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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.

Columbia Bottom by season

Season	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
2021-2022	59	642	796	0.81
2022-2023	5	15	28	0.54
2023-2024	Nothing published
2024-2025	Nothing published
2025-2026	Nothing published

Per hunter is total ducks divided by total hunters for the season.

2021-2022 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	2	15	35	0.43
25 to 35°F	9	49	143	0.34
35 to 45°F	30	355	389	0.91
45 to 55°F	20	208	217	0.96
55°F and up	3	30	40	0.75

By morning wind, all five seasons

Wind	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
Under 5 mph	15	94	163	0.58
5 to 10 mph	23	192	285	0.67
10 to 15 mph	19	286	268	1.07
15 mph and up	7	85	108	0.79

By river trend, all five seasons

River	Days	Ducks	Hunters	Per hunter
Falling	15	234	201	1.16
Steady	42	373	531	0.70
Rising	7	50	92	0.54

Falling or rising means the river moved 10% or more over the three days before the posted date. River is Mississippi River at St. Louis, MO, about 12 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 Alton St Louis Regional Airport, about 8 miles away, for sunrise to mid-morning on MDC's posted date.

2021-2022 every posted day (59)

Date	Ducks	Hunters	Lo/Hi °F	Wind mph	River cfs
10-30	13	12	41/57	13	193,000
10-31	7	11	39/57	14	188,000
11-01	2	12	35/46	6	205,000
11-02	3	9	32/50	6	218,000
11-03	7	7	28/52	2	207,000
11-04	14	10	26/54	1	196,000
11-05	8	4	28/54	3	183,000
11-06	3	14	28/59	3	177,000
11-07	11	15	34/66	3	172,000
11-08	6	3	36/73	9	174,000
11-09	7	10	48/64	4	166,000
11-10	5	9	50/66	8	161,000
11-11	12	12	43/59	15	159,000
11-12	9	14	37/46	16	156,000
11-13	6	12	34/39	13	157,000
11-14	21	14	28/46	14	153,000
11-15	15	8	28/57	9	174,000
11-16	10	4	34/68	5	191,000
11-17	12	13	46/70	12	183,000
11-18	11	11	28/46	11	169,000
11-19	9	11	21/45	3	155,000
11-20	13	14	38/59	8	156,000
11-21	9	12	36/59	1	153,000
11-22	7	16	24/39	9	149,000
11-23	5	16	22/50	8	144,000
11-24	21	17	34/61	18	133,000
11-25	18	12	21/53	15	131,000
11-26	3	21	18/39	3	125,000
11-27	22	16	27/57	6	117,000
11-28	26	17	26/46	11	117,000
11-29	14	14	26/55	11	112,000
11-30	15	11	37/55	6	112,000
12-01	19	11	43/63	5	102,000
12-02	2	10	44/70	12	107,000
12-03	3	13	35/70	6	106,000
12-04	2	17	34/54	11	107,000
12-05	4	16	34/59	10	103,000
12-06	5	17	26/50	22	105,000
12-07	12	14	23/30	7	101,000
12-08	6	15	22/48	8	93,900
12-09	23	12	33/61	16	93,200
12-10	38	11	35/66	11	93,700
12-11	17	18	31/64	20	94,200
12-12	5	19	28/52	9	92,500
12-13	10	18	28/55	8	92,000
12-14	5	13	35/63	7	94,400
12-15	3	9	57/67	17	96,200
12-16	14	16	31/66	11	98,300
12-17	9	9	28/39	10	107,000
12-18	9	18	30/38	14	110,000
12-19	2	20	23/37	4	105,000
12-20	5	19	23/45	8	101,000
12-21	7	13	24/48	5	102,000
12-22	3	16	23/41	2	103,000
12-23	15	19	29/61	13	107,000
12-24	7	21	42/68	15	112,000
12-26	11	18	37/56	7	103,000
12-27	15	18	41/62	11	99,000
12-28	47	15	37/45	11	106,000

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.