re: White Lake Teal lottery hunt

I have hunted the marsh teal lottery numerous times. Typically it is a pretty good hunt. Last time I hunted the teal lottery, South LA had gotten a lot of rain right around teal season and the water in the marsh was very high, most of the birds were using areas where there weren’t blinds. I think we were high blind with 9 birds, but the other years I’ve hunted it most people are able to limit out.

It’s a beautiful place and cool experience.

I’ve also hunted the rice field lottery with very mixed results. Had a few hunts where we limited out on specks, a hunt or two where we had most of a 3 man duck limit with mostly mallards, and one hunt where we didn’t fire a shot all morning. They end the hunt waaaayyy to early for a rice field in that part of the world, especially if you want to shoot specks. But it’s still probably better than the average rice field pit in that part of the world.

That place has a lot of potential, but the energy they put into the rice field big duck hunts is about what you’d expect from a state agency in LA. Never hunted the marsh during big duck season but I have heard it is still pretty good.