Marsh Bear wrote:We worked in the marsh all day Saturday. No big jobs just a lot of little things need fixing. We repaired 2 blinds, fertilized around all the blinds, pumped water out of all the blinds, put a little more seawall material around 3 blinds.
Our water is about normal for us, which is a lot lower than it has been the past few years, and the marsh grass is responding. The tall grass we plant around our blinds is not as tall as in the past, but enough for us to hide.
We saw 1 group of blue wing teal - about 50. Did not see 1 Mottled duck the whole day.
Marsh Bear wrote: Did not see 1 Mottled duck the whole day.
DComeaux wrote:Marsh Bear wrote: Did not see 1 Mottled duck the whole day.
I'm pretty sure they're all in Rockefeller Refuge.
Marsh Bear wrote:After reviewing the 2018-2019 Duck population survey looks like we won't need many shot shells this year.
The survey shows Gadwall are down 31% and teal are down 18% - last year gadwall and teal accounted for 77% of our birds killed.
I think cooking, watching football and drinking will be the main reasons to go to the camp this year.
Marsh Bear wrote:After reviewing the 2018-2019 Duck population survey looks like we won't need many shot shells this year.
The survey shows Gadwall are down 31% and teal are down 18% - last year gadwall and teal accounted for 77% of our birds killed.
I think cooking, watching football and drinking will be the main reasons to go to the camp this year.
Marsh Bear wrote:22 days until Teal season
This time in 3 weeks I will be at the camp.
I did not have a very good hunting season last year due to my shoulder, so I am looking forward to this one with a little more excitement.
Marsh Bear wrote:Went to the camp Saturday afternoon. Joey and I made some steps for the dogs to get over the seawalls at the blinds. We built them Saturday and put them in place Sunday.
Water, water everywhere our marsh is up over a foot, all the islands are under water - not good.
We had pumped out our blinds 3 weeks ago thinking that would do it for teal season - wrong, looks like we will go out Friday morning and pump them again.
Teal report - no teal. We saw a total of 10 teal
Opening weekend looks more like eating, drinking, and watching football
Marsh Bear wrote:On Ducks Unlimited website they have a migration map with reports from hunters. There were 2 reports from Gueydan on 9/11/18 one report said there will be more hunters than teal on Saturday, the other report said there were 10,000 blue wing teal in the Gueydan area - I think this guy was on some hallucinogenic drugs
I am not very optimistic about our chances for a good teal hunt this weekend
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