Welcome to Eastern View Outfitters “Success afield is our business.” Eastern View Outfitters LLC is a Fully Licensed and Insured Outdoor Guide Service specializing in Guided Duck & Goose Hunts in NY, Spring Turkey Hunts, Guided Pheasant hunts, Fishing Charters, Bow-fishing Trips & ECO-Tours in NY & VT on Lake Champlain.
Eastern View Outfitters LLC is a professional, year-round hunting & fishing guide service. EVO was established in 2009 and is a Full-time, 7 days a week Guide service, which is very important when searching for Guide services. EVO has become a brand in the Northeast you can trust to get the job done! The professional Guides are here to work hard for our guests and create a safe & successful experience. Please follow the Facebook and Instagram accounts to see results!
EVO’s homebase is centered in Plattsburgh, NY adjacent to the world class Lake Champlain region fishery. We have access to some of the most productive farmland and water the Northeast has to offer. The Lake Champlain Valley is a rich and fertile landscape that provides habitat for large populations of waterfowl species, deer, wild turkeys and large gamefish! Lake Champlain is also rated as one of the best bass fisheries in the country by Touring Bass Pros! The lake is settled between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains in New York. The region has a plethora of outdoors activities available and lots of fun Inn’s and B&B’s to explore making it a great place to vacation for all types of folks.
The business has grown to be one of the busiest and most diverse Outdoor Guide services in New York state! Owner, Bryce Collins still guides personally and he has hand picked some of area’s top Guides to become part of a growing team. Guiding well is an extremely team oriented endeavor with lots of work behind the scenes. Captain Bryce and the EVO Guides have a wealth of experience hunting and fishing across much of the Northeastern portion of the United States. We work extremely hard for our guests and hold very high standards on our trips. We want our guests to be successful more than you can imagine. EVO has an amazing team who all have the same collective goals in mind… to provide the best possible outdoor experiences at a fair price.
Eastern View Outfitters provides Greater Snow Goose Hunts in New York. We offer both Fall and Spring Hunts from October to April. Our hunts are conducted in Traditional Staging Habitat and Resting areas within the Atlantic Flyway. These areas are the traditional regions used by migrating Snow Geese year after year. We hunt Snow Goose on thousands of acres of private farmland in Upstate New York. Our Atlantic Flyway, Greater Snow Goose hunts are strictly fair-chase, no feeders, or farm raised birds…
There is nothing more magical than watching a flock of thousands of migrating Greater Snow Geese circle down into the decoys. This is a spring spectacle which is unrivaled! Our Guides and Experienced Retrievers will be sure to make sure you have an enjoyable stress-free Greater Snow Goose hunt! Our knowledgeable guides will be happy to answer questions and put your group in the best possible position to be successful. Snow geese are the most wary and difficult bird in North America to decoy consistently. Decoy spreads numbering in the thousands are the common place to entice and lure huge migrating flocks within shotgun range. A lot of snow goose success has to do with the weather–unfortunately this is one factor we can’t control. Rest assured we will do everything in our power to make sure you are on birds during your trip with Eastern View Outfitters.
Our guests can expect the hunt preparation to start in the pre-dawn hours; where they will meet their guide, sign waivers, settle up balances and go over what they can expect for the day. Our guides will then accompany you in the field before first light and help you lure these wary Greater Snow Geese into shotgun range using a top of the line decoys. This is hunting and we highly recommend a 2 day hunting trip when hunting any waterfowl especially Greater Snow geese. This allows you have the best possible chances at harvesting waterfowl and experiencing a huge shoot.
