So who is hanging it up for duck season for good?

I hung a green head up in a tree yesterday and a damn hawk stole it. True story.

Perhaps they should look at moving the season back.

Let the big cold fronts move the ducks north that are being short stopped with the flooding/food.

Seems years back when we hunted em that January there were a ahitload in the marsh.

Perhaps less hunting pressure was a large factor.

It ain’t over till it’s over. Pray for a hard freeze up North and waterfowl will come down in the millions

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Perhaps they should look at moving the season back.

Let the big cold fronts move the ducks north that are being short stopped with the flooding/food.

Seems years back when we hunted em that January there were a ahitload in the marsh.

Perhaps less hunting pressure was a large factor.

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I've been to OK, KS, MO, SD and ND... flooded crops ain't holding them... available grain in the fields is.. they are going to reservoirs to sit and rest -


it's not that hunting pressure is greater in the marsh now than it was.. in some areas it's less... but the people pressure of boats running around all over the shallow marshes is greater now than it was.

Nothing.. will ever move the season further back - end of story.


been a compounding problem since no till began.. coinciding with rapidly degrading and changing habitat here.. you get what we have now. I know I will start spending a week in KS and likely SD every year....

I was hunting in the promised land in SE and SW la back in the late 70s and early 80s.. yeah we had days where we kill 10 big ducks... but we also had days where we didn't fire a shot.

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It ain’t over till it’s over.

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That’s what I keep telling myself too. Last year was very similar as far as numbers of birds for the most part even though the weather was very different and we actually had good cold fronts.

Last season during the last week we absolutely smoked them in my blind I have on my private land. We killed every species except for blue wing teal and Canada’s. Killed my first barred up speck that I called in myself.

I took off the last Thursday and Friday of the season in hopes that we can duplicate. Hunts like that are what keeps me hooked.

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ethanol will fade away

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frick this stuff.

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I kind of hope those dumbasses in FFL do manage to get flooded corn banned, simply because it will be hilarious to watch them kick and scream when things get marginally better and they realize more is at play than just flooded crops.

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the boogeyman definitely has some brothers that FFL have been blinded to. It's comical to laugh at their drama.

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Perhaps they should look at moving the season back.


Every thread.

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This has been the cry since back in the early 80's when I started hunting. What makes anyone think the "powers that be" would suddenly say "Hey, maybe that's a good idea" now?

Yea they want to ban hunting over crops but there would be a lot of pissed off people down here who hunt over rice.

The thing I find funniest is they blame DU and USFWS for bad hunting here. It’s not their job to make sure hunting is good in Louisiana. They promote conservation and practice it by creating refuges and paying money for habitat improvement. They support hunting as a factor of conservation. But their goal is to support the species.