Posted By:
Scott-Martin
Field Editor
NE IL 01-22-2012 00:01
Cloudy, Accumulating Snow – 10-20 Degrees – Ice
Geese buggin out here … a few sitting on the open water… saw a pile of goldeneye in the neighborhood today and the past few days….
Posted By:
GooseMe1
Guest
Fulton Co. /Canton 01-20-2012 19:22
Cloudy, High Winds – 10-20 Degrees – Ice
Good number of big geese around. Had a great day today. Too bad season almost over. Will keep after them until the end of season.
Posted By:
Kevin-Stallard
Field Editor
S/W IIllinois 01-20-2012 04:56
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
WIth a strong N/NW wind today saw more dark geese SB. Several migrators flying high getting away from the bitter cold and some snow north of us. Also more snow geese in the area, but I don’t know if they are following the same routine as the dark geese, you would have thought most of them would be south already but 4-5000 are in the area.
Ended up with a two man limit during the afternoon hunt hoping more will follow today.
Posted By:
benjack71
Web Member
Cache 01-16-2012 22:37
Cloudy, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
Alot of snow geese, some ducks. Ducks are very very spooky. Alot of standing on the south side of the Cache and skybusting waterfowl coming out of belrose..I mean pass shooting. Watched geese get shot at that were over the refuge, probaly 60+ yards high from guys who were standing on the south side of the Cache..now if they were to get really really lucky and actualy have knocked one down..how the heck were they going to retrieve it..Need a CPO with a empty ticket book to hang out down there.
Posted By:
scattermaster1
Web Member
Coal City Road 01-15-2012 08:22
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Too cold to fly, seen 15 flock of migrators yesterday. Drive home yielded big numbers of geese huddled up like penguins on Renwick and the Dupage. Should have gone ice fishin
Posted By:
Terry Wiseman
Guest
horseshoe 01-15-2012 06:39
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hunted yesterday and seen alot of ducks,10min after shooting time. But hey that didnt bother some people. That just makes them fly even later.
Posted By:
Kevin-Stallard
Field Editor
S/W IIllinois 01-14-2012 05:12
Cloudy, Accumulating Snow – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
Scott, that movement you were talking about didn’t make it this far south. Had a good show of ducks making it past us, but the geese SB didn’t happen yet. Did have the pleasure of watching a group of about 30 Cans swimming in the decoys this morning, you know its late when the great bull Can is in the neighborhood.
Very little wind last night so most of the water will be hard this morning, hope the pump did its job and we get some of those geese Scott is talking about down here today…
We got about 2″ of snow the last two days but the NW wind was kicking 30 MPH, most the fields around here have just small accumlation.
Posted By:
Scott-Martin
Field Editor
Gardner, il 01-13-2012 22:37
Cloudy, High Winds – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
2 years in a row I have had the pleasure of being in the field sharing the blind with great people to watch a massive goose migration – no specks but just about every sub species of the Canada goose went past us today in the am hours. Big ones, little ones, fat ones, skinny ones… It was absolutely fantastic to watch. Lots and lots and lots and lots of geese decided this am that it was time to head south. Not sure where they stopped but for the ones that stayed in our decoys. Good news is that today is the very first day that this has happened. Friday the 13th (of January!). No bad news. More will decide to move tomorrow with these low temps up north. Then more the next day and many will stick around on the warm water spots. Not enough snow to blow them all the way through ( I hope). Though some will go all the way to the St louis exit.
Missi was happy to see geese come home. But unhappy that she was not there to chase cripples. She will be 13 in a few weeks. Heart and head are not failing her, just her legs. Maybe a goose will fall close in a soon hunt and she can get a lab smile on….
Watch north…
Posted By:
Scott-Martin
Field Editor
NE IL 01-12-2012 00:28
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Here it comes … snow up here, cold on the way … geese and ducks that are stacked up in the North Zone refuge will be moving south this weekend…. snow will be on the food. Drive south….
Posted By:
eryberg
Web Member
N.E. Illinois 01-10-2012 08:58
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If you want to see an impressive sight do a drive by at the Three Oakes Recreation Lake, formerly Vulcan Lake, in Crystal Lake. There are thousands of geese, bunches of swans and mallards roosting on the ice and open water. They come and go all day. The park is closed for the winter but you can see the waterfowl from Rakow and Pingree Roads.
