You need to check with the managers of the WMA to find out about the food plots. It is getting late to plant, but not too late. You sort of answered your question when you said you understood it was first come-first serve on food plots. Just get up earlier. I last hunted a WMA around 1975 when I went to the Barbour Co. Management area. The place was thick with hunters, couldn't find a place I could not see three or so others close by. Not for me.