re: Where da ducks at?

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Hayes

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Used to hunt those parts back in the early to late 90s. It wasn’t Thornwell but used to be opretty consistent hunting. Mainly hunted rice farms that were friends with my buddies father. Guess those were our “good old days”

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but anyone who parrots this idiotic “solution” is just ignorant to what is going on.

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Well rather than being a massive count and insulting the poster, why don’t you respectfully state your perspective and offer an opinion from which we all
May be better informed?

NVM. You’re just a smart arse with no answers who’d rather be a count than offer anything constructive.

Funny you mentioned Phil R. I was talking to some friends from that area on the phone this evening and that whole Robertson clan spent the opener of the second split in Missouri this weekend. Guess that tells me everything I need to know about duck numbers in Louisiana. When the most private well managed 5000 acre area in the NE Louisiana isn’t holding ducks in December that’s says a ton.

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What LA could do is move the season later


Ah, the Siren Song of skyscreamers. There is no doubt we are witnessing a major change in migration patterns but anyone who parrots this idiotic “solution” is just ignorant to what is going on.

Just multiple levels of stupid.

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Why make a point when you can just insult the other person and feel smarter than everyone else?

We hunted NELA Saturday. Saw a good amount of birds. Flight birds high. The ones within in range wouldn't even think about working close enough to call a shot. Plenty of action on the call and the jerk string. Never fired a shot.

Was easily the most defeated I've ever felt after a hunt.

We hunted Catahoula Lake Saturday morning. Lots of ducks flying, but the lake is about 10 feet above where it needs to be. We left empty handed. Some groups did kill a few.

I live in Missouri. I hunt ducks in North Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas.

No ducks in north zone of Missouri. No idea about Eastern Missouri. No ducks out in Cheyenne Bottoms, KS and the guides I go with in NE Arkansas are having one of the worst years ever.

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why don’t you respectfully state your perspective and offer an opinion from which we all may be better informed

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Please, this bullshite talking point has been talked to death.

1. We can’t push the season any later because federal law will not allow it.
2. Stats have proven more ducks are killed in early season vs later season.
3. When everyone talks about the “good old days” of duck hunting do you think they were only killing ducks in the last couple of weeks of the season or when they had fronts up north? No they killed them through the entire season.

Duck hunting has become so fricky lately due to a lack of ducks period, not a lack of ducks in January/February. (See post above about lack of birds in Kansas/Ark/Missouri) This is due to a multitude of complex issues that no one has been able to pinpoint yet.

But hey, keep on with your “Muh blind is covered up with ducks in February talk”.

Where was he at in Arkansas? Like everyone else, I'm curious as hell to where they are?

Drove to South Dakota for a pheasant hunt last week of Nov. and didn't see any ducks worth note.

Glad to hear about Southern KS. Our trip to Central KS in mid-Nov. was the worst we've experienced out there.

From Missouri, over to Kansas and up to South Dakota, one thing was the same. Harvest was too wet for farmers throughout the Mid-West. I've seen so many fields that couldn't, probably won't, get harvested.