Yuma Pheasant Report

[ratherbehunting]

Spent Friday Oct 1 hunting with my son and 2 friends in Yuma using those AZGFD tags. Most all of the fields have been plowed and we saw a grand total of 5 hunters. We drove the whole valley, spent some time flushing some quail near the river north of the reservation. We saw a grand total of one hen pheasant in the sole remaining cotton field left unplowed. Very disappointing. If you have a tag for next weekend I would not waste the gas - we drove the river as well and spoke to about 10 border patrol guys who gave some hints and recent reports but all agreed that with all the fields plowed the birds had probably retreated to the heavy cover by the river. You can buy indian land tags for $50 at Spragues in town, but we did not even see any sign of the birds nor any hunters on the indian land at all either.

 

I think this really needs to be set earlier...once those fields are all plowed and replanted, the birds are gone. We did have a dog and we did cover a lot of land, but there was no birds.