One Hunt, No Traps

This weekend I was able to go out goose hunting once and I didn’t set any traps. The weather was pretty nasty this weekend so I decided just to wait until break in a week and a half to set traps. Although it was cold, Saturday morning was good for waterfowl hunting.

Being the first time waterfowl hunting this year, we weren’t sure whether duck or goose would be better. We decided to set up the goose decoys to see if we could get some geese to land. About thirty minutes after setting up, a coyote came running out into the field to attack our decoys. Not wanting to loss a decoy, we stuck our heads up out of our blinds to scare it away. After that we had three herons land just twenty feet from us. Being worried that they would keep the geese from landing, I stood up out of my blind to scare them away.

After two hours of sitting in our blinds, we hear a group of geese honking as they fly in behind us. We grabbed our goose calls and started honking back to encourage them to land. The geese circled around us to prepare to land, but then suddenly they just flew off right before they came in for the landing. We have no idea what went wrong besides they might have seen something they didn’t like and scared them off. We didn’t see anymore geese the rest of the morning.

Besides that group of geese we saw many groups of duck. The truth is that we should have set up the duck decoys, but no hunter can exactly predict a hunt. We decided that the next time we go waterfowl hunting we are going to set up the duck decoys. I hope we will have better luck next time.