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Name: Michael Clement
Date: Jan. 16, 2018
Location: Devils Lake, North Dakota
Weather: Highs in the single digits below zero. Lows in the teens below zero.
Water Conditions: Sloughs frozen over with good amount of ice on the lake. Ice conditions have improved with the long arctic blast of well below zero weather. A warm up is coming for the weekend which will make for great weather to get out and ice fish. Good luck!
Species and Numbers: No birds left.
Season Stage: Closed.
Name: Adam Frick
Date: Jan. 16, 2018
Location: Yankton, South Dakota
Weather: Bitter cold temperatures will give way to mild conditions over the next few days.
Snow Cover: Snow cover is probably 50 percent.
Water Conditions: Deeper moving bodies of water are the only thing open.
Feeding Conditions: What waterfowl is left has been feeding picked corn fields.
Species and Numbers: Most species have moved south, except select groups of Canada geese.
Migrations: No migrations seen.
Season Stage: Late. Duck season is over, goose season open until February in select areas.
Hunting Report: Hunters targeting Canada geese have done decent, just hard to pattern.
Gossip: Duck season will now start later in 2018 for the area, and go all the way until January 2019.
Name: Kirk Steffensen
Date: Jan. 17, 2018
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Weather: Below average temperatures with recent highs in the single digits or below and overnight lows below zero.
Snow Cover: Minimal snow cover.
Water Conditions: Frozen with about 10 to 12 inches of good ice.
Feeding Conditions: Good, all field are open and lots of available feed.
Species and Numbers: Good numbers of Canada geese remain in the area.
Migrations: Nothing really occurring.
Season Stage: Goose season remains open until early February.
Hunting Report: Good, find the feed and you will shoot geese.
Gossip: Cold!
