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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 753: A Life On The Sea

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Mike Douville, Heather Douville, Janis PutelisSeth Morris, and Jimmy Rinella in Alaska.

Topics discussed: Fishing to support the family; building your own boat; herring fisheries; naming a boat after your daughter; forced into boarding schools; sea stars and salmon sharks; long lining for black cod; diminishing quota allowances; recreational catch yields troucing commercial yields; Heather's new show, "Our Way Of Life" launching on September 29th on MeatEater; and more. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.1

There's no shortcut to building gear that won't fail.

0:07.5

That's why First Light built the new forge waiters from the ground up, field tested for years,

0:13.7

so that failure isn't an option.

0:15.7

Designed for waterfow hunters who show up in the dark, who break ice at the shoreline,

0:20.2

and who stay out when the

0:21.7

conditions stay brutal. These aren't fair weather waiters. They're built to perform and

0:26.5

built to last. If you're planning, your waterfall season, plan around gear that won't quit on you.

0:31.8

Forge waiters by First Light. Zero quit season after season. Available now at FirstLight.com. That's f-I-R-S-T-L-I-T-E.com.

0:47.9

This is the meat eater podcast coming at you, shirtless, severely bug-bitten, and in my case, underwearless.

0:59.1

We hunt.

0:59.8

Come to eat a podcast.

1:01.8

You can't predict anything.

1:03.3

Brought to you by First Light.

1:05.8

When I'm hunting, I need gear that won't quit.

1:08.9

First Light builds.

1:10.2

No compromise gear that keeps me in the field longer.

1:13.9

No shortcuts, just gear that works.

1:16.5

Check it out at firstlight.com.

1:19.2

That's F-I-R-S-T-L-I-T-E.com.

1:26.2

Welcome, everybody.

1:27.4

If you're a regular listener to the show, you first met, at least from this podcast standpoint, you first met Heather Duvill sitting in this kitchen.

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