New KS/MO duck numbers

[imported_admin]

Missouri

• FOUNTAIN GROVE: 20,000 ducks (mostly mallards); about 200 Canada geese. Hunting has been fair. Some ice. From Dec. 8-13, 360 hunters took 465 ducks.

• SWAN LAKE: 40,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 60,000 snow geese.

• SQUAW CREEK: 104,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 10,000 geese (mostly snows and blues).

• BOB BROWN: 34,500 ducks (85 percent mallards). Hunting has been good. One-quarter inch of ice on marshes.

• GRAND PASS: 90,000 ducks (mostly mallards). Hunting has been good. Heavy hunting pressure. On Monday, 96 hunters took 268 ducks and 2 geese.

• FOUR RIVERS: 93,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 15,000 geese (mostly snows and blues). Hunting has been good. Some ice.

• MONTROSE: 7,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 21,000 snow geese. Hunting has been fair. Light hunting pressure.

• SCHELL-OSAGE: 18,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 25,000 snow geese; 1,000 Canada geese. Hunting has been fair. From Dec. 8 to Dec. 13, 212 hunters took 353 ducks.

• SMITHVILLE: Low numbers of ducks. Hunting has been poor.

• OTTER SLOUGH: 26,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 54,000 snow geese. Hunting has been fair. Moderate hunting pressure.

• DUCK CREEK: 11,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 55 Canada geese. Hunting has been poor.

Kansas

• CHEYENNE BOTTOMS: Less than 4,000 ducks; 10,000 to 30,000 geese. Hunting has been poor.

• MARAIS DES CYGNES: 25,000 ducks (mostly mallards). Hunting has been poor to fair. Season harvest total as of Dec. 12: 2,129 hunters had taken 3,034 ducks.

• NEOSHO: 26,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 2,100 geese (mostly snows and blues). Hunting has been fair.

• FLINT HILLS: 7,700 ducks (80 percent mallards); 1,200 geese. Hunting has been fair.

• PERRY: 1,750 ducks (mostly mallards). Hunting has been poor to fair.

• MILFORD: 6,000 ducks (mostly mallards). Hunting has been poor. Ducks are using the main lake and are hard to decoy.

• QUIVIRA: 27,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 810,000 geese (300,000 snows, 260,000 whitefront, 250,000 Canadas). One whooping crane still in the area. Call refuge for up-to-date information on whether the area is open to hunting.

• MELVERN: Less than 300 mallards. Hunting has been fair.

• CLINTON: 1,750 ducks (mostly mallards); 4,500 geese (mostly snows and blues). Hunting has been fair. Thin ice on the wetlands.

• HILLSDALE: 150 ducks (mostly mallards). Hunting has been fair.

• GLEN ELDER: 5,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 25,000 geese (mostly snows and blues). Goose hunting has been fair to good; duck hunting has been poor to fair.

• McPHERSON VALLEY: Less than 300 ducks (mostly mallards); 100 Canada geese. Hunting has been poor to fair.

• JAMESTOWN: 650 ducks (mix of species); 450 geese (mostly snows). Hunting has been poor.

[KRT]

Need to see these #'s decline so we can head West

[2thDoc]

fair number of ducks for the hunting to be "fair to poor." maybe they need a rapid influx of SC boys to show them how its done.

[Mergie Master]

Those numbers haven't changed a lot since the last post on the 9th. That means those birds are getting harder and harder to effectively hunt. The longer the same birds stay in the same area the smarter they get in relation to where and how not to get shot at.