Category: Texas

Posted By:
Muddy Bud
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Corpus Christi, Tx. 11-02-2008 13:19
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Sorry to hear how slow the hunting is going. I was just checking in to hopefully see some better reports. But thats duck hunting in Texas. I am at work at the moment but will be returning home on the 5th. I have booked a trip to Choke Canyon with 1A guide service on the 7th. I hope the front blowing in on Thursday will bring some ducks with it.

[Edited By Muddy Bud on 2008-11-02 13:21]

Posted By:
tylersmcdaniel
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Ray Roberts 11-01-2008 16:57
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – 60-65 Degrees
Hunted Ray Bob for the opener. It was the worst opener of my life. Didn’t hardly see any birds. We still all enjoyed just being out there, but I have to admit I was quite surprised at the lack of activity. We didn’t fire a shot. We had one group of 4 drake mallards and 1 hen buzz our dekes but they were just out of range. We didn’t hear much shooting on the lake in general.

Planning on hunting either Aquilla or Richland Chambers in the morning.

Longhorn31

Posted By:
dwilliams3
Web Member

Upper Texas Coast 10-25-2008 16:02
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Man, it’s a sad sight to see.
The salt water is now killing all the vegitation along the upper Texas marshes.
Even the 4 legged wildlife is beginning to die off. First the grass, now the rats and fish… I guess the gators are next.
It will take a while for the reguges to get back to normal in these parts.

Posted By:
dwilliams3
Web Member

10-24-2008 09:21
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Those boys up North got smart.(Neb., Kansas)
They learned how to “shortstop” the big guys with crops and flooded fields. A good many Canadas never even make Oklahoma any more.
Give them food and they will stay.

Posted By:
GANSAL
Web Member

laguna madre mx 10-22-2008 12:11
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I have hunted south from the border of Brownsville TX since the past 22 years, like 30 miles south of Matamoros Mexico (laguna madre).
There I remember 20 years ago it was common to kill 2 or 3 canadas every day, but that was back in the end of the 80´s.
Today is very rare even to watch a Richardson´s Canada Geese.
¿what happened?
By the way there are some small flocks of specklebellys allready down here.

Posted By:
dwilliams3
Web Member

10-22-2008 08:32
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Outside of the Panhandle and/or very late in the season, most any form of Canada’s is considered a real plus. To answer your east Texas question, I would say it’s pretty unique.

Where exactly are you? At the top of your post it says… Brownsville. But then you refer to Southeast Texas.

Beaumont, Winnie, Dam-B area is my old hunting grounds.

[Edited By dwilliams3 on 2008-10-22 08:34]

Posted By:
GANSAL
Web Member

near Brownsville tx 10-20-2008 04:55
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How comon is to hunt a Richardson´s canada geese here in south east texas????

Posted By:
Muddy Bud
Guest

Coastal Bend Near Riviera 10-16-2008 17:30
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – Over 70 Degrees
At last check on October 13 Big ducks are slowly filtering in with Pintails and Shovelers being the most present. Also getting some small flocks of specks showing up in some winter peas and grain stubble.

Posted By:
dwilliams3
Web Member

Upper Coast Salt Flats 10-06-2008 10:36
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
The tidal surge of Ike closed the window.
With 14 feet of salt water covering the upper Texas salt marsh, the die off has begun. What is usually the food for wintering ducks and geese, now it all sits dying from the intrusion of salt water. The entire area is dying from the effects.

Biologist say it will be short lived, and will have the effects of the Indians burning the plains. New and better grasses will appear next season, bring a bumper food supply. But for 2008, the waterfowl will have to go elsewhere for food supply.

The mid and lower Texas coasts should have a bumper year as they will get the extra waterfowl. Some 38 outfitters, along the upper Texas coast, have lost their hunting camps and birds for 2008.

Posted By:
Muddy Bud
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Coastal Bend 10-04-2008 07:54
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – Over 70 Degrees
Got back from work on the 24 of Sept. So naturally I was hunting on the 25,26 and the 28th. With three days of hunting I shot one teal on Friday morning. I guess with a week of steady north wind blowing,the birds took advantage of it and moved out. I did how ever see a lot more big ducks showing up teal were scarce. The season came in like a lion and out like a lamb. Oh well, the bright side is that it can only get better in November. In the mean time doves are plentifull and will provide some much needed practice and another reason to start the pit and drink a cold one with some friends.

Posted By:
dwilliams3
Web Member

Upper Texas Coastal Salt Grass 09-23-2008 15:53
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Well the Gators are sure getting fat and lazy.
With 3000 dead cattle to munch on… There should be some nice weight gains.

