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Off season dreaming and heard on a podcast that grouse can be found in NE Iowa, the driftless area. I'm pretty familiar with that area, as we camp up there and float the Upper Iowa throughout the summer. Has anyone seen grouse in that part of the state, or any other part of the state for that...

Seems like most of the conversation is about NW IA, so I figured I'd start a feed about Eastern Iowa. I haven't had a lot of chances to get out (work and weather). But here's what I'm seeing. Iowa River Corridor - Hunted a full day a week ago and didn't see as many birds as I was hoping to...

Just wandering how the harvest is coming up in that part of the state. Thinking about making a trip up the 2nd weekend of the season.

Luke and I took a friend and his lab down toward Marengo again today. Saw a few deer hunters, but we were the only ones out bird hunting. The first place we stopped at had a good sized patch of standing corn, but didn't hold anything. We headed down the road to another patch I've hunted before...

I tried out a new area this weekend, which is shameful cause it's only 30 miles from my house. Along the Iowa river from Marengo to Belle Plaine, there is loads, and i mean LOADS of public ground. There is a lot of every kind of cover you can imagine. Some corn still in but not much. Saturday...

Hey everyone! I'm thinking about heading up to the Spirit Lake area sometime in November to try to find some ring-necks. Last year we did SD and saw just as many roosters in NW Iowa as we did in SD. Did see tons of hens in SD, so the dogs got plenty of work, but I'm thinking I'll just save on...

Hello all, I'm fairly new to this forum and I can tell you I'm already addicted. I just got back from a 5 day trip to SD. I'm from Cedar Rapids and we hunted NW Iowa on the way out and on the way back. it was myself and one other guy with my rookie brittany and his well seasoned lab (she is a...

hey everyone, i'm from eastern iowa, the land of no more pheasants. taking my first trip out to SD this year, and i have a fresh 18 month old brittany that has yet to smell a real pheasant. I'm heading to the mitchell area, so any tips about public land would be much appreciated. Being reading...