Public Land - Massachusetts - Kevin Patterson
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
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 Kevin Patterson, who hunts the public marshes and coastal waters of Massachusetts. Kevin walks through what a typical morning looks like in New England, where changing tides dictate everything—from how ducks move to where they choose to roost.
The guys dive into his approach to fooling wary black ducks, the hard lessons he learned navigating unfamiliar public ground after making the move from Texas, and the unique challenges of hunting pressured birds in tight coastal environments. Kevin also shares his passion for honoring the roots of waterfowl hunting by choosing traditional wooden decoys.
This series is brought to you by the great people at Chêne Gear.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Boston Braves, Atlanta Braves, used to be the Boston Braves? |
| 0:02.6 | I did not know that. |
| 0:03.4 | I didn't either. Did you know that, Kevin? |
| 0:04.6 | I thought they were always just socks. |
| 0:05.9 | No, I'm not a big baseball guy. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm a football guy for the most part. College football, not even pro. I didn't know that either until this morning I saw, I've on a page that something, and it's trivia stuff and it was the only player to where the three Braves play for all three Braves |
| 0:20.5 | franchises and I did not realize that they were in Boston also and I was wondering where the |
| 0:24.6 | hell they played baseball at. Because I don't think they ever played at Fenway. They probably played at Fenway against Red Sox, but I wouldn't think that the Fenway was used for any other team besides the Red Sox. I'm going to have to do some look up on that. It's a great stadium, though. Very, very quaint, very nice, very clean. Yes, it is. I would live in New England in a second. If I won the lottery, that's where I'm going. Okay, we can talk about that. And you can live here six months of the year, and that's what my wife and I are probably going to do. And then the other six months of the year, you've got to get the hell out of here. |
| 0:55.9 | It's too cold. |
| 0:56.9 | Yeah. It's too snowy. It's depressive. So me wanting to spend my winters in Rye, New Hampshire, would not be enjoyable is what you're telling me? No, no, no, but summers. Summers are fantastic. The fall as spring is not great, but summer and fall are phenomenal. |
| 1:12.5 | One of the funny, |
| 1:12.9 | and when I say fall, |
| 1:13.4 | it goes all the way to Christmas, really. summers are fantastic fall as spring is not great but summer and fall are phenomenal one of the |
| 1:12.7 | funny when i say fall it goes all the way to christmas really christmas all the way through |
| 1:15.8 | christmas january's good for me because of duck season but you know february is an absolute |
| 1:20.3 | miserable my wife is like i travel all over the half of the country for work she's always like |
| 1:24.8 | get the hell to florida go to south carolina just get out of here. Take me with you. Yeah, I would, February is a depressive month. I think |
| 1:32.2 | wherever you live. It's just a shit month. I just, I can't. Now we're on the back hat, |
| 1:36.8 | now we're on the backside of March and like, I can deal with this. February and March suck. |
| 1:41.3 | You know what I mean? The first half of March is awful, but like, you know, now we got kid baseball coming, turkey season coming, and it's like, and then summer break will be here when all that wraps up. So, like, now we're on the fast track to fall, I feel like, now that we're looking at the end of March. I don't disagree. All right. Here comes our introduction music, and then we're going rock and roll. All right. |
| 2:16.9 | Let's see Here we go. |
| 2:44.8 | Three, two, and one. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

