Feds in Tallahatchie County last week

[HOUNDOG]

aint no worse than drinkin whisky in da blind!!!

[Denduke]

Seems like there's some confusion about the mergansers. The hooded merganser is limit one. The "common merganser" is limit five. The hooded merganser nests in trees and frequents flooded woods with wood ducks. The large common merganser frequents tidal bays and the open sea: are large and smell like fish. Wonder if anyone got popped for more than one hooded merganser? Hope I'm the one that is wrong and ya'll really killed the large kind. They ain't worth it. Lot of boasting about extending the limit to kill mergansers, but I hope it is not five hooded ones. Just trying to inform and save some future grief. The local warden probably doesn't know the difference. Wonder if the feds on their operation cited anybody. Hopefully everybody knows their ducks, and stinkin' mergansers too. The hooded drakes are pretty,kinda, and there is a reason for the limit one. Enjoy the best forum aound.

[tallyquacker]

Yea, I think those green truck fellas have been hanging around that general area all year...probably wouldnt be a bad idea to just write off T. Co. for any place to hunt..he..he

[Wildfowler]

Ya, no kidding. As much talk as there has been on this county, this duck season. I would be shocked if lease prices came down next year in that area. They'll probablly go up.

[Law Duck]

That story is a little misleading. The guys were from out of state. They were members of a club in Tal. Co. and had been up here for a week or so. The 75, I believe the actual number was 80 but who's counting, birds had all been breasted out and were in a cooler packed up for the trip to Florida. The guys decided to get in one last hunt that morning and when they returned..... The guys had no idea that they were not legal. I know ignorance is no excuse, but when it comes to some of these game laws they get fairly complicated. I have been duck hunting for years and it seems that I learn about some small uncommon and usually unenforced law every couple of years. Its not that I am defending them, just trying to make sure everyone knows the correct story. These guys should have realized that they were over the possession limits either way, but at least that makes the situation a little more understandable.