The Doug Pike Show 6-23-2024 Fishing Knots

In this show Doug talks about speckled trout and the 5 to 3 limit catch per day. Plus, Upper Coast vs Middle/Lower Coast attitude towards these rules. Doug talks Catch & Release with a caller with a difference of opinion both having great points. Fishing knots? What's your favorite? Custom fitting club drivers and how they can improve you game. Doug gives heat tips for the summer, golf updates, and more.

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. All right,
Sunday starts now, I suppose starteda long time ago for anybody who
wanted to be on Dawn Patrol.I got an email from Rudy. I

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believe it was yesterday. Let mego back and double check real quickly,
referencing dawn patrol and to anybody whoI think that was just a common phrase
that we used to be the firstones on the beach, trying to go
back and see, I'm pretty sureit was Rudy who sent that. And
if it wasn't, I apologize.I'm going back, back, back back,

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where did it go? Ah,there it is, Yet it was
Rudy, Thank goodness. I couldn'tremember for sure. There are a couple
of guys who were emailing me yesterdayabout trying to get in the surf and
whatnot. But yeah, that's kindof what we call ourselves. There was
a time in my life when Iworked nights, and at the end of
a shift, there were three orfour of us who on any given day

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when there was even a remote possibilitythat the water would be green to the
beach the next morning. This isway before live cameras and whatnot. And
I don't know, I don't knowif there was ever a time when you
could holly trust the word of thepeople who were working on the piers down
there along the coast, because afterall, they had tickets to sell,

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and they were more interested. Alot of times, I think a lot
of them were. Some were verystraightforward about it, some weren't and called
down there say oh, yeah,man, water's greened to the beach and
trouder just jumping on the pier andyou get down there and it's muddy and
horrible and sideshore wind. Oh well, yeah, it was like that when
you called. But it changed upjust after we hung up, started to

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change. And here's what it isnow and what it is now actually today.
Let me go back to this realquickly. Get to the right site.
I windsurf dot com website. Ireally do like this thing. It
shows you a lot twelve miles anhour out of the east, that is
at Surfside, nine miles an hourout of the east at Galveston, a

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little farther down the coast. It'sactually calmer, one of these rare mornings
when it's calmer down around Corpus Christieseven miles an hour at Corpus out of
the east with a just a whisperof north in it, and then some
anomalous north wind at Wildcat wherever thatis. There's got to be something something

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wrong with that reporting station. Althoughnow I take that back because just inland
from there, all of the flowis almost due north. It's very close
to Doe North. Maybe it's maybetwenty degrees off due north going back to
the east. So yeah, it'sall funneling down basically to a little spot

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just south of border, uh probablyjust south of Laredo. That's where it's
all kind of coming together. Butit's coming straight across the Gulf and from
east to west, so it's gonnaside shore it up pretty good. Unfortunately,
if you were thinking about going surfsurf fishing this morning, oh well,

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my son's on the water with oneof his friends and that kid's dad,
David. David Brinch took the boysdown there and they are gonna be
looking around Sat. Louis Pass alittle well behind the pass, and then
up the ditch, and I'm hopingthat they won't be catching so many fish
that they can't stop to text meor or let me know what's going on.

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We'll see seven one three, twoone two five seven ninety Email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Amilestone, there's Trey, never a doubt.
Boy. Melvin kept saying you weregonna be late, late, late.
Not really welcome, man. Igot two guys producing for me again
this morning. That's a rare treat. It really is two guys who know

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a lot more about what they're doingin there than I know about what I'm
doing in here. So just milestonein Major League Baseball yesterday evening, and
this one, for a change,had nothing to do with the Astros Rockies
in the Nationals. Bottom of theninth. Ryan McMahon at the plate for
the Rockies with the bases loaded ina full count. Kyle Finnegan on the

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mound for the Nationals. Here wego, full count, runners are gonna
go. This is it And ohso sorry, so sorry, Finn again
you've committed a pitch clock violation andwalked in the winning run. Walk it
off, I get it, okay, I get it. But somehow I

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just don't think nine innings of baseballshould be decided by a clock. It
should be decided by a swing anda miss, a swing for a hit,
a dribbler, a fair ball somewhere, whatever. And I also understand
that baseball was and I'll get tofishing again in a minute. I also

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understand that baseball was really losing spectatorsover just the length of the games.
The pitchers were wandering around, takingnaps between pitches and going and getting a
sandwich and whatever. It was takenforever. The hitters would step out of
the box and then adjust both theirgloves, adjust their helmet, adjust their

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belt, their socks, it wastaken forever. We have a suite in
Minute May Park, and when Iwould host clients in there and endorsers the
best of the best for me,it would be ten thirty eleven o'clock sometimes
before you'd get out of the stadium. And that was that he just wasn't

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working in this age of instant gratification. So I understand it. I do,
but I still don't think it's theclock that ought to determine the outcome
of a game that's that closed forthat long two and a half hours,
they're dead smack tied and then isdown to one pitch. And I don't
think the clock ought to be whatmakes it or breaks it anyway, and

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just very fitting. Some guy camerunning out of the Rockies, dugout hauling
a big cooler of water. Hewanted to pour on somebody, but he
couldn't even find anybody to pour iton. I thought that was quite appropriate
and fitting, since the batter,why would you pour it on him?
He didn't do anything. He wasjust standing there confused. If you look
at the video, he's not surewhether he's out. He's not sure whether

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he's tall a got a walk,or whether there was no pitch or what.
He's just standing there, just asconfused as everybody else. But on
the good side, who cares aboutthem? The Astros one again, which
gives them, by the way,a series victory already two games out of
three and one of both over theOrioles, who hadn't lost a series in
a very long time. Uh.One more note before we dig into the

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fishing part. Unless somebody wants tobeat me to it and call me in
talk about it in local drunk drivingnews I'm gonna guess. Did you come
in on the Feeder Street this morning? Melvin would like it. Did you
get off at Post Oak and thencome up the feeder or get off at
San Filipe wood Way? Okay,yeah, if you got off at Woodway,

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you were already past what I saw. So I'm coming up from San
Felipe toward Woodway on the Feeder street, the access road. Somebody somehow hit
a fire plug. They jumped thecurb and hit a fire plug. Not
talking about a street sign, I'mtalking about a fireplug. And that thing

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wasn't just wasn't just tipped over alittle ways. It was flattened into the
grid. It was just smoked,absolutely smoked, flipped it over, flattened
in the ground. There are skidmarks that come back onto the street.
But I doubt, very seriously thatthat car got very far. It almost

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certainly had to have been towed off. You can't hit a fire plug and
not tear up the bottom of yourcar. It's not it's not like rolling
over a shoe box or something.No. No, the water's already turned
off, and that explains the lowwater pressure in this building right now too.
We've got some low water pressure goingon. So yeah, that's that's

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why. Anyway, I do wantto talk this morning. I talked I
mentioned it on the way out yesterday, and I want to go back kind
of a little bit to the discussionof speckl trout and and the way I
think it's going to be about attitudesabout speckl trout, and I would like,
I would like input from both sidesof this, because there are definitely
two sides. There's one side amongTexas fishermen, coastal fishermen that is the

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upper coast attitude, and then there'san entirely different attitude along the middle and
lower coast up here in the Galvestonbased system. More or less there are
I don't think it's the predominance ofpeople of fishermen, but there are far
more fishermen up here who are reallypretty irritated by these new rules we have

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where you can only catch three fisha day, only three down from five.
It's not like the limit was onehundred and they dropped it down to
three. It was five. Soyou lose two fish, two fish a
day, that's it. And Ireally I've never had a problem with it
because I've never been one to measuremy success by the number of fish I

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caught, and I guess a lotof that that is because usually I catch
more fish than the limit, usuallyon a good day, with the blessing
of having had invitations from some prettydarn good fishermen over the years. And
even when I've gone by myself,even when I go walk the jetties years

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ago before it got overcrowded and justridiculous, I would still catch a lot
of fish. I didn't have anyproblem with that. I feel like I
know what I'm doing. When Istep into some place, I feel like
I've done my homework and can beconfident that there are fish there. Then

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it's just my job to make themeat. But a lot of people up
here have and I thought about itwhen I was sitting at the desk a
little earlier this morning. It's theattitude is it's kind of a big city
attitude up here and small town attitudedown south, if that makes any sense.

