will this b the big migration this weekend

[quack_a_tack]

Ya wanna kill ducks go to Oklahoma, they gots plenty of them. Me, I am gonna go where I always go, may kill a ton. I may never fire a shot, but I will enjoy it either way.

[Thegeneralms]

I have hunted my current place for the last 4 years. From around Jan 1 thru the youth hunt we always had over 5,000 ducks on the water. With that many ducks on the water there were still days we didn't fire a shot. I say that to say this. I haven't seen more than 1,000 ducks on our place at any given time this season.

I truly believe that all the way down they have had plenty of water and food. With all the crops that were lost in Tunica due to water. It just spread them out. For the 10 or so days that things were froze up we killed LOTS of ducks. But I still wasn't seeing the amount of ducks I was used to seeing that time of year. I hope we kill a few this last weekend, but I don't really think its going to happen.

Hunted Monday morning killed 9,Tuesday 4, Yesterday 1 green head (which might be my last duck of the year).
Deer hunted today and got some meat for the freezer. I plan on Deer hunting Fri and then finishing off my hunting season with duck hunting both sat and sun since they are the only days ever season we are allowed to hunt ducks after noon.

I hope everyone get to close the season with full limits.

[goosebruce]

something must not be the same? If you have hunted during the times you speak of, and before that, when we didnt have any ducks, and before that when they cut the seasons and bags to riduclous amounts because the ducks where in trouble, you'd realize whats different real quick. 13 years in a row of 60 day duck seasons. The longest and latest seasons we've ever had, and a long long stretch of them. There isnt a duck alive that remembers NOT being shot at from sept 1st to feb 1st. Thats whats different. Add to that people are much more readily traveling and hunting more places (more pressure), more people with better stuff and the ever present motos, and a lot of places with 1000's of acres hunted very little or by very few (own private refuges so to speak) that didnt exist 15 years ago, and its a wonder any normal person ever kills a duck. Its why the bad is worst, and the good is better, because everything that used to effect ducks some, effects them more now. travis

[goosebruce]

something must not be the same? If you have hunted during the times you speak of, and before that, when we didnt have any ducks, and before that when they cut the seasons and bags to riduclous amounts because the ducks where in trouble, you'd realize whats different real quick. 13 years in a row of 60 day duck seasons. The longest and latest seasons we've ever had, and a long long stretch of them. There isnt a duck alive that remembers NOT being shot at from sept 1st to feb 1st. Thats whats different. Add to that people are much more readily traveling and hunting more places (more pressure), more people with better stuff and the ever present motos, and a lot of places with 1000's of acres hunted very little or by very few (own private refuges so to speak) that didnt exist 15 years ago, and its a wonder any normal person ever kills a duck. Its why the bad is worst, and the good is better, because everything that used to effect ducks some, effects them more now. travis

[Anatidae]

Here, here! True Dat!

[greenheadgrimreaper]

Amen to that Goose.

[Jeff]

Jeff, I am not a knee booter I know there are ducks . I hunt every weekend and every chance in between. I was just saying there seem to be less ducks every year. You must have never hunted from about 1995 & 2002. It did not matter how damn how cold it was, people in ark and ms were killing ducks.

My first season to hunt was 1979. I have hunted no less than 25 days a year since then and the last 15 years have hunted no less than 35 days a season.

I can tell you from December 1 of this year until the season ended down here our worst hunt was 17 birds for 3 people and our best hunt was four days in a row of 60 ducks with 10 people. We had no shortage of birds down here, and I have seen no less ducks than any other year. I think water up by you all has them spread out all over creation and too many people are saying there is no ducks due to numbers not mother nature which is IMO the ultimate cause of many people having poor seasons.

[Lodi Rebel]

I agree with you goose. I personally don't think duck hunting will ever be what it used to be. It can be a few exceptions-- Lots of money, Hunt with a really good outfitter everyday (lots of money), or drive 650 miles north of here every weekend (lots of money). Come to find out at the end of season you have no family left, no money left, and no pictures to show from it. The later years of the 90's and early 00's Jonh Doe could have killed ducks on the on the family farm pond in the hills. It wasn't ducks here are there, hell everyone in MS had ducks. Duck hunting and being able to see ducks like we did a decade ago seems really grim to me. Hopefully I'm wrong.... Maybe next season will prove me wrong.