Arkansas/Louisiana recommendations

[ShortMagFan]

Got a client who wants to go on a good duck hunt. He hunts every day in the northeast. We’ve been talking about getting together for a hunt, I mentioned ducks and Arkansas that perked his interest.

Cost isn’t a concern. I want to do it first class. Any suggestions for lodges in Arkansas/Louisiana? He hunts open water in the northeast so timber might be cool but mainly I’m looking for good accommodations, good food and good shooting

Thanks in advance

[Coot_Commander]

Shellshocked guide is a good one.hell one of the guides let me sleep at his house after the week and even took me to his duck pond.

[nitro5x6's]

First class you say ??

AR - GTR hunts - Slick McCollum's

LA - for the best marsh hunting and afternoon fishing if desired, Hackberry Rod and Gun Club

[trkykilr]

Slick McCollums Ask to be guided by Johnny Mahfouz. He can blow a duck call. Anything else would be a distant second

[SC85]

AR:

Slick's is the best. Five Oaks Ducks Lodge is swanky too.

[rrconductor]

Honeybrake lodge

[cajunwannabe]

If money is no object this place is top shelf.
https://www.honeybrake.com/

[coot nasty]

Hell the honey brake is probably booked for years

[fowlshot]

Isn't that vandemore guy supposed to have a nice place? Not even sure if he's in Arkansas though

[Gone South]

Isn't that vandemore guy supposed to have a nice place? Not even sure if he's in Arkansas though

Missouri

[JABIII]

Weather being the variable, you will find it difficult to improve on the advice already provided in this thread...

[CUduckreeper]

Isn't that vandemore guy supposed to have a nice place? Not even sure if he's in Arkansas though

Habitat Flats, looks like it’s in Missouri.

[SC85]

You've got recs for three states. its going to come down to when are you planning on going. If your trying to do this in Nov or Dec-I'd go Missouri, AR and LA spots are going to be much more cold front dependent in order to have large sums of birds.

[nitro5x6's]

I will beg to differ , Hackberry holds birds from start to finish. Won't kill many Mallards in the extreme lower SW corner of LA, but the variety of ducks ( and geese) is great. Super nice lodge, great guides, fishing if desired and some of the best Cajun food you are going to eat make Hackberry a winner.

If I had the choice of a 3 Mallard day versus a full strap of a combined Sprig, Wigeon, Gadwall, teal morning, I'd be going for the mixed bag. All of the folks I have taken to Hackberry have returned on their own many times. It's a great experience - plus, it's not Arkansas. Arkansas bores most folks..

" Hey, it's 0930 and we are going back to the lodge in Crotchrot, AR " Now what??

In Hackberry, you get on the boat and go crush some Reds and Trout..

[padl8697]

Full strap and stringer guide service. Blake Soileau used to be the main guide on Honeybrake.

[LabLuvR]

Another vote for five Oaks

[CAJUN LAB]

Money no object. Honeybreak Five Oaks or habitat flats

[Steelin' Ducks]

Another vote for five Oaks

How you going to book a spot there?

[SC85]

To each their own. I like them all, never killed just 4 mallards when I'm in AR. Typically kill a mixed bag every hunt.

[LabLuvR]

How you going to book a spot there?

Already been there and done that...dawg.