Spring Snows

[snowkiller]

Leading edge has hit SD

 

[Wall-eyes]

Crazy with weather down south hot cold snow, than hot cold snow again bring it on.

 

[Kurtr]

i wonder if its just going to be a blow through year they have no reason to stop here

 

[Traxion]

They always do about now. I’d rather step on a nail than hunt the leading edge. The weather will get crappy and yo yo. Around March 20th the mass will be at 12.

 

[Trip McNeely]

Tuck it back in your pants ladies….theyll get pushed back at least twice and yo-yo for another month from now until late march.

 

[Kurtr]

Tuck it back in your pants ladies….theyll get pushed back at least twice and yo-yo for another month from now until late march.

Im worried they blow right through here we have no snow not much water and with 50 degree plus the next 10 days and some 40mph south winds you guys might get loaded up for a month

 

[Trip McNeely]

Thats possible. Usually tho from my experience they end up staging half way between us. In all the years i used to chase them the earliest they came and stayed was march 7th. Ive played the yo-yo game too many times to get excited but if we don’t get another cold snap it’s possible they stay.

 

[Trip McNeely]

After looking at the long range temps if we don’t get much of a cool down the 2nd week of march there’s a really good possibility birds will be working into nodak if they aren’t already by then. Saw my first good size flock of migrating darks today. Once the darks get heavy for about 2-3 days the snows are only a few days behind…….

 

[snowkiller]

Snows are pushing thru SD quick as some have been spotted by the ND border

 

[Kurtr]

I drove from mobridge to webster yesterday saw some dark geese but not one single snow goose. i would bet todays weather push them back but when they do start i would think its going to go quick

 

[Wall-eyes]

There is shitty weather south a few states coming maybe it will push them back

 

[Rowdie]

I heard some honkers yesterday and seen some ducks.

 

[Trip McNeely]

One thing Ive noticed over the years is years like this with little snow or an early melt it feels like the snows should be pushing but arent. I’ve scoured the border hoping to greet the first push only to wonder why they aren’t here yet. I think it’s mainly due to the lack of sheet water or much runoff rhat helps to melt larger waters. In effect since there isn’t much open water they need to wait for the big waters to start melting which evens things out to big snow and sheer water years if were basing it off a timeline. If we get yo-yo temps they’ll hold where they are or pop back and forth 100 miles or so until temps rise again. If the temps get into the 50s-60s and stay above freezing they will sit on the ice instead of retreating back nightly.

 

[wct12]

Leading edge birds kick in a vast majority of teeth that try chasing them. Spring snows in nodak haven’t been much to write home about the last couple years. Still some good shoots And such, but nothing in terms of holding for 3 weeks and letting guys beat up on them. Lack of sheet water doesn’t give me the best feeling about spring but I’ve been wrong before

 

[Trip McNeely]

Leading edge birds kick in a vast majority of teeth that try chasing them. Spring snows in nodak haven’t been much to write home about the last couple years. Still some good shoots And such, but nothing in terms of holding for 3 weeks and letting guys beat up on them. Lack of sheet water doesn’t give me the best feeling about spring but I’ve been wrong before

Agreed, Ive gotten curbstomped more than I care to admit. If you’re hunting the extreme front edge birds you better have either extreme wind or fog. even in big winds you can watch them fuckers crawling at you across the ground only to slowly lift as they approach to that magic 80 yard ceiling they know.

 

[Kurtr]

Every one thinks back country elk hunting is hard . Go chase spring snow geese in the mud setting out thousands of decoys getting your teeth kicked in watching thousands of those white son of a bitches fly by and give you the middle finger. That one day it does work it’s like crack and keeps you coming back.

 

[bowcarp]

They’re all not going to make it, screenshot off a short vid on lake Byron located NE of Huron I’m guessing the flu

 

[Kurtr]

They’re all not going to make it, screenshot off a short vid on lake Byron located NE of Huron I’m guessing the flu

Sure thats not an old picture my friends have not seen a snow goose over around huron yet

 

[tikkalover]

Had a guy tell me that there is a lot of dead waterfowl on the shores at the tailrace.

Anyone hear anything on the news or from the Game and Fish about this?

 

[zoops]

Had a guy tell me that there is a lot of dead waterfowl on the shores at the tailrace.

Anyone hear anything on the news or from the Game and Fish about this?

Yeah it was in a news release about a month ago. Avian flu.