re: Accurate description of hunting Public WMA’s

I know plenty of rednecks that shoot whatever to. But yea coonasses suck when it come deer hunting for the most part.

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I wish the NWR permit was $200.

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for that little spot we hit.. .I'd pay that....

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Yep

I had one recently waiting for me coming out of the woods from a duck hole. He tried to tell me that his family leased the property I was just hunting. He went through a whole saga about the place, as I was pulling out my phone to open up OnxHunt maps. Then came his scam. "If you and your buddy each pay me $100 you can hunt here all season." I proceeded to show him the onxmap proving we were in fact on public ground on a WMA. He didn't know how to react and tried to go back into his story about why they leased the land again. I just said frick it and got in my truck as he was trying to continue the scam and drove off.

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bro.. that ain't a coonass.. cuz.. I ain't gettin' off my hole for 100 bucks... in fact I might just put a couple signs around it that say restricted area NO HUNTING beyond this point.....

As long as it’s legal, frick em

They really need to do a lottery like on south farm for a lot of the duck hunting areas on wmas. Would eliminate a lot of BS.

Looks like fishing Big Lake

They don't need to inact a lottery, they need to get rid of the 4 wheeler trails that make getting away from easy access points nearly impossible. Go ahead and ban mud motors on public property while you are at if.

You want to cutdown on crowds? Make it a little harder for people to access every square inch of a piece of ground. For example, bag checks have shown that the LAA at Atchafalaya Delta WMA consistently have a higher bird per hunter effort than the rest of the WMA, yet people still bitch about the LAA.

Want to cut down on the number of folks at Bouef? Close down the ATV trails that go to every lake along the river, like V Lake that was mentioned in this thread.

Go pull up a map of most public land in LA, excluding some places like Kisatchie and Maurepas the Wax etc, you can't hardly go 1 mile in any direction without hitting a road or ATV trail. Quite comical

Lol do you own a mud motor?

Limited access is the greatest rule ever put in place for duck hunters. People are lazy or just don't have the time to find/get into hard to reach spots in the marsh. With mud motors baws could roll into these hard to reach areas and constantly pushed ducks out. Now, places that have LAA are spots you can consistently kill birds. You gotta work for them though.

Hunted a pretty well known public lake a few years ago. It was a Tuesday morning in January, so we figured it would be an ok morning to make a hunt on a normally crowded little lake. We get there early, park the boat on the bank and setup under a cypress tree with some marsh seats. We shoot some birds early, then about an hour into the hunt we have a group of birds working and right as they appeared to commit, 2 quick shots were fired across the lake. Damn we thought bad luck. A little while later, the exact same scenario happened. Now it was a pattern, and boys started catching the red arse. Not 15 minutes later another group of birds are about to commit and 2 shots fired flaring the birds. We hopped in the boat and headed to where we knew they were. We pull right up to a boat and some old man (50-60) has a shotgun leveled in our general direction. One of the guys I was with had his camera out and was video/voice recording. The old man put the gun away once it was evident he was being videoed. He went on to say we were hunting his buddy Stump's blind. We tell the old man 1. It's public land and 2. We're hunting under a tree, no blind. He then goes on to say he's been hunting this lake for 20 years and ain't never seen this truck parked at the landing before. He also accused of sky blasting

Anyways we leave call the game warden, and meet him at the checkin station. We give him the guys boat tag and likely truck plate. We also show him the video. The warden then proceeds to check everything we have. It went from us reporting an a-hole to him looking through everything we had to try and ticket us. He cut open a handful of shells. He searched all the compartments of the boat. Even tried pulling up part of the boat floor, he was curious was the floor was loose there. We didn't even have a limit of birds lol.

It was easily the worse experience I've ever had hunting. If their goal was to run us off for good, well it worked. I haven't been back since, and I don't plan on it.

Oh and I'm not a flat biller. And I generally go out of my way to no conflict with another person hunting. If ducks are working for them I'm no quacking away trying to pull them. That old man and his buddy knew they were gonna frick us the second they saw us launch the boat.