September 14, 2024 • 48 mins
This is the Big Bend Outdoors Show with Joel Baldree
Original Airdate 09.14.24
Today's guests include: Captain Paul Tyre, Captain Kenny Mullins, and Captain Tanner Schwabb.
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Original Airdate 09.14.24
Today's guests include: Captain Paul Tyre, Captain Kenny Mullins, and Captain Tanner Schwabb.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Big Bend Outdoor Show with Joel Baldry.
Today's guest include Captain Tanner Swap, Captain Paul Tier, Captain
Kenny Mullins. Here's your host, Joel Baldry.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Ahi, guys, welcome to the Big Ben Outdoor Show. Man
talking about rain. We've had a lot of rain.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Here, sure, yeah, it's been a lot Tanner.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What's what's the tides doing man this weekend?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Man, First thing in the morning, it's gonna be low
a two point one at six point thirty, and it's
gonna be back high again about lunchtime twelve pm with
a three point three, so about a foot and a
quarter of movement there, not a whole lot. And then uh,
it's gonna be low again in the evening of zero
point zero tide, so really you get better fishing will
be in the afternoon you have a lot more movement
(00:48):
three three and a half lit the movement.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, that's that'd be some good fishing right there. Dagg
of the rain though it's looking like Saturday, it's fifty chance.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
It's supposed to be raining in the morning though clear
out in the afternoon maybe with better time.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping so because y'all's water temperature
came down.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
If I told you a little bit, it's dropping.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, yeah, definitely dropping up on a lake too.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The last couple of days it's felt like fall early
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, as you start to tell that, yeah, boy, get
me a little and get me a little. Uh. I
got what's a correct word to say? Excited?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
But yeah, man, the wind, uh, the wind like it's
gonna be a gust up to twelves three to four
mile an hour all day and afternoon. You know, after
six it kind of levels off. So it's not gonna
be a bad Wednesday day. Saturday and Sundays looking like
the same. Uh. I think it's getting up to eleven
on August Sunday, so and it drops back off of me.
(01:45):
So it's gonna be some good fishing Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
What's the what's the lake's looking like up there? Fall?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'll tell you what. Our water has been real low,
and it's the lake's up. It's a it's right at
pull Pool this morning. They wouldn't let no water out
of the dam on tomorrow, Lake Seminole. It'd be interesting
to see if they're letting some out this afternoon. But
I tell you what, we've been getting up. It's not
heavy rain all day, you know, this is Thursday, of course,
but it's good saturating rain, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh yeahs and.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That water I was out yesterday in between the rain showers,
and it's now it's seventy six at three o'clock in
the afternoon, so it's come down about ten degrees.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You know, that's what I was wondering about, y'all.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, water, The water's still dark, and now it's gonna
be even darker. All this rain we're getting, and I
mean it's gonna be flush now, it's gonna be like
a tea now. I mean it was kind of clearing up,
then it slowly getting some more rain, more rain, and
that wind stirring ever to bottom up pretty good. So
it's gonna be back dark again. I'm just hoping that
we don't get no rain like this like we getting now.
(02:49):
And yeah, and you know November December, that's gonna be
bad on our trout fishing again, especially in the creeks.
I mean, you still get them out on the flats,
you know, right, But I'm hoping that. I'm I'm hoping
it clears up. But that storm, you know, come in
and we're getting bands off of it right now, right
you know, that's all the rain we're getting today is
off that storm. So it's scattered across what three states?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, I's tried. I think it just hit over there
in New Orleans, didn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
It was all up almost into Arkansas this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
When yeah, so it's moving on.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, it's moving on, but it's like stretched out. Alabama's
getting hammered right now. And and I was talking to
Deall earlier on the phone. He was saying, as a
guy's up there, he knows, going fishing a tournament in Alabama.
I said, well, they're probably gonna be floating off through
the trees right there, because I mean, it's pretty much
the whole state of Alabama was covered out today. So
we getting what we getting? To imagine what they getting?
(03:40):
Oh yeah right there next door? Uh Tanner, Yes, sir?
What what have you been doing? Have you fished lately?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I haven't been out fishing.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I went on a goose something trip, Canadian goose something
trip up in Arkansas this past weekend. I was going
to trying to Fish's all week when I got back.
But it's been raining every day and that been able
to get out there.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, I know he's wanting me to Takehi to the
secret spots or I'm trying to hold off phon him.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Oh yeah, he's better than that.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
He's trying. He's trying to do that. Yeah. He went
all the way up there to kill geese and and
whatever else. And I are in the parking lot right here,
the heath.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Everywhere there is a thirty out there.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I mean, yeah, that's that's just not me. I mean,
I love shooting some doves, but I ain't going to
Argentina and I ain't going, yeah nowhere out of the country
shooting no bird. Now, I go kill a bear or
deer or something like that, way off, but I ain't
chasing no bird. I don't like him that much.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, I know in Georgia just started last weekend, didn't it. Yeah,
just started last week opening weekend.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Imagine that none of them. Some of the guns out
there gave me a call, yeah, come shoot. It's kind
of like there and deer says, oh you can come
up here, come deer hunting right there, but you can't
shoot no bucks. Now you shoot the doves, yeah, or turkeys.
They don't even mention that. They don't even they lose
your phone number during you call him. It's like disconnected.
But yeah, man, I'm excited. No deer season opens up
(05:06):
this weekend, you know in our area, so both season,
and I'm sure everybody's getting ready for that.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
All this rain's coming in, so it's gonna change everything
up to Yeah, about where they hunting out. They might
have had a dry spot that'll put your hip waiters on, Yeah,
a couple of days ago. But they hunting in the
swamps and you know the western sloughs around our area
down there, it's gonna be full of water.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Sure we'll all this ring were getting.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Oh, it ain't no doubt.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You gotta watch Tanner. He's talking about going hunting, but
he'll probably sleep in next two or three days. He
ain't gonna go hunting. Why huh, he goes, You ain't
gonna wade through that water.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
You don't know me?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh oh boy, Yeah, I wonder if Kenny's gonna be
Kenny will probably be sleeping too.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
He's gonna be tracking. I'm sure he tracking. That's got
a lot of wounded deer.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It's gonna be some hard tracking in that uh water,
I could tell you, especially all down there. Is it
still showing a lot of bands?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Paul, Yes, right below tall Ash between Tallahassee and uh Games.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yep, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I can't believe it's an out way outside band of
that story.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, I know. I can't believe it's reaching out that far.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Why steady building right out there.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
And I'm glad it stayed that way that we didn't
need to know. We don't need another one coming this
way at all. Yeah there, What's what's going on? I
mean the boat you said the bass bite is.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The bass fight is definitely starting to pick up for sure,
and a crappy bite. I tell you, every year you
get this kind of fall feed and it's just at
the beginning of it. I notice being out there, I'm
starting this the areas I'm getting more bites and seeing
in the bigger fish are starting to feed. So I'm
excited by I got a man coming in this weekend
and bringing a couple of kids, so I'm excited about
(06:44):
getting out there with them.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
What what y'all?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
What y'all mainly targeted shallow or Yes, right now shallow
that water. The water's up, the water's cooled off, so
then fish form moving up shallow and I tell you,
and they'll stay shallow really until if we get water
temperature in the low forties. That don't happen all the
time every year. Are starting using top water, yes, top water,
(07:08):
buzz baits now spinner bass to start shining a little
bit as that water temperature cools down, uh, chatter baits,
just to bend on the situation in the day. But
right now, I know yesterday they were they were, they
were wouldn't really want top where we had a little wind,
but they were wanting some worms, some moving, some spinner
baits underneath the water.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
They were hitting those pretty good.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, but and you know decent. I was only out
there a couple of hours and we had five or
six caught five or six fish. But just checking some areas.
Just the overall theme is it's they're going to the
feet is start fixing start got me excited just getting
the survey in, yes, sir, and getting the survey in.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Do you do you prefer overcasts?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And what about even a little bit of rain.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You know, anytime for a large mouth bass if if,
if you have clear water, it makes you know, I
don't like rainy, cloudy conditions under a lot heavy muddy water,
but under clearer conditions, you know, two foot or more visibility. Man,
I like that cloud because it seems it makes a
fish easier to catch. They're more roaming around, you know
(08:09):
what I mean. Of course, then you have a front
comes through, bright, sunny conditions, dead calm, then they're gonna
be kind of up under stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, that's that's what I figured. Oh and you know,
like today it's too it's raining, too hard for me
to be out there. I like a little drizzling on
the flat.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Oh yeah, it makes the difference. I think it makes
a fish easier to catch.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, I mean, you know, you think about it. It's
it's the lowest, the lowest when it's raining. You know,
the pressure's low. That's right, they're going to be tearing
it up at that moment. And then when it clears
and passes, you got no clouds in sight. Guess what
when you got the high pressure, high pressure, and it's
kind of like somebody's sitting on or like me sitting
on Tanna for instance, it's trying to breathe. That's right,
(08:49):
and that's what a fish builds.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Now you find that effects red fish like that too?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, any any any kind of fish.
I mean, it's it's you know, I stand behind that.
I really do leave it. And it makes sense. You know,
they got all that pressure on Why why would you
want to try to move around with a bunch of
weight on you that you you want to save what
you got right there to get a good day.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's right, that's right. I've noticed that.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
That's why I believe the low and high pressure days
is just like deer feeding. It's kind of the same, really, honestly.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I mean that's another thing. The last couple of weeks,
I've been seeing a lot more deer moving around, especially
early morning before daylight, and then late in the evening.
Have you all been noticing that too?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
I have.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I've seen y'all got any cameras out where you hunting
doing all that?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Now? I just see them, yeah, yeah, And see that's
getting into that routine because they know it's hunting season coming,
so they want to move before daylight and then go
to bed down.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Theah I'll be I'll be seeing out there and ill
looking out there. About twenty minutes befo. Actually the sun
breaks and you can still still dark. I see them
coming down, going across the road, going into They go
across a little sleive over to an island every morning.
You saw a giant buck the other day. I can't
believe they live in that little small island, but they
go back to it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh yeah, but then it's safe there, you know, anybody, No,
that's exactly why. It's just like a big gator or whatever.
They don't get that big for no reason. They're smart. Yeah.
A boarhog is the same way. I've told a lot
of people. If you kill a big boarhog sitting in
the stand, you might will say you killed a trophy buck,
because they'll come in there feeding throw that head up,
(10:21):
just like a big buck, dominant boat. Yeah, and don't
think they won't get out of dodge. They smell because
they and they can.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I mean, I think they're like a big boarhog will.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I think they're actually smarter than a dagon buck. I
mean they know something there. I've had them coming in there,
me stood up thirty feet in there. Ain't no way
he smells me or seized me up there, and all
of a sudden that joker stopped. Turn his head, you
could tell, like he knew something wasn't right, and turn
(10:49):
around the boat right back where he come from. And
I've had bucks walk right on in there like nothing
never happened, you know. And then here this boarhog is
something I don't even want to, you know, having my
food plot. Jerker stops, yeah, right out of boat range. Yeah,
he winded. That's crazy how they do that?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
When need to get your buddy back on that killed
all those hogs?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
What was his name?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It was like five hundred of them, Old Dustin Williams.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he don't mess around now.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
He works on them codies. I seen another day where
he was at a show somewhere and they were showing
some new scopes and stuff. Yeah, on the line right there.
