297 Days

**ceddy** · 02-01-2023, 11:07 AM

297 days from today until we get to do it again. Blessing and a curse when it ends like it did yesterday afternoon. Ready to go again today but I don't think my body would let me. Time to start training the new puppy and getting gear ready for the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Hope everyone had a great season and learned a lot this year. I consider the end of duck season as my actual New Year so how about we actually discuss ducks more on a duck hunting forum this year?

To start, what will be the short term effects on hunting the AGFC lands where they are heavily thinning dead/dying trees? It needs to happen, we did the inventory of Bayou Meto several years ago and I saw what the water was doing to the trees, same as several other WMA's but how will all that brushy vegetation that will flourish with open canopy change the hunting? A different WMA is set to thin by almost half the trees. Long term it will help the ducks, will they also use the additional cover provided by scrub vegetation?

**swampknob** · 02-01-2023, 11:25 AM

Didn't really hit flood stage out there all season....today it will. Hopefully it doesn't stay above flood until july/august like it has in past years.

**Coot_Commander** · 02-01-2023, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by ceddy

297 days from today until we get to do it again. Blessing and a curse when it ends like it did yesterday afternoon. Ready to go again today but I don't think my body would let me. Time to start training the new puppy and getting gear ready for the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Hope everyone had a great season and learned a lot this year. I consider the end of duck season as my actual New Year so how about we actually discuss ducks more on a duck hunting forum this year?

To start, what will be the short term effects on hunting the AGFC lands where they are heavily thinning dead/dying trees? It needs to happen, we did the inventory of Bayou Meto several years ago and I saw what the water was doing to the trees, same as several other WMA's but how will all that brushy vegetation that will flourish with open canopy change the hunting? A different WMA is set to thin by almost half the trees. Long term it will help the ducks, will they also use the additional cover provided by scrub vegetation?

I know that feeling,my degenerative disc caused me to miss out this season.i hope i can go this next season God willing.But until then,ill just watch and enjoy ducks at my local ponds.

**willyworm** · 02-01-2023, 03:00 PM

I got 2 more days to hunt. Fat lady ain't sang just yet...

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**JABIII** · 02-01-2023, 03:05 PM

Only have to set aside 4 bucks a day between then and now to get some new waders. Tell the wife to start drinking Folgers and kick Starbucks to the curb...

**FEETDOWN** · 02-01-2023, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by JABIII

Only have to set aside 4 bucks a day between then and now to get some new waders. Tell the wife to start drinking Folgers and kick Starbucks to the curb...

You can get a helluva deal on used ones right now. The flat billers are having to pay off the credik card bills and are liquidating the shitka and the cheney stuff on the FB pages

**Quack07** · 02-01-2023, 03:51 PM

No joke. They are everywhere for sale

**FEETDOWN** · 02-01-2023, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by Quack07

No joke. They are everywhere for sale

“Like new, only worn on 5 hunts”

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**JABIII** · 02-01-2023, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by FEETDOWN

You can get a helluva deal on used ones right now. The flat billers are having to pay off the credik card bills and are liquidating the shitka and the cheney stuff on the FB pages

Same as it ever was...

**ceddy** · 02-01-2023, 04:55 PM

My personal favorite is the boats listed for 5-10k more than they are worth. Just because you beat the crap out of it and dented the hull all season doesn't make it worth gold.

**ceddy** · 02-01-2023, 05:11 PM

One thing I noticed this year is the true problem with public land hunting. It isn't the OOS hunters, they are for the most part better than the in-state guys I've been around. The only arguments I got in this year were with locals. It's the young crowd that doesn't respect the birds they hunt and the Dr. Duck crowd that is showing them that way. Their father's don't hunt or showed them the same ways so they follow the crowd. Kill a pile at all cost, don't worry about decoying them. Tree topping ducks, holding a bunch of holes to have your pick just before shooting time, not respecting other groups around you when calling, and my personal favorite...throwing your birds in a ditch or logging deck when you finish taking your pile pics. I've got pics of dead birds on our properties that will make any of you sick and are wonderful ammo for the anti-hunting crowd. The disrespect of fellow hunters, the land, and the birds they are hunting is alarming.