The Doug Pike Show 6-1-2024

In this episode Doug talks about the start of Red Snapper season, boat size vs. the wide open water (offshore) and how did we navigate the water before GPS? Weather forecast, winds, southern heat, and neighborhood fishing spots. What are the best lures to fish with? How well is your shooting range etiquette? Doug shares his comments on Lexi Thompson retiring and LIV Golf.

Episode Transcript

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This is the Doug Pike Show,brought to you by American Shooting Centers Guns
Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine. Now Here's Doug Pike. Saturday Morning
starts right now. Dog Pike Showon Sports Talk seven ninety. I've converted
to my other side of the roomglasses in here, because I think the

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ones I've been wearing in here foreverhave just I think, I don't know,
I think maybe they've become faulty.Couldn't be my eyes, no way,
not at my age. Maybe itcould be. It is hot as
blazes. You came in here toput that piece of paper down in here,
didn't you? Moment? It's onehundred degrees in here, feel you

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know? I was sitting out therelamenting how warm it's gonna be by the
time we finished this show. Outthere in the main room, if you
will, where I sit right nextto an east facing window, and it's
already warm out there, and Ithought, well, at least back in
that studio, the last time Iwalked into it, it was I think

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sixty eight degrees in here, justsplendid and wonderful, and I so anticipated
walking in here and feeling so muchbetter than I already did bad out there,
because out there right now, it'sprobably about seventy three somewhere in there,
and that's just terribly uncomfortable for mefor sitting there trying to work.
So I turned the corner, Ipushed the door. I walk in here

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seventy four degrees and for no goodreason, it's of one hundred degrees outside
already. Somewhere it hit one hundred. I think it was in San Antonio
a couple of days ago. Ittapped a hundred already, and I'm not
really thrilled about that, and Iknow we've got more of that coming,
but I would the more I thinkabout it, the alternative to one hundred

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degree days. The only way you'regoing to really cool it off in the
summertime around here is to get ayou know what into the Gulf of Mexico,
and I would prefer for that notto happen. I'll take one hundred
degrees every day, slow and steady, all the way through summer, over

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a major hurricane, any day ofthe week, any day, because it's
just so devastating. We've gotten littlelittle introductions to Mother Nature's wrath in the
past week or so two weeks,I guess, and I for one am
not really a fan. I hadto go into my son, well,

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I had to drive to work andmy son had to drive to his school
yesterday morning in a pretty significant,pretty significant storm system. It was blowing
at my house. Probably this wasa little earlier than we had to leave
for school, thank goodness, ori'd just told him, sorry, he's
not coming. We had to driveor at my house earlier, right before

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we had to leave. It wasprobably blowing sixty that's a conservative estimate,
fifty five to sixty five miles anhour, moving trash cans, doing what
storms do. And fortunately that onedidn't last long and it didn't knock the
power out, So all's well.That ends well, I guess, and

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I hope this ends soon. I'vegot things happening. I've got we've got
we as a city have a golftournament coming up, and I'm going to
talk about that a little later outat Golf Club of Houston, the Live
Golf Houston event. First time they'vemade a pass through here, and I
hope not the last. When Iinterviewed, I can't remember the man's name
right now, but when I interviewedthis guy a couple of weeks ago,

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and we talked about how to understandthat totem polls scoreboard on television, and
how to really watch and appreciate livegolf because it is a terribly different experience
than PGA tour in. I'll getinto all that later, Okay, I'll
do that. Getting close to thisstorm patterns and at least finally the rain

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I can deal with. But thisstuff that blows sideways has just got to
go. And of course we knowwhat's going to replace it. Right,
that heavy, heavy summer I wastalking about, and the one hundred degree
days, yeah, okay, that'sall right, but eighty five degree nights
are an issue as well. Atleast the air conditioners can can knock it

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down from eighty five. It's alittle more difficult from one hundred. I'm
curious to see how this summer playsout. Actually, Summer twenty three was
a beast. We all made itthrough there. I just hope we don't
have quite as many triple digit afternoons. They're starting to take a toll on
me. Finally, I used tosnicker a little bit when it got to
one hundred because that meant that oldpeople would be off the golf courses.

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There wouldn't be as many of themfishing. It's just too hot to go
out in that weather. And nowI'm kind of looking at that weather.
It's kind of like I might waita little while. I played golf Monday.
Didn't play well, but I played, and it was quite hot then
and very humid too. That wasthe problem we had where we were.
It wasn't the heat, it wasthe humidity, and we get plenty of

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that too. My wife and Iwere talking about where we might retire and
I mentioned Corpus and she said,oh, I don't know. It's pretty
hot and humid down there. You'velived here most of your life. If
you survived the heat and the humidityhere, you won't have any problems at

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Corpus Christie. The wind might bea little bit more, but a breeze
isn't always a bad thing. Ifshe's not going to be on a boat,
she's not going to be doing runningaround on boats out there, so
that wouldn't be that bad. Andsit on the back porch overlook something pretty
and have a breeze blowing through there, it's okay. Fishing today is open

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for red snapper. Fishing season isopen for red snapper open today, and
the offshore forecast this morning is waybetter than it was yesterday. I was
looking yesterday afternoon doing some preparation forthis show, and they were calling for
four to seven's offshore starting about whenyou broke the jetties. It was gonna

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be. It was then and isnot anymore. Just rough as a cob.
You would have had to have idon't know, thirty forty feet a
boat under your butt to be evenremotely comfortable. Yesterday it would have been,
it would have been difficult. Butfor this morning, when I went

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back to that same forecast, theyhad revised it. They had revised it
to three to four, which isnot unreasonable. Three to four, and
then the only bump in that isgoing to be tomorrow night and into Monday.
When they calling it, I thinkit was four to six. And

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that's the end of it. That'sthe worst of it. That's not bad.
That's really not bad. There mightbe a little bit of a bumpier
ride around some pop up storms thatare expected to show up out there,
and if you've never gotten caught ina storm offshore where you can't see land
anyway, and then all of asudden you can't see the front of the

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boat from the back of the boatbecause it's raining so hard. That's it's
not fun. I can tell youthat I've been through it more than once,
and it's always it's very unsettling.It's one thing to be out there
on the open Gulf of Mexico orthe Atlantic. I haven't done much boating
in the Pacific Ocean except off Mexico. I've done a lot down there.

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But you get out beyond sight ofland, and it's different. The first
few times you're out there, youfeel a little bit small. That boat
back in the harbor look pretty big, look big, look comfortable, look
like it could handle anything. Butthen if you get out there, on
most sport fishing boats, the boattends to shrink the farther out you get.

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It seems a little bit claustrophobic.In some cases. My friends and
I used to go offshore in seventeeneighteen nineteen foot boats carrying extra gas cans
because the fuel tank wasn't big enoughto get us to where we wanted to
go where we were going anyway,and had to try to get back.

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Very different back then, single outboardmotor, no no kicker, no second
motor or third or fourth or fifthlike some of these boats have on them
now. Boy, they could havejust catastrophic engine failure in three engines and
still get home, probably at twentymiles an hour. It's amazing. It's

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amazing what's out there now, andprobably even more amazing, more of a
miracle that a lot more of usdidn't get hunt or get hurt and get
out and get in trouble out there. I can't remember a couple of times
when we had fuel issues or wehad an engine go down. And fortunately

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all of us who were out thereback then were semi knowledgeable mechanically, and
everybody I knew because these systems weresubject to occasional failure. Everybody had a
good toolbox on board. You hadyour toolbox, your first aid kit.

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You had everything you needed. Someof these guys brought more beer than others,
but they all brought some and wemade it back. Knock on wood.
I can't remember anybody in my groupanyway. You read about them once
or so a year, somebody gettinglost out there, somebody not making it
back. Sudden storm pops up andyou're in seven less than twenty feet a

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boat. We'll call it in conditionsthat call for about thirty or forty feet
a boat, and every now andthen somebody just wouldn't make it back.
I can't imagine setting off across theocean on a seventy five foot sail boat
with eighty or ninety people on it. That's what they did to figure out

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what the rest of the world was, back when all that exploration was going
on. Running only on a compasstoo, back when that's all we had.
When I first started going offshore,we had a compass and you would
leave and you would go at acertain a certain heading. You'd run that

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heading until on the horizon you couldsee the rig you wanted to fish that
day, or the first of theones you were going to fish anyway,
And it was all done with chartsand a compass, and it was just
staggeringly unsophisticated by contemporary stamp. Butwe got there and we got back.

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That was way before LO ran,way before GPS. We'd come back sometimes
and be eight ten miles off course. Once you could see land, you
could kind of figure it out.You could you could finally see where you
were. Galveston was easy because that'swhere all the buildings were. There was
a lot to see on the GalvestonCoastline, hotels and whatnot. And then

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if you'd gone too far south orwest, depending on which way you want
to call it, you'd see thatblue water tower down towards San Luis Pass.
And if you'd gone too far east, if the current had drifted you
off that way for some reason oryou'd just miscalculated, you'd be looking at
just nothing, just beach. That'sall you could see is beach, and

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you knew you had to take aleft and go back west to find Galveston
or surf sip. We used togo out of there a lot too.
It's a lot easier to get kindof turned around coming in from surfside because
there just weren't that many things tosee up high enough to see them from

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offshore. Once you could see land, though, Once you could see land,
you could figure it out. Andit sometimes I had a guy run
out of fuel, like twelve milesoffshore at ten o'clock at night on the
way and from an offshore tournament.Oh my god, that was the one
and only time I ever fished withthat dude. He just had no clue
what he was doing, absolutely noclue. He had a small boat anyway,

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he had no clue what he wasdoing. And we were, oh,
yeah, I got plenty of fuel, man, we're gonna be fine.
And then about I don't know,nine ten miles out off Port O'Connor
Blue and the lights went out,like a holy cow do we got no
generator, we got no fuel,barely got radio and running off the battery.

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And he starts calling his friends onthe radio, calling on the radio
to get somebody to call a friendto come get us at ten o'clock,
and we ended up making it backto the dock. I want to say,
like two thirty three, four inthe morning, something like that.
We weren't all that terribly far offshore, but we had to convince somebody to

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get out of a warm bed,climb into their truck, drive to the
marina, launched their boat, andthen come tow us in, come find
us in the dark, and thentow us in. And that was some
That was the last time I fishedwith him. And if I'd have known

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it was going to turn out thatway, there wouldn't have been a first
time shooters corner. Palmer Highwa hadtwenty nine Street down in Texas City that
is owned by Jerry TK and hisson Jay, two of the best gunsmiths
in this state, perhaps in theregion. And it's just an old school
gun store. I keep trying tofind different ways to describe it. But

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to shooters, to people who appreciatethe shooting sports and who or who perhaps
want to get into the shooting sports, that's really all you need to know.
If you're going If you're going out, say okay, I want to
stop at one place and I'm goingto buy I'm gonna buy a washing machine,
a Roden reel, some underwear,and a grill. Well, then

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there's other places you can go.But if you want to buy something for
your shooting and excitement, if youneed a new rifle, a new handgun,
a new shotgun, if you needammo, if you need reloading supplies,
if you need optics, if youneed some camo, if you just
want to hang out with some reallycool shooting enthusiasts, go to Shooter's Corner.

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Been down there for forty plus yearsnow and it's not going to change.
It is a it's an old schoolgun store. Jerry and Jay they're
in there a lot, and thenin hunting season they're out a lot because
they guide all over North America.Great, great two gentlemen. I truly
they are two of the best,most upstanding people I've ever known. Palmer

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High Wait, twenty ninth Street.If you wear a badge for a living,
you get a discount at Shooter's Corner, which I think is fantastic and
ought to be done by everybody.The Shooters CORNERTX dot com, The Shooters
Corner TX dot com. We areSports Talk seven ninety. Are ready listen
online at Sports seven ninety dot com. Now more Doug Bike, Hi,

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Welcome back Doug Pike Show on SportsTalk seven ninety. Holy cow, I'm
getting all kinds of interesting emails aboutthe livegolf of it coming up. I
would love to do what I'm beingasked to do, but I'm not sure
I can. Oh wow, thatwould be fun. That would be very
fun. I'm probably gonna have topass on that though, I have to

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work. I have to work,and anyway three two one two five seven
ninety. Email me Doug Pike atiHeartMedia dot com. What I'm finding out
here is that I'm gonna have apretty good email set up for, pretty
good email set up for or notto email, good heavens, pretty good

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lineup set up for next week,and an interview that's gonna come up on
we'll probably do it Tuesday. Itlooks like in regard to Live Goolf and
how it's going to affect our community, it's good and I think it's gonna
be great. I really do.Uh. It's a totally different thing like
I've talked about, and I'm I'mgenuinely happy. If you'd have asked me

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a year and a half ago,pardon me if I wanted to Live Golf
to come to Houston, I wasy, it's who cares, not that
big a deal, not really gonnawork out who. I don't think it's
going to pan out, and Ikind of didn't at the time. I
thought it had. There were alot of internal reasons. I thought it
might have a struggle, but thosehurdles have been overcome one by one.

