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re: Worst Duck Season in 20 Years
Posted on 1/7/19 at 9:50 pm to ShuckJordan
Posted on 1/7/19 at 9:50 pm to ShuckJordan
I’ve had my best season in 10 years.
Ducks are down south. Just gotta get off your arse
Ducks are down south. Just gotta get off your arse
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Posted on 1/7/19 at 9:53 pm to BigHoss
People blaming du and flooded corn fields are ignorant. It’s climate change. Plain and simple. All things are cyclical.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 4:59 am to ShuckJordan
Honestly idk what it is. There is way too much water in north louisiana right now so that is definitely a contributing factor also read that birds are still dry feeding fields in northern Illinois in January that’s also not good.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 7:49 am to BigHoss
quote:I'm too old to do what my son and them are doing to get to them.... hard to accept that fact but... when it takes me 3 days to recover....
I’ve had my best season in 10 years.
Ducks are down south. Just gotta get off your arse
Posted on 1/8/19 at 11:52 am to Broyota2
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There is way too much water in north Louisiana
Spent 10 days in NELA hunting public land. There's not as many birds as there has been in the past. Mix that with water, and it allows the 3 ducks up there to spread out.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 11:54 am to BigHoss
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Ducks are down south. Just gotta get off your arse
Sounds like someone just got lucky for the 1st time in 10 years. Congrats, it took you 10 years to find a wood duck roost. #Duckcommander
Posted on 1/8/19 at 12:05 pm to ShuckJordan
Sorry for the potato quality pic but the ducks are in the middle of Lake Pontchartain. Saw some greenheads and some divers. Couldnt tell the others. There were thousands of them around mile markers 8-13 earlier today.
Anybody know what kind of ducks mostly are out there?
Anybody know what kind of ducks mostly are out there?
Posted on 1/8/19 at 12:23 pm to rattlebucket
probably scaup
always a bunch there
always a bunch there
Posted on 1/8/19 at 12:29 pm to Ron Cheramie
Definitely large pockets of those but some full dark bodies mixed in with the greenheads.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 12:36 pm to rattlebucket
Those are there every year, 90% dosgris/scaup.
Ducks are NOT down as they should be, as they were just ONE year ago, primarily due to weather and our lack of winter as a result of the El Nino pattern in place. It has happened before, it will happen again.
The abundance of water due to recurring rain events is scattering the birds we do have. Sure, some places are having a decent season here and there, but that vast majority are in the worst season they've had in a number of years (myself included, and have the log history to support it), hence the OP's post.
I'll keep going to the end, but I've resigned myself to the fact that hope for big hunts is for naught given there are no major fronts on the long term forecast.
Ducks are NOT down as they should be, as they were just ONE year ago, primarily due to weather and our lack of winter as a result of the El Nino pattern in place. It has happened before, it will happen again.
The abundance of water due to recurring rain events is scattering the birds we do have. Sure, some places are having a decent season here and there, but that vast majority are in the worst season they've had in a number of years (myself included, and have the log history to support it), hence the OP's post.
I'll keep going to the end, but I've resigned myself to the fact that hope for big hunts is for naught given there are no major fronts on the long term forecast.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 5:21 pm to TigerDog83
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These kind of seasons happen. What will be interesting to me is if this will reduce hunters and cause some of these yahoos to hang it up. Surely these newer hunters will get tired of slow days. Would love a return to 3/30 or 4/45 though I doubt that happens without a drought on the breeding grounds which nobody wants.
When you drop $30K on a duck boat you bet they’re invested for the long haul. I’m over here in Georgia and it’s a fricking joke hunting on public water for divers. This is the 1st year I can honestly say someone set up 50 yards next to me.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 5:48 pm to plazadweller
Why spend that kind of coin on a boat to hunt divers? in Ga no less???
Those greenheads are spoons decked out in their pimp colors.
Those greenheads are spoons decked out in their pimp colors.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 5:55 pm to KemoSabe65
You can fish out of that boat too.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 5:57 pm to plazadweller
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someone set up 50 yards next to me.
That is when I start skybusting and calling nonstop, loudly.
Burn it all down
Posted on 1/8/19 at 6:00 pm to KemoSabe65
Because we’re stupid af.
Posted on 1/8/19 at 6:08 pm to weagle99
We haven’t gone back since. You can hunt the other side of the lake but with the housing developments it’s a major gamble because there are literally 10 spots to hunt. If the wind isn’t right it’s less than 1/2. Surprisingly we have killed varieties of ducks you guys wouldn’t believe. But again it’s too popular to hunt. Taking a season or 2 off would wipe out your casual hunter.
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