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.
These Kansas duck hunting packages are all-day or until duck limits are achieved. 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, Witchita, 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.
Carter’s Big Island Hunt Club Kansas duck hunts are all-day hunts as necessary, focusing primarily on over-water mallard hunting on family properties and managed habitats. For more information or to reserve your dates, contact Drake Carter at (620) 778-5480, email drakecarter5480@gmail.com or Roy Carter at (620) 232-4829, email roycbi@yahoo.com.
Kansas duck hunting at Carter’s Big Island Hunt Club is about November 6-January 2 and January 15-January 30 (per 2021-2022 Kansas duck hunting season).
$850/hunter/day Carter’s Big Island Hunt Club Kansas duck hunts.
$2,500 3-day Carter’s Big Island Hunt Club Kansas duck hunts.
A 50% deposit is required to confirm reservations. BALANCE DUE ON OR BEFORE OCTOBER 1 OR DEPOSIT MONIES FORFEITED. All forms of payment accepted. Cancelations forfeit deposits.
A maximum of 7 duck hunters per team.
Includes professional guide services for all-day duck hunts or until limits achieved.
Lodging and meals not included, but are available nearby. Gratuities should be paid to guides after hunt. Bird processing available ($10 per).
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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, Witchita, Kansas (all about 2 hours away) and Joplin, Missouri (about an hour away). Hotels and restaurants are available locally.
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.
NR Hunting License ($97.50), Kansas Waterfowl Stamp ($10), HIP, Federal Stamp ($25). Available online or at a nearby Walmart.
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.
Drake Carter @cbihuntclub on Instagram
Roy Carter @roycbi on Instagram
Trey Crawford 501-920-4825
Barney Calef 319-573-5875
Ramsey Russell 601.214.9737
Carter’s Big Island Hunt Club Kansas Duck Hunting features all-day hunts as necessary, focusing primarily on mallard hunting over water. Managed habitats on family properties. For more information or to reserve your dates, contact this outfitter directly.
Roy Carter at (620) 232-4829, email roycbi@yahoo.com
Drake Carter at (620) 778-5480, email drakecarter5480@gmail.com
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