November 2, 2025 • 17 mins
Originally aired on November 2nd, 2025. Doug's insightful interview with David Pruett, for your listening pleasure.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alright. I'm not going to let this play very long
(00:01):
because I got to go on the phone. I want
to talk to see what the heck's going on down
to the southwest of this big city of hours and
that would be let me get this hold on, drummroll please,
I get this set up. There we go David Pruitt
way out there in Eagle Lake. Man, how are you
doing this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm doing great. How you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I'm doing all right?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So what's the latest. How did yesterday go? Overall?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, it was slow as we expected, you know, I
respected that, but we had some guys shooting. One group
shot four or five ten tails and a couple of
teal and other guys shot a few blue bills and
some green wings, and uh, but today it picked up.
I got some reports of blue wings showed up overnight.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
How nice is that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean, they're talking about big groups of blue wings
and hit them. They said they was done in just
a few minutes. Went hey, that's something new.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's kind of nice to hear. Huh, holy caw.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah. We've been behind, I mean on the migration. I
keep telling people it's behind. When people up way up
north saying they're still shooting blue wings two weeks ago.
That's m's that shows what's going on. And uh, I'm
expected to continue to pick up now. Guy's going to
be steadily shooting birds later. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
If the real if the general duck season, the real
duck season was nine days like teal season was, I'd
be really really worried right now. But we got a
long road to ho here, don't we.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, yeah, muchs to go.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Good. I'm so glad to hear that. Now. When do
you think, uh, well, we got a pretty bright moon
coming up, and we still got some cold air up north.
Do you think that the birds will Is that going
to be cold enough to push them down? Or do
we still need something else since they got those little
manny petty spas up there with the warm water and
all that garbage.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, I think you always have what we call calendar
birds that always move at a certain time of the
year just they just know it's just in their bloodline,
I guess, and they just say time to go. And
then there's others you just hang out, and I think
then the cold weather pushes those, but our calendar birds,
it's usually starting to come. We're starting to see them.
It's just a phenomenon that we're laid on blue wings even.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I know you had a well go down yesterday. Did
you get it fixed up?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And not yet? We got to get some parts nothing
dry shafts when they break, they broke the ears off
on the motor side.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh no, oh man, it's just it's just a fun
part of being a waterfowl outfit, or isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh yes, sir. People have no idea the amunt of
work and stuff goes on, you know, fixing levees or
building new levees, water boxes, pumping water radiators, going out
on the wells, you know, and then it just takes
you a nuts for four or five days before you
can get it up and running again.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And it's it's kind of a chess game. If you
if you make one move with all the water you
have to manage you. If you make one move and
you put water, well, let's put a bunch of water
over here, and and then the next morning you will
wake up and there was a pretty good thunderstorm came
through there and busted out a levee. Now the rain
water's gone, and so is all that water. You pumped
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over there.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Huh oh, yes, sir, it can happen overnight. That's like
you've got to have water boxes in like we put
it in to make sure that it can overflow properly.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Thrill them inute, isn't it, dude?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh it's a thriller man. You got that right though. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Look, I know you've got tons of Linds out there.
I know you've got tons of water out there. Uh,
do you shut off membership on opening day or will
you still take some more people if they want to
come jump in?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh, we can still take more people. And we've got
discounts right now. We probaded everything out looking like four
hundred dollars off right now because they missed, you know,
this opening weekend and chill season.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
That's a nice way to put it. Yeah, yeah, you
didn't get to do that. Yeah, give them a deal.
I like that a lot. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna
find a way to get out there. I really want
to come hunt with you. There's two or three guys
I want to hunt with this season for sure, And
I didn't make as many duck hunts as I wanted
last year, but one of them I'm gonna make with
you out there at some point.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh good to have you out there.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Call me when the pintails show up. Man, I was
just talking right before we came on. That's my favorite
duck of all time. I'm an old prairie rat, you know,
And I don't know how many pintails I killed over
rags or decoys or whatever, but just seeing them ball
up way up high and then just work their way down,
that really gets my blood boiling. Man.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
We've got a place for that. We'll go through out
about twelve or fourteen dozen pintail decoys and they come
in by the waves, just non stop down the South,
and I mean sometimes a thousand at a time, and
you just set Tom to go. Which one do I
want to assume them? Yeah, I'll wait for the next one. Now,
I'll wait for the one. He's probably got a better
tail on him or something. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Here's a challenge, okay for both of us. Get down there,
and this is in fantasy land for me for pintails.
