Looking at Duck hunting the Kaplan area

[Trent Buxton]

ASR agreed 100% on blind openings...when I was a kid you NEVER heard of a blind being up for lease in a newspaper in South Louisiana. They were few and far between and all had a HIGH price tag $2500 FOR A TWO MAN OR MORE. and had a family waiting list on every blind just to get a hunt or two in a year. It was good times and lots of birds. I hunt on Duckmasters lease(down by forked Island) last year for the first time in a decade. hunted same blind areas I had back in the day. Hunted all weekend and I can count the birds I seen in the air with the change in my pocket. It was sad. When I was younger you could set on the porch there at the camp at dusk and the sky was black with ducks heading to roost. First evening there with a cold front pushing in I saw less than 200 total as far as I could see. Its the same all over south of I-10. Flight patterns have changed for years to come. It does cycle and it may be 25 years before it changes again.