Mickey Heitmeyer is a waterfowl biologist, a farmer, a business owner, an entrepreneur — and perhaps most importantly, a duck hunter living in southeast Missouri. He also happens to be one of North America’s leading waterfowl and wetland biologists and is widely acknowledged as an expert in wintering waterfowl ecology and the management of bottomland hardwoods — in other words, the duck woods.
Along with War Eagle, other major duck boat manufacturers that call Arkansas home are Xpress Boats of Hot Springs and SeaArk Boats of Monticello. Other Arkansas-based producers include Weldbilt Commercial Boats of Benton and Southfork Custom Boat Manufacturing Inc. of Lonsdale, though that is far from an extensive list.
White River Guide Service has been in business for over 20 years in St. Charles, Ark. We offer some of the best oxbow lake hunting (timber) and field hunting in Arkansas. We are only 35 miles from Stuttgart, the rice and duck capital of the world. Bass Creek Lodge is our newest addition, also centrally located in St. Charles. Bass Creek Lodge has all the amenities for cooking and sleeping… a home away from home
It’s a complicated story of how the duck with the long bill got on the wall of my den, but I have Gene DePriest of the famed Gene’s Barbecue in Brinkley to thank. If you hunt ducks anywhere around Monroe County, you’ve likely eaten at Gene’s.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and a private landowner are working on a proposed trade and sell of land at the southern end of Bayou Meto Wildlife Management Area.
