AGFC approved a 30-day nonresident WMA permit, for all the dirty outsiders who come in to hunt their public WMAs and have to have one.

https://www.agfc.com/news/new-30-da...ts-lifetime-license-for-youths-enhanced/

FOCK 'EM!! Arkansas is a "Has Been" unless You own Land that You Can Control!!

If I could post videos I’d show what my buddy sent last week from his lease in Stuttgart. Most ducks I’ve seen this early. Might be a good year this year

Saw a video my buddies parents sent him as they were driving through. Not sure what part but assume it was along I-40. Was very impressed! Hope some fly East ~1.5 hrs next Saturday

If you got water you have ducks from in told. Saw pics from the last few weekends and low water so pumps are running

When I hunted public land in Arkansas, I stayed in a hotel, ate meals at restaurants, bought gas and other supplies from blind snacks to decoys/duck calls. Bet there are lots of out of staters that simply don't make the trip and bring their money. Also bet the 30 days with out of staters are more crowded than ever.

I don’t understand what y’all are complaining about. This actually made it cheaper to hunt there. Before, you had to buy a 5 day permit for $40. Now, if you wanna hunt all the non resident days, you can buy a 30 day permit for $200 instead of 7 $40 permits that total $280.

Or did I totally mis read the article and the posts?

They’re complaining because if you live near Arkansas, but not in it, you can only legally hunt half the season.

Duck season is 60 days, not counting special teal.

I find interesting that many years ago Arkansas was rooting for the out of staters to come in droves.

If they’d peel back to a 40 day season and a few less ducks a day it self regulate I bet

We need a few years of 30/3 honestly

I gotcha. I’ve only hunted public there a few times so I just assumed that has always been the rule. I don’t blame them for making that rule. Those WMAs are a crap show with the amount of people there.

A shortened season would help for sure. Start with 45 days and put in good splits and it would take some pressure off the birds and probably make the days it was open better hunting

Just last year they were whoring out to non-residents hunter big time. I'm just going by what I saw on the Ark game and fish Facebook page.

They were whoring ducks out back in the early 90s. Not as many out of staters per se around back then. We hunted public land in and around Clarendon and Brinkley hunting the Cache and White. Camped the last week upstream with 5-7 houseboats and had the time of our lives. We hung out with the locals duck hunting and running YoYos catching crappie.

Stuttgart was being promoted heavily as the duck capital of the world.

Right before that Canada geese were hunted heavily along Maryland and the eastern seaboard. An article came out in DU about carful what you wish for. Goose season had been shutdown pretty much along the eastern seaboard. The upper Midwest was goose hunting hard but switched to ducks too. Used to ignore them in their spreads.
Arkie was bragging that it was and 8 million dollar a day boom. So it was promoted heavily.

OOS were loathed by locals, some boat trailers unhooked and dumped at boat ramps. Fights etc….. duck hunting became a contact sport.

https://www.kait8.com/story/1156156...ions-to-arkansas-economy/?outputType=amp

Duck hunting brings in $millions to Arkansas Economy
Published: Nov. 23, 2009 at 11:52 PM CST|Updated: Dec. 22, 2009 at 10:41 PM CST
By Bob Snell - bio | email feedback

LAWRENCE COUNTY, AR (KAIT)- Arkansas' duck season is in full swing and that translates into big bucks for the state's economy. Some estimates show the 60 day waterfowl season brings in more than $100,000,000 to Arkansas coffers.

Thousands of in state and out of state hunters roll in during the season, spending their cash, hoping to cash in on the best duck hunting in the country.

Jarrod Brady and his brothers run Woody's Guided Hunts outside Walnut Ridge, they're farmers by trade, but use their rice fields for hunting between harvests. Nearly all of their customers come from out of state.

Any state organization that advertises something while making regulations to curb the very thing they are advertising clearly isn’t efficient. The agfc is run by fools

I’m assuming there trying to find the price point where hunters quit buying. Simeon said the state stamp is now 50 and you don’t get an actual stamp.

When over half the non residents are wearing $2000 of Sitka. Pulling a new can am or prodigy boat behind a newer 3/4 ton diesel. The license fees aren’t even a thought.

^^^This!!!

Duck hunting is a status symbol