October 19, 2024 • 47 mins
This is the Big Bend Outdoors Show with Joel Baldree
Original Airdate 10.19.24
Today's guests include: Captain Kenny Mullins, and special guest host Captain Paul Tyre
Today's segments two, three, and four are repeat segments from previous episodes
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Original Airdate 10.19.24
Today's guests include: Captain Kenny Mullins, and special guest host Captain Paul Tyre
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Big Bend Outdoor Show with Joel Baldry.
Today's guest include Captain Kenny Mullins. Here's your special guest host,
Captain Paul Tyer.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome to the Big Ben Outdoor Show. We got Captain
Joel Baltry calling in today. This is Captain Paul Tyre
and we got Captain Kenny Mullens.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I hear y'all been getting a lot of doing picking
a lot of pick up trash down there. Tell us
what's going on, guys.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Well, you know, Joe's been doing a lot of sitting around.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
But sitting around, I know you've been driving that Airbane
around anywhere.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
He don't know what he's talking about. He's too behaving
gas Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Are y'all part of the trash pick up like you've
been doing?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Joel's up? What y'all still doing?
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Yeah, we're working cleaning up the bing the canals and
stuff the dogs and owls. Is this float in the canals?
I just got started yesterday and there's a lot and
a lot I mean a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Wow wow.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And uh I heard you was out with a Duck
Dynasty person.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
That wasn't there wasn't Duck Dynasty. He's he's down there
working on a barge of his Chase Landry.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I'll swamp people, Okay, I'll swamp people. Okay, all right, Well.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Man, yeah, he's down here working. He actually moved to Florida.
I didn't know he moved to Florida, but he moved
to Florida and he's down here working. Really, he's running
the barge.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
A small world. You run into people's see on TV
all the time. Wow, sometimes you don't even know that
they're there. Yeah, kind of like Kenny. You know, we
always see him on that Mary Kate commercial putting make
it up, and I see him all the time.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I'm gonna let that one slide.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Yeah, about like other CAFs. Not like them cafes in
your cooler, they slide right on in.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Hey, hey, but I'm on the Swawnee River with the
freshwater caf is here over there on the salt water
with a cooler for cat fish.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Well, they all trapped outside the can own, that's for sure.
And all oh, good year, Oh what you been doing?
They all been driving you crazy?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I tell you what. Man, You know she had that
accident and uh man, this bit it was just a blessing.
You know that she wouldn't more hurt than she was,
you know, burt no broken balls, had a cat scan.
Everything was fine, but just bruised up real bad. Had
to had to lay up for a few days. But
got her new car yesterday. So she's she's back and doing. Man,
(02:32):
I tell you what, right now, these deers, you know, people,
people be careful when you're on the road, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Yeah, she definitely end to watch out for the deer,
especially this time the year when the rut starts kicking off.
They all said the thanking lot, you know, kind.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Of like kiddy, how'd y'all like that cooler? Well this morning?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Oh no, but this gold at the same time. Yeah,
thirty seven, I won't get this smart.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, I had I saw on my boat this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Really yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah, yeah, that's a cool I had about three pairs
of clothes, don't plus my overall.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah, that's what you have to do when you don't work.
You gotta dress warmer.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Yeah. I know it's going a fan for a reason.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
You know that poots the air and three you literally
through you, but you actually have to get on it
and run it.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Well, you know, I run it.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I run it when it camp.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
That's all that matters. I got grabby service.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah, it's a it's definitely a mess out here. We
we've been on the Swanny River in dash for for
three days and we've made it uh not quite a
half a mile picking up for debris.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
That's crazy. If I went over there, it's tearing up stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
You had thirty hours of clean up and we haven't
even been a half Come on, wow, A what you
been doing I've been doing. I've been on.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, I've been doing some fishing up to this Saturday
that the pass.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Bits didn't put it ten up on that Someone on
man out here on Lake Talquin too, they've been biting
pretty good down there. We have a little bit of
dirty water up there on the flint, but it's starting
to clear up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And man, they've been biting.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I think this cool weather is gonna let even fire
get them fired up a little bit more. How about
down there with all that to break and people even fishing, you.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Know, with them they can't even get out and mount
of come out and the grammars is hacking to work.
The people only be running out fishing down there because
it's just a mass right now, these shirts roads, all
kinds of stuff getting tailed up in people's crops. Wow,
this is down to fill and stuff. So and'll be
fighting the tides too, I mean coming into the winter tides,
(04:53):
it's gonna go and get worse from here on out.
You know, the Northway at twenty mile hour, you ain't
got no water. So the margins came back. So there
there this morning was flying mud trying to get get
stuff cleaned up. You know, it's just pad So that's
that's the thing we're fighting, or just you know, it's
it's gonna take time. It's gonna take us, you know,
(05:14):
Marco time with the order situation and the savage free
and stuff in the canals, and they ain't just keeping
its eagles on the Dark Island, Cedar all the places.
Is terrible.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
See you think it'll they clean up, will go all
the way into of course next year, into the summer
next year.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah, I look into it, honestly, at least in the spring.
I mean, they gotta make sure or three passes ever,
and they got to dig down because a lot of
that stuff got buried up in the mud, that got
pushed in canals already shallow as it is, you know,
for my being dredged and so long, and now it's
just made it worse.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, and if they don't dig it out of that
that muck, it's just gonna come back up like you
did after Idellia.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Yeah, it's us said. There was a lot to do dinner,
and they honestly need a dredge when they get all
that stuff freshly done, get a blowed on out, John,
you know, I.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Said, are they are they having plans to come in
and dredge, Joel?
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Is that in the But they've been they've been supposed
to go and dred what came top six years?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, so they got the first allocation of funding in
two thousand and sixteen.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Actually, yeah, you know they're supposed to do it after
Scotland season this year. Of course we ain't had nothing
to hurricane after hurricane, so that set it back. Now
this is gonna set it back even longer. So's definitely
got to be done. And now that they've got in
the canal pretty much shit, now now is the time
to do it. Yeah, they need to blow out bad Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Have you heard anything about that? Kenny yourself what's that?
Have you heard anything about that? I know you have
anybody you can reach out.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, so, like he said, it was planned to be
done this fall, but you know, this is kind of
delay things. I mean, there's no way they can dredge
right now. They got to get all that debris out
before they can run a dredge.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Bump in there.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
It'll just be a mess, right And you know, from
what I'm hearing, it's it'll be at least six months
of the breed clean up.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
It's not more. Wow, for sure, that's that's something.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Is there plenty of people down there? Did you get
some of the captains working?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Kenny?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Like he was talking about trying to get some of
the one of the seam of money. I don't know
how you what that was?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
You was working on that?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah? So so last year. Yeah, I was the contract
holder for the.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
All right, but we got it.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We got Joe Captain Joe Jumpmaldry back on the phone
with us. Joe, Man, it's man, it's good to hear
from you, brother. I know y'all been busy down there,
You and Kenny. I think Kenny fell to fault.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Y'all.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Just the service down there is still messed up, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Yeah, that's miss messed up. Man, they loved stuff, still
messed up.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Well, is there anything y'all y'all need down there that
that people that we need to put out that people
might know that anything y'all y'all need in the area.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
What you're seeing, they still.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Uh just stripping out a lot of stuff, I mean,
really honest, So we don't it's it's been people have
been real good about donating stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
So that's awesome. That's awesome. I know, Uh Dell was
down there last Sunday. I think they gave out like
three hundred and sixty plates of food, uh with with
that company that that caters. It was it was incredible
what he was telling.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Me about it.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Yeah, man, they've done a pic of a job.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
They was gone before I even got back. They wouldn't
even they were seeing you, right, They wouldn't even save
me a plate.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Colley.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Yeah, it is all.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But yeah, man, I tell you, that's that's something else.
But you know, when you know, when you have a
you know, that's what Americans is all about. Brother, When
you have a crisis of bad cituor you know you've
got people coming together. I'm sure you've got people down
there going to try to steal something, you know, but
that's nothing compared to what you're seeing people helping.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Am I correcting saying that.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt there's a lot more people helping
them still, as I can tell you.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's you know, that's the people. That's
how we are in the South, you got, you know,
and it's really that way across America. I just I
just hope with this election coming up, we get so
we get you know, that goes away. It needs to
go and and the government and the people that can
see what's going on down there and just get that dredging,
you know, because you know a lot of way that
brings in income to that area is fishing, you know,
(09:38):
Am I correct?
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Oh Yeah, that's some That's the main thing right here,
man of a fishing and a commercial fishing. You know,
it's just like Pantasa and everywhere else. You know, they
depend on the pay their bills. You know, fishing commercial
is crabbing or lolla or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
That's right now.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I hear the stone crab there's because of the storm.
Is this correct, Joel? That there's a big stone crab plentiful.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Is that correct? Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Yeah, they they they're everywhere. Yeah, they still they se
grabbers going out and they have.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
A real good fuck.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah that's what I heard.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
That's a blessing.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, you know, that's kind of kind of interesting how
you have something like that happened, might mess up some
of the fishing, but then it's made. It stirred that
water up and got the crabs moving and now they're
now they're we're plentiful.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
You know.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
It's just like the mullet. The mullet usually comes in
man and piles like that. Uh, you know, when the
storms come in, they collin storm mullet would be twenty
five twenty six inches long.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Really wow, pushes pushing out there from the from the
from the big from the big, big ocean and pushes
them up shallow.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Huh oh yeah. Then that disappear and then usually about
mid November, your run mullet come in.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Right.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
They last a couple of full moons right there.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Wow. Wow, man, I tell you, I tell you, we
got about about forty seconds left. You know, I want
to sure do appreciate you, Joe on what you're doing.
You and Kenny down there and just you know, everybody
working together, and it's it's it's a process. It's gonna
get it's gonna get back the way it should be.
It's probably gonna be better when he gets back to
where it should be.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
You know, right, no doubt, no doubt. It's uh, it's
somevery time, but at least it started.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
All right.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Well, God bless you, brother, the boys trying to move
these these barges and them, and I can't hardly.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Hear you, brother.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
I'll talk to y'all later, all right, and.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I'll get that we go, all right, God bless you man,
Thank you, Joel.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Oh you too many guys.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I tell you that's you know, that's that's live. You
know him down there, you know, doing what he can
do to make the community better down there, and what
they're doing picking.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Up the trash and real quick. I thought these Landry
boys are supposed to be strong. Got one that can't
even move a barge. Oh boy, he's ever on the
front of it. Yeah. I thought they'd checked them alligators
and stuff, and they strong and tough. I reckon, I'm
going to get show him how to do it, all right,
go show.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Them how to do it well, that's all right, talk
to you later. Well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's that's the that's first, that's saving the Big Ben
Outdoor Show.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Guys. Appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Listen in and we're going to have some The next
three seconds is going to be some of the best
shows we've had to pass. Can't really keep them on
the fall. They're busy getting some stuff done over there.
But we should do appreciate you again. This is Captain
Paul Tyer.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
To creep that outdoor ship. Great, hey, guys, welcome back
to the show. We got mister Dall. He's wanting to
tell us a little bit of a turkey story.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Yeah, my friend Tom comes around over spring. I always
know when springtime has arrived because I go out in
the morning and I take the dog out, and uh,
the other morning, I was out and it's all fogged up,
and I could hear the gobbling in the distance, and uh,
I tried getting my call out. Now, I thought about it,
(12:51):
and I said, no, leaves that alone and just enjoy it.
But I did immediately text Tanner, and I first thing
I thought it was him. I was like, man, I
bet he's in the woods hunting this morning, and all.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
But uh, so he was hunting before the season starts.
