Outdoor Briefs
Texas’ 2019-20 duck and goose hunting seasons are set to get underway in early November in most of the state. The only exception is the High Plains Mallard Management Unit in the Texas Panhandle, which opened for two days Oct. 26-27 before reopening Nov. 1, 2019-Jan. 26, 2020.
The first split of the South Zone duck season runs Nov. 2-Dec. 1 and resumes Dec. 14, 2019-Jan 26, 2020. In the North Zone, the first split runs Nov. 9-Dec. 1 and resumes Dec. 7, 2019-Jan. 26, 2020. There is a two-day Youth Only season in the North Zone on Nov. 2-3.
The daily bag limit on ducks is six per day, no more than five mallards, of which only two may be hens, three wood ducks, three scaup, two redheads, two canvasback, one pintail and one “dusky duck” (mottled, black or Mexican-like) and may only be taken after the first five days of the season in the respective zones. Mergansers: five per day with no more than two hooded mergansers. Coots, 15 per day.
Goose season in the East Zone runs Nov. 2, 2019-Jan. 26, 2020 and Nov. 2, 2019-Feb. 2, 2020 in the West Zone. The daily bag limit on geese is five dark geese, to include no more than two white-fronted geese and 20 light geese.
Also, the statewide quail season opened Oct. 26 and runs through Feb. 23, 2020. Daily bag limit is 15.