Been scouting, been asking farmers for permission, striking out every time. So frustrating. If anyone wants to team up we have 10 dozen deeks, couple extra blinds. Pm me if u got a good field and want some help whacking and stacking these early season honkers!
What part of the state you in?
I’ve never had good luck finding fields. It seems like the guys that lock them up hoard lots of properties.
DT
Live in Cambridge but will drive anywhere to blast some honks
Might want to consider switching to hunting water. Heading west towards the Red River Valley you might find some fields. The farmers are always complaining about geese in the Thief River Falls area. It is getting tougher and tougher.
I’m lucky that my son works in the ag business and has lots of contacts plus lives on a 3000 acre farm on the south shore of LOTW. Lots of fields up here are leased by the resorts or money from the cities. After early season access gets easier but everything is chiseled and then deer season comes and the birds are gone.
Good luck and I hope you find something.
Minnesota is so hard to hunt with all the fields being taken by family or friends of the landowner. Its really not even worth hunting public waters with all the people who come out right across from you to sky blast birds and rain bb’s. You have to put in a lot of work to get decent birds around here. Its really much easier to take a couple days off and go to the Dakotas.
Lots of banging on the Sconie side of lower pool 4 this morning. Fishing wasn’t the best but not a wash.
When I was in college in Mankato, we had no trouble finding farmers willing to let us go bang. Now that I am living in the cities again, it can be a challenge but not impossible. Putting in windshield time on backroads is my best suggestion. People usually ask the farmers that live on main roads. You will still get shot down (pun intended), but you have a better chance of finding someone willing to let you.
I have spoken with many farmers in my area and the ones that aren’t willing to let you hunt, have let others hunt in the past and they littered, ripped up their field and put a bad taste in their mouth. Being friendly and presentable while not kissing ass can go far with landowners.
Not saying that its not hard to find fields, but in Liberal Dane county where Madison resides my nephew has been able to with the help of his 5 other friends… Maybe you should try to find a group of guys in the area that like to hunt, try to get one of those guys that has contacts in the ag business and you might be able to find some stuff. These guys found a field outside Madison with 150 geese using it, got permission and now there are 120 geese using it…
My brother lives in eastern Dane and gets permission regularly, but like Bill Boyd has a friend who has ties in the lime business… I really think if you can think of a friend who has those ties to farming, that you “like” (important), you might start to have some success… Its always worth a shot and if you don’t ask, you’ll never get on. Another thing I’ve always told people is to have enough farm ties in your background that you can converse with a farmer about his farm… Good Luck, don’t give up, devise a good strategy, find the birds, then go to work and FUN!!!
Mark
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