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And I thought there was gonna bea lot more infighting between them and the
PGA Tour than ultimately there has been. I think the PGA Tour had to
kind of look at this and go, you know, we're not gonna wallet
whip the people who are behind this, so we might want to sit down
at a table and see if wecan figure something out. And we did.

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They did, anyway, people whohave a far more authority to do
that than I. We'll see howit works out. Seven one three.
I already told you that, DougPike at iHeartMedia dot com. I've got
a couple of emails. I'll goafter a few minutes, moving down my
list here, I'm gonna get offthat offshore stuff. That's some really man.
I had some really great trips offshore, I really did, and I

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can't remember them all because my friendsand I used to go pretty much anytime
sees got below four feet, somebodywas firing up a boat and we were
going, and we'd stay out thereall day and just sometimes barely limp in
with maybe an hour of daylight left, which when you're coming in from thirty

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forty to fifty miles offshore in alittle bitty boat, that hour is precious.
You don't want to cut it muchcloser than that. It would be
very be a very lonely place tobe. I'm just spending the night in
a little tiny boat like that.I've spent the night offshore many times in
much bigger boats, nice and comfortable. Got a little air condition blowing on

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you a few times in open boats. And if you think the humidity's bad
here, you ought to try itout on the Gulf of Mexico in the
summertime. That's pretty rough. Allon the plus side, a little closer
to shore and actually inshore speckled troutfishing finally making a pretty good change for
the better despite the upper ends ofthe base system. They're still running pretty

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fresh on the surface, but there'ssalt water underneath there, and all that
river runoff is finding its way outslowly, very slowly, but surely.
But that water underneath that stuff isit's holding fish, and those fish have
been hungry, they have. Butwe can just get a couple more days,
a couple of successive days of lighterwind, and I think we're gonna

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get it, actually, like we'vegot this morning, when this morning was
negligible up here, single digits allthe way from probably i'd say Matta Gorda
over to Sabine and then really notas bad as it has been farther down
the coast. I took a lookat the saltwater recon cameras along the Galveston

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beach front too a couple of timesthis morning, and the sun wasn't quite
high enough on the water for meto get a really good look. In
fact, i'll go through it.I'll go back to it when we go
to break here in a minute.But it was it was definitely different.
It didn't look it didn't have thatdirty look to it. It didn't.
It looked more tanning stink, kindof like there's some fresh water maybe still

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sitting out there off the coast,which I don't think is the case,
but that's kind of what it lookedlike. And in any event, it
didn't look muddy. It didn't looksandy, which is not that bad.
And like I said, the windsdown single digits all up and down the
whole upper coast and inside twenty forthe change for a change down Corpus Matagorda

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port O'Connor, where just yesterday afternoon, right as I was kind of wrapping
up some prep work yesterday, thewind down there from Port O'Connor all the
way pretty much to the Sabine River, or to the Rio Grande was twenty
six, twenty eight, twenty four, twenty two, twenty eight. It

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was screaming down there, and they'vebeen dealing with that for I don't know
how. I had some discussion withsome guys by the way, I think
it was Wednesday about and these guyswere fairly new to salt water fishing and
asking me, Okay, what luredo I throw? How do I know
what lure to throw? And unlessyou're out on the water every day,

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or unless you're fishing with a guidewho says, here, throw this,
we killed them on it yesterday,the only thing that you can do really
is kind of trust your instincts.And if you have no instincts, then
you just need to tie something onand start fishing. Okay, there's so

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much information out there. There's somany videos on how to throw what and
when to throw it and where tothrow it and all that, but none
of that takes into account where youare with a rod and reel in your
hand right now. It's all justkind of general information, and if you
allow yourself to be overloaded with generalinformation, you're going to miss some specifics

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to your day to the conditions ofthat day to whatever it is you're trying
to accomplish. All that info onthe internet. Now, if you look
for and if you could probably findsomebody who's got video of somebody else catching
a speckl trout on a pool noodle. Okay, it's out there, everybody.

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And some of this stuff that's outthere that I've looked at is quite
clearly and deliberately a spoof. Butthey present it as legit, they present
it as serious, and so alot of people are getting getting punked.
I guess would be the well,how long ago did people say punk when

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they were talking about a practical joke? Well, that goes back to Ashton
Cooocher whatever his name was. Yeah, that was about MTV days that went
on good lord. Yeah, Sowhat do you call it now? When
somebody messes with you like that?Oh wow, just messing with your head?

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Running game? When you running game. We'll go with running game.
I like that. So, yeah, a lot of these videos are running
game. Melvioyne tells me, andbe careful because you're gonna end up getting
bad information and you're gonna end upnot catching any fish. Here's the deal.
The only way to find out whatthe fish want on a specific day

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in a specific place is to throwsomething at them and see if they'll eat
it. You do have to bewhere fish are. Now, that's an
important asterisk. Okay, you gotto be where they are, and you
have to do some homework to figurethat out, and you have to get
some experience to figure that out.But if you're confident that you're in fish,

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then you need to You need tobe sorting through that tackle box as
fast as you can figure out whatthey want to eat. If you start
and you're not getting any bites,then change lures. If you were getting
a couple of bites and you thinkyou should be getting more, change lures.
Don't worry about it though. It'spart of fishing, it's part of

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learning, part of figuring it out. There's nothing wrong with that. There's
nothing wrong with it. I changedlures a lot when I fish. I
change lures a lot. When it'sslow, I'm looking for something that's going
to work, and when the fishare really chomming, I'll change lures just
to see if I can make themeat something out of the norm, and

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especially bass fishing as a prime example, if I can back in the lake
that used to have the most fishat where I fish most often for bass.
There were days when it was almostevery cast, just almost every cast
on rattle traps, maybe on acrank bait, maybe on a spinner bait,
whatever it was. But there werethat many fish in that lake.

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And then the cormorants showed up,the birds I hate most on planet Earth.
And after they were done. Now, on a good afternoon, in
a solid hour of hard work,I can maybe catch a half a dozen
fish. But back when it wasa true laboratory, a true lure testing

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laboratory, as good as it couldpossibly get. I would go out there
at two o'clock in the afternoon ona blue bird day and put on a
big top water and throw it outthere and just make them eat it,
and they would eventually. Now myson would stand next to me, throw

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on a trap or a little spinnerbait or something, and he'd catch three
to my one. But I wasgetting top water bites, and I'm kind
of partial to them. That isjust so fun. That is just so
fun. Speaking of there's there's wordfrom down south that there's been a pretty
good top water bike, but it'shit or miss. And that's what fishing

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mostly is really is hit or missif you hit them. Some days they
only want a particular lure, theyonly want a particular color, they only
want a particular retrieve. Other daysyou probably could catch one on a pool
noodle. But between then, betweenthose two extremes is a lot of trial

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and error, a lot of trialand air. That's why a lot of
people just forego buying a boat andgo fish with guides every now and then,
because ultimately it's far less expensive.And it also gives you the opportunity
to step onto the boat and say, hey, what do I need to
throw to the person who was justfishing yesterday, and it's taking you fishing

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today and can give you a prettygood head start on what they're going to
be chomping. I'll start any daywith the top water, and I'll leave
it on there until they quit eatingit, and even then, even then
when everybody else in the boat changedover to maybe a soft plastic or something
like that, something other than atop orter, I'll keep throwing it for

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a little while. And as longas I'm getting to blow up every now
and then, that's all I want. That's all I want. I'm going
to talk. I'm going to doa little barbed hook lecture and when we
get back from this break, soif you've heard it before, which most
of you probably have, you cango get a cup of coffee or something
when we come back, because I'mgoing to do about two minutes on why

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you still should join my team andgo with barble sooks. On the way
out, I'll tell you about CCAand the Star Tournament. Star Tournament is
underway. It started Memorial Day weekend, so now we're a week into.
It goes all the way to LaborDay. Though you don't have to rush
to get out there and potentially winone of the prizes that in total go

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to one point nine million dollars.You can win if you catch the right
redfish. If you catch the rightredfish, you could win an F one
point fifty tow in a boat ona trailer with a big old outboard motor
on it. That's all pretty dogon good prize right there. Seven divisions

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and like I said, one pointnine million dollars in prizes and scholarships in
all kinds of ways. To makeit worth your while to sign up become
a member of CCA, which isvaluable in and of itself, and then
have a shot at those prizes.So many good excuses to go fishing when
you've been struggling all year to comeup with new ones. Now it's just,

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Hey, we're trying to win thiskid a scholarship right here. We
can't do it sitting on the couch. Okay, I can't win a truck
mowing the lawn, But if Icatch the right fish, I could,
And wouldn't it be nice? Youknow, I'd even let you drive that
truck if I win it. I'mpracticing my pitch. I'm kind of working
on it right now. You knowI might even No, I know,

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my son's My son's the only personin our family who has a new vehicle
right now. So if I would, if I would have win that truck,
I'd be driving it. Sign upnow you can win all kinds of
stuff. That tournament is sponsored byTexas Ford Dealers, Academy Sports and Outdoors,
Progressive Insurance, Handy Boats, MercuryMarine, Shoal Water, Musta,
All the Oh, ABC thirteen,Mustang Cat All these great companies backing the

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Star Tournament because they know how valuableit is to our coastal resources. Go
to star tournament dot org. Signup now. You cannot win if you
aren't entered. When you catch thatbig fish or that tagfish. Sign up
now, be ready because they dropthose tagfish in places where everybody fishes,

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So just be thinking that way whenyou're trying to figure out where you might
catch one. Star Tournament dot Org. Welcome back the Doug Bike Show on
Sports Talk seven to ninety on thisSaturday morning. Looking pretty good. I
haven't looked outside in a bit.I'm gonna before I go to the phone,

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I'm gonna go back to the whereto go there? We go take
a look at the Galveston Fishing Piercamera from saltwater recon see what I can
find there. It fell the otheryou know, honestly, it's gonna be
a good long board day. There'ssome guys out about two thirds of the
way out the pier, Three guyson surfboards. One of them looks,

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yeah, yeah, he's picking upa wave right now. As a matter
of fact, how about that watchinglive surfing as I do this show and
as I go talk to let meget my mouse in the right spot.
Go talk to Forrest. What's up? Folk, pro Doug Off the Chain,
Picker Home Mercy. Where are youheaded this morning? Well, we

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thought the way it was gonna messus up, so we pushed our trip
to tomorrow morning. I'm just herewatching other people fish on TV on bast
Master in my morning coffee. Sookay, that's fair. Yeah. I
watch people play golf, so Iguess that's fair. That's fair, pal,
you know, depend on what thegolfer looks like. I've watched a
lot of golf. Yeah. Ilike watching the TV shows. I've really
do. And I've been watching themsince Jimmy you know, Jimmy Houston and

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Bill Dance and all of that.Oh yeah that's out there. Well yeah,
no kid, and they're still hobblinginto the boats and going out.
But what I find interesting about theshows now is and one of the things
that's bothersome is the way, atleast some of them. And I'm not
gonna name when you'll know exactly whatI'm talking about, the way they handle

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those fish. Hey man, theyjust can't get wait to get a death
grip on them so they don't dropthem and get a two minute penalty.
And oh yeah, and yeah,they're not really handling those fish the way
I'd like to see it. AndI don't know that they're ever going to
change because they're making so much moneynow and that that's all that mattered to
them. But the fish wherever they'regoing, and as many fish as they're

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catching, some of those fish aredying. I guarantee you that. Sure.
I know. A year or twoago, there was a particular guy
host of one of the regional fishingshows here in Texas, and I actually
wrote into the show and then goton him on the social media. I
said, Hey, dude, Isaid, I like watching your TV show.
Yeah, but when you catch abig bass, you sit there holding

(32:36):
that bass up, talking about itfor ten minutes. Put the fish back
in the lake. Yeah, talkabout it. Yeah, we've already seen
it. We've seen the fish.Put it back in the water. Now,
talk about it exactly exactly. Yeah, they're little. Their script doesn't
call for that though. Unfortunately.I fished with a lot of guys who
had TV shows back when I wasat the paper, and some of them

