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<blockquote data-quote="tickweed" data-source="post: 5155377" data-attributes="member: 7928"><p>Hatchie is for the most part a lost flyway for waterfowl. When I was a boy, Hatchie provided some of the best waterfowling anywhere in the state. During the 60s, 70s it was unbelievable. Many mornings sitting in a stand waiting for daylite, all you could hear was mallards chattering in the air, on the water. Sitting on the slews all throughout the bottom. I have a friend who still leases the Armor field, just above the NWR, at one time a thousand ducks a year was common. Now, on a good year, maybe a hundred. I had a club for 25 years just across the river from armour, had some wonderful days in the bottom. Now, the only ones who kill on a regular basis, and even then, can be slow are the few clubs across the river from the refuge. When horns bluff, whites lake, lake Lauderdale, gooch, hop in, bean switch where all created on the forked deer, obion basins, and then flooded fields created all up and down these rivers, seems Hatchie was slowly lost. Ducks feed on acorns years ago, no so much now here in west Tn. For whatever reason, Hatchie didn't get the attention the other basins did in west Tn. Didn't have near the leases, fields created on it. The last big flight index for Hatchie was 1999. then we had 4 or 5 years of low water, river didn't get out. Seems ducks just lost flyway. I honestly don't know if it will come back. Not sure there is anything that can be done to improve waterfowling now on the Hatchie. Even closer toward the Mississippi, not doing anything like years ago. Seems we are seeing a slow change even in these other basins. Just kinda sad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tickweed, post: 5155377, member: 7928"] Hatchie is for the most part a lost flyway for waterfowl. When I was a boy, Hatchie provided some of the best waterfowling anywhere in the state. During the 60s, 70s it was unbelievable. Many mornings sitting in a stand waiting for daylite, all you could hear was mallards chattering in the air, on the water. Sitting on the slews all throughout the bottom. I have a friend who still leases the Armor field, just above the NWR, at one time a thousand ducks a year was common. Now, on a good year, maybe a hundred. I had a club for 25 years just across the river from armour, had some wonderful days in the bottom. Now, the only ones who kill on a regular basis, and even then, can be slow are the few clubs across the river from the refuge. When horns bluff, whites lake, lake Lauderdale, gooch, hop in, bean switch where all created on the forked deer, obion basins, and then flooded fields created all up and down these rivers, seems Hatchie was slowly lost. Ducks feed on acorns years ago, no so much now here in west Tn. For whatever reason, Hatchie didn't get the attention the other basins did in west Tn. Didn't have near the leases, fields created on it. The last big flight index for Hatchie was 1999. then we had 4 or 5 years of low water, river didn't get out. Seems ducks just lost flyway. I honestly don't know if it will come back. Not sure there is anything that can be done to improve waterfowling now on the Hatchie. Even closer toward the Mississippi, not doing anything like years ago. Seems we are seeing a slow change even in these other basins. Just kinda sad. [/QUOTE]
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