Posted By:
John-Donelon
Field Editor
South Dakota 02-11-2010 14:28
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Mike-Gorsett
Welcome aboard.Look forward to your posts next season,as well as nesting conditions in your state.Glad they finally got a VFE in your state.
Posted By:
John-Donelon
Field Editor
South Dakota 02-11-2010 14:28
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Mike-Gorsett
Welcome aboard.Look forward to your posts next season,as well as nesting conditions in your state.Glad they finally got a VFE in your state.
Posted By:
Mike-Gorsett
Field Editor
Eastern SD 01-29-2010 13:30
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I have finally figured out the new password and log in, I will do my best to keep the waterfowler.com nation up to speed on what is happening in South Dakota.
Posted By:
MarshMan1
Guest
01-08-2010 12:13
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The last blizzard just past, the second strom since christmas. Have not seen this much snow on the ground since the 70’s. The entire state got a blanket of 15 inches on christmas some ares got more then that. In my back yard there is at least 2 feet with some higher drifts. We had a wet fall so I would predict excellent runoff this spring possibly alot of flooding as lot of the ponds and sloughs were already full. I think our pheasants are going to really take a hit this winter.
Posted By:
PlatRvrJake
Web Member
12-19-2009 02:04
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anybody hunt up there? No posts since 11-28?
Great reporting!
Posted By:
MarshMan1
Guest
SE South Dakota 11-28-2009 17:57
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We have really been in the mallards lately. Had a 3 man limit this morning by 8:45 plus a giant honker. There is also alot of Canadas around. The mallards this morning were what you wait all year for. Large flocks that would come right in, even got some video of it. It looks like about Wednesday the slough hunting will be done, The weather is forcast to turn cold but no snow. Been a strange year, the mallards would be here one day gone the next.
Posted By:
MarshMan1
Guest
SE South Dakota 11-22-2009 13:38
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Quite a morning. There were ducks and geese moving all morning. Alot of mallards and snows and honkers high and flying south. The mallard that would work came right in after alittle calling. The most mallards I have seen all year. Thanksgiving weekend should be good.
Posted By:
MarshMan1
Guest
SE South Dakota 11-07-2009 11:20
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Hunted the Thursday and Friday with poor results. Did not see many birds hunting the sloughs and wetland we had good results on in the past. Decided to start driving around to see if there are any ducks in the area. Boy have we been hunting the wrong spots. We have alot of ducks in the area but they all are sitting in the small little wet spot all the rain has left. Found a nice bunch of mallards in a flooded corn field watched them Friday night and this morning and finally got permission from the farm for tomorrow.This should be a slam dunk. I’m jacked.
Posted By:
steveandzoom
Guest
NE South Dakpta 11-05-2009 20:31
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 45-50 Degrees
Water, water, everywhere…..
Hunted in NE counties for a week. My traditional area (for the past 13 years) was nearly void of birds. A few bluebills and ringbills were scattered about, but very few except for the rafts of wary divers in the middle of some very large lakes. Seems like some boats have spooked those birds a time or two. No mallards, gadwell, widegon or teal of any consequence. I scouted for a couple of days and drove hundreds of miles before I located flock after flock of mallards, pintails, and other species. These birds were concentrated in flocks ranging from 500 to 5,000 birds. Unbelievable. I have never seen so many pintails in my life, and I go back a long way; wonderfully mature birds. I also saw ten of thousands of snows and blues.
Since my modest decoy spread (I typically use up to 13 decoys) could not begin to compete with the tens of thousands of mallards, I hunted smaller water and did very well. I finished my hunt with a mixed bag, but the real highlight was witnessing flocks of 1,000-5,000 mallards and pintails almost everywhere I drove. Pheasants were obviously way down.
Posted By:
tlimoges
Guest
11-05-2009 14:38
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Hunted a small farm pond last night south of Sioux Falls. Saw 2 flocks of mallards both circled 2-3 times and neither liked the spread enough, also had a nice flock of widgeons 20-30 that buzzed the spread but i was to busy talking on my cell phone to take a shot… I have made a new rule and that is no cell phones in the blind.
