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**** 2025 Duck Season ****

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BMF_AG95
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Anyone hunt eagle lake this morning? Or garwood area? Hunting Tuesday am. Hoping big cold front caused them to move yesterday and today.
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2nd hunt at our north TX duck lease this morning. Saw 20-25 lesser Canadas fly about 100 yards from me 5 minutes before legal shooting light. My buddy was late and I didn't have a goose call to try and work them back to our area.

My buddy showed up about 10 minutes after shooting light and as he's walking toward the blind we heard a lone Canada calling from a good ways off. He got his call out and started honking at the goose. I spot the goose about 3/4 mile away. My buddy worked him in a huge semi circle and he ended up flying right in front of our blind. Game over for him. That's the only bird we saw during the hunt.

On the way out I drove through the Hagerman Preserve which is really close to us. There was a pretty good group of snows on the DU food plot and lots of Pintails and some Spoonies in the sloughs. We need some more weather to push the birds around.




ttha_aggie_09
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Very nice! I was surprised how many geese I saw south of El Campo Saturday morning. Probably 1-2,000 snows and just as many Specks landing in a field just north of the duck pond we were in.

Slow hunt for me on Saturday but we got 8 pintails which was cool!




TarponChaser
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Headed to Garwood for a corporate hunt in the AM. Any reports on bird numbers around there?
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My neighbor that hunts on a club near there has not had very good hunts at all… not saying you'll do bad but it doesn't sound like the birds are in that area in high numbers. We have a lot of pintails and teal but most are stacked by the coast.

I'm sure it will be fun but I wouldn't expect them to be like
Mosquitoes in the morning. Good luck!
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ttha_aggie_09 said:

My neighbor that hunts on a club near there has not had very good hunts at all… not saying you'll do bad but it doesn't sound like the birds are in that area in high numbers. We have a lot of pintails and teal but most are stacked by the coast.

I'm sure it will be fun but I wouldn't expect them to be like
Mosquitoes in the morning. Good luck!


Yeah, this was a developer hosted thing at Bucksnag. Great time but they also cautioned the season hasn't been great. Just no weather to push the birds down. But it's been the same for me over around Winnie this year too.

Had a great time socially with the guys there. The hunt this morning actually exceeded my expectations. 5 guys in our group and a mixed bag with 2 pintail drakes, a pintail hen, a drake widgeon, a hen spoonie, and 5 GWT. Felt like early teal weather- I hunted in shorts.

All in all it was a good time. Especially since I didn't have to pay for it.
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I'm a Bucksnag member and prior to last year never had a bad hunt in 6 or 7 years. Last year was bad for everyone in the area. This year shaping up that way till weather pushes birds down.
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That's great! I haven't even seen a GWT yet, all BWT.
 
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