![]() Once you go north of the bootheel now the birds are all roosting on one large lake in the area and the trading from other roosts no longer happens. In Southeast Missouri birds have many places to roost with all the flooded rice and bean fields so there is a lot of trading back in forth by the snow geese. On rainy days the birds tend to spread out into much smaller groups and you will find them in fields everywhere feeding instead of giant flocks of five and ten thousand. The wind is very important when it comes to hunting snow geese because without wind the decoys won’t be moving and if you have ever watched a flock of snow geese on the ground they are always moving. Nothing beats a nice sunny day with south winds blowing 10 – 20 mph. Just like all waterfowl, weather affects what the birds do and see. They are a great addition to use with electronic calls. ![]() Don’t just depend on the electronic calls, mouth calls are actually much louder and can be heard from very far away. There are times to run them loud and times to run them very quietly. One problem some new hunters run into is running the callers too loud. The electronic calls make it so much easier to hunt snow geese with the flip of a switch. Shapes aren’t necessarily a big deal but if you’re hunting a permanent spread with white suits or layout blinds, a donut shape is best because all you have to do is move your blinds each day to account for wind direction. If you are hunting 1300 or more decoys you might want to spread them out 2 feet apart. If you’re hunting with 500 decoys you might want to spread each decoy out to 5 or 6 feet apart. The number of decoys you have can also affect how you set up the decoys. Set Up Decoys For Proper Wind Directionĭecoy setup can vary based on wind and weather. White is of course great.ĭress in layers depending on the weather as snow goose hunting in Southeast Missouri typically occurs in cooler temperatures.ģ. Black is one of the worst colors to wear when it comes to hunting snow geese so we always recommend people wear any kind of camo pattern or browns and greens. RGO primarily hunts out of pit blinds but will occasionally wear white suits and lay in the snow goose decoys. Cornfields and rice fields can provide great cover for layout blinds depending on whether or not the farmers left the stubble standing. In the Springtime the birds really like to feed in winter wheat fields so if you can get access to one, take it. ![]() Some fields provide very little cover to hide in so if you’re hunting a field such as Winter Wheat, you will want to hunt the edge of the field with layout blinds or wear white suits. ![]()
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