Delta Duckman

Fortunately for us teal showed up after hurricane Francine hit SE Louisiana September 11. It took some time but by the second weekend of the season they were in our area. We had some real good hunts. Vegetation is good in our area with plenty for the teal to eat and stay around. I shot some video of one of the hunts with a couple of young guys that are in our club. We hunt in 3 or 4 man wood structure platform blinds we pull the boat behind to get out of and hunt. The guys know the drill and showed up to hunt with tennis shoes on. I might be spoiling them a bit too much when they come dressed like that. Also, in the video you will see the homemade spinners we use, you don’t need a duck body with wings to make it work. The teal don’t care and try to land on them sometimes. Overall, a good September teal season for us. https://youtu.be/_YHwudGAi9U

Good luck with the new dog. I hope you get a good one like my friend has.

A friend of mine brought his 1 (his birthday was yesterday) year old home trained Labrador with him on our duck hunt yesterday. The dog was well behaved and did a good job getting the ducks. No whining in the blind or barking ever, really good for a young dog. Video shows a couple of his retrieves.

With a little more than a month to go before we start our September teal season in SE Louisiana I put together some of the best video shots over the last several years. Teal are a blast to hunt and can't wait for the action to start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa7LBwMxgVU

Sorry, but I don't think us drinking beer during a hunt will make any difference to the disdain the anti hunting / animal rights people have for us. Now, they may hate us more due the fact we are having fun while hunting but nothing we are doing is ILLEAGAL. Trying to appease the anti gun, hunting crowd is not going to make them go away.

Glad you enjoyed the video. We do have a lot of fun and when the ducks are flying its even better.

This video has cursing and drinking of alcohol while hunting with shotguns in its content. If this offends you don’t watch it. It is rated “Not for kids” Weather conditions were ideal for our duck hunt Friday after Thanksgiving. North wind about 15 steady with overcast skies, perfect. We had good amounts of teal and big ducks on the move right from the beginning of the hunt. We had been doing well in this spot so we had all of us in one blind for the hunt. Lots of fun cutting up, hunting, eating and some cold beer. We hunted until 10:00am. After the hunting part in the latter part of the video we have to back out of our spot because the trenasse we use we can’t turn around. The motor is a 2007 36HP Pro Drive surface drive with manual full power reverse and manual trim getting it done. She is still going strong after all these years with lots of duck hunts in the slop. The video shows us shooting 30 ducks which was surprising to me. Even more of a surprise was the very next day four of us went to the same spot on another good day for a duck hunt and shot 1 duck. Makes no sense at all. Numbers of ducks taken in that spot since opening day – 24 – 5 – 24 – 24 – 24 – 5 – 6 – 30 – 1 - 5 Happy Hunting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Q7WB4WHr0

Yes, down here in Cajun Country.

I have stated many times the duck game is location, location, location. Over the last several years the ducks don’t seem to want to be in an area we had success for many years. The habitat has changed and we were able to lease new property (not easy to do) 15 miles from our regular spot in an area the ducks, teal for the most part want to be. Teal seem to like the flats where water levels change the area from shallow ponds to mud flats and back to shallow ponds. The area we have leased has limited access and space to put the blind like I want to. Current blind set up is breaking the rules of having the rising sun at your back but in this instance we don’t have much choice, so on sunny days it will be tough looking into the sun and video will suffer. We can all deal with the issues as long as we are shooting ducks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktsTbzu24vA

Ever since we got skunked on the opening day of the special teal season, we have been having some good teal hunts. We moved 17 miles from the opening day area where the teal want to be. Video is some of the shots from Saturday September 18, 2021 hunt. Four of us shot the limit of 24 teal. If you like the video there are more, search Delta Duckman on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvjkYXRzJGw

That is ok just keep going - they are fun to shoot

I tore my Achilles tendon and had some seat time to put together our best shots from 2015 to 2020 during the September special teal season in southeast Louisiana. I hope this gets the juices flowing getting everyone ready for the special teal season if you have one in your state. We will be ready to go, walking boot on the leg and all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AAi9ZeVDGE

Some people eat them and they are similar to rabbit. You have to sneak it on them, not tell them what they are eating.

Yes it is a lot of fun

Usually near the end of duck season here in SE Louisiana nutria come out on cold days to warm up in the sun. When the water is low is a good time to hunt them. Somehow nutria seem to know alligators who love to eat them are dormant during this time of year. Nutria are considered a nuisance animal that can be taken all year. Duck hunting has been really slow for us this year so if we are going to get up early for a duck hunt we hunt nutria after the ducks. We give the nutria to a camp caretaker who eats them and shares them with his family members. We have fun and he gets to eat. Video shows some of the action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVb_cQQpcac

Not the best duck hunting these days but that makes it special.