Problem is the entire area smells like death.
Old cattle heard took it on the chin.

Posted By:
Muddy Bud
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Valley 09-19-2008 20:52
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Working down in the McAllen area though I have seen a couple of bunches of teal flying late in the evening to some nearby water tanks,they just are not as present here as out on the coast. The doves are another story. I have seen some huge flights of white wing in the early morning and just before dark, ”man they got some doves down here”.

Posted By:
dwilliams3
Web Member

Winnie Area 09-19-2008 11:55
Sunny & Clear, Morning Fog – Over 70 Degrees
Good to hear you mid-coast guys are doing good.
You can’t even get to the hunting areas on the upper coast. Even if you could, just about every duck camp is destroyed, and without roads, you can’t get to them.

Most upper Texas outfitters are looking at closing for this season. Without electricity, their camps are shut down and re-connects will take months. Some independant hunting make take place, but very little.

[Edited By dwilliams3 on 2008-09-19 11:57]

Posted By:
Muddy Bud
Guest

Coastal Bend 09-18-2008 18:09
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – Over 70 Degrees
First of all I would like to say to our friends in East Texas I hope you guys made it all right. I see the pictures in the news and cant help but feel very lucky. I dont wish this kind of destrucion on no one. Keep your heads up guys a lot of hard work is in store for you. But I know you guys can make it through after all we are Texan’s and work is no new thing for us.
My hopes & prayers are with you guys.

On a more tranquil note teal season is starting out great. We hunted four days in a row since satuday and limited out the first morning in 22 min. with four hunters in the Riviera area. Sunday the tide dropped enough to hunt the marsh area near Nueces bay and did just as well, even managed to pick up a couple of redfish on the way in. Monday and Tuesday slowed down somewhat but I still managed a limit with in a couple of hours. Lots of birds and lots of water.

[Edited By Muddy Bud on 2008-09-18 18:18]

Posted By:
dwilliams3
Web Member

Oyster Bayou Marsh 09-11-2008 09:04
Cloudy, High Winds – Over 70 Degrees
Damn Hurricanes… Another Early Teal Season that will be completely wiped out by Mother Nature. Well… maybe next year.

Posted By:
dwilliams3
Web Member

White Wings filling the Bag Limits 09-08-2008 11:22
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
What a difference 5 years can make. In the Central Texas area 5 years ago, white wings were few and far between. Hunters this season are seeing the White wings make up 50%+ of the total kill.

To date the Central Texas area is having a wonderful opening of the 2008 dove season.

Posted By:
dwilliams3
Web Member

Upper Gulf Coast 09-08-2008 11:18
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
My Sabine Pass Contacts say they expect the best Gator season ever. They say they’ve never seen so many “Big Boys”.

Problem is this Piss-ant Hurricane called Ike. Looks like he’s got his mind made up to destroy this years teal season for the upper coast.

You don’t wish a hurricane on anybody… but SE Texas got Rita a short time back. It’s someone else’s turn.

[Edited By dwilliams3 on 2008-09-08 11:18]

Posted By:
dwilliams3
Web Member

Breckenridge Texas 09-06-2008 15:39
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Dove numbers and the season are off to a great start. The Woodward Boys held their annual Dove opener this past Monday.

106 hunters in the field…
A bird kill at right at 1500.
Most limits were taken in 20-30 minutes.
2008 is off to a great start.

Posted By:
brian j. donovan
Field Editor

North Texas 07-30-2008 13:31
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
TPWD Finalizes Dove, Teal Seasons
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department finalized the early season migratory game bird regulations, which includes dove and teal seasons for 2008-09. Texas hunters will see a 16-day September teal season and no changes to the South Dove Zone segments.

The North Zone runs Sept. 1-Oct. 30, with a 15-bird bag and not more than two white-tipped dove; the Central Zone is Sept. 1-Oct. 30 and reopens Dec. 26-Jan. 4, with a 12-bird bag and not more than two white-tipped dove. Possession limit is twice the daily bag.

This year, the South Zone dove season is Sept. 20-Nov. 9, reopening Dec. 26-Jan. 13 with a 12 bird bag and not more than two white-tipped dove. Possession limit is twice the daily bag limit.

The Special White-winged Dove Area, which now encompasses land west of I-35 and south of U. S. Highway 90, opens to white-winged dove afternoon-only (noon to sunset) hunting Sept. 6-7 and 13-14 and reopens Sept. 20-Nov. 9 and again from Dec. 26-Jan. 9. The daily bag limit during the first two weekend splits is 12 birds, not more than four (4) mourning dove and two (2) white-tipped dove. The daily bag limit during the remainder of the Special White-winged Dove Area is 12 birds, not more than two (2) white-tipped dove. Possession limit is twice the daily bag.

