<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4dZ5Bn_1Gs96l8O00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4dZ5Bn_1Gs96l8O00" width="1073" height="264" ></figure>This weekend’s cold front and colder front predicted to push Friday into south Louisiana — the forecast is calling for a 38-degree morning in seven days — has duck hunters more than ready to take to blinds in Louisiana’s West Zone for Saturday’s first segment of a 60-day season.The East Zone begins its run Nov. 21.The fly in the ointment here is water or the lack of it on the ground in fields and marshes.Wildlife and Fisheries Waterfowl Study Group’s annual preseason survey will come later this week, but the boots-on-the-ground report is ducks will be concentrated because of a lack of rainfall in an extra-dry October.One call from a military veteran grandpa prepping a blind for a hunt with his grandson told of enough teal, gray ducks and lingering squeelers to make for a worthwhile trip in Cameron Parish. This weekend had special hunts for honorably discharged veterans and youth-only.Some ponds northward through Iowa, Louisiana, toward Eunice held ducks, too.Don’t know how this started, but a message arrived about bird hunters not needing a HIP certificate to hunt this year.Not so: Hunters 18 and older need to complete the no-fee Harvest Information Program survey to get the certificate needed to be legal for migratory bird/waterfowl seasons. Yes, you need a basic state hunting license and waterfowl stamp at that age, but a federal waterfowl stamp is required for hunters 16 and older.Know, too, shooting hours are 30 minutes before sunrise to sunset and the daily limit is six, of which you can have no more than four mallards and no more than two mallard hens, three wood ducks, two canvasbacks, two redheads, one black duck and three pintails of which only one can be a hen.For scaup, hunters need to be aware that the limit is one per day for the first 15 days of the season, then two per day for the remaining 45 days of the 60-day season. The limit for coots (poule d’eau) is 15 and the daily limit for mergansers is five (of which only two can be hooded mergansers). The limits for poule d’eau and mergansers are in addition to the six allowed for ducks.And, if you’re hunting a wildlife management area, and there are several solid waterfowl hunting opportunities, you need to check the state’s 2026-2027 hunting pamphlet to determine regulations for that specific WMA, including the need for permits and daily-use requirements.<h2>Open for travel</h2>The Corps of Engineers in New Orleans issued a statement about a levee enlargement project in St. Rose and stated its work crews have completed work and reopened St. Charles Parish’s all-weather access road atop the new levee.<h2>The commission</h2>The biggest news coming from Thursday’s Wildlife and Fisheries Commission meeting is that the Rockefeller Refuge is reinstating the 18-inch length limit and other black bass regulations on Bussey Brake.The new regulations include:<ul><li>A maximum length limit of 18 inches for black bass;</li><li>An allowance of one bass longer than 22 inches “may be temporarily retained in an aerated livewell immediately before weighing on a personal scale or LDWF-provided certified scale;” that bass must be immediately released into Bussey Brake Reservoir following weighing; and, all anglers in the boat must stop fishing until the 22-inch long bass has been released;</li><li>A five-bass daily creel limit for fish less than 18 inches long.</li><li>Since this was passes as an emergency declaration, a formal Notice of Intent must follow to make the rules permanent. Written comments must be received by Dec. 28, and submitted to Ryan Daniel, Inland Fisheries Section, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, 368 Century Link Dr., Monroe, LA, 71203, or via e-mail to rdaniel@wlf.la.gov</li></ul></div></body>

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This weekend’s cold front and colder front predicted to push Friday into south Louisiana — the forecast is calling for a 38-degree morning in seven days — has duck hunters more than ready to take to blinds in Louisiana’s West Zone for Saturday’s first segment of a 60-day season.

Duck hunters welcome much colder fronts

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This weekend’s cold front and colder front predicted to push Friday into south Louisiana — the forecast is calling for a 38-degree morning in seven days — 

Duck hunters welcome much colder fronts

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