re: January Duck Survey

The state and feds don’t go by DU or deltas counts fellas. Also when you factor that 500k acres that were prime duck habitat 40-50 years ago are now barely marginal or crawfish or non duck habitat now.


You have what we have now. Combined w ag changes up and down the fly way.

When people in KS and NE are hammering ducks in Jan. We in trouble. And it ain’t the heated ponds....spot in NE is .650 miles from any heated pond

My contact in ks was killing ducks in dry fields that were resting / roosting on a reservoir


And nobody wants to blame increased mechanized human traffic


Ducks come down w fronts and then vanish quickly - they didn’t do that years ago

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I agree, what is crazy is there is no oversight at all when it comes to the duck counts. The less and less ducks each yr phenomenon is slowly climbing northward with guys in Missouri starting to notice it. That is North of The Great Net Line. Seriously though DU be lying its arse off.

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I don't trust DU any further than I can throw the lot of 'em. Was once very active until I came to realize that they were all about increasing populations in and around private clubs.

It is in a different flyway BUT I have been told by both state and federal biologists in Washington State, independent of one another, that waterfowl management plans included plans to short stop waterfowl as far north as weather will allow. No explanation why but it is obvious its working.

Hunting ducks in the south always required a higher level of skills simply due to the lack of new birds etc but intending to stop migration is a bad idea