• By TODD NAFE Outdoors
• Apr 9, 2022

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Dove hunting in April? Yep. But like almost anything in the world, there are strings attached.

Hunting seasons and restrictions are in place mainly because some folks are like dogs. A dog will eat everything in the fridge in one sitting, not thinking about what might be there in the morning. And without regulations, some hunters and anglers would shoot and catch everything they could – with no thought of saving some for later.

I saw it growing up – anglers dragging stringers with a hundred or more white bass and crappie up the bank, way more than they needed, then getting tired of cleaning them and leaving perfectly good fish behind.

Same with hunting. Old-timers used to describe flocks of dove as thick as grackles, when you could shoot into the air and watch a half…