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If one of your biggest passions involves hunting small game, you’re in the right place. Our small game hunting videos and articles will provide you with key insights and information on how and when to hunt your small-sized quarry, and more effectively put you hot on the trail of sought-after squirrels, rabbits, pheasants & doves.

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It’s you against them and they have all the advantages. They can swim faster, dive deeper, build bigger and eat more in a day than you can imagine. Cormorants, otters and beavers can quickly change a thriving pond into a vast water wasteland. What do cormorants and other fish-eating birds like great blue herons have in common with otter and beaver? If you have a pond or lake on your property you may already know.

Small Game, How-To

Backwater Ducks

Waterfowl hunting has been tough to say the least for the past several years. We have to try new and old style techniques to stay ahead of the game. The expansive river systems of North America are just a few of the areas you can look into for a change of pace. Get away from the crowds and you can find a few ducks. You never know, you just might walk into a mallard retreat

Small Game, Waterfowl

Stay in Tree Houses at Honey Brake Lodge

We haven’t talked yet about what most people enjoy at Honey Brake, and that’s our facilities. Our lodge is built well-up off the ground on stilts. Even in flood stages, the lodge never will have water in it. There’s a wooden walkway through the trees from the lodge to the cabins where our guests stay. Again, if we have flooding conditions, our guests have a dry place to sleep and eat, and the scenery from

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Unbelievable Duck and Goose Hunting and Crappie Fishing at Honey Brake

As I’ve mentioned, after we finish taking waterfowl, our sportsmen can fish Catahoula Lake. The lake is famous for 1-1/2- to 2-1/2-pound crappie. Anglers may not catch a large number of them, but the size more than makes up for the lack of numbers. So, you can pull off the Honey Brake trifecta by taking a limit of ducks, a limit of geese and a limit of crappie in the same day.

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Drew Keeth Says 14 Species of Ducks and More Are at Honey Brake

One of the unusual aspects of hunting ducks at Honey Brake, especially for first timers, is deciding what type of duck hunt they want. Some hunters want to take a limit of legal ducks, regardless of the species. These hunters often will fill their limits within the first 15 to 45 minutes of their hunts. Other hunters who only want to harvest certain ducks like mallards, pintails and/or canvasbacks may have to stay in the

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Keeth Explains How Ducks are Hunted at Honey Brake Lodge

I’m often asked how we hunt our ducks. We hunt our early-season ducks just like you hunt ducks at any time of the year. We scout and see where the most ducks are before the hunt. Then we leave the lodge before daylight. Last year, we took ATVs back and forth to the blinds, because our region had had a severe drought. But if we continue to get the rains like we have this summer,

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Ducks at Honey Brake

The South usually is the worst place in the world to hunt early-season ducks. Canada and the Northwest and Midwest have been the Mecca of early-season duck hunting. However, one place in the Southeast that will rival the duck hunting in Canada and the Northwest is Honey Brake Lodge in Jonesville, Louisiana. Many swarming flocks of waterfowl pile into Honey Brake. To find out why, Mossy Oak has interviewed Drew Keeth, general manager of Honey

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Duck Accommodations

Learn how to attract ducks and other migratory birds by sustainably managing your property, reducing predation and controlling hunting pressure.

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Staying Hydrated, Choosing the Proper Choke Size, Shot Size and Using Decoys for Doves

Many hunters overlook the fact that if you are not sufficiently hydrated, you won’t shoot as accurately as you can.

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How to Protect Your Eyes and Ears on a Dove Shoot

You need good shooting glasses when dove hunting to protect your eyes and to see the birds more clearly. Try to get a polycarbonate type of lens to protect your eyes from falling pellets. These lenses won’t break when pellets fall and hit them.

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Camouflage, and the Best Guns for Hunting Doves

Remember, doves have very-good eyesight. When they spot something unnatural in the place where they feed, travel and/or water, they’ll veer away from that unnatural object. During the early season, I almost always will wear Mossy Oak Obsession, because there is a lot of green in the part of Georgia where I hunt. For early dove season in the South, I don’t believe there is a better pattern than Mossy Oak Obsession.

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Where You Place Your Feet and Using the Correct Ammo for Doves

Footwork is an important key to shooting accurately. Often a hunter will be sitting on a dove stool and has to move his body to compensate for the angle that the dove is coming toward him. He will run out of swing and pull his head up off the gun, and the gun will stop. Instead you want to have as much room as possible to swing your gun left or right, depending on the

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Florida Deer Hunting, Human Odor, Bugs, Snakes, and Alligators

There is not much Floridians can do to prevent or avoid snakes and alligators where we hunt. I grew up in Florida and have lived there all my life. From an early age, my dad taught me that when I walked in the woods to look down for snakes and alligators. Even when I go to Kansas or Indiana to hunt, I still look at the ground in front of my feet before I take

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A Banded Edification

Waterfowl hunting is a way of life for a lot of us, it drives us to do some crazy things - sleep deprivation, late nights, tedious work on decoys, gadgets, and most of us look forward to that “torture” each year. I wanted to share a short story with all of you about hunting with youth and involving them in the Gamekeeper lifestyle. This is a very special story, a rare story that happened to

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Stay Safe during Dove Season

Dove season marks the beginning of hunting season for most hunters in the South, and the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is reminding hunters to stay safe in the field. According to Alabama Hunter Education Coordinator Marisa Futral, dove season has some safety challenges that the other big hunting seasons like deer and turkey do not.

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