Ramsey Russells Duck Season Somewhere podcast is available anywhere you listen to podcasts. Ramsey Russell: And how old would she have been? Casey Stafford: Well, what we got working for us here, especially where we hunted today is we were right next door to the Delevan NWR. Ramsey Russell: We hunted a big old rice farm today, and whats so interesting to me about hunting in California, especially as a duck hunter back home, a lot of those farmers burn off their stubble. Casey Stafford: Thats the town chicken herd, just from years as the town has expanded. Connect with Ramsey Russell as he chases waterfowl hunting experiences worldwide year-round: Insta @ramseyrussellgetducks, YouTube @DuckSeasonSomewherePodcast, Facebook @GetDucks. Northern California Waterfowl Hunting in the Sacramento Valley and Oregon Home DuckSeasonS Lake California, Welcome to Sac Valley California Duck Hunting. Im in California, right. Its got the trees in it, its got the cattails. He hit that growth spurt. We also have several properties without blinds for freelance goose hunting. But when we were young-. And then as the morning went on, they started getting restless, and we started picking off birds. Casey Stafford: We get a lot of California day hunters. Many hunts include volunteer or professional guides, making them suitable for novice hunters. Ramsey Russell: Speaking of industrious people, what are your thoughts about your son Cade, his little business hes got going on? Ramsey Russell: Okay. I had a really good time, and as crazy as this sounds, Sac Valley with that original spinning winged decoy machine, with yall, the father and the son, and that rice field, just really set it off. Casey Stafford: I dont know. Bordered by the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge as well as two private natural marshes, this area is a major attraction for the annual migration of waterfowl down the Pacific Flyway. Duck Clubs For Sale in California - California Outdoor Properties This aint like the hotel off- No, this is right in the middle of town. I was surprised to learn that California rice production is second only to Arkansas. Location: The Mallard Pacific is located inside the Sutter Bypass approximately 1/2 miles South of the 113 Bridge. But the first time I actually hunted with that thing, it was real close to where we hunted today, and the blind I remember that we were hunting, the checks ran north and south. That might be a good tip to know. They were young. Guided ducks hunts are the way to go for the best hunting experience. And so we got our hands on one of those or maybe two of them and got to looking at them and said, Okay, we can make that. So we were making our own out of all kinds of scrap metal, you name it. Why do you want fog out here in California? Hey, just warning guys that I hunt with in Mississippi, were fixing to use one. I mean were talking into the first week of March, ten birds a day. And if not, Im coming back to see you, Im coming back to see you. Ill put your decoys out. Weve got pictures all over from when the kids were little, my daughter Quinn still sitting in the backpack thing that you wear when theyre little, her on the front of my wife picking up decoys and putting out decoys. Its where the Mallards like to be. Ramsey Russell: And here in California, Im sure a lot of national origins are represented among those ranks. Some of our other stuff, we will not chop it, we harvest it and use a big forty-two inch double disc and turn that straw right under the ground. And anybody that cant leave the outside world out of the duck blind really needs to go to another duck blind. We have a three hundred thirty acre wetland that they own that I manage for them. I know this from our conversations, but she didnt grow into duck hunting. Across the street is this massive parking lot with something in the dark that appeared to be a Buford Holly just growing everywhere. Ramsey Russell: Okay. And by the third day, for as long as that fog lasts, it just gets better and better every day. Casey Stafford: Yeah. Ramsey Russell: Larger sub-species. We didnt have the big hunting clubs in Washington and Idaho, Oregon like we have now where theyre growing the corn and leaving the standing corn and the birds stop there, and unless it freezes them out or it snows so much they cant get to that feed, they have feed and roost water with those running rivers all year long. I mean when it hit here, it hit hard. Northern Flight Duck Club - Overview, News & Competitors - ZoomInfo The club is located in the heart of the Pacific Flyway in one of the finest duck . Casey Stafford: Yeah they were hand loading their own ammunition, and they didnt have- I dont know if they hadnt bought any, or they didnt have any around, or they were sitting around and just thought it would be a good idea, but they would actually take like a hundred or a hundred twenty pound monofilament fishing line, a ten or twelve inch piece, and you cramp a couple split shot on each end, and then they would coil it up inside a shotgun shell. So up until about the mid-nineties, you all didnt shoot specklebellies. Every single person Ive hunted with out