North Dakota

[Whiskey Jack]

Anyone know how full the sloughs are? Are they holding more water than normal, the same, or less?

[tvtrav]

I just got back from scouting, north of Lakota, ND this afternoon.....it's the most water I've seen in many years. EVERY slough is full and most of the low spots in fields are full of water. Some roads are closed due to sloughs busting out of their boundries.

Some of the backroads I travel scouting are closed due to flooding, not washouts, but standing water on the roads.

One hell of a hatch in ND the way it looks. Crop harvest is at least 2 weeks behind in the NE part of ND, so field hunting for the Aug. 15th opener on Canada's will be a little different this year, unless you can find the ONE harvested wheat field.

Bring your boat....:)

[Andrew Bremseth]

IF you have followed the news at all you would have heard of all the flooding in North Dakota....

Honestly, it's going to be a good year in North Dakota.

[Whiskey Jack]

Yes Andrew, I follow the news. I know about the flooding. I volunteered a couple days of my life to sand bag in Fargo instead of hunting spring snows.

What I wanted to know is have the sloughs stayed full of water since. And if so, are a lot of the sloughs that are typically wadable too deep now.

I onced lived in North Dakota and I know how dry it can be and how quickly things can dry up in 4 months.

[headhunter]

A lot of the sloughs theres water past the cattails and theres ducks everywhere. I didnt notice any sharp jump in canada numbers tho. There were some sloughs that got tilled up a few years back that i remember but this year theres water standing where they used to be with grass growing around them again.

[Whiskey Jack]

Headhunter,

Thanks. I guess what I'm worried about are some of the sloughs that have been very, very good to me in the past will be be too deep to wade.

Oh well, like you said, there should be plenty of new sloughs now.

Two more months, God! I can't wait!

[MIgoosekiller]

just dont bring a boat with you...no need to bust roosts when there will be plenty of sloughs and land to hunt that you can wade/walk...

[Brad From ND]

I just got back from looking around. All of the low spots last year are now sloughs. I didn't see as many ducks as would have thought but still going to be great. I don't know about being too deep to wade. You have to remember, there's still 2 months until season and we need water to keep the sloughs where they are. If it stays dry like it has been for the past few weeks, some of the sloughs will start to dry up. It happens every year.

[MIgoosekiller]

brad weve been getting rain weekly on this side of the state and its supposed to rain tonight

[Derek Bendickson]

The sloughs around here are higher than normal but, we need some rain bad. The fields here do not look as good as they usually do by this time of year.

[Whiskey Jack]

MIgoosekiller,

I'm not bringing a boat. Never do. Just concerned that some of my honeyholes may be too deep to wade. Not a big deal, as mentioned, there will be new slough this year.

I AM NOT A ROOST BUSTER!

[Andrew Bremseth]

just dont bring a boat with you...no need to bust roosts when there will be plenty of sloughs and land to hunt that you can wade/walk...

Bring a boat because you never know how deep the water will be where you end up hunting.... Just because something is deep does not mean it's the roost, more often than not the exact opposite is the case. Birds roosting on shallow ponds you can easily wade through. I have no idea what you mean with this comment MIgoosekiller.

[MIgoosekiller]

Derek B. where are you from?

Andrew what I mean is I have heard many a horror stories about the outta staters coming with boat and going out on the bigger waters where most the birds roost and shooting them off...and especially with all the water around there will be plenty of sloughs and water holes to hunt

[Derek Bendickson]

Derek B. where are you from?

Andrew what I mean is I have heard many a horror stories about the outta staters coming with boat and going out on the bigger waters where most the birds roost and shooting them off...and especially with all the water around there will be plenty of sloughs and water holes to hunt

Cooperstown, ND

[Jamie T]

I have yet too see any geese flying around

[Andrew Bremseth]

Derek B. where are you from?

Andrew what I mean is I have heard many a horror stories about the outta staters coming with boat and going out on the bigger waters where most the birds roost and shooting them off...and especially with all the water around there will be plenty of sloughs and water holes to hunt

Trust me when I say this... there are just as many if not MORE residents in ND that bust roosts consistently. What an unfair stereotype a "blue plater" has.... We have had our roost busted on us in North Dakota before and it has always been residents.

[Hansen]

Plenty of water around from what I've been told. Duck should be plentiful. I've seen more residents bust up roosts then non-residents.

[Whiskey Jack]

I really did not want this to turn into a Resident/Non-resident issue. You can get all of that on NoDak Outdoors, that site is a joke. Everytime I read anything there, it's just constant bashing. That's why I don't post there and came here instead.