Michigan gets a teal season this year.

Brandon Yuchasz

Brandon Yuchasz

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I sit on the CWAC which is Citizens Waterfowl Advisory Committee. We represent our area's of the state at meetings with the DNR so I was aware this was coming but it still made me smile. I cant wait to get my son out for those little fighter jets. He is 12 years old and just itching to go.

Here is a link if you guys are interested.
http://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MIDNR/bulletins/c7315b


General breakdown is this is September 1st to the 7th. Sunrise to sunset. 6 teal a day. This is a three year experimental season that will be watched to see if it become permanent. Non target harvests are of course the concern.
 
Brandon,
That is great news. How did we sneak that past the animal rights people? Perhaps they don't know a teal is a duck.
Thanks for serving on the CWAC committee.
RVZ
 
Brandon,


After you hunt this year for teal and you go out opening morning for the regular season let me know if you still feel the same way about the season. I think at best what it will accomplish is alot of tickets get written for early shooting and non teal harvests. I think at worst it's going to run alot of local ducks out of the marsh to places of safe haven. Two things move ducks, pressure and weather and I think this will definitely cause enough pressure to move them.
 
If the birds start moving because of this then I assume the birds up north will come to us? I like new ducks not local ducks. Just a thought.
 
I'll be on gogebic sept 1st for my anniversary weekend....wonder if my wife will notice a bag of deeks and my shotgun tucked away with the luggage?
 
Shooting non-legal waterfowl was the overriding issue that led to the cessation of previous early Teal seasons. Hopefully, the sunrise open shooting time will improve hunter's "ability" to correctly ID their target(s). I see no impact of our current Youth early-opener on bird movement and location prior the general State Waterfowl start, but I don't live in an area of wall-to-wall hunters...
 
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I think you all will be surprised at the lack of hunters during this season. I at least I was surprised in Illinois last year, my first year with a teal season. On a property that's hosts nearly 100 hunters every weekend of the duck season there were 4 vehicles teal hunting, and yes there were some teal to be had.
I could see how the first year everyone is out to check out something new but participation is surprisingly low from what I have seen so far and would not worry about pushing ducks out.
 
Brandon - Congrats! I'm excited for Michigan and, the other states that now get a teal season. We love ours here in Illinois and, have been doing it for years. Despite all the theories you might hear, it has had little to no negative effect on our regular season, never has. States like ours can't comprehend how other states don't allow things like early teal or dove hunting.

Again, congrats! Enjoy the harvest and, enjoy your time with your son. Pat
 
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