Tensas this weekend - 12/4 - 12/5

If you don’t speak Cajun French you might want to learn hand signals or another means of communication.

Hwy 65N looked like an ISIS parade last week.

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Looks like it is also primitive weekend.

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Niiiice. I'll be stationed on 65 Sunday around Newelton drinking a blood and watching the exodus heading south. It is a sight to behold.

Well that’s a kick in the nuts but kinda what I was figuring it would be like. Oh well. Beats the hell out of being at work or honey do’s around the house

I’m curious how many of y’all actually hunt Tensas. I spend a decent amount of time out there and rarely have other hunters walk up on me while I’m hunting or vice versa. If you get away from the main roads and trails it’s not that bad. But as far as scouting and just walking threw the woods this is probably not the best weekend for that.

Very overrated. Noting like it was years ago due to bears and hogs. Overall deer numbers are very low. Like another poster said, plenty of hogs to shoot.

My buddy and I got into saddle hunting this year and are fairly new to the public land stuff. Grew up hunting on private property over feeders and food plots. Neither of us have ever hunted Tensas but we’ve heard all the stories. This weekend is more about finding some spots deep in the woods for our January trip when hopefully the bucks will be on their feet and less people in the woods

Definitely not less people in the woods in January. Especially the first week.

The amount of hunters hitting buckhorn, big lake, and tensas over Thanksgiving weekend was the most I have seen in the 5 yrs I've stayed up there.

5am the highway was like baton rouge

Also, it is a dry year. People will hunt much deeper thank historically because no muddy swamps to cross.

I've had good hunting in the wet and dry years. But this one is unusually dry and last time it was like this, I had people crawling all over my spots

Truth: Tensas is just not worth the trouble anymore. Over Hunted with tons of pressure, Congested with hunters that just don't know what they are doing and show no respect, Bears have destroyed what some call the best hunting areas from back in the early 2000's. Honestly I'd go somewhere else. Game wardens are there by the dozen, not that its a bad thing but they are borderline harassing at times and ruin at least one hunt each time i go by just randomly walking in the woods checking hunters. Pisses me off to no end. But that's another post. Now if you enjoy a guys trip, cooking, drinking, a few lies around a camp fire. Thats the place to be. Sorry to be so blunt but it is the truth.