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Re: Season Log

Postby Rick » Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:44 pm

Then it's not rice but bean ground, which explains your cuts not being level.
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Re: Season Log

Postby Ericdc » Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:47 pm

Well it was in milo 2014 and rice previously so it’ll do any of them.


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Re: Season Log

Postby Ericdc » Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:49 pm

I’ve seen all 4 of the fields on our farm in rice or beans and saw 2 in milo in 2014.


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Re: Season Log

Postby Rick » Sun Feb 04, 2018 6:01 pm

Perhaps things differ there, but down here beans are too iffy to be much more than a maintenance crop for guys who don't want the bother of cattle on land that's too problematic for rice. That or used in rotation with rice to boost nitrogen on bi-annual rice ground.
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Postby Ericdc » Sun Feb 04, 2018 6:11 pm

It’s different I’m sure. Beans thrive on the ground up here, same with rice.


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Re: Season Log

Postby Rick » Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:31 am

Betcha it's not rice next year.
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Re: Season Log

Postby Ericdc » Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:01 am

Looking at the historical imagery on google earth, it was in rice as recent as 2012, then beans in 13, milo in 14, and beans in 15 16 and last year.

I wouldn’t mind it being in milo again either, that was a good year, but I think weather had a lot more to do with it and weather still does have more to do with it than crop.





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Re: Season Log

Postby Rick » Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:43 am

Sounds like all you need to do to see rice there again is find a way to get rice prices to spike way up. Otherwise, something's keeping it from being "rice ground".
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Re: Season Log

Postby aunt betty » Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:44 am

Ericdc wrote:Looking at the historical imagery on google earth, it was in rice as recent as 2012, then beans in 13, milo in 14, and beans in 15 16 and last year.

I wouldn’t mind it being in milo again either, that was a good year, but I think weather had a lot more to do with it and weather still does have more to do with it than crop.





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Pray they plant beans and it floods the day before they plan to harvest. The year that happened to us was epic.
It was an act of God. A part broke on the combine minutes after the nearest parts store closed on Friday for the weekend.
Legal baited field. We had it checked!
I've heard that it's incredibly stupid to fuck around with a crazy man's head.
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Postby Ericdc » Mon Feb 05, 2018 9:54 am

I would rather not deal with that because I don’t like drama, and I feel like it would get hairy.

I understand what you are saying though, flooded unharvested beans.

But I’m not going to pray for a flooded farm right before harvest so I can have a good hunting season.

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Re: Season Log

Postby aunt betty » Mon Feb 05, 2018 2:36 pm

Ericdc wrote:I would rather not deal with that because I don’t like drama, and I feel like it would get hairy.

I understand what you are saying though, flooded unharvested beans.

But I’m not going to pray for a flooded farm right before harvest so I can have a good hunting season.

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You gotta pretty much get hit by lightning. Once in a lifetime deal there.
Nobody prays for a flood but for some reason it happens about 4 times every duck season in the bayou deview. It's levied all the way to the farm in question so when it floods guess where it all goes. We had to use boats to get to the field. :lol:
Jumping levees is scary.
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Re: Season Log

Postby Lreynolds » Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:31 pm

Thanks very much, Eric, for sharing your hunts here, and through our occasional contact along hwy 27. I wrote a long, whiny paragraph on Rick's log that I'll spare you, but I wanted to say I appreciated the information and perspective I get from seeing your, and others', hunts. I didn't see much or talk at all with Corey this year, but given the complaints from Oak Grove, I'm assuming his marsh lease was poorer than in the past.
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Re: Season Log

Postby Ericdc » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:16 pm

Lreynolds wrote:Thanks very much, Eric, for sharing your hunts here, and through our occasional contact along hwy 27. I wrote a long, whiny paragraph on Rick's log that I'll spare you, but I wanted to say I appreciated the information and perspective I get from seeing your, and others', hunts. I didn't see much or talk at all with Corey this year, but given the complaints from Oak Grove, I'm assuming his marsh lease was poorer than in the past.


Thanks Larry for reading.

I haven’t posted any season totals but our duck numbers were within 2 birds of last year, but species distribution was different. I’ll post numbers today.

As far as Corey’s lease, yea they had a good start but after that it was pretty awful. I had one ok shoot there the day after Christmas.


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Re: Season Log

Postby Ericdc » Tue Feb 06, 2018 5:26 pm

2017-18 season totals

Early speck season
2 hunts
1 speck

Youth hunt

2 mallards
2 scaup
1 shoveler
1 wigeon

1st split

Green winged teal 48
Gadwall 15
Mallards 7
Wigeon 2
Shoveler 5
Scaup 1
Speck 1
Total ducks 78
Total geese 1
Hunts 8

2nd split

Green winged teal 64
Gadwall 24
Pintail 5
Shoveler 8
Mallard 23
Canvasback 1
Wigeon 2
Snow 2
Speck 25
Ducks 125
Geese 27
Hunts 23

Youth hunt part 2
1 hunter
2 green winged teal

Season Totals

Mallards 32
Pintail 6
Gadwall 39
Wigeon 5
Shoveler 14
Green winged teal 116
Canvasback 1
Scaup 3
Specks 27
Snows 2
Total ducks 212
Total geese 29
Total birds 241
Total duck season hunts 31


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Re: Season Log

Postby Ericdc » Tue Feb 06, 2018 5:31 pm

A few notes from season.

We lost 8 or 9 days in early to mid January due to big freeze that are normally prime hunting days for us. This was an area wide issue as birds left for the deep waters of the Mississippi and or pushed to the coast.

I would like to think all those mallards Rick enjoyed the last couple weeks were what we normally shoot in January.

1st year in 4 that mallards weren’t top duck species taken.

New field, which is much larger must be more attractive to the teal, than older field was. For that, I’m thankful. We will do fine on big ducks too.

As far as specks, I believe having a better handle on water level next year will improve our speck numbers.




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