I'm in the Lower Mainland, and i'm going to be trying to hunt snows for my first time this season. I will be hunting from a layout blind, using a small spread of ~60 decoys (shells and socks). I have a snow call.
Any general tips to help a noobie out?
Also, is mixing light and dark decoys feasible? If so, i could increase my spread to ~100 decoys.
When I started I got suckered into hunting for snows. For some reason the year I started hunting waterfowl snows were very naive and they were unbelievably abundant at Brunswick Pt. I started accumulating snowie socks and I think eventually I ended up with 70 or so. However, Brunswick stopped being productive and the snowies started wising up and I rarely saw them come down there. Flying over, yes, but it got to be quite a pain bringing out bags of socks and then seeing nothing!
I last had some good success when I was invited onto a farm a couple years back. If you have a field scouted out - good on you. I found snowies will come down with motion - use a flag - and with big blobs of them but given my experience I can't claim any expertise.
Young ones will come down to anything including people walking around. I got my share shooting greys just as I was packing up or setting up. They came down to humans walking around in the open. It was crazy.
And I love eating them though!
Where are you going?
Last edited by silveragent; 02-18-2023 at 09:44 AM.
When I started I got suckered into hunting for snows. For some reason the year I started hunting waterfowl snows were very naive and they were unbelievably abundant at Brunswick Pt. I started accumulating snowie socks and I think eventually I ended up with 70 or so. However, Brunswick stopped being productive and the snowies started wising up and I rarely saw them come down there. Flying over, yes, but it got to be quite a pain bringing out bags of socks and then seeing nothing!
I last had some good success when I was invited onto a farm a couple years back. If you have a field scouted out - good on you. I found snowies will come down with motion - use a flag - and with big blobs of them but given my experience I can't claim any expertise.
Young ones will come down to anything including people walking around. I got my share shooting greys just as I was packing up or setting up. They came down to humans walking around in the open. It was crazy.
And I love eating them though!
Where are you going?
Thanks for the tips!
I was lucky enough to be able to get access to a couple chunks of land to hunt on, and one of them had massive snow flocks overhead when i was targeting ducks and geese in them. I'm hoping they return the same way they left (i'll be scouting, of course).