Month: March 2009

I thought we were going to luck out. Forecast was for a 9-14 inches of snow on Monday however at 8 pm Monday night the weather hadn’t hit. When we woke this morning we had snow. The extended forecast looks like a warming trend which should have the snow melted by the weekend.

So far weather conditions for our South Dakota hunts have not been great. Hunting has been slow. Today it appears that some juvy and Ross moved into the area. There was a lot of snow geese migrating north. Tomorrow I’m hoping will be a decent day. Monday forecast is for more snow. Hopefully they miss … [Read More]

Although gloomy with a drizzle today we didn’t get the massive amount of rain they were forecasting for us. This should help our snow goose hunters.

Today was the first day of our South Dakota hunts. Snow goose hunting was slow today but the weather was less than ideal. Tomorrow we are supposed to get 2-4 inches of snow with wind gusts of 40 mph. Fields are very muddy…bring waders.

There is going to be a ton of rain rolling in Sun-Tue. Forecast amounts are 5 inches over those days.

Today is our last guided hunt in MO for the season. All we lost birds on the refuge but hunting success remained high. Yesterday almost everything that left the refuge didn’t come back. Mike and Tryg drove up to SD yesterday. There are lots of birds and lots of water in all of the fields. … [Read More]

We have been losing birds all week however the snow goose hunting remain very good. Yesterday we had a field shoot 147 snow geese and today we averaged 39 per field. March 23 we start in South Dakota. I have reports of large numbers of bird in that area. It sounds like it is going … [Read More]

Our move to South Dakota is approaching fast. Snow goose numbers in Mound City remain good. More typical of the last few years there are more bird that come back to Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge than leave it in the morning. The returning snow geese are not giving us much of a look. The … [Read More]

If you would have asked me how today was going to turn out I would have said  slow. Very cold start to the day however WOW did the snow goose hunter stack up the birds today. High field was 216 (pic above) with a total harvest of 588 snow geese. Huge snow goose migration today.On … [Read More]

For those starting to snow goose hunt on the weekend the new meeting time is 5:30 am. Rain and cold weather have moved in to the area the last few days. The warm up begins tomorrow and looks to continue through the rest of the dates we are running snow goose hunts in NW Missouri. … [Read More]

Today was another good day in the over the snow goose decoys. High field was 90 snow geese which ties the high field for the year. Low field was 15. Total snow goose harvest today was 312 snow geese.

Snow goose hunting is on or I should say is was today anyway. Today we saw a very large snow goose migration. Tons of snow geese moved up from the south. There is a good number of juvy snow geese in the flocks. High field was 69 and the low was 15 on a half … [Read More]

Snow geese are migrating in big number today.

The 2nd storm of the year swept through the area on Sat. Snow goose hunting prior to this storm has been good. Since the storm hunting has slowed. There are mainly adults with very few juvys in the snow goose flocks flying over our decoy spreads. Forecast for the next week looks very promising with … [Read More]