Speaker 10 (13:09):
Huh No, Saturday, well, I wasn't hunting. I walked out
of the house.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Putting, scratched feet out, took my dog out.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
I was outside my Yeah, my plays putting the letting
the dog out. And there's a turkey into day. But
every spring, uh, in Jefferson County where we live, we
got a we got a big turkey that comes around
and hollers and gets everybody all crazy, and.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
That he leaves.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
But in the meantime, how about you, man, You've been
seeing them.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
You've been hearing them, been seeing them, been hearing them.
Speaker 11 (13:45):
And I had a youth killing with me on Sunday morning.
It's been it's been good. Saturday morning was raining and
kind of nasty weather, and I took my four year
old daughter for the first time. And uh we didn't
get too far and get to walk real far and
go too deep in there, just because you know how
it is carrying a four year old with you. But
(14:05):
she did good, and I got in the truck. Saturday afternoon,
I drove down to Cassemi, south of Kassemi on the
Deseret Ranches. Down there, my uncle was a part of
a big hunting club, Heritag Hunting Club, and we went
Sunday morning, didn't hear any turkeys at all. It was
windy and raining again and got to be about eleven
(14:26):
o'clock and we decided to eat a little breakfast in
the rule on the club down there, as you can
only hunt till one, so we decided to go back out.
We had like an hour and a half and we
went to a spot he had frequently saw turkeys, and
we walked probably a quarter mile up this road into
like it was a big hammock that it opened up
to another pasture with big live oaks in it, and
(14:49):
kind of got back there and I called one time
and I got a hen fired up, answered me, I
was going back in too with her, and then the
gallar he fired up, and so he started gobbling a
little bit down right there immediately, and the palmettas was
a big live oak and some palmetas in front of
his good natural blind and uh, he had three jakes
with him too that we didn't see well. They got
(15:10):
in between me and the galller and he didn't like that.
The jakes, I guess were coming to take the hen
because once they came so close to me, Ashley, you
could see the bristles up on top of his head.
You could have reached out there and just smacked him.
But the Galller he came right on then, and my
my cousin Brooks, he was able to get a shot
on him and smoking. I was a twelve gage straight
(15:32):
and a half.
Speaker 12 (15:32):
That's a beautiful property down there.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Isn't it.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
Oh man, that's gorgeous.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
Yes, I work with them on tracking dogs. Okay, the
biologist there.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
And that's it's it's swampy.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
Yeah, there's some swampy spots, but it's I mean, it's
gorgeous far as pasture and old Cyprus domes.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
That's what. I didn't mean to interrupt your tennant, but
that's you know, I don't know nothing about turkey hunt,
like I said once before, But if you kill one
of these swamps or in South Georgia wherever, you know,
you're doing something these guys calling them out these fields.
I could probably do that, you know, with a box
call and get one killed. But when you in these
woods and you running through the swamps and getting ahead
(16:08):
of the turkey and stuff, and you know you gotta
wait till you see them at the right time because
there's palmata trees everywhere, snakes, you know, don't mean if
you don't forget the snakes and they are crawling now.
I seen everybody starting to see rattlesnakes and Moccason's real good.
But that's that's a big challenge. I mean, yeah, the
birds ain't as big, you know, as they are Middle
Georgia and you know, Missouri or wherever you know, but
(16:30):
still it's the challenge. And speaking of that with the youth,
you know, the nine that we had killed, they were
all you know, I think we had one bird that
was maybe fifteen pounds. The rest of them was anywhere
from seventeen to twenty I think the biggest one of
twenty five pounds.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
So was that fifteen pounds or a hybrid or was
osceola or what or was it just young?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Was a swamp bird. It's a swamp bird. I mean,
they don't get that big down there and around three
rivers and stuff. Them guys are telling me that they're
they're all small like that. That's reading the plantation birds always.
Speaker 12 (16:57):
Be curious because you know that genary line. But we
do have Osiola's in this.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, and typically they already smaller, and you're talking to
the wrong guy about Ostiola's and the colors and stuff.
You need to be talking. That's why I looked at Tanner. Yeah,
don't don't look that question.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Thought maybe Tanner was there, but he was away in
I just think that's something that a lot of people,
you know, may not realize.
Speaker 11 (17:18):
We do have some Astiolas in this, There's no doubt
about it.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
So I hunt.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
I've hunted a lot on a private piece in San
Pedro Bay, and I've killed uh several turkeys out there,
and there's a dramatic difference from one to the other.
One has the broke up barring on his wings pretty
much black, and then I've killed some with solid white
barn on them and they're there. They look almost six
inches taller than though the turkey they one is just
(17:44):
it's just a smaller frame.
Speaker 12 (17:45):
Talk on average four to five six pound different.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Yeah, and they're they all the Osiola has always had
bigger spurs too.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And you know, our winners, you know, it turned out good,
you know, And like I said, we'd like to appreciate
all our sponsors. Uh, Michael Lean with Michael Lynn's home building.
We had Advance Auto, uh you know, Tatar Paget with
Pageant lawn Care and sept the tanks. We had Massier
you know properties, who else, a National Sign Tech and
(18:15):
we had you know, a couple more that. It was
just parents donating and that's what made us feel so good.
You know, Dal was out there when the squirrel hunt
happened and he was really amazed by that. But it
was the same way with the turkey hunt. Even the
kids that didn't kill something, they still showed up. So
first place with Beard, I think the beer was sixteen
had one eleven inch Beard won five inch Beard. Of course,
(18:36):
you got to come together to make you know, one
beard and he wanted, which was Cooper Wilds. He was
hunting with Kent and Tetter and uh they had you
know that was that was a good sized bird too.
I think he was twenty one twenty two pounds. And
then you had Maddox Maddox Wives, which was hunting with
Graham Lynn, Michael Linn's son, and he had he had
(18:57):
some hooks on that when they both spurs was an
engine three aches, I mean it was it was a
good bird, real good burden and you know honeycomb calls.
You know they mentioned this on Facebook and stuff, and uh,
you know that's what that's what Graham likes, using honeycomb calls.
I don't know you had a little bit of experience
for them. Have you used them yet?
Speaker 9 (19:15):
I have?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And you know they say they're pretty good calls. You
lock them too, don't you.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
Turn That's about all I use anymore.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah. And he's a local guy, and yeah.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
He's from Perry, uh, Daniel Wentworth. He does mouth calls,
slate calls, the whole.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
We didn't use a mouth call. We need to try
to get him on the show. Yeah, that's a good
idea and get him up here, you know, and talk
a little bit about it.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
He makes some fine Turkey calls.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
All right, Dan, if you listening, brother, we need you
up here next Yeah, next week. We got to get
you up here and you know, get talking about your
calls because you know this morning they Turkey season opening.
It's gonna be in its prime. I'm sure they're saying
we got another cold front coming. Is that anything to that?
I'm about tired of it. I've been watching that Mike's
weather page. You know, he's pretty accurate. He stays on
(19:57):
top of the weather. He tells you, tells you what's
going on weekend, advances day by day, and uh, he's
said that the cold weather's not everywhere it yet. So
what is that gonna do? What is that gonna do
to the turkeys? What is that gonna do? As far
as the turkey hunting, they ain't gonna mess with anything.
Speaker 11 (20:13):
It should And they're probably rolling on pretty hard now
and you ain't won't stop it. It'll roll its course.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
That's good, that's good.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
See, I think a little bit of cold weather's got
them going good.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
Yeah, on the rainy days, you know, they might not
do much. But the next day when it's forty five
out there, he's gonna be singing that.
Speaker 13 (20:28):
With the rainy days is when you just ride them
roads and you say, standing in the corner of the road.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
That's cheating.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So yeah, Kenny saying he's shooting them out with a rifle.
Speaker 13 (20:38):
No, you spot them and then they run off and
you you just jump out the truck and let someone
keep driving.
Speaker 12 (20:43):
You stage up right there and they're coming.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
Back to the corner road.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
That's legal, that's legal. So he don't turkey tactic. He
don't really call him, but back back in the you
tunt real quick. I want to finish up on it.
I keep you know, getting in the sidetrack talking about
calls and stuff. But you know, they was the top
three prizes, you know, first and second Beard Beard you know,
got a shotgun, Brandy shotgun. They got to pick what
gun they wanted to second plate or the second which
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was the spurs. He got to pick a shotgun out
of the three that they had donated. And the third
one just had a drawing and I think sew Lundy
won that. But the rest of the kids, we took
all the entry money, everything and went right back. We
didn't profit nothing off of that. Every kid that killed
a turkey got seventy five dollars, whether they want a
gun or not. So and we explained to the kids
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about the outdoors and staying in and how important it
was to be a part of it. And we really
encouraged the parents, and we appreciated the parents cause if
it wasn't for them, they wouldn't be there. Even the
guys that donated their time. There was the guys there
that you know, didn't have a kid in the fight.
But they wanted to help with the youth, and they
went and got you know, turkeys killed. So that was
that was a big deal to us. And like I said,
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once again, seriously, parents, we really appreciate y'all putting the
kids in the spot to being outdoors even if you
you know, you're working or whatever, if you know, if
anybody needs any help with that, you know, encouraging the
kids to staying outdoors because it keeps them out of trouble.
It really does. And you know, whether it's fishing, hunting, whatever,
if you if you're hiking, you know, it's still they're
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getting out and exploring the nature and what it really
means and learn about it. You know. So we really
appreciate that. What you got to say, I know you
got something to say else. Can you what what do
you want to say about a turkey?
Speaker 13 (22:23):
Now I wasn't gona say anything about a tree, but
I want to touch on something you said about the
youth keeping them involved in the outdoors and keep them
out of trouble. One thing about it, Nothing is cheap
in the outdoors and they won't be able to afford
it get into any trouble.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
That that is true, that there ain't nothing cheap, but
to keep them off the streets and keep them out,
you know, away from the bars. And that's that's what
that means a lot. And like I said, it was
just unbelievable. We probably have what sixty seventy people there.
Speaker 13 (22:50):
I think, you know, you know what, why don't we
why don't we make a just pick a weekend or
a weekend day and let's let's get some youth out
there fishing. Let's donate some time, take some kids fish.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Hey, I'm down with that. I'm down anytime.
Speaker 10 (23:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
We's got the satur date and we need to get
more people interacting. It's Dale's phone ringing in the middle
of our show. I think it's Dale's phone. I call
everybody I don't know.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
And that's what calls from another country.
Speaker 13 (23:21):
I thought maybe I thought maybe it was just that
soft music because we were having a moment.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Chairman talk again.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
But yeah, and this is where we need to get
people interacting on our on our social media page, you know,
the Big Ben Outdoor Show. If we do this and
which we are going to do it, we need to
get people on there and uh, you know, get their
kid post a picture of your kid in the outdoors
and tell them the reason why that you know, we
need them, you know, to take the fishing just you
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know what I mean. We want to learn a little
bit about you. And like I said, we don't care
who it is. We're gonna donate our time to do it.
And uh, you know, put them on some fish and
put them enjoyed, you know, a day on the golf
or wherever it's at, you know, whether it's fresh water
or whatever. You know, So we don't mind either way
as long as we getting out there and they're catching
some fish. I think we should do catfish so you
can teach us some tactics.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
Here we go. They could load the boat down with.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
You, Joel, and I bet they can. They learn from
the best day Tanner. We had to go to a
quick commercial. Guys, y'all stay tuned. It's gonna get even better.
All right, guys, welcome back to the Big Ben out
(24:39):
Door Show.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
We got Captain Leaf lunquess I got it right that time.
