Saw plenty of ducks again this evening.

If you have food and water you wlll have ducks- maybe not as many for the guides- but hammering out a limit or 2 is very doable most of the time- that is if u can shoot

FWIW - http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2016/06/this_duck_season_wont_be_what.html

That article certainly allowed himself an out so far as "Painting himself into a corner". I think he suffocated the article with "Maybe" and "If".

I think thats what they teach in journalism classes these days...long gone are the days of sticking to facts

"Things could still turn around a bit, but we're getting late, so I wouldn't go much above average production in my predictions at this point," he said.

Seems dire. Glad I did not buy all that gear from garrett.

I will let you guys that have been chasing ducks a lot longer than I have debate what the season will be like due to the conditions. I don't have the history you guys have. I just saw the article and thought I would pass it along. Any day I get to hunt or fish sure beats the heck out of what I do everyday.

Fortunately this wont affect most, as they really don't shoot that many ducks to begin with.

It would sure surprise me. The 2017 season dates and bag limit has already been proposed, set, and approved. Done deal.

Last year was some what different slow and not many birds

All doom and gloom. Talk to people that live in the pothole region. I have several buds in NW NoDak and all the little ponds are still pretty full. A little low but still producing great numbers. It'll take months til they're dry even if they get 0 rain, and by then the ducks will just move to bigger ponds. It'll be another great season guys, no worries

I was thinking that too, until I realized how much more water we had last season than the previous. It was definitely much harder to find the X.

http://www.deltawaterfowl.org/news/news....r-nesting-ducks


Thats not mucho rain in the last 60 days.

La nina is replacing el nino this year:

For fall and winter it generally means dry and mild in texas, arkansas, Louisiana and oklahoma.
Kansas, nebraska, dakotas should be wetter and much colder.
I guess tons of ducks will be very content in kansas and northern oklahoma this season.
A huntingtrip to kansas is booked.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/us-la-nina-forecast-fall-winter-2016-2017/58306249

I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction.

If you suck at killing ducks you won't kill ducks.

If you don't suck you will kill ducks.

If you buy your ducks you'll continue to do that as well.

Your getting close to the notify button

That map isn't accurate



Yep

Yes I would have to say that's a loose use of the word maintained.

That about sums it up!

When you stay on the public X like I do to ensure a gentlemens hunt there is no time for cleaning guns

I have never seen something so simple as duck hunting tried to be turned into rocket science except here. Ducks get up in the morning and are hungry! From LST until about 8 they are flying around looking to eat. From around then until noon they are looking for loafing and drinking water. From around 1 to 5 they are looking to eat and loaf again, before dark they look for one last drink before they go roost. If your scouting look for dirty water if you want to hunt in the morning, that means ducks are feeding. If the water is clear they are loafing or drinking. Scouting is scouting weather your in a boat or pickup, your still moving and looking for ducks and signes of ducks the same way.
You can't forecast the weather tomorrow yet alone what ducks will do 6 months from now!
If I had a dollar every time I heard it was going be a bad season I would have a custome boat and just billfish. Every season has its challenges and you have to adapt.
Tarpon run starts in a few weeks. See you in the fall

I heard this is gonna be the worse tarpon run in a decade due to the weather in Florida being so mild. Then you have that other nonsense in Louisiana not helping.