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Annual Report

Annual report

Overview

2025 was the 49th year of managed waterfowl hunting at Nayanquing Point. Plantings for year occurred within our normal production window. Corn was planted the last week of May in 2025, which falls directly within our desired planting window. Buckwheat planting began in early July and was wrapped up by mid-July. Overall crop production was excellent. Timely rains and above average temperatures created an excellent growing environment. We did have large areas of corn damaged by sandhill cranes which is becoming more prevalent trend each year. Mitigation strategies are ongoing to minimize crop predation.

The mild, warm weather continued through September providing hunters with a very slow early teal and Canada goose season. For the regular waterfowl season, temps were above normal but only slightly. Ice formed during a more traditional timeframe this season, with the area mostly freezing over around November 10th. The 2025 season was slightly below average in terms of harvest. Harvest declined in all species except pintails (+45%), and green-winged teal (+2.1%). All diver species showed substantial decreases over the 2024 season. The best week of the season was opening week, October 4th – 10th, harvesting an average of 113 ducks per day. The second-best week came later in the season, November 1st – 7th with hunters harvesting 83 ducks a day average.

Draw participation averaged 13 parties per draw this year and a high of 44 parties in one draw on October 19th for the afternoon draw, this was the Sunday of the south zone opener. Several other draws topped 30 parties. Starting the week of November 15th hunter participation began to decline averaging 5 parties per draw with party numbers largely in the single digits. For the two-day split December 13th-14th we had zero participation, like most years, due to ice on the area.

Our best zone on the area was Zone 15 which accounted for 298 of the ducks harvested and 10.45% of the total harvest. Zone 15 was close second with 291 ducks harvested, with Zones 11, 24, and 10 rounding out the top five zones.

Nayanquing Point data

Grand totals

Area/category Hunter trips Ducks Ducks per trip % of harvest
North crops 371 220 1.69 6.83%
Middle crops 1598 1943 0.82 60.36%
South crops 801 698 1.15 21.68%
East and south marsh 389 358 1.09 11.12%
z-Totals 3159 3219 4.74296 100.00%

Cropped areas

Area/category Hunter trips Ducks Ducks per hunter trip % of harvest
2 north crops 13 2 0.15 0.07%
3 north crops 15 0 0.00 0.00%
4 north crops 30 23 0.77 0.81%
5 north crops 105 66 0.63 2.31%
6 north crops 89 63 0.71 2.21%
7 north crops 25 11 0.44 0.39%
8 north crops 94 55 0.59 1.93%
10 middle crops 102 161 1.58 5.64%
11 middle crops 201 284 1.41 9.95%
12 middle crops 160 197 1.23 6.91%
13 middle crops 155 213 1.37 7.47%
14 middle crops 202 298 1.48 10.45%
15 middle crops 203 291 1.43 10.20%
16 middle crops 109 74 0.68 2.59%
17 middle crops 149 116 0.78 4.07%
18 middle crops 120 52 0.43 1.82%
19 middle crops 69 77 1.12 2.70%
20 middle crops 117 172 1.47 6.03%
21 south crops 59 37 0.63 1.30%
22 south crops 99 64 0.65 2.24%
23 south crops 138 144 1.04 5.05%
24 south crops 161 167 1.04 5.85%
25 south crops 166 148 0.89 5.19%
26 south crops 178 138 0.78 4.84%
z-Totals 2759 2853 1.03 100%

Weekly totals

Date Ducks Geese Hunter trips Cripples Ducks per hunter trip
9/1, 9/09 11 2 39 0 0.28
09/10, 9/30 0 9 18 0 0.5
9/20, 9/21 45 6 43 12 1.04
10/4, 10/10 792 17 600 125 1.32
10/11, 10/17 463 9 437 63 1.05
10/18, 10/24 424 15 530 66 0.8
10/25, 10/31 397 10 382 56 1.03
11/1, 11/7 580 11 483 65 1.2
11/8, 11/14 199 3 269 18 0.73
11/15, 11/21 93 3 88 8 1.05
11/22, 11/28 215 2 266 31 0.8
11/29, 11/30 0 0 4 0 0
12/13, 12/14 0 0 0 0 0
z-Totals 3,219 87 3,159 444 1.01

Species totals

Species/category Total % of harvest
Mallard 1508 46.85%
Green-winged teal 719 22.34%
Wood duck 253 7.86%
Black duck 60 1.86%
Blue-winged teal 28 0.87%
Pintail 280 8.70%
Wigeon 158 4.91%
Shoveler 53 1.65%
Gadwall 70 2.17%
Ring-necked 36 1.12%
Redhead 4 0.12%
Scaup 3 0.09%
Bufflehead 6 0.19%
Goldeneye 7 0.22%
Ruddy duck 2 0.06%
Canvasback 0 0.00%
Merganser 14 0.43%
Other 0 0.00%
Unknown 18 0.56%
z-Total 3,219 100.00%