Public Land - California - Tanner Castillo
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This series highlights the highs and lows of hunting public land across different regions of America — the early mornings, the pressure, the competition, and the grind that comes with earning every bird.
In this episode, Jeff and Andy are joined by Tanner Castillo from California. Tanner breaks down the intense pressure he faces from other hunters every time he steps onto public ground, the long list of rules and regulations that come with hunting waterfowl on public land in California, peak time in his area of California, and how his tactics have to evolve as the season wears on.
This series is brought to you by the great people at Chêne Gear.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Hello! Really? Walla! Wala! Wala! Walla! Walla! Wala! Here we go. |
| 0:44.0 | Boom! |
| 0:47.1 | And welcome to the Big Honker podcast, brought to you by Schinger Public Hunter Series. |
| 0:51.4 | I'm Jeff Stanfield with the world famous andy shaver |
| 0:55.2 | november 30th december 1st and december 2nd come out and join us on the shin goose hunt |
| 1:00.7 | three days goose hunt and lodging the meals 1500 dollars and meet some waterfowl celebrities |
| 1:06.8 | like the junior high principal andy shaver oh that's right that's right Turkey season's going on right now all over the place. So go to Shungear for your turkey gear. Okay, with us today from the, should I say the great state of California? It is a great state. The great state of California, he's shaking his head. No, Mr. Tanner Castillo from Sutter, California. Do I get |
| 1:29.1 | that right? Yeah, you did. |
| 1:31.4 | Damn, I didn't fuck that up. So, you live in Northern California. Yes, I do. |
| 1:37.5 | Do you don't consider California a great state? Oh, there's a lot of great things in California. |
| 1:41.1 | I'm asking our guest here. Not really. |
| 1:45.1 | I paid $5 for gas yesterday, so not really. |
| 1:49.5 | Yeah, that's a little bit of a kick in the balls, but we're paying four. |
| 1:53.8 | 389 is what I paid yesterday. |
| 1:56.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:57.6 | But it was $2.25, and theirs was still $5 fucking. |
| 2:01.7 | Pretty much. So other than gas was still $5 fucking dollars. Pretty much. |
| 2:02.6 | So other than gas prices, the weather's nice. |
| 2:07.0 | Yeah, the weather's been kind of bipolar here. |
| 2:09.7 | We had some thunderstorms a few days ago. |
| 2:11.7 | It was 38 degrees this morning, so I froze my ass off. |
| 2:16.5 | How far are you from the Redwood Forest? |
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