We get down there and the pintails start balling up
on top, and you get to look while I hold
my gun once and then I'll look. You hold your
gun once, and as the shooter, all you can do
is just hold your gun straight up in the air
(05:05):
and then the shot caller just has to say now
and you pull the trigger and we'll see if we
can get a duct to fall.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, you know it might be possible without even looking.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh we've done it before.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, well, I actually took out I think it was
four four clean kill and one boogered up teal once
during teal season. I had a guy in my spread
and we were getting really close on how many ducks
we could have, and all this is back when the
limit was pretty generous still too, and I said, look, man,
let's lay off these teal And just as I'm kind
(05:44):
of making this speech about laying off the teal and
waiting for some, you know, bigger groups of pintails, he
sees a bunch come rolling through and he swings his
gun out, shoots once, and stacks five ducks into our bag.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You're like, oh, great, way to go, dude.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, they do give you a shot. We'll see how
it happens. So what's down here now?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Oh, we got a little of everything. We had people
shooting wigion, yes, pintails. Today, a couple of gadwalls. Most
it was green wings yesture, but more today it was
more blue wings. And I'm going, okay, said a step up.
But I haven't seen very many divers yet on the prairie.
(06:24):
I mean more yes, but they shot a few divers yes,
and a few places we have it. I went, well,
that's that's a plus.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Just kind of moving through. I think those divers are
you know, they're hanging out with their buddies. Let me
ask you this, how what are the conditions or are
there really conditions late late in the season. I know
it's starter, but when we might even get green heads
out on that Eagle Lake prairie.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They here probably to the first part of December. After
they start showing up. There's one place out the west
that we have or north of Eagle Lake, and it's
known that there's any greenheads around, they'll be out there.
It's year after year we constantly shoot them there. It's
something thirty years ago they were out in that area
and we've been hunting that same spot area and you
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know that's where we expect them.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, you know that. It's really interesting because the same
when I was guiding there were there were maybe three
or four places where if somebody just just really just
couldn't stand it and really wanted to go hunt green heads,
you may or may not get them, but if you
were gonna get them, it was going to be in
one of those places. And the random one will come
through with with other ducks on the on the prairie,
(07:33):
even over a rag's bed or something. But that's like
a one in a bazillion right so far, I'm getting
so fired up about shooting ducks. How about have you
heard any gear? I had two guys email me to
tell me they heard geese flying over. Now, they don't
live inside the loop, okay, they live out kind of
toward your way, But have you heard any yet?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I haven't heard any, But I've seen some specs. They
landed in one of my water holes right, just not
completely pumped up yet. They're sitting in the rice and
they're comfortable. I've just drove by them and they look
at me, and I drive by them again. They just
look at it. They're not even flying off.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
They recognize your truck. It's probably a fourth or fifth
trip down here, man, maybe more.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, it maybe, but they just comfortable out there. And
I mean they did pick up a couple of different
times throughout the day because I had to keep going
by and checking water and shutting gates off for water control.
And they picked some of them. Fly around, come right
back down. They wasn't They're comfortable, and that's what I want.
I want the geese to get in there. And nothing
attracts birds like other birds.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Put a little welcome matt out for him, do.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You, yes, sir, come on down, Give them a little,
a little like popcorn or something.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You know, if only that were legal. Don't throw horn
out there, David Holy cow man.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
No, we got to play by the rules, Yes, sir,
there's other people that don't, and I can't afford a
fifty thousand dollars fightings if someone of use can't go
ahead and try it.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
M Yeah, more power to you. It's so much easy
to just play by the rules and enjoy hunting for hunting.
You know. It's great that people talk about how many
ducks they shot, what kind of ducks they shot, geese
and cranes and all quailed doves, whatever, But the bottom
line is being out there is just fun. It is,
and it didn't bother me. It bothered me a little
(09:20):
bit for the people who had traveled here from really
far and maybe didn't have good hunts, but for people
who are local around here and can hunt often and
can get on places like yours, where hey, if it
looks like a good duck day and I can take
a day off of work, let's go. It's just going.
