Duck Engr wrote:Good on ya DC. We wood duck hunters appreciate your efforts. Reminds me I need to clean mine out.
DComeaux wrote:I found the mallards. This was the last week or so of the Missouri season for that particular zone, which ended on January 9th. The weather needed to move these heavily imprinted fowl would be a natural disaster type of situation.
Ducaholic wrote:
You right brother! I would just like to see December weather equal this past January's good cold fronts so I could finally ask now what when the survey numbers still pale in comparison to 20 years ago.
DComeaux wrote:I think these birds may flee the north and it's buffets for a short time to escape the severe cold and snow, and leave here once they sense a thaw. We don't have near the handouts as those up north.
Reynolds said. “The same type of white-fronted geese we have here in North America are wintering hundreds of miles farther north in Sweden.”
Another shocker: our wetlands are in a state of disarray. The Gulf of Mexico is continuously dissolving our coastal marsh, with about a third of our wetlands already lost since the 1930s.
At the same time Louisiana’s natural habit declines, our rice production is also dropping, off 30% to 40% from historical highs. While our production declines, agriculture efficiency has improved. Thirty years ago the rice harvest left approximately 400 pounds per acre; today, it’s about 70 pounds per acre. That means there is 20% less waste grain available for foraging waterfowl.
And while Louisiana agriculture is decreasing, the Midwest’s agricultural production is increasing, primarily due to the rise in popularity of ethanol. The corn-producing acreage in the United States has increased by millions of acres over the past 20 years, a scale so large that waste grain can be found on the ground as late as spring.
“Species like snow geese are actually feeding on corn during their spring migration,” Reynolds said.
DComeaux wrote:Ducaholic wrote:
You right brother! I would just like to see December weather equal this past January's good cold fronts so I could finally ask now what when the survey numbers still pale in comparison to 20 years ago.
I've been waiting on the same thing. We had one such winter a few years back and it amounted to nothing. Don't recall the year at the moment. The problem I see is that even if we do get the weather up north for a week or more it will not be sustained. I doubt seriously that we ever had cold winter events up north in our past that lasted the entire season.
I think these birds may flee the north and it's buffets for a short time to escape the severe cold and snow, and leave here once they sense a thaw. We don't have near the handouts as those up north.
Ducaholic wrote:It is what it is!
“In Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois, they had their best year in the last 10 year. They averaged 1.9 ducks per hunter,” Reynolds said.
It’s a stark lesson in perception. Midwestern states’ best average harvest is equal to one of Louisiana’s worst.
SpinnerMan wrote:Ducaholic wrote:It is what it is!
Still far better than almost anywhere else.“In Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois, they had their best year in the last 10 year. They averaged 1.9 ducks per hunter,” Reynolds said.
It’s a stark lesson in perception. Midwestern states’ best average harvest is equal to one of Louisiana’s worst.
Ducaholic wrote:SpinnerMan wrote:Ducaholic wrote:It is what it is!
Still far better than almost anywhere else.“In Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois, they had their best year in the last 10 year. They averaged 1.9 ducks per hunter,” Reynolds said.
It’s a stark lesson in perception. Midwestern states’ best average harvest is equal to one of Louisiana’s worst.
It's all relative and subjective. It is what it is.
SpinnerMan wrote:
If I got a duck a day, I would be as happy as a clam. However, if I had a few years of 3 per day and then dropped to 1.5, I would think it disappointing. I get it.
Deltaman wrote:Don't remember them having any high tech arrows either, seems they used field tips.
Deltaman wrote:Spinner,
Yes, arrows have come a long way over the last 50 years.
Duck Engr wrote:Speaking of, I don’t like the sound of this.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-far ... 022-03-23/
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