Have any of your duck hunted in Canada?

Been several times. Great trip!
Just register firearm (online) and print out forms. Follow all directions and be nice (unlike typical Americans) and you’ll be fine

Nope but would like to. One of my uncles went with a hunting buddy of his down to Argentina to go duck hunt. They won the trip from a DU Banquet.

If flying into Saskatoon, fill out online, fax sheets to the customs office in Saskatoon. Pay $25.00 to register your guns. They will fax you back the completed registration.

Once you land and go to customs l, declare your gun and show them the registration form. Easy process and you don’t have to wait for all of the other hunters who did not pre register. There will be lots of US residents on your flight all going duck and goose hunting.

Yes. I fly into Saskatoon. Spend the night, out of dinner, hit Cabelas and then a 2 1/2 hour drive up to a small town called Lake Meadow the following morning. Duck hunt in the mid-afternoons and hunt geese in the mornings. We use layout blinds for both.

You are probably duck hunting with no water in sight in pea fields. It is a blast... just about all mallards but the greenheads aren't really green yet... just a hint of green on them. They will be decoying in by the dozens or hundreds into the field to feed. Ducks are more shooting than hunting. Duck limits are 8 each.

Goose hunting is really hunting because the canadians are pretty smart and wary. Most likely you don't need waders unless the guide service said to bring them. Rubber boots are probably fine but check. Layers of course. Weather changes fast and that wind is always trying to kick up that time of year.

You have good advice on the shotgun from some posters above. That is exactly what you need to do. You are going to have a blast. Great trip.

Did they run you off if landowners gave you permission? You hunt last year?

If you have ever had a dwi, make sure you get all of your paperwork straight well ahead of time. I had an employee that had a 10 year old dwi turned back at the border. It ruined his family trip.

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Any tips on what to bring

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Everything. The weather there in Sept can be crazy. Warm one day and below freezing the next.

Yea, I always talk about going early to shoot the big numbers but some how we always go October/November.

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Where will you be?

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We stayed in town the first year at an old hotel which was the best in town. I will put it this way... if you came back to the hotel and walked into your room with muddy boots they didn't care one bit. It was a place to sleep. After that we always stay on the lodge property because they added sleeping quarters for a group together. It's on 30 acres. The guide service is called Goosehaven and the owner is Lance.

All the guides and the owner live in Marlyand I believe. They only spend hunting season in Saskatoon. The only thing we hunted on their property and surrounding property were Chukar. You can do this on your own if you feel like getting out and walking around.

They have a great network of farmers within about 30 miles of Lake Meadow. They scout every day and the farmers also call them. I haven't run into another guide service up there but there probably is. Goosehaven seems to have the area pretty locked down. Even locals call them to get permission to hunt properties. They call the farmers and get permission and don't charge the locals anything to hunt. Part of keeping in good graces with the people that live there.

Every day "first nationers" (what they call the local indians or indigenous people) come to Goosehaven and pick up hundreds of ducks and geese and they haul it back to their people and distribute it among communities.