What did he say?

Male Mallard ducks - or Drakes have a distinct forest green head separating a chestnut brown-colored neck by a white-collar band. If you ask any Mallard drake, they'd claim to be top of the popularity flock for ducks hunters enjoy chasing but we're not confirming either way. Their bright green head is the root of their nickname.

We've found that the more vocal geese are like "honking" during flight are also more socially dominant. These geese also tend to be larger-bodied. The goose can use the "honk" to ward off intruders, locate other geese, or answer a mate or announce when they're taking off for flight. Our guides provide a mix of calls; Honka, Snore, Cackle - and others to vocalize the right kind of communication at the right time.

Short for Snow geese. Eastern Washington snow goose hunting has exploded in recent years, sometimes seeing thousands of snow geese circling our decoy spread looking much more akin to a snowstorm.

This refers to birds already flying at a low height. This usually makes decoying them in easier as their intent could be to find some decoy friends.

Your guide calls the shot. The callout from the guides vary but could be “Take em!”, which might be swapped for “Kill em’!”, or even “Hammer em’!”. We think you’ll figure it out after the first volley but if you have any questions, please ask your guide.

We love our food and Moses Lake serves up some great options. In the morning, you’ll find Aaron and his guides starting off with coffee and something out of the hot counter in Half-Sun Chevron, one of our morning meetup places.

Lunches often will have us on the go. If we’re not eating in the blind we’re moving locations or scouting birds. So, our food needs to be mobile and tasty. The El Rodeo Special or the shredded beef Super Burrito at El Rodeo hit the spot

For dinner after a successful day in the blind or boat, you can regularly find Aaron at Michaels on the Lake. Among his favorite menu items are the blackened prime rib and the peppercorn steak. If Aaron isn’t at Michael’s on the Lake for dinner - or at home, check Rock Top where he frequently chases down a prime rib dip or a Patriot Burger with a cold one.

This condition refers to the sluggish, non-committal, and overall lethargic attitude that hunters (sometimes anglers) portray around mid-day after eating a large lunch. We’ve seen this condition present more severely when lunches are packed with grilled steak and venison pepper sticks.

Remedies include approaching ducks, geese, or, biting fish. When hope is lost, more food because, why not?

If nothing changes, we’d soon expect the symptoms to present more severely towards a catnap. Please see our Cat Nap lingo on this page for more detail.

Most of the times Cat Naps just happen. It could be the serenity of the world-class duck and goose calling or the warmth of your lap nestled behind your Final Approach layout backrest. Who are we kidding? We know it's largely due to getting up at 4:30 am to meet up.

Go ahead, take a quick Cat Nap, see what happens! And what happens in the duck blind stays in the duck blind!

There are all sorts of waterfowl 'porn'; porn in this case actually defined as a powerful video or image. So, duck porn could consist of a sunrise in a duck blind over water, your dog on a tough retrieve, a banded bird, or a picture with great friends in a blind with a limit of birds.

In other words, it's just about anything you find on TikTok or Instagram Stories nowadays.

If you think you've seen fights between couples in loving relationships over jewelry, get in the middle of a dispute on a banded bird! Thankfully, we've refined several proprietary and highly scientific methods to determine not only which shotgun but which BB's effectively killed the goose. EWG Rule #23 indicates that the jewelry goes to the guide in a tie

All sorts of species could be referred to as a Fatty, never a human. We think the origin of the lingo term may have come from the largemouth bass community, but we've set out fact-checkers on a mission to verify. We've also harvested truckloads of Fatty Canadian geese, and Fatty Steelhead.

I guess you can say Eastern Washington Guides love Fatties with it being entirely true.

This term refers to ducks or geese with their wings in a locked position, slightly curved. This term can be used interchangeably between ducks & geese.

Crippled refers to a bird that was not exposed to a lethal shot pellet. Sometimes geese or ducks are winged, essentially meaning the same thing but relegated to a broken wing.

We operate in an expedited manner to dispatch of any game quickly and humanely that are not killed during the initial volley.

A term that typically pertains to a Mr. Flappy entanglement. The quintessential Fubar is when both canine and humans tangle their extremities in Mr. Flappy’s fishing line.

A FUBAR for anglers could mean multiple birds nests at once while guiding multiple people, rocks eating lures or getting losing lures from getting hung up on the banks too often. It happens to us all!