Posted By:
gkjake
Guest
Belton Lake 01-06-2007 18:12
Cloudy, High Winds – 40-45 Degrees
Hunted Belton Lake again today — looks like a few more birds have come down but very few. I had one set of five gadwalls come into the deeks and the hunters on the point adjacent to me had two small groups of gads come into theirs but other than that there was nothing flying –perfect day for it though.
Hope this report helps
Jake
Posted By:
gkjake
Guest
Belton Lake and Stillhouse Hollow 01-04-2007 09:51
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 40-45 Degrees
Have hunted Belton Lake and Stillhouse Hollow both in the past five days and have seen almost nothing but coots and water turkeys (cormorants). The lack of ducks for this region is dissappointing but I’m hoping that more push down before the end of the season. Hope more people start using this forum from this area so we can keep each other informed.
gkjake
Posted By:
John-Cottenham
Field Editor
Matagorda Bay area 01-04-2007 08:50
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Hey guys I am from MI and down here for a while. I belong to a small lease here and normally we are covered up with snows and dark geese. This year is different and the difference is white pelicans. clouds of them is what I mean. Do pelicans chase other fowl out of the area. Is there something else going on? Inquiring minds want to know and if you have input drop a note here for me to check as I can.
jacduck
I like Camo Man’s “Drakes and dead hens never lay eggs.” signature and the MI guys in fact did lay off the hens big time in 2005 and will continue into the future or pay the price of $5 for each one taken to DU or Delta. That did include the hens taken out of MI so you other states can jump in anytime.
Posted By:
srdc/caller
Guest
Navarro County Trinity River Botttoms/Pumped water 01-03-2007 14:28
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We had been on a real good limit run after the split, but Friday’s 3.2 inch rain has got the big ducks scattered. What is still hitting our slough is getting real shy. I watched Gadwall flare off of live ducks this am. Will see what the weekend produces. I gotta believe there are still a lot of mallards north of us and unless something significant happens they won’t get here until February if at all.
Posted By:
Kent – Rivas
Guest
West Texas 01-02-2007 09:00
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Hunting out west remains average to above average…..Around Lubbock birds can still be taken as the weather keeps them moving…
I hunted down south on the Pecos River and it is covered in Can’s, Reds and Sprigs….
You are having to wait to pick your shot for a mature drake and then waiting to pick out widgeon, gadwall, and the little divers….
Posted By:
Henshot
Web Member
Ray Roberts 12-31-2006 09:19
Mostly Cloudy, No Precipitation – 50-60 Degrees
Duck numbers were down on Roberts Saturday compared to earlier trips this season. Those showing up in the spread were gads, a few teal that zipped through too fast to tax, and a sprinkling of spoonbills. Shot three before getting locked into a decoy-BB-bouncing-contest with my 8-year old. He won.
Lots of mud and a little more water in the lake from what I could judge. The rain should keep Jordan functional for boat launching purposes.
Posted By:
brian j. donovan
Field Editor
North Texas 12-29-2006 15:46
Cloudy, Rain & Thunderstorms – 60-65 Degrees
Here in the middle of the annual Week of Death, I am considering changing the name of the festivities to Trash Bird Fiesta. Tuesday’s hunt on Lake Lewisville featured more spoonies than I have ever seen fly at once. Clouds of grinning birds piled in from great altitudes, willowleafing like something out of a Whistling Wings video. Frustrated that nothing else would fly, we finally began shooting about eight o’clock and finished the morning with seven spoonies and a pintail.
Wednesday’s hunt swapped ringers for spoonies, and by mid-morning we started swatting them, too, ending up with six ringers, a mallard and a gadwall. It appears we will be eating more than the normal amount of duck gumbo in the coming months.
This morning saw a greatly diminished flight. Mallards were extremely wary in the light rain, and all we could scratch down was a single ringer to keep from getting skunked.
Indicator ponds in the northern Metroplex are holding fewer birds than early in the week. My pond right out back that once held more than two hundred birds a day now has fewer than fifty.
Posted By:
Nat-Dudka
Guest
Seguin 12-26-2006 23:09
Cloudy, Light Rain & Drizzle – 40-45 Degrees
Ducks of all kinds on just about every body of water I see around this area. Everything from Buffies to Gadwals.
My brother and I hit a private tank on Sunday morn and did half decent on the gads. We had to cut things a bit short to go take care of Christmas eve dinners and such. But the ducks are definatly here now. If you have water then you should have birds.
Love the Redheads
Posted By:
gkjake
Guest
Ft Hood / Belton Lake 12-26-2006 09:51
Sunny & Clear, Winds Calm – 30-34 Degrees – Open Water
Hunting vicinity of Ft Hood and Belton lake has slowed to almost nothing. Hunted this morning and saw the same two gadwall and single drake mallard that I saw on DEC 22nd I think — I might name them as I will never shoot them now that we are so well acquainted –I was hoping the rain and cold front brought some new ones in but apparently not. I heard no other shots on the lake.
Jake
[Edited By gkjake on 2006-12-26 09:52]
Posted By:
ReTodd
Web Member
Private Lease Cooper Texas 12-26-2006 09:07
Cloudy, Winds Calm – 35-40 Degrees
Had a pretty good puddle duck shoot lots of Widgeon, Pintails, and Gadwalls, as well as Mallards still in the area.
3 men shot 11 birds. Typical story we passed on a few groups hoping to get them a little closer into the decoys and it did not work out. Alot of geeses in that area snows and canadians.
