Delmar Waterfowl Club - Delaware Canada Goose Hunting and Maryland Canada Goose Hunting

Maryland Canada Goose Hunting and Delaware Canada Goose Hunting

We will pursue Canada Geese by many methods. Members can choose from pits and A-frame blinds in both Maryland and Delaware. We are fortunate that the seasons do not exactly overlap and we can hunt several extra days according to the seasons. The club leases some of the very best goose fields in Maryland in such areas as Chestertown, Worton, Lynch, Langford, Centreville, Warwick and Cecilton. The Delaware farms on the east side of Dover are close to the Federal Wildlife Refuge of Bombay Hook and Little Creek Wildlife Area. Many of these are very large fields that attract dark geese all season long. (insert photo B - in next e-mail guy looking out of pit)

The club also has 30 Final Approach layout blinds for all the members to use in open fields, standing corn, impoundments in flooded corn or the freshwater ponds. Our goose hunting has been very good in past years. We plant all the impoundments in corn and leave standing corn in many of our fields. This provides a great location to hide, but an even better food source late in the year. (Insert Photo A Field with layouts)

We keep the full body decoys in several farm wagons to make hunting in Delaware a bit easier. We also have a 12, 14 and 20 foot enclosed trailers to take full-bodies to our Maryland property. Members can reserve the trailers. Several properties have shell rigs kept at various locations to further ease our hunts.

When practical, decoys will be located near the blinds for ease of access. You will have a choice between GHG and G&H shells, GHG & Bigfoot full body and Real Geese silhouette decoys. All of the full body decoys are flocked. Do not transport them by the heads. This will wear the flocking more quickly. Decoys do not get left out in a field or pond unless prior arrangements have been made.

Please hunt in groups. We will try to leave many of the fields available six days a week for AM and PM hunts. In order to rest these fields, make every attempt to hunt in small groups. The impact on the birds is the same with one or five guns. It is much better for all of us if five guys take one blind rather than the same number on five farms.

We should try to schedule our goose hunts for the morning and be out by 10-11:00 am. The fields need a rest. We try to scout our fields and hunt where the locations which the birds are using. We have enough locations that this is possible. In a sixty day season there are enough locations to hunt geese in a different field for every day of the season.

We will not have "blind" or "party limits." With the low two bird limits, pick your shot carefully. When your limit is reached, unload your gun. Please wait to finish a limit before you leave to help pick-up. This should not need mentioning. There will not be a morning limit and an afternoon limit. This is unethical and illegal.

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The Canada Big Rig

Each year, the club will select one field with a pit or A-frame blind(s), and set out 1,000 plus Canada goose decoys. The field will be one of the least used locations and close to the clubhouse. The goal is to create an easy to spread that is easy to hunt if a members wants to do a quick afternoon hunt or it is a day during the week, that few other members are hunting. The large number of decoys is necessary to compensate for leaving them out for the entire season. There are no reservations required and the blind will hold a large number of hunters. It has been our experience that the number of geese taken remains consistent through the entire season. Quality calling and the use of flags makes a big difference with this method of goose hunting. Above are pictures are of the 2005-2006 big rig that was located behind the clubhouse. Below are pictures from 2006-2007.