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First hunt of the year for big ducks #9139196 11/15/24 11:32 AM
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All water we hunt is waaaaaay low- found a good feed, gadwalls mainly, teal wigeon and mallards. Couldn’t hunt on the X mud was way too deep. Setting up 100 yards away- hopefully can draw them in

Haven’t seen any posts, so assuming not a lot going on in N Tx


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Re: First hunt of the year for big ducks [Re: Greekangler] #9139260 11/15/24 02:36 PM
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Finally seeing some ducks as of yesterday.

Re: First hunt of the year for big ducks [Re: Greekangler] #9139346 11/15/24 05:00 PM
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We only had blue wings last weekend. So let it sit til this weekend. Have seen a few more ducks and geese show up......so we will see this weekend.


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Re: First hunt of the year for big ducks [Re: Greekangler] #9139368 11/15/24 05:46 PM
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I haven't even hunted yet since big duck season started, I been focused on rigging my new boat and figuring it out, only 5 hours on it. I have scouted twice, I have seen few, nothing to get excited about. The 2 times I have gone out scouting have seen deer swimming across a cove. Nice buck here, especially on public.

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Re: First hunt of the year for big ducks [Re: Greekangler] #9139378 11/15/24 06:04 PM
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We had a great hunt today- 2 guns 11 total. Off by 8:30 hunting 3 in am. Did not shoot into any groups over five birds, save it for am. Pretty good feed going on.

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Re: First hunt of the year for big ducks [Re: Greekangler] #9139635 11/16/24 11:56 AM
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Heading out. Good luck to all. Low expectations again today….see what happens


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Re: First hunt of the year for big ducks [Re: Greekangler] #9139841 11/16/24 10:29 PM
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Day and night to Friday am- got 4 wigeon/gaddies- saw 2 groups, one worked, and a single. Real slow. Didn’t see duck after 7:30


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Re: First hunt of the year for big ducks [Re: Greekangler] #9140960 11/19/24 01:58 AM
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What part of Texas are you hunting?

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Ended up with 10 Saturday. Should’ve been our 2 limits. But first 2 groups of teal had me shooting a little rusty. lol.
Only saw teal and gadwall.
Sunday was slow. 4 groups of teal and only shot 6 with 2 guns.


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Re: First hunt of the year for big ducks [Re: TexasResident1] #9141287 11/19/24 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by TexasResident1
What part of Texas are you hunting?


Bonham Area last weekend. Nice shoot Sinkey


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Re: First hunt of the year for big ducks [Re: Greekangler] #9141359 11/19/24 11:12 PM
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There's a ton of sheet water out west so hunting the ponds out there isn't very productive. Since then I've been scouting and hunting all around. If you find 'em, there's a lot. Seems like you either have a ton or barely any at all right now. Last week on public got a solo, then a two man, then three man limits. Mostly teal and pintail with some gaddies, wigeon, and mallards mixed in.

They're stale tho and not wanting to work. Hopefully this little front pushes new birds down.


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Nope, same stale birds. Did manage a "coastal" limit... pintail, 2 redheads, and 3 teal. Prolly gonna focus on deer the next few days, but might sneak out in the morning before heading out west. Got some vacation to burn, just not sure if getting up at 3 then trynna get out there for the afternoon deer hunt is a great idea. I don't handle lack of sleep as well as I used to LOL.


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We have a trickle of 3-5 bird groups coming in today to feed early. Maybe get a decent shoot this weekend. We will see. Looks like Sat AM is the best day/ winds 10-20 plus sun. Should be able to decoy most of what we see. Gadwall flocks have been 2/3x that size. See what we have. We dont shoot into 5+ groups unless we have 3-4 guns. Plan is to get all singles and 2-3 packs, get 2-3 out of five, or more if feet down. Water situation tough- the outside decoy is at about 25 yards, so if they cut you short your looking at 35-50 yard shots- heavy shot is lethal if on target and very ethical.

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Originally Posted by Greekangler
Looks like Sat AM is the best day/ winds 10-20 plus sun.

South wind. No new birds with a south wind. Wind has been from the north all week, but starts to shift today.

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Looks like Sat AM is the best day/ winds 10-20 plus sun.

South wind. No new birds with a south wind. Wind has been from the north all week, but starts to shift today.


Not sure where y’all are seeing 10-20 winds in the morning. My app is showing basically none!


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Looks like Sat AM is the best day/ winds 10-20 plus sun.

South wind. No new birds with a south wind. Wind has been from the north all week, but starts to shift today.


Not sure where y’all are seeing 10-20 winds in the morning. My app is showing basically none!

Because you looked 10 hours later and the forecast changed. The wind did shift from north to south, but the higher winds kick up later.

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We saw more ducks than opener but managed 6. 3 mallards, 2 ringers and wigeon. Stale and wouldn’t decoy at all w south wind around 9MPH and sun. Had group land 3 minutes before legal-unlucky. Beautiful day, though! [Linked Image]


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Re: First hunt of the year for big ducks [Re: Greekangler] #9143285 11/24/24 01:18 AM
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It blew 10-20 this afternoon. But I always look 6am-10am. We had 0 wind til almost 9. And at 9 it wasn’t much. We only shot 5. Gadwall and teal. We need some weather in a bad way!


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Originally Posted by Sinkey
It blew 10-20 this afternoon. But I always look 6am-10am. We had 0 wind til almost 9. And at 9 it wasn’t much. We only shot 5. Gadwall and teal. We need some weather in a bad way!



You see many, or just stale. We did see more mallards, but everything was tough working


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We have a real cold front coming in next week, should send some ducks your way.
We're froze up now around here except the rivers and creeks.

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It blew 10-20 this afternoon. But I always look 6am-10am. We had 0 wind til almost 9. And at 9 it wasn’t much. We only shot 5. Gadwall and teal. We need some weather in a bad way!



You see many, or just stale. We did see more mallards, but everything was tough working


Didn’t see many at all. Saw way more on our last hunt. But still all teal and gadwall. Just not a lot of big ducks down. We need a big push.


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So slow my wife fell asleep. lol. And that never happens.


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Pretty good push last few days. Weekend should be real good. Too busy to hunt this wk. Turned on pump in wetland today. About 2-3 weeks late


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