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Intro to this species—landscapes, strategies, costs, and comforts.
Summary
The northern pintail is one of the most elegant ducks, recognized by its slender neck, long pointed tail, and graceful flight. Found in open wetlands and shallow ponds, pintails migrate long distances and are an early-arriving species in many flyways. They decoy readily but can be skittish, requiring careful setup and subtle calling. Hunters prize pintails for both their beauty and the challenge they present in pressured areas.
Explore HuntsHunt Features
Pintail hunts typically run from October through January, with timing and duration adjusted annually to match local migration patterns. Guided outings are kept small—often three hunters or fewer—to maximize field time and personalized attention. Hunts take place on private freshwater impoundments, coastal marshes, or large lakes, where shallow water and plentiful natural foods (wild rice, smartweed, duckweed) concentrate puddle ducks. Hunters deploy realistic decoy spreads (hand-carved cork and modern GHG rigs), mojos, and concealed blinds or natural cover, while experienced guides scout daily for optimal shooting opportunities. Early in the season you’ll encounter teal, wood ducks, and mallards; as temperatures cool, flocks of pintail, wigeon, gadwall, and occasional divers arrive. Fully guided packages generally include all necessary gear, boats or blinds, trained retriever dogs, field dressing, and post-hunt processing, ensuring a seamless and action-packed waterfowl experience.
Explore HuntsAmenities
Pintail hunts are most often offered as day-hunt packages, so overnight lodging and meals are generally not included—you’ll typically return to your own accommodations each evening. For itineraries that span multiple days, some outfitters partner with nearby lodges, providing private rooms with beds, modern climate control, and full meal service. Regardless of the format, all hunts focus on well-equipped blinds and boats for efficient, comfortable field operations, while heating and cooling amenities are available in the select lodge-based options.
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Puddle Duck Hunting in CT With Expert Guide - Half Day
The opportunity to harvest these birds starts in October and goes through to January, however, their migrations through New England differ significantly and vary annually depending on climate and weather. This, ultimately, results in optimal time intervals to hunt each species.
Maximum of 3 persons per guided trip.
Connecticut
Duck
Mallard
Black Duck
Wood Duck
Green-Winged Teal
475
Justin Leonhardt Outdoors
Fair Chase
Public
None - Day Hunt
No
Unspecified
Unspecified
Meals Not Provided
Unspecified
475
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Puddle Duck Hunting in CT With Expert Guide - Half Day
The opportunity to harvest these birds starts in October and goes through to January, however, their migrations through New England differ significantly and vary annually depending on climate and weather. This, ultimately, results in optimal time intervals to hunt each species.
Maximum of 3 persons per guided trip.
Connecticut
Duck
Mallard
Black Duck
Wood Duck
Green-Winged Teal
350
Justin Leonhardt Outdoors
Fair Chase
Public
None - Day Hunt
No
Unspecified
Unspecified
Meals Not Provided
Unspecified
350
North Texas Day Hunt - Duck
North Texas Waterfowl’s fall duck hunts are a great opportunity to hunt some of the best locations in Texas! Our North Texas guided duck hunts book quickly, so call today to make your reservation.
Whether you are looking to puddle ducks or diving ducks, we have the perfect trip for you. You will find that all of our duck hunting equipment is the best on the market and our guides will go the extra mile to ensure that your group has a great time hunting. We only take out one group of hunters each day, so your group will have our exclusive attention!
North Texas Waterfowl provides all of the equipment decoys, dogs, etc. We scout our various properties daily to ensure that our clients have ample birds and shot opportunities for a successful duck harvest. All of our duck hunts are fully guided.
Texas
Duck
Mallard
Blue-Winged Teal
Green-Winged Teal
Wigeon
300
North TX Waterfowl
Fair Chase
Private
None - Day Hunt
No
N/A
N/A
Meals Not Provided
Unspecified
300
Includes Dogs
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Puddle Duck Hunting in CT With Expert Guide - Half Day
The opportunity to harvest these birds starts in October and goes through to January, however, their migrations through New England differ significantly and vary annually depending on climate and weather. This, ultimately, results in optimal time intervals to hunt each species.
Maximum of 3 persons per guided trip.
Connecticut
Duck
Mallard
Black Duck
Wood Duck
Green-Winged Teal
350
Justin Leonhardt Outdoors
Fair Chase
Public
None - Day Hunt
No
Unspecified
Unspecified
Meals Not Provided
Unspecified
350
Central Texas Duck Hunt - All Inclusive - 2 Days / 2 Nights
It's hard to beat the excitement of a fun filled action packed brisk morning of Texas duck hunting. Most avid water Fowler's know that a good duck hunt depends on the alignment of several elements. Weather being one of the biggest variables that can determine the success of the hunt. Unfortunately we can not control the weather. But the availability of food and water to attract and hold migrating and wintering ducks are two very important elements that we do have control over. With the attraction of the water and food, knowledgeable and experience guides, comfortable and concealing blinds, well trained retrieving dogs any hunt could be a true mixed bag.
Texas
Duck
Blue-Winged Teal
Green-Winged Teal
Pintail
Mallard
1275
First Shot Outfitters
Fair Chase
Private
Lodge
Yes
Modern Climate Control
Bed
Meals Provided
Unspecified
1275
Includes Dogs
North Texas Day Hunt - Duck
North Texas Waterfowl’s fall duck hunts are a great opportunity to hunt some of the best locations in Texas! Our North Texas guided duck hunts book quickly, so call today to make your reservation.
Whether you are looking to puddle ducks or diving ducks, we have the perfect trip for you. You will find that all of our duck hunting equipment is the best on the market and our guides will go the extra mile to ensure that your group has a great time hunting. We only take out one group of hunters each day, so your group will have our exclusive attention!