That's probably seventy five percent of it for me. What's
on the strap at the end is maybe maybe fifteen percent,
(09:44):
and the other ten or whatever's left over is just
crawling out of bed and seeing a sunrise.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Oh yeah, that's seeing the sunrise. That were the same,
enjoying the camaraderie the blind with your friends and even
someone new that you've never met before becoming friends. It's
those memories that's what makes the hunt, you know, the
total part of it. In the end, I'm glad to
shoot ducks just like anybody else. In full straps are great,
(10:12):
But some of my best memories are you know, quarter
limits And still won't get that out of my mind.
What happened that day, the friendships, the stories that was told,
and we still talk about it today, you know, fifteen
twenty years later, we're still talking about that one particular hunt. Yep,
But I don't remember talking about the full limit hunts
so much.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
You know, you talked about making new friends. Back when
I first got into waterfowl hunting, I got a membership
with oh Lyles Jordan. You remember that. You remember Lyle
for sure, and Lyle's out there. He had everybody come
out to his place in town there and he'd put
these little rings on where you were going to go hunt.
It was just in hindsight, it was very rudimentary, it
(10:53):
was very fundamentally, but it worked. It was a system
that worked, and a lot of times there would be
like maybe I'd be the only from my group and
there'd be two guys over here and two guys over there,
and all of us wanted to go goose hunting that day,
but not a one of us could put out a
decent spread by themselves. And you just jump in with
a bunch of other people, and by the time you
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got through with a hunt, you knew who they were,
you know about their family, you know what they did
for a living. And I made a lot of really
good friends, and some of them I'm still friends with
today just by doing that. It was so much fun. Man.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Oh yeah, that's lasting relationships. Is the waterfowling is a
rich heritage, nothing like any other huntings board out there.
It's where the community gets together and you look back
at the decoys it was made and the calls it
was made, the progress up to the day, and it's
a richer heritage and a deer hunting it honestly is.
(11:49):
And I admire that, and I admire the people that's
going out there and made the new progresses for us
have to help us become better hunters. You know, so
what we didn't have YouTube back then, you know what
we learned, So now there's that to help other hunters
learn a little bit better about the calling. But the
most thing put the call in your pocket. Your shut
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up came into that.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And you know, one of the things that's very different
about waterfowling as opposed to deer hunting is that you
in a waterfowl hunting situation, unless there are birds right overhead,
pretty much you can cut up, you can tell jokes,
you can throw dirt clods at each other, whatever you
want to do to pass the time, just just whatever.
(12:32):
Whereas if you're sitting in a deer stand, even if
it's with your best friend, and you've got lots of
stuff to talk about. You kind of got to be quiet,
and you don't have to do that in the field.
I like that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh yeah. And then and the thing is, you know,
whoever started this stuff on TV and videos of the
just shot a deer. They just shot it with a
riffle and woke up the whole forest and they're still going,
what does it matter? That's a very good walks up
the world celebrate and that's what you see in duck
seeing guys doing high fives and shouting, yeah, we got them.
(13:07):
You know, that's the part of the camaraderie that's in
a waterfowling world that exists today. And especially when a
little kid shoots his first duck or he got to
eat his dad let him blow the call and the
duck come in surprisingly, even though how good or how
bad he called, and he they raised up and shot him.
That memory will last forever in that kid's life because
(13:28):
you celebrated with him.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
That's a very good point. It's a whole different world,
isn't it. Hunting is hunting. Any anybody who's a licensed hunter,
that's my buddy right there. If you bought the license,
if you're playing by the rules, then we're all on
the same team. Uh. But some of this stuff, especially
the TV stuff and the in the YouTube stuff, it
gets a little bit dramatic and theatrical.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
For me. It just does way too far gone. I mean,
it's uh. And they show only on the videos. You'll
see limit hunts and fashion people on the like us
watching the video unless you've been there and done that
and been with them where I have had the opportunities
that may be a five day hunt and crammed into
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one video. Oh yeah, and so it looks good you
know the scenes, but you know, in reality, just to
go go out there and enjoy the sport that we
have while we still have it.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It'd be really hard. It'd be really hard to watch
duck and goose hunting on TV if they just turned
on a camera at shooting time and then turned it
off when they started picking up decoys. That would be
really boring for a long time, would it.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yes, sir, we've been programmed to think that every hunt's
got to be a limit and it's not. No, it
got back to what you just said, it's all about
the fun and the memories, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
How can people find you and get this discounted entry
into what I'm really confident it's going to be a
good season.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
What do you what do you we need them to do?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Call you come out there or what they call me?
