Posted By:
guyovery
Web Member
St. Charles MO. 01-08-2013 20:31
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
Not sure this is going to help but, two local duck clubs here are holding over 200k mallards. This new cold front could push them your way. Good Luck!
Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor
delta region 01-07-2013 18:09
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Had a good shoot again. Not as many ducks as the weekend before but we still ended up with a limit saturday and sunday. Most of the ducks we shot were mallards with a few gadwall and teal. Overall duck numbers were lower in our area’s. There seems to be a few more geese around although not in the numbers of years past. Most of the good reports i’m getting are low duck numbers to the north which is north of a line from greenville to greenwood. The reports i’ve gotten from the belzoni area is way up. Another group shot a 12 man limit of mallards with their bonus ducks being pintail, teal and gadwall by belzoni and another group shot a 6 man limit of mallards both days this past weekend. Panther swamp is still red hot along with howard miller. A decent number of ducks have arrived at mahanna but are no where near the numbers of last year. Muscadine farms is still holding birds but they fly out early so hunting is hard after about the first hour. Fighting bayou has very few birds along with six shooter from the reports i’ve gotten. Canada geese numbers have been on the rise from memphis to tupelo. Reports I’m getting our of stuttgart arkansas is no ducks. Everyone is saying they are south of them. I believe most of the mallards are either holding on the rivers or have gone back north. The coast is still holding a good number of small ducks and divers. Mathews break has fair numbers.
I did shoot a banded drake wood duck sunday with a buddy of mine.
With the warm weather we are forcasted we might have somewhat of a reverse migration.
I’m still getting info of big numbers of mallards in south dakota and eastern iowa. I don’t believe we will get that push this year. A rough estimate of sd is 400k around yankton and more to the north. With little or no snow cover these birds are staying and have open water also. Eastern iowa has pretty much the same thing happening.
Maybe one day we will get the weather pattern we used to have 20 years ago. Until then all we can do is enjoy what we do get.
Hope everyone is having a decent year. We have 3 weekends left so good luck everyone.
Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor
delta region 01-07-2013 18:09
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Had a good shoot again. Not as many ducks as the weekend before but we still ended up with a limit saturday and sunday. Most of the ducks we shot were mallards with a few gadwall and teal. Overall duck numbers were lower in our area’s. There seems to be a few more geese around although not in the numbers of years past. Most of the good reports i’m getting are low duck numbers to the north which is north of a line from greenville to greenwood. The reports i’ve gotten from the belzoni area is way up. Another group shot a 12 man limit of mallards with their bonus ducks being pintail, teal and gadwall by belzoni and another group shot a 6 man limit of mallards both days this past weekend. Panther swamp is still red hot along with howard miller. A decent number of ducks have arrived at mahanna but are no where near the numbers of last year. Muscadine farms is still holding birds but they fly out early so hunting is hard after about the first hour. Fighting bayou has very few birds along with six shooter from the reports i’ve gotten. Canada geese numbers have been on the rise from memphis to tupelo. Reports I’m getting our of stuttgart arkansas is no ducks. Everyone is saying they are south of them. I believe most of the mallards are either holding on the rivers or have gone back north. The coast is still holding a good number of small ducks and divers. Mathews break has fair numbers.
I did shoot a banded drake wood duck sunday with a buddy of mine.
With the warm weather we are forcasted we might have somewhat of a reverse migration.
I’m still getting info of big numbers of mallards in south dakota and eastern iowa. I don’t believe we will get that push this year. A rough estimate of sd is 400k around yankton and more to the north. With little or no snow cover these birds are staying and have open water also. Eastern iowa has pretty much the same thing happening.
Maybe one day we will get the weather pattern we used to have 20 years ago. Until then all we can do is enjoy what we do get.
Hope everyone is having a decent year. We have 3 weekends left so good luck everyone.
Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor
delta region 01-07-2013 18:09
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Had a good shoot again. Not as many ducks as the weekend before but we still ended up with a limit saturday and sunday. Most of the ducks we shot were mallards with a few gadwall and teal. Overall duck numbers were lower in our area’s. There seems to be a few more geese around although not in the numbers of years past. Most of the good reports i’m getting are low duck numbers to the north which is north of a line from greenville to greenwood. The reports i’ve gotten from the belzoni area is way up. Another group shot a 12 man limit of mallards with their bonus ducks being pintail, teal and gadwall by belzoni and another group shot a 6 man limit of mallards both days this past weekend. Panther swamp is still red hot along with howard miller. A decent number of ducks have arrived at mahanna but are no where near the numbers of last year. Muscadine farms is still holding birds but they fly out early so hunting is hard after about the first hour. Fighting bayou has very few birds along with six shooter from the reports i’ve gotten. Canada geese numbers have been on the rise from memphis to tupelo. Reports I’m getting our of stuttgart arkansas is no ducks. Everyone is saying they are south of them. I believe most of the mallards are either holding on the rivers or have gone back north. The coast is still holding a good number of small ducks and divers. Mathews break has fair numbers.
