Striper And Goose Suggestions

[Chillfish]

I have never hunted goose before, and never really planned to until just recently. I showed the wife one of the posts about striper and goose and she flipped out. She is now dead set that this is the kind of outdoors activity for her. My plan is to start at coppermine and end at RB trolling with Flickers, but I don't have any idea if this area holds geese. I'm not asking for anyone's honey hole, but just for a decent general area to look in order to have a better chance of putting her on some geese and striper. Any help would be appreciated. Hope to have some good photos and a report to share tomorrow.

[Feathers and Fins]

Stripers are at Rocky Branch no doubt about that.

[nathanhooper]

Do you just shoot geese that you come across while trolling? I've never hunted them myself, probably won't either unless I get a wild hair. But it does seem interesting and brings a whole lot of questions to mind.

[Feathers and Fins]

Nathan ; From AGFC Regs.

Motorized Vehicles

Hunting from Motorized Vehicles

It is illegal to hunt from a motorized boat or sailboat, unless the motor has been completely shut off and/or the sails furled, and its progress from those means has ceased.

It is illegal to hunt migratory birds from any motor-driven land vehicle or aircraft of any kind. Paraplegics and persons missing one or both legs may hunt from a stationary motor-driven land vehicle.

[Robert Haynes]

I hate to bring up the Gar again but I think I would eat gar before I ate goose. I have found 1 way to cook it so it is edible but it requires more jalepenos than goose meat and in a tortilla. Anything in a tortilla is better.

[Feathers and Fins]

Robert, I hear that a lot and will tell you the same thing I tell everyone else. If you take care of it when you shoot it, clean it and prep it right you wont be able to tell the difference between goose and roast. I will even PM you the next day I am working and you can swing by the store and try some Goose Jerky. It really is in taking care of the meat and most hunters I hate to say it have no clue how to properly take care of fowl.

Everyone knows to Cut the Deer or Rabbit to cool the meat but most will just throw the fowl in vest or lanyard and forget about it and then when they get home the pluck and clean it letting those fermented juices get on the breast and legs tainting the meat. Except for teal which I just rip the breast out of I fillet all my other waterfowl so as to not get that fermented juices on. And early Season an Icechest is mandatory after shooting birds to keep them cool.

[Robert Haynes]

What you say I will assume to be true because it is the same thing with venison. People eat my venison and are amazed. I know it is in the care of the meat that I take. You are correct about the care of the birds. You described exactly how I would (mis) care for birds. I come from duck, goose, quail, dove, white-winged dove country. Grew up on all the above but always challenged with ducks and geese.

My issue today is I have too much meat in the freezer and too little desire to cook. Ducks and geese were part of our survival growing up as well as most animals that walked or swam but it seems the rib eyes , venison, shrimp and flounder come out of the freezer first and the ducks and geese seem to make it to the bottom of the freezer, maybe you can change that.