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I like. Some of them Iwould fish with more than one once,
and some of them I wouldn't getback on a boat with them for a
million dollars there. Yeah, it'sit's tough, it really is, but
they they found a way to makesome money and they're doing it, so
more power to for sure. Whatdo you vacation? When I was on
my vacation, not last week,but the week before, and bad thing
about it, I fish a day. I'd recovered for three days. I'm

(33:21):
bound with some viral infection. SoSaturday morning, I get up up chucking
and go meet a guy uh inHuntsville. Pick him up there at the
mall in Huntsville. We go.You know, I got a special invite
to go to Gibbon's Creek is SoI said, well, I'm not dead,
so I'm going. Yeah, I'dlike to kind of go to that
lake again myself. Oh yeah,so we went and uh we'll probably hooked

(33:43):
that up. But uh so wewent to the lake, had a pretty
good frog but actually put a videoout there on full pro outdoors or people
just typing, people just typing FHWsix seven that'll pull up any video I
got on YouTube. Oh wow,we had a pretty good frog show on
there. You can watch it whenyou get the time. And uh So
when day I went back to mymy lovely gated lake there in Lufkin,
and I had a really good dayearly on Frouds and I had to go

(34:07):
out there and do that. Ihad to go out there to do some
of that spotlighting, you know,to get my fish. But you know,
I even commented on it. Yeah, this is spotlight. Had a
pretty good show. Then banged aroundhere on the Libbys, and a couple
days after that, caught it froma fish. But I bet I caught
you what I wanted to do.I bet I caught some of Gibbons Creek
that you never caught it, GibbusCreek. Let's see whatever I called it,
Gibbons Creek. I've caught. I'vecaught white bass, black bass,

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gasperdu We're channel catting real good ontop water and chatterbait on that lake.
Yeah that's that's fine. Yeah that'scute. But other than that, other
than that, maybe a car ortwo. But what did you catch?
I caught a raccoon. A raccoon, I tell I tell my clients sometimes,
you know, you know, iffisher in the trees, we'd pick
them like applesh. Well, wewere in fairness, it was winter and

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we were up I think it waseither Jean Ballad or it might have been
Rick Rule two of us banging aroundown way up shallow man and I flipping
that big old floating plastic fliptail lizardwhen it came out black one, flipping
this thing and just right up onthe on the shoreline man. And I
flipped up there once and it landedmaybe six inches on land, which is

(35:15):
what I was trying to do,and then just slide it back into the
water, and out of nowhere,this raccoon comes out and grabs it and
just starts running. And I thought, oh, dear God, so I
just I punched the button. No, I didn't, thank God, So
I just punched it. I freespooled the rill immediately and just let him

(35:36):
run with it. And as soonas it stopped. As soon as he
stopped, I thought, okay,he's gonna try and turn it around in
his mouth or something. I justjiggled it a little bit and I felt
it kind of break loose, youknow. I had minor tension, and
then nothing, and then I yankedas hard as I could that lizard could
flying out of the woods man like, oh, thank God. I did
not want to have to take upraccoon off of you got me on a

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raccoon. I've caught some strange things. Yeah, yeah, well it just
takes special skills for that folk.Bro. Yeah, one last thing really
quickly. You were talking earlier aboutspeciled trout baits. Yep. You know
as a kid, I grew up. You know, my dad is a
big speckled trout fishing with these bays, stuff like that chocolate bayue places.
We either shot, you know,shot ducks or caught trap and uh so

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I was out there one day,noight. I grew up a bass fishing
you know. Yeah. He hada good friend of his trump taught me
bass fishing all this stuff fishing tournamentswhen I was fifteen. So I went
after bashishness and throwd. My Paul, I'm taking bass ton You need to
throw all this popping cork crap andall this, you know, I don't,
I don't mean none of that crup. So and to this day I'll
still do it, but I'll sayjust so it can be something off the
Academy brand, off the off thepig that shartruse spinner bait with gold shartroops,

(36:46):
little leafs. Yeah, trautt fishall day long. At the end
of the day, just throw itaway because it's going to rust out the
da Just throw it away. Butit's rod old standard half hour star tree
spinner bait. You'll catch them.Yeah. I learned about spinner baits and
shallow crank for red fish over inLouisiana, probably thirty years ago. Holy
cow, that little baby one minusup in about a foot of water.

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A red fish will turn itself insideout to eat that. Man. Holy
cow, dude, I'm late fora break in Melvin's Yeah you too,
man, stay in touch for us, a buddy, all right, party
audios, All right, let meclick that boom. Done, and on
the way out, I'll tell youabout Carter's country. You know. Here
we are in June, and thenwe'll be in July, and then we'll

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be in August, and then it'llbe dove season ninety days. Basically is
all you've got to enhance your skillsto talk somebody into letting you buy another
gun. If you have to dothat, that's so you might want to
be polishing your speech a little bit. You know, I only have fourteen

(37:49):
shotguns, and there's just one thatI really need I do because you know
it, well, sometimes you gotto have a different, different gun.
It's a dove are going to beflying a little higher, a little faster.
You can spend it however you want. I don't care. But if
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(38:13):
hunting stuff. That's all they advertiseon the on the signs out front at
the straight up guns Ammo and huntingstuff. That's what they do at Carter's
Country and they've been doing it forforever. I was very fortunate to have
a good friendly relationship with Bill Carterwhen he was alive, and he taught
me so much about guns, aboutdeer hunting, and I'm forever beholden to

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that man. And his family nowruns the store and they are doing a
fantastic job of honoring his legacy.Plenty of brand new guns, plenty of
pre owned guns, and then Ammowhen nobody else has it, and clad
then steal carry class. That's somethingI almost neglected to mention, and I

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want to do that again. Theydo that twice a month up there on
a Saturday, then two weeks lateron a Sunday, then two weeks later
on a Saturday, and they goback and forth like that. At the
Threshwek store, the one that's gotthe full service gold metal range up there
where you can shoot just about anythingyou can lug onto that line, and
that is an important thing to have, not just so you can carry the

(39:25):
gun, which you really don't evenhave to have to carry it anymore,
but so you'll understand the law asit pertains to carrying and potentially having to
use a firearm. Carterscountry dot Comstart looking right there. You don't even
have to leave home to shop anymore. It's a fantastic deal the way this
internet works. Carterscountry dot Com areSportstock seven ninety, Houston Sports where you

(39:52):
go with an iHeartRadio Now now getmore Doug Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thanks for listening toappreciate it. Well, I got so
much going on here. There wassomething else I wanted to talk about.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,Okay, before I get to my speech
about barblous hooks, I got anemail from Roy and I want to talk

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about this because this is something thatI had neglected as a great lure for
redfish. And man, yeah,there's pictures to prove it. I didn't
even need the pictures. As soonas I read what I read, I
knew he was onto something that Ineglected to mention as a redfish bait.
I have been blessed to be onsome good reds on rattle traps. Headed

(40:38):
out this morning with my daughter tosee if they are still biting. I
think it says biting here, holdon, let me open it all the
way up. Still hungry, Oh, still hungry. Same thing. And
yes, rattle traps. If youdon't feel like throwing crank baits, if
you don't feel like throwing spinner baits, spinner bait, deal on a redfish

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from the old school Louisiana Way,And if you go over there and go
into a tackle store you can findall kinds of redfish targeting spinner baits.
The only real change is that youyank the skirt off. You yank that
little rubber spinniley skirt off and puta saft plastic paddle tail on there.

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Whichever one you like the most.I prefer one Colorado blade over any other
blade configuration for redfish that holds thatthing up in the water colum a little
better than the willowlyaf blades. Andit just you don't have to run it
as fast. Now, if you'rein Redfish and you know there're a bunch

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of them, if you're throwing itinto a school of them or something,
just reel it back as fast asyou want. But otherwise, just slow,
steady retrieve is all you got todo with that thing, and they'll
eat it up. The little onebaby one minus crankbait something else that I
saw throw for the first time atRedfish over in Louisiana, and actually this,

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well, yeah, both of themI saw first in Louisiana, and
then I didn't really believe in itexcept over there until I was down at
Rattlesnake Point at Redfish Lodge one hundredyears ago and leaving I was leaving from
a weekend down there, and onthe way out that long drive back to

(42:27):
the highway from the lodge itself,I could see a couple of little bunches
of redfish on that flat on thebayside flat. The Holy cow, I
can't I can't just ignore that.So I get out of the car.
I'm in shorts already, I'm notworried about stepping on anything because the water's
clear enough, I can see thebottom, and I just go out barefooted

(42:51):
with a spinner bait tied on,and those redfish ate that thing up.
I don't remember I called three orfour, probably three before I left.
I had to it all the wayback to Houston. I wouldn't have stood
there long, but nonetheless I caughtsome redfish on that. And then the
rattle trap thing is equally legit.If you're in really shallow water, you
could just throw a floating rattle trapand that's a pretty exciting hit, I

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can assure you. And to takeit out to an extreme off the surf
side Jetty more than one autumn andsometimes even during the just during the summertime
out toward the end there, whenthe water's decent at all, I would

(43:35):
go out there with those big,full one ounce rattle traps on pretty heavy
tackle and just launch that thing asfar as I could throw it. Count
to ten while it's sunk to thebottom, and then just kind of flip
it and flip it and flip it. You didn't have to roll it fast,
but you just just kind of ripthe rod tip up a foot or

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two to make it just like thatdown there on the bottom, and some
of the biggest redfish you'll ever findat the end of your line. We'll
smack that thing and yank the rodout of your hands. That was some
of the best hardest strikes I've everfelt from redfish, all the way at
the bottom, all the way atthe end of that jetty, kind of

(44:19):
throwing about if you're standing looking straightout to see, kind of throwing at
about a ten o'clock off back towardssurfside, and probably worked for the last
seventy five yards fifty seventy five yardsof the rocks, that's it, and
come back up in more than that. And they were they weren't really hold

(44:42):
held up in there. They wouldn'tstack up in there. You couldn't catch
more than one. In other words, if you just walk up and down
the jetties, you might catch oneear and then another one hundred yards you
might catch another one. But outat the end. It was a fairly
reliable bite and a lot of fun. That was long before I even started
using Marble's hooks. But man,I'm on them now and I'm not going
to get off I put a tighton a lure that came out of my

(45:06):
son's box the other day, asa matter of fact, and right before
I threw it, I took aquick look, and sure enough, he
hadn't mashed the barbs down on thatone yet. So I did it for
him, and then proceeded to getthat durned little crank bait hung up in
a mesh net that they use tohold the soil along that particular shoreline.

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And once it's in that mesh netthat's covered up with about I don't know,
a bazillion pounds of silt and whatnot, it's not coming back. So
his little crank baits down there onthe bottom of the of the Deep Green
Lake. Oh well, boy,if they ever drained that lake, I
want to be there the day thatit comes down about a foot and a

(45:50):
half because that's when it's going toexpose a whole lot of my lures.
I'm not scared to throw a lureinto a place where it'll get hung up,
because that's usually where most of thefish are, especially bass fishing.
But it hurts just a little bitevery time I lose one. I hate
it real quick. Back to thosethose barbarous hooks. If if you're not

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doing that yet, you're doing yourselfand anybody you fish with a disservice,
because at some point someday somebody's gonnatake a hook in a body part and
you're gonna have to shut down yourwhole trip. If it's a barbed hook.
If it's not a barbed hook,you can just push it backwards out
of there and get back to fishing. Maybe squeeze it, maybe put a
little soap and water on it realquick, just to be sure. But

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Now here's Doug Pike. Pike allright, second hour starts now,
thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciateit. On what's I can't see outside,
but I think it's gonna be okayfor much of the morning at least,
and then there's some some threat ofsomething coming in from the Gulf of
Mexico. Actually early to mid afternoon. I'm not exactly sure when it's all

(48:23):
gonna happen, but it's supposed to. And who knows, honestly, who
knows? Let me go up heretalk to Bill. What's up? Bill?
Hey, good morning. I gota two questions for you. I
grew up in California. I'm sorry. We would go camping with We would

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go camping my family sometimes, andthen we would also go with the church.
They would have camp church camping trip. But in California is up in
the mountains that is nice and cool? Oh sure, here, I'm wondering
do people camp? And how doyou how do you go to sleep?
Any advice? I have two canoes. I have took actually two kayaks that

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we wanted an auction, and I'dlike to pick young kids, like maybe
two or three day trip and justaround here, fish and you know,
get in the water some creeks orsomething, some rivers, but without paying
you know, one hundred dollars eachnight, boy or a hotel or is

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that what people do? Or dothey actually camp? Because I mean,
how do you sleep in a tenthYou're worried about it being hot? Yeah,
because it's gonna be a hundred degrees. I remember four years ago doing
Harvey when a power went out,I couldn't sleeps or do people actually camp
around here? Yeah, we doactually camp. We're stone agers. All

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you gotta do, all you gottado, Bill, is go north,
get into the hill country somewhere,go to one of the state parks up
there, and the nights will besurprisingly pleasant. It will remind you of
home. Yeah, you don't haveto go super far. Now. If
you wait till July or August todo this, all bets are off because
it might be one hundred in Dallas, it might be ninety nine in Austin.

