Panter swamp

[Skeeter]

for all you lurkers looking for a spot....I hunt the MS River.....go get my spot

[Meeka]

I deer hunted and honestly didn't see any ducks, only woodies.

Had never gun hunted in there and was drawn and opening morning three other trucks were at the parking place I had picked. 1 group gone, two others loading up and one more pulled up. Took a dump and the groups there were not making any progress so I reverted to my Mahannah 500 mode and they just beat me by a minute. But they didn't get far - only aboout 15 feet!!!! BOTH four wheelers stuck in the same hole, bottomed out right on the edge of the parking lot!!! The Cat walked by them and I asked if they had a winch and the front one did so I hooked him on and eased him on out. Didn't hang around to help the other, figured with one out, he could get the rest out by himself. Wished them luck and left.

[Alfy]

Has anyone heard of the new rule at PS? Rumor has it that only stock size tires are allowed on ATVs. If this is true, it's going to be very interesting getting to holes in wet conditions.

Could someone shed some light on this?

[SwampMan]

25" tire diameter maximum. Talked to a GW and he said that they will be enforcing that new rule hard! I had to downsize.

[legends of the lower mars]

I know where there's some birds over in the swamp and I ain't tellin!!! hehehawhawhahaha!!!! and they ain't woodies, gads, teal, shovlers, scaup, ganzers, any form of divers or goose! Dem babies got green on em's noggins!!! I'm sure more will be there cause of this front...

[jdbuckshot]

You better not try and take any bike under a size 450 in there, and make sure you wear your 3mm waders, and dont think about taking decoys, because you are going to have to walk your butt off. and the gps dont work either, the canopy in those woods is like a celing, the gps only works on the pipe lines! as for the ducks, i think the turkeys out number the ducks, i made my few trips over there, killed a few ducks, but that is definatly not enough sugar for a dime!!!

JD

[pntailhntr]

I agree, but PS is hell to hunt!! Skeeter and I bout killed oursevles one morning going in there without scouting out exactly how to get to where were trying to go and then once we got there, the NEXT time, we killed nothing!!!!

My suggestion, look for another spot!!!!

[crow]

Hmmmm....I found all the good spots way back before there was such a thing as an atv. If we went, we walked or tried to get someone with the few 4-wheel willys jeeps to go with us. It wasn't so bad back then, but that mud has aways been bottomless. There is a reason why McGraw-Curran sold that place. Heck, they couldn't get a truck in or out from November to May!

As bad as it is now, it was that good back then. Wasn't anything to have 8-10 groups of several hundred ducks work your set. If you couldn't kill a limit back then, you wren't much of a hunter. I've been twice in the last five years, both time to places where few people have hunted and still don't. Not many ducks, but I never got skunked, either. It just ain't worth it out there anymore.

But, Lordy, you should have been there back in the day!

crow

[Joe Kain]

If you want to know if there are any ducks there, go scout. I have been there and done that.

[Southernduckn]

Panther is unlikely to hold large numbers of birds - as it "did in the old days" anytime in the near future...

Look around and what do ya see? Food - no... Not many beans, rice - only catfish ponds and reforested timber... No place for MALL's ...

All that said - it has its other great points!

[Wildfowler]

Panther is unlikely to hold large numbers of birds - as it "did in the old days" anytime in the near future...

Look around and what do ya see? Food - no... Not many beans, rice - only catfish ponds and reforested timber... No place for MALL's ...

No kidding, that whole region has gone down the toilet. Gosh darn, WRP programs. Now if they were being managed properly for waterfowl, that area would be a gold mine.

Sad as it is, things change.

[sportsman450]

No kidding, that whole region has gone down the toilet. Gosh darn, WRP programs. Now if they were being managed properly for waterfowl, that area would be a gold mine.

Sad as it is, things change.

No joke! When the state bought what we used ta call the Delhi basin, now the Lake George Management Area, and converted it from rice and beans to weed production, it just about killed that area.

[eagle700]

[quote="Southernduckn"]Panther is unlikely to hold large numbers of birds - as it "did in the old days" anytime in the near future...
[quote]

That's correct and here is the main reason why. If you go to the other side of the swamp, the "NO Waterfowl hunting area" off the west levee you will see over 2,000 ducks. All fat & happy. All the free food and protected shelter they could ever want, and all the courtesy of your tax dollars to the federal refuge system. Why should a duck leave those wonderful conditions and fly over to the hunting/shooting area. I use to hunt some private areas surrounding the outside of PS, and there are absolutely NO ducks there anymore at all

[cmwangsdixie]

I'm running 28" Outlaws which is pretty much a tractor tire... I guess PS is out of the question unless I can let the air out and squeeze one past the GW... I don't understand why in the hell they put restrictions on tire height, it's the width that is going to screw up the land

[Meeka]

They checked tire size pretty vigorously during the gun draw hunt.