re: Have the good ole days of duck hunting become a thing of the past.

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Anything I am missing

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Yes, the fact that no ducks is not specific to 2023. Y’all some hard headed mother frickers.

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crawfish ponds

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There's your answer to the lack of snow geese in SWLA.

The ducks are an enigma. Laccassine WLR is loaded though.

[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.

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.

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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

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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.

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Geese will ruin a crawfish pond in a day.

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shite so much it kills water

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.

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.

Assume you’re talking about Mallard Crossings. They seem to still be scratching out limits on a daily basis