MARSH BEAR wrote:I agree Darren - the last 2 weeks of January usually have nothing in our marsh. All our ducks have found "safe zones" by that time and we have nothing to shoot at. I wrote the commission concerning the new zones, and got a polite reply thanking me for my input and they would consider it - the only consideration it got was what trash can to put it in.
Sure seems that way in my experience with the commission. Again I emphasize the commission because a lot of what they did was not what Larry had data to support or recommended.
And worse yet, putting the youth hunts (and now veterans hunts) at end of the season in the east zone was always something I fought against but some insisted on giving these groups they're own crack at the birds at end of the season when they're smartest, and (for the kids) the weather is coldest. Yep, great idea. Why?
Feedback from one commissioner who is no longer serving was that "aint no way we're letting kids go shoot up our holes before the adults get to", something a well known NE La outfitter echoed to me at the Louisiana Sportsman show about that same time.