2024-2025 Official Duck Hunting Thread

[droebuck]

Saw a few ringers on my small pond right at dark yesterday. Had a great hunt this morning. Too dang cold , but mister buddy helps. Shells on ice and a bloody dog= a great hunt.

Nice hunt my friend. Got a nice cotton top in there too.

[DUKFVR]

Cool stuff David! I love hunting out that way. My buddy hasn't had enough on his place to hunt this year. Usually see several on the way home from the lease around Cisco but it was empty too.

This is the 1st birds I have had on my place all season. Very sad.

[DUKFVR]

What a difference a good cold front makes! Hadn't hunted since the opener due to the lack of ducks where I hunt but the little cold front that blew through around New Years changed that. Woke up January 1st and headed out to hunt a stock tank that had recently started holding some birds. A lot of birds showed up and left before shooting light but we were able to scratch out a two man limit with some quality birds and a couple bonus geese. If we wanted a strap full of ringnecks we probably could've limited out in about 5 minutes lol. First and only hunt of the year previously I shot my first Wood Duck drake on a public lake, second hunt of the year went back to my normal private stock tanks and my buddy and myself shot our first Canvasback drakes which neither of us have ever really seen in the area before!


Headed back out last Sunday morning to get a quick hunt in before church. Was on the road around 5am and my truck said it was 66 degrees out, about 5:20 I gripped the steering wheel as a strong gust of wind blasted the truck and it was like someone kicked the AC on full blast. I watched the temperature drop about 20 degrees in less than 10 minutes. Got started setting up at the tank we were planning on hunting and was surprised we were able to get the panel blind to stay with us the way the winds were howling. Shooting proved difficult with the wind blowing our shots off, but once we figured it out we ended up with one of the coolest groups of ducks I've gotten on a hunt. 10 ducks, 5 species, and all drakes. Including 3 Stud mallards and 3 more canvasbacks!! Headed home the temperature in my truck read 32 degrees but it felt a heckuva lot colder with the wind. The quantity of hunts this season has been very low but the quality has been incredible! Hoping for all of us to have a strong finish to the season!

Congrats on the hunts!
Were are u hunting?
You are about the only one I know who got any birds from the front. Most of us lost birds or didn't see a difference.

[PoppinPiggies]

Congrats on the hunts!
Were are u hunting?
You are about the only one I know who got any birds from the front. Most of us lost birds or didn't see a difference.

I am hunting in Clay and Wichita Counties mainly. I drive 287 from Decatur to Wichita Falls multiple times a week and have seen new birds show up since the cold front on tanks from about Bowie to Iowa Park. Hoping this current weather pushes some more down if it wasn't for work and family obligations I'd be out there hunting for sure!

[PoppinPiggies]

My inlaws live on the Brazos near Granbury and have told me they've started seeing some Mallards as well. Wish I could hunt the river in the morning!

[Sasqy]

I bet it’s gonna be good, now season is almost over !

[DUKFVR]

I am hunting in Clay and Wichita Counties mainly. I drive 287 from Decatur to Wichita Falls multiple times a week and have seen new birds show up since the cold front on tanks from about Bowie to Iowa Park. Hoping this current weather pushes some more down if it wasn't for work and family obligations I'd be out there hunting for sure!

Glad for you. I'm in young county and we didn't get enough to see. Ponds still empty around us. Good Luck the rest of the season!

[Buck hunter332]

Smashed them in the lad cut today pintail red heads gwt and some buffleheads

[150class]

Hundreds, if not thousands, of new birds showed up the last couple days here at the Chambers property. Only issue is they look to be 99% pintails lol

We will be giving it a whirl Saturday but it might be 6 guys shooting 6 pintails and watching the other 1000 that come in fly around. Better than sleeping in though.

[Flyway12]

Work closed today so we tried it north of DFW. Ended with 7. Saw a good number of pintail. Ended with 3 greenheads, a sprig, a gwt and two blue bills. Can’t say I’m seeing a ton of new birds but we are at least seeing some.

[jaker_cc]

Smashed them in the lad cut today pintail red heads gwt and some buffleheads

I’ll be on the coast the next 3 weekends hunting. If you want to join let me know

[Lamar_TTU12]

Still not seeing any new birds around DFW was hoping to escape this weekend to chase ducks but this weather going to effect that.

[hoytassassin]

Not so sure we picked up any birds since the front… pretty dead out on the properties I hunt. Seen 2 birds this morning.

[LivinADream]

Hunted Saturday, lots of pigtail. Nithing would finish, ended with 1 sprig, but a good one.

Hunted this morning in the woods and killed my first band. I've been a "part" of 3 bands, but this is the first that I know for sure i killed, and it was on my own property. Ended up with 5.

[jaker_cc]

We had a pretty good couple of mornings on the coast this weekend. Picked out and killed our redheads very easily. We killed a mottled duck and a pintail Saturday morning as our odd birds. This morning we killed our redheads again and 3 shoveler hens that came in on a rope. Passed up some sky blast opportunities on pintails we might have winged, but decided to just watch them instead. Winter tides are sure in effect, broke the skeg off my motor at the boat ramp.