Welder Flats WMA: Hunting
Phone: (361) 205-1510
San Antonio Bay
Seadrift, TX 77983
Contact:
Dan Walker
Dates Open:
The Welder Flats Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is open year-round for saltwater fishing, duck hunting and wildlife viewing activities. Visitors do not need a permit to enter the WMA. The WMA is underwater in the San Antonio Bay. To get to the WMA is by boat. The water over the WMA is public waters. Any exposed dry land is privately owned and not part of the WMA. To hunt and fish on the public waters of the WMA, visitors must use a boat and have hunting and fishing licenses with associated stamps and endorsements.
Hunting
Wildlife Management Areas have rules and regulations for hunting not required on private property. Hunters must possess a valid hunting license, the appropriate tags and stamps, as well as the proper public hunting permit. Permits include: Annual Public Hunting Permit (APH), computer drawn Special Permits, and the Regular Permit, which allows daily small game hunting on some areas. Hunters 16 years of age and younger are not required to have a hunting permit, but must have a hunting license and be supervised by a licensed, permitted adult, 18 years of age or older. Hunters and non-hunters must wear hunter orange during daylight hours at any time when firearm hunting for any species is authorized on the unit (except turkeys, waterfowl, and dove). For more details see the rules page for this WMA, the Summary of Fishing and Hunting Regulations and Public Hunting Lands Information and Maps.
Hunting on Welder Flats WMA
Visitors may hunt ducks on the WMA by boat with a hunting license with associated stamps/endorsements.