The best thing about timber hunting is the way ducks multiply. A pair starts to circle, and that pair becomes four, then eight. Eight turn into 20. Somehow, the sight of ducks working over a timber ...

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 ...

Duck hunters explore wild, unforgettable places, but a few classic hunts should be on every waterfowler's to-do list. Here are four of the most memorable and iconic duck hunts you could ever dream of, ...

It was a hunt I’ll never forget. My son Matt, 14 at the time, accompanied Jim Spencer and me to hunt ducks in east Arkansas’ Bayou Meto Wildlife Management Area, a picturesque bottomland near ...

STUTTGART, Ark. (KATV) — Arkansas is just two days away from the opening of duck season. Hunters from across the state and around the world will gather this weekend in the flooded timber and rice ...

Fowl Al's evasiveness told me everything I needed to know. I called Alan Thomas Friday for a duck hunting report. Thomas, a longtime hunting companion mostly at Lake Dardanelle in years past, now ...

Todd Taylor, a fowler from South Carolina, sits in his boat in Bayou Meto. Duck hunters like Taylor may be the saving grace of wetlands in the Natural State. Credit: Lucas Dufalla / Arkansas ...

There was a lull in the action and our guide Mike Stahlman was searching to fill the silence that had crept into our duck blind. As any veteran duck hunter seems to do, he got to bitching about other ...