The Curse Continues

[JPS_Flock]

I've been out scouting the past two days,and watched about 2 to 3 hundered geese pour into the same field for two nights in a row. Went and talked to the land owner got promission , he said they've been landing in that field all week long . Came home from work this afternoon loaded up all the decoys and headed out. Set all the decoys up layed down in the blinds and waited and waited and waited, They never came . I thought I had them pegged but gess I was wrong big time. I gess I'll have to go out Friday and see if I can find where they went to. I'll say it again hunting is hunting and I gess you never know whats going to happen if you don't get out and give it a try. :? :?

[Mark Spence]

Can't kill birds sitting on the couch!!!!

Keep at it Josh!!!

[kingkilla]

josh, sounds like you have the same luck i have. that sux.

[kswaterfowler]

It's this weather, it's so nice that the birds are doing off the wall stuff. This seems like it happens to us every weekend since season started.

[njhonker]

Yea, this weather has been all screwed up and the geese are screwed up too....We've been killing em pretty steady all season but it did have it's strange days when we didn't know what was gonna happen...Tuesday morning we killed 15 in less than an hour and they were still trying to land on our heads while we were picking up...Yesterday we didn't see a goose fly all day..................50degrees one day....20 the next...no wind one day...50mph the next...................makes it interesting...we don't give up on 'em though!

[Warden247]

Like the farmer stated though. Those geese had been in that field all week long. Which for me would suck. It puts you in a situation of, the birds have been there long enough to feed the field out and are ready to move onto the next one at any time. A good indicator of birds gettting read to move onto a different field is how fast they are moving while feeding. If they are not moving around much that usually means they will be back because there is plenty to feed on yet. If they are moving at a steady pase it means they are looking harder for feed in that field. Good indicator that they will find a new food plot.. Hope this helps someone out.

[Max4Gooser]

The Warden hit on the head with that one, observing geese and learning what their body language and vebalizations mean, can be our best hunting tool out their. I think the weather this year has really screwed things up, Where I am at we started seeing the snowgeese a month early, it makes me wonder as the winters get progressively milder, how much are we going to need to change our tactics, and are we going to have to completely relearn everything we thought we new about waterfowlin'.

Good luck in `06 to everyone.