gimpfinger wrote:triplecurler wrote:gimpfinger wrote:Noon closure on just WMA and WPA has to be the dumbest chit I have ever heard. Maybe a noon closure on everything but WMA and WPA. Hell I'm trying to think of a WPA that is anywhere near me that I could even duck hunt and only know a handful of WMA that is huntable for ducks.
Team Power Dump
Why even open it at all in the areas? If closing down part of the week is good, then all week should be better. Think about it.
Kinda my point trip, any closure is dumb as chit when the birds don't want to hang out here anyway.
Team Power Dump
I disagree.
We have plenty of areas that consist of quality habitat with plenty of feed. The reason they don't hold more birds is simple; disturbance.
I wouldn't be in favor of a noon a closure, anywhere. Note: notice that I didn't say I was against it. Too often we make a war out of suggestions for something that we all want to see improved.
I think a noon closure would be almost pointless. Taking an area that gets too much pressure and only limiting the trampling of it to the mornings would not make it hold that many more ducks than it is holding now.
What I'd like to see, and how I'd manage my estate if I was lucky enough to win the powerball, and what will never happen is this;
Take a grouping of land, be it wpa's, wma's, game lakes, a mix of them, etc., and assign them colors. Red, Blue, and Yellow. Map it out so they're distributed equally and so you don't have a bunch of yellows in one area or blues in another...
Red areas would be open to hunting all week.
Blue areas would be open to hunting on weekends and Wednesdays.
Yellow areas would be open Monday & Tuesday and Thursday & Friday.
Then cycle them every year so they rotate. I.E. the next year they'd be...
Yellow areas would be open to hunting all week.
Red areas would be open to hunting on weekends and Wednesdays.
Blue areas would be open Monday & Tuesday and Thursday & Friday.
...and so forth. That way some guy wouldn't have his favorite honey hole shutdown on weekends forever and piss and moan about it.
What we have now are areas that are either open to hunting all the friggin' time or never (refuges). What we need are places that are shutdown long enough to let birds use them and and hone in on them. Spots they've rested at and fed long enough to where when you push them off going in and setting up they want to come back instead of fly to Missouri.
It's not rocket science. It cracked me up the past couple years when the south zone reopened after the split and guys were like, "It was as good as opener!" Well no shit...it was an opener. But who the hell wants to not hunt for two weeks during October? Not this guy.
I've been fortunate enough in my time and travels to hunt some pretty awesome shit, with some of those places and hunts being in MN (we call those exceptions to the rule). It might sound elementary but I can't say I've ever seen a spot loaded with ducks right after a guy just finished wrapping up his decoys. Sure, I've hunted the same place a couple days in a row and even shot limits doing so a handful of time (also exceptions to the rule) but that's not the norm and those scenarios either occurred in places with lots more ducks and much less pressure, were a result of an otherworldly migration or some phenomenon, were a total fluke, or all the above. No one should point to those type of scenarios and use them as evidence to why we shouldn't manage what we have a lot better than we currently are.