The Doug Pike Show 6-4-2023

Doug talks hunting fishing and golf and takes your calls all morning long!

Episode Transcript

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How many fish in our stringer,how many points on our buck, how
many feathers in our bag. That'show we keep score around here. Sportsmen
and women of all skill levels,let's disconnect from the day to day grind
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Doug Pike. Oh lord, Igot caught running down the hall. Sorry,

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Ron, didn't mean to panic you. You're right there, Panics,
You didn't care. Did I knowyou're here? So we're good. We're
blowing by the door to the studioin which he sits and manages this show.
What three times in the last fortyfive seconds? I guess, I
don't know. Yeah, you gorunning around a lot, kept pushing the

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button in here. I'll be back, I'll be back. I had three
things to pick up. I pickedup all three, so it's more or
less an on time start. Istill heard the music playing, at least
technically, so there you go,all right? Since yesterday, let me
catch up halfway winded. I feellike I've sprinted somewhere, and yet I
really haven't sprinted anywhere, so I'mnot sure how that's gonna work out.

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In any event, If you didnot, Ryan, were you paying attention
at all? Pardon me to theNational Hurricane Center's map and the presence on
it yesterday of Arline tropical storm Arline. I missed it yet, Well,
indeed you did, actually, becausethis morning I went back there and I
actually had a couple of people textor email me. One texted me,

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one email me home, Man,what's going to go on with this storm?
We got a named storm and theGulf of Mexico, and I had
already looked at the National Hurricane Center'sthoughts on it a couple of times.
I've been I've watched that thing prettymuch every day, starting about in the
middle of May and finishing up Idon't know, Thanksgiving, I'll finally quit

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looking at it. The reason Ido that one is just unfascinated by that
type of weather phenomenon, and theother is that there actually have been throughout
history named storms in every month ofthe year. These are Atlantic and Gulf
named to storms every month of theyear, So why not, out of

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curiosity take a look in the middleof winter, just for giggles. And
you know, the good news is, at always, most of the time
anyway, there's nothing to see there, and that it would include today.
Arlene has packed her bag, she'sleft town. She disappeared overnight. I
am quite pleased to report that theNational Hurricane Center map now has my favorite

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snapshot of the Atlantic and Gulf ofMexico. It says so more eloquently,
but what it says is that there'snothing to see here today and there is
not expected to be anything worth seeingfor the next two days. And a
tip of the cap by the wayto the National Hurricane Center, because it

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knows better than to calculate and formulateand start telling people there's something that just
might boil up a week out.Ooh, it might do something different in
nine days. I get really frustratedby these five day and ten day forecasts.
They're bologny, that's all they are. They are a ten day forecast.

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If you're looking at the fifth throughthe fourth through the tenth days,
really there's nothing but clickbait. You'regonna you're gonna get somebody pay per click
charge for looking at that website,looking at the ninth or tenth day of
something, when what you're really whatyou're getting as a weather forecast is just

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not worth looking at. The golfindustry hates ten day forecasts, even week
long forecast because they look out toofar, and people who are gung ho
and man, let's go on.Let's all go. Four guys sitting around
the sports bar one night having abeer watching a game. Hey, you
know it would be fun next Friday, five days from now, Let's go

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play golf. Yeah, where youwant to play? Let's go to X,
y Z wherever? Let's go to. Well, I could if I
start naming golf courses, I'd haveto sit here and tell about ten o'clock
naming them just around here. SoI'm not going to name any particular course
for this because it defeats the purposeof the exercise. Let's go play golf,
period on that golf course, theone we all like so much.

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Yeah, let's do it. Somebodymake a tea time. I'll do it
right now on my phone. Okay, we've got a tea time for Friday
or let's say it's when it's Saturday. They're at the game, they're at
the bar watching the game. Let'smake a tea time for Wednesday. Everybody
clear on Wednesday. Oh yeah,we're good. And then somebody goes home
that night and looks at the Wednesdayforecast on Saturday night and calls everybody says,

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oh, man, man, there'slike a sixty percent chance of rain
on Wednesday, and we probably oughtto punt. There's just no I don't
like playing in the rain. Idon't like the mud. It's just not
fun when it's raining. So let'sjust blow it off and maybe we'll try
again another time. Yeah, that'sa good idea. We don't want to
play in the rain. That's notfun. So whoever made the tea time

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cancel it. So they canceled thetea time before or Sunday even breaks,
and come Wednesday, there's not acloud in the sky. And that's what
happens to golf courses, and that'swhat drives them nuts, the people who
run them. Anyway, it's greatfor the superintendent, man, they got
no zero traffic on that golf course. If it actually does get wet,

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keep everybody off of there for alittle while. Let the cart tracks,
He'll let the some of the dibbotts. He'll man, I'm already it's only
eight oh seven and I'm already leaninginto golf a little bit. And there's
a lot going on in the golfworld, a lot of which we'll touch
in the nine o'clock hour. Idon't want to unless somebody wants to just

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take this train in that direction inthe eight o'clock hour, I won't do
it. But there's a lot goingon. I'll just leave it at that
for now. I'll spend a welldumb cash. There's something I was gonna
talk about right there, but it'smore golf, so I'm not gonna do
it. Oh here's something you justcan't miss with in summertime. I am
and all of you who have listenedto this show long enough, no darned

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well that I'm not a sensationalist.I'm not going to try to grab you
with a crazy headline. But there'sthere's reason that I bring up what I'm
about to bring up. Okay,it's just just observation and information. My
buddy Robert down there in Galveston sendsme two pictures a few days ago,

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taken from his pier down there,because there are some big guar where he
is, and he's made it amission to catch some of those things.
But because they are there, hepresumed that the pictures he showed me,
he sent to me, were ofa big old guars, women around his

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peerswomen down the rocks by his peer. And I immediately sent back, uh,
pump the brakes, gar Man,that's not what you're looking at.
That's not what you're looking at.Those and succession. The first picture was
the dorsal and the second picture,although quite glorious, it's about the resolution

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is about the same as that mostfamous iconic image of the loganes monster.
Is that a lognez or is ita pipe cleaner? What is it?
We're not sure. Well, that'skind of the way that second picture looked
if you had it and only itto look at. What he had sent
me was the pictures very clearly tome, of the dorsal fin and the

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tail fin of a shark cruising andprobably based on my knowledge of the reference,
in the background, it's probably afive foot maybe bullshark. It's meandering
through there doing what every fish inthe entire in salt water around the world,

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and most of the fish and freshwaterare doing every time they wake up,
they're looking for food. That's allhe was doing. He was trying
to on the grocery store. There'sfood around there too. He'll that bullshark
hangs around there, he'll get fed. I sent Robert a text that said,
hey, if you want to findout what's really in that water where
you are, I refuse to divulgethe location of this place because they've actually

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got a cool nightlight out there too. Now that's starting to attract some fish.
But there are, without doubt,without a shred of doubt in my
mind, there are a lot ofsharks, more than he understands. It's
not swarming with him. But Itold him, I'll bring two big rods
down there. We'll set them upon the pier and let's just see what

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happens. And I would be willingto bet that in one session down there,
if we sat out on that pierfor say three hours, especially at
night, I'd be willing to beta lot that we would catch at least
one shark and maybe a couple,probably between three and seven feet long.

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I wouldn't be. I'd be moreinclined to think it's gonna be a three
foot or maybe three and a halffour foot like the one that he saw
swimming down his bulkhead there, orthat little jetty, if you will.
But it wouldn't surprise me if wehooked into something that was twice that size.