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Up here, there's an influence that'skind of oh gosh, I don't
even there's a kind of a greedyin a way, like I want my
fish, I want more fish.I want to be able to keep them
every day, and I want tokeep more. And it's because I don't
get to fish every day, Sowhy shouldn't I keep ten times the limit

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if I only get to fish afew times. I've heard that before.
Well the limit's five, so butI only get to fish about three times
a year. So I'm just goingto keep everything I catch today and i
won't be taking any fish for thenext two weeks. That's ridiculous, but
that I've heard that so many times, and it just drives me crazy.

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And they're just they're not thinking aboutanybody else. They're not thinking about the
resource. These people are just thinkingabout themselves. They don't care if somebody
five, ten, twenty years fromnow gets to catch a speckle trout.
They want more today. You godown south and the cleaning tables at a

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lot of the marinas don't get alot of activity. There'll be some guys
bringing in some drum or some sheep'shead, but you don't see a whole
lot of speckled trout brought to thecleaning tables. Past about Matta Gordon or
Port O'Connor. They put those fishback in the water. Now they'll keep
one or two. A lot ofpeople do keep something you can eat today

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and tomorrow be great, but it'sfrustrating up here where we have the most
fishermen and the place where we havethe most pressure on the resource is the
place where a lot of fishermen,Again it's not most of us, but
a lot of fishermen just have thisattitude of yeah, I'm taking my limit

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every day, and there's nothing againstthe law there, but it's just not
It doesn't it doesn't mesh well withany kind of a notion of conservation.
And I'm glad the Park and WilafeDepartment did what it did. It was

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necessary because there are people who stillcheat. There are people who still will
look both ways and then drop anundersized trout in the box. It's very
frustrating. Down south. It's moresmall town thinking. Let's all work together,
get this barn up before winter.Let's all help each other out.
Let's get this speckled trout population boostedup so that it can easily withstand a

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major freeze or some sort of spillor some sort of fresh water disaster or
whatever. Different. It's almost likethere's two states, North Texas and South
Texas and I don't even want tobe associated with north anything. It's just
I was born here, and yeah, I've never lived I've never lived north

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of the Gulf Coast. Fifty milesis about how far north I am of
it now. But my permanent addresshas never been more than about fifty miles
from a beach seven one three twoone two five seven ninety email on me,
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this is something I saw. Iactually discussed on TV yesterday about how golf
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This is the place, and it'sjust there. It's it's it's got
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Certainly, go appreciate it. I'moff of baseball. I won't talk
about baseball. I'll try not toanymore. I'll try Okay, let's okay.
I'm gonna see if this thing's workthis morning, but I'm gonna only
give it one chance, and I'mjust gonna throw it back over to to
Melvin because that's what I'm gonna haveto do anyway. Yep, Okay,
hold on, hit it, Hey, Dave, what's up? Hello,

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I'm here, Come on? Canyou hear me? Of course? Oh
beautiful? Hey, yeah, Iheard well on that on the limit thing,
And all that don't matter to me. If I just go to the
water and I'm on the water orby the water, and I'm looking at
the water and I catch one fish, I'm happy. You know. That's

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kind of the way I am.Even if I don't catch one, I'm
still I'm not unhappy, as I'vealready caught enough fish in my life to
last me a full lifetime and ahalf. I really have. But I
think I wonder if I wonder,Dave, if you stop and think about
some of the younger guys, youknow who they've they've invested in a big

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old boat, they've invested in abig old truck to pull that big boat.
They're just in it up to theirelbows in investment, and they want
an r O. I man,they want to return on that investment,
and the only way they can measurethat because they just they're too frenetic and
they don't they don't just slow downand smell the coffee kind of folks.

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I think they're they're trying to gettheir money's worth out of fishing instead of
getting mental health out of fishing.You know. That's what keeps me going,
Hey, well, what what's what'sboat saying for? Bring out another
thousands? Yeah, break out anotherthousand? Absolutely, boy, yeah,
is going Your son's going behind rollOttle pass over the No, he's not

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behind Rollover, he's behind Sant LouisPass down towards Sir said, oh say
Louis Pass. Yeah. Okay,yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
okay. Well we're gonna do good. Yeah, but be safe, you
know. Uh and then uh ohuh listen, oh guar fishing man.
I was thinking, man, youknow when I when before they close up

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the Trinity River so you can getout to the Trinity Bay, we go
catfishing. But if we didn't catchnothing, they had all these rice fields
over there, and we park ourboats and crawl up on these dams over
there where the locks that come outand man, I never there's a bird
church here next to me. Yeah, and uh, well that's good.
I heard a crow, Cardinal.I'm pretty heard the crow. I heard

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a crow this morning. But anyway, uh yeah, one of my but
hey anyway, no, no,but uh we uh we were there and
we crawled up on that uh inthat canal, and I had a cork

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on and man and I hung intothis I'm serious, probably a thirteen I
mean a three foot guard. Man. I was bowled over and I picked
and you got to peel back andput that hook in them and uh and
and and it was like something onNational Geographics or something like that. He

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no, he come up out ofthe water with his tail flipping in his
head. Man around and I'm like, and then the next cast, I
threw it down there, and Ihad a cork one and then my court
and I saw a big one inthere, and I guess it was that
one. It was bigger than threefeet. And the next thing, you
know, my line started going awaygoing on. I just kept going away.

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I'm sure all of a sudden Ididn't set the hook in the bone
in there and there it was,Yeah, it's top of the hook into
one of those guys. Sure isDave, Hey, real quick, I
got some more of that access toit's Marion Aden right down, get it
done. And then also, uh, I'm gonna be going over there to

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that south end of Lake Conrad thisweekend on Saturday and Sunday, and I'll
holler Rich and give you a corner. All right, man, Thank you,
Dave. I'm gonna buy you.I'm gonna go catch another Dave.
I got David on the other linethere, thanks man. All right,
let's shift gears from Dave to Daveand there we are. What's up,

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David, what's up? How areyou? I'm good man, Thank you,
David Dolman. Yeah, David,what's going on with the trout?
Man? So I'm just you know, I'm fixing the I don't know if
I'm stupid or what, but I'mfixing the run of trip about nine o'clock
today. No, you'll be allright, yeah, get that. You
know it's the only saving grace atthe full moon. So you know how

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they bite during the midday. Sure, so get that midday bite and get
out of the water before I'm melt. The truth. Yeah, dude,
it's already hot. But you knowwhat the three fish limit. Man,
here's the deal. Everybody thinks wehave a lot of trout because they all
got pushed right right, Yeah,they all got stacked in one spot,

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so they got well I don't I'mgoing to say they got stacked in one
No, no, no, wellyeah, I'm just I'm spent balling.
Yeah, you know what I'm talkingabout. Yeah, and so every so
people are catching them, and they'recatching they're catching bigger fish than they have.
Then sure, and they think thatwe have a lot of fish,
but if you compare it to peoplethat have fished back in the sixties,

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seventies, eighties, even nineties,yeah, we don't have a lot of
this, right, I agree.I mean every every decade, it was
at the Clint, we saw adecline. So I think people have to
be smart. And what I hate, I'm not a proponent of catching release
and speckled track, especially during thistime of year right now, okay,

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because you know, I mean,it gets hot, they get weak,
and you're going to have you're goingto have a higher mortality. So you
know, maybe maybe a better dealwould have just gone to three fish.
The first three you caught fifteen inchesplus and then there's no culling. You
can't cold your catch, and youjust you know, so you just got