Uh at nine three six eight two seven two four
one three rice Land Waterfight Club. I'll be happy to
meet them, talk to them about them showing us some stuff,
what we're doing and where we're even still pumping water
for the next two weeks. We're going to be still
pumping water and gaining as the season of progresses for
more places.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
You've been doing this for fifty years. You got to
be doing something right, Hi, David?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I guess so everybody says it?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
All right, man, I'm let's let's talk in a week
or so. I've got a full plate this week, but
let's talk soon at least about setting something up. And
unless it's pouring down rain, I'm coming. I don't care
about Blue Sky. I don't mind Blue skyt all. That's
that's fine by me.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
We kill more birds on the blue Sky's that people
don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
But you know you're letting secrets out, man, don't tell everybody,
all right? All right, David, Hey, great, great talking to
you man.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, so you have a good appitue, right you too?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Audio? All right, that's David Pruitt from Riceland Waterfowl Club.
You can look it up online. He's been out He's
literally owned and operated that company. He once he got
out of high school. His parents had other plans for him,
but he wanted to get into the waterfowl hunting business
and he did. And that was fifty years ago. Fifty
years ago. He kind of knows this stuff. I rode
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around with him for the better part of two maybe
two and a half hours, him and one of the
guys who works for him, and really saw how he
manages the land he hunts, how he manages the water
he has on that property. And it's no wonder he's
been in business for fifty years. And nobody's perfect. Nobody's perfect,
especially in an operation where your product can just pack
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up and leave if it wants to. There's not a
grocery store in town where the loaves of bread can
just take wing and fly out the door and suddenly
there's no more bread. But that can happen out there,
and sometimes it does. Kyok, come along, eagle comes along
and runs the birds out for a day or maybe
an hour or two, whatever, But get out there and
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put in a season with somebody who has as much
property and as much water as they've got out there.
I suspect you might want to go back again
Alright. I'm not going to let this play very long
(00:01):
because I got to go on the phone. I want
to talk to see what the heck's going on down
to the southwest of this big city of hours and
that would be let me get this hold on, drummroll please,
I get this set up. There we go David Pruitt
way out there in Eagle Lake. Man, how are you
doing this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm doing great. How you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I'm doing all right?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So what's the latest. How did yesterday go? Overall?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well, it was slow as we expected, you know, I
respected that, but we had some guys shooting. One group
shot four or five ten tails and a couple of
teal and other guys shot a few blue bills and
some green wings, and uh, but today it picked up.
I got some reports of blue wings showed up overnight.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
How nice is that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean, they're talking about big groups of blue wings
and hit them. They said they was done in just
a few minutes. Went hey, that's something new.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's kind of nice to hear. Huh, holy caw.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah. We've been behind, I mean on the migration. I
keep telling people it's behind. When people up way up
north saying they're still shooting blue wings two weeks ago.
That's m's that shows what's going on. And uh, I'm
expected to continue to pick up now. Guy's going to
be steadily shooting birds later. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
If the real if the general duck season, the real
duck season was nine days like teal season was, I'd
be really really worried right now. But we got a
long road to ho here, don't we.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, yeah, muchs to go.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Good. I'm so glad to hear that. Now. When do
you think, uh, well, we got a pretty bright moon
coming up, and we still got some cold air up north.
Do you think that the birds will Is that going
to be cold enough to push them down? Or do
we still need something else since they got those little
manny petty spas up there with the warm water and
all that garbage.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, I think you always have what we call calendar
birds that always move at a certain time of the
year just they just know it's just in their bloodline,
I guess, and they just say time to go. And
then there's others you just hang out, and I think
then the cold weather pushes those, but our calendar birds,
it's usually starting to come. We're starting to see them.
