Nebraska Pheasant Opener

[jerry1928]

Nebraska Pheasant Opener

I hunted on private ground around Curtis NE. for 2 days. On Sat there were three hunters with 3 dogs and on Sunday there were 5 hunters and 3 dogs. We hunted huge draws without even flushing a single pheasant. For the two days we saw maybe 15-20 pheasants total and harvested 2 roosters. The population is very low. We are not sure what caused the problem, the winter was not too bad, this area did not have a severe drought. The only thing that was really different was that they had 4 weeks of really damp weather in the spring where every day it was really foggy with light rain. I wouldn’t have thought that this would kill the adult birds? There is still a lot of corn un-harvested so we hope that there are some pheasants that we just didn’t see. We hunted great cover that in the past produced lots of birds. Draws that were surrounded by cut corn, lots of cover and water. The quail population seems to be fine. We got up 8-10 coveys, each with between 10 and 20 birds including young of the year birds.

[huntrut]

Nebraska and pheasants don't belong in the same sentence anymore!
What birds we do have I will blame it on a lot of corn still in and if that's what it takes I wish corn was in every year.

[spartacus38]

I hunted the Superior,Ne area in the early 80s.Great hunting w lots of birds.
Went back to the same area in 2001 and hunting was poor.
I don't know why?
Bob

[FuzzzyIL]

Why are the invasive species we DO want are so easily removed, and the invasive species we DON'T want are so diffucult to remove?

[Suzuki]

Saw the same thing on Minnesota and Iowa openers.