January 11, 2026 • 12 mins
Originally aired on January 11, 2026. Doug's insightful interview with David Pruett, owner of Riceland Waterfowl Club, for your listening pleasure.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome back Doug Pike Show, eight thirty seven
(00:02):
on Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm gonna go straight to
this phone and get David Prude on the phone.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
David from Riceley and Waterfowl Club. What's going on out there?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Man? Not a lot?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Another day was Sunshine's well, you know, that's way better.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I heard some There were some guys, a couple of
guys I visited with yesterday by text said yeah, it
was okay. You know, hunting wasn't great. It was okay,
but it got kind of chili like. Man, you guys
haven't had chili weather. But what two days this whole season?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Right, That's about it. That's it.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
That's some youngsters talking. That's all it was, David.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Right, So have you seen have you seen this deal
that Senator Kennedy from Louisiana put out, the press release
he put out and what he told the federal the
Fish and Wildlife.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Service, Oh yes, that's very good. Glad he don't it
I this.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It may be a day late and a dollar short,
but honest to goodness, if anybody you and I know
and we know a lot of people who walk or
foul hunt, if any one of them was thinking about
selling their decoys. No, hang on to them, because things
are about to change. I got a hunch Kennedy's gonna
flip this thing around and fix this.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
That's about time I hit it, though. I've got some others. Oh,
I've got some other information you could use. You know,
when farmers do this, because I have farmed as a
farmer for several years, you have to sign up everything
with the FSA office. That's some Farmer Service agentcy right now,
that's a that's a that's a federal government document. When
(01:32):
you sign it, let's say, they say you got to
have it, which farm number you farming?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Get on? Now? Which track number in there?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
And it also tells you how many acres is in
that track They already know you say, okay, I'm going
to do three hundred and fifty acres of corn.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Okay, And so you you plan it and you only.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Harvest three hundred acres and didn't harvest the other that's
against the law.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
That's that simple.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Wow, So how have they been doing this for so long?
And get Yeah, that's you know, there's a lot of
questions to ask.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Arn't there Oh, a bunch of questions and it has
been a big thing, you know, up north, and I
understand some of it is these people that's got plenty
of money. And I'm glad people do have plenty of money,
because that's what helps the world around here.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
It is.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Uh, but they're going in with these big high fences
and places and uh farming just for ducks and stuff.
And that's perfectly legal if you're okay, you're just farming
just for ducks and not trying to harvest it, that's
perfectly legal.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Uh. But it's starting to.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Get to the point it's wiping out the normal guys
for public honey.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, yeah, well public and down here even lease honey,
kind of like what you run, you know, it hurts everybody.
The the one that really knocked me all out of
my chair almost was the statistic that he gave on
Louisiana's Mallard count I don't know if you heard me
talking about it a few minutes ago, you did you
see that?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Not? Let me let me I've seen it though.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh so here's the deal, and I'll let you try
to fill in the blank, just like I let Frankie.
I'll just read it. It says Mallard harvest in the
state of Louisiana dropped x percent from nineteen ninety nine
to twenty twenty one. What do you think that percentage
was ninety five for every one hundred mallards they were
(03:20):
killing in nineteen ninety eight, Now they're killing five. Imagine
that and that that explains so much, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh, it's massive abounts.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, it's just and they And I really do think
that when he gets hold of something, he doesn't let go.
And I'm truly hoping that he can get some committee
hearings going and whatever it takes in Washington, I don't care.
