2015-2016 Season

Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Sat Nov 14, 2015 2:55 pm

11/14/2015
Clear few clouds Temp in the 50's NE wind 10-15
Blake, Justin and I
Birds- 7 --- 3 gadwall 1 wegion 3 mallards

Not many birds in the area but did see some large flocks just south working some fields. Shooting was back on track as what came in went down. Nice morning in the blind... very enjoyable morning.

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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Sun Nov 15, 2015 1:20 pm

DComeaux wrote:11/14/2015
Clear few clouds Temp in the 50's NE wind 10-15
Blake, Justin and I
Birds- 8 --- 3 gadwall 1 wegion 3 mallards 1 mottled

Not many birds in the area but did see some large flocks just south working some fields. Shooting was back on track as what came in went down. Nice morning in the blind... very enjoyable morning.


Edit to add the mottled duck
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Sun Nov 15, 2015 1:24 pm

11/15/2015
few high clouds Temp in the 50's NE wind 5-10
Blake and I
Birds- 3 --- 2 spoons and 1 mallard

I hope the next fronts bring us some birds.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:45 pm

11/18/2015

Overcat to clear Temp upper 50'S NO DAMN WIND

Blake, Justin and me

Birds- 4 - 3 gadwall 1 spoon

A lot of big bunches seen this morning but they didn't want to play. We were able to get there attention and have them work us but never commit. We watched a lot work fields around us and do the same. They'd climb back up and get back on their way. The amount of ducks seen was encouraging and hopefully we get a little wind to work with in the near future
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Wed Nov 18, 2015 7:58 pm

Wow! I typed that on my cell phone without my cheaters. After looking at the weather forecast tonight I think my time is better served at work for the next two days. My son and nephew will be out there so I'll know what missed, if anything.

A group of whooping cranes have been residing in a field just to our south. We get to hear their shrills in the mornings and get a couple of flybys during the hunt. Pretty neat!
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:06 am

11/19/2015

Clear Temp 50'S No wind

Blake, Justin and Bill

Birds- 2 - 1 wegion 1 spoon

Nothing moving.
I sure hope the front coming through this weekend does us some good. My confidence level is waning, really bad.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby Rick » Thu Nov 19, 2015 4:57 pm

Caught a bunch of indigent squatters camping on your piece this afternoon and was going to run them off, but it turned out they had me outgunned.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Thu Nov 19, 2015 5:04 pm

Yeah, They're happy campers.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Fri Nov 20, 2015 8:19 am

They guys didn't hunt this morning and are sitting around a fire. There is absolutely nothing moving. They hear an occasional goose, and that's it. I have never seen it like this at this time of the season at our place. I'm seriously considering heading to the marsh in the morning to catch some red fish. I really doubt that even with the front coming through at mid day tomorrow that it will do anything for us in the morning, and it would need to have a lot of birds with it, "GRAND PASSAGE", to really make a difference for Sunday.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Sun Nov 22, 2015 2:27 pm

11/21/2015

Low overcast- thunder - light and heavy rain - Winds SE 5-10 Shifting to NW - Temp upper 50's

Blake, Justin and I

Birds- 7- 6 green wing 1 blue wing

A good number of birds around, we just couldn't get em to finish.

Bill with the birds. Blake had left his rain coat at home and was soaked to the bone and just a bit chilled. He had to head to the truck a little early.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Sun Nov 22, 2015 3:07 pm

11/22/2015

Clear temp lower 40's wind 15-25 gusty- Brrr!

Blake, bill and I

Birds- 2- gadwall

Pretty disappointed with the lack of birds in the area, very few seen this morning. Specks are still not settled in the area and the numbers are not what they've been in past years, yet. Seems the blue and snows made a big push overnight. We witnessed a familiar site of a black horizon to the south over some awesome properties. They'd rise every so often and flocks would peal off and head north over us. Next outing will be on Thanksgiving morn, my birthday hunt :D My intentions were to hunt tomorrow and Tuesday but I really don't want to sit out there to watch ibis fly by, just not feeling it.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby Rick » Tue Nov 24, 2015 7:35 pm

Saw lots of trafficking specks, high and low, at your place in midday, but nothing working nearer than down by the Gueydan ditch. Found the pump battery dead, but charged it and got water moving a bit ago. (Pup and I took the "Holy crap!" walk back to the middle drain pipe, followed the drain ditch back to the pump and saw that your blind would be under again if it had been left open. But that east end is in serious need of relief.)

