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Anyone ever killed ducks in just a low spot in an ag field not meant for duck hunting? After a big rain there are some low spots at my buddy's place that fill up, up to 100 yards wide. They are either going to have winter wheat in them or cut beans. Just wondering if it would be worth it to to set up on it one morning after a good cold snap. No time to scout it because the water is usually gone after a few days. there is a pretty big swamp about a mile or two away that holds ducks year round, so there will be atleast a few in the area.

Slashwater is what ive always called it. And yes, tons. Ducks do stupid things to fresh slash water after a rain...but you gotta be at the right one.

How do you get on the right one? or do you just pick the one that looks best and go for it?

Albanian wrote:How do you get on the right one? or do you just pick the one that looks best and go for it?

You dont, the ducks do.

Figured so. Thanks for the help fellas

Albanian wrote:Anyone ever killed ducks in just a low spot in an ag field not meant for duck hunting? After a big rain there are some low spots at my buddy's place that fill up, up to 100 yards wide. They are either going to have winter wheat in them or cut beans. Just wondering if it would be worth it to to set up on it one morning after a good cold snap. No time to scout it because the water is usually gone after a few days. there is a pretty big swamp about a mile or two away that holds ducks year round, so there will be atleast a few in the area.

The world may never know.

For those of you that have done this, do you approach it with alot of deeks, just a few, mojo, no mojo? What has worked best in the past

We had a spot very similiar to yours. As soon as the rains quit we'd be headed out to hunt this field. Birds would pour in out of the swamp. If the hole is the spot they want, meaning if YOU find THEM then don't put a decoy out. Get nice and hidden. If it's the tot spot then you won't need a mojo. But, I think that goes for anywhwere.

Sheetwater I call it. After a big rain the ducks always find it. New food.

Wingman wrote:Sheetwater I call it.

Me and old Delmer were hunting a field near a dairy farm during early goose season a few years ago. Right before daylight the irrigation system came on and the water smelled horrible. When it got light enough to see we figured out the water was being pumped from a pond that caught "run off" from the dairy. We referred to that as hunting in "sheetwater" too. We did manage to pile some geese up though.

find one that the ducks are using, take a goundblind, burlap, something, and get as close to it as you can. no decoys needed if they are using it.

We've got a field like that close to our lease; it is often chock full of ducks. I also think that they come to the new food.

its called sheetwater for a reason,

there are always a sheet load of ducks on it.