Snow Goose Hunting Reports

First band of the year! Day 2 of the 2017 spring snow goose season was another good one. Snow goose hunting is all about peaks and valleys. We are on a peak now. All we are getting is migrators. There is very few staged birds around. I see Mound City, MO is reporting 150,000 snow … [Read More]

Tomorrow is the first day of the spring snow goose season in Arkansas. The number of snows geese we are seeing daily varies. Some days its flock after flock of migrators. Other days we just see a few trading flocks of snow geese. Since we have been here there has been a bunch push north. … [Read More]

Today we set three spreads. Two of them are dry field situation. The third we are setting up on some flooded rice. We are hoping the water and food will be attractive to feeding and migrating geese. The big Deadly Decoy snow goose spreads look impressive on this water set. When we woke up this … [Read More]

We have been in Arkansas for a few days looking at fields and talking with farmers getting things ready for our spring snow goose hunts. Right off the bat it is wetter than last year. You might want to bring waders just in case you are in a muddy field. If you don’t need them … [Read More]

The 2016 spring season was another very warm spring. If asked what the odds of having two years in a row with 70 and 80-degree temps in February and March would be we would tell you very low but yet this past springs weather was just like the 2015 spring snow goose season…too hot! We … [Read More]

We ran the last group yesterday and they shot only 1 bird by noon. We had the last two spreads in the ground and while one guide ran hunters the other pulled decoys. The spread being pulled had several flocks of birds try to land while Billy was pulling it. Jim says he even made … [Read More]

Yesterday we lost half of the snow geese staged in our area. Still plenty to hunt and I believe still more to come. As much of the spring has been, the birds we are hunting are flocks of adult snow geese playing follow the leader. Decoying success has been fair, we are killing a few … [Read More]

After a lot of pulling, setting, and driving we have everything out of Nebraska. Although not planned we ended up in South Dakota running one group a day until a week from Saturday. There is a ton of birds in the area or as the text read from the guy we are hunting read…”There is … [Read More]

Hunting remains about the same. The official count on the lake is less than 1000 snows. There are more in the area but overall numbers are pretty low. Those hunting March 11-13 have all been contacted. One group is hunting in South Dakota and the rest are coming next year. Those hunting March 14-19 will … [Read More]

For the second time this year a pair of snow geese decoyed. Both died and both were banded. These were 228 numbers apart. Banded the same day in Texas as adults in 2005. Lots of old banded birds this year. We lost almost all of the birds that were staged on the lake last night. … [Read More]

We lost almost all of the birds that were staged on the lake last night. Yesterday there was at least 100,000. Today there is 10,000 maybe. Hopefully there will be migrating snow geese that will push through this area. Those hunting Monday to Thursday we will have to see how things go. Those hunting Fri-Sun … [Read More]

Slower day today. High field shot 8 and low shot 4. We keep waiting for the switch to flip on our success like it did for us on our Arkansas hunts. These can’t be the same birds that have been here all year but they sure act like it. I’ve glassed a lot of birds … [Read More]

Today was a better hunting than the previous day. High field shot 22 Low field was 5. The birds didn’t fly off nearly as high tonight and there was some feeding in our hunting area rather than traveling 50 miles. The wind tomorrow look like switching to a south wind.

Slow hunting today. High field shot 3 with one zero on a partial day hunt. Yesterday there was 200,000 counted on the refuge and in my opinion there was more on it today. That being said these are some of the toughest birds we have hunted all season. They are in a pattern of heading … [Read More]

  Jim’s snow goose hunters left a little before noon on 3/2/16. As usual Jim just stayed out and hunted on his own. A flock of 50 flew over head and with a little flip of the flag only one peeled out but it dropped into the kill hole. When the blue turned sideway Jim saw it … [Read More]

  Today hunting was mixed. High field shot 17 with a banded ross goose. It was banded last summer as an adult. The other three fields were in the single digits. Some of the fields saw tens of thousands and others saw just a few thousand. The latest updated the count on the lake to 200,000 on … [Read More]

Today snow geese rolled into the lake. There was a lot on it midday. Most of them are likely birds that left South Dakota from the snow and cold. If the wind wouldn’t have died a couple of the fields it would have likely been bloody. In those fields big mobs of snow geese would … [Read More]

Today the hunting picked up some from yesterday. High field was 18 birds with this bonus yellow neck collared Ross goose. It was banded 8/10/2004 as an adult. I would estimate there was at least 100,000 snows on the lake during the day and others roosting on smaller bodies of water here and there. Low … [Read More]

Sunday was slow hunting. The wind blew very hard all morning 35 mph with higher gusts. Everybody saw very few birds. A trip to the lake showed us very few birds returned to it mid day. Friday there was 900,000 birds on it and that afternoon was a very impressive flight. Lower and south winds … [Read More]

Another average day hunting snow geese in Nebraska. High field was 25. The wind blew very hard today. It’s suppose to do the same tomorrow. I’ve been getting a lot of calls about the snow goose migration. Many are worried that the all the birds are moved north. Some have however there will be more … [Read More]