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It’s good to be a Louisiana duck, duck hunter - Article quoting Larry Reynolds
Posted on 9/15/16 at 9:12 am
Posted on 9/15/16 at 9:12 am
Good Read - Thanks Mr. Reynolds for your hard work and willingness to share your knowledge and experience with us.
Shreveport Times
Shreveport Times
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Speaking to a modest crowd of area residents on Monday night during a Friends of the Red River National Wildlife Refuge meeting in the environmental educational building at the refuge in south Bossier, Reynolds offered some numbers and a few quips about what the state has to offer.
“Right now, it’s good to be a waterfowl biologist. It’s good to be a duck hunter. And it’s good to be a duck in Louisiana,” Reynolds told the gathering. “Don’t let hunters tell you that all of our ducks are going to Missouri. If they were, the hunters would move up there.”
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Posted on 9/15/16 at 9:15 am to Stexas
Posted on 9/15/16 at 9:19 am to Stexas
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Don’t let hunters tell you that all of our ducks are going to Missouri. If they were, the hunters would move up there.
Why are the feds are always so smug? Typical patronizing response from big government to the private individual.
Posted on 9/15/16 at 9:54 am to Clyde Tipton
Do you know how many people stopped leasing in Louisiana and sold their marsh boats to instead make 2-3 trips a year to Missouri Kansas and Canada.
I normally agree with Larry but let's not be obtuse.
I normally agree with Larry but let's not be obtuse.
Posted on 9/15/16 at 9:56 am to Stexas
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“Don’t let hunters tell you that all of our ducks are going to Missouri. If they were, the hunters would move up there.”
Well, they are moving up there. Not neccesarily moving their residence but going to the Midwest in duck season to kill ducks. As opposed to when people came to Louisiana to kill ducks....
Posted on 9/15/16 at 9:57 am to jimjackandjose
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Do you know how many people stopped leasing in Louisiana and sold their marsh boats to instead make 2-3 trips a year to Missouri Kansas and Canada.
I don't have any data on this, but LA is still indisputably the king when it comes to duck numbers and duck hunter numbers.
Posted on 9/15/16 at 9:59 am to The Last Coco
I like Larry but he's off base on this.
Posted on 9/15/16 at 9:59 am to LSUballs
Because they kill lots and lots of mallards and big geese up there, which we don't have. My friend from Missouri has never shot a scaup, grey, teal.... but I've never seen so many greenheads before
Posted on 9/15/16 at 10:06 am to Stexas
Awesome picture in that article. Pintails, green wings, spoonbills and a wigeon
ETA. Farming practices weren't covered enough. Like he said, the best some of you can hope for is that we don't lose any more rice farming.
ETA. Farming practices weren't covered enough. Like he said, the best some of you can hope for is that we don't lose any more rice farming.
This post was edited on 9/15/16 at 10:13 am
Posted on 9/15/16 at 10:23 am to The Last Coco
You aren't wrong.
The most recent data available (2013 and 2014 seasons) shows that Louisiana harvested an estimated 2.3 and 1.8 million birds, with 77,600 and 77,200 hunters, respectively. That is nearly 30% of the entire flyway's harvest (6.8 and 6.4 million birds), and nearly 20% of the hunters in the flyway.
The estimates actually have Louisiana harvesting more birds than the entire Atlantic Flyway, and right around 15% of the birds in the entire country in those years.
Now, whether you believe those estimates is another thing entirely. Last year was not a great year due to weather conditions, and I know many hunters that judge the success of the hunt based on the number of pintails and mallards on the strap.
To each his own. I love mallards and pintails just as much as the next guy, but I'll take the grey ducks, rice rockets, and woodrows all day long.
Hopefully we get some good cold condtions up north this year to push the birds down.
Don't get your hopes up on that. I've heard a lot of talk that some farmers who lost the bulk of their crops this year in the flood may not farm next year. Who knows when they would come back to it. Heard some have said they'll give it up entirely.
So unless someone else picks that up...
The most recent data available (2013 and 2014 seasons) shows that Louisiana harvested an estimated 2.3 and 1.8 million birds, with 77,600 and 77,200 hunters, respectively. That is nearly 30% of the entire flyway's harvest (6.8 and 6.4 million birds), and nearly 20% of the hunters in the flyway.
The estimates actually have Louisiana harvesting more birds than the entire Atlantic Flyway, and right around 15% of the birds in the entire country in those years.
