Snow Goose Hunting Reports

Finally we found lots of birds. We are going to run a couple groups that couldn’t move back. Lot of snow geese migrating today. We were not hunting Mound City but plan to by next Friday. Those hunting Monday through Thursday will be notified as to where to meet. I would tell everybody where we … [Read More]

Its 3:45am and we are headed south to an area that we believe is holding a good numbers of snow geese. I was able to make contact with all but one of the groups of hunters that are coming in through Feb 28. I plan of be running snow goose hunts this weekend. We have … [Read More]

This is turning out to be very interesting weather this year. I have been thinking back and I can’t remember a year where we have not had a good number of snow geese within a reasonable distance of Mound City by now. Today two truckloads of guide drove all day looking for a large concentration … [Read More]

Today there was a small migration of snow geese. We saw several thousand snows that appear to be using the river to roost at night. We set a spread this morning finishing about 11 am. Hunted a couple hours during mid day and shot a couple. There is a small area of open water on … [Read More]

Today was the first day we have seen snows in the Mound City area. Getting lots of reports of bird moving up to just south of us. Long range forecast for the upcoming weekend looks good.

I have decided to postpone hunts Feb 19-21 due to low bird numbers and poor weather conditions. Now before everybody hunting Feb 26-28 starts calling…breath…we have 10 days. The difference between 0 and 200,000 birds can be a few hours and we have a few days. This isn’t our first rodeo. If there is issues … [Read More]

Old man winter keeps hanging around this year. With less than a week until our first snow goose hunts are suppose to start it isn’t looking too promising that we will be hunting in Mound City. We will be heading down on Sunday. Monday we will scout areas a couple hours south to see if … [Read More]

Today I have gotten several phone calls from Texas, Southern Illinois, and Southern Missouri. All have one thing in common. Snows geese are migrating north. We were in NW Missouri over the weekend and saw a very small number of snow geese. There is still snow on the ground but the good thing is there … [Read More]

Today is the first day of the Conservation Order 2010. Our first guided snow goose hunts are Feb 19. If you are going to the Iowa Duck Calling contest in Burlington, IA this weekend I’ll be there at the Deadly Decoy™ booth. Stop by and chat.

All the reports I have been getting from my southern connections say snow goose migration has begun to head north. My farmers in Mound City say they have been seeing a few birds push up on the warmer days but that are not staying in the area. This is very common and something I expect … [Read More]

Here is a sneak peak at the new flyers we will be snow goose hunting over this spring. Many of you saw the prototype versions last spring. I think you will find these to be a little high quality.

Hank from Audreys Motel called and said he had a big party cancel March 5-8. Sounds like they had 14 room reserved. If any of you are looking for lodging during that time he ask me to let you know he has room now.

It is less than a month until our snow goose hunts start. The last several weekends I have had several of the guides over doing the prep work. Two weekends ago we assembled 5000 new windsocks. This last weekend we got all of the new rotary machines ready to roll. Because much of the stuff … [Read More]

Conservation Order Permit ($40) is the only license requirement for 2010. Back in April I emailed the MDC asking what was required. At that time what I was told was incorrect. See the email below. Tracy Northup: The Conservation Order Permit is the only permit required for hunting during the Conservation Order. I apologize for … [Read More]

It is hard to believe that we will be running snow goose hunts in just over a month. I guess when the temp are hovering below zero its hard to think about hunting snow geese but it will be here before we know it. We are setting pretty good this year but there will be … [Read More]

Returned on Sunday from Canada. We started hunting in MB however due to low bird numbers and a lot of hunting pressure we decided to move to our regular stomping grounds in SK.Here is a picture of one of the good days in MB. A limit of honkers, several blues and ducks.This picture is the … [Read More]

I would like to thank all of you that hunted with us this year. The 2009 didn’t live up to the hype however it was still pretty good. Missouri snow goose hunting was the best we have ever had there. A couple of snow storms raised a little havoc with us but overall we shot … [Read More]

Although we did get a bunch of snow. It is melting with a high of 35 today and 37 tomorrow I don’t think much will be left by the weekend. There is still loads of snow geese in the area. The snow didn’t push them out. Yesterday we shot 79, 23, and 20 in the … [Read More]

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]