And as for the 2-week closure for the southern region…. what a fu@#$& up idea the DNR has there. These shallow lakes and sloughs are almost always froze up by the 2nd week in November. How they think it’s better to extend the season into the first week of December is beyond me. They obviously don’t hunt and travel the southern region. If anything they should move the border for the southern region to Hwy 14 because in my area, some of the best hunts we’ve ever experienced have come around that October 10 time frame. But since this zone creation, all we can do is watch out our window as flocks of ducks head south with zero opportunity to hunt them. The DNR most certainly broke a sport which didn’t need fixing when it comes to the regions and mid-season closures. Fricken stupid as hell and i wish they’d go back to how it used to be years ago.
I’ll leave the Mexican duck hunting show alone. They shouldn’t be harvesting that many ducks but Mexico is not the United States and never will be. A lot of other countries don’t have fish and game laws like we do. They just harvest as much as they want and don’t worry about overall populations.
As far as the closure in October…I thought it was a stupid idea when they started doing it years ago and its still stupid. I know the reason they do it is because there is a federal cap on the number of days the season can be open (60). So they want hunters the chance to shoot early migrating ducks like teal in September but they want other die hard hunters to be able to hunt late migrating ducks in early December too. Their solution? A temporary closure. Just open it and leave it open for crying out loud. The first Saturday in October it should open and stay open until the 60 days has come. Pheasant opener on Oct 10 is way too early too but that’s another bridge to burn.