That's that's pretty cool, what you know? That was another
thing everybody planning it out on food plots. Wonder what
they look like now underwater?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Have y'all playing any planning an I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You can't hardly plant it dinner. And that's one where
we live out aint up the rocks, right, You just
got to find a good acren tree. Yeah, there you go,
preferably white oat, you know, white. They'll come from miles
to eat them. For semon trees. That's what they really like.
You just said on them. It's it's just like having
a corn pile out, honestly, you know. And then you
ain't got to worry about the bears coming.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
When do you find that those start dropping, you usually
whin to that tipicley start usually.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
About this time of the year, October.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Uh, they'll start early because I've been noticing, you know,
when I have a metal hot roof and I've been
hearing ting ting. I've been like, something changing right now.
And then i started seeing them deer move and I'm like,
what was that early or be I'm more of a
fishman now my hunt?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You know what i mean. We got to go. We'll
be right back, y'all, y'all stay tuned. We'll be right
back with Hey, guys, welcome back to the show. We
got Captain Kenny Concert rocking out Mullins on the line.
(12:40):
He ain't had time to be fishing. He's been tracking
deer and possums and watching over all mans from the sixties.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Yeah, just just got it then from Iowa just got
back from that.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What was you doing in Iowa?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
I had to speak of a seminar for about tracking dogs,
and we tested some dogs while we were out there,
did some training for some judges and stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Oh yeah, how did that turn out? Everything turned out good?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Yeah, it turned out great. Uh. Tracking wounded deer with
dogs is fairly new in Iowa, so uh, not a
lot of experienced people there. So we were able to
help them out, get them, get them head in the
right direction.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
What part of iowauld you go to?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
We were in Chariton, which is kind of just slightly
southeast of Des Moines.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Okay, they got some big bucks out there.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Giants even their dogs are big wind nothing did you No, No,
it didn't get a chance. Didn't see any.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
They pulled json Man, I'm just trying to try out,
try out this dog right here to judges want to
see it, so I had to shoot something make sure
they could find it.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
We did see a lot of deer, but no, no
big bucks. They said they don't move much this time
of year because they just made down and now all
that corn and beans and they just stand up to
eat and laid back down.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's so dugg I'm hot, and them deer's got two
or three inches of fat on them. I mean they're huge.
And that's why I saw it was a big factor,
you know about when the rut kicks off up there
in the middle of November. The last few times has
been happening right right into October to start getting, you know,
in the thirties, and dropped down all of a sudden,
from thirty degrees right into October. The first of November
(14:23):
it dropped down to nineteen fifteen sometimes, And that's when
rut fully kicks off. I mean they blow and wide up.
And then of course when I get up there the
day before gun season opens up, it's going wild and crazy.
And then the next morning you can wear shorts to
the stand and then the deer looking right down. You know,
that's just my luck. But yeah, you write them days
look like Shetland ponies out there, don't.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
They They do. And when we were up there, it
was the morning. In the mornings it was forty degrees.
They get up to about low seventies.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, I took my buddy for the first time hunting
up north. He's always chasse Florida deer around, you know,
a good deer is one hundred and twenty pound. Was
down here one hundred and thirty pounds, you know, mature
buck well dove crossed the road ver close to her camp,
right in front of the truck, and I mean we
bout white rout. He said, what was that a horse?
I said, now, that was a big dude. I mean, yeah,
(15:14):
long haired, I mean day two hundred pounds easily the
dose are wow.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, we've seen a couple of two hundred
pounds dose walk right up on some of them. Yeah,
it's wild, but I'm uh, I'm excited. You know, deer
season opening up here.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, I know. I was just talking about all the
rain and stuff that we're getting off this hurricane. How
it's gonna change hunting down there in the swamp, you know,
especially around the Bay area.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, I did a I took my thermal
drone to a deer herd survey in uh Pabo, Georgia
last week. And even all their deer is being pushed
out of the swamps, out of the creeks, out in
the drier land.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, that'd be pretty cool to check them out, you know,
just how they move around in the water in that
bay too. Have you have you looked in they since
the war.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
I haven't yet. I'm planning to the next couple of days.
Uh yeah, I've been being busy doing some surveys on
other land and by that landowner he thought, he said, well,
you know, we've done a good job, trophy manager. We
don't have many dose anymore. I put that thermal drone
up in the air and we counted about fifteen dose
to every buck dag gone. He thought, he was, yeah,
(16:22):
he didn't think he had any.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well, they don't got used to. They said, well that
one disappeared. I ain't going back over there. They but
you know that's and days like you know, the plantation
nine hundred into Mississippi, it's been probably on this seven
or eight years ago, uh, northern Mississippi, and it was
a big old as old cotton plantations what it was.
And them guys had biologists come in every year. And
(16:47):
when they say they had a three buck to one
day ratio, it's because they did, because I seen more
bucks in the stand than I did a day. But
I mean they kept the tanned out and it was
like a ten thousand acre plantation. So and it's surrounded
by federal land that you couldn't hunt. So whatever was
in that area they had, you better believe that's you know,
that's what it was. And they kept it that way.
(17:07):
And it was nice, don't get me wrong. But a
lot of them bucks you couldn't shoot because they wouldn't,
you know, old enough. Yeah, they wasn't old enough. You know,
you've seen a lot of one hundred inch bucks. And
then every now and then you scared because they said,
if he's under one forty right and you shot him
ass a thousand dollars, I'd be like, hold on to
stop there, let me get a measure and tape out.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
That's a big penalty.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, I mean that is, yeah, but that's how they
got it. But you know, going to that place like that,
it's like three grand a day, so I mean they're
hunting and stuff serious, but they feed you three meals
a day and stuff like that. But and it's not
a high fence. You know, I ain't gonna go like
Kenny right there and kill one of the big old
bucks in the high fence. And I think I did something.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I haven't done that yet, but I tell you that
property up there that I surveyed, we or I got
on camera on the drone about fifteen over one hundred
and fifty inches. It's they're there, there there, you know,
they just don't move as much so you can.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
See the horns and everything because you know that of
course they got blood in them.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, you could see them. Wow, no doubt. Yeah,
it's pretty it's pretty wild. But yeah, I'm excited over that.
But what I'm really excited for is some cooler weather
coming that fishing to get better.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, we were.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Talking about that. I was going to ask you think
that waterer timbers, what do you think that water temperature
is now on the bay.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I don't know. I was going to go out this morning,
but the weather wouldn't let me. But you know, it's
just going to get better and better.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, up on the lake someone all the water chimbers
dropped a seventy six can.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
He Yep, I imagine that's about what it is out there.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah. I figured out the weather does opposite for humans,
you know, load pressures, fish is biting and when it's raining.
I like sitting in that recliner watching guns smoke around.
I like getting out that. Yeah, that recliner college so
(19:01):
what else. I mean, how's the how's the water clarity?
You know around keating? Are you down there?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
I honestly haven't been out, but I did talk to
Captain Pat McGriff and he said, it's it's pretty clear.
You know. Obviously there's some stain coming out from all
the fresh water, but for the most part, it's pretty clear.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
And see we can't catch a breaking on our end.
It was clearing up a little bit, and I mean
it was still dirty, but now all this rain were
getting is gonna push it right back to being dark
tea again.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Yeah. Well, I prefer to fish in that dark water.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Well, I mean you do, but at the same time,
you want to be able to gig and stuff at night.
And that's what it was getting good.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
The flounder was showing up. We sent a few the
other night, and we was out gator hunting, you know,
and it's just it's starting to get that time and
then all of a sudden, bam, we get rain and
you can't see.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Yeah, And honestly, about the time it gets right, flounder
season closes.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
When is it closed?
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Can he it's October?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, it's the whole month, ain't you.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Yeah, the whole month and that's when it's best.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah. Well, you know that's what they know, that's what
they was talking about doing, you know, the trout season.
That's why I was wanting to close it down in
February for the river because you know that's when all
them big trout come in there.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Right and you can get one one deep pole and
just wear them out.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Now, when you say closed it down, I mean you
can't fish for them. If you catch them, you have
to throw them back. You gotta you can catch, you
can fish farm, You just got to throw them back, correct, right, Okay, Right.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Now with flounders, you can't gig really right, ain't.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
No gigging releasing founders release that yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh man, yeah that that ain't no, yeah that you can't.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Have you all heard about the scott Is scallops still
going on. Scott it's out now, it's out, okay.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
But they still let me tell you it's gonna be
awesome next year.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
What makes you think that, Kenny?
Speaker 6 (20:59):
We have an abundance of them every year. Honestly, the
end of season every year has been better and better,
and this year is no exception, you know. And when
we harvest scholars. We're harvesting them before they get a
chance to spawn. So the more that's left over, the
more that spawns.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yeah, that'd be more for the next year.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I've been here, and you know, even right at the
end of the season, people's getting their limits quick. I
mean scholars. That's good and it done good, you know,
them putting them signs up. Even though I don't think
it's illegal to keep them that small, they just had
a requirement. They wouldn't going to clean them if they
were smaller than what was it two inch diameter?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Yeah, two inches, And like you said, it's not a requirement,
it's just a suggestion. And actually the UF division they
recommended an inch and a half the year before, and
they still recommend an inch and a half this year,
but they changed their a lot of their wording to
two inches just because that was the popular thing amongst
the community of saying two inches. And even then, you know,
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as you get later in season, even some smaller ones
that are right on the edge to it just have
a pretty good sized piece of meat in them.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, they I'm and you know I didn't get to
eat them at one time this year. We didn't I
didn't even get to go Scollophon. I was I was
too busy doing something.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I didn't Yeah, I didn't get to go either. We
had some clients give us about five gallons, well five
gallons hole. They gave us one bucket and by the
time you clean them, you know, there's not much in there.
A couple of meals. But that's the only way we
got them this year.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, it's it's crazy, man, how how it turned out.
And you know, it don't seem like that many people
took Scollophon charters out. I don't know how Stanatchie turned out,
but it didn't seem like they was that many year.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
No, my my scolloping charters was down over seventy percent
this year.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
It's too easy for them to figure it out.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Yeah, I mean, but well, I don't even think it's
just that. I mean that even the the recreational people
weren't out there like they normally are. I mean, there
was only two weekends that you've seen the boat rent full.
That was fourth of July and then the last weekend
that was it. It was wasn't very busy out there
on the water.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
A lot of people scared of the sharks.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
I mean that's yeah, I think that's a lot of
it is people people on Facebook and Instagram constantly talking
about sharks that and honestly I've seen less this year
than I have in years past, and uh that and
then them keep saying, oh there there's a shortage, we
need to close the season. Just people running their mouths,
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not really knowing what they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, that's the ones that set behind a desk and
don't even fish or hunt or anything.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Yeh want to find one of them? What was the
skyllar cleaner saying all that the populations down, I'm not
opening till they till they open season. But the motive
was to move the season from opening two weeks sooner
to two weeks later, so you know, still wanted that
money from it, but trying to deter people. And I said, hey,
come get on my boat. Let me show you how
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many's out there if you don't believe it. And of
course that didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, they don't want to hear that, but then that happens.
