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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.

2025-2026 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.

2025-2026 every posted day (59)

Date	Ducks	Hunters	Lo/Hi °F	Wind mph	River cfs
11-01	135	68	39/48	4	232
11-02	218	68	29/54	2	232
11-03	118	59	33/64	3	231
11-04	163	49	44/71	8	220
11-05	137	59	35/61	5	212
11-06	152	56	33/65	6	201
11-07	147	67	43/69	3	197
11-08	194	71	38/53	4	194
11-09	316	72	24/37	11	185
11-10	211	69	21/38	6	185
11-11	234	79	29/59	11	181
11-12	174	73	30/67	0	181
11-13	105	71	35/69	5	179
11-14	96	69	42/75	7	178
11-15	83	89	51/76	5	178
11-16	90	72	36/56	2	176
11-17	150	71	41/62	9	172
11-18	92	73	41/64	3	172
11-19	116	61	43/50	2	171
11-20	124	74	46/51	2	175
11-21	289	80	42/49	10	199
11-22	161	85	34/58	2	455
11-23	207	86	33/48	1	501
11-24	162	86	46/55	4	362
11-25	162	82	37/57	3	324
11-26	281	93	30/41	13	303
11-27	116	85	22/39	2	246
11-28	225	107	17/31	1	215
11-29	336	94	25/36	10	232
11-30	108	109	17/26	9	587
12-01	43	87	17/24	2	566
12-02	47	73	13/32	6	401
12-03	52	46	16/38	3	321
12-04	1	35	8/23	3	277
12-05	4	45	15/43	9	236
12-06	10	55	21/40	2	252
12-07	18	51	15/35	9	256
12-08	19	28	14/36	4	249
12-09	44	47	31/52	7	235
12-10	87	49	27/53	15	239
12-11	47	49	26/34	5	258
12-12	39	68	27/33	5	250
12-13	55	58	6/27	7	238
12-14	0	21	2/19	2	197
12-15	0	9	15/46	11	186
12-16	23	19	23/52	9	216
12-17	30	43	25/53	0	223
12-18	102	48	22/55	10	240
12-19	15	66	17/37	4	233
12-20	21	85	23/48	6	219
12-21	17	28	17/46	3	215
12-22	37	52	36/56	6	215
12-23	47	47	30/63	1	230
12-24	67	53	38/58	4	251
12-26	86	79	44/54	7	254
12-27	116	80	43/54	6	265
12-28	169	92	13/55	11	279
12-29	42	56	11/22	12	731
12-30	29	56	11/43	8	1,290

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.