Mexico

Probably the greatest wingshooting destination in North America, Mexico offers an extension of the migration template for many of our waterfowl. Around 90% of North America’s redheads and a significant number of our pintails, all three teal, lesser scaup, gadwalls, and widgeon head across the border, utilizing the Laguna Madre as their winter home. We have been hunting in Mexico for many years and recently have settled on a couple of operations on the eastern side of the country and one specific spot near the west coast. In addition to the ducks, the skies are full of specklebelly, blue, snow, and Ross’ geese and sandhill cranes. We are also hunting the wild Bob White quail in the eastern area. Many of our clients enjoy the hunts for waterfowl, combined with hunting mourning doves and wild Bob White quail.

In the summer months, while many of our folks are looking forward to the waterfowl season, we offer outstanding white-wing dove shooting, often in combination with wild pigeons and an occasional Eurasian collared dove.

On the western edge of this broad country, both sides of the Baja area winter a huge number of ducks, although geese are scarce in this area. Pintails become the primary duck, mottled, Mexican ducks, and many more teal and divers than the eastern part of the country. The variety of waterfowl is impressive, and certainly the numbers. In addition to the waterfowl in the west, the area hosts white-wing doves, artful dodgers larger than our mourning doves but slightly smaller than a pigeon, larger wild pigeons, and mourning doves. In the west, combination shooting for both doves and pigeons is very popular. Most of our western hunts provide duck hunting in the mornings and dove shooting in the afternoons.

Laguna Madre – San Fernando, Mexico  -  

This huge estuary starts near Corpus Christi and is that body of water separated by a narrow strip of land from the Atlantic Ocean, running hundreds of miles deep into Mexico. The water is a great combination of fresh and brackish water, full of aquatic plants loved by waterfowl. We host our hunters at one of two well-appointed lodges in this area, providing private rooms to our hunters at one of the lodges. Both have open bars, pools, and high-class facilities. By boat, access to the hunting areas is operated by an experienced boatman who grew up in the area. Blinds are well-built, permanent blinds strategically placed either in the Laguna Madre or freshwater ponds in that area. We provide high-quality guns in 20 and 12 gauge, provided at no extra cost to the hunters. Most of our hunters are picked up from the airport in the US, along the Texas border, either Brownsville, Harlingen, or McAllen, escorted through Customs and Immigration and driven to the lodge. At the lodge, you will be met with icy margaritas and some of the tastiest snacks you’ve ever enjoyed. We’ll get you settled into your lodging and show you the pool, bar, and dining area, preparing you for your first dinner. After dinner, the plan for the following day will be explained, and you will be assigned to a guide or boat and be ready for your first hunt. At some locations, you will head to the dock to find your boat, and at others, you may have a van ride to the boat. When your hunt is finished, you will be driven back to the departing airport after being escorted through immigration. There are several pricing options for this outstanding venue, (1) $3250 for the duck, quail, and mourning dove combo, (2) $3500 for 4 duck hunts and 2 quail hunts, (3) $3750 for all quail, and (4) $4000 for all ducks.

Lake Huyaqui – Guasave, Mexico -  

You fly into Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, where you are met at the airport and driven to our lodge, right on the banks of Lake Huyaqui. The lodge sits at the edge of the lake, and you can sometimes watch the waterfowl swimming by while sitting in the dining area. There are eight individual rooms at this lodge, just a few steps from the airboat that will take you to your two-person blind. All the blinds are sturdy, wooden blinds perfected to provide excellent shooting for you and your partner. This is a fun area for ducks since you can ask to be in the best-suited area for pintails, or whistling ducks, or for Mexican ducks, and your host will make sure your wishes are satisfied. We shoot a high variety of ducks at this location, including pintails, gadwall, widgeon, fulvous whistling ducks, black-bellied whistling ducks, three teal, greater scaup, lesser scaup, shovelers, redheads, Mexican ducks (looks like an American black duck), and ruddy ducks. In February, these ducks are in peak plumage, ready for spring breeding, and it’s an excellent place to find trophy birds! The trip provides transportation from the airport, food and lodging, boats, guides, licenses and permits, and shotguns. It does not include airfare, shells, and tips. The cost of this three-day hunt is $2,800.