Waterfowl Hunting
Waterfowl HuntingWaterfowling is one of the major components of this guide service. The area in which we hunt spans from the northern portion of Lake Champlain in Vermont southward to the jagged islands of Boston Harbor.
The types of areas that we hunt include a wide variety of rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, salt marshes, agricultural fields, and the rocky coastline of the Massachusetts North Shore.
Hunting over decoys on land and water is our mainstay however we will also occasionally employ other techniques such as canoe float trips, sculling from sneak boats, or in tidal salt marshes, jump shooting from foot during lowtide hours.
The variety of wetlands here in New England can mean only one thing to a hardcore waterfowler or taxidermy buff, duck diversity! The species that we see on our hunting grounds include: green and blue-winged teal, american widgeon, mallards, black ducks, woodies, gadwalls, occasional eurasian widgeon, pintails, shovelers, ring-necked ducks, lesser and great scaup, common eiders, occasional king eiders, black scoters, surf scoters, white-winged scoters, harlequin ducks, long-tailed duck (formerly old squaw), common and barrows goldeneye, bufflehead, common merganser, red-breasted merganser, hooded merganser, ruddy duck, Canada goose, Atlantic brant, snow goose, and ross's goose! There have also been confirmed reports of fulvous whistling ducks and Barnacle geese!! New England is truly a waterfowlers dream! Join us for a hunt sometime soon!! Available dates are displayed in the "seasons and availability" section of this site.