How do you play that game? I absolutely love snow geese. We run all the way through the first weekend of March down in Arkansas. As of lately, probably the last couple of weeks, I got a lot more phone calls, a lot more emails and from a different demographic too. It behaves exactly like a feeding mallard, making slick-as-glass water roil to life. Hey, folks. And well go hunt areas where theres shallow water and where theyve been feeding and it might take them till afternoon, till evening. Thats a lot of birds or something, or gadwalls or shovelers, or were just duck hunting anymore, where I hunt. Matt Piehl and Ramsey Russell catch up between North America waterfowl hunting seasons to discuss guided waterfowl hunts in general, exciting Dirty Bird Outfitter developments, and new important private property e-posting laws that all duck and goose hunters that plan on visiting North Dakota should We chase feeds every day. And Hammer. 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Good. Barely anymore do we pass on flocks of ringnecks. Were just going to be a Central special Flyway. So thats pretty cool. Thats a question Ive got somebody to know, is what is the end game, you know? But then, a late snow came in and those little fur balls just cant, I mean a four inch tall fur ball or six inch tall fur ball with a foot of snow on top of them dont live. I like everything about them. Its light, wicks moisture, is inherently warm even when wet. Slid in out of nowhere. We just really truly expected them. a Dirty Bird Industries, LLC Company 2420 Mohawk Street #700 Bakersfield, CA 93308 . But its done. But I think it probably also depends on where you grow up at. I know from spending a lot of time down in Arkansas back in the day, those geese are hopping around. You just dont know youre playing? View NEW Full-color brochure online:Ramsey Russells GetDucks.com Catalog Contact us to receive a hi-res printed copy. Copyright 2003 - 2023 Ramsey Russell's GetDucks.com, Louisiana Duck Hunting Coastal Marsh at Venice, Mississippi Duck Hunting Tallahatchie Hunts, Saskatchewan Canada Goose and Duck Hunting, Texas Duck Hunting Gulf Coast Redheads and More. Go ahead and take care of stuff how you would want to be treated. Its a lot of work. Theres a lot of uncertainty out there still, I think. And what you do in spring. Everybody was talking about 30 minutes drinking coffee before the hunt started. For two decades, weve delivered real duck hunts for real duck hunters. We just were laughing, you know, waiting for something else to come in and its all you can do, and I love that. Youve been listening to Matthew Piehl, Dirty Bird Outfitters, North Dakota and Arkansas Spring Snows. And I told him, he ran some clients a couple days, and he was staying out at my place in Bismarck there. We have upland birds, pheasants, grouse partridge and we would go out and chase limited pheasants before football practice. We have a little talk ahead of time. But its different. If youre going to do it, youre going to do it right, and youll do it right. Just the driving down in Obregon and seeing the countryside was one thing. Last year we were waiting on I think everybody in the blind sitting on four or five birds. Matthew Piehl: Yeah, we do. We were finally going to go to Arkansas. When you talk to them, Id really like to hear that because thats some of those questions are stuff I think about. We dont know. Its comfortable over a wide temperature gradient, naturally anti-microbial, remaining odor free. Its the only state that anybody in the U.S can hunt geese in August. But it was a well-executed plan. Matthew Piehl: Well hold on to quite a few, until the weather is, I guess, our first bad storm per say. USHuntList.combecause the next great hunt is closer than you think. I know theres a lot of guys that we had a few guys that have either canceled our Canada trips or are thinking of canceling the Canada trips that are contacting us. Its a lot of, like you said earlier, sleepless nights. So its anybodys guess on whether or not theyre going to be open for us non-residents to come up there and hunt. Do you all ever shoot snow geese in North Dakota? But Voormi is not your ordinary wool. Matthew Piehl: Oh that was a very good way to end the hunt. I mean, its not like youve got this great big metropolitan area. But yeah, its within the top 10 ever, as far as the wetlands index is. So were running a second spread. When you talk to them, Id really like to hear that because thats some of those questions are stuff I think about. And the million-dollar question is whether or not the Canadian border is going to be open. Thats just where were from, I guess where were still at. Obviously the birds are going to move and adapt as well as they do in any other sense. But it was a well-executed plan. The first flights of the mornings can be some of the best action so we will make sure we are ready to go by shooting time. Hunting is allowed from 30 minutes before sunrise until 30 minutes after sunset. Theres just something about them when theyre working. Ramsey Russell: That is absolutely crazy. You all will appreciate this. I knew this about you already, the fact that there are no half measures. I know theres a lot of guys that we had a few guys that have either canceled our Canada trips or are thinking of canceling the Canada trips that are contacting us. I mean, right by the time theyre setting up, were fixing to shoot our respective bird, if you still had a bird to go. I mean, a lot of friends in the industry obviously, whether they have operations up there or just even can we take a trip? But theres just that small town feeling. Well get ahead of them and we play the game a little bit different up in the Dakotas. Its just the weather moving in, pulling, this is going to be daylight, and they just kind of, they slept in that morning, thats what they did. Theyll go from small ponds with a couple of groups on it, to bigger lakes with hundreds, thousands of birds on it as the season goes on. And thats okay. Well yeah, well go from there to the 60 and 70 degrees. Its busy, thats for sure. 903 likes, 1 comments - Dirty Bird Outfitters (@dirtybirdoutfitters) on Instagram on April 14, 2020: "Run it back~2for2 #legband | #memories | #spring #springsnows | #waterfowlhuntin . Guides; Location; Contact Us; Navigation: . Come and join us as we do our part in saving the tundra! Matthew Piehl: Yeah, we get great, middle October. When the wetlands first made a rebound back in the early 2010, you see all kinds of roads underwater. We think of feed, we think of grass and grain. And Ive done really well. I mean, I know the first time I hunted with