Posted By:
Art-Marshall
Field Editor
01-31-2012 07:36
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More geese here. Monday from 10-12 a.m. saw 8 flocks of cacklers and 4 flocks of snow geese. All came out of the south.
Posted By:
Art-Marshall
Field Editor
south central 01-29-2012 20:24
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Observed more birds over the weekend, although our blind didn’t shoot any . Saw two other blinds get three flocks each Saturday. Hoping for more birds from the south tomorrow . SEVEN DAYS LEFT
[Edited By Art-Marshall on 2012-01-29 20:25]
Posted By:
Larry-Olson
Field Editor
North Platte river 01-28-2012 21:46
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
I hunted the Lisco blind this morning and we decoyed a pair in the wind that the boss called as they were coming by with the wind at about 10 yds. By the time we were out of the hole he had shot the first one and the second one was sixty yards. He suprised everyone. Oh well, it was all that we had work. There continues to be great numbers of geese and ducks in that area of the Garden county refuge but they are well patterned and mostly unhunted. I thought I may have heard a couple shots up river but that’s a big maybe. The Scottsbluff blind shot four by one this afternoon but reported alot of geese moving. My friend that hunts near Bayard shot three today but said the geese were decoy shy. I will be hunting there Monday. That’s all I know. OUr DU banquet is two weeks from today. If you want tickets let me know. LO
Posted By:
Art-Marshall
Field Editor
01-27-2012 19:30
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Still slow, the number of geese has alot to do with the weather. Next week it is suppose to be warm every day. I’m guessing thats what we need, plus a south wind. Remember , its just the opposite of the fall migration. The warm weather makes it better. Hope for sunny days.
Posted By:
Art-Marshall
Field Editor
south central 01-24-2012 19:20
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Just starting
Posted By:
Larry-Olson
Field Editor
western sandhills and North Platte river valley 01-23-2012 22:55
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 35-40 Degrees
My son and several of his friends went south of Rushville for the last day of season Friday and killed 13 more big geese. Some were pass shot while others were decoyed on the ice. My friend who hunts near Bayard reported a great hunt Saturday with their blind limiting out before ten and alot of geese in the area. The blind near Scottsbluff has been slow most days but Rick shot his limit on a windy day last week. The Bridgeport meadow reports good hunting continuing. Mike’s Lisco blind has been killing some geese every day but no limits and alot of geese on the Garden county refuge near the blind. We have all been seeing big geese moving north the past few days even with the snow and wind lately. This seems to be right in line with the past few years. Hopefully this last couple weeks will be good on the river. LO
Posted By:
Zach Mayhew
Field Editor
n/a 01-23-2012 22:22
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Could start seeing a reverse migration this week. Have the last ten days of the season off should be better than the last few years…so I hope.
Posted By:
Art-Marshall
Field Editor
01-17-2012 22:24
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half inch of snow, lots of slush ice in the river, a few geese around but still very slow
Posted By:
Larry-Olson
Field Editor
western sandhills 01-16-2012 22:10
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – 10-20 Degrees – Ice
Well yesterday I was accompanied by my son, my youngest daughter plus two other buddies to my friends ranch South of Rushville. We hunted a pivot of corn that he has cattle on. He had told me that he was seeing several hundred there every day for a couple weeks. I believe most of these geese are coming off of Smith Lake WMA but they came from other directions too. We had trouble getting them to finish yesterday and mostly shot flaring geese at about thirty yards but did decoy some and shot some on the first pass over the blinds at about forty yards. We killed five out of a flock like that. The geese didn’t fly very well until around ten. In fact I was about to call the hunt a bust but then they started trickling out. We were done by 11:30 Since most of our decoys are either at the river or at my friend Mike’s place we hunted over what we had here. 2.5 dozen shells and 250 sillohuetes that we made about ten years ago. Yesterday was not as nice as was forecast as we had a stiff wind out of the west most of the day. We were suprised to see the highs in the fifties when we quit. Today it was frigid with NE wind about ten mph and temps in the low teens. Ty and I started out alone today and decided that we would leave before daybreak again so we could do a better job of camoflauging our layout blinds It was a good thing we did cuz the geese flew early and in big flocks. We had trouble with the local cow herd being extremely attracted to our calling. The big flocks of geese would lock up turn into the wind and slide off as soon as they were over our audience ringing our decoys. We even shot over the top of them hoping to shoo them off but they didn’t hardly flinch. It wasn’t until the hand brought them breakfast that they left us alone and we started decoying geese. All but two of the nine geese we shot today were feet down in your face. Ty and I were done by 9:15 and waited for our friend, Trent to get there. He limited in about thirty minutes after he arrived and we packed up. It was a great two day hunt and a fine way to end the season up here. Many of the big flocks passed us by this morning and went on west towards Mirage Flats. We never saw them return. I did think we saw a couple flocks that might be migrating from the north. Most of the geese we shot this weekend were big 10 to 12 pounds. I wonder if they aren’t all sandhills giant canadas that stay there as long as they can. Several of the birds looked to be stressed with atrophic breast muscles and little fat. I am not sure why that would be but they didn’t look to be in top physical shape. I haven’t heard a word from the valley so that’s all I have today. LO
Posted By:
Art-Marshall
Field Editor
southcentral 01-14-2012 17:31
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no changes here ,,,slow