This is an on the X style hunt and we will be setting decoys together with clients as a team on a scouted agricultural field that the geese have been feeding in days prior to your arrival. Hunting snow geese is a team effort and this requires everyone to pitch in during the Fall hunts to set up and pick up decoys for the hunt. We will very often have some helpers who will be there to lend a hand with the workload of setting sometimes in excess of 1000 decoys… extra hands are often needed! Hunts are 1/2 day hunts and we will typically be out of the field at 12 noon. Guides will then scout and let the birds rest and feed un-pressured in the afternoons. We can often take both Canada geese, Snow geese & Ducks in the field during the same hunt. When booking be sure to ask about the best times to come for Fall Canada/Snow/Duck combo hunts.
No other time of the year is quite like the action that can be seen on a Spring Snow Goose Hunt! Greater Snow geese have wintered in the typical Delaware/Maryland area and have now started forging North towards their breeding grounds in Nunavut, Canada. We will essentially set a trap and intercept large groups of Migrating waterfowl on a daily basis. It is a migration based hunt and we will often have thousands of birds migrating through the area each day of the snow goose hunt. With a migration style hunt the success of the hunters is largely in the hands of “Mother Nature, with one day drastically different from the next. This is why we hunt a Full day…. with the middle of the day often times being the most productive times of the day on the classic days when geese are migrating northward. With all this being said please book 2-3 days and give yourself the best chances for success. You have already invested the time and money to come hunt what is an extra day or two… This is not me trying to sell you an extra day… This is me trying to make sure you are happy. This hunt differs from the Fall hunts in that all the decoys will be set up for you ahead of time. The group will be required to provide some help to the Guide with maintenance of the spread during the hunt. Like dusting some snow off the decoys or straightening up a couple leaning decoys etc. before and during the hunt if you are physically able. Hunts are conducted out of either white suits laying out amongst the decoys on padded backrests or from custom A-frame style blinds built for comfort on the coldest of days. These A-frames are a sit and stand to shoot style wing shooting opportunity and perfect for the older gentlemen and bigger guys. No offense guys. I am in my 30’s and enjoy sitting in the A-frames!! Please book well in advance and request the A-frame when booking the hunt. The white suit style hunts are very different and we will hide among the 4-5 thousand decoys we set up to lure the snow geese into range. We will break for lunch quickly and all Spring Snow Goose hunts have a hot meals delivered for $10/meal from the Homestead Restaurant in Plattsburgh, NY if you desire. We will put an order into the restaurant and you will pay the delivery person upon arrival. After the hunt we will clean birds at the trucks and the Guide will take all carcasses to dispose of properly.
$250 per hunter/day for Groups of 5 or less
Waterfowl & Pheasant Package
All Fall Waterfowl hunts from September through January can be combined with afternoon pheasant hunt packages.
Eastern View Outfitters provides exceptional opportunities for Puddle Ducks, Diver Ducks, Canada Goose and Snow Goose Hunts during the Fall Season in the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain Region. We have opportunities from September until April to hunt a variety of Waterfowl species from Canada Geese and Greater Snow geese in dry fields. To hunting Dabbler ducks and Diver Ducks. Dabbler ducks you are likely to encounter are Mallards, Wood Ducks, Black Ducks, Green Wing Teal, Widgeon, and Gadwalls. Diver duck species we regularly see are Common Goldeneyes, Greater Scaup aka Bluebills, Buffelheads, Ringnecks, Longtail aka Old Squaw and the occasional White wing scoter. We are located in Plattsburgh, NY on the shore of Lake Champlain and a prime migration corridor in the Atlantic Flyway. We offer our guests some of the first chances at migrating waterfowl in New York State as they leave Canada. Our waterfowl hunts are conducted in traditional Staging Habitats and Resting areas in the Atlantic Flyway that migrating waterfowl use year after year. These areas are fertile agricultural regions, swamps and marshes that are traditionally used by migrating Ducks, Canada Geese and Snow Geese year after year. We hunt on thousands of acres of private farmland. We are strictly fair-chase, no feeders, or farm raised birds.
