The Doug Pike Show 5-7-2023

Doug talks about hunting, fishing, and a little golf, and tells stories from fishing in his youth. Doug talks to callers about fishing rods, fishing tourneys, and the Kentuckey Derby.

Episode Transcript

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How many fish and our stringer,how many points on our buck, how
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Hi show starts right now. SaturdayMorning edition of The Doug Pike Show.

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Thank you very much for listening.I'm kind of had a good exchange
with an old friend of mine,high school friend of mine, guy named
Ron Nixon yesterday, text messages backand forth. Hey, how are you
doing? Know how you doing?What's been going on? And I really
I meant when I told him thatI'm still working as hard as I've ever
worked. But I do enjoy whatI do. I really do. I

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crawl out of bed every well sixmornings a week anyway, to come into
this building and do these shows thatI do. And I like doing both
of them. I really do,so thank you for listening to them and
making my work worthwhile. I hopeif there's I talk about this on fifty
plus a lot, but I'll doit here as well. If there's something

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an easy number. Seven one threetwo one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninetythat's all you gotta do. Call.
And something else I don't do isleave people on hold forever. The only
time you'll be put on hold forlonger than the shortest possible period would be

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if we have to go to acommercial break, or if some long winded
bag of words is in front ofyou somehow and we can't seem to stop
the flow. Sometimes that happens.Sometimes people have a lot to say.
Most everybody I've ever had on thisshow, though, and I think Adam,

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I can tell I'll tell you this, I can count this is one
thing I like about this show.And I'll tell you everybody, so they
understand a lot of radio programs onthis dial, not this station necessarily,
but along the AM dial, thetalk shows, a lot of them have
kind of started pushing the envelope alittle bit with the language they use and

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maybe some of the innuendo and whatnot. But I will I take great pride
in this show being pretty much grated across the board because I know there
are kids in the audience and thisyou can consider this a safe space for
kids. And if somebody were tosay something foul or bad or just cruel

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or whatever, just something somehow wrong, even if it's not an FCC violation,
I'll just dump it. I'll justdump it. And I'm very proud
to say that, over twenty threeyears of doing this show, I can
count on one hand the times we'vehad to use that button, and two
of those five it is actually fiveexactly now, and two of those five

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only happened because somebody was so excitedand so rilled with a fish they caught.
They just they just let their descriptivesrun amuck a little bit and described
their fish or I don't remember whetherit was a fish or a deer or
whatever, but it was. Itwas not out of anger, It was

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not out of anything mean spirited atall. It was just enthusiasm that got
their tongues a little ahead of theirbrains. So, yeah, it's gonna
be fun. Let me go talkto Alan here. See what's up Alan?
What's up my friend? The morning? Are you doing? I'm doing
great? What can I do foryou? Yeah, it's a nice day.

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Yeah. Uh. When you go, you were saying you surf fish
down? It is it north?Most of what I'm doing is up on
the North Padre aland shoreline for tworeasons. One, fishing is as good
there as it is on South Padreuh and actually three reasons. It's usually
not quite as crowded as South Padreand three. My buddy Cliff Webb and

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Jim Level, both of them livethere, so it's easy to go their
friends to. Yeh, that's whatI was kind of thinking. That's probably
where Cliff fishes. Yeah, sois that is? That is there?
Only what I was kind of lookingat the map last night. I've never
been down there. So is therelike only one road that goes to that
road island. There's only one Iknow of where you can actually, yeah,

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where you actually enter that state parkor a National seashore. Now you
drive to the access road and youfinally get ah, there's the beach.
Here we go, and you're forcedto take it right because there are ballards
to the left. Now that beachto the left is where's that poles Poles
in the ground to keep you fromdriving left, they're called. And you

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can access that part of the beachfrom farther back up toward Corpus. And
that's where you're going to see alot of cars on the beach and whatnot
there that may be that may bethe no car No, actually that's the
no car part of the beach.I think. In any event, the
whole shoreline, all up and downthrough there is really good. The bottom

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drops off very quickly. That firstgut at high tide, the one you
can clear and hit the sandbar beyondit. With a good cast is you
don't even have to get your feetwet to cover all that water. And
yeah, I didn't think so either. I can cut out, you know.
Yeah, Okay, Well, likeI said, I was trying to
I was going to get some friendsof mine, so we can maybe go

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down there and never been down thereand just see when, say we can
stumble across you'll like it, maybecatch some fish. I would um,
I would say your chances are asevery bit as good or better than anywhere
up this way for a surfishing successfultrip, for sure. Yeah, yeah,
exactly. So let me ask yousomething. The rods, the rods

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that you buy. I know,we talked about this a couple of weeks
ago. The rods that you buy. Are they grow all rods? Made
a graphs pretty much. Now,yeah, they find broke. I broke
two rods in the last two days, and I kept trying to figure out,
uh, you know how that.I mean, I buy a combo
rod just because I like mine comborods. I'm just thinking, and I

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spent good money on them. Nowwhere are you? Where do you transport
them? How do you store them? Let's talk about that for a minute.
When you when you I transform insideof my truck. Okay, so
they're inside the truck and just kindof laying there, standing there. They're
not beating on the back of atailgate or anything like that. No,
no keeping inside if your baby sittingthem pretty well, I don't know why

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where are they breaking? What partof the rod is snapping off? Just
about about a foot just about footdown? That man, that's I mean
one one, you know, Iwent to set the hooks on a fish
and it's snapped and I and thenthe other one. Uh. Just yesterday,
I some rods that were tangled upright, and I went to I

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was trying to maneuver them where Icould get him untangled. And then one
of my other ones, just likeI said, it just snapped a half
like it's made of a plastic.I was like, what is up with
that? You know? It almostsounds like you've gotten a hold of a
couple of bad rods. Every nowand then the manufacturing process messes up and

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something something slips through the assembly line. But I can't from that. I
don't know. I mean, Ibuy you know, these were Abu Garcias
and then one uh I think onewas made by m I can't think of
the manufactor of Quantum because the Quantumreal rod Roe combo you know, six

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foot six whatever. Yeah, therethere shouldn't be anyway. I'm just wondering,
as long as you're not laying themon the back of a tailgate.
Anytime those rods hit something hard,one or two or three of those million
microfibers in there, Mike Mike crack, Yeah, I'll give out. And
at some point those rods are gonnaif you if you do it enough times,

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if you if you were to drivefrom here to Florida with rods hanging
over the tailgate of your pickup,pretty good chance one of them is gonna
snap the first time you set ahook. But as ye, as long
as people patting them, they shouldbe all right. Yeah, I'll see
people. You know, you're studdy. You see all these people got them
banging around and got a two banginginto the rod. Yeah, every time

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I hit a bump, I seeall that. I ain't gonna last very
long. No, you're exactly.You get a good fish show and you're
gonna be upset when it snaps.Have you ever tried to send any of
those rods back to the manufacturer?No, No, no, I didn't.
I there wasn't thought about that.Yeah, I got I got,
I got mine at um Fishing tackleunlimited. Yeah, it's a good place

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to get it. I've got Iget them an academy fishing ta a little
limited. Sometimes I bought a Walmartonline, you know, you know,
honestly, I would. I wouldtake them back to the store, hold
on it. This is a gooda good exercise or a good time to
remind people to hang onto their receiptsfor stuff like this too, because yeah,
yeah, that's a good A decentrod should last several years. I'm

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fishing right now with one of theoriginal what was the name of that all
Star an all Star heavy heavy wormrod that I've had for probably the better
part, I would say, honestly, allan of twenty five or thirty years,
and I'm using it still today becauseit's just not been beat up and
it's it's a pretty beefy rod tobegin with, but it's still it's still

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in service and it's still working justfine. Yeah, I'd take them back
and just say, hey, man, Doug and I talked about this on
the air. I don't beat mystuff up. I don't have I don't
have it hanging out the tailgate ofa pickup truck with lead weights on it.
I don't know what did this,but it did. Can you help
me out and they should be ableto help you. That's a good idea.

