Posted By: jnd59
Tank preference - 12/16/18 01:31 AM
For years I've driven by or detoured to visit several tanks that get no hunting pressure and little human pressure in a daily basis. Some tanks have ducks all season almost every day. Some tanks have no ducks or very few and appear to be transitory.
Over the last five or so years I've seen tanks that brush was allowed to grow up around the edges suddenly become duck magnets. This year, two of those tanks were cleared during the summer. There still shallow but so far, I haven't seen any feeding ducks on them. At the same time, tanks that continued to have some brush/grass continue to have ducks and tanks that brush was not cut are seeing ducks when none were there before. I'll have a better handle on the results after the late December migration arrives, but it appears they prefer water with some cover around the edges. I'm not sure if this is because they perceive those tanks have more food or they feel more hidden and secure. It is opposite what I thought I would discover however.
This is probably well known and I am just now discovering it myself but I did think it interesting.
Over the last five or so years I've seen tanks that brush was allowed to grow up around the edges suddenly become duck magnets. This year, two of those tanks were cleared during the summer. There still shallow but so far, I haven't seen any feeding ducks on them. At the same time, tanks that continued to have some brush/grass continue to have ducks and tanks that brush was not cut are seeing ducks when none were there before. I'll have a better handle on the results after the late December migration arrives, but it appears they prefer water with some cover around the edges. I'm not sure if this is because they perceive those tanks have more food or they feel more hidden and secure. It is opposite what I thought I would discover however.
This is probably well known and I am just now discovering it myself but I did think it interesting.