Teal season is Sept. 13-28 with a daily bag limit of 4 birds. Possession limit is twice the daily bag.

Hunters should note the dove and teal season dates and bag limits are not included in this year’s Outdoor Annual of hunting and fishing regulations. Information will be available in the Early Season Migratory Game Bird Digest supplement, available Aug. 15 on the TPWD Web site and wherever hunting and fishing licenses are sold.

A proposed dove season rule that would have removed one week of hunting opportunity from the end of the first season segment in the South Zone and added it to the end of the second season segment was not approved. Although public comment was supportive of the proposed amendment, the department has decided to retain the traditional structure because of other considerations resulting from public comment.

“Public comment received by the department indicates a growing concern among hunters, landowners, outfitters, and local businesses that economic factors are increasingly affecting hunting habits or will affect them in the future,” said Mike Berger, TPWD wildlife director. “The department therefore made the decision to leave the traditional season structure in place for the current year while launching an outreach effort to determine if the traditional and historic dove season structure should be altered for future seasons.”

In keeping with hunter and landowner preferences, dove seasons have traditionally been opened on the earliest day legally allowed under frameworks established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, irrespective of which day of the week the date fell. Under federal law, dove hunting in the United States cannot begin before Sept. 1.

Sept. 1, as opening day of dove hunting in Texas, has been part of the state’s hunting tradition ever since the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 was signed. Treaties with Canada and Mexico established the framework for the taking of all migratory game birds, including dove.

“This year, Sept. 1 falls on Labor Day, a Monday, which is a good thing because it’s a holiday for many Texans, and like having another Saturday,” said Vernon Bevill, TPWD game bird program director. “The bad thing is, the next day isn’t Sunday, it’s back to work Tuesday.”

Similarly, this year’s South Zone dove season opener falls on Saturday, Sept. 20. Traditionally, dove season in South Texas has opened on the Friday after the 20th unless the 20th is a Saturday. Federal frameworks currently prevent opening the South Zone before the 20th.

Berger said recent public comment received by the department indicates a strong preference for seasons to open on a Friday, so as to create a three-day hunting opportunity to open the season. Recent public comment also indicates a preference for the 60-day/15-bird configuration in the South Zone.

“A recurrent theme was the concern that increased consumer costs, particularly transportation costs related to energy prices, make anything less than a three-day opening weekend economically unjustifiable,” said Berger. “Similarly, proponents of the 60-day/15-bird configuration stated that economic considerations would cause them to curtail the number of times they could go hunting, leading them to prefer a higher daily bag limit. In the past, hunters and others have expressed an aversion to delaying the opening day until the first full weekend, preferring the earliest possible opener.”

Hunters looking for a place to hunt dove should consider TPWD’s public hunting opportunities. According to Linda Campbell, TPWD public hunting program director, the department manages more than 50,000 acres of dove hunting units. Hunting access to these areas is available with purchase of a $48 Annual Public Hunting Permit, available Aug. 15 wherever hunting and fishing licenses are sold.

A map booklet detailing locations and additional information about the 143 public dove hunting units is included with the Annual Public Hunting Permit and will be available on the TPWD Web site beginning Aug. 15. A permit is not required to access the map booklet information online.

TPWD dove program coordinator Jay Roberson anticipates an above average hunting season for doves this fall, based on habitat conditions. “We had a pretty dry spring and doves do well in those conditions,” he noted. “The birds weren’t responding last year to predictions of good food availability and many doves stayed to the north. I’m guardedly optimistic this year.”

Roberson reported hearing of good numbers of doves across South Texas and anticipates hunters should have good success if they can identify flight patterns. Conditions are expected to change in the weeks heading into the season, particularly in the wake of recent weather resulting from Hurricane Dolly.

Posted By:
dwilliams3
Web Member

07-22-2008 09:25
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I’d be interested to see if any of you know of any duck clubs in Texas. I’ve hunted the state for over 40 years, and have only run into one. Texas seems to be a private land state w/ day permits or guided hunts being the rule. If you know of duck clubs… please post them here:

I knew of one in LaBelle (South of Beaumont) about 25 years ago. It lasted about 4 years, when one guy offered $8500 for the lease and took everyone else out of the picture. That’s the only club I’ve ever heard of for waterfowl in Texas. There are plenty for deer, turkey, and hogs… but none for waterfowl that I am aware of.