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But until then you've still got Ithink, a legitimate shot at catching
at least mid seventies to low seventiesat night in the hill country, and
that's not unpleasant. I wouldn't thinkother than that. There are also some
some cabin options at a lot ofthe state parks that have air conditioning and

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don't cost an arm and a leg, So that's available to you. But
yeah, I would I would lookat I would look into that. The
tent camping thing in the dead ofsummer, I'm with you, not really
my favorite idea, and I've triedit. Believe me. I've camped on
the beach in the summer back whenI was young and stupid and didn't have

(51:05):
enough money for even a cheap hotelroom. And I don't want to do
that anymore. That's just it's unpleasant, man, especially for a California guy.
Yeah, if you man, Yeah, that'll be a culture shock for
you. You don't. You're notready for that, bill only I've been
here seventeen years now, you're almostready then. But yeah, I just

(51:27):
worried about because I'm a thing overthat. I see them all the time,
but I don't get to do longtrips, and ITHER just wanted to
do something with them with this summer. Outsore you that I don't want to,
but not if we can't sleep.No, I agree with you now
being too hot to sleep, thatit's miserable. I understand. I uh.
I think it was Harvey that knockedmy power out for about four or

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five days, and my wife andmy then very young son rolled out to
my in law's house and well,cause when the power comes back on,
and yeah, I had to staythere and try to sleep through that.
So I feel your pain, Ireally do. But I would check up
in the in the hill country andjust kind of look at overnight temperatures for

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some of those areas around the stateparks, and I think you'll be pleasantly
surprised. I'm not going to promiseanything, because we're getting real close.
Once you hit June around here,it starts heating up pretty quick. But
there are some places where it'll bea little bit cooler at night, all
right. And then the second questionis I'm going up in the spring Woodlands

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area. Yeah, and do youknow of any place there's a little creek
around here where you gotta go downthese trail and these rocks, and and
all I get is get I canfight, But I think there's just these
little fish. I don't need tocatch a big something big, but I
just want to catch something that makesit fun and worthwhile, not not something
little three inches you know, perch. Oh Lord, if you're in the

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Woodlands, you are you have accessto some pretty good bass fishing water in
most of those lakes up there.Yeah, there's bassing almost all those lakes
up there. I would try tocheck with maybe some of the younger kids
in your neighborhood who like the fishand have a bicycle. They'll know where
to go, they really will.I mean, you'd be surprised that I've

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gotten a lot of information out ofkids. I'll see kids in my own
neighborhood riding around with fishing rods,and I'll pull up to them and they
think I'm creepy as hell until Ijust say, hey, where do you
fish? And ye, well they'veall got back, they've all got bassed.
You'll be surprised. Yeah, bassand catfish, and they're going to

(53:45):
be bigger than those. Most ofthose fish are in there eating those perch.
Okay, yeah, you'd be allright. I would try that,
I really would. The Woodlands hasall the water, you know, all
the water because you drive around andyou see it, and I've done something.
I just never catch anything. Whatare you using for bait? What
are you throwing? I'll switch betweenworms and and I don't I don't know

(54:12):
the different terminology. Sometimes I'll justthat was something on that I had in
the fridge to see I could work. Oh good lord, all right,
yeah, man, something shoot mean email Bill, I got to help
you out, man, all right, Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot Com. Oh

(54:34):
good lord, we're gonna fix youup, all right. Yeah, we'll
get you some bigger fish, audiosman, something out of the fridge.
Something I won't eat, but Ithink fish will eat. I love this
guy, man, I'm gonna helphim out so much. This is gonna
be like a this is another I'mgonna I'm gonna take him under my wing.

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I hope I can get him tothrow some other things and kind of
like with Robert when he first startedfishing saltwater down there in Galveston. Man,
I think I can help him.Dave, what's up, buddy?
Well, I just I was upat three. I went to work and
do what I had to do.And you know, but hey, when

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you and I'm already back home,I laid down and I just woke up
listening to y'all over here. ButI was you were talking about campgrounds.
You could go to a Tagle boatlaunch over there. Off it's Tagle Campgrounds
over there. Off thirteen seventy fiveriders. Right before you get the New
Waverley over there, make a leftoff the freeway, go over there.

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I think it costs like twenty bucksor you know, a night, and
you're gonna have to probably reserve it. But man, they got electricity,
they got water. They got youcan take a fan with you over there
and put up a pop ten overthere. They got tents, yeah,
they got and they got barbecue pitsand and like, uh, you know,

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what do you call it where youcan go sit and eat and everything
and all that kind of stuff hereon the water. Yeah, you're in
hog Heaven. And then you couldgo over there and put a throw line
out or something and and then justgo check it every once in a while.
But you got to be careful andbe sure and bring your mosquito,

(56:28):
oh all that stuff and everything elsebecause you know. But but the thing
is they got showers over there,electricity and everything, you know. So
it's it's right there. Offic thirteenseventy five. Yeah, out thirteen off
of thirteen seventy four. Now yougo to Stubblefield Lake over there, right

(56:51):
past there, there's the camp groundover there. It's cheaper. But I
think all they got is water.They don't have electricity. Water is essential.
We know that. You know.Well, let me tell you what.
At the other at the person Iwas talking about, Man, you
get over there, and man itis it's not it's very very nice.

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I've camped out there several times.You can put a pump ten up and
then like I said, running extensioncord over there with a fan inside,
you know, if you got ifyou got electricity, like you were saying.
Other than that, you're going tobe close by the water and that
cool breeze will come through at nightand then you'll make it. You know.

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I like that a lot. Yeah, heck yeah, man, that's
a good idea. Dave. Yeah, Hey, and be sure you be
sure you bring your bait. Andif anybody needs any crawl fish, come
on over here to my house becauseI got coffee pawns. All right,
all right, I thank you man, Yeah, thank you audios. All
right, I got real quick.No, I'll tell you what. I'll

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go ahead and hit the break,and then when I get back, I
hope Bill's listening because I got someinformation for him. I'm gonna do some
research during the break. That's whatI'll do. I'll take a little break
here, I'll be right back withsome insider Woodlands fishing information we got from
Did the guys say who he was? Who gave it up? David?
Thank you man. All right,we'll take a little break here, We'll

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be right back to the Doug PikeShow on Sports Talk seven ninety. This
is Sports Talk seven ninety on thego with iHeartRadio Friends. You've got to
try The conversation continues this as theDoug Pipe Show Height eighteen on Sports Talk
seven nine at the Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it. Okay, Bill,here we go. I we got a

(58:43):
call from a listener. Did hesay, did David tell you that it
was Taramont Park or Paramount Park?He said, Taramount Tamunt Okay, Yeah,
I found a Tamount Park here.I also found with just doing a
little bit of scratching up there atthe Woodlands website at the Township. The

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Woodlands Township website lists I want tosay it's probably two dozen about fifteen pages.
Might be more than two dozen parksup there, and there is a
place where you can type in thekeyword or the activity fishing. And that
still left me. I want tosay, six or eight pages of two

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or three per page listings of placesin the Woodlands where fishing is available.
That doesn't mean where fishing is gonnabe great and you're gonna catch a fish
every time you throw a hook inthe water, but you probably don't need
to go just chunk your rotten chickenin there either. We're gonna have to
We're gonna have to work on thatbill, and I can. I can

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give you a very simple way tostill use natural bait and go to these
le and at least catch some catfish. That's pretty easy if you do it
right. And if there are anycatfish worth there, worth their fins in
those lakes, they're gonna be bigenough to actually put a little bend in

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your rod. And so yeah,if you'll email me, I'll tell you
how to go catch those catfish.And if that doesn't work, I may
have to just drive up there andtake you myself. Once you get Once
you get a few catfish under yourbelt, I'm going to introduce you to
largemouth bass too, because that's alittle cleaner and easier and kind of a

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stick and move way to get somebites in an afternoon. I would guess
that up at the Woodlands and thelakes up there, the little bit that
I've fished them, and from whatI've talked, from what I've shared or
had shared with me about those lakesup there is you can get yourself six
eight ten bites in an afternoon oftouring two or three lakes up there and

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just spending fifteen minutes at each one. You're not gonna catch a world record
bass up there, but if youget four or five bass in an afternoon
that average a pound and a halfor two pounds, that's not horrible.
That'll that'll clear your head a littlebit. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety email Medugpike at iHeartMediadot com. Fishing is available in this

(01:01:22):
area once you get outside of Beltwayeight and pretty much I would say many,
if not most neighborhoods, I wouldsay, and boy, between Beltwegh
eight and ninety nine, looking aroundtown, there is a significant amount of

(01:01:46):
fishing opportunity, more so than youwould think. And even inside the loop.
I know a few places where Iactually have fished and have caught fish
some pretty good ones too. Youhave to you have to lower your expectations.
You have to hold your nose literallyand figuratively, depending on where you

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are in some places with the fishare there, the fisher there. Buffalo
bio has a pretty significant amount offish in it Braised Bio, even along
the concrete embankment as significant fish init. That's someplace where quietly, as

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fly fisherman Joe Doggett and I usedto go, we got introduced to that.
I don't even remember who it was. It might have been Dave Hayward,
a guy who used to work atOrbis. I think he ran the
orbit store here for I don't knowhow many years, and then as we
got to know him, he sharedthat little fly fishing secret where you could
go and catch some of those grasscarpthat found their way down here after being

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released into Lake Conroe. The longand the short of it is, those
fish weren't supposed to multiply. Theyweren't supposed to do anything, and all
of a sudden they're released in LakeConro and they show up in Brais Bio.
No fooling grass carp up to abouti'd say ten pounds, the average
was probably three to five pounds.And when the water was just the right

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level, not when it's all downin that bottom collection area, but when
it's up on that secondary ridge that'sabout twelve to fifteen feet wide and running
about maybe shin deep, they wouldget up on there and God knows what
they're eating floating down that bio,but they also would eat little spider and

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ant flies drifted past their nose onthe current. And that was some.
It was pretty sporty. It wasnot beautiful. It wasn't rainbow trout on
the Guadaloupe River, wasn't salmon upin Alaska. But it was fly fishing
and it was successful and we couldcatch we'd go over there after we finished

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our columns down at the newspaper andfish maybe an hour hour and a half,
or go early and fish before lunchbefore we had to write our columns.
And it was fun, it reallywas. Fishing in a big city
is kind of what you make it. And if you try to make too
much out of it, if youtry to be better than the opportunity that's

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in front of you, it'll neverbe fun. But if you just if
you accept it for what it isand accept the challenge of actually catching any
fish in the fourth largest city inthe country, that's not so bad.
That's not so bad. Am Ilate or early? Melvine? Oh I'm
late, Oh my gosh, I'mso sorry. All right, Well,

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let's take this for Oh gosh,I'm way late. Huh yeah yeah yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.I have caught so many fish in
so many places around this city youwould never believe it. Maybe I'll write
a book about places you're not supposedto fish but you can. American Shooting
Centers that's a place you can goright now. Go out there, the
winds down, the heat's coming up, but that's just going to remind you

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of dove season. Be a greatday to go, get in a tune
up, just to see how badyou are from last year. And if
you're having trouble with your shooting.A place like American Shooting Center has instructors
in every shooting discipline, everything fromhome self defense all the way up to
long range shooting. They can teachyou how to knock down doves out of

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the air. They can teach youhow to deer hunt successfully. As far
as the accuracy part of it goes. Become a better shot, you'll enjoy
the shooting sports all the more.They can help you with your handgun shooting,
your rifle shooting. There are beginnersareas also for both rifle and shotgun,

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which will make it a lot easierand a lot a lot more user
friendly. Easy targets are what makesshooting fun, and the better you get,
the more those really hard looking targetsat first become easy targets for you
and for anybody else who puts inthe work. They have a nice selection
of fine rifles and shotguns out there. It is a very safe, very