But this is a serious issue, and thank goodness, there's
guys like you and me and everybody will get involved
(03:55):
in this to keep talking about it. Right to your congressman,
right to everybody you can, right to the Fish and
Wildlife Service, tell them you're tired of getting ripped off
by people up north who deliberately flood corn and I
just don't like it. That's baiting. If we did that
down here, we'd go to jail prison.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh yeah, they Oh yeah, I mean I had a
rice field that they did not do second crop on
will it come back?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Volunteer?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And they would not let me manipulate it. Okay, that's volunteer.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, and yeah, it's just like weeds growing in the
yard at that point, right.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Well, the next year it grew back again because it
had a wet spring, and it grew back on solid
just like it did the first time. Oh God as
a road trump. And they still would not let me
manipulate it.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Holy ken if they won't let you. Oh did we
lose him? We can't hear you. David, hang up and
call him back real quick.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Franky Hey forty five on Sports Talk seven to ninety
The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Let's get
back and see if we got a better connection. Man,
you just got so upset and just the the phone
line melted.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
David.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I think goodness, I think so, you know, because I
say something about Texas Parks and wildlife.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Be careful, be nice to them. They do a very
good job for what they got. Okay, good, yeah, yeah,
so what you got?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Well, Uh, I'm not saying nothing bad about them. First off,
I just kind of everybody has the right to agree
or disagree, of course, but I you know, if what
we're missing down here in the South is more sanctuaries
are let's call them refuge not refugees, but roosting areas.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Or safe zones.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
You know, yeah, they knows or you're not hunting, right,
They used to be everywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's a good point back.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, back when I was guiding, there were there were
roost ponds everywhere, and nobody hunted them.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Well, it's hard to find a place or farmers or
other landowners that will allow you to do such, you know,
to plump water or keep it, you know in there
for a sanctuary only with nobody around it. Uh, Texas
Parks and Wildlife. And I don't know who come up
with it. I'm sure the biologists and all their top
people did, but I'm going to give some reality to it. Yeah,
they say that the pin tel will fly eleven miles
(06:09):
to feet. I agree, all right, so you don't need
a sanctuary, but every eleven miles. Now, this is where
I come in disagreement. You know, I travel fifty miles
to go get something to eat every now and then,
but I don't do it every day. I go as
close to home as I can, sure, but eleven miles
that is the equivalent to putting a sanctuary in the
middle of downtown Houston and saying or roost area and
(06:32):
saying that world is going is good enough to cover
the inside of sixten loop.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Now is that big enough area? One sainctuary in the middle.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Wow? No, not really.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Okay, Now let's get to the reality of it. It's
from downtown Houston all the way out to beelt Way
eight the conference.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, now that's the more In reality, it's not enough
of them.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, we need a lot more roost area. And that
roost area has to be monitored too.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
For just like I was talking about earlier before I
called you up for avan collar stuff like that, there
has to be and we had all those eyes and
vehicles driving around and observing and looking when that was
a very robust waterfowl hunting area from down where you
are all the way up to Katie Man there you
(07:21):
could ride around and bump into one hundred trucks guys
riding around scouting and looking and seeing what was going
on out there.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Exactly. I think we just need more stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I've thought about starting the Texas Waterfowl Alliance to get
people involved, not just GUIDs are outfitters, but the general
public involved. And what is better for the state of Texas.
How to do this Well, I was going to do
this thirty years ago and never done it, and I
still have it in the back of my mind. So
we could get some people from the state of Texas
like they do it Louisiana, other states. This is what
(07:54):
we're missing, This is what we should be doing, and
present it to our Congress. But present it to you.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, oh no, come back you there. Oh good.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah, it's just it's just reality for I think it
needs to be happening in the state.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Let's do let's do this, David, make me a promise
that you will bring this Texas Waterfowl Alliance a little
bit more to the four and then let's have some
conversations about getting it started, because I can probably gather
a pretty good crew of people and not everybody's going
to have the same opinion. We don't want to all
be little robots saying the same thing. We want to
have a lot of sharing of ideas and what will work,
(08:35):
what won't work, what might work, what could work, and
then focus on Texas waterfile.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's time.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, I think it needs to be from public land
to private land growth.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, you know as well as I do.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Most of it's going to be private land because that's
what Texas is, and that really with the right with
the right people pushing something, there's there's opportunity to get
things done faster.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I think, think on private land then on public lands.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Right exactly, All right, man.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Exactly, You and I we're in it for the long haul, buddy.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You know that, man exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So let's bring it back.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Something for the future, come back now, let's just come
back to the present.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
The last few days, what's duck hunting done?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
This will northern wind we got didn't help anything but
drop some of the prairies more.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
We had some guys deal, you know, two and three
guys going out and they was in the tens and
twelves and one guy went got he shot three geese
and three ducks by himself.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Gang.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Man, it's not totally bad, but it's just not where
we're used to. You and I both seen it in
the better days. Sure, and it can come back. Everybody
says it won't, but it can come back if John
Kerry and everything he's doing will help push this through
and stop a lot of what's been going on.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, this guy Kennedy is gonna I think he's gonna
be the I mean giant kid. Yeah, no, I understood that.
That's not a problem. Hey man, it wouldn't be the
first time I said the wrong name on this show.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Holy count exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Oh man, the older I get, the worse it gets too.
