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Lake Somerville Duck Hunting #888212 09/06/09 03:46 PM
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Has anyone hunted flag pond in a year even close to this dry??
Since it's boat in only. Is it even possible to get a boat up there this year?? I haven't hunted there before but recently moved to the area and was wondering if it was even possible to get there with the lake conditions? Thanx



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Re: Lake Somerville Duck Hunting [Re: tinkerbell] #888235 09/06/09 04:14 PM
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I was in the area end of last season, did some rabbit/squirrel hunting and general looking around. Flag Pond may or may not be part of the hunting area now. Everything was and I am sure still is very dry. The adjacent TPWD WMA is upland and not really anything conductive to waterfowl hunting. But you live there, go look at it, you never know. The Corps public waterfowl hunting area has changed too, shoreline only, and very small now.


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Originally Posted By: Sniper John
I was in the area end of last season, did some rabbit/squirrel hunting and general looking around. Flag Pond may or may not be part of the hunting area now. Everything was and I am sure still is very dry. The adjacent TPWD WMA is upland and not really anything conductive to waterfowl hunting. But you live there, go look at it, you never know. The Corps public waterfowl hunting area has changed too, shoreline only, and very small now.
What do you mean by " Corps public waterfowl is shoreline only" ?


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One of the public day hunting rules was
"Hunting is restricted to the shoreline with no exceptions"

Also there is a rule that if the lake falls 6 ft below conservation pool, they close the hunting area.


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Flag Pond is big time dry! The hole WMA in the puiblic hunting book is dry. Only thing holding water is the lake. We need some rain!!!!! The Yegua is not even running! Sorry about the info, but it hurts my Woodduck chasing also. I think we need a good beer drinking party up stream.LOL




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never been but was planing on going this year but obviously I'm not went to the lake a while back and it's bone dry.


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I figured Flag Pond would be dry. However when it is wet, would you recommend canoe to go up to flag pond from nails creek or a motorized boat. I can't really tell how far a paddle that would be. As far as the shorline hunting that looks terrible I went out there the other day and there is nothing food wise it would only be a loafing site at best and with such limited space you would be competing big time with other hunters



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I receieved pics last season of FP, it broke my heart, totally dry. I have not been over there yet, but don't think I'll be hunting there this year either.



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I hunted flag a bunch some years back. If the birds are there then so is everyone else. It would be a long paddle at 1 AM. If you don't get started at 1 AM then everybody will beat you there and there is not a lot of room on Flag.

I went on opening day 4 years ago and hammered the snot out of the birds. It was a war zone. We left at 6:30 PM and got to the pond at dark. Disassembled the boat-motor-floor-gear-everything. Carried it all over and winched the boat over the levy. 2.5 hours of some serious work.

We parked the boat under a large tree by the pavilion and went to sleep on the boat floor. At 1:30 AM I could hear the winches from the army of boats coming to the pond. I spent the next 3 hours waking up to a boat(who could not see us under the tree) and shining them off. Lots of cussing that morning when they got shined off. 4.5 minutes and we were done with limits.

We ate breakfast and did all that work again getting out of there. Would I do it again? Nope
I would park my boat and travel light and walk the mile or two around the lake to hunt that spot. The problem is it is deep over there and you need a boat. On the other side it is not so deep.


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Originally Posted By: Sniper John
I was in the area end of last season, did some rabbit/squirrel hunting and general looking around. Flag Pond may or may not be part of the hunting area now. Everything was and I am sure still is very dry. The adjacent TPWD WMA is upland and not really anything conductive to waterfowl hunting. But you live there, go look at it, you never know. The Corps public waterfowl hunting area has changed too, shoreline only, and very small now.
i was thinking about going there to hunt some squirrels and rabbits, did you have any luck?


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I hunted flag a bunch some years back. If the birds are there then so is everyone else. It would be a long paddle at 1 AM. If you don't get started at 1 AM then everybody will beat you there and there is not a lot of room on Flag.

I went on opening day 4 years ago and hammered the snot out of the birds. It was a war zone. We left at 6:30 PM and got to the pond at dark. Disassembled the boat-motor-floor-gear-everything. Carried it all over and winched the boat over the levy. 2.5 hours of some serious work.

We parked the boat under a large tree by the pavilion and went to sleep on the boat floor. At 1:30 AM I could hear the winches from the army of boats coming to the pond. I spent the next 3 hours waking up to a boat(who could not see us under the tree) and shining them off. Lots of cussing that morning when they got shined off. 4.5 minutes and we were done with limits.

We ate breakfast and did all that work again getting out of there. Would I do it again? Nope
I would park my boat and travel light and walk the mile or two around the lake to hunt that spot. The problem is it is deep over there and you need a boat. On the other side it is not so deep.


now thats some hard work..I normally wake up around an hour before LST, have some coffee and then head out bounce



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It was some hard work and I just aint that mad at them anymore.


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Call the Nail's Creek office. May have a bit of H20 in there now. You can be sure to hear an airboat or 2 the first few days up in there trying to find water....then blasting out and trying to find another spot. Happens every yr.

If there is enough H20, then will there be enough "duck veggies" to hold the birds? Doubt it.

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Call the Nail's Creek office. May have a bit of H20 in there now. You can be sure to hear an airboat or 2 the first few days up in there trying to find water....then blasting out and trying to find another spot. Happens every yr.

If there is enough H20, then will there be enough "duck veggies" to hold the birds? Doubt it.

Scouting pays off.


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Re: Lake Somerville Duck Hunting [Re: TreeBass] #948132 10/07/09 11:38 AM
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I might be heading up there in the duck mobile/oral party wagon this weekend. If I go I will be taking the mud hogger and I will report back to you fellas on the h20 situation.


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good luck, be interesting to see if there is enough water in there.



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I talked to my brother and he seems to think the recent rains we had didn't do enough. I tend to believe he is correct on this one because we had 4 or 5 days of rain. Some really heavy and some light but we got a lot of water. I still have cracks int he ground in my yard. I have never seen it that bad in the 6 I have been at this house. Been a while since I have seen it that dry on the coastal region here in Texas.


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well, maybe we need to send some down your way. We are getting plenty of it. Still coming down



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Re: Lake Somerville Duck Hunting [Re: TreeBass] #948405 10/07/09 02:32 PM
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If you go to lake Travis or Buchanan you will see we don't have enough down here yet.



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my duck blind at Travis is not even close to the water right now



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Send on the rains. The river behind my house is dry sand even after all we got the last week. My duck holes in the river bottom are weed meadows right now. If it fills up right before season then it will be on.


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Corps showing the lake still 3 ft. below normal pool.
no water = no duck food = no ducks.

We shot both ducks we saw last year and this year looks no better.



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I went 3 times last year with my cousin who has a draw spot.
Got 1 duck for 3 trips.



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I thought I heard somewhere we were going to have a wet and warm winter this year. So hopefully some rain hits and gets all back to plumpin speed before the season.


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we can only hope, but I don't see FP being hot for another year or so..its that bad frown



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