re: Anyone duck hunt in Tensas NWR?

We need a dry year in the bottomlands. Been flooded for long time

Sage needs about three dry years

A bunch of button heads lost their lives this weekend

This is why Bayou Cocodrie's rules/seasons were overhauled.

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Tensas river

Its one of the few public spots that you dont here that its crazy packed and can hold good numbers of birds.

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Duck hunting there is terrible. Anyone wanting to hunt that place needs to save their fuel and try Richard K. Yancey (Three Rivers, Red River).

You can kill ducks in tensas but you better know the spot and hit it when the weather is perfect.

Supposedly Boeuf is holding or was holding birds.

Geez. Thought it had sarcasm written all over the post.

I haven’t hunted it as much as I used to. We have a place in Tensas along the big river were we do all of our deer hunting and the majority of our duck hunting but we usually make a couple duck hunts on the NWF each year and a couple at Yancey. We have some honey holes on both but don’t go as much because we don’t duck nearly as much as we used to. These are spots where you can’t get to it by boat. It’s a hike and not an easy one. Those spots were worth it though. I might make a hunt or 2 over there in January while I’m off. I’ll be in the duck blind morning and the deer stand in the evenings the next 20ish days. Just got to our place here in Tensas.

Good luck

Back in the day it was incredible. Before the black bear was listed, Tensas was managed primarily for migratory birds There was a huge field of corn flooded for waterfowl that would hold 100k birds each year mainly mallards. (Not sure how the Flyway Federation mouth breathers would have reacted to this had this). Of course you couldn’t hunt that field but it held birds in the area. Those birds would get up and head to the woods and nearby fields later in the day Late January was absolutely money There would be stacks of mallards swimming in the ditches by the roads when it was flooded. Some of my best memories as a kid are from there We had one spot that one other group knew about and we respected one another and got far away from each other and if the ducks wanted to come to us, they let us have them and vice versa. You don’t see that much nowadays

The management then changed to providing habitat for black bears and migratory birds and that field was planted into hardwoods It’s now a thicket with big deer and a few ducks probably fly over it and that’s it

Damn face painters too

Get off my lawn

State tax $ wasted on oversized raccoons. Lovely.

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There was a huge field of corn

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What year did this stop?

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The coonass exodus from the gun hunt yesterday was quite impressive. I passed no less than 200 fema trailers and 4,000 wheelers headed south thru Newellton. The amount of shite they can pack on a 16’ trailer is mind boggling

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I've never seed the "doe day" migration. What's the best place to view this migration? I've seen the Feb 1 migration several times and it's epic.