Arkansas Duck Hunting is renown among avid waterfowl hunters, but
don't overlook the excellent Whitetail Deer Hunting! At
these beautiful hunting lodges, you can take a break from the duck and
deer hunting and go fishing in the famous White River! Our
pro Arkansas Hunting Guides can get you information on hunting packages,
Arkansas hunting licenses, regulations, archery and rifle hunting season
dates.
Location: Approximately 10 miles from Bayou Meto
Wildlife Management Area. We are located on Zada Simpson Road
which is 16 miles south of Stuttgart, Arkansas, and nine miles west
of DeWitt, Arkansas on Highway 165. This area is known to locals and
visitors as a "hot spot" for waterfowl activity.
Offering: Variety of waterfowl - Mallards, Pintail,
Woodduck, Redheads, Black Duck, Canvasbacks, Mergansers and more.
Each hunt is conducted in a professional manner, but in a relaxed
and friendly atmosphere. We pride ourselves in providing enjoyable
hunts with an opportunity of taking a limit of ducks. Our private
rice and soybean fields, reservoirs, and sloughs provide quality
hunts that can be enjoyed by the hunter without worry of public
pressure. Our blinds and pits are strategically placed in
areas where waterfowl are naturally drawn. We have been hunting
these fields for years which enables us to stack the odds in your
favor. Nevertheless, if the birds choose to use another area, we are
adequately equipped to pick up and move to another location.
Duck hunting packages start at $150 per morning!
Accommodations: Our lodge is ready to accommodate up
to ten hunters who enjoy the camp-style atmosphere. We provide
everything except food and a cook. Most guys enjoy cooking on the
grill, stoking the campfire, and enjoying their favorite beverage
instead of being stuck inside a hotel room or big lodge with nothing
but a TV and a deck of cards. Also enjoy fishing while you're
not hunting.
Location: We hunt in east central and
northeast Arkansas in and around the White, Cashe, and Bayou DeView
rivers. This area is famous for its waterfowl hunting.
Offering: We primarily hunt ducks and
geese. However we also offer upland birds, deer, turkey, and world
famous trout fishing on the Little Red River. Arkansas
Wildlife Pursuits offers first class duck and goose hunting. We
primarily hunt Arkansas's famous green timber for ducks. Our hunts
are fully guided.
Accommodations: We offer a variety of
packages for varying budgets. You can choose from a guided hunt only
all the way to a full service including your hunt, lodging, and
meals. Our historic plantation home has been transformed into
a beautiful modern lodge. In conjunction with the normal
amenities, the lodge has a large TV with satellite, pool table, and
a 9-hole golf course.
ARKANSAS HUNTING: Arkansas has the most
liberal combination of hunting seasons and bag limits found
anywhere in the United States. Archery deer season, for example,
is traditionally a continuously running five-month season
beginning October 1 and ending February 29. Statewide deer bag
limit is four per season and additional deer can be taken using
special permits. Arkansas instituted a revolutionary 3-point rule
for deer hunting beginning with the 1998-99 hunting season. The
new rule is designed to better balance overall herd sex ratios and
age distribution. The 1998-99 deer harvest proved to be a state
record with over 175,000 checked at wildlife check stations.
Incidentally, this equates to a near 50% success ratio among
Arkansas deer hunters.
But deer aren't the only game found in The Natural State. Arkansas
is known world wide as the duck hunting capitol of the world with
the nation's largest population of migrating mallards. Thousands
of hunters cross Arkansas's hospitable borders each year to
experience the thrill of watching a flight of ducks bob and weave
their way through pristine flooded timber into a set of decoys
flanked by a natural blind. And if flooded timber isn't your
thing, flooded rice and soybean fields are always nearby.
Arkansas may best be known for ducks and deer, although a new
state record spring wild turkey harvest was registered in 1999.
Arkansas also enjoyed its first modern day elk hunt in 1998. Small
game is found in abundance throughout the state from the fields
and thickets surrounding the Arkansas River to the hills and
hollows of the Ozark and Ouachita mountain ranges.
Finding a place to hunt can be a traumatic experience in others
states, but is no problem is Arkansas. Leading the way for public
hunting opportunities are over 100 state controlled wildlife
management areas including the duck hunting paradise, Bayou Meto.
The Ozark - St. Francis National Forest is more public hunting
land found in Arkansas, and this one area is larger than the
entire state of Rhode Island. The Ouachita National Forest is also
located in Arkansas, and is even larger than the Ozark - St.
Francis! These national forests, combined with over one hundred
state controlled wildlife management areas, makes Arkansas one of
the top southern states in amount of land available for public
hunting.