Honker Reports

[vicksburg]

Ya'll Get into any honkers yesterday? Managed to get two with some very poor shooting. Saw several hundred.

Also saw about fourty blue-wingers.

[RobertM]

We saw a good many on the Ms River yesterday. Weren't hunting for them, just looking around. I saw someone hunting at a management area above vburg yesterday, you dont dont drive a maroon tahoe do you?

[vicksburg]

yep, that was me.

[RobertM]

Thats kinda cool...I'm gonna send you a PM.

[JT]

I stumbled across a farm in Jackson county that had some resident canadas they wanted to get rid of. I got permission to hunt them and had been patterning them for just over a week. I waited all day yesterday and none showed up. The day wasn't a total loss though. I did some fishing in their ponds while waiting for the geese and caught two nice bass. Other than that all I got was a sunburn. I told the folks that own the farm to give me a call if they showed up again.

I got a call at work about 10:30 this morning saying that they were there again. I took an early lunch and limited out in just a few minutes. They weren't too smart and were pretty easy pickins' but the survivors are better educated now.

[Wingman]

LOL! I love it! Bass fishing/goose hunt combo. What would that cost me?

Wingman

[Honda]

I had plans to go, but the river was too low for where I wanted to be. Mayber later this week after yall have educated them a bit.

[JT]

LOL! I love it! Bass fishing/goose hunt combo. What would that cost me?

Wingman,

That is the beauty of it in this situation. All it cost me was gas, time and shells. I have been thinking about booking a hunt with your service for the last couple of years but things haven't worked out financially for me. This situation just kind of happened. I had been hearing about a few flocks of resident canadas here in Jackson County and had seen a few in Harrison County near Gulfport but none I could hunt. I stumbled on these and just went and asked the owners. They said that the geese had been coming there for years and no one had hunted them before. They were just tired of them and hoped that some hunting pressure would make them leave. Hopefully they'll be stubborn geese and I'll get another phone call this week.

The bass were an extra bonus. They don't fish either.

[D1]

jt....if you need any help i will be glad to help.....it will take me 30 minutes to meet you at I 10 &63 just kidding

[JT]

jt....if you need any help i will be glad to help.....it will take me 30 minutes to meet you at I 10 &63 just kidding

D1,

LOL, I'd like to share the blessings but I can't do that without upsetting the land owners. I couldn't get permission to bring anyone with me other than my children. That may change though if the geese keep coming back. They are that fed up with them. There were only 7 there this morning and I got 5 of them. They told me they have counted up to 60 of them there at once. I still don't know where they are roosting or where else they are feeding though. If I can figure that out it might open up some more opportunities.

[Anatidae]

The geese around here have been hard to pattern with the combination of weather, bass tournaments, baited dove fields, corn harvest.......it's damn-near impossible to predict where and when (unless you bust'em on the roost).

'Found a field, Friday a.m. that was holding 160+ birds but the owner didn't want us to shoot his 'pets'. That's O.K.......I kinda like to watch'em, too.

As best as I've been able to determine, they are on a 3-day rotation right now......in other words, what they do on Monday will be repeated on Thursday......Tuesday/Friday....Wednesday/Saturday....kinda frustrating. They haven't done the same thing 2 days in a row for better than a week.
That's the way it goes with this game. That's why very few folks hunt'em and even fewer remain committed.

But, persistence will pay-off, eventually. At least I'm learning something about them. One of these days, I'll be on the 'X'.

[hbrown]

Saw a few Saturday and Sunday, But with the crazy weather we've had figured I'd be better off shooting something that I knew would be flying. SKEET!!!

[hawkeye]

hey anat, that's the way early season geese always tend to be...very weird schedule that frustrates you to the point of wondering what you're doing getting toted off by mosquitoes. I've tried to pattern these babies around here for years, and the only pattern I can come up with is that there is NO pattern. Every now and then the persistence pays off though.

[Anatidae]

Yeah Hawkeye......right right.........it can be perty frustrating, alright. But for 6 non-productive hunts there's a chance that #7 will be the one thatYOU win.

It's only a matter o' time and persistence......we've only been once and weren't too far off the mark.....maybe tomorrow......

[bigwater]

pattern... heck no you just need to be downright lucky!!!
example sunday there were six geese on a pond located on the south end of my dove field... we've been going out there for 3 weeks now and hadn't seen a goose and we even have a 250 acre cornfield right across the road that i'm pretty sure was the first cornfield cut in the area.
so anyway were just hoping that the 5 or 6 geese that we saw sunday would be back!!

lo and behold around 7:30 a.m. monday a group of about 40 buzzed over(after we had only seen 6 on sun) the field. lookin hard. and likin the callin there hearin they bank back into us even after some a$$munch (one of my buddies) tries his hand at sky bust'em.. they keep on responding to the callin and fly right over us at 50 yards high

1 dead and my 03-04 waterfowling year is off and running. i'll be goin on a blind hunt in the a.m. will post results...

later bigwater. oh yea theres more meat on 1 big ol goose than on 100 doves