About Us Hi, my name is Daryl Stanley - my wife C.C. and I operate Stanley's Goose Camp. I grew up hunting and playing hockey in Manitoba and many other places in Canada and the United States. After a career in the National Hockey League I decided to get serious with my life - enough playing games you might say - and I started outfitting waterfowl hunters. That's right, I take hunting and guiding very seriously. Hunting has brought so many wonderful people into our lives over the past ten years that C.C. and I feel truly blessed. Our hunters are more than clients, we make a lot of great friends in this business. The great thing about this job is continuing to meet and talk to people that share the same interests as us. Stanley's Goose Camp (SGC) is located in the heart of the best waterfowl hunting in Canada - at least we think so. Oak Hammock marsh is the staging area for one of the largest concentrations of waterfowl in North America. Being born and raised here, and having hunted most of my life - I know the birds, their habits and their flight patterns. We have over 200 square miles of fantastic hunting country to operate in - much of it is farmed by old friends of mine. Our camp is easy to get to. Simply fly into the Winnipeg International Airport and we will pick you up. Driving is just as easy, we are located about eight hours north of Minneapolis. Hunters who drive can park in front of our lodge, right at our farm home. Our four-bedroom lodge accommodates two hunters per room and has all the conveniences, plus the added attraction of my wife C.C.'s fantastic home cooking. Our experienced clients have one thing to say about C.C.'s meals - you are going to put on some weight and that is all there is to it! I am fortunate to have an excellent staff including Dave Proctor and several very hard working guides. In addition my two Labs Hank and Mollie will do everything in their power to make each hunt a great success. They are hard working dogs, and we welcome our hunters to bring along their dogs if they wish. The way I offer my hunts is to host eight hunters for three days. This enables each group to have three morning goose hunts and two afternoon duckhunts. We hunt fields a lot, although we also have some great marshes and pothole country in our area. Canada, snows, mallards, pintails, teal, widgeons and gadwalls are our most common birds plus we get a few other diver species. We start our day early and head over to a local restaurant for a real hearty breakfast. Then we drive out to the field location and we chauffeur every hunter right to their shooting spot. We use natural cover, hedgerows, goose chairs and Final Approach blinds - no messy pits. For the goose hunts we use both shells and full body decoys as well as flags and a few motion decoys for good measure. Needless to say we pride ourselves on our calling, we try to talk to the birds and we invite our hunters to call also. Seems like the more calling the better some days. We let the dogs do most of the retrieving, and use the dead birds for decoys. After the hunt we set up for a brief photo-session and head back to the lodge. C.C. will have a home-cooked meal ready, then the hunters relax for awhile before heading out for an afternoon duck hunt. While the hunters are shooting ducks Dave and I scout the next morning's goose location. When the hunters come back from the duck hunt they arrive just in time - for another of C.C.'s fantastic home-cooked meals. I told you that her meals are a big feature of our hunts, didn't I! All you need is your license, shotgun and lots of shells, we will do the rest.