Late Season Ducks

Date Hunted 1/14/23:

A real nice breeze blowing from the north, tides below normal, 39 degrees and slightly overcast skies. Very good conditions for a duck hunt.

The problem was the typical pattern of late season duck hunting. This time of year, the ducks usually stay down until somebody in a boat comes by or something spooks them and they get up, fly around for a minute and go right back down where they were. A few from the pack may come your way for some shots. That pattern is in full effect now. We managed to shoot 1 redhead and 6 teal Saturday. Not expecting much to change between now and January 29th.

DD,Join da rest of us diehards dat having exact issue and even worse for de Nuck and Futz Duo as the strong NNW and NW winds blew most of whatever water we had left,making our last hunt quite the chore,mine made much worse due to an ornery gator who managed to show up to aggravate me even slowly swimming(extremely lethargic-took video footage and he was definitely moving in sloooow motion)towards my dekes,making it a chore to get em all picked up!!We each saw the typical pattern,few mottled ducks doing what dey do to survive and TONS of coots all around us.I took advantage of the coot colonies,blasting my solo limit of 15 and gonna get Wifey to make gumbo outta dem lil critters-noticed that their huge gizzards cleaned up incredibly well and when I first met Wifey and her family,they had delicious gizzard stew and these coot gizzards HUGE!!De Nuck and Futz Duo taking yet another road trip to GB3's fine Quack Shack(no coots up there)!!

Mandevillian

Enjoy the coots. Did not see any of those. And yes, I am an equal opportunity waterfowl hunter. We cut coots same as ducks, very tasty.

Wanted to add pics!

De Nuck and Futz Duo headed N to GB3's fine Lake Village,AR Quack Shack at end of this month and looks like weather locally gonna cause a no-go for Saturday and Wifey and I headed across Lake for Tulane's Cotton Bowl Celebration festivities,what an awesome game that turned out to be and me and Wifey and younger son attended!!Been rough and tough Duck Season 2022/23 and always have hope for the next season!

Mandevillian