Missouri/Kansas

[JABIII]

Missouri waterfowl

•FOUNTAIN GROVE: Low waterfowl numbers. Hunting has been poor. Ice on marshes, but some open water in Pool 2. On Sunday, 21 hunters took 23 ducks and one goose.

•SWAN LAKE: 100,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 26,000 geese (mostly snows and blues).

•SQUAW CREEK: 135,800 ducks (mostly mallards); 80,000 snow geese; 4,110 Canada geese; 1,000 whitefront geese.

•BOB BROWN: 30,000 ducks (mostly mallards). Hunting has been poor. 90 to 95 percent ice-covered. On Sunday, 29 hunters took 18 ducks.

•GRAND PASS: 180,000 ducks (mostly mallards). Marshes are ice-covered. Hunting has been fair to good. On Sunday, 55 hunters took 138 ducks and 49 geese.

•FOUR RIVERS: 1,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 600 geese (mostly snows and blues). Marshes are totally ice-covered. On Sunday, two hunters took six ducks.

•SCHELL-OSAGE: 12,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 30,000 to 60,000 snow geese; less than 1,000 Canada geese. Hunting has been poor. Marshes are totally ice-covered.

•SMITHVILLE: Less than 500 ducks; 250 snow geese. Hunting has been poor.

•OTTER SLOUGH: 25,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 6,000 snow geese. Hunting has been good. Sheet ice on the marshes. On Sunday, 93 hunters took 309 ducks.

•DUCK CREEK: 8,100 ducks (mostly mallards); 50 Canada geese. Hunting has been fair. Marshes are 90 percent ice-covered. On Sunday, 120 hunters took 199 ducks.

Kansas waterfowl

•CHEYENNE BOTTOMS: 39,000 ducks (mostly gadwalls, teal, mallards); 150,000 geese. Hunting has been fair. Marshes are mostly ice-covered. Hunters averaged 2.3 birds per day over the last week.

•MARAIS DES CYGNES: 5,000 ducks (mostly mallards). Hunting has been poor. Marshes are ice-covered, but ice is hazardous.

•NEOSHO: 10,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 400 Canada geese. Hunting has been poor to fair. Ice on marshes, but there is some open water in Pool 2.

•FLINT HILLS: 3,500 ducks (mix of dabblers). Hunting has been poor. Marshes are totally ice-covered.

•PERRY: 15,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 1,500 Canada geese. Hunting has been fair.

•TUTTLE CREEK: Low waterfowl numbers. Ice on marshes. Hunting has been poor.

•MILFORD: Low waterfowl numbers. Marshes are totally ice-covered. Hunting has been poor.

•QUIVIRA: Declining waterfowl numbers. Ice on marshes. Whooping cranes have left area, so hunting is open again.

•MELVERN: Low duck numbers; 400 geese (half snows, half Canadas). Ice on marshes. Hunting has been poor.

•CLINTON: 1,000 ducks on the lake; 200 Canada geese. Hunting has been poor.

•HILLSDALE: 650 ducks; 100 Canada geese. Hunting has been poor.

•KIRWIN: 90,000 ducks; 87,000 Canada geese; 50,000 snow geese. Hunting has been excellent. Whooping cranes have left, so public hunting area is open again.

•GLEN ELDER: 3,950 ducks; 26,500 geese (60 percent snows). Goose hunting has been good, duck hunting has been poor to fair.

•McPHERSON WETLANDS: Low waterfowl numbers. Ice on marshes. Hunting has been poor.

•JAMESTOWN: Low waterfowl numbers. Ice on marshes. Hunting has been poor.

[Candor]

Any #s on Ten Mile Pond ?

[JABIII]

They had about 15,000 mallards last I checked, Candor. Unfortunately for those thinking of running out to Ten Mile or Otter Slough, you heard about it 5 years too late. The good old days are over, the land around we used to use as a backup to the draw have all been leased up and are charging $300 a hunt for a guided hunt by a damn Missourian, and then DU wrote an article on the area and teetotally screwed it up. They are now placing ALL residents at the front of the lines for drawings ahead of OOSers. That pretty much assures no chance of getting drawn if the ducks are there... Look to the other WMAs and Refuges.