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So that means he's gonna have tofight him. I've fought all the
sharks I want to fight in mylife. I have caught them in I
don't know, a hundred different places. Maybe I think that's a reasonable that's
a reasonable stab. And they're allfun to catch. They're all I've cast
not I have never caught a reallyreally big shark, and by really big

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I would I would put that ateight feet or better. I've caught some
up to eights and a lot ofthem. And just like the billfish,
the teenagers in the families, thosemid sized fish, they tend to fight
a lot harder. The big onesget old and slow, kind of like

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me. The young ones are morelike teenagers. They're teenagers. They're pretty
tough, all right, mister producerman, what's going on over there?
How you liking being back in thesaddle? Hey, it feels great money.
Yeah, well it's not a it'snot a different wake up call for
you, that's for sure. No, I had no problems getting up getting

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down. Here you're showing him,Brian, are giving them hell on Monday
through Friday morning. Yes, sir, I'll ask you because you're closer to
it than I am. So howdo the on a one to ten?
Where is the audiences? Not you, Brian and Seawan, but where is
the audiences optimism for the astro chancesat another run into the World Series?

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I would slow. I would saythe the optimism for them to make the
World Series is on the low side. The optimism of them still being a
good team and things will get betterand YadA YadA is still there. But
if we're going to the World Series, A lot of people have their doubts
because their natural born skeptics. Yes, they can't, they can't wrap their

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heads around potential long term dominance becausethey're always waiting for the next hammer to
fall. But if you look backat the teams we've had for what the
last six to eight nine years,that it's been such a nice ride.
Which team from this year and bythis year, I mean any of the

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last eight looks exactly like the teamthat did great before them, none of
them. Right, you're just onthe fly, right, you do.
And I think a lot. Ithink this team is fine. I think
the problem that you know, peopleeither notice or haven't been noticing is the
fact that three of our starting picturesare injured and then the fourth one is
playing for the New YORKANSTA. SoI mean that's you know, it's a

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it's a big pitching change. Butyeah, the team's fine, They'll be
a fine Yeah. But the guyswe got going to the hill now are
step at Hunter Brown. It's beensuch a such a pleasant surprise for everybody.
I think, Yeah, I know, he's been great. JP France
has been great. And you know, these are young guys, you know,
considering how young they are, andthis is really their first big league
experience under Brown got some experience lastyear, but I mean he's getting full

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time experience this year. So it'sit's a lot of pressure for these guys
and they're stepping up and doing agreat job. So I think they still
have a chance. Now when itcomes to getting to the playoffs in the
World Series, you hope that youknow, maybe you know your keyt he's
good to go by, then mcculler'sis good to go by then. But
there's no guarantee of that, sowe'll see. Yeah, you know,
I can guarantee you is we're notgoing to hit this first break on ton

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No, it's time, Oopsie daisyops, all right, let's do this.
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last night. I don't know ifit got American Shooting Centers, but even
if it did, I would suspectthat now that it's not raining, there's
a fair to good chance that youcould get out there this morning and enjoy
some shooting before the wind comes up. It's gonna be potentially windy day.

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I'll talk about that when we comeback, especially down on the coast,
but right now, it'd be agood time to get out to American Shooting
Centers and enjoy a little powder burningtime with your friends, with your family.
They've got two hundred plus shooting stations, three sporting Clay's courses, that
long long rifle and pistol range thatstarts at five yards and goes out to

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six hundred yards. That's a longways down there too. It's fun to
go down there and just watch.Bring a pair of binocuters and try to
look down there and even see ifyou can see the holes in the targets
that they're punching. The targets looklike postage stamps down there. It's incredible
how far that is. But thosepeople can do it. It's fun to
just watch them. When you gettired of that and go over to the

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trapping skeet fields, there's I thinkten of those. There are five stands
setups around the property. There isa beginner's wing shooting area, and there's
also a very cool silhouette pop uprange for rim fire shooting that goes all
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on Sports Talk seven nineties. Letme go take a peek and make sure
I'm not missing any emails yet thismorning, because I've been remissing, not
looking. I was looking for somethingearlier and I had to abandon the ship
for just a second. No,this is all good. That's okay,
that's okay. That's all from yesterdaylate, and we're good, Thank goodness.

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So here's the last night I wasjust I just mentioned to Ryan Money,
who is stepping in for Adam Snyder. Where did he go? No
idea, nobody knows. Nobody toldme he just took a couple of days
off. Yes he did. Andby the way, Ryan, I gotta
give you credit for training him becauseand as soon as I knew it was

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going to be you who was takingcare of that kid, I knew he'd
be all right, and he hasstepped in and solved things that no producer
in the past with his little experienceas he has has been able to handle
without making like six phone calls.So think, hey, well that's great.
I'm glad to hear that. Thankyou. Yeah, he's very good.
And he got trained at the feetof the master, as they say.

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Yep, I've had to train afew kids, and he might be
my proudest pupil. Good, good, good, good coastal wind I wanted
to I mentioned that briefly a minuteago, and let me go back to
the actual site where I look atthis stuff. Gosh, I've got a
hold on it. I got leanin. My glasses don't work that far
away, not nearly as well asI'd like them too. I wind surf

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as the weather forecasting or not weatherforecast, but real time wind deal that
I use. And there is akind of it's almost like a vacuum pulling
air from the northwest to the southeast, and it is set on high suction
right now from about somewhere around Matagorda. Let me see where this station is

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here, yep, Mattagorda. Allthe way up east of Sabine pass Over
in Louisiana, and the bulk ofthe right smack down the middle would be
somewhere around Saint Louis Pass. Betweenthose two points from Mattagorda or actually from
Port O'Connor, really is kind ofwhere it starts over east of the Sabine

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River. Air is being pulled offthe coast at more than twenty miles an
hour on average, twenty seven milesan hour at the north Jetty, twenty
six at Saint Louis Pass, twentyfive at Port O'Connor. Port O'Connors actually
got a dead north wind, butthat's right where it turns and starts pulling

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out offshore. So the water isgoing to be very flat today, although
I'm not sure what kind of conditionit's going to be in with a tide
change or two. It's actually kindof pretty. Hold on, I've got
to look at the I've got tolive look at the sixty first treat Pier.
Thanks to Yeah, it looks atit's blown calm, there's no question
about it. That offshore wind's takingcare of that. But it doesn't look

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pretty right now. It looks kindof dirty. So I'm not gonna say
which way or not the surf's goingto be at the end of the day.
But right now there's no surf leftI don't think for the surfers,
and I'm gonna say it's gonna bea little bit muddy for the fisherman.
So there you have that. Ifound something kind of funny the other about

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three days ago, I think itwas, And it's another case of mistaken
identity. We were talking about yesterday. We were talking about city people moving
into the country and how misinformed alot of them can be, and how
scared of things that it shouldn't reallyscare them, just go. The list
goes on and on of silliness thathappens when people who have no idea what

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they're looking at trying to tell otherpeople what they saw. And I'm not
talking at all about about Robert andthe shark that cruised his peer. His
was an honest deal and he's outthere a lot and he's trying to learn.
But somebody somewhere in Arizona and Arizonacalled the authorities to tell them that

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he or she had seen an alligatorin some drainage channel in Arizona and even
sitting where I'm sitting. That's impossible. It just didn't happen. What they
saw, according to wildlife officials,is far more likely. What, Ryan,

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you want to take a stab atand think about Arizona. Okay,
something swimming in the channel. Ithink it's an alligator, but it probably
is a giant lizard or um.It was a beaver. A beaver,
a beaver, a beat not evensomething with scales. But no, no,

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not anywhere closer. They don't havethose in Arizona. They don't have
any of those. In Arizona.They got beavers, so they ain't got
big lizards. Now, I don'tthink they do. Florida's got a bunch
of them. Okay, they hadtons of them, geckos and no,
I'm talking about three and four footers. Yeah. Iguana iguanas, the yeah,

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yeah. And there are actually someof the pest control companies down there
specialized in iguana removal. And ifever there was a teenager job that sounded
cool, it would be catching thoseiguanas or popping them with pellet guns.
Let me go talk to Charles.What's up, Charles? Oh, it's
doing it again, Ryan, Hangon, somebody messed it up, punch

