Save it for the Blind Podcast

Hunt Bums with Casey Hartwell

Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard sit down with Casey Hartwell, founder of Hunt Bums, to talk about how a passion for waterfowl hunting turned into a growing platform built a

CWA Hunt Program Preview: 2026–27 Waterfowl Season

Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard break down what’s ahead for the 2026–27 California Waterfowl Hunt Program, covering everything from dove and big-game opportunities to the f

Ep. 122 Klamath: The Road Forward

California Waterfowl CEO Jake Messerli and VP of Advocacy Mark Hennelly provide the latest update on one of the most critical waterfowl habitats in California – Klamath.

Ep. 121 Dr. Bob McLandress on Building Early CWA

Mallard nesting at Grizzly Island, the story about CWA’s first biologist, and how research, banding, fundraising, and education all took shape Jeff Smith and Carson Odeg

Ep. 120 Chemistry, Calls, and Canada Geese with Chance Wadsworth

Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard sit down with Chance Wadsworth, owner of Quill Creek Championship Calls, to talk goose calling from the inside out—how a chemistry backgroun

Ep. 119 Tracking the Flyway with Cory Overton

Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard sit down with Cory Overton for a data-driven look at what really happened during this season’s migration. Instead of relying on blind chatte

Ep. 118 Season Recap: January Averages, Year-to-Year Swings & Pintail Puzzles

Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard wrap the season with a clean, property-by-property breakdown—January numbers, year-over-year changes, species quirks, and the big themes (fo

Ep. 117 Senior World Champ Duck Caller — Craig Wilson

Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard sit down with Craig Wilson, owner of River Oaks Outdoors and a Senior World Duck Calling Champion to trace his path from SoCal refuge rat (W

Ep. 116 CWA-New Zealand Hunter Exchange Program with Eben Herbert

Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard welcome Eben Herbert from the New Zealand Hunter Exchange to compare notes on waterfowling half a world apart—what shocked him about the Sui

Ep. 115 Mapping the Flyway: CWA Science Director Corey Overton on Telemetry, Pintail, and the Klamath Connection

Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard welcome Cory Overton, California Waterfowl’s new Science Director, for a clear, field-level look at how modern telemetry is rewriting what w

Ep. 114 Uruguay Mixed-Bag Done Right: Closaway Outfitters with Dwight Jones

Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard sit down with Dwight Jones, founder of Closaway Outfitters (Uruguay) and CEO of Okmulgee Fields Inc., to unpack a boutique, American-run ope

Ep. 113 December Property Recap: Floods, Fog, and Averages Across CWA Hunts

Carson Odegard sits down with Jeff Smith to break down December’s numbers across California Waterfowl properties—what got better, what got buried under water, and how lon

Ep. 112 Questions from the Blind: Jeff & Carson’s Mid-Season Q&A

Merry Christmas! This episode drops right before the holiday—here’s to safe hunts, full straps, and time with your crew and family. Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard dig int

Ep. 111 Rugged Sound for the Duck Life: DEMERBOX with President Alex Keil

Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard sit down with Alex Keil, president of DEMERBOX, to unpack how a garage-built, Pelican-case speaker turned into a made-in-USA workhorse for h

Ep. 110 California Ducks & Modern Shotshells: A Conversation with MIGRA’s CEO

Jeff Smith and Carson Odegard sit down with Mark Regalbuto, CEO of MIGRA Ammunition, for a straight-shooting talk on California waterfowling and the nuts and bolts of bui

Ep. 109 November Recap & December Openings: CWA Hunts, Rice Blinds & Staten Highlights

Carson Odegard (fresh off dad duty) and Jeff Smith run a quick, no-nonsense update on how November hunts went across CWA properties—and what’s opening up for December. Fr

Ep. 108 From Turbochargers to Duck Calls: Inside Pardi Calls with Kevin Azzopardi & Jason Cline

This week, Jeff sits down with Kevin Azzopardi and Jason Cline of Pardi Calls (Yuba City, CA) to trace how a family machine shop that built industrial turbocharger parts

Ep. 107 The Life of a Waterfowl Hunter with Mike Cole

Jeff sits down with Mike Cole—CWA Gold Benefactor, rice grower, lifelong duck hunter, and serious decoy collector—for a grounded, from-the-bootstraps story of how passion

Ep. 106 October Recap & November Forecast: Refuge Managers Roundtable (Yolo, Upper Butte, Grizzly)

Jeff Smith checks in with three boots-on-the-ground voices to break down how California’s opener really went—and what to expect as November weather finally shows up. Gues

Ep. 105 California Duck Banding: Klamath Night Lighting, Pintail Nets & Why Reporting Matters

Jeff sits down with Brian Huber and Jason Coslovich to unpack this summer’s banding push and preseason pintail work—what changed with more water on the landscape, how nig