With teal season now wrapped up, I took the 2 minutes it required to crunch and re-crunch my numbers for the details below:
26 BW teal taken on 6 hunts
Though we started with a nice hunt on opening day taking 9 birds, the rising tides made sure we were unlikely to have any more success in SE La coastal (tidal) marshes. Our water levels stayed high thanks to not one but TWO tropical systems influencing our area in the two week season. On arrival back to the camp dock from the last hunt down there Friday Sept 25, we could have driven the boat up on to the dock......this after it had been falling for days already.
With such deep waters in the outer marshes, the birds had nowhere to feed and thus kept us from holding anything in our usual places. Wrapped up the season on a high note, though, in the White Lake marshes on a LDWF lottery hunt. Really quick 2-man limit and we packed it up and went back to the camp there. Great weather, lots of birds, great people running it.
We'll look forward to November 14!
26 BW teal taken on 6 hunts
Though we started with a nice hunt on opening day taking 9 birds, the rising tides made sure we were unlikely to have any more success in SE La coastal (tidal) marshes. Our water levels stayed high thanks to not one but TWO tropical systems influencing our area in the two week season. On arrival back to the camp dock from the last hunt down there Friday Sept 25, we could have driven the boat up on to the dock......this after it had been falling for days already.
With such deep waters in the outer marshes, the birds had nowhere to feed and thus kept us from holding anything in our usual places. Wrapped up the season on a high note, though, in the White Lake marshes on a LDWF lottery hunt. Really quick 2-man limit and we packed it up and went back to the camp there. Great weather, lots of birds, great people running it.
We'll look forward to November 14!
