2025-2026 Arkansas Waterfowl Hunting Season Dates

Hello TRiv Members!
Welcome to the 2025-2026 Duck Season!

Here are this year's scheduled dates from the AGFC:

• Nov. 22-Dec. 1, 2025
• Dec. 10-23, 2025
• Dec. 27, 2025-Jan. 31, 2026
• Feb. 7, 8 - Youth and Military Hunts

Duck daily bag limit – 6, which may include no more than:
4 mallards (2 hens), 1 scaup, 3 wood ducks, 1 pintail, 2 redheads, 2 canvasbacks, 2 black ducks, 1 mottled duck. If not listed, up to 6 ducks of a species (including teal) may be taken.

Coot daily bag limit – 15.

Merganser daily bag limit – 5, which may include no more than 2 hooded mergansers.

Possession limit for ducks, coots and mergansers is three times the daily bag limit.

Special Youth Waterfowl Hunt
Feb. 7-8, 2025

On these days, youths 15 and younger may harvest ducks, geese, coots and mergansers. Youths who have not completed a hunter education course must be accompanied by a mentor 21 or older. Mentors may not hunt, but may call waterfowl. Shooting hours and bag limits are the same as the regular duck and goose seasons. Youth hunters can hunt on wildlife management areas 30 minutes before sunrise until sunset these two days. WMA General Use Permits are not required for youth hunters.

Light Goose Conservation Order (Snows, Blues and Ross's)

• Feb. 1-6, 2026
• Feb. 9 thru April 25, 2026

In conservation terms, the giant flocks of (mostly) Snows have become their own worst enemy, so we Waterfowlers have been asked to help out with the Light Goose Conservation Order.