Maine Duck Hunting and Goose Hunts

Guided Maine Black Duck hunts

According to Ducks Unlimited The highest breeding densities of the American Black Duck are found in Maine and Nova Scotia. American black ducks utilize a variety of habitats for breeding, such as coastal saltwater marshes, acid bogs, lakes, stream margins, fresh, and brackish marshes. Every Late November through the month of December when the inland waters freeze the Maine Black Ducks will flock up by the hundreds on Maine’s beautiful and rugged coastal bays and saltwater marshes joining the already large resident population of Maine saltwater Black Ducks along Maine’s coast to put the feed bags on!

Mallards tend to stay away from the saltwater lending itself to more pure bread American Black Ducks then inland freshwater habitat that can have a higher population of Mallard/Black Duck hybrids.

Is it the saltwater itself, the saltwater invertebrates that the Maine Black Ducks are eating, the lack of Mallards, the frigid North Atlantic saltwater, or maybe all of the above that makes these Maine Saltwater Black Ducks seem just a bit bigger and blacker than average? Whatever it is, it seems to work, and these Maine Black Ducks have just a simple beauty that can’t be beat!

If you have never had the opportunity to hunt Black Ducks and or you have never hunted saltwater or tidal Black Ducks before then you are in for a treat on one of our guided Maine black duck hunts! This is hunt that will check off the Black Duck for you if you’re trying to achieve the North American 41 waterfowl slam or if you just looking for a Maine Black Duck guide that hunts them in a beautiful unique location!

Our Maine black duck hunting guides will safely get you to one of Maine’s tidal water ledges where you will sit (or stand if you like) in wait for the USA’s first sunrise of the day to show its first light over our up-to-date modern black duck decoy spread. The ducks will start flying, the lab will be at the ready, as these Big Maine Black Ducks come in low and straight or parachute in over large Maine white pines into to the decoys, and you take aim! Often time regular diver ducks can be taken at the same time if you choose to do so!

Come try a fully guided Maine Black Duck hunt with us!

*Black Duck limits have been increased to 2 ducks per hunter!

Guided Maine Mallards & Wood Ducks

Come hunt fall (Oct-Dec) resident and migratory Maine Mallards and Wood ducks on our backwoods bogs, meadows, lakes and rivers!

Our guides will have you hunting from blinds set up over our spread of decoys waiting for those early morning ducks coming into the decoys fast or cupped up while our guides call (if you choose to call, we absolutely support that) and our labs sit at the ready as the words “Take ‘Em” are spoken and the shooting begins!

Guided Maine Duck Hunting Pricing:

$475/per hunter/per day that includes just the guided hunt. (*price for puddle & Regular divers not sea ducks)

American plan: 3 days guided hunting, 3days/nights lodging, fresh continental breakfast, lunch (w/hot homemade soup or chowder & dessert to accompany it), transportation, bird cleaning, and taxidermy prep. (Taxidermy services offered at extra charge) for $1800/per hunter

(*Diver ducks can be substituted at No additional cost. Sea ducks not included)

Canadian Goose Hunting

Our Goose hunts take place in September over large agricultural fields here in Maine

Our September limit is 8 gees per hunter.

Maine is located so far north there will often be both resident and migratory geese coming into our spreads over our modern, well kept, decoys.

You will be in comfortable our modern up to date blinds while your guides focus on calling the geese in to the X. You love calling too? No problem at all, we welcome it, it’s all part of the Maine goose hunting experience!

Our MEGS goose guide Team puts a lot of time and effort into your safety, daily scouting, decoy/blind set-up, and getting the gees to come on to the X so that you can have a great carefree Maine goose hunting experience!

Pricing:

These hunts are 3 days long and only require a Maine 3-day small game license ($50), Maine waterfowl endorsement ($7.50), and your Federal duck stamp.

The price is $300/day per hunter.

We can recommend good lodging and meals in the area if you’d like.

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