As Spencer pointed out on the podcast, 10% of your viewers tend to be new. Therefore introductions, however redundant, are still useful even for those few
@@beanscommajim4980 nobody new is coming to this channel via "Duck Lore." And fine, introduce him. But maybe note he's the founder of "MeatEater" and not some random hunter from the U.P.
@@rediron44 .. 🦌🐗🐻🦆🔴C-O-W-A-R-D🔫😫🦠🍖🥩🥓🔴... Caveman !!! Fat deposits clog your arteries. 51% death rate !!! That is extremely high !! For a burger !! 5 minute burger etc !! 🙄🤦🏼♂️. Vegans have 4% cancer and that’s it. Scientific fact. You don’t hurt your dog 🤗🐶. Or a parrot 🤗🦜. Hypooocrite. Meat🔴fIaaake, or vegan ✅❤️💪😬 ??
Steve I only started watching your shows about 6 months ago. I’m 62 and love hunting whitetail deer and hogs in Georgia. I have watched a lot of other hunting shows you are the most down to earth person you explain everything how to gut,skin cut up the meat and pack it out!!! Your cooking episodes are off the chart!!!! Stay safe hunt free Brother!!!
I dont know why steve is so entertaining. He has a style that is larger than life, yet is understated. Like he isnt trying hard. Just hard to nail down
Excellent!! I have hunted some of those exact same spots in the past. It is always a crap-shoot on the water, but you guys were at ground zero of some of the Upper Great Lakes best diver staging areas. I have seen them so thick alongside the Bridge that they defied being counted. The last fall I was there it was mid December and I saw, literally, tens of thousands of birds on that "cove" off the N.E. corner of the Bridge. Most of them Redheads, but a bunch of Canvasbacks and Scaup, (both types) as well the other usual suspects. I really enjoyed this ride-along guys, thank you.
@@sam805236 🦌🐗🐻🦆🔴C-O-W-A-R-D🔫😫🦠🍖🥩🥓🔴... Caveman !!! Fat deposits clog your arteries. 51% death rate !!! That is extremely high !! For a burger !! 5 minute burger etc !! 🙄🤦🏼♂️. Vegans have 4% cancer and that’s it. Scientific fact. You don’t hurt your dog 🤗🐶. Or a parrot 🤗🦜. Hypooocrite. Meat🔴fIaaake, or vegan ✅❤️💪😬 ?? .
Nothing better than seeing the sky turn black with birds on the first morning of a multiple day hunting trip. Thanks for showing us Michigan bird hunters some love
It's true..You can't compare it to any other hunting. Diver Hunting is an animal all it's own..Been Diver Hunting on Erie since I could walk.. Diver Hunting is a way of life up here in LP Ontario Canada. Great to see our brothers south of the border smashin' em up. Great Vid Steve
Certainly a challenging way to hunt ducks.Got seasick just by watching,lol.Hats off to those who hunt this way ,that's for sure.Thanks for a great show,from Australia
I've done a lot of diver layout hunting on Lake Erie, I love self filming it and it's such a fun way to hunt ducks. It's definitely humbling, but once you get used to the boat and shooting it's a blast. Great video covering our favorite way to hunt divers!
Still haven't got myself a duck yet. I guess I still have to live the whole experience through your eyes my friend. Keep following your nose boyz! From your Canadian friend Up North.
Welcome to the or back to the U.P. Boys I should say. Divers have been so streaky these last couple years when it comes to staging times streaky migrating times not as consistent then in the past for all of them for sure. More of a trickle effect then a solid consistent push like in years prior. The mild weather this year didn’t help by any means and saw big numbers early to mid November. Hope to see you boys up here again soon ! Shoot straight 🤙🏼
Yes in fact I was stood on shore and said I need to get out in the middle out there. And I built my duck boat and started stacking em. I mostly solo hunted and I had some fine days bobbling around in my 15ft boat in 3ft waves.
@@michaelwywiorski2008 I've watched some but I enjoy Steve. He's not just a hunter and includes a bit if world knowledge. He talked about how there were sea battles on the great lakes during the American revolution. The rest seemingly only know about one thing and they don't appeal to me.
