October 26, 2025 • 10 mins
Originally aired on October 26th, 2025. Doug's insightfu interview with David Pruett, for your listening pleasure.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, tee him up. Let me go ahead and grab
him real quick.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey David, Hey duck, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm all right man.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We were gonna call you after the break, but I'll
take you before and then I'll make it up down
the road somewhere, no worries. So how much this is
David Preuit from rice Land Waterfowl Club. How much rain
did you get out there?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I forgot about oh maybe between the three rains maybe
half an inch.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
That's it, goylee, that's it.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Enough to make enough to make any difference at all
in your pumping scheduling.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
On No just making things muddy, but hitting around. But hey,
that's what we got. Water wheels far and everywhere. We're
pumping water.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Good for you, man, good for you.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You told me just a little while ago that you
do have room for a couple of more hunters too.
And with all the water you're putting down, they're gonna
be ducks, aren't there.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh yeah, there'll be ducks. We always have ducks. I
mean we got one group lash year that said they
had over sixteen or seventeen full limit hunts. We've had
groups say hey, we're still in the four is another
group in the five hundred. So we're still killing birds.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That's good man and they Yeah, so six man groups,
am I right?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yes? Or we have six band groups and a single gun.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna oh a single that's
not a bad Yeah. We had a bunch of those
when I was guiding, and I know you don't allow
guided hunts on your place, but we had a lot
of guys who just look, I don't want to. I'll
hunt with anybody at least once and then see what
it goes like after that. But yeah, that's not a
bad way to get yourself onto something like of the
(01:39):
quality that you got out there and upgrade your duck
hunting act.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What kind of ducks you've seen out there?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
How many birds you got?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Not a lot?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
The migration is truthfully about two and a half to
three weeks behind it. Yeah. Uh shot in stall up
in Michigan. You know the Canada call callmaker last week
he said they shot a couple of boot bills in
a wood duck. He said, our season is almost over
in Michigan and they're not here. Guys from Canada went
up to Canada. A pastor friend of mine, Rusty Martin,
(02:13):
same thing. He just got back a week ago, and
another group was up there. They just left yesterday coming
back and they said they've only seen a hundred snows.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I don't know. I'm just having to believe everything I'm
hearing when you talk to him.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And you know, the guy Shartly, you know, it's just
one of those years where it's going to be a
late migration which actually doesn't hurt you and doesn't hurt
our hunting down here. It's opening day, maybe a little slow,
but we're gonna have better hunts going into the Christmas
season and going into January.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Maybe it'll kind of finish with a real flurry.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh it will. We're going to get probably a lot
of cold weather and we always get ducks it. Sometimes
you have it a little slow in the beginning. Sometimes
you have a bangers start. But it's one of those years.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I can remember one start on that Katie Prairie, David,
and I don't even know what year it was, but
you could probably tell me. You got a much better
memory for that stuff as close as you are on it.
But I had to take a group of four guys
and we were going to a place that had had
a bunch of ducks on it. It's big, big, big,
big field, and there was good water on it. And
(03:26):
then for a day and a half before the opener
about it was just a torrential downpour. And when I
got into that field that next morning, I got there's
a wellhead about maybe five six hundred yards in the
road from off the FM road, and I'm looking as
(03:47):
a turn onto that road and there's water on both
sides of that road. There's nowhere to walk into the field.
It's just it's water up onto the road almost. And
we ended up having a just kind of tuck in
behind little tufts of Johnson grass and anything else we
could find to make ourselves halfway hidden, and ended up
having a really good hunt. But even the ducks were
(04:09):
kind of confused about how much water was in that place.
It was nuts. Man, My poor old dog didn't know
what to do either. He had a blast he did,
and he the champion mouser of the prairie. He brought
back one of those big old prairie rats. It's about
the size of a two liter coke bottle. And these
guys said, hey, man, your dog's not carrying a duck.
(04:31):
I said, I know he does that. It's okay, he'll stop.
He just goes he gets one, then he'll hunt and
then after that he'll go get some more. So when
in a year like this, and I know you've been
doing this for fifty years, so maybe you've got some
something in the back of your mind that says, Okay,
they'll probably start showing up after one more coal front,
(04:51):
two more.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
What are you thinking, Yeah, I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm thinking about the second week of November, we'll start released.
Are seeing a good push. It's just a little behind.
