Great scouting is the key to success
Scouting
When finding an area to hunt pay attention to topography of the local area. What is the access to water? Is there a body of water that the geese can rest on for the evening? What is the proximity to food? Can you identify the closest local food source for the geese to feed. Something to remember when hunting Canada geese is that their migration pattern requires that they eay a very large amount of food to migrate long distances. It is necessary to find areas that they have an ample food sources. You can blow your goose call until you are blue in the face if you aren't in or near the right spot you won't get geese to come in. It is always a good idea to scout areas where the harvested just happened because it is easy for the geese to find food.
A key point to remember is that your advance scouting for Canada geese should include areas where their is ample food source.
A second key point to consider when scouting is the proximity of water relative to the feeding areas. More times than not geese will choose a body of water to rest in and will move to the fields in the nearby area to feed. The fields within a 4-5 mile radius of the body of water are great tagets to set up your decoys for a hunt. The more recent the field was harvested the more likely the geese will feeding in that location.
Scouting is so crucial to success of goose hunting that it will be the difference between a good and bad year.
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