I did shoot a banded drake wood duck sunday with a buddy of mine.
With the warm weather we are forcasted we might have somewhat of a reverse migration.
I’m still getting info of big numbers of mallards in south dakota and eastern iowa. I don’t believe we will get that push this year. A rough estimate of sd is 400k around yankton and more to the north. With little or no snow cover these birds are staying and have open water also. Eastern iowa has pretty much the same thing happening.
Maybe one day we will get the weather pattern we used to have 20 years ago. Until then all we can do is enjoy what we do get.
Hope everyone is having a decent year. We have 3 weekends left so good luck everyone.
Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor
delta region 01-07-2013 18:09
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Had a good shoot again. Not as many ducks as the weekend before but we still ended up with a limit saturday and sunday. Most of the ducks we shot were mallards with a few gadwall and teal. Overall duck numbers were lower in our area’s. There seems to be a few more geese around although not in the numbers of years past. Most of the good reports i’m getting are low duck numbers to the north which is north of a line from greenville to greenwood. The reports i’ve gotten from the belzoni area is way up. Another group shot a 12 man limit of mallards with their bonus ducks being pintail, teal and gadwall by belzoni and another group shot a 6 man limit of mallards both days this past weekend. Panther swamp is still red hot along with howard miller. A decent number of ducks have arrived at mahanna but are no where near the numbers of last year. Muscadine farms is still holding birds but they fly out early so hunting is hard after about the first hour. Fighting bayou has very few birds along with six shooter from the reports i’ve gotten. Canada geese numbers have been on the rise from memphis to tupelo. Reports I’m getting our of stuttgart arkansas is no ducks. Everyone is saying they are south of them. I believe most of the mallards are either holding on the rivers or have gone back north. The coast is still holding a good number of small ducks and divers. Mathews break has fair numbers.
I did shoot a banded drake wood duck sunday with a buddy of mine.
With the warm weather we are forcasted we might have somewhat of a reverse migration.
I’m still getting info of big numbers of mallards in south dakota and eastern iowa. I don’t believe we will get that push this year. A rough estimate of sd is 400k around yankton and more to the north. With little or no snow cover these birds are staying and have open water also. Eastern iowa has pretty much the same thing happening.
Maybe one day we will get the weather pattern we used to have 20 years ago. Until then all we can do is enjoy what we do get.
Hope everyone is having a decent year. We have 3 weekends left so good luck everyone.
Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor
delta region 01-07-2013 18:09
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Had a good shoot again. Not as many ducks as the weekend before but we still ended up with a limit saturday and sunday. Most of the ducks we shot were mallards with a few gadwall and teal. Overall duck numbers were lower in our area’s. There seems to be a few more geese around although not in the numbers of years past. Most of the good reports i’m getting are low duck numbers to the north which is north of a line from greenville to greenwood. The reports i’ve gotten from the belzoni area is way up. Another group shot a 12 man limit of mallards with their bonus ducks being pintail, teal and gadwall by belzoni and another group shot a 6 man limit of mallards both days this past weekend. Panther swamp is still red hot along with howard miller. A decent number of ducks have arrived at mahanna but are no where near the numbers of last year. Muscadine farms is still holding birds but they fly out early so hunting is hard after about the first hour. Fighting bayou has very few birds along with six shooter from the reports i’ve gotten. Canada geese numbers have been on the rise from memphis to tupelo. Reports I’m getting our of stuttgart arkansas is no ducks. Everyone is saying they are south of them. I believe most of the mallards are either holding on the rivers or have gone back north. The coast is still holding a good number of small ducks and divers. Mathews break has fair numbers.
I did shoot a banded drake wood duck sunday with a buddy of mine.
With the warm weather we are forcasted we might have somewhat of a reverse migration.
I’m still getting info of big numbers of mallards in south dakota and eastern iowa. I don’t believe we will get that push this year. A rough estimate of sd is 400k around yankton and more to the north. With little or no snow cover these birds are staying and have open water also. Eastern iowa has pretty much the same thing happening.
Maybe one day we will get the weather pattern we used to have 20 years ago. Until then all we can do is enjoy what we do get.
Hope everyone is having a decent year. We have 3 weekends left so good luck everyone.
Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor
delta region 01-07-2013 18:09
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Had a good shoot again. Not as many ducks as the weekend before but we still ended up with a limit saturday and sunday. Most of the ducks we shot were mallards with a few gadwall and teal. Overall duck numbers were lower in our area’s. There seems to be a few more geese around although not in the numbers of years past. Most of the good reports i’m getting are low duck numbers to the north which is north of a line from greenville to greenwood. The reports i’ve gotten from the belzoni area is way up. Another group shot a 12 man limit of mallards with their bonus ducks being pintail, teal and gadwall by belzoni and another group shot a 6 man limit of mallards both days this past weekend. Panther swamp is still red hot along with howard miller. A decent number of ducks have arrived at mahanna but are no where near the numbers of last year. Muscadine farms is still holding birds but they fly out early so hunting is hard after about the first hour. Fighting bayou has very few birds along with six shooter from the reports i’ve gotten. Canada geese numbers have been on the rise from memphis to tupelo. Reports I’m getting our of stuttgart arkansas is no ducks. Everyone is saying they are south of them. I believe most of the mallards are either holding on the rivers or have gone back north. The coast is still holding a good number of small ducks and divers. Mathews break has fair numbers.
