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WON HUNTS Canada Slams geese October 6, 2000

By BILL KARR,  WON Staff Writer

LLOYDMINSTER, Saskatchewan -- I happened again, as it does every year with the WON HUNTS CANADA events: The geese showed up for the Saskatchewan goose opener, hunters from Western Outdoor News were waiting for them, and it was a repeat performance of the past two years: phenomenal goose hunting!

Full possession limits, a total of 336 dark geese, specks and honkers, were taken during the first trip by 21 hunters. An additional 50-plus snow geese were dropped and a count of ducks was impossible due to the evening hunts, combined with those taken during the morning goose hunts. There were also some Hungarian Partridge and grouse taken in the afternoons, as well as a planted pheasant hunt on the first day.

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All Told, it was even better than last year, according to most of the attendees, as Bobby Lindsay, owner of Pokolodi Outfitting, keeps making things better and better for these very special opening day goose hunts.

The first hunt ran from Sept. 16-21, opening of the goose season for non-residents, and we had four groups that rotated guides for the three days of the hunt. Guides included Randy Hubert, "Cowboy: Jake Pilkey, Lyndon Ford, and "Mountain Mark" Henrey. The Main Spotter accountable for finding fields each day was "shotgun Bob" Williams. They were all well versed in what they were to do and how to do it.

Accommodations were again at the Tropical Inn located in Lloydminster on the Saskatchewan/Alberta border, and they provided sit down, order off the menu breakfasts exclusively for our groups beginning a 4 a.m.  Lunches were also at the hotel restaurant, and most chose the wide variety buffet. Evening meals were held at an excellent Chinese restaurant that was taken over exclusively by our group, The Greek Classic, and finally at Spiro's where they prepared goose breasts using an excellent recipe and provided more food than we could eat. Guide Randy also handed out "snak-pak" for all the hunters each morning in case they got hungry between meals.

Hunts were again all conducted in different fields each day and attendees "built" their blinds an put out decoys with the help of the guides each morning, and the benefits were obvious once geese began pouring into the fields. As usual there were a few hunts where the geese simply didn't appear, or got drawn off to other build ups of birds, but each group had at least two good to excellent days, and all hunters ended up with at least their 16 dark goose limits in three days of hunting. The Limits are 8 darks a day, 30 snows a day and 8 ducks a day.

The weather went from a balmy near- 80 degrees on arrival to snowflakes in the air on departure, and the second group, that arrived on Sept. 20 for their hunt, found cold weather and excellent hunting, with some groups of 6 shooting their limits of 48 honkers and specks by 7:30 a.m.! That Story will be in an upcoming issue. 

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