WE WAIT with the old men, each of them rooted in the muck, worn and furrowed. In the early light, their limbs and branches overhead are kinked and storm-shattered, like the arthritic fingers of the ...

For decades, the flooded green-timber reservoirs of east Arkansas have attracted duck hunters from across the country. They ...

Outdoor writer T. Edward Nickens does an excellent job describing the thrill of hunting ducks on a green-tree reservoir in Arkansas.

STUTTGART, Ark. — Duck season officially opens at sunrise Saturday, and across the Grand Prairie, hunters, lodge owners and local businesses are gearing up for what many call the most important 60 ...

Spirits move among the cypress, tupelo, willows and buttonbushes, back in the dark, wet places beyond the edge of a watery opening in the flooded river bottom. I’ve glimpsed them, almost always in the ...

I love duck hunting, but I don’t get to go very often. And we have good duck hunting around here, but down South they are really fanatical. If you’re a duck hunter then no doubt you’ve heard of the ...

Nothing like a cold, cloudy, windswept day to get a wild waterfowler’s heart pounding. Unlike the past several seasons, frigid conditions in the north-central states and sweeping into the Midwest have ...

On the last day of the 2025 duck season in the heart of Arkansas' premier duck country, longtime hunter Todd Taylor said the hunt just wasn't as good as previous years. Sitting in his boat in the ...

Providing food and managing disturbance are the two most important things duck managers and duck hunters can do to improve duck hunting. An expert panel accentuated those points recently during the ...

In July of 2023, Forrest Carvajal was crowned the “King of the Cutdown” at the Delta Waterfowl Expo in Little Rock, Arkansas. He topped 58 competitors on his way to winning the world championship of ...