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Duck Hunting, Scouting Reports

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We hunt ducks at several locations across Central Texas and South Texas, as well as near the Texas Coast. Click on the link that interests you most to go directly to that area's scouting and duck hunting reports, or scroll down to read them all.
Bay City Area Duck Hunts

San Antonio Duck Hunting Ponds

Choke Canyon Lake

Hubbard Wetlands and Soil Cons. Lakes

Crystal City Duck Hunts

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San Antonio Duck Hunting Ponds
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2009/2010:
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August 20, 2009 scouting report! No water right now. There is a surprising amount of good duck food growing in what was my wetlands though, so if a tropical something comes in and rains like crazy to fill these ponds up, well, it could be AWESOME!
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October 23, 2009 sciuting report! NO WATER! STILL! COME ON RAIN, PLEASE!
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January 01, 2010 hunting report! Yep. that's right, I said hunting report. We FINALLY got enough water in the ponds to do a bit of hunting. It wasn't hot and heavy action, but I shot my limit this morning. That's always a good way to start the new year!
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January 05, 2010 hunting report! I shot another limit today. The first 5 came fast and easy, but the last one took over 2 hours to show up. I hate to admit it, but I fanned a nice flock of mallards at point blank range or I would have been done in about 45 minutes. DANG! First mallards I've seen down here this duck season.
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January 08, 2010 hunting report! Out by myself again, since everyone canceled their hunts because of the lack of ducks earlier in the season. I shot another limit. My shooting was pretty much a carbon copy of the 5th, except for the mallard mess up (don't want to do that again). I put 5 ducks down early, then waited for 2 hours for the next flock to show so I could take my last bird. Then had ducks through twice more before I could pick up decoys and get out of the area. Not near the number of birds I saw on the 5th though. Hope it picks back up.

January 11, 2010 scouting report! No big concentrations of ducks but a few to quite a few everywhere I looked. It should be decent the next few days.
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January 13, 2010 hunting report! Figures, I have no hunters booked when I have plenty of birds. Shot a limit of ducks in about half an hour this morning, so went to one of my dove areas and shot a limit of dove, too. I even got a couple of snipe.
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January 17, 2010 scouting report! WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE! After 3 solid days of rain, we actually have too much water. The birds have scattered out to all the newly flooded areas, where they can use the newly flooded food sources. But, I've seen more birds than I have in a long time. It might get real good for this last week of hunting.
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January 18, 2010 hunting and scouting report! Not a great shoot, but not bad. I called the shot 6 times this morning. All calls were on birds in perfect range and position. My shooter put 5 down and would have limited, but had gun problems. Basically, his pump gun became a single shot. After the hunt, I scouted and found 2 real nice bunches of birds. All I have to do now is get permission to shoot at them. Of course, they wouldn't be somewhere I already have permission.

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2008/2009:
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August 25, 2008 scouting report! The water level came up about 4 1/2 feet after the rains we got in late July and early August. It's looking really promising despite the fact that it flooded out my planted Jap Millet. That's because it's being replaced by native millets, smartweed, duckweed, pondweed and other prime duck foods. I can't believe how fast this stuff is growing, but sure am pleased to see it. When the big ducks come south, they will hang around these ponds FOR SURE! I saw a nice flock of teal while I was there, as well as 38 blackbelly whistlers. That will start the season off well, even if we don't get any big ducks in by then.

. October 11, 2008 scouting report! Pray for rain, PLEASE! We haven't had a drop of rain here since middle August. The ponds have lost most of the water they picked up in July. There is TONS OF DUCK FOOD growing around the ponds though. All we need is a good rain to flood that food and we'll have ducks galore!
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November 04, 2008 scouting report! No ducks. Pond is almost dry. What should be 4 to 7 acres of water is now down to about 1/2 acre. Unless we have a miracle cloud burst hit south side of San Antonio, there will be no duck hunts here this year.
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December 18, 2008 hunting report! Yep, I actually went hunting on this little bitty piece of water that is left of what should be my duck pond. I had seen some ducks on it a few days earlier, during the split, so decided to give it a whirl. I only shot three times, but I killed all three ducks. At least I can say that I actually got to hunt this pond this year. After all the time and money I put into it, those are some awfully expensive duck fillets though!
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Choke Canyon Lake
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2009/2010 Season
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August 20, 2009 scouting report! The lake level is dropping pretty fast due to the drought, but we've had some great hunts on Choke in drought years. The lack of water in all the small ponds around the area forces the birds to the big lake and right in front of our guns. BOOK YOUR HUNT NOW!
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September 12, 2009 hunting report! Opening day of teal. It thundered and rained, and my clients didn't show but it quit raining just about legal shooting light and I went out by myself. A limit came quickly after I moved 100 yards from my original set up.
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September 15, 2009 hunting report! I don't know where all the teal went, but they aren't here right now.
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September 23, 2009 hunting report! I shot my limit, but it's a good thing I didn't miss. Not many teal around. The lake keeps dropping.
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October 21, 2009 scouting report! Thank You Lord! The lake actually came up a little due to the recent rains. It has helped a lot, flooding back into some sedges that are dropping seeds good. Add to that, the cool fronts that have come in already and guess what; WE GOT DUCKS! Now, don't get me wrong. It's not like there are thousands of them or anything, but I guarantee I'd have shot my limit this morning. It looks like early season will be pretty good.

