benelli-banger
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Peak hatch right now Sam is good!!!!!
Peak hatch right now Sam is good!!!!!
Bobby, How was the fishing?I was at my house Walleye fishing last week. Saw lots of birds near roads and in fields. Everywhere we fished heard roosters crowing on the banks. Still some crops standing from last year. Might be a late planting season. Neighbor who runs the John Deere dealership told me farmers were buying track tractors so they can get around better.
My experience has been the brood reports were very much inline with what we would see in bird numbers. Our group hunts late Oct and Dec. We get a good view with crops and without on bird numbers. I agree it is a shame they are not doing the brood reports.For sure, was being a wise guy....I just always had to muzzle myself when the debates start every late August after the report comes out, and much skepticism would surface about gfp's motives...I have never doubted the #'s, they usually were in line with what I saw that fall...
Division of wildlife has a $56,000,000 annual budget....as in, what they spend...they take in about $51,000,000....over $5,000,000 budget deficit...I understand the elimination of the brood survey and the addition of the "habitat stamp"...not saying I agree by any means...no wonder they are allocating the 700k of savings from the brood survey into marketing...sell more licenses, etc, and narrow that budget gap!
Well I never did think it was of much value, I am glad to see them save the money. My question is why spend it on advertising instead of habitat? If they combined it with the revenue from the habitat stamp it would probably do more good.