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him up for me. Oh good, No, he's not on my thing,
says he's not here. Charles canhear us? All right, well,
oh there you are, thank you. Yeah, what's up? Charles?
Hey, Doug, listen. Doyou think that in the very near
future or any time close, thatthey're gonna start doing alligator drives to kind

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of slow down the population? Idon't. I don't know that they're gonna
be concerted efforts like they've done withsnakes in the Everglades. I don't know
that we have that many alligators todeal with. I think that what they
could do if there, if therecomes a need for that is maybe the
increase, increase the number of permitsyou can get for him, or linked

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in the season somehow. But asfar as just a round up like the
rattlesnake round ups of the past foralligators, I don't. That doesn't,
that doesn't jump off the page atme as something that's a good idea.
Well what the reason I'm asking here? But three point here, a few
weeks ago, a couple of weeksago, you got gators land on the

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beach. Oh yeah, they're they'regetting washed out the rivers that happens.
I've seen them down there for thirtyyears though, right. And then uh,
here in sugar Land, they lefttheir garage door open, well,
and they went out to go intothe garage and say they saw the clothes

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moving the alligator in there. Yeah, that'd be pretty scary, There's no
question about it. You gotta yougotta take one thing into account, Charles.
We have moved into their territory.They didn't move into our territory,
and so we have to be cognizant. We have to be aware. And
if you've got a nuisance out,I've got a three footer in the dirty

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clothes pile in the garage, callsomebody. They'll come pick it up and
they'll relocate it. But to havea rodeo for him, I don't know,
man, Maybe next time. Theother thing I wanted to ask you
about it. Do you know anythingabout the thirteen year old out of Los
Angeles, the golfer. Oh,yeah, he's in there. He's playing

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Monday. I talked about that yesterday. This little kid can can golf his
ball man and he is thirty sixholes from having an entry in the US
Open. After taking care of peoplein a local qualifier or a regional qualifier.
Yeah, right, he's in Man. Well, he's not in the
US Open yet, but he's he'sgoing to be part of the golf's longest
day tomorrow at ten courses. I'mgonna talk about that in the nine o'clock

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hour. I am absolutely yes.SKay, okay, you better like to
hear about that. Yeah, Iheard about the young man u Doo doo
doo. I think it was likeMonday, and they were talking about how
great this kid, no doubt aboutit. And there I mean, I
think it's um I can't remember somebody'sson though. Is also when they're at

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fifteen years old. So and thiskid, those two aren't the only teenagers.
There's a few more. But thethirteen year old. Yeah, he's
the he's the youngest of the crew. And there are people in there in
their early fifties too. There's aretired math teacher in his fifties who never
played high school or college golf,who has got Monday to get into.

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Hey, I gotta take a break, man, Thank you, Charles.
I appreciate the call. Bud.Oh I can't I can't do anything.
Oh you did, Why didn't youtell me that now, Well, yeah,
never mind, fix it where Ican do this in here, and

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then we won't have that problem.I know you will. All right,
we gotta take a little break here, Rick, hang on. I'll be
back to you as soon as weget back to the show. Black Horse
Golf Club. I don't know howmuch rain they got last night, but
I'll bet you they got some,and I doubt just based on what I'm
seeing in Sugarland. When I sawthis morning, then it was enough to
really rock the course and mess itup. So all it's gonna do is

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make everything greener and lusher and evenmore beautiful than it has been lately.
Black Horses on Fri Road, justa little way south to two ninety,
very easy to find, and twofull golf courses, the North and the
South, each of which it hasan entirely different personality. All you have
to do is get there to enjoyone or the other. And even if

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you were even if you've got fourguys, you got four guys want to
go play golf today, there's avery good chance you can get a tea
time set, very good chance,especially with the forecast scaring people off.
Just watch for a little four hourbreak in the window and go up there
and go play some golf. Gohave some fun at black Horse. Whether
it's just you and a buddy,or you got two hundred people to raise

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money for charity, They've got youcovered either way at black Horse. If
you need construction, go to thefar end of the range get some less.
Since black Horse Golf Club dot com, you can set your own teatime
right now, right there, blackHorse Golfclub dot com. This is Sports
Talk seven eighty online at Sports seveneighty dot com. Now more, Doug

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By, Hold on, I'm gonnamove this over here. I'm gonna push
this right here and for set thathere. All right, Welcome back to

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Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk sevenninety. Thank you for listening. This
Sunday morning forecast calling for some showers. It may rain on my golf parade
tomorrow, and that would be justfitting since I'm actually driving the ball better.
In the past seventy two hours.There was something I looked at online
and saw and tried and thought about, and honestly, I have no idea

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whether I'm actually doing what the personwho suggested this tip said to do.
But whatever it is, whatever itwas that clicked in my head. It's
translated to my hands in my swingand I'm actually driving the ball fairly well.
I don't want to jinx myself.I don't want to. I probably
hit more good drives in the pastseventy two hours than I have in the

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past seventy two days. It seemslike no, sounds like that. Don't
do that. It's gonna get inmy head. Man. Oh, let
me go talk to Rick and thenI'll come in there and smack you around.
Hey Rick, what's up? Man? Hey man? Pretty quick here.
Yesterday we were talking about Buffalo andyou know, this is an outdoor

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show, pretty diverse show on topicsthat are generally related. I would say,
you know, I find it veryenjoyable man, And I'm I can
appreciate knowing you for as long asI have And and there's a lot of
work that goes into putting on theshow that you do. I mean,

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I really have to hand it toyou. Not to mention the guy on
the other side of the wall there, you know, Ryan or Trey or
Adam or whoever. Anyway, umtalking about that. There's a book and
I'm gonna, you know, talkabout this book for a second, and
it talks about buffalo. There's somehunting, there's some fishing, and a

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whole lot of survival in it.And it goes back to the Texas trail
drivers. Okay, interesting, andwhen they were pushing cattle, and then
you know the eighteen fifties all theway up to the very very early nineteen
hundreds, well by the nineteen startedthe nineteen hundreds, the Chosen Trail and

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the good Night Trail and you know, the Lonesome Dove movie, so to
speak. Errol was over right,so they decided to have a convention and
send him tone which later became theTexas Cattle Rage Association, and I its
some crazy number thousand and fifteen hundredguys showed up that didn't start till eighteen

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eighty five, that were thirteen andfourteen years old. We're going two or
three years at a time. Someguys were there were in their names.
But while they were there at thisconvention, they asked them to each write
a very short story of their favoritethey're one of the most favorite memories or

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something that happened, And so theyall did. Wow, and some of
them couldn't even write, so otherpeople had to write it form and very
very interesting book. I'll bet ohit's it's incredible. It's a it's a
pretty thick book. But it's justone page deal, so I mean,

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you don't have to read a fortypage chapter. Yeah, and it's just
some of the coolest stories. Andyou talk about some tough people. Man,
oh yeah, yeah. They didn'tact tough or in trying to be
tough, but they had they hadto be tough to Yeah, that's exactly.
H I have the weather Channel.They didn't have that, you know,

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in between the Buffalo and the Indiansand everything else. Uh, just
you know, a quick statement,they weren't real fond of the Indians.
And it wasn't just because there wasthe feelings were mutual. They never they
never they were never aggressive towards theIndians. They were just as the cowboys

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and the drover. They were justhaving to defend themselves. But anyways in
the book, is that appropriate?Yeah, what's the name of the book.
It's easy to google the book up. It's called The Texas Trailed Drivers.
Okay, I'll take a look forthat. And it's a cool books,

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I mean, and I'm not abig rigger. But uh, it's
just you know, on the subjectsI like and hunting and fishing. There's
a lot of discussion about buffalo andowning, on and on and on.
There's a little hunting in it,little fishing. They didn't have an AGV

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Audios. All right, we gottatake a little break here on the
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slashing sports Talk seven ninety. Backto the Doug Pike Show eight forty eight

