Delmar Waterfowl Club - Delaware Duck Hunting and Maryland Duck Hunting

Delaware Duck Hunting and Maryland Duck Hunting

Duck hunting makes up the backbone of our club. My commitment is to lease quality properties, actively manage the opportunities, and provide the best equipment for the ultimate, season-long experience. The club’s members are happy hunters, and the new additions have joined through the best kind of referrals - word of mouth.

All members have access to every property leased by the hunting club. To better manage the land and ensure everyone's safety, duck hunting locations will be reserved the night before. Each group decides what and where they would like to hunt. This information will need to be reported, as early the day before as possible. Many members select one of the blinds on the schedule forum and open it up to any members willing to join them for the day. This has been a great way to build the club concept and meet other members. We believe in equal access and "spreading the wealth" during the season, so every group will have the same opportunities for awesome hunting!!!

All of the duck hunters work long hours before the season starts to help manage the land secured for hunting. Typical jobs to be done include planting, building and brushing blinds, and preparing decoys. Once the hunting season begins, the rewards of a well-prepared blind site make it all worthwhile.

To help ensure the club’s success, I believe in cultivating good relationships with each landowner and/or farmer we are partnered with, and members of this club are expected to abide by our rules.

Prior to the beginning of hunting season, detailed maps are created for each property, as well as an overall map with each property highlighted. These are available on the members only portion of the web-site. Members also receive a packet that contains a release-of-liability statement, and permission slips for the properties, and membership rules. This is more completely detailed in the rules section of the site. All hunts are self-guided, so it is necessary to get our properties in the early season work days to see the blinds.

DelMar prides itself in providing excellent duck hunting in Delaware and Maryland. Our duck blinds consists of 3 man to 5 man blinds located on impoundments, freshwater ponds, tidal marshes and saltwater creeks/rivers. All duck hunts end at eleven am to allow birds to rest and feed. Additionally, several of the better properties are only hunted two days per week to ensure quality hunts through-out the season. This ensures that your next day hunt will be as good as possible.

Our best puddle duck blinds are located on our three private ponds or when the weather cools off, a few adjacent fields where the ducks feed on Corn and Soybeans. The Goose hunting in our area is spectacular, and the duck hunting can be too, but is much more dependant upon weather conditions. We have not had a need to limit individuals in these blinds other than a number of days per week.

It takes hard work, determination and patience to develop an exceptional hunting club. That is what DelMar is all about and what I look for in prospective members. So put some fun into your hunting and hunt with us.

Sometimes We get stressed from the competition of everyday work and need time to wind down. This is where I feel hunting can be a real stress reliever. It's often not the hunt, but the Spirit of the Hunt, that we need to think about. We have the companionship of fellow hunters and the beauty of nature surrounding us. There is something about that pre-dawn excitement, with the sounds of mallards, that makes a hunter smile with anticipation of the day ahead.

Whether hunting with friends, a son, a daughter or a father, just being out in the field with them is what hunting is all about. Our mission at Delmar is to give all hunters the opportunity to have a great hunt.

Waterfowl hunting is exciting, frustrating, tiring, but most of all fun. There are a few hunters, who no matter how many ducks or geese they shot were not happy because they did not "get their limit." Our members have many alternatives and chose Delmar because they appreciate the extras in the club concept.