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to quit and go fish for somethingelse. I don't know. I mean
they do that, Yeah, Imean that is a tough one, right.
There's all kinds of ways around allof this, David. But the
one thing that we got to bereally careful of is ended up like Florida
snook fishermen and having like a sixweek can't catch any of them, can't

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keep anything. We don't need to, like the flounder closure, is it.
Yeah, I don't think we shouldever have a clothes We should never
have a closed season on any ofour fishery well well, and as long
as we manage them well enough aheadof that necessity, we can we can
avoid one. Yeah. It's it'stough, man, It's tough. That's
a tough It is a tough deal. It's a fine line to what you

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want to do. So you know, the way I'm running my trips now,
I mean, we catch try outand you know, and if they
want to catch other things. Butwhen we go fish for drum and fish
for sheep said, and there's nothingwrong with beating the drummer. If people
were were would if there was somerequirement that you had to go to a

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fish dinner and sample speckle, trout, redfish, sheep's head, flounder,
drum, what else. I don'tknow. We're not putting a hard head
on a plate. But if youknow, somebody cooking all five of those
fish the right way, there's nota call, and there's not a call
among them. They're all good tasteof fish at trout should rather have a

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black drum than trap wow something.Yeah, So I mean anyway, but
it's it's it's a mindset, youknow, And I think people just have
to get used to it either andthere's always going to be those altfohls.
Yeah, yeah, that's well.And that's that's taken into account with deer
limits, dove limits, duck limits, goose limits, all of that.

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The the unfortunate part is that thepeople who make the rules have to take
into account that some people are gonnacheat no matter what, and they they
just check off those fish is notavailable anymore. Hey man, it's great
to hear from you. Yeah,it's sad that the most law abiding citizens
will break a game law I knowit does all the way. I mean,

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it's like they would never break along, but they break a game law.
Yeah, I wouldn't rob a bank, but they'll keep forty tree out
in a day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure man. Yeah,
great to hear from you. Allright, see that, audios. That's
from the word from the mouth ofa professional guy. And and we disagree

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on the on catching release. Ido think it helps. He doesn't.
And he's certainly he's got the credentialsto have a legitimate opinion on it.
So I'm not going to argue withthe guy about it. Man. We
just agree to disagree on that,but we certainly agree that there are a
whole lot of people out there whowho are going to take more than the

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law outs. And boy, yousee it up and down the surfside,
Jetty. I love the stories aboutlike down at the San Luis Passed when
the pier was there in the fall, bull redfish all over the place at
night in those lights, and Iwas going down there catching them on just
heavy trout tackle or some of mysurf rids that I had, throwing big

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heavy plugs out there and just giantrattle traps and whatnot, and it was
a blast, but there were peopletaking advantage of that, and the game
wardens would come down and sit wayback in the back of the parking lot
there in their cars and just waitand just wait for people to walk out
dragging bull reds because what they weredoing was going and putting. They'd catch

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their limit, walk them to thecar and then sit in the car for
five minutes, smoke cigarette, drinka beer, whatever, and then go
right back out and catch some more. And the game wards is just kind
of keep a running tally and atsome point finally just go, okay,
how many you got now? Oh, no, I just caught this fish.
It's the only one I got.No, we kind of watched you
catch a bunch more. I lovethat. I love Operation Game Thief too.

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By the way, it's on yourlicense. If you don't know the
phone numbered, Operation Game Thief,Game Thief, it's on your license.
Put it in your phone. Andif you see something that you believe is
a violation of our fish and gamelaws in this state, by all means,
call go ahead. You can actuallyyou can get a cash reward if
somebody is actually caught and convicted ofa crime against our wildlife and fisheries,

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and I don't have a problem withthat at all. I've actually called a
couple of times when I saw stuffthat just really just really rubbed me the
wrong way, just blatant violation.If somebody, somebody looks like that fish
they're taking home maybe the only foodthough they're gonna have on the table that
night, I can sometimes I couldprobably look the other way a little bit.

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But boy, when it's just prettyobvious that they just think that they
have no reason to obey the law, then hello, hello, answer the
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Com, Rockets and Astros live here. We are Sports Talk seven ninety.
The conversation continues this as the DougPike Show. Oh all right, welcome
back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talkseven to ninety. Steve brings up a

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very important point. I opened uptalking a little bit about baseball and that
ridiculous walk off win, bottom ofthe ninth, two outs, bases loaded,
full count, ding ding ding ding, pitch clock violation sends in the
winning run. That shouldn't have happened. So Steve didn't care about that though,

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And I should have gotten to thisearlier. The Texas A and m
Aggie baseball team is one win,one game away from winning the College World
Series. So watch that if youwill. I watched some of their game
yesterday, and they can fly,they can flat move the baseball around clearly,

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I mean, final game, onemore win, that's all they need.
My son's got to go to abaseball thing tomorrow. It's busy,
busy in my world. Tomorrow.There is a baseball event. There is
a new roof going up. We'renot going up, going on. I
guess the roof technically will be goingdown on to the top of the house.

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And it's about time. We've hadto dodge bad weather forecast for the
better part of two weeks. Andfinally, yay, we'll get that new
roof up there. Then I'm gonnaget a little new duct work. They
don't give that away either up inthe attic. Holy cow. Yeah,
this is the I think this isthe year Melven of spending. This will

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be twenty twenty four, the yearof spending in the Pike household. Holy
cow. Same with my household too. Yeah. Well, you know what,
I don't think anybody has been immunefrom having to spend more money than
they would like this year. Wouldyou agree? I don't totally try to
buy a pack of gum Man whenI let me tell you how old I

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am. Oh god, I'm justI'm turning into one of those that's so
bad. When I was a child, Okay, when I was a child
and we would walk into the pharmacyaka drug store back then, and I
wanted to buy a candy bar atthe drug store where everything was more expensive

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than down down the way in thestrip mall. Whatever, Well, it
wasn't a strip mall either, itwas just a little shopping center. How
much was a full sized, normalsized Snickers for all the money in the
world and the camper, Melvin,how much was a Snickers? Let's go
fifteen cents? Nickel? What nickel? Dude? Nickel for candy bar?

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My dad was a smoker. Ithink cigarettes were like twenty cents a pack
something like that. What else?Bread probably about twenty cents a loaf,
maybe a quarter, I don't know. And it wasn't much, but it
is now, and it's it's waymore than it should be, you know,

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honestly, it's we're gonna ride thisout. I think the country's gonna
survive. And as long as weas long as there's enough fish to keep
us happy, then I think we'reokay. I would personally like to see
more fish in the water out atone little place I've been fishing for a
long time, because they were wipedout, not by not by chemical spill,

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not by freeze. They were wipedout by cormorants tied for first place
in animals on the planet of Earth. That I don't like with what you
have You been here long enough toknow the only other animal I hate as
much as I hate cormorants. No, this is my first time hearing is
the gnats. Ah. That's right, the gnats, those nasty gnats that

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puff me up like a toad frog. I'm allergic apparently to their bites.
That doesn't mean I'm gonna stop goingout and playing outside, but I use
my little vanilla extract, which isalso good for sweetening corn for catfish bait.
Vanilla extract is like an essential oilin my world. I need it

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to keep the gnats off me.I needed to make the catfish bite for
little kids. But I'm not soweird about it that I have to go
buy I'm not mister fancy pants richguy buying McCormick's vanilla extract. Oh no,
no, no, I'm going straightup store brand artificial vanilla extract.