You know. DAG is a tournament still going on a
lot down there. I mean I heard them one lately.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
They never quit every weekend. Yeah, that's that's another thing
in the name of conservation.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
We gotta go to a quick commercial and we'll figure
out back up on it. Hold on, all right, guys,
welcome back to the show. Kenny. What what would you
say on Friday to cut you off?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Yeah, what I was gonna say is in today's times,
you know, we need to get away from these kill
tournaments when with these big fish, there's no reason to
have a kill tournament on a big trout. And you know,
redfish still has to be within the slot, but these
big trout, you know, we need to we need to
stop that. You can take a picture. You know they
have apps now that are time. You know, everything's time stamped.
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You know, we need to we need to do better
about preserving our big trout because we do have the
largest population of big trout in our state. And when
you have a tournament or multiple tournaments every weekend targeting
big trout, it's it's gonna hurt us.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, And they had they were catching a lot of
big trout this past weekend, uh, the North Florida Fishing
Series and uh, you know, of course they got their
little token they put in the picture on the ruler.
They do the biggest measurement. They don't go by way,
but they said they were. They were killing the top water.
And you know that's early right there. Usually this time
of the year, it's you know, October endo October when
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I started getting a lot of big trout or they're
moving into creeks on top water. But they already starting,
they already starting to hit it off.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
You know, Well that water temp drop and sething that
and you know, hopefully it stays that way. I think
it will, especially with all this this rain and overcast,
it's going to keep that water temperature down. And you know,
we're going into hunting season. There's gonna be a few
less people on the water. But when that fishing gets right,
they still have a pretty good crowd out there.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Well, you know how it gets in our area when
it gets right, when it gets about thirty degrees for
a couple of weeks, not even a couple of weeks, really,
probably about a week, they start moving in and then
of course all of them sometimers, they don't go out
there on the flats fishing at all. They just push
off the boat ramp start catching fish. Last year they
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coudn't do that day so you know, the fresh water
keptn pushed out, so you know, I'm hoping, I mean,
I don't want them piled in there, but I'm hoping
that the fishing is a little bit better this winter
than it was last winter with all that fresh water
we had.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Well, you know, the last two winters I pretty much
stayed out on the flats for trout. And that's nice
because all those people go up in those creeks and
fighting one another for a hole, and I'm out there
by myself out on the flats. You know, there's still
fish out there. And when you get out there and
get away from people, that's what's enjoyable.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, I know, you got to have your battle gear
on when you go in Pinhook right there during the
winter time, there'll be there'll be thirteen boats on one side.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Line, and you better keep your rod low and and
uh and barely scoop that thing into the boat or
as they see it, they're gonna come cast on top
of him.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Oh yeah, they'll be piled up around you. But you know,
you know how to get rid of them.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Don't you blow them out? Everybody.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
They'll scatter pretty quick. I've had to do that.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Hey, you picked that prop up out of the water
and spray it.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, yeah, it's a little too cold. I ain't lining.
I've been out there with these ice in my seat.
When I go to leave right there from the dude
the night before, you spraying it off or whatever, and
the water sitting there, there'll be ice in that seat
and it'd be so cold. And that air airboat, that
fan sucking it through, it feels like it's cutting you
in half. And the best thing to have out there
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is in frog dogs, you know, a little cheap set
of frog dogs. Keep that wind off of you, because
if you don't, I'm telling you right now, they ain't
not gonna stop it in your hands, you won't be
able to fill them.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Good pair of gloves.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
I have not found a good pair of gloves yet
that will keep my hands warm out the water.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Dude, I don't know either. I mean, he's talking about
leather gloves, but I don't know. I just my hand's
got to hurting and that's it. I'm done. My feet
in the hands.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I have some first like insulated gloves and their leather
on the outside and then they're you know, insulated on
the inside, and they work pretty good. They don't let
my hands get cold. But I'm not reaching in the
water either. You just got to be prepared to brave
the cold in you know.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Yeah, I mean, but when you actually catch fish, you
gotta grab wet fish.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
You still get your hands, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Hey, you walk right into that one.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, bless it's hard.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
So question, would y'all rather have it colder? Are the
heat of the summer.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Too? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, And see that's a lot of them guys. You
won't see them to about I don't know, November December
pretty much. When the ruts over with it in Georgia
is when they start piling in. You want to see
it in the first, you know, month or two every
once in a while, just you know, the older ones
is slipping down. I don't care nothing about deer hunting
no more. But uh, after the ruts over where they
start piling in there. Well, but they don't call you
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during that rut. They don't call you when them big
bucks is running around the food plots up there.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Now see, I think I'm getting into that older category now.
I'd rather be out there on the water fishing, sitting
in the stands yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Well, I just don't like cleaning one no more. Which
my boys, you know, if I tell them to clean,
they don't. They don't want to, but I'll tell them
to clean on it. But I just don't. I don't
care for it no more. I like going my one
time of year up north and being done with. I
killed two or three deer. I'm happy, you know what.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
That's the point on that, you know, And I'm enjoying
the the traveling, seeing different scenery, and you know, I'm
gonna go somewhere this year. I think, well, I know
I'm going back up to Iowa, not to hunt, but
the tracked here. But I'm probably gonna hunt in Alabama
some this year. And then I go duck hunting somewhere
in a different state every year for for a week.
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So I'll probably do that again somewhere.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You're gonna use that drone to flush him out?
Speaker 6 (30:23):
No, no, no, why not? Oh yeah, yeah, that's hey, Hey,
I might use it to spot them.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Well, Tanner were just talking earlier. Tanner went all the
way to Oklahoma. The geese hunt right there, and then
we can come up here to the parking lot at
iHeart and uh, there's about fifteen or twenty of them
in the parking lot. Yeah yeah, you could have probably
just reached over and snatched him up without him shot.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Oh yeah, the door. I could have smacked him in
the back of the head.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I've been seeing some tea already.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Really, oh yeah, just getting that time.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
How to mess you know, how to miss Kenny's fishing
spots up down there, to say, you've been seeing uh,
redheads and what's some other ones y'all like mallards? Yeah, hey,
all that stuff down there in Kenny. They follow Kenny.
He knows where they're at.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Hey, I promise you I'll know where the ducks are
if it ever gets cold enough to get them here.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Man, that's what it takes, good cold weather.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
When does duck season come in November? November?
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Yep, now early teal wood duck September. But yeah, uh,
you know, I don't start until till the week of
thanks The weekend before Thanksgiving is when it starts, and
then it goes out. In the weekend after Thanksgiving, it
closes for a week and opens back up again.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I'm not I'm not chasing no duck. I'll be shot
the wrong one. You talking about what's uping now, tealing
with duck, tealing with duck, I'm probably I'm probably shooting
the wood ducks right there. You know them, They're pretty
easy to recognize. But the rest of them, I'll be
shot the wrong one.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Well, honestly would one of the best eating ones. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
How do you cook them?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Fry them up like backstrap?
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Batter him and frame or put him on the grill,
or wrap him in bacon with cream, cheese and hallopenia.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
You don't suck him in nothing, not a wood duck.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
You don't.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
He's he Actually, it tastes a lot like venison.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Really.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, it's not like a diver where you get all
that sardine taste and.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
All about like redheads are good. But I will tell
you divers, you do want to soak in the saltwater
Brian overnight.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yep. I ain't eat no duck.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I can't do it, especially it tastes like sardines.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Yeah, they don't taste like But I tell you what
is in right now is dove.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah, Now what's y'all's favorite way to cook dove?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Wrap them in bacon and put them on that grill.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, that's what I'm here by.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, and that's the same way I mean. I used
to love dove, but quail is my favorite one to eat.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
It's like eating a minuture little chicken. It's all like neat.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Tanner and chicken.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Boy, he likes that chicken.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
He loves chicken, any kind of chicken, it don't matter.
But they don't taste like no chicken to me. It
tastes better than chicken.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Better than chicken for sure.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Especially that one can't cook. That time brought to the store,
I was like that, I'm gonna quell. I don't care
nothing about now dove. Now he had it wrapped in bacon.
I don't know what all kind of stuff he had
shook up on that thing, but it was fitting neat.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Yeah, I got quail and pheasant and freezer now. And
in fact, when I go tracking in Iowa in November,
I plan on playing on doing some pheasant hunt while
on there, so that.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah, they I don't think I ain't see them in Missouri.
The pheasant they might not come down that far.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Yeah, they have some there, but not not the population
like Iowa and the Dakotas.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah, I'd like to go up there one time. And
see all that you know just to make that route.
I ain't never had pheasant before either.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
It's good I get you some.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah about like what else did you pay to bring me?
Not too long ago? Catfish? And I still ain't send
them the flat heads.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
I still got it.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
He still got it.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
I ain't forgot about you.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Been six months ago?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yo, Well that's when you use up. That's when you
was up there at that lake that was known for
crappie fishing, too, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yeah, we went, we stopped the Alabama River along the way.
But I tell you what, Joel, I will bring you
some and that way I can get another one of
that fried blowney sandwiches from your store that th ain't good.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Oh yeah, there ain't nothing like a fry of loney sandwich.
I can tell you. I'm about ready. I'm about ready
for one with a fried egg on. It had a
little bit of bacon and let us.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Well I forgot or don't eat eggs. He's allergic to him,
is what he says. He's allergic everything he don't like
to eat. What he tells you, how you gonna be
allergic to eggs?
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Chicken?
Speaker 5 (34:51):
It's different ones coming out of this rear end.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
That's got to be in your head.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Oh my goodness, I know what he's talking about. Man,
that that eggs make you have to go to the bathroom. Yeah,
I know that's what it is. I tell you what
I don't. I don't much like eggs either, but I
can eat some chicken.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Yeah, there's a difference. You admit that you don't like him.
He just says he's allergic when he really don't like him.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
Joel says I'm allergic. I'm not alergic.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
He says he's allergic to it. That's what he says
to me every time. You like this time, No, I'm
allergic that Well.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I have a question for Kenny. Do you do you
cook a lot of fish? You eat a lot of fish?
I'm assuming you do, yes, Okay, if he was going
to cook some hybrids or stripers, right, how would you
would you? Would you do them on the grill orould
you front? Would you have any kind of recipe for that?
I don't know what what relate that to a saltwater fish?
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You know what I'm saying. I know a striper or
salt I tell.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
You the best way I ever had striper was smoked
and it was the delicious I've never done it myself,
but we were. I was up in Georgia hunting and
one of the guys I was hunting with brought some
striper out and he cooked it on the smoker and
it was delicious.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Hey, guinny hold that thought this second. Brother, we gotta
go to a quick commercial. We'll be right back. All right, guys,
welcome back to the show. I can't interrupted you.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Yeah, So, the best way I ever had striper was
on the smoker. I mean, I've had it grilled and
I've had it fried as good, but on the smoker
was way better than I would ever imagine.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
And see, you know, I'm not having nothing bad on
the smoker or fried. My problem is when you bake it.
