Duck hunting California's Sacramento Refuge 2023
- Hunting report and how to hunt Sacramento refuge
- Sacramento Refuge Maps and information
- Local duck hunting clubs and blind leases
-Access to 80 Hunting Ranches and Duck Hunting Clubs for one monthly fee
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- Sacramento Refuge Report and how to hunt Sacramento refuge
— The best duck hunting tends to be on private land. Usually. Most of the time. We have access to 40 different properties you can duck and pheasant hunt, see below for more info.
But if you don’t have a huge budget for paid duck hunts and are bound and determined to hunt no matter what, then the refuge system is a darn good bet. And Sacramento Refuge is a good choice. There will be some good shooting on the opener on a good population of local ducks, but northern birds are already trickling in. What happens from here on out will depend entirely on the weather to the north. Last year, there was some miserable hunting because of picnic~style weather during the middle of the season. Stay tuned to our refuge hunting reports as the season progresses.
That could happen again, or we could get a steady flow, which isn’t had but isn’t fantastic, either. However it goes, Sacramento Refuge is a good place to be. Of course, lots of people have discovered that, and the powers that be have decided that allowing everybody to hunt is in no one’s interest. That equals rules, drawings and hoops to jump through!
The Sacramento Valley refuge personnel have been busy beavers this year, improving habitat and planting rice and natural foods to attract and hold ducks on the refuge and keep them off the pocketbooks of the valley farmers There are 500 to 600 acres of rice on the refuge which gets pretty well hammered by the ducks, since they prefer rice to their natural menu. They turn to the millet and smart weed after the rice is gone. They hammer the rice, but they never exhaust the natural feed.
That adds up to more ducks for hunters. If a place has suitable habitat and attractive feed for ducks but is shot up daily, the ducks still won’t stay. But Sacramento as well as the other area refuges allow hunting on only three days per week. Hunting is allowed on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. That gives the ducks four days to calm down and get back to their duck doings. . .or goose doings, since Sacramento is also a top goose-gunning spot. The best hunting is on Wednesdays and Satur days, because the birds have had two days to calm down. By Sunday they are pretty wary. You can get on the refuge in one of two ways. Get drawn by the DFG‘s computer, or you can wait in the “sweat lines” in the refuge parking lots. You have to buy a hunting permit either way purchased from your local store that has a set up for this.
The Nationa (federal) refuges are managed by the state on this system. At Sacramento, where there are blinds already established, a successful entrant may bring one other adult hunter and each may bring two junior hunters. So coordinate things with your duck hunting partner; between you, you have a pretty good chance.
If drawn by the state computer you will be notified within seven days of your hunt date. If you wait in the no-show lines, you are taken on a first-come first-served basis. Your odds of getting in this way are poor the first weekend. Then they get pretty good, until the northern birds start coming in in big numbers as they did last year in the last week of the season. What happens is that hunters show up in vans or campers and wait in the vehicle line as much as two days in advance of their hunt. That’s right! Two days sleeping in a car! But in the middle of the season, you can get in on a Wednesday by showing up at 3 a.m. or so. . .usually. Stay tuned to our refuge hunting reports as the season progresses.
The way the refuge is set up is mostly with standing water in pools with blinds spaced out over the pool area to give plenty of elbow room. That avoids sky-busting and too much competition between hunters. There are two types of blinds, pits and boxes.See our refuge Hunting maps. The pits are on islands and banks and the box blinds are either built on islands or on stilts. There is also a smaller part of the refuge set aside for free-roaming. There’s some good goose hunting here, but there are no blinds. Hunters usually fashion little mounds out of loose tules and lay in the middle of them.
lt’s a good idea to have a big spread. During the hunting season, ducks get very wary. That presents no particular problem on the refuge, but you need to keep the number down to a day-trip level, so you are not spending all your time carrying dekes. The field hunters using shells may have a slight advantage here. The goose populations are looking very good opposed to the duck populations, said Collins. The low sprig numbers will be made up a little bit with a very good population of local mallards. Being in a well-populated area, there are plenty of places to stay within a couple of minutes of the refuge. Stay tuned to our refuge hunting reports as the season progresses.
California hunting clubs, hunting ranches, public and even private fishing
Boar hunting private lands in California has several advantages over the
public areas. Chief among these are much less hunting pressure, better
forage and water supplies and easier vehicle access. It's a fact of
life, and if you've never got your boar, hunting on private ranches is almost a sure thing.
We use a hunting map site that has over 200 private ranches, with or without guides www.ranchhuntfish.com
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