I agree with you one hundred percent, i have been saying this for years!!! As far as the seasons, well my opinion is that it should not open till Dec. However it must close on Feb 1 per federal law, for mating purpose.What frustrates the heck out of me is the fact that our input goes completely ignored by the arrogant Wildlife and fisheries. It isall politics. Just imagine if the real facts were printed. The fact that numbers are way down and the migration has been altered years ago! The amount of hunting liscenes purchases would plummet and land would go unleased, and all the purchases that are made would fall. This all relates to state revenue, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries gets a huge percentage of our liscene fees. Do you actually think they are going to risk losing that money by printing the truth?? NEVER!!! We could get their attention by boycotting the opening week, not buy any liscenes or anything, but who is actually going to participate?? No one, we will let them tell us what we will do and we will not put up a fight, i know it is pathetic! But as you see no one will stand up, if they would this post would have 100s of comments by now

All of our migration in our area is in the early season.Leave it to the experts to figure this out.There is good reason why it is done like this.After the shooting stops the ducks will gang up. This happens every year.

whitecap, I have to disagree with you. I don't even hunt my rice fields in Nov. and there is no "ganging up" of ducks. Actually, hardly any ducks are seen during Nov. (toatlly different, compared to 6 years ago). If your area sees ducks early, then the first split benefits you well. All I'm saying is delay the second split to benefit a large portion of the state that doesn't see decent numbers until the very end. There are no "experts" on this, just politicians who really don't care about changing things to benefit us, the tax payers and license buyers. A prime example is the fact that we still have East and West zones? These have been around for 40 plus years. Why?

usually that happens, cept for the woodies down in the swamp.