Are some ducks showing up with the first front?
 

I had to fly out on Saturday morning to Africa for work so I didn't get a chance to get out to the marsh to see if some ducks have started to show up with the first good front of the year. Have any of you guys started seeing a ducks show up with this front around your leases??

The guy that hunts to the West of me on the farm I hunt on South of Kaplan went out there yesterday morning and told me we are covered in ducks. Mostly teal with a good number of big ducks. He said he also saw and heard some Specs flying over. We have a ton of Indigo in our field since it was not rice farmed in a few years. I cannot wait for NOV 12th. I will be heading that way later this week to get our pond buffaloed again.

I was hoping to hear some reports like that, My Dad and some of the other guys in our lease went pull some boats in the marsh the day I left, I haven't got a report from them yet as to what the duck nunbers are looking like in the Boston yet. I'm sure a decent number of ducks got pushed down. Hopefully we get a few more good cold front before Nov 12. I'd sure like to shoot a few big ducks with some teal mixed in on opening day. I'm ready when I get back I have to go into work for a few days then I'm going on a deer hunt then it will be time to shoot some ducks.

Man I thought I was crazy the other morning when I went outside before daybreak and could have sworn I heard some geese... I live just north of 14 in Nunez.


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good numbers of geese here already. just hope they stay and get cozy.

Saw a good body of geese last weekend by the lease. We set out a few dozen full bodies and a couple hundread rags to pull them on our lease.

Aweome news guys souds like the making of a good opening weekend. I'm hoping they find my lease and get good and comfortable. It's the best our marsh has looked in a long time.

Two groups of Specks spotted Saturday morning at Eunice Rifle and Gun Club range.

Why would you wanna educate birds 2 weeks before the season? That has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

I'm not educating the birds, I'm conditioning them to come into the decoys and my field without anyone shooting them. The birds imprint my field as a "safe" zone, and it will be until they get popped.

You can't be serious

A handful on Fausse pointe but not in any numbers yet. The shad are really starting to school and seeing big balls of them so there will be plenty of food when the ducks do show up

Y'all don't leave your duck decoys out during the split? Same thing. We put our decoys out in October to get them used to them. Pick them up end of March so that the ducks migrating back north will remember us

He's swimming with it bruh... set the hook

.....like a choupique on a blue worm!

Oughta try mojos on solar panels. Started doin that 3 yrs ago and it pays off. Start em a day before the first good front and let em run thru the season. Pull a lot of night migrators during the full moons.

I will have to try that out. This year we made an e-caller that runs on solar. It plays @ set times during day and @ night with full moon. The geese pile in, but we have to turn it off the week before season starts.

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Please tell me you are joking.

Flight sucks spent night on farm in shreveport (off red river). Two groups of 60+ each, stayed out on a hole we rarely see ducks on, left next day.

Also since some of y'all may know, when is the best time to put water on your duck fields (if in rice, cut rice, millet, etc)? Place in question is NE LA and I'd think at least two weeks prior to season!

Getting blinds done down in oyster bayou this weekend and we saw teal, widgeons, grays, and mottled ducks flying around. Ready for opening day!

I hate myself for saying this, but that actually sounds really good...

why not turn that thing around and blow instead of suck?

Wait. What?


LOL

big flocks of specks around Mowata

I think it makes sound each way? Like first note exhale, inhale, exhale (who-we-who)?


If not, you've got a solid question lol.


Back to the topic though, I've seen a few vids from Ark lately and they're loaded with specks, or at least those spots were. I may be wrong but their speck season doesn't open until Nov 16th? Plenty of time for them to sit comfy and not die while we run off all 37 specks we have for a week and a half.

Yep. Oursll be back in ark by the time their season opens. Our commish just cant seem to get right.

Hooked up my solar panel.....Flock of Flickers are currently spinning away....

I've got 4 mallard machines running and a vortex. I just hid a Honda generator in my blind


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someone please tell me why welsh is in the east zone?


i can shoot a goose on november 5 but have to wait to shoot a duck until the 19th...... how in the world does this have any logic?

Thank your local commish members, they know what's best for all of us.

The commissioners are a bunch of **** sticks. I have never seen someone so lost when it comes to starting and ending seasons.

I've been fishing Indian Creek Reservoir near Alexandria, and I've began to see a good mix of big ducks. Saw a flock of 20ish mallards the other day. Saw some other big ducks fly over but I couldn't make out the species. Someone who hunts probably could have.

Anyone been out and about and seen birds in South East part of state?

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I was at my property in Meaux and Heard a flock of specks flying over just ahead of that last cool front we had.

Make the days whatever you want! If mother nature doesn't cooperate it won't make much difference.

Saw 5 specks south of Welsh Friday.. Didn't see a goose at my blind S of Lake Arthur. Mid-day.


Our field got plowed about a week ago, looks like the dust bowl out there..


If you have a few birds and water, I'd say you have a good chance at killing this weekend. I know of 2 separate places that got flooded over the weekend, and had specks on it the next day.

Just got in lastnight hoping to make a trip out to the lease sometime this week to check things out. Looks like we may get another small front and might actually have a cool weekend for duck season hopefully the ducks are going to start showing up in good numbers.

Extended forecast all the way up to SD and Iowa are disheartening. If it stays hot it better at least stay dry too.

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I saw these south of Welsh on Saturday morning.. all specks from what I could see in the binoculars .



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if you got water you should have no problem with the birds right now.

There was a handful of snows mixed in a couple days ago.

I did see some white in there but never could tell if it was wings or snows.. I wouldn't doubt it


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Saw a decent body of Specks Sunday in Gueydan, Few ducks in the area too. Looking like next week we should have a little cool front push down just in time for the opener, hopefully the birds get to moving south. Arkansas is pretty loaded up with specks.

I forgot to update: Last weekend we worked @ lease and had lots of BWT in the area but no big ducks so we pulled the Gadwalls, Pintails and Mallards and added more Spoonbill decoys to bring in the BWT.

Can't wait for Saturday, gonna be a teal massacre.

Holly beach / Mud lake has em.