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He's gone to the dogs.

Welcome once again, my friends,

from the world headquarters of the Gone to the Dog's podcast in East, no, West, Central Florida, two miles from the Gulf of America.

This is Steve Fielder, your host. I'm freshly back home from a trip to

Pennsylvania hunting with the long pine tree and walkers. And if you listen to the podcast,

immediately preceding this one, you know that I was with Randy and Troy Smith. For seven days, we had a great time,

had a great hunt. We got to experience a lot of different things. We hunted bunnies with beagles.

We hunted the coons with those lone pine tree and walkers. And we also hunted pheasants with chip koser and his boikins spaniel milo so

we put in about seven days there and nights of just an extremely good trip now Now, normally, this would be a podcast looking forward to my trip to the White River

National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas and the Delta of Arkansas, just west of the Mississippi River.

I made a very tough decision.

I'll get my mouth right here, hopefully.

I made a tough decision to forego my trip to the White River. This year will be the first.

This would have been the 16th year.

Nubin Moore first invited me out to the White River with his group out there.

In 2009, the rains, the floods came, and we had to cancel the trip, but in 2010, I made my first trip out to Maddox Bay, where we stayed in a cabin there for several years, had some great times.

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