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The fish don't know the difference.Neither do the gnats. Man, it
is Oh yes, that is thegray poupon of the fishing world and the
gnat world. It's it's titanium,man, it's Isn't there a song called
titanium? Somebody acting like they're bigand strong, standing there all foo food

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up and singing seven on three twotwo two one two five seven ninety two
one two five seven ninety good.Tray's going, What did I get myself
into here? Man? You know, he is like, what I don't
want to talk about all this?Uh, back to the water, Okay,

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let me go. I'm gonna takea quick look at the beach down
at surf Side to see if there'sany Well. I knew there was a
there was an out going A hightide was this morning, I want to
say, around eight thirty nine o'clocksomewhere in there. And the wind wind's
actually no, it hadn't picked upreally up on our end of the coast.
It's it's bumped up a little bit. There's a twelve. There's a

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fourteen down at mattagorda twelve at Surfside, where my sun is probably ten miles
an hour, and that's not muchat all. Dead endshore or no check
that it is sideshore all the waydown the coast. I misspoke almost a
true east wind, which will it'llcertainly booger up the surf, there's no

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question about that. But it's notstrong enough to rough the Galveston Bay system.
I suspect that West Bay. Isuspect it down by the pass.
Maybe, Yeah, there's gonna besome fish caught in there on that outgoing
tide, especially down close to thepass. I would imagine there would be
some fish snapping it up in there, just watching whatever washes out of the

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watches at whatever's washing out of themarshes of West Bay be pretty good down
that way. What else do Iwant to don't want to talk about.
I want to I'm gonna stick withthe well, let's go to let's open
the door a little bit and gogo speckle trout, redfish, because redfish

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and speckl trout kind of go handin hand. Really. The flounder is
the of the three, the flounders, the odd man out. There is
a cult following, if you will, of flounder fishermen who couldn't care less
whether there's anything else in the baysystem. They love flounder that much and
they target flounder, and to theircredit, it's a little tougher bite to

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go get than that of a redfishor a speckle trout. It is.
I'll give good flounder fishermen no thingsthat the average fisherman does not, no
things that I don't know, andI know some guys who are really good
at that, and I wish Iwas as good as they. So the
redfish and trout bite, it kindof goes hand in hand and back.

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I had a good talk yesterday withmy friend from down to Dial Mickey.
We talked for probably twenty or thirtyminutes about places we want to go,
people we want to fish with againbefore we're too old, and a lot
of this came up. A lotof the open water fishing came up.
And back when I was a youngreporter, a young columnist, and he

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was a young fishing guide, theGalveston based system, And this goes hand
in hand with what David was talkingabout a minute ago, David Dilman,
there were a whole lot more fishin the bay than there are now.
There are there's a lot of fishin the bay, but not as many
because they're concentrated from those floods.Now. It's not that they're all in
one spot and everybody's got to gothere. You can catch them. You

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can catch them in a lot ofdifferent spots right now. But back when
we were talking about yesterday, backwhen he and his crew were young guides
and I was the young reporter fromthe newspaper, jumping in and getting to
fish with those guys because I neededgood things to write about the open water

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stuff. On the right day,you could and if you knew where to
go and what to look for,man, you could light them up,
absolutely light them up. And I'mtalking about bigger fish easily by by far
than what's being caught. Now.I'm three minutes late, hum Melbourne.
I'm just yeah and away. Ineed to stuff. I looked up and

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I saw the clock and I realizedthat I'd gone a little long. Uh
well, regroup all the way out. I'm going to tell you about vip
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to the exit ramp you're going totake that you don't you don't have some
truck wheel in front of you realquick, or or you don't get up
a little tool behind a truck andall of a sudden you realize, oh
no, I'm gonna hear one ofthose, and then there it is that
tick sound, the one that happenswhen a rock pops your windshield and then
you start searching that glass every squareinch. You maybe say a couple of

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things you shouldn't say with kids inthe car, and m there it is.
There's a crack, dad gummet.Now what do I do? Well?
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wherever you are. They came tomy office to fix mine. That's why
I'm so excited about them. Therewas a place that I've used for years,
and I called them and I foundout that sometimes when your windshield breaks
with a new car, you haveto get your whole little computer thing reprogrammed

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because of what's up there on thatwindshield coming out of your your rear view
mirror. And that was going tocost me a lot of money. Then
I called VIP Autoglass and they actuallygave me the best price that I was
able to find, and then ontop of that, showed up the next
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codes and whatnot, so we hadto wait one more day to get that
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Sports where you go with iHeartRadio nownow get more Doug, Thanks for listening.
Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk toseven ninety Melbourne and I were just
talking about that somebody hitting that fireplug, I mean a fire hydrant.
Those things I would presume are prettywell anchored to the big main line of

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water underneath them, and whoever hitthis thing just leveled it to the I'm
talking about, mashed it into theground down to ground level. You can
just see a little bit of theblue paint. It's like somebody just painted
one on canvas and laid it onthe ground. And I was telling Melbourne
at that point, and instead ofjust some little red light coming up on

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your on your dashboard, that bigscreen over there ought to say you don't
need to be driving right now.Just shut the car off, walk away
seven one three two one two fiveseven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com. I'm going to Iwant to talk about fishing knots for a
minute because yesterday my sixteen year oldson loves to fish. But the Knazi

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ties they just look like backlashes.They just random. He just starts threading
things through loops and he thinks hecan tie palamar or not. I don't
think he can. He tells mehe can, and I actually saw a
knot being tied on YouTube that Isent to him. Because it is the

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easiest looking knot that you could everimagine. It takes well, it doesn't
take long to tie once you learnhow to tie it. And that's the
key to any successful fishing knot ishow fast you can tie it and whether
you can tie it in low lightconditions, because that's another thing I can
tie there. I can tell there'sa splice, a line to line splice

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I can tie, or line tolead or whatever, braid to floor or
carbon whatever. I think I couldtie that with my eyes closed with a
little time, I know I cantie my lower connections, both the straight
to the eye connection and loop knot. I can tie both of those with
my eyes closed, I'm pretty sure. And then a couple of others.

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There's one great knot that many manyyears ago James Plod taught me for using
a very heavy leader, and I'membarrassed to say I couldn't tie that neck
not not again on a bet rightnow. It's been so long since I
had to tie one. But yeah, the little stuff I'm okay with.
And it's real. If you reallywant to get the most from your fishing,

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the last thing you want is fora knot to fail. That's an
embarrassing thing to get back that littlepigtail at the end, when when you've
got this huge fish on the lineand everybody in the boat's rooting for you,
and then just the connection goes,it's gone, The fish is gone.
Your lure's gone, your hook isgone, and you just get this
little squiggly pigtail of line back.And everybody on the boat knows exactly what

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happened. It wasn't some catastrophic failurebecause the fish overloaded it. It was
your mistake on the knot, andthere's no reason for that. There's an
improved clinch knot could serve you well. The palamar like my son talks about
tying, could serve you well.Blood knots can serve you well. And

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with minor modification. There's a coupleof different loop knots that really work.
The one that I tie most often, I don't know the name of it.
I just know how to tie itso and nobody's asked me what it's
called. It's just it's a loopknot dog on it. But I'm not
sure which one. An old goodfriend of mine, Bob mcmah y,

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wrote, he's written several editions ofa book that I think it's just basic
fishing knots or something like that,But there are hundreds of knots in that
book, and his books don't includesome of the ones I'm seeing come out
on YouTube now. But really,you just have to find something to connect

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line to lure, something to connectline to leader, something to connect Actually,
there's specific little notch you can useeven to tie your line onto your
real spool and stuff like that.There's all kinds of different ways and reasons
to tie different knots. There areknots for snelling hooks. There are double

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line knots, like a Beminy twist, which is a really cool knot.
I used to have to tie alot of those on offshore trips when you're
trying to have twice the leader downthere getting close to the fish and just
double line stuff. Oh yeah,you can. You can run the rack
man. We got to take abreak, don't we go? Lee?

