To me it's simple.
Start opening the east and west zones mid and late November open the coastal zone in December. Look at doing a 5 day split. And bleed the season into February.
I hunt 95% of the time in the coastal zone and last year I only missed a handful of days including the added speck season. I hunt in a great area and it's known for the amount of birds killed there each year. However, I never saw the bulk of the birds till at least December. And as the season progressed it just got better. My whole month of November was centered around shooting anything and everything (legally allowed to shoot) just so that I could see my dog work. With that said, I'm not Pointing fingers at the WLF Board Members but after last year, they would be foolish to start the season this earlier. I understand the winter that we were looking for didn't show up till very very late. But even the season before that I noticed a huge difference in the amount of birds being here in November. Call me crazy but I strongly believe that the coastal zone should be the last area in the Mississippi flyway to open...it's literally the most southern part.
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