 Over our time with the club so far, this was probably our most disappointing year. It wasn't any fault of the club. We had heard several reports saying that the bird population was going to be way up and let our expectations get pretty high. We ended up having a decent year, but definitely not our best.We usually go primarily looking for quail. This year, the quail seemed harder to find and the pheasants were way up. After a couple days, we went ahead and started looking for pheasant first and finding quail second. Overall, we got into many more pheasants than we have in any of the years since we started hunting in [location deleted]. Even though I still didn’t manage to get a limit (John did as usual), it wasn’t for lack of opportunity. I just need to shoot a little better!  This year, we just averaged about 3 coveys per day, but were finding pheasants in waves. There were several fields that we flushed 20-30 pheasants. In addition, it seemed the majority were roosters.Again this year, we discovered some new good spots that we added to our notes. Many of our favorite spots from past years were in winter wheat this year and forced us to look at some areas that we hadn’t explored yet. In fact, our new favorite spot was one that we had never hunted before but that had been available in past years. In that field, we flushed 30-40 pheasants, got up two good sized coveys and tracked down some singles too. We were in birds from the time we stepped out of the truck until we had worked the entire field. It made up for venturing out on a rainy day.  We had planned to make a second trip out, but some unfortunate events prevented it. As always, we are already looking forward to next year. Karen and John West Virginia Hunting Partners |
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