Saw but a pair of mallards near the east blind, a little wad of coots back by the pipe and a half dozen mottleds in your south cut. Didn't see pecans moving anywhere en route when I went back to crank the pump at sunset.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Tue Nov 24, 2015 9:50 pm

Thanks Rick!

Yeah, we have a whole bunch of water that needs to come off of that place. Ellie is just about having to swim. It was just a couple of inches from the top of the blind Saturday morning and with the pump running overnight it had dropped a good bit. Until, or if, the water ever goes down on the outside that pump is our only hope. I wish I were closer to tend to it. With the speck numbers coming up I'd sure like to get it down to make the place a little more attractive, and I'd get to use my flocked decoys rather than those floaters. That would take quite a few days of pumping, though.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby Rick » Wed Nov 25, 2015 5:16 am

DComeaux wrote:I wish I were closer to tend to it. With the speck numbers coming up I'd sure like to get it down to make the place a little more attractive, and I'd get to use my flocked decoys rather than those floaters. That would take quite a few days of pumping, though.


Perfect water control is a pipe dream (I kill me), but it's going to take quite a while just to get the east water down off what's left of the center road, and that's all got to go past you. So I'm just trying to get the pump-off ditch down to where it won't be backing over your boards while getting that end some relief. Not sure where that puts your FB, which I'd think have to be on some sort of stake extensions, anyway. (Know I used 6-8' sections of metal conduit to make my speck FBs look like they were standing in shallow water at my first marsh blind, and would do so at the Mudhole if it weren't so small that the lack of windy day boat control forbids it.)
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Thu Nov 26, 2015 12:34 pm

11/26/2015

Partly cloudy SSE wind 10-15 temp 68

Blake, Justin, David and I

Birds- SCRATCH

Didn't even think about shooting. I'm going to the marsh to try my luck on red fish and crabs tomorrow.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:05 pm

11/29/2015

Partly cloudy none to light SSE wind Temp upper 60's

Solo hunt

Birds- 1 GW teal

Fair amount of duck sound and activity just before LST but it didn't amount to a hill of beans.The one group of GW that I heard land was all the opportunity I had.Water level is perfect in the cuts. Fair amount of specks and blues in the area this morning as well, they're just not ready to play.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:55 pm

Observation:

I've always traveled the back roads in and out of the Gueydan area over the years and lately have really noticed the increase of set aside property and old rice fields now grazing cattle. There is a big farm in my travels that had a DU sign posted at the road some years back designating it as a waterfowl project. Every year, without fail, the geese and ducks would cover this area well into spring, and I do believe imprinting was established.

On my last trip through this area, which was just a few days ago, I noticed a flock of geese leaving this area climbing up to cruising altitude. After closer inspection, the used to be large holding pond, which was quite a few acres, was now rowed and planted in sugar cane. I got a sinking feeling in my gut as I drove on by. The rice hunting in SW LA has seen better days, that's for sure! I'm just not seeing the birds in the usual places for this time of year, and some of those places are no longer......
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby Rick » Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:47 pm

Just got back from your place and saw zero ducks moving anywhere in the kind of off and on spitty rain that usually stirs them. Cheery news, huh?

Also found the pump out of fuel (after gauging and finding it should be OK for a while just a couple days ago) and went snorkeling without a snorkel to get the flow through the east pipe largely abated. Something's jammed in the pipe, and I doubt the board I found by it is wide enough. Will have to revisit that mess later but was as miserable as I wished to be without having the wherewithal to close it properly. Might be the best compromise as is for now, anyway. (Not looking forward to telling Doug the fuel boogeyman has struck again and more is needed, but will do so after another camp crisis settles out tomorrow.)

