September 20, 2025 • 8 mins
Originally aired on September 20th, 2025. Doug's exciting interview with David Pruett, for your listening pleasure.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Thirty six on Sports Talk seven to ninety The Doug
Pike Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
As promised, I'm going to tee up David Pruett right
now from out there at Eagle Lake and Riceland Waterfowl Club.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Is a shooting already done?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
David. No, No, we've just seen a big group just
go over a while ago. About told about a minute ago.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Are you you got the what exactly is the big
blind thing? It sounds like something out of a poker game.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Just about it. Every year we started this about fifteen
years ago. A bunch of members just want to hunt
together for and we put yeah, there could be fifteen
of them. Whatever our best it was. We hunted it
five days straight and we shot four hundred and seventy
one teal in five days.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Holy cow?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
When was that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
How many years ago?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
That was the bet before last?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh wow, Yeah, that's a lot of shooting.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Teal hunt can be like that. I was talking about
a place back when I was on the Cadi Prairier.
We had a big reservoir and we would for opening
day at tea season and for some of the teal season.
Quite like you're talking about several days in a row
for the right place, and man, we just loaded up
and and there would be shooting going on all morning long,
some of those poor birds that get in there and
(01:12):
just fly around in a big circle looking for a
safe place to land, and not many of them made
it out.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
David, I understand that.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
How were the conditions this morning? Was it Mosquitoe? Was
it humid?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Hot?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Windy?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Well? I know it wasn't wendy. No, I wish it
would have been, but not windy and foggy. The fog
on about three minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh wow, Yeah, that does kind of slow those teal down. Man,
they don't like to fly around blind.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
That's as quick as we were sitting at the where
were sitting at the blind? Now I could hear all
the other I could hear other blind shootings, I mean
a mile and a half, two miles away that we
I mean going around us. So I know where which direction,
which buyers shooting? And uh even one of the new
water holes was surprising. They were just lighting them up
and I went, okay, so that made me feel good.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, you know, you never know, you really don't know
what it's going to be like until until the bell rings,
you know, And everybody can start shooting.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And it's frustrating.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I've been I've been there, done that, when you're sitting
in fog and you can't hardly see a hand in
front of your face and you're here and shooting all
over the place, and you know, dog on will their
FOG's not as stick.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
As your fog, Like, come on, get this cloud off
my head.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Exactly, yeah, exactly. But everybody doesn't seem like they're doing
pretty good shooting. I know, goodwill. One guy text and
said they only shot at one dough. They've shot at
least a box and a half of shells over there
for two or three people, So I know y'all have
been just shooting a dough. Some people don't want to
(02:47):
tell you what they're doing because they want to say,
I want to come back over here in the morning.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, yeah, yeah, we didn't do any good there this morning,
but we'll go back tomorrow just to see if it changes.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, we dealt with those same, This is the same.
Nothing's changed in waterfowl hunting, really, has it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh so sandbaggers, Yeah, that was kind of like what
I told you when we were driving around the prairie
about how my a couple of buddies of mine and
I who were guiding together. We're making that run all
the way out past Sealy and almost to Eagle Lake
because there were just so many ducks and so many
(03:25):
geese down there, and most of our other GUIDs didn't
want to make that long drive, which wasn't really that
long for the reward, and we would we would tell
our hunters very quietly when we got there. Look, we're
gonna stay out here pretty late because I don't want
to go back into Katie with all these birds and
let everybody else see what we're.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Doing down here. We'll just keep this one under our hat.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, yeah, we'll drive to Seli. It's okay, I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I know it's a long drive, but I think my
hunters will go with me, and they're all just salivating
over there.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
We gotta go, We gotta go.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Set up.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That's so fun, man. I'm excited that waterfowl hunting seasons back.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
You should get a little smell of gunpowder in your
in your nose this morning.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh sure, you said, that's the first thing opening day,
fresh smell the teal cup in and all of a sudden,
you can't like you said you don't see them, and
here there all the foggy is here, and also, oh
good lord, look thirty right here now.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, and if you don't shoot now, they're going to
be gone. Teal are So they're just so quick and fun.
