re: Coastal Zone Season Recap

I wasn't expecting great things this year, but didn't think it would be this bad. 34 and I went back and forth comparing notes from seasons past when the storm hit, we really thought they'd do better. I figured SAVs would take a pounding, and with early rise the birds would move back north and hit the flooded fields. We are off Brady canal and water had been 1 -1.5' above normal for most of the season. Feed is there just too deep for the puddle ducks to access. Same thing in Venice when I went between Xmas and New Years. We only killed good birds when we walked into flooded marsh and hunted. We closed out season in terrebonne killing a ton of ringnecks. 4 teal, a mottled and a can. We could have literally shot a thousand ringnecks In a day. Go 3 miles south and guys weren't firing a shot and had the same habitat. Old timers said it was worst they had in 40-50 years hunting down there, by far my worst down there.