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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 2:32 pm to Capt ST
Posted on 12/31/23 at 2:32 pm to Capt ST
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Might also add, the saltwater came in and wiped out all our SAVs this year.
The salinity is very high in much of the intermediate and even freshwater marshes The feed is gone
Which brings up an interesting question. Why would a duck spend time in Louisiana this year? Can we even support a large number of ducks?
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
NW LA lakes are chocked full of salvinia
The Mississippi /Ouachita/Red/Black Rivers are as ever (no backwater flooding = no food).
South LA rice fields are full of crawfish traps getting ran through everyday
South Louisiana cypress swamps that used to have duckweed are all salvinia and floatant
South LA marshes have no feed due to saltwater and 1000 flatbillers running through them everyday with daddy’s prodrive
Anything I am missing?
This post was edited on 12/31/23 at 2:56 pm
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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 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 7:59 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.
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