Thanks Ryan i didn't know that but i don't duck hunt, my stepdad i called a duck nut made all kinds of wooden ducks and was awesome at painting them accordingly. He made canes with duck heads, he burned the details you get the picture. Sadly he's passed but i got to pick some that i liked, at one point my grandmother counted over 100 that he had made to sell.
@@underthetrees4780 only a few lakes here in western Texas, not many opportunities. Yes, I have a 20' Crappie Boat to serve as a duck blind? maybe? over/under 12 gauge. maybe we can figure it out with crappie boats and dove hunting equipment?
We grew up on stories of the greatest waterfowl hunting in North America though it had long since ended for us. At the turn of the 20th century there was a Grand Kankakee Marsh over 300,000 acres with so many waterfowl trains used to carry thousands to Chicago every day for sale. The State of Indiana ended that by systematically draining that resource with what now is a ditch at the expense of hundreds who made a living there hunting and fishing supplying food for tens of thousands. That opened thousands of acres of rich farmland yes and changed everything on the flyway for ever.
Read your comment on Kankakee region, and looked it up via “Waterfowl Tomorrow” printed by Department of Interior in 1964. Per se the index does not list Kankakee as a reference, but I did find a narrative on such in the Chapter: Mississippi Flyway, page 186-“Much remains of this legacy of production, migration, and wintering habitat. In less than a century man (with his technical skills and machines) has wrought changes. Before 1900 for example, Iowa had an estimated 6 million acres of prairie, profusely dotted with small wetlands. For ducks, it was an ideal breeding range. Now, a few dozen marshes, most of them saved through a state acquisition plan are all that remain.” “Similar habitat once existed in Illinois and Indiana, but little of it remains. Among the famous large breeding marshes, the Kankakee in Indiana exemplified one almost completely claimed by agriculture.” So yeah, I see your point….but 6 million acres in Iowa compared to 300,00 acres in Kankakee? Quite a number comparison don’t you think? Here, another quote from the same book, Chapter: The Cornfielders, page 431-432…..”During the 1900’s, the Chicago River was reversed from Lake Michigan, and the level of the Illinois River was lifted 3 feet (this action I found out later was to flush the cattle carcasses dumped in the Illinois River via the Chicago Stockyards causing a drastic situation affecting the health of the City of Chicago). “Many lowland nut forests were flooded and killed. As the watershed was put to soybeans turbidity and siltation clouded the clear backwaters, and most of the best aquatic duck foods were smothered. “When the alluvial forests perished in the rising river, duck hunting nearly ended along many parts of the Illinois. The Sangamon River Delta, comprising 15,000 acres of prime duck habitat, was the first and hardest hit of the major hunting areas. It was here that the first DELIBERATE duck baiting began in the early 1900’s- a manmade substitute for the vanished attraction of natural food supplies. Acorns and pecans were gone. They were supplanted almost overnight by hunting areas INTENSELY SALTED to corn”. My point is this- you can speak what was lost decades ago, but Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and other mid Mississippi Flyway states all found ways to hold the ducks from what was lost in natural areas as described. The Canada goose used to migrate to my State of Louisiana until your state decided they should fly no farther. Louisiana used to be No.1 in duck hunting until your state and others decided with flooded unharvested corn to hold the birds in your area, ice or no ice. FYI, Louisiana is now No.5 and falling in duck harvest……so lost habitat for y’all hasn’t been a total loss for the ducks and geese harvested……corn was the answer more than a century ago, and now that USFWS after 1997 has made it so private and public areas like Indiana can assure the ducks don’t leave……gee, who really loses then?🤔
Such good topics, I just wished you went more in depth and made a longer video
Man such an informative video this video gives such an understanding you really are a good teacher
Video came in just in time!👍
Thanks Ryan i didn't know that but i don't duck hunt, my stepdad i called a duck nut made all kinds of wooden ducks and was awesome at painting them accordingly. He made canes with duck heads, he burned the details you get the picture. Sadly he's passed but i got to pick some that i liked, at one point my grandmother counted over 100 that he had made to sell.
awesome!!! you learned me something today
Never considered Waterfowl Duck Hunting before...
