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I always wanted to go pheasant hunting, though. Maybe Vang will host
something someday :-)

Anytime you're ready, dude! Make it mid-October on the
shores of Lake Sakakawea, and we can hunt pheasants, Hungarian
partridge, sharptail grouse, ducks, and geese all morning,
and fish for pike, walleye, white bass, smallmouth, and
even Chinook salmon in the afternoons.

I think I'll hold off before I pencil anything on the calendar
this year though. We have had several very good years for
pheasant, but this winter has been so cold and snowy that
I am afraid for the populations. Hopefully when the
biologists start the spring census, the news won't be as
bad as I fear it will be.

Kevin,
fingers crossed.