Mallard_maniac wrote:Now that I totally understand.... i just don't believe it's fair to blame outfitters and duck clubs or the dnr for that matter. This one's on us.... I remember when the dnr was going through this and it being proposed thinking "this is a bad idea". All things being equal I didn't care. I don't hunt the south zone but have a lot of friends that do and knew this was going to ruffle some feathers (pun intended). Even one of the higher brass in dnr had the stats of avg ducks shot per year by hunters and when they typically shot those (it was something like 11 ducks per year and in the first 10 days of season). And the waterfowling public still chose to move fwd with the proposed split.
Owning mistakes is tough but this is one that the mn waterfowlers made.
gimpfinger wrote:First the split was going to be mainly for the se and a few guys over that way squashed that with the whole "everyone will hunt here and it'll get crowded" bs so them the DNR I repeat the DNR went with the south zone because they don't want to upset anyone from the se.
Truthfully I don't personally know anyone that voted for the gay spilt dnr poll. I truely believe it was all the se ****** wanting a extended season but didn't want the hunting pressure on their precious river.
Oh and on the warm years me and my cousin broke ice most of them years on thanksgiving as we made it a temp tradition. I miss them slow freezes and new birds every day you go out. These last 6 years can kiss my ass with the instant freeze first week of Nov.
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Well they all left three werks ago anyway per Fowler so its a mute point. Next year I'm going to South Dakota mid Octoberfor the massive big push. If not I'll put a big push in the toilet.gimpfinger wrote:Nail in the coffin....[img]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181118/d90255bd503dc685f29c69e8c7f6d25d.jpg[/img]
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cant get anyone fired up to go out fishing. So I haven't been out yet. I know of a couple lakes west of me that will still be producing this year.11"-13" Perch and 15-18"eyes on one and 14" crappie and 17"-20" eyes on the other.lanyard wrote:Gimp, what's the fishing ice like? You getting into the bottoms like you hoped?
Guessing I'll be hitting the deep sloughs around Windom over Thanksgiving for fish. Hard for me as a guy that grew up fishing north of I-94 to call much of anything SW from Mankato a "lake".
The boom/bust cycles of them are a riot, though. Dead slough one year, massive perch/walleye fishery 3 years later, then dead slough the next year.
If anyone could not go back out the second time those ponds might not get hit too hard, but all it takes is a house to be in the same spot 2 days in a row and everyone knows. By the time they let 2nd shift out of AgChem, Toro, etc., the place will be full.
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