No stinking pheasants

This evening we hunted two different locations on the Douglas Creek WMA, West of Garrison. We started around 315 and ended around six. Weather was chilly, 27° and wind was around 8 mph. Both areas looked promising, with nice diversity of cover ranging from fence lines to woody rows to grassy fields, to also include some thick stuff like phragmites and cattails. We hunted all of this. Both areas had adjacent row crops of wheat and corn. One area had some small (100yd x100yd square) cornfields that were standing and we hunted those as well with no success.

In total, we flushed three hens and one rooster. Two of the hens came from the grass, one came from a woody row, and the rooster came out of a small fenceline. Winnie successfully pointed 2 hens with the third hen flushing in front of me and the rooster flushing wild about 20 yards in front of Winnie, who was about 40 yards in front of us. Her second point was especially nice, establishing point after trailing for a little while and pointing approximately 15 yards from the bird. It held tight for a few seconds, then flushed wild before we could get near it. Let's hope tomorrow is a better day than today for both pheasants and ducks!

The one thing we know for certain is that we are headed to the hotel to enjoy another excellent dinner prepared for us by our wives. Lori's lasagna and Jennifer's chicken dish have both been excellent and are very much appreciated.