Snow Goose Hunting Reports

A snowy start to hunting. Our best field was 17, and our low field was 5. All of the snow melted during the day, so we are back to clear ground again. Going into our last weekend dates in Iowa. We are hunting until March 16 here. Then we are off to snowy South Dakota. 

    Misty morning and evening with a heavy overcast during the day best describes the hunting conditions for today. Two of our migrator fields that have been doing well did not today. We got our first zero in Iowa. However, the fields closer to the staged birds did ok. Our best harvested 34 snow … [Read More]

It was the best day we have had in Iowa today. Some fields did not see as many birds as others, but the hunting has been good overall. Our best field shot 64 snow geese, followed closely by a 57-bird field. Our low field was 9. They didn’t see many; that was just the case … [Read More]

It was a solid day today. Our best field shot 44 before a feed started nearby and drew many of the birds to it. Low field shot 18 that also had multiple feeds near it. I’ll take a day like this any day, any time.  We are watching the weather in South Dakota. It’s white … [Read More]

Today started out differently than I expected. I saw 63 degrees ESE wind – I was excited, but it was pretty chilly this morning. The field I hunted was low, we shot 1 bird, but my hunters left at 9ish as they had an 11-hour drive. Most of the geese split us to the south … [Read More]

During the first two days of Iowa, we have either had the wind with no birds flying or no wind with a sky full of them. Regardless we are having a good time, seeing a lot, and harvesting a few. Our high field for the day was 29, and the low field shot 6. These … [Read More]

The first day in Iowa was average. The high field shot 28, and the low field was 8. Except for the low field, all the rest were in the teens or twenties.  Lots of birds in the area, and there aren’t as many young birds in the flocks as I saw much of the time … [Read More]

Fresh off worker comp Gauge watches geese work the spread as I’m putting some flyers up. We will see how tomorrow goes for him. If it gets to be too much, I’ll put him up.   There are a lot of birds in the area with a nice push of migrators. Tomorrow is our first group … [Read More]

The guides set decoys more decoys today. Tomorrow we will finish up. There is plenty of birds in the area.  We have a little bit of space remaining for anybody looking to hunt yet this year. Call Brad at 563-380-7122 for dates and details.     

We drove up to Iowa from Arkansas. Aaron blew a tire on his trailer, but the floor jack and impact I carried made short work of the tire change. Billy had a bracket break on one of my trailers. We found someone that can weld that up today. These are some of the many things … [Read More]

Here is another blue ross we shot in Aaron’s field the other day. All of our decoys are pulled and loaded in the trailers. Tomorrow we head north to Iowa. There was a good push of geese today, although they didn’t want to play very well. High field shot 20, and our low field shot … [Read More]

The migration has slammed on the brakes pretty hard the last two days. North wind and clouds aren’t helping the cause. Our best field only managed to get 7, and we got our first zero of the year. There was debate about whether it was a zero since the dog picked up a wing-tipped bird … [Read More]

Today was our first really slow day this year. Our best field was 31, but the rest were in single digits. It has been a good season in Arkansas, but the weather has been weird. Yesterday it was close to, if not 70 degrees. Today was cold with a north wind. Every day is a … [Read More]

We are moving into our last weekend. The number of birds we are seeing is less, but what we see, for the most part, will give us a look. Our high field today shot 24 geese, and the low field shot 3. Nobody saw a large number of geese but more scattered flocks. Every day … [Read More]

Windy in the morning and wet in the afternoon. The wind howled today. All morning long, it blew 30+. In the afternoon, a rainstorm rolled in, and everybody tapped out. It was very heavy, depending on the field you were hunting.  Our high field shot 32 geese. The 31 in the picture and 1 more … [Read More]

Another solid snow goose hunting day. It has been almost the perfect season for us. There are not too many lows or highs but many solid days like today. Our best field was 39, and our lowest field was 18. We pulled Crawfish yesterday, and after much debate last night today, we set it again … [Read More]

There was a push of birds today on the west side and a much smaller push on the east. All in all, a nice day. We pulled crawfish, and we are going to move another spread in the morning. We will see how that turns out. Our high field was 60, and the low field … [Read More]

We are getting to the point in the season when the number of birds we see goes up and down. Believe me when I say there are birds south of us. Brad says he is fielding calls from guys worried that the “internet says all the birds are out of Arkansas,”. Who is the internet? … [Read More]

We had a south wind, but there was not much migration. The fields that had geese feeding near it said they fed all day. I was in a migrator area. We saw a few flocks moving north, but not as many as I expected. Most of the fields shot between 10-20 snows except the high … [Read More]

There was a pretty good north wind. We didn’t see too many birds in most of the fields. High field shot 31. All the fields were between 20-31 except the low field that shot 9. This is more like an average snow goose day. Tomorrow is a south wind. Hopefully, we will see migrators from … [Read More]