And we got mister Taylor on the phone. Taylor, what's
your last name? Brother? You said it wrong. He's gonna yeah,
leif got it wrong. After he's get on to me
about getting his last name wrong.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Yeah, you can't trust anything that causses.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah, inside, jack Man. What's the turkeys doing out there?
We usually got Captain Tanner talking about him right there,
but he decided to lay out there and go catfishing.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
I got you right now. Turkeys are hiding right now
from this wind. It's been blowing quite a bit, and
weather it's been pretty rough. But they've been getting pretty
hit hard by pressure lately. I've seen a lot of
people from out of state coming to Florida this year
to hunt, and but they're still gobbling. They're getting call shy,
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and you know, but they're still out there. They're still
doing this thing. They're playing the game. You just got
to get out there when nobody's out there. You know,
weekday is always going to be the best, and trying
to get away from people is always going to be
the key. Right now, especially later on the season, they
get really smart after a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
You're talking about public land too, right.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Taylor, Yeah, Yeah, more geared towards public land. You know,
on private land, when you got corn and you don't
have people hunting them, it's a little bit different of
a game.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah. Well, see, that's what I've been hearing a lot
of except you know, around the Snipe Island area, they
say they ain't really want day and then even since
it started, the season ain't been really gobbling much. And
that's why a lot of people from there.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Yeah, And you know, you got two different areas we
hunt them down here in Florida. You know, generally you
have the Pine Flat and that's a very difficult place
to hunt because everything looks the same and you and
you really got to put some time in and try
to scout and try to find those birds when you
know there's no definable features. But the other parts of
where we hunt out here in Florida is going to
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be your swamps, your rivers, your low lying areas. But
those have become increasingly difficult with all this rain that
we've gotten here in the past. Uh heck, yesterday we
had a downpour. But you know, it's hard to get
a bird to cross. You know, when there's a foot
of water separating between you and the sleuth that you
know it's between you and him. So it's uh, it's
definitely in the swamps, you got to find that bird
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beforehand and get right up there underneath him, or else
you're gonna have a hard time getting to call him
and get him to cross and get to you. You know,
I would definitely suggest sticking to the pine flats right now,
where there's less water. It's going to be you know,
harder to find birds on the pine flats, but the
birds that you do find, at least you can make
a move on them and actually get close to them
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without having to worry about sinking up to your hat
and water.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, I was, you know, I don't I don't know
much about turkey hunting at all, but you know, everybody
talks about killing these turkeys. You see them killing them
in the Midwest and everything, and you know they have
to go up to the mountain sometimes or you know,
walk them fields a little bit. But if they ain't
doing nothing until they kill one day here in the swamps,
you got to be Yeah, you got to be on
your toes down here.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Yeah, between everything trying to bite you down here, and
the turkeys they're very call shy down here, less is less,
There is always more with these turkeys down here. It's
not a you know, it's not a decoy game down
here as much as like it is out in the
Midwest and it's a bunch of crazy calling. It's it's
soft calling, and once you get their attention, shut up
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because if you act too desperate form around here, they're
they're gonna catch on, especially this late on in the season.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah, it's just kind of like calling a big buck in.
You know, when when you hear him respond to your
grunt call, you don't do it no more because he's
gonna circle around and he will find if you keep
grunting it, he's gonna he knows where you're at that
first time. It's kind of like a turkey. I'm assuming
they know where you're at.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Absolutely, it's a psychology game. You're you're trying to peak
their interest, but you're not trying to say so much
to where something sounds off to him, because they know
when there's a difference between something that's natural and when
there's something that isn't natural. They pick on this, pick
that out pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
What what area you hunting in? No, I'm mistaking. I
ain't talking about like a Pacific area. I'm talking about
you hunting around you know, the Panaceri or Saint Mart's area.
You hunting, you know, the wards our area in Alcilla.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Yeah, no, I've been hunting over there, the Apalachical and
National Forest.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
You know.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
I'll say that it's a large w ma A. It's
a million acres and uh, you know, but that's generally
where I've been been hunting at this season. I pulled
a few quota hunts here and there, but you know,
it's uh, the river, the river and the rain and
the swamps flooding has definitely changed the game around here.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We're I've been at I'd have to double check on
it too. And somebody was telling me yesterday that I
can't remember who it was, but they was telling me
that you ain't there. I think that's starting a seventh
and Snipe Island. There's a few day windows where you
ain't got to have a quota to hunt it, so
you can go in there without a quota.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Yep, yep, for sure, for sure. It's just uh, it's
everything around here with these w may's. Read your rules
because every w A is different and they change every
single year, and uh, you know, not not knowing the law.
There's no excuse for around here when the game warning
comes and checks on you.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah, that's true, because you don't definitely want me with
because he's gonna find us.
Speaker 13 (30:01):
I think I think they got tags and make that
all Silla outlaw name is what did?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah? But if I'm camouflaged up, they can't see the
Asila Outlaw.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
They just know.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
They just know I had I gotta ride If I
go with you turkey hunting around here, I gotta ride
with you in your truck and you got to pick
me up around back at the store. They can't see
and make sure you have a rubber snake. No, don't
have no snakes, would you? We ain't going and where
the snakes are at? I cancel that out.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
But are you you gonna hunt any in the Midwest
or anything this year?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (30:29):
No, I'm looking at going up to possibly Kentucky here soon.
You know, if when I do hunt out of state,
I try to chase the season openers. And you know,
I really really enjoy hunting and chasing those mountain birds
up there. It's a whole whole different feeling than you know.
Up there, you can see a mile across the valley
and you can hear a turkey from half a mile away.
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And even though you can hear them. There's nothing you
can do from a half mile away, uh, you know,
but it's it's nice and refreshing to get up there
in the cool air, get away from all the uh
Florida swamps and the bugs and the humidity that starts
heating up down here about the fourth week of turkey
season here.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, you just got to worry about mountain lions and
stuff up there, don't you. Are you afraid of mountain
lion I'm afraid of them. You got to worry about that.
I gotta worry about No, I ain't worried about it now.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
There's not too much worried about up there. You just
gotta be a little careful. There's not much service up there,
so something goes wrong, you better be able to figure
it out.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
That's true. That's true. Yeah, Tanner, I think he's going
to Texas. I want to say this is coming up
week weekend, and then he's going to Colorado sometime. I
don't know what time that season opens up. But those
Texas birds are big.
Speaker 13 (31:35):
When I was there hunting them, sand hill cranes, the
saw some turkey Texas Yeah, everything, Yeah, suppose.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I'll tell you the stuff that Joel thinks about it.
I'm not that, but deer in Turkey is probably bigger.
Speaker 13 (31:49):
Yeah, I mean when all the deer we saw our bigby,
but those turkeys in Texas are big.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Well, brother, I know you got to get off here,
and we appreciate you calling.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
In with us, and yeah, no problem, looking forward to
having me.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Hey, looking forward to having you on the show right
before Turkey season ends.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
All right, sounds good, y'all have a good day.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You too. Better be glad. I don't know nothing about
turkey hunting, or I'd be giving him a fit. It ain't.
None of y'all speak up either. You can't give him
a chance. Uh. I got that in Texas? Would you kill?
They sent me that picture when you went that little thing?
Oh that was that pet there? That was Kojak. That
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guy had that deer named and everything. When Leif called me,
He's like, yeah, I got old Kojack. He was feeding
it shaven the first picture. He was feeding him out
of his hand with corn right there, acting with a
four pound hammer. That's right. But so what about you?
I mean, are you turkey hunting or you men?
Speaker 12 (32:51):
Or I haven't had a chance. I've been fishing every day.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I've been listening, you know, out there and snight, just
trying to see if I could hear one. I wasn't
going out there if I would have heard him. But
I ain't heard nothing either.
Speaker 13 (33:00):
I will say this one of my one of my
close friends, he's a very avid turkey hunter, another good friend.
Speaker 12 (33:05):
He's a he's a guy.
Speaker 13 (33:07):
They've they've already they've already killed over fifty osiolas this season.
And he said the same thing. These birds are not
as vocal as normal this year, and big things. You
get one, you get one to respond. Just sit there,
he's coming. It might be an hour, might be two hours,
but he's coming.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Well that that guy, that the onnest guy that I
notice any good at turkey hunting. He said, he chased
that bird the first six days and it's not he said.
He gobbled twice when he come off wit never said
another word. So finally he pinpointed where he was at,
and you know when he come down that time on
the seventh day, he finally killed him. He said, But
he was the onest turkey you heard in that area.
(33:44):
And he said he.
Speaker 13 (33:44):
Usually here's turkeys everywhere in there. Well, for me, the
late season tactics. You know, I preferred to hunt a
little later in the morning, you know, or later in
the day. You know, they get hinged up, and then
once they break away from those hens, the hens want
to go nest.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Kenn's got out hard his bag with that that scratch
feed and it's shaking it.
Speaker 12 (34:02):
Boy, No, no, no, not scratched it wild bird seed.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
It's detective man. Me and Paul is gonna follow him
around every one day and catch him with that bird sack.
Oh man, leaf, you're gonna do any turkey heating or not? Yeah,
I plan on fucking good day off.
Speaker 12 (34:19):
That's the thing I used to be every day off
it's raining.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
You want to hunt with me, we'll just you know,
on this misty morning, every ride around with that two
twenty three.
Speaker 12 (34:29):
They'll be in the corners of the roads.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
We'll be in a white four door. But uh no, man,
I want to go. You know, Georgia just opened up.
I think this past weekend or the weekend before, I'm
not sure, but uh, all them boys is fired up.
They've been, you know, been having some good luck. What's
the weekend?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Back porch doll start working and you hear a turkey.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
That's probably the pets next door. But that's fine too,
as long as you video and I could act like
I'm calling him and then I killed a pet. Tell
my story. I want to. One of my client's son
in law has just got a good one up in Moultie,
Nick Newton, he just killed a good one in Multie, Georgia. Yeah,
got open in the weekend. Yeah, they was. As a
matter of fact, there's a young and on the Woods
(35:11):
and Waterfront page. I think his spurs is an inch
and three eighth. You know, that's pretty good for that's
a good bird. And yeah, I'll just be happy to
kill the deck. At this point, all my buddies have
been prompted. They gonna take you. But we gotta go
to a quick commercial, guys, and we'll be right back
for the final saying gouse state tak All right, guys,
(35:37):
welcome back to the Big Ben Outdoor Show. We got
miss Ava right here with Ava Outdoors. Uh she's a
charter captain out of Saint Mark's, Florida, and uh she's
also a big, big time turkey hunter. Aver, tell us
a little about what you've been doing with the with
the turkey hunting.
Speaker 9 (35:52):
Oh, I just got back from Texas. We went with
Combat Marine Outdoors and Honor Tribe Outdoors and they helped
win warriors go turkey unning. So I got to go
out there and guide yep, right around San Angelo. It's
like thirty minutes from there.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
How'd everything go?
Speaker 9 (36:07):
I mean, it's good. Everybody got a turkey.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Everybody got a turkey.
Speaker 9 (36:10):
Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
So y'all didn't have to really chase them and pull
your hair out trying to figure out which what it was?
It bad?
Speaker 9 (36:16):
Oh, it was bad, Yeah, we did. It was a
ten thousand acre ranch, lots and lots of walking. But
I mean turkeys are going to get on creeks and
rivers and stuff. So we got on them. But they
didn't want to they didn't want to talk. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
The weather messed up out there.
Speaker 9 (36:31):
Well, you know how it is out there. It's like
a desert. And it rained. Literally one of the days
we were out there, it hailed.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
On us and it probably ain't rained in a month.
That did kind of roughire dodging. Dodging. Hell, I'm sure
y'all what was not in it was you?
