Clear Creek Wildlife Management Area hunting

Clear Creek WMA: size, owner and ground

Clear Creek WMA covers 52,559 acres by the count in the LDWF area page. Sorted by acres, Clear Creek WMA comes 9th of the 52 wildlife management areas. The area page names Manulife Investment Management and Roy O. Martin as owner or manager. The 2026-27 schedule heading reads: Manulife Investment Management and Roy O. Martin (52,559 acres. Lake Charles Office). The LDWF boundary file dates it to 1995.

LDWF describes it this way: Clear Creek WMA is managed as a loblolly/slash pine plantation on a 30-year rotation. The area has gently sloping hills interspersed with small creek bottoms with occasional hardwood flats. The upland overstory is composed of longleaf, slash, loblolly, and shortleaf pine along with red, blackjack, and post oak. Plant growth on the hills is sparse and mainly includes wax myrtle, yaupon holly, dogwood, and huckleberry. Creek bottoms have an overstory of water, willow, and white oak; beech; sweetgum; and magnolia. The creek bottom understory varies from sparse to dense; understory species include red and white bay, red maple, blackgum, gallberry, sweet leaf, honeysuckle, greenbriar, blackberry, dewberry, rattan, and huckleberry. The area’s soils are generally low in fertility with acidic characteristics commonly found in upland pine habitats.

LDWF hunting note: Sportsmen from all over the state come to Clear Creek WMA to hunt. Game species available for hunting in the area include deer, squirrel, rabbit, turkey, quail, dove, and woodcock. Clear Creek WMA’s hunting seasons are similar to those of the surrounding parish, except for shorter deer and turkey seasons. There are youth and general turkey lottery hunts as well as youth deer and squirrel seasons. Physically challenged wheelchair-confined deer hunting areas are available by reservation on Clear Creek WMA. Furbearers such as raccoon, mink, beaver, bobcat, coyote, and otter are also found on the WMA in moderate numbers.

Huntable species on file: White-tailed deer, Wild turkey, Ducks and geese, Small game, Raccoon, Squirrels, Rabbits, Quail, Woodcock, Doves, Coyote, Furbearer trapping, Beaver.

From the area page, 2026-27 regulations (Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries); checked November 4, 2026.

Managed hunt numbers for Clear Creek WMA

Managed hunt results for 2024: 95 deer, 725 efforts on Clear Creek WMA. All WMA managed hunts that year produced 1,768 deer from 13,532 efforts, 7.7 efforts per deer.

* self-clearing only; ** combined mandatory check and self-clearing; ^ bucks only (marks kept in names).

Annual Louisiana Deer Report 2024-25 (WMA managed either-sex hunts, 2024); checked November 4, 2026.

Shooting hours for Clear Creek WMA

Big game light near Clear Creek WMA begins 30 minutes before sunrise and ends 30 minutes after sunset; migratory birds end at sunset.

Turkey hours run to half an hour after sunset.

Hours rules from the 2026-2027 Louisiana Hunting and WMA Regulations and La. R.S. 56:116.1; sunrise and sunset worked out for this location with the NOAA solar formula (Central Time); checked November 4, 2026. Legal hours for every parish.

More hunting near Clear Creek WMA

Clear Creek WMA trip checklist

Schedules, closures and lottery dates on Clear Creek WMA can change mid-season; posted signs and the agency page have the last word.

Sources: source 1 · source 2 · source 3 · source 4 · source 5 · source 6; seasons from the 2026-2027 Louisiana Hunting and WMA Regulations. Checked November 4, 2026.