Sprig,
I have heard it is hard to get an South Dakota waterfowl liscense. I guess they only give out about 2000 of them to non residents.
As far as the Watertown area, your right, we have hunted over west of Bryant a few times in a town called Bancroft or something like that, its litterally a grain elevator and a post office, they might have a bar too. We got onto some prime hunting land.
Ussually the farmers land we hunted on is mainly CRP and is the best hunting I have ever seen. We walked into this field and the dogs went nuts, there must have been 200-300 pheasants in the air. One push across the field and we had shot a lot of birds.
ITs really not that hard to get land to hunt in Sodak if you do some PR work, we bring gifts and send Chrismas Cards, we take this one farmer from the Lake Norden a case of Miester Brau (or some off name brand of beer) to him every year and we ussally clean up there too.
I don't know any of the hockey players, except one. I have met Andy Kohlar in passing and he does play in our tuesday night golf league at Valley though, rumor has it that he can smack the ball a long ways. Andy is pretty quite and doesn't say much.