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Five seasons of area totals.

What MDC published for each managed area, 2021-2022 through 2025-2026. Whole-area numbers only. MDC does not publish blind or pool history, so this is each area as a whole, not a spot within it.

Fountain Grove by season

Season	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
2021-2022	60	11,098	5,340	2.08
2022-2023	56	4,378	1,261	3.47
2023-2024	58	12,341	4,915	2.51
2024-2025	59	12,923	5,395	2.40
2025-2026	59	6,369	3,802	1.68

Per hunter is total ducks divided by total hunters for the season. 2 posted records are left out because MDC posted more than one for the same day or gave no hunter count.

2022-2023 day by day

Every row shares the same dates, so read straight down. Gaps are days MDC did not report, not zero-bird days. Tap a season in the table above to switch.

By morning temperature, all five seasons

Temp	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
Below 25°F	21	1,467	1,161	1.26
25 to 35°F	64	9,635	4,123	2.34
35 to 45°F	99	19,444	7,791	2.50
45 to 55°F	72	11,411	5,444	2.10
55°F and up	26	2,745	1,139	2.41

By morning wind, all five seasons

Wind	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
Under 5 mph	115	16,574	7,863	2.11
5 to 10 mph	143	23,888	10,433	2.29
10 to 15 mph	32	6,439	2,329	2.76
15 mph and up	2	208	88	2.36

By river trend, all five seasons

River	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
Falling	115	19,071	8,334	2.29
Steady	126	18,539	8,756	2.12
Rising	51	9,499	3,623	2.62

Falling or rising means the river moved 10% or more over the three days before the posted date. River is Grand River near Sumner, MO, about 5 miles from the area. It is a river reading, not the water level in any pool, and MDC controls pool water with pumps and gates.

These tables describe past days. They are not a forecast, a small day count means a shaky number, and one thing lining up with another does not mean it caused it. Temperature and wind are from Chillicothe Agri-science Center, about 16 miles away, for sunrise to mid-morning on MDC's posted date.

2022-2023 every posted day (56)

Date	Ducks	Hunters	Lo/Hi °F	Wind mph	River cfs
10-22	14	3	55/85	8	155
10-23	8	4	64/86	9	156
10-29	109	20	36/67	2	236
10-30	57	20	49/64	2	229
10-31	37	18	42/71	1	215
11-01	29	24	37/78	3	199
11-02	31	16	45/75	4	189
11-03	19	18	58/77	15	180
11-04	93	18	44/70	6	191
11-05	166	28	40/54	8	1,240
11-06	158	31	40/66	4	3,680
11-07	123	23	40/58	9	2,890
11-08	162	32	45/66	7	1,940
11-09	70	12	54/74	4	1,230
11-10	134	26	36/74	11	875
11-11	132	23	26/37	11	1,710
11-12	137	24	27/31	10	3,240
11-13	134	29	18/39	2	1,520
11-14	130	23	29/41	6	878
11-15	112	20	28/35	1	643
11-16	124	24	20/28	9	534
11-17	106	22	18/39	4	464
11-18	78	23	18/27	10	407
11-19	116	30	17/33	9	328
11-20	49	21	15/47	7	291
11-21	99	26	26/55	4	307
11-22	85	28	22/60	2	326
11-23	105	24	32/58	4	318
11-24	115	28	37/60	2	305
11-25	101	24	27/57	2	308
11-26	125	35	27/53	4	295
11-27	105	27	34/47	8	302
11-28	111	26	25/54	3	293
11-29	97	23	26/65	9	294
11-30	55	23	17/35	9	279
12-01	45	22	17/47	8	262
12-02	82	25	29/59	16	254
12-03	46	22	18/33	7	250
12-04	73	31	20/46	5	251
12-05	54	22	25/51	2	241
12-06	52	17	29/47	3	240
12-07	45	17	24/49	0	244
12-08	70	24	37/49	9	245
12-09	88	27	36/47	5	246
12-10	75	29	35/43	4	247
12-11	37	27	29/41	6	245
12-12	41	19	33/42	8	242
12-13	89	25	39/51	13	398
12-14	47	23	32/41	7	7,650
12-15	93	25	29/35	10	6,700
12-16	73	27	22/30	11	3,930
12-17	33	29	18/28	12	2,210
12-18	5	34	13/31	3	1,120
12-19	3	9	25/39	6	566
12-20	0	7	20/34	7	466
12-21	1	4	19/32	8	415

About this data

Source: Missouri Department of Conservation, Waterfowl Harvest and Hunting Updates (area daily totals); weather: NOAA GHCNh station observations. Pulled 2026-10-13.
MDC does not say whether its date is the hunt day or the day it posted the report. We show it as posted.
No species breakdown and no teal season numbers are published.