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

We’ve had a really good season so far (we are up from the wax along Bayou Chene). Over the past 5 years however we had seasons where there was not 1 duck seen on the entire lease over several weekends.

We’ve had this lease for 40 years. Through the 70s, 80s, and early 90s it was insane. Crazy numbers of ducks. During the 90s the type of ducks started to change, more blue wing teal, lots of grays, less pintails and mallards. But the numbers were still there. Then in the late 90s the numbers went down and more and more blue wings. Recently it’s almost all blue wing and the dosgris have showed up.

We really don’t care what kind we shoot. We just want some decent shooting over a few weekends. The teal are the best eating for us. Heck any bird that’s been in our marsh for a few weeks is good eating it seems. We have no problems shooting shovelers, they eat good for us too.

But there’s been massive changes in the flyway and migration for us as well. It’s been a tough decade trying to keep the hyacinths and salvania under control. Now the big arse apple snails are likely to be our next hurdle.