Who all filled out pheasant hunting survey reports for days hunting pheasants in Ohio and what were your results and / or recommendations if any?
I filled out 3 reports for 3 days of hunting stocked birds on public land in NE Oh..
3 days hunting , about 2.5 hrs. each time out - 1 bird flushed and shot each of two first hunts, 0 birds flushed 3rd hunt. I quit hunting pheasant in Oh. after that as I felt I was essentially wasting my time since my averages for hunting in Pa. far exceeds that of Oh.. Pheasant hunting in NE Oh. is pretty depressing really.
My recommendation to the ODOW for the one thing that could be done to improve pheasant hunting on public land in Oh. is to emulate Pa.'s pheasant stocking and public hunting area habitat management programs. Any crops planted on public land in Pa. must leave at least 20% of the crops standing throughout the hunting season. In Oh. they all get cut down to pretty much bare earth.
I grew up hunting wild pheasants in NE Oh. .. very very sad what the State has allowed to happen here. Some people wonder why the interest in sport hunting is in decline. I don't think it's too hard to figure out.
Incidentally Pa. stocked more than 200,000 birds this fall throughout the state...Ohio stocked 15,000...
If it wasn't for deer and waterfowl hunting I probably would quit buying an Ohio hunting license.
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I filled out 3 reports for 3 days of hunting stocked birds on public land in NE Oh..
3 days hunting , about 2.5 hrs. each time out - 1 bird flushed and shot each of two first hunts, 0 birds flushed 3rd hunt. I quit hunting pheasant in Oh. after that as I felt I was essentially wasting my time since my averages for hunting in Pa. far exceeds that of Oh.. Pheasant hunting in NE Oh. is pretty depressing really.
My recommendation to the ODOW for the one thing that could be done to improve pheasant hunting on public land in Oh. is to emulate Pa.'s pheasant stocking and public hunting area habitat management programs. Any crops planted on public land in Pa. must leave at least 20% of the crops standing throughout the hunting season. In Oh. they all get cut down to pretty much bare earth.
I grew up hunting wild pheasants in NE Oh. .. very very sad what the State has allowed to happen here. Some people wonder why the interest in sport hunting is in decline. I don't think it's too hard to figure out.
Incidentally Pa. stocked more than 200,000 birds this fall throughout the state...Ohio stocked 15,000...
If it wasn't for deer and waterfowl hunting I probably would quit buying an Ohio hunting license.
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