re: Duck population IF a full season was cancelled

Look at the number of duck hunters from 1979 and their limits vs now.

Canceling a season would do nothing to help.

As chopique said, migration patterns have changed in the last 10yrs.

I think another reason for lack of success for the younger duck hunters is leaving too early. At 9 am there are motors running everywhere looking for ducks or heading back yo the ramp. If they will stay longer, their kill ratio will go up. I never understood why people leave at 9 am just to go back and sit at the camp or sit at the house. That's the time to be out there. Ducks after 9 am usually come to die and usually big ducks.

Same with deer hunters. People complain saying the deer aren't moving. They sit on a stand from 6 til 830 then from 4 til dark. You missed some prime mid to late morning window right there while you were sitting at the camp doing nothing

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The third is climate change. Although some meteorologists disagree, it doesn't seem like the weather gets cold enough to drive birds down here, particularly when they have good food stocks to the north. Just my opinion.

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I have a lease I hunt in Mexico.....trust me in this, it's not cold there and we can easily kill 60-100 per day.

I was born and raised in SW Louisiana and have hunted more than most can imagine. I didn't put all kinds of info in my OP, because many on here like to turn threads into an 'I know more than you" dick measuring contest. That being said, my dick is as big as anyone's here in terms of waterfowl (duck and goose) hunting.

We need more sucks and we need to eradicate the goose over population to do so....because the simple consume too much of the breeding grounds.

But yes, the flyers change, and it's a # of reasons...pick any of all the you want, there is no wrong answer.

A major issue is how effective DU has been with setting reserve land all thru the Midwest. It's literally 10s of thousands of acres of uncut rice and habitat that gives the ducks no reason to come further south unless it would somehow hard freeze.

I think I've seen a correlation between DUs growth and southern duck declines. It's basically too successful. As stated in the thread, #s seem to be decent...there are just fewer moving south.
For sure, the season open a too early.

I know missing a year won't happen, but start it a month later or something that eases pressure to let them head deeper south

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We need more sucks and we need to eradicate the goose over population to do so....because the simple consume too much of the breeding grounds.

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Snow geese breed in the Arctic Circle. Most of our ducks breed on the potholes and in western Canada.

Not seeing how the snow geese are the problem.

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Original poster where do you hunt and for how long?

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Grew up in SW Louisiana. Hunted every damn day possible for 35 years....rice, marsh, lease in Mexico, etc. Guided thru college.....last dew years pecan island and back in Jeff davis....
Any and everywhere, and a LOT

If we had half as many ducks as geese in SWLA it would be sick. Need to let the eskimos go ape shite on their egg harvesting.

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quote: Not seeing how the snow geese are the problem. I think the issue is them eating out the duck breeding ground

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Now getting rid of no till farming

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choupiquesushi

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Don't be that guy...exactly what is said earlier.....you say some genruc somment and some clown wants to have a knowledge dick measuring contest thinking he is Joe duck...calm down son

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