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

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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.