Holly Beach area- our totals were up slightly from last year, but actually much lower numbers per hunter; just hunted a little more and with more people. I'll echo everyone else's comments on the GWT- that's our go to duck, and the numbers, after the first weekend, were way down. On the flip side, we killed our most gadwall in 6 years by a large amount that offset the lower teal numbers. High water was a problem for us as well- probably explains the lack of teal.
Made a few hunts in the rice fields in the Mowata area as well- fairly slow except for the spoons, although the ducks showed up after the 1st. The main problem I have with the coastal zone dates is related more to the boundaries- our blinds 5 miles from the gulf and the blinds about 5 miles south of highway 190 are both in the "coastal" zone. That doesn't make any sense.
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