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re: Duckhunting
Posted on 1/26/20 at 9:29 pm to Outdoorreb
Posted on 1/26/20 at 9:29 pm to Outdoorreb
Ok thanks
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Posted on 1/26/20 at 10:22 pm to White Bear
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Duckhunting by White Bear
quote:
That Downing guy
Who?
Old schooler from
SdH days long time DU guy
Great dude
Posted on 1/26/20 at 10:41 pm to Just tired
You can start with bayou Meto. Which is state controlled. Then these “rice farmers” who have flooded fields months after taking their crop. There are mallards on the side of the road in ditches in Stuttgart. I’ve never been so disgusted in my life.
Posted on 1/26/20 at 10:45 pm to Just tired
Unless they are frozen out of food they don’t move
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:26 pm to Cracker
From almost all of the information I've received.a duck has very little reason to leave Illinois.between crop waste and flooding corn ,conservation refuges that the number keeps growing on because some are private yet funded with federal money so not listed .I see why the migration has changed.cold weather is of nocon
Posted on 1/26/20 at 11:30 pm to Just tired
Grand boy in my lap bumped me.I was saying cold weather is of no consequence water is kept open and unending food .we may be seeing the end of the migration for us for good
Posted on 1/27/20 at 6:12 am to Bandit30
quote:I'm only 30 years old and remember many times as a kid, when we would kill limits on limits of mallards every hunt, that we were breaking ice on 10+ trips a year. In South Louisiana.
Its not the fricking weather.
That happens 1-2 times during the season now
Posted on 1/27/20 at 6:54 am to mylsuhat
I’ll mention a couple more things. Refuges that the state controls, but you can’t hunt.
Back when the catfish industry went under a lot of farms put the ponds in WRPs and now are duck camps.
Back when the catfish industry went under a lot of farms put the ponds in WRPs and now are duck camps.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 7:15 am to mylsuhat
quote:I'm 55 and I don't recall breaking ice but 2-3 times in any year.
that we were breaking ice on 10+ trips a year. In South Louisiana.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 7:22 am to mylsuhat
Breaking ice 10+ year in s La?
Posted on 1/27/20 at 7:29 am to Cracker
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Unless they are frozen out of food they don’t move
I just got back from northern Oklahoma and this is 100% correct. we hunted dry fields with corn still in them from harvesting. the field has been holding birds since November, and it has a pond not far from it.
we also hunted a milo field full of crop on the ground. these birds have food and access to water. no need to migrate
Posted on 1/27/20 at 7:34 am to bobdylan
quote:The weather records debunk this......not 10 times a year in any of our lifetimes.....
Breaking ice 10+ year in s La?
Posted on 1/27/20 at 7:51 am to Outdoorreb
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We also have 250 acres of uncut rice and corn.
You done did it now baw
Posted on 1/27/20 at 8:10 am to mylsuhat
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breaking ice on 10+ trips a year. In South Louisiana.
Please show me the year that this happened
Posted on 1/27/20 at 8:12 am to Cracker
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Unless they are frozen out of food they don’t move
A freeze don’t mean crap. They just dry feed and go sit on the big water that not frozen or they keep it from freezing
You have to have snowcover
Posted on 1/27/20 at 8:22 am to mylsuhat
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I'm only 30 years old and remember many times as a kid, when we would kill limits on limits of mallards every hunt, that we were breaking ice on 10+ trips a year. In South Louisiana.
That happens 1-2 times during the season now
I will add that as a child, Halloween ToT was usually cold. Opening weekend of duck season was usually cold as well. As an adult, I cant remember a cold or even cool Halloween. And opening weekend of duck season seems to require little more than a long sleeve tshirt. (if that).
But I'm old and drink a lot. So maybe its just me.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 8:23 am to choupiquesushi
quote:Thx.
Old schooler from SdH days long time DU guy Great dude
Posted on 1/27/20 at 8:35 am to tigerinthebueche
Two things will naturally force a duck south: food and weather. And even then, weather will force ducks south even if there is ample food. Weather trumps all
We haven’t had the weather up north to push ducks down in recent years. Granted there may be a cold snap that may last a week or two, but we need sustained cold weather up north to push ducks down. No amount a food will matter up north will matter if it’s all frozen up.
It’s the weather
We haven’t had the weather up north to push ducks down in recent years. Granted there may be a cold snap that may last a week or two, but we need sustained cold weather up north to push ducks down. No amount a food will matter up north will matter if it’s all frozen up.
It’s the weather
This post was edited on 1/27/20 at 8:36 am
Posted on 1/27/20 at 9:09 am to Ron Cheramie
I know, I help Du with the nets just south of our property line. 2017-2018 season everything froze up North of us and we destroyed them. Y’all Baws South of us had to smash them good too.
Whoever says weather doesn’t have anything to do with it is fool and might as well say Nets are keeping them from coming down.
Last year I talked to a guy that has property from Montana to Ms. At the end of the season he said you couldn’t put another duck in the potholes in Montana, but season was over up there. He was just praying to scratch out a limit out like us at his place in Ms.
Whoever says weather doesn’t have anything to do with it is fool and might as well say Nets are keeping them from coming down.
Last year I talked to a guy that has property from Montana to Ms. At the end of the season he said you couldn’t put another duck in the potholes in Montana, but season was over up there. He was just praying to scratch out a limit out like us at his place in Ms.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 9:11 am to choupiquesushi
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I'm 55 and I don't recall breaking ice but 2-3 times in any year.
Really? I can recall many, many days in NELA that rice fields would be froze up, or at least partially froze. It only takes 32 degrees to freeze water...
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