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Posted on 2/14/14 at 9:44 am to Fat Neck
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would be interested to see if these birds we all see are simply spread out from where they hiding all season, or if the refuges are holding the same bird/increase and we just overall have increase in fowl in the Bayou state
We see it every year.
After the season the birds leave the marsh and swamp and sit in open fields and feed while we watch.
I had one of those blinds years ago. Killed good on opening days and had ducks after the season.
Now I pay for a blind where they hide durring the season. Limited out all season.
The ducks are here. But there are a bunch of people I know who will lease a spot that never holds ducks and get 4,000 a year. But they never get repeat customers.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 10:59 am to Whiskey Richard
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2 weeksplit with 2 full weekends in the end odf december
i don't care when the season dates begin and end, but i am 100% on board with this. there are about 10,000 coonasses that basically live in their basin camps around christmas and new years, and it's a damned waste of duck hunting days because the ducks all get out of dodge. i couldn't even find wood ducks until a good week after new years.
i know everyone has got to have a place to hunt, but god damn does it suck to run into 12 other people after you make a 45 min run in the boat.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 9:59 pm to gorillacoco
I understand the pressure issue, and I don't like 5-day splits, but we can't close the duck season over Thanksgiving or Christmas/New Year's holidays, much less on those weekends.
Even during the 30/3 seasons, those periods were open. Of course, splits were longer too.
Even during the 30/3 seasons, those periods were open. Of course, splits were longer too.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 10:16 pm to Lreynolds
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I understand the pressure issue, and I don't like 5-day splits, but we can't close the duck season over Thanksgiving or Christmas/New Year's holidays, much less on those weekends.
fair enough. personally, my layman's opinion is that the basin is hard up for ducks primarily because of the invasive plant species there. i'm sure the pressure doesn't help, especially since any land i can hunt is also accessible to every other hunter in the state.
but thanks for weighing in, as always. i'll just find other places that aren't as pressured during the holidays. i'm a firm believer that on any given day, if you play your cards right there are public spots within driving distance of BR that you can have a solid outing. it's just a matter of finding them.
Posted on 2/15/14 at 9:15 am to gorillacoco
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I understand the pressure issue, and I don't like 5-day splits, but we can't close the duck season over Thanksgiving or Christmas/New Year's holidays, much less on those weekends.
fair enough. personally, my layman's opinion is that the basin is hard up for ducks primarily because of the invasive plant species there. i'm sure the pressure doesn't help, especially since any land i can hunt is also accessible to every other hunter in the state.
but thanks for weighing in, as always. i'll just find other places that aren't as pressured during the holidays. i'm a firm believer that on any given day, if you play your cards right there are public spots within driving distance of BR that you can have a solid outing. it's just a matter of finding them.
Invasive aquatics hurt bad but I can show you a few thousand acre of bottomland at IB that will flood when we have some rain and it wont have a duck on it. If you hunt the basin on public, listen to the boats run around all morning. Not a surprise that nobody kills shite consistent. Sherburne section 120 would be better if they could control vegetation, especially with how many duck sit on the north farm and area ag field all night long. Basin just isnt as good as the stuff further north regardless of habitat condition. More coonasses than birds
Posted on 2/15/14 at 10:33 am to Whiskey Richard
I saw ducks piled up last week that looked like back in the 80's. Mallards and pintails too. Literally thousands.
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