When the recent cold snap breaks, waterfowl hunting will improve across Kentucky. A few simple tips will put more ducks and geese in the bag.
By Lee McClellan
From Kentucky Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources
FRANKFORT, Ky. – It happens to even the most seasoned waterfowl hunter. At dawn on a mid-winter day, a gaggle of Canada geese comes honking into your decoys on a farm pond. They look like flying watermelons with wings, a long neck and a black and white head.
You pop up from your homemade blind and excitedly shoot three times at one seemingly close goose. Expecting to hear the thump that follows a successful shot, the big goose flies away instead.
You can’t believe you missed something so big that seemed so close. “It is easy to misjudge...