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Okay, okay, well, Iappreciate it. I'll let you rud
okay, man, thank you.Alan's good to hear from you. Yes,
sir, Yeah, that's that's atough call. I gotta move this
over so I can help with that. Now. I'm set for that,
Adam. I couldn't see the rightlittle box to click it off. H
air and air and air and no, he doesn't need ugly sticks. Ugly

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sticks have a bunch of fiberglass stillin them that'll kind of keep them from
breaking. They're kind of hybrid rods. A little bit of fiberglass here,
a little bit of graphite there.Nah, let's don't go there. Quality
rods, if you take care ofthem at all, should last a very
long time. The rod blanks themselvesare very well made as a rule,

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and they actually they actually don't costthe manufacturers so much, not as much
nowadays as the high end line guides. The guy the titanium guide sets are
more than one hundred dollars to justto put the guides on the rod.
And that's cost to the manufacturer.It's crazy. It's titanium stuff, and

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all this high tech gear that's goinginto rods is fantastic, and it's making
them lighter and stronger, and likea six million dollars man, we're ultimately
going to have a six million dollarrod someday. And I'm not sure that
for the average fisherman that's really necessary. If you're a if you're a professional
tournament fisherman and that's what you doevery day for a living, well,

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first of all, you're not payingfor your rods. You've already got them
coming to you in boxes and boxesand boxes and boxes. But if you're
like you or me or anybody else, regular old person out there trying to
get along and pick some tackle upand enjoy it, you can't. You
can't go out and buy the cheapestthing out there on the rack. That

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just encourages disappoint pointment somewhere down theline when you hook a big fish.
But nor do you have to goall the way to what's the most expensive
thing you've got there. There's alot of a lot of very good rods
in that middle ground now, andthere's no the thing you need to be
focused on is how you're going touse that rod, what type of stress

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you're gonna put on it catching whateverfish you intend to catch, And don't
don't think if you're going saltwater fishing, I'm gonna say this really fast,
adam, so I can get outof here. But if you're just if
you're going down to the beach togo surf fishing, let's surf wading.
You don't need to buy some giant, heavy rod to lug around out there
and waste deep water all morning justbecause you might hook a twenty pound jack.

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Get something that's suitable for speckled troutand Spanish mackerel. It's gonna be
a little bit lighter rod, alittle bit lighter set up all around,
and if you hook that big jackfish, just enjoy the memory while it peels
off every inch of line you goton your rod. Braid's taking care of
a lot of that. Back whenyou had to fish ten twelve pound monofilament

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in the serve so you could castfarther because the diameter of the bigger lines
made it harder to do that.Every now and then you'd get stripped because
you couldn't stop that fish but withtwenty or I used thirty pound bread.
I think that's and I don't burymy drag just because I got thirty pounds
of line tests on there. Ilet the fish run. I'll let the

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fish wear itself out, but it'sgonna have to work a little harder,
which makes my job a little easier. We'll stay on this if we can.
Maybe if you want to do somethingelse, talk about the Kentucky Derby.
I actually watched that yesterday. Itook a lazy day yesterday. I
didn't do hardly anything outdoors. Ijust accept accept pay the yard guy who

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came over and weeded my flower beds. I'm too old for that. If
whatever energy I have, I'm gonnaon entertainment and excitement and fun now,
I think, yeah, that's justwhere I am. All right, we're
gonna take a little break care onthe way out, I'll tell you about
Timber Creek Golf Club. There's aplace I might go this afternoon. I
may try and do that action.I'll talk to my sons if he wants

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to go t it up Timber Creeksdown on FM twenty three fifty one in
friends Wood. About just maybe afew miles west of the golf Freeway.
I sent one of the guys inthe office down there about a week ago
now, and he and some ofhis friends went and played, and they
had an absolute blast at timber Creek. He came back just smiling from ear
to ear. Holy cow, thatwas a fantastic place. I'm so glad

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you helped us out with that greatteaching staff in that big ten building next
to the driving range, a greatstaff in the pro shop, great people
driving around there to make sure youstay fed and watered throughout year round.
And twenty seven holes, so they'vegot sister. They have three nines,
which means they can be starting peopleon two of those nines and rotating through

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all day long so that more andmore people can get out and play golf.
Grab a buddy, go down theretoday. See see what you see.
Timber Creek Golfclub dot COM's website.You can set a tea time where
we're at now. Timber Creek Golfclubdot Com are sports Talk seven nineties Houston
Sports. Where do you go withan iHeart Radio? Now? Now get

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more Doug. I was just playingthis last night. Not welcome back the

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Dougpipe Show. On Sports Talk sevenninety the cultural moment, the cultural rejoin,
what was that? And art oftitling artist Chopin Yes, number twenty
in C sharp minor and C sharpminor. Oh, that that's what got
me. That's that threw me off. C sharp minor. Holy cow,
I don't even know that. Icould try to think of where C I

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got C sharp. I could dothat, but then to make it a
minor court, I got to moveanother finger somewhere, and I'm not really
sure where Rick bis your first,what's up? Well, I'm trying of
you watching the Derby, and uh, I want to comment on that,
and then I got fishing rods.But first on the Derby, that was
a one of the strangest derbys thatI've watched in my life. I don't

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think I've really missed one in mylife. Wow. And well, well,
well that was one hundred and fortynights. I have missed about one
hundred of them. But anyway,it was just you know, all the
drama building up to it and theevents that happened in the barns and everything,

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and uh, it just uh itwas I got a feeling in the
Vegas and the bookmakers are probably stillpulling their hair their hair out over this
race. So my question for youon that subject this, should I start
calling you Dug the Greek? Whatdid I do? Well? I don't

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know much about it. No,Dug the Greek or you Dug the Greek?
No know what I'm talking about.Yeah, I know, I know
what you're talking about, but yeah, I didn't. Nine percent of your
audience doesn't know. Yeah, Iknow you. You got into you,
you had a bet going on,and then you changed it somehow and how.

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I don't even know how you cameout. How did you turn out?
Did you have major? I hadhim place? Oh wow, I
had him as a hedge and asa win. Okay, I just think
he was a sleeper. Now,if I had a bet, a lot
of money out of my law money. But I'm you know, I've twelve
bucks on six races, two dollarsa pig, and I'm one. I

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come out ahead of that twelve eighteen, so I made one hundred and fifty
percent a moment. Yeah that's great. Yeah, if you had a better
me and you've been like Mattress Mac, Yeah, well he lost a few
bucks. Yeah, that's all right, that's all right, man to rods,
because I got to catch Kevin beforewe get okay to two questions.

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Sure deals, What what is theprobably the number one if you made a
list of ten, what's the numberone enemy of your You gooping around with
your fishing rod in the house.That's a ceiling fan. That's easy,
you got it. Yeah, that'sbeen there. Seeing that I haven't broken
one of my own, but I'vewatched somebody do it with a brand new

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broke one of my own. Ihadn't broke one of my own, but
I broke one of my buddies.And then the other thing. I just
because I wonder how many rods beenbroken? Back closing a tailgate of a
truck, tailgates windows and trucks,those automatic windows trucks and cars. You
know, you just tap the upbutton and then about halfway through you just

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you just get this cold chill andyou can't stop it. And I'll tell
you what happens with mine. AndI'm driving that Explorer now, and I
put the rods in the back,I face them forward, and they snug
up right against the path the driver'sside door window, the backseat window,
and if you open that door andclose it a couple of times. Every

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now and then one of them willkind of bounce up into their Unfortunately,
there's enough rubber cushion in there thatso far, knock on wood, I
haven't had one get snapped when Iclosed the door, but I always look.
Now, I've got a habit oflooking in the mirror like it's like
checking my left or your mirror,check my right mirror, checking my inside

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the car mirror, and then checkthe door to make sure the rods aren't
in it. Well, my worstone in closing is I had three my
three favorite rods in the back oftruck in the better the truck no not
going about twenty five miles an hourdown off all Field Road, and I

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ran over. Actually it was awashout, but it felt like a rent
over a telephone pole. Oh god, well it flipped my cooler. Oh
wow, I was about to say, what brain I thought better or not?
Yeah, cooler over on them abouttwo thirds from the real in nap

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snap, snap, Oh god,stuff happens. Man. You know what
you do there. You take youryou take your wirecutters, you snap them
off at the last remaining well.Security road guide line guy and didn't just
fish. You don't just get wellthat's true, all right, real quick?

