Snow Goose Hunting Reports

More than half our fields were in the twenties but the rest were in single digits. Our success is swinging as wildly as the temps this year. As I sit here in the motel typing this post, several flocks of geese have flown over head. The weather this week looks to be amazingly warm. As … [Read More]

The crazy weather that plagues the 2021 spring season continues. Arkansas was way colder than normal. So far Iowa has been way warmer than normal. The high field shot 27 and the low field shot 1. Some of the fields see a lot of birds while other are not seeing that many. The ups and … [Read More]

The weather continues to be good and so does the hunting. We have had 3 days in a row with an average in the average range. That just was never the case in Arkansas this past year. Today was our best day of the season. If this hunting continues, which I have seen no reason … [Read More]

What a beautiful day! It was nearly 70 degrees. The last three days have been lower wind early in the day. Many of the fields would have big spins started only to fizzle out at 120 yards up. It’s still pretty cool to see.  Our best field today was 20. He had high migrators cutting … [Read More]

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Since we started in Iowa the hunting has improved slightly each day. March 3 was one of the better ones, not because we killed the most birds. Everybody saw plenty of birds. If we had wind we would have crushed them early. Most of the guides said they had a number of huge spins that … [Read More]

Jim, Curt, Brock, and I made our way from Arkansas up to Iowa. Man, what a difference in bird numbers and snow on the ground. Temps hit 62 today. All of the fields were between 9 and 15 but one. They shot a zero. I just happened to be taking Jim and Curt to show … [Read More]

This weekend saw pretty slow hunting but a ton of birds have moved into the area. Steady streams of snow geese came from the south even in the cloudy rain. Today was the last day of our Arkansas snow goose season. None of the groups hunted because it rained pretty hard. Jim, being Jim, hunted … [Read More]

The weather today was cloudy, gloomy, and wet. The hunting was ok for 2 of the 3 fields. Our highest field shot 12 on our lowest got a 0. There was a big push north but it was hard to get any to peel out to work the decoys. The 0 field had a huge … [Read More]

Friday we finished setting the last two decoy spread we brought up from Arkansas. The first day we had no problem poking the decoy in the ground but on day two we moved farther west. The ground was more frozen so we pull out the cordless drills. The first day we saw a good number … [Read More]

  Watch this video on YouTube The blinds disappear against these terraces. It was a long day. We set 7200 decoys, 80 flyers, 16 rotary machines, and adding camo 36 laydown blinds. Truman and Nate raked up many cartloads of stubble. The temps were nice, but we didn’t see a snow goose. We saw a … [Read More]

Watch this video on YouTube   Both of our Arkansas groups of hunters shot in the ’20s. A young man got his first snow goose…made lifelong memory. A tremendous number of geese pushed north, many snow geese, but an equal number of specks. Both fields said there got specked over, meaning a big flock of … [Read More]

Smartphones and 10-day weather forecasts make being a guide a lot harder.  When the weather doesn’t look good the phone starts ringing. I knew better, but I was getting it from both ends. My guides and our hunters. All but a couple we have been able to hunt NW MO or SW IA by the … [Read More]

For 10 days we have been waiting for this cold weather to break. It finally did, south wind and 50 degrees. Yet we saw very few migrators. Most of the flocks that we saw showed up after 5 pm.  Ideal conditions didn’t lead to ideal hunting. Tomorrow will be warmer with a stronger south wind. … [Read More]

The planned move to Iowa is set. Up to 4 groups will hunt in Arkansas through Feb 28.  Wednesday six of us drive up to Iowa. Thursday, Friday, and maybe Saturday we will start to set decoy spreads. Most likely, we will be drilling them into the ground given the temperature this past week. On … [Read More]

It was a rather nice day. The sun was out, the snow was melting. A big feed showed up next to one of our decoy spread. Finally, our plan to transition is complete. I will communicate it to all of you tomorrow. I want a night to sleep on it just to make sure I … [Read More]

We needed to get out of the house so we worked on the decoy spreads. One of them has a ton of snow in it. Some of the others not as much. It was a beautiful sunny day so the snow was melting. I think by Monday when we have hunter the spreads will look … [Read More]

This is why I hate a long-range forecast, and why it is so hard to base our hunting on it. You know what, tomorrow the temperatures will change.  The guides are restless. It’s just as hard on us, likely harder than it is on our hunters.  As of now, those hunting through Feb 28 have … [Read More]

It snowed again! What the heck is up with the weather this year? It’s super stressful and hard to base a plan on an inaccurate 10-day forecast. Right now we are sitting at the house in Arkansas waiting for Monday when we start running hunters again. The guides are getting restless, we need the structure … [Read More]

We drove to the crawfish field to see how the spread looked. It can be hunted with a little work thanks to the Deadly Decoy supports that don’t collapse. There are about 25-30% of our spread is juvy and blue decoys. Some guys like running all whites but I like a little color in my … [Read More]