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weather this year.....
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:18 am
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:18 am
Talked to a duck hunter yesterday has two blinds..
generally hunts 2-3 people per blind in SWLA...
18 hunts in one and 14 hunts in the other...
57 and 49 ducks respectively...
he said the weather was never right this year....
This was one of the coldest hunting seasons in 20 plus years...... up and down the fly way..
generally hunts 2-3 people per blind in SWLA...
18 hunts in one and 14 hunts in the other...
57 and 49 ducks respectively...
he said the weather was never right this year....
This was one of the coldest hunting seasons in 20 plus years...... up and down the fly way..
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Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:20 am to choupiquesushi
I was covered in geese
But no ducks til very late
None
But no ducks til very late
None
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:25 am to jimbeam
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But no ducks til very late
None
migration patterns changing....
numbers not quite what some say.....
migration patterns changing......
guy I know from nebraska.. limited pretty much every time he stepped into a field this year - his words...
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:29 am to choupiquesushi
The marsh was hit or miss this year. The extreme cold would push the birds out to sea. There were days that you had to scrape to get a few and days where you could limit out with a fly swatter. Our best hunts were on the warming trends after the cold fronts this year.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:30 am to choupiquesushi
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This was one of the coldest hunting seasons in 20 plus years...... up and down the fly way..
it has definitely been a cold arse winter. however, i have had trouble finding any numbers of ducks (aside from woodies) outside of the marshes. i hunt in every piece of public land within two hours of BR & i spend a lot of time scouting. admittedly i am a noob hunter but damn if there aren't just very few ducks around.
someone tell me i'm wrong. i want to get better at this shite.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:32 am to choupiquesushi
You had to hunt damn near every day this winter to get on them. They would show up when you least expected them to.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:33 am to choupiquesushi
The main change with mallards has been no-till corn. Where rice farming has gotten more efficient and leaves less waste grain ethanol has put a tremendous amount of corn in the ground in the upper midwest. Look at the dry field hunts on mallards there. With that being said I would guess that there were plenty of ducks shot down here, and we did well in North TX and North LA when I hunted, although things got spotty towards the end. There was a lot more small water this season with water than the last few and pressure only gets worse every year.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:35 am to choupiquesushi
One change that I did enjoy was the huge numbers of pintail this year. Not sure if it was from a population increase, the weather, or migration changes, I just know that we shot many more sprigs this year than in the last 10 years.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:35 am to choupiquesushi
I hunted a decent amount in the rice belt and I agree with him. Yeah it was really cold a few times, and we shot some birds, but every other time was warmer, no wind, and sunny which is something you would rather not have.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:36 am to PapaPogey
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One change that I did enjoy was the huge numbers of pintail this year. Not sure if it was from a population increase, the weather, or migration changes, I just know that we shot many more sprigs this year than in the last 10 years.
Where at? We saw a LOT of pintails the last few weeks
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:37 am to choupiquesushi
I'm pretty convinced that weather has little to do with migration. We shoot more mallards after a front, but that's it. It seems like it's more of a timing deal for ducks. At least that's been my observation for the last decade or so.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:39 am to TigerDog83
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There was a lot more small water this season with water than the last few
Don't think this was it. I hunt areas of small water where we need the extra rain to get ducks. We had the water this year and not many ducks.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:40 am to Palo Gaucho
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I'm pretty convinced that weather has little to do with migration. We shoot more mallards after a front, but that's it. It seems like it's more of a timing deal for ducks. At least that's been my observation for the last decade or so.
Lots of ducks are calendar ducks, especially a lot of the early gadwalls and teal that show up just after Halloween every year. We used to flood a field early in SE Arkansas to hold a few and most of these would be gone to the coast long before the Arkansas season would open. I would think mallards are the main duck being driven by weather as we saw a lot of them coming down with or behind fronts in N TX. They also hug the freeze line a lot. The first big early December freeze we had more mallards on the place in North TX than I have ever seen. We hammered them for two days then the season split and 90% were gone when it opened two weeks later. Go figure.
This post was edited on 1/21/14 at 10:43 am
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:41 am to PapaPogey
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Where at?
Southeast Texas marsh and East Texas lakes. Even on crappy days, we would have some sprigs come by to check things out.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:47 am to TigerDog83
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The main change with mallards has been no-till corn.
quietly this has been a major factor since the late 80s
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:49 am to choupiquesushi
agreed. They are like most of the wild, food driven. I find it hard to believe any cold weather we get moves them anywhere after what they stay in up north.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:50 am to choupiquesushi
I tried to pattern the ducks at our place by looking at previous years hunts and weather. Normally, we would kill more ducks on the day before a big front. This year, the days before these big, very cold fronts moved in were horrible. Maybe 1-2 ducks per hunt. On the day after the front moved in, with high winds and cold temps, we killed more birds. I hunt in the East zone and our first split was waaaayyyyy better than the second.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 10:54 am to Langston
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They are like most of the wild, food driven
well put
If they have something to eat, they stay. Those feathers keep them warm. Stick your fingers up in a duck's feathers that you have shot. They are steamimg hot ans stay that way for a while.
Posted on 1/21/14 at 12:16 pm to gorillacoco
Past two days the refuge here has been loaded. And closed. People with property limiting on teal, woodies, mallards
Posted on 1/21/14 at 2:11 pm to choupiquesushi
Anyone can show me statitsic on what acreage on corn in midwest prior to 1980 and what its now? I would like to see this I bet it would be very suprising.
I dont' think The majority of mallard ever reach Missouri anymore i believe they are going the way of the canada where they gorge on corn til they are to fat to fly.
Believe it or not mallard were shot in LA this year, lots of them, and I may have shot one maybe to
I dont' think The majority of mallard ever reach Missouri anymore i believe they are going the way of the canada where they gorge on corn til they are to fat to fly.
Believe it or not mallard were shot in LA this year, lots of them, and I may have shot one maybe to
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