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Offline jasone

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Snow's and Canadian's are they friends??
« on: November 05, 2024, 09:00:36 AM »
Hey all, I'm curious to know others opinions on goose decoy setup's. If both snow and honker decoys are set. Will both kinds of geese take interest or will nothing come in because they don't like to mingle together? I plan to hunt this weekend in a place where there could be a opportunity for either. Thanks.

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Re: Snow's and Canadian's are they friends??
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2024, 09:10:50 AM »
Lesser and cackling Canada's will definitely mix in with the snows and snows will come in to Canada's that are in a field already. I don't think greater Canada's prefer to mix in with the snows but inevitably do with the influx of them all around the state. If I were targeting a field that had a lot of big honkers using it I might forego the snow spread. But early in the season like this with new birds in I might just throw a massive spread at them and see what happens. Good luck, hope it works out!
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Re: Snow's and Canadian's are they friends??
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2024, 09:20:20 AM »
Please don't shoot the Canadians......the best neighbors a country ever had.

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Re: Snow's and Canadian's are they friends??
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2024, 09:49:53 AM »
Take a look at what the live birds are doing and match that.


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Re: Snow's and Canadian's are they friends??
« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2024, 10:03:51 AM »
Lesser and cackling Canada's will definitely mix in with the snows and snows will come in to Canada's that are in a field already. I don't think greater Canada's prefer to mix in with the snows but inevitably do with the influx of them all around the state. If I were targeting a field that had a lot of big honkers using it I might forego the snow spread. But early in the season like this with new birds in I might just throw a massive spread at them and see what happens. Good luck, hope it works out!

 :yeah:  Greater's don’t like snows. 

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Re: Snow's and Canadian's are they friends??
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2024, 10:19:35 AM »
Take a look at what the live birds are doing and match that.
:yeah: Match your decoy spread to your scouting report.
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Re: Snow's and Canadian's are they friends??
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2024, 10:40:06 AM »
Take a look at what the live birds are doing and match that.
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Ive shot a lot of cacklers and a few lessers over snow goose spreads. Ive tried putting out a few snow geese on canada spreads and watched honkers straight up leave. More than anything else, watch the birds in real life to see what they like and dont like, a day of scouting is usually worth 3 days of success and feels much better than getting skunked.
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Re: Snow's and Canadian's are they friends??
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2024, 11:55:00 AM »
A few times hunting over water, in foggy conditions, I've heard snows and called to them with my goose flute. The snows came right down made a circle and in. So I'm pretty positive snows will work canadian set ups, not so sure about the other way around. I've seen fields covered with both, mixed together, so they are at least used to each other I'd figure.
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Re: Snow's and Canadian's are they friends??
« Reply #8 on: November 05, 2024, 11:59:08 AM »
From my experience, if the birds really want to be in that place pretty much anything will get along just fine.

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Re: Snow's and Canadian's are they friends??
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2024, 06:53:50 AM »
Thank you for all your input. I will report back on how it went.

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Re: Snow's and Canadian's are they friends??
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2024, 06:35:16 PM »
Thank you for all your input. I will report back on how it went.

How'd it go?
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