Fowl Play

Lafourche Parish, Louisiana⁞± ACRES

The Sportsman's Paradise — A Turnkey Floating Lodge Where World-Class Fishing and Legendary Waterfowl Converge!

Just Listed

^$5,500,000

Fowl Play — a 155'± custom floating hunting and fishing lodge built on two independent spud barges that lock together to live as one seamless residence on the water

The Main Camp — 2,790± SF of finished living
The Crew Camp — 1,848± SF of finished living and working space
Joined by facing covered porches for 4,600± SF under roof
Sleeps 22 in total — 14 in the Main Camp and 8 in the Crew Camp

Sold completely turnkey — professionally decorated furnishings, the full marine fleet, and an established staff already in place
A deeded Point Fourchon home base — three combined lots in a gated subdivision with 250'± of waterfront, a saltwater pool, and an expansive four-lift dock able to berth Fowl Play and a large sport-fisher simultaneously
Assignable exclusive hunting rights to a 6,000 acre duck lease in the heart of the Louisiana marsh and the Mississippi Flyway
Designed by Birmingham, Alabama architects Tom Adams & Adam Gerndt as a fully self-sustaining vessel
Heirloom-grade craftsmanship throughout — wide-plank heart pine floors, #1 cypress walls, pecky cypress ceilings and trim, and hand-set cypress beams
Main Camp sleeps 14 — a master suite, two staterooms, and an eight-bed bunk room, anchored by a commercial chef's kitchen with Wolf cooking and Sub-Zero refrigeration
Crew Camp built for guests, staff, and gear — two four-bed bunk rooms (sleeping 8), a tackle room, a game-prep room, a mud room with personalized lockers, and utility/laundry
A social heart between the camps — facing covered porches and a full outdoor kitchen with Big Green Egg, sink, and refrigeration
A complete marine fleet conveys (full inventory upon request)
Storm-security contracts in place — reserved docking inside protected levee floodgates at retainer properties during named storms
Less than two hours from New Orleans; twenty minutes to the airstrip at Galliano

The finest marsh hunting on the Mississippi Flyway has been held by the same families for generations and almost never reaches the open market — and an opportunity like this doesn't come twice!

There are sporting properties, and then there is Fowl Play.

In the marsh country below Port Fourchon — where the Mississippi Flyway pours into one of the richest estuaries on the continent and the Gulf's blue water — one family set out to build something most sportsmen can only imagine: a lodge that moves with the seasons. A residence finished to the standard of a fine Southern Hunting Lodge, engineered to be towed across open water, and capable of sustaining itself and its guests for days at a time.

The result is a 155'± floating lodge constructed atop two independent spud barges. Through the spring and summer, Fowl Play lies at its Point Fourchon home base — a private, gated subdivision lot where the days are spent chasing speckled trout and redfish in the marsh and running offshore for the Gulf's deep-water game. When the first cold fronts push the ducks south, the camp is pushed out into the marsh itself, settling onto its spuds within a 6,000 acre exclusive hunting lease in the heart of the Louisiana Marsh.

What makes Fowl Play extraordinary is not only what it is, but where it sits — and what that location makes possible in every month of the year. This is the heart of the Louisiana marsh and the Mississippi Flyway, arguably the single greatest convergence of waterfowl and gamefish habitat in North America. When Fowl Play is docked at Port Fourchon, the whole of the northern Gulf opens off her bow. The Point Fourchon Home Base consist of three combined lots in a gated subdivision with 250'± of protected waterfront, a saltwater pool set within a travertine deck beneath a canopy of live oaks, and an expansive four-lift dock with enough room to berth Fowl Play and a large sport-fisher at the same time.

Port Fourchon is the southernmost point in Louisiana you can reach by road, and the shortest run to a fishery anglers fly across the country to experience. More than 600 oil and gas platforms are within a 40-mile radius, the same infrastructure that services 90% of the Gulf’s deepwater production is what built this fishery.

