What Was Your A-Ha Hunting Moment?

Midwest Flyways Podcast

Midwest Flyways

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Joey Vassallo and Cal Ness are back this week with a Ten Minute Tuesday that was brought to us by one of our listeners! They asked: what was your top a-ha moment as a waterfowl hunter? Joey and Cal break down a couple of things each that stand out to them as significant moments where they learned something that really shifted their thinking about duck and goose hunting and how to be more successful as a hunter. In truth, the learning never stops because the birds are always changing and anything can happen tomorrow. Each area is different, each set of birds is different and nothing is constant in waterfowl hunting. Have you had moments in your hunting career that stand out to you now that you’ll always be thinking about on each scout and hunt? Thanks so much for listening and be sure to subscribe and review! 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

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0:00.0	Welcome back to 10 Minute Tuesday. This 10 minute Tuesday is brought to you by First Light.
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0:23.3	any of that stuff is just go check it out. You will not be disappointed. So, this 10-minute
0:28.2	Tuesday was presented to us by one of our followers, one of our listeners. One of our hunt club
0:34.8	members. One of our hunt club members. Sick. And the question for this 10 minute Tuesday, Cal, is what's the biggest aha moment you
0:43.0	had in your career that completely changed how you look at the marsh slash waterfowling?
0:48.2	Okay.
0:48.7	Well, look at the marsh.
0:51.0	I don't know necessarily that, but I think the way that I look at hunting, especially
0:55.1	from a scouting perspective, okay? Two great aha moments for me, I think I want to bring up.
1:03.0	So the first one, we were hunting with Bobby Guy in Kansas. And we ended up getting permission
1:10.6	on a field that had so many birds in it. So many birds in it.
1:15.9	And this is not the first time this has happened, by the way, but this is the moment where
1:19.4	really clicked to me. What so many birds you're saying? Huh? So we've had, we've had fields where
1:24.3	we're like, there's so many birds in the field. Okay. Okay.
1:34.7	But this specific time, it hit me pretty good where we ended up hunting this field, okay?
1:36.4	And we were very excited about it.
1:39.1	We thought that it was going to be an absolute banger.
1:42.6	And we had a good mix of birds in this field.
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