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Well, I received my lease email yesterday and my first reaction was, I'M DONE!. The base lease amount stayed the same, but there was a 1K tack on for two years. After reading the email and doing a bit of thinking, I decided we're going to take the lease. The email stated that in progress now is a 12.5' foot-wide x 3' tall levee that is being constructed around a large section of neighboring marsh that surrounds our lease. Currently, the patched levee we have is only 3 to 4 feet wide, maybe, and is only 6" above the normal water level, which does nothing for wind-driven high tides.

Our water level has not fluctuated but a few inches up or down since the season ended, which was mainly due to rainfall and is at a perfect level right now. I came to the realization that a 2K contribution for improvement work wasn't much to ask of us considering what I was told some lessors and landowners are shelling out for this work, and their duck lease costs compared to ours. I did, however, lose a blind partner over this deal, but I have an interesting prospect that I'll be speaking with tomorrow.



Now I need to educate the wife.

It ain't cheap. Hope it all works out

Glad to hear you're still in it. Would hate to see you reduced to deer waiting.

Rick wrote:Glad to hear you're still in it. Would hate to see you reduced to deer waiting.

What's really pushing me today is my 18 month old wild animal at home. I must, at the least, give her another season, maybe two. I'm growing tired of what is and has become of duck hunting. The internet (face book) has turned Rockefeller refuge into the mall of America, so that has me staying away from the camp. I'm becoming a disgruntled older person.

DComeaux wrote:What's really pushing me today is my 18 month old wild animal at home. I must, at the least, give her another season, maybe two. I'm growing tired of what is and has become of duck hunting. The internet (face book) has turned Rockefeller refuge into the mall of America, so that has me staying away from the camp. I'm becoming a disgruntled older person.

When I was a much, much younger and at least somewhat dumber soul going through my Capt. Rick phase, I did a piece for the Louisiana Sportsman titled "The Forgotten Coast," or some-such, profiling the uncrowded near-shore fishing between Freshwater City and Camron - then wondered what was going on when I pulled into a jammed parking lot at an otherwise empty Grand Chenier Park. Duh.