Mitchell, Roger & Kaelan have a great opening morning waterfowl shoot, followed up by Kaelan's dad and Tim Sandford, of Ole Smokes Coffee, filling the freezer with a couple meat bucks.

Claudio Ongaro and Ducks Unlimited Canada team up to deliver a LIVE hunt in the field with some informative segments where the experts deliver some important information

After four days of plummeting temperatures well below freezing even during the day and the roost water closing in on the birds with each passing hour, all we could do that night back at the lodge is hope the birds didnt decide to head south during the eve for our last hunt of the season. While ex...

Jason and I head out on a late season mallard hunt with three friends from British Columbia. I had spotted it a few days before when the snows, specs and ducks were all together. The bitter cold changed all that and moved the specs to warmer climates, the snows to one end of the massive field and...

Bitter cold rolled in fast and had most of the birds heading south despite the pandemics border closures. With Albertas Minister of Environment Jason Nixon scheduled to hunt with us along with Outdoor Quest TVs TJ Shwanky and Vanessa Harrop to film a show about a show, the pressure was on for Jas...

This hunt ended up far more complicated than it needed to be. On a normal day in the parkland the geese should have gone back to roost but on our spotting day they didnt. A big field with too many hills, potholes and bluffs kept the birds in it all day feeding heavily and moving off of the prime ...

On a hot day with a bad moon rising and the wind laying down I had the pleasure of hunting with ace shooter and President of the Alberta Hunter Education Instructors Association Bob Gruzecki, and Daryl on our buddy Jonathon's 1/2 section. It was great to have Bobs hunting wisdom with us blended w...

Claudio takes his girlfriend Lisa on her first ever fall waterfowl hunt. Decoy Wear Snow and Spec hoodies are put to the test alongside the Cabelas Layout Blind and it all comes together for one stellar hunt with the specs absolutely dancing on their toes. The Clones and Sillo-Socks coax the wary...

This week Marc McNay and Bill McKinstry are with the boys chasing more geese.

Jason and Claudio spot another clean Canada goose, spec, and duck combo for a sunny hot afternoon hunt. This time the specs were far less than cooperative; in fact they didnt even come to the party. The Canadas that came stayed! We managed another 5 man limit of ducks while having several ducks h...

Wow, the mallards gave it up on this smoker of an afternoon pothole hunt! It was a gnarly, nasty, flooded tangle, that was full of mallards using it to puddle, before feeding in the barley field the pond had been a part of since the ice age. 6 of us clamored our way through the tangled willows wi...

In this episode Claudio is reunited with Brad Johnston who was one of his first guides dating back to 1994. His experience, humor, wisdom and candor is always welcome at camp. Claudio's cousin Justin Ongaro also joins this fast-paced epic field duck hunt . Ongaros Random Tips to the Hired to Hunt...

Its definitely not business as usual for Claudio and the crew this year. Mornings are late and evenings are early! In this episode they hunt a pothole loaded with ducks. It's a classic no brainer pothole hunt, but with a front rolling through, it modified their mood just enough to make them work...

JayMo spots a clean combo with ducks, specs, and big honkers at the ready. We slide in for the afternoon hunt with two local lads and decided to set up the big bush given the conditions and flock composition. We laid out the Band Collector full bodies in our three-pod horse-shoe pattern, stabbed ...

Get ready for Season 7 of Hired to Hunt. With no clients to hunt with during the coronavirus pandemic Claudio and the guide gang spotted hard and hunted harder. This season was all about shooting our lanes, testing new equipment and chasing new techniques we dare not try with clients. Some worke...

Brad takes a group on a duck, snow and spec combo and has the hunters absolutely smothered in mallards. Although there are big flocks of snows to be chased during this tour they sure were jumpy. Claudio gets under a flock of snow geese and with a few wind related adjustments to the rig they had ...

Getting to the finish line each Weds and Sat is always full of trials, tribulations and challenges. During this tour Claudio, Mel and Brad capture the stage. Mel experiences drama while spotting and gets blobbed by his birds but still manages a great morning. Brad field hunts for ducks from the C...

We bounce between both lodges in Alberta and Saskatchewan again and although Claudio never managed to sit in with guest during this tour, it was as hectic as ever for him while his amazing Hired to Hunt Team got it done in the field!

Theres never is a dull moment at the Ongaro lodge! Even with 1000s of birds across the countryside, the morning spotting team must pick just the right hunt to finish a great day for the guests. With mornings not always going as planned, the afternoon teams can feel the pressure mounting, as the m...

The snows have arrived! Mel and Brad size things up on big snow, spec, and duck combos while Claudio watches a smaller hunt he pulls the pin on. Rain sets up Mel for a double hunt, while the rest of the team scrambles to get Brads hunters fed and over to Mel and bring Mels guys some hot food to t...

Mel and Brad set their sights on two great hunts and knowing the competition among the guides you can bet theyre both eager to deliver the best goods of the morning. Mel wraps up the specs and ducks fast, but has trouble with the snows. Brad matches Mels hunt, for an all-round great morning for t...

Claudio explains why Clone Decoys are an absolute beast of a secret weapon in your goose rig. Brad and Mel kick things off in the cold with two great spec and duck hunts. Mel falls short on his ducks so later that afternoon Claudio takes his group out to clean up a duck limit. It wasnt business a...

With 2 lodges hundreds of kilometers apart, Claudio leaves Alberta and flies to the Saskatchewan Lodge to say hi to Daryls crew and give them a hand. With great hunting and action at both lodges, this episode captures the essence of water fowling across the prairies simultaneously. Its all amazi...

Some days things just dont go our way. Brad struggles with one group in the morning, then Claudio takes them out in the afternoon to finish their ducks, and also hopes for a bunch of geese. Well t didnt end that way. Jason goes out in his usual fine form, cleans up what he needed to wrap up a pe...