Quote Originally Posted by FEETDOWN View Post
I hate being pessimistic, but I'm afraid that "the good ole days" really are gone as it relates to most hunting and fishing. We aren't managing our wildlife populations according to what's best for the wildlife, we're managing it based on the "industry". Follow the money. Bag limits and season dates, habitat management, rules on motorized decoys, hunting over unharvested crops, etc. The industry is too big to make decisions that truly benefit the species anymore, too much money involved, and the money is gonna drive it. Gotta have CONTENT Bo.....

Everybody keeps trying to point to one thing, but it's a combination of things, and I don't see any of them changing. Social media, mud motors, robo ducks, online mapping/GPS, guides that start in Canada in September and follow what's left of the migration all the way to AR in February, allowing people that don't know a mallard from a coot to "make piles" for their Instagram followers.

I love it so much, but I hate what it's become
X2