Whaleback Preserve Club 6410 South Hill Rd. Middlesex, NY 14507
Welcome to over 50 years of conservation and upland hunting, hiking, camping and enjoying the great outdoors at Whaleback.
What We offer
Hunting & Fishing
Ring Neck Pheasants, Wood Cock & Partridge, Bob White Quail, Wild Turkey, White Tail Deer, Predator hunting, Stocked Trout & Bass Ponds are available to members annually.
Upland Shooting, Angling Sporting, Sporting Clays
Whaleback is a Member of NAGA North American Gamebird Association. We buy inventory and stock only the finest Mature Mongolian Ringnecks & Bob White Quail * Wild are Woodcock & Ruffed Grouse, Wild Turkey * Fair Chase Whitetail Deer * Predator Hunting * Stocked Trout & Bass Ponds. Memberships 2025 are * $3000 for all hunting and services annually. * Bird Hunting only is $2500 including 30 pheasants Stocked after which Pheasants are ala carte and 10 quail per Membership. Buying Quail in quantity coveys are stocked wild.
History
Whaleback is created for Sportsmen and Sportswomen with challenging birds, wild turkey and whitetail deer, and two stocked ponds The Club also offers a challenging sporting clays course, shooting instruction, and an attractive clubhouse lodge for weekend dining, entertainment and social events. We are a family friendly Club.
Whaleback Preserve opened in 1971 as a non-proprietary hunting and fishing club. The Club leases lands primarily from the Lindsay & Mapes Family and Whaleback Farm, Inc. for members to pursue upland gamebirds, trout, bass, deer, wild turkey and predators. One of the primary reasons for the forming of Whaleback was to provide a vehicle to allow the lands to remain undeveloped and further the agrarian and sporting use of the property. The lands have been farmed, hunted and fished for over 220 years. Whaleback has offered safe quality upland pheasant hunting for 50 years.
Founder Bruce Lindsay, an avid Bird Hunter Created the Preserve with NYS DEC Class A license. Since that time, quality Gamebirds have been stocked annually for paying guests. In 2006, the Farm transitioned Hunting to a Non-Equity Club for up to 65 paying leaseholder members. We are a “family friendly Preserve” not a gun club. Currently, Members enjoys the privilege of private hunting on 600 acres of the best managed pheasant hunting grounds in Western, New York. Bob White Quail and Pheasant are the Preserves predominant stocked gamebird priority for hunting with bird dogs.
Whaleback Preserve is environmentally conscious creating organic food cover plots annually for upland hunting with natural yet managed cover. We maintain 8 separate private upland bird hunting field locations of ideal Pheasant & Quail habitat on the Preserve. Ongoing improvements to all hunting areas are assessed annually by owners with members suggestions. Hunting areas are professionally planted yearly with food cover perfect for our climate. There are also field areas which may be used for dog training June through October. A continental shoot area on the south farm enables high flying driven pheasants launched above shooting buts in fall by reservation. We stress the highest quality mature Mongolian Ringneck Pheasants, Bob White Quail, & Chukar. This is one of the most beautiful upland bird hunting grounds in the North East.
Shooting Lessons, Sporting Clays, Bird Dog Training
Our Pheasants are large mature Mongolian Ringnecks ranging throughout fields with professionally managed grasses, sorghum, millet, reed canary grass, and natural bush lots. This is perfect cover for enjoying bird dogs in upland hunts. Members’ may choose from guided hunts with superb pointers, or using their own gun dog for classic Wing Shooting unsurpassed in western New York's Finger Lakes the region. In the fall season, members also find partridge, woodcock, and quail coveys. You will experience the joy of Wing Shooting in safe, private fields managed for your sport. After the hunt, members return to enjoy the Member's Clubhouse designed by hunters to accommodate hunters needs for practicality with an outfitter room, locker room, and Member’s Lounge and dining room area. We are family friendly and encourage children and women family members hunting in our preserve.