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Hello, myelsoly's podcast. I am Joe Yvesaio. And I have my other host. His name is Count Ness. Oh, me a derecho, okay? And then we also have a very special guest. His name is Mike Anderson. And he is from Mancato, Minnesota, World Championship Duck Collar, Person Extraordinaire. Yes, sir. Thanks for coming on. Hey, thanks for having me. I'm excited. We're excited to have you here. And we're excited to talk a little bit about some of your escapades, your fun over the years, duck hunting. And I wanted to kind of start, if you're okay with it. I had read that you're a river duck guy. I am. You know, if you name the river

from the Missouri River to the Mississippi River to the Kansas River, the White River,

you know, Black River, up and down, you know, from the Canadian border down to Arkansas,

I love river hunting. Yeah. And you've been all over doing it. Yeah, I've been, I've been all over.

I've been to more places than I realize, but not as many places I'd like to be. Yeah. Joey, do you have that map? Do you still put dots on that map? Yeah, I do. Yeah. I've got a fun. I'll show you after the podcast. My wife got it for me for Christmas two years ago. And so I put a pin everywhere I've hunted.

That's awesome. I'm just doing like one or two per state just because I've hunted North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Sure. Obviously I've gone all over. Yeah. And so if it's like complete opposite ends of the state, then I'll do it. Right. But it's cool to like look at it and be like, holy shit. Oh, absolutely. I've hunted almost every flyway now. It shows the central and Mississippi flyway turn north of south. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, I love river hunting. I really love boat blind hunting. It's kind of been my favorite thing. Yeah. I enjoy the, the, finding a boat ramp, back in a boat down, you know, having a good crew of guys and, you know, cooking breakfast and shooting ducks, man, it's awesome. Did you build your own blind then, or do you? I did. Yeah. You know, we, I guess to back up a little bit, we used to run surface drive rigs for about 15 years. You ran surface drive rigs and in the entire time. Do what? Long tails? Surface drive. Oh, service drive rigs. Yeah, we'd run surface drive rigs. And we would have our own homemade pop-up lines that we would make out of an inch and a half aluminum conduit. And we'd have it sewed up and we'd have fast grass on it. And we'd hunt the same rivers, but we'd watch all these guys, these big boat lines. And we always talked about wanting to do it. But we always tried to convince ourselves being from the Upper Midwest and Minnesota, we're like, well, if you don't have a surface drive, how are we going to get to where we're going to get to? You know, outboards aren't going to get us to where we need to. And finally, four years ago, I bit the bullet. And I bought a 272 and I got a jackplate and 115 horse murk on it. Oh, shit. And I built a hard side of blind. And it's funny. Like, I'd never welded aluminum. And I tell everybody the same story. You can look in the blind and you can see where I started the blind to where I finished the blind by just looking at the welds. I kind of had it figured out by the end. But man, it's a riot for our group. Another buddy of ours has bought a boat blind sands and built one. And we just, we really like to river hunt. We like to hunt all the boat blind. I got 22 inch blackstone inside of it. And it's just, it's just a blast wheeling dealing that's right i

love i love river hunting because i feel like whether it's in mississippi the missouri the

white wherever it's at river hunting is trading ducks it's ducks that are trading back and forth

and and you get to trick them you get to call them in. It's just so different than hunting a marsh or a lake or

somewhere that they've been already. It's just, you know, for me being a duck call guy, a duck caller guy,

I just really enjoy any kind of river fishing. Yeah. No, that's, we've talked about it so much on our

podcast. Traffic hunting is like the most rewarding type of hunting, especially for ducks. Absolutely. Because they've never been there. They're not going there. And all of a sudden they see your decoy spread and they hear you. And it's like, oh, I think I'm going to go there. It's the ultimate form of tricking the bird. Absolutely. I love it. We were just talking a little bit ago. it's the most purest way of waterfall hunting today, I feel like, is hunting water and in particular hunting water on any sort of a river. I just feel like a guy and a duck call and a blind and a dog, man. It's the deal. Yeah. I got a quick question for you, actually. And it leads into one of our sponsors.

Okay.

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Okay.

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There you go.

And a side by side.

So it's like the Weatherby Orion side by sides.

And I literally cannot wait to

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