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re: Have the good ole days of duck hunting become a thing of the past.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 3:17 pm to TrueTiger07
Posted on 12/31/23 at 3:17 pm to TrueTiger07
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The ducks haven’t pushed and are sitting in Dakotas getting hammered. I just looked at the extended forecast here in SE Kansas and the mallards won’t even be here in January based on that. Weather is the killer.
You must’ve loooked at an old forecast
Snow/cold coming to Midwest all the way down to Missouri
Euro extended showing teens in LA and freeze all the way down to south Texas around the 12th
Posted on 12/31/23 at 3:45 pm to Ron Cheramie
quote:Yes, the fact that no ducks is not specific to 2023. Y’all some hard headed mother frickers.
Anything I am missing
Posted on 12/31/23 at 3:46 pm to Midtiger farm
quote:Therefore we should be covered in green tops this coming week.
Snow/cold coming to Midwest all the way down to Missouri Euro extended showing teens in LA and freeze all the way down to south Texas around the 12th
Posted on 12/31/23 at 3:46 pm to Big Bill
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crawfish ponds
There's your answer to the lack of snow geese in SWLA.
The ducks are an enigma. Laccassine WLR is loaded though.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:00 pm to NorthTiger
Canada needs to lower their limits as well.
It's ridiculous you can take 10 guys and kill 400 birds in 4 days in Red Deer Alberta. They kill off half the Mississippi Flyway's hatch before they cross the border.
It's ridiculous you can take 10 guys and kill 400 birds in 4 days in Red Deer Alberta. They kill off half the Mississippi Flyway's hatch before they cross the border.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 4:32 pm to cgrand
I agree with all stated.
I also think mud motors or public wmas should be banned.
I've watched the wax and venice fo from world class to mediocre. Guys running every bird out the marsh "scouting".
And our idiots on the WLF commission decide to ban drones saying they harass the birds more....smh.
I also think mud motors or public wmas should be banned.
I've watched the wax and venice fo from world class to mediocre. Guys running every bird out the marsh "scouting".
And our idiots on the WLF commission decide to ban drones saying they harass the birds more....smh.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 5:16 pm to KemoSabe65
Thanks Kemo. Was thinking about you recently. Happy New Year to you.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 7:17 pm to Ron Cheramie
[quote]The salinity is very high in much of the intermediate and even freshwater marshes The feed is gone[/quote
There is a pretty abrupt line where the salinity killed the vegetation where I hunt. Funny the good birds are hanging on the leases that got torched and south. Places with abundant freshwater SAVs are covered with ringnecks.
There is a pretty abrupt line where the salinity killed the vegetation where I hunt. Funny the good birds are hanging on the leases that got torched and south. Places with abundant freshwater SAVs are covered with ringnecks.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 7:18 pm to loogaroo
I don't get the down vote on my crawfish pond comment.
I can assure you that every farmer with crawfish ponds in SWLA is on high alert to run every goose off their farm. Geese will ruin a crawfish pond in a day.
It's just way things are now.
Several years of this and the new birds don't know to come down here anymore.
I can assure you that every farmer with crawfish ponds in SWLA is on high alert to run every goose off their farm. Geese will ruin a crawfish pond in a day.
It's just way things are now.
Several years of this and the new birds don't know to come down here anymore.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 7:26 pm to Midtiger farm
I live here and know farmers here. They still grow rice. But they don’t leave the levees up for the fields to flood, and they disc them after harvest. Idk if you comprehend anything that I posted the first time cat. Yes they try to hop in fall and have been doing it a long time. But if it rains and rains a lot in October and they can’t hip, they cant get in the fields until April.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 7:59 pm to Ron Cheramie
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Northeast and Central LA bottoms are bone dry (no acorns to feed on). Most every pump on the WMAs are in the mud right now and can’t pump
This. There is one outfitter that is doing decent in NE LA not named Dave's Bayou. They kill steady in one pit and get some Mallards in the woods but it is so hit or miss with them it is like they are there and then gone for a week. As you said, there is zero water for ducks to go in NE LA and SE AR that doesn't have decoys on it and obviously we aren't getting the weather. I mean sure it gets cold but not the cold that is gonna budge anything North of us. Last year it got stupid cold over Christmas and we actually had a decent Mallard push into January but this year sucks arse, but it's not just LA that sucks outside of Johnson Bayou. SE TX is horrible. Not really much water on the Eastside of H-town where I hunt either. We had a strong tidal surge in October that did put water in places but it is all salt and the ducks don't sit on it long. I hear the West side and South of H-town guys are having a strong year but they got good water early and have held it.
Probably hanging up the cleats for the year unless something amazing happens in NE LA.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 8:04 pm to FowlGuy
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I live here and know farmers here. They still grow rice. But they don’t leave the levees up for the fields to flood, and they disc them after harvest. Idk if you comprehend anything that I posted the first time cat. Yes they try to hop in fall and have been doing it a long time. But if it rains and rains a lot in October and they can’t hip, they cant get in the fields until April
They don’t grow nearly the rice they used to in that part of Ark that they used to
Also they plant and harvest earlier now than in past so it gives them more time to get rid of stubble if they want and Oct is usually a dry month historically
But the decrease in rice acres has more to do with the lack of ducks than the work they do in Oct
Posted on 12/31/23 at 9:25 pm to loogaroo
quote:shite so much it kills water
Geese will ruin a crawfish pond in a day.
This post was edited on 12/31/23 at 11:14 pm
Posted on 1/1/24 at 7:42 am to TejasHorn
We had a great teal season in Garwood and a decent first split…the odd thing this year seems to be the absence of Greenwing teal, but we switched to sandhill crane hunting two weeks ago so not getting many reports on ducks.
My buddy who hunts down in Bay city area has had a great year again. They get 4 man limits almost every hunt and good mix of ducks too. Of course no mallards down there but pintails, wigeon, gadwalls, spoonies, teal and a few divers.
My buddy who hunts down in Bay city area has had a great year again. They get 4 man limits almost every hunt and good mix of ducks too. Of course no mallards down there but pintails, wigeon, gadwalls, spoonies, teal and a few divers.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 8:46 am to Big L
We bitch about it every year, but rhetorically-are we in LA really putting in the effort to create habitat? Much is done north of us, but we seem to just complain about what “they” do to short stop duck migration. I know of very few places that truly put in the money and time to do what it takes to hold birds.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 12:37 pm to NorthEnd
First split was great in CenLa, honestly what a real teal season should be with big ducks mixed in but second has been ok but much slower and birds arent working but still seeing a ton of mallards and big ducks high flying. Too many people calling at them and low water.
Posted on 1/1/24 at 12:46 pm to Old Character
They can sit on the north platte and hop to a field back to the water
Posted on 1/1/24 at 10:18 pm to MWP
Assume you’re talking about Mallard Crossings. They seem to still be scratching out limits on a daily basis
Posted on 1/2/24 at 3:08 pm to NorthTiger
On public areas its been bad for years and years. I know there are outliers but they are the exception to the rule. However, on private land where quasi baiting is allowed AND pressure is kept down it is as good as its ever been. Its a commercial enterprise for all intents and purposes unless you're fortunate to have access to private areas that aren't pressured and where birds want to be.
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