Snow Geese

Snow and strong northwest winds predicted for today, and the forecast was right. With the prediction of subzero temps tomorrow morning looks like this could be the end. 100,000 geese at Carlson and 200,000 at Lukach. We set up in O. Lien's just west of Lukach, had near 100,000 snows in it the last night.

Large flocks of snows came, but their destination was a stubble field next to the pea field we were in; they were extremely low into the wind but were on a flight path just outside our decoys. We got some shots in the decoys early but had to move outside as the morning went on. Also shot several with the wind returning to water.

Monte-18 snows Me-13 snows, 2 mallard drakes.

Ducks in Long Creek

5" plus of wet snow yesterday. Found large numbers of mallards using Long Creek and got permission from S. Hansen to hunt this morning. Monte and I went, no ducks on the creek when we arrived in the dark (yeh!, a day pond). Ducks started just after shooting time and never quit. We each shot 5; unfortunately, when I shot one of my drakes two additional ducks closer than the one I shot fell (all three were dead), and one was a hen, first of the season (duck I shot was 25 yards, and the other two about 5 and 10). May well be more hunts in this area over the next week, but will have to wait as Hansen has relatives coming to hunt deer and pheasants.