Originally Posted by
ACB
The season used to run from say sept.10- Jan 20 straight through (approximate). The MOE found that the local birds wouldn't decoy anymore after the first 2-3 weeks of the season and when you got to say Nov. when the migrating birds showed up the same would happen with them, so you had thousands of birds that refused to get shot doing all kinds of damage to farmers recovery crops, ie winter wheat. So they tried the spit seasons and it seemed to work, the birds got dumb again. The later season into march is to try to keep the population down, I would think.