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Post by illinoisfisherman on Jun 4, 2024 15:35:21 GMT -5
There has to be something better. This sucks. But I think it was intentional
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Post by richm on Jun 4, 2024 17:36:28 GMT -5
There has to be something better. This sucks. But I think it was intentional I agree that there has to be something better. Spent a lot of time with the guys at MINWR and what they do is respond to complaints. Joe complains that too many guys sky busting so they reduce shells to 25/person. John complains too many guys hogging up the spots so they set a quota in place and limit access. Some guys with permits were hopping ditches at legal time and getting better spots so folks complained and they banned hopping over the impoundment. Etc. What happens is people start lining up a couple of days before the hunt - they park on side the road at the refuge entrances and wait for a couple of days to have "the hunt of a lifetime". More power to them, they want it more than the other guys who bitch and want to stop that practice cause they aren't willing to take 2-3 days off from work to get the best duck hunting spot. We had guys wanting to shut down the refuge on a hunt week to allow just a couple veterans to hunt, also had another wanting a dedicated family weekend. Mind you we are allowed 4 people per permit - veterans and children can be accommodated on someone's permit. BUT they always want some special outside the normal rules. Bottom line is that the government in general is not that good at doing stuff that benefits everyone as fairly as possible, everything is a knee jerk reaction to a stimulus. The NOAA threat to close bottom fishing from 90-200 feet of water off the FL, GA, SC, NC coasts was just that - knee-jerk bullshit and if they could get away with it, they would do it. They can't even tell us if we are gonna get an Atlantic red snapper season yet. They haven't made an announcement either way. How difficult is that?
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