10-11-2012, 01:52 PM
Another thing to think about when hunting any of the diked refuges is the way they were built. A crane with a drag bucket sits on the dike and dredges mud from the bottom of each side to keep building the dike in front of it as it crawls along.
What this does is make a channel that is deep and steep right along the dike. It may be 4-5 feet deep right next to the dike but only 2' deep 30' out from the dike. this makes it hard in a tube to get in and out and hard to get across that first few feet of pond.
When I used to use my tube I would not use boots or flippers, they just get stuck in the mud. I would just wear my waders with their stocking feet and kick across the channel with them and then scoot along with my feet on the bottom once the water got shallow again.
Another thing to remember about Farmington is that some of the borders are surrounded by private clubs. One of them, due west of the south border from the south enterence only hunts every other day. If it is a day they are not hunting the birds will gather up on their land and rest with little action coming off that direction.
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What this does is make a channel that is deep and steep right along the dike. It may be 4-5 feet deep right next to the dike but only 2' deep 30' out from the dike. this makes it hard in a tube to get in and out and hard to get across that first few feet of pond.
When I used to use my tube I would not use boots or flippers, they just get stuck in the mud. I would just wear my waders with their stocking feet and kick across the channel with them and then scoot along with my feet on the bottom once the water got shallow again.
Another thing to remember about Farmington is that some of the borders are surrounded by private clubs. One of them, due west of the south border from the south enterence only hunts every other day. If it is a day they are not hunting the birds will gather up on their land and rest with little action coming off that direction.
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