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fun place to shoot. Three sportingplaces courses about ten or twelve, I
can't remember exactly, trapping skeep fields. They have rifle and pistols starting at
five yards going out to six hundredyards, and just a very enjoyable,
safe place to shoot. Ever sinceEda Riggie took it over and said,

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you know what, this is goingto be more fun. It's going to
be more safe, and people aregonna come from all around to shoot here,
as they have for the better partof what thirty years now, I
would say it's about thirty years old. He had known it that long,
but it's been a lot more funand a lot more user friendly since then.
American Shooting Centers on West m Parkwaybetween Katie and Highway six very easy

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to find or go to the website. They can help you out with everything
there. American Shooting Centers Dot com. This is Sports Talk seven ninety online
at Sports seven ninety dot com.Now more Doug Fie. I've just urged
to say, yeehaw, real loud, welcome back Dougpike Show on Sports Talk

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seven ninety. Greatly appreciate you listening. I got a lot of friends out
here trying to help Bill. Ah, Poor Bill. Bill, We're gonna
get you hooked up, man.Okay, first of all, I'm trying
to find let me see if Ican if I've gotten a response yet.
David is driving and David sent mea picture. The bar has been set

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pretty high for you, Bill.Here's the deal. David sent me a
picture of his daughter, quite young, holding up a bass that she caught
in the woodlands. I'm waiting toget her name so that we can give
her credit for the fish she caught. So kids are catching fish in the
woodlands, Therefore you can catch fishtoo in the woodlands, Bill, and

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we're going to help you out.Now. I'm suspecting that that fish may
have been caught on a lure.Can't say for sure, but i'd kind
of think that might be the case. And if it's not the case,
it probably ate a live minnow.Which you can buy at bait stores.
There are bait stores up that wayactually, maybe a little bit farther north

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than just the Woodlands proper. Butif you get dead serious about catching a
bass in one of those lakes,that'd be a good way to do it.
Go buy yourself some significant, saylike three inch or so shad somewhere
if you can find them, orjust good old fashioned minnows might catch crappie
too, who knows, But sothat we've got taken care of. And

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on the camping side, I heardfrom Billy who wrote this said Bill should
do what we do when we gocamping in the summer. We take a
small window unit AC with us.A lot of campsites have electrical outlets.
You just set it inside the tent, leaving the back of it outside the

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tent for the condensation part, zipup the door, and enjoy. Also,
he wrote, they make little portableacs like the Arctic Air, which,
believe it or not, work prettygood and would be great for a
pop up tent. All the better, he says, And this one kind

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of creeps me out a little bitthinking about it. Make friends with somebody
who has a camper, HI,welcome, my name's Bill. What's yours?
Oh, my name's whatever. Heythink I could come sleep in your
camper tonight? Melvin, Straight up, if you had a camper and you
were camping and somebody came up andsaid, hey, man, can I

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spend the night in your camper?Would you be a little creeped out,
very creeped out. Yeah, that'skind of cringey, Billy. You went
too far with that one to think. Are you that phone? I'll figure
this out. Let me go talkto David and see what's on his mind.
What's up David? Yeah, notthat David you were looking for.
But uh, anyway, So Iwanted to change gears here a little bit.

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Something's been on my mind. Iwanted to throw it out to you
as a topic that you can tokind of put some thoughts to and come
up with. But that is shootingrange etiquette, and I'll boy throw something
nut and you know, things thatare not, of course, not the
rules, but just things that youshould the way you should conduct yourself at
a shooting range. But I wantto I want to throw one thing at

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you that I kind of learned.I wouldn't say the hard way, but
the rules about how you should comeinto the facility can vary one hundred and
eighty degrees. And well again bythat, Doug, uh, I like
to go at Carter's Country. They'reone of your sponsors. They want you
to bring your gun into the facilityuncase and with the bolt open open.

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There's another facility that in my area, but I don't like it anyway.
That doesn't matter where it is.So what's their rule in a case?
Case up? Bring it, don'tbring it open, don't bring it with
it. They want it inside acase and you're to leave it in the
case until you get on the benchand then you point the case downrange and

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then you open and take your gunout. Now, that in itself might
be a topic for argument or debate, but yeah, just number one.
Don't think that all the rules abouthow you should carry your gun into the
facility are going to be the same. But the rest of those are things
just etiquette rules. Example, don'tshoot, don't if you're shoot than they

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are. Don't let your shells fileoff, and you don't have a brass
catcher. Don't let them fly offall next to the guy next to you.
That kind of thing to be bouncingoff this poor guy's ear while while
he's trying to shoot is all.I mean, there's all kinds of rules
of our etiquette, you know,just commons because you know, people just
are I don't want to say they'rerude, but they don't. They don't.

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People don't, unfortunately, don't considerothers as much as they have,
and there there has been a generalshift away from civility, away from manners,
away from respect for other people,and toward I'll do what I want.
And I don't like it at all. I really don't. And it's

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pervasive. It's throughout every every aspectof life. I'll be walking through a
parking lot somewhere, or driving whenyou're driving through a parking lot and you
see somebody looking at their phone andwalking and clearly going to walk into the
street and go in front of youwhile you're trying to go across their path,
and they never look up. Theyjust presume that you're going to stop

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because they're in the road and they'reclearly more important than you. It drives
me crazy. Man. If therewasn't a law against it, I might
bump one of them every now andthen, you know, like come on,
man, But I know this isduring the off season, so people
before it gets too hot, youknow, will be going to the ranges
and fashionating and that kind of thingand just shooting range etiquette. Well,

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the point you make this point,and I'll take it back to where you
said that the way you're supposed tohandle your rifle going up to the bench
is different. The place you needto ask that question is when you're handing
them your five ten dollars whatever itis to go shoot. You say,
hey, by the way, whatis your policy on carrying that gun up

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to the bench. Then you knowbefore you walk out there. Well,
I'm talking referring to how you areto carry it through the front door.
Oh lord, okay, you knowthey don't want you to come in to
the building, that facility I mentioned. They don't want you to bring coming
They want the gun in a casewhen you walk through the front door.
Okay, yeah, I know Iknow where you're talking about. Now.

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You don't even have to tell me. I know exactly there. There aren't
many places where you have to walkthrough the front door to get to the
actual range, but I know whereyou are. Yeah, yeah, that's
odd, that's odd. Wow,Okay, but anyway, all right man,
Well thank you. That's a goodYeah. Well, I'll tell you
what I'll do is I'll get I'llget maybe well either either Billy Carter or

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Ed Orriggi one of the two,honor maybe get them both in a conference
call someday, who knows. Butwe'll talk about that for sure before before
it comes down to deer season.Absolutely, that's a good topic. I'm
sure they could tell some stories.Oh boy, don't you know it?
Holy cow? All right man,thanks David, I appreciate it. All
right, audios. Shooting range etiquette. If you don't know, you better

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learn because shooting ranges a a lotof fun. But you have to remember
that everybody out there also knows thata shooting range could potentially be a very
dangerous place. Accidents are unavoidable.Over the course of many, many years,
most shooting facilities go years without experiencingany kind of an accident. And

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that's because they are so closely monitored. That's why it's so much fun to
go shoot, because you're in asafe, controlled environment. And anytime anybody
from a shooting range looks at you, am I late again? Or are
we getting better? Where are men? M m oh, okay, so

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I can go like four more.Oh sweet, Okay, I can relax
a little bit. The shooting rangeworks because there are safety officers out there.
There's range officers, there's people onthe line, there's people looking at
cameras that are out there to makesure everybody on a huge facility something like

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American Shooting Center. Are you upat carters, there are people watching to
make sure that everybody stays safe.Everybody stays safe. That's the that's number
one priority at any shooting range.And if you are ever called down by
one of the range officers for anythingyou did, deliberate or accidental or whatever,

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don't argue with them. Don't tryto tell them that that's the way
you've always done it and it's okay, because it's not okay. Their rules
are what keep the people at theirfacility safe. And if you don't want
to abide by the rules, gobuy yourself a couple of hundred acres and
set up your own range. It'sjust that simple. And I'm not trying

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to be rude or trying to beI'm just trying to make sure that somebody
who's trying to go enjoy the shootingsports. Everybody has equal opportunity to enjoy
the shooting sports and not have somebodyslinging hot brass their way. Or that's
a very good one to remember.When you're shooting a semi automatic rifle that's

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ejecting those cartridges or the empty casingscases. No, you don't want that
going anywhere, but somewhere it won'tbother the next guy. Now, a
lot of these facilities have a partitionbetween the two stations, which is good,
but some don't. And work itout. Work it out with your

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neighbor. Be a good neighbor atthe shooting range. Make sure that you're
you and the person on either sideof you are having equal opportunity to have
a lot of fun. By theway, Bill, if you're still listening,
Number one, the little girl whocaught that bass, it's David's daughter

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and her name is Willow. Andthat fish looks to be about a pound
and a half maybe a pound ofquarters, a very respectable bass, especially
to come from a neighborhood pond.You're not going to go to most neighborhood
ponds and catch a world record bass. You're not even going to catch a
sheer lunker bash. You probably won'teven catch a four pounder. But what
you probably will catch once you understandhow to fish there and where to go

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on that big shoreline you're looking at, you'll probably catch some fish in that
pound pound and a half class,maybe an occasional two or even a three
pounder. And if those fish keepgetting thrown back into the lake, which
is policy at most every neighborhood lakeI've ever fished, they say, throw
them back, throw them all back. Who knows someday you might catch a

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five or six pounder. It's fun, it's certainly fun, but you have
to, like I said earlier,you have to kind of lower your expectations.
If you want to catch a trophybass, hire a guide who's got
live scope or one of the newelectronics to where you can just idle around
the lake until you see a reallybig fish and then just drop a live

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shad down in front of it.The pretty good chance that fish will eat
it and you can catch yourself abig bass. But if you really want
to go fishing, and really wantto just use fishing to clear your head
and forget about all your troubles,like I do, then just go out
there with a good attitude and keepthrowing, and keep throwing till you catch

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one. And then when you catchone, catch another one, and learn
that there's no such thing as yourlast cast until you decide it's your last
cast. I don't know how manytimes, even out there on the golf
course, when I'm fishing and it'sgetting a little bit late and I'm starting
to get mosquito bites and now thenats are driving me crazy, I'll just
tell myself, Okay, this ismy last cast. I'm telling myself this,

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this is my last cast. I'llmake that cast and then I'll see
some little swirl on the water,or I'll see a place that a square
foot that I haven't landed a lureyet. Like you know, I haven't
caught a fish in an hour,and I have, but if I right
there, that's probably where that fishis and it's not. But I don't

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know that until I throw there.So I've made I've probably made a million
last casts in my life. That'sa conservative estimate. We'll take a break
on the way out. I'll tellyou about black Horse Golf Club. It's
kind of like hitting my last rangeball when I'm practicing in the unfortunately where

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I fortunately or unfortunately where I practice, it's an unlimited supply, so it's
kind of hard to stop when I'mnot If I can't hit forty shots in
a row like a pro can thesame way, then I'm not finished yet,
and I just keep trying. BlackHorse Golf Club is a great place
for that. It's a public facility. It's a daily fee track that also

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has membership option, and it's actuallynot a track. It's tracks two courses,
the north and the south two ninetyat Fry Road. Basically you go
two ninety to Fry Road, hangingsouth and then a few miles down you'll
see golf course and you'll figure itout once you're in there, though.
They have people who can at thefar end of this very generous practice range.
At the far end of the range, there is instruction available, and

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if you take advantage of the membershipoption out there, in addition to pro
shop discounts, in in addition topreferred tea times, you get that same
country club style unlimited range use.You can stand there and hit balls until
your fingers bleed or until you realizethat you need to go down to the

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other end and get lessons to getbetter. That's going to be the faster
way. Great place to hold afundraising tournament. They've got two courses.
You can put two hundred and twentypeople out there easy. And I believe
me, I've played in a lotof tournaments out there where there were more
than two hundred players all going outat the same time to raise money for
a fantastic cost. Blackhorse Golf Clubdot com great place. Also on a

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morning like this, I haven't lookedoutside, but I'm guessing it'd be a
pretty good play day to tea itup. Just run out there, grab
yourself a small bucket of balls,and pretty much with two courses going out
at the same time, they'll getyou out right about the time you finish
up warming up. Black Horse GolfClub dot com is a website. Set
a tea time for yourself right now. Black Horse goolf Club dot com.

