Set your vacations, email from South Dakota, announced pheasant season for this year, Oct 18 and talking about making possession 3x the limit instead of 2x. Our group of buckeyes are heading out around Nov. 1 good luck to all, hope for a perfect spring and summer.
There was some chatter/ deliberation last year that the guides in SD wanted the legislature to change the fishing possession limit to 3x the daily instead of 2. It was defeated and dropped.
As a non resident, I voiced my opinion that it shouldn't be changed.
I was glad it was defeated, and hope it is not brought up again.
The reason the guides wanted it changed, was so they could book 3 day trips on a 3 day non resident license.
I said that was an easy problem, change the license to a 2 day license.
Not sure if this is what the OP was possibly talking about in the letter, or maybe they're contemplating going from 5x to 3x on pheasants?
Actually both SDJIM and Tfmdl are wrong. The possession limit in South Dakota is, and has been for along time, 5 times the daily limit. The daily limit is 3 and the possession limit is 15. Of course the possession limit may not be possessed until after the 5th day of hunting.
Jim, you must have been up too late!
Their must be more than one South Dakota!
Possession has been 5x as long as I can remember. Also I have never seen a 3 day liscense. Non res is a 10 day that can be split into 2 five day periods
Steve
Ps I will be in SD tomorrow for a 4 day goose hunt.
Kill whitey
I talked to the game warden today and in Texas your possession limit doesn't apply at your residence. You can have as many as you want in your home freezer, If I am in a hunting camp then I can't have over my possession limit until I eat some or take them back to my residence. I am not trying to skirt the law just saying what the law is in Texas, and was wondering how it works in SD even though I haven't scared my possession limit on pheasants or grouse yet in SD.