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Post by bschwein on Jan 10, 2007 15:36:22 GMT -5
I wish they would have let the south zone like it was last year. Its the same o'l story every year when it goes out early. The ducks start showing up good around christmas or shortly after and it only gets better through January. Season goes out tom. here in the south zone and there are a ton of ducks to shoot in my area. We dont need as much time in early season and I think they should figure a way to extend it late into January. Anybody else in the south zone feel the same way? I vote, shorten the early season again and have a break somewhere for a week allowing season to run late into January.
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Post by dec on Jan 10, 2007 16:20:47 GMT -5
You think it goes out early there, you should spend some time up here in the north zone for ducks and SJBP zone for honkers. It sucks!
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Post by indianagooseman on Jan 10, 2007 17:26:18 GMT -5
It's been that way for as long as I have hunted but according to their survey last year they claim we all said we like it that way. Seems to me they weren't reading the right surveys because I for one have NEVER talked to anyone who likes our season framework.
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Post by supr87gt on Jan 10, 2007 17:36:08 GMT -5
I think the weather sucks either way. I dont know what its supposed to be like over here but I dont think there's really enough of a migration through Indiana to matter. I am comparing this to the Illinois hunting I do but for the most part I saw the same amount of ducks here in the summer that I have seen this "winter" if not more. I also think that the mild weather lets them stay more spread out. If the weather was truely winter-like this year, and everything froze up and the ducks were predictable, would you be proposing the same arguement? It would be too hard to form the season around what the predicted Indiana weather is supposed to be (especially since the weather people cant get it right for tomorrow more or less months in advance).
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Post by stillwatersniper on Jan 10, 2007 19:34:49 GMT -5
Our seasons are pathetic. Who the hell wants to be hunting ducks in t-shirts and shorts under your waders? The only enjoyable day where I wasn't burning up in chest waders was when it was 8 degrees in the morning and of course there were quite a few birds moving and we killed a bunch of birds on the river. There is no way our season should ever end before the 20th of Jan!
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Post by bschwein on Jan 11, 2007 9:36:13 GMT -5
I would propose what i'm saying regardless of the weather. It very seldom gets cold enough here in southern Indiana to freeze out the ducks. Season ran to about the 20th here last year or the year before.(trying to remember) They shortened the early season and thats how it ran longer. And wouldnt you know. We shot a bunch of ducks that last week. I think they need to go back to that same deal. As for the survey, thats a bunch of bull dung. I have yet to find somebody that has voted for the earlier seasons. We are covered up in ducks right now and guess what, Seasons over today. We'll have good numbers through the rest of the month as its the same year after year after year.
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Post by jwkimber45 on Jan 11, 2007 11:34:58 GMT -5
My $.02
A two day early season. Start the reg. season on Dec1 & let it run for the remaining 58 days.
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Post by bschwein on Jan 11, 2007 12:14:05 GMT -5
A 2 or 3 day early season. It can start during thanksgiving since alot of people are off for a few days and family's get together to hunt then it should go back out for about a week then run the rest of the Dec. and January. We need to get together and write the Biologist and flood them with emails of support for this since somehow theres nobody that I know that has ever filled out a survey.
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Post by dec on Jan 11, 2007 12:31:43 GMT -5
A 2 or 3 day early season. It can start during thanksgiving since alot of people are off for a few days and family's get together to hunt then it should go back out for about a week then run the rest of the Dec. and January. We need to get together and write the Biologist and flood them with emails of support for this since somehow theres nobody that I know that has ever filled out a survey. I filled one out last year and one other time, 2 or 3 years ago. The lame thing about the survey as I recall, is that they give you options A, B, or C type of thing to choose from. So, no matter what, you are kind of boxed in to what they already have pre-conceived. They do let you comment at the end, to which I've written a couple pages in length as to my thoughts. I can see an early weekend to shoot wood chickens and then for all I care they could hold off until Dec. to open duck and goose up and then leave it open until the days run out. Yes, some years it will freeze out and limit hunting, but at least where I'm at, there is generally enough open water hold birds and allow for some hunting, if nothing else field hunting (my favorite anyway). |
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Post by firstwd on Jan 11, 2007 12:44:40 GMT -5
Since we have had a different Biologist almost every year over the past few we need to give the new one a chance to work some things out. The way Adam explained things to me is the Feds give a box of dates, and a number of days He has to put in that box. Do I feel things are perfect, no. The current changes in Federal regs pertaining to nuisances waterfowl could let all of the October days come off the main season days. This year, that would add another week in January.
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Post by hoosierhunter2 on Jan 11, 2007 15:07:58 GMT -5
I couldn't agree more! 2 day weekend in early and then all of Dec. and Jan. for ducks. This has been a tough year to try and make any sense of season dates though. It's just too bad that we're now going to finally get some winter weather and it's too late! Oh well maybe it'll push all those honkers from up north down to us! Good luck on the geese guys!
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Post by bschwein on Jan 11, 2007 15:57:56 GMT -5
Yep the Federal sets the guidelines, the state fills it in. Duck season could run to the end of January if they wanted it to. Thats the way it should be and so far everybody i've ever talked to wants it that way. So I can't figure out why its like it is!!! Maybe someone who knows the Waterfowl layout can help.
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Post by snakeeye on Jan 11, 2007 18:07:18 GMT -5
The new guy analyzed his data, and the seasons were established based on his analysis of his data; the end result is most likely statistically valid, but we all know statistics often don't tell the truth. I can't complain because I boycotted and chucked mine due to the survey attempting to cover too many topics, was poorly put together, offered too many scenarios, and also offered topics that should have included others besides just us. It was trash in my opinion, but I can see where the new guy thought he was doing right because he probably lives in Fantasy Land like in the movie Back to School. Probably very few people actually dictated our 2006-2007 season. Personally, I agree with jwkimber45.
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Post by DUCKMASTER1 on Jan 13, 2007 19:17:49 GMT -5
I agree, I hunt both south and ohio river zones, and they both should go later into January, the birds do not realy get down here untill Dec., Plus with deer season pushed back a week, you really could have pushed the duck season back 2 weeks and let us hunt the ducks later in the year. I think that we should only have a 2 day early season, and push the seaon late into january, not early.
I am all for the later closing than the early season, t-shirts and bug spray should only be for teal season>
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