re: Why do out of staters have a hard on for duck hunting down here

Yeah, we are covered in deer and MODOC is really wanting us to kill does. If it doesn’t have spikes or spots, I am shooting it. We need to thin out the doe population here in MO.

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Why do out of staters have a hard on for duck hunting down here

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Because Louisiana has been marketed as "Sportsmans Paradise" for the last 40 years.

Guides take their money to stay in business.

Many from LA spend their money in Arkansas or Oklahoma or Canada chasing birds now.

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Sportsman’s Paradise……….

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What does the Pac NW have to do with this?

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Every truck that I see on I-55 N in MS is Louisiana plates with corn sacks flying out of the bed. Seems y'all have quite a hard on to deer hunt the sip.

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This is not a lie. Every piece of land that comes up for lease.. people from louisiana jack price up and get it. How do they do this you ask? Well it can be 100 acres for lease. They will get 12 friends, go in together, jack up the lease price to get it. Bring a little 1 bedroom camper and sit on it. And all 12 hunt shite out of it. Every dam where here that happens.

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There’s as many Georgia license plates as Louisiana license plates in Venice right now. I don’t get it. And for anyone wanting to come down this way there’s not shite happening down here. No grass. If you insist you can come find out for yourself.

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Non-Louisiana dudes need to go to Kaw Lake in NE Oklahoma. Many, many mallards. And public hunting. Will need a boat and some layout blinds.

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Because these young baws don’t know good duck hunting.

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And never will. Late 70s-late 80s
Prime Duck hunting. 1000% will never be the same again

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And never will. Late 70s-late 80s
Prime Duck hunting. 1000% will never be the same again

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Prime long before then.

It used to be as easy as asking a rice farmer if they had any ducks because you wanted to cook a duck dinner for clients or friends. "Go there about this time of day, plenty of mallards or pintail" No lease needed, just permission from the farmer. My first hunt was with dad, who was not into hunting but had hunted when younger. All we did was dad called a large rice farm whose manager was a friend. No blind, but squatting on a levee in tall grass, no decoys or call, we limited with only mallards and pintail in the early 60's. We got there around 9AM. Nary a piece of camo, just jeans and dark colored shirts and rubber boots. I still don't get why a hunter using a blind needs the latest camo from head to toe.

Stop government purchasing rice caused acreage planted to be reduced due lack of profit for farmers.

Primarily due to Duck Unlimited et al increasing wetlands habitat all down flyways short stopped many. Along with that lots of habitat lost down here with saltwater intrusion due Intercoastal Canal killing vegetation which hurt bass fishing too.

Then add increased hunting pressure south of I-10. I had a small, not great but decent lease south of Lake Chuck in the 90's. 20 minutes from my home in Lake Chuck to sitting in the blind, rarely limited, but I could get a few before work on weekdays. Former great hunting marsh on south side was then leased by some CPA's who put blinds in every pothole with no resting spot in their marsh. Add to that some new business owner, who leased the land just to the west and ran his airboat there all morning long, scaring the few remaining ducks away.

I haven't hunted in decade since moving to BTR. I guess that I was spoiled from not having to go to a hunting camp and could just leave home and get a limit to be back before lunch.

I do miss having a couple of specs pot roasted for Thanksgiving and Christmas instead being stuck with a less tasty bird.

Crazy to see all the travel, money and intensive management it takes now to kill a few birds.

Maybe we had it too good when 3-4” rain in December would get us a few dumb mallards to shoot at for a few days

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Because the deer hunting is actually good

He's saying he doesn't understand why people are coming duck hunt in venice when the hunting hasn't been good for many years

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While it has no doubt slacked off for locals it has a storied past and is far better than anything in Georgia with possibly the exception of the coast when its right (about 2 days every 6 seasons or so) and Lake Seminole if you like shooting divers (I do). It's a bucket list trip for many even if it is a shadow of what it once was.

It is STAGGERING how many duck hunters there are in Georgia. I started hunting ducks in Georgia in 1984 and I bet there weren't 500 people in the state who owned a decoy that wasn't being used to decorate their living room. I regularly drive through 3 public areas, one daily and 2 every weekend, and the number of people hunting ducks is amazing....and they are still killing 5-6 ducks a season IF they have had a good season in these areas. Almost all woodies and ringnecks. 5-6 a season. Can anyone really say that Venice is not significantly better than that?