New to Waterfowl Help and Advice Please

[mwmjones]

Well we have had a hard season of non stop hunting and finally we got our 1 st ever shot goose or should I say geese and to top it off our day's limit as well. Thanks Gary and WFA.


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[Larry Ashcraft]

Congratulations on a VERY successful hunt!

I hunted ducks and geese for years, but don't get the urge much anymore. As far as eating geese, if you breast them out and find a good recipe for a marinade they are delicious!

We plucked them and tried all different ways to roast them with limited success. A lot of work for a mediocre meal. Breasting them out is so much easier and the meat is many times better.

[spittoon]

hobo style goose duck huntn get you'r best fishing rod #6 hook and corn and head to your nearest park, golf course bait-n- cast wa la saves time on setting the deeks out and re loading the shells ,and just tell everyone it is a new kitebut please chek the the local game reg's under fly fishing

[buckshotbarlow]

When u say gear, here's what we've found to work out...
double reed and single reed calling (mixed by the hunters) with flutes. The more noise the better. We have a couple of zinc calls, good but the more tones you produce the better. We have flappers for attention getters, and motorized moving head decoys for added realism.

The best full bodies you can get are the ones that you can carry the most of, but make sure they're flocked. The glare will flare off some birds.

The biggest important factor for decoyed geese, is to make sure you get them in close where you can KILL them. I've seen other people at our lake blow a perfectly good hunt because they shot to early. We try to take most of our shots inside of 30 yds. We use Black Cloud and HeviShot and HeviSteel. The guys who use hevishot use 20ga's and just flat out kill the birds. I use black cloud 2's, it's good, and it's cheaper. The HeviSteel is our new choice. The old days of using drylock BBB's are gone.

Youtube has a bunch of good stuff, check it out by searching goose hunting.

[SA Friday]

I've hunted waterfowl off and on my whole life. It takes good camoflague, the decoys have to be set out in the right pattern and coordinated with wind direction, and skill, with multiple types of calls. Ill try to remember to post more tonight after class.