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Every time I turn around. Everytime I turn around Belleville meat Market,
I'm going to try and find thatnott, the one that I've sent to
my son, and see what nameit has. And if I can find
it during the break, I'll tellyou when we get back. Belleville Meat
Market's been out for forty two years. Out in the little town of Bellville,
right in the middle. You justpull into Bellville somewhere and roll your

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windows down and right around till yousmell barbecue, and then drive up wind
and you'll find Belleville Meat Market.It's really not that hard to find,
about fifteen minutes north to Sea Lee, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead on Highway
thirty six. Very easy, anice drive out two ninety. By the
way, there's a cutoff before youget to thirty six that'll act you save
to you about ten minutes probably,and it winds beautifully through that little edge

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of the Texas Hill country. Bellvillehas been up there a long time,
churning out beef, chicken and porkcut the way you want, churning out
two dozen plus flavors of premium pcnsmokedsausage. They have a ground beef special
that eighty five to fifteen ground beefthat's just three eighty nine a pound when
you buy ten pounds or more.And if you've got well, if you've

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got teenagers around the house, youknow you need a lot of that.
They do handmade homemade hamburger patties andhot dogs right there at Belleville Meat Market
that they serve lunchtime. I thinkyou can buy those hamburger patties too,
and probably the hot dogs. Yes, says here everything you need for your
summer cookouts. Get some of those. They're gonna taste way better than that
stuff you're getting in the grocery stores. While game processing open all summer for

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whatever needs you might have, includingexotics. And if you're not sure if
they'll process it, says right here, just call and ask for Brandon.
I bet Brandon's gotten some weird questionstoo. Hey, can you process this?
I'ven't found it on the side ofthe road. No, don't do
that. Belleville Meatmarket dot Com isthe website you can pretty much order anything

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in the store and have it deliveredright to your door. Forty two years
serving people who know how to enjoysome good, good meat products and barbecue.
Belleville MeetMarket dot com. This isthe Doug Pike Show, brought to
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here's Doug Pike. Hi, welcomeback, Thanks for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it. Doug Pike Show onSports Talk seven ninety Let me go back
up here to the dropshot. Dannyback in, by the way, sent
me an email during the break,I said him a reply and then he
sent another email thinking maybe I justhe thought I didn't get it, but
yeah, I did, and Ihope you got my response. I heard

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from Where's you Go, Bunnie Joe, there she is and asking about who
I'm using for my roof and I'mhappy to tell you that's Skeeter Brawn from
Bronze Roofing. He's done stuff forme for years, and he did my
mom's roof out and Katie before shepassed. He'd been up to my mother
in law's house in the Woodlands.He'd been to my house two or three

(49:07):
times over the years. And hopefully, hopefully tomorrow will be the day that
we get our new roof on.And it's yeah, I'm excited about it
because I'm gonna that's gonna get someof the heat, more of the heat
out of my attic. And betweenthat and replacing some of that duck work
that another company's doing, I'm JimmyJack good to go. Hopefully get that

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upstairs unit working a little bit moreefficiently. It's being it's being taxed by
the heat up in that attic andI'm gonna get rid of that heat.
Seven one three seven ninety email meDug Pike adihurtmedia dot Com. I found
that little knot, but I wasn'table to throw the volume up on it,
so I don't really know for sure. Oh, Danny's going. Did

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I get what? Apparently you didn'tlet me see if it got clogged up
in my drafts? I bet itdid. Nope, that's not it.
That's so weird. That is soweird. Anyway, I sent you a
response. Danny just said welcome backbasically, and apparently he didn't. Either
that or he's pulling my leg.That could be as well. Um,

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I'll get to Mark. I'm gonnaget to your stuff in a little bit.
I want to go through these leaderboardsthough, because there are a couple
of important tournaments going on, andthen there's a phone call i'm gonna be
catching in a second. Let meget up here to this bunch of stuff
I have in the Let's go tothe LPGA Championship, the KPMG Women's PGA

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Championship, and that leaderboard. Iwrote them down this morning so in bigger
type so I could bigger font soI could read them. Amy Yang is
leading the event. They're all theway out in Washington Samamish. Why.
I think it's Smamish Country Club outin Washington, so they're not going to
be getting started anytime soon. ButAmy Yang is leading at seven under par,

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Lauren Hartledge and mey Yamashida at fiveunder par. Sarah Schmelzel is all
alone at four and tied at threegoing into this final round four shots off
the lead, but only five offthe next group, which I think is
kind of how you have to anytimesomebody's out in front alone more than a

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shot or two, and this one, in this case two shots. I
feel like it's gonna be their tournamentto lose. They've got to go out
and play a perfect round and probablyadd two to their score to win,
because somebody behind them is gonna comeout like a house on fire and start
dropping birdies. And if those birdiesstart dropping and you're ahead all of a

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sudden, that kind of gets inyour head. Maybe who knows any of
Lilli Avou, Caroline English Genuine Coand Nako Shibuno and Lexi Thompson all at
three under par and being four shotsoff the lead. With the credentials they
carry, I gotta think they've gota coke. They've got a chance,

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a very strong fighting chance to takecare of business at the Travelers on the
PGA tour up there in Cromwell,Connecticut, TPC Highlands. They'll be getting
started here. What is this teno'clock Eastern time. They'll probably get going
in about an hour or so,maybe earlier. I don't know. Tom

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Kim out front alone at eighteen underpar. Ak Sha Batilla and guess who
I talked about him yesterday? Hewas several shots back yesterday now just one
shot off the lead. Ak Shabatiaand Scottie Scheffler both at seventeen under par.

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He ended up today, and thenXander Shaffley and Sung Am at sixteen
under par. Said it yesterday,I'll say it again today. I'll take
Scotty Scheffer you give me the field, or I'll take Scotty. I'll give
you the field. And didn't wehave a didn't we have a dollar bet?
Oh? See you updated it wasa penny. Oh it's a penny.
I'm sorry. Yeah, a hundredtimes I was feeling more confident.

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I'll just see if you're paying attention. Yeah, it's a penny still a
one cent bet. That's Melvin andme. I've got Scotty Scheffler, He's
got everybody else in the entire field. How confident do you feel, Melvin
Very? Do you really? Very? You got sixty seventy guys all on
your team. I got one guyon my team. I'm gonna get one

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cent. Maybe maybe Scotty scheffer is. He's on kind of a tear.
Actually he's he's been the Tiger Woodsof this year. At least every time
he turns around, he's either inthe winter circle or standing over there at
the runner up window getting his fatcheck. He's doing all right for himself

(54:06):
this year. Seven one three,two one two five seven ninety. Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.Think let me see who asked this question,
and I'll kind of tell you howI feel about it. Let me
go back to the emails. Idon't want to give credit where credit is
due, because it's an important question, came from yesterday. I gotta roll

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it back down here, dog goneit. Oh, this is such a
slow, painful process. It trulyis. And I had it up That's
what was frustrating, because I hadit up here and now I can't find
it. Okay, Well, I'mnot gonna I'll give credit when we get
back or something from a break.But right now there was question whether just

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how how the the liv golf thingis going to work out with Ryder Cup
stuff and with with just how itmoves into all these other Here it is
right here. Thank god I foundit. I'm just dancing around it from
Mark from over in Georgia. Yousent it up here this morning. Actually

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number one, so got that numbertwo. As was the case with the
Ryder Cup teams, the Olympic teamsare now affected by live golf because the
OWGR that is the official war Golfranking has no way to recognize the live
format to give them a ranking,and therefore live golfers are quite few in

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the Olympics, as is true ofthe Ryder Cup. Who changes live to
meet OWGR or OWGR to represent thecurrent golf world. It is a really
it is a really tough tough thingif you're Brycon de Shamba and you can't

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find your way onto the Olympic teamafter going and doing what he just did
last week. But rules are rules. It's kind of like we're gonna be
griping about that baseball game ending lastnight on a pitch clock violation, and
at some point they're gonna have tosort that out. I'm not sure how,

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because you're really you are when youlook at livgolf and you look at
the PGA Tour and the other toursaround the world, you're comparing apples to
oranges. A three round tournament isn'tthe same as a four round tournament.
The team concept isn't the same.Nothing is the same anymore, which means
that smart people are gonna have togather up in a room somewhere and sit

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there until they can come up witha solution for this. Because we need
to be sending our best players.Europe, every other country in the world,
Spain, Great Britain, France,all of them need to be sending
the best players they've got. Anduntil until there's recognition of the live golf

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format at OWGR, it's gonna bevery hard, it's gonna be fair.
I don't know how they're gonna doit, Honestly, I don't know how
they're gonna do it. Seven onethree two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pick at iHeartMedia dot com. He asked me also about my thoughts
on livgolf from a year ago.So he heard me back then, and
I was somewhat negative. I wasn'tsure how this was gonna turn out.