Nick, we got to talking. So everybody thats applied, actually went on and applied, has been drawn. Those two trips, are still my favorite trips to this day. How did you get into it? Well let me ask you this, growing up in the North Dakota prairie pothole region, with all those ducks and geese produced, do most kids grow up in North Dakota as duck hunters? So if this is the main economy that has produced a majority of our Ross geese for year after year, after year and now theyre not showing up there, we still have Ross geese. Well, they both, to this day, they both claimed that there was another one, and I dont ever remember seeing it. We want to run our dates over the next year and thats just how Ive always based everything. What the weather is going to be like or anything else. Knee-highboots are recommended, but many prefer waders. Its in really good shape, really, really good shape. So its, I dont know, since last years corn they couldnt get to, we got a snowstorm in the middle of October. I dont want a fly by night, I said, its not going to be that type of operation. Ramsey Russell: Wow, thats crazy, isnt it? A few bands yall recovered sometimes in North Dakota and Nick is like, oh I never killed one. Voormi is an enigma in the day and age of disposable hunting apparel. And depending upon what theyre feeding in or what theyre feeding with, I should say, well target them. I know youre very busy, raising kids, and working, and booking hunts, and doing all this good stuff. Just because they decoy that much better. And about that time, flocking mallards swung over the slough and was working around us and I mean, just corkscrewing and coming and getting closer and closer with every pass. Please subscribe, rate and review Duck Season Somewhere podcast. Well actually shoot quite a few divers. Rogers Sporting Goods, founded in 1980, is a family-owned store that offers the best in waterfowl, hunting, shooting and outdoor gear. Ramsey Russell: Yeah. We dont know that, but we do know that their Prime Minister is bat shit crazy. Oh man, weve been trying to do it. We have upland birds, pheasants, grouse partridge and we would go out and chase limited pheasants before football practice. Theres a lot of these policies also included, some of them, those big piles are juvenile birds. A little bit different rules up there. Home DuckSeasonS Dirty Bird Outfitters. About that time, from my side, here comes the duck, lower over the water, redhead, come on my side, passed me. And I was just wondering if you could speak a little bit about your operation down in Arkansas. Ramsey Russell: Ive hunted up there at that time of year and its hot. We do it here. Everybody was talking about 30 minutes drinking coffee before the hunt started. I dont know, wet conditions, the soybeans and corn was flooded. Book This Hunt Direct And because things arent getting settled in, and we went to a field, big old field, and I guess, it was soy beans and there was some water. And as those have evolved over the last decade, they named every one of them Ramsey blinds. Oh boy, did they do it? And be sure to check out our new GetDucks Shop. Huh? It almost pains me to tell yall about Duck Creek Decoy Works new Flashback Decoy because inthe words of Flashback Decoy inventor Tyler Baskfield, duck hunting gear really is an arms race. At my Mississippi camp, his flashback decoy has been a top-secret weapon among my personal bag of tricks. Mr. Popular that lies, always he is the guy. Ramsey Russell: No, I dont remember that, but Im glad to know that because you came back with a lot of bands on that trip. All the blinds started shooting, catching ducks. Login ; Dirty Bird Brand. All hunters participating in the conservation order must get a free registration permit number. I always tell them, I tell this to everybody, if theres not a good group of young birds, I wont even go look at them in North Dakota. Good. And we dont know that, if it was a good hatch like the past few years that a late storm didnt come in. Opening weekend is a little bit of a wild card, the times Ive been there. Welcome back to Duck Season Somewhere. We are here to bring you the exhilaration of the spring snow goose conservation season. Ramsey Russell: The question I was asking and I was wondering about snow geese is, Ive wondered, I want to talk a little bit about your Dirty Bird Outfitter spring snow goose hunt down in Arkansas and I was just wondering, I love to shoot snow geese. Because of that, there is a noticeable improvement in the finish. No federal or state waterfowl stamps are required to hunt during the conservation order. We follow the migration from the start of the conservation season in Arkansas till the birds leave South Dakota. On a typical morning your snow goose guide will meet you and guide you to the field we are set up on. Your Snow Goose Guide will meet you the first morning at a predefined location to start the day off and travel to the field with you. What has a large group of Ross geese, swan group? So its pretty interesting, pretty cool. Argentina, Mexico, 6 whole continents worth. That weekly trip every year was probably the highlight of my hunting for the year. Yep. But I personally think weve hit that curve ball out of the park full times here. I mean, you kind of grow up into that? Ive had enough of the not being busy. So it was definitely a pretty awesome hunt because like I said, Nick was really excited about it. It is or no? And Ive always said and firmly believed you really get to know people sitting in a duck blind. Hunt of a lifetime is a tall order it takes far more than stackwood piles of dead birds to achieve that lofty ideal. Our spring snow goose hunts allow for liberal limits, extended plugs, and electronic calls to be used. Its been great to catch up with you. NORTH DAKOTA FALL RATES. We put on and we have a lot of local kids with that. One week would be waterfowl up towards where my grandma still lived. Cooper went out to pick it up. And seems to me, from talking to the clients and some of your staff, that its pretty slammed done. Theres Canada geese everywhere. Most of that melted. The vast variety of animals and friendly staff make this farm a five star experience. I mean, what led you down that path? North Dakota Tundra Swan Hunts. I knew, ducks is just one of the resources to add water. Being polite, not knowing Matt had a fan mag up his ass to start with, I said Matt, shoot that bird. Ramsey Russell: What are some of your finest memories hunting with your dad and uncles back then, when you all first started going? There is no daily bag limit or possession limit. 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