Where to go for geese??

At least 3 squadrons of them bombed sandcastle today.

The waterpark in Pittsburgh.

Those days are over for Erie County and there are many hunters that are in the same boat.  The resident limit of 8 or 3 is working.  Your going to have to drive out to find them.  It a shame that the Dam at Seigal was never fixed.  I find it as a loss of habitat for waterfowl and fishing.  The PGC, NWPDA, and local DU should be ashamed of themselves for allowing that to happen this long!

Wally, I'm from north huntingdon not too far from greensburg. I got my first goose hunt on saturday at indian lake im pretty excited

Well I am glad to hear some are having a lil luck. I have been itching since this cold snap came on to get out! Birds are starting to fly now at least over my house in the city.haha As far as the replies about Seigel...They had that all planned out. The reasoning for not fixing the dam (according to one of the head commissioners that told me) was so that they could in fact do away with the geese and create a more adaptable area mainly for ducks and...beaver. Yes, I'll say it again...Beaver. While the ducks (especially wood ducks) flourish in there, I would not say there has been an increase justifying the loss. Prior to them ruining the area, there were mallards, teal, pretty much every species as well as good geese populations, fishing, an many other wildlife species that have since lessened as I am sure you know. YES they should be ashamed. However, only a voice big enough to include thousands upon thousands of angered hunters who are willing to say something will ever change what THEY have decided was good enough. Goes right up there with extended doe season and our rabbit limits for an animal that their coyotes took away I guess. How much more of the "good old days are going to disappear in the next 10 years? I don't want to know. But I do know they could answer their own question when asking "Why there are less youth interested in hunting these days?"There has to be something to hunt to fit the logic of hunting. Sorry for the rampant...Guess I got a lil lost in thought while typing. But this is (as I am sure for most of you) a sensitive subject.

Wow I had a long passage typed out and my net crashed. Not cool, but I digress. Shorter now but here we go. I will say simply that the cause is ultimately poor spending. Instead of the hunter making the decision, we pay for our passion and some pencil pushing moron gets to write the law. Usually it's somebody who has never even stepped foot into the woods. Maybe instead of spending money on oversized hunting books that are filled with more ads than anything, they should place polls and questonnaires asking the HUNTERS vote on new laws before they put the screws to us. Only the HUNTER knows the TRUE conditions of his home woods. Only the HUNTER knows where the game is depleting, woods are in need of help, land being overrun etc. NOT these anti-conservationist money grubbing seat fillers! 1 example is the generalizing of the counties when deciding to slaughter the deer herd. Erie (for example) had just started regaining its herd after years and all because the big Metropolitan areas had too many deer (more like too many people), our herd got slaughtered. The same happened all over and yet justification appeases the insurance companies and hunters get extra kills, so in the end everybody shut up. Meanwhile the future of hunting is in dire jeopardy of turning out like it was a century or more ago when we actually had to immigrate a whole new herd into Pa after doing the same thing they are doing now. Fools gold isn't just a rock, it is a way of life to some. But the way I look at it, we pay for the license, maybe..just maybe we should have some say in whether or not the money is really being spent to CONSERVE our lands. -Deep breathe-....whew...ok I think I'm done.

Ya, that is lovely.  I just think it is pretty logical to think that if the person(s) we never even picked to control things is NOT running the show correct, or even if they were we should have a voice. You wouldn't let somebody from a different county come and tell you what is your backyard, but essentially that is what we are all forced to do. It is just foolish to generalize and cut corners in places they have absolutely no right doing it. Our money, our land, our season, their decision? Now that is just idiotic. Take the ads out and use the paper for hunter's voice I say.

I saw the opposite where I am crappie. Couple of farm ponds I fish had great nesting success this year for geese. More than usual - almost 2x as many as usual. Although, that's a very, very limited snap shot of the big picture in Western PA. And those are hard banks, where water levels don't fluctuate too much and flood nests. But what you're saying makes sense. Was a very, very wet spring around here.

Geese around my parts are definitely fewer and more scattered. On different patterns almost every day it seems.

at them myself in the am hopefully we grind em