In case you haven’t noticed it is wet outside.

The rain has seemed endless, at least daily showers that are a little more intense than we normally get here in Southeast Texas.

Last week we talked about how the wet conditions contributed to smaller trout catches as evidenced by the OCARC tournament as well as reports from local anglers.

This week the rain continues and although we have not had the catastrophic deluge Louisiana has had, we are just a few months off from the same kind of food event and have a lot of freshwater draining into the system.

How will that impact our local outdoors scene?

For saltwater fishing we can expect much of the same. The biggest trout will be on the southern end of the Sabine Lake system and some of the very best fishing will be in the channel south of the causeway and out to the jetties. There will be pockets of good fish throughout the lake but the biggest will be on the south end.

Dove season is just around the corner and nothing messes up an opener like super wet fields. If the first few days of dove season feature downpours on top of the already wet fields, it could be a bust.

Early teal season comes just after dove season and there is plenty of freshwater to greet the birds this year. That means they will likely be more scattered and a little more challenging for hunters to find. Unless something drastic happens like a drought for the next month they won’t have to all pile into heavily pressured flooded fields in Jefferson and Chambers County to find fresh water.

There will be good dove and teal hunts to be had but these are the possible scenarios if our super we conditions continue.

With bull redfish season about to be in full force here locally I thought I would share from my personal fishing log regarding Sabine reds and a similar note on specks.

“For the first time the dolphins weren’t here. And for the first time we did not catch a single bull red. No mullet or big shad here either.”

What does that tell you about the fish? The thing that jumps out at me the most is there seemed to be a direct correlation between a lack of dolphins and a lack of baitfish. That in turns ended up with no bull redfish or any redfish for that matter.

This particular spot has given up hundreds of 30 plus redfish over the years and only on two occasions have we not caught oversized reds here. On both of those occasions there were no dolphins. Now when traveling to different locations we know that locating dolphins feeding on the edge of a jetty often equals bull redfish presence.

It is also helpful to put information about the stomach contents of fish you catch in log form.

I have examined the stomach contents of most fish I have cleaned since I have been a little boy.

Whether it was the stomach totally full of small blue crabs in a ling or the sand eels in speckled trout, I learned something about the fish that could directly apply to catching them.

The knowledge to greatly alter my tackle in relation to the nearly impenetrable skull of a flounder came from drying out some of their skulls and discussing this with a friend who did the same thing. Do not be afraid to dissect and study what you catch and keep good notes.

They will help you catch fish later down the road.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has released its report on 2016 Trends in Duck Breeding Populations, based on surveys conducted in May and early June by FWS and the Canadian Wildlife Service. Overall to officials with Ducks Unlimited, duck numbers in the survey area are statistically similar to last year and remain steady.

“Total populations were estimated at 48.4 million breeding ducks in the traditional survey area, which is 38 percent above the 1955-2015 long-term average. Last year’s estimate was 49.5 million birds. The projected mallard fall flight index is 13.5 million birds, similar to the 2015 estimate of 13.8 million.”

Be looking for a detailed breakdown of the duck species counts and how they will impact hunters here in the marshes and prairies of Southeast Texas and on the big lakes and timber of East Texas.

Certain species count more than others for us and we will give not only a seasonal but historical breakdown.

(To contact Chester Moore, e-mail him at chester@kingdomzoo.com. You can hear him on “Moore Outdoors” Fridays from 6-7 p.m. on Newstalk AM 560 KLVI and via the Iheartradio APP on your mobile devices.)