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re: No ducks in Arkansas this year?!
Posted on 1/5/16 at 4:02 pm to No Colors
Posted on 1/5/16 at 4:02 pm to No Colors
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Stuttgart is the most overrated duck hunting destination in America
I spent 14 years living at/hunting Stuttgart and the Grand Prairie. It sure was good to me:
- Flooded bean fields off the White River near Des Arc
- Big cypress blinds on Cashe River
- Beaver slews around Holly Grove
- Rice fields outside Humphrey
- Flooded timber near Almyra
- Cypress & buck brush backwater around Gillett
- Open water around Elaine
- Standing next to an Oak tree in Bayou Meto
Were there off years in this area? Oh yeah, been skunked plenty of times. Were there unbelievable days? Damn straight.
Stuttgart knows what it is and knows when it can make money. You can point to some changes that may impact migration. Better combines and farming practices reduce grain loss at harvest. Early maturing seed varieties mean that the grain and beans that do fall out the back of the combine sprout before ducks arrive. Contrast that with the early years when farmers had to employ people to watch fields overnight and keep ducks off the shocks of rice yet to be thrashed.
Commodity prices over the past couple years have switched over tons of acres from rice and beans to corn and that's harvested before they start with rice in August.
Guide restrictions in Bayou Meto imposed by AGF in the 2000s certainly have had an affect on hunting tourism. It's illegal for a hired guide to take out-of-state hunters into Bayou Meto. Duck holes manicured by hunters have been roped off and closed.
Successful public clubs have been purchased up by individuals and organizations.
Stuttgart started this season with too little water and are probably ending it with too much water.
But the Mississippi Flyway will always remain the predominate migration route for waterfowl. I enjoyed my trip out to Kansas this year, but I'd love to go back to any of those places I noted above. I miss those days.
This post was edited on 1/5/16 at 4:18 pm
Posted on 1/5/16 at 4:05 pm to mach316
I've been trying to hunt more public land in AR this year since my lease in MS has been dead. Looks like i need to buy a boat before next season, haha my wife will love that.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 4:06 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
Bayou meto's limit of 3 mallards is doo doo
Posted on 1/5/16 at 4:14 pm to Redfish2010
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Bayou meto's limit of 3 mallards is doo doo
Yes, and they limit the ammo you can take in there.
I moved to Stuttgart in 1995 and that place was insane. Runners leaving the ramp at first chance to claim traditional holes for paid groups coming in later. Tons of guides hiring out to take groups everywhere. Boats in line at Upper and Lower Vallier. Skybusting was common place.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 4:47 pm to Stuttgart Tiger
I've heard it's gotten better but Arkansas has too much other good public land.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 4:52 pm to Masterag
All the ducks went straight to the wax this year
Posted on 1/5/16 at 5:41 pm to jimbeam
My buddy has a place that's flooded timber in Dumas, AR, and they wacked em this W/E. I couldn't go, but went a few times last year with them, and it was crazy, all Mallards, and early limits. He said its not nearly as good this year, but its understandable with lots of water everywhere, and temps like they've been. This recent cold snap should get them down, though. Hope to get an invite soon, as they got em pretty good on Sunday...
Posted on 1/5/16 at 6:07 pm to Masterag
"No ducks in Arkansas this year"
These are no longer there.
These are no longer there.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 6:14 pm to highcotton2
Thanks for leaving the drakes for me.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 6:15 pm to No Colors
quote:
2) Stuttgart is the most overrated duck hunting destination in America
If you had ever hunted the old Hartz seed farm you would have a different opinion of Stuttgart. It is owned by Monsanto now and it is top notch timber hunting.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 6:17 pm to Capt ST
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Thanks for leaving the drakes for me.
How many hens are in that picture?
Posted on 1/5/16 at 7:12 pm to yellowfin
What area of Oklahoma is supposed to be good for ducks nowadays?
Posted on 1/5/16 at 7:48 pm to LSUballs
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Think I'll take up quilting
Posted on 1/5/16 at 7:49 pm to AubieALUMdvm
After this past weekend I can confirm that there are a LLLLLLLOT of mallards in Kansas.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 7:49 pm to No Colors
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In the past 30 years, ducks that migrate deep, and early, got killed. Ducks that stayed out north and west survived and lead their young that way.
Which flyway would you be referencing?
Posted on 1/5/16 at 8:27 pm to Masterag
We still killing a few that slipped through the nets
Me & the boy had our mallards early but took a couple more hours to kill our off ducks
Me & the boy had our mallards early but took a couple more hours to kill our off ducks
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