Canadian geese may be unaware of the early goose season about to unfold, but early season geese aren’t unintelligent. Try these tips and you might see better success when hunting early season resident Canada geese this year.

1. Scout geese in the evening. Your mornings will be more fruitful if you spend your evenings scouting for feeding birds

2. Resident Canadian geese will not only feed on grass seed and other pasture crops, so don’t believe that you’ve got to have a freshly cut wheat field to be successful.

3. Spot the highest point in the field you will be hunting geese. Geese like to land on the highest spot, so leave that area free of decoys and place several family groups around it.

4. Use fewer goose decoys while hunting and place them in small family groups of five or six..

5. Locality is key. You’ve got to be where the resident geese have been feeding. Unlike migratory geese that are looking for big numbers of geese to pull them into good feeding areas, resident Canada geese know the area well and where to go for food.

6. Call sparingly. Resident Canada geese at the beginning of the season are still in the family unit, meaning their calls are more to warn than to attract.

7. Concealment is key. Residents see the same land day after day and if there’s anything out of the ordinary they’ll know it. Use plenty of natural foliage to conceal yourself and hunting blinds.

8. Don’t dilly-dally. If the first four or five flocks pay you no mind, make a change. Whether it’s to another area of a field or to a different field,

9. Realism makes a difference. Not only do you need to match the number and patterns of decoys that early season geese like, but the decoys also need to be very realistic to fool them, especially a couple days after opening morning.

10. Self-assurance decoys work for early season geese too. If there’s a puddle or small lake in the immediate area, a few duck decoys or a heron decoy go a long ways to providing that safe and sound look.



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