Snow Goose Hunting Reports

Today was slightly better snow goose hunting. High field was 27 with a banded blue goose. The other fields had slower hunting but a few of them did see what seemed to them to be small high flocks from the north.

I drove another 400 something miles today looking for snow geese. After this drive I have a better feeling about the next 11 days if the weather play out as predicted. There is a pretty good number of birds to the south of us. Here is the wind forecast for the next 10 days. It could … [Read More]

Today I drove 691 miles scouting without much to show for it. Tomorrow I will head another direction. Hunting today was slow again. My gut feeling is we are just between birds. There are a fair number of days with a south winds in the forecast over the next 10 day. At this point it … [Read More]

Today was slow hunting. The wind blew out of the north like crazy. Not much traded around. High field was 8 snow geese. I drove around today and there are still just scattered flocks of 2,000-5,000 snow geese. We have yet to see a huge mass of feeding birds since we have been here. This … [Read More]

  The new spread we set paid off.  The group that hunted that field shot 68 snow geese. We were not at full strength with our fields but had a nice day with 109 snow geese harvested between all the fields for a 21.8 bird average. There was a pretty good push of specks yesterday … [Read More]

Yesterday was the youth duck hunting in Arkansas so we couldn’t run snow goose hunters. We did some scouting and set a spread in an area we have done well on in that past. There is a fair number of birds in that area but it is a haul of a drive. Don’t really like … [Read More]

The first 5 days are in the books. Hunting was on the low side normal and compared to last spring was much slower. This first week of the Arkansas snow goose season last year we shot 1140 snow geese with a 48 bird average between all of my fields. That is exceptional. This year we … [Read More]

Today was the first really slow day of hunting. Although we saw a fair number of birds they were high migrating flock from the north heading south. Normally when birds head back they are good decoying birds. Not today. Afternoons have been very slow all week. Tomorrows a new day with a south wind. The … [Read More]

We definitely have a lot fewer birds in the area this year over past seasons. Today we didn’t see many snow geese in a couple of the fields. A big change from yesterday when everybody saw a lot migrating north.  A couple fields had slow hunting. All the other fields were in the teen’s or … [Read More]

Today the snow geese migrated pretty good out of the south. We were lucky and never got the severe weather that was predicted. High field for today was 52 snow geese. Average was 25 birds per field with two of our fields of hunters deciding to not hunt until mid-morning due to the weather forecast. … [Read More]

Today all in all was a pretty good first day. Not a ton of birds in the area but enough. High field shot 30 snow geese and we averaged 20. I think the weather pushed a few birds back south. Mid afternoon in my field we saw a number of flocks coming from the north … [Read More]

In a few hours the Arkansas Snow Goose Conservation Season opens. There is a reason why I don’t bet. In my post earlier this morning I said I bet we would see migrating birds. The wind blew hard 20+ MPH out of the south. We didn’t. There are birds in the area but fewer than … [Read More]

Yesterday was the first good push of snow geese heading north. Mostly scattered smaller sized flocks but they were on the move. This morning the wind is blowing hard from the south with a high temp of 65. Bet we see more heading north today. We still have our eyes on the approaching storm. Looks … [Read More]

Mr. Crawfish man is back in Arkansas. Billy helped himself to 4 plates of them at Ron’s. He’s a little guy that must have a hollow leg to eat that much. There is some movement of all types of birds the last few days. Lots of redwing blackbirds are here that were not just a few days ago. … [Read More]

The numbers of snow geese in the area is lower than previos years but the weather forecast looks good for a migration push. Today we saw a few flocks of snows heading north but many more flocks of specks. We feel the warmer weather with south winds will move more up each day. On the … [Read More]

She has a good life sleep-eat-hunts repeat. We (Kali & I) arrived in Arkansas last night. The snow goose guides set two spreads. Today we will set three more. Yesterday there was also a push of snow geese from the south. The guides saw it here. They saw it in southern Missouri and our guide … [Read More]

I’ve spent the last several weeks getting gear ready. Most of our snow goose guides headed to Arkansas on Sunday. They will be making contact with our farmers, surveying field conditions, and making a few new contacts so we have the best locations to set our snow goose decoy spreads. It sounds like this year … [Read More]

So far the 2015 fall has been a little lack luster duck hunting. We have had a few good hunts. Most of them early in the year on wood ducks. We had high hopes this last weekend since it was the first major cold front of the year but the ducks didn’t cooperate. Saturday was … [Read More]

We can’t talk about our 2015 snow goose hunts without discussing the weather. This year’s spring snow goose hunting had a number of weather challenges. Mother Nature was cruel at times to our snow goose hunters. Our Arkansas snow goose hunts began with awesome hunting. Above normal temps had snow geese migrating up to mid-Nebraska … [Read More]

We are in typical late season snow goose hunting pattern right now. You don’t see many geese but what you do see work well. Yesterday was a little slower. We had 4 fields running they shot 17, 11, 2, and 0. Today was much better. We saw more birds and the 3 fields we were … [Read More]