(34:55):
on Sports Talk seven ninety The DougPike Show, Thank you for listen this
morning. I certainly do appreciate it. Rain overnight, more rain coming this
afternoon. Look it up, becareful and plow forward. We know how
to take care of it around here. Weather's weather. It's gonna change every
twenty minutes no matter what we do. So just keep enough stuff in your

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car to keep you warm, keepyou cool, keep you dry, keep
you hydrated. Do all that andyou'll be just fun. Hey Dave,
what's up? You're exactly right,man, I got my jackets back.
Oh my gosh, utter everything else. You know. Look, I live
out in the belly bell over here. Man. She if she gets me
there and back, I'm happy,that's right, I think. Hey,

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no, man, when you weretalking about the cattle drives, man,
wow, you know I kind ofI didn't do no cattle drives. But
it is so hard to ride ahorse and in direct cattle into where they
need to go. But in theend, back then, see, they
had to go and hunt and fishand provide for themselves, you know what

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I mean. Yeah, they takeoff, they were going along the trail.
Move those animals are thirty for you. I don't know how many miles
they could cover in a day,Probably not many. Not with cattle.
I bet it took a long timeto move a thousand head of cows.
And um, yeah, wherever theystopped, somebody had to go find something
to eat and shoot it or catchit or whatever. They sure did yea,

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yeah, yeah, you had tohave your guys out front. They
could ride the fast towards. Andman, I mean, I'm just proud
that I learned that ride horse.I could, you know, I couldn't
rope. I mean, I knowhow to ride one, but I can't
do none of the fancy trick stuff. But I'll tell you what. My
dad he could. He could cutone in and cut one out, you

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know, and all that stuff.So at least I saw all that.
Yeah, it's pretty cool. Nope, what No. What I'm trying to
say is, but then back inthe day, when you're out in the
middle of nowhere, you got tohave somebody to go to find something to
get you to eat. And thenyou got to get you know, get
you something somewhere, a rabbit oranything, you know, for the for

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the trick. You know, I'mthe only chuck Wagon bring it back to
the Yeah, oh chuck mushy mushydon't fit. Let you go, Ben,
Hey, Hey, but I'm tellingyou you learn something from the old
stuff. And I know that's moviesand TV, but it really did happen.

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But they created it. Yeah,they recreate it and make it entertaining.
Back then, cattle drive wasn't nearlyso entertaining as it would look on
television. All right, let mego to George and see what's happening with
George? George? What is up? I was raised in why I want
me to tell us about I don'tknow twelve? Oh wow, how cool

(37:54):
is that? And uh, youknow when I started, I got to
Houston, come to Texas. Yougotta be a cowboys. So I started
a rodeo and then team were openabout twenty twenty two years ago, and
I got interested in the cattle drive. There are some great books. We
headed them North by Teddy Blue.There's a number of them, all based

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on fact. But this really onlygot started after the Civil War and all
them guys come back from war,and they were reliants of wild cows on
the Mexico Texas border, and beforethe advent of the trains, they'd gathered
twenty five hundred thirty five hundred drivethem up five major trails, Chisholm Trail

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will probably being the one that's mostfamous, and there would be three or
four herds behind them and three orfour herds ahead of them. There'd be
typically about ten cowboys and each oneof them would have ten horses. And
so that lasts about twenty twenty sevenyears until the advent of the trains.
The men, of course, justthese cows on the train and they didn't

(39:00):
unquote walk the tallow off. Well, when I was when I was ten
or twelve years old, I wenthere hunting behind Devil's Tower. Family friend
had a ranch behind and we actuallyhad to cross the state the state park
property, go across the Belfush River, come back behind the Devil's Tower to
get onto this private property. Well, about ten or twelve years ago,

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Mama died, my father was downin the mouth, and I said,
look, let's just load up.Flew into Denver. My father was the
bricklayer superintendent on the Air Force Academy. So we started there at in Denver
and drove north, ended up hadDevil's Tower, and so I'd always wanted
to see this again, and Igot to talking to a couple of people.

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The postmistress there at Devil's Tower marriedinto the Driscoll family and her father
in law, Jess Driscoll, whoI think since past. She said,
well, he's dying for somebody totalk to. So we came. He
came down to the post office andwe just wrote around for four or five
hours. The driscal family. TheDouble D brand is the faint he thought

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at the time, was the longeststanding privately held brand in the country.
And he said his great great grandfathera crossed sixty five thousand head of cows
across the Mississippi Metal. Yes,and the USRM B awarded in the set

(40:28):
as over spurs for that, andthey supplied the army with bow well,
so he said, come back tothe house. I got some old cowboys
stuff you'd want to see, andjust a huge picture. Went to just
a high, ostentious ranch house,but Devil's Tower filled it up well.
In the course of the conversation,he said, you know they made that
film Close Encounters in the third timethey could stay property, so they shot

(40:52):
that on his property thirty five thousandmatres. The Double D ranch at the
base of Devil's Towers. Impressive.So we finish up and I said,
mister Driscoll, I've been reading aboutthe cattle drives. This was quite a
logistic endeavor. Who paid for it? And he kind of got a ride

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grin on his face and said,well, my great great great grandfather and
his brother were provisioners for the forthe Confederacy. His brother trusted the Confederacy
accepted the script. My mine didnot have insisted arn gold. He said,
that's where it came from. Andthen he said this. He built
the Driscoll Hotel in Austin. Oh. I stammered, and I said what

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He said, yes, and Isaid, well, I've been there.
It's still there. No, Geordie. I don't mean to cut you short,
George, but I'm almost out oftime, man, I know it
do that, but I just justturned on and it's a fascinating story.
No, thank you. I appreciatethat. I really do. I'm just
played, all right, man,Thank you so much. All right.

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Yeah, I hate to do that, I do. And one thing that
stood out to me was how littlethe federal government has changed over the years.
Here is a man who moved sixtydid he say sixty five thousand head
of cattles at correct that's what it'ssounded like, and provided the US Army

(42:22):
with beef for I don't know what'ssixty five thousand maybe even if it was
only half of those cows, thirtytwo and a half thousand cows that went
to the army. Whatever, Andwhat did they pay him? Let's set
of silver spurs. There you go, thanks for playing, Thanks for providing
us with a couple of decades worthof beef. We really appreciate that.

(42:45):
Here's some spurs for your trouble.Like, he where's the cash? Yeah?
Yeah, well yeah, so ifI get on my horse and kick
it with these silver spurs, willit run to a big bucket of gold
I don't know, take it readyto the federal reserve? Well, you
know, actually that's not the samefederal government today today, by what's happened

(43:09):
lately in stories you read about wasteat federal at the federal government level,
they would probably they would probably payyou, I don't know what, one
hundred thousand a cow if you justif you put it in there and said
it was the right kind of organicwhatever cow. Don't get yeah, don't

(43:32):
get me started. Man. Ohright, here's a little quick safety tip
and then I'm gonna have to bultbolt for the top of the hour break.
I saw this the other day.It really got my attention. Over
in England. This happened, andit could happen here, It could happen
anywhere really. But somebody left apair of sunglasses on the dash of their

(43:52):
car and the sun angle was justand the concentration of light. I guarantee
there's guys in this audience who didthis when they were little kids, and
we a lot of us. Didyou found a magnifying glass in the house,

(44:13):
Okay, and you go out andyou you dial in that beam and
you fry an ant do you dothat? You're in there shaking your head,
and I'm very familiar with this pastime. I don't think I got involved
in it, but very sure.Okay, yeah, okay, you were.
You were nodding pretty heavy in there. You know. That wasn't an
observer's nod where it was a teacher'snod. So anyway, so there is

(44:38):
this concentration of light if you holda lens just so, and what it
did was melted the dash of thatguy's card ended up starting to fire.
They hadn't call the fire departmentw itstarted a fire on his dash. Yeah.
Yeah. Also it says here burneda big hole in the windshield somehow.

