My son got drawn for some public land near Corsicana, Texas. Texas Parks and Wildlife has flooded a huge tract, and divided it up with levees into something like 20 hunting compartments. The whole thing is very impressive. There were ducks everywhere. He hunted for two days, and I went for fun, as I was not drawn.

Looks like a great day!

I enjoy upland birds, quail & pheasant, But I’ve hunted ducks in the Delmarva area over the last 20yrs and it’s a blast. Lots of fast shooting!

Nice. Diving ducks can be fun to kill. We used to go out to Mississippi and hunt pins like this on big catfish farms. Looks like yall were killing ringnecks and redheads? We killed a bunch of bluebills (scaup).

Nice outing. Even though you weren't drawn I'm sure you had a great time. Watching ducks work decoys and make approaches has always been entertaining to me.

Hoping the current cold weather systems moving this way pushes more birds down here to the deep south. We've got about 2 weeks of season left.

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
Nice. Diving ducks can be fun to kill. We used to go out to Mississippi and hunt pins like this on big catfish farms. Looks like yall were killing ringnecks and redheads? We killed a bunch of bluebills (scaup).

The photos just happened to be divers. There were all kinds of ducks. Mallards, shovelers, canvasbacks (that is a canvasback in the photo, by the way), ringnecks, redheads, scaup, and pintails. (Although I didn't see any pintails.) Tens of thousands of coots. Duncan even shot a greenwing teal, which should be long gone from Texas by now.

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
Nice. Diving ducks can be fun to kill. We used to go out to Mississippi and hunt pins like this on big catfish farms. Looks like yall were killing ringnecks and redheads? We killed a bunch of bluebills (scaup).

The photos just happened to be divers. There were all kinds of ducks. Mallards, shovelers, canvasbacks (that is a canvasback in the photo, by the way), ringnecks, redheads, scaup, and pintails. (Although I didn't see any pintails.) Tens of thousands of coots. Duncan even shot a greenwing teal, which should be long gone from Texas by now.

yeah I see the black bill now. very nice.

were they decoying much or mostly pass shooting?

On the first day the weather was overcast and the winds were really high. They were moving around the flooded area, but not really getting up and flying. On that day they were decoying some as they moved around the wetland.

The second day was a bluebird day, and they were getting up in the morning and just going to wherever ducks go. That was mostly pass shooting. I did give him shooting opportunities by moving around the edges of his hunting compartment, and spooking them into flying.

TPWD cut off hunting at noon, as they want the birds to not be disturbed as they come to the wetland in the evening.

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Originally posted by jhe888:

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
Nice. Diving ducks can be fun to kill. We used to go out to Mississippi and hunt pins like this on big catfish farms. Looks like yall were killing ringnecks and redheads? We killed a bunch of bluebills (scaup).

The photos just happened to be divers. There were all kinds of ducks. Mallards, shovelers, canvasbacks (that is a canvasback in the photo, by the way), ringnecks, redheads, scaup, and pintails. (Although I didn't see any pintails.) Tens of thousands of coots. Duncan even shot a greenwing teal, which should be long gone from Texas by now.

yeah I see the black bill now. very nice.

were they decoying much or mostly pass shooting?