In any event, with him taking this up and sending
this it's kind of a notice, really, not even a
press release to the Fishy Wildlife Service if they messed up,
and they need to fess up and concede that what
(10:28):
they did in nineteen ninety eight and what they did
again in nineteen ninety nine to take that enforcement stuff
out of it, that was wrong. It was a mistake,
and they got to own it and they got to
fix it. And if we put enough pressure on them,
you know, votes count, man, votes count.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah, sure it does. And everybody's entitled the mistakes. I mean,
this is.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Something that happened. They thought it was a good idea
at the time, but they let it go on too
far and look where it's got us.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I really do feel like somebody convinced them, with their
fingers crossed behind their back, that those birds needed some
sustenance on the way during their big long migration. But
like I said earlier before I started talking to you,
those ducks have been doing that for a thousand year,
ten thousand years. They don't need they don't need a
(11:14):
convenience store on the highway to wherever they're going.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
They can just get on the highway and drive and right.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Man, if God can create a duck and he can
go from a nesting habitat all the way to the
south as far as he feels he needs to go
naturally and turn around and make it all the way
back up north, he can handle what.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
He's looking for.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Phenomenal, isn't it when you stop and think about that.
We can't get to that. We can't get to the
grocery store without GPS.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You know, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I mean really, I know a lot of people who
probably couldn't.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
It's just stunning how inadequately we are prepared for real
world stuff like was. And I'm not talking about going
back to caveman days. I'm talking about just going back
to no electronics. Can you imagine leaving home with that
your phone?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Now? No, couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, and all these places back when I was guiding
all over the prairie, just riding all over the place
and having a great time. And you'd get directions and
you'd write them down. You go two miles to this road,
and you take a left, and you go to the
where the big tree used to be, and you take
a right, and you'd get there eventually, and if you didn't,
you'd have to stop at somebody's house and use their phone. Crazy,
(12:28):
all right, David, keep you keep your chin up out there,
and keep your head down and your chin up, and
we'll we'll get some ducks at some point and we'll
all be better for it. I know it, man, you've
been in it fifty years. You know what it is.
You know what it is, the roller coaster.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Put some heads together. Yeah, I like that, I really do,
all right, I have a good one, Yes, sir, you too, Audios,
Oh thank you, David.
All right, welcome back Doug Pike Show, eight thirty seven
(00:02):
on Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm gonna go straight to
this phone and get David Prude on the phone.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
David from Riceley and Waterfowl Club. What's going on out there?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Man? Not a lot?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
Another day was Sunshine's well, you know, that's way better.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I heard some There were some guys, a couple of
guys I visited with yesterday by text said yeah, it
was okay. You know, hunting wasn't great. It was okay,
but it got kind of chili like. Man, you guys
haven't had chili weather. But what two days this whole season?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Right, That's about it. That's it.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
That's some youngsters talking. That's all it was, David.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Right, So have you seen have you seen this deal
that Senator Kennedy from Louisiana put out, the press release
he put out and what he told the federal the
Fish and Wildlife.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Service, Oh yes, that's very good. Glad he don't it
I this.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
It may be a day late and a dollar short,
but honest to goodness, if anybody you and I know
and we know a lot of people who walk or
foul hunt, if any one of them was thinking about
selling their decoys. No, hang on to them, because things
are about to change. I got a hunch Kennedy's gonna
flip this thing around and fix this.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
That's about time I hit it, though. I've got some others. Oh,
I've got some other information you could use. You know,
when farmers do this, because I have farmed as a
farmer for several years, you have to sign up everything
with the FSA office. That's some Farmer Service agentcy right now,
that's a that's a that's a federal government document. When
(01:32):
you sign it, let's say, they say you got to
have it, which farm number you farming?
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Get on? Now? Which track number in there?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
And it also tells you how many acres is in
that track They already know you say, okay, I'm going
to do three hundred and fifty acres of corn.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Okay, And so you you plan it and you only.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Harvest three hundred acres and didn't harvest the other that's
against the law.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
That's that simple.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Wow, So how have they been doing this for so long?
And get Yeah, that's you know, there's a lot of
questions to ask.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Arn't there Oh, a bunch of questions and it has
been a big thing, you know, up north, and I
understand some of it is these people that's got plenty
of money. And I'm glad people do have plenty of money,
because that's what helps the world around here.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
It is.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Uh, but they're going in with these big high fences
and places and uh farming just for ducks and stuff.
