Скачать или смотреть Hunting the marsh hen along the Atlantic Coast - Joe Guide Outfitters

Clapper Rail Hunting is done in the lowcountry saltmarsh by poling a light boat in the Spartina grass flats throughout a flood tide while the gunner sits in a chair in the bow of the boat. The guide pushes the boat through the saltmarsh during the incoming - flood tide and falling tidal periods.
There are three major Marsh Hen species that arrive throughout their fall migration along the Eastern Seaboard: Clapper, Virgina and Sora rails. Often referred to by guides as "rail birds" or "Marsh Hens," the limit on rails are quite generious with 15 Clappers or Virgina rails per hunter per day, and the limit on Sora rails are 25 per person per day. These rail birds species are best hunted only during very high tidal periods when the flood tide forces them from heavy cover. Rails fly much like quail and taste like quail. Marsh hens have been since 1933 the most "under hunted" migratory bird in North America.

Poling the boat is the legendary water-man, saltwater fly fishing and waterfowl outfitter & author - "Joe Guide" of Wilmington, North Carolina. He is one of the few guides in the Atlantic Flyway and America that guides for Clapper, Virginia and Sora rails.

There are normally only eight super high tidal periods during each month, and not all fall within a sunrise period, that equates to only 24 days when there will be a flood tide in which you can properly hunt marsh hens.

Book a Marsh Hen hunt with him via his website: [www.joeguideoutfitters.com].

You can find his saltwater flyfishing and travel book on the nine major redfish states in America on the website: (www.redfishonafly.com)