Speaker 9 (36:45):
No, we came back to the camp, ate some food.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
That's the first thing you had to do was sleep right.
Speaker 9 (36:51):
Oh yeah, yeah. So we walked around. We got on
some though, but they wanted to gobble in the morning.
Shut up when they get off the limb, that sort
of thing. It's hard to hunt tur you can't hear
how many snakes you run across. I didn't run across
any and I was scared because I haven't heard about
them rattlesnakes out there. I was like, oh no, I
gotta bring some. I brought bird shot with me. I
was like, if I see them, I'm going to shoot them.
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I made sure I brought some. I didn't see a
single snake.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
See if I went, they'd have been fifty them surround me.
When one of them gets at me, I just feel
like I can't move, Like I cannot go nowhere and
backwards whatever.
Speaker 9 (37:25):
No, my hunt will be ruined. I will be shooting
the snake.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
I'm scared of the death of a snake. That's reading.
I don't turkey hunt. That's the reason I can't get
I told ten of them I go with them on
the edge of the field or something. But I ain't
going out there and through that swamp messing with cotton
mouth relegators there.
Speaker 9 (37:39):
Yeah, so that was my first time in Texas. And
you know they say everything wants to bite you or
poke you or sting you. Yeah. Yeah, everything wanted to
bite you, poke your sting you. It's crazy.
Speaker 12 (37:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (37:49):
You try to just get up here and grab a tree.
Do not grab the tree. It's he got thorned all
over it. It's like everything. Right when we got there,
scorpion crawled right by my shoe.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I was like, oh, okay, here we go. Did y'all
shooting and jack rabbits swing as are No?
Speaker 9 (38:03):
But I saw a couple while I was sitting down
underneath the tree. They'd like run right by me. They
didn't even see me. Yeah, it was cool. I've never
seen one in person either.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Do they have horns? You know, you'd always see that.
I think it was a mesquite Charlie's the old big
chainer of steak house restaurants. They always had that jack
rabbit in there with the horn, and I always thought
that was real.
Speaker 9 (38:26):
They got some of Texas Roadhouse too.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
I think it looks real, it does it. It's just
like the you know, the Sasquatch I got in the
store down there, the head that's been there since the eighties.
It's the deer's butt upside down, and everybody thinks, yeah,
they're trying to handle them kids, I ain't getting near that.
It's what's gonna happen right here. I'm gonna put you
in these woods down here, you acting up, and you're
gonna get to see something like this. So all the
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kids are scared of death and their parents come in there,
they don't want to get near it. I'm like, anna
mess with them, like they're gonna be scared of dark
and everything.
Speaker 10 (38:57):
But that's a big trip to Texas.
Speaker 9 (38:59):
Yeah, we were there for three days.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Do y'all hunt anywhere else besides, you know, out of.
Speaker 9 (39:05):
The state, Not really. No, I've been to Georgia some,
but we don't really turn camp much anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
How long have y'all been helping with I know I
met your daddy about the same time I started doing
the fishing with the combat Marines. Do you remember was
talking about it with Tanner? Yes, the RAGONI Foundation, Yes,
that's there. You know her daddy was the and was
you doing it too? I wasn't doing it, he was,
you know, doing a lot of the turkey hunt guys,
you know, for them there because we'd have turkey hunting,
(39:32):
hog hunting, and fishing, you know, all at the same time.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
In March, I can't say enough about when it comes
to supporting our America's finest. You can't get back enough
for people that go and and put their life on
the line to defend our freedom. Uh, it's just I
worked with John Swanson obviously Vice president for six years
with Fishing for the Brave and it was hard work,
(39:56):
but man, it's so rewarding, you know to do that.
So I know the country you're talking about in Texas, Yeah,
that's not that's not camping country.
Speaker 10 (40:04):
That's rough. That's rough turf out.
Speaker 9 (40:06):
It was definitely coolest in to everybody's stories and stuff
and like talking to people they've literally been blown up,
like they've been lit up, and it was cool like
taking them and you know, you got to go slow
and stuff, but it was fine.
Speaker 10 (40:17):
Like, well, I'll tell you what's really cool.
Speaker 8 (40:20):
It's something that you mentioned a little while ago that
the folks listening to the guys everybody out there listening
hasn't heard he was Mom won the Trout division in
the Rock the Dock tournament.
Speaker 9 (40:32):
Yes she did, first time Teresa Mercer.
Speaker 8 (40:35):
Teresa Mercer first place in the trout division and a
daughters turkey hunting with veterans.
Speaker 10 (40:42):
Out in Texas.
Speaker 8 (40:44):
Moms went in the fishing tournament. I mean, come on, now,
this family's got to.
Speaker 10 (40:48):
Go on home.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
That's crazy.
Speaker 10 (40:51):
Tell us about tell us about that. I'm sure mom
had something to say about.
Speaker 9 (40:55):
Oh god, yeah she was. She was excited about kind
of walk through the door.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Really. Oh yeah, congratulation her and I was probably in competition,
that's what she don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 9 (41:05):
Because that was the first time she fished all year.
Speaker 10 (41:09):
Really, yes, well, you know what, my congratulations.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
She didn't give mama the credit. Daddy put her on.
Speaker 9 (41:19):
To that's all. She was a trout all day and
it was the biggest one.
Speaker 10 (41:23):
She thought, one fish, that's it was the biggest fish. Hey,
I can't blame the lady that knows how.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
To fish if she went, yeah, five pound trap in
my boat on tournament day, I'm knocking people out the counnel,
line up the scale. My boat is thinking, with this
big trout, get out of the way.
Speaker 8 (41:46):
Well, we're proud sponsors. Was that here at iHeartMedia and
have been for the past fifteen years. The Yeah, Rock
the Dock as well as Rock and Red Beer in
the Oystern Festival as well as the Blue Crab Festival
in September. And the thing is is all that money
goes to scholarships to help kids going to college. Man,
I've been so proud of being a part of that
for so many years. It's been really really great. And
(42:09):
to hear your mom won, that's super event.
Speaker 9 (42:12):
That makes it you know, that's awesome do with the
Beer and Oyster Festival.
Speaker 10 (42:16):
We sponsored the event.
Speaker 8 (42:17):
We have seven radio stations here in Tallahasse, so we
do all their marketing and advertising for the event and
then return they promote us to that audience and everything.
So it's a great relationship and everything. We drew the event.
The Beer and Oyster event drew in between eight to
ten thousand.
Speaker 10 (42:38):
People this year.
Speaker 9 (42:39):
Well, yeah, we were there my parents on one of
the oyster farms.
Speaker 10 (42:42):
Perfect.
Speaker 8 (42:43):
See, we keep opening this can it keeps the lig
keeps farther back and we're learning more and more about
am so tell us about that oyster farm.
Speaker 9 (42:54):
Yeah, so they they're out in Skipper Bay.
Speaker 10 (42:57):
So that's I had their oysters, no oysters.
Speaker 8 (43:03):
Okay, so was a sponsor I had these tickets, yeah yeah,
and I went that was the first, honest hand first
place on win tab oss yep OSS's.
Speaker 9 (43:16):
That's their company, yep crazy.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
And we got a I forgot to mention this while ago.
Jay's gonna kick my butt on this one. But we
got the first Annual Fishing Tournament Classic, that's what he
calls it at Jr's UH. It's gonna be kids fifteen
and under. There's gonna be four categories. First place one
hundred and fifty, second and third place gets prize packages
(43:38):
heaviest five fish brim, heaviest five bag limited catfish, heaviest
single red fish, and heaviest slot speckled trap. You can
restare at Jr's UH store. You can restare at Rockies
on ninety eight World War Color, the Woodville Ace Hardware,
Kevin's Sporting Goods, and you know the sponsors right now.
Of course, you know it's got Jr's Rockies Ace, and
(44:00):
we got also Kevin's, you know, sponsoring it. The rules
on the tournament is kids must hook and bring the
fish in. Of course, you got to be at the
wigh in by two o'clock and also have fun. Were
also gonna have backpacks and stuff to give away school
supplies because it's gonna be in August. I'm looking at
August tenth.
Speaker 10 (44:18):
That's what it's gonna be put in the calendar. And
we'll make sure that we get.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
Yeah, because we are. We are still looking for more
sponsors because I'm hoping we got a big turnout for kids.
Of course, especially kids that's needing help with school supplies
and stuff. It's gonna it's gonna do them good too.
Speaker 10 (44:33):
So and I know a real large furniture company to
be all over.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
There, no doubt, no doubt, you ain't got a hissitate
to ask her. She's already, he's already. That's that's one thing.
That's that's that's a given right now. She'd be like,
where do you want me to get them? And how
many I need to get?
Speaker 10 (44:51):
You know, doing it for the kids fifteen and under,
that's what's so cool. I'll tell you.
Speaker 8 (44:56):
If you've never been to one of these events, folks,
you gotta go and check it out. I went to
the Turkey It was amazing. The Turkey Hunt, the kids
Turkey Hunt, those those j rs he did a turkey
for kids, a turkey.
Speaker 10 (45:11):
Hunt for kids competition.
Speaker 8 (45:12):
These kids are hauling these turkeys and they about as
long as they are taking and they got they shot
it with their own shotgun.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
And I made sure I asked all all of them
right from the parents who killed this turkey if they
looked up.
Speaker 8 (45:27):
But the thing, what about and the rabbit hunt? Now
that was impressive. No, it wasn't rabbit squirrelirl. Yeah, I
had the squirrel hunt. I ain't never seen to be
tree reds in my life. I mean, it was crazy
about that.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
That was That was a good turnout. They were all.
Speaker 10 (45:43):
You know at the time.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
But I'll tell you I had a great trip with
talking about the dog tournament real quick with Tanner. Uh,
with Swift Creek Outfitters.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (45:51):
If you want to go out and go fish on
the airboat, have fun, call Tanner. Here's your man.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
So how'd y'all do on that trip Dell Fishing?
Speaker 10 (45:58):
Well, Saturday we went.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
We got one story. We want to hear your side
of the story.
Speaker 10 (46:01):
Well, I think we did all right.
Speaker 8 (46:03):
We caught some fish, didn't catch a lot of fish,
caught a couple do some red fish there wasn't a
lot of fish caught, you know, conditions for what they
were and everything. But I tell you something, I got
to spend some quality time with Tanner and he's just
a super guy. And not only that, but it was
good to sit on an airboat, okay, because I haven't
been on an airboat since I was in my early twenties.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
That's right. We didn't take the airboat, do we I forgot.
Speaker 8 (46:28):
And we were in his airboat and uh semin old
Wendy calls it. And I'm gonna tell you something that's enjoyable.
I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 10 (46:37):
That was fun.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Me and Paul's got one question though. We just want
to know the honest truth.
Speaker 10 (46:41):
Now, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Did or did not Tanner catch a catfish? I got?
Speaker 10 (46:46):
Okay, really good, that's right.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
Well, we know what happened there. That's true. Tanner caught
a catfish. Dale says he's got a video that he
won't a mit it day.
Speaker 5 (46:56):
You know what.
Speaker 8 (46:57):
Honestly, you know what he caught that thuff. He reeled
it up and I've seen it as he's getting and
I said, you got a catfish? And he said no
to us, refish, I said, turn out, I got video
on you. He said, don't look, I got most cut
off the hook.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
Guys, we are running out of time this week. We
appreciate you'all tuning in to us every Saturday morning, eight
to nine on ninety six five The Spear.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Thank you all 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 the free iHeartRadio app
This is the Big Bend Outdoor Show with Joel Baldry.
