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Sen Kennedy wants more ducks in Louisiana.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 6:56 pm
Posted on 1/7/26 at 6:56 pm
I saw it on FB and thought it was a fake article and no way he would really try to push something like this. Hopefully he gets the nets that are keeping them up north and doesn’t let Oklahoma and Texas hunt over well water filled tanks as well!!!
Link to official website
Link to official website
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Posted on 1/7/26 at 7:04 pm to Ol boy
Oh man, them boys with the hot cropping making headway!
Posted on 1/7/26 at 7:29 pm to Ol boy
Anyone who has been to Midwest duck hunting knows it is BS they can legally bait this way.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 7:48 pm to Ol boy
There is no snow on the ground up north. It’s not as cold as it used to be. There’s really not anything pushing the ducks down. It’s not nets holding them.
It’s also not yours or my fault that we drive diesel trucks. It’s just the way the world’s natural, cyclical changes happen in temperature.
It’s also not yours or my fault that we drive diesel trucks. It’s just the way the world’s natural, cyclical changes happen in temperature.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 7:58 pm to dstone12
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There is no snow on the ground up north. It’s not as cold as it used to be. There’s really not anything pushing the ducks down. It’s not nets holding them
I deer hunted with an outfitter in Missouri 2022/2023 and the owner brought me to see his private duck club he was a member of. He claimed that the club was established for 40-50yrs and had recorded each years harvest and that those years were the worst on record.
They had pumps and heaters to move the water but hadn’t used them either one of those seasons.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 8:13 pm to dstone12
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There is no snow on the ground up north. It’s not as cold as it used to be. There’s really not anything pushing the ducks down
That’s a fact.
But it doesn’t make flooding corn fields acceptable.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 9:47 pm to Theduckhunter
Animals dont migrate because cold.
Eliminate the reason they migrate and you get what we have seen.
I worry about long term impacts of eating a diet heavy in grain vs invertebrates
Eliminate the reason they migrate and you get what we have seen.
I worry about long term impacts of eating a diet heavy in grain vs invertebrates
Posted on 1/8/26 at 4:13 am to Ol boy
It’s ovah!
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:02 am to lsu13lsu
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Anyone who has been to Midwest duck hunting knows it is BS they can legally bait this way.
Just skimmed the article but are you talking about flooding a cornfield? Every time I have ever hunted Arkansas it was over a field intentionally flooded for ducks with zero agricultural reason to be doing it at that time. Hell half the time it was soybean fields. If they cut that practice out you talk about some pissed off people.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:27 am to highcotton2
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Just skimmed the article but are you talking about flooding a cornfield? Every time I have ever hunted Arkansas it was over a field intentionally flooded for ducks with zero agricultural reason to be doing it at that time. Hell half the time it was soybean fields. If they cut that practice out you talk about some pissed off people.
The difference is those soybeans were harvested.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:47 am to Ol boy
Well our coastal wetlands are completely fricked up right now, so until that gets fixed (which it won’t), ducks will continue to go to South LA in small numbers. NELA is the only place with any decent duck hunting left, and even that isn’t the same. But all problems regarding less ducks, fish, oysters, whatever, is largely due to our mismanagement of our wetlands and marshes for years now. Maurepas Swamp is a prime example. Humans fricked that entire swamp up.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:52 am to dstone12
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There is no snow on the ground up north. It’s not as cold as it used to be. There’s really not anything pushing the ducks down.
It isn’t just the cold that pushes them. They feed south. As food is eaten they migrate further to find fields that have not been eaten. They don’t have to now because of the planted bait fields.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 7:56 am to Ron Cheramie
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The difference is those soybeans were harvested.
Gotcha. Everyone I knows just closes the sieves and opens the fan wide open on the combine and then flood it. Didn’t realize people were leaving the corn standing. We leave every other pass standing on soybeans then flood it.
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Posted on 1/8/26 at 8:11 am to Ron Cheramie
Kennedy is just trying to appease some of yall.
He knows nothing will happen from that but he has people that voted for him thinking it is corn’s fault.
Maybe, he is smart and by him saying that it will piss off enough waterfowl biologists to demand grants for the “research” and they set out to prove to him it isn’t corn. While they do that, they might find out what it actually is with the extra grant money.
He knows nothing will happen from that but he has people that voted for him thinking it is corn’s fault.