But I think I just found some inspiration.
Thank Ryan Kirby Art!
EMBRACE The AWE!
It's a great way to get into hunting, and supports so much great conservation, buy a Duck stamp, even if you don't hunt
@@underthetrees4780 only a few lakes here in western Texas, not many opportunities. Yes, I have a 20' Crappie Boat to serve as a duck blind? maybe?
over/under 12 gauge. maybe we can figure it out with crappie boats and dove hunting equipment?
We grew up on stories of the greatest waterfowl hunting in North America though it had long since ended for us. At the turn of the 20th century there was a Grand Kankakee Marsh over 300,000 acres with so many waterfowl trains used to carry thousands to Chicago every day for sale.
The State of Indiana ended that by systematically draining that resource with what now is a ditch at the expense of hundreds who made a living there hunting and fishing supplying food for tens of thousands.
That opened thousands of acres of rich farmland yes and changed everything on the flyway for ever.
Read your comment on Kankakee region, and looked it up via “Waterfowl Tomorrow” printed by Department of Interior in 1964.
Per se the index does not list Kankakee as a reference, but I did find a narrative on such in the Chapter: Mississippi Flyway, page 186-“Much remains of this legacy of production, migration, and wintering habitat. In less than a century man (with his technical skills and machines) has wrought changes. Before 1900 for example, Iowa had an estimated 6 million acres of prairie, profusely dotted with small wetlands. For ducks, it was an ideal breeding range. Now, a few dozen marshes, most of them saved through a state acquisition plan are all that remain.”
“Similar habitat once existed in Illinois and Indiana, but little of it remains. Among the famous large breeding marshes, the Kankakee in Indiana exemplified one almost completely claimed by agriculture.”
So yeah, I see your point….but 6 million acres in Iowa compared to 300,00 acres in Kankakee? Quite a number comparison don’t you think?
Here, another quote from the same book, Chapter: The Cornfielders, page 431-432…..”During the 1900’s, the Chicago River was reversed from Lake Michigan, and the level of the Illinois River was lifted 3 feet (this action I found out later was to flush the cattle carcasses dumped in the Illinois River via the Chicago Stockyards causing a drastic situation affecting the health of the City of Chicago). “Many lowland nut forests were flooded and killed. As the watershed was put to soybeans turbidity and siltation clouded the clear backwaters, and most of the best aquatic duck foods were smothered.
“When the alluvial forests perished in the rising river, duck hunting nearly ended along many parts of the Illinois. The Sangamon River Delta, comprising 15,000 acres of prime duck habitat, was the first and hardest hit of the major hunting areas. It was here that the first DELIBERATE duck baiting began in the early 1900’s- a manmade substitute for the vanished attraction of natural food supplies. Acorns and pecans were gone. They were supplanted almost overnight by hunting areas INTENSELY SALTED to corn”.
My point is this- you can speak what was lost decades ago, but Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and other mid Mississippi Flyway states all found ways to hold the ducks from what was lost in natural areas as described. The Canada goose used to migrate to my State of Louisiana until your state decided they should fly no farther. Louisiana used to be No.1 in duck hunting until your state and others decided with flooded unharvested corn to hold the birds in your area, ice or no ice. FYI, Louisiana is now No.5 and falling in duck harvest……so lost habitat for y’all hasn’t been a total loss for the ducks and geese harvested……corn was the answer more than a century ago, and now that USFWS after 1997 has made it so private and public areas like Indiana can assure the ducks don’t leave……gee, who really loses then?🤔
Pacific flyways the best flyway. I’ll die on this hill.
Waterfowl definitely follow interstates.
Killed several bands this year in Missouri 3 from Manitoba and one from South Dakota
Best one is pacific, then missippi, then central eastern is fake news I’ll die on that hill 😂