On a happier note, I'm warm and dry again.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Mon Nov 30, 2015 4:37 pm

Well that's pretty crappy, except for the you being "warm and dry" part. With the snorkeling you had to do I'd doubt that their water level has dropped much, has it?

We really need a BIG push, arctic blast, freeze em all very soon.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby Rick » Mon Nov 30, 2015 5:34 pm

Their water's down off the road but still well above where it should be. Likely still backed up on the far east end of the farm, so there's a lot of acreage to lower.

And, yes, something sure needs to change duckwise. While a few are doing pretty well in the Thornwell rice, they're staying late in the morning to get them "between 9 and 11" a friend who owns a premier farm told me. And most are struggling unless blessed with specks. Have to wonder if what we're seeing isn't the new normal.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Mon Nov 30, 2015 8:47 pm

Have to wonder if what we're seeing isn't the new normal.


OOF! I hope not, but that thought has had me looking south. May not be covered up every hunt but it is more consistent if you're in the right area. I'm not looking for limits on every hunt.

I had an offer in Chenier that I passed up in late October because I was involved with my current place. Could kick myself in the ass right now. I thought I had too much invested in our current place to gear up again for the marsh. I should have at least took the offer to ride out and look at the blind and paid for it just to hold it, if it was right. The cost was minimal compared to my current situation. The only thing holding me to where we are currently are the specks, but it's a slow start.

If our water level's the same as Yesterday I'm going to put out the FB specks and stay late this weekend. We'll see what happens.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby Rick » Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:01 pm

Finally remembered to snap a shot of this monument to the season that you guys placed on your lease:
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:48 pm

HAHAHAHAHAHAA! Thats for getting to blind in the morning cramp relief on a comfortable throne.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:59 pm

12/5/2015

Clear upper 30's wind none to light from the NE

Blake and I

Birds- Scratch

Might have seen 15 ducks all morning, and that's probably stretching it. Few specks around but nothing settled around us as they have in the past, yet. I'm done today with the first split but Blake will drag some unsuspecting soul out for an Ibis and black bird viewing tomorrow. We really need a good hunt or two to pull me out of this funk....so discouraging.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby Darren » Sat Dec 05, 2015 6:35 pm

Bummer to hear of the birds not showing, same would have likely been the case in my home marsh based on what I (didn't) see on our scout trip yesterday afternoon. Folks we talked to at the launch this morning also didn't do much. The birds that are here seem to be fairly concentrated.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby Rick » Sat Dec 05, 2015 6:40 pm

Talked to Dave's neighbors early this afternoon, and they told me it's been better in the afternoons. Still stinks but not quite as bad.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Sun Dec 06, 2015 12:30 am

Rick wrote:Talked to Dave's neighbors early this afternoon, and they told me it's been better in the afternoons. Still stinks but not quite as bad.



Got a text from them after the evening hunt today, they scratched. They had been taking a couple in the evenings, it just wasn't enough to motivate me into making evening hunts.

I took the wife out to one of the casinos tonight. That went as well as my duck hunts of late. :lol:
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Sun Dec 06, 2015 12:15 pm

12/6/2015

Clear temp in the 40's no wind

Blake and Wesley

Birds- Scratch

Just a couple of flocks of duck seen and the goose numbers are low. They did have a group of (4) Canada's fly over.
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby DComeaux » Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:00 pm

Blake got a report from a guy that hunted the Whiteville area this weekend and they were covered up with bluewing....BLUEWING! Limits came fast on these both mornings and from what I understand they've been hanging around on that farm for a while. Migration delay seems to be extreme. What the heck is going on?
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Re: 2015-2016 Season

Postby Rick » Mon Dec 07, 2015 5:06 am

Fellow we pick eggs on in Pecan Island posted six bluewings yesterday afternoon on another board, too. We had none yesterday but ended the first split with sixty-seven bluewings, which is a Mudhole record for my time there. Were just eighteen last year, but we have had a high bluewing season or two in the past.
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