Law Dog- I heard your "lake" was quite the later season mallard honey hole when it was a slough. I never hunted it but people from here used to drive out there in the 1970s and probably the early '80s or whenever it filled up.

People from here used to drive a lot to "the River" to hunt Canadians before the state agency started to reintroduce the "Giants" on the east side counties. I suspect few people drive out to the River to hunt geese anymore.

I only did it a few times but the most memorable one was the time a friend of mine took me to a little piece of state bluff land in Sully County and we pass shot them. I had never had the experience of geese being below me coming up the hill but with a 30 mph tail wind pushing them. That was a wild day.