Anybody done a conservation goose hunt?

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Wanting to do a conservation goose hunt this year with a guide in North La/South Ark.

Anybody ever done one of these?
Anybody know of a guide service in the area that does them?

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Yep, done a bunch when it first started down here in SE TX. Did a few up there in South AR as well. It's fun to do it once. Just not crazy about shooting a bunch of geese I really don't want to mess with unless I want to make jerky out of.

To your request, I got a buddy that runs an outfit in Oklahoma called Coastal Wings Outfitters. His name is Larry Robinson. He starts chasing Snows right after their duck season closes and actually sends several guides to AR the last weekend of OK season to get kick started. His base of operations is Stuttgart but he sometimes starts out further South around Eudora and Lake Village. You can find him on FB through his outfitter name.

We do it in spring in quebec when the atl flyway birds come up. One piece of advice is book 2-3 days to make sure you have a good hunt on at least one day. Hard for even guides to be on the X 100% of the time.
We make sausage, gumbo, jerky from the snows. Keep some heart and liver for dirty rice and dog treats.

In years past, most (not all) of the geese have move out of S Louisiana when this begins.

Second Colby. Top notch!!

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Jonathan Olson beats the absolute brakes off them. His outfit is called Snow Addictions Guide Service

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He did a few hunts up near Parkdale, AR on some land that was owned by a friend several years ago. The agreement was he could hunt all he wanted if he would take a few of us plus kids on 1 hunt. It was a beat down. 100+ birds. However, nobody really wanted them afterwards and I have a suspicion they ended up in a ditch in Wilmot. That's kinda what really turned me off on doing any more conservation hunts. Those birds are too majestic to be an afterthought post hunt.

until they let us use lead for these and .22s and 17s.. it's pissing in the wind.

Now that electronic callers are legal, they are not near as effective as they were when I was younger, and u had to sneak to use them. Man did we have some exceptional hunts with callers 30 years ago. We hunted public coatal marsh, walking in a couple miles from the intercoastal or off the beach.. We would hide the caller in a cane patch till end of season. Ain't no green jeans walking 2 miles into the coastal marsh. They just wait at the boat or truck.