I found this topic way back on page 6. It's one that I really enjoy and hate to see it just fade away. I thought I would bring it "to the top", with a hunt.
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Yesterday,Murray Landry (Trooper) and I decided to take advantage of the extended bow season in Louisiana's area 6. This would be the first time, for either one of us, to have the opportunity to Bowhunt deer during the month of February.
We in Louisiana, are blessed with huge areas of Public land to hunt. We decide to hunt the Sherburne area, about 40 miles West of Baton Rouge. Inside the Sherburne boundaries consist of three land owners. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries owns 11,780 acres. Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge has 15,220 acres and the Corps of Engineers is 17,000 acres. Doing the math that totals up to 44,000 acres. Now if that's not enough room to hunt, just across the Atchafalaya river is the 28,480 acre Indian Bayou area.
Our hunt started off, on a portion of the Sherburne WMA and it didn't take long for us to realized the high water had the entire area flooded. The only thing out of water was the levee roads.
Realizing that this area wasn't huntable we relocated to another part of the area. Once there, after a 2 mile, wheeler ride, we walked out a large area without finding anything that looked like a high percentage hunt. We did see three deer though, that were traveling our way. Murray dropped down into a natural blind furnished by the root system of a tree, hoping for a shot but the deer passed through out of range.
Back at the truck we had lunch and decided to relocate to another part of the area. We would be using our wheelers on a 4 mile ATV trail, to try and locate a high percentage hunt. We were about 2 miles into the trail when I realized that Murray had fell behind. I rode back to where he was and saw he had a flat tire.
He decide to work his way back towards the trucks and make a hunt. I watched him ride off with a flat before continuing on.
I walked into an area with my equipment. I was going to walk until I found something that I thought would work and climb. It only took about 5 minutes to get to some flood water. I was making my way through it, looking for a small ridge to set up on when I jumped about 6 deer. They had been laying on a small piece of ground out of water. It was pretty spectacular watching them running off through knee deep water.
The water was too deep for my boots so I just parallel it until I found a good set up. I was hoping that a deer would be traveling through along the edge of the water.
My plan worked but the deer I saw was out in the water instead of along the edge. When I turned my light on to climb down there was no end to the splashing. It sounded like lots of deer running off in the water. When I go back, I'll use hip boots to go out into the water and set up.
Murray was able to make it back to the truck with his flat tire after making a hunt. He had found some Nuttall Oaks with a few acorns and had a deer come in right at dark but before the deer got into position for him to take a shot, it just disappeared in the darkness. Maybe next time.
Warren
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