The Drake Plantation - Winnie Tx

Not familiar with those folks but I known Pipkin outfitters got some stuck up guides that give off that "we are better than you and any other outfit" attitude the whole time your there.

i grew up hunting Jefferson and Chambers counties, and 20 years ago i guided for a few seasons right outside of Winnie (our camp was on the north side of FM 1410...you can see it from I-10) for a few seasons...pretty much manage to pay for my tuition at LSU doing that. Brian was running hunts back then and was a good hunter; i imagine that's still true all these years later.

Grayson Pipkin is a good guy, too...that ranch/marsh has been producing good hunts for decades.

I would like to hear more reviews about these guys as well. Not bad on pricing and just browsing through their picture gallery is pretty amazing!

Rian and Tony are old friends of mine...being knowing Rian for 30 years. crazy fricker...

surely we've met.

Did very well with them during Teal season, big duck season has been a little more of a struggle on the 3-4 hunts I did with them.

Their minimum group size is 4. You will get put into better blinds if you have 6 people from what I understand.

Overall positive experience. Their guides are good old baws.

We have a group of 4. We'd really like to stay in La to save on licenses, but I haven't found anything decent that isn't booked up. Any recommendations?

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I have recommended this outfit to numerous people on here including Larry Gooseman who will confirm that Drake is legit.

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MWP is the man! Has referred to several solid outfits. Going to Wharton on Friday for a work hunt.

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How is the speck hunting down there? Do they do any duck/goose combo hunts, or just hunt whatever birds are working in the area?

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They shoot a lot of geese out of the duck blinds. If you luck out on weather conditions it can be incredible - I was told they've shot over 40 geese out of a blind in optimal weather conditions.

I hunted with them the Monday of Thanksgiving week, one of the other duck blinds limited on Specks. We saw a ton of birds, it was a blue bird day and we still had about a half-dozen shot opportunities at geese.

Rian Glascock...he and Tony started Fin & Fowl a while back, their camp used to be right off the south end of Oak Island Rd. thought that was maybe when you were running hunts for them. Rian still hunts, but mostly the south side of the county off 1985/Whites Ranch Road. i hunted out of Billy DeVillier's camp with Tim Young, Blaine Freiermood (after he got his guns back) and Mickey. ran a few hunts for Forrest when he needed help and i was freed up, too.

no doubt we came across each other at some point...good chance it was Lercy's or the bar at Al-T's. used to pay the light bill at both those places.

after i quit chartering hunts, i had a couple of fields off 1663 and off 62 south of 10 that i leased...then it all dried up on the east side when they stopped planting (as you rightly said). i haven't hunted the area in years...still know it like the back of my hand, though, and still get that feeling in my loins when i pass Jenkins traveling 10. lol...

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Rian Glascock...he and Tony started Fin & Fowl a while back

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Ok, that was before my time with them and damn those are names you brought up. I started hunting with them around 96. It was right before Will left to start CFO. I used to hunt with Forrest some back then too so maybe we have crossed paths. I still do some stuff with Jim West from time to time but for ducks, I pretty much just stick with Drake (Brian) and Dee/Justin Leggett down at East Bay.