The crowd on Main Street was almost as excited as Jimbo when he claimed the trophy.

"Damn good," is how it feels to win the 2006 World's Championship Duck Calling Contest according to the winner of Saturday's competition, Jim Ronquest, of Holly Grove, who beat out 67 fierce competitors.

Ronquest stood beside Phil Green of Newlberia, La. with hands clenched around his duck call as his name was announced as the 2006 World's Champion. He took a step back and shook Green's hand before scooping up his daughter, Jenna Rose, and giving her a huge hug.

"Yes this is the first one -- the one I have been looking for," Ronquest said of his first championship.

Ronquest grabbed his trophy and held it up in the air for everyone to see. He is no stranger to the competition and has been waiting 15 years to have that trophy in his hand.

"I grew up duck hunting and love to duck hunt," Ronquest said. "Like a lot of people that blow in these contest somebody said 'Your pretty good at that you need to get in the contest,' I did, and like every other time I got my rear end used as a broom. I just kept on and kept with it. And my good friends John Stephens and Butch Richenback -- Good Lord I need him here -- If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be where I am at right now."

Richenback was unable to attend the contest due to restrictions from a heart transplant surgery, but said he was "tickled pink," for Ronquest to win and watched it on the live broadcast on the internet at Rich-N-Tone.

"He worked hard and kept it in Stuttgart two years in row," Richenback said. "They all came out to the shop, he was speechless. Everybody likes Jimbo."

Ronquest said he did not feel very good about his calling in the first round and his

Jimbo takes a call from a very happy Butch Richenback

second round he called his performance "thin," but said he was up to speed in the third round and "it felt better."

His first round score was 234 that lead to 495 in the second round and the third total was 787 that had him marked as the leader of each round.

"I had no idea," Ronquest said about the shock of hearing his name called.

John Stephens, the 2005 winner of the World Championship Duck Calling Contest, said he was very pleased for Rich-N-Tone Duck calls to win another competition. Adding to that excitement Ronquest is one of Stephens' good friends and it was beyond words for Stephens to see Ronquest come out on top.

"I told him this week that he was blowing good," Stephens said. "I told the guys tonight that I don't know a better person on a duck call than Jimbo and as long as he didn't do anything to mess himself up then he was my pick to win."

Ronquest said that he also tries to help others with duck calling the same way people have helped him through the years.

"When you come out on this side of those guys it proves it is better to be lucky than good," he said of his competition.

Woman's World Champion Shelby Free, who is also a Rich-N-Tone caller said, that it felt great to have Ronquest win. Ronquest said before the competition that he had her rub his head for good luck.

At the end of the evening Ronquest was still all smiles and his wife Rosie was talking to someone on the phone screaming "My husband won, my husband won."

The list of runners-up include:

• First Runner-up Phil Green of Newlberia, La.;
• Second Runner-up Slayton Gearin of Gleason, Tenn.;
• Third Runner-up Craig Guellaume of Council Bluff, Iowa;
• Fourth Runner-up Mike Smith of Madison, Ala.;
• Fifth Runner-up Evan Meyers of Shawnee, Kan.;
• Sixth Runner-up Brandon Sinkley of Judsonia, Ark.;
• Seventh Runner-up Will McBride of Hensley, Ark.;
• Eighth Runner-up Buddy Mann of Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo.;
• Ninth Runner-up Ryan Nolan of Roland, Okla.; and
• Tenth Runner-up Josh Crowley of Benton, Ky.