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What do you think of the race? Who? What did you think
of the derby? Oh? Youknow, I watch and I don't get
so caught up in it that Ihave or real opinion. I always like
to see a horse come charging upfrom behind and win it. So I
got that wish came true. Thatwas kind of cool to watch mate come
up and the last whatever furlong orwhatever, and so hooray for all of

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them. The Venezuelans, by theway, those horses down there are used
to run in longer distances and maybethat maybe that helped. I don't know.
Still had plenty in the tank atthe end. I know that.
Well, we got the Freakness coming. So there you go. It's got
any magic, all right, we'llsee. Man. I'm gonna go check
in with Kevin now, all right, thanks, Rick, you can talk

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to you, buddy. Body.Okay, I got that done. I'm
gonna go do this. I think. There you go, Kevin. How
did it go? Man? What'sgoing on? Doug? We had a
great turn out for the Port FreeportKid Fish Tournament. Had three hundred kids
that registered to fish it, andthey had them lined up elbow to elbow
and probably had two hundred of thethree hundred that came up on the stage

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and wait, fish, that's awesome. Actually actually had several flounder keeper flounder
brought in. Wow. Kind ofunusual for that event. Ye flounded that
they catcher a little too small andthey throw them back, but they had
three of them one I think thebiggest one went up to about seventeen and
a half pitches. Dang, that'spretty good, nice little leader. Yeah,
yeah, fantastic. It was agreat event. I've got one little

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um fishing rod story for you.Fishing fishing one time with the buddy of
mine down to the Bridges River andwe're into the flounder thick and that's back
when the limit was ten and I'mfighting a fifth pretty good sized flounder and
it broke my rod right after thefirst eye. Oh man, I didn't
have a know the rod with me, but I continue to fish and proceeded

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to catch my limit with the halfa run. I guess like you do
a little training with Pope Peel's pocketfisherman, you'd be ready to go.
Huh. Well, I know Ihad one of them back. You know,
here's the deal. However, youhave to fish, you fish.
That's it, sir. That therod break, she just cut it off
at the broken part and and keepgrinding. It's all you can. Just

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makes it hard to cast though,doesn't it. Yeah, it does.
We've all been there, man,Kevin. I'm so glad for you guys
doing doing what you did. Youmust have had six seven hundred people out
there then, huh oh yeah,easily. God, that's all the moms
and moms and ds and brothers andsisters and cousins and uncles and everybody.

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That was a great event as always, fantastic, my friend. I'm glad
you guys had great weather for ittoo, all right, buddy, Yes,
sir, thanks for the update.Hey, have a great rescue weekend.
I will, man, you know, I will thank you by Yeah.
While I'm on the subject of takingkids fishing, this is something I
push for every year. Every oneof you in this audience. Take a

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kid fishing. If you can't doit once a month, just do it
once this year. Take one kidfishing this year, okay, And if
you don't have kids yourself, invitethe parents to come along. What I
used to do is take my sonand one or two of his friends and
just just herd the cats for anhour or two and then bring them all
back home. If you don't havechildren of your own, then just invite

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the parents, tell them to inviteall of their friends, and have your
own little impromptu, small scale kidfish event at some place you know has
a lot of panfish, someplace youknow you can chum up even more.
And just all of that, Allof that needs to be done so that
fishing can be passed beyond our generation. And by hours, I mean yours

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and mine, and Ricks and Mike'sand everybody I talked to on a regular
basis around here, Dave, allof these folks, we all got to
do our part. Um. Okay, turn your back, Adam, I'm
gonna take Mike's call. What's up, Mike? Hey man? Uh,
we went yesterday to serve side ourfirst time. Yeah, how did it

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go? Okay? So I taughttwo about eighth say it you're out.
Okay. My buddies were catching,buddies were catching perch side little sheep's head.
Oh wow, that's all we couldget. And it was pack of
but the wind, and I thinkwe were under equipped, under equipped with

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the weights, and I saw howhard that wind was blowing. And that's
you gotta pin that bait to thebottom if you're gonna fish the way we
were talking about fishing, and youcan't do that way just to bring some
bricks next time. That's my question. Is it always that windy? Heavens?
No, no, no no.And there are a lot of good

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wind site. They're the site thatI use. Let me go to it
and I'll give you the exact uR L on it. Hang on,
where's my cursor on this silly thing? There we go, that goes away,
this goes away, and there itis. It's the letter I win
to surf dot com. I've beensurfdot com. That's the one I use

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for wind. It shows the entirecoast of Texas and right now and Galveston's
at thirteen. It's actually inside tenmiles an hour between about Galveston and Matta
Gorda, down at Matta Gorda,seventeen on shore, seventeen again down at
Port O'Connor, a little more eastin it down there, and then it

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good, heavens, where's this BaffinBay twenty one. That's about normal down
there. But yeah, that's agreat place to check the wind. I
will because I swear at wind itwas twenty five. Yeah. It's saying
around amongst older fishermen around here asif you're wondering what the wind velocity is
gonna be, you take the forecastwhere they say like ten to fifteen,

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and you just add the two numberstogether, and that's what you're gonna get.
It's gonna be twenty five. Way, we had a great time.
We were there all day, wentover to like some little marshy Marshy slews,
Yeah, catfish out there. Butyeah, we were there all day
long, the day. Yeah,you know what, you got to earn
your spurs down there. If you'dhave gone down there yesterday and caught a

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bunch of speckled trout, you'd thinkthat happens every day, And well it
doesn't. You'll learn to pick yourdays. You'll learn. It'll be good
man, You'll be all right,Hey we call. They're still pretty you
know. You catch them on thechannel side of the gulf side, gulf
side, okay um, and theywere doing all the seat say it on
the channel side. Oh wow.As you go through your progressions of all

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this, um, don't don't hesitate. If the water looks pretty good in
the channel, to get some sortof significantly weighted jighead, not a big
giant thing, but at least atleast a quarter ounce and maybe three eights
or a half ounce, and slinga jig as far as you can out
there, let it sink on anopen spool, so it sinks straight down

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and not coming back to you,and then just kind of jiggle that thing
out there on the bottom. There'susually a lot of sand trout out there
from now through maybe another month ortwo. Yeah, we'll see. All
right, Well, thanks man,Yeah, you're quite welcome. I'll answer
any questions you got about fishing downthere on that jett. He've been there,
done that thousand times, man,and I love it down there,

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all right, Thanks Mike, gooddeal, gotta love yeah, Audios.
All right, we gotta take alittle break here. Holy cow, got
a little late. Sorry about that, Adam, don't be mad man.
American Shooting Centers is up. It'sthe largest non military shooting facility in the
entire state of Texas. And that'ssaying something because there's some. There's some
big places. I know. I'vebeen in San Antonio, up around toward

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All Austin, out a little fartherinto West Texas, up in North Texas.
There are some big places, butnone bigger non military than American Shooting
centers. Two hundred plus shooting stationsaround there, three sporting plays courses.
They've got five stands setups around theentire property. They've got trapping skeet fields.

