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[Magic Mallard]

Well, after four days standing in waist deep water, all I have to show is three woodies....I knew that the water off the MS along with fields full of food left in 'em might hurt some, but not this much. 25degrees and perfect duck weather and just no ducks to speak of.....this weekend, probably did not see 50-75 gads in two days....Even when we blank out, we still normally see 300-500 gads and mallards in a morning on a "bad" day....Man, where are the ducks? It is lookin' real bleak right now....
St.
To make it worse, they are killin' limits of gads, mallards, and teal along the coast, so if they are down at the gulf of mexico, why aren't they at our place?

[legends of the lower mars]

Damn, I'm glad I got back in my old lease over in Delacroix!!!

[brandonvet]

Well, after four days standing in waist deep water, all I have to show is three woodies....I knew that the water off the MS along with fields full of food left in 'em might hurt some, but not this much. 25degrees and perfect duck weather and just no ducks to speak of.....this weekend, probably did not see 50-75 gads in two days....Even when we blank out, we still normally see 300-500 gads and mallards in a morning on a "bad" day....Man, where are the ducks? It is lookin' real bleak right now....
St.
To make it worse, they are killin' limits of gads, mallards, and teal along the coast, so if they are down at the gulf of mexico, why aren't they at our place?

I think that weird front that came through (snow from Central MS to south MS, warmer weather north of there) pushed what was here down there. It'll get better, it just might be January before it does. A bad day in the duck blind, is still a great day in my book.

[DuckslayerSX2]

worst start of the season ever

[quack_a_tack]

I will say this as I was wondering the same thing, a buddy took some kids in NE Arkieland Sat mornin and said Mallards just flocked in. They were finishin groups of 20-30 ducks, went back Sun morning and they never fired a shot. Only had one group of teal work in right at daylight and were to far. The ducks must have left in the night, and headed way South.

[MSUMDuck]

Birds seem to be very spotty, there one day and gone the next. We've had good shoots compared to what I'm hearing from other hunters...but if you factor in the road time and money spent on gas, the ducks we've killed have not been cheap! Hopefully we'll see some new birds soon, but with southern missouri area not being frozen, it may be a while before we get a big push. Either way, I'd rather have a bad day in the duck blind than a good day at work...

[blind-ambition]

Been seeing the same things happen north of Vicksburg. We went Friday morn and seen plenty of big birds. Worked several good groups. Went back saturday morning and the skies were almost clear. I think it is all the fronts that are coming from the northwest. Seems like the fronts used to come straight from the north years ago. I may be wrong but it seems like they did.

[redleg3316]

Yeah it has sucked!!!

[Magic Mallard]

I said the same thing about these West to East fronts.....we need freezin, north to south, and plenty of snow on the ground to cover up the food supply before we see "regular" results.....my .02
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[judge jb]

i'm short stopping them in north ms.

judge jb