South Zone Waterfowl Hunting Report

AUSTIN, December 5, 2007 - The second split of duck season opens 30 minutes before sunrise Dec. 8.

Duck numbers are excellent and building in the wake of the recent front that blew through over the weekend, an increase in mallards on the coast proves that.

Ponds on the Garwood, Eagle Lake and El Campo prairies are chalked full of teal, pintails, gadwalls, mallards, wigeons and shovelers. Duck numbers are excellent in the High Island marsh with great concentrations of green-winged teal, gadwalls, wigeons and shovelers. Ponds near Seadrift and Port O’Connor look solid. Rockport looks good in the freshwater marsh. Ducks are building on the bays with lots of pintails around San Antonio and Aransas Bays. The Laguna Madre is stacking up with rafts of redheads and pintails.

Goose hunting continues to be hit-or-miss. Geese are beginning to find winter wheat and rye grass fields which should help to pattern their daily movement. Prospects are good.

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