Paging Larry Reynolds..Duck count flyover

Missouri called - they have a big arse flight of birds in - nothing behind them though

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When are the expected dates for the fly over to take place?

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My crystal ball tells me that the flyover will confirm that Catahoula is loaded and everyone and their brother will swarm there like last year.

The survey may be a little late due to Mr. Reynolds conducting the survey from the back of a whooping crane, funds getting tight these days

Not many in NE TX right now. Found enough grays to hunt, but not going to hunt them on the opener. Got to manage the top water boom scouters as much as the ducks.

I don't think there's enough ducks to count the first week in November to justify putting fuel in the plane. Just hope the commissioners in the marsh get their grey ducks this weekend.

no one go to Catahula lake!! No ducks no feed! Please go elsewhere. But for real it has more gass on it than last year so we shall see.. It stayed under water longer and looked meek, but it dried very fast and grew some good grass..

Yeah I hunted the nebo side for years. When it was 3 ducks it was awesome, when the limits went up it became a shot show.

It's always season starts too early, needs to stay open until Feb when the birds "finally show up". They are here, just offshore waiting for the surface drives to get put in garage. By the time Jan gets here I'm ready to watch them fall thru the limbs and don't want to fight no water and all the other problems hunting on coast.

My issue with the early opener has nothing to do with the closing date or birds finally showing up. It's just that - the opening date. Some years, the birds make it down early enough. Other years, they don't. The extra week makes a big difference to me. Last year was perfect, even though the last couple weeks in January were a total pain in the arse.

The water in January sucks any way you look at it, but it's just like you said - the birds are there the whole time. The smart hunters are going to kill the ducks. I just find that the ducks are often actually not physically present during the first week of November, which is frustrating.

I'm not really sure if I'm making much sense. It's been a long day and my brain is pretty fried.

I'm in the plane now headed for line 20 in upper Terrebonne.

Flew the first 19 lines over the last 2 days with late starts due to weather. I won't know totals until I crunch the numbers, but we found good concentrations of ducks in the Ag north of Intracoastal City and between Lacassine NWR and Welsh, and a really good bunch in the marsh SE of Lake Calcasieu. Mostly gadwalls and bluewings. My gut feeling is its neither great nor dismal, but ?????

We'll see how what SE looks like today.