Arkansas Coverage
Cache and White River Bottoms Duck Migration Forecast
Green timber along the Cache, Black and upper White. Ducks work the flooded oaks when the water is right and the acorn crop cooperates.
See today’s live scoreAll of AR
Season dates: Arkansas duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Cache and White River Bottoms is
Cache and White River Bottoms is drawn from 5 counties in Arkansas: Cleburne, Independence, Jackson, White and Woodruff. Those are the counties its shape on the DuckCast map is built from, so a hunter in any of them reads this region’s score.
When Cache and White River Bottoms peaks
DuckCast’s season model puts the pintail peak here around mid December. This follows the statewide pintail curve. That is a modelled typical curve, not a prediction for any single year. The actual push depends on cold fronts and freeze-up upstream, which is what the daily score tracks. Always confirm season dates with the state wildlife agency, linked below.
What DuckCast watches upstream of Cache and White River Bottoms
3 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Poplar Bluff, MO, about 115 miles northeast, Dyersburg, TN, about 120 miles northeast and Sikeston, MO, about 150 miles northeast. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Cache and White River Bottoms
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KLZK, the National Weather Service radar at Little Rock, about 60 miles southwest of the region’s weather point. That puts the radar just outside the region, near enough to see birds lifting off and passing close by. Radar sees every bird in the air, not only ducks, so it confirms or questions the score rather than moving it.
Locations stay generalized
Hunter reports for Cache and White River Bottoms are always shown at the region level. DuckCast never collects or displays exact coordinates, so filing a report here never burns a spot.
Also covered in Arkansas
Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.
- Mississippi Delta, about 50 miles southeast
- Grand Prairie, about 50 miles south
- Northeast Delta, about 65 miles northeast
- Central Arkansas, about 75 miles southwest
- Southeast Delta, about 95 miles south
- Arkansas River Valley, about 100 miles west
- Ozarks and Ouachitas, about 140 miles northwest
- South Arkansas, about 160 miles southwest
Across the state line
- North Delta, Mississippi, about 75 miles southeast
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Arkansas Game and Fish. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.