Shooting the Missouri River

Chris: I'm not sure what you mean by river shooting, the river is CLOSED to goose hunting from two miles south of Washburn to the Garrison Dam. There are thousands of geese on the river, the problem is this nice weather. The geese yesterday didn't leave the water until 4:00 to feed, and when i went outside last night the geese were just starting to return to the water, this was 8:20pm. With the warm temps. and clear skies there feeding into the night. We had guys hunting the last 4 days and they didn't fire a shot. I checked our land for geese feeding at 3:45 today and not a bird. I drove across the bridge at Washburn and the river is loaded with birds, but nothing flying yet. This Sat. we are waiting until 2:00 to set up for the afternoon shoot. Most of the local guys quit hunting because the birds are not leaveing the water to feed until late afternoon. Don't shoot me but we need COLD weather for the hunting to get good. :sniper: I was wondering if you were hunting Bobs land again this weekend or someone elses.

Well there you go, write in a post and they shoot you in the foot, the geese that is. 5 of us went pheasant hunting Sat. morning just west of Washburn and the geese were flying everywhere at 9:00. We finished by 10:30 with pheasants and set up late for geese. There were still enough coming off the river at 4:00 for some real good shooting. Today we just shot pheasants. I stopped and talked to the group that was hunting our land for geese, they were picking up at noon and hadn't fired a shot that morning, the geese out west of town were still on the river. CHRIS H. how did you guys do on Bobs, I talked to Wayne and he said you guys were heading up there to set up Sat. I hope your shoot was good, I'm only hunting 3 more days and then it's time to ice fish. 2 of my friends have done real well fishing this last week. It's hard to quit hunting when the weather and bird numbers are this great, but O'Well what is a guy to do. My 2 little ones are really after me to take them fishing, but they don't go until the ice is at least 12", which with this weather that could be in Feb.

Sunday was rough. We moved out of the bottoms and set up on a wheat stubble field right off the ridge. After spending an hour brushing our blinds we ended up getting off to a later start than we'd planned. It was one of those days where you have geese flying over when you're tossin' dekes and parking the trucks. We missed most of the flight, plus it was tougher hunting with the sun out casting shadows off the blinds.

Monday was awesome. We had perfect weather, nice and overcast with even a little mist. We hunted that same cornfield we hunted on Saturday and the geese didn't even know we were there until we popped the doors and started shooting. Six of us filled out pretty quick and we were only shooting geese that were locked up and close, it easily made up for Sunday's slow action and then some!

I agree with you, next year I definitely need to spend some more time down there late season. Who knows, maybe even take the last week of the season off!

Good Luck finding Troy! My guess is he'll be hunting from now until closing non-stop!

Talk about a perfect Monday. This pic will keep your memory rolling all offseason. It's too bad the whole right side of the spread was cut off, the spread was killer. There's 6 blinds and you can barely see any of them.

Season closer for us..... Season started with a bang, and ended the same way.