Reports from today!

[David Frank]

Went out today at noon and we were done by 3. We took our time, saw lots of birds, and ended with a limit. There were only 4 of us, no dog. It was tough to manage large chunks of land, but we ended up with our 12 birds and had a great time.

Dave Frank

[Tyler Holm]

Looks like I missed out. Grrr..

Nice work.

[rundrave]

we hunted around the Wagner area on both saturday and sunday. We got into the birds but didnt limit out like we normally do. Not to say there wasnt enough birds down there to do so, because we sure saw enough and shot at enough to limit out. We missed alot, wounded alot, and just couldnt find the ones we did knock down. We had a blast though and it was good to be out.

Most of the crops including a large portion of beans were still unharvested yet so give it a couple weeks and I think our success rate will drastically improve.

[David Frank]

We hunted the same area again on Sunday and this time with five guys, ended up with our 15 birds. What a blast. SD Pheasant opener is tough to beat!

[Mike Walerak]

Hunted around the Arlington/Lake Preston area and did well. We shot 9 on Sat. with 3 people and 11 on Sun. with 4 people ( I had to leave before we got the last one ).

Saw quite few birds and shot well on Saturday. Sunday was a different story. We were hunting the a CRP field and the wind sped up the birds to a point that they were nearly breaking the sound barrier.

I will post some pics as soon as I get them developed. My digital camera went dead so I had to pick up a disposable one.

We even go into a few walleyes to top off the day! I just can't stay away from the fish no matter what day it is.

mw

[David Frank]

Mike,

You and me both!!! I fished Waubay Friday before pheasant opener and 3 of us picked up our 6 Walleye. The fishing was not fast and furious by any means. It took us about 5 hours to catch our fish. Let one go about 13 3/4", the rest were around 15" with one at about 17"

[Tyler Holm]

Lets see some pictures. Tis the first SoDak opener I've missed since I can remember. I at least need to see some pics, so I can kinda remember what it's like.

The group I usually hunt with came up a few short on Saturday, but filled on Sunday.

[David Frank]

I will get the pics up as soon as possible. I have not uploaded them to the computer yet with all of the time I've spent hunting!

[David Frank]

Here are the pics from this weekend's hunts:

Opening Day:

Talk about some happy guys

Second Day:

[Tyler Holm]

Very, very nice Dave.

Tell Craig I dig his sweater jacket.

[David Frank]

He got a good laugh out of that one!