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Re: Fir Island Snow Goose Hunting
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2011, 10:16:13 AM »
Agreed.
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Re: Fir Island Snow Goose Hunting
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2011, 03:02:55 PM »
h2o you are right on, totally agree. It's hunting! some days are bad and some are good. Go find the birds, take the four and move on to support Conway Pub and Eatery. I like getting in between the flocks or on the down wind leg, get my four on good shots. Yes, you are going to get sniped some days by skybusters, I try to move on hoping for a better day. I never felt bad having a cold beer when I'm upset over stupidity. The best part about the beer is I don't still have my gun in hand when I'm upset. There will always be more birds and more hunts. I am happy about the change for this year, now if we can all be ethical and have a good season maybe WDFW will leave it alone for future years to come.

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Re: Fir Island Snow Goose Hunting
« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2011, 07:59:16 AM »
I was really considering giving fir island a try but after hearing your guys' comments I'm a little hesitant... I was gonna try to make my own windsock decoys and give it a go  :dunno: down a few birds and get out...

I also read that they have "plots" where the person who parks in the parking spot "owns" said plot. is it really as big an S-Show as you guys say? or would i be better off scouting out my own spot and trying to get a landowner to let me hunt private land?

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Re: Fir Island Snow Goose Hunting
« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2011, 12:33:26 PM »

Scouting is pretty important whether you want to hunt the quality hunt fields or private property. The geese move around a lot so just showing up one morning and picking a field will probably leave you disappointed. There could be days or even weeks that the Snows are not even feeding on Fir Island where the quality hunt fields are located. To be consistently successful at hunting snow geese with decoys you need to put in your time scouting.

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Re: Fir Island Snow Goose Hunting
« Reply #19 on: September 16, 2011, 12:35:10 PM »
I think hunting is the easy part (easier anyway) and scouting is the hard part... Its takes more time i think to find where they are going consistantly and then get acess.  :twocents:
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Re: Fir Island Snow Goose Hunting
« Reply #20 on: September 16, 2011, 12:49:39 PM »

On the other hand, if you want to just show up at shooting time, sit shoulder to shoulder on the dike and blast away at birds that are 80 to 150 yards up, then Fir Island is the place to be!!!    :bdid:

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Re: Fir Island Snow Goose Hunting
« Reply #21 on: September 16, 2011, 02:36:21 PM »
I have been to fir island under certain conditions and filled a limit from the dike... I also filled 3 limits of other peoples ducks because other hunters did not bring ANY means to retrieve thier birds!  :bash:  I have been to certain hunting areas and come close to limiting out just by gathering cripples on a monday morning.  :twocents:
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