October 24 to November 24. The best hunt of the year has been a paltry 11 ducks for 4 guys and they were decent shots, too. That was the first week. The rest of the hunts have been really poor. I was skunked for the first time in over 4 years here, and that has happened twice. Water is back down to over 9 feet below conservation level and falling daily, leaving the duck food high and dry and the hunters with no cover in which they can hide. Very little duck food, very few ducks, simple as that. Nowhere to hide, can't kill the few that are there. I will not book any more hunts for this season at this location.
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January 16, 2010 hunting report. With all the recent rain, decided to try it one more weekend. Unfortunately, the lake only came up about 4 inches. Between all my friends there were 22 hunter days on the lake. A total of 4 ducks shot. YUCK! THAT SUCKED!

2008/2009 Season
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August 28, 2008 scouting report! The 2008-09 season is holding a lot of promise this year. The lake level has stayed pretty full despite the 10 month drought that south Texas went through. As of August 28, it is less than 3 feet from FULL, and it's raining there as I write this report. There is duck food EVERYWHERE. The hydrilla has made mats sometimes a quarter mile out from shore. The shore itself is lined with sedges and smartweeds, both favorites of ducks. Wherever the hydrilla isn't quite so thick, there is plenty of pondweeds and arrowhead. I saw several teal already, and there were a lot of resident ducks around as well; blackbelly whistlers, woodies and mottle ducks. Get your dates reserved now. I got a feeling it's going to be a season for the record books!
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September 16, 2008 teal hunting report! Talk about starting out with a bang! Every hunter in every group we had out shot their limit and did it in short order. Several flocks of 40 to as many as 80 birds were seen. Smaller flocks were in sight almost constantly. In a word, WOW!

September 19, 2008 teal hunting report! Well, it really slowed down from the opener. It took me and my one hunter a whole 40 minutes to knock down a limit yesterday. If this had been my first hunt of the year, I'd be really excited. It was a GREAT HUNT! It just wasn't like the opener.

September 22, 2008 teal hunting report! O.K., it really did slow down now, but I still can NOT call it a bad hunt. I had a total of 4 hunters and myself shooting and we knocked down a full limit. Because of lost birds in THICK cover though, we hit the boat ramp two birds shy. Fog seemed to keep the birds down for a long time. At 8:00 a.m., we had ZERO birds and only two shots fired. At 9:00 a.m., we were up to a whopping three birds in hand and about a dozen empty hulls, yippee! Then the fog lifted. We were shot out at 11:00 a.m., but again, we couldn't find two birds. Teal were still trickling in as we were leaving.

. October 10, 2008 scouting report! It's still looking really good for Choke this year. The water is dropping, but very slowly, and it has a long way to go before it would get to where the duck food was high and dry. With any rain, it will be AWESOME! Without rain, it'll still be good. There are still a lot of teal around, and I saw several big ducks as well; pintail, gadwall, mottled ducks and blackbelly whistlers.
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November 01, 2008 duck hunting report! WOW! I'll assume that because the small ponds all around here are bone dry, the ducks have really come to the lake. There are 1000's! Every hunter in every one of the groups we had out shot a limit and did it in short order.
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November 06, 2008 duck hunting report! This whole week has been great! Some days have been slower than others, like Monday was nothing compared to Saturday, but every hunter that has gone out with us has gotten their limit; even the guys that shot like sh..!
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November 15, 2008 duck hunting report! I personally haven't been out in the last week, but the guides with whom I work have all had good to very good reports. Today, there were not as many birds as there had been, but I limited out in about 15 minutes, despite the lowered numbers and some dingleberry setting up just downwind of us only minutes before legal and refusing to move. My clients didn't limit because they also refused to move, but they got close to a limit, and considering the problems that we had, that's not a bad morning.
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November 20, 2008 duck hunting report! The best duck hunt I have ever had!!! I was limited in just 4 minutes. You read that right; one, two, three, four minutes! I used 3 shots to finally drop the first bird, then 2 on the next one, then one, one, one and done! A shoveler drake, then pintail drake, a gadwall drake and hen on a double, then a drake greenwing teal to finish. Since I had no hunters until the next day, I just stayed out there with a camera until about 10 a.m. I lost track of how many times I put birds into or right over the decoys at around 50 times, but it was over 60 times total. One word; AWESOME!
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November 25, 2008 duck hunting report! Since the 20th, things have steadily gone downhill. The good thing is, it is still way better than most places ever dream of being. I had 4 clients out with me today and we all limited out by 10 a.m. I'm sort of glad the split is about here though. The birds need a rest, and so do I. See you when it opens back up on December 13.
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December 20, 2008 duck hunting report! I had a great hunt on the 19th by myself, doing some scouting for today's hunt. I only shot at the fully plumaged drakes and still shot my limit in under an hour. Today was also a shooting fest for sure. I had three clients go through more than 7 boxes of shells to get their limit at 9:35 a.m. We got a good variety of ducks, too, including: pintail, canvasback, bluewing, greenwing and cinnamon teal, shovelers, ringnecks and scaup. Several birds were of mounting quality.

