Duck hunting question

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Ducks hate Louisiana.

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When you hear "first you make a roux" you know it is time to flee the state.

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Ducks moved to Arkansas.

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Back in my time in Arkansas it was valid excuse to miss school for deer and duck hunting season. It the area around Stuttgart still the best place in the state?

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we've got a two-weeker now in September

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There’s alligator hunting in Arkansas (honest question)?

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yep, for two weeks

mostly that lake down by Ashdown I think, but I had a buddy who's uncle got an 11-footer a few years ago in Pine Bluff

From my knowledge, this isn't a Louisiana issue as much as it's a northern hunting practice result. You're seeing a lot of activity around hunters in northern states breaking up ice to create open water. Ducks fly south not because it's cold, but primarily because lack of open water due to ice sheets. It's affecting more and more southern waterfowl states. They stay long up north, making migration shorter, thus making distance covered shorter. Louisiana also doesn't get many of it's cold fronts these days until after hunting season/late January. Myself and many others deep down want the season pushed or at least accommodating the times when ducks are present. You mix all this with the pressure that ducks face in mid-latitude states, it creates a very feast or famine hunting experience in Louisiana.