Bayou Style is a small part time on-going project/venture which began a few years ago as an LSU Shreveport entrepreneurship class assignment by founder Wayne Hogue. The venture continues to be used as a real world example as Wayne teaches entrepreneurship at the univeristy.

The company's purpose is innovating, creating, and commercializing new products that solve specific problems.

The primary focus is on modernizing and simplifying the not-so-fun jobs deer hunters face; particulary the job deer hunters who skin and process their own deer face after the harvesting. Like us, most deer hunters have been skinning and processing deer the exact same way for years (and years... and years). And, we know that most of us old deer hunters are very resistant to change when something works for us: we think our way is the best way and we're not open to there being any way to improve on it. The hunting population is also shrinking in numbers and getting older, which means we have less strength and less help these days. There are also more women are hunting than ever before, too.

Facing those realities, we set out to show and prove that the skinning process can be improved and much of the work eliminated. We have been successful. We have been awarded two patents on products that are proving to significantly improve the job of skinning: The Hogue Singletree and the Hogue Skinner. See their individual pages for more information.

The gambrel has been on the market on a limited basis for a couple years with great results. We've shipped them all over the U.S. and Canada and have had nothing but good reviews. The skinner is now just about fully developed and ready for limited release. We hope to get a few out in the field next fall to get objective feedback from various users before we release them on a larger scale.

We are working on several more ideas that are in various stages of development.

Now that we have some proven products ready to go, we want to take the company to the next step and are beginning the process of meeting with potential partners in order to roll out the first two products to the public. We've learned that while we are good at designing and creating, we need outside expertise to commercialize the products and bring them to market.