The statewide youth pheasant, quail, and partridge season for those age 15 or younger takes place October 21 and 22.
Resident youth of Nebraska aged 15 or younger do not need a permit to hunt small game. Nonresident youth must have a small game hunting permit and habitat stamp. Only youth are allowed to hunt during the youth season, except at designated Special Youth Hunt locations, where accompanying adults will be permitted to hunt.
Game and Parks will release rooster pheasants at Special Youth Hunt locations/wildlife management areas. The daily bag limit is two rooster pheasants for youth and one rooster pheasant for the accompanying adult. The adult must be a licensed hunter aged 19 or older and only one adult per youth is allowed to hunt.
The Special Youth Hunt local areas include Pressey in Custer County and the Sherman Reservoir in Sherman County.
Other areas across the state include:
Arrowhead (Gage), Kirkpatrick Basin North (York), Cornhusker (Hall), George Syas (Nance), Wilkinson (Platte), Oak Valley (Madison), Powder Creek (Dixon), Randall W. Schilling (Cass), Rakes Creek (Cass), Peru Bottoms (Nemaha), James N. Douglas (Johnson), Hickory Ridge (Johnson), Yankee Hill (Lancaster), Branched Oak (Lancaster), Sherman Reservoir (Sherman), Pressey (Custer), Arnold Trupp (Morrill), Bordeaux (Dawes), and N-CORPE east tract (Lincoln).
Non-toxic shots are required at Kirkpatrick Basin North, Peru Bottoms, Randall W. Schilling and Wilkinson. All other hunting regulations apply.
For more information about the youth season and a map of the pheasant release locations for youth, you are invited to visit the Game and Parks website or call Game and Parks at 402-471-4601