@@bradbutcher3984 you gotta watch things like the chefs they have on air, or duck camp, I just love everyone's wilderness knowledge and experience along with there hunting experience
God I won’t forget the morning me nd buddy went and parked by the lake an watched the same thing just wave after wave of just thousands of ducks was absolutely beautiful lol
Will the next episode include actually cooking and eating mergansers, scoter, and oldsquaw? Don't get me wrong, they are beautiful birds but I would rather eat fish and shellfish than a duck that consumes them. You are what you eat! I do commend you on the series though, well done!
Someday! I want to do this someday! The thing that happened to these guys is exactly why I never have. I can go find birds or switch to pheasants if it isn't happening at home. On a trip like this all the eggs are in one basket.
I hate to be that guy but my only problem is the amount of shells left floating in the water. They will eventually wash up on shore or sink. When I go to a field, I hate seeing other hunters shells everywhere. Last dove season I fired 150 shells and I picked up every one of em. They don't degrade they just breakdown into smaller pieces. The wads are enough, unless you get fiber wads, at least pickup shells.
My first waterfowl hunt in the mid 70's was in St Martins bay which is just east of that same area. Next time come down to Saginaw bay for both divers and puddlers.
Heard them scoters are delish , never killed one but might do a trip next fall , it aint tgat bad as far as prices are concerned i mean any waterfowl hunt will be a couple grand so ...
General rule for layout boats is not to sit up but to keep the gunner's head below the splash shield or boat profile. Sure, sometimes a bit harder to see the incoming birds, but reducing the profile is the point of layout boats. And as the overhead shot shows, marsh camo shows up very brightly from above, which is what the ducks may see. Better to use grey camo or a gray or army digital poncho over the jackets; no marsh grass out there in the middle of the water and the layout boat is gray. Danish layout gunners use small white boats and white camo (and pick up their shells); divers come from places where snow is common and white is not necessarily scary for them. On the Atlantic you can shoot scoters easily from a white fishing boat near the decoys.
No. They're using nontoxic shot, probably steel #2s. They run out of energy pretty fast, probably put out an eye after 75-100 yards but not much more. Individual pellets have about as much energy as a BB gun. Hunters stack up pretty close at Fish Point, usually less than 150 yds apart when the ducks are flying. never heard of an accident.
No. They're using nontoxic shot, probably steel #2s. They run out of energy pretty fast, probably put out an eye after 75-100 yards but not much more. Individual pellets have about as much energy as a BB gun. Hunters stack up pretty close at Fish Point, usually less than 150 yds apart when the ducks are flying. never heard of an accident.
I almost died in a layout boat once cause the guys I was with anchored bow and stern too tightly and the chop swamped the boat. Luckily they saw me waving and picked me up before I sank too far!
@@ronblackburn3683 I was riding that boat like stationary surfboard almost before I knew what happened. Very thankful for the additional buoyancy provided by neoprene waders
I like how this guy is introducing Steve Rinella on MeatEater's channel lol
😂😂😂
As Spencer pointed out on the podcast, 10% of your viewers tend to be new. Therefore introductions, however redundant, are still useful even for those few
Ikr
@@beanscommajim4980 nobody new is coming to this channel via "Duck Lore." And fine, introduce him. But maybe note he's the founder of "MeatEater" and not some random hunter from the U.P.
It's fun seeing him do something for the first time though
Steve Rinella, the man, the myth, the legend, the netflix guy, that fishing guy....this man has built a legacy
He's a great spokesman for hunting
@@rediron44 .. 🦌🐗🐻🦆🔴C-O-W-A-R-D🔫😫🦠🍖🥩🥓🔴... Caveman !!! Fat deposits clog your arteries. 51% death rate !!! That is extremely high !! For a burger !! 5 minute burger etc !! 🙄🤦🏼♂️. Vegans have 4% cancer and that’s it. Scientific fact. You don’t hurt your dog 🤗🐶. Or a parrot 🤗🦜. Hypooocrite. Meat🔴fIaaake, or vegan ✅❤️💪😬 ??
Steve I only started watching your shows about 6 months ago. I’m 62 and love hunting whitetail deer and hogs in Georgia. I have watched a lot of other hunting shows you are the most down to earth person you explain everything how to gut,skin cut up the meat and pack it out!!! Your cooking episodes are off the chart!!!! Stay safe hunt free Brother!!!
