Before modern duck limits, before today’s federal waterfowl rules, and before most hunters could imagine a six-bird bag, one Louisiana market hunting operation was sending 2,000 ducks a day to New Orleans, according to a story told on The Southern Outdoorsmen.
In a video hosted by Andrew Maxwell and Jacob Myers, Louisiana hunter and waterfowl historian Dale Bordelon described the old market hunting days around Lake Arthur and Lacassine, where local Frenchmen hunted ducks not for sport in the modern sense, but to supply food markets and restaurants.
Bordelon said the most famous market hunter in the story was Paul Champagne, who hunted with Fred Dudley on roughly 10,000 acres in southwest Louisiana…