Duck season changes?

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by DUCKGOGETTER

2 or 3 years ago my buddy went to stuggart ark. On a guided hunt. When they got there almost all the fields were froze except the ones that the guide service had kept the water open, and he took video of ducks by the thousands in them and also the canals and ditches that the birds were keeping open themselves. This hybrid rice is gonna kill alot of the hunting down here if it's gonna continue to be planted.

I can show you videos of thousands of ducks in several places in Louisiana any time during the season, any time. They have ducks but we have MORE. They may have more mallards, but we have more ducks.

[DUCKGOGETTER]

Originally Posted by duck butter

i can show you videos of thousands of ducks in several places in louisiana any time during the season, any time. They have ducks but we have more. They may have more mallards, but we have more ducks.

when i refer to ducks i'm not refering to only mallards i'm speaking of ducks in general. For example the holmwood sweetlake area south of lake charles. Anybody can remember seeing multiple bodies of geese/ducks in these areas in the past, but for the last few years the migration has changed due to a lack of food planted. It's simple no food no ducks/geese. Another example helms road south of lake charles again in the 90's that i can remember if you had a blind down this road you had a top notch blind. You could drive down that road and see thousands of waterfowl now when you past you don't even see a duck/goose down that whole road due to the lack of farming.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by DUCKGOGETTER

when i refer to ducks i'm not refering to only mallards i'm speaking of ducks in general. For example the holmwood sweetlake area south of lake charles. Anybody can remember seeing multiple bodies of geese/ducks in these areas in the past, but for the last few years the migration has changed due to a lack of food planted. It's simple no food no ducks/geese. Another example helms road south of lake charles again in the 90's that i can remember if you had a blind down this road you had a top notch blind. You could drive down that road and see thousands of waterfowl now when you past you don't even see a duck/goose down that whole road due to the lack of farming.

Venice and Wax Lake had BANNER years this year due to the drought. Ducks move, they can fly, they go where there is food and water. Natural food, waterfowl have come down here for thousands of years when there was not one rice field. They adapt, some may stay up north annd get fat on rice in Arkansas, but we still get the Lions' Share You got it good, don't start talking bout the 'good old days' they are here right now, you are living em

[Duck Butter]

First off, where are y'all getting this reduced season nonsense? This needs to be nipped right now. There are still ducks in the coastal marsh that have yet to leave for the breeding ponds The pond counters have not even probably serviced their airplanes to get ready for the counts. We will not know until August what the season forecast will be. There is no evidence for a reduction in days and/or limits yet