aunt betty wrote:I always prayed hard that they'd harvest before the first Saturday in November which did not always happen.
Spinner tell them why I wanted the corn down by that day. Should be obvious.
Rick wrote:Whistling ducks have been conspicuously sparse in my spring and summer travels to date. But I finally ran into a couple mixed groups this morning, each numbering in the dozens, and got to work quite a few within gimme range by chattering on the Montana Lite that's part of the dog whistle string that lives in my pocket year around. Not nearly so neat as getting to work any early of our early migrants, but some fun, all the same.
(And nice to see they haven't all abandoned us for someone's flooded corn. Yet.)
DComeaux wrote: Geese
DComeaux wrote:Now I know it's getting close...
LDWF Accepting Applications for 2018 White Lake WCA Lottery Teal Hunts
June 22, 2018 - The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is accepting applications for the 2018 lottery teal hunts on the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area (WCA) in Vermilion Parish through July 25.
Available hunting dates include Saturday, Sept. 15; Sunday, Sept. 16; Tuesday, Sept. 18; Thursday, Sept. 20; Saturday, Sept. 22; Sunday, Sept. 23; Wednesday, Sept. 26; Saturday, Sept. 29, and Sunday, Sept. 30.
Anyone 18 years of age or older can apply. Only one application per hunter will be accepted. Applications are available on the LDWF web site at http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/refuge/lot ... plications or by writing to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Attention: White Lake Teal Hunt, 2000 Quail Drive, Room 418, Baton Rouge, LA 70808.
Completed applications must be received by close of business on July 25, 2018. A $5 non-refundable administration fee in the form of a check or money order made payable to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries must accompany each application. No cash will be accepted.
Each applicant who is selected will be allowed to bring one additional hunter as a guest. All hunters must have appropriate licenses, including a basic hunting license (or Louisiana Sportsman's Paradise license), a Louisiana duck license, federal duck stamp and HIP permit.
Successful applicants will be notified by mail and required to submit an additional check or money order for $250 per hunt party. Applications are non-transferrable.
For more information on White Lake WCA teal season lottery hunts, contact Wayne Sweeney at 337-536-9400, ext. 1, or wsweeney@wlf.la.gov .
Darren wrote:DComeaux wrote:Now I know it's getting close...
LDWF Accepting Applications for 2018 White Lake WCA Lottery Teal Hunts
June 22, 2018 - The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is accepting applications for the 2018 lottery teal hunts on the White Lake Wetlands Conservation Area (WCA) in Vermilion Parish through July 25.
Available hunting dates include Saturday, Sept. 15; Sunday, Sept. 16; Tuesday, Sept. 18; Thursday, Sept. 20; Saturday, Sept. 22; Sunday, Sept. 23; Wednesday, Sept. 26; Saturday, Sept. 29, and Sunday, Sept. 30.
Anyone 18 years of age or older can apply. Only one application per hunter will be accepted. Applications are available on the LDWF web site at http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/refuge/lot ... plications or by writing to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Attention: White Lake Teal Hunt, 2000 Quail Drive, Room 418, Baton Rouge, LA 70808.
Completed applications must be received by close of business on July 25, 2018. A $5 non-refundable administration fee in the form of a check or money order made payable to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries must accompany each application. No cash will be accepted.
Each applicant who is selected will be allowed to bring one additional hunter as a guest. All hunters must have appropriate licenses, including a basic hunting license (or Louisiana Sportsman's Paradise license), a Louisiana duck license, federal duck stamp and HIP permit.
Successful applicants will be notified by mail and required to submit an additional check or money order for $250 per hunt party. Applications are non-transferrable.
For more information on White Lake WCA teal season lottery hunts, contact Wayne Sweeney at 337-536-9400, ext. 1, or wsweeney@wlf.la.gov .
Really want to go some time to the White Lake marsh just for the experience. Haven't had luck in a while applying for anything at white lake, whereas for a stretch there it seemed a friend or myself got picked a few years in a row
Rick wrote:Dave, we're still waiting for your new and improved baiting law that will help more than it hurts.
DComeaux wrote:All BS aside, I'm really anxious to see how this falls migration unfolds. Even after the last few years results, I'm glad I haven't lost that feeling..... ANTICIPATION ....... Although it's a bit watered down from years past.
DComeaux wrote:Rick wrote:Dave, we're still waiting for your new and improved baiting law that will help more than it hurts.
It'll be a while yet. If you want to be assured of good duck shoots this season, head a north few states and find a watery, standing corn field.
All BS aside, I'm really anxious to see how this falls migration unfolds. Even after the last few years results, I'm glad I haven't lost that feeling..... ANTICIPATION ....... Although it's a bit watered down from years past.
Rick wrote:Our wigeon must be stacked up in the flooded corn, too, Darren. One morning in the early to mid '90s, five of us shot 14 drake wigeon to get them four perfect footballs with sweet sprigs and clean caps and masks for mounting. Last season we shot 3 wigeon
Darren wrote:DComeaux wrote:Rick wrote:Dave, we're still waiting for your new and improved baiting law that will help more than it hurts.
It'll be a while yet. If you want to be assured of good duck shoots this season, head a north few states and find a watery, standing corn field.
All BS aside, I'm really anxious to see how this falls migration unfolds. Even after the last few years results, I'm glad I haven't lost that feeling..... ANTICIPATION ....... Although it's a bit watered down from years past.
The standing corn thing, I believe, has the most impact on mallards. Nearly every video I've seen of birds standing on ice eating corn, or swimming amongst it consists of......yep mallards. As a result, I subscribe more to the premise of "These are not our birds!" The alleged corn catastrophe is not stopping green wings, grays (at least not to the degree of the mallards), spoons, dosgris, ringers, etc. which are all common Louisiana species. In SE La, we hardly see a mallard save for a few select areas, so most over that way just shrug and say "aint my birds anyway". I realize for some others in S. La, the mallard IS their bird and thus they have a stake in whatever it is that may be holding them up, but for the majority, the mallard is not a bread and butter duck. It may routinely make the strap, but it's not the only species on there.
The proliferation of just better managed habitat up and down the flyway, regardless of what's planted or left untilled or whatever, is likely contributing to slowing progress of normal migration of a variety of species. Hence I hope for dry flyway conditions each year. Those who can flood will always do it, but no need in flooding other stuff offering more (and likely unpressured) habitat for birds to hang on thanks only to Mama Nature. I know on a local level, when it rains a whole lot in our state alone, birds scatter to unpressured waters and hunting deteriorates quick. Birds still came, they're still HERE, they're just all over the damn place. There has been more than one recent season with Larry's surveys saying the numbers are here, but yet everyone's bitchin'! Scattered here there and everywhere.
You need to toss a lil more fuel on that spark you're getting for teal season; sky hasn't fallen and there will be blue wings whippin' over the spinners in just a couple months. I applaud the passion to pursue a fight on all of this, but not without also enjoying how dang good we, yes, STILL have it down here.
Rick wrote:DComeaux wrote:All BS aside, I'm really anxious to see how this falls migration unfolds. Even after the last few years results, I'm glad I haven't lost that feeling..... ANTICIPATION ....... Although it's a bit watered down from years past.
Drought's taken a lot of the wind out of my sails by setting back my marshscaping plans and maybe nixing them altogether. That, plus weeding in much of the open areas I might have drawn birds from, anyway. Might well whack much of our season, altogether, before it's over, depending on our rich neighbor's situation. Has me in the awkward position of hoping for weather at a time of year when I should be hoping against it.
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