LITTLE ROCK — With less than one month until the duck season opener, Arkansas duck hunters are going through their annual rituals of cleaning decoys, brushing blinds, checking wheel bearings on their boat trailers and praying for rain to help flood Arkansas’s vast network of bottomland hardwoods. One more ritual to add to that list should be to download a copy of the 2025-26 Arkansas Waterfowl Hunting Guidebook and familiarize yourself with any changes that have taken place in the regulations.

Guidebooks should be available at every AGFC hunting license dealer in the state, but many are scooped up quickly, so it’s not uncommon for a location to run out temporarily until they can be resupplied. But you can always carry a copy of the rules on your phone, either through the AGFC’s smartphone

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