Marc
02-28-2009, 04:31 PM
Well John and I went to a new location going in blind so to speak as neither one of us had hunted the area before. We set up and all we had all morning was a pair of geese that skirted the decoys and landed about 100 yards away on the opposite side of the pond we were set up on. We called and called but couldn't convince the pair to come over for a visit.
We packed up and checked out a few more spots to see if maybe we could do some jump shooting and look for a possible spot for tomorrow morning. We did find a promising location holding some birds and will be heading back out first thing in the morning.
We came to one pond and you could see some geese sitting on a dike, we had permission to hunt this field so we worked our way around the pond to where we last saw the birds and climbed the dike and pushed the birds up. When the dust settled John asked me how I made out as I'm looking over at the 3 geese he managed to put on the water. I said I don't think I got any. He then said "then what's that in the middle of the pound doing the back stroke?" :biggrin: Sure enough there was a goose that fell that I never even noticed. I was to busy concentrating trying to bead on the geese without accidentally shooting the ducks that were on the pond crisscrossing between the geese as all hell broke loose.
I didn't realize until I got home and looked at the pictures that Marshall had picked up a hockey ball while I was getting the camera ready.:lol:
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/goose_hunt_28_feb_2009.jpg
We packed up and checked out a few more spots to see if maybe we could do some jump shooting and look for a possible spot for tomorrow morning. We did find a promising location holding some birds and will be heading back out first thing in the morning.
We came to one pond and you could see some geese sitting on a dike, we had permission to hunt this field so we worked our way around the pond to where we last saw the birds and climbed the dike and pushed the birds up. When the dust settled John asked me how I made out as I'm looking over at the 3 geese he managed to put on the water. I said I don't think I got any. He then said "then what's that in the middle of the pound doing the back stroke?" :biggrin: Sure enough there was a goose that fell that I never even noticed. I was to busy concentrating trying to bead on the geese without accidentally shooting the ducks that were on the pond crisscrossing between the geese as all hell broke loose.
I didn't realize until I got home and looked at the pictures that Marshall had picked up a hockey ball while I was getting the camera ready.:lol:
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/goose_hunt_28_feb_2009.jpg