There is nothing more magical than watching a flock of Ducks lock up into the decoys, or a group of huge Greater Canada Geese work the spread feet down in your face! Fall Snow geese–We got them! We hold the only truly reliable Fall Greater Snow goose hunting in NY from October to December. Call and schedule your hunt at the best time of the season for what you are after. Our Guides and Experienced Retrievers will make sure you have an enjoyable stress-free hunt! Guides are glad to answer questions and provide details about calling and setup strategy to help you be a better Waterfowl Hunter!
Our guests can expect the hunt preparation to start in the pre-dawn hours. You will meet your guide and go over the strategy and what you can expect for the day. Our guides will accompany you in the field before first light and help you call in the Waterfowl. When the Ducks or Geese come into range our Guides will call the shot, instructing all the hunters to take aim and make a pile! Some days hunters that are physically able will be asked help Guide with setting out or picking up the decoy spread. This is a team effort and all part of the hunt. The hunt will conclude when limits are reached or at 12 Noon. Our Guides will pick up the blinds and decoys to scout for the following days hunt. This also lets the birds rest and feed in the afternoons limiting pressure on them.
Hunts from September through mid April
$250 per hunter/day–mixed party hunts in size from 1-7 persons
$2000 per group of 8 hunters/day–Private party hunt
Waterfowl & Pheasant Package
*All September Canada Goose hunts–8 hunters are required to book an exclusive private party hunt if you have less than 8 hunters you will be combined into a mixed group of up to 10 hunters
All Fall Waterfowl hunts from September through January can be combined with afternoon pheasant hunt packages. New York in September is arguably some of the best and most action packed Canada Goose wingshooting in North America! With the high 15 bird bag limits per hunter and the legal use of unplugged shotguns, the potential for 100 plus bird days and consistent high volume gunning is not in short supply. Many of our guests have now started booking 3-4 days and well over a year in advance! There is no surprise that this is a high demand time of the year! Call as early as possible to reserve your hunts. We will fill up completely and turn away groups…
Eastern View Outfitters LLC Preserve has thousands of acres of privately managed ground ranging from picked agricultural fields, secondary growth pasture lands, to rolling meadows and mixed hardwood forests. This allows us to give our upland hunters a variety of challenging terrain to hunt upland birds in. We are only offering fully Guided hunts for ringneck pheasants at this time. Ringneck pheasants are some of the most beautiful of all game birds, a rewarding bird to pursue! We will be tailoring the hunts to parties of 10 or less persons. This gives each person plenty of ample shot opportunities in the group and safe hunting conditions. All non-member hunts will have a licensed NYS Guide on hand and a Gundog provided if your party desires and doesn’t have one of their own. The Gundogs will be provided for locating and retrieving the game birds your party harvests. We utilize both pointing dogs and flushing dogs depending on the cover we will be hunting. We also offer a Preserve Membership so please take a look at this value package. All memberships are the only self guided packages we offer. We only offer a limited number of Preserve memberships annually so plan ahead. Both Member and non-member hunts are certainly welcome to bring their own dogs on the hunt. Whether you own seasoned gun dogs or are introducing that young pup to the art of game bird hunting, we encourage you to come hunt our preserve. If your party has their own Gundog–the Guide will gladly sideline his dog/s to allow your dog/s exclusive hunting privileges. All bird cleaning is included in the non-member hunt price and the member hunts if they are fully guided. Gratuity is not included in the price on the fully guided hunts and is greatly appreciated by the Guide.
We are a Class A preserve and No hunting license or special permits are required to hunt Ringneck Pheasants at our preserve.
We only allow non-lead ammunition such as steel shot, tungsten or bismuth while hunting on the Preserve. This is an ECO-Friendly Preserve and there is no exceptions. We will have 12 gauge Rio Blue-steel shotshell ammunition available or you can plan ahead and bring your own favorite cartridge.
