Never move from your original position

[Gooseman1982]

I was lucky enough to get two weeks of my work. So with the family we headed to Inverness-shire for a week to see the family over the Christmas. I thought i will get a couple of mornings out on the geese and ducks.

 

So i got in contact with mates and we made plans, The morning came -8 very cold morning and it was a hour drive for me to meet my mate. We headed out and said right we will go here see the first skene take off then we can make plans. There was guys shooting ducks at the bottom of the bay, we thought right surely that will push the geese over us. About 2000 geese went over the duck hunters and there was about a 1000 that went out to the right over further down of the wood.

 

So to our mistake we moved away down, and there was about 200 pinks on the bay left. The geese took of and went over ware we were sitting originally about 30 yards up. So that was our morning knakerd.

 

The next morning headed to a different bay with my dad, we lined up along the sea wall. Geese took of further down the sea wall and up the seawall, dad had a couple of shots but didn't connect.

 

I SAID TO MYSELF IM NOT GONNA MOVE spied the bay and was a tonne of geese heading up the river cutting this corner which they always do. So what did stupid me do i moved up to the corner, geese were coming and dad got another shot and dropped a lovely fat greylag. About 10 mins later the last of the geese took of and they went over ware i was originally sitting about 40 yards up. I was kicking myself. So people that has shown me never move from your original position.

 

Has anyone else had these disasters??

[Berettacocker]

All the time!

[Grandalf]

For about 50 years!

[anser2]

Me too , but it can work both ways. Sometimes I have stayed put and the geese have kept trickling over somepoint I could have moved to while on other times moved and the birds flighted over the original spot. All you can do is use your best judgement and act acordingly. My only hard and fast rule here is if the geese are flighting near and on both sides of you stay put . Sooner or later you will have a chance with luck. Only move if you have the marsh to yourself. I have had some good flghts screwed up by other fowlers moving at the height of the flight. I could not beleve a well known fowler who marched across the mud infront of me when he realised the geese were flighting my side of the bay.

[Gooseman1982]

I was behind sea walls shooting and no one else was out apart from the guys right at the bottom of the bay. If im on the mud i get a position and stay in that position. Your right Anser there's nothing worse sitting out in the mud for a few hours and the flights start and people are walking about the mud.

 

Me too , but it can work both ways. Sometimes I have stayed put and the geese have kept trickling over somepoint I could have moved to while on other times moved and the birds flighted over the original spot. All you can do is use your best judgement and act acordingly. My only hard and fast rule here is if the geese are flighting near and on both sides of you stay put . Sooner or later you will have a chance with luck. Only move if you have the marsh to yourself. I have had some good flghts screwed up by other fowlers moving at the height of the flight. I could not beleve a well known fowler who marched across the mud infront of me when he realised the geese were flighting my side of the bay.