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Road access to Maurepas Swamp
Posted on 9/29/10 at 10:43 am
Posted on 9/29/10 at 10:43 am
Has anyone here ever hunted the Maurepas swamp wma? Looking at a map it appears there aren't many accesses via road. I see highway 641 off of I-10, but does anyone know of any others?
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Posted on 9/29/10 at 10:47 am to Jake85
I hunt it, but with a boat. Plenty of opportunities if you have a boat. I-10 is the one I think most people use. Also airline in Gramercy.
Posted on 9/29/10 at 12:00 pm to Jake85
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Maurepas swamp wma?
I know about Manchac and Joyce off of I-55. Is this a new WMA?
Posted on 9/29/10 at 12:23 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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I know about Manchac and Joyce off of I-55. Is this a new WMA?
Not that I know of... here is the page to the wma
LINK
Posted on 9/29/10 at 12:28 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
It's not new, but it has grown quite a bit over the last few years. Lots of land has been donated to the state and added on. Most of the land south and west of I-10 has been added on.
Posted on 9/29/10 at 12:40 pm to Jake85
Thanks, Jake. I wish we could get Spanish Lake and Alligator Bayou in the WMA system!
This post was edited on 9/29/10 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 9/29/10 at 12:46 pm to Jake85
Has the Salvinia made the place unhuntable for waterfowl?
Posted on 9/29/10 at 12:57 pm to whistlinwings
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Has the Salvinia made the place unhuntable for waterfowl?
Yes. We have pictures at our camp of hundreds, maybe even thousands, of mallards that were killed in the 80s. Now only woodies are in that area.
Posted on 9/29/10 at 12:59 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Thanks, Jake. I wish we could get Spanish Lake and Alligator Bayou in the WMA system!
Private landowners own half the Bluff Swamp and mitigation banks own the rest. It ain't happening.
They need to go into the lake itself right now and dredge the sonofabitch. It used to hold plenty of bass, bream, sac-a-lait, and catfish. Since they first put the locks in it silted up and isn't good for shite.
Posted on 9/29/10 at 1:03 pm to whistlinwings
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Has the Salvinia made the place unhuntable for waterfowl?
I have a two story view of the area from my home and see very few ducks. Some woodies, a flock or two of teal from time to time and a few flocks of big ducks. Largest numbers are seen towards the end of November around a cold front. The beast of times I might count a 125 ducks at dark.
They don’t stay. FYI- The original Duckman video was shot in this area….
Posted on 9/29/10 at 1:11 pm to wickowick
I do see a few teal fly over too. I deer hunt in the area. I'll pop a couple of woodies out of some crawfish ponds every now and then after a morning hunt.
I went last weekend to check my cameras and scared up a flock of teal out of one of the ponds.
I went last weekend to check my cameras and scared up a flock of teal out of one of the ponds.
Posted on 9/29/10 at 1:19 pm to Slickback
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I do see a few teal fly over too. I deer hunt in the area. I'll pop a couple of woodies out of some crawfish ponds every now and then after a morning hunt.
in there .
I went last weekend to check my cameras and scared up a flock of teal out of one of the ponds.
I saw a flock this morning, late am, with about 20 birds, but I wouldn't make a trip to hunt. The teal sighting get thinner and thinner as November rolls around and pass shooting woodies is a good way to loose birds.
Posted on 9/29/10 at 1:30 pm to wickowick
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pass shooting woodies is a good way to loose birds.
I hunt behind some ponds. After my deer hunt is over, I crawl up to the pond, scare them up, shoot my three and then go get them. I don't lose any.
Posted on 9/29/10 at 1:42 pm to Slickback
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I hunt behind some ponds. After my deer hunt is over, I crawl up to the pond, scare them up, shoot my three and then go get them. I don't lose any.
I wasn’t referring to your hunting, just the hunting of woodies on the WMA in general. Sorry for the confusion.
For the most part the land is cypress and tupelo swamp. Unless someone is able to locate one of there feeding or roosting spots (places the birds are coming to land) all a hunter will get is pass shooting, and it is easy to see a few, but difficult to hit and recover birds in such an environment.
Posted on 9/29/10 at 3:02 pm to wickowick
When the interior powerlines would flood, which is pretty much every year, they were a good area to hunt. Now that they outlawed airboats on WMA's we can't get back there from our camp as easily and don't hunt it anymore.
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