My ideal duck season dates, what's your?

[Lreynolds]

Originally Posted by Dogface

The first 2 weeks of the season were our best hunting. The entire first split was better than the second split. Also, I wasn't suggesting opening earlier than the second Saturday, just have more days in the first split.

I understand. I struggled with that in making the 2016-17 proposals. In August, the Commission moved the opener to the first Saturday in November AND put 4 weeks in the first split. Since nothing has changed since August with regard to duck regulations, I considered proposing the same structure but with a second Saturday opener. However, with a 12-day split, that would put us opening the second season on Christmas Eve and having the season closed when all the kids get out of school for Christmas break. That left me the choice of accepting that or using a 3-week first season, or a 5-day split and closing the second season on January 15 instead of the 22nd. So we decided to go with the traditional 3-week first season, a 12-day split, and running to Jan. 22.