Ep88 - Arkansas Duck Hunting with Zac Carothers of Big Slash Hunts
Dive Bomb Squadcast
Ashur Tolliver
4.9 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Dive Bomb SquadCast, Matt Judy sits down with Zac Carothers to talk all things duck season, Arkansas traditions, and the friendships that make waterfowling what it is. Zac walks us through his journey from hunting with his dad as a kid, to guiding across the country, to now managing and hunting the legendary Big Slash property.
The guys trade stories from the field, break down what makes Arkansas duck culture so special, and talk about the highs and lows of running a hunting property — from flooded timber mornings to the challenges that come with keeping a place productive year after year.
Packed with humor, memorable hunts, and a shared love for the outdoors, this episode gives listeners an inside look at the passion and heritage that fuel waterfowling season after season.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? Welcome back to the Die Bombs Squadcast. I'm your host, Matt Judy, and we have |
| 0:14.3 | episode 88 coming at you, and you have seen this dude's mustache all over our social media, |
| 0:20.0 | just even in this last week alone because |
| 0:22.3 | we were just there but we have Zach Carruthers of big slash hunts you've seen him last year and |
| 0:28.4 | this year we got him on for the podcast and how you doing man I've been great duck season's |
| 0:35.0 | finally here how could you not be doing great? |
| 0:37.9 | Hell yeah. I feel it, dude. I mean, we were there literally just like five days ago with you for the opener, which was pretty sweet. |
| 0:45.0 | We can get into that, you know, a little bit, a little bit later. But do you have your split coming up pretty soon? |
| 0:52.5 | That's right. It's open until Monday and then it closes until December the 10th. |
| 0:58.5 | And actually I'm looking forward to it because there's some cold weather up north. |
| 1:02.3 | And when they have time to come down here and rest, it gets, it gets greasy. |
| 1:06.6 | There's no doubt. |
| 1:07.8 | That's true. |
| 1:08.7 | That's true. Yeah, it's always crazy to me. |
| 1:10.2 | We have no split. |
| 1:11.2 | So you guys are just open for a week and then you have your split and then it's go time for the rest of the season after that. |
| 1:19.0 | That's correct. Well, Arkansas does a weird, another one weird split. |
| 1:23.6 | We're at Christmas, Christmas Eve day and the day after there's no huntings. |
| 1:29.0 | Dang, you can't even enjoy a little Christmas Eve morning hunt. |
| 1:32.0 | That's right. |
| 1:32.8 | There's a theory going around that some of the wives got together many years ago and talked |
| 1:38.7 | to the right judge to get that past. |
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