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December 23, 2008 duck hunting report! You know you are spoiled when a limit shoot with several hunters seems like a slow day because it took until 10:40 a.m. to get it done, but get it done we did. Ducks were in or right over the decoys about 40 times. Now that's fun; I don't care who you are!
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January 26, 2009. Well, it's all over for another year. I was afraid that my unbroken streak of limit hunts was not going to hold up, but I got down to the last few days before it fell apart. Wednesday, I shot a limit of all drakes and all different species, then went scouting for the upcoming three days. Thursday started out slow but a move put us right in a couple thousand birds and limits came pretty quick after that, except for the last bird, which took about an hour to get. Friday, in the same spot we limited out the day before, 4 gunners shot just 4 birds, and they didn't really miss all that much. The birds had just disappeared. I scouted all afternoon and found very few birds. My hopes for Saturday were pretty low, but, Saturday yielded a real good amount of shooting; just not that much hitting. Still, 17 of the allowed 20 birds found their way to the bag. All in all, just a couple days in the whole season without sending people home with a limit; that ain't bad! Book your hunt for next year NOW! I had to turn away over a dozen groups this year because we were already booked up on the days that they wanted. Don't let that happen to you! .
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Hubbard Wetlands and Soil Cons. Lakes
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2009/2010 Season
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August 20, 2009. This area hasn't suffered from the drought nearly as much as has south Texas. The lakes are still pretty full, the ponds are still pretty full, and the wetlands even has some water in it, along with TONS of duck food. With any luck at all, this will be a real good year!
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October 21, 2009. The wetlands are FULL! Teal season went quite well. Duck food is all over the wetlands and ducks are coming in almost daily with the passing fronts. It should be an awesome year, especially the early season. BOOK YOUR HUNT NOW!
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October 24, 25, 2009. Youth season opening weekend. Good hunts! Had ducks in the decoys over a dozen times day one, and 10 times day two.
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October 31, 2009. Regular season is on, and I mean ON! Limits came fast and easy this morning.
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November 12, 2009. The shooting is slowing down a little, but still pretty darned decent. Those folks that shoot well, take home limits. Those that shoot poorly, don't, but the opportunity for limits has been there for everyone so far.
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November 23, 2009. It figures, the mallards, which everyone seems to want, start showing up in good numbers just in time for the split, when we can't hunt ducks. Over half our ducks today were big old fat greenheads. There has been good numbers of ducks all season so far, but not many mallards. I hope they stay through the split and build even more.
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December 12, 2009. It starts again, YEAH! Good hunts today. Every group out got plenty of shooting. Not all hit so many birds, but the birds were there.
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December 20, 2009. The big fronts we hoped would bring us more birds has done just the opposite. We have lost about half the ones we had. If you don't mind shooting divers on the soil con lakes, then we can still have a great time, but the puddle ducks are pretty much out of the area for now.
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December 28, 2009. They're BACK! Not in huge numbers, but good enough to wet most waterfowler's appetite. Allen and crew hunted a small flooded hole in the woods and took 6 mallards, 4 woodies and a ringneck. What a ringer was doing in the woods, I've no clue, but he didn't leave. Several other good shots were taken, but not made. It's hard to shoot well with 5 layers of clothes on, but it's still fun to be shooting.
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January 01, 2010. A new year, a new batch of ducks. The COLD weather has brought in new birds. Since they didn't know exactly what's what around here yet, they decoyed pretty easy. It was a fun day after a couple of frustrating ones. Hope the improvement hangs on.
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January 08, 2010. COLD! TOO COLD! Birds are not flying despite decent numbers being in the area. Late morning it picks up, just about the time to leave.
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January 13, 2010. Better weather, better hunting. Geese are finally showing up in huntable numbers, as well as a pretty good number of greenheads. If we had some hitters in the blinds instead of shooters, there would be some big old piles of birds on the ground. As it was, the stringers were decently heavy the last few days.
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January 16 to 18, 2010. First goose hunt of the year put almost 30 birds down. That's not bad at all, and considering that nearly 200 shells went pop, I'm going to call it a successful hunt. Two good duck shoots. Most shots were called when the birds were feet down, backflapping a foot or two over the decoys. Plenty of shells shot.
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2008/2009 Season . September 20, 2008 teal hunting report! This area is usually very good to excellent for regular duck season, but not known as a consistent teal area. This year, however, the teal have really been hanging around. Every hunter on every trip to the Soil Conservation Lake has shot their limit. Enough said about that!
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September 23, 2008 teal report and scouting report. Guides only hunting this morning. It took about 20 minutes to shoot limits. Nothing wrong with that! Head guide went by the wetlands to check things out. DUCK FOOD EVERYWHERE! It needs water bad though. Please pray for rain.
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October 06, 2008 scouting report. FINALLY GOT SOME GOOD RAIN! The soil cons. lakes were looking pretty decent before this rain, but now they are looking prime! The wetland project also caught a bit of water and there is so much food there that it is bound to draw a bunch of ducks when the big push gets to the area. It could use quite a bit more water though, so keep on praying for precipitation guys.
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November 03, 2008 duck hunting report. The water is leaving the wetlands fast, but the soil con lakes still look real good. Full limits for everybody on the guided hunts these first three days.
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November 10, 2008 duck hunting report. Full limits for everyone except one guy on the guided hunts during this last week. He could not hit much, as in I think he would have missed the lake had he shot at it on purpose. Said it was just not his day; he usually is a pretty good shot. Gee, I've never heard that one before, ha, ha!
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November 17, 2008 duck hunting report. A little slower this week, but not bad at all. Everyone got to shoot at more than a limit of ducks, including quite a few greenheads starting to show now, but not everyone knocked down a limit of ducks.
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November 22, 2008 duck hunting report. Only one group out on a guided hunt this week, and a one man guide hunt. Limits all around on those few hunts, but good shooting skills paid off. There was just enough shot opportunities to get it done.
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December 15, 2008 duck hunting report. Really slowing down now. The ducks have about all the food eaten up, and the lake levels keep falling because of no rain. Still, a fair number of hunts have gone well, while the days in-between have been the pits. Smaller hunting groups have done best while hunting small mallard holes.
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January 27, 2009. All done for another year. As is the usual case, early season was fair to good. Middle season was absolutely great. End season was mostly slow, with scattered good hunts in the mix. Don't wait until January next year. Learn from the past few seasons and book a hunt NOW for December 01 to 24 time frame.
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, Bay City Area Duck Hunts
. Hurricane Ike. No hunts held so far!
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October 06, 2008 scouting report. It's looking MUCH better than it did right after the hurricane. We might get a decent duck and goose year out of this yet. Keep checking back!
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November 23, 2008 report. I still have not personally gone on a hunt to this area this year, but I hear that it's not been bad at all. If Choke Canyon Lake runs out of ducks later, or someone just insists on going to this area, like on a duck and goose combo hunt, I'll go, but I can't see traveling that far from my home on Northside San Antonio unless I have to.

