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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trip McNeely" data-source="post: 194002" data-attributes="member: 728">ifish i understand your beliefs but imho there are valid counter points to all your points. 1. there are generally plenty of birds all winter long on mild years. should we hunt them in march too because there are still 100k on the river? 2. the guys that work shift work hunt wednesdays if late flights become an issue. 3. if a guy truly knows what they are doing they could potentially kill a limit every day of the week, even when its cold. it comes down to how u scout. i get some peoples frustration with not liberalizing late season but be thankful for the balance and opportunity we have. if the season is more liberalized with longer days it will become what our early season has become. over run with nonresidents and difficult to decoy birds. 10 years ago when they upped the limit to 8 i predicted it would happen and it has. late season would be ni different. not trying to pick a fight but seriously consider what you are asking for...... look what happened to snow geese when they started lifting regulations. snows have become such a weary bird overall hunter success is dependent on juvie hatches.... be careful what you wish for. we have a pretty good setup now so leave it alone. hunt smarter.- - - Updated - - -to expand on another point of yours fish, i personally would like to see two things happen to waterfowl season in nd.1. instead of adding a week on to the lateseason i think the ndgf should move the entire season back one week. across the board. from resident opener move it all back a week.keep all the framework the same, just "poof" slide er on back a week. at least for the high plains zone. this will do a few things. 1) itll obviously add a week onto the end of the season. 2) itll give ducks and resident geese a slight break from early season and youth. imo this will allow field birds to get back into the fields and should make field hunting better early on. it will also potentially help to stop early migrants in nd. birds draw in more birds. if there are birds around to help gather early migrators it may also help improve the early hunting in oct untilthe push happens.</blockquote>

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