If you’re interested in hunting historic Beaver Dam Lake, contact Mike and Lamar Boyd through their website, www.beaverdamducks.com, or call them at 662-363-6288.

On the hunt for ducks. Arkansas’ duck season is open. It closes at sunset on Monday. A youth waterfowl hunting day is set for Feb. 2. On this day, youths 15 and younger may shoot waterfowl.

At 57 years old, Mike Boyd has been hunting Beaver Dam since the 1960s when an old black man who worked for his father would paddle him around the lake. He got into classic double seven or eight ...