It takes 0 skill to opperate a popup blind surface drive and try to kill ducks. I owned surface drives and have got rid of them to go back to outboard. Do a study and give eveyone that hunts in delacroix or hopedale a outboard instead of a surface drive and see how many stuck boats there are in a morning. So add no skill of running the marsh and the sound of a harley davidson all morning and you tell me what happens to the ducks...
It all comes down to pressure. The weekend of the big front there were thousands upon thousands of greys in delecroix, consitently killing solid 2-3man limits all week. but by saturday with 100 boats running around fishing every direction of delecroix,hopedale, point la hach the ducks get tired of getting pushed and they leave. By sunday it was a struggle to even find a few ducks to hunt. Its just like the refuge in main pass down river, the ducks stay all season bc they dont get jumped every half hr by a mudboat. And everyone going to say once the season closes all the ducks show up, no its bc they dont have every duck dynasty wana be out there riding around in a surface drive and a popup blind looking for a spot to hunt running the ducks for miles.
Definitely a widgeon/grey. Just by looking at the bill, head, and wings all show widgeon where the body show almost full grey
first off I own a mud motor and I know what they do. a duck don't stand a chance anymore, theres not one spot from canarvon to delecroix where you can go and not have some one running around jumping ducks. the ducks wont stay. its not the exhaust or any of that bullshit, its stupid people who want to ride around and look at ducks and wonder why there not there the next day. I wish they would ban mud motors period. there would be about 10% of the people still hunting bc it actually takes some brains to run a outboard.
Alright knockemdown, if you replaced every surface drive from canervon, delacroix and hopedale with a outboard after morning number 1 you would have 10% of the boats still running bc 1, half will be blown up bc they can't run the marsh and just can not run a straight line anymore 2, the rest will give up bc the they can not just pull in to the lease, they actually have to paddle and work and 3, bc they going to say they you can't kill ducks if you don't own a surface drive. Migration change is a obvious factor and is weather but when birds do come down they don't stay and it isn't bc there's no feed, more feed this year than years past.