The Doug Pike Show 7-14-2024 Fishing rods and line

In this episode Doug talks about rods weights. He gives advice on which rod is best for Bass fishing and Saltwater fishing. Should you have a different rod for every type of fish? You have to listnen to find out. Doug goes all-in on this subject.  Also, Doug discusses the only 2 type of lines you will need when fishing and their differences. Do you know what is required for you to fish? Listen to the show to find out. Its the some simple little things that we overlook. Plus, Doug shares how his golf swing has changed over the years and the technique that has kept him in the game.

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 Initial the program starts right now. Thank you all for listening.
I certainly do appreciate it, Melvin. I'm really really happy for you.
But I'm just about run out ofpatients with Centerpoint starting my seventh day now

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with no power, seven days withno power, just because and this is
all I can figure, just becausewe're on a little grid just it doesn't
serve a lot of customers, sowe're forgotten while they're trying to make PR
splashes with putting on big chunks ata time. They have thousands of crews

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in this city. Yes, Melvin, is that just in your subdivision or
yeah, in your community? Thisin my subdivision? Oh wow, yeah
there are. Somebody was told thatwe are in a little pod of sixty
eight homes. Okay, sixty eighthomes, so we don't matter to them.
I'm gonna vent for just a minuteand then we'll move on. We

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don't matter to to Center Point atall. They've got to get their PR
splash by talking about the thousands they'restill bringing back online, and they talked
about putting another I think three hundredthousand on or something like that in an
email I saw earlier. Well,actually, no, I take that back.
It wasn't an email from them,it was a chronicle story said they

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were gonna put another three hundred somethingback on today. But that leaves another
one hundred and something thousand still outa week after this storm. Out in
the heat, out oppressive heat.One of my neighbors, who's pretty tough,
actually finally threw in the towel yesterdayand went and joined his family out

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in Katie. And that was becausehis wife told him to get out of
the house. He'd suffered enough.We're all suffering with this thing, and
there's absolutely no excuse. I trulydo feel forgotten by Centerpoint, and I
don't know that I'll ever not feelthat way. I have nothing, no

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gripe against the Lineman. By theway, I've seen stories now, a
couple of them that are really troublingif they're true, and I don't know,
but the story two stories I saw. One is that a group of
linemen rolled into town and said,Okay, where do you want us to
stay, and they pretty much said, stay wherever you want and you can
pay your own bills. These peoplecame to help us, and I was

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what I read. What I readwas that they aren't being covered for their
accommodations. Wow. Yeah. Anotherone I saw, allegedlyten by Alignment.
It could have could have not beenwritten by Alignment, but nonetheless it's disturbing
as hell if it's true, wasthat this guy was ordered by his superiors

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to stand down and not go anywhereor do anything yet again because they were
quibbling over rates that the people workingwere going to be paid. That's just
that's inexcusable, inexcusable. Those twostories, those two accounts are anecdotal at

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best right now. But if theydo get confirmed, that's that's something for
which Center Point will have to beheld accountable. All these people in the
dark, and I would be willingto bet that there is nobody in the
in the C suites at Center Pointwho is without power now, nobody,

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And if that's not true, I'dlike to know which one is still in
the dark. No generator, likeI said yesterday, you're gonna be a
CEO or any executive at Center Point. You should have to live in a
grid where there's no hospital, wherethere's no fire station. You you should
not be allowed to own a generator, and just see what it's like,

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just for a few days, eventhree or four days. Just deal with
this like the rest of us have, like I've done for a week now.
My family and I have not beenable to sleep in the same place
together since this started. That's appallingto me that I live in the fourth
largest city in the country and theycan't get electricity back to my house.

