Keying in on speckledbelly geese is far more effective then trying to convince snow geese to fly within shotgun range — even though the two species frequently fly together.
“Generally you’ll see a flock of specklebellies following along behind a big flock of snow geese,” Jacob Sartain said. “Then you probably can work those geese away from the snow geese and into your decoy spread. The specklebellies are more responsive to calling than snow geese are.””
“We use short-reed specklebelly goose calls like the ones produced by Haydel’s, Buck Gardner and Fred Zink & Company.”
And it’s just a matter of gaining experience with those calls.
“If you know what to say to those specklebellies, when they come over in those mixed flocks, many times you can pull them out of a flock of snow geese,” Sartain said.
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