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Looks as if the quickly rising Mississippi River will shutdown deer season north of 49 Highway and west of #1 on or about Jan 1. Pretty quickly the rest of the behind the levee hunting in Mississippi will be shutdown as well except for duck hunting. Wondering how the high water is going to affect duck hunting throughout the state?

chance wrote:Looks as if the quickly rising Mississippi River will shutdown deer season north of 49 Highway and west of #1 on or about Jan 1. Pretty quickly the rest of the behind the levee hunting in Mississippi will be shutdown as well except for duck hunting. Wondering how the high water is going to affect duck hunting throughout the state?

You wont be crossing a levee to launch a boat before too long.................so thats soon to be over also!!!
Up toward Memphis/Tunica area.............you better go ahead and get you a good hunt in this weekend.......it may be you last time to launch a boat on the wet side of the levee.

Just wondering what effect all of this water would have on duck hunting. Will the ducks be spread out over a much larger area or shall they remain true to the proven areas they have used so far?

My take on that is there will still be numbers with places that have an imprint but not as much with all the new water and food.. specially with numbers we have now its gona be thin

msbigdawg1234 wrote:My take on that is there will still be numbers with places that have an imprint but not as much with all the new water and food.. specially with numbers we have now its gona be thin

I agree. Whenever the water in the river gets high it opens up new feeding grounds and much of the hunting in the delta goes to crap.

Gonna make for alot of options for very few birds.

Just got home from 3 days in the North Delta; hunted bean fields, brakes and timber and did not fire a shot. Few birds flying to boot.

We need some prolonged ice and snow upriver.