I dont know why steve is so entertaining. He has a style that is larger than life, yet is understated. Like he isnt trying hard. Just hard to nail down
He’s Mr. Charisma
That 2 for 1shot was something else. Great work dude.
Excellent!! I have hunted some of those exact same spots in the past. It is always a crap-shoot on the water, but you guys were at ground zero of some of the Upper Great Lakes best diver staging areas. I have seen them so thick alongside the Bridge that they defied being counted. The last fall I was there it was mid December and I saw, literally, tens of thousands of birds on that "cove" off the N.E. corner of the Bridge. Most of them Redheads, but a bunch of Canvasbacks and Scaup, (both types) as well the other usual suspects. I really enjoyed this ride-along guys, thank you.
Too cool of an experience! I've never been duck hunting or even tasted duck for that matter. It's something on my bucket list though.
@@sam805236 🦌🐗🐻🦆🔴C-O-W-A-R-D🔫😫🦠🍖🥩🥓🔴... Caveman !!! Fat deposits clog your arteries. 51% death rate !!! That is extremely high !! For a burger !! 5 minute burger etc !! 🙄🤦🏼♂️. Vegans have 4% cancer and that’s it. Scientific fact. You don’t hurt your dog 🤗🐶. Or a parrot 🤗🦜. Hypooocrite. Meat🔴fIaaake, or vegan ✅❤️💪😬 ?? .
Sounds nearby to Mackinac Island? NE of the bridge? Great place to visit, definitely a gem here in the good Ole Mitten!
Nothing better than seeing the sky turn black with birds on the first morning of a multiple day hunting trip. Thanks for showing us Michigan bird hunters some love
And I thought my romp in the swamps was work! Mad respect for those of you that hunt seaducks this way
Good episode. This is a bucket list for me.
The Mighty Mac in all of its glory. Great video.
It's true..You can't compare it to any other hunting. Diver Hunting is an animal all it's own..Been Diver Hunting on Erie since I could walk..
Diver Hunting is a way of life up here in LP Ontario Canada. Great to see our brothers south of the border smashin' em up. Great Vid Steve
I absolutely LOVE layout boats. My favorite type of hunt
my favorite waterfowl hunts are layout bufflehead beatdowns on lake st. clair. the place is packed full of em!
Certainly a challenging way to hunt ducks.Got seasick just by watching,lol.Hats off to those who hunt this way ,that's for sure.Thanks for a great show,from Australia
The two birds with one stone was absolutely filthy 🔥
Chesapeake Bay hunter here !!!!! Loving the show !!!!
I love how Steve was going on about all the military history of the Straits. Same thing goes through my mind whenever I head up that way.
I've done a lot of diver layout hunting on Lake Erie, I love self filming it and it's such a fun way to hunt ducks. It's definitely humbling, but once you get used to the boat and shooting it's a blast. Great video covering our favorite way to hunt divers!
Layout huntingis something that is remarkable
Thankful for any content, and would love to see a meal at the end.
Great vid guys, love it
Still haven't got myself a duck yet. I guess I still have to live the whole experience through your eyes my friend. Keep following your nose boyz! From your Canadian friend Up North.
That 2 for 1 special was great!
im enjoying this series. more waterfowl pls.
Literally to the 1% whos reading this, God bless you, and may your dreams come true, stay safe and have a wonderful day. 💕
Thank you. I needed that :)
Brilliant stuff guys
Great job guys❤👌🏻💥💥
Love to see Steve
Great show Bro!!!
That is a very cool way to hunt!
2 words: Long Point! Best reds and blues and Cans you’ll get in layouts! (Ok, maybe Mitchell’s Bay, also)… :).
Ugh I was hoping for Steve’s cooking on this one! Damn
Love these videos😁👍🦆
That new marsh camo is doing wonders with these divers ;)
hahaha I was happy to see someone switch to a grey jacket at the end.
@@Jeff-ve1bu yeah I saw Steve switch it up at one point haha
If they are close enough to see your camo they should be already dead, that’s the rule I’ve always lived by
Would've given a thumbs up with not just a catch but a catch and cook!!
