Duckhunting

This is one of the things folks in Louisiana and Arkansas need to understand.

15 years ago, goose hunting was THE waterfowl hunting in southern Illinois. Hardly no one fooled with ducks. Then, the weather started to change and slowly the geese stopped making their migration run far enough south for much hunting. Where did they go? Still up north. In fact, lots of them never travel further south than Chicago now. That’s 4 hours north of where I hunt.

The other reason the ducks began to show up is because of the amount of flooding that now takes place along the Wabash, Little Wabash, Skillet Fork and Elm Rivers. Now, we have thousands of acres of water, at a perfect depth, all sitting over harvested corn and beans.

Unless the water falls out or the everything freezes (which it seldom does) those ducks have absolutely no reason to continue southward.

While I do not believe in man made climate change, I do believe that the weather has warmed significantly enough to alter the migration of waterfowl.

Okay. How much have you hunted up north? Have you experienced how duck hunting has changed up north? Are you even old enough to remember what a real winter was like in Louisiana?

Keep believing it’s the weather and keep being ignorant

Bandit....I’ll ask you again. How much time have you spent in southern Illinois or southwest Indiana during the winter?

Why would a duck fly to Louisiana when he has thousands of acres of grain and water to winter on?

Not trying to be a-hole, just tying to get you to answer the questions.

If I may ask do live in lousiana.the opinions sound exactly the same as almost all North of Arkansas.if I'm not mistaken I was grounded 3 different times this year.the U.S had 6 major cold weather events 1 was a polor vortex.what do you feel it takes to move waterfowl.

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Ag practices haven’t changed enough to make that much of a difference.

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Yea they have
There is probably somewhere around 50mil acres of corn and 50mil acres of beans combined in Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri
40% is probably no till. So 20mil acres of waste grain sitting on the ground for birds to eat as long as it’s not covered in snow
Also more corn and beans and less wheat grown in the Dakotas , Neb, Kansas than there use to be and no till is more prevalent in those states than the eastern ones

Not to argue just offering a question. would a duck not have to see the coast to know it is eroded.seems from what information I've gathered not a lot ducks are looking at. louisiana

Thanks for the link .but not really what I'm looking for.I want personal not stats .guide service have an agenda and pay for play may be part of the problem.iv been going to part of the keys for 20 years.10 years ago fishing was almost ruined.20 guided fishing outfits most tied in with big name outfitters.the local government got hammered by the people.all guided fishing was stopped.ran off all the experts told the biologists to take a hike .now you can get a ride to a spot and wade fish and it is awesome.bone fish every place.the economy is booming .super nice

It is the shifting of the magnetic North Pole that is altering migrations