The question always comes as to why Tallahatchie County is poised to be such a great place for waterfowl hunting. If you could just do a flyover of this county during the duck season, the answer would quickly become obvious.
“Tallahatchie County lays right smack in the middle of what I have always called the Brazil Flyway,” said Mike “Catfish” Flautt. “Brazil is one of the small communities just north of my farming and duck hunting land.
“From there south to the county line is a network of channeled and unchanneled waterways, bayous like Cassidy Bayou, the longest single bayou of water in the whole state, numerous sloughs, drainages, potholes, ponds and other standing water resources that ducks like to frequent. First and foremost, it’s all about the water.
“The main tributary, of course, is the Tallahatchie River that originates up in Tippah County and comes all the way south through Tallahatchie County. This river feeds all the other water resources in the immediate region during normal years with normal rainfall creating a backwater situation.”
“Then there are the Coldwater and the Yocona rivers also bringing water into the county. These rivers naturally flood a lot of the farmland along their routes and its other feeder network drainages.
“Next comes the food resources that ducks like to feed on. I farm 6,300 acres of corn and soybeans. We always leave plenty of leftover crop edges with food for the ducks. We also plant milo sorghum around the perimeters of our duck potholes to provide an extra measure of duck holding feed.”
So why does Tallahatchie County house so many ducks during the winter months? Simple. It takes two things to make it happen, water and food. Tallahatchie County has both.
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