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They have a beginner's wing shooting area, rifling pistol from five yards out
to six hundred yards. They haveall kinds of great equipment in that pro
shop of their's too, the oneon top of the hill. They built
that because they are built in afloodplate and if it gets wet and everything
gets wet, everything goes up ontop of the hill into the store and
they're ready to go when the watergoes down. Have a nice selection of

(30:45):
finding shotguns and rifles in there.They have plenty of AMMO. Now that
issue has subsided pretty much and it'sa very safe place to learn the shooting
sports, to enjoy the shooting sports. If you're not a good shot,
higher tional instructor. They've got themin all the shooting disciplines. If you're
pretty good or satisfied with what youare and just go out there and enjoy

(31:06):
yourself a very safe place. Theyhave people watch their eyes on you wherever
you go, and if you dosomething that doesn't look say, they're gonna
call you on it. If youget that call, if they say,
hey, don't do that, hesaid, well, I'm so sorry,
I won't do that again, andgo back to enjoying your shooting out there.
To make sure you're safe. They'rethey're not picking on you. They're

(31:27):
making sure everybody has the same funexperience. West Timer Parkway between Katie and
Highway six. Been there forty plusyears. I was there for the groundbreaking
believe it or not, Me andNolan Ryan and I don't remember who else
was there, some other some countyofficials. Nolan because I'm an old baseball
player. Nolan is the one whostood out to me. American Shooting Centers

(31:48):
dot Com is a website, AmericanShooting Centers dot Com. This is Sports
Talk seven nine on the Goal withiHeartRadio Friends. You've got to try.
The conversation continues. This is theDoug Fike Show. Where's that gall the
red dress on? Some folks calledthe Dinah stole me way down Louisiana,

(32:15):
taking me back. I'm too youngto marry. Take me back, I'm
too young to marry everybody. Youright, you cannot dare ye See he
did a little one right there.Let's go talk to Davey been holding on
for a long time. What's up, Dave? And I've been singing that

(32:37):
song since I was in fifth grade. Adam predicted that Trump called you know
what I'm saying. I knew you'dknow that song. Yeah, but but
who's that? Chopin and start minormar and that's a hard chord to make
your fingers into a prinzel to getthem. Yeah, yeah, it's a

(33:00):
it's a little twangled. But thenif you think about it, since my
arm got hurt, I can youcan make it in different positions? You
know anyone? No, I'm serious, I mean you can. You can
put a kpo on and or youknow, there's all kind of you can
get you one of those gadgets Isee on late night TV that where you
can just put this thing on topof the neck of the guitar and just

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push one button all the little fingersgo down and push on the strings.
Make your own cord. Just justlook at the right color. Just push
the purple one. There you go, see sharp minor. Yeah and yeah,
and seriously, that is a hardcord to make. But no,
I'm so happy down the aisle here, uh, down the radio, dill
here in texts on this northy badYeah, and he was, Wow,

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he's you know, he's a he'sthe biggest legend on the lake con there
while Billy Mills and Billy holy cow, Billy Mills man that it takes me
way back here. And I dida lot of fishing when I was at
the paper man. Yeah, sir, well, I mean, you know,
they're both. They're both like myadopted dad. You know, sure
I've been been hanging around him forever, but uh, you know, I

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mean, and I'm glad. Andthen he knows that, you know,
he already called me last week,so he knows to get a hold of
me when he needs help. Buthey, what I was gonna say is,
you know, uh, when I'mgoing up here today to the bazaar
at Saint Saint Rose Alima, I'mgetting almost getting my clothes together and everything,
and and I started polishing up mybelt and my boots and everything,

(34:28):
sir, And then I'm gonna takemy nineteen seventy eight kiss belt buckle and
see if I tell you to geta picture with the stage. That's hilarious
to come to see him. No, I'm saying, yeah, you know,
and that's that's uh my dad,he uh. He introduced us to
oompa pause and everything else. Andthat's what I was gonna say about what

(34:50):
what the guys do and and youand everything that teach and try to teach
the kids how to do. Youknow what I'm saying, And I mean
it's important. Nuns. They putus in the room and made us watch
Box Bath over with the chopin.They wouldn't let it touch our guitars because
we were playing Willie Nelson and JimmyHenn. You have to if music is

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math, really and if you understandmusic, you can understand math a lot
better. And I think it's importantthe same for the same reasons I would
introduce kids to fishing, I wouldintroduce them with classical music and country music
and bluegrass music and rock music,all of it. It's all important,

(35:36):
and it's and some of that somewheredown the line, something's gonna resonate with
that kid, inside that kid's brainand inspire something hopefully better than just hanging
out intertwined, and start going inthere. And I don't know, I
guess that's what happens to me,because I've been exposed to it since I
opened my eyes, you know,and with you know, Third Generations,

(35:58):
with Bill Murraz and people my auntsand uncle's playing with Bob Will very cool,
you know. When I woke up, I'd see a Bob Will's album
at my grandma and Grandpa's right thereby. The ricord plays how cool,
you know, and that's it.And then they pick you up and take
you out to New Waverley. Andhe was on the seventy two acre farm,
digging close to holes and planting corn, you know, like earning your

(36:22):
keep is what you were doing.There weren't free rides, there wasn't no
don't get me started. You gotinto islands for polishing dad's shoes. Us.
I got dollon dollars a week,and I'd save it all up and
go down to downtown New Waverley tothe hardware store there and buying me a
new roding really absolutely, ye,man. Mine was down at my grandparents

(36:45):
house in Florida. When we'd godown there for the summer, we stay
a couple of weeks and I woulddo any and every chore I could find
around there to just pick up adollar here, a dollar there. And
then I would had a bicycle downthere for me and I would ride it
up to Atlantic Boulevard. There wasa little tackle store there, and I'd
go in there and wipe them outon these little quarter rounds and eight pounce

(37:06):
yellow bucktail jigs and go catching poundone pound jackfish in their backyard. It
was awesome, dude, mangrove snapper, one pound jack's it was. It
was cool. It was good.He mentioned that real quick. My mom,
Santa Claus, brought us all ourbicycles and I got one with the
double baskets on the back. Mymom would give me the money. I'd

(37:28):
ride all the way to downtown NewWave and get a gallon of milk and
ride back downhill. Was good?Was not hell? You figure that out
quick, don't you. Hey?I got a run, man, that's
good stuff. Dave. Yeah,yeah, what a good dude. I
think we need to figure out away to put a fishing reel on the

(37:49):
soundboard of a guitar and a coupleof line guides up the neck, and
then he could fish and play theguitar at the same time, and that
would be pretty cool. It's goingto be a pretty There's not gonna be
much give in that rod, butit would still be just something I'd pay
a dollar to see it happen.All right, on the way out,

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Talk seven ninety Bank Houston Sports Fanon air and on Facebook. Contact back
to the Doug Fights show lead thatBispoo down, Baby lay at bispool down,
lest packing Mama, believe that thisdude down, and just like that,

(41:08):
Dave started tapping his toe and singing. Guaranteed he knows that song too,
guaranteed. Let's see, well,pistol packing mama. Obviously, what
dumb year was that I would haveto pick a song that I knew was
before your time and it came outin nineteen forty three. Yeah, that's
before my time? All right,only cow, Yeah, it's before my

(41:30):
time. What do you think byjust a couple of years or something,
is that you're trying to take mea while? Yeah? By a lot.
Yeah, that's that's about. That'salmost as far back as Chopin I
think seven one three two one twofive seven ninety. Email me Dugpike at
iHeartMedia dot com. I'll take thisopportunity to talk about these automakers trying to

(41:50):
yank AM radios out of our carsand trucks want to mess. There's no
reason for it. There's no logicbehind it, there's no science behind it.
There's nothing behind it except just somewhimsical idea that they don't think we
need these AM radios, when infact and I'm not talking on a personal

(42:12):
level for me for my show.That's fine. If I'm glad that you're
here listening, I really am.But what that radio can do for you
that's far more important than anything Ican do, is help you in the
time of crisis. Maybe a hurricanecomes through here, or tornadoes, or
we get another flooding events somehow,and you need to know where the nearest

(42:37):
place is that you can get emergencyhelp. You need to know where you
can get shelter, where you canget water, maybe someplace you could go
charge your phone because it died becauseyou're a Christie's been out for a day
and a half. All of thatyou can get in your car on your
AM radio from stations like KTRH,our sister station here twenty four to seven.

