Late harvest around here means not a lot of fields flooded. Good amount of specks down and what fields have water are hold some ducks. Should be a decent opening weekend, per the established norm of recent years. Not shite on the river that I’ve seen.

Seeing good numbers in fresh water that was not totally wiped out by the storms and high water. Looking forward to a good hunt Saturday

SW La reports aren’t good

Took a youngster out last week for youth weekend around the Caernarvon area and he shot his limit of 5 teal and one gray by 7. Not a ton of birds around, but the ones that were wanted to work. We did see more big ducks than we are typically used to down there. Definitely a major improvement from the past couple of years.

Looking for thoughts. Got newly planted rice in our field that was laser leveled this year. Not heading out with seed now, but about a foot above water line. Farmer thinks it may make some seed prior to frost, what are the odds? How long does it take to make grain if temps stay reasonable warm for a bit?

I have seen a few pintail North of I-10 in flooded rice fields. There are a few small pockets of Specks in the Thornwell area.

Opening weekend? Let me see...84F & 92% humidity.


Yep, definitely opening weekend of duck season in South Louisiana.

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If it stays warm it may head out

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I went and helped a buddy clean up his pit last week in NE LA and their field is in rice this year. The left over rice that is still in the field is obscene. There was one field out there that was holding water and it literally had 10K birds on it which is gonna suck since they will have no groceries come opening day.

Lots of down rice this year around here. Flat as a pancake. It is amazing what the new combines can pickup, but they ain’t getting all of it

Ours has never been harvested, just planted late in a new field. I hope it works like I hoped.