Today's guest include Captain Kenny Mullins. Here's your special guest host,
Captain Paul Tyer.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome to the Big Ben Outdoor Show. We got Captain
Joel Baltry calling in today. This is Captain Paul Tyre
and we got Captain Kenny Mullens.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I hear y'all been getting a lot of doing picking
a lot of pick up trash down there. Tell us
what's going on, guys.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Well, you know, Joe's been doing a lot of sitting around.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
But sitting around, I know you've been driving that Airbane
around anywhere.
Speaker 5 (00:33):
He don't know what he's talking about. He's too behaving
gas Florida.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Are y'all part of the trash pick up like you've
been doing?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Joel's up? What y'all still doing?
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Yeah, we're working cleaning up the bing the canals and
stuff the dogs and owls. Is this float in the canals?
I just got started yesterday and there's a lot and
a lot I mean a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Wow wow.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And uh I heard you was out with a Duck
Dynasty person.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
That wasn't there wasn't Duck Dynasty. He's he's down there
working on a barge of his Chase Landry.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I'll swamp people, Okay, I'll swamp people. Okay, all right, Well.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Man, yeah, he's down here working. He actually moved to Florida.
I didn't know he moved to Florida, but he moved
to Florida and he's down here working. Really, he's running
the barge.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
A small world. You run into people's see on TV
all the time. Wow, sometimes you don't even know that
they're there. Yeah, kind of like Kenny. You know, we
always see him on that Mary Kate commercial putting make
it up, and I see him all the time.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I'm gonna let that one slide.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
Yeah, about like other CAFs. Not like them cafes in
your cooler, they slide right on in.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Hey, hey, but I'm on the Swawnee River with the
freshwater caf is here over there on the salt water
with a cooler for cat fish.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Well, they all trapped outside the can own, that's for sure.
And all oh, good year, Oh what you been doing?
They all been driving you crazy?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I tell you what. Man, You know she had that
accident and uh man, this bit it was just a blessing.
You know that she wouldn't more hurt than she was,
you know, burt no broken balls, had a cat scan.
Everything was fine, but just bruised up real bad. Had
to had to lay up for a few days. But
got her new car yesterday. So she's she's back and doing. Man,
(02:32):
I tell you what, right now, these deers, you know, people,
people be careful when you're on the road, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Yeah, she definitely end to watch out for the deer,
especially this time the year when the rut starts kicking off.
They all said the thanking lot, you know, kind.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Of like kiddy, how'd y'all like that cooler? Well this morning?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Oh no, but this gold at the same time. Yeah,
thirty seven, I won't get this smart.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, I had I saw on my boat this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Really yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Yeah, yeah, that's a cool I had about three pairs
of clothes, don't plus my overall.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah, that's what you have to do when you don't work.
You gotta dress warmer.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Yeah. I know it's going a fan for a reason.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
You know that poots the air and three you literally
through you, but you actually have to get on it
and run it.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Well, you know, I run it.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I run it when it camp.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
That's all that matters. I got grabby service.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Yeah, it's a it's definitely a mess out here. We
we've been on the Swanny River in dash for for
three days and we've made it uh not quite a
half a mile picking up for debris.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
That's crazy. If I went over there, it's tearing up stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
You had thirty hours of clean up and we haven't
even been a half Come on, wow, A what you
been doing I've been doing. I've been on.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, I've been doing some fishing up to this Saturday
that the pass.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Bits didn't put it ten up on that Someone on
man out here on Lake Talquin too, they've been biting
pretty good down there. We have a little bit of
dirty water up there on the flint, but it's starting
to clear up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
And man, they've been biting.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
I think this cool weather is gonna let even fire
get them fired up a little bit more. How about
down there with all that to break and people even fishing, you.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Know, with them they can't even get out and mount
of come out and the grammars is hacking to work.
The people only be running out fishing down there because
it's just a mass right now, these shirts roads, all
kinds of stuff getting tailed up in people's crops. Wow,
this is down to fill and stuff. So and'll be
fighting the tides too, I mean coming into the winter tides,
(04:53):
it's gonna go and get worse from here on out.
You know, the Northway at twenty mile hour, you ain't
got no water. So the margins came back. So there
there this morning was flying mud trying to get get
stuff cleaned up. You know, it's just pad So that's
that's the thing we're fighting, or just you know, it's
it's gonna take time. It's gonna take us, you know,
(05:14):
Marco time with the order situation and the savage free
and stuff in the canals, and they ain't just keeping
its eagles on the Dark Island, Cedar all the places.
Is terrible.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
See you think it'll they clean up, will go all
the way into of course next year, into the summer
next year.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah, I look into it, honestly, at least in the spring.
I mean, they gotta make sure or three passes ever,
and they got to dig down because a lot of
that stuff got buried up in the mud, that got
pushed in canals already shallow as it is, you know,
for my being dredged and so long, and now it's
just made it worse.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, and if they don't dig it out of that
that muck, it's just gonna come back up like you
did after Idellia.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Yeah, it's us said. There was a lot to do dinner,
and they honestly need a dredge when they get all
that stuff freshly done, get a blowed on out, John,
you know, I.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Said, are they are they having plans to come in
and dredge, Joel?
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Is that in the But they've been they've been supposed
to go and dred what came top six years?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, so they got the first allocation of funding in
two thousand and sixteen.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Actually, yeah, you know they're supposed to do it after
Scotland season this year. Of course we ain't had nothing
to hurricane after hurricane, so that set it back. Now
this is gonna set it back even longer. So's definitely
got to be done. And now that they've got in
the canal pretty much shit, now now is the time
to do it. Yeah, they need to blow out bad Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Have you heard anything about that? Kenny yourself what's that?
Have you heard anything about that? I know you have
anybody you can reach out.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Yeah, so, like he said, it was planned to be
done this fall, but you know, this is kind of
delay things. I mean, there's no way they can dredge
right now. They got to get all that debris out
before they can run a dredge.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Bump in there.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
It'll just be a mess, right And you know, from
what I'm hearing, it's it'll be at least six months
of the breed clean up.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
It's not more. Wow, for sure, that's that's something.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Is there plenty of people down there? Did you get
some of the captains working?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Kenny?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Like he was talking about trying to get some of
the one of the seam of money. I don't know
how you what that was?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
You was working on that?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yeah? So so last year. Yeah, I was the contract
holder for the.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
All right, but we got it.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We got Joe Captain Joe Jumpmaldry back on the phone
with us. Joe, Man, it's man, it's good to hear
from you, brother. I know y'all been busy down there,
You and Kenny. I think Kenny fell to fault.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Y'all.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Just the service down there is still messed up, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Yeah, that's miss messed up. Man, they loved stuff, still
messed up.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Well, is there anything y'all y'all need down there that
that people that we need to put out that people
might know that anything y'all y'all need in the area.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
What you're seeing, they still.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Uh just stripping out a lot of stuff, I mean,
really honest, So we don't it's it's been people have
been real good about donating stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
So that's awesome. That's awesome. I know, Uh Dell was
down there last Sunday. I think they gave out like
three hundred and sixty plates of food, uh with with
that company that that caters. It was it was incredible
what he was telling.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Me about it.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Yeah, man, they've done a pic of a job.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
They was gone before I even got back. They wouldn't
even they were seeing you, right, They wouldn't even save
me a plate.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Colley.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Yeah, it is all.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But yeah, man, I tell you, that's that's something else.
But you know, when you know, when you have a
you know, that's what Americans is all about. Brother, When
you have a crisis of bad cituor you know you've
got people coming together. I'm sure you've got people down
there going to try to steal something, you know, but
that's nothing compared to what you're seeing people helping.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Am I correcting saying that.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt there's a lot more people helping
them still, as I can tell you.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's you know, that's the people. That's
how we are in the South, you got, you know,
and it's really that way across America. I just I
just hope with this election coming up, we get so
we get you know, that goes away. It needs to
go and and the government and the people that can
see what's going on down there and just get that dredging,
you know, because you know a lot of way that
brings in income to that area is fishing, you know,
(09:38):
Am I correct?
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Oh Yeah, that's some That's the main thing right here,
man of a fishing and a commercial fishing. You know,
it's just like Pantasa and everywhere else. You know, they
depend on the pay their bills. You know, fishing commercial
is crabbing or lolla or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
That's right now.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I hear the stone crab there's because of the storm.
Is this correct, Joel? That there's a big stone crab plentiful.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Is that correct? Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:02):
Yeah, they they they're everywhere. Yeah, they still they se
grabbers going out and they have.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
A real good fuck.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah that's what I heard.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
That's a blessing.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, you know, that's kind of kind of interesting how
you have something like that happened, might mess up some
of the fishing, but then it's made. It stirred that
water up and got the crabs moving and now they're
now they're we're plentiful.
Speaker 9 (10:21):
You know.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
It's just like the mullet. The mullet usually comes in
man and piles like that. Uh, you know, when the
storms come in, they collin storm mullet would be twenty
five twenty six inches long.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Really wow, pushes pushing out there from the from the
from the big from the big, big ocean and pushes
them up shallow.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Huh oh yeah. Then that disappear and then usually about
mid November, your run mullet come in.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Right.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
They last a couple of full moons right there.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Wow. Wow, man, I tell you, I tell you, we
got about about forty seconds left. You know, I want
to sure do appreciate you, Joe on what you're doing.
You and Kenny down there and just you know, everybody
working together, and it's it's it's a process. It's gonna
get it's gonna get back the way it should be.
It's probably gonna be better when he gets back to
where it should be.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
You know, right, no doubt, no doubt. It's uh, it's
somevery time, but at least it started.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
All right.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Well, God bless you, brother, the boys trying to move
these these barges and them, and I can't hardly.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Hear you, brother.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
I'll talk to y'all later, all right, and.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I'll get that we go, all right, God bless you man,
Thank you, Joel.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Oh you too many guys.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I tell you that's you know, that's that's live. You
know him down there, you know, doing what he can
do to make the community better down there, and what
they're doing picking.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Up the trash and real quick. I thought these Landry
boys are supposed to be strong. Got one that can't
even move a barge. Oh boy, he's ever on the
front of it. Yeah. I thought they'd checked them alligators
and stuff, and they strong and tough. I reckon, I'm
going to get show him how to do it, all right,
go show.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Them how to do it well, that's all right, talk
to you later. Well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's that's the that's first, that's saving the Big Ben
Outdoor Show.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Guys. Appreciate y'all.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Listen in and we're going to have some The next
three seconds is going to be some of the best
shows we've had to pass. Can't really keep them on
the fall. They're busy getting some stuff done over there.
But we should do appreciate you again. This is Captain
Paul Tyer.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
To creep that outdoor ship. Great, hey, guys, welcome back
to the show. We got mister Dall. He's wanting to
tell us a little bit of a turkey story.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
Yeah, my friend Tom comes around over spring. I always
know when springtime has arrived because I go out in
the morning and I take the dog out, and uh,
the other morning, I was out and it's all fogged up,
and I could hear the gobbling in the distance, and uh,
I tried getting my call out. Now, I thought about it,
(12:51):
and I said, no, leaves that alone and just enjoy it.
But I did immediately text Tanner, and I first thing
I thought it was him. I was like, man, I
bet he's in the woods hunting this morning, and all.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
But uh, so he was hunting before the season starts.
Speaker 10 (13:09):
Huh No, Saturday, well, I wasn't hunting. I walked out
of the house.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Putting, scratched feet out, took my dog out.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
I was outside my Yeah, my plays putting the letting
the dog out. And there's a turkey into day. But
every spring, uh, in Jefferson County where we live, we
got a we got a big turkey that comes around
and hollers and gets everybody all crazy, and.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
That he leaves.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
But in the meantime, how about you, man, You've been
seeing them.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
You've been hearing them, been seeing them, been hearing them.
