Originally Posted by
cocodrieman
I started Tech in 1958 and beginning about 1960, I hunted with another Shreveporter all over the N La woods. We really liked to float creeks that were flooded so that we could get into woods and silently stalk squealers and mallards. We occasionally picked off a squirrel, often catching the falling game with a landing net! Squirrels don't float long if they are filled with no. 6 shot from a Model 12. We hunted mainly out of a 10' double pointed pirouge that still exists by being incased in fiberglass applied about that time. We did finally get a slightly longer and wider boat which was CONSIDERABLY safer.
My favorite spots were on DeLoutre upstream from the Farmerville-Sterlington hiway (Patterson lake area and Phillips lake) but downstream was special, too. We hunted Corney Lake above the Jct City-Summerville road crossing and on the creek below the lake all the way to what is now L D'Arbonne. Of course, we hit D'Arbonne, too, mostly above the lake and later even below. We also floated places like Cypress creek between Ruston and D'Arbonne, Dugdemona, Middle and N forks of D'Arbonne, and others whose names escape me. Those were mosly only possible after big rains.
In those days, we were mainly after squealers and only after we extended our range to DeLoutre and Turkey Creek Lake did we really do much with mallards. Even today I try to get to those spots maybe once a year but access is becoming a problem, esp for Patterson lake.
Let me hear about your adventures.