We've had years like it before. We've always you know,
like I said earlier, make it through. And when I
think that push is gonna happen, it's gonna be a
big push. Because if they're still shooting Blue Wing tealed
up in Michigan a week and a half ago, we're behind.
(05:21):
I think I've got eight water wells running right now. Wow.
I mean we're pushing water everywhere. Just finished building another area.
I used a scraper right in it, like twenty twenty
eight hours, almost straight Wow. And got another pine redone
and scraped out and big levies built. Water was going
into it. It was half full yesterday. So we're getting
(05:44):
things pushed for when the birds get here, and we're
just getting prepared work. No, I don't believe there's anybody
out there works harder for their waterfowl club than what
we do. Is I mean constant done stuff. We used
too much ahead. It's every day for eighteen hours a
day minimum. We're pushing doing something for the hunters.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
That's good, the ducks, that's good. You know when out
back back in the day. Of course, I'm I'm not
as young in Surpry as I used to be. But
when people would ask me outside of close to hunting season,
they just say, when's the best time to bring my
dad down from Arkansas or Montana whatever for a goose
(06:25):
hunt or a duck hunt. The standard answer was always
between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
That's kind of the peak. Is it still that way?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah? I think so. I think it's still a good
time we cover. We're still getting new birds this year.
If it's late snow that they get up north, we'll
still be getting burgets.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Kind of funny. You know, sometimes later in the year
we're still getting more birds coming in and instead of
your settings or shooting the same old steel bird a
day after day.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, you got to remember everybody has to remember that.
The calendar is something that we look at. The birds
are responding to weather conditions, they're responding to light conditions
and all of that, and they've been doing that for
thousands of years. We're just we're tied to this January, February, March,
April May stuff that means absolutely nothing to the birds.
(07:18):
They're just they're working on DNA.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Man, Yes, exactly exactly, and they're free flying. They could
go where they want when they want. It lives within
a mile of his home territory.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
And yeah, I wish I had a nickel for every
time I had to explain that to people said, how
come that big old rooster geese got off when that
kyote flew there?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Do you think they'll come back?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I said, not till that kayaks or that coyotes a
little farther away, I guess. But yeah, they they pick
up and fly anytime they want to, and they can
go as far as they want and they don't have
to come back.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We shot a wood duck that was in Canada and
he was too that he was banded two days earlier.
Oh wow, I mean that's moving pretty good for a
wood duck.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Holy cow.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
All right, So look, if somebody wants to jump in,
they're still kind of scratching their head, going where am
I gonna hunt ducks this year?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
How do they get a hold of you? Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You can call us at nine three six eight two
seven two four one three, and we'll be happy to
show you around over our stuff we've got and let
you see what's really going on for yourself. It's not here,
Say it's here, it is? Look?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, give them, give them half the tour that
I got that at to pretty much convince them they're
gonna get to see it.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
With all the water. You were telling me where all
the water is.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Now they'll get to see that, won't they.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I like the way you set your blinds up to
where a lot of them are very easy, easy, easy
access where if you if you can't walk, you don't
have to walk.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
You know that's important, No, kidd, that's the best site.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I mean, why not be comfortable and make it easy
on yourself if you can.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, tell that to all both getting older, Tell that
to all the guys. I made a bag of wet
rags into a field and lie down on a muddy,
a muddy rice levee that had fire ant beds all
over it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Those were the days.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Oh me, Oh, I saw more than I saw, God,
isn't that's the truth?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I saw more than one grown man.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I'd tell them about the ants, and I'd tell them, look,
get your flashlight out. That's the only thing I would
let him use a flashlight for is to make sure
they weren't setting up shop on an ant bed, because
the ants go to the high ground and invariably somebody
about maybe two minutes before shooting time to really mess
it all up, just starting to be able to see,
(09:41):
and some grown man would jump up and start peeling
all his clothes off on a twenty eight degree morning
because he was lying in fire ants. And we all
know that when the fire ants get on you, they
wait untill there's about a thousand of them. Then one
of them blows a whistle and they all start stinging you.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right, for sure, good times, Hi Dave, good tell you, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
All right, but it's hilarious today.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
But it wasn't hilarious, No, No, it wasn't funny. To
me the time it happened to me either one time,
I let that happen. Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com. Go
give David Protoco if you want to kill some ducks
this year. Thanks David, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, keep me posted, keep me posted this week, next week,
week after whenever.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
All right, Holy col we got to take a quick break.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I'm sorry, Frankie. I just get fired up about talking
about waterfowl.
