Duck numbers way down

[Cmk07c]

Opening morning we shot 26, 23 being blue wings, rest green wings, greys were sketchy all weekend. That was with 5 guys. Sunday awoke to a solid 4 foot upswing from heavy storm/front that rolled in, compounded by rain. Was storm/hurricane like surge. Pirogue was floating around marina and dock was waist deep down. Just didn't feel safe trekking out for morning hunt. When we went back to pull boat out around 9 am on Sunday birds were everywhere. I'm talking never seen this many birds flying. Massive groups of big ducks as well as teal. Thinking they got blown up river a few miles from Venice. 2 buddies attempted mid day hunt after seeing this and only scratched a couple, said they just couldn't get setup good, continuously getting busted. I had to watch son during saints game so didn't join them.

Went this morning and water levels had dropped some, but not enough. 3 of us got 8 blue wings, but once again saw a good amount of birds just high flyers all headed north for most part. Good amount of greys too.

We typically kill more greys, past couple years we've been trending towards more blue wings. Not getting on the big ducks has got me itching still. Not a single smiley either. Strange weekend for sure, still feel it opened too early. Nothing like killing bluewings with summer colors. I'll take hunting mud and low winter tides over 10' deep water any day of the week. This weekend looks much more promising. Northerly winds, cooler and better tides. They're too spread out right now hitting every single land locked flooded "pool." Would of made a better opener in my opinion.

This is in pointe a la hache.


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