Coastal Zone Season Recap

opening two weeks at the wax were fantastic, quality ducks in good numbers. last month has been pathetic...this weekend we made four hunts, killed two ducks that i would generally admit to killing, the rest were "neighbor ducks"

there were ZERO flocks moving around, these were just odd pairs and stragglers. there are no ducks to speak of at the wax right now and there hasn't been for a while

beginning of the season SUCKED... up until like the last 3 weeks...
what we killed in greys and teal last year, we shot in dogris and divers this year.. we couldn't be picky

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I really wish the coastal zone opened late december and ran into late february.

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you do know last sunday of jan is mandated latest possible close...

Weird season. We killed nearly as many as last year, but shot a lot of divers to fill limits. The major thing I noticed was that we didn't have a solid push of new birds all year after the opener. We got a good bit of birds from Venice right after Christmas, and honestly those were probably the best two weeks of the year for us, but still...except for the first couple weeks of first split, the birds were very hard to hunt all year.

Hopefully next year is better.

Tough season. Saw more scaup than I ever care to see again.

Pretty tough year between Dulac, my buddies in Delacroix, and out west in Roanoke. Believe it or not, I'm glad the season is over. Bring on the warm weather

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2010-2011.....353
2011-2012.....625
2012-2013.....444
2013-2014.....410
2014-2015.....579
2015-2016.....289

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I don't believe those numbers;)

I wasn't expecting great things this year, but didn't think it would be this bad. 34 and I went back and forth comparing notes from seasons past when the storm hit, we really thought they'd do better. I figured SAVs would take a pounding, and with early rise the birds would move back north and hit the flooded fields. We are off Brady canal and water had been 1 -1.5' above normal for most of the season. Feed is there just too deep for the puddle ducks to access. Same thing in Venice when I went between Xmas and New Years. We only killed good birds when we walked into flooded marsh and hunted. We closed out season in terrebonne killing a ton of ringnecks. 4 teal, a mottled and a can. We could have literally shot a thousand ringnecks In a day. Go 3 miles south and guys weren't firing a shot and had the same habitat. Old timers said it was worst they had in 40-50 years hunting down there, by far my worst down there.

the lease I hunt on is probably not very far from your lease.

For us it was a story of two splits. The first split was just off the charts, he steadily hunted a lagoon with easily 15K gray ducks in it and they were there the whole split. Average hunt was 24 birds in about an hour and a half.

Second split from open to close we had to work for the birds. We had many hunts without limits and this past weekend we limited on cans and left when we did because there wasn't much else out there.

That being said I would be back this weekend if it was still open.