And that's perfectly legal if you're okay, you're just farming
just for ducks and not trying to harvest it, that's
perfectly legal.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Uh. But it's starting to.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Get to the point it's wiping out the normal guys
for public honey.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, yeah, well public and down here even lease honey,
kind of like what you run, you know, it hurts everybody.
The the one that really knocked me all out of
my chair almost was the statistic that he gave on
Louisiana's Mallard count I don't know if you heard me
talking about it a few minutes ago, you did you
see that?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Not? Let me let me I've seen it though.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh so here's the deal, and I'll let you try
to fill in the blank, just like I let Frankie.
I'll just read it. It says Mallard harvest in the
state of Louisiana dropped x percent from nineteen ninety nine
to twenty twenty one. What do you think that percentage
was ninety five for every one hundred mallards they were
(03:20):
killing in nineteen ninety eight, Now they're killing five. Imagine
that and that that explains so much, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh, it's massive abounts.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, it's just and they And I really do think
that when he gets hold of something, he doesn't let go.
And I'm truly hoping that he can get some committee
hearings going and whatever it takes in Washington, I don't care.
But this is a serious issue, and thank goodness, there's
guys like you and me and everybody will get involved
(03:55):
in this to keep talking about it. Right to your congressman,
right to everybody you can, right to the Fish and
Wildlife Service, tell them you're tired of getting ripped off
by people up north who deliberately flood corn and I
just don't like it. That's baiting. If we did that
down here, we'd go to jail prison.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh yeah, they Oh yeah, I mean I had a
rice field that they did not do second crop on
will it come back?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Volunteer?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And they would not let me manipulate it. Okay, that's volunteer.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, and yeah, it's just like weeds growing in the
yard at that point, right.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Well, the next year it grew back again because it
had a wet spring, and it grew back on solid
just like it did the first time. Oh God as
a road trump. And they still would not let me
manipulate it.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Holy ken if they won't let you. Oh did we
lose him? We can't hear you. David, hang up and
call him back real quick.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Franky Hey forty five on Sports Talk seven to ninety
The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Let's get
back and see if we got a better connection. Man,
you just got so upset and just the the phone
line melted.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
David.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I think goodness, I think so, you know, because I
say something about Texas Parks and wildlife.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Be careful, be nice to them. They do a very
good job for what they got. Okay, good, yeah, yeah,
so what you got?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Well, Uh, I'm not saying nothing bad about them. First off,
I just kind of everybody has the right to agree
or disagree, of course, but I you know, if what
we're missing down here in the South is more sanctuaries
are let's call them refuge not refugees, but roosting areas.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Or safe zones.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
You know, yeah, they knows or you're not hunting, right,
They used to be everywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
That's a good point back.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, back when I was guiding, there were there were
roost ponds everywhere, and nobody hunted them.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Well, it's hard to find a place or farmers or
other landowners that will allow you to do such, you know,
to plump water or keep it, you know in there
for a sanctuary only with nobody around it. Uh, Texas
Parks and Wildlife. And I don't know who come up
with it. I'm sure the biologists and all their top
people did, but I'm going to give some reality to it. Yeah,
they say that the pin tel will fly eleven miles
(06:09):
to feet. I agree, all right, so you don't need
a sanctuary, but every eleven miles. Now, this is where
I come in disagreement. You know, I travel fifty miles
to go get something to eat every now and then,
but I don't do it every day. I go as
close to home as I can, sure, but eleven miles
that is the equivalent to putting a sanctuary in the
middle of downtown Houston and saying or roost area and
(06:32):
saying that world is going is good enough to cover
the inside of sixten loop.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Now is that big enough area? One sainctuary in the middle.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Wow? No, not really.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Okay, Now let's get to the reality of it. It's
from downtown Houston all the way out to beelt Way
eight the conference.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, now that's the more In reality, it's not enough
of them.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, we need a lot more roost area. And that
roost area has to be monitored too.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
For just like I was talking about earlier before I
called you up for avan collar stuff like that, there
has to be and we had all those eyes and
vehicles driving around and observing and looking when that was
a very robust waterfowl hunting area from down where you
are all the way up to Katie Man there you
(07:21):
could ride around and bump into one hundred trucks guys
riding around scouting and looking and seeing what was going
on out there.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Exactly. I think we just need more stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I've thought about starting the Texas Waterfowl Alliance to get
people involved, not just GUIDs are outfitters, but the general
public involved. And what is better for the state of Texas.
