Introduction/Pre-Season

[Ducaholic]

And you accused me of being wordy when I started mine last year haha.

Glad the weevils are working. Looking forward to being down there September 15.

When will y'all start de-wasping blinds?


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Wait a minute you gonna take off to hunt opening morning of teal...

Since we didn't take a vacation this year, yea I have several more vac days left for the fall than normal.


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I figured you would find a way...

[Throbbin Rods]

Welcome aboard!

[Rick]

As if that would have done so during his tenure there.

[Ericdc]

field was soggy but birds stuck around after Harvey


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Really surprised after all the rain. Was it all burned like normal?


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[DukMan]

Now are you guys shooting different kinds of Doves down there? We shoot nothing but Mourning Doves up here... you guys have White wings or Collard Doves down there or just Mourning like us?

[Ericdc]

Now are you guys shooting different kinds of Doves down there? We shoot nothing but Mourning Doves up here... you guys have White wings or Collard Doves down there or just Mourning like us?

White wings have started showing up in SW Louisiana, but that field is in the piney woods and is all mourning doves. Eurasian doves pretty common in farming areas or urban areas.


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[Ducaholic]

Killed all three types this past weekend in Bordelonville.

[SpinnerMan]

Now are you guys shooting different kinds of Doves down there? We shoot nothing but Mourning Doves up here... you guys have White wings or Collard Doves down there or just Mourning like us?

Give it time, they will come your way. There are some Eurasian Collared Doves near where I live that I see quite often.

[Rick]

White-wings are apparently attracted to my homers and have been see around them for the past few years and nested in my front oak this summer.

[aunt betty]

Them teal birds are up here still so y'all may as well hang up your guns.
They're not feathered up very good. Could hardly tell if they were GWT or BWT. It was almost dark.
I THINK they were bwt. So many of them. Too many to count.
Did not see one goose. Drove about 6 miles on the lake.

[aunt betty]

I love hunting squirrels but only hunt opening morning every year just because I hate cleaning them. Mosquitoes are worse in the woods versus the marsh


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The Squirrel Commander. You've been betty-tagged and it might stick.

[Rick]

I'd think it the long periods of exceptionally high water the past couple years are what's set a lot of the cane back. Know it is thin and sickly everywhere in our marsh except at my blind, where it stood out like a desert oasis until I knocked it back with poison to match the patches around it.

Did you see many ducks?

[DComeaux]

Nice way to start.... Other than the guys on our place, we didn't hear or see of much else. I know the guys hunting north of our camp didn't fare as well as we did.

[Deltaman]

I'd think it the long periods of exceptionally high water the past couple years are what's set a lot of the cane back. Know it is thin and sickly everywhere in our marsh except at my blind, where it stood out like a desert oasis until I knocked it back with poison to match the patches around it.

Did you see many ducks?

I heard that there was something killing the Roseau in the marsh South of Venice too, and noticed a white mold like substance on some of the canes we were hunting from, and wondered if it was what was killing it????

[Darren]

I'd think it the long periods of exceptionally high water the past couple years are what's set a lot of the cane back. Know it is thin and sickly everywhere in our marsh except at my blind, where it stood out like a desert oasis until I knocked it back with poison to match the patches around it.

Did you see many ducks?

I heard that there was something killing the Roseau in the marsh South of Venice too, and noticed a white mold like substance on some of the canes we were hunting from, and wondered if it was what was killing it????

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/news/41050

mealy bug/scale

[Deltaman]

I'd think it the long periods of exceptionally high water the past couple years are what's set a lot of the cane back. Know it is thin and sickly everywhere in our marsh except at my blind, where it stood out like a desert oasis until I knocked it back with poison to match the patches around it.

Did you see many ducks?

I heard that there was something killing the Roseau in the marsh South of Venice too, and noticed a white mold like substance on some of the canes we were hunting from, and wondered if it was what was killing it????

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/news/41050

mealy bug/scale

Thanks Darren, that appears to be what I was seeing. The canes seemed to be alive and well, but gotta wonder what the summer will bring since that is the peak of damage.