Coastal zone opening day..

[cmcnabb]

Originally Posted by Spunt Drag

Everybody knows the ducks don't get here til February DUH!

It's sad that people will read this line and think he is fo real. You can always tell a true duck commander when they say "man they need to push the season back, look all the ducks in them field they all just got here"

[Goooh]

Originally Posted by cmcnabb

It's sad that people will read this line and think he is fo real. You can always tell a true duck commander when they say "man they need to push the season back, look all the ducks in them field they all just got here"

Them feets is bright bright

[Dogface]

Originally Posted by cmcnabb

It's sad that people will read this line and think he is fo real. You can always tell a true duck commander when they say "man they need to push the season back, look all the ducks in them field they all just got here"

Still amazes me that they think the ducks just got here after the season closes. Don't they realize that due to the pressure and sky busting the ducks have found areas that have no pressure and after all the shooting and mud motor noise stops they come begin to come out of the reserves and safe places. For the most part, they aren't migrating to south Louisiana the last week of January.

[cmcnabb]

Originally Posted by Dogface

Still amazes me that they think the ducks just got here after the season closes. Don't they realize that due to the pressure and sky busting the ducks have found areas that have no pressure and after all the shooting and mud motor noise stops they come begin to come out of the reserves and safe places. For the most part, they aren't migrating to south Louisiana the last week of January.

That is total nonsense and you need to stop with that BS before the Phil fans learn somethin

[Top Dawg]

Originally Posted by Dogface

Still amazes me that they think the ducks just got here after the season closes. Don't they realize that due to the pressure and sky busting the ducks have found areas that have no pressure and after all the shooting and mud motor noise stops they come begin to come out of the reserves and safe places. For the most part, they aren't migrating to south Louisiana the last week of January.

Not to mention all the fields and timber that are drained after season is closed. But the face painters don't understand this.

[Gottogo49]

Originally Posted by Dogface

Still amazes me that they think the ducks just got here after the season closes. Don't they realize that due to the pressure and sky busting the ducks have found areas that have no pressure and after all the shooting and mud motor noise stops they come begin to come out of the reserves and safe places. For the most part, they aren't migrating to south Louisiana the last week of January.

I agree, our hunting got bad the last week of last year, we made a couple of hunts and didn't fire a shot. Two weeks later the ducks were all over the pond. They didn't just arrive, they were avoiding the pressure. There is a big commercial operation just south of us that hunts every day.

[Dogface]

Originally Posted by Gottogo49

I agree, our hunting got bad the last week of last year, we made a couple of hunts and didn't fire a shot. Two weeks later the ducks were all over the pond. They didn't just arrive, they were avoiding the pressure. There is a big commercial operation just south of us that hunts every day.

Yea, we usually struggle the last week and last year was no exception. I wonder how many of the 213 that Mr Reynolds said wanted a later date have hunted more than a couple of years. Face painters indeed!!!

[louisianaoutfitters]

We hunt the coastal zone. My main concern with running the speck season through the first week of the twelve day split is there are a lot more speck "hunters" now. There will be people, alot of people out in the field shooting and disturbing birds. These are some of the same areas where we are trying to let the ducks rest. Nothing drives ducks back to refuges like gun pressure and traffic in and out of farms. The ducks really won't get much of a break other than in the marshes. So the rice fields in the coastal zone will essential have a 5 day split. I would always much rather have the extra speck days after duck season. Our harvest records show great success rates. (Near 100%) the last two weeks of specks after duck season. I realize it is what it is this year. Just my 2 cents for the future dates.

[cmac23]

The traditional season dates were changed due to public comment of 200 or so people that basically don't know much about duck hunting in the Coastal Zone!! Keeping the season open later into January accomplishes nothing!! All the ducks that are here that time of year are all WELL educated to blinds, & decoys!!!
If you want to kill any of those late January ducks, you are going to have to work extremely hard just to bag a few!!
Good luck to the 200 or so people that have ruined the tradition for the rest of us!!!

[Dogface]

Originally Posted by cmac23

The traditional season dates were changed due to public comment of 200 or so people that basically don't know much about duck hunting in the Coastal Zone!! Keeping the season open later into January accomplishes nothing!! All the ducks that are here that time of year are all WELL educated to blinds, & decoys!!!
If you want to kill any of those late January ducks, you are going to have to work extremely hard just to bag a few!!
Good luck to the 200 or so people that have ruined the tradition for the rest of us!!!

Yea, I can't believe they changed dates based on 200+ comments when Mr Reynolds has data to support the fact that more ducks are killed early than late in the year. Come on LDWF, you guys know better than that. Set the dates based on fact and not the comments people that don't know what they don't know!!

[bgizzle]

Originally Posted by Dogface

Yea, I can't believe they changed dates based on 200+ comments when Mr Reynolds has data to support the fact that more ducks are killed early than late in the year. Come on LDWF, you guys know better than that. Set the dates based on fact and not the comments people that don't know what they don't know!!

They did it for specks in BL and triple tail.. Why not ducks too right? It's a week. I think we will be fine. Wasn't it like this when it was just east/west zone?


"Go ahead, share your opinion! I won't cry"

[Top Dawg]

Originally Posted by bgizzle

They did it for specks in BL and triple tail.. Why not ducks too right? It's a week. I think we will be fine. Wasn't it like this when it was just east/west zone?


"Go ahead, share your opinion! I won't cry"

No

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by bgizzle

They did it for specks in BL and triple tail.. Why not ducks too right? It's a week. I think we will be fine. Wasn't it like this when it was just east/west zone?


"Go ahead, share your opinion! I won't cry"

no coastal and west used to be the same

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by Dogface

Yea, I can't believe they changed dates based on 200+ comments when Mr Reynolds has data to support the fact that more ducks are killed early than late in the year. Come on LDWF, you guys know better than that. Set the dates based on fact and not the comments people that don't know what they don't know!!

They got tired of hearing everybody complain.


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[Dogface]

Originally Posted by MarshRat89

They got tired of hearing everybody complain.


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Everybody? 200+ complaints doesn't seem like that many. But regardless, I think they should base it on the data that Mr Reynolds has collected. He said his data showed more ducks were killed early than late in the year so I think they should base it on fact and let them complain.

[cgoods17]

Originally Posted by louisianaoutfitters

We hunt the coastal zone. My main concern with running the speck season through the first week of the twelve day split is there are a lot more speck "hunters" now. There will be people, alot of people out in the field shooting and disturbing birds. These are some of the same areas where we are trying to let the ducks rest. Nothing drives ducks back to refuges like gun pressure and traffic in and out of farms. The ducks really won't get much of a break other than in the marshes. So the rice fields in the coastal zone will essential have a 5 day split. I would always much rather have the extra speck days after duck season. Our harvest records show great success rates. (Near 100%) the last two weeks of specks after duck season. I realize it is what it is this year. Just my 2 cents for the future dates.

totally agree..

why change it?