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And when, by the way,the lights are on everywhere else in the
neighborhood, everywhere else really, ohyeah, all around me, across the
street, fully lit, down thestreet, fully lit, but not me,
not sixty eight homes in this onelittle spot where they know what the
problem is. They know exactly what'swrong. And according to got, I

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found a way to get a liveperson at Center Point yesterday. And according
to that live person, who wasvery helpful when I led the conversation by
saying, I'm not gonna yell atyou, I just need some information,
I gave you my address, hesaid, it appears that we have everything

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we need. The assessment's done,and they are assembling a crew to go
out and fix it. And theywouldn't assemble a crew unless they had all
the parts they needed. And that'sall I have. I don't know when
they're gonna get out there, butthey're going to and once they get there,
they will not leave until the problem'ssolved. And since then, nothing

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nothing. Okay, I've vented longenough. How about that other? Well,
hold on my Oh. Yeah.I've been offered a few generators by
people, and I greatly appreciate theoffers. Unfortunately, though, my wife
can't take the noise of generators.She has headache issues, and that repetitive

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loud noise does it work for us, So thank you all. I do
appreciate it. I greatly appreciate it. But she's she's in a safe space,
and so she stays there. Andperhaps if I had one, maybe
my son and I could go backhome. We don't need a whole lot
of comfort, just the bare necessities. He's far tougher than than I am

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at my age, I might haveto rethink that. I don't know.
I just never run a generator personally. I've always gotten power back pretty quickly,
reasonably quickly, but boy, they'vedropped the ball on me this time.
All right, I cannot, Icannot not talk about I have to

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talk about what happened yesterday up inPennsylvania for just a minute. I've had
so many emails coming to me like, oh, things are getting kind of
dicey, things are getting dicey.No, they shouldn't, and there's no
reason for them too. I foundit disgusting that in the blink of an
eye after this happened, Democrats weresaying, Ah, that's why we need

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gun control right there, that's whywe need gun control. No need,
we need control of people who havemental health issues. That was not a
clear thinking young man who did whathappened yesterday, not at all. That's
someone who could have used some help. That's someone who who just made a

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very horrible decision and it cost himhis life. And I don't blame that
whoever was assigned to that. There'sboy, you talk about a talk about
a security breach, and there's alreadytalk about who was at who, where,
what, when and why all thishappened yesterday. I'm grateful that our

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former president lived through that attempt onhis life, so very grateful, and
I It's just remarkable how the leftis already trying to turn this into an
opportunity to beat that gun control tambourineagain. I don't want to get into
that, but I saw a pictureby the way this morning, moving to

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a much more topical for this showtheme, saw a picture of Jimmy West
and I think three or four ofhis friends a couple of days ago,
on the twelfth, so that wouldhave been Friday morning, standing at the
tailgate of a pickup truck with well, they're full limits, three apiece I
think it was. I didn't countthe fish on the tailgate, but they

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were all solid fish taken in thesurf, which I found fantastic. That's
something that could perk me up andbe a good surf fishing trip. Get
out there about waist deep and notthink about going to the third bar anymore.
Spend a lot of time on athird bar, a lot of time
out there chest deep water and smackedin the face with little waves and just

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and just wearing out the speckle trout, absolutely wearing them out. Seven two
seven ninety Email me Doug Pike Atiheartmediadot com. I'm not as bitter as
you might think. I'm just I'mjust frustrated and tired of having my family
scattered all over town at night.That's hard. It's hard on me,
it's hard on my wife, andit's hard on my son. We're getting

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there, We're we're getting it alldone, but oh my god, we
just we feel like we haven't seeneach other in forever. I'm I'm spending
time with my wife during the day, but my son because of baseball obligations
and things he likes to do,and he's able to go places and do
things that he wants to do.There's baseball games that he has to play

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that he wants to play, andI can't stop him from doing that.
I just can't. So I guesswe'll our turn will come. I've contacted
Channel two investigates, by the way, to find out about the forgotten,
because that's what we are. Goodmove, Yeah, I think so.
I'm not sure if I'm not sureif Centerpoint is subject to FOYA requests,

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but boy, if they are,I want to see all the emails about
who gets taken care of when Iwant to see them all who gets say?
What about those people out in Sugarlandin that one little neighborhood. You
know, we're going to turn thepower onto everybody around them, but we're
gonna leave them in dark for alittle while. I want to know why,
that's all. I want to knowwhy. If we have some some

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luxury Balenciaga transformer that costs forty twomillion dollars, then first of all,
throw it away and give us one. Give us one of the ones like
everybody else in the area has.Hey, we don't need anything fancy.
We just need to turn the damnlights on. Okay, you know,