Have you seen any big ducks mixed in with them?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Not? Not today? Okay, we've we have been seeing them
even like last night we watched them where we're hunting
right now that we've probably had twenty twenty five hundred
in here just Teal alone, not counting the big ducks,
and they've been here for two weeks. Good going out,
just staying there all day and the way it goes.
(04:53):
And we didn't put out a huge spread, but we
got out about at least two hundred plus Teal decoys
in a whole twenty some of Mojo's anything that comes
by it has got to come to visiit.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, yeah, they're gonna come see that. They are absolutely
How much water are you on.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
This one spot right here? Probably about for fifty acres
of water? Wow?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Have you got all your water in?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Now? You're looking to get Oh no, oh no, we're
gonna put We're gonna add more water in big Duck
season we have for our club. We have more than
enough blinds. I think we had like seventy eight more
blinds left over and Big Duck season we're probably gonna
be adding another fifteen to twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Holy yeah, Okay, keep going cheap. I know you're grinding
out there. You can't do something for fifty years in
a row without doing it right, David, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Man, Well we're trying that. You never know. It's but
a duck's just like a He's the one that can
fly and go where he wants to. It's not like
a deer at this stage within a mile of his
before he's born.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Isn't that the truth.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I'm just amazed at.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
How far those little o till fly.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Some of those teal you're looking at this morning, if
they make it through the gauntlet, they'll end up down
there close to South America and then just the first
ones out of the North, first last ones back coming back.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Man, that's amazingly.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I told the guys this morning, one duck comes through
and all y'all, miss, we'll leave it. Boy, that you
can have a bunch of you can have a bunch
of guns and still come in and only twenty five
group twenty five to thirty come in, only four to
five falling. Really, guys, come.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
On, you know I experienced that for fourteen straight years
and just scratching my head. How can so many guns
go off and nothing cut a feather?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Just nothing this air?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
What? Man? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, I got all kinds of things. I'm gonna be
asking you during regular hunting season two to help people
get a little bit better at what they're doing. What
do you think would be a minimum number? And I
got to go, and I know you do too, but
what do you think is a minimum number.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Of decoys to you?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
On fifty acres?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I like what you put out there, but somebody hunting
a stock tank maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Two three acres of water at best. I tend to
go a little bit minimalist on something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Do you agree here? Yeah? Okay, yeah, I would go,
you know, a dozen, a dozen, maybe one mojo, you know,
something like that. Real simple. You don't want to overdo it.
But where you've got big numbers, it's been here day
after day after day. They're expecting to see big numbers.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's it's like, what are you opening? Are you opening
a big nightclub? Or are you open a little corner pub.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Exactly. Don't make some big nightclub in a small club area.
It's no room for more ducks, exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
All right, partner, we'll get back after it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I'll keep up with you and I'll push them your way.
You got room for a few more members this year.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Oh yes, sir. We had guys trying to sign up
last night at five o'clock, a group of two, group
of three. At five thirty. I went, okay, look, we
can do this, but there's no way I can get
you situated, get you maps and know what's going on
by in the morning. Oh my gosh, Sunday morning. We
got you. We can't cover you, but not right now.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
You give them that one day discount of nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, I'm well at we're out chicking wheels and making
sure everything's good. I go back and do anything.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I understand, I really do. David, Hey, it's great talking
to you, man. Keep them out there, keep cutting feathers.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
We'll see you all right, y'all have a good money.
Yeah audios later.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, there you go off to a good start. Still
shooting out there. They got a big old bunch in there.
It'll take them a while six times fifteen, that's ninety
birds they're looking for, and those if a big teal
hunt like that is a lot of fun if you've
got teal flying around, but it also even if you
(08:39):
don't have that many birds flying around the way that
one's set up where all these guys know each other,
they're longtime members of the club and whatnot, and they
want to hunt together because they probably hardly ever get
to do that during the regular season.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Everybody's schedules go crazy. That'll be good, that'll be good.
