Duck Decline Solution

The populations have been in decline for a decade. They have just been covering it up for the sake of $. That being said I would give up a season and reduction to 4 ducks per if it would actually bring ducks back to LA. Problem is it won't. Loss of habitat is a huge issue for LA. That and according to some experts the birds with the instinctual flight patterns for LA have declined and will decades to come back. They will have to be learned by new ducks.

Regardless of that I would still sacrifice for more ducks. I'll pass up a booner to shoot GHs that work in perfect.

You would need Canada to take part as well.

I quit 4 yrs or so ago. Still go on 2-3 trips a year but they are paid, or invites. I usually do 1 public just for humor.


I "deer hunt" but it just isn't the same.

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I "deer hunt" but it just isn't the same.

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It’s boring as shite which is why baws split hairs on bows, stands, rifles, food plots, camps, UTV’s, etc.

As for the topic at hand, shite is over and done with, baw.

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 will get my GHs back in LA damnit. ? ?

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I don't know how old you are, but I can remember seeing mallards by the thousands at one time, and with regularity. That is not an exaggeration. Looking back it really was an amazing sight,especially since they are gone now.

Ducks have decreased in parts of LA, directly coinciding with several things - that will not change.

1. Exponentially increasing habitat degradation - especially coastal marshes.
2. Increased and constant human mechanized traffic through resting and feeding areas(surface drives, shallow draft boats, crawfish boats, atvs all over. people riding around rallying ducks or "scouting"
3. Invasives.
4. changing land use practices HERE - cotton - cane and cattle fields don't do much for ducks.
5. No till farming - this actually started the downward spiral NOT HERE - but amount of corn and other grains grown north of us is staggering.
6.the refuge affect.
7. spinning wing dekes leading to early season massacring of young ducks.here and before here
8. Since there have been seasons and limits this is the longest run this flyway has had of 60 and 6(or 10) ducks - but i venture to say that run will end soon.




an area 10 years ago where we killed nearly 300 mallards - killed less than 10 last year -

it's been in decline for years - but high success rates in some areas shielded the truth.

Frick rotating seasons

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an area 10 years ago where we killed nearly 300 mallards - killed less than 10 last year -

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That level of killing probably did not help

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I figured you would show.



What choup said.

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I've had this discussion more than you can possibly imagine of the last few years....

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an area 10 years ago where we killed nearly 300 mallards - killed less than 10 last year -


That level of killing probably did not help

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what changed was 3k acres north, 2 k acres west and unknown large tracts S and E... going to cane and cotton is what didn't help and...a water body near us which was a huge resting area getting completely covered with hyacinth 3 years in a row - was like flipping a switch.

we had 6 blinds only hunted 2 blinds per day(save for opening days and end of season days. we always had resting birds then boom - also a flooded timber area near us with extremely light pressure also went duckless at the same time.

Definitely declines but there were more ducks on the lake this year than I have seen in probably a decade. Always a huge amount of sprigs and cans but weirdly there were mallards everywhere. Guess it was the weather event. But something does need to be done to get the population back up.

Don't remember the name but I believe a wealthy farmer (maybe oil/multi business guy) in Shreveport raises mallards and other ducks and bands them and they fly out and people kill them during hunting season around there. Maybe more of that? They aren't tame by any means.

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I don't know how old you are, but I can remember seeing mallards by the thousands at one time, and with regularity. That is not an exaggeration. Looking back it really was an amazing sight,especially since they are gone now.

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Saw that this year in CenLa on a day no one was hunting the middle because blinds flooded and they were all just hanging out. We drove through atleast 500, probably more, going to check a blind before sunrise to see if it was flooded one morning late season last year and they were sleeping and they all popped up and were hitting us in the head. I almost fell out of the boat grabbing one but it slipped out.

Decrease the amount of days to hunt. If you don't allow hunting one year the amount of money lost from shells, licenses and what not would be a negative effect on everything duck hunting.