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Sabine NWR
Posted on 10/4/26 at 12:46 pm
Posted on 10/4/26 at 12:46 pm
Planning on making a hunt out there this year. Is the bottom soft mud or can you walk on it in chest waders?
Posted on 10/4/26 at 1:12 pm to Neckk
It’s been 55 years since I hunted out there but I walked in it with waders.
Posted on 10/4/26 at 1:29 pm to Neckk
2007 was my last hunt (E Unit) and it was walkable but you’ll know two days later. Worst is when the water gets blown out and you have to drag your pirogue.
Posted on 10/5/26 at 7:52 am to Neckk
Are there any ducks there? Back in the day, many moons ago on our drives back from Johnson's Bayou, there used to be clouds of geese landing on the east side of the road.
Posted on 10/5/26 at 8:19 am to aTmTexas Dillo
You can drive from Hackberry to Holy Beach now during the season and maybe see 20 ducks on the sides of the road. Not too long ago there woukd be thousands
Posted on 10/5/26 at 9:53 am to aTmTexas Dillo
Yep I member those days and haven’t seen it in 17 years. North of headquarters was the spot. The geese would also hit a spot hrg burned west of the ferry annually but that’s been over for years also.
Just a matter of time before the specks quit coming down past Morehouse parish.
Just a matter of time before the specks quit coming down past Morehouse parish.
Posted on 10/5/26 at 10:45 am to Neckk
The top 6 inches or so is soft then relatively hard
Posted on 10/5/26 at 1:36 pm to KemoSabe65
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Just a matter of time before the specks quit coming down past Morehouse parish.
You really meant Stuttgart, AR but honestly the MS Flyway specks are shifting more and more East into MS to go along with the Central Flyway specks that have basically quit coming down to the TX coast and now go to the panhandle.
Posted on 10/5/26 at 1:49 pm to MWP
GOOD
Posted on 10/5/26 at 1:53 pm to Park duck
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GOOD
You recover from Saturday yet? I think they put you on the prayer list on that other site.
Posted on 10/5/26 at 1:56 pm to MWP
I'm fine got to live everyday the best I can
Posted on 10/5/26 at 2:35 pm to Ron Cheramie
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You can drive from Hackberry to Holy Beach now during the season and maybe see 20 ducks on the sides of the road. Not too long ago there woukd be thousands
In the 1970's the geese would fill the rice fields at Gum Cove in what seemed like the millions. At night he noise of the low-flying geese was deafening; you couldn't run a boat down a canal without ducks exploding from the water. We'd go fishing there during Easter Break and the ditches and canals were filled with beaucoup ducks on their spring migration. Now you drive through rice country and see very little waterfowl other than black-bellied whistling ducks.
Posted on 10/5/26 at 3:00 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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In the 1970's the geese would fill the rice fields at Gum Cove in what seemed like the millions.
Gum Cove was a paradise. I don't think there is any rice farmed there anymore. But there used to be a ferry or swing bridge across the intercostal. I was curious if the water table eventually got too salty to irrigate?
Posted on 10/5/26 at 3:45 pm to Neckk
I aint gonna lie. It's been a long time since I hunted Sabine NWR...back in the 90s me and a couple buddies walked in. There was no bottom. You literally sank up to your nuts in mud. Then the mud had a suction on you it took serious effort to pull your leg out to take the next step. We hunted on the side of the road where West Cove is. Maybe the west side of 27 is better. Only time I ever found hard bottom was on a mud-boat trail and then it was damn near overtopping my waders. We hunted there every weekend we could. Killed a lot of gadwalls, teal and a few big ducks...mallards and pintails. Plenty of smileys, blackjacks, ringnecks and mergansers too.
Posted on 10/5/26 at 4:20 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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I don't think there is any rice farmed there anymore.
I don't think there is, either. There was 15,000 acres of it right behind the camp. It's all fallow now.
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But there used to be a ferry or swing bridge across the intercostal.
The old Gum Cove Ferry. I have some photos of that somewhere and when, or if, I find them I'll share. Riding across the Intracoastal on that think was quite an adventure. The old north ferry landing has apparently become a haven for drug smugglers.
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I was curious if the water table eventually got too salty to irrigate?
That's what the folks at LDAF told me about rice farming in Cameron Parish; too salty. It's a shame.
My uncle leased most of his land from a man named Odom. I think he eventually bequeathed the land to the Audubon Society when he died, or something along those lines. That land held some of the biggest deer I’ve ever seen, and the marshes offered some of the best fishing I’ve ever experienced. It was all freshwater, but there was just enough salinity in the marshes to support blue crabs, too. Duck and goose hunting was just nuts.
Do you remember the black francolins around GC?
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This post was edited on 10/5/26 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 10/5/26 at 9:22 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Do you remember the black francolins around GC?
Not at all. But I remember hunting with a guide in that area. And he said there was a time when there were a few pheasant in SE Texas. Guide said he'd seen a few in the Gum Cove area in Cameron Parish. I don't know if I believed him. But there was a time twenty to twenty five years ago when there was a pheasant season in Chambers and Liberty County and possibly Jefferson County in Texas.
Posted on 10/6/26 at 8:57 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
For years Cameron parish killed more ducks than any other State in the USA.
I would like to know the year that ended.
I would like to know the year that ended.
Posted on 10/6/26 at 2:20 pm to KemoSabe65
Killed my first duck in Hackberry at 12 y\o in 1984. Was fortunate enough to hunt that marsh for the next 10-12 years. Was definitely a magical place. 
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