Picking up?

[Cabo_51]

Bgoodman30. We can only hunt til 3pm. Sorry I said all day but it's a 3pm cut off

 

[Bgoodman30]

Bgoodman30. We can only hunt til 3pm. Sorry I said all day but it's a 3pm cut off

Smart move.

 

[Levee Jumper]

We have been steady, 30s atleast 2 days a week. Yesterday killed in the 30s and never touch a duck call all day. That's a big factor that's over looked by some people imo ( if your hunting traffic that's different, we are hunting flooded corn ducks are coming to eat). New birds around you can call at them but with as many stale birds that are around, we never touch a call. Just a drake whistle every now and again works great.

No doubt about it, being on the X trumps all. If you are where they want to be you can use a kazoo and a milk jug.

 

[Displaced_Vol]

Hunting the few days I have this year on heavy pressure public it's been frustrating because you've had to get on the call to get a look, but they were impossible to finish. Tried every combination of heavy, light, whistles you name it and you had to pull them down and they would just work you to death and head out. Just stale, stale birds is all I can figure.

 

[Don'tDrinkTinks]

AR duck surveys were released today. It's bad.

 

[PJones]

Hunting is not bad if you can be mobile. But you have to find them and be where they want to be. It's not the best year but IMO it's not the worst.

 

[TAFKAP]

AR duck surveys were released today. It's bad.

I drove from Memphis to the MO Bootheel & back yesterday. Bluebird day, no clouds most of the way. Usually, I can count on seeing ducks in the flooded fields, clouds of geese everywhere, and high-flyers on the move.

Except for a small flock of snows outside West Memphis, there wasn't squat.

 

[Displaced_Vol]

I drove from Memphis to the MO Bootheel & back yesterday. Bluebird day, no clouds most of the way. Usually, I can count on seeing ducks in the flooded fields, clouds of geese everywhere, and high-flyers on the move.

Except for a small flock of snows outside West Memphis, there wasn't squat.

That's depressing.
One of the meteorologists is Lexington does a weather blog and he's been saying we're going to get into a very cold winter pattern starting this weekend and on into February. I don't know if it'll help or not.

 

[Don'tDrinkTinks]

There's talk but according to the surveys are very few mallards to even push down from the storm. MO and Illinois are both reporting very few numbers.

 

[younggun308]

Heard people say there's still a bunch in Canada and upstate New York. Too much open water. Hopefully this polar vortex pushes them out by the end of season.

 

[Displaced_Vol]

This reminds me of last year about this time, the great question where the hell are they? Forbes last survey showed that a lot of ducks moved out of their area which is mid latitude- IL & MO. Already talked about the AR survey, they don't seem to be there... so are they hanging on the gulf coast? Did they push back up north? Last couple years there's been so much water you could at least buy the argument they were spread out all over creation but that's certainly not the case this year. I don't have any answers. I'll keep going whenever I can but I'm not going out of my way or burning a bunch of PTO to get after em.

 

[Displaced_Vol]

Reckon they jumped flyways? Hanging out over in NE, KS & OK? Habitat to pressure ratio has to be better over there than the heart of the MS flyway, no?

 

[Bgoodman30]

This reminds me of last year about this time, the great question where the hell are they? Forbes last survey showed that a lot of ducks moved out of their area which is mid latitude- IL & MO. Already talked about the AR survey, they don't seem to be there... so are they hanging on the gulf coast? Did they push back up north? Last couple years there's been so much water you could at least buy the argument they were spread out all over creation but that's certainly not the case this year. I don't have any answers. I'll keep going whenever I can but I'm not going out of my way or burning a bunch of PTO to get after em.

They are spread out from SEMO to ND. Seasons closed north of us.. This year has been a very strange weather pattern where even though its been average temperatures for us but its been way above average up north. The temps really don't vary that much all they way into the Dakotas. On a typical year the freeze line would be somewhere in MO or even further south. We have had two snows that hit south of us? When can you remember that happening?

It looks like the Dakotas might hit sub zeros end of next week.. Better late than never.

 

[Don'tDrinkTinks]

Reckon they jumped flyways? Hanging out over in NE, KS & OK? Habitat to pressure ratio has to be better over there than the heart of the MS flyway, no?

Oklahoma has been hammering birds this year. That's a very strong possibility

 

[younggun308]

My family's got roots in the Nebraska panhandle. I'm dying to take a trip there to jump aboard the Central Flyway bandwagon after all the reports I've seen this year.
Seems the early season was really good south of the Dakotas because of an early freeze-up in late October. I'm sure most years won't be like that.

 

[Bgoodman30]

After a short window of glory Friday afternoon it all came crashing down again. I saw no indication of new ducks and the ones here are as stale as I have ever seen.. I have come to terms that this season is over and it ain't gonna get better. I guess now I can get those Christmas lights down...

 

[Displaced_Vol]

After a short window of glory Friday afternoon it all came crashing down again. I saw no indication of new ducks and the ones here are as stale as I have ever seen.. I have come to terms that this season is over and it ain't gonna get better. I guess now I can get those Christmas lights down...

The state of this duck season about on par with the state of the Tennessee Football program.