I don't like bait.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
I'm not a baked fish fan.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I don't like baked chicken either.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
It gets kind of mussy, don it.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yeah. I don't care nothing about baiting. And see that's
what about ruined me on redfish. When I was a kid,
Dad put it in there with some lemon juice and
salt and pepper. A red fish, tried to broll it
in the oven. And man, it turned out it was horrible,
like you said, tasted light fish. Yeah, that's probably what happened.
That's probably what happened. You ate that smoke fish you
was talking about. They probably just didn't put the.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
You know, I like grilled fish. You put some grilled
you know, and grill it. That stuff is good.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Oh your bass, Oh my buddy, he's a big time
in the bass fishing. And he he'll put him on
the woodplanks and put him on his grill. And that's
pretty good eating.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
The wood planks.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Man, right, Yeah, I wasn't eating the woodplank black sea bass.
Them black sea basses have to change eating. I've had them,
you know, either way fried or smooth. And uh, you know,
pink mouth grunt. A lot of people don't like them.
They use them for baked. I'll fry them, jokers up,
eat them.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
I'll take a pink mouth grown over a grouper.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
You know, I would say you're crazy, but I'm about
the same way. I just don't care for a grouper anymore.
I take a mullet of all of them.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Yeah, yeah, I prefer a center fil a than a
big thick fil a. I don't know. That's the way
I like it.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
And the sheep head on that smoker, that's the best
thing they ever was. And I used to get them
things away all the time to a man come back
there and said, man, you crazy? I said, why is that?
He told me how to cook it right there? Putting
it on that grill scales down and you know, put
your tonyes on it, puts you some you know whatever.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
Basically doing like a red fish.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, like I do a red fish. And you know,
getting cooking right there in about two hours in on
two seventy five two fifty really two five is a
little too hot, but about two hours in right when
it starts, you know, you see it start curling up
a little bit. The file a you take and mix
up some brown sugar and hot sauce and uh rub
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on it right there and then put some pepper jack
cheese on top of it and let it melt, get
into it and pull it off and eat that. And
you want you be out our sheephead. He'll be heads
fishing all the time.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
A lot of clients tell me all the time the
best fish that we've caught that day out of trout,
reds and sheepheads.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
The sheephead every time.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Yeah. Really, I don't like this slimy trout anyway. Only
reason I keep them some people fishing with me. I'd
rather have a red fish or sheep head. And y'all
mainly gonna fry trout. Yeah, you don't never bake it
or grill it. You fry trout.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Yeah, that's all worms out of him.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
And that's why I don't like them.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
I've caught them before, I'll tell you. Growing up, my
great grandma, the only way she would cook her red
fish is on the grill and barbecue sauce. You ever
have it, it's good, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
You can't. You probably can't go wrong with that buddy
of mine, Bam, that lives down there at the river.
Half the time. He he introduced me to the grilled
red fish, you know, even the backbones. He don't think
nothing away. And that stuff was fit and eat when
we pull it off. I imagine having a dipping sauce
would be pretty good on it. It's kind of a rib.
If you don't like a dry put a base on it,
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and that's you know that. You can't go wrong with
red fish it however, you cook it the size an oven,
don't I reckon. I do not recommend the oven at
all on.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Any fish.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yeah, especially a red fish. Some people like that, that
fishy taste. And that's why I can't eat sushi either.
I'm not eating nothing wrong, you hear me. A lot
of people like that fishy taste. I ain't a big
fan of it at all.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
But I tell you what's then. I don't know if
you you've went or if you've ate it. But in
the southern part of the Big Ben, it's stook season
right now, and they've got them. A god called me
this morning, asked me. He going me doesn't catch them?
He called to ask me what the size limit was,
what the regulations all that, And it is in right now.
And let me tell you that is some of the
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best eating fish out there.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
I've heard they were good, and you know you'll see
them in the wintertime over here froze upside down, you know,
in the creeks and stuff and getting too cold. That's
why that's why we ain't got him up here already
by now. If it would stay hot like it does
down south, they'd pile in here.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
But well, you know, you, being the all still outlaws,
probably don't scoop him up, take him back and eat well.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
The game a lot to follow me too much. Even
at they got a tracker on my boat, I have
yet to find it. I wanted to call somebody and
there as good at finding GPS trackers.
Speaker 6 (41:27):
They but I did see that new that new cross.
Isn't that you got on Facebook? There?
Speaker 5 (41:33):
I think it was nice.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
I don't know if you heard they took my net
again another night.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
Yeah I heard. Yeah, word word travels fast in small town.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yeah, I know they just he won't give up. Same guy,
same guy. But maybe one day he'll learn after it
gets throwed out again. They didn't need to leave me alone, man,
They go after somebody else like Paul catch on them
in a little baths you know.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Or Tanner out there.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Tanner out there, uh twenty twenty miles off in his
air boat searching for airheads and he's out there. Cof
he's out there, cafeit he ain't out asily. I'll stay
away from.
Speaker 6 (42:15):
And stay away from the Finn all the way, Tanner.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Have you don't send him around the finn holloway, Oh
he knows that's my grounds.
Speaker 6 (42:27):
Yeah. He keeps trying to follow me around but he
ain't gonna happen here we go.
Speaker 5 (42:35):
He didn't even though you were still alive. I hadn't
seen you in six months. I don't think.
Speaker 6 (42:41):
That's how I'm still You know, I go over there
fishing around. Joel's there. He don't never know until someone
sending a fish or mute Rocky.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Yeah, he don't know because he knows I can earn
and take his trailer tires off, hack driving that boat
back all the way to keating out every worrying about
what's what you're gonna hit at dark.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
That's why, no joke. A lot of times I'll run
out of keating it all the way over there.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Well, it ain't that far, honestly, it ain't.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
Eventually, you know, when your boats in the water and
that GPS tracker starts pinging, I go.
Speaker 5 (43:12):
Where you at.
Speaker 6 (43:14):
The problem is when I do.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
It, go comes back with the messic catfish every time.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Yeah, they probably got a tracker. I'm going to I'm
gonna turn that check all up under the seat the
gas tank. But yeah, man, I'm I'm ready for I'm
ready for it to cool on down. It's about time
for some cooler weather. It's too it's been too daggon
hot where you can't even breathe out there. Yep.
Speaker 6 (43:42):
Yeah, that's honestly why I took some time off. I've
never taken time off this year. I said, you know what,
it's too hot, and uh, it's just time for a break.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Yeah, I know, it's it's been crazy, but you know
it's getting Like I said, last couple of mornings, it's
felt like fall. It's felt good, you know, even though
you look at the what's this team for sixty No,
it's still seventy nine. That's just how much the temperature
has changed right here in a few days. You know,
you think it's a lot colder than what it really is. Well,
but you can tell it's getting down.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
I got a.
Speaker 6 (44:10):
Question hard to come back from Iowa.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Tell me about it.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
This has been pleasant the last week or two, it has.
But let me ask you a question, Kenny, I just
made a change on my boat to do you use it?
Y'all use trollo motors? I don't know about y'all do
pontoon boats? I mean on airboats? But do you use
the trollo motor? Kenny?
Speaker 6 (44:30):
I do?
Speaker 3 (44:30):
What type of batteries do you use? Because I just
switched to a lithium a thirty six bowl with him
and I do you use lithium or I do? How
have you liked that? Did you go from lead acid
to lithium? And because I just switched, man, I tell
you what that is. It is way much. The powers
just seemed so much cleaner. I mean it's a lot
(44:51):
faster at us. You know, you have a dial, you can,
you know, ten down to one. I ain't even had
to put it on ten yet. I mean it's like six.
It's like what now or ten used to be on
the lead acid battery. I just wonder if you notice
a big difference like that too.
Speaker 6 (45:04):
Yeah. I went from lead acid to AGM that you know,
to the gel to the lithium, right, and then I
went from a two battery twenty four vault lithium to
a single twenty four and every change was better and better.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Yeah, yeah, because I just went to Yeah, well, I
did have three group sized thirty one batteries which weighs
seventy pounds apiece to one thirty six fold battery that
weighs like thirty or twenty five. You know what I mean.
It's amazing the difference.
Speaker 6 (45:32):
Yeah, What's the only thing you got to watch out
for is if you ever do run it low enough,
which is hard to do, it just stops instantly.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
There's no that's yeah, I noticed that. I've used it now.
The last I've used it so far is about five hours,
and it's when i'd come in it'd be it like
it eighty two percent still a full charge. You know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Yep, I ain't that crazy hiding batteries last like that. Yeah,
and then you know they got pyapose got that reoccurred
in charging.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Yeah, that's what I have my bass boat, the powerpool charge.
That's a that's a good. That thing's cool and it
can you can were to charge your batteries while you're running,
you know what I mean, charge up your cranking engine
and and all that while you're running.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Yeah, it's well worth. And I used to you know, people,
I thought they was crazy paying that much. How much
was it? If you don't mind me asking, how much
is that that lenthium battery?
Speaker 3 (46:20):
I think it was like twelve hundred. It's a thirty
six vault sixty am power. What's the warranty on the
fifteen years? You can't be that fifteen years and it's
powerhouse lithium.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
And you think about it every two years, you're probably
gonna got to the trailer motor battery.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
I've been pretty for I gotta tell you all this story.
I you know, I'm gonna give a plug out the
battery source. I you know they make their batteries. I had,
so my boats had the thirty one sized group deep
cycle battery. I have like three, four or five eight
of them in both boats. I had one I took
back at it went out. You know, I took it
(46:56):
back and the guy said he put the thing on.
He goes, Damn, that battery is eight years old. He goes,
what do you do to keep your I just check
him by once a quarter, check the water. But you
know I did it so i'd have more not as
much weight. That's like a whole person, you know what
I'm saying. So it's and the way I had it,
(47:17):
I had to have the batteries up front. It was
in my ponting boat. So I moved it to the back.
Just just freezed up a lot of space and it's
it's definitely more power. And I went to a sixteen
point four vault lithium battery on my ford facing sonar
Kenny and that I already had a lithium with it
with a thirteen vault in. Man, that's a it's very clear.
(47:39):
I actually I actually watch a fish poot.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
The other day.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
It was incredible. So I see his gills. I mean,
it's crazy, it's crazy clear. How good that is? Just
that big of a it's going higher.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Voltage on Paul's note, I got to get my waiters
on to get out this this studio. Can we run
out of time?
Speaker 1 (47:59):
Bro?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
It was good talking with you and maybe you'll be
on the show next week if you'll show up.
Speaker 6 (48:04):
Yeah, I will burn Ali.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Thank you, yeah, man, I have a good one. Thank
you all for tuning in.
Speaker 1 (48:08):
You've been listening to The Big Bend Outdoor Show with
Joel Baldry. Join us every Saturday morning at eight am
on ninety six five the Spear and on demand with
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This is the Big Bend Outdoor Show with Joel Baldry.
