Who spends some of their time in the outdoors of SD?

[Outdoors Junkie]

I am tasked with helping grow our SD boards!  I want to first start with who on this awesome website come over to South Dakota for hunting, fishing, camping or anything else?

Let's have a roll call. If you have ever hunted, fished, camped, vacationed or spent time in SD reply to this thread.  Let us know what you did, when you did it.  Or reply if you plan to hunt, fish or camp in SD in the future.

Thanks for taking the time to reply!

[corny13]

I fish SD all the time, mostly Lake Oahe... here is a pic... :fishing2:  Now if I catch a big one for the contest in SD Ill post the picture here also!

[Dan R.]

Both my parents were from the Webster area, when I was a kid I spent some summers out
there helping on the farm, done alot of fishing on Pickeral Lk with Gramps. Back in
my hunting days I use to chase pheasents around Ipswitch area also done some
fishing on Oahe & Waubay Lk

[schwinger]

I have been pheasant hunting the Webster area for the last 4-5 yrs now. We make an annual trip with a group of about 10.

[The General]

I usually make one trip to the river every year, 2 or 3 times to Waubay, and a trip or 2 to a few lakes west of Brookings.

I pheasant hunt there every year.

[Fawkinnae]

I've been to Chamberlain a half dozen times in the spring fishing walleyes (it's been 4 or 5 years since I've been back - does the wind ever stop blowing?) And I spent lots of time around Camp Crook (very northwest corner) when I was a kid.

One of our all time favorite family vacations was to Custer State Park.

[beeker]

spent my summers in the sisseton area.. lots of family out there. usually make 2 trips for pheasants a year.. i've shot more prairi dogs than I can think of out there

[Dan R.]

spent my summers in the sisseton area.. lots of family out there. usually make 2 trips for pheasants a year.. i've shot more prairi dogs than I can think of out there

That was the always the thing to do on a Sunday afternoon shoot gophers & prarrie dogs

[Realtree]

I have a good friend who lives in the Spearfish/Rapid City area who has invited me to come out and turkey hunt with him...need to take him up on that soon!

[spear foot 1]

Ya scott  my brother who lives by deadwood says there are turkeys every where. I usually go 4 wheeling out in the hills by my brothers 4 a week very year.  Try to do it after sturgis and about the time they have the car show in deadwood,'' cool deadwood nights''  Nice car show. Especially if you go up on the white rocks over deadwood and look down at the town and all the old cars running around. This fall I'm planning on muzzle loading in the black hills, cant wait to hear the sound of a muzzle blast coming off of the hills.

[Outdoors Junkie]

Who else out there comes over to SD for hunting, fishing or camping? 

I know there are more people with stories to share. 

[Cody Gruchow]

spring snow geese, havent been back for 2 years now, because i dont have the time, but i hunted around the aberdeen(sp) area, also pheasant hunted around the watertown area, never fished in the state though, even with hearing good things

[mncowboy]

i have family in sisseton, i have bow hunted, muzzle loader and rifle hunted for deer, pheasant hunted and fished with gramps alot when i was younger.

monty

[snow]

Dennis~

Many years under my belt fishing/hunting from the glacial shields lakes west to Chamberlain and zig'd-zag'd everywhere in between chasen roosters,bangin waterfowl and catching walleyes.

With that said,about 90% of my hunting is free lance,a little more work but worth the effort,I always enjoy the trips out there,come fall I've been lucky enough to draw NR waterfowl tags for several years and since SD has a early season resident only hunt (pheasants) we are in no hurry to get there,so we watch the migration unfold before we pull the trigger,by mid november the crowds are thinned out, the crops are down and the pheasants are bunched,its a double whammy,ducks and geese in the morning and roosters in the afternoon.

Anyone that thinks our duck population is down needs to travel here,everything that canada has comes thru ND and SD,due to Mn farming practices over the years has pushed the birds further west and worth the trip to enjoy a quality hunt with lots of action whether you field hunt or hunt water/lakes.

In the winter another two'fer deal one can use his 2nd 5 days for upland or buy another license,nice thing about SD is the 10am start time to hunt pheasants,get to sleep in,bang your birds before noon,get back to town for some lunch,throw your ice fishing gear in the truck and head out for walleyes and jumbo perch.

[Mayfly]

I spent 4 days on the west side of the Missouri river near Platte this past spring. Went out for a shed hunt and a turkey hunt. Had a great time! Am hoping to return next year for the same trip and am also planning on returning this fall for some Pheasants... I hope.

[Auggie]

Hey Dennis,
   As you already know we have a place near Deerfield Lake. I spend 2-3 weeks a year (or more if I can sneak away) in the hills most years. Spring turkey hunting every year for the last 15 or so, deer tags if we draw, muzzle load every year, summer vacation with the family as many years as it works out. Hope to retire there someday.

[Outdoors Junkie]

Hey Dennis,
   As you already know we have a place near Deerfield Lake. I spend 2-3 weeks a year (or more if I can sneak away) in the hills most years. Spring turkey hunting every year for the last 15 or so, deer tags if we draw, muzzle load every year, summer vacation with the family as many years as it works out. Hope to retire there someday.

Why wait for retirement...the hills could always use your talents out here.   

[Auggie]

Hey Dennis,
   As you already know we have a place near Deerfield Lake. I spend 2-3 weeks a year (or more if I can sneak away) in the hills most years. Spring turkey hunting every year for the last 15 or so, deer tags if we draw, muzzle load every year, summer vacation with the family as many years as it works out. Hope to retire there someday.

Why wait for retirement...the hills could always use your talents out here.   

Dennis,
    If we could find my wife a job with close to the same income we would move in a second. At least I would.  She loves it out there as well but, when it came right down to it I am not so sure she would be up for it as quickly.
    You have some very talented guys in the hills already. Frank Schmidt down in Custer to name one.