buckpasser
Senior Member
Imagine if individuals put the effort into waterfowl management that they do into deer. Everyone is quick to blame dnr for not managing public, but there always other options.
Of course there has to be participants to do so.
Part of the decline in good public duck hunting in my area is from private duck management. I’m in the “Red Hills” plantation region, and if you look at a plantation map for here you can count on every single one of them having a large flooded field impoundment (or two or five). The idea is to have thousands of ducks to brag about during the season, not just enough to hunt.
I manage one of those plantations and we have a pond. It is usually loaded with ducks and some seasons we have zero hunts.