Does anyone remember

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when the duck season was extended further into January (perhaps into February) and if those posts are still available?

Thanks a bunch

Dani
 
We used to have a spring scaup season in Florida for several years.
I believe it was in Late February or early March.
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It hasn't happened over the course of my 30 year career that I can remember. There used to be special scaup and whistler seasons in the fall on Lake Champlain, but I am not aware of any special late season hunts. You'd be purposefully shooting breeding age, paired ducks getting ready to migrate.

Dania, as for your question the great "framework dates" debates and political battles happened with Senators Lott and Cochran. I think it was the mid-1990s.
 
Never mind....I found the answer to my question.....thanks a lot

Dani
 
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NJ had a special Broadbill season it was in early Feb if memory serves me correctly birds limit was 10 As Broadbills were a 10 point duck don't remember the details as I was 10 or 11 years old at the time
 
They were a 10 point duck but I don't remember special seasons in February. I can look it up tomorrow.

I was able to find some late special scaup seasons in the 1970 timeframe from January 21-February 21.

I'm old but not that old.
 
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Remember the extended broadbill season well. Remember setting out 200/300 decoys and shooting out of layout boats. Alot of guys grouped together to set large rigs. Stubeleck, Berglund, Downs, Bennets and other families joined to shoot that month.
Shooting, grilling on the beach and alot of lies about the past season. Good memories...
 
Back in the 80's, we had a huge "clam set" on the Indian River Lagoon & Banana River which brought down clammers from all along the eastern seaboard.
At one point, there were over (1100) eleven hundred clam boats in the fleet just in Brevard County.
Due to the contaminated waters, clammers used to have to break-up into mini fleets of (10) ten boats & each had (1) one LEO assigned to keep the clammers legal & out of the "hot zones."
Many of the upper eastern guys were running some form of a Garvey rig.
During those couple of extended seasons I remember leaving the dock early to get in a duck hunt before going out & "racking" for the day.
The money was great & even better when you followed the trucks from the "culling machine" to the "deporating plants" to clean the clams.
After (3) three days under the lights the poor clams were starving, so right before they'd pull them out they'd throw a couple of buckets of river water in the tanks to feed them.
What a scam!!!
I remember cleaning those bills on the deck of a Garvey & finding them full of baby clams.
Big healthy birds back then!!!
 
I would search Trent Lott.
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Trent was a driving force for WRP funding in the Farm Bill of the mid 90's. But to stay on topic I believe the Federal frame work for season setting dates for Ducks is Sept-Jan 31st
 
I would search Trent Lott.
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Trent was a driving force for WRP funding in the Farm Bill of the mid 90's. But to stay on topic I believe the Federal frame work for season setting dates for Ducks is Sept-Jan 31st
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Trent Lott got the date extended to January 31st in the 90's by adding it as a rider to a budget bill.
 
The northern prairie drought broke in '92 '93, but in '94 the Feds would not ease up on the restrictive season or bag limits which had been in effect since 1988. In August of 1994 Lott was able to get the season increased to 40 days, but the limit stayed at 3 birds, two of which could be mallards. These are Mississippi flyway numbers.
 
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