(44:59):
So yeah, you want to youmight want to move your sunglasses or
put them in a case, orget a visor thing. You know what
I've started at the window or awindshield. Here's the Yeah, well yeah
there's that, but that's a lotof work. So here's one quick tip
and then we got to go.If you need sunglass cases and you can't
find the ones you want to use, I'm not talking about something that'll that

(45:22):
you could travel with it, throwthem in a suitcase and not worry about.
But I'm just talking about something toprotect the lenses. What I do
a lot, like for the sparesthat I keep in my golf bag that
aren't going to get crushed, butthey could just could get scratched. Who
doesn't have a cotton sock lay andone odd sock the one that the dryer
ate the match and it's just it'sjust a random sock that works really well

(45:45):
with something else. I used to, um, what was it now?
I think it was sunglasses that whenit works like a champ takes care of
them. You don't have to worryabout them. All right, we gotta
take a break. Here, it'sthe top, all the way out.
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twenty years helping sports investors make better, more informed decisions. Now here's Doug
Pike. All right, Brian Moneyand I having a little fun during the
break. We're back now about thatI was telling I was telling Ryan that
yesterday Trey Trey had to go upagainst a listener in the Texas Temperature game,

(47:45):
and actually he held his own andhe ended up winning his total differentiation
or difference that the other word doesn'teven apply here. I don't know why
I dragged out that word. Thedifference that Trey came up with was only
ten degrees in total, whereas mylistener, Ricky put up a fifteen.

(48:06):
Now, both of them miss thelow temperature by more than the high.
But Trey actually on the high temperature, only missed it by one degree.
Ryan. So but Sundays, you'reyou're in luck. You don't have to
play against a listener, but Ido want you to play the game,
because that has become tradition. Adamgoes solo on Sundays usually, and we

(48:28):
well usually. Even even if Adamwins so far, I think he pointed
out a couple of weeks ago,and he's won most of the time,
I still find some new rule thatI make up so that I can award
the foursomes that have been so generouslydonated by my buddy David Preisler Forsoms Golf

(48:49):
up on the north side of thetown. And somehow, some way,
I always give it away. Doyou have the music readies you called?
We'll find out on the Texas TemperatureGame. I'm always ready because you're hot
cold all right, I guess it'stime to start now here. I know,

(49:17):
is it hot? Was that?Was that? Pretty good? That
was close? I gotta work onthat? Is that called? That's you
know? He did a good jobon this. I really it's fun.
Okay, So what do you think? I just see how how good you
are. I'm not very good.I'm not feeling good about a while,
but I'm hoping to win a camper. I'm gonna right, Yeah, that's
right, I forgot I play It'supdated dug every time I play. You're

(49:39):
somebody has to call in and defendme because he didn't update the temperature for
the night. Oh I just pulledthis up. Okay, So for the
nineteen sixty eight caravan camper, currentsixty ninety. Okay, what's the current
let that sit? What is thecurrent temperature in the state of Texas during

(50:00):
low tab We had some rain lastnight, but it's only here. We'll
go with fitty fitty is low.What is the current high temperature in the
state of Texas. It's been acool morning. We're gonna go with a
high of eighty going nice round numbers, hoping that'll somehow save me. I
feel well off. You know theround numbers. The actual low and high

(50:23):
are both round numbers two and withinthe middle fifty five for the low,
so you missed that by five.Okay, seventy five for the high,
So you missed that by five.They're actually corpus Christie. Let me pop
this one more time and see whathappens. Yeah, what happens. Here's
why I wonder because it's not showingcurrently some of the reporting stations that it

(50:45):
normally does. And a little whileago, when I ran this thing up
the flagpole. I got hold onwhat's going on here? This is interesting.
It doesn't even want to let merefresh Itah, that's about right.

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Holy cow man, I want tolet down if it won't show me this
because earlier, let me see ifit'll pop them all in there now.
No, the whole the whole coastaltemperature range is missing, interestingly enough,
and earlier it actually was eighty two, so in corpus christie. So I'll
give you the benefit of the doubtand say it's still eighty two there,

(51:28):
so you only miss set by two. So you made a seven seven like
you know, we're seven. Yeah, so instead of tying Trey, I'm
gonna give you credit for a seven. Yes, there you go. So
you can tell him when he getsback and wherever he is, crowd goes
wild. Well, you know bothof them. So yeah, where are
you? I'll give you my address, I guess off air, so you
get this example camper sure, Yeah, that'll just get somebody to drive it

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over seven one three, two,one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. Let mego back to some of the things I
have on this screen of far greaterimportance the memorial up at Jack's Place in
Mirfield Village. Rory McElroy righted theship yesterday and well all week really and

(52:15):
finds himself now on a very difficultgolf course tied with Seawoo Kim and David
Lipsky, who I think David Lipskymay be kind of He may fall backwards
today, but I suspect it willcome down to McElroy and Kim, maybe
both of whom that they make upthe final pairing of the day. Lipski

(52:37):
will be out in front of him, in front of them, and maybe
if he could make a little noiseearly, he might have something going on.
At five under par, you've gotDenny McCarthy, you've got Victor Hobblin.
Let me see. Oh yeah,there they are this there's always a
big giant pop up at in themiddle of this scoreboard that drives me crazy.
Wyndham, Clark, Lee Hodges,Mark Hubbard, all of them at

(52:59):
five under par and easily within shooting. There are only one shot out of
the lead, so that would beeight guys there, and then the fours
not exactly out of it, onlytwo shots back. And now you bring
in another half dozen or so guysKeegan Bradley, Collamore, Kala, Patrick
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(53:22):
too many hills to climb. They'vegot to beat thirteen other guys, and
I don't think that is going tohappen now. If anybody could do it
the way he's played and what hedid yesterday, maybe maybe in Mnyam.
He shot sixty seven yesterday, sohe's got to be feeling pretty good about

(53:43):
that after shooting seventy six, bythe way, on Friday. So there
you have that. That tournament willconclude this afternoon, as will the women's
tournament up there. This is interestingand I wanted to bring this up.
I didn't yesterday, but I will. What's the time I have left in
this break. Spent a ton oftime yesterday talking about the men's side of

(54:04):
professional golf and about the I've spentalmost an entire segment on what's going on
with them. The US Open Championship, the final qualifying. The US opens
a two weeks and the final qualifieris tomorrow. All these guys who are
going to play thirty six holes atten different courses around the country, and

(54:25):
the top finishers in those events earnone of those cherished few remaining spots into
the open played out. They've beenout in Los Angeles all that time,
on those guys. While a youngwoman, twenty year old Rose Jang,
she finds herself in the lead,actually by two shots, of her first

(54:46):
ever professional event. She is freshoff consecutive NC double A D one titles,
consecutive NC double A D one titlesIndo visual titles, and she's the
only woman ever to do that,and she decides to turn pro. She
put yourself in position now with atwo shot lead at the Liberty National in

(55:08):
New Jersey. I heard her interviewafter yesterday's round. She sounded like a
veteran. She'll feel pressure today forsure, but not likely anymore than it
took her to win either of thoseNC double A titles. She talked a
little bit about how she manages hergame in that interview too, and in
that arena she's got I hate tofall back on cliche, I do,

(55:32):
but she has got what they callwisdom beyond her twenty years. A great
representative of golf. She is.I need to take a break. Alan
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morning? Doug starts for that callingearlier. So that's okay, Hey whatever,
it's okay. No, this isnot the golf hour. This is
the hour in which I sometimes talkabout golf. It's not the golf hour.
No, okay, go ahead,just curious. I've got I've got
I've got a few gun case pistolcases. Okay, well what do you

(59:05):
do? Your should throw them awayor just keep laying around. If you're
going to buy more guns, it'dbe nice to have a place to put
them when you get them. Youknow, I look at that. Well,
you know, when you buy anew pistol, they all come with
their own case. So it's like, that's true. Yeah, they came
with the box. They come witha box. Yeah, so that's just
the old cases from new guns.They're more the box than these. I

(59:25):
mean they're pretty hard cases, youknow, says like, yeah, that's
a good point. Do the you'llthrow them away? I try to figure
out what to do with it.I would start, I think i'd start
putting fishing lawyers in them or something. I wouldn't throw them away. They
hard and they're so well made.I'd hate to just throw them away.
Yeah, and that's just me.Yeah, But then I'm thinking the same
thing I said, Man, Icould I should do something with these.

