Posted By:
Duck enticer
Guest
Crowley,LA (Rice Capital) 10-20-2008 11:55
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Working on the boat this past weekend outside I saw about 4-6 Good flocks of Specks.
When I saw the first flock I rushed inside to tell my wife about the news. She saw the hysterical look on my face when I walked through the door and thought something was wrong…..She was like “What, What, What’s wrong!”. I said “Babe, I just saw the first flock of geese of the year”. She then looked at me really unamused and went back to her regularly scheduled programming.
Even if she is not excited, Iam.
Posted By:
chasseur
Guest
SW LA 10-19-2008 12:01
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Specks and big ducks are showing up on the heels of this front. Finally some cool weather.
Posted By:
cajunsorc
Guest
SW La 10-16-2008 12:09
– – Over 70 Degrees
I’ve been down in Cameron Parish a couple of times in the few weeks and it doesn’t look good for the marshes. All the vegetation is dead and it smells horrible. Ive seen a total of 6 birds in the marshes off 27 from Hackberry aroung through Cameron back up to Cameron Prairie HQTRS in 5 trips. The rice fields just north of Cameron Prairie HQTRS have good numbers of teal, spoonbill, pintail and a few greys. My fields North of Welsh also have good numbers of teal, pintail, spoonbill and a large number of mottle ducks that we normally don’t have. After Rita, we had an exceptional year and looks like we are set up for another good year this year.
Posted By:
vinrouge
Web Member
Above and Below Lake Pontchartrain 10-07-2008 21:09
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Did not hunt but checked out lease on the north shore and saw two wood ducks. That was all. Tide was up but did not notice much vegetation in the water. Area not much changed in the storms.
At the lease out of Delacroix, several mottled ducks but nothing else. Much more open water as a result of two recent storms. Tide up, did not notice vegetation but the marsh seems more burned than on the north shore.
Posted By:
Castille-Hebert
Guest
SW La. 10-06-2008 06:53
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – Over 70 Degrees
Went to out lease Friday. Far more damage to vegetation than with Rita. Water standing 1 foot or more higher than Rita’s surge. Most of the native grasses are dying. Plenty of teal with a few pintails in the cut over rice fields in our area. One buddy said that he had seen some specks south of our field. Water has that nasty stench. Hopefully some rain will dilute the standing water.
Posted By:
Castille-Hebert
Guest
Sw La 09-18-2008 07:26
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 60-65 Degrees
Couple of buddies of mine have been killing limits of teal in Sweetlake. Water is still up in most areas down here. I imagine most commercial clubs are struggling to reopen. The saltwater surge has damaged the freshwater marshes again, this time 3 or 4 feet of water higher than Rita. Haven’t made it to our main hunting area but I’m sure to water is still covering everything.
Posted By:
chasseur
Guest
SW LA 08-22-2008 10:23
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Make that 22 days fellas! It has been a wet couple of weeks and the marsh is beautiful! Looking forward to some A.M. teal and P.M. dove come mid-September.
Posted By:
Duck enticer
Guest
Teal Capital of the World 07-18-2008 09:32
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – Over 70 Degrees
Teal season coming up! 57 More days!
Posted By:
Duck enticer
Guest
Louisiana 01-31-2008 11:38
Arctic Blast – Over 70 Degrees
Well hunting season has come to a close, I have heard bad reports from some and good from others.Personally we had a really good hunting season,not only in numbers, but in friendships established. I met a lot of good people and had a great time with them. I look forward to getting to know some more of you on the forum.
Fishing season is coming up and I will be doing plenty of it, so if anyone is interested shoot me a pm. Mostly flats fishing for Reds, look at the pics posted from our trips in the fishing forum.
This is a recap of the season:
I made 15 hunts this year, mostly weekends. 14 of them were made on public land, 1 was made on private land.
Of the 14 hunts we made on Public land we bagged 217 ducks.
168 Gadwall(77%)
15 Widgeons(7%)
12 Mallards(6%)
9 Green Winged Teal(4%)
6 Mottled ducks(3%)
3 Pintail(1%)
3 Spoonbills A.K.A. Pond Inspector, Angelina Jolie, Hollywood, Spoons, etc…….(1%)
1 Blue wing teal (trace)
Percentages are rounded…..
We had 42 Hunters total on those 14 trips which when divided by the total number of ducks comes out to 5.17 ducks per hunter per trip.
We lost a lot this year, need a lab badly. Example: Last weekend we hunted both Saturday and Sunday. We killed our limits both days, when the hunt was done went to pick up our ducks and only found 12 on Saturday (3 hunters) and 11 on Sunday (3 hunters)!
The numbers posted above are skewed somewhat because of our hesitancy to shoot Teal and spoonies. We really didn’t have to shoot teal this year, only did when the hunting was not so good.
On the one private hunt that I made this year we killed one spoonie. The hunting was slow, but it was a chance to meet an outstanding individual.
[Edited By Duck enticer on 2008-01-31 11:40]
Posted By:
hstep
WFC Sponsor
01-23-2008 10:10
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I was in Ark. in December with “Hammertime Guide Service” (Charles Snapp}. They have implemented rest ponds all around their pits and do pretty good I guess, but the problem I saw was that as the ducks began to raft in the rest ponds the pits didnt shoot that much. Granted the mornings were allright before the rafting began. I think its a good idea if the food supply is there to keep the birds in the area. If you pile numbers of ducks in an area with no one messing with them the food wont last long.
I dont really know what the solution is, all I know is the second half of the season was a waste of money for me.
Anyone know were I might find a lease down in the Lake Charles -Sulpher area?
