Regular Season 2025-2026

[Duck Engr]

Here it is nearly Christmas and I haven’t made a single post. This is the least I’ve hunted to start a season in recent memory. Mainly because I’m lacking the first half of the equation in waterfowl hunting, water. Which leads to lacking the second half of the equation, ducks. All my ponds here locally are dry as a bone and my spots that I travel to are also mostly dry as well. We did make a trip with the kids the weekend before thanksgiving. I’ll report that below, and that’s all I have to report unfortunately.

[Duck Engr]

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[Duck Engr]

Date: 11/22/25 opener

Time: morning

Location: river

Cloud Cover: heavy

Wind Direction and Velocity: zilch

Temperature: hot. Mid 50s. Swattin skeeters.

Moon phase: dunno

Special Notes: opening day trip west of the Mississippi with my son, Beau, friend and his son, and a second friend and his 10 year old son. Has become an annual trip we look forward to.

Waterfowl Activity: scouting Friday evening was spooky quiet. Knew we had to be in ducks is ducks mode from the start Saturday.

Waterfowl Responsiveness: pretty good given the conditions. Couldn’t make enough of them finish.

Hunters: 5 adults and one youth shooting. 2 youths observing.

Guns:

Malfunctions: I turned into a chauffeur before daylight due to my friend’s tiller handle snapping a bolt on the drive out there. Ran 24 miles before 515 am in my boat. Wasn’t pleasant.

Dog(s): June who did well except for getting tripped up on a blind by a downed tree in the river. Seasoned veteran Mae picked up her slack.

Special Equipment:

Curses: several but mostly the broken boat severely adjusting our plans.

Kudos: good to be back at it, and we were the big hunt when compared to most everyone else I know out that way.

Birds By Species: 1 mallard, 3 wood ducks, 6 teal.

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Lagniappe:

[DComeaux]

Good way to start it out, duck wise, anyway.

[Duck Engr]

Date: 11/23/25

Time: morning

Location: river, but much farther north, closer to ramp. I was still playing chauffeur and wasn’t about to make the same runs I did the morning before.

Cloud Cover: heavy early with some peaks of sunshine

Wind Direction and Velocity: light all morning

Temperature: upper 40s

Moon phase: dunno

Special Notes:

Waterfowl Activity: sparse. Not much even at callable height

Waterfowl Responsiveness: none

Hunters: 3 adults one youth shooting, well we had guns in hand anyway, and two youth observing

Guns:

Malfunctions: ducks didn’t get memo.

Dog(s): bored

Special Equipment:

Curses: no ducks!

Kudos: kids still had fun

Birds By Species: DNS

Photo Ops:

Lagniappe: woke up the next morning to rain on the cabin roof. Asked Beau if he wanted to go hunt and he said no, he wanted to sleep so that’s what we did. Tired 7 year olds and 46 degree rain don’t mix. Headed back home after a good breakfast and stopped at bass pro in Memphis for an hour or so of fun.