Posted By:
cajunlab
Guest
Atchafalaya Spillway 12-23-2006 01:20
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 60-65 Degrees
Found a hole with hundreds of wood ducks. From 4:15 pm to sunset we were covered up with wood ducks. There were so many that it confused me and my 2 hunting partners as to which one to shoot at. Needless to say we got our limit of wood ducks. It was fast and furious action for fun quick shooting. Agreat hunt to practice and hone my shoting skills. They fly like jet fueled rockets if they do not decoy. We also bagged some redheads and green wing teal earlier that morning. The mallards were few and far between. We got a few stragglers to work, but would not decoy. I am still waiting for the BIG push of mallards in the spillway.
cajunlabman
[Edited By cajunlab on 2006-12-23 01:31]
Posted By:
cajunsorc
Guest
SW La field 12-22-2006 20:03
Cloudy, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
GWT showed up today. 3 people 12 gwt, 5 mallards and 2 pintail. 2 green heads were banded. Geese did not move at all so we left the blind at 8:30. Hope the teal stay around for tomorrow.
Posted By:
Duck enticer
Guest
South Central 12-21-2006 08:35
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 60-65 Degrees
Did pretty good yesterday morning. I Posted pics on the grip and grin bag limits section of this website. Lot’s of geese working.
3 Hunters:
6 Specklebellies
2 Blue Geese ( Immature, Eaglehead)
3 Green Heads
2 Fish Eaters ( Discouraged my buddy, but he still shot them)
31 Snipe ( 4 hunters)
[Edited By Duck enticer on 2006-12-21 08:36]
Posted By:
cajunsorc
Guest
SW La Field 12-21-2006 07:53
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 60-65 Degrees
Hunted Wed morning to about 8 am. Lots of new mallards and pintail. Killed 8 mallards and 2 pintail then watched 4 or 5 bunches of mallards light in the decoys. Plenty of mallards and pintail but where are the gwt?
Posted By:
cajunsorc
Guest
SW La Field 12-19-2006 12:57
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
No fog and not many birds moving either. Killed 11 ducks (mallards and teal) and 6 blues. Saw about 40 bunches of pintail with a few mallards really high heading south which I believe wer new birds coming down. Gonna try again in the morning.
Posted By:
cajunsorc
Guest
SW La Field 12-18-2006 11:51
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Saturday, lots of geese in the area. 17 ducks, 6 specks and a snow by 9. Plenty of mallards and pintail but no teal at all. Only saw 1 gwt all day. Sunday, very foggy managed 1 speck and 5 ducks. Lots of geese moving above the fog. Going to hunt tuesday so hopefully there wont be any fog.
Posted By:
Castille-Hebert
Guest
SW Louisiana 12-18-2006 05:01
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 60-65 Degrees
Terrible way to start the second split, two ducks and two geese and that is it!!! Nothing came close or even looked interested. Didn’t bother to even go Sunday. No water, no ducks, and no geese. Not exactly the start we had hoped for!
Posted By:
draksteps
Web Member
Toledo Bend 12-17-2006 17:26
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 60-65 Degrees
Not to bad for the second half. Warm weather has the knats a mosquitoes buggin. Didnt kill many of them but lots of GWT in the area. Unusual for were we hunt. Killed mostly redheads and cans. They are pretty thick.
[Edited By draksteps on 2006-12-17 17:30]
Posted By:
HuntinforSanity
Guest
NW La 12-15-2006 11:31
Cloudy, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Well I may have to ammend my previously positive statement. I returned to the AGFC and read the updated comments, as of yesterday. It looks like what I thought were migrating ducks were actually newly banded birds. They had just been captured and fitted with transmitters. At least we will be able to follow them from here.
Good Luck Anyway!
Posted By:
HuntinforSanity
Guest
NW La 12-15-2006 11:08
Cloudy, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Boys, I don’t normally get excited about hunting when the weather is this warm but that was before I started watching the Satellite Mallards on the AGFC website.
I pulled the site for the first time on 12-05 hoping that the cold weather would force a push and that this site would show that result, but the furthest duck south was still north of the Arkansas river (central Ark.).Expecting a reverse migration I was surprised 3 days ago when I saw that 2 hens were located due east of Texarkana and another 3 north on the Arkansas river, poised to move down.
I pulled it this morning and the 2 by Texarkana became 4. Migration in 70 degree weather, go figure. They are now moving down the Red River corridor(within a few miles either side). You would have to assume that these previously 2 mallards now 4 represent a much larger group of migrating mallards.
We north Louisianna hunters have found ourselves grasping for any good news over the last 5 years, so hopefully this is some. Tomorrow morning will tell the tale.
Good Luck!