Thirty six on Sports Talk seven to ninety The Doug
Pike Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
As promised, I'm going to tee up David Pruett right
now from out there at Eagle Lake and Riceland Waterfowl Club.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Is a shooting already done?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
David. No, No, we've just seen a big group just
go over a while ago. About told about a minute ago.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Are you you got the what exactly is the big
blind thing? It sounds like something out of a poker game.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Just about it. Every year we started this about fifteen
years ago. A bunch of members just want to hunt
together for and we put yeah, there could be fifteen
of them. Whatever our best it was. We hunted it
five days straight and we shot four hundred and seventy
one teal in five days.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Holy cow?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
When was that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
How many years ago?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
That was the bet before last?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh wow, Yeah, that's a lot of shooting.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Teal hunt can be like that. I was talking about
a place back when I was on the Cadi Prairier.
We had a big reservoir and we would for opening
day at tea season and for some of the teal season.
Quite like you're talking about several days in a row
for the right place, and man, we just loaded up
and and there would be shooting going on all morning long,
some of those poor birds that get in there and
(01:12):
just fly around in a big circle looking for a
safe place to land, and not many of them made
it out.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
David, I understand that.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
How were the conditions this morning? Was it Mosquitoe? Was
it humid?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Hot?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Windy?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Well? I know it wasn't wendy. No, I wish it
would have been, but not windy and foggy. The fog
on about three minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Oh wow, Yeah, that does kind of slow those teal down. Man,
they don't like to fly around blind.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
That's as quick as we were sitting at the where
were sitting at the blind? Now I could hear all
the other I could hear other blind shootings, I mean
a mile and a half, two miles away that we
I mean going around us. So I know where which direction,
which buyers shooting? And uh even one of the new
water holes was surprising. They were just lighting them up
and I went, okay, so that made me feel good.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, you know, you never know, you really don't know
what it's going to be like until until the bell rings,
you know, And everybody can start shooting.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And it's frustrating.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I've been I've been there, done that, when you're sitting
in fog and you can't hardly see a hand in
front of your face and you're here and shooting all
over the place, and you know, dog on will their
FOG's not as stick.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
As your fog, Like, come on, get this cloud off
my head.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Exactly, yeah, exactly. But everybody doesn't seem like they're doing
pretty good shooting. I know, goodwill. One guy text and
said they only shot at one dough. They've shot at
least a box and a half of shells over there
for two or three people, So I know y'all have
been just shooting a dough. Some people don't want to
(02:47):
tell you what they're doing because they want to say,
I want to come back over here in the morning.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, yeah, yeah, we didn't do any good there this morning,
but we'll go back tomorrow just to see if it changes.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, we dealt with those same, This is the same.
Nothing's changed in waterfowl hunting, really, has it.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh so sandbaggers, Yeah, that was kind of like what
I told you when we were driving around the prairie
about how my a couple of buddies of mine and
I who were guiding together. We're making that run all
the way out past Sealy and almost to Eagle Lake
because there were just so many ducks and so many
(03:25):
geese down there, and most of our other GUIDs didn't
want to make that long drive, which wasn't really that
long for the reward, and we would we would tell
our hunters very quietly when we got there. Look, we're
gonna stay out here pretty late because I don't want
to go back into Katie with all these birds and
let everybody else see what we're.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Doing down here. We'll just keep this one under our hat.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, yeah, we'll drive to Seli. It's okay, I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I know it's a long drive, but I think my
hunters will go with me, and they're all just salivating
over there.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
We gotta go, We gotta go.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Set up.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That's so fun, man. I'm excited that waterfowl hunting seasons back.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
You should get a little smell of gunpowder in your
in your nose this morning.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Oh sure, you said, that's the first thing opening day,
fresh smell the teal cup in and all of a sudden,
you can't like you said you don't see them, and
here there all the foggy is here, and also, oh
good lord, look thirty right here now.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, and if you don't shoot now, they're going to
be gone. Teal are So they're just so quick and fun.
