Does anyone know of a guided hunt where I would have a good chance at a Red breasted merganser? I've done a lot of duck and goose hunting but I can't say that I've ever seen a red breasted mergie. I'm looking to bring one home for taxidermy. Thanks in advance for any help....
Down here in coastal Texas I mostly see hooded mergansers. This map shows them to be all over, but if there is big concentration of them somewhere, I don't know where it would be.
I hunted in Boston a few years ago and had my choice at a whole bunch of them. I got a real nice one without much effort. There are eleventy million of them on Lake Michigan in the spring while I’m chasing cohos. But obviously no season then. I personally haven’t seen any particular good ones on Lake Michigan in the fall but I’m sure they can be had, just not sure how well feathered they be.
Even if you get a bunch of them it's hard to find a good drake. I've killed them in very fresh water lakes but I see the vast majority of them just offshore to within a couple of miles inland...
It’s been a few years since I’ve been there, but there used to be a pile of red breasted mergansers on the eastern shore of Virginia at Chincoteague Island Cool place and they do have a few guides out there
