This week, we provide a recap on the various agency meetings from the past week, our thoughts on the snook/redfish/trout closure extension, the Spray Protest, paying to cull whitetails. Plus, new reviews, Paul Cauthen, and pizza toppings. Links: Michigan culling Deer herds The Coyote Incident Public Land Tees Go to Patreon and become a friend of the show OFFICIALLY here! E-mail Fletcher with Hallett Insurance to get your quote! 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 – @nhenderson77 – Instagram – Twitter – Facebook Emily…
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#121: Geography Lessons
What does California’s struggle to fund conservation have to do with Florida? Listen to this week’s episode to find out. Plus, we discuss Ohio2 and Long Chile (and Anna’s Map), all the new reviews, and we see how many meetings Travis can make it to in a week! Go to Patreon and become a friend of the show OFFICIALLY here! E-mail Fletcher with Hallett Insurance to get your quote! 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 – @nhenderson77 – Instagram – Twitter – Facebook Emily…
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#120: Dogs, Ethics, & Spraying
We’re back up to our usual shenanigans this week, with topics ranging from an anonymous listener wanting advice on a Yellow Lab, a discussion on canned hunts for youth recruitment, a ban on e-collars in Hawaii, and quick hits on the spray discussion. Plus, Project Upland, listeners meet Nate, a Patreon winner, a Little Debbie loser, and more! Go to Patreon and become a friend of the show OFFICIALLY here! E-mail Fletcher with Hallett Insurance to get your quote! 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…
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#118: Duck Season Top 10
Want in on the Patreon Raffle? Join our Patreon here, by becoming a Friend of the Show or Conservation Club Member! This week, we give the folks what they want – a short, sweet, unedited episode! Travis is coming off a million sleepless hours and headed into surgery, so the crew gets together to do a quick trip down the 10 things we loved most about duck season! E-mail Fletcher with Hallett Insurance to get your quote! 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 –…
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#116: Resolutions 101
Everyone knows that resolutions are a terrible idea – you make some bold proclamation like “I’m gonna lose 150 lbs this year” or “I’m going to summit Kilmanjaro” and you have forgotten it by January 15th! Not to worry, your fearless co-hosts at the Cast and Blast Florida Podcast are here to help you lower your resolution goals, which will in turn help you become so accustomed to making your resolutions stick, which will in turn help you skydive/zipline/shark cage dive/whatever. Plus, we talk sewage management, post-outdoor-excursion breakfasts, Jeopardy Tournament of Champions, snook fishing, decoys, and much, much more! Become a friend of the show OFFICIALLY here! E-mail Fletcher with…
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#115: 2020, the Year in Review
New Year, same train wreck of a podcast. This year, like so many years before it, we boldly let you know what’s going to happen in the outdoors world in 2020 BEFORE it’s even happened. Try getting that from Meateater! Plus, we spend a good bit of time recapping Cindy Stites recent recaps of Deer Camp (read the posts here and here and hear us talk about it at 31:10), Ian Nance’s new Outdoor Power Rankings (read it here; we talk about it at 36:25), Backcountry Hunters and Anglers events in both Florida AND Georgia, and whether or not it will ever. Stop. #^$&*!%. Raining. Become a friend of the…
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#114: Loose Ends
That’s a wrap on 2019 – we gave you 65 hours of content, culminating in this mess of a podcast! Thank you all so much for all your support and being part of the Cast and Blast Family! We’ll see you in 2020!!! E-mail Fletcher with Hallett Insurance to get your quote! 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 – @nhenderson77 – Instagram – Twitter – Facebook Emily Thompson – @lovedaloca – Instagram Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
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#11: Allen Martin with FWC – Black Crappie
‘Tis the season . . . For specks. Black Crappie. One of the most popular fish in the Sunshine State, we’re talking this week with one of the experts on these tasty and fun spotted slabs! Allen Martin is Biologist with Florida Wildlife Commission and helped create the Black Crappie Management Plan – he took some time to work with us unpacking Specks and everything you’d ever want to know about Crappie! 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 –…
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An Open Letter to the FWC Commissioners
Commissioners, I wanted to reach out to your prior to this week’s Commission meetings in Panama City Beach. I wish I could be there. I tried. I pushed hard. I’ve been to the past 4-5 meetings, but, as a full-time waterfowl guide, this one was tough to pull off. See, I have a client flying in to hunt the day of the meetings from out of state. This gentleman has harvested 42 species of waterfowl, and only needs the Florida mottled duck to complete his slam. We’ve planned the hunt since June. If everything goes according to plan, there will be a celebration in a Central Florida Swamp Tuesday morning,…
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Conversations #10: Clay Newcomb
This week, we’re chatting with Clay Newcomb from Bear Hunting Magazine. In light of the upcoming FWC Commissioners’ meeting to discuss the Bear Management Plan, we’ve been working with Backcountry Hunters and Anglers to unite Hunters and Conservationists and inform folks about the true application of conservation principles and practices with sustainable resources and sound scientific measures in game management. We hope you’ll enjoy this conversation, and we hope you’ll take the time to attend the FWC Commission Meetings Dec. 11 and 12 in Panama City Beach, take the time to use BHA’s online form to let your opinion be known, make a phone call . . . Follow Cast…