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I want to go back to that. I'm gonna try and find that picture
of Jimmy and his boys in thesurf and i want to see what's hanging
off those rods. And I'll bet, knowing Jimmy and knowing probably his friends,
I'm gonna bet that you can't seeany lure in any one of those
pictures. That's just what my gut'stelling me. Now, see if it's

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still in my feed. I wantto know what lure they were throwing.
I have a hunch, knowing Jimmy, I have a hunch what they are.
But I'd sure like to take alook. And I'm scrolling down,
down, down, in the dark. Uh no, I'm not gonna get
it. It looks like it's gonesadly, so so sadly. Oh well,

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we don't need that. So Melvin, you're back. Do you know
anything about Dan? Has he gothis back yet or do you know I
haven't heard anything from Dan. Well, that's probably because he's still he's hoarse
from cheering the return of his electricity. Probably he's trying to save his voice
for when he has to do ashow. Right, it's just so close,

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It's just so darn close. AndI don't think Centerpoint takes into account
who's out of power over there.People out of power are elderly in many
cases. The people out of powerare sickly in many cases. Just amongst
these sixty eight within them, Iknow these people are there, they're there,
and they're suffering immensely. And Isaw a little mentioned yesterday, I

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believe it was in the newspaper aswell, about how the death toll had
risen to thirteen but it was expectedthat Moore. Would you know that that
number would rise? And it's becauseone of my neighbors used to deliver meals
on wheels and when she would goto these places and deliver them. Some
of these people, it took himlike a minute and a half or two
minutes just to get to the frontdoor. They were that feeble, that

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frail, and that and any oneof those people who got pushed into the
dark Monday morning and hasn't been takenout of it yet in that heat,
those people are going to add tothose statistics. And that's really gonna irk
me. Could you repeat that numberagain if I can find it. My
wife had it and gave it tome. Hang on it maybe on my

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phone. So you said that wastwelve oh the number of deaths so far.
I believe it was twelve or thirteen. Wow, And with an asterisk
that basically said there's going to bemore. Oh no, because they haven't
well, they haven't gotten into thehomes of people. And some of those
people were nursing homes because they didn'tget the power back up to the nursing
homes fast enough. All right,we got to take a break. When

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we get back, we'll get tothe outdoors, I promise. And I
would love somebody to distract me witha story of a great fishing trip you've
made in the past week, astory of good news out of the storm
in the past week. Somebody whogot saved just before it was too I
want some good news. I needsome good news. I need somebody to
brag about catching a big fish thisweek. I have no problem with that.

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Bring me back around, Bring meback around. We are Sports Talk
seven ninety. Listen online at Sportsseven ninety dot com. Now more Doug
Pike and welcome back, Bro DougPike Show. This Sunday morning. It's

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a nice day for most of you, and I'm happy. I'm so happy
for you. It is a niceday for all of you. But the
forgotten, That's what I'm gonna callus over there where we are, we
are the forgotten. So let's getto somebody we all remember, and that's
old guitar Dave. Let me pushthis. But I got it, Melbourne,
I got it, man, Dave. What's up? Oh? I

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was talking to Melvin. I'm sittinghere now. I got the generator.
Now, well, we played onstage and stuff, you know, like
on the flatbit or something. Theyhad generators here, but they were big
as a car. But you couldn'teven hear them, you know. Yeah.
But anyway, no, I gotthis going and thanks to my buddy
Anthony. Uh you know, he'sa good buddy of mine and kind of

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kim folk through through family. Butanyway, uh okay, uh my gal
friend, I'm i'm, i'm I'mtrying to book at the end of October
a fishing trip to uh Lake Conroover there stole away with the fish dude
man. Yeah, we'll get herover there and then do catfish and all
that kind of stuff, and we'llget us a hotel room over there and

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everything and go from there. Butyour producer, he was like, hey't
tell this story. Well, Imean I got to meet Batman, Batman
and Robin at a at a cardshow. Yeah yeah, and and uh
they come out and Robin he wasa little plumpy, you know, and

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everything, and I got some picturesright in their face. But anyway,
then I went around to the otherside and there was the skipper Oid and
I got to meet the everge ofthe Hut from him, and then the
Virginia. Oh wow, Virginia,Yeah, the Virginia, and he signed
up. I paid ten dollars apop I think for those uh pictures.