A morning can begin sight-casting to tailing redfish in skinny marsh ponds, move to snapper and grouper stacked on the rigs, and end with yellowfin crashing the surface in clean blue water — all from the same slip. In winter, the lodge anchors within a private duck lease, with assignable exclusive hunting & fishing rights. Long seasons and consistent, mixed-bags— the kind serious waterfowlers travel the world to find. Morning in the marsh, an afternoon offshore, and an evening on the deck watching the sun fall into the Gulf — at Fowl Play, that is not a fantasy itinerary. It is an ordinary day.

Fowl Play is the work of acclaimed Birmingham architects Tom Adams and Adam Gerndt, who designed the lodge from the keel up to function as a fully self-sustaining vessel — comfortable, quiet, and entirely independent of shore.

Twin John Deere 97 kW generators, housed in soundproofed rooms and set to alternate every 200 hours, deliver effortless, near-silent power. The lodge carries 30,000 gallons of fresh water and produces more on demand through a 35 GPH watermaker, runs on 5,000 gallons of onboard fuel, and keeps a 560-pound ice maker and substantial cold and dry storage at the ready. A guest could leave the dock and want nothing for days.

The two barges are a study in intentional design. The Main Camp is the lodge — the gathering place, the kitchen, the master and guest quarters. The Crew Camp is the engine room of hospitality — staff quarters, tackle and game-prep rooms, a mud room, and utility space — so the work of running a great camp stays seamlessly out of sight. When at rest, the two are drawn together along facing covered porches, becoming a single, unified residence with the marsh and open water at every rail. Few private vessels of any kind are this thoughtfully resolved. Fewer still are this beautiful. Wide-plank heart pine floors run throughout, glowing beneath coffered ceilings clad in pecky cypress. Walls of #1 cypress and hand-set cypress beams give every room the warmth and permanence of an heirloom lodge built to last generations.

The Main Camp is built for both grand entertaining and easy rest, and comfortably sleeps fourteen. Its downstairs centers on a commercial chef's kitchen outfitted with Wolf cooking and Sub-Zero refrigeration — flowing into a dining room, a bar and sitting area, an eight-bed bunk room, and two full baths. Upstairs, a soaring cathedral-ceilinged sitting room opens to two staterooms, each with a full bed and an overhead bunk and a shared full bath, and a private master bedroom with its own full bath. The finishes carry through to every corner — from carved double vanities and marble vessel sinks to a sportsman's gallery of waterfowl, fish, and big-game mounts that tells the story of the water and the world beyond it.

The Crew Camp is finished to the same standard but engineered to work. Downstairs holds a mud room lined with personalized lockers, a dedicated tackle room, a game-prep room, a utility room, and a half bath. Upstairs are two bunk rooms with four beds each, two full baths, and a sitting room — quarters that sleep eight and allow a professional staff, or overflow guests, to live aboard while the operation runs effortlessly. All told, the two camps sleep twenty-two.

Between the two camps, facing covered porches frame a full outdoor kitchen — Big Green Egg, sink, and refrigeration — the natural gathering place at the end of a day on the water, with the marsh stretching to the horizon on every side.

Fowl Play conveys as a complete, ready-to-run operation. The professionally curated furnishings remain. The full marine fleet conveys. And an established staff is already in place — a camp manager to oversee the vessel and the hunting and fishing operations, a chef, and deck hands as needed — so a new owner steps into a fully functioning sportsman's paradise from day one.

Storm Security: Recognizing the realities of the coast, the operation holds contracts at retainer properties that reserve secured docking inside protected levee floodgates during named storms — a level of foresight that protects both the asset and the peace of mind that comes with it.

Less than two hours from New Orleans and its international airport
Twenty minutes to the airstrip at Galliano for private aircraft
Direct access to the Louisiana marsh, the Mississippi Flyway, and the Gulf's inshore and offshore fisheries
A gated, protected home base in the Point Fourchon community

A great sporting property is measured by the experiences it makes possible and the legacy it leaves behind. Fowl Play offers both — and does something no fixed property ever can. It carries its owner to the fish in summer and to the ducks in winter, finished throughout to a standard that would distinguish any home on solid ground, and ready to run the moment the keys change hands.

This is the Sportsman's Paradise. There is nothing else like it on the water.

This property is listed by Jon Kohler & Associates & Beau J. Box, dba Beau Box Commercial Real Estate LA Broker No# 72886 A-ACT / 5500 Bankers Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 / 225-237-3343