Awesome Duck Hunting Adventures with Schultz Sportfishing

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   We offer fully Guided Late Season Duck Hunts on Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the Niagara River during our split season in late December-January. These Hunts consist of Fantastic shooting over decoys for Old Squaws, Scoters, Buffleheads, Whistlers, Mergansers and the occasional Mallard or Bluebill. The shooting can be fast and furious with typically 100-125 shots fired daily and some days many more! These birds are very tough and deceivingly fast fliers. If you haven't experienced this type of hunting, I highly recommend spending a day at the practice range. It can be very humbling and frustrating when the misses start to add up!
I also recommend using 10 or 12 gauges with 3 or 3 1/2in mags in 6 - 2 shot (Bismuth, Hevi-shot or Tungsten alloys best or at least high velocity steel shot) and BRING AT LEAST 3 BOXES OF SHELLS PER PERSON! After you limit out with your 6 birds, run out of shells or your shoulder gets sore, there is awesome Steelhead, Brown and Lake Trout fishing on the Niagara Bar and Niagara River to round out your adventurous day. We call them CAST-N-BLAST trips and they're a Blast!
The rates for these trips is $350 a day (6 hours) for 2 people, $450 for 3 people. Three is the maximum number of Hunters per boat for safety, although we can arrange for larger corporate groups, family or club outings. We work with a group of the best guides anywhere to ensure you have a great time with lasting memories that will have you anticipating your next Adventurous Trip with us!

Featured in Peterson's Hunting Magazine in October 2006 issue
"Landmark Long-tails" by TR Hendrick

Note: You need to have: warm WATERPROOF CLOTHING (recommend dressing in layers), a NY Hunting License, a Federal Duck Stamp (make sure it's signed!), a back tag holder, a duck plug in your gun, use only non-toxic shot and a NY fishing license, if you are going to fish. You also have to register (free) with the New York Harvest Information Program (HIP#) call 1-888-427-5447 We don't supply guns or ammo. It's also advisable to bring hearing protection.
Note to Canadian Hunters: You must obtain an ATF Form 6 Permit to import your firearm into the USA. For additional info and forms see: www.atf.gov

January 12th, 2008 As another Duck Season comes to an end again with mixed emotions. Some of which was disappointment, with such wild weather (several days of 50+mph winds to dead calm, temperatures from 20 degrees to a record of 61 another day) that limited the number of days being able to get, then there was all the muddy water and no more hunting for another year. But, overall it was a great season with tons of fun, a good number of Old Squaws around most days that led to 96 birds harvested in 8 days! Being patient was the main reason for the great success this season. Letting the birds at marginal distances (40-45 yards +) fly by and waiting for the birds to come into the decoys or at least come in at under 40 yards really makes for a productive, rewarding and fun day on the water. This also leads to less lost birds with only 19 cripples. As usual there some great shots made but also way too many missed cake shots. But, that's why it's called Hunting and not just shooting or killing!

January 9th, 2007 Duck Season ended on a good note with a lot of fun and some great shooting with the Long Tailed Ducks (Old Squaws) decoying very well. Unfortunately, most of the season was tough because of the high winds making Lake Erie & Lake Ontario very rough and muddy as well as the extremely warm temperatures in the 40's to mid 50's daily. We finished the season with 62 birds in 9 days despite losing 19 cripples. There were a ton of Old Squaws around at season's end and receiving very little hunting pressure because of the weather should equal a great season next year!

January 9th, 2006 The Duck Season ended on the slow side, but there were a ton of Old Squaws and Scoters still around. They had just become very wary, not wanting to decoy hardly at all and flying well out of range around the boats. This is a direct cause of a number of boats continually sky blasting at them at when they are way out of range. This shooting at 50-80+ yards has got to stop, all it does is educate the birds and lead to a bunch of cripples, its hard enough cleanly killing them at 40 yards and under! The weather was another big factor with North/Northeast winds most of the season, making the Lake rough most days and moving the birds well into Canada. In 12 days of hunting my clients killed 81 birds and unfortunately lost 37, the rough waters on the Lake made recovery difficult by making it hard to see the downed birds as well as getting to the birds towing your decoys. Although there were some great shots made, there were still a lot of missed easy shots that led to a frustrating season for me. But it's still awesome to watch the Old Squaws and Scoters work the decoys and I can't wait to next season!

Pheasant Hunts at Tails & Feather Bird Hunting Preserve
They offer guided and non-guided fair chase Pheasant, Chucker and Quail hunts September 1st - March 31st on their preserve. Contact Ken Klino 716-471-1524 for rates and info. We are working on a package trip to include a bird hunt and Trout & Salmon fishing to make for the Ultimate Weekend for Adventurous Outdoorsman. NOTE: No hunting license in required when hunting on this preserve.

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