30 day season. 3 duck limit.


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Ah ha. I think I'd rather go bass fishing.


Here's a question for those of you who keep up with all this $hit. Why is the limit on Specklebelly's only 2? Seems like there are a hell of a lot of them for it to be so low. I know they are really only in this fly way does that have something to do with it?

Perfectly fine with me. Keeps the pressure lower. In regards to the speck limits

I disagree. Specks are going to want plowed ground or very little water 7 out of 10 times. I don't see all the duck hunters dropping their water for an extra goose or two. 3 specks would be nice. I pretty much set up just for geese, when its just me and a partner sometimes we are done 10 min after we started.

Dont quote me on this but I believe there was some discussion prior to this season on bringing it up to 3, but it didnt pass.

Sometimes you eat the bar, sometimes the bar eats you.

True or False:

Louisiana harvests more ducks annually than all of Canada?

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Because our greedy, crooked commission would rather go against the ppl of our state. Arkansas and Missouri will both have 3 speck limits this year. And actually California winters tons of specks and their seasons and limits are VERY liberal. On ducks also.

California

Louisiana, looks like we smoke down about 1,000,000 more birds than the Canadians.
2012-2013 Season
Louisiana about 2.3million
Canada about 1 million

But I don't have much faith in the Canada vs La numbers or any harvest data for that matter.

If I read the harvest data correctly:
1-Louisiana
2-California
3-Arkansas
4-Texas

Source:
https://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/p...and2013-14.pdf

Don't remember where I read it, but apparently more ducks are killed in Cameron Parish then any other parish or county in the country. But wait the duck DONT migrate down anymore.


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There was discussion of increasing to 3 specks, as the feds would allow it, but the commission was concerned about decreasing speck numbers and putting additional pressure on birds by increasing the amount of time afield. They instead chose to increase the season length by 7 days.

Odd, because that still increases time a field, but I suppose its not the same as being out longer on a single day.

Do they do an estimate on the number of specks or geese killed like they do with ducks? I'd be interested in that number. And how do they do the assessment to determine the numbers were down in the first place? I'd imagine the margin for error is pretty high.

Just wanted to throw this back up here, in case anyone has forgotten what this thread was about. If you don't like DU, that's fine. If you've never checked out DU, give it a try. This is a college chapter, these guys are trying to bring in funds to start doing things around the area. At the least, you get some beers and jambalaya out of it.

The number of specks aren't down. The commission just doesn't care about scientific data or what the public desires.

https://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/p...and2013-14.pdf

I believe we're winning the TuleFrontedGoose harvest.

I call bull**** on this whole thing. How do they get these numbers? I've never once been asked how many of each species I kill yearly. How many birds winter in Louisiana total each year? No way in hell we kill 2.3 mill birds, if I'm reading that correctly. I'm goong to go out on a limb and say Canada kills more birds than us by a long shot.

The number of people I know that go to canada yearly is unreal, and on their worst hunts, I bet they kill more than 60% of hunters in LA kill total for whole year. Common sense says something ain't right here.

what kind of music do yall like?

There are more people in Baton Rouge than there are in Saskatchewan.