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bowman_steve By Steve Bowman    End of the line The ESPN
Outdoors Duck Trek fittingly ends in Louisiana  LAKE CHARLES,
La. -- Erik Rue was angry. Dirty words spewed from his mouth in
a litany of expletives that would make a duck hunter, normally
accustomed to words that would make a sailor blush, take note.
It was ironic in a Duck Trek sort of way that the end of this
Trek from Canada to south Louisiana would end in much the same
way it started. In the Delta Marsh of Canada a similar series of
words were exchanged while battling a canoe.  Rue, though, was
sitting in a pit just a few miles north of the Louisiana Marsh.
His words weren't directed at Duck Trek photographer James
Overstreet (despite his being easy to curse). His words were
directed at a small flock of white-fronted geese that refused to
respond to his calling.  Chasing specklebellied geese, formally
known as white-fronted geese but also known as specks or
whistling geese, is what Rue