(59:49):
There's better be something you can putin them. It's like having a shoe
and no foot to put in it. You can find something to put in
those out. I am not goingto tell you to throw away perfectly good,
good instill cases. No, Ican't do that. Yeah, what
else you got? Can I?U? I should be able to get
a good pair of binoculars for eightydollars. You'll get an okay pair of

(01:00:12):
binoculars for eighty dollars. What youhave to be careful of is the that
that's that's kind of entry level okayfor binoculars. I'm gonna be straight.
I'm gonna shoot straight with you becausewhat, yeah, what you got going
on is you're gonna sacrifice some qualityin the lenses. You're gonna sacrifice the

(01:00:35):
quality of the case that those lensesare in, because if you drop if
you drop a thousand dollars pair ofbinoculars, probably nothing's gonna happen to them.
If you drop those eighty dollars binocutors, they're they're likely to bend a
little bit and tweak in. Ifthey do, then it's like having having
an astigmatism in your eyes. Bothof those lenses aren't looking at in exactly

(01:00:59):
the same direction, and it's gonnajust distort your view. The other thing
you got to be careful of ishow much light they can actually trend.
What are you gonna use them for? If you're just using them for birding
in the backyard, Yeah, that'sgreat, that's fine. We'll hunting,
Uh, you know, hunt inEast Texas. Yeah, hunting in the
west in the hill fetch you too. Yeah. Then if you're using them

(01:01:21):
for deer hunting, you're probably gonnahave to invest a little bit more.
And uh, and I'm not tryingto break the bank, but I don't
care. Yeah, okay, mistermister Rockefeller, I mean, let's just
go to the too common sense here. Yeah, I mean, so,
what's a good power seven by ten? You know, seven to ten?

(01:01:43):
Well not, no, we're talkingabout I don't I don't want zoom binoculars.
I really, I don't like zooming. Really, I just like to
pick up a good pair of maybeten fifties or something like that. If
you put the first number over thesecond number, and or the second number
over the first number, and it'shigher than six, then you're pulling in
more light. I was telling Ryanoff the air, I got to go

(01:02:05):
to a Swarovsky dealers seminar on thatjust dissected binoculars and rifle scopes and exactly
how they're made and exactly how theywork. And what you'll get is better
quality glass. If you if youcan hold your nose and spend a couple
one hundred bucks between two and threehundred dollars on binoculars, now you're gonna
get something that'll hold it. Notgonna be top of the line. It's

(01:02:29):
not gonna be Zice, it's notgonna be Swarovsky's. There's a handful of
really high end brands. But whatit's gonna get you is glass. It's
gonna be reliable, it's gonna beglass that has enough coatings on the lenses.
What the coatings do is reflect lightback the other way. So if
you every time light passes through asurface, I think it's I think the

(01:02:52):
number was, four percent of thatlight gets lost. Okay, it gets
reflected. When the light goes througha window pane, the front of the
pain reflects four percent, and thenthe penetrating light gets hit again on the
back surface of that pain, soyou lose four more out the front.
What happens when you have quality sunglasslenses, I mean binocular lenses, is

(01:03:15):
that there are coatings on those lensesthat when the light goes in and bounces
back, it hits a reflective coatingon the lens at first went through,
and some of that light continues.So a really high end pair of binoculars
will enable you to see before otherpeople can see. That's why a lot

(01:03:37):
of times you pick up a scopeand you pick up a good pair of
binoculars. As a man, thisboy, I can see that buck ten
yards up in that shady, shadyplace where it's not even daylight yet.
Yeah, that button looks good.I'm gonna shoot him. And then you
pick up your rifle scope and youcan't see a thing. That's because the
binoculars are better than the scope.If you have a better So the first

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number, like, let's just saylike ten fifties in fifty, okay,
so fifty, Well it's it's there'sa little more to it than that.
But the bottom line is your eyescan only ope your pupils, and if
I remember correctly, I want tosay that they can they max out at
about six millimeters. Okay, Soif you have um ten fifties, for

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example, the fifty over the ten, that gives you a five, that's
gonna that's gonna pull in almost asmuch light as your eyes could possibly absorb.
If it's any higher than six,then it's just letting in too much
light. Really, it's reflecting toomuch light back into your eyes, and
your eyes are just gonna overload.But if you get something with a smaller
number there, then you may notbe Now if you're if you're I was

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kind of laughing with Ryan. Ifyou're driving up and down the beach looking
at pretty girls with your binoculars,then it really doesn't matter. You don't
have to have something that lets ina bunch of light you're not gonna be
out there at dusk and dawn.But if you're, if you're using them
for hunting, then you want somethingthat'll get as much light to your eyes
as you can get. So,so does a does a good pair of

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binoculars? Do they not have Uh, they don't have a zoom in on
them? You can get you canget variable power. You can do I
mean, I mean I should saynot as zoom. But you know the
knob that adjust for your eyes forfocus? Oh yeah, they all.
Yeah, you pay more than tendollars for binoculars, you'll probably get something
you can just for your eye.Yeah, that's easy, and they'll be

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there'll be one eye that them.The first thing you do is you focus.
Okay, you can focus, andthen if one eye of yours,
like my eyes are different, myprescriptions are different in each eye as most
people would probably Yeah, and youcan all well, you can get you
know, you can get binoculars thatare designed to be worn with glasses or

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without too. And the usually theeye cups can be just kind of twisted
like forty five degrees and they'll popout and that is for glasses, and
you pop them back in. Ifyou don't have them on, but yeah,
they're all that adjustment in any decentpair of binoculars is there for you
too. Okay, well, boy, that gives them a lot more than
that new then Yeah, shoot mean email and I'll go check it out.

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I'll try and dig up. There'sa lot of good information online about
that. But that Swarowski seminar Iwent to. I wish it had been
more recent so it would be morefresh in my mind. But what I
learned is that I didn't know anythingabout binoculars when I walked into that room,
and I thought I did, soit's worth reading up on him,
it really is. Man, Thankyou, Alan, that's a great call.
But all right, thank you bitaudios. All right, holy cow,

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got all the way to the bottomof the hour. I'm fascinated by
that stuff. And I was tryinga concurrently to remember and then share the
news, and it was bits andpieces were coming back and not in perfect
order. So I may have confused. I may have confused him more than

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I did help him, but Ihope I helped some. And again,
yeah, you got to put acouple of hundred bucks, I would say,
into at least into quality binoculars.If that's what you're looking for,
especially for hunting, you've got toget good coatings on those lenses so you
can get more light in. Otherwise, you might as well just not even

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crawl into your stand until half anhour after sunrise because right that you know,
and I know that early in latepart that's when those big bucks are
going to be most active typically,and you don't want to miss that.
You don't want to miss being ableto see up into the woods even and
you can with quality binoculars. There'sa boy, once we get closer to

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deer season, we'll deep dive intothis. I might even get somebody from
one of the big binocular companies onto talk about how all this works.
That's a great topic. Timber CreekGolf Club would be a great place to
go. I could probably use somebinoculars to find my golf balls on half
the drive as I hit down thereat Timber Creek. There a lot of
trees. There are a lot ofvery playable course. I'm joking back to

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when I had a real I wentto a real rough patch with driver like
I wasn't even swinging it because itwas so bad and I'm past that now,
but yeah, I do like playingtimber Creek a lot. They have
twenty seven holes down there, threenines to get people started on in the
mornings, so they get people movingreally well. Everybody gets going and everybody

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has a good time. And ifyou're not having a good time, you
can always just walk across the propertyover to the timber Creek Golf Club Academy
at timber Creek run by a guynamed David Pilsner and his crewer fantastic about
knocking the rust off a bad swing, great food, great people, easy
to find locations about three four milesoff the Golf Freeway, west of the