I did shoot a banded drake wood duck sunday with a buddy of mine.
With the warm weather we are forcasted we might have somewhat of a reverse migration.
I’m still getting info of big numbers of mallards in south dakota and eastern iowa. I don’t believe we will get that push this year. A rough estimate of sd is 400k around yankton and more to the north. With little or no snow cover these birds are staying and have open water also. Eastern iowa has pretty much the same thing happening.
Maybe one day we will get the weather pattern we used to have 20 years ago. Until then all we can do is enjoy what we do get.
Hope everyone is having a decent year. We have 3 weekends left so good luck everyone.
Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor
rolling fork and central delta region 01-01-2013 13:56
Cloudy, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
Happy New Year!!!!
Ducks are finally arriving. We had a good shoot thursday getting all greenheads and our bonus ducks. Saturday we had a good shoot in the central delta with alot of birds around. Goose numbers are kind of low for this time of year. We had a band taken off a scaup by jeremy c and had a good number of mallards around. Sunday we encountered ice everywhere. We hunted by rolling fork and had a good number of mallards around we got two limits of mallards and a bunch of gadwall. I ended up with a banded greenhead on the last duck of the day. What a way to end the hunt.
Howard Miller has a ton of ducks on it. Mahanna has low bird numbers but are picking up a few. Muscadine farms has alot of birds also. Panther swamp is loaded along with mathews break.
From reports i have received it looks like the ducks are here and will continue to build with every cold front. If the long term weather forecast is right we should have a good late push around the 15th of the month that will give us enough new birds to finish off a good season compared to last year. So far our lease has over 250+ birds. Last year we didn’t even come close to that number and we still have half the season to go.
Hope everyone is having a good season and a safe one.
Mississippi hunters we need to hear some posts from ya!!!
Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor
south and mid delta 12-09-2012 18:29
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – Over 70 Degrees
Hunted sat. saw a low number of ducks and hardly any geese. We did manage a mallard and a few smiling mallards. We only had a few look and very little shooting going on. Howard Miller WMA had decent shooting. Mahanna also had fair duck numbers. Muscadine farms has been hit or miss. If i was hunting public i would choose either Howard miller or panther swamp at this time.
Sunday we hunted the central delta. We managed 5 grey’s 2 eagle headed blue geese and a black barred speck. I saw less birds moving sunday then i have all season. We need a good cold front to hit the upper midwest with snow and lots of it. Also i did see a decent amount of geese from cleveland to just north of belzoni.
From reports i’ve gotten ND has over 250k mallards still and SD has over 800k. I did hear nebraska got a good push today with the cold front that hit the dakota’s but it still hasn’t seen the mother load. With temps supposed to be cold the next couple days might move some of these birds but there is no snow cover.
Not much to report except some rain and hot temps.
I won’t be hunting for a few weeks until the weather cools and we get a push of birds.
Posted By:
Kent-Lacina
Field Editor
mississippi, tenn, ark, missouri, iowa, nebraska 12-03-2012 19:57
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IS THERE ANYONE IN MISSISSIPPI THAT HUNTS WATERFOWL?
I just had to make an emergency trip to omaha nebraska. From driving to nebraska i was at an awe at the low number of waterfowl i witnessed. I started seeing a low amount around jonesboro, ar. and didn’t see a great amount until i arrived in nebraska. I saw a fair amount of ducks between clinton mo. and they picked up bird numbers going north. By the time i hit nebraska i saw a huntable number. All ponds and lakes are wide open with a good amount of birds but only in nebraska. I witnessed a reverse migration by the time i left yesterday coming back to mississippi. I saw a huge flock of snows going north that probably stopped in at squaw creek nwr. Still a good number of canadas around in nebraska but the ducks have went back north from all the warm weather. Every hunter i talked to said the same thing birds going north. I talked to a good friend of mine in south dakota and he said they have a ton of ducks and geese. The weather forcast in omaha had highs in the 50’s with lows in the upper to low 30’s for the next 7 days, no snow and no rain in site. I also saw that most lakes and rivers were very low. As far as snow geese i saw a fair amount just north of little rock and also around jonesboro. Most of the ducks that i saw south of missouri were gadwall, teal, smiling mallards and woodies. I didn’t see a good amount of mallards till i hit iowa and nebraska. With the weather we are forecast to have i don’t see a change, although we should get some rain this week.
As for the delta we had 1 gadwall taken this last weekend. Very few moving. Most of the hunters i’ve talked to have been hit or miss unless it’s wood duck hunting.
Geese are fair in mississippi but all i can tell you is we need a good weather system to drop in and stay for quite awhile from south dakota to southern arkansas.
We are going to try to make a hot weather hunt this weekend so i will report more on our delta next monday.
KL
