Grady Gunn
“I think we might get to hunt specklebellies in the snow this weekend!”
This was something you never get to hear about being a possibility in the Mississippi Delta. With the wet and mild winters, the only thing we ever got to hunt our beloved specklebellies in, also known as Greater White-Front Geese, was the mud. We were finally afforded this occasion when we went up to the delta on MLK weekend. It was a spitting snow Saturday morning, with a wind chill somewhere in the mid twenties.
It had always been a dream of ours to hunt in the snow, but it was not all we had imagined. The geese were flying extremely patterned and we could not get them to decoy. Every goose within a mile of us went straight to a congregation, about a half mile north of us and the sheer magnetism of the geese calling from those prevented us from calling in any others. We tried to move set up mid morning on a prayer, but it just didn’t work out Saturday morning. We ended up killing a few in the snow, but it was not the picture perfect hunt we had imagined. However, over the next few days, the weather cleared up and we had some awesome hunts Sunday afternoon into Monday.
Vicky downed her first specklebelly all by herself, a feat she had accomplished before, but had never taken the credit of until now. MK took control of the camera, snapping some of the great photos for us, all throughout the weekend. Jay and I called in the geese per usual and enjoyed every moment. We are hopeful to be headed out soon for another trip to the delta, which the end of the season creeping up faster than we’d like. The season comes to a close a little over a week from today and we are eager to finish it out as strongly as possible. With high hopes for 2022, bring on the next season of the year.
All pictures included in this article were taken by the extremely talented Mary Kate Gunn Photography !
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