Now, whether you believe those estimates is another thing entirely. Last year was not a great year due to weather conditions, and I know many hunters that judge the success of the hunt based on the number of pintails and mallards on the strap.
To each his own. I love mallards and pintails just as much as the next guy, but I'll take the grey ducks, rice rockets, and woodrows all day long.
Hopefully we get some good cold condtions up north this year to push the birds down.
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Redfish2010
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Farming practices weren't covered enough. Like he said, the best some of you can hope for is that we don't lose any more rice farming.
Don't get your hopes up on that. I've heard a lot of talk that some farmers who lost the bulk of their crops this year in the flood may not farm next year. Who knows when they would come back to it. Heard some have said they'll give it up entirely.
So unless someone else picks that up...
This post was edited on 9/15/16 at 10:27 am
Posted on 9/15/16 at 10:24 am to Redfish2010
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Farming practices weren't covered enough.
I have said this multiple times and I will say it again, no till farming has killed a large majority of duck hunting in this state. They WILL not leave food to look for food south. Granted some places in this state are still great, but lots of places there were once great are just ok now.
Posted on 9/15/16 at 10:28 am to 34venture
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no till farming has killed a large majority of duck hunting in this state. They WILL not leave food to look for food south.
Absolutely
Posted on 9/15/16 at 10:29 am to 34venture
That's the way of the future though. No-till isn't going away, especially when the farmer sees the benefit of it.
Unfortunate for the duck hunters, but it is what it is I guess.
Unfortunate for the duck hunters, but it is what it is I guess.
Posted on 9/15/16 at 10:34 am to Cowboyfan89
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but it is what it is I guess.
No doubt, and with unseasonably warm winters the situation will not get better. You can walk in any grain field in the Midwest and if it not covered in snow you can kick up grain with every step.
Posted on 9/15/16 at 10:55 am to Redfish2010
Rice farming especially in coastal parishes has taken a huge hit. Rita got a lot of smaller guys, bad farmers, older guys out of the game. Used to be, every damn field was in rice. Now, looks like pasture. I know several large farmers who just up and quit due to prices this year.
Or damn cane. Fricking cane man. Can't tell you how much is popping up. First year we actually have some neighboring us.
Point is, way less habitat. And I don't see it reversing.
Or damn cane. Fricking cane man. Can't tell you how much is popping up. First year we actually have some neighboring us.
Point is, way less habitat. And I don't see it reversing.
Posted on 9/15/16 at 11:01 am to jimbeam
The lack of habitat down here is only sognificant if the birds get down here though. Fact is, weather up north drives what we see down here. If it doesn't get cold and cover everything up in snow, we could have the best duck habitat and millions of acres of it and it won't make a difference.
Those ducks can't see thousands of miles ahead to see that there is habitat down here. They are only going to expend as much energy as they need to in order to meet their needs.
And it's not like the ducks turn around and go back north either. They just find what little habitat there is.
Gotta have colder winters and more snow in the midwest. Gotta have it!
Those ducks can't see thousands of miles ahead to see that there is habitat down here. They are only going to expend as much energy as they need to in order to meet their needs.
And it's not like the ducks turn around and go back north either. They just find what little habitat there is.
Gotta have colder winters and more snow in the midwest. Gotta have it!
Posted on 9/15/16 at 11:05 am to jimbeam
This thread is depressing. 
Posted on 9/15/16 at 11:38 am to sloopy
No shite!
This post was edited on 9/15/16 at 11:40 am
Posted on 9/15/16 at 11:46 am to sloopy
Was just reading that this is supposed to be another warm, wet winter in the SE.
Take for example all of the guys on the OB who are going to KS, MS, Oklahoma, Canada, etc. They share their pictures and everyone is like holy shite I HAVE to go do that. It's how it is. You can shoot gadwalls and teal all day in south Louisiana, but it just isnt the same.
Take for example all of the guys on the OB who are going to KS, MS, Oklahoma, Canada, etc. They share their pictures and everyone is like holy shite I HAVE to go do that. It's how it is. You can shoot gadwalls and teal all day in south Louisiana, but it just isnt the same.
This post was edited on 9/15/16 at 11:49 am
Posted on 9/15/16 at 11:47 am to sloopy
What's depressing is seeing fewer and fewer young guys get into farming. More rice acreage will be lost in the next 20 years or so I'd say. Sucks.
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