Maybe, he is smart and by him saying that it will piss off enough waterfowl biologists to demand grants for the “research” and they set out to prove to him it isn’t corn. While they do that, they might find out what it actually is with the extra grant money.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 8:11 am to highcotton2
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Didn’t realize people were leaving the corn standing. We leave every other pass standing on soybeans then flood it.
Totally legal to do either. Can harvest some and leave some or leave it all standing and flood it. Should it be is the question
Habitat Flats and others get paid by NRCS (government) for this. They also are able to sell very expensive hunts on that exact same property us taxpayers are paying for. That’s the rub
Posted on 1/8/26 at 8:12 am to dstone12
I think there are a lot of problems going on. The duck population is lower. If we added another 15-20 million ducks to the flight a lot of the arguments and problems would dissipate. Canadian farmers have tiled over a lot of wetlands and the dry years have taken a toll driving this down cycle.
The robo duck in dry fields is killing a ton of young birds in the Dakotas and Canada. They are a different animal in dry fields and outfitters are heavily pressuring the population, not to mention the liberal limits north of the border. Ducks are heavily pressured up and down the flyway from September through January 31.
Salvinia and invasive plants have hurt southern backwater habitat. Sugar cane and farming changes have replaced rice acreage. The marsh continues to degrade in areas. There are a lot of factors that have coincided to create this down cycle I just wish USFWS would do the right thing and go to 45/4 or 30/3 when their own AWH numbers warrant it.
The robo duck in dry fields is killing a ton of young birds in the Dakotas and Canada. They are a different animal in dry fields and outfitters are heavily pressuring the population, not to mention the liberal limits north of the border. Ducks are heavily pressured up and down the flyway from September through January 31.
Salvinia and invasive plants have hurt southern backwater habitat. Sugar cane and farming changes have replaced rice acreage. The marsh continues to degrade in areas. There are a lot of factors that have coincided to create this down cycle I just wish USFWS would do the right thing and go to 45/4 or 30/3 when their own AWH numbers warrant it.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 9:26 am to jimjackandjose
Just back from midwest hunt and looked in the crops of the mallards killed, and it was 50/50 corn to snails.
The ponds they were hitting were full of snails too.
Simple stomach animals like pigs and fowl can handle large carbohydrate loads. I don't see how it would negative impact them physically.
Now migration wise, I do believe they've imprinted on the heavy dry field feeding and have no reason to go any farther to feed than necessary.
The ponds they were hitting were full of snails too.
Simple stomach animals like pigs and fowl can handle large carbohydrate loads. I don't see how it would negative impact them physically.
Now migration wise, I do believe they've imprinted on the heavy dry field feeding and have no reason to go any farther to feed than necessary.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 9:59 am to dstone12
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There is no snow on the ground up north. It’s not as cold as it used to be. There’s really not anything pushing the ducks down. It’s not nets holding them.
There's been recent years with plenty of snow on the ground up north and duck numbers down here still sucked.
Corn fields don't need to be flooded to grow. So leaving unharvested corn and flooding it serves no legitimate agricultural purpose. Its 100% done for the purpose of baiting ducks.
The hunters up north try to compare it to people down here flooding rice fields....but rice actually needs to be flooded in order to grow. And most of those fields are harvested already. And we're at the bottom of the flyway, so the midwest hunters had their crack at those birds before they made it to south Louisiana. We're not even getting a shot at them because the migration is being stopped short by unnaturally flooding the corn up north.
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:04 am to Tiger Prawn
I know there is a slew of things here at home that aren’t helping ducks and I can name a ton of them.
Corn production north of us has had a definite impact on mallards. Think of when your best mallard years were and then think about when you saw the decline. And think about the year that the ethanol mandate came about and you will see the decline started at that very moment
There are millions of acres of dry corn fields north and west of us that were not corn back in the day. It’s almost unlimited
Corn production north of us has had a definite impact on mallards. Think of when your best mallard years were and then think about when you saw the decline. And think about the year that the ethanol mandate came about and you will see the decline started at that very moment
There are millions of acres of dry corn fields north and west of us that were not corn back in the day. It’s almost unlimited
Posted on 1/8/26 at 10:06 am to Tiger Prawn
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There's been recent years with plenty of snow on the ground up north and duck numbers down here still sucked.
There are a couple videos of Habitat Flats and another research station where ducks are just chilling standing on 8 inches of ice in 10 degree weather eating corn off the stalks They can withstand very harsh conditions with readily available hot foods No need to move south of that
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