• Issues: RHA’s – Part 1

    Listen on Spotify * Apple Podcasts * iHeartRadio * Pandora * Amazon Podcasts As promised, this week will be spent unpacking the Restricted Hunting Area Rule, and what’s to come at the August 4, 2021 FWC Commission Meeting Live Show tickets are available here Go to Patreon and become a friend of the show OFFICIALLY here! E-mail Fletcher with Hallett Insurance to get your quote! Double the “L’s” and Double the “T’s” Follow Cast and Blast Florida: Instagram – Twitter – Facebook – Website Want to experience a world class duck hunt or fishing charter? E-mail Travis to book today . . . Connect with the gang on social media: Travis Thompson – @travisthompson – Instagram – Twitter – Facebook Nathan Henderson –…

  • My Florida: Josh Wynne

    In September of 1620, Christopher Martin and his young wife, Marie Prower, arrived on the shores of Plymouth, Massachusetts on a ship known as The Mayflower. The ship left port in Essex, England and had been at sea for 66 days on this, the third attempt at crossing the Atlantic to reach The New World. Of the 102 passengers that arrived, only 53 of them survived the first winter. Only five among them were women. These survivors had grit. Christopher Martin would sign the Mayflower Compact and move to Salem, where he started his family. Over the next 160 years, the Martin’s became the Bishop’s, and the Bishop’s became the…

  • Conversations #3.11: Donny Miley

    Listen on Spotify * Apple Podcasts * iHeartRadio * Pandora * Amazon Podcasts The chase for 41. In duck hunting parlance, Donny Miley is near Everest. Hear his story, from his earliest days hunting to his arrival near the peak of the waterfowling world, as one of our listeners shares his incredible quest for harvesting one of every waterfowl in North America. Just be warned – his story of near misses will have you on the edge of your seat. Go to Patreon and become a friend of the show OFFICIALLY here! E-mail Fletcher with Hallett Insurance to get your quote! Double the “L’s” and Double the “T’s” Check out…

  • #181: the Book Draft

    Listen on Spotify * Apple Podcasts * iHeartRadio * Pandora * Amazon Podcasts This week, we’re joined by Todd Waldron of the Ruffed Grouse Society, Bill Cooksey from Vanishing Paradise, Nate, Dan, and Travis as we embark on the ambitious goal of recording the ultimate draft of Outdoor Books. This episode is a MUST LISTEN for anyone interested in outdoor literature, and you’ll feel like It’s hanging out with your buddies as they talk hunting and fishing and ecology and conservation! Go to Patreon and become a friend of the show OFFICIALLY here! E-mail Fletcher with Hallett Insurance to get your quote! Double the “L’s” and Double the “T’s” Follow…

  • Conversations #3.5: Mike Elfenbein

    Listen on Spotify * Apple Podcasts * iHeartRadio * Pandora * Amazon Podcasts Mike Elf is a name everyone in the Florida Hunting Community knows. Turkeys.  Or maybe you know him from his time on the SFWMD WRAC. Or from his work on Western Everglades Restoration. Or his speaking at FWC Meetings.  Or any of the million other things he works on to make our state better. Go to Patreon and become a friend of the show OFFICIALLY here! E-mail Fletcher with Hallett Insurance to get your quote! Double the “L’s” and Double the “T’s” Check out Two Fish Creative for your software solutions – no problem is too big…

  • #172: R3 is Dead, Long Live R3

    Listen on Spotify * Apple Podcasts * iHeartRadio * Pandora * Amazon Podcasts In the past couple of weeks, a number of pieces about hunter numbers, their actual implications, whether or not R3 should or should not be a thing, and the ensuing rebuttals have dotted the hunting-sphere so many of us cycle through. In a rare deviation from our normal Tuesday format, this week, Nate and Travis are joined by Dan Daniels as we wade through this tangle of articles and columns and offer our takes on what this means for the future of hunting! Links: Matt Rinella’s Piece on Meateater: The Case Against Hunter Recruitment Nicole Qualtieri’s Piece…

  • #171: the Outdoorsassance

    Listen on Spotify * Apple Podcasts * iHeartRadio * Pandora * Amazon Podcasts Spring is a time for new beginnings, and a time for rebirths of old things . . . this week, we take you through some of the things we see experiencing a comeback . . . Plus, NWTF Turkey camps, Turkey Doctors, Sprayingassance, Congresspeople, 20 gauges, fishing, and much much more! Go to Patreon and become a friend of the show OFFICIALLY here! E-mail Fletcher with Hallett Insurance to get your quote! Double the “L’s” and Double the “T’s” Follow Cast and Blast Florida: Instagram – Twitter – Facebook – Website Want to experience a world class duck hunt or fishing charter? E-mail Travis to…

  • An Open Letter to the FWC Commissioners

    Greetings Commissioners, As you prepare for the upcoming February Commission Meeting, I wanted to take a moment and again submit the attached sign-on for your consideration regarding the Draft Rule Proposal for Restricted Hunting Areas. This is an opportunity for us to take steps to ensure a stronger future for public water waterfowling. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the extraordinary contributions waterfowl stamps have made and continue to make to public lands across our country. Personally, I only hunt public, non-quota waterfowl areas. I run programs for recruiting new hunters, programs for non-hunters, programs for teachers – all aimed at understanding how hunting fits into conservation and why…

  • #166: Mistakes We’ve Made

    Listen on Spotify * Apple Podcasts * iHeartRadio * Pandora * Amazon Podcasts This is an unconventional episode – in that, near the end of the main segment, our dog escapes and the whole show falls apart. That’s okay though – before the unraveling, we talk about pythons, youth duck day, remembering the plug, kill switches, how to avoid wind knots, the RHA Zoom Call, and much much more! Here’s the link and phone numbers to our Thursday Zoom Call – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82238290859?pwd=R0U0VnB1QWQrbDJmN1RLV0NGdFBMZz09 Topic: Restricted Hunting Areas – A Discussion Time: Feb 18, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Meeting ID: 822 3829 0859 Passcode: ducks One tap mobile…

  • Venison Cube Steak

    Editor’s Note: There’s not much more traditional and wholesome and comfortable than pan fried cube steak . . . At our house, mom preferred beef, so she’d make a pack of beef cube steak and a pack of venison, and this often left my sister and I fighting over the venison.  It’s that good.  In this recipe, long time friend of the show Chad Rischar takes us on the perfect pan fried venison cube steak Pan Fried Venison Cube Steak Beef or chicken cube steak can be supplemented for venison (strong preference for deer cube steak) Mix together the following ingredients for the cube steak breading 1 cup all purpose…