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Just heard speck season will go back to 74 days with a 3 bird limit like the rest of the flyway. I would have been ok with 74 and 2 but I thought 88 days was entirely too long.

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Nov 16 - Dec 8 and Dec 14 - Feb 2.




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I lobbied for 2 and 74, but the commissioners don't listen to me any better than the birds do. At least they set it back to a more sensible opening date, instead of running the birds back to Arkansas - or into the Gulf - as soon as they try to set down in LA.

I would like to see them utilize the zones and if the guys down there would like to have the extra 14 days after duck season, let them have it. Then, for the north zone, put the 14 days on the front end and have speck season close that same day duck season does.

The November days are utilized more up here than the February days.

If things stay how they are on the duck dates, I’ll be able to hunt the coastal opener for the first time in many years because it doesn’t conflict with the youth day in east the east zone.


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Ericdc wrote:The November days are utilized more up here than the February days.

Same down here, which is exactly why I'd rather dates were late than early: less pressure on the birds.

But I suspect the strongest influence was from duck hunters POed about their ducks being run out by early speck hunters.

Found some all drake pintail 6 packs on amazon and ordered a few.


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Are those game winners?

No they are Avery life size


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A reminder that I still need to repaint a couple of my old circa '70s G&H pintail drakes to replace those absolutely hammered this past season.

Rick wrote:A reminder that I still need to repaint a couple of my old circa '70s G&H pintail drakes to replace those absolutely hammered this past season.

I have some of these same Avery’s going on 10 seasons now. What hasn’t been shot have held up real well, the paint too.


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I'm sure I've at least a couple dozen old GHG pintails put up with the rest of what I've held onto just in case I find myself wanting to scatter decoys over 20 acres of rice again, but the G&H sprig are sentimental favorites left over from my very first spread. (They and the teal are all that remain of it. Though neither's paint held up like G&H mallards of that period, both my standard and over-sized mallards all either split or, in the case of the latter's hens, the keels broke. Didn't come close to living the legend that seems to have grown up around them.)

Yea. I never bought g & h strictly because of price. They are expensive but they are very nice decoys.

I heard they are having business troubles, remember reading it somewhere.


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Ericdc wrote:Yea. I never bought g & h strictly because of price. They are expensive but they are very nice decoys.

I heard they are having business troubles, remember reading it somewhere.


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Makes sense. Their decoys last too long.

Duck Engr wrote:

Ericdc wrote:Yea. I never bought g & h strictly because of price. They are expensive but they are very nice decoys.

I heard they are having business troubles, remember reading it somewhere.


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Makes sense. Their decoys last too long.

That is a shame. I assume they would hold up well to 74 days of sitting in a flooded field and not fade.


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Great find Eric!

Ericdc wrote:Found some all drake pintail 6 packs on amazon and ordered a few.


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Mind dropping a link to those? This decoy-whore can always use more decoys.

http://www.prairiewinddecoys.com/p/1333 ... y-outdoors

http://www.cutemdownwaterfowl.com/produ ... 1-2-dozen/



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Thank you sir

Shared this on Facebook and I’ll share here.


Attention Louisiana east zone hunters:

We will not be able to hunt specks from December 14th through the 20th, which is our first 7 days of the 2nd split of duck season.

The coastal and west zones duck and speck seasons will not have this issue.

the commission voted to reject an amendment adopted at its March meeting altering the light geese and white-fronted geese hunting season.

The season will, as originally scheduled, run 88 days with a daily limit of two birds. The first split will be from Nov. 2-Dec. 8, 2019 with the second split set for Dec. 21, 2019-Feb. 9, 2020 . These splits are good for the North and South zones.

Options were


Commission still doing what they want and only hearing what they want to hear.
2015 hunter survey




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The commission is lost in time and space, no news, that. But Arkansas speck hunters should be happy.

Our current East Zone Season should mimic the hunting dates Arkansas utilizes as closely as possible.

In the future if the USFWS agrees to allow multiple splits and zones in a given state our East Zone season should match Arkansas's.

One of the commissioners told me a couple months ago that he anticipates a future return to something like the old East and West Zones, sans Coastal. But whether that comes about or what dates we'll see within seems to depend mostly on whim...

Rick wrote:One of the commissioners told me a couple months ago that he anticipates a future return to something like the old East and West Zones, sans Coastal. But whether that comes about or what dates we'll see within seems to depend mostly on whim...

I hope they do, nothing was wrong with it.


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Rick wrote:One of the commissioners told me a couple months ago that he anticipates a future return to something like the old East and West Zones, sans Coastal. But whether that comes about or what dates we'll see within seems to depend mostly on whim...

LR told me the same so there has been discussion on the matter. Just as soon go back East West the current commission refuses to allow staggered start and split dates for all 3 zones to allow the hunters that want to zone hop to do so.

Also the thought process and selling point for multiple zones was if we ever went to restricted seasons we could hunt more days with 3 zones. Well the current commission has other ideas as they usually do.

How does one attain this “commission” title

These are not elected officials correct?

Johnc wrote:How does one attain this “commission” title

These are not elected officials correct?

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/louisiana- ... sheries-co


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Ducaholic wrote:In the future if the USFWS agrees to allow multiple splits and zones in a given state our East Zone season should match Arkansas's.

I'm confused, you have 3 zones with split seasons. I wish Illinois would do that. We had three zones, no splits. Now they fought and got a fourth zone, but still no splits. I really wish we had split seasons even if it meant just two zones. Some years the early ducks are gone before the season opens and the late ducks don't show until the season is over.

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Ducaholic wrote:In the future if the USFWS agrees to allow multiple splits and zones in a given state our East Zone season should match Arkansas's.

I'm confused, you have 3 zones with split seasons. I wish Illinois would do that. We had three zones, no splits. Now they fought and got a fourth zone, but still no splits. I really wish we had split seasons even if it meant just two zones. Some years the early ducks are gone before the season opens and the late ducks don't show until the season is over.

About 5 years ago the USFWS amended their rules to allow for more than two zones with a split season. At that time La. went from two zones to three zones with a single split in each zone.

Now the USFWS is considering the two zone option with multiple splits meaning more than one. That won't be a possibility until the 2020 season if I am not mistaken.

Pretty sure the zones and splits were locked in for five years, but don't recall when the current period began.

Rick wrote:Pretty sure the zones and splits were locked in for five years, but don't recall when the current period began.

Correct and I think this is the last year of the 5.