in 50 yrds of there spread.. gosh...

ok seriously now

come on get out do your homework of have faith in the holes you have... ill be leaving my house in 2 hours to sleep in my layout blind with my dog so we have a good chance at the only place ive located ducks... been to about 13 places and the one with the best shot is a popular hole... make the effort or sit at home in camo call from you couch and watch duck dynasty all day...

I didn't ask where anyone's blind was just simply wanted to know if Cooper had water. Didn't know a simple question would cause this much interest. Good hunting tomorrow.

BAZINGA!!!!

Now why would his buddy be pissed if your were watching A&E....could he possibly be living in the vicinity of Indian
Creek.....I just have to guess seeing as his buddy lives off 922 per his posted area of locale. Could actually be one of my secret spots.

Hope you get on the birds man...I was one that took you last year to a private skunk hole...good to see you've gotten out and got some birds this year.

Oh, I hunt Lake Superior...sick limits right now.

oh, how i miss the days of Ol' RR.

13 years ago, when i started duck hunting we got up at 4:30-5am, maybe one other car besides us if one at all, walked 100-200 yards from access point, and avg 3-4 birds per person.

6 years ago when i stopped hunting RR. Got up at 2am, saw 4-6 cars, walked 1-2 miles, and watched barneys got pick up their birds in white ski/fishing boats as soon as they downed one. last memory is while i counted 5 groups of hunters around with a combined 8 mojo's working, i saw a lone pintail drake and starting calling/whistling at him as he circled above while everyone else was blowing kazoos. Right as he was going to set the other groups figured out what he was and started "blowing" whistles and he bugged out.

I hate to see what the place has become today, but might be worth the trip for the comedy alone.

Haven't had any problems......of course I boat in to my spot.

Ray Bob probably the most talked about Texas lake on the internet might have something to do with it... Just a hypothesis.

AND...thank you Internet

I have hunted ray bob from the first year on. The years just before internet actually had more pressure. The survey stats from then show it too. Especially if one were to break it down by percent of hunters related the the dfw area population changes. Pressure has always been bad. Anything close to lots of people will always be, but changes like requiring hunters to enter at access points and then enforcement of same concentrated hunters making pressure seem worse. Roberts was always well known from paper articles and from being in the type ii book when the lack of internet kept other locations secret. The internet and smart phones actually reduced hunter numbers per population at places like Ray Bob by revealing other places no one could have easily found before. As well game departments that used to be funded by governments to manage game in private are now self funded and in the business of advertising public land resources. I remember when it was difficult ti call a wildlife biologist. You had to find a number in a phone book to call on a land line and hope they had an answering machine in case they were in the field. Or write a letter and wait for one back. There was no google maps. No satellite. You had to order county maps and topo maps from a paper catalog and buy crappy lake maps at gibsons. Today it's easy and fast. Nothing is secret now. Nothing.

Nothing more true.

I hear duck dynasty is doing an episode out there

No lake has ever been secret. Kinda hard to build a lake and keep it secret. But internet talk about a lake sure attracts hunters to it, its not complicated...

So QA see any ducks out there or what? This thread has 2,000 views, everyone wants to know I'm sure.

Thirteen years ag was when I was hunting therer regularly. I do not know where you were hunting but at EVERY access point I know of there would be three or four vehicles there by 3:30, then you had a one or two mile hike if you wanted to get away from everyone.

When I started boating to a place that a bunch of people are still wondering where I was hunting you would still see at least ten or more vehicles at every access point.

I Can only imagine what it is today. But I bet I could go back to my spots and still get ducks.

I could not agree more. I remember when I downloaded a topo map of the White Oak Creek WMA and printed it off page by page.

I love the comments about crappy maps at Gibsons. Been there done that.

I also agree that the limited access points really hurt RR. Unless you have a 20K boat the COE does not want you on the lake.

Most making the post count hits are here for the entertainment. Troll bait invites trolls. And there is no shortage of troll bait in the migratory forum when it comes to lake naming posts. Real or troll, still the reaction is usually the same. Lake naming threads, high fence/low threads, AR restriction threads etc. all draw high page views. Everyone wants to see what happens next. Who's button gets pushed, who looses it. To see the one upmanship of wit. If no one replys they poke it with a stick and try to stir it up. Every refresh of the page, every visit, every click is a page view. 2000 page views does not mean there are 2000 individual nimrods wanting to know if someone killed a duck on ray roberts this week. I bet over half the people that do a page view on this thread every time someone makes a reply, does not even hunt waterfowl.
These threads are no more about duck hunting than duck dynasty. They are about And