Have you seen any big ducks mixed in with them?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Not? Not today? Okay, we've we have been seeing them
even like last night we watched them where we're hunting
right now that we've probably had twenty twenty five hundred
in here just Teal alone, not counting the big ducks,
and they've been here for two weeks. Good going out,
just staying there all day and the way it goes.
(04:53):
And we didn't put out a huge spread, but we
got out about at least two hundred plus Teal decoys
in a whole twenty some of Mojo's anything that comes
by it has got to come to visiit.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, yeah, they're gonna come see that. They are absolutely
How much water are you on.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
This one spot right here? Probably about for fifty acres
of water? Wow?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Have you got all your water in?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Now? You're looking to get Oh no, oh no, we're
gonna put We're gonna add more water in big Duck
season we have for our club. We have more than
enough blinds. I think we had like seventy eight more
blinds left over and Big Duck season we're probably gonna
be adding another fifteen to twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Holy yeah, Okay, keep going cheap. I know you're grinding
out there. You can't do something for fifty years in
a row without doing it right, David, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Man, Well we're trying that. You never know. It's but
a duck's just like a He's the one that can
fly and go where he wants to. It's not like
a deer at this stage within a mile of his
before he's born.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Isn't that the truth.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I'm just amazed at.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
How far those little o till fly.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Some of those teal you're looking at this morning, if
they make it through the gauntlet, they'll end up down
there close to South America and then just the first
ones out of the North, first last ones back coming back.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Man, that's amazingly.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I told the guys this morning, one duck comes through
and all y'all, miss, we'll leave it. Boy, that you
can have a bunch of you can have a bunch
of guns and still come in and only twenty five
group twenty five to thirty come in, only four to
five falling. Really, guys, come.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
On, you know I experienced that for fourteen straight years
and just scratching my head. How can so many guns
go off and nothing cut a feather?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Just nothing this air?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
What? Man? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, I got all kinds of things. I'm gonna be
asking you during regular hunting season two to help people
get a little bit better at what they're doing. What
do you think would be a minimum number? And I
got to go, and I know you do too, but
what do you think is a minimum number.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Of decoys to you?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
On fifty acres?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I like what you put out there, but somebody hunting
a stock tank maybe.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Two three acres of water at best. I tend to
go a little bit minimalist on something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Do you agree here? Yeah? Okay, yeah, I would go,
you know, a dozen, a dozen, maybe one mojo, you know,
something like that. Real simple. You don't want to overdo it.
But where you've got big numbers, it's been here day
after day after day. They're expecting to see big numbers.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's it's like, what are you opening? Are you opening
a big nightclub? Or are you open a little corner pub.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Exactly. Don't make some big nightclub in a small club area.
It's no room for more ducks, exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
All right, partner, we'll get back after it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I'll keep up with you and I'll push them your way.
You got room for a few more members this year.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Oh yes, sir. We had guys trying to sign up
last night at five o'clock, a group of two, group
of three. At five thirty. I went, okay, look, we
can do this, but there's no way I can get
you situated, get you maps and know what's going on
by in the morning. Oh my gosh, Sunday morning. We
got you. We can't cover you, but not right now.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
You give them that one day discount of nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, I'm well at we're out chicking wheels and making
sure everything's good. I go back and do anything.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I understand, I really do. David, Hey, it's great talking
to you, man. Keep them out there, keep cutting feathers.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
We'll see you all right, y'all have a good money.
Yeah audios later.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, there you go off to a good start. Still
shooting out there. They got a big old bunch in there.
It'll take them a while six times fifteen, that's ninety
birds they're looking for, and those if a big teal
hunt like that is a lot of fun if you've
got teal flying around, but it also even if you
(08:39):
don't have that many birds flying around the way that
one's set up where all these guys know each other,
they're longtime members of the club and whatnot, and they
want to hunt together because they probably hardly ever get
to do that during the regular season.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Everybody's schedules go crazy. That'll be good, that'll be good.
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