Hunting is a popular thing to do on Ocracoke, and participation is made easy through the guide services that will take you out for waterfowl. A type of blind that's only legal in Dare and Hyde counties, the sink box, is common for these hunting excursions.
Hunting in Ocracoke
Sign up for an excursion with Marcus Lawson to explore the sound waters in a 24-foot Carolina skiff, complete with all the equipment you need to gather clams and gig flounder. Ask him about his winter duck hunting trips as well.read more
Hunting in Ocracoke
Williams is a licensed hunting guide with more than 20 years of experience who has appeared in both Wildfowl and Carolina Adventure magazines. He transports hunters to curtain blinds or sink boxes, a type of blind developed on Pamlico Sound and legal only in Hyde and Dare counties. Reservations should be made before Thanksgiving, and packages including accommodations can be arranged. Guided waterfowl trips are in December...read more
Hunting in Ocracoke
Licensed guides Kenneth Tillett, Earl Gaskins and Earl’s son, Spencer Gaskins, have more than four decades of hunting experience, expertise and local knowledge. Tillett’s great-grandfather, Charlie McWilliams, and Earl Gaskins’ grandfather, Thurston Gaskill, both led parties for the legendary Green Island Hunting Club. Island Guide Services continues the tradition, offering stake and pit blinds, decoys and transport.read more
Hunting in Ocracoke
Fourth-generation island guide Wade Austin offers up to six hunters the opportunity to take aim at red heads, widgeons, pintails, blue bills, brants, geese, black ducks and more. Hunters are accommodated by either curtain boxes or stake blinds. Ocracoke Duck Hunting assures transportation to and from the blinds, furnishes decoys and can arrange for lodging. read more
Hunting in Ocracoke
Ocracoke Native Duck Hunting offers world-class curtain box duck hunting. Fifth-generation island guide Farris O'Neal is a U.S. Coast Guard–licensed captain with close to 25 years of duck-hunting experience on the Pamlico Sound. He transports hunters by boat to curtain blinds where they are placed at eye level with the water. All blinds are expertly set up with decoys to attract brant, pintail, red head,...read more
Hunting in Ocracoke
Ocracoke Waterfowl Hunting provides a unique site for waterfowl hunters. With 4’ X 8’ bushed blinds available, there is no better way to get close to the various types of waterfowl around Pamlico Sound. A duck boat is available as well. Native islander Monroe Gaskill, a licensed guide, has been showing hunters the best locations for more than 30 years, and hunting has been a part...read more