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Golf Freeway on FM twenty three fiftyone in Friendswood. I've played down there,
I don't know, probably dozens oftimes. I couldn't say. I
don't think I've played it a hundredtimes, but I've been there an awful
lot and I enjoy it every timeI go down there. Timber Creek Golf
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my glasses and look across the studioto that giant monitor over there, I
see a live shot from the overlookingthe Pleasure Pier of Sandy but calm water.
That's what happens when you've got twentytwenty five mile an hour wind blowing
dead offshore. Flattens it out.Great ride out. If you're going deep

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this afternoon on the Gulf of Mexicofor some reason, it could be a
little bumpy coming in until you geta little closer to shore. But there
is not a white cap. I'mlooking at a set of waves coming in
right now, and the biggest rippleI see is about maybe it might be

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a footoll. It might be socoastal possibilities for kite flying, very good
for surfboard riding and or wade fishingnot so unfortunately. I want to go
back, just for a minute toa very early segment in the program when

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we were talking about sharks and howbull sharks especially don't mind going anywhere.
There have been bullshock bull sharks,not shocks. There have been bullsharks caught
just south of the Lake Livingston Dam. That's how far north they will go.

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That's how far inland they will travelfrom the Gulf of Mexico looking for
food. They bull sharks are veryfreshwater tolerant. They don't have a problem
at all swimming around and stuff thata largemouth bass could live in, and
if necessary, that's where they'll go. I'd look at sharks. I look

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at sharks kind of like snakes.Okay, they're all around. They're out
there more than you think, butthey don't want to bother with you.
And as long as you don't goout of your way looking for them,
and as long as you don't doanything to provoke the ones you encounter,
and that you show them respect forwhat their potential is to do to you,

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you're probably not gonna get bidden.You're probably not. This is one
of the most shark fisherman friendly coastlinesprobably anywhere. If you want to,
if you want to catch a shark, and you can get a ride,
I don't know up here, aride a mile off the beach in a

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boat. Somewhere down south, it'sa lot easier because the water gets deeper
faster and the just naturally those fisheror and the water stays clearer because of
that, it's more the clarity thanthe depth. Really, sharks don't have
any problem moving around. Go askanybody whoever waged fished in the Bahamas are
pretty much anywhere in the Caribbean ifthey didn't see a lemon shark while they
were out there. All of asudden, you look up and there's a

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six foot shark coming at you ina foot of water, Like, wait
a minute, why is that thingswimming in here? Is rubbing his belly
on the sand the whole time.Sharks don't mind going anywhere they have to
for food. I saw it,Charie, I tell you, boy,
I'm flashing back to a very coolmoment I saw, and I've seen other
videos of this, but you don'trealize kind of how how nature's stair steps

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up from level to level. Onefish always trying to eat something in front
of it, and always trying notto be eaten by the one behind it.
Wrote about that a one hundred yearyears ago in a newspaper about that
there's only two fish. Every otherfish in the sea worries about the one
in front because that's lunch, andthe one behind because it doesn't want to

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be lunch for that one. AndI witnessed firsthand. Everybody talks about how
fast bonefish are and how strong bonefishare. Barracoutas in the tropics make a
living chasing down bonefish and eating them. And I witnessed that once. It
was on a trip. Where wasI at that time, I can't even

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remember exactly where it was, butit was just just exactly what you would
expect. I was fishing the edgeof a where where the current was dropping
off the edge of a big flat, and the bonefish had pulled out near
the edge, but not quite overit, and it dumped into this thing,
dumped into about a six eight footchannel, and we were in maybe

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eighteen inches of water up on top. And what we were doing is targeting
these schools of bonefish that were comingby right on the edge as the tide
fell out, picking off whatever mightbe tumbling with the tide and headed toward
that deeper water. And we're watchingfor them, and boy, we see
one. You throw a fly infront of them, You get lucky,
you catch it. If you don't, you don't. And all of a

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sudden, we see like four orfive bonefish coming right along the edge of
that and about six or eight yardsbehind them, coming at what looked like
mock speed. The water bulges up, kind of like in if you took
a video of a bass coming upbehind a top water lure of buzz bait,

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perfect, perfect example. Only bonefishdon't make that much of a wake.
But if you've got videos somewhere ofa bass coming up top and chasing
down and eating a buzz bait,and played that at ten times to speed,
that's what it looked like. Whenabout a five or five and a
half foot barracuda came up and smokedone of those bonefish that was on that

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edge. I just my guide andI just kind of looked at each other
and he said something I can't rememberthe exact words, but something to the
effect of, yeah, that happensout here, and I was like,
yeah, that was really really cool. That was one of the coolest things
I've ever seen. There's always justone thing going after another thing, and

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that's what's going on in Robert's backyard. At some point that shark comes across
something that it can stop and catchand eat, and it'll do that,
it'll accelerate right through it. Andthat's kind of why I like saltwater so
much as you never know what's goingto be there. If I go to
a lake, I have a prettygood idea what's in that lake. And

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there's a finite number of species offish in that lake. And the one
I'm fishing in the most now golfcourse link. It's got large mouth bass
love catching them. It's got catfishwill that are equally aggressive to by the
way, both crank baits and spinnerbaits as are the bass. The difference

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what the catfish is that they don'tcatch the thing and they don't eat the
whole thing as often as the bass, as the bass just has opens that
big mouth and can just gobble upwhole. Most any sized spinner bait you
would throw, the catfish tend tomiss, And I think what it is
is that they're swinging at the blades. They're hitting the blades more often than
the skirt, and so you missa lot of those catfish bites. But

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the good news is that catfish aredumbest stumps and you throw right back in
the same spot and usually you cancatch that fish if you give it a
second chance. We also have it. I've caught croppy on spinner baits and
crank baits like bass size spinner baitsand crank baits. I have caught freshwater

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drum in there. I haven't yetcaught one of the carp but only because
I haven't fished for them. Thereare the biggest fish in that lake,
or the carp and the gars,and I have not had to handle either
of them yet. I've had I'vedeliberately tried to antagonize the gars and make
them strike, and every now andthen they will, but I still haven't
had one get hooked. And I'mkind of glad, to be perfectly honest,

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because those things are just nasty.We also have in there, at
least one that I know of,because my son caught it, a grinel
that was about twenty three twenty fourinches long. It looked like a dinosaur.
He had that thing and it cameup to the surface and he just
kind of froze. He goes,what is that? This is years ago,
five years ago probably at least,what is that? And I looked

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and I hadn't caught one in awall. That's a grinnell man Holy cow,
And almost one percent certainly that fisheither got flooded into there during Harvey
way back when and just never foundits way out, or it came through
the well, not the well system, but the pump that the golf course

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uses to draw water from the BrazisRiver when that's allowed to do. We're
trying to refill that lake now.As a matter of fact. Unfortunately,
the water's all the way up ordown, lower than I've seen it in
a while, and we've got toget it back up over the grass before
the fishery will really rebound in there. The fisher never, they haven't been
killed yet, but I feared thatif they let that lake get any lower,

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it might be pretty rough. AllRight, we gotta take a little
break here before we finish up theprogram. On the way out, I'll
tell you one more time about theopportunity you will have at some point today
if you'd like to either sit onyour patio, sit inside watching some sporting
event or whatever, as long asyou're not driving, So long as you're
not driving, drab yourself a bushlighting and wash down whatever's on your mind,

(01:19:00):
cold and smooth and the same greattaste as always an American style,
Lauder crofted to deliver the rewarding finishwe've all come to knowing love, whether
you're going down to the bay,whether you're going to the lake, whether
you're going to where the beach,wherever you're going today. Once you're done
driving, crack open a bush lightor two. And if you're gonna have

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any more than that, make sureyou got somebody to drive everybody home.
Okay, we don't want anybody hurtever ever, ever. Enjoy it responsibly
that bush light, bush bush lightbeer, Saint Louis, Missouri. This
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the conversation continues. This is theDoug Fight Show. Miss Betty likes to
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No, he has a choir.Sweat every bird seven eight on Sports Talk

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seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.Thank you for listening very quickly again about
tomorrow's longest day in golf. There'sgonna be ten hours of coverage on the
Golf Channel, which will be kindof fun to watch. And you know,
if they zoom in closely enough inany place these guys are trying to
grind through thirty six holes, you'llsee some beats of sweat on these guys

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brows, it's it's it's a lotof pressure. That thirteen year old kid
that was we mentioned earlier, Jadensum thirteen years old out of California,
a seventh grader, a seventh graderwho has a shot at playing in the
US Open. I wonder what thatkid's going to do for a living when
he grows up. Smith Summerland fifteen. There are several teenagers in here.

