Texas Coverage
Mid Coast Bays Duck Migration Forecast
Matagorda, San Antonio and Espiritu Santo bays with the prairie behind them. Redheads on the bay grass and pintails on the flats.
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Season dates: Texas duck season 2026-27, dates and migration timing
Where Mid Coast Bays is
Mid Coast Bays is drawn from 16 counties in Texas: Aransas, Bee, Caldwell, Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Jackson, Karnes, Lavaca, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria and Wilson. 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 Mid Coast Bays peaks
DuckCast’s season model puts the pintail peak here around mid January. 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 Mid Coast Bays
3 upstream stations feed this region's freeze line, nearest first: Hugo, OK, about 380 miles north, Ardmore, OK, about 385 miles north and McAlester, OK, about 440 miles north. When those stations ice over, the score here starts climbing before anything changes in the local sky.
Radar over Mid Coast Bays
Each morning DuckCast reads the night’s NEXRAD data from KCRP, the National Weather Service radar at Corpus Christi, about 70 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 Mid Coast Bays 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 Texas
Nearest first. Distances run between the regions’ weather points.
- Upper Coast Rice Prairie, about 100 miles northeast
- South Texas and Laguna Madre, about 140 miles southwest
- Post Oak Savannah, about 165 miles north
- Hill Country and Edwards, about 220 miles northwest
- Pineywoods, about 265 miles northeast
- Blackland Prairie, about 320 miles north
- Rolling Plains, about 360 miles northwest
- High Plains Playas, about 520 miles northwest
Season dates and regulations change. Always verify with Texas Parks and Wildlife. DuckCast forecasts conditions, not legal seasons.