DComeaux wrote:The marsh has been good to us this year so far.
Shrimp and crab stew.
Looks legit, DC. I was inspired by your stews to start doing my own, thanks for that, been awesome. Goin with a gumbo for opener-eve on friday.
DComeaux wrote:The marsh has been good to us this year so far.
Shrimp and crab stew.
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Deltaman wrote:Thanks for posting Dave!
Glad to see good numbers of birds have shown up, and I am surprised to see the number of Canvasbacks counted in SE. Where we hunt, they usually don't show up in numbers until after Christmas most years.
DComeaux wrote:This next front (today/tonight) will be a defining event for our waterfowl situation for many. I'll be in the blind on Thursday of this week through the weekend and will see what it brings, or doesn't bring with it. After the pipe buster cold weather we had at the marsh camp three?? years ago that didn't produce more fowl, I have my doubts with this one. Nothing nature wise with migrating fowl is as it once was. Tell tale signs just aren't working anymore.
You will have those that are in the right places here and there, where the few fowl we do have happen to be at any given time, but I think for the majority it'll be slim pickens. I stopped by the very busy Pecan Island store on my way home yesterday to the site of long faces and sounds of grumbling by many. This is a quote from an older gentleman I overheard in conversation. "For an opening weekend, it sure was very disappointing". The look on his face was telling.
A lot of the younger guys that happened to get a limit on one of the days are giddy with that but have no idea of the bigger picture. We didn't always get our limits in my early years for one reason or another, but we sure as hell saw a lot more fowl. You knew tomorrow could be the day, and it usually was.
Darren wrote:Yea saw that, looks stale next week with fronts stalling north of us. The cold north of us could still help but would sure love to see the fronts continue to barrel through here.
Speaking to the long faces Dave alluded to, my buddy logged a DNS not far from us on Saturday. On a season opener, that's a hell of a punch in the gut for sure, I know how I would have felt. Things didn't get better for him that night, he's a Bama grad Tough day!! Felt bad for him but he got on a few birds Sunday at a different location.
His DNS was not the only one I heard of in the greater Delacroix area either
Ducaholic wrote:
It better bring the million we were lacking plus December's LTA as well because starting Sunday the weather is going to get stale through the weekend of the East Zone opener. Winter weather at least for the short term appears to have lost it's punch after this week.
Darren wrote:Ducaholic wrote:
It better bring the million we were lacking plus December's LTA as well because starting Sunday the weather is going to get stale through the weekend of the East Zone opener. Winter weather at least for the short term appears to have lost it's punch after this week.
Standby; latest GFS runs showing a front next Friday. We'll see if that continues to hold up or just wishful thinking. It's been pretty good in recent weeks showing these fronts well ahead of time.
Darren wrote:Ducaholic wrote:
It better bring the million we were lacking plus December's LTA as well because starting Sunday the weather is going to get stale through the weekend of the East Zone opener. Winter weather at least for the short term appears to have lost it's punch after this week.
Standby; latest GFS runs showing a front next Friday. We'll see if that continues to hold up or just wishful thinking. It's been pretty good in recent weeks showing these fronts well ahead of time.
DComeaux wrote:
That's all good, assuming weather will push the birds.
Darren wrote:DComeaux wrote:
That's all good, assuming weather will push the birds.
Was less concerned about pushing new birds, more concerned about having good conditions to hunt the ones we do have.
DComeaux wrote:Darren wrote:DComeaux wrote:
That's all good, assuming weather will push the birds.
Was less concerned about pushing new birds, more concerned about having good conditions to hunt the ones we do have.
Those will be in south America by Wednesday.
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