Duck Duck
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Looking for a basic Mississippi Flyway duck hunt. Don't need high end just good honest people. Thank you
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Looking for a basic Mississippi Flyway hunt
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Orange Dust
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drylakehuntingservice.com . Owned by Jay Coker. I've known this guy since I was knee high and he runs a good service and has a small, but nice lodge. He usually has a lot of birds. He has some really good guides too. This is in Stuttgart, AR. Rice and duck capitol of the world. Stuttgart is a hoot Thanksgiving week. World Championship Duck calling contest, duck gumbo cookoff, carnival, etc. Stay away that week if not interested in festivities though. Town swells to 4-5 times its normal self and you have to wait in line for everything.
Duck Duck
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Thanks I had a service in NE Arkansas for years around 2000
Orange Dust
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I have seriously considered giving up my lease and just hunting there every weekend. I could save a fortune, but there's just something about having your own place.....
Duck Duck
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A lot to say about having your own spot. Good when the ducks are there.
Orange Dust
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And when they are not, we shoot geese, deer, or cook a feast, whatever mood strikes. I guided for 30 seasons, just play with the kids and grandkids now. Tons more fun and that's the only reason I keep the place. I really don't care how thick they are anymore. You can only eat so many in a lifetime, but the kids don't think they've killed their share I guess. They watch the moon, fronts etc to take off work. I mostly just go when its pretty. Don't want to kill one bad enough to get wet anymore. Guess I've become what I used to laugh at.
guyw1971
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I know this is an older post from last year, but a good outfitter in MS is Tallahatchie Hunts, you can look them up on Facebook, they're in the heart of duck hunting and are responsibly priced
We need a migration to occur.
It will take weather far out of the norm for that to occur, it's not a given this far south anymore.
It will take weather far out of the norm for that to occur, it's not a given this far south anymore.
guyw1971
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That's very true, we hunt in Drew probably a stones throw from Fighting Bayou and even their numbers have been down the last few years
i'm 20 miles west of all that. When the waterfowl don't have to move south for food, they just don't. plenty of food north of us, some intentional and some not.
Farming practices have changed also for all
of us out of necessity. That doesn't include consideration for waterfowl.
Farming practices have changed also for all
of us out of necessity. That doesn't include consideration for waterfowl.
guyw1971
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Yesh, my ex father in laws farms used to be pretty much all rice, now its soybeans with the occasional few acres of corn. Commodities need to get better to see rice acres or corn acres increase
and ridiculous costs need to go down, and the buyers have to give a little.
real simple isn't it?
real simple isn't it?
Rick Richard
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Ducks need water and from what my buddy says there is no water along the river unless it is flooded fields.
guyw1971
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Sure is, farmer pays higher prices every year as inputs increase, buyer gives less, so easy to be a farmer ha
