Hunted Thurs, Fri, and Sat last week to wrap up what turned out to be a pretty decent first split.
Log says it was 114 ducks on 13 hunts, included one DNS hunt on 12/3, and two hunts of 3 ducks or less. That includes the TWO ducks killed on the coastal zone opener, by far the worst opening day I've ever seen.
All that said, this split total is the highest since the very strong 2012 season (133 ducks), and the second highest first split total on my log kept since the 2002 season. We are hunting both coastal and east zones, alternating between ag land in central La and SE La salt marsh, both public and private.
Species breakdown is as follows:
mottled - 1
Grays - 62
GW teal - 20
BW teal - 22
dosgris/scaup - 3
bufflehead - 2
wigeon - 1
woodies - 1
spoons - 2
After being way up last year, mottleds are way down this year. Think it directly correlates to the 100 mph hurricane that plowed through the Delacroix/Hopedale hunting grounds as usually we kill a few. We killed one on opening weekend but haven't hardly seen one since then.
Grays are way up, already surpassing a lot of other seasons' totals for both splits. Blue wing teal are also up, and we had noticed that green wings hadn't really shown up yet but the blues were thankfully there.
We'll rest up and look forward to the second split opener on Dec 19.
Log says it was 114 ducks on 13 hunts, included one DNS hunt on 12/3, and two hunts of 3 ducks or less. That includes the TWO ducks killed on the coastal zone opener, by far the worst opening day I've ever seen.
All that said, this split total is the highest since the very strong 2012 season (133 ducks), and the second highest first split total on my log kept since the 2002 season. We are hunting both coastal and east zones, alternating between ag land in central La and SE La salt marsh, both public and private.
Species breakdown is as follows:
mottled - 1
Grays - 62
GW teal - 20
BW teal - 22
dosgris/scaup - 3
bufflehead - 2
wigeon - 1
woodies - 1
spoons - 2
After being way up last year, mottleds are way down this year. Think it directly correlates to the 100 mph hurricane that plowed through the Delacroix/Hopedale hunting grounds as usually we kill a few. We killed one on opening weekend but haven't hardly seen one since then.
Grays are way up, already surpassing a lot of other seasons' totals for both splits. Blue wing teal are also up, and we had noticed that green wings hadn't really shown up yet but the blues were thankfully there.
We'll rest up and look forward to the second split opener on Dec 19.
