Bird Watcher Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Dad and I could only hunt until 9 am on Saturday mornging, but we both wanted to try and sneak in a quick hunt before starting our chores, so we decided to hunt a itsy bitsy tiny little pasture pond by his house that has 20-30 geese loafing on it for the last week. We figured one flock would come in and if we played our card right we'd scratch a bird or two and go on our way. Well, that was pretty much to plan. One flock came in. I tripled and Dad had one shell in his gun so he shot one (Doh!) What we weren't expecting were the mallards. We had birds landing before LST until we packed it up at 9 am and we were limited on mallards by 8 am. We didn't see a single flock larger than 4 birds, but almost every duck we saw ended up hanging and peddling over the decoys at 10-15 yds and we didn't have a single duck decoy out. Just a beautiful sight with the sun behind our heads! [url= I wanted to share a little twist on an old trick I've been using this year with you guys that has just been deadly on ducks and geese. A Canada goose jerk string. This thing is the best thing I have ever found for those warm, sunny, calm mornings that we have had an abundance of this year. Better than a spinning wing, pulsator, flapper, flyer, swimmer, or any other battery operated gadget. We've had to hunt more water than we've hunted in 10 years and this thing has really finished birds on glassy mornings. I used a 10# boat anchor, a 3' bungee, a bigfoot floater, and 30' of twine. When we use it, we really crank on it. Picture a Canada goose taking bath. After watching flock after flock of ducks dive bomb a little group of geese bathing on a pond one morning at dawn, I went home and put it together. It's not as effective on cloudy and windy days, but glassy, sunny, warm days this thing is the ticket. We also went out Sunday morning to a residential lake by the house that the geese roost on. We waited until they left at 9:30 and then slipped in behind them with our spread. We were picking up at 11:30 with six geese and three ducks. Dad and I hunted both days this weekend, I spent less than 20$ in gas pulling the trailer and didn't drive more than 10 minutes each day. gotta love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckydoty Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Sounds like you had a great time. The picture is awesome. I got the goose egg again this morning. Did not get to hunt to long because I'm taking my girlfriend to Springfield. She may have found a new home. A Little Rain Won't Hurt Them Fish.....They're Already Wet!! Visit my website at.. Ozark Trout Runners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laker67 Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Sounds like you had a great time. The picture is awesome. I got the goose egg again this morning. Did not get to hunt to long because I'm taking my girlfriend to Springfield. She may have found a new home. Makes me want to take up hunting again, great pictures of a great hunt. Hey there doty,her new home wouldn't be around battlefield would it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckydoty Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 No Rick, she went to a nice couple from Thayer. They promised to take good care of her and treat her well. A Little Rain Won't Hurt Them Fish.....They're Already Wet!! Visit my website at.. Ozark Trout Runners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Again Bird Watcher neat to have your Dad to share a hunt with. Still getting into birds down here. Did you by a chance have a big foot walk away from your decoy set up? If so I have it working with mine and it is safe until you get it Marty "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Watcher Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 Again Bird Watcher neat to have your Dad to share a hunt with. Still getting into birds down here. Did you by a chance have a big foot walk away from your decoy set up? If so I have it working with mine and it is safe until you get it Marty Haha! Yes I did. I think it fell out when the trailer door swung open somewhere out to the West of MVS two North ponds. Out on that prairie somewhere. I've been meaning to drive back there and look for it, but I haven't been up there with the four wheeler or four wheel drive. Is that where you found it? Keep it safe for me and make sure it doesn't forget how to hunt! I'd still really like to get together and hunt sometime before the season is over, maybe we'll reunite it with it's family then. I was up there Sat. day evening and watched the birds come off the pond on the interstate. They had four swans with them. about half of them went into Mike's South pond behind his house and the other half went over to the pond you hunt on E. There was still a good amount of birds around there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Yes Chris that is where I found it. Mike or one of his hired hands put it by the downed windmill. I hunted that pond yesterday morning. Got my three geese. I just layed there and seen it by the windmill. I just couldn't figure out what it was. Finally I had to get up and see what it was. IT looked as though the cows used it for a football. Just covered with mud! I gave it a bath in the pond and set it out. Good luck I suppose as shortly later the birds came in. I hunted close to the house this morning and got skunked. This pond I was at sits down in a low place pretty much out of the wind. Still decoys, I need to do a goose jerk string like you have made up. I had a few mallards look, swing down and leave. A single drake came back and landed a long way out. I will take good care of your bird until we finally meet. Marty "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Watcher Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 Yes Chris that is where I found it. Mike or one of his hired hands put it by the downed windmill. I hunted that pond yesterday morning. Got my three geese. I just layed there and seen it by the windmill. I just couldn't figure out what it was. Finally I had to get up and see what it was. IT looked as though the cows used it for a football. Just covered with mud! I gave it a bath in the pond and set it out. Good luck I suppose as shortly later the birds came in. I hunted close to the house this morning and got skunked. This pond I was at sits down in a low place pretty much out of the wind. Still decoys, I need to do a goose jerk string like you have made up. I had a few mallards look, swing down and leave. A single drake came back and landed a long way out. I will take good care of your bird until we finally meet. Marty That's funny. I knew it would probably be destroyed by cattle or coyotes by the time I went back there and looked for it. He's good luck. Ever since I added 10 BigFoots to my spread, all the geese have been really keying in on them when they land. I don't know why, but I can put out my entire spread and most of the time the geese will go the part of the spread with the BigFoots when they land. I think it's because they are so big and visible. A lot of times, that's all I will put out with 3 or 4 floaters and it usually works just fine. Yep, you should look at rigging a jerk goose. It's the bees knees for glassy water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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