August 20, 2009 scouting report! I may have to go to the coast more this year. Things are coming back from the aftermath of Hurricanes last year. The marsh is starting to look like a salt marsh again, and the rice prairies are holding some water, too. Of course, fresh cut rice is always kick butt for the early teal season. BOOK THAT HUNT NOW, BEFORE WE ARE FULL UP!

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. Crystal City Duck Hunts
. No teal hunts held here. Things are shaping up good for the regular duck season though. The ponds all have plenty of duck food and a decent amount of water. If we get any kind of fall rains at all, it should be jam up great shooting!
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November 23, 2008 report. I just got back from this ranch and the duck hunting is looking pretty good. I shot a double banded drake mallard/mottle duck hybrid. One pond had nearly 200 birds sitting on it when I was scouting for deer. Mostly it was gadwall and widgeon, with some mallards, mottle duck, quite a few teal, some ringnecks, and one canvasback drake mixed in. Unfortunately, the lodge is full of hog, deer and exotic hunters until after the duck season is done UNLESS you can go December 18-19-20. There is room for one duck hunting party on those dates only.
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August 20, 2009 report. Hardly any water in the area, but we have irrigation to our ponds. If the rest of the area stays this dry, we'll have ALL the ducks! BOOK YOUR HUNT NOW, before we fill up hog hunters again.
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