So how was the first split for you?

I have been working in black lake 7 days a week for 3 weeks and haven’t seen any flight ducks. Saw my first geese a week ago headed SE (rockafella I guess). Neighborhood pond has wood ducks and whistlers but that’s all the ducks I have seen.
Johnson’s bayou was dead the last week of split, hackberry hit or miss, holly beach hit or miss. Good reports from Coastal Club. Grand chenier spotty.

It's really strange, we're way up over the last few years, but many places are down, in some cases way down.

I think this season so far shows us what all we just don't know.

Who knows what the 2nd split holds, but a front yesterday and another this Friday sure looks promising to start, tho looks stale for a while after this weekend.

For the first time in better than 20yrs I didn't hunt opening weekend and haven't even been this year a single time. Funny thing is I really haven't even missed it. Got tired of dealing with asshats that don't know how to hunt or don't know how to be respectful of other hunters. I honestly think from here on out me and my son are just going to pick out a different state each year and do a guided hunt for a few days.

It’s like quitting the nfl, after a little while you don’t miss it. As I age the work just doesn’t make the deal worth the effort.

Exactly what we've been doing too. Its been really peaceful lol

Me too. One east zone duck hunt so far and counted 6 ducks. Never took the safety off. Sad times.

Chauvin:

5.5 ducks/hunter in the first week.

1.5 ducks/hunter for the rest of the split.

Split average of 4 ducks/hunter with 128 total killed. We had less hunters than usual this split. Opening weekend would have likely boosted the total a lot higher if the usual members had hunted.

2 birds over 4 hunts. Just got back into it after being out for a few years. Kicking myself in the arse for spending the money. I enjoy deer hunting so much more these days

7 and hunted every weekend plus a few weekdays. Worse season so far for me. Opening morning showed a lot of promise and went downhill fast.

Haven’t hunted ducks this year but everyone all around me seems to be complaining about slow hunting. Weather has been frigid in TN for a few days but it’s about to be nearly 70 degrees through Christmas. Certainly not the needed weather pattern.

I went for a preserve hunt in SC shot quail/chukar/pheasant over thanksgiving and for a couple hundred bucks we hunted fairly easy terrain and shot a pile of birds, seems like a hell of a good deal when I listen to guys talking about thousands spent on leases, thousands more on boats and gear, work weekends etc at the duck club, only shoot a handful of birds the entire first split.