Do you remember Janklow's ear-tag coyote bounty...?

I had a friend at the time with the GFP and they didn't even know about it until old Wild Bill announced it publicly. The agency had to scramble like crazy to get the coyotes caught, tagged, and then released again. I never heard if anyone scored a double ear tagged one (worth $1,000) or when the last tagged yote was caught. i think the effort was quietly deep sixed after the first year but maybe my memory fails me...

Maybe they will sell unicorn tags they don't need habitat just glitter to reproduce!

Agree habitat is the answer. Where i grew up in nw iowa. Theyve put a TON of crp in the past couple years and pheasant numbers have exploded. I was told the state was paying around $340/acre. Im probably one of the only SD residents that pays 130 bucks for an out of state IA license, but it’s where i have to go to shoot birds and i can get on a lot of private ground. The public land get pounded hard around here and getting on SD private land isnt an easy task.
I wonder, if this bounty thing happen, how will we prove we killed the animals? Tote around bloated carcasses?

Just read the article.... tails will be turned in with no limit. I dont like where this is heading.

I can't believe what I'm reading.

Habitat being the problem not predators.

I haven't seen even one response that wants to have a season hawks or owls.
The "kill every predator" guys must be sleeping.

You South Dakota Ladies ought to let back in all the non-resident trappers you kicked out of the state a few years back.

Let us trap all predator species and muskrats with the same opening dates as residents currently have.

Maybe that would put a dent in predators and you would not need a ineffective bounty system.

Karma continues to bite you girls in the arse !!

w

Everything getting tore out or tiled isnt an issue for bird numbers?

walleyed- I have to hand it to you, nothing but consistent in your whining about our trapping regs. I don't know why you would give up catching higher value EASTERN rats for our first weekend of Nov CENTRAL rats with the cost of a nr license!!! Now, if you want to go hut busting with me in January, bring a chain saw and we'll go at it, although it might not be a good idea this January because our ice isn't that stiff. I found a pix of you on the internet. You do take good photos!!

I find it funny how south dakota gets picked on from the NR trapping brigade which we allow by the way walleyed ... you know why we have good outdoor opportunities in sd, its because south dakota is full of south dakotans. How many ppl do you know that want to go to new york from south dakota to do anything.. Make your own bed and lay in it. we are pretty generous enough with hunting and fishing, and do allow NR trapping. sorry its not exactly how you like it, but i dont live in south dakota so i can trip over some city slicker/weekend warrior every day. by the way your more than welcome to move here.

Bla bla bal!

He ain't coming here he would have nothing to complain about oh wait he would find something, other states have restrictive rules for NR but always the cheap shot just to be "that guy!"

on top of that we dont have the rats that was a once or twice in a lifetime boom therenwont be any 1000 rat guys this year maybe 500 if someone wants too put on some miles and lots of hard work finding them.

Typical whiner! Don’t worry about our backyard. Clean up your own. Keep out!

We are about to have no coon as well....

Sure seems to me that lack of water has been a big problem over the last 5-6 years in the area I hunt. Crp is down too but I think water has a bigger impact

I'm not going to get involved in a nonresident peeing contest just wanted to comment that when the ice is poor the trapping is good.

Funny a NY troll lacking social skills is unhappy, talk about karma! LOL Come out to SD and see what freedom really is about!

Have not seen a rat in many years here no extra water no rats! The East end of the State seems to be getting the moisture but still not many houses along the interstate even when heading East.

OK not a fan of whining. This statement seems to point out no real concern over fair reciprocal trapping. Greed got SD in this spot. Let 13 guys get the spring season closed with no biological reason. Sixty Nine total NR licenses sold that last year they had spring season. Thousands of rats died that year from dry conditions. Not whining just facts. LLL

No whining here.

Just pointing out the fact that you are going to get a Non-effective bounty program rammed up your butts when it could have been addressed, in part, by allowing whatever non-resident who want to come to trap on equal footing with residents.

Like Coon Combine said, regulations effectively excluding non-residents for no sound biological reasoning except greed by some S.D. residents.

My comments aren't directed at anyone in particular on this thread but rather to SDGFP and the S.D. trapping community as a whole.

If you don't like my comments, change your draconian & discriminatory regulations on non-residents.

Every trapper in the country knows the real reason S.D. has, for all practical purposes, excluded non- residents.

Stop the greed and let non-residents back in and maybe your pheasants will come back, and KARMA will stop biting you in the arse.

w