Hunting & fishing combo – is North Dakota the best?

You could probably make a case that North Dakota has the best bird hunting / fishing combo in the US… although a favorite fall hunting memory of mine came at my friend’s cabin in Grantsburg, Wisconsin and we went goose hunting in the morning, muskie fishing on the St. Croix in the afternoon and his son shot a deer during a youth deer hunt just before it started to get dark.

I fish a ton but hunt very little so I’m not the best gauge. What do you guys think?

I saw this video on waterfowl hunting in Manitoba’s prairie pothole region and it looked pretty cool.

http://huntfishmanitoba.ca/blog/2019/02/23/waterfowling-manitobas-prairie-potholes-birdtail-waterfowl

I think the hunting – fishing combo around Devil’s Lake is pretty darn hard to beat.

Cheers,
Tony

I’ll throw SD in as well. Hard to beat all the options available around Webster SD.

Depends on what you’re after. The Dakotas could offer a great pheasant or waterfowl/fishing combo. I think MN/WI has more fishing opportunities and more fishing diversity than the Dakotas can offer. Probably not a lot of turkey/trout fishing combos in ND. WI offers the best Great Lakes fishery that could be paired with bird hunting. A fall steelhead/ruffed grouse trip could be interesting. Dakotas would offer prairie upland birds whereas MN/WI forest upland birds. MN BWCA/Arrowhead could offer some type of unique hunting/fishing experience. What can be said is the five state region has a lot of possibilities.

I’d throw in Texas. Shoot birds in the AM, fish reefs and wrecks in the afternoon. I’d throw in FL as well. Any Gulf state really.

I would say that each state is unique and it really depends on what type of hunting and fishing you like to do.
If you like pheasants and walleyes, then the Dakotas are the place to go.
If you like deer and cold water, then MN/WI/MI are pretty dang good choices.
In NW PA, you can duck hunt in the early morning, head out on Lake Erie for some great walleye fishing, and then head into the creeks for steelhead in the afternoon and finish with a deer hunt in the evening.
In TX and LA, you can hunt deer, hogs or exotics and then head to the saltwater marshes for some flounder, redfish and spotted trout and then finish the day fishing the rigs off-shore.
In CO, MT, ID, UT you can hunt pronghorn, elk or deer and fish some of the finest trout waters in the country.
In AK, you can hunt anything from ptarmigan to Kodiak bears and then fish for salmon or go into the bays for huge halibut.

I guess what I am getting at is that this is the greatest country in the world for opportunities to hunt and fish and no matter your destination, you can probably find a great combo.

Mikkel Broas wrote:

In AK, you can hunt anything from ptarmigan to Kodiak bears and then fish for salmon or go into the bays for huge halibut.

The one time I was able to fish the Kenai I ended up fishing with a father/son that had just finished a Brown Bear hunt. They wanted to fish Halibut but it was too rough. Still not a bad combo: Brown Bears & Rainbows.

Garrison, ND. Mid-Late November.

Geese by the 1000’s in the morning, pheasants during the day, then a great chance at a pope&young whitetail in the evening.
Sub one of those for throwing in a boat and fishing fall walleye on Sakakwea if you want.