Snow Goose Hunting Reports

On March 17 the refuge posted a count of 1.1 million snow geese. We are starting to see more juvy and Ross geese but there is still a good number of older birds that have seen snow goose decoys spreads. Yesterday high field was 64 and low field was 2. Today as of noon high … [Read More]

Another average day in the field hunting snow geese. Most fields were in the teen and 20’s. Yesterday it was 72 degrees out. Today (3/16) we woke to white ground. Hunting this morning in the snow was slow. Tomorrow’s temps are to be in the 50’s.

Hunting snow geese was mixed results on Friday. High field was 77 snows which is great however low field was 0 which is not. Average was about 20 birds. Afternoon hunting tend to be better than the mornings. There is good numbers of snow geese in the area but it is just a matter of … [Read More]

Another solid day in the snow goose fields. No huge numbers harvest but a lot of good average snow goose hunting. Groups in the morning saw slow hunting. The mornings for the last several days have been pretty slow for most fields. The afternoon snow goose flight has been much better. High field was 49 … [Read More]

Snow goose hunting continues to improve. Today was our best day of out Missouri snow goose hunts yet. The three top fields were 44, 40, and 39. One field hunted only a half day hunt shooting single digits. All of the other fields were full day snow goose hunts and harvest ranged from the teens … [Read More]

Yesterdays snow goose hunting results we slightly better than the day before. Over the last 4 days we have seen minor improvement in the hunting. Yesterday high field was 30 snow geese. There were several groups that hunted half days and their hunting was slow. All of those snow goose hunters shot in the single … [Read More]

There are a ton of snow geese in the area right now. I would say over a million. They are not decoying very well. I glassed a snow goose flock yesterday with a fair number of juvy’s in it. I’m not sure what is going on this year but it will go down as one … [Read More]

I spent the day doing some scouting out of this area into Nebraska. The snow goose guides said that we likely lost some birds. That is not a bad thing because the birds that were here didn’t like to decoy all that well. I have creditable reports of snow geese spread from TX to Redfield, … [Read More]

Meeting time changes to 5:30 am starting Sunday morning with the daylights saving time change. The 6th into the 7th there was a lot of birds moved into the area. I’m guessing Squaw Creek had to have 600-700K snow geese and Big Lake another 300-400K. Last night they all fed around the refuge. Hunting was … [Read More]

There was a push of snow geese from the south today. They are still using Big Lake. Todays snow goose hunting improved. High field was 30 birds.

  I spent most of the morning driving around looking to see what birds were in the area. Big Lake is holding a fair number of snow geese. I would say 50-75K.  Squaw Creek had a few but not nearly as many as Big Lake. Both have some open water which is somewhat surprising given the temp’s were well below … [Read More]

Those snow goose hunters that hunt March 6 or later are going to hunt as scheduled.  The low yesterday was -7 officially. My truck actually hit -10 while I was driving. Friday it was 50 degrees and birds came rolling out of the south. Saturday through yesterday there was a steady decline in bird numbers … [Read More]

I’m heading back down to Mound City today. We didn’t run any hunts this weekend or Mon-Wed. We start our snow goose hunts again on Thursday. The forecast looks to be improving with temps for most of the 10 day in the 40’s or higher. Now maybe we can finally run until the end of … [Read More]

Those of you hunting March 6 and later need to wait a few days before I’m going to make any sort of call on your snow goose hunt. We are 8 days or more out from your hunt and there is no way to tell if what is forecasted will be true. If you look at different … [Read More]

I would like to thank all of the snow goose hunters that have been involved in moving your hunt dates this year. It has so far been a pretty painless process for me compared to other years I have had to do something so major. It is really appreciated.  I still have a couple groups … [Read More]

Feb 28-March 2: The odds of me postponing your snow goose hunt is pretty high. The temps this weekend in addition to 2-4 inches of snow we are suppose to get Sat into Sun will almost certainly push all of the birds out of the area. There are less bird yesterday than the day before … [Read More]

The mud has frozen so for the mean time we don’t have to slop in the mud but it is not a good thing…we don’t need more cold. There is a good number of snow geese in the area but the are mostly adults, they are pretty directional in their flight paths, and their is a … [Read More]

There are a fair number of snow geese in the area. Well over 100K in my estimation. Right at first light they rolled out of the south and west in big numbers. They didn’t roost on the refuge at night but sure piled back in to sit on the refuge during the day. We are … [Read More]

Snow goose hunters coming in to start hunting 2/20/14 meeting time is 4:30 am at the yellow house. Come prepared for wet conditions. It rained last night and the forecast says snow today which will only add more water to the fields when it melts.