[Edited By dwilliams3 on 2008-07-30 12:42]

Posted By:
Banjo Logic
Web Member

none 07-14-2008 13:59
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Hi all
I am looking for a hunting club in southeast Texas for duck and goose hunting. I can bring in 3 total members. I have hunted mostly in Arkansas but now I am trying to find a place a little closer to home. Any leads would be greatly appreciated. just shoot me a private message.
Thanks
Brian

[Edited By Banjo Logic on 2008-07-14 14:00]

Posted By:
dwilliams3
Web Member

Katy-Garwood-El Campo Areas 06-23-2008 15:40
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We need to get you guys a list of outfitters for the 2008-09 season. This area has some great guides and lodges. It also has some that will steal the quarters out of a dead man’s eyes.

Check your lodge out before you go. Make sure it is legit. This portion of the Texas Gulf coast still offers some of the finest goose hunting in America. Unfortunatly, it also houses some guys trying to make a fast buck.

Look before you sign up. Those of us “regulars” will be glad to point you in the right direction.

Posted By:
VH
Guest

03-10-2008 12:32
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Any of you guys still seeing snow geese down in TX?

Posted By:
Chris Vogel
Guest

03-04-2008 08:39
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Don’t forget to vote today!

Just remember 9/11 when you do!!

Posted By:
Kent – Rivas
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docbob 02-18-2008 12:51
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Sorry, some illness in the family kept me from getting out and enjoying the last month of hunting season.
Plus computer problems this year killed my reports for the most part….just got a new system and ready to go for next season…

I used to hunt around Malakoff….akelly

Black, Yellow, or Chocolate, take your choice….

[Edited By Kent – Rivas on 2008-02-18 12:52]

Posted By:
akelly
Web Member

Wills Point, Tx 01-27-2008 14:58
Cloudy, Heavy Fog – 35-40 Degrees
Two man limits of mallards on 3 acre lake. Best decoying action of the season. All birds taken mid morning. Great way to wrap up 07-08 season. Looking foward to 08-09.

Posted By:
akelly
Web Member

Wills Point, TX. 01-27-2008 14:48
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Posted By:
docbob
Web Member

01-25-2008 16:25
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Where are the posts?? Only seven posts during the month of Jan. we have 6 field editors..Don’t you guys hunt

Posted By:
John-Cottenham
Field Editor

South TX, Palacios area 01-14-2008 16:55
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Snows abound around Palacios but as reported they are aged and experienced. Specs done for the year and I did not do as well as normal because I was busy with Cranes. Love those dudes!

jacduck

It is not the limits I get but the HUNTS I get that makes a great season. And I don’t shoot spoonies!

[Edited By John-Cottenham on 2008-01-16 08:39]

Posted By:
folkenson
Web Member

North of Katy 01-13-2008 19:16
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Hunted yesterday 14 geese for three hunters. There are lots of birds in the area. The snows like always were hard to get in however the Specks came in range fairly easy. I am now waiting for the electronic season.

Posted By:
Rerog_27
Web Member

Seymour Area 01-11-2008 23:37
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I’m heading down to the Seymour Area for the last week of the season. Just interested in what the duck outlook is.

Posted By:
Kent – Rivas
Guest

West Texas 01-05-2008 17:19
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Limits to near limits of ducks are still being taken on local playas…..early morning hunts are the best……
Geese still plentiful around the Lubbock area and up north…..
group of 4 killed mixed bag of ducks this morning…..
Mallard, widgeon, gads….

Black, Yellow, or Chocolate, take your choice….

Posted By:
nu1x5
Web Member

01-05-2008 09:32
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 10-20 Degrees – Ice
what are the sob’s doing?

Posted By:
John-Donelon
Field Editor

What am I missing? 01-04-2008 16:35
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For years my one son lived in Wichita Falls,every January he and myself and my other two sons would come down for our annual late season hunt.We went near a town called Vernon and hunted a marsh located behind Truscot Lake(Think that is the way it is spelled)The area operated by the Corps of Engineers.Just wanting to know if we missed any good hunting there this year for my son has moved to Austin this Summer for another job.Sure did enjoy my yearly trip to spend time with my sons and all the nice people we ran into each year.Thanks for the memories.

Posted By:
Kent – Rivas
Guest

Pecos Rivas 01-01-2008 20:46
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Hunted the river today….
Mainly a course of Widgeon with a Can and Red mixed in…..

Hunting has been tough with weather conditions not really conducive to duck hunting….

Black, Yellow, or Chocolate, take your choice….