Speaker 11 (13:45):
And I had a youth killing with me on Sunday morning.
It's been it's been good. Saturday morning was raining and
kind of nasty weather, and I took my four year
old daughter for the first time. And uh we didn't
get too far and get to walk real far and
go too deep in there, just because you know how
it is carrying a four year old with you. But
(14:05):
she did good, and I got in the truck. Saturday afternoon,
I drove down to Cassemi, south of Kassemi on the
Deseret Ranches. Down there, my uncle was a part of
a big hunting club, Heritag Hunting Club, and we went
Sunday morning, didn't hear any turkeys at all. It was
windy and raining again and got to be about eleven
(14:26):
o'clock and we decided to eat a little breakfast in
the rule on the club down there, as you can
only hunt till one, so we decided to go back out.
We had like an hour and a half and we
went to a spot he had frequently saw turkeys, and
we walked probably a quarter mile up this road into
like it was a big hammock that it opened up
to another pasture with big live oaks in it, and
(14:49):
kind of got back there and I called one time
and I got a hen fired up, answered me, I
was going back in too with her, and then the
gallar he fired up, and so he started gobbling a
little bit down right there immediately, and the palmettas was
a big live oak and some palmetas in front of
his good natural blind and uh, he had three jakes
with him too that we didn't see well. They got
(15:10):
in between me and the galller and he didn't like that.
The jakes, I guess were coming to take the hen
because once they came so close to me, Ashley, you
could see the bristles up on top of his head.
You could have reached out there and just smacked him.
But the Galller he came right on then, and my
my cousin Brooks, he was able to get a shot
on him and smoking. I was a twelve gage straight
(15:32):
and a half.
Speaker 12 (15:32):
That's a beautiful property down there.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Isn't it.
Speaker 11 (15:35):
Oh man, that's gorgeous.
Speaker 10 (15:36):
Yes, I work with them on tracking dogs. Okay, the
biologist there.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
And that's it's it's swampy.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
Yeah, there's some swampy spots, but it's I mean, it's
gorgeous far as pasture and old Cyprus domes.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
That's what. I didn't mean to interrupt your tennant, but
that's you know, I don't know nothing about turkey hunt,
like I said once before, But if you kill one
of these swamps or in South Georgia wherever, you know,
you're doing something these guys calling them out these fields.
I could probably do that, you know, with a box
call and get one killed. But when you in these
woods and you running through the swamps and getting ahead
(16:08):
of the turkey and stuff, and you know you gotta
wait till you see them at the right time because
there's palmata trees everywhere, snakes, you know, don't mean if
you don't forget the snakes and they are crawling now.
I seen everybody starting to see rattlesnakes and Moccason's real good.
But that's that's a big challenge. I mean, yeah, the
birds ain't as big, you know, as they are Middle
Georgia and you know, Missouri or wherever you know, but
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still it's the challenge. And speaking of that with the youth,
you know, the nine that we had killed, they were
all you know, I think we had one bird that
was maybe fifteen pounds. The rest of them was anywhere
from seventeen to twenty I think the biggest one of
twenty five pounds.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
So was that fifteen pounds or a hybrid or was
osceola or what or was it just young?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Was a swamp bird. It's a swamp bird. I mean,
they don't get that big down there and around three
rivers and stuff. Them guys are telling me that they're
they're all small like that. That's reading the plantation birds always.
Speaker 12 (16:57):
Be curious because you know that genary line. But we
do have Osiola's in this.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Yeah, and typically they already smaller, and you're talking to
the wrong guy about Ostiola's and the colors and stuff.
You need to be talking. That's why I looked at Tanner. Yeah,
don't don't look that question.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Thought maybe Tanner was there, but he was away in
I just think that's something that a lot of people,
you know, may not realize.
Speaker 11 (17:18):
We do have some Astiolas in this, There's no doubt
about it.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
So I hunt.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
I've hunted a lot on a private piece in San
Pedro Bay, and I've killed uh several turkeys out there,
and there's a dramatic difference from one to the other.
One has the broke up barring on his wings pretty
much black, and then I've killed some with solid white
barn on them and they're there. They look almost six
inches taller than though the turkey they one is just
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it's just a smaller frame.
Speaker 12 (17:45):
Talk on average four to five six pound different.
Speaker 11 (17:48):
Yeah, and they're they all the Osiola has always had
bigger spurs too.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And you know, our winners, you know, it turned out good,
you know, And like I said, we'd like to appreciate
all our sponsors. Uh, Michael Lean with Michael Lynn's home building.
We had Advance Auto, uh you know, Tatar Paget with
Pageant lawn Care and sept the tanks. We had Massier
you know properties, who else, a National Sign Tech and
(18:15):
we had you know, a couple more that. It was
just parents donating and that's what made us feel so good.
You know, Dal was out there when the squirrel hunt
happened and he was really amazed by that. But it
was the same way with the turkey hunt. Even the
kids that didn't kill something, they still showed up. So
first place with Beard, I think the beer was sixteen
had one eleven inch Beard won five inch Beard. Of course,
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you got to come together to make you know, one
beard and he wanted, which was Cooper Wilds. He was
hunting with Kent and Tetter and uh they had you
know that was that was a good sized bird too.
I think he was twenty one twenty two pounds. And
then you had Maddox Maddox Wives, which was hunting with
Graham Lynn, Michael Linn's son, and he had he had
(18:57):
some hooks on that when they both spurs was an
engine three aches, I mean it was it was a
good bird, real good burden and you know honeycomb calls.
You know they mentioned this on Facebook and stuff, and uh,
you know that's what that's what Graham likes, using honeycomb calls.
I don't know you had a little bit of experience
for them. Have you used them yet?
Speaker 9 (19:15):
I have?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And you know they say they're pretty good calls. You
lock them too, don't you.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
Turn That's about all I use anymore.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah. And he's a local guy, and yeah.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
He's from Perry, uh, Daniel Wentworth. He does mouth calls,
slate calls, the whole.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
We didn't use a mouth call. We need to try
to get him on the show. Yeah, that's a good
idea and get him up here, you know, and talk
a little bit about it.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
He makes some fine Turkey calls.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
All right, Dan, if you listening, brother, we need you
up here next Yeah, next week. We got to get
you up here and you know, get talking about your
calls because you know this morning they Turkey season opening.
It's gonna be in its prime. I'm sure they're saying
we got another cold front coming. Is that anything to that?
I'm about tired of it. I've been watching that Mike's
weather page. You know, he's pretty accurate. He stays on
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top of the weather. He tells you, tells you what's
going on weekend, advances day by day, and uh, he's
said that the cold weather's not everywhere it yet. So
what is that gonna do? What is that gonna do
to the turkeys? What is that gonna do? As far
as the turkey hunting, they ain't gonna mess with anything.
Speaker 11 (20:13):
It should And they're probably rolling on pretty hard now
and you ain't won't stop it. It'll roll its course.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
That's good, that's good.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
See, I think a little bit of cold weather's got
them going good.
Speaker 11 (20:22):
Yeah, on the rainy days, you know, they might not
do much. But the next day when it's forty five
out there, he's gonna be singing that.
Speaker 13 (20:28):
With the rainy days is when you just ride them
roads and you say, standing in the corner of the road.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
That's cheating.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
So yeah, Kenny saying he's shooting them out with a rifle.
Speaker 13 (20:38):
No, you spot them and then they run off and
you you just jump out the truck and let someone
keep driving.
Speaker 12 (20:43):
You stage up right there and they're coming.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
Back to the corner road.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
That's legal, that's legal. So he don't turkey tactic. He
don't really call him, but back back in the you
tunt real quick. I want to finish up on it.
I keep you know, getting in the sidetrack talking about
calls and stuff. But you know, they was the top
three prizes, you know, first and second Beard Beard you know,
got a shotgun, Brandy shotgun. They got to pick what
gun they wanted to second plate or the second which
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was the spurs. He got to pick a shotgun out
of the three that they had donated. And the third
one just had a drawing and I think sew Lundy
won that. But the rest of the kids, we took
all the entry money, everything and went right back. We
didn't profit nothing off of that. Every kid that killed
a turkey got seventy five dollars, whether they want a
gun or not. So and we explained to the kids
(21:29):
about the outdoors and staying in and how important it
was to be a part of it. And we really
encouraged the parents, and we appreciated the parents cause if
it wasn't for them, they wouldn't be there. Even the
guys that donated their time. There was the guys there
that you know, didn't have a kid in the fight.
But they wanted to help with the youth, and they
went and got you know, turkeys killed. So that was
that was a big deal to us. And like I said,
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once again, seriously, parents, we really appreciate y'all putting the
kids in the spot to being outdoors even if you
you know, you're working or whatever, if you know, if
anybody needs any help with that, you know, encouraging the
kids to staying outdoors because it keeps them out of trouble.
It really does. And you know, whether it's fishing, hunting, whatever,
if you if you're hiking, you know, it's still they're
(22:11):
getting out and exploring the nature and what it really
means and learn about it. You know. So we really
appreciate that. What you got to say, I know you
got something to say else. Can you what what do
you want to say about a turkey?
Speaker 13 (22:23):
Now I wasn't gona say anything about a tree, but
I want to touch on something you said about the
youth keeping them involved in the outdoors and keep them
out of trouble. One thing about it, Nothing is cheap
in the outdoors and they won't be able to afford
it get into any trouble.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
That that is true, that there ain't nothing cheap, but
to keep them off the streets and keep them out,
you know, away from the bars. And that's that's what
that means a lot. And like I said, it was
just unbelievable. We probably have what sixty seventy people there.
Speaker 13 (22:50):
I think, you know, you know what, why don't we
why don't we make a just pick a weekend or
a weekend day and let's let's get some youth out
there fishing. Let's donate some time, take some kids fish.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Hey, I'm down with that. I'm down anytime.
Speaker 10 (23:03):
You know.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
We's got the satur date and we need to get
more people interacting. It's Dale's phone ringing in the middle
of our show. I think it's Dale's phone. I call
everybody I don't know.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
And that's what calls from another country.
Speaker 13 (23:21):
I thought maybe I thought maybe it was just that
soft music because we were having a moment.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Chairman talk again.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
But yeah, and this is where we need to get
people interacting on our on our social media page, you know,
the Big Ben Outdoor Show. If we do this and
which we are going to do it, we need to
get people on there and uh, you know, get their
kid post a picture of your kid in the outdoors
and tell them the reason why that you know, we
need them, you know, to take the fishing just you
(23:55):
know what I mean. We want to learn a little
bit about you. And like I said, we don't care
who it is. We're gonna donate our time to do it.
And uh, you know, put them on some fish and
put them enjoyed, you know, a day on the golf
or wherever it's at, you know, whether it's fresh water
or whatever. You know, So we don't mind either way
as long as we getting out there and they're catching
some fish. I think we should do catfish so you
can teach us some tactics.
Speaker 11 (24:17):
Here we go. They could load the boat down with.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
You, Joel, and I bet they can. They learn from
the best day Tanner. We had to go to a
quick commercial. Guys, y'all stay tuned. It's gonna get even better.
All right, guys, welcome back to the Big Ben out
(24:39):
Door Show.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
We got Captain Leaf lunquess I got it right that time.
And we got mister Taylor on the phone. Taylor, what's
your last name? Brother? You said it wrong. He's gonna yeah,
leif got it wrong. After he's get on to me
about getting his last name wrong.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Yeah, you can't trust anything that causses.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah, inside, jack Man. What's the turkeys doing out there?
