Duck results from this weekend???

Not this weekend but my pops and a friend hunted Wednesday and Thursday right after the front. 7 teal on wed and 7 mixed bag on thurs. Rode around all over east side of pass a loutre wma and counted maybe 400-500 ducks.

As a “younger” guy who can’t go back 30 years as a reference, it’s hard for me to call you an out right liar. However, most articles that I’ve read aren’t conclusive that hunting in Louisiana is significantly worse.

Here’s my 2 cents. If you’re old you’re gonna remember the best days as absolutely amazing hunts, the so/so days are now good days, those bad days were just another hunt and you have plain forgot about the shitty days. Everything is better after it ages a bit. Also you’re probably old so you aren’t willing to do what some of the younger guys are willing to do to kill ducks. I don’t disagree that killing ducks here in Louisiana if you don’t have a handed down private lease is pretty hard. As a straight public land hunter I have done well this year, and the last few years. However, I can guarantee I’m putting in WAY more effort than 99% of hunters. 20 mile boat ride, tent camping, pirogue in a few hundred yards or wade if it’s sandy enough... making trips before the season to actually scout. Heading back out at dusk to see where birds are piling into.

When I read stuff like this or my phone blows up mid season with “man where you at we ain’t killing shite”. I’m forced to think, you don’t want em bad enough.

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Louisiana only gets a fraction of the birds we used to get..

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Weren’t you the one on here 3 weeks ago talking about how Venice was loaded with ducks, and people saying it isn’t need to check out Venice??

I believe you also claimed to have found enough ducks to limit out all season in that thread as well.

He’s somebody’s shitty alter. Hopefully he can at least be an entertaining shitty alter

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Legit haven’t watched a single episode. Not a fan of reality shows. Don’t own a mud motor. Never painted my face or my dogs.

All that said it’s a damn slow morning so far. I miss the old days!

I had birds up until last Thursday on my land baw. They done moved on by now. My point is back in the glory days it was unheard of for Venice to not have any birds at any particular time... There has definitely been a change in the migration

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Im enjoying and am impressed that folks arent on here spouting off how many and where they killed.

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Killed 8 over 2 days on a North Louisiana WMA. Birds were flying alright, but shooting wasn't alright.

we limited both days in tensas... but it was a struggle to do so. If we would have had inexperienced hunters or poor shots would not have fared well.....

new water, high water affecting us for sure.. our water was 2 feet above normal

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It's a joke that our season starts so early. They have studies that show that the birds are migrating 12 to 28 days later on average than they did 20 years ago but we continue to open in early November. Of course it's because Larry Reynolds and the rest of LDWF are in the pockets of the big politicians who hunt private leases in Cameron Parish and want the early opener. They don't have any water in late January and don't want to hunt then. Larry himself has a lease in Cameron which makes his "recommendations" on setting the seasons very suspect. Anyone who doesn't see this is blind, deaf, stupid, or all 3. Our coastal zone opens earlier than all of Arkansas and parts of Missouri which is insane

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did you go to the public meetings or look at the data from the hunter surveys... both showed overwhelming support for early coastal season - they gave the people what they wanted.

I completely agree. When you struggle to shoot ducks in Venice or on the wax in early December, but can pay to travel to Missouri to smoke them something is wrong. The most dogs have seen the last few seasons have been in February but we are picking up blinds.