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He signed one to my mom anddad, and then he signed one to
me, you know. And man, yeah, he in the Virginia.
He lives here in Texas. Imean, if he's still alive or think
he is, I don't know,I don't know. Yeah, hey,
and another one down the doll.I was listening to that Captain Gabriella and

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then my galfriend she lives right closeby her, so I'm thinking, uh,
maybe you know, coming up inthe fall or something before she moves
back up here. Uh, well, I'll go down there with her and
then we'll go on the trip withher. So there's a lot of good
things. Hey. Yeah, youdon't have a goal. You ain't lying

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and you dying, You ain't doingnothing. All right, Dave that thinks
it's good, hard man, Iappreciate you. Appreciate y'all. Yeah,
Hey, thank y'all. Thanks forthe show, my pleasure, man,
thank you. Yeah. I camein here as much today for cooling off.
Purpose. Well, I can't saythat I have found a place to
lay my head at the overwhelming generosityof a friend, somebody I will call

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a friend for the rest of mylife because we didn't really know each other
but casually up until this storm hit. And now thanks to them, I've
had the opportunity to get to knowthe family that's got me in there,
and they're just straight up good people. They already had two other people and
a dog that came along for theexact same reasons. I'm there power across

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the street, but no power intheir house, same with mine, and
we're all making the best of it. I'm spending afternoons over there, hanging
out with my wife and trying tomake sure that we don't lose contact and
patience with each other, which iscrowing more and more difficult. It's tough,
it really is that. I don'tI think because the center point people

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are not having to endure any ofthis, and I wouldn't wish any of
this on any lineman, anybody who'sworking outside to try and get the power
back on. I got a tremendousamount of respect for them and praise for
them. But for the rest ofthem who just go back to their fully
lit home and got that ac downto seventy one. We saw that on

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TV the other day, now,didn't we, Yeah, keep your dirmostat
at seventy eight and over the man'sshut I care. I didn't see the
actual clip I saw a screenshot ofit, but after telling everybody to keep
it at seventy eight over the shoulder, the guy's own thermostats. That's anyone,
that's just that's unacceptable, It reallyis. It's unacceptable. Good for

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me, but not for thee thatkind of a thing. It's very frustrating,
as you could probably tell. I'mtrying desperately to get away with that.
Get away from that. Somebody,please, somebody, please please call
and or email me and just tellme something good you did this week,
something fun, a fishing trip.Yes, I have a question. Yes,

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can you explain to me the differencein the weights of the rods?
I know you explained it a fewweeks back, but I just want to
have some type of Okay, Yeah, Well, weight is a measure in
fly rods two weight, three waight, four weight, five weight, six

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weight, all the way up totwelves and fourteen's, which are suitable for
catching Marlon, and people do actuallycatch Marlin on fly rods. It's really
cool, it's fun. I've actuallyI've hooked up some some billfish on fly
rods. I haven't landed one yet, but we were all just kind of
goofing off one day down in Mexicoand did that a little bit with some
stripe marlin. It's not that hardto do. Actually, coach to Del

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mart sponsored a research trip on andboy, I would love to have been
on the boats for these on whichthey caught on fly rods, striped marlin
and tagged them and sent them offtheir way. And what a fantastic project
that would have been. So thatthat's how fly rods are measured is by

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weight, and a good bass flyrod six to eight weight maybe depending on
what kind of flies you're gonna throwsalt water eight or nine maybe, because
there's no telling what you might hookand you want to have enough muscle to
get it back in the In thecasting and spinning rods, it's it's called
at and there are light and mediumand they're different different tapers. They're fast

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or slow. That mean the rodis going to bend all the way,
kind of almost in an even arc, versus being a little bit lighter at
the tip and then heavier as yougo down and not so easy to bend
if you're going to be dealing withbig fish. If you look it up,
there's tons of information available on theinternet, and if you look it

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up. You can see from demonstrationswith different rod actions lifting the same weight
off the ground, off a pieceof line, hanging the same distance off
the rod tip and on, youcan see very clearly how different actions respond
to the load that's put on them. And each of those actions is better

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or worse for specific lure applications,for specific bait, for specific space sees
a fish. You don't want somethingtoo newly really for big fish unless you're
gonna be fishing with super soft orsuper light line. That's another consideration,
is the pound test of the lineyou're gonna be using. That was gonna

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be my next question. Yeah,because well, and if you have a
if you have a very light linefor some reason, you want a rod
that will bend before the rod,before the line gets a chance to break.
The rod will absorb a lot ofthe pull before the fish can break
that line. And conversely, youmight want something that that's just strong.

