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Here are sample duck, goose and sandhill crane hunting packages we offer in south Texas, central Texas and on the famous "rice prairies" south of Houston. If you do not see what you want, call us. We custom package hunts all of the time. On all of these hunts, you must bring any licenses, stamps and or permits required. Unless otherwise stated, you also provide your own local transportation, guns and shells, waders, camo clothes and any other personal gear needed. We provide the guide, retriever, decoys (you help put out and pick up except on executive class hunts) and a prescouted place to hunt. We also provide other services as mentioned in each package. If it's not mentioned, assume we don't provide it. On anything that we don't provide, arrangements can be made to have it waiting for you when you get there (except alcoholic beverages; you may bring your own, but no consumption before or while hunting).
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Price Ea Du, Go Type Hunt Where Lodging Meals Your Dogs
$135 up Duck 1/2 Day, Day Choke Canyon Not included Not included OK or mine
$125 up Duck 1/2 Day, Day San Antonio Not included Not included OK or mine
$150 up Both AM only Hubbard Not included Not included Limited
$150 Both AM only Bay City Not included Not included Limited
$150 Teal AM teal & PM fish Bay City Not included Not included Limited
$700 Duck 2 All Day pkg Crystal City Nice & Incl Nice & Incl OK or mine
Duck and goose seasons are pretty convoluted in Texas this year. There are three duck zones and two goose zones, all with different regs, and we hunt them all. Basically, it's early November to end of January for dark geese. Late October to end of February for light geese. End of October to late January for ducks. Click this link to check with
Texas Parks and Wildlife for the specific details.
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a limit kind of duck hunting day
Near Three Rivers, Texas
Duck hunts only here (almost); on a public hunting area of several thousand acres. Fully guided, with decoys and using your dog or mine (when appropriate). We usually meet at the boat ramp early and take a dark ride to some very good shooting.
This is consistently one of the highest bird per man producers of any public area in the state, and I know where all of the hot spots are. All common puddle species available, including some Cinnamon Teal. There are also several diving duck species, including quite a good number of Canvasback. The occasional Specklebelly Goose is also taken, as are some Sandhill Crane. On one hunt, a couple of years ago, 3 people took their 18 ducks plus 2 geese and had 11 different species of waterfowl. This is the giant variety pack of waterfowl hunting, folks. Come on and join the fun!
In addition to the normal duck hunting licenses and stamps, you'll need a public hunt permit at $48 (per year). Then you pay me to guide and for the use of decoys as follows;
1 person, am or pm $200, am & pm $300
2 person, am or pm $300 total ($150 ea), am & pm $500 total
3 person, am or pm only $405 total, am & pm $525 total
(That's just $135 a person 1/2 day, or $175 full day).
3 people (plus me) is the maximum that my boat will legally haul. NOTE: I can book more than three gunners because I have other guides that will help me out. You are responsible for your own lodging and meals. I recommend The Bass Inn (361-786-3521), or Executive Inn in Three Rivers, or camp at the state park on Choke Canyon Lake, Calliham unit. I reserve the right to mix groups up to 3 hunters in the boat (not normal, but I might do it).
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UPDATE: The 2007-08 season is underway. Teal hunting is open and there have been some unbelieveably big flocks of teal passing through. My guides and scouts tell me they saw a couple bunches well over 100 birds each. They also saw several mottled ducks, whistlers, and even a fair number of pintail. The water level is WAY up, and there is duck food everywhere. The regular season should be AWESOME!
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UPDATE: The regular season has started, and it is looking like another great year! Two guides and 5 hunters out for the morning on opening day, and seven full limits of ducks into the dock. If the clients could hit better, the hunt would have been over in about 20 minutes. There were literally a couple thousand birds there.
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UPDATE: December 26; two guides and four hunters braved the 30 MPH north wind to blast ducks this morning. It was worth the trouble. A full limit was floating on the water shortly after 8:00 a.m.
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a great sandhill crane hunt in Texas
Near Bay City, Texas
For this hunt, we operate out of Bay City, about 100 miles southwest of Houston. This is a fully guided hunt, primarily for goose or sandhill crane, but if ducks come into the spread and season is open, bang away!
