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Youth Goose Season? #6519739 10/31/16 04:12 PM
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I'm not sure how to interpret the regs, wondering if anyone knows off hand. The goose regs say nothing about a youth season here:
http://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/regs/animals/goose

But the duck regs here:
http://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/regs/animals/duck

Have this section in it:

Youth Only Season
15 years of age or younger. Regular season bag limits apply for all legal species of geese, ducks, mergansers and coots. Dusky ducks are legal during the youth only season. Youth hunters must be accompanied by an adult at least 18 years of age.


I don't have a youth hunter any more, just wondering...


Re: Youth Goose Season? [Re: LarryCopper] #6523029 11/02/16 12:26 PM
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We totally messed this up around 7 years ago. Little canadas all over lissie tx rice fields after a big front pushed them down...from my understanding it is legal to hunt geese in youth season-we didnt know either and missed out on a huge opportunity on a rare occurrence for that early in the season

Re: Youth Goose Season? [Re: LarryCopper] #6524171 11/02/16 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted By: LarryCopper
I'm not sure how to interpret the regs, wondering if anyone knows off hand. The goose regs say nothing about a youth season here:
http://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/regs/animals/goose

But the duck regs here:
http://tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/outdoor-annual/regs/animals/duck

Have this section in it:

Youth Only Season
15 years of age or younger. Regular season bag limits apply for all legal species of geese, ducks, mergansers and coots. Dusky ducks are legal during the youth only season. Youth hunters must be accompanied by an adult at least 18 years of age.


I don't have a youth hunter any more, just wondering...

It is confusing and not clear. There was a thread on this few years ago, and pretty sure Sniper John or someone ran down the answer, and I remember TPWD was going to make it more clear the next year, guess that never happen. But pretty sure, for north zone youth opener, for example, you can shoot geese in that zone, and normal bag limits applie.

Re: Youth Goose Season? [Re: Guy] #6524179 11/02/16 10:40 PM
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So when you can shoot them, use duck zone, bag limit based on goose zones.

Re: Youth Goose Season? [Re: LarryCopper] #6524369 11/03/16 12:32 AM
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OK gotcha, good to know. My nephew might be hunting youth this weekend as it turns out. There are some honkers around...


Re: Youth Goose Season? [Re: LarryCopper] #6524492 11/03/16 01:19 AM
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As an example, RR and Bridgeport are both in duck north zone so youth can kill ducks and gueese on these 2 lakes, but your goose bag limit for Bridgeport is west zone and RR is east zone.

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