Potatoes?

duckhuntalot · Postby **duckhuntalot** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 4:40 pm

Had someone tell me a while back that ducks will come to potatoes that have been sunk in the water (in a croaker sack)

Anyone know about this?

Sounds fishy to me!

Delta Duck · Postby **Delta Duck** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 4:41 pm

I think that only works on them hill ducks :wink:

THRASHER · Postby **THRASHER** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:00 pm

I don't know about sacks of potatoes but if you plant sweet potatoes and then flood them the potatoes will swell and bust and the ducks love them.Protein is what the ducks are looking for and taters are a high sourceof it. They are also very easy to grow and maintain. Also sacking up taters like you describe probably constitutes baiting.

Delta Duck · Postby **Delta Duck** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 5:50 pm

Thrasher, I had some hunters talk about hunting in a old sweet tater field. They were from Alabama.

Their has to be someone on here that has or is in the know!!

Wingman · Postby **Wingman** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 6:46 pm

Heheheh! I wouldn't go huntin' over any tater sacks in the water if I was you!

As for the tater fields, most of them around here are on the sandy land and don't hold water too good....but the geese absolutely love 'em!

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RedEyed Duck · Postby **RedEyed Duck** » Mon Nov 18, 2002 7:45 pm

When would you plant potatoes? Do I time to get em in this week? :lol:

Just curious as to when those taters would have to be planted. Might be worth trying and I have plenty go bad just sitting in the pantry before we use em.

duckhuntalot · Postby **duckhuntalot** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 8:35 am

Okay, for clarification, I am not intending on sinking any tater sacks. I was just curious as to whether the fellas story held water.

Thanks!!

crow · Postby **crow** » Tue Nov 19, 2002 10:19 am

Now, I know ducks are smart critters, and all. But, just how would them duckies know about them taters in that there croaker sack...under water? I know they got good vision, but x-ray vision is a new evolutionary deal with our avian friends. How good is a duck's nose, by the way?! If they get a good nose, we never will kill one! Dad blamed ducks just keep adaptin' on us!

DUCKAHOLIC · Postby **DUCKAHOLIC** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 12:31 pm

Thrasher is right its sweet potatoes. If you put them in a tater sack and sink them. they put off an oil that the ducks come to. And YES this is baiting. The same can be done by sinking a 55 gal drum of molasses with a couple of holes punched in it. All it takes is one duck to come in and get the stuff on his feathers, then when he goes to roost, the next mornin youll have all the ducks.

Goat Roper · Postby **Goat Roper** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 2:29 pm

One more testimony about sweet taters.........woodies do love 'em.

TealinTeacher · Postby **TealinTeacher** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 2:56 pm

I kinda like 'em too. :lol:

RLJames · Postby **RLJames** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 5:42 pm

I think I'll put some on my Robo Duck. If we don't "get in the ducks" we can heat up the taters.

Big Lou · Postby **Big Lou** » Wed Nov 20, 2002 6:06 pm

I heard that molases story from an older guy at the camp last year! Is that really true?

DUCKAHOLIC · Postby **DUCKAHOLIC** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 5:17 pm

Big Lou, I hunt with some guys and they took me to a hole last year that had been done up by some guys with molases. It looked like an oil slick and there were ducks everywhere, mostly pintails, I had never seen anything like it. The guys that did it upp were busted by the feds on opening day. Guess from the air it looks like an oil slick too.

Postby **judge jb** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 6:23 pm

i like my ducks on the water and my molasses on my bisquit.....

judge jb

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