Imagine relishing yet another special waterfowl hunt with your aging dad while also getting your hands on a white-fronted goose, also known as a speckle-bellied goose, with a band on one leg from early 2003.
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B.J. Pool, 43, experienced both highs on the last day of November near Whiteville in St. Landry Parish. The lifelong Lafayette resident’s emotions already were running high just getting out again with 79-year-old Gene Pool.
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The old banded speckle-bellied goose was the coup de grace. How old? The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ Coordinator for the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, Paul Link, confirmed it was the third-oldest banded goose on record being harvested after he got a call about the band from Pool…