We usually got Captain Tanner talking about him right there,
but he decided to lay out there and go catfishing.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
I got you right now. Turkeys are hiding right now
from this wind. It's been blowing quite a bit, and
weather it's been pretty rough. But they've been getting pretty
hit hard by pressure lately. I've seen a lot of
people from out of state coming to Florida this year
to hunt, and but they're still gobbling. They're getting call shy,
(25:39):
and you know, but they're still out there. They're still
doing this thing. They're playing the game. You just got
to get out there when nobody's out there. You know,
weekday is always going to be the best, and trying
to get away from people is always going to be
the key. Right now, especially later on the season, they
get really smart after a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
You're talking about public land too, right.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Taylor, Yeah, Yeah, more geared towards public land. You know,
on private land, when you got corn and you don't
have people hunting them, it's a little bit different of
a game.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah. Well, see, that's what I've been hearing a lot
of except you know, around the Snipe Island area, they
say they ain't really want day and then even since
it started, the season ain't been really gobbling much. And
that's why a lot of people from there.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (26:19):
Yeah, And you know, you got two different areas we
hunt them down here in Florida. You know, generally you
have the Pine Flat and that's a very difficult place
to hunt because everything looks the same and you and
you really got to put some time in and try
to scout and try to find those birds when you
know there's no definable features. But the other parts of
where we hunt out here in Florida is going to
(26:39):
be your swamps, your rivers, your low lying areas. But
those have become increasingly difficult with all this rain that
we've gotten here in the past. Uh heck, yesterday we
had a downpour. But you know, it's hard to get
a bird to cross. You know, when there's a foot
of water separating between you and the sleuth that you
know it's between you and him. So it's uh, it's
definitely in the swamps, you got to find that bird
(27:00):
beforehand and get right up there underneath him, or else
you're gonna have a hard time getting to call him
and get him to cross and get to you. You know,
I would definitely suggest sticking to the pine flats right now,
where there's less water. It's going to be you know,
harder to find birds on the pine flats, but the
birds that you do find, at least you can make
a move on them and actually get close to them
(27:20):
without having to worry about sinking up to your hat
and water.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Yeah, I was, you know, I don't I don't know
much about turkey hunting at all, but you know, everybody
talks about killing these turkeys. You see them killing them
in the Midwest and everything, and you know they have
to go up to the mountain sometimes or you know,
walk them fields a little bit. But if they ain't
doing nothing until they kill one day here in the swamps,
you got to be Yeah, you got to be on
your toes down here.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Yeah, between everything trying to bite you down here, and
the turkeys they're very call shy down here, less is less,
There is always more with these turkeys down here. It's
not a you know, it's not a decoy game down
here as much as like it is out in the
Midwest and it's a bunch of crazy calling. It's it's
soft calling, and once you get their attention, shut up
(28:05):
because if you act too desperate form around here, they're
they're gonna catch on, especially this late on in the season.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah, it's just kind of like calling a big buck in.
You know, when when you hear him respond to your
grunt call, you don't do it no more because he's
gonna circle around and he will find if you keep
grunting it, he's gonna he knows where you're at that
first time. It's kind of like a turkey. I'm assuming
they know where you're at.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Absolutely, it's a psychology game. You're you're trying to peak
their interest, but you're not trying to say so much
to where something sounds off to him, because they know
when there's a difference between something that's natural and when
there's something that isn't natural. They pick on this, pick
that out pretty quickly.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
What what area you hunting in? No, I'm mistaking. I
ain't talking about like a Pacific area. I'm talking about
you hunting around you know, the Panaceri or Saint Mart's area.
You hunting, you know, the wards our area in Alcilla.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
Yeah, no, I've been hunting over there, the Apalachical and
National Forest.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
You know.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
I'll say that it's a large w ma A. It's
a million acres and uh, you know, but that's generally
where I've been been hunting at this season. I pulled
a few quota hunts here and there, but you know,
it's uh, the river, the river and the rain and
the swamps flooding has definitely changed the game around here.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We're I've been at I'd have to double check on
it too. And somebody was telling me yesterday that I
can't remember who it was, but they was telling me
that you ain't there. I think that's starting a seventh
and Snipe Island. There's a few day windows where you
ain't got to have a quota to hunt it, so
you can go in there without a quota.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Yep, yep, for sure, for sure. It's just uh, it's
everything around here with these w may's. Read your rules
because every w A is different and they change every
single year, and uh, you know, not not knowing the law.
There's no excuse for around here when the game warning
comes and checks on you.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah, that's true, because you don't definitely want me with
because he's gonna find us.
Speaker 13 (30:01):
I think I think they got tags and make that
all Silla outlaw name is what did?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah? But if I'm camouflaged up, they can't see the
Asila Outlaw.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
They just know.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
They just know I had I gotta ride If I
go with you turkey hunting around here, I gotta ride
with you in your truck and you got to pick
me up around back at the store. They can't see
and make sure you have a rubber snake. No, don't
have no snakes, would you? We ain't going and where
the snakes are at? I cancel that out.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
But are you you gonna hunt any in the Midwest
or anything this year?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (30:29):
No, I'm looking at going up to possibly Kentucky here soon.
You know, if when I do hunt out of state,
I try to chase the season openers. And you know,
I really really enjoy hunting and chasing those mountain birds
up there. It's a whole whole different feeling than you know.
Up there, you can see a mile across the valley
and you can hear a turkey from half a mile away.
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And even though you can hear them. There's nothing you
can do from a half mile away, uh, you know,
but it's it's nice and refreshing to get up there
in the cool air, get away from all the uh
Florida swamps and the bugs and the humidity that starts
heating up down here about the fourth week of turkey
season here.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, you just got to worry about mountain lions and
stuff up there, don't you. Are you afraid of mountain
lion I'm afraid of them. You got to worry about that.
I gotta worry about No, I ain't worried about it now.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
There's not too much worried about up there. You just
gotta be a little careful. There's not much service up there,
so something goes wrong, you better be able to figure
it out.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
That's true. That's true. Yeah, Tanner, I think he's going
to Texas. I want to say this is coming up
week weekend, and then he's going to Colorado sometime. I
don't know what time that season opens up. But those
Texas birds are big.
Speaker 13 (31:35):
When I was there hunting them, sand hill cranes, the
saw some turkey Texas Yeah, everything, Yeah, suppose.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I'll tell you the stuff that Joel thinks about it.
I'm not that, but deer in Turkey is probably bigger.
Speaker 13 (31:49):
Yeah, I mean when all the deer we saw our bigby,
but those turkeys in Texas are big.
Speaker 10 (31:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Well, brother, I know you got to get off here,
and we appreciate you calling.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
In with us, and yeah, no problem, looking forward to
having me.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Hey, looking forward to having you on the show right
before Turkey season ends.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
All right, sounds good, y'all have a good day.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
You too. Better be glad. I don't know nothing about
turkey hunting, or I'd be giving him a fit. It ain't.
None of y'all speak up either. You can't give him
a chance. Uh. I got that in Texas? Would you kill?
They sent me that picture when you went that little thing?
Oh that was that pet there? That was Kojak. That
(32:31):
guy had that deer named and everything. When Leif called me,
He's like, yeah, I got old Kojack. He was feeding
it shaven the first picture. He was feeding him out
of his hand with corn right there, acting with a
four pound hammer. That's right. But so what about you?
I mean, are you turkey hunting or you men?
Speaker 12 (32:51):
Or I haven't had a chance. I've been fishing every day.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I've been listening, you know, out there and snight, just
trying to see if I could hear one. I wasn't
going out there if I would have heard him. But
I ain't heard nothing either.
Speaker 13 (33:00):
I will say this one of my one of my
close friends, he's a very avid turkey hunter, another good friend.
Speaker 12 (33:05):
He's a he's a guy.
Speaker 13 (33:07):
They've they've already they've already killed over fifty osiolas this season.
And he said the same thing. These birds are not
as vocal as normal this year, and big things. You
get one, you get one to respond. Just sit there,
he's coming. It might be an hour, might be two hours,
but he's coming.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Well that that guy, that the onnest guy that I
notice any good at turkey hunting. He said, he chased
that bird the first six days and it's not he said.
He gobbled twice when he come off wit never said
another word. So finally he pinpointed where he was at,
and you know when he come down that time on
the seventh day, he finally killed him. He said, But
he was the onest turkey you heard in that area.
(33:44):
And he said he.
Speaker 13 (33:44):
Usually here's turkeys everywhere in there. Well, for me, the
late season tactics. You know, I preferred to hunt a
little later in the morning, you know, or later in
the day. You know, they get hinged up, and then
once they break away from those hens, the hens want
to go nest.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Kenn's got out hard his bag with that that scratch
feed and it's shaking it.
Speaker 12 (34:02):
Boy, No, no, no, not scratched it wild bird seed.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
It's detective man. Me and Paul is gonna follow him
around every one day and catch him with that bird sack.
Oh man, leaf, you're gonna do any turkey heating or not? Yeah,
I plan on fucking good day off.
Speaker 12 (34:19):
That's the thing I used to be every day off
it's raining.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
You want to hunt with me, we'll just you know,
on this misty morning, every ride around with that two
twenty three.
Speaker 12 (34:29):
They'll be in the corners of the roads.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
We'll be in a white four door. But uh no, man,
I want to go. You know, Georgia just opened up.
I think this past weekend or the weekend before, I'm
not sure, but uh, all them boys is fired up.
They've been, you know, been having some good luck. What's
the weekend?
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Back porch doll start working and you hear a turkey.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
That's probably the pets next door. But that's fine too,
as long as you video and I could act like
I'm calling him and then I killed a pet. Tell
my story. I want to. One of my client's son
in law has just got a good one up in Moultie,
Nick Newton, he just killed a good one in Multie, Georgia. Yeah,
got open in the weekend. Yeah, they was. As a
matter of fact, there's a young and on the Woods
(35:11):
and Waterfront page. I think his spurs is an inch
and three eighth. You know, that's pretty good for that's
a good bird. And yeah, I'll just be happy to
kill the deck. At this point, all my buddies have
been prompted. They gonna take you. But we gotta go
to a quick commercial, guys, and we'll be right back
for the final saying gouse state tak All right, guys,
(35:37):
welcome back to the Big Ben Outdoor Show. We got
miss Ava right here with Ava Outdoors. Uh she's a
charter captain out of Saint Mark's, Florida, and uh she's
also a big, big time turkey hunter. Aver, tell us
a little about what you've been doing with the with
the turkey hunting.
Speaker 9 (35:52):
Oh, I just got back from Texas. We went with
Combat Marine Outdoors and Honor Tribe Outdoors and they helped
win warriors go turkey unning. So I got to go
out there and guide yep, right around San Angelo. It's
like thirty minutes from there.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
How'd everything go?
Speaker 9 (36:07):
I mean, it's good. Everybody got a turkey.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Everybody got a turkey.
Speaker 9 (36:10):
Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
So y'all didn't have to really chase them and pull
your hair out trying to figure out which what it was?
It bad?
Speaker 9 (36:16):
Oh, it was bad, Yeah, we did. It was a
ten thousand acre ranch, lots and lots of walking. But
I mean turkeys are going to get on creeks and
rivers and stuff. So we got on them. But they
didn't want to they didn't want to talk. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
The weather messed up out there.
Speaker 9 (36:31):
Well, you know how it is out there. It's like
a desert. And it rained. Literally one of the days
we were out there, it hailed.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
On us and it probably ain't rained in a month.
That did kind of roughire dodging. Dodging. Hell, I'm sure
y'all what was not in it was you?
