Rob Sawyer

The Bay Prairie Outfitters Story

October 06, 2025 by Rob Sawyer

Bay Prairie proprietor Mike Ladnier and I both watched the same 1970 episode of American Sportsman featuring TV personality Andy Griffith and golfer Sam Snead on an Eagle Lake prairie hunt. Their guide was Marvin Tyler, one of the Texas pioneers who decoyed snows, blues, Ross’s, and white-fronted geese over the Texas white rag spread. We were separated by a thousand miles – Mike in Mississippi and me in Maryland ¬– but we both swore that, one day, we’d go to Texas and do what Marvin Tyler was doing.

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