Sabine or lacassine or bust
 

I'm curious how many of us free bee duck hunters are going to the reserve next weekend?

i used to be one of them i couldn't guess a number on how many ducks i've killed in sabine reserve. I had some potholes i would hunt and murder the greys and mallards back there.

I'll be there

I might have to go to one of them, I got ZERO water in a field I am allowed to hunt! I have heard really bad stories from Lacassine. I wouldn't know where to start there either! My son was real disappointed this morning because he didn't get to go on a youth hunt! Come on Lord give me some rain!!!

Rain in the forecast the next 2 days. Doubt it will be enough to make a difference but its a start.

I've been hunting Sabine a long time and the birds really haven't been there like they used to. But I've been reading all these post of people seeing ducks everywhere and it's getting me excited. Im not looking forward in 100 mile dash with 1000 hunters so I might just take my time and get a late start Saturday and see what I'll see. If anyone wants to invite me to a nice rice field pit blind Id probably take that offer to. Maybe one day I'll join the club and get me a duck lease. I'd love to have one just love not to pay arm and leg.

I won't be, but for some reason I miss hunting in lacassine like I used to

Now sure but was told the west pipeline ditch is plugged the whole way with Lillie's.

ill be in sabine.. im takin a new approach this year.. taking the boat, and i bought the wife a kayak, so im hijackin the yak and see if i can find some holes deeper in the marsh away from the crowds.. pretty excited about the season.. good luck guys and stay safe out there

I hear ya Micah!!
 

all it did hear was wet the dirt!!! Nothing to report at all! How was it on your side?

Same thing

I miss lacassine the way it used to be.

Use to be great hunting. Everyone respected each other. Once you clean a spot everyone left you along.

4 or 5 years ago is when it started to be a chore for me. Used to hunt a pothole in streeters canal and kill a lot of mallards, mottled ducks, and specks. No one hunted around me and then the pond turned to nothing but flotant. Started hunting a few secluded potholes on the north side of pipeline canal and people started just trying to beat us there because they heard us shooting. I guess that's the new mentality of today's "hunters"

Yup. We never really had a trouble with people. Just disappearing marsh.

I have done great in sabine the last coupke of years. Just takes a little paddleing. I take the yak about 2 miles in the marsh and see ducks and no hunters. Most just hunt the edges.

Same in Sabine!
 

it happens alot the same way in sabine refuge. We hunted a spot for five years or more and nevr saw another hunter. One day we show up and set up ten minutes later some guys show up and set up a decent distance from us. While we were hiding the boat we had to pass them. They had put out their set all wrong for the conditions. We offered to have them come hunt with us. Because we knew we were gonna kill. They declined and my buddy asked them if they had hunted this area before. One of them said, "no we heard alot of shooting the past couple hunts so we decided to check it out." then i hear one of the others say jokingly to another, "we would have never found them without following their lights this morning". What a bummer!!!! Needless to say they made the hunt more difficult for us cause they kinda cut us off from the flight path th birds were taking. We killed our 18 by 930 and passed them on the way out. They stuck out like a sore thumb in there above ground make shift blind. We wished them luck and they just stared!

That suck. I understand first come first serve, but following the shooting is disrespectful and not at all hunting IMO. Doesn't do much for me to hunt ducks someone else found

Yup, it's called boom scouting and it has happened to us quite a bit!

Back in the early 90's, Laccasine was as good as it could get for mallards but with each bag limit increase brought more hunters. Of those hunters, 95% were just like those mentioned above. Sabine/Laccasine poor harvest are due to the increased breeding success and bag limits. When the Feds back it down a couple birds those who only hunt ducks to Kill will go away again.