Quail Season Begins Oct. 28

10/28/2017


Location
Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept
Austin, Texas

More Info
800-792-1112





Quail season opens statewide on October 28 and ends February 25, 2018. The daily bag limit for bobwhite, scaled (blue) and Gambel's quail is 15, and the possession limit is 45. Legal shooting hours for all quail are 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset.

Overall quail numbers are strong, though this season is down from the boom numbers of last year. Forecasts by region:
Rolling Plains: above average
Trans Pecos: good
S. Texas Plains: good
Gulf Prairies: below average, up from last year
More information about the quail outlook in individual regions can be found in the quail forecast. Some regions also have suggested Public Hunting Lands with good prospects for quail this season. Over one million acres of this huntable land is available to you with a $48 Annual Public Hunting (APH) Permit.

Photo Courtesy Texas A&M University

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Fishing Report from TPWD (Apr. 17)

GOOD. Water normal stain; 58 degrees; 1.53 feet below pool. Striped bass fishing is great drifting live shad around the islands or past the bridges near the rivers. Rain should finish off the spawn and look for bait on the banks with feeding fish near them. Top waters are working on sandy flats in 2-8 feet of water. Smallmouth bass are good on live shad along the bluffs on the banks in 2-4 feet of water. Also fair on spooks early and look for largemouth off the banks in 6-12 feet of water on main lake points near rocks. Catfish are fair on cut shad along the rocks in 30-45 feet of water. Drifting cut rough fish or gizzard shad in 5-10 feet of water near the river could produce a big fish after a rain with an inflow of dirty water. Crappie are good on brush piles in 12-18 feet of water on jigs using electronics to locate active fish working in and out of the brush. Look for spawners shallow with warmer temperatures in the forecast. Report by Jacob Orr, Guaranteed Guide Service Lake Texoma. Threadfin shad are spawning along the banks. Hybrid stripers are good on topwaters in the morning along rocky banks. Some days the egrets are working leading the way to fish. Some schooling activity under gulls. After the morning bite ends switch to swimbaits and Alabama rigs in 10-25 feet of water on the edges and dropoffs. This pattern should hold for the next 4-6 weeks while shad spawn near docks and banks. Report by John Blasingame, Adventure Texoma Outdoors.

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