(43:02):
That station is not only giving youinformation that it gets from the government,
which is okay, but you're gettingit from actual listeners who are relaying
through the AM radio dial valid importantemergency information that you can't get anywhere else,
not as quickly as you can getit through an AM radio. Keep

(43:25):
the radio in your car. Allyou gotta do to help us keep this
alive is text AM to five toeight eighty six. That lets your congressional
representatives know that you don't want thoseradios disappearing from cars and trucks. AM
just two letters, AM, that'sall you gotta do to five to eight

(43:45):
eight six. I did it,and I got responses from the offices of
my representatives. Text AM to fivetwo eight eighty six. Thank you,
Thank you very much. Moving on, where do I want to go with
this the fishing rod thing I've had? I guess the greatest fishing rod disappointment

(44:09):
of mine was the loss of arod case. Nothing got broken, and
it turned out kind of sort ofokay. On a trip down to Costa
Rica years ago, I had Ithink five or six rods in a seven
foot schedule forty PBC quarter inch thickbomb proof case that I had built.

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I built all my own road caseswhen I was traveling a lot out of
that big, heavy PBC pipe becauseI thought it was impossible to break,
which, by the way, thepeople in Baltimore proved me wrong on that
one time. I had fly rods, not even a long piece of PBC
pipe, a short, stubby treetrunk of a PBC pipe sealed up at

(44:54):
both ends. Padded in both ends, and when it came off the carousel
it had been snapped in two Andall that anybody could figure is that it
got to a corner and it couldn'tmake the corner of a conveyor belt.
And when it lodged in the corner, the weight of all the other passengers

(45:15):
bags kept pressing and pressing and pressinguntil even that heavy, heavy gauge PBC
pipe couldn't take it and it crackedthat thing like an eggshell. Not one
of the rods inside messed up,because in addition to padding both ends,
I also used to wrap the rodsin towels. They couldn't move in there,

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really, And when that case broke, the rods themselves I think kind
of saved them, saved each otherby creating a strong enough but slightly movable
barrier. But back to the storyof the disappointment. Well, I'm all
the way in Costa Rica at theairport, standing there at the carousel,

(45:58):
waiting for my rod case come out, waiting for my rod case to come
out. It never comes out,and we've got to jump on the van
and go. So I file allthe paperwork, I let them know,
and we drive for three hours througha banana plantation. We get on a
boat go another thirty forty five minutesout to this fishing lodge way down the

(46:21):
river way close to the coast inthe middle of nowhere, where there's only
one little satellite phone there and it'sreserved for kind of emergency stuff, as
semi emergencies at least. And fortunatelyeverybody else there was as over equipped as
I was, and I was ableto borrow some rods and fish while I

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was there. But the last dayI'm on the I'm at the lodge,
the very last day, we geta call on that sat bone to tell
me that my rods are safe andsound at the airport. That's cute,
girl, right, great, Yeah, thanks, appreciate that. I lugged
these things halfway down into Central America, and I get them back when I

(47:10):
get back to the airport on myway home. So I guess they I
don't know. I don't They wereproper. They were propped up in some
guy's office and he was probably hopingI wouldn't show up to pick him up,
but I did. I should.I don't think that of him.
He was just doing his job.He was actually safeguarding him, and we
talked about that. He said,you know, I pulled these things into

(47:30):
my office because every now and thenstuff like this disappears around here, and
this seemed like a pretty and oneof the reasons that, um, that's
one of the reasons I was gladwhen I told the story in a newspaper
column years ago, and I gotsome stickers sent to me with and there

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was an accompanying letter that said,put some of these on your road cases
next time and you probably won't losethem. And the stickers one of them
was from NASA. I can't remember, like some fancy terminology on there that
these were satellite parts or something likethat, and then these were legitimate,

(48:12):
real stickers that they used to transfersatellite stuff. And then some others were
military in origin and actually said missileparts. Handle with care, Like holy
cow. I never lost another rodcase. And people looked at me really
really funny walking through the airport,and of course I just ate it up.

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I would just look at them like, what are you looking at?
This is some I can't tell youwhat's in these cases. I'm sorry,
I just I'm not I'm classified tocarry them, but I'm not classified to
talk about them, and I hada lot of fun with that. I
never lied to anybody. I nevertold him it was anything different. Usually
if if somebody ever said something likeand it happened several times, that looks

(48:58):
like a rod case, it's good. Maybe give him that much. All
right, we gotta take a littlebreak here at the top. On the
way, I'll tell you about BellevilleMeat Market and what they have featured this
week. That would be it's adouble feature. The green Onion Becon smoke
sausage and the three Cheeses Becon smokedsausage, both available for sampling. I

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wanted to a customer, don't goin there and sample like ten pieces and
call you, oh, I'm kindof full. Now. Now go in
there, get a toothpick, stabit into one of the little slices,
pick it up, eat it,and then reachree your wallet, or do
both simultaneously. You're gonna go forthe wallet after you eat it. Either
way, every flavor of sausage theyhave in there is outstanding. Some are
a little spicy for my taste,honestly, But I got a neighbor who

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loves that stuff, and he swearsby the spid gout hobb and arrow sausage
stuff like that. I can't dothat. I'm not tough enough anymore.
But they have two dozen plus flavorsand they're all fantastic. Special this week
center cut pork chops two ninety ninepound. They've got those homemade hot dogs
and pulled port now in the barbecuesection. And in addition to all the

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traditional the brisket, the sausage platteredthat's what my son used to eat a
lot. The sliced beef sandwiches.Oh man, that's one of my favorite
trait there. Good stuff fresh groundbeef daily three fifty nine a pound for
ten pounds or more, fresh friarsone ninety nine a pound. Man.
I'm just I'm getting hungry just thinkingabout this. I need to make a

(50:25):
run out there and then and thengrab some good stuff and then run on
out to my friend Robbie Granger's house, drop off a goodie bag for him
from Belleville Meat Market, and thenmaybe we can go catch some bass or
something. Belleville Meatmarket dot Com isa website. They're on Highway thirty six,
about fifteen minutes north of Sealy,fifteen minutes south of Hampstead, Belleville,

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Meatmarket dot com. This is SportsTalk seven eighty online at sportsnet dot
com. Now more dug by SmokeCrete tell Saint Peter at the Golden Gate

(51:09):
that you hate to make him wait, but you just gotta have another cigar
nineteen on Sports Talk seven ninety DogFlight Show. Thanks for listening, man,
he's digging deep. That's another oldie, beyond my time oldie. How

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would have been? Forties? Maybeagain? Adam thirties nineteen oh six forties,
Holy cow, the forties, don'tman? Yeah, I guess you
can play that stuff. I don'tmind. You can play anything you want.
I've always told you that. Andif we're gonna play classical music from

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the seventeen hundreds, the nineteen fortiesis just like yesterday. What's up,
Rick? Yeah, Doug, Igot a funny story. Uh it was
on television. Okay, I thinkI'll get them. I don't think I'll
get done for it. Oh,boy finger on the trigger, Adam,
Here we go on the fifth orsixth race yesterday, the pre races.

