season dates

[Wingman]

didn't the season used to open ON thanksgiving day? why'd they change that? anybody know?

I don't duck hunt in MS much, but I thought that for the last few years it has opened the Friday after Thanksgiving Day.

i'm pretty sure they just changed it last year or the year before. but it seems like the '08-'09 season it opened thanksgiving morning. either way it hasn't been changed long.

Friday after thanksgiving for as long as I remember.

[Greenhead22]

It's been the friday after thanksgiving since they went to the 1st 3 day split format.

[arduckslayer]

Friday after thanksgiving for as long as I remember.

I thought it had been that way for a while.

[Bullet]

It did open ON Thanksgiving a couple years ago. Just cause thats the way the calendar fell. Friday after Thgiving is the norm

[Money]

Commission sets duck, goose seasons
Bobby Cleveland • bcleveland@clarionledger.com • August 18, 2010
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Mississippi duck hunters will have a three-day weekend season in November, a four-day one in December and then will be able to hunt the remaining 53 days in a row, under a plan passed Tuesday by the Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.
The 60 total days include three seasons for ducks, mergansers and coots:
•Nov. 26-28
*Dec. 3-6 .
•Dec. 9-Jan. 30.
A special youth weekend will be Feb. 5-6.

The daily limit for all duck seasons is six ducks, including no more than 4 mallards (no more than 2 of which may be females), 3 wood ducks, 2 redheads, 2 scaup, 2 pintail, 1 canvasback, 1 mottled duck, and 1 black duck. The merganser daily bag limit will be a total of 5 mergansers, only 2 of which may be hooded mergansers. Coots will have a 15-bird daily bag limit. The possession limit is twice the daily bag limit for ducks, mergansers, and coots.

"We saw a slight decrease in the overall breeding duck populations, but it wasn't significant," state waterfowl biologist Ed Penny told the Commission. Penny said the numbers are very similar to last year when Mississippi wintered near record populations.

"We had a very cold winter and we had a lot of ducks, but that didn't necessarily lead to an increased harvest," he said. "Yes it was cold, but it was also very wet and it scattered the ducks and made them tough to hunt. One encouraging sign this year is that the weather has been ideal for creating good habitat. We have had success with plantings at our Wildlife Management Areas."

Commissioners also set the goose seasons on Tuesday:

•Snow, blue, Ross' and white-fronted geese - Nov. 20-Jan. 30. Snow, blue, and Ross's geese will have a daily bag limit of 20 birds. White-fronted geese will have a daily bag limit of 2 birds.

•Canada and brant geese - Nov. 22-Jan. 30. Canada geese will have a 3-bird daily bag limit and brant will have a daily bag limit of 2 birds.

In addition, a special conservation order allows hunting of snow, blue and Ross' geese from Oct. 1-Nov. 19, Jan. 3'-Feb. 4 and Feb. 7-March 31. There is no limit and restrictions are eased to allow electronic calls.

[southernvaughan]

Shoot after the last few years I wish it would not open till christmas and close in Feb. Hell thats when all the ducks get here.

you, me, and a lot o others wish for this every year!

[Dux Be Us]

STAY HOME...maybe we'd get more days

[Blake Williamson]

Shoot after the last few years I wish it would not open till christmas and close in Feb. Hell thats when all the ducks get here.

No joke me to!!