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But having experienced one of the eventsnow right here in Houston, uh Mark's
right, I have softened. Ihave warmed to it and understand it better
now. So I'll talk about thata little bit when we get back on
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this as the Doug Pipe Show,Straight Cats, Holy cow. You know
that. It's almost you could almostmake a reference to live golf with that,
because they're different. A lot ofpeople don't like them. But after
the experience and Mark asked me aboutthis, Mark from over in Georgia,
Okay, a year and a halfago, I wasn't really sold on live

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golf. I didn't. I understoodthe concept, I understood what they were
trying to do, but it wasjust it was something out there over there
that I really hadn't had an opportunityto experience firsthand, Like I have so
many PGA tour events here, andso I was I couldn't even say I

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was cautiously optimistic. I was justI was uncertain how it was going to
go. And I was a littlebit uh in the camp of people who
thought, well, why would theytake that money and go play in for
some for an entity that some peoplethink is controversial, that all these things.

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There were a lot of things negativesaid about lib Golf. I didn't
have to say them. And thenif I think about it, though,
and anybody I believe who is honestwith themselves, unless you're unless you've already
inherited a billion dollars, if somebodycame to you and offered you a hundred

(01:00:45):
times what you made last year tocome over and work for them and do
the same thing that you're doing now, only you don't have to do as
much of it as often, andyou're still gonna get paid when you do
it. And you got a familythat you want to take care of for

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a couple of generations to come,why would you not consider that offer at
Roy McElroy. Roy McElroy's a greatguy. Okay, I got no quarrel
at all with Roy McElroy. Hestuck around, he stayed with the PGA
tour. But he's already got generationalmoney, and a lot of those guys

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who went to live golf already hadgenerational money. But how they handle their
money, how much money they thinkthey need or want for whatever it is
they want to accomplish in life,is that's their personal business. You know,
if somebody came to me and offeredme, well, it wouldn't take
it wouldn't take Dustin Johnson money toget me out of here. I could

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tell you that I love what Ido, man, I really do,
and I'm blessed to be where Iam, And I could give you one
hundred reasons why I keep coming downhere every time they'll let me to do
my shows. I truly enjoy whatI'm doing. But man, it would

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just be if we're honest with ourselves. Boy, wouldn't it be something if
somebody offered you forty fifty times asmuch money, big old chunk too here
it is it's this one big oldwheelbarrow full of money, and then every
time you come and do your samejob again, you still get paid.

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It'd be hard to pass up.And I'm not going anywhere. They'll have
to run me out of here bywheel me out of here at some point.
But it is because I love whatI'm doing. So yeah, live
golf kind of grew on me alittle bit. The people, it was
a totally different thing at Golf Clubof Houston, totally different thing. The

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people are buying large, younger,the people are by there, You see
a lot more. And I toldthis to Reese McCall, the general manager
out there, ran into him acouple of times, and what he and
I both noticed and that a quickdifferent difference between a PGA Tour event and

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one of these live golf events.There's more caps on backwards at a live
golf event. And that's nothing wrong. I see that a lot. I
don't understand it, because that brimof that cap sure helps keep the sun
out of my eyes when I'm playinggolf. But you do. You see
a lot of kind of younger hipor cooler guys at the live golf event
than you saw. Now. Therewere plenty of people my age there as

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well, but they were there towatch the golf more so than just to
be a part of the cool hipand cool experience. They wanted to see
the best golfers in the world whoaren't on the PGA Tour playing golf and
These guys are really coold. Theywere and still are the best in the

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world. They just played for adifferent team, that's all. And the
concept was interesting and fun, andonce you got out there and walk the
course and walk the tea line overat the practice area and just absorbed a
little bit of it, it waspretty dog gone cool. It was different,

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yes, totally different than a PGATour event, but still you're watching
the best players in the world playthe game in an environment that you can
make as tough. It was hot. It was a hot, hard walk
to navigate the golf course with theseguys. But you can also if you
want to amp it up. Ifyou did it at a PGA Tour event,

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you could do it at Live Golf. You could enhance the experience with
little access to some air conditioned luxuryaround the eighteenth toll some of the other
holes. I did soften. Idid soften a little bit, and I
did warm up to Live Golf becauseit was so well run. And not

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that the PGA Tour events weren't,but this was every bit as well orchestrated
and well run as as any event, any professional event I've ever been to.
Here, and that goes for LPGA, PGA Tour champions, all of
them. I've attended every kind ofprofessional event and a lot of USG events
here too, and yeah, it'sjust different, that's all it is.

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The music makes it different, theattitude makes it different, the fifty four
holes makes it different, all ofthat. But in the end, it's
just golf played by really, reallygood players whose swings I'll never be able
to make again, even just aswing speed that's gone for me. The
swing speed's gone, although at somepoint be able to make more three footers

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than Roy McElroy. Not to beathim up for what happened to him at
the at the Open, boy,I hated to see that. Speaking of
I hated that for him to havehis his shot. I would love to
have seen those two go head tohead in sudden death, head to head,

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duke it out for what. Idon't know what. I can't remember
what the format is for breaking atie at the Open, but whatever it
is, it would have been,that would have been. I would would
have wanted a front row seat forthat. Seven one three, two two
five seven ninety Email me Doug Pikeat iHeartMedia dot com. Body Joe wanted
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That's who's coming to the house fingerscrossed tomorrow. It's a it's a weather
is correct. We're waiting for sureto be able to try and knock this
thing out in one day. That'sthe plan. He's going to send a
big crew out there. He cando the same for you. Like I
said, he's been doing stuff forme for a long time. All right,
let's take this break a little bitearly. Speaking of golf, if

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Oh my word, I don't knowwhat to push here. I got to
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right now black Horse goolf Club dotcom. This is Sports Talk seven ninety
online at Sports seven ninety dot com. Now more Doug Fie, nine thirty
two on Sports Talk seven to ninetyThe Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening,
certainly, do appreciate it. Letme cruise back over here to these

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emails. There was a bunch ofstuff popping around in here. I couldn't
get back in touch with the guywho's out there fishing with my son and
his son. I don't know whatthey were trying to report. Yeah,
everything quiet, keeping it a secret. I guess maybe maybe they had they
had a discussion amongst themselves to keepit secret and not tell me. Seeing

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as how I'm sitting here with themicrophone line and I'm sure somebody out there
looking for fish right now. Youknow. I've tried all of that,
and they're they're down there around SanLouis Pass somewhere, which is kind of
they're middle of nowhere, depending onwhere they are. They may not have

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good reception down there. Because Itried my son and this kid's dad and
neither of them picked up the phone. Then I did. I send him
a text and said, hey,I got a nice long break right now,
give me a haul or we'll figureit out. We'll figure it out.
Tune in next week. Huh thatthat that that that got that?

