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What is your least favorite public hunting area?

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ark3

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Barber Creek by the Wapsi just north of Davenport. Too many hunters.

I was gonna ask what everyone's favorite was but...I won't tell you mine so why should you tell me yours?
 
Lost Grove Lake, although it might be my favorite in a less populous area. It also is North of the Quad Cities and if you want to see people, go there on opening day of pheasant season. I'm looking forward to it turning into a lake.
 
Oh yea, I had forgotten about that one.

I have given up on pheasant hunting since I moved the Quad Cities and don't have an 'in' with any farmers and have to stick to public land. You get those shoulder-to-shoulder groups...they make one pass on opening day and all the pheasants are gone.
 
Sedan Bottoms. Used to be good until publicised 4-5 years ago. It is now a zoo. In 2000 I was bowhunting in a tree when 4 guys piled out of their truck and began trap shooting in the parking area right across the creek from me! Tons of pheasant/duck/deer etc. hunters. But the worst was the coon hunters. We could not even get to sleep in my camper because these guys ran dogs, spotlighting all our deer woods and blasting in there all night. They ran every timbered area every night. If there were any good bucks in there, they weren't any more. Or 100% nocturnal. Then there's the rifle buck poacher problem the CO's told us about.

We left the area for good and will seek private land this year.
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Already heard about and experienced the Sedan bottoms. Here's one---Dekalb WMA in Decatur county--during the fourth season on the first weekend, on the East side I counted 13 vehicles and ended up talking to a non-resident with his 12yr old boy who had 5 different groups of people try to move in on the bird they had worked off of the roost. Sounded dangerous at the time-Another example of how it is turning into Quantity of people and lack of a quality hunt.
 
I try to stay out the public areas. About 90 percent of the time somebody is messing around in the area. We always talk about staying out of the bucks area before season, but I don't think we can practice that in these areas. Just my opinion.
 
...Wiese Slough...or as one of the locals called it Wiese Zoo...NW of Muscatine in Muscatine Co...took one of my younger cousins there for youth deer season several years ago...he lived nearby and we had seen many deer there when we scouted the area...when we went to hunt it, the woods were alive with squirrel hunters...you would have thought that pheasant season had started!...I have never seen so many squirrel hunters...
 
big creek area in general ... topmany hunters and guns going of every where i dont like bullets wissing by me....
 
I'm starting to think all the private property we thought we had locked down is now my least favorite public hunting areas!
 
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