I’ve hunted Venice my whole life and know that area like the back of my hand. The lack of birds down there right now is evident best reports I heard were a few limits of teal with an occasional gray, pintail, and some dosgris mixed in. It doesn’t help that there were 50000000 mud boats trying to launch at Cypress Cove on Saturday morning running all through the marsh jumping up birds every 5 minutes. Back in the glory days down there in the 80’s and 90’s we would could pick and choose which ducks we wanted to shoot and could shoot limits of all big ducks before 6:30. It’s a damn shame what has become of waterfowling and how the future generations will never experience how it used to be. In my opinion, it just ain’t worth hunting down there anymore and I’m going to pick up and move my whole operation to Arkansas where at least at the very minimum I’m coming home with a limit of specs and some snows even if the ducks aren’t there.

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Posted by TunaTime

Member since Aug 2012

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Posted on 11/12/19 at 7:46 am to TheGhostOfBigLee

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This is two years in a row now that you say how many birds venice has and a couple weeks later (or in this case 1 week later) youre complaining about no ducks. What everyone needs to realize is that even if ducks continue to come down to se la, especially venice, there is too much pressure on them. I believe that every year ducks are shifting to the central flyway and that in several years (5 or so), we wont have much of anything left in se la. What is left will be pressured out the friday before the season starts by the mudboat brigade. And just so yall know, my group killed limits both days in venice. No big ducks like we used to, all teal and 4 whistling ducks. The difference in the last 5 years in venice is unreal. Gets worse and worse every year.

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Posted by choupiquesushi

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Member since Jun 2006

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Posted on 11/12/19 at 10:10 am to TheGhostOfBigLee

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I’ve hunted Venice my whole life and know that area like the back of my hand. The lack of birds down there right now is evident best reports I heard were a few limits of teal with an occasional gray, pintail, and some dosgris mixed in. It doesn’t help that there were 50000000 mud boats trying to launch at Cypress Cove on Saturday morning running all through the marsh jumping up birds every 5 minutes. Back in the glory days down there in the 80’s and 90’s we would could pick and choose which ducks we wanted to shoot and could shoot limits of all big ducks before 6:30. It’s a damn shame what has become of waterfowling and how the future generations will never experience how it used to be. In my opinion, it just ain’t worth hunting down there anymore and I’m going to pick up and move my whole operation to Arkansas where at least at the very minimum I’m coming home with a limit of specs and some snows even if the ducks aren’t there.

talked to a river pilot that basically said he is giving up on hunting down there now.... saw 200 boats run by him on saturday.... insane.. birds have already started moving on.....

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Posted by Redfish2010

Member since Jul 2007

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Posted on 11/12/19 at 12:36 pm to TheGhostOfBigLee

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I’ve hunted Venice my whole life and know that area like the back of my hand. The lack of birds down there right now is evident best reports I heard were a few limits of teal with an occasional gray, pintail, and some dosgris mixed in. It doesn’t help that there were 50000000 mud boats trying to launch at Cypress Cove on Saturday morning running all through the marsh jumping up birds every 5 minutes.

If you know Venice as well as you say you do, wouldn’t you be down river away from everyone else? It was nice and quiet down there and full of birds. Didn’t see a surface drive until i got back to the jump

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