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. […]

No. 1 key to duck success

Duck numbers along the Mississippi River Flyway have fluctuated both up and down throughout history. 

Ducks along the flyway once darkened Mississippi’s skies. Mississippi was an important stopover for birds making their way south, and the cultivated rice fields and agricultural crops along the Mississippi River drew them by the thousands.  […]