Rooster Road Trip 2016 carried over in the Aberdeen area because of the prior afternoon rainout, and the prospect of hunting habitat near a freshly harvested cornfield was just too good to pass up.
In less than 3 hours of hunting, we flushed 17 pheasants in range. This isn’t counting a fair number of birds that flushed out wild to be chased another day.
With warm and cool season grasses, hedgerows, food plots and cattails, all surrounded by small grains – sunflowers, wheat and milo – this is the ideal “habitat mosaic” to hunt.
Rooster Road Trip 2016 claims its first feathers at Fort Pierre National Grasslands in South Dakota.
Rooster Road Trip 2016 - Upland Nation, an annual digital showcase of upland hunting on public land habitat & access projects, takes to the field October 24th – 28th and November 14th – 18th.
A South Dakota great shares a few invaluable insights about opening day.