Rick wrote:Do they not migrate that far down the East Coast, Bud?
Rick wrote:Lagniappe Feel like the cat that screwed a skunk: haven't had all I want, but have had all I can stand.
Bud wrote:Harder to kill than our local mottleds most of the time.
Duck Engr wrote:Rick wrote:Lagniappe Feel like the cat that screwed a skunk: haven't had all I want, but have had all I can stand.
First time I’ve heard that saying, and burst out laughing when I read it.
Rick wrote:...... and then sat and watched empty sky for the hour or so it took Marsh to start prodding me with his nose. He was bone dry, vested and aired a good while at boat house before we set out, so his apparent discomfort wasn't physical. Pretty sure he was trying to tell me he'd had enough, as had I, so we called it a season.
Deltaman wrote:Rick,
Thank You again, for including us in your Mudhole duck season reports! They are something I look forward to reading daily, and have been healing ointment for the wound created by our bare skies locally. We still have a week left, and maybe, just maybe, this hard front will actually bring a few new arrivals.
DComeaux wrote:Her marking skills amazes me at times.
Darren wrote:"no ducks in Louisiana"
but "too many mallards"
We are so confused down here
Rick wrote:Now we know the secret to tolling what's left: just pour the feed to 'em in a place with zero pressure of any sort.
DComeaux wrote:Rick wrote:Now we know the secret to tolling what's left: just pour the feed to 'em in a place with zero pressure of any sort.
Really not a secret. Mix up a 55 gallon drum of horse and mule sweet feed with molasses and corn and pour it along the edges of your pond. All you'd need is a dip net, so I'm told.
DComeaux wrote:Really not a secret. Mix up a 55 gallon drum of horse and mule sweet feed with molasses and corn and pour it along the edges of your pond. All you'd need is a dip net, so I'm told.
Rick wrote:DComeaux wrote:Really not a secret. Mix up a 55 gallon drum of horse and mule sweet feed with molasses and corn and pour it along the edges of your pond. All you'd need is a dip net, so I'm told.
Not too many years back, a Thornwell friend lamented about the birds ignoring a September teal pond he had behind his place, while being thick on a neighboring leased pond, and I joked "Horse and Mule." Then, a few days later, a cousin who farms that neighboring land showed up at his shop wondering how the heck a couple of empty Horse and Mule sacks ended up in one of his fields.
Horse and Mule, of course, has its own molasses, but a local fellow who entertained corporate clients at his camp decide to up the ante by having one of his guides pour five five-gallon buckets of molasses in the flooded rice field he hunted, That guide was of a kind that happily complied with his instructions, but he wasn't so happy about having to hunt the spot after a hard northern blew in that night, "Looked just like a root beer float."
(Sure wish I could type that the way he said it.)
Re: the band and transmitter party, we generated the most help I've ever seen at one, Paul fired the net before it might be too loaded, and we finished up in a much timelier manner than the last catch. I seem to have a knack for pulling banded "recaptures" and had my third for this fall's four efforts to date. Heard it was one of two this time but neither confirmed that or asked if it was one of ours.
Didn't ask what our total was, either, but doubt it beat the last venture's 154(?). No geese of any sort this time, but a fair number of miscellaneous ducks, with wigeon leading that count, a few pins (only one hen to transmitter), spoons and grays, and (I think) single mottled, green-wing and ringneck ducks. Pretty sure everyone but me photographed the banded spoons.
They're all drying and warming out of the weather in a shed with heaters, and I'll soon be off to help load and release them when the sun comes up.
Rick wrote:DComeaux wrote:Really not a secret. Mix up a 55 gallon drum of horse and mule sweet feed with molasses and corn and pour it along the edges of your pond. All you'd need is a dip net, so I'm told.
Not too many years back, a Thornwell friend lamented about the birds ignoring a September teal pond he had behind his place, while being thick on a neighboring leased pond, and I joked "Horse and Mule." Then, a few days later, a cousin who farms that neighboring land showed up at his shop wondering how the heck a couple of empty Horse and Mule sacks ended up in one of his fields.
Horse and Mule, of course, has its own molasses, but a local fellow who entertained corporate clients at his camp decide to up the ante by having one of his guides pour five five-gallon buckets of molasses in the flooded rice field he hunted, That guide was of a kind that happily complied with his instructions, but he wasn't so happy about having to hunt the spot after a hard northern blew in that night, "Looked just like a root beer float."
(Sure wish I could type that the way he said it.)
Rick wrote:Re: the band and transmitter party, we generated the most help I've ever seen at one, Paul fired the net before it might be too loaded, and we finished up in a much timelier manner than the last catch. I seem to have a knack for pulling banded "recaptures" and had my third for this fall's four efforts to date. Heard it was one of two this time but neither confirmed that or asked if it was one of ours.
Didn't ask what our total was, either, but doubt it beat the last venture's 154(?). No geese of any sort this time, but a fair number of miscellaneous ducks, with wigeon leading that count, a few pins (only one hen to transmitter), spoons and grays, and (I think) single mottled, green-wing and ringneck ducks. Pretty sure everyone but me photographed the banded spoons.
They're all drying and warming out of the weather in a shed with heaters, and I'll soon be off to help load and release them when the sun comes up.
SpinnerMan wrote:DComeaux wrote:Rick wrote:Now we know the secret to tolling what's left: just pour the feed to 'em in a place with zero pressure of any sort.
Really not a secret. Mix up a 55 gallon drum of horse and mule sweet feed with molasses and corn and pour it along the edges of your pond. All you'd need is a dip net, so I'm told.
They can smell it all the way from their flooded cornfield in Missouri
Sorry couldn't resist
Deltaman wrote:Good on you for giving back Rick
DComeaux wrote:Years back I heard of many fowl taking to a certain sugarcane bagasse pit near a mill. I'm sure it's the same today.
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