here, about a dozen of you, is shooting Boss Shotshells. You will hunt over a well groomed and brushed blinds with comfortable seating, heating and top of the line decoys. Hell braid out of a pair of cord, make gun slings. Even though weve had some cold fronts, were just not getting the penetration of birds that we have in the past. Ramsey Russell: Try that weed eater wire right there. It almost pains me to tell yall about Duck Creek Decoy Works new Flashback Decoy because inthe words of Flashback Decoy inventor Tyler Baskfield, duck hunting gear really is an arms race. At my Mississippi camp, his flashback decoy has been a top-secret weapon among my personal bag of tricks. Ducks Everywhere Hunt Club - Join us for true Arkansas duck hunting. Ramsey Russell: Yeah. The club is primarily shallow open water, which traditionally holds large numbers of mallards, sprig, teal, and widgeon. Youre born and raised in California. Casey Stafford: Yeah I mean it was cool. Casey Stafford: She probably would have been twenty-eight, twenty-five, somewhere in there. Youre in your forties? But the way he said it indicates to me he buys his own ammo, and hes buying Boss Shotshells. Mallard Pacific Duck Club Sutter County, California Proudly Offered By 707 Merchant Street, Suite 100, Vacaville, Ca 95688 . Valley Waterfowl is a nonprofit organization designed "for hunters by hunters." Our goal is to improve hunting opportunities for our members by working with area landowners to improve wetlands and habitat for local ducks and geese. I give it to him, and he shot everything. Casey Stafford: I want to say its more of a California thing just because I know in a lot of these other states here close by and other parts of even- They have different regulations in the North-eastern part of the state where the season goes longer. Im like, what in the heck is up with all these chickens in Yuba City? Casey Stafford: Theres not a standard. Thats all they want to do is kill ducks. Do you remember your first duck? Central Valley / Coastal California | Ducks Unlimited Shown by appointment only! Ive got a six-foot one thats maybe a foot long. But when I walked out that hotel, started going to get my gear together in the van, waiting on you to get there, there were roosters crowing in all directions. It typically has an uninterrupted water supply. Some of the marginal rice ground, or I shouldnt say even marginal rice ground, its probably better ground suited for something else that used to be in rice. Hell, when I was ten years old, thats all I wanted to do. It puts off the flash, but it dont put off the flash that big blade does. Its a little bit bigger, its a bigger flash. The beak is longer, definitely longer, the feet are longer. Theyre farmers, ranchers and did what they had to do to make a penny. As the town expanded and houses got knocked down and subdivisions or strip malls were made, those chickens just kind of got left there, and now theyre all over the damn place. But it wasnt just one, it was a bunch of them. We have blinds with or without water in the rice. Ramsey Russell: So supposedly these subspecies of specklebellies, the Tule Goose, just comes and lives inside this box and over winters during duck season. Casey Stafford: Im going to say theyre hitting the nail right on the head with that Boss copper-plated bismuth. I mean if you came to me and said, Casey, would you brush blind for five hundred bucks? Ill make that thing look perfect. You got to be proud of him. Then birds get out there, they get lost, they get confused, and they dont know where theyre going or where theyre getting back to. The food, the atmosphere, the service, the effort, the people and the places for which this wonderful tradition of ours is revered. Youre a daddy. Flashback Decoy by Duck Creek Decoy Works. Following a kick-butt, pea-soup foggy morning rice field duck hunt, Casey Stafford of CCIC Outdoor Adventures and Ramsey Russell talk about waterfowl hunting in Californias Sacramento Valley. Theyre very nice. His oldest sister took care of them. Ramsey Russell: You run an outfitting service. And we had that conversation this morning and I said, Are you busy? And hes got four employees! She and her husband basically took care of all the boys and the girls, and raised them. The Central Valley of California averages 64 km wide by 644 km long and consists of the two lesser valleys, the Sacramento in the north and the San Joaquin in the south. And we get the mallards, we just dont get a lot of the mallards out in the rice. Say goodbye to all that gimmicky high recoil compensation science hype, and hello to superior performance. Ramsey Russell: Well my whole point is, and Ill probably say this every episode we do in California: when people think of California, they think of downtown San Francisco, Los Angeles, all these big cities and all the stuff you see on television, Hollywood, and we were as country as country gets today. I mean have you ever heard the origins of how that thing came to be or who invented it? Well we can certainly try to get them, like I said, they mix right in with the regular White Fronts, theres nothing really any different to