joejv4

i wouldn't waste the cash on a guide living in hilton ur in a prime area i do a lot of hunting around that area there are tons of birds to be had send me a pm...got my limit of ducks yesterday with 2 bonus geese

Canadas are one thing - don't need a guide, just a couple spots to hunt and as few as a dozen dekes.

Snows, however, generally won't decoy unless you have like a hundred dekes - and that's where a guide is probably the best way to go. Any snow goose guide worth his salt will have 100+ dekes and a half dozen or more fields available to hunt - greatly improving your chances of hitting the 15 bird limit for everyone in the party.

So if you go looking for a guide for spring snows, the things you'll want to ask are:

how many dekes do you put out in a typical spread? and How many fields to you hunt and how often?

If they use fewer than 100 dekes in a spread, and they have less than a half dozen fields, or they don't rotate the fields they hunt, you probably won't get much shooting.

Well, the tons of fish in the 45-60 FOW range sounds like they're still staging to run up the river - a good thing to me since I fish up at the dam and the "catching" has been pretty much hit-or miss so far.