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Florida quotas....discussion and results

BTaylor said:
You know there are some real states you could move too that you can just pay a small fee and get a sack full of tags and have lots of opportunity. :p
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I know. If these kids would just hurry up and turn 18 to move onto college :sweatsmile:
I just imagine the opportunities
 
justwcc said:
Will do. I’ve never been out there. Excited to go, but unsure what exactly to expect. Any advice is appreciated.
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Best tips I can give you are as followed. Take a boat that is light enough that you can use some heavy wall PVC and roll it onto the shore. Every year out there many many center console boats sink because the tide drops out, they are beached on a sandbar and it gets extremely choppy as the tide comes back in which swamps the boats when left in the inlet….
Familiarize yourself with the topical maps. The terrain is ALL sand soil, with 4 large swamps and 3 big lakes on the opposite end from the boat ramp. It’s mostly pine trees and small small scrub oaks (due to poor soil conditions). There are a couple sand dunes and 2 good roads that run west to east on the island. They have a large section to the north center of the island set aside for birds and the red wolf they introduced. You cannot hunt that area.
I’ve only been to the island for the whitetail but I did bump a sambar cow last time I was there. Sambar are actually Asian Elk and they are used to eating rice patty fields and flooded vegetation in Asia. They mimic this on St Vincent by staying in the large swamps and lakes, and eating the underwater vegetation out of them. They tend to stay closer to the coastal areas and have pushed the whitetail more inland of the island.
Finally they have a no stalk hunting rule for the AM so you should show up on Wednesday and scout, because you have to be at your blind, stand, or spot by legal shooting hour and cannot leave it until 9am. They usually issue cow tags at random to about 50% of the hunters when you check in, you’ll know if you get one or not. Sorry it’s not much but hope It helps you have an idea of what to expect.
 
BTaylor said:
You know there are some real states you could move too that you can just pay a small fee and get a sack full of tags and have lots of opportunity. :p
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We get to practice in the harshest conditions here at home so we show up to those other states and kill all the big 1s and make the locals mad.....y'all make us mad when u come to visit so it's only fitting
 
Stalker, u think u can sew and rig a parasail?

We could hire out the local speedboat and circle the island. All I have is 10x42 so I probably need to borrow somebody's better glass. As long as we got cell service I give up to the minute herd locations....signal flags as our contingency plan for no cell service? We can work all that out later.... Parasail that hooks into the MOLLE on my saddle is top priority

If my bird's eye view leads to a kill we can discuss a cash donation or I'll except the sambar heart and 1 loin as payment
 
Weldabeast said:
Stalker, u think u can sew and rig a parasail?

We could hire out the local speedboat and circle the island. All I have is 10x42 so I probably need to borrow somebody's better glass. As long as we got cell service I give up to the minute herd locations....signal flags as our contingency plan for no cell service? We can work all that out later.... Parasail that hooks into the MOLLE on my saddle is top priority

If my bird's eye view leads to a kill we can discuss a cash donation or I'll except the sambar heart and 1 loin as payment
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Yeah, I’d pay to watch you parasail! Not much, but $20 is $20!
 
Weldabeast said:
@Pyronole u got any burn info you can share with us?
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Isn't everything flooded by you now! Lol. I would highly recommend reaching out to the district FWC office and ask for the biologist for the wma you're interested in. Ask them to send you maps of any burns completed this year as well as areas mowed or chopped. If there are any food plots, ask which ones were planted and with what. I do this with several wma's and have always got great info back.

Otherwise, you can figure out some of the burned areas but it takes much more time and effort.

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I didn't see any phase 4 reissues, but I applied for a phase 2 archery called plank road...don't know anything about it.
Everything in gen gun I'm not interested in....
 
Put in a lot of miles the other day. I found 1 thumb diameter pine oozing sap and 1 small scrape with licking branch. U guys starting to see some stuff yet? Northern St Johns county
 
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