Last Chance Geese

I spent basically the entire last week trying to hunt geese on Ogden Bay.  I have been talking with the guy out there and he was keeping me posted on numbers.  There was finally a huntable amount of birds on Monday.  I took off work early and headed out.  The walk out there with two dozen full bodies, two layout blinds, a dog blind, and other gear was horrible.  My sled stuck to the mud and my legs were burning.  I got set up and Todd met me out there.  We never even saw a goose.  We heard some, but because it was snowing the visibility was terrible.  I went back out Wednesday afternoon to give it another shot.  Mike Ballard came with me so that made getting stuff out there easier.  It was only like 5 minutes after we got set up that the birds started flying.  It seemed like they were flying everywhere except over our decoys.  It was fun seeing all those geese but frustrating to not be able to shoot any.  We decided to leave all of our stuff out there and come back in the morning.  I slept horrible thinking about all that gear just sitting out there even though I knew there was no chance of anyone going out there.  Thursday morning I headed out early with Ryan Stratford.  We saw lots of geese moving but nothing would give us a good look.  He headed back in not too long after Mike and Jeff Hill came out.  Todd came out a little after that.  We watched geese fly most of the day...the problem is that all we did was watch them.  They were very educated, late season birds.  It was still fun being out there with friends and I can't wait for next season.