Today's guest include Captain Tanner Swap, Captain Paul Tier, Captain
Kenny Mullins. Here's your host, Joel Baldry.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Ahi, guys, welcome to the Big Ben Outdoor Show. Man
talking about rain. We've had a lot of rain.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Here, sure, yeah, it's been a lot Tanner.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What's what's the tides doing man this weekend?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Man, First thing in the morning, it's gonna be low
a two point one at six point thirty, and it's
gonna be back high again about lunchtime twelve pm with
a three point three, so about a foot and a
quarter of movement there, not a whole lot. And then uh,
it's gonna be low again in the evening of zero
point zero tide, so really you get better fishing will
be in the afternoon you have a lot more movement
(00:48):
three three and a half lit the movement.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, that's that'd be some good fishing right there. Dagg
of the rain though it's looking like Saturday, it's fifty chance.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
It's supposed to be raining in the morning though clear
out in the afternoon maybe with better time.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Yeah, I mean, I'm hoping so because y'all's water temperature
came down.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
If I told you a little bit, it's dropping.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yeah, yeah, definitely dropping up on a lake too.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The last couple of days it's felt like fall early
in the morning.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yeah, as you start to tell that, yeah, boy, get
me a little and get me a little. Uh. I
got what's a correct word to say? Excited?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
But yeah, man, the wind, uh, the wind like it's
gonna be a gust up to twelves three to four
mile an hour all day and afternoon. You know, after
six it kind of levels off. So it's not gonna
be a bad Wednesday day. Saturday and Sundays looking like
the same. Uh. I think it's getting up to eleven
on August Sunday, so and it drops back off of me.
(01:45):
So it's gonna be some good fishing Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
What's the what's the lake's looking like up there? Fall?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I'll tell you what. Our water has been real low,
and it's the lake's up. It's a it's right at
pull Pool this morning. They wouldn't let no water out
of the dam on tomorrow, Lake Seminole. It'd be interesting
to see if they're letting some out this afternoon. But
I tell you what, we've been getting up. It's not
heavy rain all day, you know, this is Thursday, of course,
but it's good saturating rain, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh yeahs and.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That water I was out yesterday in between the rain showers,
and it's now it's seventy six at three o'clock in
the afternoon, so it's come down about ten degrees.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You know, that's what I was wondering about, y'all.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, water, The water's still dark, and now it's gonna
be even darker. All this rain we're getting, and I
mean it's gonna be flush now, it's gonna be like
a tea now. I mean it was kind of clearing up,
then it slowly getting some more rain, more rain, and
that wind stirring ever to bottom up pretty good. So
it's gonna be back dark again. I'm just hoping that
we don't get no rain like this like we getting now.
(02:49):
And yeah, and you know November December, that's gonna be
bad on our trout fishing again, especially in the creeks.
I mean, you still get them out on the flats,
you know, right, But I'm hoping that. I'm I'm hoping
it clears up. But that storm, you know, come in
and we're getting bands off of it right now, right
you know, that's all the rain we're getting today is
off that storm. So it's scattered across what three states?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, I's tried. I think it just hit over there
in New Orleans, didn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
It was all up almost into Arkansas this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
When yeah, so it's moving on.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, it's moving on, but it's like stretched out. Alabama's
getting hammered right now. And and I was talking to
Deall earlier on the phone. He was saying, as a
guy's up there, he knows, going fishing a tournament in Alabama.
I said, well, they're probably gonna be floating off through
the trees right there, because I mean, it's pretty much
the whole state of Alabama was covered out today. So
we getting what we getting? To imagine what they getting?
(03:40):
Oh yeah right there next door? Uh Tanner, Yes, sir?
What what have you been doing? Have you fished lately?
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I haven't been out fishing.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I went on a goose something trip, Canadian goose something
trip up in Arkansas this past weekend. I was going
to trying to Fish's all week when I got back.
But it's been raining every day and that been able
to get out there.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, I know he's wanting me to Takehi to the
secret spots or I'm trying to hold off phon him.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Oh yeah, he's better than that.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
He's trying. He's trying to do that. Yeah. He went
all the way up there to kill geese and and
whatever else. And I are in the parking lot right here,
the heath.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Everywhere there is a thirty out there.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I mean, yeah, that's that's just not me. I mean,
I love shooting some doves, but I ain't going to
Argentina and I ain't going, yeah nowhere out of the country
shooting no bird. Now, I go kill a bear or
deer or something like that, way off, but I ain't
chasing no bird. I don't like him that much.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, I know in Georgia just started last weekend, didn't it. Yeah,
just started last week opening weekend.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Imagine that none of them. Some of the guns out
there gave me a call, yeah, come shoot. It's kind
of like there and deer says, oh you can come
up here, come deer hunting right there, but you can't
shoot no bucks. Now you shoot the doves, yeah, or turkeys.
They don't even mention that. They don't even they lose
your phone number during you call him. It's like disconnected.
But yeah, man, I'm excited. No deer season opens up
(05:06):
this weekend, you know in our area, so both season,
and I'm sure everybody's getting ready for that.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
All this rain's coming in, so it's gonna change everything
up to Yeah, about where they hunting out. They might
have had a dry spot that'll put your hip waiters on, Yeah,
a couple of days ago. But they hunting in the
swamps and you know the western sloughs around our area
down there, it's gonna be full of water.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Sure we'll all this ring were getting.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Oh, it ain't no doubt.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You gotta watch Tanner. He's talking about going hunting, but
he'll probably sleep in next two or three days. He
ain't gonna go hunting. Why huh, he goes, You ain't
gonna wade through that water.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
You don't know me?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh oh boy, Yeah, I wonder if Kenny's gonna be
Kenny will probably be sleeping too.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
He's gonna be tracking. I'm sure he tracking. That's got
a lot of wounded deer.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It's gonna be some hard tracking in that uh water,
I could tell you, especially all down there. Is it
still showing a lot of bands?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Paul, Yes, right below tall Ash between Tallahassee and uh Games.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yep, that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I can't believe it's an out way outside band of
that story.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, I know. I can't believe it's reaching out that far.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Why steady building right out there.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
And I'm glad it stayed that way that we didn't
need to know. We don't need another one coming this
way at all. Yeah there, What's what's going on? I
mean the boat you said the bass bite is.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The bass fight is definitely starting to pick up for sure,
and a crappy bite. I tell you, every year you
get this kind of fall feed and it's just at
the beginning of it. I notice being out there, I'm
starting this the areas I'm getting more bites and seeing
in the bigger fish are starting to feed. So I'm
excited by I got a man coming in this weekend
and bringing a couple of kids, so I'm excited about
(06:44):
getting out there with them.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
What what y'all?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
What y'all mainly targeted shallow or Yes, right now shallow
that water. The water's up, the water's cooled off, so
then fish form moving up shallow and I tell you,
and they'll stay shallow really until if we get water
temperature in the low forties. That don't happen all the
time every year. Are starting using top water, yes, top water,
(07:08):
buzz baits now spinner bass to start shining a little
bit as that water temperature cools down, uh, chatter baits,
just to bend on the situation in the day. But
right now, I know yesterday they were they were, they
were wouldn't really want top where we had a little wind,
but they were wanting some worms, some moving, some spinner
baits underneath the water.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
They were hitting those pretty good.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, but and you know decent. I was only out
there a couple of hours and we had five or
six caught five or six fish. But just checking some areas.
Just the overall theme is it's they're going to the
feet is start fixing start got me excited just getting
the survey in, yes, sir, and getting the survey in.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Do you do you prefer overcasts?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And what about even a little bit of rain.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You know, anytime for a large mouth bass if if,
if you have clear water, it makes you know, I
don't like rainy, cloudy conditions under a lot heavy muddy water,
but under clearer conditions, you know, two foot or more visibility. Man,
I like that cloud because it seems it makes a
fish easier to catch. They're more roaming around, you know
(08:09):
what I mean. Of course, then you have a front
comes through, bright, sunny conditions, dead calm, then they're gonna
be kind of up under stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, that's that's what I figured. Oh and you know,
like today it's too it's raining, too hard for me
to be out there. I like a little drizzling on
the flat.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Oh yeah, it makes the difference. I think it makes
a fish easier to catch.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, I mean, you know, you think about it. It's
it's the lowest, the lowest when it's raining. You know,
the pressure's low. That's right, they're going to be tearing
it up at that moment. And then when it clears
and passes, you got no clouds in sight. Guess what
when you got the high pressure, high pressure, and it's
kind of like somebody's sitting on or like me sitting
on Tanna for instance, it's trying to breathe. That's right,
(08:49):
and that's what a fish builds.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Now you find that effects red fish like that too?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, any any any kind of fish.
I mean, it's it's you know, I stand behind that.
I really do leave it. And it makes sense. You know,
they got all that pressure on Why why would you
want to try to move around with a bunch of
weight on you that you you want to save what
you got right there to get a good day.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's right, that's right. I've noticed that.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
That's why I believe the low and high pressure days
is just like deer feeding. It's kind of the same, really, honestly.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I mean that's another thing. The last couple of weeks,
I've been seeing a lot more deer moving around, especially
early morning before daylight, and then late in the evening.
Have you all been noticing that too?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
I have.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I've seen y'all got any cameras out where you hunting
doing all that?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Now? I just see them, yeah, yeah, And see that's
getting into that routine because they know it's hunting season coming,
so they want to move before daylight and then go
to bed down.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Theah I'll be I'll be seeing out there and ill
looking out there. About twenty minutes befo. Actually the sun
breaks and you can still still dark. I see them
coming down, going across the road, going into They go
across a little sleive over to an island every morning.
You saw a giant buck the other day. I can't
believe they live in that little small island, but they
go back to it.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh yeah, but then it's safe there, you know, anybody, No,
that's exactly why. It's just like a big gator or whatever.
They don't get that big for no reason. They're smart. Yeah.
A boarhog is the same way. I've told a lot
of people. If you kill a big boarhog sitting in
the stand, you might will say you killed a trophy buck,
because they'll come in there feeding throw that head up,
(10:21):
just like a big buck, dominant boat. Yeah, and don't
think they won't get out of dodge. They smell because
they and they can.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I mean, I think they're like a big boarhog will.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I think they're actually smarter than a dagon buck. I
mean they know something there. I've had them coming in there,
me stood up thirty feet in there. Ain't no way
he smells me or seized me up there, and all
of a sudden that joker stopped. Turn his head, you
could tell, like he knew something wasn't right, and turn
(10:49):
around the boat right back where he come from. And
I've had bucks walk right on in there like nothing
never happened, you know. And then here this boarhog is
something I don't even want to, you know, having my
food plot. Jerker stops, yeah, right out of boat range. Yeah,
he winded. That's crazy how they do that?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
When need to get your buddy back on that killed
all those hogs?
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
What was his name?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It was like five hundred of them, Old Dustin Williams.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he don't mess around now.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
He works on them codies. I seen another day where
he was at a show somewhere and they were showing
some new scopes and stuff. Yeah, on the line right there.
