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The farmer we lease our pit from is rotating crops from rice this year to milo next. He decided to disk up our levee that our blind sits in and now our blind will be out in the middle of water with no levee or grass or anything to conceal the pit. It has a roll top also. Any ideas on what I should do to conceal the pit and make the area look natural and not like a piece of metal in the middle of a field of water? It will stick out of the water about 6" or so.

What we have done before it make it look like a beavers home. Basically pill brush and small trees all around the outside and top. Cut limbs or small trees down and stick in ground at different angles all around.

Just brush it a you normally do! We kill ducks all the time out of pits in the middle of wide open bean fields. Movement flares more duck than anything!

How big is the field? I know a guy who had the same problem. He would buy several bales of low quality hay, bust the bales, and make a "wind roll" across the field that included his pit so it looked like a small levee all the way across the field. It was a small field and very shallow water though. Seemed to work well. If ducks started landing to one side of the field or the other later in the season, he would just rake some of the hay to the side close to where they wanted to be and place his layout and neotub in the hay, brushing it in with the hay he raked to the side.

driveby wrote:How big is the field? I know a guy who had the same problem. He would buy several bales of low quality hay, bust the bales, and make a "wind roll" across the field that included his pit so it looked like a small levee all the way across the field. It was a small field and very shallow water though. Seemed to work well. If ducks started landing to one side of the field or the other later in the season, he would just rake some of the hay to the side close to where they wanted to be and place his layout and neotub in the hay, brushing it in with the hay he raked to the side.

It's a fairly large field, about 75+ acres. Thanks for ideas. Keep them coming.

Put some cane around it - not thick, but enough to break the outlines. Additionally, stick some cane in other areas within 50-60 yards of the pit. No pattern to it, just some sticks of cane, here and there.

Make it look like old abandoned farm equipment. Wouldn't be pretty but prolly work...

I'm considering making a skid blind that looks like this.

Which leads to the decoy/duck boat combo rig...

I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but when levees start getting disked down my first concern is how's it gonna hold water? Precission leveled, contour levees? Perminant raised pads around the field or just perimeter levees? Is the pit in the bottom 3rd of the field, middle 3rd, top 3rd? If it's precission leveled, is it on half a tenth, a tenth, tenth and half grade? I know of several pits in my county that are only hunted on rice years because beans and corn are furrow irrigated and there won't be any water on the blind without levees. I'd hate to hunt all year on a mud flat with an inch of water on it.

Pile brush up around it and make it look like a big brush pile. I wouldn't just put it right around the pit either, spread it out so it looks like a big blow down. Anything to keep it from looking like a pit sticking up in open water. They see a thousand of those and bounce off of them more than they suck in to them.

pile dirt on top of the roll top,

duckter wrote:Put some cane around it - not thick, but enough to break the outlines. Additionally, stick some cane in other areas within 50-60 yards of the pit. No pattern to it, just some sticks of cane, here and there.

This. And wait until there is water around your pit or at least very moist soil to cut your cane and stick it in the ground as soon as you can. This will help keep the cane green longer and more natural looking.

1-way mirror lid with neoprene edging & support on braces. The most important consideration is to be sure and shim it perfectly level to keep reflective planes (mirror & surrounding water) consistent. Put a few decoys on top and around the 'gap' to help hide the gap.

^very interesting. I'd sure like to see it from the air.