The last day of the Washington goose season, where did the season go...All in all I would say it was a pretty successful year. I was home early with limits for my guys most every outing, this sure makes me look like a hero! I didn't take as many groups out as in years past but kept fairly busy the last few months of the season...I imagine the lack of clients had alot to do with the economy but what lacked in guys made up for the amount of geese the Columbia Basin held through out the winter...I averaged 3.69 geese per gun for my dudes...that is pretty sweet!....Now to get onto the hunt on the last day of the season..For the last few years I have had my father son hunt with my boy Jake. The last two years I have invited My buddy Dan from Monroe WA. and his boy jake on our hunt...I met Dan several years ago on there first guided goose hunt, jake at the time was just a little guy, maybe six years old...now he is a teenager with a couple of years of hunting under his belt. He is one heck of a shot for a little guy...They are also the friends that I hunted down at the pond with where we hammered the greenheads...Well back to the hunt, Dan, Jake and Anna, there eight year old daughter along with My Jake and I were set up in the Armpit....It has been pretty good to me this year...but being the last day of the hunt, I knew it would be pretty tough to get the geese in...We neded picking up a few singles during the morning...one honker and a lesser...the lesser, we made sure that Anna and Jake were the first out to retrieve the little guy...This picture will be a classic...
We ended up waiting all day for the honkers to show, they left off the Snake River in the morning and went out the other way...We knew that the geese would come back out in the afternoon, we just had to wait for them to show up....finally at 3:00 we finally had a group finish into the decoys and Jake, Dan and I dumped five big guys....it was the perfect way to finish the day...no limits but good times...joe
The last day of the Washington goose season, where did the season go...All in all I would say it was a pretty successful year. I was home early with limits for my guys most every outing, this sure makes me look like a hero! I didn't take as many groups out as in years past but kept fairly busy the last few months of the season...I imagine the lack of clients had alot to do with the economy but what lacked in guys made up for the amount of geese the Columbia Basin held through out the winter...I averaged 3.69 geese per gun for my dudes...that is pretty sweet!....Now to get onto the hunt on the last day of the season..For the last few years I have had my father son hunt with my boy Jake. The last two years I have invited My buddy Dan from Monroe WA. and his boy jake on our hunt...I met Dan several years ago on there first guided goose hunt, jake at the time was just a little guy, maybe six years old...now he is a teenager with a couple of years of hunting under his belt. He is one heck of a shot for a little guy...They are also the friends that I hunted down at the pond with where we hammered the greenheads...Well back to the hunt, Dan, Jake and Anna, there eight year old daughter along with My Jake and I were set up in the Armpit....It has been pretty good to me this year...but being the last day of the hunt, I knew it would be pretty tough to get the geese in...We neded picking up a few singles during the morning...one honker and a lesser...the lesser, we made sure that Anna and Jake were the first out to retrieve the little guy...This picture will be a classic...
We ended up waiting all day for the honkers to show, they left off the Snake River in the morning and went out the other way...We knew that the geese would come back out in the afternoon, we just had to wait for them to show up....finally at 3:00 we finally had a group finish into the decoys and Jake, Dan and I dumped five big guys....it was the perfect way to finish the day...no limits but good times...joe
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Sweet story! I'm taking a long weekend next week to make it down to my parent's place for the start of Oregon's third period zone season. Hopefully I'll get a few cacklers or something... no matter what, it'll be better than the daily grind at college!
BTW, I found your blog via the refuge - I'm twentygauge_wonder.
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