That's that's pretty cool, what you know? That was another
thing everybody planning it out on food plots. Wonder what
they look like now underwater?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Have y'all playing any planning an I don't.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You can't hardly plant it dinner. And that's one where
we live out aint up the rocks, right, You just
got to find a good acren tree. Yeah, there you go,
preferably white oat, you know, white. They'll come from miles
to eat them. For semon trees. That's what they really like.
You just said on them. It's it's just like having
a corn pile out, honestly, you know. And then you
ain't got to worry about the bears coming.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
When do you find that those start dropping, you usually
whin to that tipicley start usually.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
About this time of the year, October.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Uh, they'll start early because I've been noticing, you know,
when I have a metal hot roof and I've been
hearing ting ting. I've been like, something changing right now.
And then i started seeing them deer move and I'm like,
what was that early or be I'm more of a
fishman now my hunt?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You know what i mean. We got to go. We'll
be right back, y'all, y'all stay tuned. We'll be right
back with Hey, guys, welcome back to the show. We
got Captain Kenny Concert rocking out Mullins on the line.
(12:40):
He ain't had time to be fishing. He's been tracking
deer and possums and watching over all mans from the sixties.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Yeah, just just got it then from Iowa just got
back from that.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
What was you doing in Iowa?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
I had to speak of a seminar for about tracking dogs,
and we tested some dogs while we were out there,
did some training for some judges and stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Oh yeah, how did that turn out? Everything turned out good?
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Yeah, it turned out great. Uh. Tracking wounded deer with
dogs is fairly new in Iowa, so uh, not a
lot of experienced people there. So we were able to
help them out, get them, get them head in the
right direction.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
What part of iowauld you go to?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
We were in Chariton, which is kind of just slightly
southeast of Des Moines.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Okay, they got some big bucks out there.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
Giants even their dogs are big wind nothing did you No, No,
it didn't get a chance. Didn't see any.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
They pulled json Man, I'm just trying to try out,
try out this dog right here to judges want to
see it, so I had to shoot something make sure
they could find it.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
We did see a lot of deer, but no, no
big bucks. They said they don't move much this time
of year because they just made down and now all
that corn and beans and they just stand up to
eat and laid back down.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's so dugg I'm hot, and them deer's got two
or three inches of fat on them. I mean they're huge.
And that's why I saw it was a big factor,
you know about when the rut kicks off up there
in the middle of November. The last few times has
been happening right right into October to start getting, you know,
in the thirties, and dropped down all of a sudden,
from thirty degrees right into October. The first of November
(14:23):
it dropped down to nineteen fifteen sometimes, And that's when
rut fully kicks off. I mean they blow and wide up.
And then of course when I get up there the
day before gun season opens up, it's going wild and crazy.
And then the next morning you can wear shorts to
the stand and then the deer looking right down. You know,
that's just my luck. But yeah, you write them days
look like Shetland ponies out there, don't.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
They They do. And when we were up there, it
was the morning. In the mornings it was forty degrees.
They get up to about low seventies.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, I took my buddy for the first time hunting
up north. He's always chasse Florida deer around, you know,
a good deer is one hundred and twenty pound. Was
down here one hundred and thirty pounds, you know, mature
buck well dove crossed the road ver close to her camp,
right in front of the truck, and I mean we
bout white rout. He said, what was that a horse?
I said, now, that was a big dude. I mean, yeah,
(15:14):
long haired, I mean day two hundred pounds easily the
dose are wow.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, we've seen a couple of two hundred
pounds dose walk right up on some of them. Yeah,
it's wild, but I'm uh, I'm excited. You know, deer
season opening up here.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, I know. I was just talking about all the
rain and stuff that we're getting off this hurricane. How
it's gonna change hunting down there in the swamp, you know,
especially around the Bay area.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, I did a I took my thermal
drone to a deer herd survey in uh Pabo, Georgia
last week. And even all their deer is being pushed
out of the swamps, out of the creeks, out in
the drier land.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, that'd be pretty cool to check them out, you know,
just how they move around in the water in that
bay too. Have you have you looked in they since
the war.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
I haven't yet. I'm planning to the next couple of days.
Uh yeah, I've been being busy doing some surveys on
other land and by that landowner he thought, he said, well,
you know, we've done a good job, trophy manager. We
don't have many dose anymore. I put that thermal drone
up in the air and we counted about fifteen dose
to every buck dag gone. He thought, he was, yeah,
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he didn't think he had any.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well, they don't got used to. They said, well that
one disappeared. I ain't going back over there. They but
you know that's and days like you know, the plantation
nine hundred into Mississippi, it's been probably on this seven
or eight years ago, uh, northern Mississippi, and it was
a big old as old cotton plantations what it was.
And them guys had biologists come in every year. And
(16:47):
when they say they had a three buck to one
day ratio, it's because they did, because I seen more
bucks in the stand than I did a day. But
I mean they kept the tanned out and it was
like a ten thousand acre plantation. So and it's surrounded
by federal land that you couldn't hunt. So whatever was
in that area they had, you better believe that's you know,
that's what it was. And they kept it that way.
(17:07):
And it was nice, don't get me wrong. But a
lot of them bucks you couldn't shoot because they wouldn't,
you know, old enough. Yeah, they wasn't old enough. You know,
you've seen a lot of one hundred inch bucks. And
then every now and then you scared because they said,
if he's under one forty right and you shot him
ass a thousand dollars, I'd be like, hold on to
stop there, let me get a measure and tape out.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
That's a big penalty.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, I mean that is, yeah, but that's how they
got it. But you know, going to that place like that,
it's like three grand a day, so I mean they're
hunting and stuff serious, but they feed you three meals
a day and stuff like that. But and it's not
a high fence. You know, I ain't gonna go like
Kenny right there and kill one of the big old
bucks in the high fence. And I think I did something.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I haven't done that yet, but I tell you that
property up there that I surveyed, we or I got
on camera on the drone about fifteen over one hundred
and fifty inches. It's they're there, there there, you know,
they just don't move as much so you can.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
See the horns and everything because you know that of
course they got blood in them.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, you could see them. Wow, no doubt. Yeah,
it's pretty it's pretty wild. But yeah, I'm excited over that.
But what I'm really excited for is some cooler weather
coming that fishing to get better.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Yeah, we were.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Talking about that. I was going to ask you think
that waterer timbers, what do you think that water temperature
is now on the bay.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
I don't know. I was going to go out this morning,
but the weather wouldn't let me. But you know, it's
just going to get better and better.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, up on the lake someone all the water chimbers
dropped a seventy six can.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
He Yep, I imagine that's about what it is out there.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah. I figured out the weather does opposite for humans,
you know, load pressures, fish is biting and when it's raining.
I like sitting in that recliner watching guns smoke around.
I like getting out that. Yeah, that recliner college so
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what else. I mean, how's the how's the water clarity?
You know around keating? Are you down there?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
I honestly haven't been out, but I did talk to
Captain Pat McGriff and he said, it's it's pretty clear.
You know. Obviously there's some stain coming out from all
the fresh water, but for the most part, it's pretty clear.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
And see we can't catch a breaking on our end.
It was clearing up a little bit, and I mean
it was still dirty, but now all this rain were
getting is gonna push it right back to being dark
tea again.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Yeah. Well, I prefer to fish in that dark water.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Well, I mean you do, but at the same time,
you want to be able to gig and stuff at night.
And that's what it was getting good.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
The flounder was showing up. We sent a few the
other night, and we was out gator hunting, you know,
and it's just it's starting to get that time and
then all of a sudden, bam, we get rain and
you can't see.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Yeah, And honestly, about the time it gets right, flounder
season closes.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
When is it closed?
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Can he it's October?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, it's the whole month, ain't you.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Yeah, the whole month and that's when it's best.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah. Well, you know that's what they know, that's what
they was talking about doing, you know, the trout season.
That's why I was wanting to close it down in
February for the river because you know that's when all
them big trout come in there.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Right and you can get one one deep pole and
just wear them out.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Now, when you say closed it down, I mean you
can't fish for them. If you catch them, you have
to throw them back. You gotta you can catch, you
can fish farm, You just got to throw them back, correct, right, Okay, Right.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Now with flounders, you can't gig really right, ain't.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
No gigging releasing founders release that yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh man, yeah that that ain't no, yeah that you can't.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Have you all heard about the scott Is scallops still
going on. Scott it's out now, it's out, okay.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
But they still let me tell you it's gonna be
awesome next year.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
What makes you think that, Kenny?
Speaker 6 (20:59):
We have an abundance of them every year. Honestly, the
end of season every year has been better and better,
and this year is no exception, you know. And when
we harvest scholars. We're harvesting them before they get a
chance to spawn. So the more that's left over, the
more that spawns.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Yeah, that'd be more for the next year.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I've been here, and you know, even right at the
end of the season, people's getting their limits quick. I
mean scholars. That's good and it done good, you know,
them putting them signs up. Even though I don't think
it's illegal to keep them that small, they just had
a requirement. They wouldn't going to clean them if they
were smaller than what was it two inch diameter?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Yeah, two inches, And like you said, it's not a requirement,
it's just a suggestion. And actually the UF division they
recommended an inch and a half the year before, and
they still recommend an inch and a half this year,
but they changed their a lot of their wording to
two inches just because that was the popular thing amongst
the community of saying two inches. And even then, you know,
(21:58):
as you get later in season, even some smaller ones
that are right on the edge to it just have
a pretty good sized piece of meat in them.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, they I'm and you know I didn't get to
eat them at one time this year. We didn't I
didn't even get to go Scollophon. I was I was
too busy doing something.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I didn't Yeah, I didn't get to go either. We
had some clients give us about five gallons, well five
gallons hole. They gave us one bucket and by the
time you clean them, you know, there's not much in there.
A couple of meals. But that's the only way we
got them this year.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, it's it's crazy, man, how how it turned out.
And you know, it don't seem like that many people
took Scollophon charters out. I don't know how Stanatchie turned out,
but it didn't seem like they was that many year.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
No, my my scolloping charters was down over seventy percent
this year.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
It's too easy for them to figure it out.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Yeah, I mean, but well, I don't even think it's
just that. I mean that even the the recreational people
weren't out there like they normally are. I mean, there
was only two weekends that you've seen the boat rent full.
That was fourth of July and then the last weekend
that was it. It was wasn't very busy out there
on the water.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
A lot of people scared of the sharks.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
I mean that's yeah, I think that's a lot of
it is people people on Facebook and Instagram constantly talking
about sharks that and honestly I've seen less this year
than I have in years past, and uh that and
then them keep saying, oh there there's a shortage, we
need to close the season. Just people running their mouths,
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not really knowing what they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, that's the ones that set behind a desk and
don't even fish or hunt or anything.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Yeh want to find one of them? What was the
skyllar cleaner saying all that the populations down, I'm not
opening till they till they open season. But the motive
was to move the season from opening two weeks sooner
to two weeks later, so you know, still wanted that
money from it, but trying to deter people. And I said, hey,
come get on my boat. Let me show you how
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many's out there if you don't believe it. And of
course that didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah, they don't want to hear that, but then that happens.
