How deep of water do you hunt?

[Basseyes]

I like weeds and very shallow.

Under 2 feet.

Under a foot and a half is even better in my book.

Seems very clear to me that when the Dakotas and MN fills with water the Dakotas get most of the ducks. Our water gets to deep for ducks in wet years.

[Gordie]

depends what I'm hunting puddle ducks is just that and divers them lakes may run as deep as 60-90 fow ansd No I dont hunt in that deep of water on those lakes it typically 4-10 fow that I setting up in thou

[Tyler23]

i usually hunt a very big marsh(swan lake) its around 2ft deep with like 3ft of mud lol..

[cutter08]

I run about 25ft of decoy cord on the divers and there have been times where we have used all of it. On the puddle duck decoy we run about 10 feet. Most of the time i would say that we hunt in under 10 fow

[dan z]

we prolly hunt over water thats 5-6ft usually. couple of the sloughs we hunt show less than a foot but are bottom less. I have 10-12ft cords on the duck decoys. and a lil more on the honkers. the more line, the better they move IMO.

[Moonie]

Early season is mostly puddle duck hunting and shorter line. I lengthen the lines for diver shoots as the water may be deeper and the waves are usually bigger (blocks in 14' with 15' of line does no good if you have 2' rollers).

I'm with cutter, my diver blocks (less the gang rig ones) have quite a bit more line for those bigger/deeper lakes.

[SORNO]

We only have about 6-8' for cord on the decoys but usually hunt in water less then 6'.

Like stated before I have been in "lakes" that are 2' water 6' of silt and muck.

[RumRiverRat]

6 inches to 30 feet.

[fishkid]

same are rum river rat for me. we hunt shallow rice lakes up to deep trout lakes

[carpshooterdeluxe]

I've never shot a duck in water deeper than what's accessible with waders.

[Basseyes]

Hunting golden eyes in 15' is not unusual for us.

Some mallard spots that are more loafing areas push 8-10'.

Seems this year everything got much deeper. Seemed like some of the deeper water just didn't hold birds like normal. But what in waterfowl hunting is ever normal?

[SWMuskeye]

We hunt over about 2' of water on a bog/cranberry lake, with about 8-10' of muck sediment underneath it. Don't ever dare want to step on it, you'll be turtle food.