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re: Duckhunting
Posted on 1/27/20 at 9:16 am to tigerinthebueche
Posted on 1/27/20 at 9:16 am to tigerinthebueche
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I will add that as a child, Halloween ToT was usually cold. Opening weekend of duck season was usually cold as well.
We had a frost Halloween night this past year
And it got down to 25 the week before coastal zone opened
So we had below avg temps for Nov, above for Dec, Jan is going to end up avg
14-15 winter and 17-18 winter we had snowfall and multiple nights with lows 20 and below
and record low dew points
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Posted on 1/27/20 at 9:21 am to LSUballs
My memories are faded but I remember busting ice as a kid many many times with peepaw
Posted on 1/27/20 at 9:28 am to Ron Cheramie
I typically bust ice 2-3 times a year. May be more times it freezes but of course I don’t hunt every day. This year was the first year in a while I can’t remember busting.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 9:44 am to jimbeam
I had a few ducks to shoot this year which is a 100% improvement over the last 6-8 yrs. I believe if the Nov weather pattern would've held we would've had a great season. Instead, it got hot and sticky in Dec and Jan and things went to shite, deers slowed, too. The birds I had arrived in Nov early Dec.
I agree we need big snow and cold to keep it on the ground to the north. High winter MS river tells me they're getting rain instead of snow up the country.
I agree we need big snow and cold to keep it on the ground to the north. High winter MS river tells me they're getting rain instead of snow up the country.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:11 am to mylsuhat
We hardly ever had to break ice maybe 2 times a year average. South Louisiana also. Even if the weather is right people still are not seeing the ducks and geese. The weather isn’t changing the migration is.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:19 am to Bandit30
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The weather isn’t changing the migration is.
The migration is changing and it’s changing all over the world and not just birds that would be found in an uncut flooded corn field.
Getting out of the politics and what side of the climate change/“global warming” whatever is one thing but to think the weather isn’t changing is a little far fetched.
I mean have you been outside the last five or ten years?
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:22 am to tigerinthebueche
Wednesday opening week of coastal zone was 26-27 had to break ice. First time I remember breaking ice the first week 
. Didn’t see a duck So you must be old and you definitely drink to much
. Didn’t see a duck So you must be old and you definitely drink to much Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:33 am to Ron Cheramie
weather patterns change up and down up and down always have always will. Ducks and geese aren’t migrating to Louisiana like they have and probably never will. Its getting worse every year.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:42 am to Just tired
If ducks don't migrate any further than Arkansas, they don't leave an imprint to migrate for their offspring to do so either.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:51 am to Bandit30
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Ducks and geese aren’t migrating to Louisiana like they have and probably never will.
That may be true to a degree for Mallards but I have said it a bunch on here that ducks have adapted to refuge hop. I could go out to at least 3 closed zone areas on 1 WMA and 2 NWR's within 50 miles of Monroe, LA and there would be enough ducks to make you re-think that statement. The problem is that those birds never leave the refuge except to feed and they do that at night so you never see them. Multiply that up and down the flyway on NWR's and state areas that have rest areas and you have a huge reason why people never see the ducks that were counted in Canada before the start of duck seasons in the states.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:53 am to Bandit30
quote:this is the trend and has been. regardless of habitat north of us - people sounded the alarm about our habitat for as long as i can remember and yet we did little or nothing....
Ducks and geese aren’t migrating to Louisiana like they have and probably never will. Its getting worse every year.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 10:54 am to MWP
quote:this is indeed a factor.... look at the north farm in sherburne....
That may be true to a degree for Mallards but I have said it a bunch on here that ducks have adapted to refuge hop. I could go out to at least 3 closed zone areas on 1 WMA and 2 NWR's within 50 miles of Monroe, LA and there would be enough ducks to make you re-think that statement. The problem is that those birds never leave the refuge except to feed and they do that at night so you never see them. Multiply that up and down the flyway on NWR's and state areas that have rest areas and you have a huge reason why people never see the ducks that were counted in Canada before the start of duck seasons in the states.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 11:21 am to choupiquesushi
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this is indeed a factor.... look at the north farm in sherburne....
I take waterfowl photos and the Russell Sage WMA DU project on 15 just East of Monroe is loaded with birds. I was out there 2 weeks ago and it was insane. Those birds sit there all day. I can only imagine what the closed zone on Overflow NWR looks like.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 11:54 am to Just tired
Send me an email and I can get and give you some info that may help you in your research. I am 47 and remember the great times and have seen the fast decline.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 12:11 pm to MWP
You don’t have to tell me about the refugees I hunted next to one a couple years back
There’s multiple factors in why hunting in Louisiana is declining. People in this thread want to blame it on the weather but I severely disagree.
There’s multiple factors in why hunting in Louisiana is declining. People in this thread want to blame it on the weather but I severely disagree.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 12:14 pm to Bandit30
quote:human pressure.... degraded habitat macro - not micro and... look at a texas wma...
There’s multiple factors in why hunting in Louisiana is declining. People in this thread want to blame it on the weather but I severely disag
Waterfowl Line-Up Procedure
NOTE: Hunts are no longer conducted on First Come/First Serve format. A lottery drawing will occur at 4:30 a.m. each day of a hunt to determine your position in line. Hunters arriving after 4:30 a.m. will be checked in as they arrive.
Hunters arriving before 4:30 a.m. the morning of the hunt will line up at the Live Oak Loop nature trail parking area. Staff will issue numbered tags at the parking area with the last tag being issued at 4:30 a.m. Check in begins at the Hunter check-station following tag issuance. A random number generator will be used to determine order of check in. Hunters sign in with tag number, name, signature, date of birth, and hunt location.
Typically the WMA offers over 55 hunting locations, in addition to 7 youth blinds, and 3 goose fields; however the number of hunting locations are subject to change depending on water availability. Each hunt location is marked with a reflective sign to aid hunters in locating their hunt site. Hunters must hunt within 30 yards of their marker. Walking distances range from 200 yards to 1.6 miles. Limited hunting locations may be accessed by small boats/canoes which must be hand launched and hand or electrically propelled. No trailers.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 12:16 pm to choupiquesushi
Public land in South Texas is jam up from what I've seen from some friends who live in the Houston area
Posted on 1/27/20 at 12:33 pm to PapaPogey
quote:I know someone that lives in hitchcock and he hunts WMA's and NWRs... and does phenomenal
Public land in South Texas is jam up from what I've seen from some friends who live in the Houston area
Posted on 1/27/20 at 2:56 pm to choupiquesushi
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someone that lives in hitchcock and he hunts WMA's and NWRs... and does phenomenal
I imagine that someone is hunting Brazoria NWR or the old Justin Hurst property near Jones Creek. Way too far to drive from Hitchcock to get to Anahuac or the NWR's over near Port Arthur.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 3:04 pm to MWP
quote:yes
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someone that lives in hitchcock and he hunts WMA's and NWRs... and does phenomenal
I imagine that someone is hunting Brazoria NWR or the old Justin Hurst property near Jones Creek. Way too far to drive from Hitchcock to get to Anahuac or the NWR's over near Port Arthu
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