https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1 daily 0.75 2024-08-25 https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/the-justification-of-duck-hunting monthly 0.5 2024-08-26 https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/mega-dogris-a-history monthly 0.5 2024-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/c4c62009-2481-4733-a1df-ddf4ac8f9cb2/Chase+bufflehead.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - Mega Dogris, a history - Make it stand out Chase Cook stands by his stick-up, a drake bufflehead along the shoreline of a brackish lake in Louisiana. Though not a traditional method of duck hunting in Louisiana, many divers have been duped by the painted plywood. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/saving-the-receipts monthly 0.5 2024-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/b9104314-f72d-4bad-a049-72fc833c6e17/Dad+Grand+Cote+2024.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - Saving the Receipts - Make it stand out The author’s father picks up snow goose fold-ups after a late season hunt. The trip’s bag was of little significance; the “Notes” section of the author’s waterfowl journal was filled with lines of the rare occasion where father and son hunt together. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/the-pintail-rumor-mill monthly 0.5 2024-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/e44a93d6-3c99-42a2-82be-883a078d4d4d/Chase+Texas+Pintails.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - The Pintail Rumor Mill - Make it stand out Pintails were regular visitors in the author’s bag for 2023-2024, something that’s likely to continue in future years. A limit increase would be a welcome change in 2024-2025. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/divers-in-the-deep-south monthly 0.5 2024-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/97d765b6-5c3e-43d2-8709-dcaa76f4d0a3/Buffleheads.PNG The Wayward Waterfowler - Divers in the Deep South - Make it stand out Limits of buffleheads aren’t all that uncommon in south Louisiana if the hunter knows where to look, though difficult retrieves and an unfathomably tough cripple to finish left the author with one bird short on this hunt. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/whats-next monthly 0.5 2024-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/55e8b728-3650-43d9-97f5-736c0c22be0f/IMG_2471.JPG The Wayward Waterfowler - What’s Next? - Make it stand out One of the minute details that the author has been uncompromising on: Original photography. Here Chase Cook is pictured picking up a pair of redheads on the Texas Gulf Coast. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/just-a-little-taller monthly 0.5 2024-01-06 https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/what-couldve-been monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/46862720-7e56-49c9-a649-e8946f8d912e/Ashton+Gadwall+Pic.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - What Could’ve Been - Make it stand out A plumed drake gadwall may be the most underrated bird in North American waterfowling, and to harvest one as the first bird of our Louisiana big duck season made it a hunt worth remembering. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/a-stick-in-the-mud monthly 0.5 2023-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/bd61a7a9-4220-4a85-af56-72c0a5182e10/Chase+Up+Close.png The Wayward Waterfowler - A Stick in the Mud - Make it stand out For someone who claims to “hate” wood ducks, Chase Cook (left) sure was a happy camper after this brief morning shoot behind his house in 2020. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/rvlszdtllwps4a98eli7m9pvmtcg8y monthly 0.5 2023-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/523db518-ca90-43bb-b7e5-7bde6ec317c6/Chase+Cook+pirogue+2.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - The Pirogue, a Half-Assed History - Make it stand out Chase Cook paddles his pirogue through a marsh in south Louisiana. True to the author’s lede in this post, he bought it for 50 dollars on Facebook Marketplace in 2022. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/where-we-hunt-them monthly 0.5 2023-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/e4f88e8e-60f1-466b-925d-43219289ba7f/Ashton+and+Chase.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - Where We Hunt Them - Make it stand out Friends old and new, Chase Cook (left) and Ashton Kennedy (right) have spent the last few seasons hunting wood ducks with the author in south Louisiana. I’ve known Chase for nearly half my life and never thought I would meet another person quite as odd as he until I met Ashton. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/bbee601c-5c87-48e6-a510-82ea101b4414/Christmas+2020.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - Where We Hunt Them - Make it stand out One of the author’s most treasured hunting memories come every year on Christmas, where he’s accompanied by his old high school friends Brennan Shirey (left) and Chase Cook (center) on a wood duck shoot at one of the ponds on Chase’s horse ranch. This just so happened to be the first greenwinged teal ever harvested on the pond, the only bird in the bag that morning. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/how-to-learn monthly 0.5 2023-08-23 https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/duck-hunting-with-a-bird-brain monthly 0.5 2023-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/79e75337-6552-41b3-86b2-a90dae62a37a/Chaos+1.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - Duck Hunting with a Bird Brain - Make it stand out Chase Cook takes in a sunrise from the passenger seat at a rest stop outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Chase and the author were on the tail-end of a 24-hour ride with a pronghorn tag and a topo map of the North Platte River. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/the-bad-habit monthly 0.5 2023-08-06 https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/a-regal-sport-for-the-common-man monthly 0.5 2023-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/c473a008-d0a5-44af-8ed3-0d65c96e1552/IMG-3397.JPG The Wayward Waterfowler - A Regal Sport for the Common Man - Make it stand out When October rolls around on the North Platte and the river drops to expose the Ruppia beds, a packable decoy spread is a must. The author and his hunting partner Chase Cook (pictured here) scaled a near-vertical cliff to reach the promised land, with just 18 decoys in tow. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/one-duck-days monthly 0.5 2023-07-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/3123c7e6-da41-444e-9906-50cbedb7d523/Phillip+Deviteaux.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - One Duck Days - Make it stand out Even a One Duck Day can be worth remembering. Just ask Phillip Detiveaux, who downed a greenhead in the marshes of southeastern Louisiana, where mallards have become increasingly harder to come by. Photo courtesy Caleb Authement https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/sunrise-in-the-sonoran monthly 0.5 2023-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/c0e1e36f-723f-48fd-ac5e-06a14babc0df/Cibola+Pintails+1.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - Sunrise in the Sonoran - A desert pintail is the crown jewel of Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, and they’re not hard to come by; a half-dozen pintail decoy with little-to-no calling is all it takes to coax a bull sprig into shooting range. Photo by Ryne Berthelot A crown jewel for many a hunter, the northern pintail isn’t hard to come by in Cibola; a half-dozen pintail decoys and a whistle will usually fill the one-bird limit that’s been set the last few seasons. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/6e6ddc13-fe82-4e84-8f7b-f07b49c46ea0/Cibola+2.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - Sunrise in the Sonoran - Make it stand out A desert sunrise over a cattail slough is a unique experience to Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, as are the burros - or feral donkeys - that roam the salt cedar and desert sage patches alongside mule deer. Photo by Ryne Berthelot https://www.flywaysandhighways.com/blog-1/a-waterfowler-is-made-not-born monthly 0.5 2023-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/e3fe6704-9f47-48ff-9416-38d41a45a674/270146905_4899966733379834_8719219112120735543_n.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - A Waterfowler is Made, not Born - Make it stand out I wish I could say I sport an unruly red beard during duck season out of tradition, or because its of use. But the truth is, a razor and time to shave are hard to come by in a 60-day duck season, and by late January, I’ll concede the war. Photo courtesy Robert Chase Cook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63fd25693e33ee0d36ba06b2/67170042-fa24-4c56-8efc-3cc58ba877c6/82190551_3737627959588175_8579533731692281856_n.jpg The Wayward Waterfowler - A Waterfowler is Made, not Born - Make it stand out I started my waterfowling career by hunting wood ducks in the swamps of the Atchafalya Basin. Along the way my high school friends picked up the sport, and together we’ve made enough memories - both good and bad - to start writing about them. From left: The author, Robert “Chase” Cook, Alex David, and Brennan Shirey. 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