Seventy-five hundred acres straddling the Trinity River and Catfish Creek. Wild. Primitive. A lush neo-tropical hardwood forest. Wild turkey, cougar, bald eagles, Russian boar, moss back deer and mossy oak trees. The breeding site of greater Canadian geese, wood ducks, and black-bellied whistling ducks. If that sounds like river bottom heaven to you it is. Though a world away in ecology, The BigWoods on the Trinity is only 90 minutes from metropolitan Dallas; it is an unmatched haven for big game and waterfowl hunting. With hundreds of acres of flooded pin oak flats, wheat, corn and millet, you will think that Stuttgart and the rice fields of Louisiana collided and came together in a continental-shift to just south of Big D. In keeping with the wilderness aspect of the forest, there are no high fences at The BigWoods. The BigWoods is probably most renowned for flooded timber mallard hunting. There are 22 separate marshes encompassing about 2,200 total acres, about half open and the other greentree. In the spring, our slow draw-down of the open marshes provides nonpareil habitat for the myriad wading birds that inundate us at that time. In late spring, we begin disking and supplemental planting of the annual wetland plants such as barnyard grass and pink smart weed which help comprise our waterfowl buffet. Along with many other neotropicals in the spring migration, painted buntings are notorious barnyard grass thieves.