Where I live, options are VERY limited.
Landowners are famous for not only saying no......but hell no. Sometimes you get even worse responses. Besides, most places we used to hunt have been turned into subdivisions. Urban sprawl sucks.
We have a few fields to hunt, but the corn wasn't cut until after the season was over. We have 24 Bigfoot decoys, 24 G&H Magnum Shells and Eliminator blinds.........all of which went unused this season. We are hoping to use this stuff later on in the late seasons.
Instead, we have a blind on a small lake that we use regularly. The local birds all go to the waste ponds outside of town, but tend to pass over the lake on their way to and from the fields where they feed. If they get busted up at the field, or whatever, sometimes they will come in and check out our spread on the flyover.
It's usually good for singles, or pairs coming in a couple times throughout the morning. We rarely hunt this spot in the afternoon. This past Sunday we called in a group of over 35 birds.........no small task for the last day of the regular season. We filled our limit. Unfortunately, the rest of the season wasn't as good. These were the first birds I've shot all year. I had a lousy season, the worst I've had in years. We virtually seen nothing until this past weekend. We seen over 200 geese opening day, but all of them were setting on the waste treatment ponds and none of them got up and flew over the lake.
We even have a gig at a local golf course, but the geese were not there this year. Last year was incredible.
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