Posted By:
DKA
Web Member
Waterfowl season dates 09-12-2007 13:15
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Reelfoot 11/10&11/07; statewide11/24-25’07; sttewide and Reelfoot-12/1/007-1/27/08; Youth statewide-2/2-3/08; Reelfoot-2/9-10/08;NW Goose-12/01’07-2/10’08 (canadian). This isn’t the complete list for geese in Mid and east have some extra dates. 10/1-9/07. I called yesterday, haven’t seen it in print yet.
Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor
Southern Middle Tennessee 09-08-2007 21:50
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Another good day in the field. Started the morning with one of our landowners shooting doves in a picked corn field. I couldn’t have gotten any better, the resturant where we ate breakfast at 4:30 a.m. was actually right in the middle of the fields. After eggs, bacon, french toast, western omlets or whatever our choices, we walked out the front door and into the field to shoot. The doves weren’t just blasting us but there were enough that most of us got limits or close to it. By 9:00 a.m. we were back in the resturant for home-made chocolate fried pies that the cook fried for us when we came in. Boys, it don’t get no better than that! Especially with a scoop of ice cream to cool them off a bit.
After lunch, two of my hunting buddies and I decided to try and find the geese for and afternoon hunt. We found about 65 on one farm pond but decided to save them for tomorrow morning. Twenty minutes and half a county later, we found about the same number on another group of ponds that we have permission to hunt on. The problem was, the geese were scattered on two different ponds and scattered along a hillside grazing grass. Thirty minutes later, we’d added 12 more “Nuisance” geese to our tally for the year.
Now, as for tomorrow, more on that later….
If you’re not taking advantage of the early Canada Goose season, you’re missing one of the best seasons of the year. This is the only season that you’re allowed to take 5 geese a day. The geese aren’t wised up yet and you don’t have to freeze your buns off to hunt them. Not to mention the doves. So get out, do some scouting, and take a kid hunting.
Later,
Martin
Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor
Southern Middle Tennessee 09-03-2007 22:09
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Had a great opening weekend of the early goose and dove seasons. Three of us hunted Saturday, Sunday and Monday and ended up with 32 Canada Geese and a few limits of doves. But boy was it hot. Mid to upper ninties every day and no breeze to speak of. I really liked the 12 ga 3.5 inch Ts on the geese but I didn’t think much of the 7/8 oz 20 ga. loads.
Posted By:
John-Cottenham
Field Editor
Saginaw Bay of MI 08-31-2007 08:35
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DKA we need to start thinking about you coming up. Last few days in Oct or first few in Nov should be right where we want to be. I will be gone for a few days and then I will email you.
jacduck 1st a waterfowler! 2nd a decoy carver! 3rd? well, what ever else matters.
Posted By:
Martin-Hall
Field Editor
Middle Tennessee 08-30-2007 04:44
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Hello Neighbors
It’s that time again.
Two days till the early goose season and corn is hitting the ground left and right since last weekend. The geese have found the fields already so get out and find out which fields they are in. There a plenty of resident geese this year so get out and take advantage of it.
TWRA decided not to take advantage of the expanded Federal regulations on resident geese such as longer season, more liberal limits, unplugged guns, etc. so the season is basicly unchanged from last year. It opens on the 1st of September and closes the 15th with a limit of five Canada geese per day.
Teal season is only a few days later and the Blue Wing Teal are already in the area. I’ve seen more than one flight already while scouting for geese. It should be a good season this year. There was also a good hatch of Wood Ducks so plan on having duck and wild rice later in the month.
Now, where did I put all that waterfowling gear last January? Let’s see here: fat retriever, dirty decoys, duck boat full of leaves, shotgun with turkey tube still in it, waders leaking, goose call with the cork all dried out and loose, temperature in the 90s,ground too hard to put a decoy stake into, lawn needs cutting, no steel shotgun shells of the right size, no Federal Duck Stamp bought yet, camo all faded to almost white, layout blind full of mud and corn shucks and needing mudding, working 7/12s and no time to scout, and a honey-do list a yard long, and less than 48 hours till the opener. Sounds like my typical opening day. Get out and enjoy!
Martin
Posted By:
DKA
Web Member
Reelfoot 08-13-2007 07:57
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Found the draw blind Sat. boy was it hot, got it gps’d exactly 3/10’s of a mile from the corner parking lot at Black Bayou Refuge. Nice big timber hole. Gonna be a bugger getting materials in to build a blind. I’m thinking a practice session for the local TANG helicopter unit located here at Jackson airport. Going to get permission for some millet planting today, hopefully. Talk to TWRA a little later today. Troy, love to get up your way for some geese. We get some locals around Camden they transplant off the golf courses up your way. We haven’t had a good migration of Canadians at Reelfoot since 2000, when that Artic clipper blew down from the north. I will be in Lebanon for Mom’s b’day. It is the 3rd of Sept. Don’t know if they will celebrate on Labor Day weekend or what, I’ll keep you posted. If we get water the draw blind I got will be a killer. If we don’t, I still have the open water blind at Cochran’s we can hunt. Later, Kevin.
Posted By:
TROTRO
Guest
08-10-2007 14:18
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Kevin
we need to get together this year and do some hunting. get in touch with me before goose season i have some places to goose hunt maybe we can get some birds in.
i will call you next week.
Posted By:
Kevin-Stewart
Field Editor
AEDC 08-07-2007 13:34
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Troy,
You have heard of the silver lining right? I didn’t even go this year. Last year was so pitiful out there, I didn’t want to feel like I HAD to hunt a blind out there. I’ll be sticking to the leases and private property’s this year myself.
ALL,
With a little luck, the corn crop in Mid TN will have some yield this year. Most little local showers have had good timing for kernal production anyway. Don’t think the majority of farmers will be bush hogging stalks in late Oct/Nov like last year.
Any corn being cut between now and mid september will be attractive to geese and doves. Do your scouting now, while gas prices are below $3 🙂
Good luck guys!
a.k.a. Paladin
“have gun, will travel”
Posted By:
TROTRO
Guest
woods 08-06-2007 11:49
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didn’t get drawn this year at woods going to have to hunt private land this year i guess…..
Posted By:
steve68
Guest
08-06-2007 11:44
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Missed you up there Kevin. Congrats on the blind. I wasn,t as lucky this year guess I will have to try find a couple spots I can hunt out of my boat. Let me know how good the spot is. Steve
