Any spring snow hunters on here

[raider]

do they ever come too far north too early and have to head back south again for a bit??? did they not see the groundhog???

 

[jdinny]

do they ever come too far north too early and have to head back south again for a bit??? did they not see the groundhog???

all the time!
we have come to term it the yo-yo they will bounce back and forth literally setting up shop in SD for 4-6 weeks as the fk around between ND and SD and the weather breaks for good and the show is on. musta been 2013 or so I use to hunt the lead edge hard and we coulda prolly started hunting first week in march on flocks of 5k birds or so the way the weather played out it stayed about that size obviously with some ebb and flowing but the main stretch didn't hit til 1st week in april and when it did there was reports of birds in southern Canada by the evening.

I have come to learn as similar as winters are in terms of snowfall etc I have yet to find 2 springs play out the same

 

[dean nelson]

I once sat on the same pond in Nebraska for 42 days straight because every ten days the birds got hit with a storm and shoved back to squaw creek and had to migrate past us over and over again and never seemed to get any better at figuring out the spread. I think the worst day on that pond was a 9 bird shoot on the last day which was nine more then our other two spreads got on that crappy day. By that point the birds got a clear window and within 24 hours we went form decent numbers to couldn't find a bird in the whole area.

 

[snowkiller]

SD if filling up.Might have to set a spread soon.How much snow is there in SE ND

 

[dean nelson]

She is pretty much clear. The sat image shows the flyway up along the James in SD perfectly. Shows how it starts out moving north west then shifts to more of a north east direction mid way through the state. Also shows how well the four coal mines are easy to spot in the snow.

 

[bowcarp]

I've gotten told there are snows in the Huron SD area , haven't been out to see for myself yet but I trust the source

 

[dean nelson]

Yeah they were reportedly piling over Yankton yesterday in force.

 

[Kurtr]

The honkers have been going crazy down here all day

 

[dean nelson]

Yeah seen the first migrating honks a couple days ago but still pretty slow on them but we still have quite a bit of snow left in the fields with not much for any runoff yet. Sandlake reported first small flocks have shown up over there but still in very low numbers. But with a handful there you can bank on the first few scout flocks will be probing the border today which is nothing short of crazy in a winter like this.