Recent content by kanstiss

One of the best on the east side of the state. Tend to go once a month to keep the dogs on the birds. The Beck family is excellent and really take care of their hunting property. Their daughter and son-in-law own a dog kennel and training facility. They trained my dog for upland.

Today was a decent morning on the eastern side of the state. We seen about 7 roosters and 5 or so hens. 3 of the roosters were close flushes. One was bagged by my buddy. It was his first wild pheasant hunt and we got him 1. I controlled my speed much better today and I know we still walked by...

I am a very fast walker, I will start by saying that. My wife wont even walk with me at malls/stores because I move pretty quick haha. I dont disagree with anything you're saying. The dog may have put on 5 times as much. Im not too sure as I dont track it with a GPS collar. There was some other...

That was hunting from 8-12 with maybe 15 minutes or so if break in the middle. We probably went 3/4 of a mile once we got back to east side of the state and hunted until 4:30. Trigger is a chocolate lab.

I had little luck Saturday. 1 rooster bagged. I had 8 miles logged. Trigger had at least double that. Felt bad we couldn’t get more. That’s terrible to hear spirit lake area is struggling as well.

Plan on being around story city area but that could change.

Good Morning, I'll be driving from Dubuque area tomorrow to central Iowa if anyone is interested in getting out. It will just be myself and my chocolate lab. Weather seems to look much improved since the original forecasts at the beginning of the week. Reply to this thread or shoot me a PM if...

That's great! You're making me rethink if I should drive a little further west than my original weekend plan of hunting near story city.

Haven't made it to public ground in the area this year yet (Dubuque) but years past it's hit or miss. If you want to see birds, you're going to have to put in miles on both your vehicle and your feet. I hunted multiple times in the area last year, I seen no more than 5 roosters. I drove out to...

I'm hoping to hear something about fort dodge area as well. There's potential I may head that way this weekend. Looking to possibly go toward Story City also.

Nice, looking to head toward Story City area this weekend possibly. Haven't seen much around Dubuque here.

I would love to have wrote up a nice review of my trip except it didn't happen :/ We were back in Michigan visiting family for the holidays and planned on coming back to Dubuque on Monday morning. Well...I woke up at 4 AM with the stomach flu and was preoccupied for the next 5 hours. On top of...

Planning on checking in to The Northland Inn on Tuesday 29th and leaving on Thursday31st.

Has anyone been doing any hunting up in Spirit Lake area? We're still planning on going. Starting to look at some of my printouts right now of the public land. There's so much to pick from. Trying to at least have a little plan for next week. As long as the weather is ok, we still plan on going.

Thanks for the replies, we spoke and he knew I meant no harm. He has done very well the other times we have went out. I did have my lab not listen a few times this last weekend, but that's another thread :)