Marc
02-10-2011, 06:29 PM
Well I had one last day of vacation I needed to use up by the end of the month and today just happened to be the spring goose opener to try and target some of the resident geese we have on the Island.
ShotgunJohn and I set up my dozen Dakota's and we were ready to go for 7:00am, the first hour all we saw where a few mallards that buzzed around the decoys, I had forgotten how peaceful it is sitting in a field early in the morning on a work day. We had 3 mallards land just outside the decoys and Marshall was getting so frustrated and couldn't understand why we weren't shooting them.
The first goose, a single came in at 8:00am, what started off as a slow morning picked up pretty fast with 3 doubles in the mix. It was strange as we has 2 groups of 3 geese come into our spread this morning. What I find strange is most of the geese are now flying in pairs so it's odd to see another goose trying to mow the other guys grass.
We had both limited out by 10:00am and picked up the decoys. We then realized we had a good 100 lbs of geese to haul out with us as well. We didn't anticipate that this morning was going to turn into a two man limit of birds as spring can be quite slow.
I'm presently at the tail end of my cold that's been hanging on for the last 3 weeks, my back hurts every time I cough now but I said the heck with it. Tired of spending my weekends trying to sleep off this cold so it was a nice change to get out and about. Marshall had an awesome time today and made some great retrieves. He's going to sleep well tonight.
I heard a few shots this morning in the distance, hope everyone had a great opener!
Marshall being a clown trying to steal my hat.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/marshall_grabbing_hat.jpg
ShotgunJohn and I set up my dozen Dakota's and we were ready to go for 7:00am, the first hour all we saw where a few mallards that buzzed around the decoys, I had forgotten how peaceful it is sitting in a field early in the morning on a work day. We had 3 mallards land just outside the decoys and Marshall was getting so frustrated and couldn't understand why we weren't shooting them.
The first goose, a single came in at 8:00am, what started off as a slow morning picked up pretty fast with 3 doubles in the mix. It was strange as we has 2 groups of 3 geese come into our spread this morning. What I find strange is most of the geese are now flying in pairs so it's odd to see another goose trying to mow the other guys grass.
We had both limited out by 10:00am and picked up the decoys. We then realized we had a good 100 lbs of geese to haul out with us as well. We didn't anticipate that this morning was going to turn into a two man limit of birds as spring can be quite slow.
I'm presently at the tail end of my cold that's been hanging on for the last 3 weeks, my back hurts every time I cough now but I said the heck with it. Tired of spending my weekends trying to sleep off this cold so it was a nice change to get out and about. Marshall had an awesome time today and made some great retrieves. He's going to sleep well tonight.
I heard a few shots this morning in the distance, hope everyone had a great opener!
Marshall being a clown trying to steal my hat.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/marshall_grabbing_hat.jpg