Waterfowl & Duck Hunting

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Two waterfowl-hunting zones close next week

November 28, 2012 Anthony Taylor

Split waterfowl-hunting dates and the newly created third hunting zone has left some duck hunters confused as to when the first split ends for their zone. And two of the three waterfowl zones close down after this weekend.

The two hunting closures for the first split are the Coastal and Eastern zones as defined by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries. Hunting in the Western Zone continues through Dec. 9, LDWF regulations stipulate.[…]

Waterfowl & Duck Hunting

Slow start in Venice

November 22, 2012 M.A. Fisher

Venice is widely known as one of the most productive outdoors playgrounds in the United States, if not the world. And Capt. Chris Thomas, who runs River’s End Outfitters out of Venice Marina, knows that reality first hand.[…]

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Aerial Waterfowl Survey finds 20 percent fewer ducks in area than last November

November 20, 2012 Kyle Barnett

In what may come as bad news for local duck hunters the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has found a drop in the number of ducks estimated to be in the coastal region of the state by 20 percent over the beginning of the season last year.

LDWF’s count comes from a Nov. 7-9 aerial survey in which a manual count was executed during an aircraft flyover of the region of the state south of Highway 90.

The biggest trends reported in the survey were a large decline in blue-winged teal from 451,000 to only 33,000 and far fewer coots from a record high 1.84 million to 555,000.[…]

Waterfowl & Duck Hunting

Ducks flock to Lake Salvador

November 20, 2012 Jonathan Menard

Ducks have poured into the marshes surrounding the Salvador Wildlife Management Area, providing great hunting for those who have headed to the public property since opening day.

Many hunters who headed out of Pier 90 in Luling have returned with their limit of gray ducks, teal and gadwall. George Garcia, the harbor master at Pier 90, said last week that hunters either got their limits or returned because they had run out of shells.[…]

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Three ducks in the bag

November 1, 2012 John Flores

From the season being totally closed in the early part of the 20th century to a limit of two birds in 1962, after 20 years where hunters could harvest just one, in the 2008-09 duck season the daily bag limit for wood ducks went to three.[…]

Waterfowl & Duck Hunting

Weekend rains provide unpressured teal hunting

September 19, 2012 Anthony Taylor

Walking out into the flooded cow pasture caused my socks to dampen pretty quickly, but the squishing water was worth it. Finding a flooded hole in an overgrown pasture with standing rainwater is gold during teal and duck season.

“Energy and land companies clear land for differing business practices, (but) they are then required by the state of Louisiana to replant whatever timber was cleared,” avid outdoorsmen and high school friend Jonathan Folse said.[…]