Duck Engr wrote:Wow, that’s sad.
Darren wrote:Though the La Waterfowl Alliance was far shorter lived...
Rick wrote:Darren wrote:Though the La Waterfowl Alliance was far shorter lived...
As was the circa '80s Louisiana Waterfowl Association.
Rick wrote:There's another flooded corn jab in there, but, of course, the long term prognosis is grim. How could it be otherwise?
Rick wrote:We greedy commercializers have been the only thing allowing a whole lot of folks, who'd otherwise have had to put their interest in the birds behind them, to indulge their love of waterfowling for quite a while now, Dave.
Darren wrote:Rick I likewise think the guiding community is serving a key (positive!!) role in today's waterfowl scene in doing just what you said, allowing some without the time, money, or other means to chase the birds on their own to get their fix a time or three per season. That can undoubtedly lead to some getting bit with the bug to get their own place and go more frequently.
I think Dave's reference to commercialization of the resource is largely with regard to the massive uptick in people doing videos (or TV shows), creating/selling new brands, etc. etc. etc. that capitalize on hunting success, with significant ripple effects throughout the industry. Bigger, fancier lodges (that still cannot guarantee birds on straps), selling of the "experience" beyond strapping birds.......looking good doing it, for all of social media to experience with you.
Darren wrote:I think Dave's reference to commercialization of the resource is largely with regard to the massive uptick in people doing videos (or TV shows), creating/selling new brands, etc. etc. etc. that capitalize on hunting success, with significant ripple effects throughout the industry. Bigger, fancier lodges (that still cannot guarantee birds on straps), selling of the "experience" beyond strapping birds.......looking good doing it, for all of social media to experience with you.
DComeaux wrote:I've received a couple of teal videos over the weekend from a local down near our marsh. He's doing blind work at a few different properties in the area. It seems the usual manged places have quite a few, and all we can hope for are a few refuges fleeing the onslaught. The only problem is, those hunters finish very early and leave, allowing those to pour back in..... Nothing wrong with that.
Our other blinds in our marsh saw nothing while at the blinds on Saturday. We had no work as we'll not be hunting our blind so I stayed home. We'll launch the boat Friday evening and put out the decoys and spinners on Saturday morning.
Rick wrote:Darren wrote:I think Dave's reference to commercialization of the resource is largely with regard to the massive uptick in people doing videos (or TV shows), creating/selling new brands, etc. etc. etc. that capitalize on hunting success, with significant ripple effects throughout the industry. Bigger, fancier lodges (that still cannot guarantee birds on straps), selling of the "experience" beyond strapping birds.......looking good doing it, for all of social media to experience with you.
I'd bet a pair of dressed specks to spent shell that hunters got bent out of shape when they learned Phillip Olt had pressed that first 78 record with calling instructions. Hell, probably when he and others started mass producing calls.
Darren wrote:DComeaux wrote:I've received a couple of teal videos over the weekend from a local down near our marsh. He's doing blind work at a few different properties in the area. It seems the usual manged places have quite a few, and all we can hope for are a few refuges fleeing the onslaught. The only problem is, those hunters finish very early and leave, allowing those to pour back in..... Nothing wrong with that.
Our other blinds in our marsh saw nothing while at the blinds on Saturday. We had no work as we'll not be hunting our blind so I stayed home. We'll launch the boat Friday evening and put out the decoys and spinners on Saturday morning.
It's all about whats simmering on the stove friday night and Sat night.
Im having a hard time talking myself out of another shrimp and crab stew if I've got time to catch a few crabs on Friday.
ive been wondering when this was going to come out. About timeDComeaux wrote:Where are the ducks? "State of Waterfowl" an Xpress Outdoors series, presented by Grosse Savanne Lodge. Coming September 16th.
Rick wrote:[quote="DComeaux"...presented by Grosse Savanne Lodge...There go those damned commercializers...
DComeaux wrote:The whole lot of em.
It appears to me that their main concern and reason for doing these videos is losing the feed. I'll try to keep an open mind when watching these series of videos. I and most regular Joe's have nothing to lose but the ducks themselves.
Rick wrote:DComeaux wrote:The whole lot of em.
It appears to me that their main concern and reason for doing these videos is losing the feed. I'll try to keep an open mind when watching these series of videos. I and most regular Joe's have nothing to lose but the ducks themselves.
The bind the resource is in now is nothing compared to where it would be in today's world without commercial value.
Darren wrote:Really look forward to that series. Again I'd caution getting too wild with our claims following the 2018 season, though I'm sure that drove a ton of the discussion since it was fresh on the minds when this series was filmed.
DComeaux wrote:Darren wrote:Really look forward to that series. Again I'd caution getting too wild with our claims following the 2018 season, though I'm sure that drove a ton of the discussion since it was fresh on the minds when this series was filmed.
I have a pretty good idea of what will be said in those clips just from the teaser. I think I've heard it all over the last couple of years, and I'm fairly certain that the 2018-2019 Louisiana harvest numbers weren't published when it started.
Darren wrote:DComeaux wrote:Darren wrote:Really look forward to that series. Again I'd caution getting too wild with our claims following the 2018 season, though I'm sure that drove a ton of the discussion since it was fresh on the minds when this series was filmed.
I have a pretty good idea of what will be said in those clips just from the teaser. I think I've heard it all over the last couple of years, and I'm fairly certain that the 2018-2019 Louisiana harvest numbers weren't published when it started.
So they won't be able to point out that despite such a junk season, Louisiana killed 200,000 more ducks than the Missouri folk so many want to blame?
DComeaux wrote:Darren wrote:DComeaux wrote:Darren wrote:Really look forward to that series. Again I'd caution getting too wild with our claims following the 2018 season, though I'm sure that drove a ton of the discussion since it was fresh on the minds when this series was filmed.
I have a pretty good idea of what will be said in those clips just from the teaser. I think I've heard it all over the last couple of years, and I'm fairly certain that the 2018-2019 Louisiana harvest numbers weren't published when it started.
So they won't be able to point out that despite such a junk season, Louisiana killed 200,000 more ducks than the Missouri folk so many want to blame?
We should take more than the northern states during the winter! We're at the bottom of the migration corridor. The issue is those numbers are slipping, regardless. There is a disturbance in the universe. I liken this to wealth distribution. Everyone trying to get a chunk by any means necessary.
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 11 guests