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Is it like a two by fourif you're really having to muscle big fish
out of out of rocks, orout of coral reefs, or out of
bushes and trees. Whatever's just there'sjust a lot to it, just a
lot to it, and it's worthlooking into that. Being said, you

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can get all my host hypnotized bythe process and forget that. For most
of us, you're just going outto look look for a rod that'll do
double duty. It'll catch anything youthink you can catch, and so there's
no reason. It's kind of likegolf clubs, as I said a lot

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of times. Until you can tellme why a specific rod or a specific
golf set of golf clubs is goingto help you, how it's going to
improve your game, then just gobuy something kind of off the rack.
Ask the person in the store.Go to a fishing store. Don't go
to a store that sells everything andfishing tackle. Go to an actual fishing

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store and get them to help youselect a rod that say. Look,
I'm gonna do a little bit ofcoastal fishing, maybe three or four times
a year, but mostly I'll justbe fishing for baths in neighborhood ponds.
They can help you there if youknow. You know, I'm gonna be
weighing the surf every time it's green, and I'm gonna wagh the bays when
the surf's not green, and Ilove to chase big redfish as a different

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rod totally. So go through allthat, and when we get back,
a much shorter, much shorter monologueabout fishing lines and which lines to use
and win and why your rockets andastros live here we are Sports Talk seven
ninety. The conversation continues this asThe Doug Pike Show, Ay thirty five

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on Sports Talk seven ninety The DougPike Show. Thank you for listening.
I certainly do appreciate it. Icertainly do allow or appreciate you allowing me
to vent as well. It's justso frustrating. It really is. The
year twenty twenty four. We haveaccomplished so much in this world, and
yet because seems to me, CenterPoint's really not accountable to anything or anybody.

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It's starting to look they can justtake their merry sweet time and they
can try to negotiate rates in atime of disaster, when people are dying.
It's very frustrating. I want tocheck the surf at see what's going
on at President. I want tofind out whether it would be a good
idea or a bad idea to gothat way. And I've got hopefully the

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camera is up, Yeah, thereit is. Let me get a little
live feed live. Oh no,I got to click the button. Let's
go living it up. The watercoming out of the channel as muddy as
can be. The surf is flat. I can't see the color of the
angle that somebody's got this camera atright now is just horrible. It's just
dead on full of sunshine. Butthe water is definitely flat. And I

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got a suspicion. If you've everdone any beach walk in snorkeling or diving
at most places around the world,and I've done a lot of it,
actually, and we used to doa lot of it down in southeast Florida,
and the water can look really siltyand nasty on the surface, but

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if you get down below that layer, which typically down there on the southeast
coast was about four maybe five feetdeep, and when you drop down below
that, the water clears up.That surface water is what's nasty. The
water clears up underneath. It's kindof like the salt water is lighter or

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heavier, and the the fresh wateris lighter. And that in this case
might be the read. Oh theyjust panned back all the way through the
surf, I think is actually notbad. I'm not gonna say it's great.
I can't really tell, but it'snot bad looking. And the contrast
I'm seeing between the actual surf alongthe jetty and the water coming out of

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the jetty on the outgoing tide.The water going out looks dirty. The
water against the rocks on the onthe gulf side looks kind of pretty.
Now, I don't know why there'sonly one guy at the end of the
jetty, only one person fishing,and I don't know whether he slipped under
a barricade or what. But that'shighly unusual for there not to be thirty

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forty fifty people out there. That'shighly unusual. Seven one three, two
one two five seven ninety Email meDoug pick Atiheartmedia dot com. Uh Mark
weighing in from Georgia. Maybe thisis why he left that you're not venting,
you're telling the truth. I livedin Houston and the Heights from nineteen
ninety two to twenty eighteen. Everybad storm or freeze, we never had

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service from Centerpoint because my neighborhood wasin a specific transformer circuit. Wow,
why not keep that in stock?That's a great question. If we have
some specific transformer, why I don'twant that one. I want the one
that works. I want the onethat they've got just stacks of back at

