With duck season starting Nov. 14, will upward trends continue in La.?

Louisiana’s long-awaited “big duck” waterfowl hunting season gets underway Saturday, Nov. 14, in the West Zone. If increases in the number of duck hunters, duck harvests and duck hunter efforts repeat like they did from 2024-25 to 2025-26, there will be more waterfowlers, more ducks bagged and more duck hunting efforts in the marsh, rice fields, swamps, bottomlands, etc., this season in the Sportsman’s Paradise. The prolonged cool weather throughout the state should act as a catalyst for all three categories tabulated each year by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. All we need, of course, are the ducks. Here’s hoping many are down in numbers. Last season, an estimated 80,200 duck hunters hunted at least once in Louisiana, a 22.8 percent increase over the 72,500 who hunted in 2024-25, according to the 2026 LDWF Louisiana Big and Small Game Survey released in June 2026.

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