Snow Goose Hunting Reports

Today started out warm with rain. At times it rained really hard. The temps dropped all day until by sunset it was in the thirty’s. Tomorrow’s high is going to be in the low 30’s. All but one field called it quits by noon. One group of guys went out this afternoon. The high field for … [Read More]

Guys from Louisiana cooked us redfish, duck sausage, and chili tonight. Thanks, Ronald and the boys, it was delicious. Hunting today was slow. There was a good south wind but it rained on and off all day. There was a big push for the south right at daylight until mid-morning. There is a bunch of … [Read More]

Today was a foggy day. The bird stayed in the field feeding all day and there was not much migration. As usual in the fog, if you had birds fly over you got them and if they didn’t you didn’t see much. One of the fields did good 34 snow geese. We also got a … [Read More]

This morning we saw a south wind at about 15mph. Several of the fields had good hunting. There is a lot of birds on the ground near a couple of our spreads. These big feeds are sucking the migrators and trading flocks into them. We didn’t make it to the total Denise had the dream … [Read More]

This morning we had a fair number of snows push north. It was the first day we had warm temps and a south wind. Not much changed in success though. High field shot 18. Above they pose with some nice rusty blues. The fields dried out a lot today but it looks like there is … [Read More]

Today was the youth duck hunt. We had the day off hunting snows.  Jim and I drove down to Mack’s today. There was a couple big feed’s of snow on the way down. We saw more duck than we have been seeing. Hopefully, the kids got them today.  The next couple days look to be … [Read More]

Friday’s hunting results were similar to the whole week, slower than we like to see them. The warmer weather at the end of the week was still less than ideal for migration. Yesterday’s temp’s almost reached 50 but it was a cold 50 degrees. Most of the fields had drizzling rain most if not all … [Read More]

Today was a repeat of the entire week. This morning it was really cold. All of the water was frozen. During the morning hunting, we saw very few birds. In the afternoon the number of birds picked up as the temps hit the lower 40’s. Unfortunately, the wind died so the birds we saw hung … [Read More]

Today was cold. From daylight to about 9 am we saw birds heading south escaping the polar vortex I guess. Hunting was slightly better than the last two day.  High field shot 16. Tomorrow we will see warmer temps with a south wind. This will start several days of warm weather with south winds. This … [Read More]

Every snow goose season has peaks and valleys. The 2019 season has started in a valley. On the bright side most of the hunters this week hunted last year as well so they have seen the two extremes of a snow goose season. It looks like the polar vortex is only going to affect us today … [Read More]

The 2019 start to the season was much slower than the last few years. The weather was also much different, cloudy with some rain. We saw plenty of birds but they were on a mission heading north riding the south winds. During the last 2 or 3 years, there had already been birds pushing north … [Read More]

The birds pushed north again today. We saw lots in the am. The PM flight was right before dark but the continue to move north when we were just outside.  Those hunting in the morning good luck. Those hunting with us the fields are somewhat wet so waders would be a good option. Meeting time … [Read More]

I left Decorah this morning it was -20 and arrived in Arkansas at 50 degrees with the last load of gear. There was a south wind so the geese were moving north. It would be have been a good day to hunt snows. I saw way more birds today than earlier in the week when … [Read More]

  We are ahead of schedule this year. Everything is falling into place nicely. There are some birds around, not the most we have seen and not the fewest. Today – Monday we will see warm temps and south winds. Tue-Fri looks to be colder. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some movement north through Monday then … [Read More]

The prep work continues as we get all the gear, blinds, callers, trailers, and the rest ready to kick off the season Jan 28. Most of the rest of the guides rolling to town tomorrow. Everything is shaping up nicely. 

We made the trek south arriving in AR late yesterday. All the way down the ground was white. Remember everybody saying winter was over? I got a lot of those calls, comments, and emails. My reply was “I’ve never seen winter over in January and I have never seen snow last to the 4th of July.” … [Read More]

What are light geese? They are snow geese that come in two color phases, a snow and a blue. There is also Ross Geese. It is a sep­­­­­arate species but looks like a pint-sized version of a snow goose. They do come in a blue phase, but it is rare. Most biologists say a blue … [Read More]

We only have one group in town this weekend. Friday was a rain day. Hunters stayed into the field about 3 hours before the rain, wind, and cold got to be too much. They shot 5 birds. Saturday was a really good day. The hunters shot 110 snow geese. All of the spreads are pulled … [Read More]

  One of the fields did well today shooting 29 snow geese. The low field shot a 0. Most of the guides commented that they saw way more honkers than snows. We are in a bit of a lull in the migration of late. Tomorrow is calling for thunderstorms but a south wind. Maybe that … [Read More]

March 13 was pretty slow the high field shot 11 low shot a 0. Today was ideal migrating conditions and it was better high field shot 34 and low field shot 5. The remaining fields were in the teens. Not a bad day but we were expecting more given the conditions. Mound City that is … [Read More]