Oh, tee him up. Let me go ahead and grab
him real quick.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey David, Hey duck, how's it going.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm all right man.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We were gonna call you after the break, but I'll
take you before and then I'll make it up down
the road somewhere, no worries. So how much this is
David Preuit from rice Land Waterfowl Club. How much rain
did you get out there?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I forgot about oh maybe between the three rains maybe
half an inch.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
That's it, goylee, that's it.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Enough to make enough to make any difference at all
in your pumping scheduling.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
On No just making things muddy, but hitting around. But hey,
that's what we got. Water wheels far and everywhere. We're
pumping water.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Good for you, man, good for you.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Now.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
You told me just a little while ago that you
do have room for a couple of more hunters too.
And with all the water you're putting down, they're gonna
be ducks, aren't there.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Oh yeah, there'll be ducks. We always have ducks. I
mean we got one group lash year that said they
had over sixteen or seventeen full limit hunts. We've had
groups say hey, we're still in the four is another
group in the five hundred. So we're still killing birds.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That's good man and they Yeah, so six man groups,
am I right?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yes? Or we have six band groups and a single gun.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna oh a single that's
not a bad Yeah. We had a bunch of those
when I was guiding, and I know you don't allow
guided hunts on your place, but we had a lot
of guys who just look, I don't want to. I'll
hunt with anybody at least once and then see what
it goes like after that. But yeah, that's not a
bad way to get yourself onto something like of the
(01:39):
quality that you got out there and upgrade your duck
hunting act.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What kind of ducks you've seen out there?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
How many birds you got?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Not a lot?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
The migration is truthfully about two and a half to
three weeks behind it. Yeah. Uh shot in stall up
in Michigan. You know the Canada call callmaker last week
he said they shot a couple of boot bills in
a wood duck. He said, our season is almost over
in Michigan and they're not here. Guys from Canada went
up to Canada. A pastor friend of mine, Rusty Martin,
(02:13):
same thing. He just got back a week ago, and
another group was up there. They just left yesterday coming
back and they said they've only seen a hundred snows.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I don't know. I'm just having to believe everything I'm
hearing when you talk to him.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And you know, the guy Shartly, you know, it's just
one of those years where it's going to be a
late migration which actually doesn't hurt you and doesn't hurt
our hunting down here. It's opening day, maybe a little slow,
but we're gonna have better hunts going into the Christmas
season and going into January.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Maybe it'll kind of finish with a real flurry.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh it will. We're going to get probably a lot
of cold weather and we always get ducks it. Sometimes
you have it a little slow in the beginning. Sometimes
you have a bangers start. But it's one of those years.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I can remember one start on that Katie Prairie, David,
and I don't even know what year it was, but
you could probably tell me. You got a much better
memory for that stuff as close as you are on it.
But I had to take a group of four guys
and we were going to a place that had had
a bunch of ducks on it. It's big, big, big,
big field, and there was good water on it. And
(03:26):
then for a day and a half before the opener
about it was just a torrential downpour. And when I
got into that field that next morning, I got there's
a wellhead about maybe five six hundred yards in the
road from off the FM road, and I'm looking as
(03:47):
a turn onto that road and there's water on both
sides of that road. There's nowhere to walk into the field.
It's just it's water up onto the road almost. And
we ended up having a just kind of tuck in
behind little tufts of Johnson grass and anything else we
could find to make ourselves halfway hidden, and ended up
having a really good hunt. But even the ducks were
(04:09):
kind of confused about how much water was in that place.
It was nuts. Man, My poor old dog didn't know
what to do either. He had a blast he did,
and he the champion mouser of the prairie. He brought
back one of those big old prairie rats. It's about
the size of a two liter coke bottle. And these
guys said, hey, man, your dog's not carrying a duck.
(04:31):
I said, I know he does that. It's okay, he'll stop.
He just goes he gets one, then he'll hunt and
then after that he'll go get some more. So when
in a year like this, and I know you've been
doing this for fifty years, so maybe you've got some
something in the back of your mind that says, Okay,
they'll probably start showing up after one more coal front,
(04:51):
two more.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
What are you thinking, Yeah, I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I'm thinking about the second week of November, we'll start released.
Are seeing a good push. It's just a little behind.
We've had years like it before. We've always you know,
like I said earlier, make it through. And when I
think that push is gonna happen, it's gonna be a
big push. Because if they're still shooting Blue Wing tealed
up in Michigan a week and a half ago, we're behind.