How to do this Well, I was going to do
this thirty years ago and never done it, and I
still have it in the back of my mind. So
we could get some people from the state of Texas
like they do it Louisiana, other states. This is what
(07:54):
we're missing, This is what we should be doing, and
present it to our Congress. But present it to you.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, oh no, come back you there. Oh good.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah, it's just it's just reality for I think it
needs to be happening in the state.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Let's do let's do this, David, make me a promise
that you will bring this Texas Waterfowl Alliance a little
bit more to the four and then let's have some
conversations about getting it started, because I can probably gather
a pretty good crew of people and not everybody's going
to have the same opinion. We don't want to all
be little robots saying the same thing. We want to
have a lot of sharing of ideas and what will work,
(08:35):
what won't work, what might work, what could work, and
then focus on Texas waterfile.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's time.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, I think it needs to be from public land
to private land growth.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, you know as well as I do.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Most of it's going to be private land because that's
what Texas is, and that really with the right with
the right people pushing something, there's there's opportunity to get
things done faster.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I think, think on private land then on public lands.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Right exactly, All right, man.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Exactly, You and I we're in it for the long haul, buddy.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You know that, man exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So let's bring it back.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Something for the future, come back now, let's just come
back to the present.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
The last few days, what's duck hunting done?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Well?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
This will northern wind we got didn't help anything but
drop some of the prairies more.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
We had some guys deal, you know, two and three
guys going out and they was in the tens and
twelves and one guy went got he shot three geese
and three ducks by himself.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Gang.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Man, it's not totally bad, but it's just not where
we're used to. You and I both seen it in
the better days. Sure, and it can come back. Everybody
says it won't, but it can come back if John
Kerry and everything he's doing will help push this through
and stop a lot of what's been going on.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, this guy Kennedy is gonna I think he's gonna
be the I mean giant kid. Yeah, no, I understood that.
That's not a problem. Hey man, it wouldn't be the
first time I said the wrong name on this show.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Holy count exactly.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Oh man, the older I get, the worse it gets too.
In any event, with him taking this up and sending
this it's kind of a notice, really, not even a
press release to the Fishy Wildlife Service if they messed up,
and they need to fess up and concede that what
(10:28):
they did in nineteen ninety eight and what they did
again in nineteen ninety nine to take that enforcement stuff
out of it, that was wrong. It was a mistake,
and they got to own it and they got to
fix it. And if we put enough pressure on them,
you know, votes count, man, votes count.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah, sure it does. And everybody's entitled the mistakes. I mean,
this is.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Something that happened. They thought it was a good idea
at the time, but they let it go on too
far and look where it's got us.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I really do feel like somebody convinced them, with their
fingers crossed behind their back, that those birds needed some
sustenance on the way during their big long migration. But
like I said earlier before I started talking to you,
those ducks have been doing that for a thousand year,
ten thousand years. They don't need they don't need a
(11:14):
convenience store on the highway to wherever they're going.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
They can just get on the highway and drive and right.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Man, if God can create a duck and he can
go from a nesting habitat all the way to the
south as far as he feels he needs to go
naturally and turn around and make it all the way
back up north, he can handle what.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
He's looking for.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Phenomenal, isn't it when you stop and think about that.
We can't get to that. We can't get to the
grocery store without GPS.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You know, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
I mean really, I know a lot of people who
probably couldn't.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
It's just stunning how inadequately we are prepared for real
world stuff like was. And I'm not talking about going
back to caveman days. I'm talking about just going back
to no electronics. Can you imagine leaving home with that
your phone?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Now? No, couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah, and all these places back when I was guiding
all over the prairie, just riding all over the place
and having a great time. And you'd get directions and
you'd write them down. You go two miles to this road,
and you take a left, and you go to the
where the big tree used to be, and you take
a right, and you'd get there eventually, and if you didn't,
you'd have to stop at somebody's house and use their phone. Crazy,
(12:28):
all right, David, keep you keep your chin up out there,
and keep your head down and your chin up, and
we'll we'll get some ducks at some point and we'll
all be better for it. I know it, man, you've
been in it fifty years. You know what it is.
You know what it is, the roller coaster.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Put some heads together. Yeah, I like that, I really do,
all right, I have a good one, Yes, sir, you too, Audios,
Oh thank you, David.
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