This is a 4 man limit of Canadas although one got away from us somewhere. They were taken on the Kansas River about a mile from where Kelly and I work. The guy on the left is Mark Payne who is a friend of the guy taking the picture. We had to wlk in about 300 yards from the bridge shown in the photo. A word of worthy note here geese are very heavy and lugging these things out of the river bottom was harder than carrying out the deeks. It was an amazing day that proved that if you are where the geese want to be you can clobber them and as most of you know it again proves that the secret to hunting success is being where the critters want to be. We see geese flying everywhere all the time and have almost no success calling them in in an area where they arent known to be. These geese had been sitting in the same area of the river for weeks a few days after hunting them a few times in they they didnt come back anymore. Lessons all well learned. It was also blistering cold although you wouldnt know it from the photo. It was 17 degrees with about a 10-15 mph NW wind and was Feb 10th I believe. I put the date there for future reference when I can't remember anymore what time of year it was etc. More stories to come..
3 comments:
Nice pic. A successful hunt. I see you were able to test that goose recipe you sent to us.
Great story with cool picture. Nice. I have never had a goose hunt like that. Did you hunt over water the whole time or did you set up in a field next to the water?
We were in a log pile in the middle of the river. You couldnt technically hunt form the shore becasue it was part of a closed area of the military reservation, however, the river is fair game and is technically owned by the state of KS. We had about 3 dozen deeks in various forms including floaters shells and full bodies. The mark guy was a great caller but I am convinced we barely needed hime they wanted to be there so bad.
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