Mississippi Coverage
Southwest River Bottoms Duck Migration Forecast
St. Catherine Creek, the Homochitto and the old river chutes below Natchez. Last Mississippi River ground before Louisiana.
See today’s live scoreAll of MS
Season dates: Mississippi duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Southwest River Bottoms is
Southwest River Bottoms is drawn from 8 counties in Mississippi: Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln and Wilkinson. Those are the counties its shape on the DuckCast map is built from, so a hunter in any of them reads this region’s score.
When Southwest River Bottoms peaks
DuckCast’s season model puts the gadwall peak here around early January. This follows the statewide gadwall curve. That is a modelled typical curve, not a prediction for any single year. The actual push depends on cold fronts and freeze-up upstream, which is what the daily score tracks. Always confirm season dates with the state wildlife agency, linked below.
What DuckCast watches upstream of Southwest River Bottoms
2 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Forrest City, AR, about 235 miles north and Searcy, AR, about 250 miles north. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Southwest River Bottoms
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KDGX, the National Weather Service radar at Jackson, about 75 miles northeast of the region’s weather point. That is well outside the region, so treat the radar reading as area context rather than a measurement of this ground. Radar sees every bird in the air, not only ducks, so it confirms or questions the score rather than moving it.
Locations stay generalized
Hunter reports for Southwest River Bottoms are always shown at the region level. DuckCast never collects or displays exact coordinates, so filing a report here never burns a spot.
Also covered in Mississippi
Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.
- South Delta, about 85 miles north
- Pine Belt, about 100 miles east
- Central and the Pearl, about 105 miles northeast
- Central Delta, about 135 miles north
- Coastal Marsh, about 150 miles southeast
- East Prairie and Noxubee, about 185 miles northeast
- North Delta, about 200 miles north
- North Hills Reservoirs, about 215 miles northeast
Across the state line
- Northeast Delta, Louisiana, about 35 miles northwest
- Catahoula and Little River, Louisiana, about 65 miles west
- Ouachita and Boeuf, Louisiana, about 85 miles northwest
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.