them other than theyre a little bigger bird. Thats a legal practice now. Theyll come out into the rice, disperse, feed in the rice fields, and then they make their way back in the morning. Theres a guy that does the farming, and then when hes done with the farming, then thats where I take over for the duck clubs. Casey Stafford: Weve actually had this rice production. Speaking of Yuba City, so I woke up this morning. It flat kills. The state and national refuges and private duck clubs offer high quality opportunities for waterfowl hunting. Thats how I put myself through college. Ramsey Russell: There you go. Something about spinning, something about flash, and something about calling ducks from a million miles away, every duck in the universe came to this thing, and I couldnt understand it. You deserve nothing less. Hes been making those, and I asked him today because I cant remember, but its been three or four years hes been making them, and I asked him, How many you think youve made? He dont even know. I continue shooting Benelli shotguns for their simplicity, utter reliability and superior performance. . We deliver it to you in the most proficient manner possible. Thank you all for having me. Ramsey Russell: Okay, whats the difference in there and here? RD 2047 is the main drainage canal for the west side of the Sacramento Valley. Typically, like the field we hunted today, that field was harvested, chopped and then just flooded. APN#: Yolo County APN#: 056-120-005 Blinds: The duck club has two blinds. The Sacramento Valley is a rich mosaic of farmlands, cities and small communities, and managed wetlands and a vast network of meandering rivers, streams, canals, and agricultural drains. Casey Stafford: If I have heard the origin, I dont remember it, but I do remember the craze. And its not like just once every now and again, it seemed to be kind of settling into the norm. Casey Stafford: And hes the one actually, when that stuff first came out, that kids into everything on the internet, looking at shotgun shells, if theres something new that comes out, hell be the first one to see it. How have things changed? Casey Stafford: The CICC is the Colusa Indian Community Council. I just want to try it. And when I see young people like him living the dream, that is the American dream at age fifteen, it just makes my heart swell. Reginas first love is bow hunting. Get involved, have fun and make a lasting impact. We got a lot more hunting to do and a lot more good shows coming up. And we didnt have no money. When I pranked Terry Denman in Mexico with a smiling mallard nobody ever dreamed it would become the most talked about decoy of the century. They need to be managed. And so where we are outside of the closure, Ill leave those goose decoys out till the end. We encourage members to bring junior hunters and new hunters. But with that fog, it confuses them a little and kept them out in the fields a little longer. If anybody listening wants to plug into you, Casey, how can they plug into you in social media? 2007 is when I went to work for the tribe. And the funny thing is about all that, you can see everybody fight and argue in the country, divided and everything else. Ramsey Russell: California doesnt have the lax conservation order that some of the other parts of the country does. Ducks Everywhere is celebrating 28 years as a club! Youve been doing this long and hard, hundred day seasons since you were eighteen years old. Its just their same routine they do every day. What was it like growing up duck hunting this region, who were Caseys mentors and what were their backgrounds? So this morning on the drive out, drinking coffee and whatnot, we drove about thirty minutes to get out there to your place, and you were telling me, Yeah we came by and saw you. You get four minutes in a duck blind, it doesnt matter who, what. The rest is history I guess. And it is duck season in California. And youve got a relationship with them regarding their agricultural property. He shot it all, I gave him that Boss, and I said, Just tell me, I just want to know honestly your opinion on it because I know what my opinion is, and Im not going to tell you till you tell me. And his first word for that stuff: Flat kills. It does. With wool-based solutions at the yarn level, Voormi eliminates the unwordly glow thats common during low light while wearing synthetics. Want more information? Learn More: Why are the White-fronted Goose (Specklebelly) Hunting Regulations More Restrictive in this Special Sacramento Valley Goose Management Area? And you can in the North-end of California too and the North-eastern zone. Theres no eighteen to twenty year olds passionate about this stuff to come in and help us. Thats kind of sobering. When I shoot my 20-gauge, thats all I shoot. And I remembered exactly because yall hunt together. Thanks to Tetra Hearing! And back in the day when they were doing this to survive, that was the time to shoot. Sac Valley Duck Hunting - Ramsey Russell's GetDucks.com Casey Stafford: You can find us on Instagram @CICCOutdoorAdventures or anybody can always give me a call at 530.682.3176. I was surprised because we