It's just a phenomenon that we're laid on blue wings even.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
So.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I know you had a well go down yesterday. Did
you get it fixed up?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And not yet? We got to get some parts nothing
dry shafts when they break, they broke the ears off
on the motor side.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh no, oh man, it's just it's just a fun
part of being a waterfowl outfit, or isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh yes, sir. People have no idea the amunt of
work and stuff goes on, you know, fixing levees or
building new levees, water boxes, pumping water radiators, going out
on the wells, you know, and then it just takes
you a nuts for four or five days before you
can get it up and running again.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And it's it's kind of a chess game. If you
if you make one move with all the water you
have to manage you. If you make one move and
you put water, well, let's put a bunch of water
over here, and and then the next morning you will
wake up and there was a pretty good thunderstorm came
through there and busted out a levee. Now the rain
water's gone, and so is all that water. You pumped
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over there.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Huh oh, yes, sir, it can happen overnight. That's like
you've got to have water boxes in like we put
it in to make sure that it can overflow properly.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Thrill them inute, isn't it, dude?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh it's a thriller man. You got that right though. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Look, I know you've got tons of Linds out there.
I know you've got tons of water out there. Uh,
do you shut off membership on opening day or will
you still take some more people if they want to
come jump in?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh, we can still take more people. And we've got
discounts right now. We probaded everything out looking like four
hundred dollars off right now because they missed, you know,
this opening weekend and chill season.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
That's a nice way to put it. Yeah, yeah, you
didn't get to do that. Yeah, give them a deal.
I like that a lot. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna
find a way to get out there. I really want
to come hunt with you. There's two or three guys
I want to hunt with this season for sure, And
I didn't make as many duck hunts as I wanted
last year, but one of them I'm gonna make with
you out there at some point.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh good to have you out there.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Call me when the pintails show up. Man, I was
just talking right before we came on. That's my favorite
duck of all time. I'm an old prairie rat, you know,
And I don't know how many pintails I killed over
rags or decoys or whatever, but just seeing them ball
up way up high and then just work their way down,
that really gets my blood boiling. Man.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
We've got a place for that. We'll go through out
about twelve or fourteen dozen pintail decoys and they come
in by the waves, just non stop down the South,
and I mean sometimes a thousand at a time, and
you just set Tom to go. Which one do I
want to assume them? Yeah, I'll wait for the next one. Now,
I'll wait for the one. He's probably got a better
tail on him or something. You know.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Here's a challenge, okay for both of us. Get down there,
and this is in fantasy land for me for pintails.
We get down there and the pintails start balling up
on top, and you get to look while I hold
my gun once and then I'll look. You hold your
gun once, and as the shooter, all you can do
is just hold your gun straight up in the air
(05:05):
and then the shot caller just has to say now
and you pull the trigger and we'll see if we
can get a duct to fall.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, you know it might be possible without even looking.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Oh we've done it before.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, well, I actually took out I think it was
four four clean kill and one boogered up teal once
during teal season. I had a guy in my spread
and we were getting really close on how many ducks
we could have, and all this is back when the
limit was pretty generous still too, and I said, look, man,
let's lay off these teal And just as I'm kind
(05:44):
of making this speech about laying off the teal and
waiting for some, you know, bigger groups of pintails, he
sees a bunch come rolling through and he swings his
gun out, shoots once, and stacks five ducks into our bag.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You're like, oh, great, way to go, dude.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, they do give you a shot. We'll see how
it happens. So what's down here now?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Oh, we got a little of everything. We had people
shooting wigion, yes, pintails. Today, a couple of gadwalls. Most
it was green wings yesture, but more today it was
more blue wings. And I'm going, okay, said a step up.
But I haven't seen very many divers yet on the prairie.
(06:24):
I mean more yes, but they shot a few divers yes,
and a few places we have it. I went, well,
that's that's a plus.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Just kind of moving through. I think those divers are
you know, they're hanging out with their buddies. Let me
ask you this, how what are the conditions or are
there really conditions late late in the season. I know
it's starter, but when we might even get green heads
out on that Eagle Lake prairie.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
They here probably to the first part of December. After
they start showing up. There's one place out the west
that we have or north of Eagle Lake, and it's
known that there's any greenheads around, they'll be out there.
