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re: Do ducks really come down when a cold front passes?

Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:04 am to
Posted by White Bear
Yonnygo
Member since Jul 2014
16305 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:04 am to
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in between birds.


Pro tip-when your field freezes, your birds are on deep water.
This post was edited on 1/14/24 at 10:06 am
Posted by GREENHEAD22
Member since Nov 2009
20045 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:23 am to
We are not froze up, a lot less birds than yesterday and they are still mashing birds in OK/KS.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
84263 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 10:56 am to
Killed my first ducks that weren't either teal or spoons this morning. One grey and two wigeon. Should have been more greys, but I screwed up a bit.
Posted by LSUballs
RayVegas LA
Member since Feb 2008
38946 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 11:16 am to
Always good to whack some American wigeons. One of my favorites
Posted by CootKilla
In a beer can/All dog's nightmares
Member since Jul 2007
6039 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 11:27 am to
Lafourche parish and did not see a duck this morning. No wind
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
84263 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 12:01 pm to
Posted by VernonPLSUfan
Leesville, La.
Member since Sep 2007
17028 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 12:44 pm to
Just got into some mallars at 11:40. Killed a single mallard earlier, not seeing much but flights of pelican s.
Posted by 4LSU2
Member since Dec 2009
37773 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 1:00 pm to
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We are not froze up, a lot less birds than yesterday and they are still mashing birds in OK/KS.


My Dad and his good friend started a 3 day hunt in St Paul, KS yesterday morning. They did not fire a shot during the morning hunt and 7 guns took 3 geese and 1 mallard yesterday afternoon.

He called last night and said they didn’t even see geese in fields anywhere during the day yesterday. They left Kansas headed back to LA at 5:30 this morning. He said it was the coldest he’s ever been and wasn’t returning to Kansas ever again unless one of his immediate family members were there on their death bed for some reason.
Posted by bbvdd
Memphis, TN
Member since Jun 2009
26938 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 1:21 pm to
My son hunted AR not too far from Stuttgart this morning.
Said they saw a ton of birds but that they were all high and headed south.

Never fired a shot.
Posted by GREENHEAD22
Member since Nov 2009
20045 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 2:09 pm to
The trip I had to miss in OK probably 45min south of the KS border. Killed 55 Fri and 75 Saturday afternoon.
Posted by White Bear
Yonnygo
Member since Jul 2014
16305 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 2:57 pm to
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We are not froze up, a lot less birds than yesterday and they are still mashing birds in OK/KS.
Ok. I wonder where they go then? Why are they so hardy in the mid west and move out when it gets 30F here? I told myself I was done pondering this crap but ?
Posted by MWP
Kingwood, TX via Monroe, LA
Member since Jul 2013
10783 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 3:02 pm to
Hunted a high dollar operation East of Monroe, LA this morning. 6 man limit and 10 Specks. No Mallards though. Arse loads of ducks on the move. Probably one of the biggest flight pushes I have seen in years.
Posted by PSUMMERS
Ms
Member since Sep 2014
388 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 3:06 pm to
They are moving on this front. I hunt the river south of Vicksburg. At 1pm the mallards started showing up in large groups. Had one group fall in from about 600 feet they never even made a pass.

It’s been a long time since I have seen this many mallards riding the front side of a weather front.
Posted by GREENHEAD22
Member since Nov 2009
20045 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 4:12 pm to
We thought about hunting in the AM but today was so bad we called it. Probably can't fit another duck on the ponds knowing my luck.
Posted by OGhunter777
Member since Mar 2012
867 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 4:35 pm to
Hunted Terrebonne parish and the ringneck assault continued. Lots of ducks in the area. Lots of big birds as well, but hard to contend with thousands of coot.
Posted by Jack Daniel
Gold member
Member since Feb 2013
27403 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 4:40 pm to
If this front doesn’t move ducks down, y’all might as well sell all your shite
Posted by MWP
Kingwood, TX via Monroe, LA
Member since Jul 2013
10783 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 5:32 pm to
There is definitely a strong push. It was literally hundreds all morning jetting North to South in the ozone. We got many to work but these high flocks were riding the North. wind with no intent of coming down. Thing is how far do they go? I imagine South LA is about to be loaded.
Posted by KemoSabe65
70605
Member since Mar 2018
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Posted on 1/14/24 at 6:07 pm to
Will be fishing the holly beach marsh tomorrow afternoon and I’ll give y’all an update from the water if they arrive.
Posted by Deepwood
Member since Sep 2023
49 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 6:29 pm to
Just walked outside and heard some geese. Maybe this will finally get those ducks out of the flooded corn fields up north.
Posted by Ron Cheramie
The Cajun Hedgehog
Member since Aug 2016
5413 posts
Posted on 1/14/24 at 7:02 pm to
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Will be fishing the holly beach marsh tomorrow afternoon


In the 30s with a 15 mph north wind?
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