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Well, since I was in aclassroom, I'll confess last time we probably
I was telling somebody how to takepictures or something like that, kind of
at the front of the room insteadof in the back. Yeah, it's
my son just got out of school. He finally he finished he had his
last finals yesterday, and he didnot He did not hang around the house

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long. He and some buddies ofhis decided they were going to have a
celebration at one of the kids.One of the kids families as a garage
apartment, and so three or fourof them will go hang out there most
weekends, be away from parents,and that kid's parents don't come bug him

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much, or I think deliberately theystay out of the way out there and
just let them, let them findtheir way as teenagers, they're a pretty
good bunch. I don't think they'regetting in any trouble out there. That'd
be my guess, and I'm notnaive. I was a teenage boy once.
But also I just I think Iknow these kids pretty well and they're

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all right. By the way,Bill, somebody else sent a picture of
a mass that was caught close tothe Woodlands. That was another David,
and it was from Dennis Johnston Park, which in the email this David says
is about ten minutes from the Woodlands. Now, the Woodlands proper is more

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than ten minutes wide. On whereyou are in the Woodlands, that lake
could be three minutes and it couldbe twenty minutes. But wherever Dennis Johnston
Park is it might be worth goingbecause it's not a bad looking fish he
caught. So there are opportunities,just like I was talking about, many

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opportunities, and all you gotta dois polish off your stuff again. Send
me an email, give me anidea what kind of rod and reel you're
throwing, and that way I willknow where to start you, I think,
just from telling me what kind ofrodden reel you got, And it
doesn't matter. I'm not gonna judgeyou for whatever fishing equipment you have.

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I'm just gonna suggest equipment appropriate orstrategies to go catch yourself some bigger fish
than the little bitty ones you're catching, and we're gonna get you out of
the refrigerator refrigerator for people food.Although you can you can go buy worm
if you want to fish with worms, but honestly, as unless you're gonna

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use live fish for bait, you'reprobably gonna end up not catching the sized
fish or the kind of fish youwant. Even on night crawlers. The
perch will just destroy a nightcrawler.They'll start at both ends of it.
They'll gang up and start at bothends and eat it right to the hook,

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and then one of them or theother will slurp that last little piece
right off the hook and you'll nevereven know they were there. They are
horrible bait stealers. But if youget a live fish on the end of
the line, the little perch aren'tgonna bother it much and you just might
catch yourself a croppie. You mightcatch yourself a bass, or you might
catch yourself a pretty good sized catfish. All of that can be discussed at

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a later time a later time,bill by an email, I would love
to do that for you and justkind of introduce you and also any place
up there. Trying to think ofwhat tackle stores are up that way.
I'm sure there are some, andit may be this may be an opportunity

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to again check with some of theneighbor kids. Uh. Anybody who anybody
who's got a boat in the driveway, if they have a teenager, they
probably fish around where you live andthey're probably catching fish. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Emailme Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Uh. Oh, by the way, breaking bass news. I hooked and

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I'm not bragging because I didn't catchthe fish, but I'm just gonna share
this. I hook probably one ofthe three biggest bass I've ever hooked in
my life. On Thursday afternoon,I was I was not paying attention as
closely as I should be, whichtends to happen to me. Out there.
I daydream and I'm I'm wondering whereI'm gonna throw my next cast,

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and when, if ever I'll throwmy last cast of the day. And
this fish came up and ate.It had a crank bait, and I
didn't set the hook very hard becausethe bite wasn't all that terribly violent,
and I actually only had about sixfeet of line hanging off the rod tip.
I was on a little bridge that'sabout three feet off the water,

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so there really just wasn't much muchroom for error. But the line I
felt the thump, and then Ilifted up, not violently, but I
just lifted up to make sure thatit was a real bite and not just
something on the bottom that I didn'twant to bury a hook into. And

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it moved, and so I liftedup a little harder and kind of snapped
it and thought I'd set the hookon what I was gonna guess from where
I was might have been a twothree pounder. That lake's got better fish
in it, but I wasn't expectingwhat I saw come rolling up. And
when that fish rolled up, like, oh boy, I've made a mistake
already, and I tried to catchup to it. I tried to back

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off of it a little bit aswell, so that it could start swimming
around, because it was really longand really thick across the shoulders. And
about two seconds after I got thatreally good look, the hook pulled and
I said a bad word, maybetwo out loud, pretty loud. Really,

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I'll just say this, I'm gladthere were no young children nearby.
Unquestionably would have been at least mythird double digit bass. It was in
that class, and there was noquestion about it. This is one of
those ones where if you've ever caughtone, and I've caught two in my
life, one was out of thatsame lake. Actually, if you ever

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caught a double digit bass, youknow what you're looking for, and this
one had all the ear marks andjust it was a giant and I could
have just cried, but I didn't. Now I just now, I've just
set out to. I'm determined.I'm gonna break my own rule, and
I'm gonna start fishing that place withsoft plastics, but only in that area,

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only along that bridge, because Iknow there are some big bass sitting
down there on the bottom and ignoringmy crank baits, ignoring my spinner baits.
Most of the time. I'm probablymissing three bites on any time I
walk across that bridge, just becauseI'm too I'm too impatient to throw soft

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plastics. I'm gonna throw something bigtoo. It's gonna be a it's gonna
be a slab of plastic. Idon't want to have to be unhooking one
pounders walking through there. I'm thisis gonna be a significant chunk of soft
plastic with a significant hook in it. And I'm gonna use a different rod
too, one that will turn thatbig fish's head and get it out from
under that bridge quick. It's gameon now. Can you tell I'm so

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mad I lost it. I can'tbelieve I did that. I set the
hook and I look down. I'mstanding right over the fish, and I
look down and just this, justtwo man submarine lifts up off the bottom
and comes up and and just kindof cruises forward with six inches of back

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out of the water side to side, and probably a foot just between like
the front of the dorsal and alittle bit about midship's back. I'm like,
oh my god, I cannot believethat I've got that much fish down
there, that green and with likewhat about five six feet the line off
the rod. I wanted more line. I wanted it to go the other

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way, but it started to turnunder the bridge, and that's when I
lifted up again, and that's whenshe just went dooeye. Not this time,
partner. The struggle is real,all right. On the way out
here, we'll take a little breakhere at the top of the hour.
On the way out, I'll remindyou again about Carter's Country and the fantastic

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opportunity you have, especially up atthe Treshwek store, because there's a big
range up there. All the Carter'sCountry stores and the website are capable of
finding for you just the right shotgun. I got a friend here at work
is going to go to the Staffordstore out there on fifty nine looking for
a handgun that he wants for tokeep around the house. And I called,

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well, I emailed Lori Carter andfound out that one of the guys
at that store, at that Staffordstore, has been there for a better
part of thirty years, and Iactually knew his dad quite well. This
is a guy who's been around sportinggoods and been around guns a long long
time. Rex. Go out thereand talk to Rex if you want to
find out about guns at that store. Carter's Country has been around since the

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nineteen sixties and provides to anybody who'sinto the shooting sports anything they could possibly
need to enjoy the shooting sports.More big store, a lot of guns,
a lot of AMMO, a lotof hunting stuff, anything you need,
and some of the best people,some of the smartest people in the
shooting sports industry that there are.Carterscountry dot Com is the website. Most

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anything in the stores can be shippedright to you. Just go to the
website, start there, look around, check the specials, and then find
a way, find a good reasonto go, and then go find yourself
something fun to use this coming falland winter when hunting season starts back up.
Carterscountry dot Com is a website,Carterscountry dot com. This is the

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Dougpike Show brought to you by AmericanShooting Centers Guns shooting at instruction since nineteen
eighty nine. Now here's Doug Pikefor more than sixty years. Now here's
Doug Pike. Oh. I justhad such a senior moment looking around for

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my reading glasses and they were tuckedinto my shirt. Embarrassing. I shouldn't
admit stuff like that, should Idon't care. I really don't. Stuff
happens. I get tickled with anybodywho's younger than me and complains about stuff
that's happening as they get older,Like just wait, it's like the Carpenter

(01:33:32):
song, We've only just begun.Wheels are the lud nuts are gonna loosen
up? Okay, and the wheelsare gonna wabble, and your brakes are
gonna fail you every now and then, and yeah, we've only just begun.
I look at people older than meand the guys I play golf with

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on Mondays. These guys play threefour times a week, almost every one
of them. They're all retired,and the only time they don't play out
there where we are at Blackhawk iswhen they're off playing somewhere else with somebody
else. But they're Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and then one more practice

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round and then I see a lotof them on the range from time to
time, but I only get togo out there on Mondays. And there
are several of those guys, actually, I think are I think one or
two of them may have hit eightythis year, and a lot of them
in the seventies, in their seventies. And then we have a couple of

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guys who are I may be intheir fifties still. But every one of
them has some sort of little issuethat they deal with regularly, some chronic
condition, but none of them reallygripe about it. None of them complain

(01:34:56):
about it, and I try notto as well, little stuff that that
aches and pains. Sometimes it's becomevery clear to me that I don't recover
as fast as I used to.It used to be, Yeah, Melvin's
nod in his head. Man,It used to be I could I could
get in my car and drive tothe beach and wade fish for six hours,

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seven hours, then drive right home. I could go on a hunting
trip somewhere and back in my waterfowldays, I could go out there and
march through that rice field for hoursand setting up decoy spreads and do all
of that, and then just hopback in the car and drive home and

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get out and grab my golf clubsand go play eighteen holes in the afternoon.
Not a problem. It still feltgreat when I got home. Nothing
tightening up, nothing hurting. Now, go play golf, come home.
And by the time i'd drive homefrom I'm that golf club. It's only
a twenty twenty five minute drive.And by the time I get home,

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I get out of the car andI'm all bent over. I have to
I had to stop and just kindof take a little slow, slowly become
standing straight up, bent over alittle bit from sitting in that chair for
twenty minutes after using everything I hadto get through eighteen holes of golf or

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you know, I could see ifI'm as long as I'm playing, I
can keep playing. But when Istop and I get in that car,
sit there for five minutes, listento the radio, turn it off,
get out, I'd be I'd bestuck. I'd had to take that five
minutes to stand up. Oh ohgosh, aback creaking and popping. Oh
my lord, don't tell me aboutgetting old. Forty year old person,

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and you have no idea. Weonly just begun. That's what's happening right
there. All right, let's goto the pig Oh my god, did
I get there? Let's go tothe PGA Tour? Shall we all the
way up at the RBC in Canada? Way up there. Now there's someplace

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Bill could go camping? Or wasit Bill wanted to go camping? I
think so? And yeah, it'snot going to be too hot up there.
The RBC's going on. Oh,this thing defaulted back. Let me
get to the leader board. That'swhat I want to see. They're up
in Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario,at the Hamilton Golf and Country Club,

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which probably has about a I guessabout a six month golf window annually.
Robert McIntyre and Ryan Fox tied forfirst place going into today's third round.
They both at ten under par sixtyfour sixty six for McIntyre sixty six sixty

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four for Fox, right but welltwo shots out of the lead. Joel
Domon all himself at eight in thirdplace, and then three guys Andrew Novak,
Mackenzie Hughes, the Canadian he's reppingfor his country, and then David
Skins all at seven Skins is agood name for a golfer, kind of

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like Pike's a good name for aguy who talks about fishing. That showed
up in the La Times once,Melvin. They had this little section about
little curiosity and just fun things,and back when I was at the newspaper
here, the La Times, actuallyin that little segment there had a little

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blurb that said the fishing rider forthe Houston Paper's name is Doug Pike.
And probably half the people in Ladon't even know that a pike is a
fish, but still it was kindof cool. It was fun. Six
hunder par up in Canada where it'sprobably let me see the temperature. Hold

(01:38:58):
on, I can get a temperaturefor you. Oh yeah, uh,
way better than it's gonna be here, sixty eight degrees. Currently at the
RBC Canadian Open the six thunders,Trace Crow, Sean O'Hare, Sam Burns,
and that's it. Moving down.I'm not looking at any names that
just jump off the page as bignames, because most of our guys kind

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of skipped this with the top fiftyat least probably most of them skip it,
but they'll be back sooner than youknow. A lot of good stuff
going on. Speaking of golf,of course in local news. We are
less than a week out from LiveGolf Houston and what promises to be I
would say, just a totally differentgolf experience, and it's gonna just coincident,

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well not coincidentally, quite deliberately bythe way they went after players in
the front end of this deal.Some of the best in the world,
some of the best in the gamecoming back to Houston for the first time
in a couple of years. I'mgonna be out there as often as I
can. I'll share whatever I find, and I suspect I got asked yesterday
whether I was going to broadcast fromout there, and there's really no reason.