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the warehouse. This is the Yeah, that's exactly right. This is really
a mess. It's really a mess. The key is do it yourself,
soundproof generator box. Oh he's gotsomething for me to go read after the
show. I appreciate that, man, Thank you, thank you very much.
Oh okay, I got somebody gota fish. Thank you, Mark,

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appreciate it. Okay, wait,let me get back to this other
email. This is breaking news inour world right here. Hold on,
who did this and where did itcome from? Where did the email go?
Now? Oh no, what isgoing on here? My email is
not really working that well. I'mgonna refresh it real quick. All I

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saw was it kind of flashed andsaid caught my personal something about catching a
personal best bass. And yet whenI go back to my emails, I'm
gonna try and reopen it and seeit. Okay, here we go.
Yeah, okay, ah, allthis is so bizarre. These things kind
of come and go. They kindof come and go. Okay, I

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got to Mark and then Danny.Oh yeah, here we go. Danny
caught his personal best bass last week. Oh wow, attend to wait to
go man. Welcome to the club, my friend, welcome to the club.
Caught it in an old neighborhood lakeon an oversized bass assassin. I'm

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telling you there's a lot of peoplein this region, and I'll get to
the fishing lines in a minute.There are a lot of people in this
region who drive past, they hookthe boat up, and they drive away
to go fish some lake two threefour hours away. And between the house
and that lake, they passed twentyor thirty places that they could have just

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driven to, not ever had tolaunch the boat and just walk the banks
methodically as a good fisherman, knowingwhere to throw and how to throw and
how to retrieve and doing all thatand picking the right lures and could have
caught a good fish. Huh,Danny continues, like a dummy, I'd
left my phone in the car.Yeah that means no pay. He wasn't

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gonna call the bass his mom andlet it know it might be late for
dinner. But yeah, I know, no pictures. We believe you,
Danny, We really do. Ibelieve you for sure. I've done that
so many times out there where Ifish the golf courses, because by the
time I get I've got plyers inone pocket, I've got a towel just
like a hand toowel underneath my belton the other side, and then if

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I put my phone in my shorts, it just it just all of it
weighs me down. And I'm nervousthat I might bend over at some point
or kneel down and have my phonefall out of my pocket and trickle down
into the lake. And I don'twant that to happen. Good for you
on a ten two man, Holycow, that is a beast. That

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is a beast. No quick sevenone three two point two five seven ninety
email on me Doug Pike atiheartmedia dotcom. I'd be curious to know before
I get to the line think,oh my god, gosh, I may
have to go to the next breakfor the or the next segment for the
lines. I'm curious to know howmany of you have caught either a an
eight pound or larger bass or ba six pound or larger speckled trout.

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I'm kind of I'm just kind of. This is going to be an impromptu
survey that will not not necessarily sayanything about the fishing ability of this audience
or not, but it will atleast give me an idea. How many
of you, whom I consider verygood fishermen for the most part, and

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the others are just good fishermen intraining, how many of you are actually
getting some results from your knowledge andfrom your skills and from the time you
spend on the water. We aresports stocks the nineties, Houston sports where
you go with iHeartRadio now now getmore. Doug Hi, Welcome back eighty

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forty eight on Sports Talk seven ninetyThe Doug Pike Show got another delay in
the line, uh conversation because Igot to go check see what's going on
with faux pro Forest. What's upForrest Powerless Pike Man? I feel for
you, brother, I laugh.If I wasn't crying, you know,

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I know, I'll tell your cata party. It's sad how we relying
we all technology. It's like we'rein stone age and we don't have it.
It's like how do the pioneers live? You know? No, boy,
Yeah, that's that's very true.Well then it just shows how soft
we've become really as a as aas a community, as a as a
nation. When the when the powergoes out, we're just helpless. Exactly

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what's up you were asking about?You were asking about big bass, and
I'm O c D. I don'tknow if some of you guys like you
were a serious trout fisherman can rememberall their trophy child's trout, where they
were, how big they were,where they caught them, all that kind
of crap. But uh, I'vegot of OCD so so in that in
that realm. But you were asking, I've got an eight plus out of