Thinking the bridge hunt might be a tad more congested next season. Time to utilize PLAN B : )
I have never duck hunted, but going up to the UP of Michigan for my first hunt might be my next vacation hunt outside of Missouri.
We’ll love to have ya. Make sure you get a pastie before you leave lol
Another great episode. Keep up the great work.
Nice just wished we were in the Fly Zone here in Florida. Enjoyed it
Welcome to the or back to the U.P. Boys I should say. Divers have been so streaky these last couple years when it comes to staging times streaky migrating times not as consistent then in the past for all of them for sure. More of a trickle effect then a solid consistent push like in years prior. The mild weather this year didn’t help by any means and saw big numbers early to mid November. Hope to see you boys up here again soon ! Shoot straight 🤙🏼
13:07 love how the duck is still alive after being netted lmao that is wild
Gotta love Michigan 💕💕💕
Ok now let’s see Steve make a decent meal outta them divers cause I’m yet to figure that one out
4:35 I saw something very similar years ago I was surfing Montauk point alone I think it was in the fall I remember I had my wintersuit on.
just wanna say if it wast for the bear grease and meat eater podcasts id go crazy
Lay out hunting is by far the hardest duck hunting you can do. Trying off Lake Erie is even worse lol but fun
Yes in fact I was stood on shore and said I need to get out in the middle out there. And I built my duck boat and started stacking em.
I mostly solo hunted and I had some fine days bobbling around in my 15ft boat in 3ft waves.
Muy excelentes cazerias amigos saludos chebres caza 👍
Cool seeing the Mighty Mac in the background
Duck down let’s gooo
i wish i could go duck hunting..with all the effort people put and $ into duck hunting.. those ducks must taste good
Some do taste good but mostly it's down to duck hunters just being crazy
I wish you guys would cook some up at the end of the episode!
Please do a behind the scene for the Netflix series. It's perfect for RUclips.
Finally a meat eater with Steve. I can't bring myself to watch the other people.
The others have amazing episodes too
Callahan is pretty good but the rest I kind of agree
@@michaelwywiorski2008 I've watched some but I enjoy Steve. He's not just a hunter and includes a bit if world knowledge. He talked about how there were sea battles on the great lakes during the American revolution. The rest seemingly only know about one thing and they don't appeal to me.
@@neonwhitea.1548 Callahan is completely different. I'll watch him.
@@bradbutcher3984 you gotta watch things like the chefs they have on air, or duck camp, I just love everyone's wilderness knowledge and experience along with there hunting experience
Cool hunting 😎
That’s about an 80s model Johnson. Well, they were real similar for a long time. We stuck a full lower unit from I believe a ‘79 on a ‘98.
Sean acting like he saw the ducks when the camera man pointed them out for him. LOL
I love the meat eater waterfowl hunting! Thanks for making this video
Where’s the cooking at? Great series besides missing some awesome recipes
Lake Michigan actually does have a good population of Oldsaqua and some scoters
That'd be a lifer for me , long tailed don't usually frequent the central flyway but I can dream , oldsquaw probably bad spelling
I'd fall asleep laying in that boat.
God I won’t forget the morning me nd buddy went and parked by the lake an watched the same thing just wave after wave of just thousands of ducks was absolutely beautiful lol
15:50 there’s a duck lower left screen popped up right by the boat
Will the next episode include actually cooking and eating mergansers, scoter, and oldsquaw? Don't get me wrong, they are beautiful birds but I would rather eat fish and shellfish than a duck that consumes them. You are what you eat! I do commend you on the series though, well done!
I make them into pepperoni. I actually think the gamey taste helps, weirdly. But they also get "diluted" with other ducks too.
Someday! I want to do this someday! The thing that happened to these guys is exactly why I never have. I can go find birds or switch to pheasants if it isn't happening at home. On a trip like this all the eggs are in one basket.
