Looking Ahead to Kaska’s 2025 Hunting Season

Kaska’s 2025 waterfowl hunting trips are starting to fill, however we still have a good selection of trip dates available. As of November December 4th, 2024 our trip openings are as follows:

Click to check our 2025 hunting package prices and availability.

If you are looking for an exceptional waterfowl hunting adventure, Kaska Goose Lodge should be at the top of your list. Hunters can take advantage of our $100 per person early booking / early deposit discount by booking their trip by December 31st, 2023.

2025 Sportshow Schedule

Kaska Goose Lodge will be exhibiting at three outdoor shows during January / February, 2025.  We invite you to visit us at one of these shows:

• January 17 – 19, Milwaukee All Canada Show – Brookfield Conference Center, Brookfield, WI
• Jan 30 – Feb 2,  Chicago All Canada Show – Kane County Fairgrounds, St. Charles, IL
• August 1 – 3, Ducks Unlimited Expo – Renasant Convention Center, Memphis, TN

We look forward to seeing everyone at the show in 2025 and talking about the great waterfowl hunting and fishing adventures Kaska Goose Lodge has to offer!

2024 Season

We flew into the lodge from Thompson on August 22nd & 23rd. The weather was good and we found the camp in good condition when we arrived – other than some vinyl siding that the black bears had torn off the front of the Ptarmigan cabin

Weather was good when we departed Thompson on Aug 22nd, but the weather deteriorated as we flew east over Hudson Bay until, about 10 miles west of Kaska’s runway, we had to turn around and head back to the west, landing at Nanuk Eco Lodge until the weather cleared sufficiently for us to resume our journey.

Our 2024 season was almost a repeat of both 2023 and 2022 weather-wise, as we experienced warm-to-hot weather throughout the season. The temperature didn’t dip below freezing the entire time we were at the lodge. This season is was common to have daytime highs in the 60’s and 70’s F – even reaching into the mid-80’s, with overnight temperatures staying well above 40 F for most of the season.

2024 was another excellent hunting season for ducks, with many groups limiting out on ducks.  The snow geese arrived earlier in 2024 than they had in 2023 with the first flocks of snows and blues passing over Kaska the first week of September.  These flocks were mainly non-breeding adults, with no juveniles or Ross Geese taken by our hunters.  Early September dark geese numbers were dominated by giant Canadas with lesser Canadas and Richardson geese taking over after mid-September.

This season the predominant wind direction was from the SW, which brought warm. sunny weather to Kaska for most of the season.   The migration ebbed and flowed, according to the wind direction.  When the winds became easterly the snows would take to the skies and we would see good numbers of geese in the skies above the lodge, but with south and west winds, they were content to sit, eat and relax.

On days when the geese were content to sit, guests using the helicopter to give them access to the areas near the lodge where the snows were congregating were generally more successful than the hunters choosing to hunt our island.

When the geese were migrating, guests hunting our island had good success.  The snows tended to stay near the coast and a couple of new blinds we built close to the coast on the east side of the island last season saw some good action from migrating snows, as well as dark geese.  The large,  “permanent” decoy set-up we have at blind #1 East near the lodge was consistent in attracting migrating snows.

This season also offered our guests and staff some truly amazing brook trout fishing, as water levels were low most of the season.

Nature-viewing opportunities abounded at Kaska, with black bears wandering through camp, a pack of Hudson Bay wolves (Canis lupus hudsonicus), being seen regularly by staff and guests near the lodge, as well as the airstrip.  Several polar bears were seen walking the beach, crossing our island from east to west, as they moved north, waiting for the sea ice to form.

With another hunting season behind us we are starting to look forward and plan for 2025.