The basic price here is $150 per gun. You may also upgrade to an executive class hunt, where you never touch a decoy, for just $35 extra each hunter (only available for private party hunts). If you book 6 or more adults at a time, we give you a "private party hunt", meaning a field and guide all to yourselves. We reserve the right to combine smaller groups or singles in a spread. OR, pay for 6 and get a private party hunt even if it's just you, or two, etc. 
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With at least three adults, 
youth hunters under 17 are entitled to a $50 discount!!!
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great amenities at this Texas hunting lodge
Near Crystal City, Texas
This is a comfortable lodge with all of the amenities, including; swimming pool, jacuzzi, game room, excersise room, big screen satellite TV and lighted sporting clays range.
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Good, filling, home style food is also provided. The hunt will cover 3 days and 2 nights,
to start at noon on the first day and end at noon on the third (2 FULL days of hunting). We will hunt duck in the am and can hunt dove in the pm (if in season). Sandhill crane are in this area in GOOD numbers at times. Specklebelly geese are often around as well. Hog/varmint hunts can also be arranged. The basic cost of this package is $700 per hunter with a 3 hunter minimum. A non-hunter may accompany you for just $300. To hunt hogs/varmints is no extra charge, but if you actually shoot any hogs, they are $100 each (limit of two). Axis, aoudad, blackbuck and several other exotics are also available with a harvest fee per each ($350-$8500). Crane hunts are an extra $50 per person per 1/2 day of sandhill hunting. Field care and skinning/quartering of all waterfowl taken is included, as well as temporary cold storage. On ranch transportation is also included. Kennels are available for your dogs. No pets allowed in any building or off leash while around camp.
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Duck Hunts by the Day Near San Antonio
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I manage a couple of small ponds (3 to 10 acres) near southside San Antonio for ducks. After two years of major drought, the rains are back now and these ponds are looking GREAT for 2007-08 season! They are full of water and loaded up with duckweed, pondweed, jap burr, jap lantern, milletgrass and plenty more foods that ducks love to eat. One pond even partially floods a freshly harvested corn field. Reserve your teal, youth, fall or winter season hunting dates NOW and save money.
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Hunters
A.M. Only
Add P.M. Hog or Deer
One
$150
$150
Two
$135 ea.
$135 ea.
Three
$125 ea.
$125 ea.
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UPDATE: The 2007-08 season has started with a bang. Teal hunting is open and there have been several flocks of teal passing through. I sent two clients home happy after a morning only hunt on Saturday, with 8 great shooting opportunities where teal were actually setting in or right over the decoys. First shots were 20 to maybe 25 yards. We even got a banded bird. Inbetween teal flocks, the black bellied whistlers were driving us crazy. Even saw a pair of smiling mallards and a pair of gadwall. I can't wait until the regular season opener.
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UPDATE: Regular season opener.  It was FOGGY! The ducks flew later than usual because of that, and I blew the set up somehow. I know that because numerous flocks of birds would be working great, then suddenly break off at about 50 yards and go set at the far end of the pond, but they did fly, and I did get several flocks into the dekes, and we did get plenty of shooting in. All in all, a very good start! Black bellied whistlers, teal and gadwall were the take.
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UPDATE: December 22. Just two hunters this morning at SA Pond #1. The hunters went home with a limit of birds, mostly because of a great pass on a flock of blackbelly whisters where we knocked down 6 birds. There were well over 150 ducks on the pond at first light, but a couple of shotgun blasts later, the pond was empty, and they were SLOW to come back. If it weren't for several misses on them fast flying little teal, we'd have got done quicker. Oh well, I sure don't hit every bird, either. I scouted SA Pond #2 after this hunt and there were at least 300 ducks there.
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UPDATE: February 01. The season is over now, but I'm already looking forward to next year. I managed a limit on the last hunt of the year at SA Pond #1 in about 20 minutes. Despite shooting a few hundred ducks off this pond this year, this morning, there were still 300 plus ducks roosting there. SA Pond #2 had over 100 ducks on it yesterday afternoon. If we get any rain this summer and early fall, the 2008 season should be just as good as this one was.
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Ducks and Geese at Hubbard, Texas
(about an hour and a half southeast of Dallas)
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