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I am a senior at UT and I LOVE duck hunting. This will be my second season and would have been my first ever teal season if I would have even seen a teal. I got addicted around winter break last season and hunted almost 20 days straight down in the Rio Grande Valley (where I'm from) and only got skunked once, but even then I saw hundreds of ducks. Also, a big majority of what we bag down in the RGV is teal.
Last Friday morning I went to Granger Lake with two friends in hopes of bagging some teal as that location is literally the only public land around this whole area (that I know of or is listed on the tpwd map). It was probably the most miserable day of my life with the longest hike in waders EVER and not even seeing a single bird fly except a seagull and some sort of crane. It was the most dead I have ever seen a body of water in my life. I did even more researching and have really only concluded that ducks hate central Texas and will just not fly here. This saddens me a lot considering the fact that back home in South Texas I hear of many hunters just destroying crazy amounts of teal.
A big thing that confuses me is that where I hunt back home does not show up on the tpwd map as public hunting land or anything, its just completely blank but tons of people know about it as public and are always there hunting or fishing. Also had never heard of anyone buying that Texas Public Land Permit thing I bought for absolutely no reason this teal season. Does this mean there are actually way more public hunting spots that are just not on that map? If so why is it like that? I have basically given up on teal season since its about to be over and I will be dove hunting this weekend with a bunch of friends hours away, but I would like to at least gain some information so I can be a little bit more at ease with the giant L we took and maybe have somewhere to go to once the regular season gets here and I'm still up here.
Last Friday morning I went to Granger Lake with two friends in hopes of bagging some teal as that location is literally the only public land around this whole area (that I know of or is listed on the tpwd map). It was probably the most miserable day of my life with the longest hike in waders EVER and not even seeing a single bird fly except a seagull and some sort of crane. It was the most dead I have ever seen a body of water in my life. I did even more researching and have really only concluded that ducks hate central Texas and will just not fly here. This saddens me a lot considering the fact that back home in South Texas I hear of many hunters just destroying crazy amounts of teal.
A big thing that confuses me is that where I hunt back home does not show up on the tpwd map as public hunting land or anything, its just completely blank but tons of people know about it as public and are always there hunting or fishing. Also had never heard of anyone buying that Texas Public Land Permit thing I bought for absolutely no reason this teal season. Does this mean there are actually way more public hunting spots that are just not on that map? If so why is it like that? I have basically given up on teal season since its about to be over and I will be dove hunting this weekend with a bunch of friends hours away, but I would like to at least gain some information so I can be a little bit more at ease with the giant L we took and maybe have somewhere to go to once the regular season gets here and I'm still up here.