Once you go once you’ll be hooked, find a reputable guide with good gear on a flyway and you’ll be hooked for life
You guys were pretty close to castle rock 👍👍
Super excellent raids and well-aimed shots. I like and subscribe!!! I will be glad to see you on my channel
Eu gosto de seus vídeo de caça sou Brazil
I hate to be that guy but my only problem is the amount of shells left floating in the water. They will eventually wash up on shore or sink. When I go to a field, I hate seeing other hunters shells everywhere. Last dove season I fired 150 shells and I picked up every one of em. They don't degrade they just breakdown into smaller pieces. The wads are enough, unless you get fiber wads, at least pickup shells.
What is the chest pack you are using for shells?
Wing & Bill as the old guys say , most effective way of killing Eiders and Scoters
I can see our cabin in the video where we hunt out of to go for divers
My first waterfowl hunt in the mid 70's was in St Martins bay which is just east of that same area. Next time come down to Saginaw bay for both divers and puddlers.
That first segment was St. Martin's.....off the mouth of the Carp.
Who else was waiting for a cooking scene at the end because Steven Rinella was on? Hahahahaha
What is the best/recommended way to dispatch one that isnt fully out when retrieved?
Lived up here in Northern Michigan my entire life I hunt but I didn't know people did this
Didn’t know you could hunt near the bridge
Hunted the Bridge Crotch? That’s some serious scouting there lmao.
Looks like y'all saw a bunch, too bad that you weren't able to convince them to get close. Hunting big water is tricky.
Nice stuff but do you collect the floating empty shells?
Heard them scoters are delish , never killed one but might do a trip next fall , it aint tgat bad as far as prices are concerned i mean any waterfowl hunt will be a couple grand so ...
what about the empty shells?
Pick em up with the net
They float
Born and raised in Michigan, wouldn’t want to live anywhere else, would love to try this someday.
Just out of curiosity how do y’all clean the empties up out of the water from a floating boat is there a trick to do it ?
Telescopic pointer with a magnet on the end. Cheap tool, very handy.
Was cool seeing the Canadian flag
General rule for layout boats is not to sit up but to keep the gunner's head below the splash shield or boat profile. Sure, sometimes a bit harder to see the incoming birds, but reducing the profile is the point of layout boats. And as the overhead shot shows, marsh camo shows up very brightly from above, which is what the ducks may see. Better to use grey camo or a gray or army digital poncho over the jackets; no marsh grass out there in the middle of the water and the layout boat is gray. Danish layout gunners use small white boats and white camo (and pick up their shells); divers come from places where snow is common and white is not necessarily scary for them. On the Atlantic you can shoot scoters easily from a white fishing boat near the decoys.
Can't imagine the fuel bill with that Johnson 120. Good runner though!
Sean, who makes that front-facing chest bag that you have?
How can you hunt this close to a bridge shooting angled above the skyline, would the pellets reach the bridge?
question: do the bullets have a chance of hitting cars or people?
No. They're using nontoxic shot, probably steel #2s. They run out of energy pretty fast, probably put out an eye after 75-100 yards but not much more. Individual pellets have about as much energy as a BB gun. Hunters stack up pretty close at Fish Point, usually less than 150 yds apart when the ducks are flying. never heard of an accident.
No. They're using nontoxic shot, probably steel #2s. They run out of energy pretty fast, probably put out an eye after 75-100 yards but not much more. Individual pellets have about as much energy as a BB gun. Hunters stack up pretty close at Fish Point, usually less than 150 yds apart when the ducks are flying. never heard of an accident.
That was different 👏.
JO JO IN VT 💕😄
Welcome to the great lakes! haha
I almost died in a layout boat once cause the guys I was with anchored bow and stern too tightly and the chop swamped the boat. Luckily they saw me waving and picked me up before I sank too far!
Always keep a knife handy! I learned the hard way too.
@@ronblackburn3683 I was riding that boat like stationary surfboard almost before I knew what happened. Very thankful for the additional buoyancy provided by neoprene waders
RINELLA! Get your foot off the dash!!!
New first lite waterfowl line???
Yea... it’s been announced for a few months now.
I live in Michigan. Never been hunting but want to go so bad. But I don’t know anyone that goes hunting
Welcome to Ooty nice to see you.
Little house Ooty
That made me sleepy.
What is the chest rig that gentleman is wearing?
When he says it's a really good time for red heads. And I'm thinking to myself nope still to cold for me 🤣 #gingerlife