Start of the 2nd split
 

Who has been out to the marsh or fields since the end of the split? Looking forward to seeing the Arial survey on Friday.

I will be in the marsh tomorrow and post what I see west of 27.

Hearing mixed reports from marsh to central LA. Gwt Pintail and geese numbers up but not much else. Not sure where the birds are. I have a feeling the survey will not be too encouraging.

Please do ... Im going friday and will do the same.

Will do, it may be late before I get back to a computer tomorrow evening but I will post what I see.

Come by La Casa if you get some time. I should be there early evening....

Reynolds flew SW La and the report isn't good ... still hoping for a good shoot this wknd but overall the #s are ot on par with recent weather

Larry R fly over = FAKE NEWS.....LOL

Where was this posted?

Sorry just saw this had to come back to Houston. I will be back Friday.

West of 27 looked much better today than at the end of the first split. It wasn't the most I have seen by a long shot but a big improvement.

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I disagree he?s normally pretty accurate with at least where the concentrations of birds are located and basically confirmed what I?ve already been hearing. Not saying the 2nd split won?t be good just that it?s a lot less than expected given the recent weather conditions we?ve gotten down here.


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I found it, thanks

Larry said grand lake to pecan island and north of white lake was loaded. So high hopes for the opener. I like it.


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Yea he said it was loaded but with pintail. U only get 1 of those so choose wisely

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3 of us hunted Pecan Island - 14 bw teal, 1 grey, 1 spoon.

Other blind with 2 hunters - 9 teal

Tough hunting for me today in JB. Very few ducks flying. Managed 3 ducks and hunted until 10am.

1 teal, 1 grey, 1 scaup. Tomorrow is another day.

Yeah if was tough today

Hunted the lease out of the Boston both days one blind killed ten ducks both mornings consisting of Grays and a few mallards and teal. The other blind killed a few less but mostly shot teal. Ducks worked a little better than the first split and saw more but still not as many birds as last season.


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Very slow 2nd split opening in Johnson Bayou. I did talk to some guys that killed limits west of 27 but not many. We had significant birds holding on Wednesday of last week then Friday when I came to put the decoys out there was a very noticeable decrease in our birds.

Slow at my lease as well 6 guys opening day had 14 and yesterday got limit with just 2 of us https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...9159872d21.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...35f9c670c2.jpg


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Specks those are some nice quality birds, good hunt.

60 ducks in the first 3 days of the season. Not bad. Better than the first split. Bell city.


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I didnt hunt my lease opening weekend but I heard it was slow. I hunted in gueydan with a buddy and some of his friends yesterday and had a good shoot. 8 ducks 7 specks(lost two in the field ) and a few sky carp
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Nice hunt Bob

Hwy 27 West
 

One scaup and one GW this morning west of Hwy 27. Buddy reported one Widgeon and one ringneck in the Hayes area.

4 bluesings n a gray south of Abbeville. Just not a lot of ducks

We are seeing very few and killing less. East side of pecan island.

Foggy this am. 1 spoon n 2 green wings. Maybe saw 25 ducks total. Hope front this Saturday brings a few mo. Merry Christmas to all

2 hunters in pecan island..North side...7 teal. Was pretty foggy this morning.

Shot 2 greys and a pintail this morning all within about 5 minutes of each other. Thought it was going to be a great day. Didn't fire a shot after 7am......... Did not see many birds at all. Very discouraging but will try them again in the morning.

2 blackjacks and 3 dos gris for me this morning lol. At least I was shooting...

1 Greenwich drake and 3 grays. Other blind scratched same spot south of abbeville. Rest of season not lookin good

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Nice hunts. Lot better than most.

Hunt my blind SW Kaplan this morning solo....shot a limit..- 4 bw and 2 GW teal. Could of shot 50 blacks jacks. Not really any big ducks flying.

What is it y'all call a black jack?

Scaup

Black Jacks are ring neck ducks. You can kill 6 of them. Dos Gris are scaup. You can only kill 3 of those. We have a bumper crop of them this year. Also, black jacks will eat better than dos gris.

Blackjack is what most ppl call ringneck ducks. Other names for scaup are DOS gris, bluebill. Ringnecks have a black back. Scaup have more gray on their back.

Hunt my lease SW Kaplan...2 of us shot 12.

2 pins...Could shot 10 but would of been happy with the past two per man limit
2 spoons
8 teal

Could of shot black jack by the dozens.. lol

Normally on a day like today we shoot nothing but big ducks. However, I did see more ducks moving North- South and visa versa today. Why the hell did they drop the limit from 2 to 1 pins this year. Freaking pisses me off.

DU

Still not many good reports coming from PI marshes ..... I dont get it:confused:.. coldest couple wks of weather I can remember in years yet still no big push to speak of in the marsh. Now there are areas in central LA rice fields that are holding numbers but still below average for the most part. Hoping I get to make a few more hunts up that way.

Hunted my lease yesterday for the first time since opening weekend. We didn’t see much by 8:30 so we packed up and headed to my cousin’s lease between GC and Cameron. Pulled up to hundreds of birds. Ended with 17. A mix of teal, grey, spoonies, and one ringneck.

Hunted my place in Marksville by the red river. 1 spoon and 1 gray. Saw maybe 100 ducks all morning! Something has to give. Lake is covered in grass, water depth is right, just no ducks.


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All the birds are in the Whiteville area stacked up just to the south of you.

I used to shoot ring necks at one of our blinds back when I chased birds. Fun birds to shoot. They can move that's for sure. They eat decent. I'll take a grilled breast from a poule doux(water chicken) over a ring neck though.

I'm glad you finally killed something.. You got your boat fixed?

It was nice to get back out there. I thought we would do good on my lease since it hadn?t been hunted all season and the weather was right. Didn?t see much in the sky at all. Talk about disappointing.

Finally got the boat back. The kill switch was bad and a coil had went out. Got it all fixed and another issue popped up. Some other part that Briggs had put a service bulletin out on that apparently fried the coil in the first place. I lucked out cause I had about 2 weeks left on the warranty!

How?s y?all season been going?