Late Season Goose Hunt

Well as you all know, my previous post was about goose hunting in the late season. Well the season proved to be challenging once again. I've been scouting a very large corn field that has been holding upwards of 500 ducks and several hundred geese. My two friends decided they were going to try to hunt that field on Tuesday, but unfortunately I had class all day so I was unable to hunt. The report they gave was a little slow on the geese since the geese that checked out the field had trouble committing to the spread. But for the entire afternoon the 500 ducks were landing all around the layout blinds and decoys.

 So after that report I was pretty excited to if nothing else get some great photos on our trip back to the field in the morning. The only thing is, the temperature was supposed to drop. When we hit the field in the morning the temperature was less then 10 degrees outside. We hit the field around 6:30 AM to get our 100 fully flocked body goose lesser decoys set up in plenty of time before the ducks and geese started working into the field. The sun began to rise, the snow picked up along with the wind. That temperature fell even more with that ice cold wind cutting across the open field.

Because of the instant drop in temperature from the day before the birds decided to stay on the river instead of coming to feed, doing so would take too much energy. We decided to pack it up around 1:00 PM because be this point we were cold and the only three ducks we had seen were a half a mile away and never even looked in our direction. We never even saw a goose and froze our butts off. We decided to drive twenty miles up river and check out another one of our spots. Here the river froze completely across, so this spot will be useless until next fall. After checking out the river here we decided it was time for lunch and while we ate our lunch I looked out the window only to see the first flock of geese of the day! The temperature must have risen enough to make then get up and feed since at this point it was 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon. So we spent another day afield and did not have any luck this time either...