How did the pheasant opener go?

[Rost]

It went great for us! 26 birds Saturday morning...

Okay, Okay wrong birds. So did anyone shoot any cock birds? I talked to one of my buddies and they shot 27 yesterday afternoon. Anyone else have luck? Rundrave? SuperBlack? Anyone?

[sdstatekid]

7 guys 30 ducks in the mornin. Took my cousins dog out for 45 minutes right before sundown and got my 3 roosters. 1 was realy late hatch, 1 early hatch, and 1 very early hatch this year or late hatch last year. It was a good day.

[ifishsd]

We ended up with 22 on Saturday.

[Mr.Seaguar]

so much corn, really really young birds too in some cases. Kinda tough opener but should get really good if rain can slack off a bit

[Super Black]

We pounded a few opener. I have a lot of my family come out for opening weekend and we did well. Lots of corn up and I know the birds are concentrated in there. We tried walking a couple of fields, but lacked the strips we so needed. The birds were running, but not flying. Late season should be fantastic!!! Pics coming soon.. SB

[rundrave]

I was only able to make it out on Saturday and hunted about 10 miles north of wagner. We were 3 birds short of a limit and easily could of had our limit. Saw a lot of birds though and we hardly saw any other parties out hunting.

We had to throw out all of are usual techniques and get a little creative. Quite a bit of the land we hunt on was underwater, and not just a puddles. Still lots of crops in where we were as well.

I expect things to only get better if it stays dry now and some of the crops start coming out.

Rost I am heading up your way to hunt in 2 weeks. Give me a call if you want to hunt that same land with us, we hunted on last year.

[Phunnyfarm]

5 of us got 4 birds outside of Brookings. Lots of birds, but sounds like what you guys have already mentioned...hanging out in the corn and couldn't get them to fly to the guys we had posted. Late season hunt should be awesome!

Of course being with the family in the field and making memories was the best part of the weekend...just not as much "icing on the cake" as in years past!

[Rost]

Rundrave,

Thanks for the offer! That land you have is sweet! Unfortunately I have guests from out of town hunting with me that weekend. Then, I am headed off to hunt deer for a few weeks. We'll have to pick a day late season again. Let's make sure to pick a day not quite as windy as last year though!

[Tyler Holm]

We had fairly tough hunting in the Aberdeen area. Got some birds and all, but it was tough with all the standing corn.

Should have road hunted more prior to dark.