Gator Draw

[mossyisland]

[Smoke68]

[GrizwalD]

[Smoke68]

[lilham]

The quota system Arkansas uses on their bear hunts works great. You buy your license(out of State is $350) and hunt. If you harvest a bear, you have till like 9 pm to report it. After check-in time, you can call their hotline number and see how many is left on the quota. If there are only 5 tag left, everyone eligible can still hunt the entire next day....they don't end it in the middle of hunting if 5 people check bears in. Three years ago, they had like 11 bears left after the 6th day. On the 7th day they had over 20 killed, no one was in trouble and the season was over. Two years ago, they never reach their quota. Last year, it took almost the whole season to reach the quota. It's not a "mad dash".

I do not agree with using a boat registration as part of the process. I have a 1236 boat that I use for pond hopping, but it is not suitable for gator hunting. Someone could go register a one-man boat just to be eligible.

This is my first year to get a tag. Some people are acting like it's a crime that got a tag and they didn't since I don't have gear or a big booty boat. I can buy the gear. I'm not as privilege as some of y'all to have been drawn every year. I did enter the drawing two years, but never got drawn. For people whining/disappointed....if they really like gator hunting as much as they claim, should be offering their experience and/or gear to others instead of just saying F--- IT.

Good Luck to all that got a tag.

[js]

an easy way for everyone to get a tag to hunt gators is for mdwfp issue 2 tags to everyone with a sportsmans license if they want to hunt they have tags if they don't want to hunt turn there tags back in and have those on a first come basis and you pay for the used tags at check in

[RebelYelp]

I think they need to allow residents of a particular zone have first dibs on the tags for said zone

in all seriousness, the entire deal has been screwed up. From the hundreds who applied for years never to be drawn, while seeing others be drawn every year, to MDWFP not reading their own damn instructions this year and forgetting to set up one of the hyperlinks where they said to click, so hundreds were attempting to buy tags with busted ass website. I'm still not sure what the problem is with a progressive or preference point system, especially when everyone in the state is wanting to go to 3-4 particular zones.