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.
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