Del-Bay Guide Service – Snow Goose Hunting in Delaware & Maryland

Delaware & Maryland Snow Goose Hunting

Centrally located between the huge tidal marshes of southern New Jersey and endless cornfields of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Delaware winters close to 500,000 snow geese annually. Delaware is home to two major snow geese roosts- the 16,000 acre Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge (Kent County) and the 9,900 acre Prime Hook Nationals Wildlife refuge. (Sussex County) Combined these refuges host over 400,000 snow geese each fall. Both refuges provide large fresh water impoundments and tidal marshes for snow geese.

We currently lease over 30 farms in Kent and Sussex county. We have farms covering a large area both close to and farther inland from the refuges. Since we have hunted these areas for over twenty years, we have leased only the best farms used by wintering snow geese.

Our Decoys

Snow goose hunting requires a huge amount of decoys. We use mostly full bodies and some silo socks. More so than any other waterfowl, huge spreads of decoys are an important part to harvest snow geese.  Being on the ‘X” is most important but we have had a lot of good hunts (25-50 birds) just getting under the birds and hunting traffic. 200 decoys was deadly ten years ago but today 1500 – 2000 decoys are needed for those same results.

Customer Reviews

What an Awesome day!! I hadn’t seen my step-brother and cousin for several years. We got together for a snow goose hunt with DelBay Outfitters and boy did they deliver. They run a first class operation. We are so pleased we went with DelBay. Keep up the good work guys. See you next year!

Can’t Wait!!
Greg Clower

Online Licensing

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