Cold Weather

I've seen very few ducks other than local ducks so far in Alabama. I have not even seen the coot I usually see. I hope this cold front brings us some ducks.

Same way down here, Doc. We had a good number of ducks here before the season opened. They have all but disappeared in the last 3 weeks. Still got lots of geese in the area. Maybe this cold snap will help.

There should be some here Wednesday and especially Friday. That front we have coming Friday may give me the urge............

This is one of the reasons we only hunt ducks when they show up and specks the rest of the time. Record year last year and going to bust that number by Christmas this year. Geese are just more reliable and not subject to going back to the ice line like big ducks. plus they really do eat good!

Its still early. It was raining on lake superior yesterday. Having said that it is supposed to be highs in the teens in the dakotas this weekend. There will be a push, just not sure how big.

Doesn't matter. We'll be out there trying to fool them.

My son and I will be on the refuge in Eufaula this wkend.

Gonna be a lot cooler than last wkend.

Good luck everyone.

Gonna leave in the morning headed to Arkansas. Hope the front has pushed some fresh ducks in.

Heading to Reelfoot Friday, fingers crossed.

Leaving for Arkansas Friday night so hopefully we get a good push of birds.

We’re headed to south east Missouri Friday. I think we timed it just right. Good luck to everyone!

Everyone headed out of town to hunt. You suck! That is all. j/k I’m jealous. Good luck!

Glad you killers are headed out of town. More chances locally.

I expect to see pics of some full straps on Monday!

Dr. B

I had a conference in Atlanta all week. I got home last night and knew better than to head out this morning. I like killing ducks, but I like being married better. I hope you guys slayed them.

My Son and his friends killed 33 yesterday morning. All I got to say is, yes they were shy of everyone limiting out. And 2, farm ponds strike again!

Wish I could post some pics of full straps but it was a tough weekend. Ducks were not here but we still had a great time.

. Don't do us like that. I need pics to live vicariously. What species were they shooting? I'm hoping to go Tuesday morning, but I may get lazy and just deer hunt.

3 of us got 14 small ducks Saturday morning. Tried to let my son get his limit but didn’t work out.
His first hunt and it was snowing like crazy with birds everywhere.

Scraped out a couple. Was hoping for a few more with this front, though

I know of 2 groups that hunted in central Alabama this weekend. One in the west one in the east and they got nothing but a few wood duck and a blanket of snow

All Gadwalls. All three ponds had the typical "funk" in them from cow chit runoff. Gadwalls love that.

I hope y'all have water, this is the DRIEST I've ever seen AR. If there was big push of birds they'd have no where to land except dry ground.

I don't think we have gotten many birds yet. I hunted my pond yesterday and did not see any ducks flying. I did see some geese. I can usually hear and see them over the lake from my place and hoping I could draw a few over, but nothing was flying yesterday. I did see a few gadwalls swimming around near the dock when I dropped the boat back off at my house.

I was in NEA this past weekend. Dry, dry, dry. No ducks to speak of.

So does the drought mean that they don't flood the rice fields? Or are you guys talking about the timber being dry?

Only fields that were pumped have water. It’s pretty expensive to pump fields so several are dry. Rivers are low and not at flood stage where we were at. From Harrisburg north we usually pass 40 plus fields with water. May have been 5 total counting the lease.

We hunt right outside of Harrisburg. Haven't talked to them yet or not to see if they got water. They use a large reservoir to flood their fields so I'm guessing they don't have water.