Willie Robertson

You know, those were hard years.

I mean, I remember being so nervous just as a kid running this machinery, making the duck calls.

And even if you're a commercial fisherman, you know, it's dangerous.

I mean, you're out there in the river, you fall out of the boat or catch a rope on your leg, which happened many times, but...

thankfully never fatal, over just catching fish that you were making so little of money.

And I remember as a kid, I used to be thinking, how come this is not worth more?

I mean, we're out here risking our life, and they're fantastic tasting fish.

This is the cream of the crop, even the crawfish operation, because we would eat them every day.

Which we could have made more money, but my dad was like, I just can't in good conscience take all the bags to the market.

They're too good.

I mean, because we were wanting to reward ourselves for just back-breaking work from before daylight to after dark.

And I'm just so thankful for all those ethics that I learned doing that process.

Well, yeah.

And, I mean, you look at our culture now since the phone epidemic and all, and you have kids growing up who don't want to work, don't appreciate it, or can't do anything out in the wilderness or the wild.

I'm constantly taking people duck hunting.

Me and this other day, I was hunting with a guy who guides, and we were swapping stories about the guide process when you take people.

And he was like, I mean, the other day, he said, they were five people from the corporate world in their early 30s.

And it had a big rain, and I couldn't haul everybody out there, but I was like, they all had waders on.

And he said, so I just thought, I'm going to take all their gear to the blind and just have them walk.

I mean, it's shallow water.