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jwatts1987
MMT Member
Joined: Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:00 pm Posts: 3
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 Teal season
Does anybody hunt from a boat blind during teal season? I have heard rumors that teal will flare from brown pop up blinds.Whats the best way to hunt from a boat blind when everything in the marsh is green?
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Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:00 pm |
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cb5331
MMT Super Elite Member
Joined: Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:10 pm Posts: 16915 Location: Rowlett, TX
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 Re: Teal season
All you need is a few teal dec's and maybe some mallard hens, a whistle, and a shotgun. You just gotta get where they want to be or in the middle of the flight path. They fly low to the water. I don't waste my time setting up a blind during teal season. Sometimes we just sit in the boat, and sometimes we'll just stand in the water. If you get in to them, it only takes about ten minutes to get a couple limits. peep, peep, boom boom, peep peep, booom boom, time to go home...
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Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:19 pm |
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Woodiebuster
MMT Elite Member
Joined: Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:00 pm Posts: 6060 Location: Choudrant, La
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 Re: Teal season
go into a pasture the day before and cut a TON of cypress weeds. Lay in the floor of the boat with burlap over you and stick the weeds in the mud around the boat and in the boat wherever you can. Thats what i do and it seems to work pretty well.
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Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:35 pm |
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North LA Hunter
MMT Elite Member
Joined: Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:39 pm Posts: 6976 Location: West Monroe, LA
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Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:41 pm |
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shallow water master
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:27 pm Posts: 1803 Location: Belle Chasse La.
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 Re: Teal season
ya get some pal meadow leaves and add the to the side of the blind to brake up the brown grass. and or get marsh grass that is still green but make shoure u leave them in the water so they will stay green for a wile
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Fri Aug 20, 2010 7:42 pm |
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DeathMetalDukk
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Sat Jun 27, 2009 11:50 pm Posts: 3777 Location: Knotts Island, North Carolina.
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 Re: Teal season
I would say on hunting any duck, do your best to blend in and be invisible. If you stand back and think you still look out of place, it's probably 10 times worse from a duck's view.
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Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:04 pm |
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dpd
MMT Addict
Joined: Thu May 07, 2009 10:25 am Posts: 714 Location: Thibodaux, LA
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 Re: Teal season
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Sat Aug 21, 2010 8:24 pm |
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radikkle
MMT Pro Member
Joined: Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:37 pm Posts: 210 Location: knotts Island nc
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 Re: Teal season
cut about 20 4foot pine's and stick them in the mud around the boat.work's good here.
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Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:08 pm |
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cb5331
MMT Super Elite Member
Joined: Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:10 pm Posts: 16915 Location: Rowlett, TX
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 Re: Teal season
Man, I've killed more teal walking around in the decoys, or just standing out in the water than I have out of a blind. I love working teal, they are easy if you get into em. I've shot teal just sitting in a boat with a piece of burlap covering the motor. Never had to put that much work in to it. Even during big duck season, if I find a place thats holding teal, I don't put nearly the work I put in to shooting big ducks.
I've limited out several mornings where we set up about 200 yards off the flight path. Just walked over to where they were flying, and shot limits without dec's, standing in calf deep water. They'll come back too even with out dec's. Just hit em with the whistle and they come runnin... Maybe just been lucky
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Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:15 pm |
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forever draggin
MMT Elite Member
Joined: Tue Jan 13, 2009 7:10 pm Posts: 6664 Location: in the marsh with a boat load full of dead hookers
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 Re: Teal season
I always hunt teal season from a boat blind and do great
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:03 am |
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SP
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:46 pm Posts: 1210
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 Re: Teal season
Too lazy to post these twice. Blend in. Figure out what the veg looks like where you are going to set up, and customize your blind to the area. I do this all the time. In FL it is green about all year. Here's link to my blind. Just scroll down. viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11800
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:46 pm |
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cmelvin
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:47 pm Posts: 1039 Location: Texas
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 Re: Teal season
for those of you who get camoed up and put a lot of time into getting concealed for teal season, i feel sorry for yall. maybe its something yall have to do where you hunt but it dont take much skill or concealment to kill teal here in texas. we can go out in some green tshirts and blue jeans, much like we do for dove, with only a handful of dekes and a whilstle, kneel down in the grass or stand by a tree, and lost of time have a 4 or 5 man limit in an half hour. maybe they are more educated over in other places but over here they really are some dumb birds 
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:59 pm |
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cb5331
MMT Super Elite Member
Joined: Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:10 pm Posts: 16915 Location: Rowlett, TX
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 2:04 pm |
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Woodiebuster
MMT Elite Member
Joined: Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:00 pm Posts: 6060 Location: Choudrant, La
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 Re: Teal season
i like to stay in the boat beacause cottonmouths dont play. 
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:04 pm |
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SP
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:46 pm Posts: 1210
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:14 pm |
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cb5331
MMT Super Elite Member
Joined: Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:10 pm Posts: 16915 Location: Rowlett, TX
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 Re: Teal season
What part of FL you in? I'm from Gainesville.
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:23 pm |
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SP
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:46 pm Posts: 1210
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:29 pm |
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cb5331
MMT Super Elite Member
Joined: Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:10 pm Posts: 16915 Location: Rowlett, TX
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 Re: Teal season
Yeah, my dad hunted there a few times one year. Said the teal were ok, few merganzers. For some reason I never hunted back home. We drove to TX every Thanksgiving and Christmas for as long as I can remember. Now I live here, and have hunted pretty much every day off during the season in the last 4 or 5 years.
I saw a hunting show the other day where they were duck hunting in Gainesville. I never met anyone who hunted for anything other than deer or pigs. Never noticed ducks too many places, and never met anyone who duck hunted.
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:56 pm |
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SP
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:46 pm Posts: 1210
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That show was filmed on OL!  The last thing it needs is more PR.
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 5:51 pm |
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cb5331
MMT Super Elite Member
Joined: Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:10 pm Posts: 16915 Location: Rowlett, TX
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Sun Aug 22, 2010 8:15 pm |
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SP
MMT 1000 Club
Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 1:46 pm Posts: 1210
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 Re: Teal season
Unfortunately that is becoming the predominant bird in FL. We have the stay in S FL and they are absolutely loaded with ducks. Pick your specie and then go after a drake only hunt. It is more like dove hunting though than duck hunting!
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Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:11 am |
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fishon!!
MMT Pro Member
Joined: Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:52 pm Posts: 339 Location: Capital Shity, LA
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Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:46 pm |
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Midnight Sun
MMT Pro Member
Joined: Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:03 pm Posts: 215 Location: quitman tx
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 Re: Teal season
yea dem teal jusy hunt easier here in texas
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Mon Aug 23, 2010 6:56 pm |
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