Season Duck Lease being auctioned at banquet:

2011/2012 Water Fowl Season Membership
Executive Membership

HUNTING PROPERTIES
1. Franz (Brookshire)- New property with 6 duck ponds and a roost. 2. Turkey Creek (Beasley) New property 30 minutes from Houston 4 ponds and roost. 3. Reed (Lissie) New Property 2 ponds in Rice. 4. Glen Flora (Wharton) New property 10 acres of flooded green timber and 40 acres of crawfish ponds with rice. 5. Blue Creek (El Campo) 4 ponds and a roost. 6. Grady Allen's (El Campo) 1 Pond in rice. 7. Blockers (Bay City) 80 acre D.U. project can hunt 3 groups. 8. Darnell (Bay City) 2 ponds in rice. 9. Red Gate (El Campo) 1 pond. 10. Silivas (Bay City) 3 ponds. 11. Nada 2 (Garwood Prairie) 4 ponds (In Negotiation) 12. Coastal (Markham) 6 ponds (In Negotiation) We are in negotiation on two properties right now. If they do not work out we plan on replacing them with something equal in size, location, and quality.
MANAGERS
Nick Stillwell and Lane Thompson With 20 Years Of Water Fowl Management Experience

For The Entire 2011/2012 Season, No Guest Fee, Only One Guest Per Hunt Allowed Child Or Adult
GUIDED HUNT OPTIONAL
If You Book A Guide, Guide Fee Is $50.00 Per Person, Extra Scouting, Guide, Retriever, Decoys And Hunt Set Up Are Provided
HUNTING TIMES
You Are Allowed To Hunt Monday-Sunday As Much Until 12:00pm
RESERVATION PROCESS
Hunt Is Booked By E-Mail or Phone Call Four Days In Advance Or Sooner
FOR QUESTIONS OR DETAILED INFORMATION CONTACT
TO GET SIGNED UP AND RESERVE YOU’RE SPOT
Pay On Line At www.ghcof.org
Or
Mail A Check to GHCOF, P.O. Box 3082, Sugar Land, Texas 77487-3082, Attention: General Membership

Where about were you duck hunting? What public area? Plan on doing something when I go up to the grasslands later this month. That is if i've already got some deer in the freezer by then. I saw a heck of a lot of wood ducks while turkey hunting this past spring. 

Idiots are just low down and too cheap to go out and buy their own stuff. I have a buddy who scouts the grasslands for us who had a trail cam hidden and chained & locked to a tree near a huge rub line. Had been sending me some great pics of turkey and deer from a few locations he planned on putting some of our guys on. He went back to retrieve the camera to see the big monster that had been tearing up all the trees out there and found that someone had taken the time to go get bolt cutters, cut the chain and take everything. Now I know it's a big risk doing something like that on public land, but still people shouldn't have to sink so low. Makes you want to have a stakeout catch 'em in the act and snipe them right in the left butt cheek...Now if yall hear of someone getting shot in the Arse...I didn't do it...LOL!

Was it in the Sam Houston National Forst..or on Private land? Also, were they all hens or did you see any toms/jakes?

I use it in the spring while turkey hunting in east TX...works wonders. Before I fired it up for the first time the little blood suckers are everywhere, but they cleared out once I started it up.

LBJ National Grasslands would probably been the closes place to you. It's free to hunt and there are turkey, quail, ducks, deer, and even a few hogs in some areas.

There are still pockets of birds scattered in certain areas but very few because the forest haven't been kept up until recently. Turkey don't do well in east Tx if the forest are too dense, but there has recently been some burning going on and some tinber thining projest scheduled to improve the habitat. There is also a large restocking effort scheduled within the next couple pf years which will make SHNF a good area to hunt turkey once season reopens a few years after the release.

I haven't heard a turkey gobble in SHNF in about 3 or 4 years now. I heard that only one known bird was taken on last spring on the area near Cold Spring. Your best bet is to head to Angelina Ntl forest. I only got to hunt a half a day on yesterday, but we saw at least one turkey while we were there. Also called in a nice gobbler last year while we were out there....

A buddy of mine has family property that we hunt up in Linden, and an uncle who live on the place who say's he's seen a lot of turkeys up that way. I also talked to a biologist who has seen a larger number of them around Atlanta, Tx. They are in the county, but may you want to do something to attract them to your place like planting food plots...turkey are crazy about chufa and if u plant some that may brig them around.