Pictures from places that are ducky

[Ricky Spanish]

It may take me a while to locate it all but this one is Rainey Brake wma.
You have to be fucking crazy to go hunt there but...
I know some crazy people like Kirk McCullough and which hole they used ten years ago.

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The guys that decorated the truck. ...they went home with tickets.
You have to have legible numbers on your boat?

Them old videos are shot in the football field hole. It's big.

[Ricky Spanish]

Later on the same month I moved to big lake and made pizza. On the side of a road...in a tent.
It ain't that great. Epic failure.
It ain't no holiday Inn.

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[Ricky Spanish]

They call this guy the mayor of big lake or they did.
Nice little place.

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[Ricky Spanish]

This is inside the clubhouse at Bayou Bottoms and that's just one of their legendary guides.
That man has hunted from Canada to Argentina as a guide. It's Harpie.
A legendary figure that's part woman and part winged demon.
Anybody seen him alive lately?

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You can tell real duck and goose killers by their camo.
It never matches.

[Rick]

You can tell real duck and goose killers by their camo.
It never matches.

Made me think of our last, and now late, local marsh legend, "B" Duplantis. who wasn't hard to pick out of the line-up:

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[Ricky Spanish]

You can tell real duck and goose killers by their camo.
It never matches.

Made me think of our last, and now late, local marsh legend, "B" Duplantis. who wasn't hard to pick out of the line-up:

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They come and go. The guys that reek duck knowledge without even trying. You bump into one occasionally and then they fly off.

[Ricky Spanish]

I'm searching thru 20k pictures and this one randomly popped up.

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His name is Tanner and when I met him he was picking up 22 casings, tossing one into the air and then shoot it.
Tanner...can shoot.
His uncle shot professionally for binelli.
His grandfather owns some flooded timber where presidents went to hunt.

His mom paid me to pick and wax them specks.

[5 stand]

Was his Uncle Tim Bradley? I met Tim Bradley when he was shooting with Tom Knapp at the Huron chamber of commerce ringneck festival, he was good with a shotgun but awesome with a 22...

[Ricky Spanish]

This aint got a thing to do with ducks not even a bit.
This stuff is good. Kinder's BBQ sauce.
Applewood rub from McKormicks. Local honey used as glue for the spices.
Once July 4th is past all of a sudden it's duck season again hurray.

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Smoky bones a la Betty.

[Ricky Spanish]

Was his Uncle Tim Bradley? I met Tim Bradley when he was shooting with Tom Knapp at the Huron chamber of commerce ringneck festival, he was good with a shotgun but awesome with a 22...

Yes. He let me shoot Tim's gun at targets.
I did not want to give it back.
I never met his uncle but I probably was at a big new years eve party and didn't know if Tim was there. Never know. I was kind of way out of my element.
Small world. Sitzer lane sound familiar?

[5 stand]

Was his Uncle Tim Bradley? I met Tim Bradley when he was shooting with Tom Knapp at the Huron chamber of commerce ringneck festival, he was good with a shotgun but awesome with a 22...

Yes. He let me shoot Tim's gun at targets.
I did not want to give it back.
I never met his uncle but I probably was at a big new years eve party and didn't know if Tim was there. Never know. I was kind of way out of my element.
Small world. Sitzer lane sound familiar?

Sitzer lane sound familiar?

No sir, I'm from the western part of the state I live about 9 mi from the Oklahoma line as the crow flies...

The ringneck festival where I met him was in South Dakota... We did visit about Arkansas if I remember correctly, Tom and Tim set at our table one night at the banquet on Saturday night.. They told stories I just listened, I was kind of out of my element as you say...

[Ricky Spanish]

Was his Uncle Tim Bradley? I met Tim Bradley when he was shooting with Tom Knapp at the Huron chamber of commerce ringneck festival, he was good with a shotgun but awesome with a 22...

Yes. He let me shoot Tim's gun at targets.
I did not want to give it back.
I never met his uncle but I probably was at a big new years eve party and didn't know if Tim was there. Never know. I was kind of way out of my element.
Small world. Sitzer lane sound familiar?

Sitzer lane sound familiar?

No sir, I'm from the western part of the state I live about 9 mi from the Oklahoma line as the crow flies...

The ringneck festival where I met him was in South Dakota... We did visit about Arkansas if I remember correctly, Tom and Tim set at our table one night at the banquet on Saturday night.. They told stories I just listened, I was kind of out of my element as you say...

Oh. Im a flatlander and you're from the hilly part.
I've heard tales of Oklahoma duck hunting on the Illinois river.

[5 stand]

Was his Uncle Tim Bradley? I met Tim Bradley when he was shooting with Tom Knapp at the Huron chamber of commerce ringneck festival, he was good with a shotgun but awesome with a 22...

Yes. He let me shoot Tim's gun at targets.
I did not want to give it back.
I never met his uncle but I probably was at a big new years eve party and didn't know if Tim was there. Never know. I was kind of way out of my element.
Small world. Sitzer lane sound familiar?

Sitzer lane sound familiar?

No sir, I'm from the western part of the state I live about 9 mi from the Oklahoma line as the crow flies...

The ringneck festival where I met him was in South Dakota... We did visit about Arkansas if I remember correctly, Tom and Tim set at our table one night at the banquet on Saturday night.. They told stories I just listened, I was kind of out of my element as you say...

Oh. Im a flatlander and you're from the hilly part.
I've heard tales of Oklahoma duck hunting on the Illinois river.

Yes sir, I'm from the hilly Part I have gray squirrels eat out of the bird feeders every morning...

I've never hunted the Illinois River (canoed down the Illinois River one summer in August when I was a young man it was supposed to be 1 hour trip it took us 3 hours, I paddled my ass off, let me just say I was grumpy by the time we got done)...
I do kill ducks in water that has run through the Illinois River...

[Ricky Spanish]

Perhaps this year I'll travel to Lake Imagine-it up north and take some pics of imaginary watercraft.

[Ricky Spanish]

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Searching for more good stuff and found this.
Ohhh yeah I had to go "the back way" to Rainey Brake.
The road from Powhattan to Lynn is curvy and fun and they drive like Nascar.
That back road way got washed out the same year.
Was an expensive trip for someone.

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[Ricky Spanish]

This is far beyond what a camera can detect.
The sky is literally filled with ducks all flying out to feed at sunset.
It recharges my batteries like nothing I know of and it's easy to get up to hunt knowing all those birds return to rest all day dabbling on the NWR.
This footage is from the boundary of the refuge.
Ducky enough?
I think I posted it back in 2020 too.

[Ricky Spanish]

It ain't no secret but that's where the video is from.
That boat launch is about 200 feet long.

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[plainsman]

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[Ricky Spanish]

If you look the lake is empty.
The mallard lake was full of cypress trees that have almost all died and fell down in just 10 years.
I think cormorants had something to do with their demise.
The wma is fine but that lake has some issues.

This tire only lasted one day. Burnt it good one night.

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^^^ that's why I bought bfg all terrain t/a tires.
Them car tires are no good at all..