Recent content by zmill93

Is the Emergency Haying pretty consistent across the East River portion of SD? Are we going to see about the same thing all the way from Aberdeen down to Mitchell?

Drove through this area early June and things looked pretty rough. I was wondering how things have progressed in the last month? Most of the sloughs and cattails all dried up in Dickinson Co area? How are the crops looking? Hoping that the heat and drought won't decimate the chicks this year in...

Remy - thanks for the update, really appreciate hearing from boots on the ground. I travel from Indiana 3-4 times per year to spend time in NW Iowa, one of my favorite areas of the country (fishing, hunting, people, beauty, etc.) So overall, you'd say it's been a fairly mild winter thus far in...

This has been a worry of mine! Did NW Iowa see similar amounts of ice?

Anyone else finding more Huns in NW Iowa this year?

With the dry conditions we had this year, are you guys seeing a lot of mowed CREP properties in Southeast and East Central SD?

It surprises me to see all of you veterans saying this spot will get hammered. I always pictured Hutchinson County as a more marginal pheasant area than others and thus less pressured. If this spot is heavily pressured it seems it would be impossible to find any spots not heavily pressured in...

Waterdog09 and lockedncupped - thanks for this insight, it's greatly appreciated. Your responses actually surprise me, from all of my "forum reading" and Facebook group post research it would seem that southeast SD public land is just crawling with hunters everywhere. So I pictured the...

Anybody out there who hunts public land in both of these areas? I'm wondering if Iowa isn't taking over as far as public land pheasant hunting goes. I'm thinking NW Iowa counties vs Bon Homme, Hutchinson, Yankton, etc. in terms of which produces a better public hunt these days. Both a lot of...