(05:21):
I think I've got eight water wells running right now. Wow.
I mean we're pushing water everywhere. Just finished building another area.
I used a scraper right in it, like twenty twenty
eight hours, almost straight Wow. And got another pine redone
and scraped out and big levies built. Water was going
into it. It was half full yesterday. So we're getting
(05:44):
things pushed for when the birds get here, and we're
just getting prepared work. No, I don't believe there's anybody
out there works harder for their waterfowl club than what
we do. Is I mean constant done stuff. We used
too much ahead. It's every day for eighteen hours a
day minimum. We're pushing doing something for the hunters.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
That's good, the ducks, that's good. You know when out
back back in the day. Of course, I'm I'm not
as young in Surpry as I used to be. But
when people would ask me outside of close to hunting season,
they just say, when's the best time to bring my
dad down from Arkansas or Montana whatever for a goose
(06:25):
hunt or a duck hunt. The standard answer was always
between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
That's kind of the peak. Is it still that way?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah? I think so. I think it's still a good
time we cover. We're still getting new birds this year.
If it's late snow that they get up north, we'll
still be getting burgets.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Kind of funny. You know, sometimes later in the year
we're still getting more birds coming in and instead of
your settings or shooting the same old steel bird a
day after day.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, you got to remember everybody has to remember that.
The calendar is something that we look at. The birds
are responding to weather conditions, they're responding to light conditions
and all of that, and they've been doing that for
thousands of years. We're just we're tied to this January, February, March,
April May stuff that means absolutely nothing to the birds.
(07:18):
They're just they're working on DNA.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Man, Yes, exactly exactly, and they're free flying. They could
go where they want when they want. It lives within
a mile of his home territory.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
And yeah, I wish I had a nickel for every
time I had to explain that to people said, how
come that big old rooster geese got off when that
kyote flew there?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Do you think they'll come back?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I said, not till that kayaks or that coyotes a
little farther away, I guess. But yeah, they they pick
up and fly anytime they want to, and they can
go as far as they want and they don't have
to come back.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We shot a wood duck that was in Canada and
he was too that he was banded two days earlier.
Oh wow, I mean that's moving pretty good for a
wood duck.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Holy cow.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
All right, So look, if somebody wants to jump in,
they're still kind of scratching their head, going where am
I gonna hunt ducks this year?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
How do they get a hold of you? Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You can call us at nine three six eight two
seven two four one three, and we'll be happy to
show you around over our stuff we've got and let
you see what's really going on for yourself. It's not here,
Say it's here, it is? Look?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, give them, give them half the tour that
I got that at to pretty much convince them they're
gonna get to see it.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
With all the water. You were telling me where all
the water is.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Now they'll get to see that, won't they.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I like the way you set your blinds up to
where a lot of them are very easy, easy, easy
access where if you if you can't walk, you don't
have to walk.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
You know that's important, No, kidd, that's the best site.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I mean, why not be comfortable and make it easy
on yourself if you can.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, tell that to all both getting older, Tell that
to all the guys. I made a bag of wet
rags into a field and lie down on a muddy,
a muddy rice levee that had fire ant beds all
over it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Those were the days.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Oh me, Oh, I saw more than I saw, God,
isn't that's the truth?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I saw more than one grown man.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I'd tell them about the ants, and I'd tell them, look,
get your flashlight out. That's the only thing I would
let him use a flashlight for is to make sure
they weren't setting up shop on an ant bed, because
the ants go to the high ground and invariably somebody
about maybe two minutes before shooting time to really mess
it all up, just starting to be able to see,
(09:41):
and some grown man would jump up and start peeling
all his clothes off on a twenty eight degree morning
because he was lying in fire ants. And we all
know that when the fire ants get on you, they
wait untill there's about a thousand of them. Then one
of them blows a whistle and they all start stinging you.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All right, for sure, good times, Hi Dave, good tell you, yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
All right, but it's hilarious today.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
But it wasn't hilarious, No, No, it wasn't funny. To
me the time it happened to me either one time,
I let that happen. Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com. Go
give David Protoco if you want to kill some ducks
this year. Thanks David, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, keep me posted, keep me posted this week, next week,
week after whenever.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
All right, Holy col we got to take a quick break.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I'm sorry, Frankie. I just get fired up about talking
about waterfowl.
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