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
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. […]
Featured
Plenty of shooting on the wing
For waterfowlers who just don’t want to wait for the duck season to get a little wet and muddy, there’s the regular goose season that starts well in advance of duck season this fall. […]
Featured
Other migratory bird seasons
Doves, crows, rails, gallinules, moorhens and snipe are all legal at different times in November, and more Mississippians than ever are taking advantage of the opportunity. Well, at least some of those birds. […]
Ducks
Duck numbers down in 2018
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service officials announced a 13-percent decrease in ducks in the agency’s annual breeding population survey, which can be directly tied to a 14-percent decline in nesting habitat. […]
Ducks
Big Lake’s T-Rex duck calls
From T-Reed to T-Rex. […]
Field Notes
Scouting for teal
As some early migrating blue-winged teal are already arriving in the Magnolia State, hunters are gearing up to chase the feathered rockets. […]
Featured
Blue-winged teal still plentiful
Last year, blue-winged teal showed an 18-percent increase over 2016 and were 57 percent above the long-term average. It’s that 50-year average that is indicative of the strong population.