Episode 20
MegaBucks Duck Guides Rock - with Johny Wink
Johnny Wink, is the owner and proprietor of Megabucks Duck Guide Service located in Jones, Louisiana beneath the Mississippi Flyway, has been offering premium duck
and goose hunts for 45 years, since he was a teenager.
Megabucks itself has been in operation since 1974. One of the things that makes Megabucks so special is its location beneath the Mississippi Flyway.
Louisiana winters have the largest concentration of migrating waterfowl in
America. At the Arkansas-Louisiana state line, the flyway narrows to a one-mile
bottleneck where seventy percent of all migrating waterfowl will pass. Stand in
the yard at Megabucks and look up. This mile-wide bottleneck is directly
overhead Megabucks.
Duck season currently lasts for 60 days. During those 60 days, Megabucks
will stay booked. There are repeat regulars who have standing reservations each
year. There are newcomers. Hunters have come from as far away as Scotland,
Canada, Jamaica, South Africa and Mexico and all over the United States. There
is no typical duck hunter. They come from every walk of life, come in a variety
of age groups and nationalities. The only thing they all have in common is
their desire to enjoy a successful hunt.
Johnny Wink does his dead-level best to ensure that goal is reached.
“All I do is what I would want a guide to do for me,” said Johnny. “I have
listened to my guests for 45 years, learning what they like and don’t like.”
With this in mind, Johnny does everything in his power to make each individual
hunt memorable.
And I have written two books and had a movie of my life made. This has been a wild and crazy ride. Meeting and hunting with so many people of all ages. Men and women.
The god lord has blessed me for sure. One of my problems is that I can tell stories for hours, . Making memories is what it’s all about. Get fired up. God bless you. this will be our 50th season guiding duck and goose hunters from all over the world. Here in Jones, Louisiana.
We hunt flooded corn and rice fields in big 20-foot pit blinds.
We have two different lodges. One has eight beds and one has 12 beds. We only do private hunts. Just your group in one of the two lodges. Min. Of four to book a hunt. That way it is just your group in the lodge and in the big pit blinds with. Guide and his dog.
We are blessed here in northeast Louisiana for the many of geese we have here. The ones we target are the specks. We kill ducks and geese out of these blinds. In the afternoon we also do deer hunts. We only hunt deer in the afternoon and only hunt ducks in the morning.
I was filming with Phil Robertson, owner of Duck Commander Duck Calls. We filmed Duck man 2 and 3 here.