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Oh okay, I don't know whatthat is. There's that from him,
there's that from them. Oh,we're smooth sailing right now. We are
smooth sailing. Let me. Iwant to get to because I know that
some of it. Now, alot of you are gonna go, who
cares, it's hot summertime, nota big deal. But for those of

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you who also qualify, I don'tknow whether you listen to fifty plus or
not, but if you qualify,listen to fifty plus. We're gonna have
a little short discussion here at leastof heat and ways to keep from beating
yourself up in it. This isprobably the first summer where I've even acknowledged

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that it's hot outside and cared aboutit at all. And I'm still,
hopefully, knock on wood, notso far down that rabbit hole, the
seniority rabbit hole that I'm gonna haveto worry about it. But what I'm
noticing is that my recovery period whenI'm out in the heat is a little

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bit longer, and the impact ofit comes on a little bit more quickly.
Of being out there with the golfstop fishing. I'd fish all day.
I'm not really that worried about it. I can see myself though now.
I could see myself on a flat, calm, no wind day on

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the Gulf of Mexico, somewhere inan open boat, getting pretty hot,
pretty fast. I could use abreeze. And the next time that I'm
on a boat with somebody and thecaptain says, uh, spoo them up,
We're gonna go make a breeze inAugust on the bay. I'm flashing
back to a trip that my sonand I had with James Flogg years ago,

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the first limit. By the way, James put my son on his
first ten trout limit, that's howlong ago it was, and he caught
his ten keepers all by himself.And I cleaned fish for a while that
day, and any I think,I can't remember whether I cleaned them or
James cleaned them, but we tookthem hominate them. In any event,

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it was flat hot, it wasAugust, and there were birds working out
there in upper galveson bay, andwe just even while they were still biting.
Sometimes we just spool them up andmove around because it was just so
bloody hot. But hot summers arenothing new to this area. And if
you're new here yourself, and youthink that it's already summertime, maybe on

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the calendar where you're from, Juneis part of summer. But this is
just this is pre summer. Thisis warm up summer. This is acclamation
time. It's a gentle introduction towhat's coming in July and August and most
of September. It won't be untilprobably what Melvin, late October, early

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November that we can be relatively certainwe won't get another ninety degree day.
Keep that sounded about right, one, Keep your fingers crossed on now,
because man, it could go inas far as mid December. You know,
I can. I grew up here, and I can remember Christmas Day,

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go into the go into the livingroom of the house where all the
stuff was for my sister and me, and see something that I wanted to
play with outside and just without acare in the world, without anybody trying
to stop me, I'm there ina little pair of little shorts and t
shirt, barefoot, nothing else andjust run right outside and play all day

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long. Because it was seventy eightninety degrees I don't know, eighty five
whatever, on Christmas Day. We'rejust we're right in that zone, in
that semi tropical never know what's comingzone where it could be ninety degrees one
day, and I've seen days whenwe had forty and forty five degree flips.

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It's really really warm because you havea big Gulf flow and then all
of a sudden in the wintertime,one of those blue northers comes rolling in
here from the northwest or the duenorth, drops Arctic air on us,
and it goes from almost eighty degreesone day overnight to about thirty and it
just happens. It just happens.So be ready. But this is not

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summer. This is a precursor tosummer. It's the warm up period and
you have to acclimate. And ifyou just spend all day in the house
in the air conditioning, you're notgoing to be ready for it. If
you'll get out and maybe take walks, do some sort of just little bits
of exercise. Back to it,kind of a little more serious note here,

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do little bits of outdoor exercise.Do a little something in your garden,
trim trim some shrubbery or something.Maybe do it in two day chunks,
you know, do a little bittoday, a little bit tomorrow,
but acclimate yourself to the weather,because otherwise you're gonna you're gonna get winded
walking from the parking lot through theparking lot, from your car to the

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grocery store. And it's it's justis what it is around here. I
still feel confident that I can fishmy way through a whole day and then
get up and do it again anotherday. And I'm gonna be tested actually
on that in a relatively short amountof time. I think I got some
stuff coming up that might give mean opportunity to do more fishing and that

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I've done in a while. I'mwaiting for the official call from down south
from Cliff to say that the beachfronthas settled, the beach front has cleared,
and it's full of fish, becausethat's what I'm going to break and
run in that direction, and I'mhoping it doesn't happen. I also have
an opportunity, well, I havelittle choice, to go east soon about

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two and a half hours, andI hope that the call from Cliff doesn't
come right about that same time becausethat's really going to conflict me considerably.
Baseball tournaments, you know, howthat goes well, most of you,
many of you know how that goesin summer anyways, or volleyball tournaments or
softball tournaments or any sort of outsideof school athletics tournaments always got to be

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a big trip somewhere, and theyjust expect the parents to jump right on
seven one three two one two fiveseven ninety Email me Doug Pike adiheartmedia dot
com. What is your best notfor tying line to lure if you're are
you somebody who is willing to sitthere and tie something that takes thirty or

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forty five seconds to tie and youhave to end up with a four inch
tagline that you have to cut offof your little leader material or you like
me where you can just whip somethingtogether real fast, pulled it TI.
I got tickled once. I wasdown fishing with clip with Cliff and on
the beach front and I tied alure on and he goes, here's my

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clippers. I said, what for? He said, well, to clip
your tag in if you're not youknow? And I showed him my knot
that I had tied and hadn't cutanything, and my tag in was only
about maybe I don't know a littlebit somewhere between an eighth and a quarter
of an inch, and it justkind of He looked at me, and
he goes, oh, like that, if you tie the not right,

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you can you can sense it alldown and not have enough tagline to need
cutting. Then you can make upcast faster. I said, yeah,
Edward, waiting, hold on,I got to read you this. Then
I'll go to break because I knowwhat's coming. Man. Yeah uh.
Ed writes in I've hunted geese onthe Katie Prairie in short sleeves in January

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more than once. That sums itup very well. That sums it up
very well. Oh yeah, man, I've done that a hundred times out
there. Sure. And if yougo back and look at most of the
old outfitters photographs in the books theyused to bring to the hunting and fishing
shows and whatnot, most of thebest hunts they have. After the hunt,

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the guys are all standing around inT shirts, short sleeve t shirts
because those hunts happened on a southeastwind, which puts the sun at your
back, which makes it difficult forthe birds to pick you out of the
decoys coming in. It's just littlethings that make a difference like that.
But the warmer days, the southeastwind days were when the birds would work

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the best northeast wind not a chance. You might as well just stay home.
All right, We're gonna take alittle break here. On the way
out, I'll tell you about CCAand the Star Tournament, which is ongoing
right now, Texas Star Fishing Tournamentnine point or not nine point one one
point nine be a lot of prices, one point nine million dollars up for

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grabs in scholarships up to thirty thousanddollars, in boat, truck, motor
and trailer packages, inshore and offshoredivisions for all this stuff. And those
special tag redfish that's the ones thatcould get you that boat, boter,
and trailer and truck to pull itwith. CCA's Texas Star Tournament has been
around for many, many years now. It is a fantastic recruiting tool for

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them, obviously, But why wouldn'tyou want to be a member of an
organization that takes care of our fisheriesand has for the better part of what
is it now, fifty years,long, long time. They've been doing
what they do. They're slow andsteady, They analyze. They don't do
anything in knee jerk fashion whatsoever.It's a very well oiled machine. I

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was over there editing Tide magazine forten years and really got to know a
lot of the people who are stillthere today. As a matter of fact,
talk to one on the other daywho was supposed to call me back.
You never did. I'll be darnedseven not that. No, here's
how you go register for the tournament. It goes all the way through Labor
Day. Started on Memorial Day,goes all the way through Labor Day.

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And all you have to do isbe entered to win these prizes. You
can't. You can't go catch thetag fish and then go in it.
That doesn't work. They'll get youon that. But if you're entered,
first of all, you're contributing greatlyto conservation. And then second of all,
you got a great chance for youor your kids to win an incredible
prize this summer, all because youtook them fishing. How good is that?

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Sign up today? Star tournament dotorg. It's that simple. Star
tournament dot org. Oh, thisis Sportstock seven ninety, Facebook dot com,
slash and sports Talk seven ninety Backto The Doug Pipe Show, nine
Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug PikeShow. Thanks for listening, certainly,

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do appreciate it. Me Let meget forced up here. Push that button
Melbourne, if you don't mind forrest. What's going on? My friend?
What is up, mister Parker?I'm living the life now. I got
some Jimmy Dean and my belly Igot I'm sorting laundry. I mean,
what else is there? Oh?Boy, lucky you. If only you
get to mow the lawn today,your life will be complete. Yeah.

