Looking for a week 10 recommendation!

goldenboy

goldenboy

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Okay guys I need a recommendation from guys who have hunted these camps before or knows about them. I am looking to possibly book a hunt during week 10. I am looking for a recommendation for which camp to look at? I will have flushing bird dogs. We are not afraid of heavy cover like cattails or tough winter habitat. I am used to late season hunting where the birds can be wild and scared. But I find that if you find the right habitat it collects all the birds from the area and the trick is surrounding the cover and trying to eliminate the escape opportunities. So out of the camps that are still available anybody have a recommendation?
 
goldenboy said:
Okay guys I need a recommendation from guys who have hunted these camps before or knows about them. I am looking to possibly book a hunt during week 10. I am looking for a recommendation for which camp to look at? I will have flushing bird dogs. We are not afraid of heavy cover like cattails or tough winter habitat. I am used to late season hunting where the birds can be wild and scared. But I find that if you find the right habitat it collects all the birds from the area and the trick is surrounding the cover and trying to eliminate the escape opportunities. So out of the camps that are still available anybody have a recommendation?
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Golden, we actually closed many week 10 spots down last year based on GFP's survey. That was a HUGE mistake. Our survey shows that the group hunting at Cattail Haven week 9 did the best of all season with a limit every day for 4 hunters. As a tier 4 camp and minimum 4 I think week 10 will produce just as good if not better this year and it is a real deal IMO.

CHIP can attest to the cover between Pheasant Camp Lodge and Cattail Haven but I don't think you will find anybody on here that has much experience with week 10 camps.
 
I would think if you are looking for tough winter cover that will hold high numbers of birds cattail haven would be a good choice. My group hunted it a few years ago when a big storm with snow and high winds came though. We hunted the cattails and it was hard to say how many 100s of birds flushed out of there. Now we hunt pheasant camp which is across the street. There is no dough you would have a good hunt at either place.
 
Good question. Cattail Haven will sleep 6. This year we have 11 going including 3 kids. I have never hunted week 10 before but I think if you are hunting with 6 guys or so you would have plenty of hunting ground. I can tell on week 4 which we hunt there is more than enough
 
goldenboy said:
Chip,

Also is there enough land at either of these two places to keep you hunting all day long?
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Shoot straight. It shouldn't take all day! :D
 
Dakotazeb said:
Shoot straight. It shouldn't take all day! :D
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yeah yeah Zeb. It is always about shooting straight. But sometimes in late season when the birds are bunched they really move around or off a piece of property pretty quickly. I have hunted a 640 acre piece of property late in the year for a few days in a row and by the end of a few days the birds become pretty scarce on a square mile, even when it is managed for pheasants. thanks for any info anyone can give me on either of these hunting camps or any of the others. I am going to be watching the harvest reports to see how people are doing on all the properties this next couple of weeks.
 
I was with Chip when hunting Cattail that year and if you had a dog...you got your birds. They held tight in the cattails and it made for some of the best dog work I have been part of. One of my favorite years.
After a couple passes, it was decided we had to avoid much of the heavy cover with our aging fleet of shooters we had. I would have spent our three days in that stuff if I didn't want to stay walking with the family. Probably one of the better places for late season hunting.
 
SX3 said:
I was with Chip when hunting Cattail that year and if you had a dog...you got your birds. They held tight in the cattails and it made for some of the best dog work I have been part of. One of my favorite years.
After a couple passes, it was decided we had to avoid much of the heavy cover with our aging fleet of shooters we had. I would have spent our three days in that stuff if I didn't want to stay walking with the family. Probably one of the better places for late season hunting.
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about 3 years ago Cattail added 100 acres of new CRP which I am guessing would have been after you hunted Cattail. That is a lot of cover and bird production.
 
I prefer extremely experienced hunters. Besides that is why we bring you young inexperienced hunters. Someone has to do the blocking
 
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