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Public Land Goose Hunting
Posted on 6/4/20 at 10:10 am
Posted on 6/4/20 at 10:10 am
Any of you baws know of any public land that would be good for goose hunting? My duck lease is in the marsh, so no goose hunting there. I came into a lot of goose decoys this off-season, and am looking for some spots to goose hunt this upcoming season.
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Posted on 6/4/20 at 10:21 am to DemTigers7
I don't think this is going to go as you expect...
Posted on 6/4/20 at 10:24 am to DemTigers7
Where? Hardly anywhere in LA to do so.
Posted on 6/4/20 at 11:00 am to DemTigers7
I'd save the time and energy and make a few day trips in southern Arkansas.
Posted on 6/4/20 at 11:02 am to DemTigers7
Define: a lot?
Nope on public goose hunting.
Stackbarrel has tons of goose blinds that limit out erryday.
Nope on public goose hunting.
Stackbarrel has tons of goose blinds that limit out erryday.
Posted on 6/4/20 at 11:29 am to DemTigers7
Saskatchewan, Alberta and BC, in that order. I am scared to guess how much sooner I could retire if it weren't for my goose spread...a 8.5 X 20 foot enclosed trailer full to the point that I have to carry blinds in the truck...it is a sickness. I found a few years ago that Canada is the only place where you can consistently get access to fields which are being used by birds without being on a lease and I do not have access to any leases other than one that is $310K.....as much as Like to hunt geese that's a lot of money LOL.
I hunt geese on public land.....it is not for the feint of heart. The best option is to find loafing areas on water....hunt them when the birds return from the field in the morning....which means you don't have to be set up before shooting time. The down side is that loafing areas move almost as much as feeding areas when the former is being shot over. It don't take much water for geese to loaf on and any areas that are shot over will get stale quick.
Hunting public fields is very difficult. I am surrounded by them in my area...I doubt if Louisiana has many if any similar situations unless they are draw hunts and then the hit or miss nature of that coupled with the need for a huge spread of decoys which may only be used a couple of times a year just makes it nearly impossible to hunt geese on public land on your own.
It is a long pull but it is still possible to get access to private land where geese are using in the Texas panhandle. It takes a lot of effort but it can be done....and there ain't no better Canada shooting in the lower 48 than the Texas panhandle when it is right.
I hunt geese on public land.....it is not for the feint of heart. The best option is to find loafing areas on water....hunt them when the birds return from the field in the morning....which means you don't have to be set up before shooting time. The down side is that loafing areas move almost as much as feeding areas when the former is being shot over. It don't take much water for geese to loaf on and any areas that are shot over will get stale quick.
Hunting public fields is very difficult. I am surrounded by them in my area...I doubt if Louisiana has many if any similar situations unless they are draw hunts and then the hit or miss nature of that coupled with the need for a huge spread of decoys which may only be used a couple of times a year just makes it nearly impossible to hunt geese on public land on your own.
It is a long pull but it is still possible to get access to private land where geese are using in the Texas panhandle. It takes a lot of effort but it can be done....and there ain't no better Canada shooting in the lower 48 than the Texas panhandle when it is right.
Posted on 6/4/20 at 11:35 am to DemTigers7
it has been a loooong time since i have done it, but we used to do some goose hunting down at the mouth of the river.
Posted on 6/4/20 at 12:49 pm to DemTigers7
You could try the Whitelake ricefield lottery hunts. It isn’t free but you certainly have a chance to kill specs and snows
Posted on 6/4/20 at 3:34 pm to DemTigers7
Oklahoma, I think Coco lives there or something. Shoots banded ones in gravel parking lots around town during lunch hour 
and it's actually legal and encouraged apparently
and it's actually legal and encouraged apparently
Posted on 6/4/20 at 3:59 pm to DemTigers7
Texas has an early season on Canada’s in September. Toledo Bend is full of them and they aren’t real smart
Posted on 6/4/20 at 4:11 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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Oklahoma, I think Coco lives there or something. Shoots banded ones in gravel parking lots around town during lunch hour and it's actually legal and encouraged apparently
I haven't tried it but I have been told access to private land is still possible in Oklahoma. For waterfowl, probably not deer, but who wants a stinking deer to begin with (just kidding....don't get upset)
Posted on 6/4/20 at 4:18 pm to DemTigers7
I know guys who do pretty well on them along the MS river around Natchez, Vicksburg, Greenville, etc.
They hunt sand bars in the middle of the day. Geese go there to get gravel and grit and water after feeding in rice fields. They use silhouette decoys (not full body) and dig pit blinds in the sand. Then use drift wood to conceal the blinds.
It's real slow, grind it out, kind of hunting. They'll hunt from like 9 am until 4 pm. But they do pretty well. It takes a lot of scouting. But not nearly as many decoys as field hunting.
I've never done it myself, but I've always been interested in it.
They hunt sand bars in the middle of the day. Geese go there to get gravel and grit and water after feeding in rice fields. They use silhouette decoys (not full body) and dig pit blinds in the sand. Then use drift wood to conceal the blinds.
It's real slow, grind it out, kind of hunting. They'll hunt from like 9 am until 4 pm. But they do pretty well. It takes a lot of scouting. But not nearly as many decoys as field hunting.
I've never done it myself, but I've always been interested in it.
Posted on 6/4/20 at 6:05 pm to No Colors
Where are they hunting sand bars with the river levels that are present during hunting season around that area?
Posted on 6/4/20 at 6:08 pm to KingRanch
They’re everywhere.
Hell you can do it on the river deltas too
Hell you can do it on the river deltas too
Posted on 6/4/20 at 6:27 pm to KingRanch
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Where are they hunting sand bars with the river levels that are present during hunting season around that area?
Typically Oct-Dec are the lowest river levels of the year. That's still been the case the past few years, it's just that lowest of the year is higher than the normal lows.
But there are sandbars pretty much all up and down the river once it gets below flood stage. As an example. Vicksburg river is at 44 now, which is flood stage. But a normal December river would be mid to upper 20s. Sometimes low 30s. There are hundreds of sand bars to choose from at those levels.
Posted on 6/4/20 at 6:30 pm to No Colors
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Sandbars
Can be very good for the doves too
Posted on 6/4/20 at 7:17 pm to Lord_Ford
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You could try the Whitelake ricefield lottery hunts. It isn’t free but you certainly have a chance to kill specs and snows
If you got in, the time you get to your hunting area and set out a few hundred decoys. the hunt would be over with. They pick you up at 9am.
Posted on 6/4/20 at 7:33 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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Oklahoma, I think Coco lives there or something. Shoots banded ones in gravel parking lots around town during lunch hour and it's actually legal and encouraged apparently
Of all the helpful, informative shite I post on here, and THAT's what you remember. Ok. Fair enough. You can take Coco out of Louisiana but you cant take the Louisiana out of Coco. Guilty as charged.
But to the OP: even up in Oklahoma, public land goose hunting is very limited. Just the nature of field hunting geese means it is almost always private land. If you can hit western Oklahoma, you'll be much more likely to find landowners willing to let you run the geese off their field. Especially later in the season.
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