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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.

Bob Brown by season

Season	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
2021-2022	58	6,482	2,143	3.02
2022-2023	Nothing published
2023-2024	Nothing published
2024-2025	Nothing published
2025-2026	58	4,398	1,692	2.60

Per hunter is total ducks divided by total hunters for the season. 3 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	12	588	346	1.70
25 to 35°F	34	2,829	1,046	2.70
35 to 45°F	37	3,989	1,298	3.07
45 to 55°F	29	3,140	1,016	3.09
55°F and up	4	334	129	2.59

By morning wind, all five seasons

Wind	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
Under 5 mph	23	2,153	722	2.98
5 to 10 mph	49	4,442	1,605	2.77
10 to 15 mph	32	3,076	1,102	2.79
15 mph and up	12	1,209	406	2.98

By river trend, all five seasons

River	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
Falling	19	1,284	560	2.29
Steady	94	9,220	3,177	2.90
Rising	3	376	98	3.84

Falling or rising means the river moved 10% or more over the three days before the posted date. River is Missouri River at St. Joseph, MO, about 25 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 Falls City Brenner Field, about 20 miles away, for sunrise to mid-morning on MDC's posted date.

2025-2026 every posted day (58)

Date	Ducks	Hunters	Lo/Hi °F	Wind mph	River cfs
11-01	158	33	34/47	11	36,900
11-02	94	38	28/58	10	37,000
11-03	115	39	37/63	6	36,900
11-04	116	34	42/68	8	36,300
11-05	112	31	38/59	12	36,300
11-06	118	38	32/66	11	35,400
11-07	81	38	42/69	11	35,300
11-08	103	39	35/50	8	35,500
11-09	178	39	20/34	14	36,200
11-10	195	40	20/36	7	36,600
11-11	171	39	32/64	9	36,700
11-12	138	38	34/67	5	36,600
11-13	149	33	38/72	8	36,500
11-14	100	37	43/73	4	36,200
11-15	79	41	48/73	8	35,800
11-16	115	47	38/56	6	35,600
11-17	119	32	41/59	9	35,500
11-18	103	31	40/57	7	36,100
11-19	107	31	43/51	2	37,100
11-20	155	38	38/52	4	36,800
11-21	96	34	38/44	10	37,300
11-22	116	40	34/62	5	38,100
11-23	116	40	30/62	1	37,500
11-24	115	44	46/53	7	37,500
11-25	149	50	35/51	14	37,800
11-26	149	44	27/41	15	37,900
11-27	125	44	22/40	2	36,900
11-28	112	46	21/31	9	35,200
11-29	165	38	21/35	11	32,900
11-30	78	38	17/22	13	31,200
12-01	83	43	14/25	5	29,200
12-02	38	32	9/35	4	26,600
12-03	68	27	14/37	9	26,200
12-04	7	18	7/27	3	25,200
12-05	11	19	24/41	6	25,500
12-06	11	22	22/40	7	25,700
12-07	5	21	20/35	13	24,800
12-08	3	5	19/38	9	24,500
12-09	15	6	29/58	6	24,900
12-10	8	3	29/52	18	25,600
12-11	23	13	27/42	11	26,700
12-12	16	19	21/33	10	28,700
12-13	4	18	8/21	10	27,500
12-14	10	4	4/24	0	26,500
12-16	0	2	26/56	7	24,100
12-17	2	4	27/55	1	23,300
12-18	30	23	21/51	17	23,500
12-19	1	24	15/42	7	24,200
12-20	9	31	25/45	15	25,200
12-21	0	15	19/49	6	25,100
12-22	1	17	34/60	13	24,800
12-23	27	19	32/62	6	24,400
12-24	46	13	41/52	4	25,400
12-26	46	29	39/59	9	26,100
12-27	71	29	37/58	10	26,000
12-28	125	38	13/52	27	25,600
12-29	11	33	10/23	18	25,300
12-30	0	11	11/43	3	24,900

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.