Ducks
Duck counts remain promising for 2019-20 season
Surveys on duck populations from the midwest and Canadian nesting grounds are in for 2019, and there’s both good and bad news to be gleaned from the counts. […]
Waterfowl & Duck Hunting
Sportsman TV
Early season teal hunt on Catahoula Lake in Louisiana
Hampton Rutland filmed this early season teal hunting video for his web video series Louisiana Wetlands and shared it with Sportsman TV. […]
Geese
Try ‘other’ waterfowl
Waterfowlers have two seasons designed for them in September, with the early Canada goose season and the highly popular early teal season. […]
Ducks
Mississippi duck hunters look forward to great January
If January 2019 duck season is even close to 2018, Mississippi hunters will be in heaven. […]
Sidebars
Creek hunting strategies
Mississippi is blessed with an abundance of smaller rivers and creeks that wind their way across the state. These waterways provide plenty of waterfowl resting and feeding grounds to both resident populations and those making more southerly migrations. […]
Ducks
A typical day of hunting wood ducks
A typical day of chasing woodies with the author starts out a blind he’s constructed at a favorite, abandoned farm pond in the middle of some big timber. It has a beaver dam across the spillway and cypress trees growing on the shallow end. […]
Ducks
Creating a better wood duck hole
If you have a place that holds a few wood ducks and you want to make it better and attract more, think about building some wood duck boxes and placing them over or near the water. […]
Features
Float up a duck – Limit out on ducks on a Mississippi float trip
Two things you’ll find in abundance across Mississippi this month are ducks and flowing waterways. […]
Ducks
Backyard ducks
Duck hunting is becoming a favorite sport for many sportsmen and sportswomen. Considering all the gear needed, it can become expensive very quickly — especially if you have to pay to access good places near flyways with good numbers of mallards and pintails. […]
Ducks
Duck hunters hoping for another good season in the Delta
A wet start to November put a lot of rain on the Delta, providing good early habitat for ducks. Hunters just need it to keep raining and for the temperatures to start falling quickly to hasten waterfowl migration.
Ducks
Decoy spread details
Larry Reynolds criss-crosses the Louisiana coastline multiple times each fall — cruising at 100 knots with a bird’s-eye view from just 125 feet up, estimating the number of ducks that have arrived in the state’s ag fields and coastal marshes. […]
Ducks
Get quacking come Thanksgiving weekend
After what was, at best, a decent teal season in the latter part of September, Mississippi duck hunters are hungry for more. No, make that starving. […]