Flood it and they will stop....

Prepare it and they will stay!



A lot more goes into getting ready for waterfowl season than just turning on the wells and getting out the decoys. That is at least if you want to hold birds and have great hunts throughout season. Between discing, planting, burning, pumping, etc their is always something that needs to be done to improve the habitat for the birds. All of these things don't just happen overnight. Throughout the summer we have been working here and their on our ponds to get them ready for this upcoming season. Over the last couple of weeks we have been really busy preparing them. Some we are getting ready for teal season, others for the opener in November and even others we'll hold off till the second split. Here are just a few pictures showing the results of our hard work that we are putting in now so we & our customers can reap the rewards later and have those epic pictures during season.

Nice

Another one filling up and looking good.

water, almost forgot what it looked like

looks good man

I hear ya'...

Looking good!

Doing the same stuff up North of you...

J.J.

This morning about 9:30 we saw our first Teal of the new season. Two groups, about 20 all together, on a small pond near our former wetlands N of Ivanhoe.

Those who have water and groceries should do well this early season, and if the longer term drought forecast doesn't change, it will be doubly true for the big ducks start in Nov.

Lookin good

Moved the re-lift pump to another pond yesterday afternoon and fired it up.

Looking good!!

Water is starting to stack up in a handful of places for us.

Water is continuing to stack up and it won't be long and the teal will be as well.

No fair.

Had to re-disc a portion/hole in one of our ponds that the re-growth grass shot up in since we last disced it a month or so ago. The area caught a few lucky rains and the grass took off a little more than we expected. With the drought still here our fuel bill is going to sting pretty good this year, but we will have water for the ducks.

We are still pumping away and did some more work to a few of our levees surrounding a couple of our ponds. The water cost so much that we can't afford to lose any. We also did some prep-work to a few of our ponds that we won't flood until the 2nd split. Things are coming together, just ready to let some steel fly!