2-3 SS Geese in Fog
So I get this great picture from my boss, Kelly Allen as he stands with his two bouncing baby boys Tommy and Austin, each one about 180 pounds or greater, and they're holding a gaggle of geese in their hands. Big grins on their face because it was a great hunt outside Kelly’s door in Walla Walla, Washington. Here’s Austin: “We basically set up for a morning duck hunt and it was on the river. The duck hunting was actually pretty slow, we shot a few golden eyes that were running the river mainly pass shooting and then late morning, probably around 9 o’clock or so, when the geese typically start flying, we were set up and changed our ammo over to some heavier shot. It was a real foggy day. We hoped that the geese would be working the river and would come down low enough where they had visibility so the fog worked out great for us because if you see them that means they are in range. They will typically hit a roosting spot or a field and feed. They will look for water or look for other geese and the beauty of hunting geese in the fog is that if you can call decent, you have a great opportunity because they have to fly down low enough to see where the call is coming from. In this particular instance since it was so foggy we didn’t even put out any goose decoys, we left them in the truck, but we were able to get them within range because of the dense fog. So they come in low to check out the fog and you are armed and ready? Yes by the time they get there and realize there are no decoys or geese, then it is too late.