As we all know 2020 was a very strange year in all aspects so there is no reason the last duck hunt of 2020 should be any different. Yesterday, 12/31/20 me and Rooster were making a duck hunt down here in SE Louisiana and a pelican landed in the pond then swam over to our boat then jumped up on the transom. After that it made its way toward the middle of the boat and stayed between us for at least 30 minutes as the video shows. Obviously in all my years of duck hunting that has never happened, but you have to be out in the marsh for things like that to happen. We ended up shooting 2 greys, 4 teal and 1 scaup for the hunt. Considering how things have been going this season a decent hunt. The killer was while picking up ducks during the hunt three pintail went right over the decoys. We could have easily shot two of them. Happy New Year and happy hunting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVb7moscpvE&t=3s

My cousin is a sugar cane farmer in Iberia Parish in south Louisiana. Hogs are a big problem for cane farmers destroying crops and fields and must be dealt with. When he knows there are hogs on a particular cane field they will have the cane cutting combine work the perimeter of the field cutting until there is a small island of standing cane remaining in the middle of a big field. The hogs bunch up in the remaining cane afraid to make a break for it then it is show time. After several are shot they make a run for it in the open field to be shot on the run. He busted them up real good yesterday as the picture shows.

The 2020 teal season in SE Louisiana was one of the best overall teal seasons I have ever had. Despite the aggravation of hurricanes, tropical storms and high tides the teal were there and we were lucky to be on the X. We made seven hunts limiting out on six of them. The video is some of the shots and other parts of duck hunting from the last weekend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2iwmAtisAU

We are off to a good start for the special teal season in southeast Louisiana. We got permission to hunt some new property and the scouting paid off. Limit of teal the first hunt and did well the second hunt. Hopefully this high water we have had the last few days with hurricane Sally won’t affect the last two weekends of the season. Click on the link below to watch the YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2byvXMt5hs&t=13s

Video is some of the shots over the weekend in southeast Louisiana. Was not able to get a lot on video due to lack of shots and not getting cameras turned on in time because teal move really quick. As I state in the video, we traveled to a new area to us trying something different. Our main leased area that had been so good to us for many years has fizzled out and it was time for a change. The new area has had quite a few teal buzzing around that was nice to see. Sunday there were some decent groups of big ducks around, but none came close enough for us to shoot. The cover we had probably had a lot to do with that but then we were expecting teal which don’t require much cover. In the new spot we can’t get to the ponds in a boat rather have to drag pirogue to put out decoys and pick up ducks which we will do if we can shoot ducks. We shot 3 teal Saturday and 4 teal Sunday. The duck season for 2019-2020 is over and for the first time ever I did not limit out on ducks any hunt this year. Despite the lack of ducks, we always have a good time in the outdoors and enjoy the camp life. https://youtu.be/TaQXAbjSw80

For many years I have posted many pictures of the same guys on the same dock holding handfuls of ducks and pouledeau. We were excited about the prospects of the second split since the aerial survey reported more ducks in the state but our woes continue. Not sure why our area is suffering but it is. Sure we wish we had more duck action but not shooting limits will not detour us from having a good time. We thought a throwback to the bags on the head that were reflective of the Saints of the past having bad football seasons as we are having a bad duck season. All we can hope for is much like our Saints there was always “next season” hopefully we will have ducks “next season”. Date Hunted: 12/21/2019: In the rain two boats went out. 0 ducks were shot for the effort. Both boats gave it up around 8:00 to get dried out. Date Hunted 12/22/2019: The water came up over night for a tide on the high side. Very cloudy conditions with a real nice breeze out of the north. One of the darkest boat rides out to the blind in a long time, we all guessed right. Real nice conditions for a duck hunt. Two boats went out. We put out 48 decoys, 2 spinners and 4 flickers in our pond. Each blind shot one duck. We shot a dosgris and the other shot a blue winged teal in the picture. That’s it for the day. Stopped hunting at 9:00am. Some guys we know hunt in SE Louisiana shot some limits over the weekend so not everyone is struggling as we are. Happy to hear some are having success. Merry Christmas to everyone and happy hunting.

Glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully we have more ducks in the second split for more video action.

This is some video from the first split of 2019 SE Louisiana duck season. What I have on film is from one of our 3 man blinds in a big open pond on our lease. As all of you know it has been a very slow first split. In the past a video like this could be done from the action of one weekend. Now it takes the whole split to get what I have. Hopefully we will have a better second split.