First let me say yes I am mad I did not get drawn after 3 years. So I admit that and that is certainly my motivation for this post! I used to be a member of a very prominent duck hunting club. It was around 250 acres of well managed natural habitat. We hunted 2 days a week during the season. Most days we had 25-35 hunters. Limits were the norm and we had plenty of ducks after the season was over etc... let’s just use the above info and apply it to just Cedar Island Cat 1 waterfowl area. 250 acres divided by 30 hunters = 8.3 acres per hunter. Cedar island alone has 2590 acres of impoundments. Using 8.3 acres per hunter that would mean that on a hunt you could have around 312 hunters. Cedar island only draws 12 hunters a hunt? Cedar island only had 8 hunts last year. 8 x 312 = 2496 people that could of had a nice hunt and room to spread out. A total of 89 people hunted Cedar Island last year. Why so few, and why do we accept that from our DNR?
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