CBI Kansas "Gold" Waterfowl Hunts
Up to 14 Guests
About
Experience some of the best duck hunting in the world, right here in Kansas, at Carter’s Big Island Hunt Club! This is over-water Kansas mallard hunting at its finest.
The Gold Package:
Depending on the hunting situation, blinds vary from spacious Koehler and Concealed Comfort pit blinds to Osceola skid blinds and Blindspot Outdoors LLC blinds, sometimes simply hugging a nearby pin oak. Most hunts are conducted over water in Flooded Timber, Corn, Milo, various Millets, shallow water Soybeans, Buckwheat, Rice and various desirable Aquatic vegetation species, Oxbows, and even River Hunting. We use large decoy spreads with plentiful motion, but we will move to dry-field set-ups as duck movement dictates. We own and manage these spots year round, strictly for waterfowl. Our pricing reflects the time and effort put in year round to manage our land and provide the best habitat possible for wintering waterfowl....specifically Mallards!
Carter’s Big Island Kansas duck hunts take place in the morning or sometimes the afternoon depending on how birds are moving, focusing primarily on over-water mallard hunting on privately owned and intensively managed duck properties that are home to Kansas’ largest flooded green timber area.
We run groups of 7 maximum, so any group larger than that will be split up.
Rules
Lodging and meals are not included. Hotels and restaurants are available nearby.
Guests meet their guides well before shooting time and follow them to the hunting location about 15-20 minutes away. Guide-staff deploy the decoys while clients relax and get settled in.
Maximum party size: 7 hunters. Any party with 5 or more hunters guarantees your own blind, parties with less than 5 may be joined by another party of 1-3.
We do offer bird cleaning for $10/bird.
Getting There
Kansas Duck Hunting at Carter’s Big Island Hunt Club Carter’s Big Island Hunt Club is located in in southeastern Kansas, near St. Paul. Nearest commercial flight services are located in Kansas City, Missouri, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Wichita, Kansas (all about 2 hours away) and Joplin, Missouri (about an hour away). Hotels and restaurants are available locally.
What To Bring
Kansas Duck Hunting at Carter’s Big Island Hunt Club Warm waders and waterproof parka, face mask or paint, base layers, gloves, headlight, shotgun, non-toxic ammo, blind bag. Warm boots and bibs are perfect for most hunts. Ice chest for beverages, game transportation.
Waterfowl Hunting Licensing Requirements (Available online or at a nearby Walmart)
- Kansas Duck Hunting at, Carter’s Big Island Hunt Club NR Hunting License ($97.50)
- Kansas Waterfowl Stamp ($10)
- HIP, Federal Stamp ($25)
Retriever Policy
Kansas Duck Hunting at Carter’s Big Island Hunt Club Obedient retrievers are welcome. Bring your retriever or hunt over your guide’s experienced lab.
Note: Only 1 dog per group is allowed to hunt at a time. Can rotate dogs between the hunt. So one dog could hunt half the day, another dog the remainder of the day. Discuss with outfitter before bringing.
A 50% deposit is required to confirm reservations. Balance due preceding your first hunt.
This outfitter currently has no lodging available.
Target species
Mallards
Pintail
Gadwall
Amenities
Bird dogs
Guided
Keep the meat
Private experience
Do your own calling
Kid friendlyTrip includes
Animal cleaningLocation
Saint Paul, Kansas, United States
Exact location provided after booking.
Kansas duck hunting at Carter’s Big Island Hunt Club is about 3 proven things: mallards, mallards, and more mallards. This is over-water Kansas mallard hunting at its finest. These southeastern Kansas duck hunts take place exclusively on private properties that have been in Carter family ownership many generations.
Carter’s Big Island Family Hunt Club began in 1986, with family duck hunting records stretching back to World War 2. To ensure attracting and holding plentiful Central Flyway mallards, they’ve intensively managed duck habitats since inception. Duck habitat types hunted include emergent and moist-soil wetlands, rivers, oxbows and desirable flooded grain-crops (corn, milo, Japanese millet, brown-top millet, golden millet and buckwheat). Following catastrophic flooding decades ago, Roy Carter figured that if he couldn’t beat the river he’d work with it, constructing levees and pumping water onto low-lying pin-oak flats for true green-tree reservoir duck hunting in Kansas. Nearby 4,500-acre Neosho Waterfowl Refuge, which was primarily designed and is managed to furnish a resting and feeding place for migratory waterfowl, and commercial feedlots compliment the Carter family’s Kansas duck hunting properties excellently.
Having hunted and guided Kansas mallard hunts on these family properties for nearly their entire lives, Roy and Drake Carter form a father-son team that knows how mallards will react to prevailing weather conditions better, maybe, than even the ducks themselves. Depending in the hunting situation, blinds vary from spacious Koehler and Concealed Comfort pit blinds to Osceola skid blinds, sometimes simply hugging a nearby pin oak. Most hunts are conducted over water using large decoy spreads with plentiful motion, but they’ll move to dry-field set-ups as duck movement dictates.
The Central Flyway duck limit is 5 mallards, 6 ducks total. Mallards are the biggies, but wigeons, green-winged teal, pintails, shovelers and occasional divers also taken.
Lodging and meals are not included. Hotels and restaurants are available nearby. Guests meet their guides well before shooting time and follow them to the hunting location about 15-20 minutes away. Guide-staff deploy the decoys while clients relax and get settled in. Maximum party size, 7 hunters.
Guests may fly into Kansas City, Missouri, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Wichita, Kansas (all about 2 hours away) and Joplin, Missouri (about an hour away), where they can then rent car and drive to lodge. But this excellent Kansas duck hunting package is easily within a day’s drive for most duck hunters living in the Continental US.
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