North Texas Waterfowl provides all of the equipment decoys, dogs, etc. We scout our various properties daily to ensure that our clients have ample birds and shot opportunities for a successful duck harvest. All of our duck hunts are fully guided.
Texas
Duck
Mallard
Blue-Winged Teal
Green-Winged Teal
Wigeon
300
North TX Waterfowl
Fair Chase
Private
None - Day Hunt
No
N/A
N/A
Meals Not Provided
Unspecified
300
Includes Dogs
High-Quality Duck Hunting in New Jersey
Our fresh water impoundments have the two ingredients essential for great puddle duck hunting- shallow water and a variety of natural foods.These impoundments provide ducks with high quality natural foods-wild rice, duck weed, smart weed and duck celery. These impoundments are 60-100 acres which means there is plenty of food throughout the gunning season. We also plant some wild rice each spring. These large impoundments are also big enough for birds to loaf on all day long without being disturbed. Also our impoundments are far apart which means we are hunting different bunches of birds to help keep our hunting consistently good.
We like to use hand -carved cork decoys along with GHG decoys because of their realism and larger size. Most of the birds we are hunting travel in small bunches so 2-3 dozen decoys is plenty along with a few mojos when conditions dictate.
We take a large variety of puddle ducks over the course of the season on these large impoundments. In the early season, (Oct -Nov) we mainly take smaller ducks- blue-wing teal, green-wing teal, wood ducks and mallards. In the late season, (Nov-Dec) we take a larger ducks and variety- a few straggler teal and wood ducks but mainly mallards and gadwall and some days pintail, widgeon and shovelers. We also take some Canada geese when conditions are right.
New Jersey
Mallard
Blue-Winged Teal
Green-Winged Teal
Pintail
Gadwall
175
Kevin Popo Guide Service
Fair Chase
Private
None - Day Hunt
No
Unspecified
Unspecified
Meals Not Provided
Unspecified
175
Oklahoma Day Hunt - Duck
North Texas Waterfowl’s fall duck hunts are a great opportunity to hunt some of the best locations in Texas! Our North Texas guided duck hunts book quickly, so call today to make your reservation.
Whether you are looking to puddle ducks or diving ducks, we have the perfect trip for you. You will find that all of our duck hunting equipment is the best on the market and our guides will go the extra mile to ensure that your group has a great time hunting. We only take out one group of hunters each day, so your group will have our exclusive attention!
North Texas Waterfowl provides all of the equipment decoys, dogs, etc. We scout our various properties daily to ensure that our clients have ample birds and shot opportunities for a successful duck harvest. All of our duck hunts are fully guided.
Oklahoma
Duck
Mallard
Blue-Winged Teal
Green-Winged Teal
Wigeon
300
North TX Waterfowl
Fair Chase
Private
None - Day Hunt
No
N/A
N/A
Meals Not Provided
Unspecified
300
Includes Dogs
Duck Hunt on 1,000 Acre Private Florida March
Hunt our private 1000 acre marsh, or the scenic beauty of world famous Lake Okeechobee as you experience in your face duck hunting action! Experience breathtaking sunrises as an array of duck species come screaming into our decoys.
Pintails, Widgeon, Scaup, Ringnecks, Blue/Greenwing Teal, and Wood Ducks call Florida home during the long winter months. The Florida Mottled Duck, the Fulvous Tree Duck, and the Black Belly Whistling Duck all call sunny Florida home all year long.
Florida
Duck
Pintail
Wigeon
Bluebill (Lesser Scoup)
Blue-Winged Teal
200
Fox Brown Outfitters
Fair Chase
Private
None - Day Hunt
No
N/A
N/A
Meals Not Provided
Unspecified
200
High-Quality Duck Hunting in Delaware
Our fresh water impoundments have the two ingredients essential for great puddle duck hunting- shallow water and a variety of natural foods.These impoundments provide ducks with high quality natural foods-wild rice, duck weed, smart weed and duck celery. These impoundments are 60-100 acres which means there is plenty of food throughout the gunning season. We also plant some wild rice each spring. These large impoundments are also big enough for birds to loaf on all day long without being disturbed. Also our impoundments are far apart which means we are hunting different bunches of birds to help keep our hunting consistently good.
We like to use hand -carved cork decoys along with GHG decoys because of their realism and larger size. Most of the birds we are hunting travel in small bunches so 2-3 dozen decoys is plenty along with a few mojos when conditions dictate.
We take a large variety of puddle ducks over the course of the season on these large impoundments. In the early season, (Oct -Nov) we mainly take smaller ducks- blue-wing teal, green-wing teal, wood ducks and mallards. In the late season, (Nov-Dec) we take a larger ducks and variety- a few straggler teal and wood ducks but mainly mallards and gadwall and some days pintail, widgeon and shovelers. We also take some Canada geese when conditions are right.
Delaware
Mallard
Blue-Winged Teal
Green-Winged Teal
Pintail
Gadwall
175
Kevin Popo Guide Service
Fair Chase
Private
None - Day Hunt
No
Unspecified
Unspecified
Meals Not Provided
Unspecified
175
Puddle Duck Hunting in CT With Expert Guide - Half Day
The opportunity to harvest these birds starts in October and goes through to January, however, their migrations through New England differ significantly and vary annually depending on climate and weather. This, ultimately, results in optimal time intervals to hunt each species.
Maximum of 3 persons per guided trip.
Connecticut
Duck
Mallard
Black Duck
Wood Duck
Green-Winged Teal
475
Justin Leonhardt Outdoors
Fair Chase
Public
None - Day Hunt
No
Unspecified
Unspecified
Meals Not Provided
Unspecified
475
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