It's year after year we constantly shoot them there. It's
something thirty years ago they were out in that area
and we've been hunting that same spot area and you
(07:10):
know that's where we expect them.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, you know that. It's really interesting because the same
when I was guiding there were there were maybe three
or four places where if somebody just just really just
couldn't stand it and really wanted to go hunt green heads,
you may or may not get them, but if you
were gonna get them, it was going to be in
one of those places. And the random one will come
through with with other ducks on the on the prairie,
(07:33):
even over a rag's bed or something. But that's like
a one in a bazillion right so far, I'm getting
so fired up about shooting ducks. How about have you
heard any gear? I had two guys email me to
tell me they heard geese flying over. Now, they don't
live inside the loop, okay, they live out kind of
toward your way, But have you heard any yet?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I haven't heard any, But I've seen some specs. They
landed in one of my water holes right, just not
completely pumped up yet. They're sitting in the rice and
they're comfortable. I've just drove by them and they look
at me, and I drive by them again. They just
look at it. They're not even flying off.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
They recognize your truck. It's probably a fourth or fifth
trip down here, man, maybe more.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, it maybe, but they just comfortable out there. And
I mean they did pick up a couple of different
times throughout the day because I had to keep going
by and checking water and shutting gates off for water control.
And they picked some of them. Fly around, come right
back down. They wasn't They're comfortable, and that's what I want.
I want the geese to get in there. And nothing
attracts birds like other birds.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Put a little welcome matt out for him, do.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You, yes, sir, come on down, Give them a little,
a little like popcorn or something.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You know, if only that were legal. Don't throw horn
out there, David Holy cow man.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
No, we got to play by the rules, Yes, sir,
there's other people that don't, and I can't afford a
fifty thousand dollars fightings if someone of use can't go
ahead and try it.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
M Yeah, more power to you. It's so much easy
to just play by the rules and enjoy hunting for hunting.
You know. It's great that people talk about how many
ducks they shot, what kind of ducks they shot, geese
and cranes and all quailed doves, whatever, But the bottom
line is being out there is just fun. It is,
and it didn't bother me. It bothered me a little
(09:20):
bit for the people who had traveled here from really
far and maybe didn't have good hunts, but for people
who are local around here and can hunt often and
can get on places like yours, where hey, if it
looks like a good duck day and I can take
a day off of work, let's go. It's just going.
That's probably seventy five percent of it for me. What's
on the strap at the end is maybe maybe fifteen percent,
(09:44):
and the other ten or whatever's left over is just
crawling out of bed and seeing a sunrise.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Oh yeah, that's seeing the sunrise. That were the same,
enjoying the camaraderie the blind with your friends and even
someone new that you've never met before becoming friends. It's
those memories that's what makes the hunt, you know, the
total part of it. In the end, I'm glad to
shoot ducks just like anybody else. In full straps are great,
(10:12):
But some of my best memories are you know, quarter
limits And still won't get that out of my mind.
What happened that day, the friendships, the stories that was told,
and we still talk about it today, you know, fifteen
twenty years later, we're still talking about that one particular hunt. Yep,
But I don't remember talking about the full limit hunts
so much.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
You know, you talked about making new friends. Back when
I first got into waterfowl hunting, I got a membership
with oh Lyles Jordan. You remember that. You remember Lyle
for sure, and Lyle's out there. He had everybody come
out to his place in town there and he'd put
these little rings on where you were going to go hunt.
It was just in hindsight, it was very rudimentary, it
(10:53):
was very fundamentally, but it worked. It was a system
that worked, and a lot of times there would be
like maybe I'd be the only from my group and
there'd be two guys over here and two guys over there,
and all of us wanted to go goose hunting that day,
but not a one of us could put out a
decent spread by themselves. And you just jump in with
a bunch of other people, and by the time you
(11:14):
got through with a hunt, you knew who they were,
you know about their family, you know what they did
for a living. And I made a lot of really
good friends, and some of them I'm still friends with
today just by doing that. It was so much fun. Man.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Oh yeah, that's lasting relationships. Is the waterfowling is a
rich heritage, nothing like any other huntings board out there.
It's where the community gets together and you look back
at the decoys it was made and the calls it
was made, the progress up to the day, and it's
a richer heritage and a deer hunting it honestly is.
(11:49):
And I admire that, and I admire the people that's
going out there and made the new progresses for us
have to help us become better hunters. You know, so
what we didn't have YouTube back then, you know what
we learned, So now there's that to help other hunters
learn a little bit better about the calling. But the
most thing put the call in your pocket. Your shut
(12:10):
up came into that.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And you know, one of the things that's very different
about waterfowling as opposed to deer hunting is that you
in a waterfowl hunting situation, unless there are birds right overhead,
pretty much you can cut up, you can tell jokes,
you can throw dirt clods at each other, whatever you
want to do to pass the time, just just whatever.
