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Midwest Flyways Podcast

The Mississippi Flyway

Midwest Flyways Podcast

Midwest Flyways

Sports, Wilderness

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Ten Minute Tuesday, we dive into the rich history of the legendary Mississippi Flyway — the river system that helped shape waterfowl hunting culture across America. From indigenous hunters navigating flooded timber in dugout canoes to the rise of market hunting, steamboat duck commerce, elite duck clubs, and the birth of iconic destinations like Stuttgart, Arkansas, this episode explores how one river became the backbone of North American duck hunting history.   We break down the incredible scale of the Mississippi Flyway, the migration patterns that still define modern hunting today, and the stories that built the traditions many waterfowlers continue to live for every fall. This is Part 1 of a two-part history series, covering the southern and central reaches of the flyway before heading north next week.   If you love waterfowl history, duck camp stories, conservation culture, and the roots of the hunt, this episode is for you.   Subscribe to The Midwest Flyways Podcast and join the Flyways Hunt Club community for more weekly episodes, stories, and conversations centered around the future and heritage of waterfowl hunting.   Join Flyways Hunt Club and get 1 month free! Flyways Hunt Club New Waterfowl Film out now! Out West | Waterfowl Hunting in Montana Stay comfortable, dry and warm: First Lite (Code MWF20) Go to OnXHunt to be better prepared for your hunt: OnX Learn more about better ammo: Migra Ammunitions Weatherby Sorix: Weatherby Support Conservation: DU (Code: Flyways) Stop saying "Huh?" with better hearing protection: Soundgear Live Free: Turtlebox Add motion to your spread: Flashback Better Merch: /SHOP

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to 10 Minute Tuesday, everybody. We are going to be doing another awesome history

0:03.9

lesson this week. And this week I wanted to do one that I felt came a little close to home,

0:09.8

a little close to home. And I know you guys have been enjoying these. And we've got a lot of great

0:15.6

comments about them in the Flyways Hunt Club. So if you guys aren't a member of Flyways Hunt Club,

0:19.8

go check it out. Link is in the

0:21.3

bio pretty much everywhere. Some amazing stuff happening in Flyways Hunt Club. It's a new community

0:27.4

for Waterfow hunters that are just normal people not looking to engage on social media anymore

0:33.7

because of what seems social media has become. So please go join that. And check out our merch. Midwestflyways.com slash shop. We have our spring collection out right now. You can go get some awesome stuff in there. One of my favorite pieces, The Hunt Heritage Hat, which I believe Carter's words when I sent it to him were that hat is fucking sick. Right, Carter? Yeah, yeah, it is. It still is.

0:54.8

All right.

0:55.8

This week we're going to be doing a history lesson on the Great Mississippi Flyway.

0:59.7

And so how one river built waterfall hunting in America.

1:05.4

The river that became a highway for birds of Mississippi Flyway, the Mississippi River is not just a migration route.

1:12.8

Excuse me. It's one of the greatest wildlife corridors on earth. The Mississippi River itself

1:18.2

stretches over 2,300 miles draining more than 1.2 million square miles across 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.

1:29.5

It's a lot.

1:30.3

It's a lot.

1:31.4

It's a huge river.

1:32.6

It's pretty insane when you actually think about the fact that it's 2,300 miles long.

1:36.8

That's a long ways.

1:38.0

It's a long ways.

1:38.9

And every fall, millions of ducks, geese, swans, they follow it south.

1:43.3

It's sort of like their highway,

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