Is it snow gooese season yet!!!!!!!!

[tracker x-2]

our gang is rolling out Thursday for SD. I spoke with someone who was in SD last week and said they where getting the 10-20 bird range.

Where are you headed Chub?

[chub]

Southern Nodak.

Hoping some Young'uns make it that far. With the weather forecast, I'm nervous. Have to see how it goes... . The drinking should be successful anyway.....lol

[Bryce]

Big line of wavies over Owatonna this morning while out jogging before meetings. About a half mile long headed nw. I take that as a sign. Might as well buy some more decoys.

[chub]

Shells: check

Assorted scatterguns: check

Some clothes: check

Wild win: check

Pile 0 decoys: check

Looks like it's a go!

[fish_hunt_guy]

wild 2015 = stanley cup

[chub]

Miserable dam birds.........

Lol

[Bryce]

Took a southern route to camp. Good mess of birds between Webster and Groton.

[Bryce]

Heck of a bird watching trip. No need for ice to keep the mountains blue. Helps to stay warm and work up a thirst having to change the spread around every few hours due to changing winds.

[Bryce]

Resetting the spread is the theme this year

Hunker down

Even the dog is frazzeled

Waiting out the snow at the Legion. Could be interesting after digging out and again resetting

[Bryce]

Well this changes things.

[Bryce]

Geese shut down today. Was able to get into the field so pulled the spread in case it started melting. Got a decent blue for last spread bird.

Probably put in a little road time today in case a drive by opportunity presents itself. Decoys are a mess. Don't fit so well in the cubes. Gotta play this drying operation carefully so wifey doesn't see how many decoys have been bought. May be back in two weeks depending on work.

[Proskier2038]

Great photos! My buddy and I are contemplating making a drive to nodak this weekend... Never chased snows but we have the itch to give it a go crawling fence lines and " jump shooting" or possibly pass shooting if we find some good numbers.... Is it worth giving it a go in your opinion? Closest thing I have to snowgoose decoys is 2 dozen mallard slammer socks that seem to be white from a long distance... So figured leave the dekes and blinds behind??

[jeff127]

Go for it proskier!. I only hunt snows from a spread now but started out jumping/pass shooting them in ND. I have a lot of good memories doing that....we always ended up getting a decent amount. You just need to find the right field with birds in the right spot to get a good sneak. Find where birds are using different fields in close proximity to each other and get in between them as they trade fields for pass shooting. I have 1500 decoys now and haven't had any time to spring hunt the last few years(just spend a week in sask. every October).

Oh and leave the dekes and blinds at home. If you don't have snow goose dekes don't waste your time as you need at least 10 dozen snows goose decoys(IMHO) to even get a look from most flocks....maybe less then that with full bodies. Plus an e-caller helps a lot.

good luck

jeff

[tracker x-2]

Just got home from SD Sunday. What a grind it was... 30MPH winds and super dry conditions made for a interesting hunt. From Friday to Sunday we ended with 40 birds and one banded Ross that is en-route to the Taxi!

This is what 1300 decoys looks like from afar.

30 MPH head wind combined with a loaded down enclosed trailer = Poor MPG

[Bryce]

Pretty much solid adults in nodak right now. Might put this one on the wall.

[Proskier2038]

Well I'm gonna give it a go this weekend in southcentral/ southeast nodak -figured why not!! Never been but I've got nothin else going on so might as well log some miles and do some jump shooting hopefully. If anyone has dekes and has room for an extra let me know. I will be sure to report back with what I see.!

[strait-meat]

Seen a flock of 50 snows in Monticello a couple of days ago.

[Bryce]

Must have been a slow season. Not many reports in this thread of guys getting out. Kind of a goofy spring weatherwise. Headed back out tomorrow. Seeing some good reports of juvie shoots in sodak yet. Camp has light snow forecast for Tuesday. Can't figure out if that's a good or bad situation.

[chub]

Here I comes........

[Bryce]

Not many around but those that are sure play nice.

[O.T.C.]

Finally, only took 3 years to really figure out snow goose spring hunting. It's finally all come together so those first 2 kinda wasted years weren't quite so wasted after all. Got 2 in year 1. Got 6 in year 2. Got 79 in year 3. I think I'll replicate year 3 next year and not do what I was doing the first 2 years lol. All field hunting, no roost or feed busting. Finally I'm an official enemy to Whitey. Sure is nice to be able to roar out and have the gameplan set before we ever see a snow goose. Put on about 25 miles scouting this spring also, it's all about narrowing down everything and then creating the easiest way of getting gear in and out etc. I wasn't so sure it was gonna happen, thankfully I didn't spend a dime on a guide, my crew of guys we don't do a lot of the things guides do, at least from what I can tell from some of their videos, and maybe that was a little of our success, we put a lot of white and blue down this year, good luck to those still at it, they're not all in Canada yet, but won't be long now.

[mgwoutdoors]

Buddy is in South-Central Saskatchewan as we speak at his cabin and is buried in snows.. Mostly adults, killed over 100 birds since monday evening over their spread. I'll try and snag a few pictures from him. They sure moved quick!

[Bryce]

Wife picked this up for me over the weekend. My tablet camera sux indoors. Try and get a better one later.

[Bryce]

Little better. Light must be goofy in this room.

[chub]

Now you can sit and stare at that for the next three months...... Lol

 

You'll be sitting in that parking lot alongside that other dude chipping on the pavement with a hammer...