DComeaux wrote: The tropics are eerily quiet.
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DComeaux wrote: The tropics are eerily quiet.
BGcorey wrote:Just enough to make the grass grow a litter faster
DComeaux wrote: The tropics are eerily quiet.
We’re still in the early days of 2018 for tropical cyclone formation across the Northern Hemisphere, but so far the balance of power has favored the Eastern Pacific in a big way. The expected arrival of El Niño conditions later this summer and autumn is likely to give a further boost to hurricane generation in the Northeast Pacific, while making it harder for hurricanes to spin up in the Atlantic.
Darren wrote:DComeaux wrote: The tropics are eerily quiet.
The Wishcasters are all bummed about this. I am not.We’re still in the early days of 2018 for tropical cyclone formation across the Northern Hemisphere, but so far the balance of power has favored the Eastern Pacific in a big way. The expected arrival of El Niño conditions later this summer and autumn is likely to give a further boost to hurricane generation in the Northeast Pacific, while making it harder for hurricanes to spin up in the Atlantic.
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Tropi ... erwhelming
Ducaholic wrote:Darren wrote:DComeaux wrote: The tropics are eerily quiet.
The Wishcasters are all bummed about this. I am not.We’re still in the early days of 2018 for tropical cyclone formation across the Northern Hemisphere, but so far the balance of power has favored the Eastern Pacific in a big way. The expected arrival of El Niño conditions later this summer and autumn is likely to give a further boost to hurricane generation in the Northeast Pacific, while making it harder for hurricanes to spin up in the Atlantic.
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Tropi ... erwhelming
August and September always tell the tale as you know.
SpinnerMan wrote:It only takes one and it doesn't have to be that big to make a big fucking mess.
Darren wrote:Ducaholic wrote:Darren wrote:DComeaux wrote: The tropics are eerily quiet.
The Wishcasters are all bummed about this. I am not.We’re still in the early days of 2018 for tropical cyclone formation across the Northern Hemisphere, but so far the balance of power has favored the Eastern Pacific in a big way. The expected arrival of El Niño conditions later this summer and autumn is likely to give a further boost to hurricane generation in the Northeast Pacific, while making it harder for hurricanes to spin up in the Atlantic.
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Tropi ... erwhelming
August and September always tell the tale as you know.
August and Sept are the months for Atlantic Ocean storms coming off of africa. Thankfully that region of the Atlantic is unusually cool right now. Waters for home grown storms are pretty hot though closer to Florida and Carib.
DComeaux wrote:Yeah, I'm a little concerned about water myself, although I did have good news this morning. It seems that the little rain maker that moved into Texas last week either dumped or pushed some water in the marsh. Was told the dry ponds at the refuge now have water, and crabs.
aunt betty wrote:They don't fertilize or anything so sure it's standing corn but pretty bleak almost every year.
johnc wrote:It will turn into an elitist sport. Where for those that have good hunting,money is not an object. They’ll fly to wherever hunt and fly back to home. Or if you don’t have significant money you have a skill set that allows you to hunt where the elites hunt. That’s the only reason I get to hunt NE Arkansas.
I do like putting on a speck show for those who have not seen them work as such. I have been entrusted with a gift and for that I am very thankful.
The common man will get the crumbs and you either will be satisfied or travel to where the birds go now.
Just the way I see it,it’s still good enough down here for me to be content. However the day is coming where,especially in the case of specks,they will be absent just like the Canada goose is. Already very apparent with blues.
Rick wrote:Spent part of this morning listening to guys hammering an ex-Lacassine Refuge manager for ruining our goose hunting by shutting down their feeding program. Used to listen to them hammer her predecessors for holding all the specks. If it ain't one thing, it's another...
Now they can't even afford a manager (and it's kinda spooky going to the nearly empty one-man office), so if the rest of the federal system is in the same shape, the short-stopping theorists have won a major victory.
DComeaux wrote:Read this, from our northern neighbors.
https://www.arkansashunting.net/threads/i%E2%80%99m-worried-about-our-ducks.225449/
johnc wrote:DComeaux wrote:johnc wrote:It will turn into an elitist sport. Where for those that have good hunting,money is not an object. They’ll fly to wherever hunt and fly back to home. Or if you don’t have significant money you have a skill set that allows you to hunt where the elites hunt. That’s the only reason I get to hunt NE Arkansas.
I do like putting on a speck show for those who have not seen them work as such. I have been entrusted with a gift and for that I am very thankful.
The common man will get the crumbs and you either will be satisfied or travel to where the birds go now.
Just the way I see it,it’s still good enough down here for me to be content. However the day is coming where,especially in the case of specks,they will be absent just like the Canada goose is. Already very apparent with blues.
It's depressing to think about this stuff, and that's why I'm involved with the push. I don't want to see the ducks disappear from our state. I hate to think that one day I will no longer be hunting waterfowl down here. A winter without the sights and sounds of fowl would be depressing. It's a sobering thought. One I never thought would enter my mind, being that I live in south Louisiana.
I also never dreamed there would be a time when driving hwy 14 between lacassine bayou and gueydan that you would be hard pressed to find multiple bodies of blues and snows---although last year was a pleasant sight when the geese stayed after that short lived snow event,the ducks left as soon as the warm up hit---but there where blues around for a while
I really cant complain though,we killed specks from the first weekend in November through the last day in February
BUT if i was a duck purist it was a very poor season,so i do see the validity in the serious decline
we should have had mallards as soon as the robins showed---the robins showed but the mallards were absent
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