How to Get Ready for Waterfowl Season As some cooler weather settles in during mid to late November, many waterfowlers like Mossy Oak Pro, Richie McKnight, of Dawson Springs, Kentucky, are getting geared up for the upcoming waterfowl season. Read More Small Game, Waterfowl, How-To, Mossy Oak
Bill Daniels Calls the Shots for Louisiana Ducks and Geese During the last few weeks of duck season, we change up our tactics. By then, we’re often hunting yoyo ducks - ducks that have migrated from the north to southern Louisiana. Once a warm front comes through, they migrate back toward northwest Louisiana. These ducks have seen northern blind set-ups and decoys, and they’ve heard southern callers and seen their set-ups and decoys. Ducks at the end-of-the-season are the most highly-educated ducks that we hunt Read More Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak Shadow Grass Blades
Snow Geese Are Tough to Harvest I'm often asked about hunting snow geese. Generally, we don’t hunt snow geese during duck season. When snow geese come in, they have certain fields where they want to light. If they light in a field we don’t have permission to hunt, we’re just out of luck, because those snow geese will stay in one field, until they’ve eaten all the food there. Then, they’ll move to another field. Read More Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak Shadow Grass Blades, Mossy Oak
Bill Daniels Loves To Hunt Louisiana’s Specklebelly Geese Specklebelly geese come to calls much like mallard ducks do. They like to circle the blind several times before they decide to come in and cup their wings in front of the blind. I call to specklebellies by trying to get one goose to pull away from the flock. Then, I do some clucks and yodels, and I listen to hear how that goose is answering back to me. Once he answers my call, I Read More Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak
Plenty of Ducks and Specklebelly Geese Calling new ducks is not nearly as difficult as calling stale ducks. When ducks see the same blinds and the same decoy sets and hear the same calls every day, at the end of the day, they practically can write a list of the names of the hunters in every blind. Ducks wise-up quickly to duck hunters. Even though you may see a lot of ducks, getting ducks down to the blind can be tough. Read More Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak
Bill Daniels Guides and Hunts Louisiana’s Rice Fields One of the toughest places in America to hunt early-season waterfowl is Louisiana. The first time I hunted there one November, my guide brought out two cans of industrial strength Yard Guard to keep the mosquitoes out of our blind. Mossy Oak pro Bill Daniels of Hayes, Louisiana, has been hunting the Bayou State for 33 years. Read More Small Game, Waterfowl, Mossy Oak