Wondering if anybody else has seen this happening.

[msdeltadawg]

Where I hunt in the delta, we get alot of out of staters, and just alot of jake legs in general, but I have seen a new ploy that some of these guys are trying to pull this season. They will go out in three or four boats, all of them will sit in a hole with a spotlight, so when you go back into the area where they are before daylight, it looks like a Pink Floyd concert with all the lights shining around. Right before daylight they all team up where they wanted to hunt to begin with and have the whole end of the lake to themselves, except for those of us that have figured their game out. Almost saw a fistfight last Tues. morning, a group from South Carolina was trying this and a local came in that knew what they were up to and he confronted them. My Dad and I had already just motored on by them and hunted another hole, it sounded pretty interesting though, but I was just wondering if you guys have seen this wherever you hunt.

[dukbum]

damn dude....sounds like a outta-stater for ya! purty smart though....but it dont take long to fiqure that out hope yall can bust em on it

[teul2]

.............a group from South Carolina.........

Need we say more??

[Catdaddy]

Yes, I've seen that tactic used all my life............but then again,I'm from SC.

[Spoonallard]

CATDADDY You aren't from Honeapath are ya?

[O/U]

Sounds slick but a good way to get thier booty beat

[Millenium Mallard]

I got one for you.....years ago (we have problems with military people down here in south mississippi...nothing against 'em, I was in 10 years, but they don't have much respect most of the time for locals blinds) a buddy of mine and his Father pulled in to their hole (public) to the blind that they had built and maintained for years, and two GI's were in their blind....now they had problems before with people leaving trash and tearing up the surrounding brush.....so the Son tells the two guys that they are in their blind....they say they don't give a crap, it's public and first come/first served.....well the son was a well built redneck that didn't put up wif any shiiitiittt, so the son takes the gas tank cap off and starts fillin' up a plastic cup....he tells the two guys that Yes, you can hunt whereever you want, but I own the blind and I'm fixin' to burn it down.....well, the two guys thought he was pullin' some bulllllshsiitittt until he threw the gas all over them and the blind.....them boys bailed out and left the area.....

couple weeks later, I went hunting with him in his blind....he heard someone in the darkness coming through the marsh, back down his chute.....started hollerin' at 'em and they kept coming.....he loads his gun, leaves the blind and starts tearin' off through the marsh like a madman towards 'em, hollerin' that he's gonna shoot 'em....scared the hell out of me, cause I just knew someone was going to get shot.....well, it turned out to be a doctor friend of his that hunted the same marsh, so no one got hurt.....

things can and do get rough at times when hunting public and I for one wouldn't be surprised to see more people shot or beat down in the future the way things are getting so crowded on public areas....
St.

[fivemile]

Msdeltadog. Is that in the north Delta or south Delta? Just curious.

[ducman77]

sounds like the elcamino crew needs to visit them guys from SC

[GoatRoper]

Dang, I believe you just gave me an idea. I've hunted public areas for a while and come to learn that it's a kill or be killed kind of game. And sometimes I'll get mad at people that do that kind of stuff; however, sometimes I just get mad because I didn't think of it first. You just gotta trump them and beat them at their own game. It's a defenite chess match between other hunters when hunting public waters.

[quack fiend]

let me get this straight--they all sit in one hole early then all leave to another hole before shooting time? i don't understand how this is an advantage, as someone else could get the hole they really wanted to use--please explain?

[Sasha and Abby]

The reason it is done, is so there will not be someone who sets up right on top of you and shoots the swing birds you are working.

[msdeltadawg]

To fivemile, it's Matthew's Brake just south of Greenwood.

To quackfiend, what their doing is setting people in 3 or 4 different holes all in the same general area hoping that anybody that comes back in there is discouraged by the number of "hunters" already in the area, then they all move to one spot and hunt together.

And to sasha, I like having 200 hunter free acres around me too, but any ethical hunter is not going to try to pull this garbage, and if he does he deserves to get called out on it. Heck the way the birds have acted this year it doesn't matter if somebody shoots a mile away from you if you have ducks working, they are still going to flare. The main problem I have seen in the last 10 years or so is that duck hunting on public land has become a competition, who has the fastest motor, who has the most decoys, who has the most robo ducks, people still blowing hail calls at ducks that are settling into my decoys, etc... sometimes it's not fun, and that is a shame. This year I have had the luxury of hunting during the week so it hasn't been as bad, haven't hunted a weekend yet, of course that's because I don't have a job right now,so maybe that isn't such a luxury after all.