re: The golden years for ducks are gone....

Look at the loss of rice acreage in coastal Texas and Louisiana. Specklebelly geese are now using Arkansas as the prime wintering grounds versus the coast of Texas and Louisiana 15+ years ago. Ducks have somewhat followed, although even Arkansas doesn't see the same amount of mallards as they did years ago. I think that no till farming up north, less rice acreage being available, and weather have caused the changes. The coastal marshes always will attract and hold a lot of ducks but their numbers seem down the last few seasons also. These days it takes a large snow to cover food for huge numbers of mallards to migrate south where 15 years ago that wasn't quite the case.

Pressure is also so high on these birds. They get shot at under a gazillion mojos starting in Canada in September. We need to lower the limit and I would be happy to see mojo's be outlawed. They don't work that well on water but for anyone who has hunted over one in a dry field (like up north) it's unreal.