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re: What do you attribute the migration change to?
Posted on 10/14/16 at 9:22 am to HogIslandDuckman
Posted on 10/14/16 at 9:22 am to HogIslandDuckman
Biggest driver has been the no-till grain farming in the midwest and the movement of rice acreage. Where there was once a lot more rice acreage in South Texas and South Louisiana this has moved to an area from NE Louisiana and SE Arkansas through SE Missouri. Farming has also gotten more efficient and the amount of waste grain isn't as high as say the 80's.
Second driver has been the weather. With no-till farming birds (especially mallards) have to see 6 inches of snow cover their food source before they will leave. Pressure has made hunting birds that still migrate much harder than it was in the 1990s and before. If some of you have never hunted dry fields with mojo ducks you wouldn't understand how this matters. I would gladly take 3 and 30 for a few years to weed out some of the topwaters also.
Second driver has been the weather. With no-till farming birds (especially mallards) have to see 6 inches of snow cover their food source before they will leave. Pressure has made hunting birds that still migrate much harder than it was in the 1990s and before. If some of you have never hunted dry fields with mojo ducks you wouldn't understand how this matters. I would gladly take 3 and 30 for a few years to weed out some of the topwaters also.
This post was edited on 10/14/16 at 9:23 am
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Posted on 10/14/16 at 9:28 am to TigerDog83
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TigerDog83
This guy gets it.
Also, pressure absolutely affects duck migration. If you went on a trip every place to the same year, and some guy shoots at you every time you go, you're eventually going to go somewhere else
. Especially guys in leases hunting both mornings and afternoons. If you stop giving the ducks a place to rest, they're going to stop coming to your general area. If everyone in your general area does the same, they're going to go somewhere else altogether. It's a pretty simple concept and I've seen it happen over and over again. Especially in the last 6-7 years.
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