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The clubs primary focus is on duck hunting, but we also have other game to hunt including geese, dove, cranes, snipe, rails, hog hunting, along with outstanding private marsh fishing along Matagorda Bay. Regardless of the game pursued there are two certainties that must be adhered to for excellence in hunting: You must make and maintain great habitat. You must administer and control hunting pressure. At Thunderbird, especially when it comes to ducks, we walk the talk like no other. “You will hunt ponds where the birds want to be.”
Our unprecedented harvest numbers for the past few seasons and their progressive statistics speak for themselves:
In general, on a busy Saturday, we have an average of 15-20 groups hunting with 50% of our properties rested and not hunted until the weekend. We hunt only one group per pond and on average a pond is hunted once, maybe twice a week. We hunt ducks on Wednesday, Saturday, & Sunday only. Every season we make habitat improvements to enhance our hunting even more, we never stop improving the outdoor experience for our members. We feel the size of the club is perfect, not to large to be impersonal or unable to learn in a season, but large enough to rest waterfowl properly and move members around to hunt concentrations of birds.
Thunderbird supplies a multitude of different duck blinds including pit blinds (fiberglass, metal, & concrete), portable cage blinds (can be moved with ATV), and portable blinds in sleds (to allow setup in remote areas of ponds). The use of portable blinds enables us to hunt the “X” of feeding birds. If you are not hunting the “X” you are not shooting full straps. The club also supplies camouflage materials with “fast grass,” cane, and natural materials. We try to have at least one permenent duck blind camouflaged with two dog porches on out most popular ponds.
A single word sums up Thunderbird…consistent. We adjust and maintain the habitat with our proven management plan through droughts, floods, mild weather, stalled migrations, it just does not matter, we shoot birds season after season, and all on an unguided basis. In fact our duck hunting is better than most guided hunts! So if having a lot of ducks over your decoys is important to you within a well-organized club, then look no further.
For additional information and joining, please contact Todd Steele. Sorry club is full for the 2023-2024 season.