Just wanted to check base with the waterfowlers and see how this season has been so far.

This has been the worst first split I've ever seen since I started waterfowl hunting about 15 years ago.

Has not been very good for me, but I hunt a fraction of time that I used to. I used to burn all my vacation days hunting and scouting, now I burn them all snow skiing. I used to take a whole week off several times a season and scout/hunt every day, so I was always on the birds. Now I’m pretty much relegated to the weekends.

Seems like the last few years smart weed is not growing on area lakes like in years past, that’s not good.

Had a decent opener. After that it has slowly dropped off. Prolly my worse year in the last 10 years I'd say. There just not many birds down here yet.

I hunt in southeast Texas and this year has been a story of the haves and the have nots. Properties are either beating the brakes off of the ducks and have been the majority of the season or they are having the worst season in recent memory. I am between some guys that are hammering them and public hunting area and have had decent hunting. Definitely not as good as last year.

It’s been ok, I’ve guided for an outfitter a few times and that has been interesting.










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Its been one of the worst years I can remember. I hunt Private and have the habitat. Although we are droughty and not near the water we normally have, but we have the food. Its been really slow.

Horrible sums it up. I have killed birds ,but numbers I see are way down & if you aren't on the X , you probably won't fire a shot.

We have been fortunate on our leases the last few years in SE Louisiana. We shoot 80% teal where we are but a duck is a duck is a duck. I know that going in but the days of shooting gadwall, wigeons in the bunches are over for now. What is good to report many hunters near me have done well also for the first time in a decade. So, overall on the east bank of the Mississippi River it has been a good year so far. Numbers will begin to decline until the end of the season. We hunt on.

We got a bonus two weeks ago, a real nice marsh buck. 12 point

I'd say its been a good season so far. Public a couple days during the week and private on weekends, (really just a Saturday) But its been a lot of work. Scouting and getting up early to be on the hole. Mallards have been good to us so far this season. We think January is going to be a blast!

Hunting 40% less, but hunts for 2-3 guns has been very good. Wigeons and gadwall dominating harvest. Big groups of teal showing up now near Red. Got gadwalls in wetland finally in VanZandt Co- typical mid December it picks up here - limits or few ducks shy- not seeing many ringers this year but enough to juice numbers. We haven’t shot any divers except for 3 red head limits last week

Good to hear but not good to hear. Can echo the sentiment of worst season since….. I can’t even remember.

I really think that a large portion of Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma (central and western areas of these states) being dry for several years has shifted a number or ducks east into the Mississippi flyway. Obviously there are a ton of other variables but the most consistent hunting I have had in Kansas and Oklahoma has been on the eastern side of the states and when I see the maps of where GPS tracked birds are going the majority seem to be getting to Kansas City and then sliding east further and the most west they seem to get is about on line with Tulsa.

AWESOME DEER BY THE WAY!