All non-member & member Pheasant hunts are offered either in the Morning or in the Afternoon. Morning hunts are scheduled from 9am-12noon and Afternoon hunts are scheduled from 1pm-4pm. All Preserve Membership holder hunts will be self guided unless you added the Fully Guided hunt. The Guide will will show you the hunt area where your party of up to 4 persons will hunt. Each non-member hunt will be accompanied by a Guide/s and a Gundog/s. Your Guide/s will go over basic safety rules and hunting strategy for the hunt. Your party will then follow your Guide and Gundog into prime Pheasant habitat and the hunt ensues! Watch the dog flawlessly work over the cover and habitat in search of the fast flying Ringneck Pheasants. Your Guide will know when the dog is on point or “birdy” and will instruct the group to pay special attention. The bird will flush and your group will take aim and harvest your game birds. If your party has their own hunting dogs the Guide will not hunt his dog/s and be there to help direct you to the areas you should work the cover over thoroughly. We do not shoot birds on the ground and all guests will abide by the “Horizon Rule” or the hunt will be terminated. This means if you can’t see blue sky below the bird please don’t shoot. Our hunting dogs are like our children. Hunts will have both hens and rooster pheasants and both may be harvested during the hunt. Both before and after the hunt member & nonmembers are required to check in and check out. After the hunt your Guide will take pictures and clean all your birds. You can add more birds or a Fully guided hunt with our dogs to the hunt if desired and scheduled 24 hours prior to the hunt. All Pheasant hunts can be combined with Fishing charter and Waterfowl hunting packages. When you schedule as combo trips you save your group money instead of booking separately.
Hunts from September through mid April
Eastern View Outfitters is located in Plattsburgh, New York, situated in the Champlain Valley, along Lake Champlain. We offer unmatched Spring Turkey hunts in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts & Maine from May 1 through early June. Hunts are conducted on thousands of acres of private farmland. The hunting grounds in NY are hugely agricultural with mixed forested areas between agricultural zones. The areas hunted in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine are largely forested tracts with smaller pastures, meadows and agriculture creating a mosaic of Eastern Wild Turkey habitat. These diverse habitats, plenty of land access and thorough scouting ensure our guests the best possible chances at getting their trophy bird! We are strictly fair-chase, no feeders, or farm raised birds… We offer the most exciting and action packed Spring Turkey hunting in New York & Vermont–with un-matched success rates! No other Guide Service in New York or Vermont Kills more Turkeys than we do!
Our business is built on return clients and we hold our repeat clientele for good reason. Our clients come as guests and leave as friends. We have maintained from the beginning a “hard work pays off’” mentality. We scout year round and scout daily during the season, making sure our guests are on birds each day of the hunt! And it shows!! We have nearly a 100% opportunity rate on all Turkey hunts and only take a high percentage of Mature Trophy Longbeards each year, leaving plenty of younger birds for the following Spring. We do not over book our season/properties and only offer a limited number of hunts each season. This population management and business strategy ensures our guests plenty of birds from the first day to the last day of the season! Scroll through our Facebook page…. We harvest birds from the first day to the last day of the season!! Statistically, our best scoring birds usually come middle to late in the season… Food for thought! So don’t worry about when your hunt is scheduled early or late in the season…. It does not matter, I promise! Come prepared, ready to hunt and realize we have the ground and the experience to be just as successful the entire Spring season. A true testament of any outfitter, their ground, their Guides and their work ethic!
Our guides are Licensed & Experienced professionals and they are glad to answer questions and provide informative details about calling and setup strategy to help you hone you skill set. We only use the best Guides in the Northeast–Masters of their craft! Some are decorated competition Turkey callers and others are seasoned & professional Turkey Killers! As I have heard someone say before “I only run with killers!” This pretty much sums it up! We have become the go-to Outfitter in the Northeast for many seasoned Turkey nuts like myself chasing the US Superslam. With a huge reference list and a great knowledge of what it takes to be successful I promise you will get the best possible chances while hunting with us. Booking multiple states to hunt in with us has become a common occurrence with many of our guests.