Posted By:
JVDRLVARGAS
Web Member

Baffin Bay 12-31-2007 19:51
Cloudy, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
Went out and hunted the south shore along the Kenedy Ranch in Baffin Bay Saturday, & Sunday. Saturday was the best day with a limit of Pintail Drakes early on between 3 hunters,we finished our limits with a good mix of Red Heads, Blue Bills, Wigdeon,and Teal. Sunday we struggled a little due to a change in wind direction about a hour after setting up. We still ended up with 12 ducks between 3 of us. Most were Red Heads & Blue Bills.

Posted By:
Stephen C, Biles
Web Member

NE Texas (Near Red River) 12-28-2007 23:32
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
I was fortunate enough to hunt on my friend’s family ranch in NE Texas right on the Red River.
The birds were flying really well on the 26th and 27th. We mostly shot Mallards, Wood Ducks and Teal.
The hunting was great but the shooting was sub par. No complaints.
I really enjoyed hunting this area as I actually had the opportunity to sucessfully call Mallards.
I usually hunt in Central Texas where we harvest mostly Gadwall, Widgeon, and divers.

I’ll be back!

Posted By:
JVDRLVARGAS
Web Member

Baffin Bay 12-28-2007 20:24
Sunny & Clear, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
Scouted around the Laguna Salada & Drum Point area today. I was amazed and releived to see the amount of Red Heads , & Blue Bills in the area. Compared to two weeks ago, on the last scouting trip to the area. If this is not the peak of the migration, I cant wait to see what thats going to look like. We’ll give it a try in the morning. I’ll be sure to post a report on our results.

[Edited By JVDRLVARGAS on 2007-12-28 20:26]

Posted By:
John-Cottenham
Field Editor

Collegeport area 12-25-2007 12:34
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Hughe flights of Sandhills. Normally I see groups of 2 to 7 or so and yesterday they were grouped in flocks of 50 plus. I suspect they just arrived and are still in migration flocks. Hunting is slow for cranes and specs with snows flying up with the jets.

Merry Christmas to all from a snowbird.

jacduck It is not the limits I get but the HUNTS I get that makes a great season. And I don’t shoot spoonies!

Posted By:
brian j. donovan
Field Editor

North Texas 12-23-2007 14:02
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 25-30 Degrees – Ice
Despite winter weather north of us, bird numbers are lackluster on public reservoirs in North Texas. Our bag this weekend included mallards, woodies, teal and a couple of spoonies, with flights being fairly well over within 15 minutes of LST. The remainder of the week will see fairly mild weather, so I’m not expecting a big change in bird numbers through the end of the week.

Merry Christmas, y’all.

Posted By:
MUDDOG
Guest

ne texas 12-18-2007 09:48
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Not unless they just got here 12/17/07. I hunt NE Texas and it has been pathetic since the first week or two. As of this past weekend there were no migrants from the snow/ice to the north. Nor were there any in Oklahoma just to the north of E. Texas. I spent 3 days up there last weekend and scouted about 7 different places spread over a large area. There was only about 1/4 the birds we/they had in early season. And I talked to several different hunting groups in the region and everyone had the same results except for 1 person. Those 2 guys shot 9 birds. One thing that caught my eye was this morning driving to work I saw some new ducks on a pond which never holds birds unless a migration is moving through. This tells me there’s a possibility some birds just blew in the past day or 2.

Posted By:
tdutley
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NE TEXAS 12-14-2007 10:12
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – 40-45 Degrees
Has anyone been out in north east texas the last few days. dose anyone have any field reports here. My buddys back home in ne Arkansas are telling me of big numbers of birds hitting that area. I am optomistic that a good percentage of them will come on down. The winter storms in the hartland sure look promising.

Posted By:
brian j. donovan
Field Editor

North Texas 12-11-2007 11:31
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 45-50 Degrees
Hunting is picking up across North Texas with a good influx of new birds, including lots of mallards. I’m seeing a fair number of canvasbacks on some of my local ponds now, too.

My group’s recent bag has included mallards, woodies, greenwing teal and some spoonies that found their way down into a flooded timber hole.

There were excellent numbers of birds in the Comanche/Brownwood area late last week, but I do not know if this front has pushed them out.

Posted By:
jedwardson
Web Member

Cross Timbers Region 12-11-2007 08:47
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
The weekend was slow for us, but the cold front helped us a lot. Hunted yesterday morning (12-10) and finished with 4 limits in a little over an hour. Lots of big ducks down, 19 out of the 20 we shot were gadwall.

Jeremy Edwardson COUNTRY DUCK OUTFITTERS www.HUNTCDO.com 817-219-0237

Posted By:
mmaxwell96
Web Member

Wright Patman / Sulphur River 12-10-2007 15:29
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
After hunting this weekend I can confirm tdutley’s reports about Patman…there are not many birds in the area right now. Maybe this cold front will help.

