Welcome to Storm Outfitters - The Garden State Goose Experts!
The Storm Crew (l to r, Dave Weidner, Ray Sands, "Storm" Rob Heslep, Larry VanKirk, Dave LoBuono)
What makes a great guided goose hunt in New Jersey? Our clients all seem to recognize the importance of polite & courteous guides, quality equipment-blinds & decoys by Avery Outdoors & Greenhead Gear, communication, follow-up, flexibility, safety, a hard working retriever and lots of birds. We don't always shoot our limits of birds, but we share a lot of great hunting memories, lots of laughs and just some awesome days a field with literally thousands of Canada Geese.
Goose hunting in New Jersey is becoming increasingly popular and StormOutfitters has the expertise to make your hunt a success. In fact, our guides are affiliated as ProStaff members with leaders in the waterfowling industry including: Avery Outdoors, Greenhead Gear, and Zink Calls.
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Storm and Twister accompany us on all of our New Jersey Goose hunts. I believe our dogs show our clients the value of a highly trained hunting retriever. We have dedicated ourselves to the spirit of waterfowl hunting, retriever training and goose hunting in New Jersey. We look forward to another highly successful season in 2008/09. On behalf of the entire Storm Crew - we offer our sincere thanks for your business!
* We dedicate the 2008 season and all future seasons to our matriarch "Storm" MHR Atwater Seaglass N The Storm MH who we retired this year due to illness. Storm's career spanned nine spectacular years and of course, was the inspiration for our guide business. Over the years she delivered countless birds and enjoyed her days in the field with all of our clients. She retrieved with grace, dignity and style.
NOTICE! Our business is growing rapidly and we will do everything possible to accommodate your date requests - However, if you are interested in booking hunts for the 2008-09 season - BOOK NOW! Our preferred dates move rapidly. If you are looking for snow goose opportunites - December is the time amd we offer these hunts along with our Canada goose hunts.
Well - just about on cue every year, come Jan1 someone throws a switch and the birds just seem to go a little more into the "hard to get" category. What is a guide to do? We get tough and we scout harder and we deploy all the tricks of the trade! Hunt from the past couple weeks below have been a challenge, but more than anything, our clients have been just an absolute pleasure to share the fields with! So, as we wind down on the migratory season - we say "THANK YOU!"
Well, the last three days of goose hunting have treated us very well. We have the honkers and the weather has cooperated in terms of wind and clouds. We had guys from North Jersey, fly-in from South Carolina and a group with a 10 year old boy - Greg "The G-MAN" Moses for collecting his first honker! Your parents should be proud! Each or our groups were just a great group of people and we had a great time in the field!
The Rodgers group speaks a little funny - but shot well!
Today we shot honkers as big as whales! To say the least, it has been on heck of a great end to a week long hunting adventure.
Honkers hit the Sept corn!
I want to thank those who made it possible - StormOutfitter guides Dave LoBouno and Larry VanKirk thanks for your scouting tips and as always, your assistance in the field - your help is greatly appreciated! LVK for treating our clients as number one and giving me a reason to laugh when we had two decoys take on friendly fire!
The "G-Man" put the boots to this big gander!
The dogs? Storm and Twister performed wonderfully - As always, Storm was a shining star with a couple BIG retrieves on honkers!
All of our hunts are not like these in terms of fast birds - but for certain, this was a "Three Day ThrowDown!"
With lots of high flyers this morning, I was more than a little nervous at our prespects. Many migratory birds moving sout with the approaching front and other birds shifting between fields. Wayne, Mark, Dave and I put together a nice pile of honkers for the first day of the 2nd split.
After making some BIG retrieves - Ive got a very, very tired old dog and a long week ahead for both Storm and Twister! Ole floppy ears Storm dog brings a fat honker to hand.
Well, tomorrow morning starts the second split for Canada geese and we have good numbers here in Central Jersey right now. The semi-promise made by the local weather professionals calls for snow and decreased temperatures in the coming week. Snow cover will make hunting conditions fun to say the least.
There are good numbers of snow geese in our area right now, but they are targeting corn while the Canadas are targeting soy and grass fields. This will make setting up a combined rig a challenge. Our first hunt of the second split will be Saturday and we will be going full force till the end of the year.
Ducks have been on again - off again. With the coming cold weather, I predict, similar to past years that the shooting will ramp up high-just about the time that the season closes!
Varied wind and cloud cover produces a series of diferent hunt conditions. With a south wind, clouds, overcast and good wind speeds, Wednesday produced a nice bunch of honkers for the Gary Allen party. Thursday hunt with Franky T and the boys produced a few less birds, (primarily due to shooting ability), Friday we had good wiind out of the North and Tom I and crew put together a nice string of honers while yesterday's hunt with little wind and the passing of a cold front that pushed birds south, really put a damper on things - overall a decent first split, but if the weather holds, I'll predict even better things in December!
Above - Gary Allen and Crew
Above - Tom I and Crew
Above - "Thanks Storm - yer the best!"
Above - Part of the Storm Crew enjoy a much needed day in the timber shooting ducks to end the weekend!
Craig M and his group, including Paul, who flew in from Key West Florida joined us yesterday for a nice hunt. There was no shortage of geese, although most of the thousands in the area keyed in on one X field and we had difficulty pulling birds off the almost constant influx of honkers - and then all was quiet at 10:30am till their return to roost. Hunting looks to be very good in the Central and North sections of the State and we are fast approaching our very busy season!
Ducks have been surprisingly scarce in terms of numbers, which is s a surprise given the below normal temperatures. There are still some wood ducks and teal around, but from what I can see - big duck numbers are not what they should be. As always, this will change with differnt fronts and we are hoping for the best.
If you have interest in goose hunts - we still have dates available for the last two weeks of December - NOW IS THE TIME TO BOOK!
We continue to experience less than ideal waterfowl weather. The migration has been slow to start with the warm daytime temperatures last week approaching 80F. Still, we have a good amount of birds in the North and Central parts of the State and the beginning of the season should hold promise of great hunting to be had. Snow goose numbers just have not materialized as yet, although we have seen several flocks. We recently hunted in upper NY State and the place is just loaded with Canada geese - they should be on our doorstep very soon! Read More...
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Here in NJ, guides Larry Van Kirk and Dave LoBuono combined with their fathers on the last day of the Sept season to put an impressive bunch of birds on the ground while I was away in Florida this past weekend. With the cold front that passed on Friday evening, Saturday provided them with several flocks of migrators and local birds in a recently cut field of corn. As yet, I personally have not seen or heard migrating birds and I would attribute this to the exceptionally high temperatures. We still have about six weeks before the start of the Nov migratory season, but by then I anticipate that bird numbers here in Northern and Central Jersey will be very good.
If you still have aspirations of a hunt - now is the time to consider booking! Don't delay, before you know it - the migration will be on!