You know. DAG is a tournament still going on a
lot down there. I mean I heard them one lately.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
They never quit every weekend. Yeah, that's that's another thing
in the name of conservation.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
We gotta go to a quick commercial and we'll figure
out back up on it. Hold on, all right, guys,
welcome back to the show. Kenny. What what would you
say on Friday to cut you off?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Yeah, what I was gonna say is in today's times,
you know, we need to get away from these kill
tournaments when with these big fish, there's no reason to
have a kill tournament on a big trout. And you know,
redfish still has to be within the slot, but these
big trout, you know, we need to we need to
stop that. You can take a picture. You know they
have apps now that are time. You know, everything's time stamped.
(25:03):
You know, we need to we need to do better
about preserving our big trout because we do have the
largest population of big trout in our state. And when
you have a tournament or multiple tournaments every weekend targeting
big trout, it's it's gonna hurt us.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, And they had they were catching a lot of
big trout this past weekend, uh, the North Florida Fishing
Series and uh, you know, of course they got their
little token they put in the picture on the ruler.
They do the biggest measurement. They don't go by way,
but they said they were. They were killing the top water.
And you know that's early right there. Usually this time
of the year, it's you know, October endo October when
(25:37):
I started getting a lot of big trout or they're
moving into creeks on top water. But they already starting,
they already starting to hit it off.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
You know, Well that water temp drop and sething that
and you know, hopefully it stays that way. I think
it will, especially with all this this rain and overcast,
it's going to keep that water temperature down. And you know,
we're going into hunting season. There's gonna be a few
less people on the water. But when that fishing gets right,
they still have a pretty good crowd out there.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Well, you know how it gets in our area when
it gets right, when it gets about thirty degrees for
a couple of weeks, not even a couple of weeks, really,
probably about a week, they start moving in and then
of course all of them sometimers, they don't go out
there on the flats fishing at all. They just push
off the boat ramp start catching fish. Last year they
(26:25):
coudn't do that day so you know, the fresh water
keptn pushed out, so you know, I'm hoping, I mean,
I don't want them piled in there, but I'm hoping
that the fishing is a little bit better this winter
than it was last winter with all that fresh water
we had.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Well, you know, the last two winters I pretty much
stayed out on the flats for trout. And that's nice
because all those people go up in those creeks and
fighting one another for a hole, and I'm out there
by myself out on the flats. You know, there's still
fish out there. And when you get out there and
get away from people, that's what's enjoyable.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yeah, I know, you got to have your battle gear
on when you go in Pinhook right there during the
winter time, there'll be there'll be thirteen boats on one side.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Line, and you better keep your rod low and and
uh and barely scoop that thing into the boat or
as they see it, they're gonna come cast on top
of him.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Oh yeah, they'll be piled up around you. But you know,
you know how to get rid of them.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
Don't you blow them out? Everybody.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
They'll scatter pretty quick. I've had to do that.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Hey, you picked that prop up out of the water
and spray it.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, yeah, it's a little too cold. I ain't lining.
I've been out there with these ice in my seat.
When I go to leave right there from the dude
the night before, you spraying it off or whatever, and
the water sitting there, there'll be ice in that seat
and it'd be so cold. And that air airboat, that
fan sucking it through, it feels like it's cutting you
in half. And the best thing to have out there
(27:56):
is in frog dogs, you know, a little cheap set
of frog dogs. Keep that wind off of you, because
if you don't, I'm telling you right now, they ain't
not gonna stop it in your hands, you won't be
able to fill them.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Good pair of gloves.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
I have not found a good pair of gloves yet
that will keep my hands warm out the water.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Dude, I don't know either. I mean, he's talking about
leather gloves, but I don't know. I just my hand's
got to hurting and that's it. I'm done. My feet
in the hands.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I have some first like insulated gloves and their leather
on the outside and then they're you know, insulated on
the inside, and they work pretty good. They don't let
my hands get cold. But I'm not reaching in the
water either. You just got to be prepared to brave
the cold in you know.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Yeah, I mean, but when you actually catch fish, you
gotta grab wet fish.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
You still get your hands, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
Hey, you walk right into that one.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, bless it's hard.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
So question, would y'all rather have it colder? Are the
heat of the summer.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Too? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, And see that's a lot of them guys. You
won't see them to about I don't know, November December
pretty much. When the ruts over with it in Georgia
is when they start piling in. You want to see
it in the first, you know, month or two every
once in a while, just you know, the older ones
is slipping down. I don't care nothing about deer hunting
no more. But uh, after the ruts over where they
start piling in there. Well, but they don't call you
(29:26):
during that rut. They don't call you when them big
bucks is running around the food plots up there.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
Now see, I think I'm getting into that older category now.
I'd rather be out there on the water fishing, sitting
in the stands yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Well, I just don't like cleaning one no more. Which
my boys, you know, if I tell them to clean,
they don't. They don't want to, but I'll tell them
to clean on it. But I just don't. I don't
care for it no more. I like going my one
time of year up north and being done with. I
killed two or three deer. I'm happy, you know what.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
That's the point on that, you know, And I'm enjoying
the the traveling, seeing different scenery, and you know, I'm
gonna go somewhere this year. I think, well, I know
I'm going back up to Iowa, not to hunt, but
the tracked here. But I'm probably gonna hunt in Alabama
some this year. And then I go duck hunting somewhere
in a different state every year for for a week.
(30:17):
So I'll probably do that again somewhere.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
You're gonna use that drone to flush him out?
Speaker 6 (30:23):
No, no, no, why not? Oh yeah, yeah, that's hey, Hey,
I might use it to spot them.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Well, Tanner were just talking earlier. Tanner went all the
way to Oklahoma. The geese hunt right there, and then
we can come up here to the parking lot at
iHeart and uh, there's about fifteen or twenty of them
in the parking lot. Yeah yeah, you could have probably
just reached over and snatched him up without him shot.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Oh yeah, the door. I could have smacked him in
the back of the head.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
I've been seeing some tea already.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Really, oh yeah, just getting that time.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
How to mess you know, how to miss Kenny's fishing
spots up down there, to say, you've been seeing uh,
redheads and what's some other ones y'all like mallards? Yeah, hey,
all that stuff down there in Kenny. They follow Kenny.
He knows where they're at.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Hey, I promise you I'll know where the ducks are
if it ever gets cold enough to get them here.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Man, that's what it takes, good cold weather.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
When does duck season come in November? November?
Speaker 6 (31:27):
Yep, now early teal wood duck September. But yeah, uh,
you know, I don't start until till the week of
thanks The weekend before Thanksgiving is when it starts, and
then it goes out. In the weekend after Thanksgiving, it
closes for a week and opens back up again.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
I'm not I'm not chasing no duck. I'll be shot
the wrong one. You talking about what's uping now, tealing
with duck, tealing with duck, I'm probably I'm probably shooting
the wood ducks right there. You know them, They're pretty
easy to recognize. But the rest of them, I'll be
shot the wrong one.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
Well, honestly would one of the best eating ones. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
How do you cook them?
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Fry them up like backstrap?
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Batter him and frame or put him on the grill,
or wrap him in bacon with cream, cheese and hallopenia.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
You don't suck him in nothing, not a wood duck.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
You don't.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
He's he Actually, it tastes a lot like venison.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Really.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, it's not like a diver where you get all
that sardine taste and.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
All about like redheads are good. But I will tell
you divers, you do want to soak in the saltwater
Brian overnight.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yep. I ain't eat no duck.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
I can't do it, especially it tastes like sardines.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Yeah, they don't taste like But I tell you what
is in right now is dove.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah, Now what's y'all's favorite way to cook dove?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Wrap them in bacon and put them on that grill.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Yeah, that's what I'm here by.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, and that's the same way I mean. I used
to love dove, but quail is my favorite one to eat.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
It's like eating a minuture little chicken. It's all like neat.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Tanner and chicken.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Boy, he likes that chicken.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
He loves chicken, any kind of chicken, it don't matter.
But they don't taste like no chicken to me. It
tastes better than chicken.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Better than chicken for sure.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Especially that one can't cook. That time brought to the store,
I was like that, I'm gonna quell. I don't care
nothing about now dove. Now he had it wrapped in bacon.
I don't know what all kind of stuff he had
shook up on that thing, but it was fitting neat.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Yeah, I got quail and pheasant and freezer now. And
in fact, when I go tracking in Iowa in November,
I plan on playing on doing some pheasant hunt while
on there, so that.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah, they I don't think I ain't see them in Missouri.
The pheasant they might not come down that far.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
Yeah, they have some there, but not not the population
like Iowa and the Dakotas.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah, I'd like to go up there one time. And
see all that you know just to make that route.
I ain't never had pheasant before either.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
It's good I get you some.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Yeah about like what else did you pay to bring me?
Not too long ago? Catfish? And I still ain't send
them the flat heads.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
I still got it.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
He still got it.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
I ain't forgot about you.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Been six months ago?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yo, Well that's when you use up. That's when you
was up there at that lake that was known for
crappie fishing, too, wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yeah, we went, we stopped the Alabama River along the way.
But I tell you what, Joel, I will bring you
some and that way I can get another one of
that fried blowney sandwiches from your store that th ain't good.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Oh yeah, there ain't nothing like a fry of loney sandwich.
I can tell you. I'm about ready. I'm about ready
for one with a fried egg on. It had a
little bit of bacon and let us.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Well I forgot or don't eat eggs. He's allergic to him,
is what he says. He's allergic everything he don't like
to eat. What he tells you, how you gonna be
allergic to eggs?
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Chicken?
Speaker 5 (34:51):
It's different ones coming out of this rear end.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
That's got to be in your head.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Oh my goodness, I know what he's talking about. Man,
that that eggs make you have to go to the bathroom. Yeah,
I know that's what it is. I tell you what
I don't. I don't much like eggs either, but I
can eat some chicken.
Speaker 6 (35:13):
Yeah, there's a difference. You admit that you don't like him.
He just says he's allergic when he really don't like him.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
Joel says I'm allergic. I'm not alergic.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
He says he's allergic to it. That's what he says
to me every time. You like this time, No, I'm
allergic that Well.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
I have a question for Kenny. Do you do you
cook a lot of fish? You eat a lot of fish?
I'm assuming you do, yes, Okay, if he was going
to cook some hybrids or stripers, right, how would you
would you? Would you do them on the grill orould
you front? Would you have any kind of recipe for that?
I don't know what what relate that to a saltwater fish?
(35:52):
You know what I'm saying. I know a striper or
salt I tell.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
You the best way I ever had striper was smoked
and it was the delicious I've never done it myself,
but we were. I was up in Georgia hunting and
one of the guys I was hunting with brought some
striper out and he cooked it on the smoker and
it was delicious.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Hey, guinny hold that thought this second. Brother, we gotta
go to a quick commercial. We'll be right back. All right, guys,
welcome back to the show. I can't interrupted you.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Yeah, So, the best way I ever had striper was
on the smoker. I mean, I've had it grilled and
I've had it fried as good, but on the smoker
was way better than I would ever imagine.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
And see, you know, I'm not having nothing bad on
the smoker or fried. My problem is when you bake it.