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Yeah, oh, I know whatyou're going for now. I just don't
go there. No, no,no, don't do that, man,
I got little kids in this audience. Well, I don't care what they
say on this is. This iswhat I said. I'm I have a
different level. I have a differentstandard. Because no, but I laughed
too. I'll just leave it atthat. Oh my gosh, I let

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you know that. I didn't knowif you knew it or not. Yeah
I did. I heard it.Just they just kept on and on and
on too. They wouldn't stop doingit. I know it. Oh my
gosh. So did your horse winyesterday? No, sir, I didn't
have a horse. I didn't either. I wanted to let you know this
first time I've ever callege. Well, thanks man, listen to your show

(53:00):
for years and I appreciate you somuch, and you're you're very very very
good. Thank you, Drew.I do appreciate that. Believe me,
don't be a stranger man. Seehow easy this is. Yes, sir,
even though I shut you down,you still had a good double Let
me talk, you know. Youjust you just say okay, well you
can call back, but you can'tsay anything. Well you can you can,

(53:22):
yeah, just you just remember whereI am and remember that the little
kids out there. I don't want. Here's what it is. I know
that they said it on TV,and I know that everybody laughed about it.
But what I don't want is fora mom or dad driving their kid
to baseball practice or to church orwhatever this morning. I don't want them
to have to answer an awkward question. I get I get you cool now,

(53:46):
see yeah, well, thank youman, I really, Rick,
don't be a stranger man, callback. Let's go all right and see
you man, bye bye. Yeah. Anybody who was listening to coverage of
the derby yesterday probably heard the referenceto that horse and his what Yeah,

(54:07):
never mind, it doesn't matter.It really doesn't matter. Seven one three,
two one two five seven nine.You see, I almost tripped over
at Rick. I almost almost wentdown the road. And it once again,
it's not something that you can't sayon the radio, not something you
can't say on television, but onmy show. Because I do have little

(54:30):
kids in this audience, I don'twant parents to have to deal with awkward
moments unnecessarily, that those conversations willbe had at some point, but it
is. It was funny. I'llgive you that. It was funny.
There's no question about that, allright, Email me, Doug pikett iHeartMedia
dot com. Let me go checkmy email real quickly because I haven't in

(54:51):
a few minutes. Oh mercy,it always happens. Oh yeah, it's
a name thing. They can spellit however they choose. I agree with
Mojoe about two fills with the apostrophein fill. That makes no sense,
no sense whatsoever. But they cando what they want. I believe there

(55:15):
is a character limit in those horsenames. I do believe that I remember
years ago looking up something for someunknown reason and discovering that. Let me
see what Aaron's got here. Lovefishing small spinner baits in my neighborhood ponds,
sometimes thread of grub or curltail onthe hook to give it a little

(55:35):
more action. I do tinker withmy spinner baits, and I'll tell you
something. You've never caught a catfishon one. That means you just need
to use a little bit smaller spinnerbaits. No, this one you've got
here is tiny. I like theway you have it rigged up, nothing
wrong with it at all. Here'sa deal on spinner baits. The little
rubber bands that the manufacturer puts onthe skirt to hold it in place.

(55:59):
Are cute, but they don't lastvery long. And what I've taken to
doing with spinner baits that I have, and I've got spinner baits that are
practically as old as I am.I've got the frames, and now I'm
buying skirts and putting them on there. And rather than going to the Orthodoni's
office and trying to talk them outof a handful of little bitty rubber bands,

(56:22):
rather than going online and buying littlebitty rubber bands, I bought a
pack of one hundred four inch verythin, maybe an eighth of an inch
thick wire ties, and I putthe skirt on there, and I put
that wire tire around there, andI zip it tight. And since I've
started doing that, and I'm justsnatch it down one more little click with

(56:44):
a pair of needle and those pliers. And since I started doing that,
I've never had any fish pulled theskirt down on one of my spinner baits.
That little move right there. Idon't know how much that saved me,
because every now and then, becauseI do care, are some older
baits with me when I go fishing. Before I started doing that, i'd
have them rigged on there with littlerubber bands and all kinds of ways trying

(57:08):
to come up with something that wouldwork, and then at one point and
I'd end up with skirts falling offbecause the rubber band was older than I
thought, and just the pressure ofthe bait hitting the water just blew it
off, and there'd be just theselittle tendrils of rubber and plastic just scattering
across the top of the pond,and my spinner bait frame would come back

(57:32):
naked, and just a great,there's another one I can't use for a
while. Not since I started withthe wire ties, I am happy to
report that they like incredible. Inmy house or batting a thousand one thousand
hadn't had one come off yet.And I actually they're the colorful ones.

(57:52):
I've got some of those two indifferent colors, and you can use them
either to match the color of theskirt on there or to acces in it.
And I kind of like the redones because that's the same principle as
putting a little red dot or alittle red stripe on say a top water
bait, where the gills would beon a little bait fish. Now,
if there's that red right behind thehead of the spinner bait. Then maybe

(58:15):
that's maybe it looks better to thefish. Maybe it does, And I
have no idea, I don't care. I just know it works. I
just know it works. That's partof tinkering with lures that you can do.
And the other thing that's kind ofcool about about putting on my own
skirts is I can use different numbersof strands of different colors to make that

(58:37):
thing more closely imitate what the fishare eating. I've got some that I
use a lot of white and alot of silver and just a little bit
of black. And you can evenposition those little skirt strands where you want
them on the bait to make themlook like a shad maybe, or use
a lot of greens and blue,dark blue and brown stuff like that and

(59:00):
make them look like a perch.There's all kinds of ways you can do
it, and it's all fun.It's all fun. Let's see what's going
on. Seven one, three,Yeah, Okay, I got that.
I'll check in with you in alittle bit, Dan, I've got that.
Mojel weighed in on my road casegetting snapped up in Baltimore too.

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Mojo has experience and did that jobfor many many years. That size,
in reference to the four foot casethat got snapped might have fit, likely
got hung up where the belt's met. Denver has big wide slides to accommodate
skis kill. Yeah, the skisand the snowboards, they've all got to

(59:43):
go through, and gun cases.All of that goes through that Denver airport.
I've packed rifles up into Denver afew times. Wow. We got
a sixteen foot kayak in from Floridaoff an airbus one time. Had to
have it trucked up to tell youride no planes that size go up there.
Holy cow? Why would well?Yeah, I guess if you want

(01:00:07):
your kayak bad enough, you'll payto get it trucked up there by the
airline. Airlines do a good jobkind of. Sometimes they lose stuff,
I'm fortunate to say, and knockon wood. I've never lost a piece
of luggage adam of you ever losta piece of luggage off an airplane?
Oh? Yeah? Have you really? Yeah? I have? And it's

(01:00:29):
not fun. Did you ever getit back? I did get it back,
so I'll take that back. Ihad one time when I had to
get a bag brought out to myhouse and they and they got it to
me the next day. They foundit, they knew where it was,
they found it, and on andon and on. But dang, you
know when you don't have your stuff, and that makes you really conscious and

(01:00:50):
careful about what you put into yourcarry on bag. Because what I do
is I put in whatever I needto get through twenty four hours. And
if I can get through twenty fourhours, you would have my bag back.
And if I don't, then wegot to go to the store and
I gotta buy some stuff. Butyeah, I can at least get through
a good solid twenty four hours withoutthat suitcase. I have clean clothes in

(01:01:12):
there, all my toiletries that Ireally need in there, but the clothes
I was gonna wear to dinner tomorrownight they go in the check bag.
All right, let's go ahead andtake this break more or less long time.
That'd be a switch Shooters corner PalmerHighway at twenty Night Street, Texas
City, been there forty plus years, own and operated by the same people.

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I said, somebody down there yesterdaywith a Remington seven hundred issue,
an extractor issue. Hopefully he'll getit down there. He lives pretty close
he'll get it into them and theywill take care of it. For I
know they'll take care of it.If you can get it to him.
That'll be easy enough. Whether you'rebrand new to shooting or you've been punching
holes and breaking targets for decades.Shooters Corner is a great place to go,

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hang out, great place to findall kinds of different guns, new
and pre owned. Plenty of AMMOnow, plenty of reloading supplies, optics,
Camo, some cool mounts from aroundthe world. Because Jerry and JTK
love to hunt as much as theylove owning that gun store. They're North
American big game guides, both ofthem, all over the continent and everything

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from South Texas white Tails to Alaskagrizzly bears. Great place, great prices.
If you wear a badge for alimit or for a living, you
wear a badge for a living,you get a discount at Shooters Corner,
which I think is very nice.The Shooters Corner TX dot com. The
shooters Corner TX dot com. Therewas a boy in Arkansas who wouldn't listen

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to his law, and he toldhim he shouldn't go to school. He's
the guay in the afternoon like alittle walking pretty soon even find him at
the Lobalotion Barn. He'd standing tolisten carefully, even bodies. So that's
fifties, yeah, so much muchmore contemporary than those other two songs you

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played from eons ago. Only cow. I'm enjoying your musical selections, I
really am. Don't let me,don't let me kid you. I'm I'm
not picking on you. I findit fascinating, Thank you. I'm feeling
old timey today. There nothing aboutyou that's old timey except this music.

