Educate me on Boeuf WMA

Beautiful bottomland hardwoods

May be 20 degrees or may be 80 degrees

Will be after several gun hunts so deer will be a little pressured

I would bring a boat and hunt the ridges between lakes. Seen many deer in the green trees while duck hunting. They feel very comfortable around water. Lots of pigs too

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Seen many deer in the green trees while duck hunting.

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Since I don't deer hunt up there anymore I will confirm that this is the way to kill good deer in not only Boeuf but Russell Sage too. They are both similar habitats. Bottomland hardwoods. During early bow season, the deer will still be acting normal and still be working typical bedding to feeding patterns. They will be hitting the acorns hard then. After the 3 day Thanksgiving either-sex hunting weekend, the deer (or at least the smart ones) move into the flooded areas or the thickest shite you can find and go straight up nocturnal for the most part, unless a hot doe makes them move.

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Small islands of dry ground in.thwr flooded timber are awesome bedding areas.

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I wouldn't tell a soul that if I was still hunting up there since nobody deer hunts the water. We used to duck hunt the dump side of Russell Sage all the time in the woods. I can't tell you how many times I have had good bucks walk up to within damn near shooting range of our decoy spread and bed down on dry humps. Heck, I have even seen them bed on top of overturned trees. The moral though is they don't give a frick about duck hunters. It's like as soon as they hear decoys hitting the water, it's an all clear they aren't after me today and feel free to just wander right up to you. So, I started dragging in a lock-on and my bow instead of a decoy bag and a shotgun. It was a productive strategy when I lived there.

It's a very large area. I have not deer hunted it but have spent some time there chasing other game. What the other posters have said is good info. There are also some large reforested areas on the south end of the WMA that looked very similar to stuff I have moved many deer out of in south LA, not many big trees to climb up in in the young growth thoug.

Puckett Bend

The difference is that people in the basin hunt the water much more than the people on Beouf seem to. On IB, if you aren't in the water, you probably aren't seeing many deer unless you hunt the edges of the cutovers during archery season. Not to mention Boeuf is much much larger than IB

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Also how is the duck hunting in there? Either feast or famine like a lot of that area?

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Boeuf has a lot of various kinds of habitat. It has a flooded green-tree area that gets quite a bit of pressure and some more open moist soil units that get flooded. It can be on or it can be dead like you said but it is a large WMA so if you scout, do your homework, and actually put in the work to escape the crowds, you can kill birds.

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No ducks in boeuf. Try russell sage

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No baw, Ouachita WMA is where they are at. Especially at the special place on the North side of Highway 15 right before the LaFourche.

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do good in there on a moonlit night

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If you are going to do it, might as well do it all out.

All good advice. Hunt the areas that are locked in by water and as always when hunting a WMA, do your home work. Ducks are plentiful there every year. I know a gang from Ville Platte with a camp there that does well every year. Oh and my final though is please don't ever compare Boeuf to Indian Bayou! Haha. 2 diff animals