I need help with spots for our trip

Bob Peters said:
4 of us are leaving Friday morning for the mount Rushmore state. Look I don't want to Hotspot, but if you've got any honey holes you'll let us on near Pierpont or the shores of Lake Kampeska hook a brother up.
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There's a guy on here, can't remember who but he does a lot of videos, yellow labs, who knows that stretch from Kampeska to Pierpont like the back of his hand & has all the best private land locked up, as well as the associated private land dummies. If I think of who it is, I'll let you know.
 
I don't get that far north in South Dakota so I have no clue what it is like up there. I'm leaving Thursday 10/30 to head to SD for a 5 day hunt. I will be staying in Chamberlain and using that as a base and go 1-2 hour radius drive from there. I don't have any honey holes but I am with Wolfchief half the fun is just going to Cabelas or any gas station around and getting a hunting atlas and just looking for spots on the map that are CREP, WPA, GPA, etc. Hunting time isn't until 10:00 AM but dad and I will drive around and scout out areas to hunt. Nice to drive by 4-5 areas and get a plan for the day. In years past sometimes you would drive up to an area you've hunted before and it would be mowed or all under water. So you just never know what to expect so that is why we do a little bit of scouting in the morning before shooting time.
 
Gotta find your own 'honey holes". Good public land hunting is available, but no one in their right mind is going to give that information away. Most of us have put a lot of tire rubber and boot leather on the ground to find areas to hunt. Even then, things change from year to year. Crop changes, drought, hail. That is part of the enjoyment of hunting wild birds.
 
Bob, there are better areas in the state than the area from Watertown up to the Pierpont area. I would suggest getting further west. West of Hwy 37. Golden Hour is the member on here that knows all the hot spots NW of Watertown but I don't think he is too anxious to share them with anyone. But you could ask him.
 
A5 Sweet 16 said:
There's a guy on here, can't remember who but he does a lot of videos, yellow labs, who knows that stretch from Kampeska to Pierpont like the back of his hand & has all the best private land locked up, as well as the associated private land dummies. If I think of who it is, I'll let you know.
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If your talking about goldenshour then he ain't gonna tell you. I asked him a couple years back after I seen a spot on one of his videos with a ton of birds and all he said was that he hunts within 25 miles of Watertown and told me to check out the maps. and he was saying that the spot don't matter as much as the surrounding conditions and time of day. Said that some spots will be really good one year and not much the next. I don't know. I was just hoping to go to Dakota and get on some birds, but he made it sound like some sort of mental exercise and I just wanted to know where to go.
 
Smasher said:
If your talking about goldenshour then he ain't gonna tell you. I asked him a couple years back after I seen a spot on one of his videos with a ton of birds and all he said was that he hunts within 25 miles of Watertown and told me to check out the maps. and he was saying that the spot don't matter as much as the surrounding conditions and time of day. Said that some spots will be really good one year and not much the next. I don't know. I was just hoping to go to Dakota and get on some birds, but he made it sound like some sort of mental exercise and I just wanted to know where to go.
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Yes, it's Golden Hour. I knew that; my comment was intended to be interpreted tongue-in-cheek, as I know him rather well. He hunts almost solely public land up there, but has lived in the area his entire life, so does happen to know it quite well. The Kampeska/Pierpont thing is sort of an ongoing joke on here as well.

But you're (& he's) not entirely wrong about the mental exercise aspect of pheasant hunting. The details are learned through experience. Sometimes a person gets lucky, but it's kind of like how a pro golfer gets more holes in one. Is it really all luck?
 
Smasher said:
If your talking about goldenshour then he ain't gonna tell you. I asked him a couple years back after I seen a spot on one of his videos with a ton of birds and all he said was that he hunts within 25 miles of Watertown and told me to check out the maps. and he was saying that the spot don't matter as much as the surrounding conditions and time of day. Said that some spots will be really good one year and not much the next. I don't know. I was just hoping to go to Dakota and get on some birds, but he made it sound like some sort of mental exercise and I just wanted to know where to go.
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Yeah that's him. I've tried pumping him for info a few times, but he holds his cards tight to his vest. Some people I tell ya. We might just skip Watertown and move the whole dog and pony show west to Montana. I know for a fact birds are thick out by Hilger.
 
Bob Peters said:
4 of us are leaving Friday morning for the mount Rushmore state. Look I don't want to Hotspot, but if you've got any honey holes you'll let us on near Pierpont or the shores of Lake Kampeska hook a brother up.
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I know that area well. I highly recommend you go west. Clark or Doland area. Fair amount of public hunting areas.
 
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