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Well, yeah except that. Acceptthat all right? Let me um take
a quick look here back at theseemails. Aaron weighs in, and this
is I'm using. I'm using uhlittle scissors that I have on my leatherman
micra to snap those little wire tiesoff my spinner base that the tag ins

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off of them, he suggested.And I think this might even be a
little bit better way to get rightin there and and not strain my scissors
nail clippers. That's a great idea. You learn something every day on this
show, don't you. That spinnerbait thing, the whole spinner bait and
the zip tie thing. Man,they'll make a believer out of you real
quick, because they fit right aroundthat neck on most of the spinner base.

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They had that little place where therubber band is supposed to go to
hold the skirt on there. Andit's cute and all when the rubber bands
brand new. But leave that thingout in the garage for a couple of
months and see how fast it driesout, and then go throw that spinner
bait again, and about five sixcasts into it, you'll probably come up
with no skirt and it'll be floatingall over the pond in front of you.

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That happened to me with one theother day. As a matter of
fact, the rubber band actually lookedreally good and I tugged onto a couple
of times and it felt okay.So I've tied this beautiful spinner bait on
there that I'd had out in thegarage for a long time and hadn't used
yet. Threw it out there secondcast, all these little things start floating

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up, just a win, justpushing him right down the shoreline right past
me. I had to watch myspinner bait skirt just dissolve and float away.
Very disappointing. I want to goback for a couple of minutes to
this whole kid's fishing idea and remindany of you who are thinking about school

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is going to be out pretty soon, so it makes it a lot easier
to find time. There's more daylightbecause of daylight savings time. In other
words, you don't have an excuseto not do it. And I would
really hope that some of you wouldwould take this to heart and find some
kids in your neighborhood who have nevercaught a fish, find some kids who've

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never just enjoyed the excitement that canbe generated by watching that little cork just
sit there for a minute and thenstart bouncing and then just disappear. The
only investment you've got to make.You can do it all of this for
probably less than fifteen dollars. Idon't know how much the little two piece
cane poles cost anymore at the discountstores, but you can probably still find

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them, and they're going to bejust a few dollars if you can.
If you're lucky enough to find someplacethat has one piece ten foot cane poles,
all the better. They're going tobe cheaper because they don't have moving
parts or parts don't move on theferrells really, but nonetheless you get a
couple of those. You get alittle bit of monofilament line, maybe eight

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or ten pound test max. Sixor eight is usually is fine for most
of what you're gonna do with acane pole, what we're talking about here.
And then you buy some little littletiny the smallest bobbers or quarks,
whatever you want to call them,and however they're made. You can find
the smallest ones you can get,and you get three or four of those.

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You buy a little package of numbersix or eight or even ten long
shanked hooks, and the long shankis better for getting the hook out of
the fish's mouth without damaging the fish. You use your needle nose pliers to
mash the barbs flat on every oneof those hooks, and that's really all

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you need. Now you might needa little tiny piece of split shot,
and by tiny, I mean notmuch bigger than a babe to keep that
little piece of corn we're gonna puton the hook from floating. You can
use corn soaked in vanilla, whichI did starting out with my Oh mercy,
I thought I heard music for asecond, just in my head.
I'm sure did I hear music?You got a grin on your face in

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it like I did? Oh yeah, now you're you know, no,
walk it back at him? Walkit yeah? That well, I do
have that from fifteen years and ofhunting guide and another five or six of
competitive shooting. Yeah, I gota little tonitas maybe the other bait that
you can use that the sunfish havea much harder time stealing off your hook

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and this I like that. They'rea little bit stinky. But the Berkeley
power baits a little nightcrawlers, thesmall ones. You get one of those
out of the jar, you cutoff a one inch piece and you kind
of thread it onto that hook,almost like you're putting a saltwater jig onto
a jig hook, and you threadit up there and just let it hang.
It's gonna hang a little, maybea quarter inch off into the of

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the hook. But you can catchsunfish after sunfish after sunfish with them exposed
the bend and the point of thehook, but just let that tip ind
fall off of the shank of thehook coming backwards, and you can just
keep catching them until they get tiredof looking at it. Chum the place
with corn, little vanilla soaked corn, and then just let the fish show

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up. You'll catch catfish, You'llcatch every perch of the lake. That
little place in meadows place that myson and I used to take his friends
fishing when they were all little.Routinely you could go over there and in
an hour catch thirty or forty.And one day he and I just set
our sights on a particular number andin I don't know hour, maybe we

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caught a hundred, and we werejust like a tuna boat. You put
the bait in, the cork wouldgo down. You left, that's one
put the bait in, cork goesdown. That's two barbarous hooks. It's
easy to get them off of there. And we just had a blast,
had an absolute blast. That's soexciting for kids, and it gets them
enthusiastic about it. Remember, Idon't know if there's a name for the

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rule, but the rule of attentionfor kids is that you've got about ten
minutes per year of age. Ifyou're taking a three year old fishing,
you better have something going on withthat cane pole and that cork and all
that bait. In thirty minutes orless. If you want to make the

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experience last a little longer, andyou're worried about how many any fish you
might catch, or if the fishinggets a little slow or starts off slow.
Bring a ball they can kick around, Bring a coloring book. Try
not to bring anything electronic because thatthat just perpetuates a bad situation. Just

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the whole idea of being out thereis to be around nature. Bring somebody
else they can throw the ball backand forth with, or kick a soccer
ball around a field behind you untilyou can get those fish chummed up and
excited, and keep a line inthe water, and every time that court
goes down, pick it up andlet them see the fish. It doesn't
take them long to come back,even if they do get bored and want

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to go kick the ball for alittle while. If you're over there catching
fish, they'll come back. Itis fun, and who knows what you'll
catch. It's just so easy tointroduce people to the outdoors, and what
they do with it from there isup to them. That's one thing I've
had a pill I've had to wallownot easily, is that my son doesn't

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share my one passion for fishing,and it possibly is partly my faull for
maybe maybe exposing him to too manygood trips too soon, to hitting some
milestones a little early in his fishingcareer. Or it may just be that
that's just not his thing, andthat's okay too. It's got to be

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all right. But at least you'vegiven them the opportunity, at least you've
shown them what it is. Andhe's actually showing signs of coming back to
fishing. I asked him about goingdown to South Padre or to North Padre
to Corpus again this summer. Yeah, I'd like to do that. Dad,
Well, grab a friend, bringa friend along with you, and
we'll go down there and we'll walkthat beach front, maybe jump on a

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boat with somebody down there and gocatch some fit. Yeah, that would
be That would be fun. Somaybe they'll come back, Maybe they won't.
He still loves baseball, he stillloves golf too, and they take
up a lot of his time.But the fishing seed was planted, and
that's about all I can do.Now. I'm gonna have to start taking
them some really cool, cool places. As the irony is that there's so

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much great fishing around here. Youdon't have to go far. I've had
people call me and ask me,hey, man, should I should I
take my kids to Conroy or toGalveston to go fishing for the first time?
Neither one. Where you need todo is take them someplace ten minutes
from the house to where they don'tget bored on the drive down there.
They're not worn out by the timethey get there. Just take them ten

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minutes from the house, bait upa spot, use the campole, use
a little bit of hooks, andyou'll catch fish. And then from there
you and if you don't, youuse that experience afterward to maybe talk about
maybe why you didn't catch them thattime, what you could do differently the
next time. Use every trip youmake with your kids as a three exposure
deal. You gotta sit down withthem face to face and talk about where

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you're gonna go, what time you'regonna go, how long you're gonna stay,
you're gonna use for bay, whatdo you think we should bring for
snacks? All that stuff. That'sone encounter. Then you get the fishing
trip, and then you get thatpost trip conversation. How'd it go?
How many fish did we catch?Do you remember how many fish we caught.
Do you remember what the biggest onewas? Do you remember what kinds
of fish we caught? All ofthat stuff and those are That's three interactions

