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J.D. Marphree WMA Texas Point
NWR
State Park
McFaddin Marsh NWR
Anahuac NWR
Brazoria NWR
San Bernard NWR
Matagorda sland
State Park & WMA
Waterfowl HuntingHotspots
J.D Murphree Wildlife Man-
agement Area just off Taylor's
Bayou near Port Arthur is divided
in:o two units. Hunting is allowed
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
curing the duck season. A $5 fee is
required, along with registration and
checkout.
Shallow-draft boats are required
to hunt either :he Big Hill Unit or
the newly acquired Bruno Schulz
Unit. As this was written, the state
Fad Flans to construc: permanent
blinds in the Schulz Unit. The blinds
would be assigned cn a first-come,
first-served bass.
:or complete information, contact
Murphree Area Manager, 10 Parks
and Wildlife Drive, Port Arthur,
Texas 77660, or call 409-736-255=.
Sea Rim State Park is a 15,00 -
acre rr arsh near Sabine Pass. A S4
fee is charged per person for each
day of Lunting. And sin:e it is a state
park, a $2 en:rance fee also is
cnargek, or you car. buy an $8 annual
entrance permit valid fcr Sea Rim or
a $15 annual entrance permit valid
for all s-ate parks. Permits and check
s:ations also are required at Sea
Rim, which is open to hunting
Wednesday, Fricays and Saturdays.
Hunters need a shallow-draft boat
for access. Permits can be purchased
the day before a hunt. For complete
information, contact Park Manager,
P.O. B:x 1066, Sabine Pass, Texas
77655, or call 409-971-2559.
Matagorda Island State Park and
Wildlife Management Area is a bar-
rier island near Port O'Connor on
the middle Texas coast. Developed
as an Air Force facility, the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service has allowed pub-
lic hunting in 22 blinds in freshwater
ponds on the island in years past.
Texas Parks and Wildlife now
manages the island and the public
hunting will be continued, although
a hunting plan had not been fi-
nalized as this was written. Hunters
paying a $5 fee will be allowed to
hunt the 22 blinds on the island
itself. Free hunting will remain avail-
able in the tidal flats on the backside
of Matagorda Island.
Hunters who try for ducks in the
freshwater ponds on the island must
provide their own boat transporta-
tion across seven miles of open bay
from Port O'Connor. For updated
information, contact Texas Parks
and Wildlife, 4200 Smith School
Road, Austin, Texas 78744.
McFaddin Marsh National Wild-
life Refuge lies just west of Sabine
Pass and Sea Rim State Park. It's
open to hunting on Tuesdays, Thurs-
days, Saturdays and Sundays with
no permits and no fees.
As this was written, refuge man-
agers were considering an assigned
bLnd system in that part of the
refuge east of the Shell Oil access
road. There is some walk-in hunting
available to sportsmen in good shape.
For updated information, contact
Refuge Manager, P.O. Box 278,
Sandlin Building, Anahuac, Texas
77514 or call 409-267-3337.
Texas Point National Wildlife
Refuge lies west of Sabine Pass and
south of Hwy. 87 on that narrow
strip of land between the highway
and the Gulf of Mexico. Texas Point
is open to hunting, with no fees, on
Mondays, Wednesdays and Satur-
days. Walk-in hunting is available.
For additional information, con-
tact the same source as listed for
McFaddin Refuge.
Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge
in Chambers County allows hunting
on two separate parcels. Boat access
is required for the Pace Tract off
Oyster Bayou where hunting is per-
mitted every day of the season.
The Barrow Ranch tract, an excel-
lent choice for hunters without a
boat, is open Saturdays, Sundays,
Tuesdays and Thursdays. Weekday
hunts are restricted to the first 100
hunters. Weekend hunters are se-
lected on a permit drawing system.
For complete information, contact
the same source as listed for
McFaddin Refuge.
Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge
near Angleton allows public hunting
every day of the season on a tract
accessible only by boat.
As is the case with other refuge
hunts in Texas, no fees are charged.
For complete information, contact
Refuge Manager, P.O. Drawer 1088,
Velasco, Suite 10, Angleton, Texas
77515.
San Bernard National Wildlife
Refuge offers permit hunts with
assigned blinds on Mondays, Wednes-
days and Saturdays and also has two
areas accessible by boat where public
hunting is allowed every day of the
regular waterfowl season.
For updated information, contact
the same source given for Brazoria
Refuge.
Keep in mind that the public hunt-
ing areas allow only half-day hunting
and each of the places listed above
will have closed areas where no
hunting is allowed. Keep in mind
also that steel shot is required on all
state-owned and federally owned
areas.
OCTOEE 1983
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