(12:32):
Whereas if you're sitting in a deer stand, even if
it's with your best friend, and you've got lots of
stuff to talk about. You kind of got to be quiet,
and you don't have to do that in the field.
I like that.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh yeah. And then and the thing is, you know,
whoever started this stuff on TV and videos of the
just shot a deer. They just shot it with a
riffle and woke up the whole forest and they're still going,
what does it matter? That's a very good walks up
the world celebrate and that's what you see in duck
seeing guys doing high fives and shouting, yeah, we got them.
(13:07):
You know, that's the part of the camaraderie that's in
a waterfowling world that exists today. And especially when a
little kid shoots his first duck or he got to
eat his dad let him blow the call and the
duck come in surprisingly, even though how good or how
bad he called, and he they raised up and shot him.
That memory will last forever in that kid's life because
(13:28):
you celebrated with him.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
That's a very good point. It's a whole different world,
isn't it. Hunting is hunting. Any anybody who's a licensed hunter,
that's my buddy right there. If you bought the license,
if you're playing by the rules, then we're all on
the same team. Uh. But some of this stuff, especially
the TV stuff and the in the YouTube stuff, it
gets a little bit dramatic and theatrical.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
For me. It just does way too far gone. I mean,
it's uh. And they show only on the videos. You'll
see limit hunts and fashion people on the like us
watching the video unless you've been there and done that
and been with them where I have had the opportunities
that may be a five day hunt and crammed into
(14:14):
one video. Oh yeah, and so it looks good you
know the scenes, but you know, in reality, just to
go go out there and enjoy the sport that we
have while we still have it.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It'd be really hard. It'd be really hard to watch
duck and goose hunting on TV if they just turned
on a camera at shooting time and then turned it
off when they started picking up decoys. That would be
really boring for a long time, would it.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yes, sir, we've been programmed to think that every hunt's
got to be a limit and it's not. No, it
got back to what you just said, it's all about
the fun and the memories, Yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
How can people find you and get this discounted entry
into what I'm really confident it's going to be a
good season.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
What do you what do you we need them to do?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Call you come out there or what they call me?
Uh at nine three six eight two seven two four
one three rice Land Waterfight Club. I'll be happy to
meet them, talk to them about them showing us some stuff,
what we're doing and where we're even still pumping water
for the next two weeks. We're going to be still
pumping water and gaining as the season of progresses for
more places.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
You've been doing this for fifty years. You got to
be doing something right, Hi, David?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I guess so everybody says it?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
All right, man, I'm let's let's talk in a week
or so. I've got a full plate this week, but
let's talk soon at least about setting something up. And
unless it's pouring down rain, I'm coming. I don't care
about Blue Sky. I don't mind Blue skyt all. That's
that's fine by me.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
We kill more birds on the blue Sky's that people
don't understand it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
But you know you're letting secrets out, man, don't tell everybody,
all right? All right, David, Hey, great, great talking to
you man.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, so you have a good appitue, right you too?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Audio? All right, that's David Pruitt from Riceland Waterfowl Club.
You can look it up online. He's been out He's
literally owned and operated that company. He once he got
out of high school. His parents had other plans for him,
but he wanted to get into the waterfowl hunting business
and he did. And that was fifty years ago. Fifty
years ago. He kind of knows this stuff. I rode
(16:20):
around with him for the better part of two maybe
two and a half hours, him and one of the
guys who works for him, and really saw how he
manages the land he hunts, how he manages the water
he has on that property. And it's no wonder he's
been in business for fifty years. And nobody's perfect. Nobody's perfect,
especially in an operation where your product can just pack
(16:46):
up and leave if it wants to. There's not a
grocery store in town where the loaves of bread can
just take wing and fly out the door and suddenly
there's no more bread. But that can happen out there,
and sometimes it does. Kyok, come along, eagle comes along
and runs the birds out for a day or maybe
an hour or two, whatever, But get out there and
(17:08):
put in a season with somebody who has as much
property and as much water as they've got out there.
I suspect you might want to go back again
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