Posted By:
mmaxwell96
Web Member

Lake Palestine / Neches River 12-10-2007 15:27
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Scouted Neches River and the Neches side of Lake Palestine last Thursday and Friday morning. Did not see much in the area except for a few groups of birds on Palestine. Did anyone have any luck on Palestine this weekend?

Posted By:
tdutley
Guest

NE TEXAS WRIGHT PATTMAN LAKE 12-06-2007 13:59
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
SCOUTED ON SUNDAY 12/2 AND FOUND THERE WERE NO DUCKS TO BE SEEN ANYWHERE. I RODE THE OPEN WATER, RUNS OFF THE LAKE, SLUES, CREEKS AND NOTHING OF ANY NUMBERS. I AM BEING TOLD THERE ARE DUCKS BEING TAKEN ON MILWOOD LAKE IN ARKANSAS ABOUT 60 MILES FROM HERE, AS WELL AS SOME IN GARLAND CITY ARKANSAS. WE CAN ONLY PRAY FOR COLD WEATHER AND A LITTLE BIT OF RAIN.
WILL KEEP TRYING

Posted By:
willett2006
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Repot from SW MO 12-03-2007 13:08
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Got a call from my dad yesterday after the front blew threw their area and said it was 68 that mornin then was about 30 when he was talkin to me (2 pm) Said he saw steady movement of flocks of geese headed south

This is from the Miss. Flyway and only bout geese but it ought to say somethin for our flyway and ducks as well. Opener ought to be good..hopefully

Posted By:
Kevin-Stallard
Field Editor

Highland 11-27-2007 18:34
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Just wanted to let you guys know there was a major push of snows/blues today southbound. I saw a steady stream of them for two hours straight. I know you guys hunt them in the winter and we get them in the spring on their way back. Good luck.

Posted By:
txaghunter
Web Member

Angleton 11-25-2007 16:11
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Hunted Wed and then Thanksgiving morning after the front blew through. Wed was tough and what we did see was teal and there was not a lot to shoot, got a few birds. Thanksgiving morning was fantastic, hunted alone but had teal and spoons covering me up early so I pass on them to see if big ducks would work in. I ended up at 8am with mallards, pintail, and gadwalls as all the birds decoyed perfectly into a trong north wind. It was well worth the wait and was a great Thanksgiving.

[Edited By txaghunter on 2007-11-25 16:21]

Posted By:
brian j. donovan
Field Editor

Aubrey, Texas 11-21-2007 18:44
Arctic Blast – 50-60 Degrees
We laid the smack down on mallards, gadwalls, wigeon and teal on isolated water this morning as the front came through. Large numbers of snow geese were pouring down from the north and late in the morning we saw migratory flights of as many as 100 ducks.

The forecast I just watched calls for snow in the Panhandle over the weekend, which could push even more ducks into North Texas.

Cut ’em, guys, and y’all have a happy Thanksgiving.

Posted By:
LJMonlezun
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Ballinger area ? 11-20-2007 12:13
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Any bird reports for the Ballinger area?

Posted By:
bheary
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11-14-2007 06:32
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one of my guys at is transferring to port aransas. what can he expect as far as a duck season( what type of birds, and how long is it). thanks

Posted By:
Pond Scum
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Beaver slough on Chambers Creek 11-13-2007 18:42
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Smacked a limit of woodies and mallards about mile up from RC this morning. Quite a few birds in the thick stuff if yer willing to work fer them.

Posted By:
Wetduck
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s ftw 11-09-2007 19:27
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Dennis were you at im 35 miles south

Posted By:
MUDDOG
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East of Dallas 11-09-2007 10:33
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Go.

Posted By:
DennisE
Web Member

25 miles south of Fort Woorth 11-08-2007 12:59
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Have been outside alot the last 3 weeks (lots of doves). Have only seen 3 large groups of sandhills – very high

Posted By:
Kent – Rivas
Guest

West Texas 11-08-2007 11:46
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Last weekend hunted down on the Pecos River…
Lots of birds, but not many new ones…
Majority of the limit was comprised of Gads and Widgeon…..
Hoping that cold front brought in some newbies…..
Later in the season will start getting more Reds and Cans…..
Haven’t heard too many reports from the Lubbock area….will fill you in when I talk to my outfitters…

