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Well it is offical, with all the rain we have had this fall, gathering crops have been set back. I will miss opening weekend of duck season. Looks like I might miss the first week of Dec.
I know ya'll are thinking that Delta Ducks kids will go hungry if he can't bring home the meat. Instead of sending cash, If someone would pay my 17 year olds gas and girl money bill that would be a great help.

All kinding aside, fellows if you have a duck hole that is planted in soybeans, it is a good chance your hole want be ready by opening weekend. I think all the rice is out of the field now. The weather is great for the ducks, but bad for the crop harvest.

One more little detail. The rice fields are loaded with food.

It want be long!!!!

a 17 yr olds' gas and girl bill would take most of my check...make him get them beans out of the field...hehe.

Delta Duck, I am not sure about your hole but we had 500 acres of beans that did not get cut. Since they are now under water they have been chalked up to a total loss and the ducks were already there munching away.

I made a trip from Charleston to Lambert to Crowder and back to Charleston yesterday. I couldn't believe the crops still in the field! I couldn't believe the Ducks either They are lot's of Ducks in the area I just hope they dont keep going south. They have no reason to leave... plenty of water and plenty of food. Should be a better year than the last few.

DD I saw more than one farmer that is in worst shape than you. several cotton fields under water too. Good luck getting the crops out. keep them tires from spinnin!

with all that extra food around, do you think the mallard drakes will have bigger racks this year?

Definitely a year for HEN-N-HEAT lure. With all of that food down on the ground, the competition will be fierce, and you'll need a good attractant to get the ducks to work your spread.

Wingman

DD,
Our farmer still has roughly 500 acres left on our place, Trouble around here is the beans are starting to rot...I was told they needed two weeks of dry weather before they could even consider getting into the fields, I don't see it happening between now and Feb...

All the rice has not been harvested. I still have one 85 acre block that hasn't had a combine in it yet. and it has two duck blinds in it and one field that had so much down rice laying in water that the ducks can walk on a rice carpet(in front of the duck blind, of course) I sure hope we have a better duck season than we have had a harvest season. Of course my main concern isn't going broke...I was born that way!, it is that those greenheads will get too fat to fly and become easy targets...guess I might have to ask everyone to downgrade to a .410 shotgun..they make steel shot for those, don't they?

This rain here should go ahead and put water on everything that is ready for water. I still have about 8 holes that I will not be able to hold water til the crops are out.

By this time next week the fields should be loaded with those ducks with the Greenheads.

Has anyone seen big numbers of Snows and blues in the fields in the
Delta?

I might need some hunters to hunt my duck holes til Dec 10th. Anyone up for the task?

Loop, Don't you guide waterfowl hunts for tips only?

Hey Delta Duck,

All you have to do is call if you need any help getting stuff ready for the season, or guiding after the season starts. School isn't so hard that I couldn't miss a class or two to help a friend out!

MAG

DD, I haven't been on a combine in about 11 years, but I can pull a grain buggy and drive a tractor till the tires fall off. If it dries up and you are short handed on help get up with me and I'll see what I can do to help.

It looks like the guy who leases our land probably will not get his beans off our land. He got them in early and had some of the prettiest plants that were loaded with pods that I have seen in a long time. That ole bottom has been cursed. If we got rain early, it was dry late and vice versa. If it hit just right then the deer tore them up.

they are going to dry feed they will not land in water they will dry feed in our fields they will dy feed they will not land in water they like to dry feed in the mud they will dry feed they will dry feed they will not land in water they will dry feed they will not land in the water they will dry feed in the muddy field they will not land in the water they will dry feed they will not land in the water they will dry feed they will dry feed they will dry feed they will not land in the water they like feeding on muddy ground they will dry feed the crops will be out in just a few more days the crops will be out in a few days the crops will be out in a few days the crops will be out in a few days its looking good now just a few more days just a few more days the crops will be out in a few more days what are you doing with that rope why do you want me by that tree just a few moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

00ducksr., you owe me a pack of BC and a 800mg advil because after I read your post I got one of them mybrain headaches.

wassupwidat anyway

00ducksr slow down alittle. It sounds like you are a little to excited.