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for one little piece of entertainment.It's a brilliant and a very simple way
to establish a very good relationship withyour kids, or with the neighbor kids,
or anybody else's kids, anybody whowill go with you, take them
and share what fishing is with them. I'll climb down from my box now,

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Adam. Finally getting some warm,beautiful weather around here, a little
too warm in some cases already.Nonetheless, black Horse Golf Club be a
good place to go tee it upagain today as it was yesterday, and
we'll be for several days now.We've got some rain coming in the middle
of the week, but that's whenmost of us be working anyway. It's
one of my favorite places off FryRoad, just a little way south of

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two ninety two courses, the Northand the South. A great teaching staff
down at the far end of therange, that big, generous range where
if you've got two hundred people needingto all go out at one time and
fill both courses, darn near allof them can be warming up at the
same time. It's a very oneof the biggest practice facilities I've seen in

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this region. Whether it's just youand a buddy wanted to jump out there
on a beautiful Sunday, or you'vegot a lot of people who need to
raise a lot of money for charity, black Horse will do a great job
for you. But black Horse GolfClub dot com is a website. Black
Horse Golf Club dot com. Thisis the Doug Fike Show. And when

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you look at me with those starsin your eyes, I could walk across
Texas with you, Texas recroot Man. I'm getting good at this. I

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was. I was around in sixtyseven. I wasn't old enough to drive,
but I was around at least.I wasn't old enough for much,
but I was there. I'm sureplaying baseball somewhere I'm not going to see.
When I was twelve. That wasduring the time we were over my
dad got transferred to New Orleans.For four years. We lived out in

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Medii and that's where my buddies andI would jump on bicycles and ride down
the lake Pontcha train and fish andfish and fish till our fingers bled almost
and occasionally actually catch some speckled trout, I mean maybe a little red fish.
The trout were cool, and thenwe decided we were going to become
gar fishermen and try to catch oneof those six foot guards we saw swimming

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around there. And for all theeffort we put into it, I don't
recall us actually catching a big guar, but we somebody's dad had a big
rod that we were allowed to hauldown there, and we would snag a
mullet out of one of the schoolsof mullet that would swim by, and

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we'd put that beast out there undera big cork or don't. I don't
even remember how we rigged it up. We had grand plans, but they
never don't. I don't recall themever being successful. We were doing much
better on little quarter ounce mister champspoons with yellow bucktails and catching trout.

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That was kind of cool, Itreally was. We were very excited to
do that, and it's all ofthat just sticks with me as though it
were yesterday. It really does.Just had so much fun as a kid,
I got exposed to a lot ofdifferent kinds of fishing, different places,
all of this stuff I got todo down at my grandparents' house in
Southeast Florida, And yeah, Ican remember one night being sitting on the

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back this is at Deerfield Beach,at the endlet there at Deerfield and sitting
on the back of a sport fishingboat that one of my grandparents friends zoned
and we were just down there,goofing off and just kind of hanging out.
And in the lights of the pierthat the boat was tied to,

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which the boat was tied, we'lldo that correctly, I could see a
couple of tarp and swimming around.Man, can I try to catch one
of those? And they said sure. And I don't remember where or how
I got hold of a live bait. It was a mullet, I'm pretty
sure, but I put that thingon a hook and slapped it out onto

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the water maybe twelve fifteen feet behindthat boat, And within a nano second
of that bait hitting the water,it was like the fish was just sitting
there waiting on it. Just thisexplosion happens behind the boat and he ripped
the mullet right off the hook andsplashed everybody. And it was just incredible,

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just an incredible moment in time fora fisherman, and that sticks out.
I could remember the first king mackerel, not the very first, but
the first exposure to king mackerel fishingon party boats down there that went out
at night, and that was prettysporty. And I've still got part of

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the top of my left thumb printis still scarred from trying to stop reels
when I was a little kid withmy thumb and not just tightening the drag.
I wasn't really sure how all thatworked, but I knew I had
to stop that spool before it emptied. And I can remember smelling burning skin

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when some of that was happening.That's how fast that line was going out,
and and it hurt, but Iwasn't gonna let that fish win.
There was all kinds of this isall when I was very young. I
kind of kind of got it figuredout. Now I've caught some pretty big
fish in my life and been somecool places, And for any of you
who want to do that, Ihope you get that chance. I really

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do somehow some way find a wayto go do that. Aaron's been talking
to me about trying to catch hisfirst Marlin and what that's going to take.
And I've shared some emails with him, and I'll keep doing that until
he goes and gets one somewhere,because that's another experience it's worth having,
no matter what it takes to getyou there my first and I wrote about

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this in the newspaper, and forgiveme if you've already heard me talk about
how you can replicate that feeling ofthat first strike and run of a blue
Marlin. It's just get yourself abucket, get yourself a big rod and
reel and a big hook, andgo sit on that bucket somewhere on I
ten, I don't care where.It's just on the shoulder, and let

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out a bunch of line. Andwhen you see one of those gravel trucks
coming, just sling that hook infront of that gravel truck and grab that
rod and hold on, because that'swhat that first that's what that first run
is like. When a legitimate,serious and really the medium size, when
it's not about two hundred to threehundred three fifty. Those are kind of

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the teenagers of marlin, and theyare all full of themselves, and we'll
run off on you so fast andyou just can't believe you're ever going to
stop that run, and then finallythey do usually run out of gas significantly.
Big reel is rarely dumped by afish. When the drag is set
correctly and the captain's doing what he'ssupposed to do and everybody's doing what they're

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supposed to do on the boat,you typically won't get spooled by a big
fish, but you'll sure wish itdidn't run as far as it did when
you realize you have to crank backall of that line, and all of
that line might be four or fivehundred yards of it. It's not like
a speckled trout where he, ohman, he peeled off a little bit

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of line that time, I betterget it back. That they're just getting
started when they would dump it alittle trout reel. Oh it's fun.
And I still get just as excitedabout going grabbing a little fourweight fly rod
and going and catching hand sized panfish. I can get just as excited over
that. It doesn't matter where,it doesn't matter what if there's a fish

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in the water, or even ifI just believe there's a fish in the
water, which I believe there's fishingevery piece of water I've ever gone to.
They have to prove me wrong,and it's gonna take a while.
There was a lake. I hadtold this story a couple of years ago.
There was a lake out where oneof my friends, my son's friends
houses is. There's a lake behindtheir house. And I was told by

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the kid and the dad, nowthere's no bass in there. And I
looked at that lake again. Isaid, do you mind if I try?
Now, go ahead, we'll walkaround. We'll fall you around and
see what happens. And it tookabout twenty minutes, a very pace,
a very boring piece of water.There's no structure really around the edges.
It's just it's just a retention pondthat makes the neighborhood look pretty when you

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drive in. That's all it is. But there was at least one bass
in there that weighs about a poundand a quarter. And I caught him
on a little spinner bait. Ohman, Adam, you got any plans
this weekend? I know? Saragoing to bed early, getting up tomorrow,
rising show. Why do you haveto be here? Are you coming
here early tomorrow? Yes, Sarah, I'm working on the Walton and Johnson

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show. Oh lord, you dohave to get up early? What time
they kick off at six? Right? Oh yeah? So what time will
you get up for? Thirty?Oh yeah, pretty much? Well four?
Actually, oh good golly. Youqualify for all kinds of stuff,
don't you? And this night shift? All right? Well, go home,

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get some rest so you'd be readyand fresh for Kenny and yeah Walden
and Johnson, and go take careof them, good guys. I like
that show, I really do.That's the station where my outdoor, my
Senior show is fifty plus. I'llbe in there, not the same studio,
but right down the hall on Tuesday, Tuesday at noon, Tuesdays from
Friday at noon, I'm live there, and then i'll be back here Saturday

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and Sunday as always seven o'clock,Saturday Sunday at eight o'clock. I hope
you enjoyed the show. If youdid tell some friends about it, William,
I'd appreciate that. That's it forme. I'll be back next week. Audioce