SilverPoon985

You're not wrong but, respectfully, you must not hunt a lot of public when there's a Youtube hunter behind every tree in the National Forest/WMA the first 2.5 weeks of season (especially in MS).

by end of April/Early May most of the "hunters" are worn out, pissed off, wife has already spanked em, or limited out/shot a bird.

In my opinion there is nothing worse than trying to work a bird with 2-5 other people running from god knows where to you and spooking the bird. That problem greatly reduces at the end of april/may

I agree, early season birds are easy to kill. but when it comes to the easiest time, in my opinion it will always be end of april/may.

Happy to hunt them whenever we can - i think pushing the season back has been extremely beneficial for our state. Wish Mississippi would do the same.

What's odd is the meeting does not show on the "Upcoming Meetings" tab on legis.la.gov. I called the assistant for the committee who advised the meeting is still on and that the "agenda would be posted shortly." That was at 10am this morning...

As of 2:16pm, it is still not posted.

That's awesome. Our Pond Mallards hatched out 13 fuzz balls a week ago. We made them the Hen Houses like Delta make for the prairie.

Have 11 more in our flight pen that are laying like crazy. Have 48 eggs in incubator and another 30 going in tonight. Then going to let the hens raise their own.

That's crazy - even throwing out ALL the form letters looking at 474 : 6 (Opposition:Support) or simplified to 79:1

Throw out the non-staters but keep the form letters looking at 503:6. Simplified to 83.833 : 1 .

That's an awesome Rebuild.

I know rebuild/work will be a likely pain, especially with age. Got to talk with the current owner to see exactly what work he has done to it. the guy bought it a couple of years ago and began working on it - but due to life/age ever got to finish it.

I haven't heard anything but positives about the ride on the 27. Seeing if anyone disagrees with that / has input on the boats in general - as the boat currently doesn't have a motor on it, so a test drive is out of the picture.

Looking at doing a project boat to restore fish/hunt with. Found a 27ft Ocean Master (88 Model) that is in decent shape, likely needs new glass/refinish the floors. Boat had a single engine on it but may go back with twins.

Anyone run an Ocean Master in the past and/or have an opinion on em?

Looks like draft on them is 15-18" which isn't awful.

Boat would likely stay in Venice at camp - so we don't have to haul boats back an forth/get beat to death during duck season.

Any input appreciated.

First rule of fight club is dont speak of fight club.

Then again, i understand wanting to get into Turkey Hunting. My dad did not like it - and had to kind of get into it myself through public land.

If you're in BR there are some places near you that you can go try... and i mean it "try." for every one bird you hear there will be 10 hunters and every track you see will be 5 people.

you can try sandyhallow, sherburne, bogue chitto wma, tunica, kissatchie. Birds are killed at them every year, although in very very low numbers.

Purse Sein in only 22ft+ of water

Tarpon as Game Fish


If y'all are not supporting Rep. Orgeron - he has always been leading the fight on this battle. These are just a few of the good.

Can always catch bass in a low river.

Not sure if you've bass fished down there - but its not like normal bass fishing. got to punch cane.

Boat should be fine - just watch running S pass/Main, the sides are shallow but middle is fine.

They aren't helping. I understand their concern - Shrimpers position is that "if the big bad wolf is taken out then the farmers will shoot the foxes next."

Shrimpers are concerned on two fronts regarding regulations on 1) the use of purse seigns & drag nets and 2) bycatch limiting the capture of targeted fish/shrimp.

Although, shrimping will never go away or be limited (at least in Louisiana), it's like seeing the HOA/Law Enforcement target your neighbor over their trash can being too close to the road, when in fact yours is mighty close to the road as well.

Most of shrimpers are still pissed about the TED devices that were put in decades ago. They hold a grudge and fight like hell - I will get them that.

Yeah, there's nothing you can do - especially if you hunt out of pirogues.

Just the nature of it.

We pressure wash everything on last day of hunt (decoys, guns, bags, pirogues, etc) - which has helped tremendously.

However, the seadek in my duck boat is nearly brown now from the stains over the years.

It is just part of the territory.

Regarding keeping it off of your face, etc - that's even more of an impossibility if you are hunting with a dog.