Duck Season 2020-2021

[Darren]

Crunched numbers for the season, detailed below. Total was 187 ducks on 31 regular season hunts. Wasn't the highest duck harvest but was the highest number of regular season hunts on my log kept since 2002. Had plenty of slow hunts but also good many memorable ones, especially in the first split.

Fulvous whistlers 1
Pintail 3
mottled 2
grays 69
GW teal 47
BW teal 26
dosgris 17
bufflehead 7
wigeon 3
woodie 2
spoon 8
mallard 2

SPECKS 4

Was great to share the blind with a lot of different people, including a morning each of two of our own on here. 187 ducks on 31 hunts yields an average right about 6 ducks a hunt, down from almost 7 last year but still much better than the abysmal 4.2/hunt of the 2018-2019 season. Much of our success came in the first split where we averaged just under 9 ducks/hunt before a 2nd split that slid to 4 ducks/hunt.........but by all means, keep voting to hunt late into January along the coast. I know plenty of coastal marsh hunters that gave up and just quit going late in season, but had done fairly well in 1st split. No water, no birds, made worse following the (arguably) toughest hurricane season for our coast in recollection.

As mentioned before, got my fill this season, ready for the offseason. I'm sure I'll come around in a couple of months, ready to start scheming on a few ideas we were working on late in this season.

[Johnc]

Interesting only scaup killed and no ring neck ducks

[Darren]

Interesting only scaup killed and no ring neck ducks

Scaup/dosgris love them some salt water open bays by us, we basically never kill a ring neck down that way, occasional redheads though. Go west of a bit toward Terrebonne Parish up in those big open fresh marshes below Houma, and it's some of the highest concentrations of ringers to be had.