Reserve you hunts well in advance. We only book a limited amount of hunts each season to ensure our guests have a quality experience! No matter if you are here for opening day or the last day of the season, rest assured you will have birds to hunt! We book up almost a year in advance and have very limited availability due to repeat customers so call soon to reserve your hunt! We hope you do your research and then we are certain you will choose EVO for your next Guided Spring Turkey hunting experience! Check out a quick clip from a hunt with PA Wildlife Biologist Chris Miller, knocking off his 35th state in NY on his quest for the US Superslam featured below on our Youtube channel. Then check out the second clip, a hunt filmed by Tyler Breen in late May which ended in a double–Harvesting both gobblers in the same hunt! Make sure to click on the little asterisk symbol to watch both clips in HD!! Select the icon in the lower right corner of the video after starting it to play and then highlight the highest resolution, enjoy! “No Guide service in NY has higher Success rates on Spring Turkeys–You can take that to the bank!” Sincerely, Capt Bryce Collins
All hunts are 3 Day Regular Season Hunts in NY, VT, NH, ME, MA offered May 1st -May 31st
Birds are the responsibility of the hunting party. Birds will be processed back at the trucks by guests or your Guide who will process for a fee of $2/bird if you prefer. Guides will breast birds out and leave a wing attached for traveling back across state lines. All carcasses will be taken by the guide to ensure they are disposed of properly. Additionally, most of you will be most likely staying at the Comfort Inn and we do not want any bird cleaning bird cleaning done there.
Many people choose to relax and rest up for the following days adventure by seeing some of the areas scenic destinations like Ausable Chasm. If you enjoy tasting local Craft Beers and Wines. Check out Ausable Brewing Co, Valcour Brewing Company, The Oval Brewery and Plattsburgh Brewing Co located right in the same building as the Comfort Inn lodging. If Wine and Ciders are your thing– definitely check out Elf’s Farm Winery & Ciderhouse and Vesco Ridge Vineyards for a great Tasting experience. Recommended formal dining options are Anthony’s Restaurant & Bistro, Latitude 44 Bistro and for more casual Dining check out Mickey’s Restaurant and Our House Bistro. For those diehards who want to squeeze every bit of action they can into the day! Guests can take full advantage of our Blast and cast Package, the Waterfowl and Deer hunt Package and our Fishing and Bowfishing Combo Packages! While you relax and enjoy everything the Lake Champlain Region has to offer. Our guides will be out in the afternoons until dusk scouting birds for the following days hunt. If you decide to preserve your Trophy–we have an exceptional Taxidermist who we can put you in touch with if you plan to have the work done locally.
If you’re extending your vacation, don’t miss out on the rest of the Adirondacks and Northern New York!
Comfort Inn–Plattsburgh, NY
Our guests can take advantage of our Eastern View Outfitters reduced rates of $90/Night and stay at the Comfort Inn & Suites located at 411 Route 3 Plattsburgh, NY 12901. Comfort Inn & Suites rooms are equipped with 2 Queen size beds, high speed WIFI, Microwave and Fridge. Other amenities include an indoor swimming pool, fitness center , restaurant/bar, and free parking. It is also in close proximity to most of the shopping and dinning options in the area. Just call the Comfort Inn & Suites at 518-562-2730 and mention Eastern View Outfitters & Bryce Collins to make reservations at the Corporate Rates of $90/Night. We also have a couple contacts with homes for rent that sleep from 4-6 people starting at $200/night and we can provide their contact info upon requests. One of which is a beautiful cabin on a private lake very close to Plattsburgh, NY and the surrounding areas.
Other Lodging Options: We have a few options from homes and cabins for rent starting at about $200/night to local Inn’s and Bed & Breakfast’s that we can provide you the contact information upon request based on your needs. Some of these options can handle larger groups of up to 10 persons. Call Captain Bryce for more information.
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