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I'm not gonna get to all ofthem, but there are also some guys
in their fifties. So that's justkind of how important this is and what
I looked at yesterday and it mademe realize I'll be looking at this tournament
a lot differently because looking at theirstories, individual stories, a lot of
them. There's a lot of guyspros who have almost household names, who

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have been in fifteen eighteen US Opensand have to qualify. Still, let
me get to these phone calls realquick. I'll start with Robert and then
I'll get to Greg before we tuneout here. What's up, Robert?
You're ready to go catch your bigshark? Man? Hey, buddy,
now that I know what I gotback there, Yeah, I'm gonna be
ready, I'm gonna ahead and getme a harness. I'm gonna get a
seat out there made just the anchorydown to the pier. Yeah. I

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was gonna say, if you geta harness but you don't get anything to
sit in it's anchored, you mightjust get yanked right off that pier.
You'll end up with splinters too,where you don't want them. I'm right,
I'm ready, man, So youneed to let me know when you're
ready to come down. I'm gonnahave to go get a couple of reels
re spool. The line on themis pretty old right now. I'm afraid.

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Yeah, good man, it's fun, all right. Well, take
care, all right, buddy,I'll see you soon. Audios. That's
my buddy Robert down there. HeUm, there's a picture he showed the
other day on face I think itwas yesterday, actually put it up on
Facebook of some certifications he's got inhis line of work. And this guy
is so overqualified and so skilled athis job. I'm really impressed by him.

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He's got enough certificates of completing theseextra courses that he's had to take.
He could probably wallpaper a room withhim. Yeah, so hats off
to him and he's become a verygood saltwater fisherman in the last two years.
What's up, Greg Burlocker, HeyDoug, how are you? Thanks?
Man? You too? Hey?You who got a caller? I

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enjoy listening to? And it wastwo weeks I haven't had a chance to
call. He was talking about howhis friend or relative of his pull chats
underneath. Yeah, you really,I do remember that. I can tell
you how to get rid of them. All we had My parents had a
house a mile off of Highway oneO five and Conro, about four miles

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from Montgomery in the fifties and sixties, and there was a little fifteen twenty
acre like there. They can turnus kids out and we would be gone
until dinner time. And that's wherewe kind of learned how to fish,
just on our own. Well,our neighbors had a cat and along comes
another cat, and they ended uphaving all sorts of babies, and at

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one point we had twenty seven catswhole none next door. And this is
uh you can imagine the smell.Yeah, this this little one, this
little one room cabin was built onconcrete blocks so you could go underneath the
house and it wasn't anything for alltwenty seven cats to go make their make

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their way underneath this house. Sothe smell finally got so bad. Uh,
my dad figured out something to dois he took two pieces of angle
iron. He put one down onthe bottom and then he uh he put
another one up at a forty fivedegree angle and imagine kind of a ramp
like hot wheels for a little trackwith this V V shaped angle iron.

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And he went out and bought Idon't know, five or ten bags of
moth balls, and we put themon that ramp and they'd run down the
ramp, hit that one going straightand they'd go shooting twenty thirty feet underneath
the house. Yeah, we putfive or ten bags and moth balls underneath
there. We never never had anotheranimal, whether it's a skull, wow

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cat, a dog, and Iguarantee it. Yeah, that'll solve that
problem real quick, the animals willwill we'll get out of there real quick.
I'll be doing I hadn't thought aboutthat. What's you do on the
fishing front? Man? You catchinganything? I am? I went to
Rockport this week and I didn't didn'tuh uh, didn't have a bike.

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I just did was it was arelaxing trip. Yeah, fishing there off
Water Street. I was wade fishingand I tried some new water and I
was throwing that spinner bait that you'veseen, and uh I've caught I've caught
tr redfish on it. Um sofar I would say that trout, but
but uh didn't didn't take the boatout once. Uh it was it was

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pretty crowded because of the holiday anduh so I just kind of concentrated on
on weight fishing right out there infront of the house. But uh,
I'm hoping to cold fishing this weekand it uh uh you know south of
Rosenberg and in some lakes and thingslike that. I got some new new
colors called baby brim, so worklooking forward to. So it's it's an

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olive with little touches of orange andyellow and the feather tail calf. It's
a it's it's a good looking thing. I'll get you some please, Yeah,
I'd like to try him. Andmile of water you know where I'm
talking about too. I threw Imade maybe twenty casts yesterday because I was
playing golf with my son, butbetween weights on a couple of tea boxes,

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I tried. I couldn't even geta bite those is at three o'clock
in the afternoon. It's a milliondegrees and some was baking down on it
pretty hard. But it's been okayout there, but it hadn't been super
in that back lake that you knowabout, the real clear one. When
we're finally putting the water back init, it's been so low there's hardly
any place to cast so but it'sit's looking Yeah, yea, once that

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thing gets bulled back up, I'llget you out there. I know we'll
get him on those lures too.Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to it,
Bud. Anyway, UM, tellyour friend to use some moth balls
them. Definitely get rid of thosestuff absolutely. I will thank you,
Greg. It's great to hear fromyou. Mane Audio to bay Man oh

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Man. Yeah, that guy.He's very patiently working with some proto hypes
and some near finished product on theresurrection of an old lure design that actually
I think is going to be reallygood once it gets fine tuned. He's
given me a couple of them toplay with, and I played with him
and I like him. But therewere a couple of things we found on

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there that needed to be modified.And one thing with so many people using
braid and using such strong lines isthat I think that hardware and I think
he's addressed. This already needed tobe beefed up just a teeny bit because
one of the frames on one ofthese things just kind of gave up under
a lot of pressure. But Ithink I think that's been addressed. That

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the hooks on him are good,The shape and the lure's action I think
are gonna work really well. Therewas no question in my mind that we're
gonna work on Redfish, none atall, especially after we had a conversation
about swapping out the the traditional skirtif you will, on this thing for

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us of plastic and I paddletails offtplastic behind that thing. Awesome. Mojo
just weighed in on the mothball thing. Let me see Mojo a farm farm
raise. Oh oh man, Yeah, there's that's a good way to put
it. For the stink of themothballs, that's a cure worse than the

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disease. I don't know. Ithink I would probably rather smell mothballs than
the leavings of two dozen cats.The litter box that never ends under your
house. That would be rough.Yeah, I think the mothballs would be
okay. All right, So it'sa windy dale on the beach front,

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but the winds blowing off shore.So if you ever wanted to see the
Gulf of Mexico really flat, thisis a good day for that. I
actually see somebody wade fish, youknow, I don't. I think it
was some weird anomaly on the screenover there. Maybe there's a bug on
the camera lens. Get outside,Okay, it's gonna be nice this afternoon.
I think we've still got more raincoming, but it's not here yet,

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so just work with it that way. Get outside, have some safe,
enjoyable fun with your family. I'llbe back Tuesday live on KPRC at
noon with fifty plus, and thenback here on Saturday morning with more of
the Doug Pike Show on Sports Talkseven ninety. Thank you all for listening.
Bring a few friends next time.Let's have a party. Audios