Waterfowler's Notebook: Hunting Spring Snows
Expert advice on how to decoy more light geese during the special conservation season
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Migration Alert: Arkansas light goose numbers remain strong
The Light Goose Conservation Order opens the door for February waterfowling in Arkansas. The LGCO's liberal regulations levels the playing field for hunters hoping to decoy these difficult birds. As temperatures begin to warm, light geese will begin heading north, but ideal habitat is holding birds in Arkansas for those looking for late-season opportunities.
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Migration Alert: Light geese numbers increasing in North Mississippi
Mississippi Light Goose Conservation Order re-opened following the February 2-3 Youth Season, and steady numbers may provide excellent opportunities for the upcoming weekend.
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Spring Waterfowling: Quebec’s greater snow geese
The Ducks Unlimited Television crew traveled to Quebec last spring for a Greater snow goose hunt along the St. Lawrence River. This photo essay provides a glimpse of this late-spring hunting opportunity.
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Light Goose Migration Headquarters
The 2012-2013 regular waterfowl season has come to a close throughout the country, but before you begin storing equipment, it's time for light geese.
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Fall Snow Geese
The sound of snow geese migrating south is, for some, the quintessential sound of fall, but for many hunters light geese have become a spring-only target. You don't have to wait until March to target snow geese, and the following tips from a pair of snow goose gurus will show you how.
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Spring Snow Goose Video: F5 Buried in Snows
This video from Habitat Flats provides an excellent example of spring snow goose hunting, and the passionate hunters who chase these magnificent birds.
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February 2011 Waterfowl Gear Guide
As February's winter weather sweeps across the nation, many waterfowl hunters begin placing decoys into storage. Then there are light goose hunters. It's a new breed of waterfowler, determined to take one last shot and contribute to a conservation cause. The E-newsletter editorial team has chosen a few items that can improve any snow goose hunter's success rates this spring.
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Now Is the Time for Spring Snows
They're smart, hard to decoy and will humble even the savviest of waterfowl hunters, but those who pursue spring snow geese know that the end result is worth the effort. If you've never taken in a day of decoying snows, blues or Ross's geese as they wing northward on the heels of a retreating winter, maybe this is the year to see what you've been missing.
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Photo Essay: Wonders of the White Goose
A photographic tribute to North America's magnificent light geese
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Light Goose Conservation Order
Light geese offer late-season opportunity
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White Goose Wizards: Q&A Session
Light goose hunting with Tony Vandemore
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The Big Splash
Whether you're hunting Canadas, snows, specks or brant, shooting geese over water requires attention to detail.
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Step-by-Step Snow Goose Hunting
Even with a growing reputation as some of the most difficult birds to hunt, light geese – snows, blues and Ross’ – are pursued by more and more hunters every year. Armed with the latest in blinds, decoys and e-callers, some might think that hunters have the cards stacked in their favor. Those that chase the giant flocks know their jobs are cut out for them every time they hit the field.
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14 Snow Goose Hunting Tips
Follow these quick tips to improve your odds on your next trip.
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Light Goose Recipes
Here are a few Ducks Unlimited recommended recipes that will allow hunters to savor the hunt.
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10 Decoying Tips for Light Geese
Use these helpful tactics to get birds to lock-on decoys, and stay locked on.
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Hunting Across Canada: Snow Geese A La Quebec
Greater snows provide some of eastern Canada’s most interesting waterfowling.
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More Spring Snow Goose Hunting Tips
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Northern Lights
Hunting snow geese in the company of a polar bear audience generates a hair-raising experience
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