My dad and I just returned from our second father-son hunting weekend at the Rough Creek Lodge, and, as always, it was spectacular!
An easy, 90 min drive from DFW, Rough Creek is a sportsman's paradise that will provide the whole family with incredible amenities, culinary excellence, and memories to last a lifetime.
For my pop and me, we go for the amazing hunting, and that includes spending hours in the duck blind with the star of Rough Creek, guide Allan Huffman. "Huff" is more than a guide, he's a teacher, a mentor and a friend. Having hunted around the nation, I have never considered a specific guide in choosing where I would hunt. Huff breaks the mold in providing sportsmen of all skill levels with an outdoors experience from which they can grow as both hunters as well as people. (My wife jokes that I rave about him so much that we should have invited Huff to our wedding...she wasn't that far off!)
As for the success of our take, the duck hunts provided us with a mixed bag of redhead, pintail, teal, gadwall, wigeon and ring necks. Rough Creek provides the hunters with game processing and easy access to taxidermy services. (This trip, a huge redhead drake will be joining last year's pintail on my wall.)
The food at Rough Creek is already nationally celebrated, but I have to say that their grilled quail appetizer is worth the trip alone. Their wood-fired ribeye is a cut of meat worthwhile of the finest Manhattan steakhouse.
All-in-all, Rough Creek has become a part of the fabric of our family's hunting story. I can't wait for my son to get a little older so that we can make our annual duck hunt a three-generation, father-son experience.
As for Huff, we're planning on starting a new tradition and have already booked him for a turkey hunt this spring. If he can call-in gobblers like he calls in ducks(which I know he can), man look out! I think it's gonna be a fantastic April.