Posted By:
Stephen C, Biles
Web Member

Central Texas /Near Taylor 11-07-2007 12:28
Cloudy, High Winds – 50-60 Degrees
Snuck off and got a quick hunt in before work yesterday. I had high expectations with perfect conditions (strongs winds which provided nice decoy movement). Got all my dekes out in a nice spread and and waited until about 7. Finally, a nice flight of ringers- probabaly 50 flew right over me (out of shooting range) and didn’t even look back. A few minutes later a few teal did the same thing. These birds were obviously headed out to feed. I hung around 30 more minutes and decided to leave. I had to get back to work. Knowing that the birds that snubbed me earlier would likely be back, I begrudgingly began to pack it in. As soon as I put on my lifevest and dragged my float tube towards the decoys, a flight of about 6 or 7 ringers flew perfectly towards my spread. Drawing my gun and ineffectively getting it to my shoulder (as I had a Maywest lifevest on), I fired away. Missing completely with my high dollar heavy shot shells ($2-$4-$6).In my premarital days, I couldn’t spend my money that fast in high class strip bar. I was pissed!!!… ended the morning with 0 kills and a newly discovered hole in my waders. Just another day in the life of a masochistic duck hunter.

[Edited By Stephen C, Biles on 2007-11-07 12:28]

Posted By:
tdutley
Guest

NE TEXAS 11-07-2007 11:19
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
SCOUTED SOME THIS MORNING, SAW SOME NEW MALARDS AND GADWALS IN BACKWATER OF SULPHER RIVER WITH THE WOODIES AND TEAL WE HAVE BEEN SEEING. I WILL BE ABLE TO HUNT FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS SEASON THIS WEEKEND AND HAVE MORE DETAILED INFORMATION.

Posted By:
brian j. donovan
Field Editor

North Texas 11-06-2007 09:26
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 50-60 Degrees
Saturday morning, we hunted west of Gunter about halfway between town and Lake Ray Roberts on a very small wetland. Hunting was steady if a little slow, but we had an unfortunate lack of big ducks. With one group of teal in the decoys right after legal and a few mallards very late in the morning, we occupied ourselves in the interim with shooting the ringnecks that presented themselves plentifully. We saw several large groups of snow geese passing through at high altitude throughout the morning.

Sunday we hunted the Lake Lewisville area and saw tremendous numbers of wood ducks at first light. Teal and gadwalls comprised the bulk of the flight for about half an hour after true sunrise and then the flight stopped for more than an hour, at which point the mallards made an appearance. We put a fair amount of green in the bag to go with the teal and gadwalls taken earlier in the day.

Along the way on Saturday, we spoke with another group who had shot two banded gadwalls from the same group of birds. One of the banded birds was a guy’s very first duck ever!

Posted By:
txaghunter
Web Member

Angelton 11-05-2007 13:01
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Solid opening morning, 3 limits in 10 minutes but of course mostly teal and limits of Mott’s. Saw good flights of pintail but stayed high with all the shooting in the area.

Posted By:
Wetduck
Guest

I20 Adeline to Weatherford 11-02-2007 07:30
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driving home yesterday, all the larger ponds had large # on them.
Looks to be a good one

Posted By:
Pond Scum
Guest

Cedar Creek 10-31-2007 06:58
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Went out yesterday morning and seen at least 300 mallards and a couple hundred wigeon on above the bridge. Looks like it’s gonna be good.

Posted By:
brian j. donovan
Field Editor

North Texas 10-29-2007 16:35
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 60-65 Degrees
Checked several barometer ponds this morning to find very little besides local mallards and woodies. A token contingent of bluebills has arrived in the area over the last few days and a few wigeon are congregating with the local mallards. Overall, the last cold front proved to be a non-starter for moving in some fresh birds.

Lakes Lewisville, Grapevine and Richland Chambers are at full pool and falling very slowly, while Lavon is three feet below pool and falling a little quicker.

One more weak Pacific front will move through prior to opening day, but I’m not holding out a lot of hope that it will move enough birds into the area to change the outlook for the opener. Looks like it will be fairly average out there on Saturday, boys.

Posted By:
tx_slim32
WFC Sponsor

Panhandle 10-23-2007 18:32
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Just came in for the lake I hunt around and saw about 200 geese on it mostly snows but the ducks were mostly mallards in full color, if the cold fronts keep coming I’ll be decoying geese on opening day.

Posted By:
willett2006
Guest

NE Texas – Marshall 10-22-2007 14:53
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Saw several large groups of specks this weekend headin south. Guessing this front has pushed them down.

Cold weather is upon us for the remainder of the week, and cool weather is forcasted for next week. Hopefully it will push some more ducks down for the opener in two weeks.