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I did it a lot when theshow Houston Open Ups played out there
because there was golf from seven amto dark basically on Thursday and Friday,
and then even on the weekends.The early times there were a lot of
players there as I was going intothis third hour, so there was always
something to see. But the shotgunstart, I believe at noon for these

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guys with live Golf, it'd bejust me and the greenskeeper out there and
the grounds crew out there doing theshow from seven to ten or eight to
ten. The players I doubt arethere two hours early. There would be
no reason. So I think whatI'm gonna do is I'm going to go
out there and be there during theand then I'll come back and talk about

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it the next time I'm on theair because I really want to. I
really want to experience this as bestI can, and I suspect it's going
to be pretty good from it fromthe phone calls I've been on and the
interviews I've gotten to join so far, this is this is going to be
better than what I would have expected. The first time I heard about live

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golf, it was so different andso unique and so out of out of
character for golf. When they startedthis that it it. It didn't really
appeal to me, to be perfectlyhonest, But it's growing on me and
I'm looking for it. I'm hungryfor it. I think it's going to

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be a lot of fun. Sevenone three two one two five seven ninety
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. The model it's modeled off of F
one Racing. I learned very powerfulteams with if you will multiple drivers or
in this case, golfers all competingsimultaneously as teammates and as individuals. It

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sounds confusing, but I think Iunderstand it well enough now to follow it
while I'm out there. Especially,it's sort of like the first time a
European watches American football, or maybeor baseball even, or someone from here
tries to understand cricket, which Istill don't. To be perfectly honest,
Melvin, you know about cricket.Could you tell me how it's played?

(01:42:32):
That would be a negative. No. Yeah, Well that makes two of
us, so you know, we'dbe starting from the same square one,
kind of like building his fishing upthere in the woodlands. I'm gonna get
it. If he'll email me,I'll take care of him. Alan's beat
me up, okay, Gramps,he says, come on, man,
you're whining like you're ninety. NoI'm not ninety, and no I don't

(01:42:57):
play golf like i'm ninety either.I'm just noting that when I'm finished,
it takes a little It takes alittle stretching, it takes a little time
to recover. That's all. Ofcourse, he's sixty two, so what
does he know about being old?For starters plays hockey two nights a week.

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Yeah, okay, okay, hockey, man, I can't. I
can't argue about the only ice skatingI did, and I mentioned it on
this show before. The only timeI was really into ice skating was when
I was dating a girl who taughtit at the Galleria, And yeah,

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I was really into ice skating thenseventy seven nine. Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. Rick,hang on, I've got to take this
break. When we get back,you will be first up, I promise.
On the way out, I'm gonnatell you about Timber Creek FM twenty
three fifty one down there in friendsWith, about three miles west of the

(01:43:59):
golf fer way. Very easy tofind, and when you find the place,
what you'll realize is they've got twentyseven holes that wind over the river
through the woods. It was nota really river, but there's a creek
that runs through the place. Gotsome water, got some bunkers. But
if you stand on any tea boxout there. This is one thing I
like about the design. I can'tremember who designed that layout, but what

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I appreciate about it and what Iwas taught to look for when I was
down there actually doing the review forthe paper many years ago with Eddie Sefco.
He and I were told, justwhen you stand there on the tea
box, just look, and ifyou're any kind of a golfer at all,
you'll see exactly where you're intended tohit the ball. There's no tricky,

(01:44:43):
no hidden stuff. It's just afun place to go play, a
really fun place to go. Grindit out and play eighteen holes, maybe
all twenty seven if you're tough enoughand just have a good time playing golf.
If you're not having as good atime as you'd lie, you might
check in with the JJ Woods GolfPerformance Center down there, right adjacent to

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the range. And I gotta getJJ on the phone. I've been talking
about it now for a couple ofweeks, and it was the last time
we talked was probably a month ago, he and I and he said he
was getting unpacked in so I thinkit's time. I'm gonna make that phone
call this week. I'll try toget him on next week. Timber Creek
Golf Club dot com is the website. Great fun place to just go,

(01:45:28):
tee it up with a buddy,great fun place on the south Side to
hold a nice big tournament. TimberCreek Golf Club dot Com nine twenty on
Sports Talk seven to ninety The DuckpikeShow. Thanks for listening, starting to
appreciate it as promised, because Iwant to hear what he's got to say
about what Melboyne put up on hisboard. I'm bringing up Rick, what's
up? Rick? Good morning?Doug. Can you hear me? All

(01:45:51):
right? I hear you just fine? Man? Did you get over you
ever get rid of all that?And miss it was keeping you from taking
your sunrise pictures. It's been allthis They tame it still that burn off
out of Mexico. Okay, horriblewith haze and hard even this morning.

(01:46:12):
You know it's kind of blown out. But what I was calling about,
I've been in and out on youon on being able to hear. Yeah,
but early this morning y'all were talkingabout with some some people, uh
callers, you know where's it?Don't know the area? Uh where to
fish? Sure you know where thekayak were a canoe? Uh? Just

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a quick tit bit that one ofthe best sources to sign that out and
know and to make sure that youare going somewhere that's legal. Okay,
that's a biggie. Oh yeah,is you're going to be your your whatever
county you want to go to gamewarden or wildlife boxes. That's a very

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good call. They're easily accessible,free information and they're gonna no and there's
more places than you think there isaround here within an hour anyway. Boy,
Yeah, I haven't thought about thatprobably. I always always lean on
game wards and biologists for deer huntingor for hunting information basically. Uh,

(01:47:17):
but I hadn't thought about them forthe fishing. They know every every bit
as much about fishing as they doabout hunting, and those counties are in
Yeah. Kept hearing the work creekmentioned, I personally would the board creek.
I agree, because you get ona creek, you go around the
first bend and what is or there'sa covert with a cow man's got a
fence crossing yep, And that's numberone. Number two, that's always questionable

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about trespassing. That's a very rightof the river. And one last tick
bit. If you're going and you'rea novice at it, or you're taking
kids for the first time and youever want them to want to go again.
Make sure there's not a fifteen milean hour wind out of the south,
because all of our rivers go northnortheast. Yep, So you always

(01:48:02):
want to do it early. Thistime of year is fixing to be too
late. Catch you a little northbreast plan on it that you're going on
the thurst day you see a northwind. Was at least that you're not
paddling, you least you're sloping inthe right direction. In Otherwise, every
time you start paddling, you arelosing ground. Spoken like a man who's

(01:48:24):
done it once or twice in thewrong direction. Anyway, I'll let you
go. See you all right,Ricky, thanks man. Safe travels out
there, buddy, Holy cow,that's funny, yeah, rick By,
he said, I bet that thenext time he was in a river in
a canoe, paddling for all hisworth and not moving downstream wouldn't be his

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first, all right. I hopenobody thought that I was going to just
neglect the US Women's Open, whichis on going up there in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. And yeah, Lancaster CountryClub, twelve million dollar perse which is
about time. Honestly, the women'sgame is very relatable for actually for more

(01:49:12):
guys than you would imagine, becausewe don't most of us aren't gonna hit
it as far or as straight orboth as PGA tour players. It's just
it's like going to It's like beingsomeone who can pluck out a few songs
around a campfire on a guitar andgoing to watch pick any heavy metal rock

(01:49:38):
band that had a great guitar player, basically all of them. There's that
much of a difference in the talentlevel, but the strength of the women,
actually it's better a lot of theseA lot of the women hit it
nearly as far as the men donow and certainly farther than the average golfer.

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Bottom line here, Well, here'swhat's going on through two rounds which
Haney meet guy I'm not sure whereshe's from, is leading this tournament at
four under par. She goes outat one thirty today with Andrea Lee,
the top American in the field rightnow, who is at two under par,
and preceding them will be Menji Leeand Yukasaso, who are both at

(01:50:26):
one under par and tied for third, and then me Kang. Lee goes
out at twelve fifty seven with holdon, let me see exactly who twelve
fifty seven with jeny M from I'mpretty I'm not sure. I'm not going
to say because I'm not one hundredpercent sure. A lot of good golf

(01:50:46):
still to be played at that tournament. Two more days of it and we'll
see how it goes. We'll seehow it goes. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety Email meDoug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. By
the way, I had to scrambleto find this leader board because when I
went to the LPGA's leader board,I think that's the one that yeah,

(01:51:14):
the one that gave me this.As always, it's very frustrating too when
I'm trying to report on these tournamentsthey only give a first initial in the
last name. As though everybody andanybody who pops this up would be just
perfectly comfortable with it. I haveno idea what Honestly, especially some of

(01:51:39):
the international players, I don't knowtheir first names. And it's not that
I don't want to find out.I just don't know. And under a
little bit of time constraint, itwas very difficult to find what I found,
and I'm glad I did. Iwant to recognize them for the caliber
player they are and for their standingand an extremely difficult tournament. Four under

(01:52:02):
par is leading the way after tworounds. That's a significant indication that's not
an easy golf course. And Mikithe only one at four under par and
there are only four players under parat all. It's a good solid representation
of the difficulty that can be puton these players. And we'll see who

(01:52:27):
rises to the top when it's allover. I've already talked a little bit
about the live golf of it.Oh, let me go to Lexi Thompson
for just a minute. Lexi Thompsonannounced this week that she is retiring from
professional golf at the end of theseason. She's twenty nine years old.

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Well, she's retiring from full timegolf at twenty nine years old. She's
been playing golf professionally. I admirethis, I really do, and what
she's accomplished and how she's held onafter being immersed in professional golf since she

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was fifteen years old. I'm prettysure she's stacked up more than enough money
to retire and just do whatever shepleases for the next fifty something years or
more. Twenty nine and retiring fromthe profession that has served her well,
and I just hope she's in aplace where she'll spend time similarly to how

(01:53:36):
Anika Sorenstam started at a much latertime in her life doing this, But
Anica didn't start playing professionally at fifteen. I don't believe, and I would
love to see Lexi go out anddo like Honica's done and work with girls,
and work with young women and showand help them find their way into

(01:54:00):
golf at whatever level they want tobe in. I don't see somebody younger
than thirty leaning into an easy chairand watching soap operas for the rest of
their lives. So I expect Lexiwill will remain attached to golf because that's
what she knows right now. ButI also hope she finds something else,

(01:54:20):
maybe that captures her heart or hereye, and just something that she can
do to enjoy and get back fromthe game, something that she's given so
much to so far. It musthave been really difficult. I can't imagine.

(01:54:43):
I can't imagine the feelings and theturmoil that golf must have thrown and
the people around her that golf musthave thrown At such a young professional athlete
who ultimately was responsible, probably forthe last ten year years, for the
livelihoods not only of herself, butor entourage. I'm sure I don't know

(01:55:05):
how many people she had working for, but you can bet there were some.
And that's a tremendous responsibility. Atwhat twenty years old, twenty two
years old, twenty five years oldin her career, she had eleven wins
so far, and she still madeplay some more competitive golf. She didn't
rule it out, but she justsaid she's retiring from full time golf.

