If you like duck hunting in Texas, click on the text link below and read this article. Also, get out your duck hunting gear and start making plans. Tenative dates for the upcoming season are listed below.
Texas duck hunters can thank the Hunter’s Choice bag limit experiment for saving them from seeing two considerable changes in duck regulations this coming season.
TEXAS’ PROPOSED 2008-09 WATERFOWL SEASONS
Season dates and bag limits Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials are proposing for the 2008-09 late-season migratory game bird-hunting seasons:
Ducks
• North Zone regular season: Nov. 1-30 and Dec. 13-Jan. 25; youth-only Oct. 25-26.
• South Zone regular season: Nov. 1-30 and Dec. 13-Jan. 25; youth-only Oct. 25-26.
• High Plains regular season: Oct. 25-26 and Oct. 31-Jan. 25; youth-only Oct. 18-19.
• Bag limit: Five ducks per day, to include no more than two scaup, two redheads, two wood ducks and one from the following group of ducks — mallard hen, canvasback, pintail, “dusky” (mottled, black, Mexican-like).
Geese
• Eastern Zone season: Light (snow, blue, Ross) geese, Nov. 1- Jan. 25; white-fronted geese, Nov. 1-Jan. 11; Canada geese, Nov. 1-Jan. 25.
• Bag limit: Light geese, 20 per day; Canada geese, three per day; whitefronts, two per day.
• Light Goose conservation season: Jan. 26-March 9.
• Western Zone season: Light (snow, blue, Ross) and dark (Canada, white-fronted), Nov. 8-Feb. 8.
• Bag limit: Light geese, 20 per day, Canada geese, four per day; whitefronts, one per day.
• Light Goose conservation season: Feb. 9-March 29.
Sandhill cranes
• Zone A season: Nov. 8-Feb. 8.
• Zone B season: Nov. 28-Feb. 8.
• Zone C season: Dec. 20-Jan. 25.
• Bag limits: Three per day for Zones A and B; two per day for Zone C.