Posted By:
willett2006
Guest

NE Texas 10-15-2007 19:09
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Anyone in NE Texas seen any birds yet?

Went to caddo lake this weekend and only saw a few here and there along with plenty of wood ducks

Posted By:
portahunter
Supporting Member

Se Tx. 10-03-2007 09:53
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Ended teal season with 18 birds in 5 hunts. By far my best teal season to date. Saturday we saw a good amount of pintail mainy of which paid a visit to our decoys. Most pintail I’ve seen in that public marsh in several years whether it be teal season or duck season. Hope it’s a sign of things to come.

Posted By:
Nat-Dudka
Guest

10-03-2007 00:11
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I ain’t seen nothing noware.

Help save the Hoot Al. Love the Redheads

Posted By:
willett2006
Guest

Bob Sandlin, Caddo Lake, Lake Palestine 09-18-2007 12:00
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Hunted Saturday mornin on Bob Sandlin saw very few teal unlike the weekend before when scouting. Didnt shoot a bird there. On way back mid-day saturday made a stop at Caddo and got 7 teal on a sneak attack.

Went back to Caddo Sunday mornin and got our two limits by 8:30 but not near as fast paced as the boys down south

Hunted this mornin (Tuesday) on Lake Palestine and never saw a single teal and unusually very few wood ducks.

Posted By:
Wetduck
Guest

knox city /haskell 09-16-2007 20:52
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limits on teal sat and sun
lots of dove on sunflowers close to water

saw lots of sprig this morning compared to sat morn

Posted By:
portahunter
Supporting Member

Se Tx. 09-15-2007 14:27
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Buddy and I got 8 teal in 24 minutes this morning. Would have been quicker, but they didn’t fly for the first 15 minutes. Once we started shooting it got crazy.

Posted By:
jedwardson
Web Member

Cross Timbers Region 09-14-2007 08:50
Mostly Sunny, No Precipitation – Over 70 Degrees
I saw about 40 teal on one of my tanks yesterday, and i heard their were more on the lakes around the area. We should have a pretty good hunt tommorow morning. Most of my spots did’t have any birds though, so (as always) make sure plenty of scouting is done if you want to be successful

Jeremy Edwardson
COUNTRY DUCK OUTFITTERS
www.HUNTCDO.com
817-219-0237

[Edited By jedwardson on 2007-09-14 08:53]

[Edited By jedwardson on 2007-09-14 08:54]

Posted By:
JAYLAWRENCE
Guest

VERNON 09-04-2007 20:32
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Hunted the Vernon area on doves had 7 guys on our trip and we limited every morning with 15 doves per man. sunflowers forever.

Posted By:
portahunter
Supporting Member

Se Tx. 09-03-2007 17:58
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Very few doves in Se Tx. They vanished the week before the opener. Hunted both Saturday morning and evening and only managed 1 bird.

Posted By:
brian j. donovan
Field Editor

Comanche/Brownwood 09-03-2007 07:57
Cloudy, Occassional Rain Showers – Over 70 Degrees
We hunted over shredded sunflowers and harvested milo in the Comanche/Brownwood area Saturday evening and Sunday morning. The evening flight on Saturday was much stronger than the Sunday morning flight, thought neither flight was anything to write home about. My group managed 12 bird limits and near-limits for the evening hunt, and small handfuls of birds in the morning.

Reports from Vernon, Graham and Breckenridge were uniformly fair. Everyone had birds, but they were scattered all over the place and limits were more a product of exceptional shooting than enormous numbers of birds. Habitat across North and West Texas is in excellent condition and the birds we killed were so full of sunflower seeds it was a wonder they could fly.

There are a couple of guns hunting a tank about a quarter mile from where I am, inside the city limits of The Colony, and even those guys banging away at fat, stupid city birds aren’t going through a lot of shells.

Forecast for the next couple of days calls for rain. Lake Lewisville is 3.5 feet above conservation pool and Ray Roberts is about 3 feet high, while Lavon is right at conservation pool.

Posted By:
shimcutta
WFC Sponsor

west of denton 09-01-2007 14:25
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – Over 70 Degrees
Well the dove hunting started off a little slow but by 7:30 they started flying and by 8:30 I was done, boy that was fun

Posted By:
portahunter
Supporting Member

Se Tx. 08-13-2007 20:40
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Teal are starting to trickle down again. Seen a few early migrators this past weekend. 33 more days till the teal slaughter begins.

Posted By:
Wetduck
Guest

08-10-2007 12:28
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depends on what you are looking for in a animal.
trophy?
meat hog ?
how you want to hunt ?
area you want to hunt?
post up some more info also what time of year?