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She'll pick her spots. She wonher first tournament at fifteen, and that's
kind of what launched her, andsomebody convinced her that that was a right
move. I'm not so sure.She made six Solheim Cup appearances, a
very poised, very good representative ofwomen's golf, and hats off to her,

(01:55:53):
Hats off to Lexi Thompson. Retiringfrom full time golf at twenty nine
years old, Melvine, can youimagine I can't imagine the pressure she must
have felt in being what sixteen,seventeen, eighteen years old and probably at

(01:56:15):
that point now having she certainly hadmanagement and certainly has parents who could have
helped her, but it's still ultimatelyher and her alone who is generating the
revenue that it takes to run aprofessional golfer's career. It's not cheap.
You got to buy a caddie,Well, you don't buy them. You

(01:56:36):
pay their way, You pay thema salary, you pay for their travel,
you pay for coaching, you payfor flights and hotels. Somebody had
to be doing all that for ayoung teenager who needed to focus on her
golf game to continue getting better andcontinue winning. So and all those people

(01:56:59):
relied on her. That's a lotto put on somebody's shoulders at that young
age. That's off to Lexi.Way to go, Lexi. I hope
you finished strong and ultimately look backand realize what an amazing, amazing run
you've had so far, and hopethere's more to come. All right,
let's take this last little break ofthe program. So imagine yourself driving along,

(01:57:24):
and if you've heard me talk aboutthis company before, you know where
I'm going. You're driving down thefreeway, You're listening to the Doug Pike
Show on a Saturday or Sunday morning. You're listening to fifty plus on KPRC.
Notice how I plugged those things,Melvin. That's pretty slick, huh.
And you're driving along and a truckkind of weaves in front of you,
or maybe a car or just anybody, and you don't see anything,

(01:57:49):
but all of a sudden, youhear this little dick. Oh. I'm
not even going to say what Isay when I hear it, but boy,
it's it's a frustrating, scary soundbecause you know, something really hard
just hit your windshield, probably alittle rock, and then you start searching,
You search every inch of that windshield. Where to hit, where to

(01:58:11):
hit, where to hit? Please, God, don't let it be a
cracker or a chip or anything.Just no, there's nothing there, right,
and then like there it is,there it is. Now you gotta
crack. Now you got a chip. Now you gotta do something about it
because you don't want it to getworse. Well, what I found,
finally is somebody I can really trustwith this stuff, and I'm never going

(01:58:33):
to any place again vip auto glass. Okay, that's I had to do
that back in May, all theway back like three weeks ago, I
think, is when I had todeal with this, I got a crack
and I didn't even know I gota chip, is what started. As
I didn't know it because it wasin that little black stuff on the edge
of the windshield that you can't seethrough when you're in the car. I

(01:58:56):
didn't see anything, so I justjust brushed it off. And then the
next morning I get in and startingon the left side and heading across there
it is about an eight inch runalready. So I got referred to VIP
Auto Glass actually by the guy whosold me the truck I bought for my
son. He said, they'll takecare of you. They they'll do it,

(01:59:18):
just trust me. And I calledover there and Lisa, the woman
who owns the company with her husband. They've been in business for I don't
know, twelve fifteen years something likethat, and they not only took care
of me within forty eight hours,and it would have been twenty four hours
except that we had a little issuewith the getting the permission for them to

(01:59:40):
come on to the building building propertyto do that because of a little we
had the wrong form, we hadthe wrong insurance for them. We saw
that quick. The next day they'reout, they fix a windshield, They
replaced the windshield, they reprogrammed thecensors, and by the way, I
talked to Lisa about this yesterday,there is all kinds of stuff that starts

(02:00:02):
in your windshield and if it's notdone absolutely correctly. She explained that if
you go someplace and get kind ofsecond hand, not second hand, but
off market glass for this windshield ofyours, and the sensor little positioning thing
is even like an eighth or asixteenth of an inch out of whack,

(02:00:27):
those sensors aren't gonna work. Andif they're not working, then your car
is gonna start slashing stuff at youabout You need to take care of this,
and you're gonna end up having toget that whole piece of glass replaced
again, and it's just gonna costyou more and more money. VIP Auto
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(02:00:49):
in making sure that the piece ofglass they put in there and the reprogramming
that gets done is done right thefirst time, and it's got to be
done. Did it for me inless than two hours, less than two
hours right here at work. Ididn't even know. I drove my truck
down there. My car down there, I parked it. The guy was

(02:01:11):
sitting there waiting for me. Hesaid, just I said, how much
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in an hour and a half,I got a call, Ay, your
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(02:01:36):
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Breaking sports news on Facebook twenty fouror seven. We'll get that information
to them. This is the DougPipe Show forty one on Sports Talk seven
ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thanksfor listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
I want to go back back intothat first hour and part of the second
when we were talking about neighborhood fishinglakes and small ponds and whatnot, and

(02:02:21):
golf course ponds and bar ditches.Holy cow, there was a guy back
when I was waterfowl guiding out inKatie. There was a guy I used
to see, same old pickup truck, same old five gallon bucket, he
sat on, same bucket of minnowsthat he brought to fish, and he

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was fishing in irrigation canals. AndI finally, after driving past this guy,
I don't know a dozen times,maybe more, I finally stopped and
got out and went and talked tothis guy and ended up sitting there on
the tailgate of his pickup truck andseeing him catch This was a kind of

(02:03:08):
a was He wasn't one hundred yardsdown from the road. He was right
by the road, by the colvertsthat went underneath the road from this irrigation
canal. And this particular canal stayedwet all year when it wasn't actually full.

(02:03:29):
It's kind of like the one thatreminds me of the one over by
Riverbank Country Club. There's always waterin it, but during the growing season
there tends to be more water init because people are buying the farmers are
buying water and it's moving downstream.The bottom line was sat there with that
guy long enough to watch him catchI think, I don't know, two
or three pretty big croppie out fromunder that little culvert area on a cane

(02:03:55):
pole. Just very simple fishing.But he's plucking out some of the tastiest
fish that you could ever find.And he said that he doesn't tell many
people about what he's catching because hedoesn't want to overcrowd the places. And
I thought, I can't imagine howmany people have driven past this guy and

(02:04:16):
just thought, oh, poor oldguy, he's not gonna catch much there.
And he said, he catches crappiein these places. He catches pretty
good sized catfish every now and thena bass. And these are pieces of
water that the average fishermen, especiallysomebody who's above average enough to have a

(02:04:41):
nice boat and have nice truck topull it, and boy, they can't
wait to go to that next likeone hundred and two hundred miles away,
to go catch a lot of whatthat guy sitting there on that bucket caught
almost every time he went. Isaid, I said, are there other
places like this? He said,the whole prairie full them. The whole
prairie is full of them. Thefish hang out in the shade of those

(02:05:03):
coverts, and he just hangs menis on a cork right, just leans
that cane pole out there, andslips that live bait right up there to
the edge of that colvert and justwaits and not very long. Usually some
of them will come out and eat. He'll pluck two or three from a
place and then leave and just leavewhatever else is there there until the next

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time because he had He said,I got places like this all over the
prairie and just go to a differentone every weekend and gets himself a nice
fish dinner. And I don't knowif I would eat the fish out of
the golf club lakes. There's alot of chemicals get washed into there because
they have to fertilize and use differentchemicals on the golf courses to keep them

(02:05:50):
nice. But I can't imagine there'rebeing a whole lot wrong with the stuff
that's running through those irrigation canals becauseit's being pulled out of rivers, and
the fish in the rivers aren't bad. Oh yeah. I would encourage anybody
who's trying to find places to fishto not not dismiss any place as no

(02:06:13):
good. There's a I don't know. I guess it's a very high end
of braves Bio that passes under fiftynine out there near Bissonet and runs parallel
to Westwood Country Club, the southend of Westwood Country Club's golf course between
the club and the freeway. Andsome friends that I used to go out

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there and park on the shoulder ofthe freeway and walk down that bank a
little ways and chum that place andcatch all kinds of catfish. It's when
we were silly enough and ate upenough with fish that we didn't care what

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size the fish we caught were.We just wanted to catch a bunch of
fish. I fished there a lotand caught a lot of catfish. I
fished I can remember using stink bait. It was just horrible. I hate
stink bait now I'll never use itagain. I don't need to have figured
out how to do it without thatand catch a ton of catfish in a
creek that comes out of the AtticsReservoir and passes under I ten. Now,

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it was much more wild and unmanicuredback when I was fishing that with
a good friend of mine who livedup that way. But we still I
bet you there's still fish. There'sstill catfish in there, still plenty of
them. Used to see and whenwe were fishing. This is back in
the probably the mid seventies, maybelate seventies. Friends of mine and I

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were going up there and there wouldbe three, four or five people when
we'd get there. Everybody kind ofspread out up and down the bank and
just fishing and having a good time. There's fishy water all over town.
There was somebody send me pictures ofa drainage ditch basically that runs parallel to

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the baseball fields over there north ofI ten on Beltway eight. I can't
remember the name of that facility,but it's a giant baseball complex. There
is water that runs on the otherside of the parking lot from that thing.
And when I mentioned it once onthe air, all of a sudden,
I'm getting an email from a guyshowing me pictures of tons of talapia

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in that water. Goods, Imean good size, not not a little
dink talapia. I mean pound anda half two pound talapia that he goes
down there and catches all the time. They're out there. You just have
to, like I said, loweryour expectations. And go looking. Somebody
starts. I want somebody to sendme someplace that I've never fished before that

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has fish. And I've fished alot of places around here. I'm looking
for some new ones. Send mean email Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
We have to take this last breakof the program or Melvin is gonna man,
you're being so polite. Melvin,thank you so much. We'll take
you a little break here. We'llbe right back to wrap it up The
Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk sevenninety nine. This is Sports Talk seven

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ninety Houston, Sports online at sportsseven ninety dot com. Back back to
the Doug Pike Show. A coupleof things to go over. By the
way, I went back and checkedthe wind just to be sure, and
there is only one reporting station,which is the north Jetiot surf side showing
eleven miles an hour. Everything elsefrom let's see how far over yeah,

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all the way to the Sabine Riverall single digits and then going south all
the way to Wow. The firstdouble digit wind is Port O'Connor at fourteen.
So up with the exclusion of theJetty which is at eleven and might
turn over to ten anytime now,not a bad idea to be looking at

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the beach. Let me see ifi've got that camra. I've still got
that camera up. I want totake a look at the Jetti park and
see what it looks like. It'sthe water still has got some ugly in
it. Color wise, it's hardto tell. There's a nice swell actually,
if if you're in the surfing andyou want to go down there,
a lot of people in the water. Boy, the channel is almost slick

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calm, so it's clearly protected fromwhat little bit of wind there is.
But a nice swell on the surfside side of the channel and not bad
there. I can't help but thinkthat a couple of tide changes and no
more big wind and the surf's goingto clean up, and I hope I
can make it there the tide schedule. If you're thinking about surfing or fishing,

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excuse me, Oh, this iskind of nice too, right at
sunrise was a low tide this morning. I would like to see that sunrise
actually a little bit earlier, orI would see the low tide earlier and
have a strong incoming by sunrise,which is kind of close to what it's
gonna do tomorrow. Low tide andsunrise are almost simultaneous again tomorrow. Not

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as big a tide movement either thismorning. Had the water been green,
it might have been a pretty goodday for that. Back to golf for
a minute. The US Open iscoming up, the Men's US to coming
up in a couple of weeks,and that's gonna be good. And next
year or next weekend, excuse meas the Memorial same weekend as we have

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our live golf event right here,Live Golf, Houston. This is gonna
be fun. I didn't seen alot of these guys. I went out
and I got to watch them allwhen we had the the Houston Open.
But this time, this time,they're going to be right back here with
live golf, and it'll be thefirst time I've seen some of these guys
play in a while. I enjoywatching them warm up, I really do.

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That's why I set up my lifebroadcast from over there. That's why
I kind of hung out over there. And it's not because I think any
of that's going to rub off onme. I just appreciate the dedication they
have to their craft and how they'llstand there and hit six or seven drivers

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basically to the exact same spot,and then still turn to their instructor who's
traveling with them, and ask forsome little tweak to make the ball do
something just a little bit different,as if hitting it straight as an arrow
for three hundred and ten yards wasn'tenough. That's a pretty fascinating, pretty
fascinating thing to watch, it reallyis. Oh man, we're almost done,

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aren't we? Holy cow? IsDan gonna be coming? Is Dan
Matthew's coming in? Or do weknow? Is he already there? Yeah?
Let's bring him on? Yeah,damn Matthews? What's up? Wake
up? What do you I'm wideawake? What is wrong with the astros?

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Man? I mean? Or wheredo we start? I was gonna
say where you start is the topof the order? Is just not being
the top of the order. That'strue. As I talked about last night
on the Tenth Inning Show, that'sno negotiable. I mean everything else with
this team this year. I rememberwhen me and Ross villar Yal were in
West Palm Beach for spring training.I was on with the Sean Salisbury Show

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and Sewn asked me, what's yourconcern? I said, well, it's
probably the starting pitching because at thetime we didn't know how long Verlander would
be out and we didn't know abouther Katie Hobbyer from ber Valdez. Just
how it's come out. But Imean, I gotta say the expectations for
that part were less than I hadfor the hitters, because this team was
dead in the water if they didn'thit and true average wise, everything else

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they have. It has just beenkind of the baseball version of getting into
the red zone. They picking fieldgoals. They're they're not scoring touchdowns.
You're they're not they're not hitting withrunners in scoring position. They're hitting.
You're right, Yeah, that's that. That's the That's it in a nutshell,
isn't it? You know it?Man? I mean it's the numbers

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aren't terrible, but bottom of thenext hour we're gonna go through them.
I know you will. I'm gonnabe listening on the way out here.
I appreciate it, all right,I gotta run. Dan Matthews is next
on Sports Talk seven ninety. I'llsee you again tomorrow morning at eight Audios