a few pics from pass a loutre and biloxi marsh in la.

[marshmaster]

a couple pics from last weeks hunt in pass a loutre and biloxi marsh

[Coot]

Nice, thanks for sharing.....

I guess the barge went from Slidell through Biloxi to Venice!!!!!!

Sounds like a blast.

[marshmaster]

we whent from slidell to venice then when the ducks left venice we whent to biolxi marsh for two days where the big ducks where and a lot less people ....i remember 5 6 or 7 years back before all the camps where built out there in venice the duck hunting was awsome and know it slowed down alot i know its a hit or miss out there but there are a lot of hunters out there know....we killed most of our birds in the pass's because the birds were allways getting ran out of the big ponds ...anny way we did have a blast

[txtrapper]

Man, you can't that at all.

[ABNRanger]

Marsh master, Nice mess of birds and stack of sky carp. Did you get the sky carp in Pass a Loutre or did you get em in BB? I've been hunting down in Venice for twenty two plus years since I went down there at the age of 14. I also spent a week before Christmas hunting Pass a Loutre' the Delta, Batiste Collette and I can tell you the lack of birds is not because of the amount of hunters. Its the lack of food plain and simple. The East side took a real beating from the hurricanes and killed all of food. I have several personal friends who run duck hunting and fishing charters out of Venice. This is the worst year since anyone can remember since 89' or even after Katrina. The birds are not staying (except for pintail and the cans) long. They came in after those two cold fronts early but disappeared after about a week. We did pretty good hunting the Pass a Loutre area (our best hunts) but we had to run our Gator Trax's from the Marina which is a 40 mile round trip after I blew my lower unit in my Reno. Anyway, we ran all over the area through the entire area and the only places holding any real birds were Pass a Loutre, South Pass and Joseph's Bayou. Talked to the Delta Refuge Manager and he told us this is the lowest number of birds in a long time. The Venice Area will rebound next year as long as we get no hurricanes this year.

[Coot]

Originally Posted by marshmaster

we whent from slidell to venice then when the ducks left venice we whent to biolxi marsh for two days where the big ducks where and a lot less people ....i remember 5 6 or 7 years back before all the camps where built out there in venice the duck hunting was awsome and know it slowed down alot i know its a hit or miss out there but there are a lot of hunters out there know....we killed most of our birds in the pass's because the birds were allways getting ran out of the big ponds ...anny way we did have a blast

I use to hunt Venice a lot, but I rarely go to Venice anymore..... I have found that Biloxi WMA is better.... Only problem with Biloxi is there are not enough hunters to keep the birds moving.

[marshmaster]

yea but when they have alot of fishermen out there they will get the birds moving....pluse you have to hunt where the birds want to be even though you jump birds out of the area that doent mean they are coming back out there you have to watch all kinds of things manley the wind and the tide when the water is high they will be in the marsh when the water is low they will be in the ponds ,,,but this year biloxi has been nice but it also had its ups and downs like every where here in the south

[ABNRanger]

Took a couple of GA boys with me to Venice. Also remembered why I bought the full floatation model. 4 ft waves at Main Pass and the River with a 30 knot North East Wind.

[marshmaster]

i shot the catfish close to the camps and yea i shot it with bb at 3 feet away and one shot did the trick something i will never forget ......like you said the birds when they come down they have a look around for two or three days and then they got the heck out of dodge because of have no food in sight