As the water spreads the ducks are spread thin, we're playing by mother nature's rules now!

      Rain, rain, rain... ducks ducks ducks... while that sounds like a great combo it has thus far crushed the waterfowl season in Eastern Arkansas and West Tennessee.  Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri and Kentucky seem to be the states the most saturated and most effected by the rainfall and flooding.  The normally booming opening weeks of hunting seasons at Reelfoot lake and along the Cache and White Rivers in Arkansas have suffered with very little hunter success.  The LBL area of Kentucky has also been hit hard by the flooding.

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Louisiana's December aerial waterfowl survey mirrored what most hunters have been experiencing: There are more ducks this year than last.

Larry Renolds, the waterfowl study leader for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, said the estimated 2.17 million ducks was 34% higher than last year but remains 22% below the long-term average of 2.82 million. In an interesting note for local hunters, Renolds reported that the 799,000 ducks estimated in southeast Louisiana was up 63% from last month. That Number is much higher than the 555,000 estimated last December.