I don't like bait.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
I'm not a baked fish fan.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
I don't like baked chicken either.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
It gets kind of mussy, don it.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Yeah. I don't care nothing about baiting. And see that's
what about ruined me on redfish. When I was a kid,
Dad put it in there with some lemon juice and
salt and pepper. A red fish, tried to broll it
in the oven. And man, it turned out it was horrible,
like you said, tasted light fish. Yeah, that's probably what happened.
That's probably what happened. You ate that smoke fish you
was talking about. They probably just didn't put the.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
You know, I like grilled fish. You put some grilled
you know, and grill it. That stuff is good.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Oh your bass, Oh my buddy, he's a big time
in the bass fishing. And he he'll put him on
the woodplanks and put him on his grill. And that's
pretty good eating.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
The wood planks.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Man, right, Yeah, I wasn't eating the woodplank black sea bass.
Them black sea basses have to change eating. I've had them,
you know, either way fried or smooth. And uh, you know,
pink mouth grunt. A lot of people don't like them.
They use them for baked. I'll fry them, jokers up,
eat them.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
I'll take a pink mouth grown over a grouper.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
You know, I would say you're crazy, but I'm about
the same way. I just don't care for a grouper anymore.
I take a mullet of all of them.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Yeah, yeah, I prefer a center fil a than a
big thick fil a. I don't know. That's the way
I like it.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
And the sheep head on that smoker, that's the best
thing they ever was. And I used to get them
things away all the time to a man come back
there and said, man, you crazy? I said, why is that?
He told me how to cook it right there? Putting
it on that grill scales down and you know, put
your tonyes on it, puts you some you know whatever.
Speaker 5 (38:25):
Basically doing like a red fish.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, like I do a red fish. And you know,
getting cooking right there in about two hours in on
two seventy five two fifty really two five is a
little too hot, but about two hours in right when
it starts, you know, you see it start curling up
a little bit. The file a you take and mix
up some brown sugar and hot sauce and uh rub
(38:48):
on it right there and then put some pepper jack
cheese on top of it and let it melt, get
into it and pull it off and eat that. And
you want you be out our sheephead. He'll be heads
fishing all the time.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
A lot of clients tell me all the time the
best fish that we've caught that day out of trout,
reds and sheepheads.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
The sheephead every time.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Yeah. Really, I don't like this slimy trout anyway. Only
reason I keep them some people fishing with me. I'd
rather have a red fish or sheep head. And y'all
mainly gonna fry trout. Yeah, you don't never bake it
or grill it. You fry trout.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Yeah, that's all worms out of him.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
And that's why I don't like them.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
I've caught them before, I'll tell you. Growing up, my
great grandma, the only way she would cook her red
fish is on the grill and barbecue sauce. You ever
have it, it's good, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
You can't. You probably can't go wrong with that buddy
of mine, Bam, that lives down there at the river.
Half the time. He he introduced me to the grilled
red fish, you know, even the backbones. He don't think
nothing away. And that stuff was fit and eat when
we pull it off. I imagine having a dipping sauce
would be pretty good on it. It's kind of a rib.
If you don't like a dry put a base on it,
(40:02):
and that's you know that. You can't go wrong with
red fish it however, you cook it the size an oven,
don't I reckon. I do not recommend the oven at
all on.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Any fish.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yeah, especially a red fish. Some people like that, that
fishy taste. And that's why I can't eat sushi either.
I'm not eating nothing wrong, you hear me. A lot
of people like that fishy taste. I ain't a big
fan of it at all.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
But I tell you what's then. I don't know if
you you've went or if you've ate it. But in
the southern part of the Big Ben, it's stook season
right now, and they've got them. A god called me
this morning, asked me. He going me doesn't catch them?
He called to ask me what the size limit was,
what the regulations all that, And it is in right now.
And let me tell you that is some of the
(40:50):
best eating fish out there.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
I've heard they were good, and you know you'll see
them in the wintertime over here froze upside down, you know,
in the creeks and stuff and getting too cold. That's
why that's why we ain't got him up here already
by now. If it would stay hot like it does
down south, they'd pile in here.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
But well, you know, you, being the all still outlaws,
probably don't scoop him up, take him back and eat well.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
The game a lot to follow me too much. Even
at they got a tracker on my boat, I have
yet to find it. I wanted to call somebody and
there as good at finding GPS trackers.
Speaker 6 (41:27):
They but I did see that new that new cross.
Isn't that you got on Facebook? There?
Speaker 5 (41:33):
I think it was nice.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
I don't know if you heard they took my net
again another night.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
Yeah I heard. Yeah, word word travels fast in small town.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yeah, I know they just he won't give up. Same guy,
same guy. But maybe one day he'll learn after it
gets throwed out again. They didn't need to leave me alone, man,
They go after somebody else like Paul catch on them
in a little baths you know.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Or Tanner out there.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
Tanner out there, uh twenty twenty miles off in his
air boat searching for airheads and he's out there. Cof
he's out there, cafeit he ain't out asily. I'll stay
away from.
Speaker 6 (42:15):
And stay away from the Finn all the way, Tanner.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Have you don't send him around the finn holloway, Oh
he knows that's my grounds.
Speaker 6 (42:27):
Yeah. He keeps trying to follow me around but he
ain't gonna happen here we go.
Speaker 5 (42:35):
He didn't even though you were still alive. I hadn't
seen you in six months. I don't think.
Speaker 6 (42:41):
That's how I'm still You know, I go over there
fishing around. Joel's there. He don't never know until someone
sending a fish or mute Rocky.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Yeah, he don't know because he knows I can earn
and take his trailer tires off, hack driving that boat
back all the way to keating out every worrying about
what's what you're gonna hit at dark.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
That's why, no joke. A lot of times I'll run
out of keating it all the way over there.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Well, it ain't that far, honestly, it ain't.
Speaker 6 (43:05):
Eventually, you know, when your boats in the water and
that GPS tracker starts pinging, I go.
Speaker 5 (43:12):
Where you at.
Speaker 6 (43:14):
The problem is when I do.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
It, go comes back with the messic catfish every time.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Yeah, they probably got a tracker. I'm going to I'm
gonna turn that check all up under the seat the
gas tank. But yeah, man, I'm I'm ready for I'm
ready for it to cool on down. It's about time
for some cooler weather. It's too it's been too daggon
hot where you can't even breathe out there. Yep.
Speaker 6 (43:42):
Yeah, that's honestly why I took some time off. I've
never taken time off this year. I said, you know what,
it's too hot, and uh, it's just time for a break.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Yeah, I know, it's it's been crazy, but you know
it's getting Like I said, last couple of mornings, it's
felt like fall. It's felt good, you know, even though
you look at the what's this team for sixty No,
it's still seventy nine. That's just how much the temperature
has changed right here in a few days. You know,
you think it's a lot colder than what it really is. Well,
but you can tell it's getting down.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
I got a.
Speaker 6 (44:10):
Question hard to come back from Iowa.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
Tell me about it.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
This has been pleasant the last week or two, it has.
But let me ask you a question, Kenny, I just
made a change on my boat to do you use it?
Y'all use trollo motors? I don't know about y'all do
pontoon boats? I mean on airboats? But do you use
the trollo motor? Kenny?
Speaker 6 (44:30):
I do?
Speaker 3 (44:30):
What type of batteries do you use? Because I just
switched to a lithium a thirty six bowl with him
and I do you use lithium or I do? How
have you liked that? Did you go from lead acid
to lithium? And because I just switched, man, I tell
you what that is. It is way much. The powers
just seemed so much cleaner. I mean it's a lot
(44:51):
faster at us. You know, you have a dial, you can,
you know, ten down to one. I ain't even had
to put it on ten yet. I mean it's like six.
It's like what now or ten used to be on
the lead acid battery. I just wonder if you notice
a big difference like that too.
Speaker 6 (45:04):
Yeah. I went from lead acid to AGM that you know,
to the gel to the lithium, right, and then I
went from a two battery twenty four vault lithium to
a single twenty four and every change was better and better.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Yeah, yeah, because I just went to Yeah, well, I
did have three group sized thirty one batteries which weighs
seventy pounds apiece to one thirty six fold battery that
weighs like thirty or twenty five. You know what I mean.
It's amazing the difference.
Speaker 6 (45:32):
Yeah, What's the only thing you got to watch out
for is if you ever do run it low enough,
which is hard to do, it just stops instantly.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
There's no that's yeah, I noticed that. I've used it now.
The last I've used it so far is about five hours,
and it's when i'd come in it'd be it like
it eighty two percent still a full charge. You know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Yep, I ain't that crazy hiding batteries last like that. Yeah,
and then you know they got pyapose got that reoccurred
in charging.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Yeah, that's what I have my bass boat, the powerpool charge.
That's a that's a good. That thing's cool and it
can you can were to charge your batteries while you're running,
you know what I mean, charge up your cranking engine
and and all that while you're running.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Yeah, it's well worth. And I used to you know, people,
I thought they was crazy paying that much. How much
was it? If you don't mind me asking, how much
is that that lenthium battery?
Speaker 3 (46:20):
I think it was like twelve hundred. It's a thirty
six vault sixty am power. What's the warranty on the
fifteen years? You can't be that fifteen years and it's
powerhouse lithium.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
And you think about it every two years, you're probably
gonna got to the trailer motor battery.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
I've been pretty for I gotta tell you all this story.
I you know, I'm gonna give a plug out the
battery source. I you know they make their batteries. I had,
so my boats had the thirty one sized group deep
cycle battery. I have like three, four or five eight
of them in both boats. I had one I took
back at it went out. You know, I took it
(46:56):
back and the guy said he put the thing on.
He goes, Damn, that battery is eight years old. He goes,
what do you do to keep your I just check
him by once a quarter, check the water. But you
know I did it so i'd have more not as
much weight. That's like a whole person, you know what
I'm saying. So it's and the way I had it,
(47:17):
I had to have the batteries up front. It was
in my ponting boat. So I moved it to the back.
Just just freezed up a lot of space and it's
it's definitely more power. And I went to a sixteen
point four vault lithium battery on my ford facing sonar
Kenny and that I already had a lithium with it
with a thirteen vault in. Man, that's a it's very clear.
(47:39):
I actually I actually watch a fish poot.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
The other day.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
It was incredible. So I see his gills. I mean,
it's crazy, it's crazy clear. How good that is? Just
that big of a it's going higher.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Voltage on Paul's note, I got to get my waiters
on to get out this this studio. Can we run
out of time?
Speaker 1 (47:59):
Bro?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
It was good talking with you and maybe you'll be
on the show next week if you'll show up.
Speaker 6 (48:04):
Yeah, I will burn Ali.
Speaker 2 (48:05):
Thank you, yeah, man, I have a good one. Thank
you all for tuning in.
Speaker 1 (48:08):
You've been listening to The Big Bend Outdoor Show with
Joel Baldry. Join us every Saturday morning at eight am
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