Speaker 9 (36:45):
No, we came back to the camp, ate some food.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
That's the first thing you had to do was sleep right.
Speaker 9 (36:51):
Oh yeah, yeah. So we walked around. We got on
some though, but they wanted to gobble in the morning.
Shut up when they get off the limb, that sort
of thing. It's hard to hunt tur you can't hear
how many snakes you run across. I didn't run across
any and I was scared because I haven't heard about
them rattlesnakes out there. I was like, oh no, I
gotta bring some. I brought bird shot with me. I
was like, if I see them, I'm going to shoot them.
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I made sure I brought some. I didn't see a
single snake.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
See if I went, they'd have been fifty them surround me.
When one of them gets at me, I just feel
like I can't move, Like I cannot go nowhere and
backwards whatever.
Speaker 9 (37:25):
No, my hunt will be ruined. I will be shooting
the snake.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
I'm scared of the death of a snake. That's reading.
I don't turkey hunt. That's the reason I can't get
I told ten of them I go with them on
the edge of the field or something. But I ain't
going out there and through that swamp messing with cotton
mouth relegators there.
Speaker 9 (37:39):
Yeah, so that was my first time in Texas. And
you know they say everything wants to bite you or
poke you or sting you. Yeah. Yeah, everything wanted to
bite you, poke your sting you. It's crazy.
Speaker 12 (37:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (37:49):
You try to just get up here and grab a tree.
Do not grab the tree. It's he got thorned all
over it. It's like everything. Right when we got there,
scorpion crawled right by my shoe.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I was like, oh, okay, here we go. Did y'all
shooting and jack rabbits swing as are No?
Speaker 9 (38:03):
But I saw a couple while I was sitting down
underneath the tree. They'd like run right by me. They
didn't even see me. Yeah, it was cool. I've never
seen one in person either.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Do they have horns? You know, you'd always see that.
I think it was a mesquite Charlie's the old big
chainer of steak house restaurants. They always had that jack
rabbit in there with the horn, and I always thought
that was real.
Speaker 9 (38:26):
They got some of Texas Roadhouse too.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
I think it looks real, it does it. It's just
like the you know, the Sasquatch I got in the
store down there, the head that's been there since the eighties.
It's the deer's butt upside down, and everybody thinks, yeah,
they're trying to handle them kids, I ain't getting near that.
It's what's gonna happen right here. I'm gonna put you
in these woods down here, you acting up, and you're
gonna get to see something like this. So all the
(38:49):
kids are scared of death and their parents come in there,
they don't want to get near it. I'm like, anna
mess with them, like they're gonna be scared of dark
and everything.
Speaker 10 (38:57):
But that's a big trip to Texas.
Speaker 9 (38:59):
Yeah, we were there for three days.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Do y'all hunt anywhere else besides, you know, out of.
Speaker 9 (39:05):
The state, Not really. No, I've been to Georgia some,
but we don't really turn camp much anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
How long have y'all been helping with I know I
met your daddy about the same time I started doing
the fishing with the combat Marines. Do you remember was
talking about it with Tanner? Yes, the RAGONI Foundation, Yes,
that's there. You know her daddy was the and was
you doing it too? I wasn't doing it, he was,
you know, doing a lot of the turkey hunt guys,
you know, for them there because we'd have turkey hunting,
(39:32):
hog hunting, and fishing, you know, all at the same time.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
In March, I can't say enough about when it comes
to supporting our America's finest. You can't get back enough
for people that go and and put their life on
the line to defend our freedom. Uh, it's just I
worked with John Swanson obviously Vice president for six years
with Fishing for the Brave and it was hard work,
(39:56):
but man, it's so rewarding, you know to do that.
So I know the country you're talking about in Texas, Yeah,
that's not that's not camping country.
Speaker 10 (40:04):
That's rough. That's rough turf out.
Speaker 9 (40:06):
It was definitely coolest in to everybody's stories and stuff
and like talking to people they've literally been blown up,
like they've been lit up, and it was cool like
taking them and you know, you got to go slow
and stuff, but it was fine.
Speaker 10 (40:17):
Like, well, I'll tell you what's really cool.
Speaker 8 (40:20):
It's something that you mentioned a little while ago that
the folks listening to the guys everybody out there listening
hasn't heard he was Mom won the Trout division in
the Rock the Dock tournament.
Speaker 9 (40:32):
Yes she did, first time Teresa Mercer.
Speaker 8 (40:35):
Teresa Mercer first place in the trout division and a
daughters turkey hunting with veterans.
Speaker 10 (40:42):
Out in Texas.
Speaker 8 (40:44):
Moms went in the fishing tournament. I mean, come on, now,
this family's got to.
Speaker 10 (40:48):
Go on home.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
That's crazy.
Speaker 10 (40:51):
Tell us about tell us about that. I'm sure mom
had something to say about.
Speaker 9 (40:55):
Oh god, yeah she was. She was excited about kind
of walk through the door.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Really. Oh yeah, congratulation her and I was probably in competition,
that's what she don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 9 (41:05):
Because that was the first time she fished all year.
Speaker 10 (41:09):
Really, yes, well, you know what, my congratulations.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
She didn't give mama the credit. Daddy put her on.
Speaker 9 (41:19):
To that's all. She was a trout all day and
it was the biggest one.
Speaker 10 (41:23):
She thought, one fish, that's it was the biggest fish. Hey,
I can't blame the lady that knows how.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
To fish if she went, yeah, five pound trap in
my boat on tournament day, I'm knocking people out the counnel,
line up the scale. My boat is thinking, with this
big trout, get out of the way.
Speaker 8 (41:46):
Well, we're proud sponsors. Was that here at iHeartMedia and
have been for the past fifteen years. The Yeah, Rock
the Dock as well as Rock and Red Beer in
the Oystern Festival as well as the Blue Crab Festival
in September. And the thing is is all that money
goes to scholarships to help kids going to college. Man,
I've been so proud of being a part of that
for so many years. It's been really really great. And
(42:09):
to hear your mom won, that's super event.
Speaker 9 (42:12):
That makes it you know, that's awesome do with the
Beer and Oyster Festival.
Speaker 10 (42:16):
We sponsored the event.
Speaker 8 (42:17):
We have seven radio stations here in Tallahasse, so we
do all their marketing and advertising for the event and
then return they promote us to that audience and everything.
So it's a great relationship and everything. We drew the event.
The Beer and Oyster event drew in between eight to
ten thousand.
Speaker 10 (42:38):
People this year.
Speaker 9 (42:39):
Well, yeah, we were there my parents on one of
the oyster farms.
Speaker 10 (42:42):
Perfect.
Speaker 8 (42:43):
See, we keep opening this can it keeps the lig
keeps farther back and we're learning more and more about
am so tell us about that oyster farm.
Speaker 9 (42:54):
Yeah, so they they're out in Skipper Bay.
Speaker 10 (42:57):
So that's I had their oysters, no oysters.
Speaker 8 (43:03):
Okay, so was a sponsor I had these tickets, yeah yeah,
and I went that was the first, honest hand first
place on win tab oss yep OSS's.
Speaker 9 (43:16):
That's their company, yep crazy.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
And we got a I forgot to mention this while ago.
Jay's gonna kick my butt on this one. But we
got the first Annual Fishing Tournament Classic, that's what he
calls it at Jr's UH. It's gonna be kids fifteen
and under. There's gonna be four categories. First place one
hundred and fifty, second and third place gets prize packages
(43:38):
heaviest five fish brim, heaviest five bag limited catfish, heaviest
single red fish, and heaviest slot speckled trap. You can
restare at Jr's UH store. You can restare at Rockies
on ninety eight World War Color, the Woodville Ace Hardware,
Kevin's Sporting Goods, and you know the sponsors right now.
Of course, you know it's got Jr's Rockies Ace, and
(44:00):
we got also Kevin's, you know, sponsoring it. The rules
on the tournament is kids must hook and bring the
fish in. Of course, you got to be at the
wigh in by two o'clock and also have fun. Were
also gonna have backpacks and stuff to give away school
supplies because it's gonna be in August. I'm looking at
August tenth.
Speaker 10 (44:18):
That's what it's gonna be put in the calendar. And
we'll make sure that we get.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
Yeah, because we are. We are still looking for more
sponsors because I'm hoping we got a big turnout for kids.
Of course, especially kids that's needing help with school supplies
and stuff. It's gonna it's gonna do them good too.
Speaker 10 (44:33):
So and I know a real large furniture company to
be all over.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
There, no doubt, no doubt, you ain't got a hissitate
to ask her. She's already, he's already. That's that's one thing.
That's that's that's a given right now. She'd be like,
where do you want me to get them? And how
many I need to get?
Speaker 10 (44:51):
You know, doing it for the kids fifteen and under,
that's what's so cool. I'll tell you.
Speaker 8 (44:56):
If you've never been to one of these events, folks,
you gotta go and check it out. I went to
the Turkey It was amazing. The Turkey Hunt, the kids
Turkey Hunt, those those j rs he did a turkey
for kids, a turkey.
Speaker 10 (45:11):
Hunt for kids competition.
Speaker 8 (45:12):
These kids are hauling these turkeys and they about as
long as they are taking and they got they shot
it with their own shotgun.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
And I made sure I asked all all of them
right from the parents who killed this turkey if they
looked up.
Speaker 8 (45:27):
But the thing, what about and the rabbit hunt? Now
that was impressive. No, it wasn't rabbit squirrelirl. Yeah, I
had the squirrel hunt. I ain't never seen to be
tree reds in my life. I mean, it was crazy
about that.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
That was That was a good turnout. They were all.
Speaker 10 (45:43):
You know at the time.
Speaker 8 (45:44):
But I'll tell you I had a great trip with
talking about the dog tournament real quick with Tanner. Uh,
with Swift Creek Outfitters.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (45:51):
If you want to go out and go fish on
the airboat, have fun, call Tanner. Here's your man.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
So how'd y'all do on that trip Dell Fishing?
Speaker 10 (45:58):
Well, Saturday we went.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
We got one story. We want to hear your side
of the story.
Speaker 10 (46:01):
Well, I think we did all right.
Speaker 8 (46:03):
We caught some fish, didn't catch a lot of fish,
caught a couple do some red fish there wasn't a
lot of fish caught, you know, conditions for what they
were and everything. But I tell you something, I got
to spend some quality time with Tanner and he's just
a super guy. And not only that, but it was
good to sit on an airboat, okay, because I haven't
been on an airboat since I was in my early twenties.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
That's right. We didn't take the airboat, do we I forgot.
Speaker 8 (46:28):
And we were in his airboat and uh semin old
Wendy calls it. And I'm gonna tell you something that's enjoyable.
I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 10 (46:37):
That was fun.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Me and Paul's got one question though. We just want
to know the honest truth.
Speaker 10 (46:41):
Now, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Did or did not Tanner catch a catfish? I got?
Speaker 10 (46:46):
Okay, really good, that's right.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
Well, we know what happened there. That's true. Tanner caught
a catfish. Dale says he's got a video that he
won't a mit it day.
Speaker 5 (46:56):
You know what.
Speaker 8 (46:57):
Honestly, you know what he caught that thuff. He reeled
it up and I've seen it as he's getting and
I said, you got a catfish? And he said no
to us, refish, I said, turn out, I got video
on you. He said, don't look, I got most cut
off the hook.
Speaker 3 (47:14):
Guys, we are running out of time this week. We
appreciate you'all tuning in to us every Saturday morning, eight
to nine on ninety six five The Spear.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Thank you all you've been listening to The Big Bend
Outdoor Show with Joel Baldry. Join us every Saturday morning
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