had stopped somewhere along the way as were coming in, we had stopped and rolled down the windows and listened, and I heard tons of pintails that I really expected to see. Casey Stafford: It will run four, five days like that because we dont leave it on all the time. Thats what distinguishes our GetDucks brand from the rest. Private Duck Blinds - Golden Ram Sportsman's Club Everybodys loading their guns and shots are going off. Dad, I want to go. Okay, okay. So we get in the blind, and were shooting ducks, and hes blowing his whistle, and hes got the Red Ryder, I mean he was a little shit. Theyre on the sides of the roads picking at grass. Ive always said, your best hunting partners are the ones you raise. Northern California Duck & Goose Hunting Guide For two decades, weve delivered real duck hunts for real duck hunters. You all stay tuned. I cant remember, was it last year? I think there are four, five, or six maybe, breeding populations of specklebellies. And it seems like some guys are phasing out and the younger generation I dont see- Its the older guys, the 50, 60, 70, 80 year old guys that grew up hooked on this stuff, and this younger generation, were losing it. I mean my dad said hed wear cotton sacks for shirts, and they did what they had to do to make ends meet. It is absolute Real America once you get outside those crazy cities, thank you all for listening. Ramsey Russell: Its exploded. Ramsey Russell: Thats incredible. While DU works in all 50 states, the organization focuses its efforts and resources on the habitats most beneficial to waterfowl. Ill find out, Im going to hunt it. Casey Stafford: Yeah, predominantly rice. I got a picture in there. TETRA gives hunters an edge and gives them their edge back. Ramsey Russell: Because you told me some pretty cool stories this morning. Was this morning pretty typical for Sac Valley duck hunting? Casey Stafford: Yeah, it is. I mean weve had a lot of characters over the years from all walks of life. All waterfowlers share the dream of having their own private marsh, where they can hunt without the pressures and restrictions of public areas. Casey Stafford: Yeah. But I couldnt really describe to you anything other than a hundred fifty, two hundred yard radius where we hunted today. I mean back in the day I had some wild crazy uncles, and they may or may not have been part of the market hunting and the-. Duck Clubs For Sale Properties (2) West Gustine Gun Club Merced County, CA $1,699,000 316 Acres Gustine is synonymous with great duck hunting. Weve seen the evolution for the last twenty, thirty years, and I just got to tell you, man, we got up this morning. Beyond the sea of sameness, Voormis wool-based technology is engineered to perform. And its one I want to check off my list. Theres a million different ways that guys do it. Would you say its mostly local California day hunters or? Ramsey Russell: Thats good. It spreads the birds out. Landini Lambertville Duck Club For Sale! - Charter Farm Realty And he says, You got to see this. And I thought, Oh boy, do I? He turned that thing on, and it started squealing, making that little bit of noise that it does, and I looked at that thing and thought, No way. It started to get light, and I kid you not, them ducks would come from as high and as far as you could see them, and they would come straight to it. But the thing I think that makes it stand out is now if you fly over this valley and look down at every duck blind on a given day, youre going to see one Mojo decoy, two Mojos, five Mojos, ten Mojos flashing at every blind. Call Dean today 530-227-4725 to schedule your next available weekend or trip. Ramsey Russell: Tell me. They have a hill ranch, thats seven thousand acres that I manage for them. The area is a natural haven for ducks amidst an alarming array of cities, duck clubs and neighboring refuges. Whats the specklebelly hunting like, whats a Tule Goose and whats the Sac Valley Goose Management Unit? These are chickens. He sure is, for a young man to give me a lot of optimism for the future of America. And youd think, Come on now, its a spinning piece of metal, that aint going to do nothing. And I had heard about it for a week or two and finally got a look at one, got my hands on one, and Ill never forget the first time. We offer flooded rice field, dry field goose hunts, flooded timber and marsh hunts. Ramsey Russell: Yeah. Use this store locator to find your local grocery store. And I know as a daddy, its got to make your heart swell too. If you cant tell it yet, you can tell I love California. I mean, you see up here, thats all there is: dirt and country and thats what we do. I remember when we couldnt shoot specks here, and then I remember it being two birds, and then maybe it was four birds. Ramsey Russell: Ive never even heard of it. You all dont do burn with all this West Coast clean air thinking out here, you all have to decomp it, which means what? Were going to get you one found here and fixed up and send it back. They tend to hold up in the Butte Sink area. This rarely offered, very private 304+/- acre duck club is a real gem. 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