When Is The Best Time To Book A Guided Duck Hunt In The South?

Posted on May 31, 2016, 11:57 am
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This is one of the most common questions I answer to potential clients. When is the best time to come duck hunt in the southern part of the Mississippi Flyway? There is only one way to answer this question. It is by facts and data. I try to keep thorough records each year from ducks taken, where they were taken, weather, moon, and wind. By keeping track of all these things, it gives you a better odds in the coming years to have more successful hunts under the same conditions. If there were a perfect day or week to come duck hunting in the deep south, I would say the perfect time would be from December 18- Jan 15 each year. If your guide can find dates in those days and you can also, thoise are the most successful dates I have had over twenty years of hunting everyday. What about before or after those dates?

What if you can’t work those dates out? Which would I prefer? I think the odds are better in your favor in the latter dates just because ducks do what ducks do. They come south for the winter, but I have had some of the best ducks hunts of my life in the early parts of duck season. The ducks are not call or decoy shy, but the probability of fewer ducks is greater.

Rocky Leflore

Mossy Island Outfitters 

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