snow geese have arrived in Missouri

With the big warm up a week ago the snow geese have showed up in big numbers the guides are telling me it's the most geese they've seen there at one time in years.The hunting has been excellent guys are getting a lot of shooting and seeing tons of birds.Days that are warmer with good winds have been the best hunting.We had a cool weekend that brought are numbers down slightly but still some good shoots.We have a warm up coming so be prepared for some awesome hunting.We still have some weekday spots open in Missouri,should be there until middle of March.


Dean Tlougan and Premier flight staff

Watch Babe Winkelman Shoot Geese With Premier Flight

Watch Babe Winkelman shoot Canada and Snow Geese with us Online!

What better way to while away the office hours while no-one is looking?

http://www.goosegrinders.com/winkleman_guiding.html

Minnesota Snow Geese Building in Numbers

It's official, the snow goose migration has started. Shallow ponds and small lakes are freezing up throughout Canada and the northern states. Now we are hearing multiple reports of snow geese around Western Minnesota and Eastern South Dakota.

From the 11/06/08 Minnesota DNR Waterfowl Migration Report:

Tamarac NWR:
A flock of 35 snow geese were noted flying over the refuge earlier in the week.

Slayton:
Noticed a few snow geese have moved into the area along with a trickling of mallards and a few swans. Maintaining good goose numbers.

We're still shooting Canadian Honkers around Rochester but the snow geese are heavy on our minds. We already have a good number of hunters booked for the spring hunts. Contact Dean soon to lock in your weekend in Missouri and South Dakota.

New Snow Goose Hunting Pages

We try hard to continue building the informative content of our website. It's not just about taking clients out on a guide hunt for us - we also want you to learn about what we do so you can do it yourself down the road!

Today we posted the following snow goose hunting pages to our snow goose area:

• What to wear
• Information about the spring snow goose flocks
• A bit about our snow goose guides
• Our strategy behind the hunt

The geese are flying south but we are already thinking about spring hunts. Give us a call and talk with Dean about a spring trip to South Dakota.

Snow Goose Report

The Minnesota DNR 2008 Migration Report is reporting numbers of snow geese entering northern Minnesota. We are always happy to see Canada freeze up as it pushes these birds south.

A good-solid freeze is our first chance to look at the 2008 / 2009 snow goose migration. According to their reports:

Thief River Falls:

"There still remain a large number of (Canada) geese but they are in very large groups (40-100) and have been observed field feeding in harvested soybean fields. Some snow geese are in the area as well."

Thief Lake WMA:

"Some geese (mostly Canadas, but still some snows) are present and a few are being taken in the CHZ."

This is all good news to us. It's a little early to get too worked up about the spring snow goose hunts but we can't help it. Early migrations of snow geese means the tundra ponds are freezing over but more than likely it also means that the snows are eating themselves out of the area. That means good numbers for our hunters in South Dakota next spring.

We'll keep you posted but in the mean time, we suggest calling Dean now to put your name on a trip now. We're starting to fill up hunts and you don't want to miss out on this year.

The First Snow Goose Hunting Report of 2008/2009!

Friends of ours spent the weekend hunting geese in in North Dakota over the weekend and saw the first Snow Geese of the season!

They were completely surprised when a small flock of juvenile snow geese buzzed their decoys in morning.

We already have our preliminary South Dakota Snow Goose Hunting leases established and we are ready to start chasing the spring flocks. We will start in Missouri around February 20th and then follow the birds up into South Dakota as the weather allows them to move north.

We had a successful year in 2008, including a great weekend trip hunting snow geese with Babe Winkelman and his wife Kris.

Contact us today to sign up for a 2009 hunt.

A Snow Goose Tornado in South Dakota

We get asked all the time, "What's so great about snow goose hunting?"

The answer is simply, "Have you ever watched a snow goose tornado?"

There's no way to answer that question without bringing up the topic of a true snow goose tornado. In an effort to describe what we mean by a true "tornado" we have taken a few pictures and written some text to go along with it.

The pictures you see are real photos taken by one of our hunters during a real live snow goose tornado during one of our South Dakota hunts. The first birds of this very group of birds slid through the Vortex machine and locked their feet at 6 feet off the ground.

Some of them didn't survive the experience!

Snow Geese in Lake Preston

March 23rd we saw huge migration into lake Preston area.Even though we have alot of ice on the lakes, birds are finding water on edges and runoff areas.we've been shooting decent number of birds but expect it to get better everyday.With the delay of spring we'll be extending our stay in s.d. at least until 15th of april.Still time to book a hunt and get into some great shooting.I can be reached on cell 507-261-2072.


Dean Tlougan and Premier Flight Staff

South Dakota hunts are starting tuesday

As of march 13th there was a good movement of birds into lake thompson area.Temps are to stay in mid 30's.That we'll keep birds around searching for open water.Talked to our farmers they told me birds were feeding in surrounding fields.We're doing a T.V. show with Babe Winkelmam starting tuesday looking forward to a GREAT HUNT.still have some dates open best to call on cell 507-261-2072.




Premier Flight Staff