Larry,
I generally wait until the following week when Woodcock season opens up, as I've gone out on opening day to experience the same issues. It seems when I go out the first day of grouse season I flush nothing but.....you guessed it, woodcock!
Karl
Agree that's also a problem. Wish they'd open together. But they've got to work with that woodcock window imposed by the feds. They could open the woodcock season earlier, but they'd then have to close it earlier. And I've seen years up here when there were still doodles around, even in northern WI, after the season closed.