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I did that yesterday afternoon, thosefour thousand degrees. Kelvin said, yeah,
I haven't had enough of that crap. Yes, sir, So what's
up? Yeah? Well I didhave a golf question, believe it or
not. Don't fall out of yourtear. But just real quick, you
were talking about knots today. Yeah, as far as lure to uh lure
to line direct, I really onlytie three knots from monofilament. I'm going

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with the trility knot. Okay,Yeah, it's good, which is basically
improve improved clinches and just go throughthe eye twice, right, Paula mar
for braid and to improved san Diegojam for what the heck is that.
We have to look that up.But the Carl drakupson that pro pro fisherman

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has a real good YouTube. It'sa simple knot, but you got three
tag in, it would not break. You could pull your boat out of
the lake with it. Yeah,that makes good sense. I'll have to
send you this little simple one thatI found for my son because I'm gonna
I'm gonna learn this not because thisis something you'd probably be able to tie

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in almost dark in five seconds.It's that easy. Well, I teach
kids the uh I call it theuh quick knots what I call Okay,
you basically put the line through thereand get you a good, pretty good
tag it, and you grab bothpieces of the line with your finger.
Yeah, and you take that tagin and just swing your a little around

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it five times, go back tothe loop and it cut locks over.
Oh yeah, yeah, okay,I can see in the dark, you
know. Yeah, Yeah, that'swhat I need. I did something either
that or I'm gonna have to startcarrying reading glasses. It's so sad low
light, you know. That's whythe knots I tie, I can tie
almost in the dark. I reallycan, because I've tied so many times,
so I'm kind of hesitant to startlearning new knots. Boy, I

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used to take great pride in beingable to tie a bunch of different knots.
But I just forgotten half stay thatsad Nego jams though when I did
new just because I'm paring or aboutbreaking floor of carbon. But uh,
it sounds real quick, yeah,I believe it or not. As you're
trying to get me back on thegolf course. And usually if I'm on
a golf course, I'm fishing thewater headshirts and am in golf. I

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can't understand that. And there's nodanger of me being a faux pro golfer.
We're not even gonna We're not evento assimilate that from faux pro fishermen
to no pro golfer. Okay,yeah, exactly, no pro golfer.
I played some nine whole courses,you know, there's little out backs and
stuff like that uppere in New Waverley, pretty cool course for a while.
But my problem is, and maybeyou can help me with this, I'm

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good with an iron. I canhit an iron straight as an arrow.
Got a real good touch for irons. We've got a real good touch for
putting. Okay, but people tellme I'm Lee Trevino off the tee.
Everything curves to the right. Nowyou know where it's going every time.
Yeah, but I got to aimat the trees to the left to get
in the fairways. So but Idon't like my driver, and I'm having
a whole set of clubs. Idon't even know what they are. Yeah,

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well, that's what you recommend asa as a basic driver, just
to help me. And I knowit's probably my swing basically, but I
just don't like my driver. WhatI would strongly recommend Forrest is to come
into town, come into the bigcity, and get in front of somebody
who can do a driver fitting foryou, because it's probably not the head

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of the driver. It's the shaftof the driver that you have. And
if it's if you're swinging really,really hard and you've got a really wimpy
shaft, then it's not gonna theball's not gonna fly well. And conversely,
if you have a slower swing speedand you got this really stiff shaft

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in your driver, then that's notgonna work well for you either. It's
the head of the club doesn't makethat much difference, and to go buy
one off the rack and expect tohit it well is just kind of a
fool's err and it really is,because there's so many there's hundreds of different
shafts. And if you ever getthat fitting, and it's not gonna cost

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you a lot of money, butwhat it's gonna do, it's gonna save
you in golf balls because if you'relaunching everything you hit dead right into trees
and houses and swimming pools and whatever, then you're just you're frustrated and you
don't like it, and the onlyoption you have is either to just quit
hitting driver off the tea. Nobodysays you have to hit the driver off

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the tee, hit a four,hit a one. I say a one
or a four ron off the tee. And I'd rather play a shorter shot
than my buddy. Least I'm onthe fairway, I find my back,
Yeah, exactly, get on thefairway somehow. But if you'll go get
a fitting for just the woods inyour bag from somebody who really knows how

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to do that, all of asudden, the lights will come on,
man, and you'll think you won'tyou want. They might suggest a couple
of swing changes, But the ideaof a fitting is to find the club
that's best suited to your swing,not to change your swing to suit the
club that makes sense, that makesperfectly. Try that, because my nephew

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is kind of reluctant. When weget on the tee and I pull out
my East of Aluminum bat, itworks every time, straight down a fairway.
Yeah, that's some good tips Itry to find. On the north
side. I can go somewhere northnorth of ninety nine. Is anything north
of ninety nine I could go.I don't know about north of ninety nine.

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Look up, Look up Club Champion. I think there's a new store
in the woods Club Champion. Butthe guys at Club Champion, for sure,
you can do that for you.And just any of the golf facilities
where they teach, will and onlyteach, like in strip malls and stuff.

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All of those guys are really goodat that. They really are.
There's a there's another one I'm thinkingof. I can't think of the name
of their places right now, butyeah, those those places will take care
of you. And once you getthat fitting, it the light will come
on Man, you'll be able topop that driver down there farther than most
of them. Then. Good thatI planned next weekend, is any some
stuff? I'm going next week upto my lake and Lufkin to catch them

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of the big readiers I got up. That's fun. That is fun.
Holy cow, man. Yeah,it's like being a kid again, only
it's a bigger fish because you knowwhat you're doing exactly. I got a
drop shot rigged up, and Igot a barber rigged up. You got
to see that barber going. Evenat my age, I'm I'm with you
on that. Yeah. I gotsome people I'm trying to get into their
first fish around here pretty soon,and we're gonna have a couple of cork

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floating out there, don't you worry? All right, man, great to
talk to you, you met.Yeah, the the fitting boy golf clubs
are so the shafts of the golfclubs are the engine. And if you
got the wrong engine in your car, it's not gonna run. If you
got the wrong engine in your golfclub, the way you swing the golf

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club isn't gonna mesh up with that. And I suffered from that for a
long time back when I had thatthis great relationship with Taylor made they were
sending me drivers every time they hada new one. I was this guy,
the guy in the marketing department.I was his only left handed friend.
And man, it was just constant. Just oh, I got all
these new toys all the time.How fine is that? But the drivers

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just didn't fit me well. Theyjust the shafts they were sending the stock
shafts weren't weren't syncing up with myswing, and it would just it would
be such a struggle for me.I can't I just couldn't imagine why these
other everybody else could hit these driversso well. And they were great,
that just the latest and greatest allthe way through. And then it finally

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happened. I finally got a legitimatefitting for driver. And instantly this guy
said, let me see you makea few swings with your driver. And
I did, and they were doingexactly what they would do. And I
was having to put so many bandaids in my head. I'm putting so
many band aids on the swing tomake that driver work that I couldn't get
consistent with it at all. Andhe goes, Okay, let's try this

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one. Well, let's try thatone. Let's try this one and add
a little loft. Let's try thatone, this that and the other,
and all of a sudden, theball started going farther and straighter and farther
and straighter, until sometimes I couldactually hit a fairway. I'm hitting a
few fairways now. It feels somuch better, too, all because I

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thought it through and I got good, good help from legitimate people who could
help me with golf. If you'relearning from your eighteen handicapped friend, you're
going to be in eighteen. Won'tlearn from that person. All right,
we gotta shut down. Unfortunately.That's it for today. Thank you all
so very much for listening, forcalling all of that. I'll be back
next Tuesday for fifty plus and thenwe'll probably see you next weekend. Who

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knows. That's it for me.Get outside, have some fun, stay
hydrated, use your sunscreen to doall that stuff, and have some fun
with your family. Okay, that'llbe it. Audios