re: Duck hunting LA any luck?

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Where in Lake Arthur.

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Right below Jennings. My son and I hunted below there last weekend and got our limit, but with a lot of big-nosed teal.

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My coastal zone closes Jan 24. The coast is the last place they can migrate before Mexio and other states. but you got me.

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only because some vocal folks want it that way.

It’s all the unhuntable land guys. The birds aren’t dumb, if they get shot at they find somewhere else to go and keep looking until they don’t get shot. Then they are pushed south by weather, rinse, and repeat. The problem is there’s more and more open water due to industry like factories and then golf courses and 1000s of acres of land like city parks where birds can go and not be bothered.

20-30+ years ago there weren’t golf courses, industrial complexes with storm retention ponds, municipal parks, etc. all over where nobody hunted them. They may have found land for a bit but some good ole boy found them and pushed them out.

Some of its due to liberal politics much some of its just plain urban sprawl. There’s so much land out there for the birds to find sanctuary.

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and then golf courses

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What golf courses are you playing where you’re seeing all these ducks? I’ve been playing a lot of golf since October at several different courses in BR, Houma, Matthew’s, and Kinder. Aside from resident Canada geese and a few ring necks, I’ve yet to see any ducks at any course.

I call bullshite on you’re theory about golf courses holding birds. To that point, I don’t think park lakes are attracting birds in any significant qty. same for retention ponds. And weren’t there more golf courses 30’years ago then today?

Now what we do have more of today is preserves and sanctuaries that give the birds a safe place to go- AND NEVER LEAVE.

Go north guys, where the birds come from...I’m not talking about courses in Louisiana as much as further north and west. They don’t have to leave them to get to you when they have sanctuaries they don’t need to leave before they get there.

ETA: I just got back from Illinois and there are birds everywhere. Mostly geese sure but plenty of ducks. Birds everywhere all over shitting on residential areas all over becuase they are safe.

Wise post. Amen

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My point exactly. I used to see rafts of Dos Gris red fishing the marsh as a teen. I don’t now, albeit maybe I’m just not seeing them.

And what about pouledeau? They used to be so plentiful I’d see them by the thousands even around around I10 in Henderson. But I don’t see them in huge numbers anymore. Where’d those birds go?

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when you were a teen, the launches were full of boats on winter weekdays. Now those launches are full and so is the marsh. birds get pushed up once they move a little ways, pushed up again they fly for 5-10 minutes, get pushed up a third time they fly for 30-60 minutes do the math it doesn't take long for them to leave the area. also 25 -30 years ago NOBODY fished deep in the interior marshes..... ducks find where they don't get harassed and STAY there. as for the poule d'eau.. well chock that up to 50 plus years of habitat degradation. look at some of the marshes in La heck even catahoula.. sounds like the indy 500 every day of the season. we are own worst enemy but would rather blame people up north.