aunt betty wrote:Don't feel bad about losing one field. I'm losing a whole state.
AGFC is taking about having special site-drawings to exclude oos hunters. That's crazy but the locals been complainin' and want special local priveledges. I understand. I'll find somewhere else.
Rick wrote:I've only seen second hand accounts but gathered that the OOSer limitations under discussion only targeted some WMAs, so even if passed, could spare you - or cover you up in displaced OOSers...
As for the "good old days," they seem to come and go, http://flyways.us/status-of-waterfowl/population-estimates/2015-total-breeding-duck-population-estimates, even without factoring favorable weather.
My own "good old days," duck number-wise, were the mid-90s through 2001 or so. The 10pt days were OK, but not often the slaughter many seem to "remember" in my area. And the late '80's crunch that followed really sucked - unless you targeted our previously mostly neglected geese. Little doubt those sorry duck years made the late '90s shine all the brighter in memory and I didn't keep records, other than camp time sheets, for anything prior to 2007. But there was one late '90s September teal season I thought exceptional enough to talley those time sheets for it, and my parties killed 488 teal in 16 days. And near the peak of that period, we shot 14 drake wigeon and 16 drake grays on consecutive days to get four buster mounting birds of each before filling on other ducks. That's over, might not kill 14 wigeon in a season now.
But while those glory days took a dive after 2000-2001, we still have it pretty dang good most years, and it's always bounced back after the stinkers - pound timber.
DComeaux wrote:Looks like old rice fields turned cow pastures and waterweed gardens may be on the way out in the next few years.
http://www.katc.com/story/27666015/new-cuba-relations-could-benefit-rice-farmers
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