Belle Plaine Area

[mike jupiter]

Wondering how the pheasant counts are in the Belle Plaine area. I've got a young dog and would like to take her out somewhere close to home sometime this week. Belle Plaine is pretty close to home.

I know of a few areas down there but am curious how the counts are. Anyone seeing birds in the Pheasant's Forever areas?

Thanks.

[Rooster Chaser]

DNR road side counts show they are down.

My own counts show that hunters are way up, and birds are down.

[Big Dave2]

There is still a good deal of corn standing in the area although it looks like it will be coming out soon.

I was on private land in the area near 2 of those WMAs that you speak of yesterday. We flushed 1 rooster and 2 hens but had no shot on the rooster. There was a corn field right next to this ditch line that we were hunting but the corn had been combined about 20 or 30 rows in on the outside.

So there are a few birds around but we may have to wait for the corn to be gone.

[Papa Grump]

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There was a corn field right next to this ditch line that we were hunting but the corn had been combined about 20 or 30 rows in on the outside.

Dave- if you where out by my place, we won't have that corn out for at least another week.

Brian

[mike jupiter]

Sounds good! Thanks for the info guys!

[Big Dave2]

Quote:

There was a corn field right next to this ditch line that we were hunting but the corn had been combined about 20 or 30 rows in on the outside.

Dave- if you where out by my place, we won't have that corn out for at least another week.

Brian

I was a little west of you Brian. Do you think everyone in the area has at least a week to go probably?

[Papa Grump]

1-2 weeks left for everybody , it's all depedant on the weather coming through here this week and weekend. Corn has been holding at 18-21% moisture and not drying down much ,if at all ,even with the warm weather recently. Combine hard for 6 hours and then wait for the dryer to catch up

On the bright side,I've seen some good bird counts though

[Big Dave2]

It does not look like the weather will be in your favor for the rest of this week.

[Sifty]

Lots of corn still in, in the BP area.

My father-in law was looking at 19% when they where going strong.

If a guy was to go a little to the south west it seemed little more corn was out.

Sifty

[svttom01]

Was out in the Belle Plaine area hunting public land this morning. I got to a spot and parked at 8:45am. By 9:15-9:30 it seemed everyone was out expecting to get the best spots. I didn't put up any birds and think next week I am going to have to pop in about $60 in gas and head farther west to avoid the chaos.