First trip back to marsh since my last hunt down that way.
First off you’d think with all the rain in Lake Charles that we would’ve got some, maybe we will, but haven’t yet. Camp had 3/4” of rain in the gauge. Water was nice and low throughout the marsh, id prefer it this way.
We now have more blue wings than I’ve ever seen before. I’d safely estimate I saw at least 1000 birds. Picked out 1 spoony drake and a pair of gadwalls out of all the flurries of bwt.
One pic I did get
Our goal was to relocate a pit that hasn’t been used in over 8 years. Got it out of the water and brought back to camp to get a fresh coat of resin and paint
We will get it installed hopefully sooner than later to get grass started growing around it because we will need it.
Here’s a pic of another blind that will be taken down a pit put in its place. Boat hides will stay unfortunately.
Here is that same blind last year in August. I don’t see how Roseau can grow back in 5 months but I hope it does.
Besides Bull rush, I found 1 other lush green patch of cattails. Other than that is looks like a hurricane came through and wiped it all out.
We’re gonna try putting square hay bales around the newly installed pits whenever that is and putting salt grass on top of them. For the hides we will still have to use cattails/Roseau.
We brushed some last year with willow and some of those cuttings have taken root and are green.
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