E MAN

Someone please give me a goose hunting report for central and southern Illinois. I'm seeing a lot of migrators passing over Champaign.

Mossy_Oak_Bounty_Hunter

try lookin at the Illinois dept of natural resources page, i think it says on there.

waterfowlhuntin247

I GOT A PLACE IN CARBONDALE I LIVE IN JOLIET WE HAVE BEEN HAVIN A LOT OF SNOW LATELEY AND I SEEN ABOUT 500 MIGRATORS GOING SOUTH GOOSE SEASONS CLOSED NOW SO I CANT REALLY HELP U ANY MORE WE JUST AINT GETTIN THE SNOWS IN DECEMBER LIKE WE USED TO THE SNOW ISNT COMIN TILL JANUARY AN FEBUARY AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ISNT GETTIN AS MEANY GEESE AS THEY USED TO
HAPPY HUNTIN

Mossy_Oak_Bounty_Hunter

Friday February 6th: The Southern Illinoisan:
Now that hunting season has ended, the number of Canada geese in the Southern Illinois-western Kentucky region has reached a season-high of 140,370. The Canada goose season ended Jan. 31.
Horseshoe Lake currently has the largest concentration of Canadas, 42,000, followed by Crab Orchard 41,000, Union County 22,000, Ballard County, Ky. 11,000, Burning Star Mine 10,000, Pyramid State Park 5,000.

those are the higher numbers of canadas, Snow goose is as follows:

Pop. 180,250, last year at this time there was 190,900
Ballard County KY has 76000 followed by horseshoe lake with 50000, Swan lake 20000, pyramid st park 9500, carlyle lake 2100, and rend lake 150.

waterfowlhuntin247

crap orchard in the 80's used to hold 100,000 thousand geese. i also do some snow goose huntin around carlyle lake keep the nubers comin!!!

Mossy_Oak_Bounty_Hunter

depending on how energetic i am, ill try to keep this updated. The Southern Illinoisan has the report every friday so ill just scan it or something every friday for yall

Mossy_Oak_Bounty_Hunter

There are just 250 white fronted geese in the region. Ballard County KY was the bulk 1700, while there are 450 at pyramid state park and another 100 at horseshoe lake. There are also 82 swans in the region, 74 at Burning Star mine and four each at Carlyle lake and union county. The priliminary final Canada Goose harvest figure for the southern Illinois Quota zone is 12,200, well below the 16,000 quota. There were 37,355 hunter days afield. The success rate for hunters was 32 percent. The major Harvest was in Williamson and Jackson counties, 8,673. THere were 1776 geese killed in Union county and 1751 in Alexander County.

waterfowlhuntin247

thanks!