Serious snow goose hunters make up a strange subset of the waterfowling world, which is already its own weird subset of the greater hunting community. Everything is taken to the extreme in snow goose ...

Vermont’s spring snow goose hunt will be held from March 11 through April 23. Since 2009, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has annually issued a “Conservation Order” to allow the reduction of the ...

A good combination of adult bird profiles and juvies in each pack will sell the story better than the hunter next door. Bulk up your numbers with full-body feel and wind-driven motion while saving ...

Some hunters and anglers may be in a slight lull as many hunting seasons have ended or will end soon. Many of us will be determining where and how to fish according to current weather or preparing for ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Laying on cold, damp ground is usually a recipe for misery. But in this case I think it was a feature ...

Doug Leier is an outreach biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Reach him at [email protected]. WEST FARGO – I saw my first Canada goose of the year about 4 p.m. Feb. 7, a sunny Tuesday ...

The polar vortex that descended on Arkansas and many other states prompted hundreds of duck and goose hunters in Arkansas to ask if birds had finally arrived. With warmer-than-normal conditions across ...

Hello, friends. This past week I headed down to southern South Dakota with my friend, Randy Norton, and his 12-year-old black lab, Conner, for my first snow goose hunt. To be perfectly honest, I had ...

"The good old days are now." — Tom Clancy I used to get tired of hearing about the good old days. Older hunters and fishermen are the world's worst when it comes to relating how great it was in the ...

Vermont’s spring snow goose hunt will be held from March 11 through April 23. Since 2009, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has annually issued a “Conservation Order” to allow the reduction of the ...