Re: Feds set next year duck limits.
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 9:09 pmBummer on the drop to one pintail
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 9:09 pmRe: Feds set next year duck limits.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 8:13 amGood news on the second black duck. We get tons of blacks here second half.
Re: Feds set next year duck limits.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 8:42 amGotta wonder if this will include Mottle ducks since they are so similar, and most cannot tell apart??
Re: Feds set next year duck limits.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 12:54 pmDeltaman wrote:Gotta wonder if this will include Mottle ducks since they are so similar, and most cannot tell apart??
Our waterfowl biologist says no, and it sounds like we should be thankful to still have 60 days of 1 mottled per.
Re: Feds set next year duck limits.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:50 pmRick wrote:Deltaman wrote:Gotta wonder if this will include Mottle ducks since they are so similar, and most cannot tell apart??
Our waterfowl biologist says no, and it sounds like we should be thankful to still have 60 days of 1 mottled per.
Bummer! Thanks for the feedback Rick.
Hard to believe that the duck population on the West coast is so much greater that they can get 47 add'l days????? I've always been under the impression that it is the Mississippi Flyway that holds the most birds. Seems absurd in comparison, not to mention a 7 duck limit............especially given the population density of people out there.
Re: Feds set next year duck limits.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 4:00 pmThink it's far fewer hunters vs. the hunter density of Louisiana, for example. Could be mistaken
Re: Feds set next year duck limits.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 4:09 pmDeltaman wrote:I've always been under the impression that it is the Mississippi Flyway that holds the most birds.
And wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more hunters.
https://flyways.us/regulations-and-harvest/harvest-trends
The total ducks harvested in the Mississippi flyway is way more than in the Pacific flyway. From the report in the link, 400,000 active hunters and 3 million days of hunting in the Mississippi flyway versus 140,000 active hunters and 0.9 million days of hunting in the Pacific flyway. That's why the longer season and more liberal bag limits.
Mississippi Flyway Harvest by year.
Pacific Flyway Harvest by year.
Re: Feds set next year duck limits.
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 5:38 pmWish I'd photographed some of the hunts I do in Arkansas.
In 2012 there were 4-6 million geeenheads at WMA Echo. Oh God what a sight.
It'd take hours for them all to fly by. Just watching a show like that is awesome and so far I've only seen anything like it in southern Illinois or Arkansas.
The pattern the ducks use there is rather unique. They fly north at sunset, feed all night then come back in the morning.
They fly up to 50 miles out and back daily, sometimes twice a day. (up to 100-mile round-trip)
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In 2012 there were 4-6 million geeenheads at WMA Echo. Oh God what a sight.
It'd take hours for them all to fly by. Just watching a show like that is awesome and so far I've only seen anything like it in southern Illinois or Arkansas.
The pattern the ducks use there is rather unique. They fly north at sunset, feed all night then come back in the morning.
They fly up to 50 miles out and back daily, sometimes twice a day. (up to 100-mile round-trip)
MISS
ISS
IPPI
flyway. YEAH!