Another great Waterfowl Season for Run-N-Gun & NEW LODGE!

Another waterfowl season is in the books for us, minus storing all the gear until next year. First off we want to thank all of our customers for another great season. Without you, none of this would be possible. It's only been a couple weeks and we're already game planning how to improve for next year. We're going to try and keep water on a handful of ponds throughout the entire year to maximize aquatic vegetation growth. This isn't the cheapest way to produce duck food given the hot & dry summer months, but we feel it will help out tremendously during the later months of season. In fact, we're already pumping water in preparation for the summer and next season. As always we'll be planting even more acreage than the previous year and we're getting better at fine tuning when/where/how to protect each pond to maximize its potential. Single wire electric fence keeps the cows out, but you better up your game if you want to keep the deer and hogs out, lesson learned the hard way this year. The equation is constantly changing as Mother Nature is always throwing something different at us. We might not be the oldest group on the Texas Prairie, but you'll be hard pressed to find anyone else that works as hard as we do to produce for our clients. We have no offseason! Sure we're about to start training dogs and fishing again, but we do pond work every month of the year. Every year since starting the waterfowl division, our harvest numbers have increased. It's our goal to make sure they continue to increase and to improve every aspect of the experience. We'd be willing to put our harvest numbers up against anyone's on the prairie as far as average birds harvested per hunt. Our numbers from this season are below. They are not fudged at all and include a couple 0's, 2's and sub 10 bird hunts. But those are very few and far between as less than a dozen hunts did not hit the 15 bird mark.

2,361 birds harvested
112 hunts
21.1 bird average per hunt

Food, resting, rotating, scouting, food and more scouting are the keys to how we manage our properties and produce the way we do.

Here are just a handful of our favorite pictures from mid-Nov on and the NEW LODGE. Hope everyone had a great season and is ready to wet a line!

Nice season. Daniel I see Tom P. in the photographs. I somehow lost his number. Could you text him mine or call him and pass along my number 713 530 9182. We knew each other from way back in my port oconner days.

Sent you a PM

Great season! how many bands?

Great season for sure.

A lot of happy smiling faces!

9 bands, but 5 of them came in a 4 day stretch.

looks like you all had fun, congrats on great year.

You guys done good!

Took out a fella towards the end of season and he talked real highly about you guys.

Keep it up!

Thanks man and we do our best to make sure everyone has a great time.

Hope everyone is enjoying the offseason so far. We just finished finalizing millet order and pit blinds for next year. Looks like we'll be planting just over 400 acres next year for the ducks and sinking in 4-20ft pit blinds as well. Also were able to pump water and top off retention ponds on the properties that have them with the rain over the last couple of days. Now the rain can hold off for a little while and warmer temps would be great so all the farmers in our area can get to planting.

Matty(yellow lab from a lot of our pictures during season) had her pups two days ago and we're heading to the vet this morning to have dew claws removed. All pups and mom seem to be doing great. It won't be long and these little hunting machines will become mobile and then the real fun begins.

Great pics- looks like a great season! Might have to give it a try next fall!

Give us a shout or shoot us an email and we'll get you taken care of.

Daniel I got ahold of Tom on the telephone last night. It has been a while. Love the lodge in the pics. That on the south end or north end along the river?

It's roughly half way between Matagorda(ICW) and the Gulf of Mexico on the river.

I can't tell you how many times I have been down that stretch when they had the draw bridge, but yet to go with the other bridge. Go figure!

Matagorda has changed since the draw bridge days.

Looks like the club had a great season, and its been a couple of years since I've been on a goose hunt with Nick.

Nick is still mad at the geese if you want to get after them next season!

Here are a couple pictures of the pits we have on order for next season. Think ours will actually be bigger as we went with the 20fters with a dog box on each end. Link to the guys building them for us: http://arkansasduckblinds.com/