Part of the reason you get a 108 day season and 8 birds/day is that there are no people north of California, and they essentially can't hunt them south of you.

Your birds are coming all the way from the Aleutian chain in many cases.

The Pacific flyway has it's own set of problems.
The water issues on the west coast are very complicated.
But essentially, no water, no waterfowl.

I'm surprised more people here don't read the waterfowling magazines.

Out there doing it best I can.