re: Why don't teal like south central/ southeast LA marsh?

In my opinion it all has to do with feed.

Teal love three corner grass, wild rice, rice, milfoil and such. In many of the saltwater marshes of the SE there isn't a lot of that your grass tends to be coon tail and occasionally some other varieties of submerged aquatics. This doesn't mean teal won't eat that stuff but it's not their preferred diet. Therefore they just pass through the area.

When they get to Venice there is all of that so they stay a little longer, and when they get to rice in the SW part of the state they stay even longer. Even in Venice the times are a changing, the submerged aquatics aren't what they were 10 years ago. As a result we still have lots of teal but not like it used to be, 15 years ago it was impossible to go teal hunting in Venice and not kill your limit with 2 people or 6 people it didn't matter. Now it takes the perfect conditions down there to have a great teal season.

The marsh and mother nature are just in a big flux and we have to do the best with what she give us.