[JABIII]

http://www.mdc.mo.gov/cgi-bin/mdcdev...urvey/main.cgi

[Candor]

Thx. Don't want to go there but in the SEast heel of MO you can see the spacing of birds across the state and what will be in AR with a bit more weather.

[JABIII]

New numbers...

Missouri waterfowl

•FOUNTAIN GROVE: 32,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 500 to 1,000 Canada geese. On Monday, 20 hunters shot 62 ducks and 14 geese.

•SWAN LAKE: 50,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 25,000 geese (mostly snows and blues). Goose hunting has been poor.

•SQUAW CREEK: 193,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 70,000 snow geese; 1,500 Canada geese.

•BOB BROWN: 15,000 ducks (mostly mallards). Ice is melting. Hunting has been good. On Sunday, 19 hunters took 50 ducks.

•GRAND PASS: 214,000 ducks (mostly mallards). Ice is melting. Hunting has been good. On Monday, 86 hunters took 280 ducks.

•FOUR RIVERS: 17,000 ducks (mostly mallards); few geese. Hunting has been fair. On Monday, hunters averaged 2.1 ducks per person.

•SCHELL-OSAGE: 12,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 65,000 snow geese; 800 Canada geese. Ice is melting. On Monday, 16 hunters took 44 ducks and 6 geese.

•SMITHVILLE: 2,500 snow geese, fair duck numbers. Hunting has been fair.

•MONTROSE: 2,900 ducks; 700 Canada geese. As of Sunday, 129 hunters had taken 337 ducks and nine geese in the season.

•0TTER SLOUGH: 33,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 43,000 snow geese. Hunting has been good. On Monday, 81 hunters took 292 ducks.

•DUCK CREEK: 18,100 ducks (mostly mallards); 300 to 400 Canada geese. Hunting has been fair. On Monday, 40 hunters took 100 ducks.

Kansas waterfowl

•CHEYENNE BOTTOMS: Fewer than 10,000 ducks (mostly mallards and shovelers); 200,000 geese (mostly snows). Hunting has been poor.

•MARAIS DES CYGNES: Low duck numbers, Hunting has been poor.

•NEOSHO: 15,000 ducks (mostly mallards, green-winged teal). Hunting has been fair. From Dec. 9 to 11, 116 hunters took 151 ducks.

•FLINT HILLS: 8,800 ducks (mostly mallards); 7,200 snow geese; 750 Canada geese. Hunting has been fair. Indian Hills and Maxwell-Hartford marshes have been best.

•PERRY: 1,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 1,500 Canada geese. Hunting has been poor.

•TUTTLE CREEK: 3,100 ducks (mostly mallards); 4,500 Canada geese. Geese have been using the crop fields along the river.

•MILFORD: Low waterfowl numbers. Marshes are totally ice-covered. Hunting has been poor.

•QUIVIRA: 27,000 ducks (mostly mallards); 575,000 geese (half snow geese); 80,000 sandhill cranes. Hunting has been fair.

•MELVERN: 1,500 mallards; 1,500 Canada geese. Hunting has been poor to fair.

•CLINTON: Fewer than 1,000 ducks on the lake. Hunting has been poor.

•HILLSDALE: 350 ducks; 100 snow geese; 50 Canada geese. Hunting has been poor.

•KIRWIN: 50,000 ducks; 80,000 Canada geese; 35,000 snow geese. Hunting has been good.

•GLEN ELDER: 5,500 ducks (60 percent mallards); 15,000 snow geese; 6,000 Canada geese; 1,000 whitefront geese. Goose hunting has been good, duck hunting has been poor to fair.

•McPHERSON WETLANDS: Low waterfowl numbers. Hunting has been poor.

•JAMESTOWN: Low waterfowl numbers. Hunting has been poor.