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Lake Conroe. Okay, I've gotan eight plus out of nakin Itch and
Gibbons Creek. I don't doubt thatI got a nine plus out of Livingston,
believe it or not. A boy, I've got two nines out of
Fork and my personal best was aten plus. And you'll never guess Huntsville
State Park on a frog, ohdon't. I don't doubt that at all.
That that used to be a prettywell kept secret. That little lake

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up that's what. It's a tinylittle lake, isn't it like just I
don't know how many ages it's It'slike it's like three hundred acre somewhere in
the range acres. I think spotlighters have kind of hurt that lake.
It used to be really unknown,good crappy spot, and I think spotlighters
clean them out pretty Yeah. That'sa pretty good point, because they could
just go anywhere and everywhere and findsome poor little mass that thought it found

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a hiding place and just dropping alittle candy bar and it's over. Oh
yeah, that's you're right about it. And I don't you man. Not
had a chance to look at you, but I did sing you an email,
and I was gonna have you guesswhere I caught the fish. I
know where it's got to be inFlorida. You would think that, right,
I would you would think that,but you you're about God, you're

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five thousand miles off. But wherewhat's that? Then? Well? This
place also real quickly. I waswalking some streams just out of town,
just little, you know, windingclear, beautiful streams, throwing a little
micro pop bar. I was catchinga small mouth bass. Oh wow,
And I caught the fish I couldn'tidentify. But this one lake we fished

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with goldfish because you couldn't buy bait. My buddy Tom is full of peacock
bass, large mouths and some smallmouth where the heck is this lake.
It's called Wilson Lake on the islandof o'watham. Oh wow, okay,
I can see that. Oh cool. Yeah, well, small mouth and
the rivers were natural, which I'llbecome a small mouth. Bask got in

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a middle of the Pacific. Butthat was the craziest thing. Who knows,
you know, that's just that's God'sway of saying, Hey, we're
gonna throw you a favor of theseare great fish. You'll love catch them
exactly, exactly. Man, that'sawesome. I hope you get your power
back soon. Yeah. They weWe may be last, but will be
something. Fingers crossed the man.Good luck, Thanks for good to hear

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from you. Adios. Yeah,I can get into the Oh. Here's
another personal beast grew up in TexasCity. This is Brian Wayne and grew
up in Texas City. Personal bestbass was caught the flooded Bar Ditch,
Amen Too Bar Ditch as Holy cow. They hold a lot of fish off
a tributary of the Angelina River justnorth of sam Rayburn. A bass was

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eight seven. What a fantastic fish. Amazing to see how many bass that
ditch would hold. We's got anine pound trout too. As a team
then couldn't afford to mount it.Most of us couldn't afford to mount a
nine pounds. But it wouldn't matterif it was a thirty pound trout.
You wouldn't have been able to mountit either, because it still costs money.
I mean a lot of us didn'thave a whole lot of money.

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As teenagers had a picture at Curlson the dike, till Ike took it
away, dog gun. It tookaway the marina and took away your picture.
That's too bad. Holy cow.Roy's weighing in. He caught a
big old gar. Where was this? I wonder? Uh caught a gar
on crawfish soft plastic. I don'tdoubt that. Yeah, I see.

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Oh man, Uh I heard ifgar in the water no good to fish
for bassard? Is that true?Now? That's that's totally untrue, just
because there's gar around? What somebodywas telling you that? So you wouldn't
keep bass fishing where he likes tofish. I have caught it. There
are plenty of gar in the lakes. I fish at the golf course because
they get sucked in through the pipesthat are drawing off the river or wherever

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that water's coming from, or maybethey've been in there for thirty years.
I don't know, but their agar from a foot to four feet in
those lakes, and there are alsoplenty of bass in there as well.
So yeah, whoever told you that'sjust trying to keep you out of their
water? All right, let meget to this line deal. Well,

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first of all, they're an averagefisherman probably wouldn't realize that there are two
different types of lines you can buy. You can buy ten pound tests or
you can buy ten pound class line. And if you're trying to set records,
which a lot of people are,you want to start buying class lines
because they are guaranteed to break atno more than the rated test no more

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than the rated strength, which meansif you buy ten pound class line,
it's gonna break at ten pounds orless. If you buy ten pound test
line, it might break anywhere from. If it's it's cheap, it might
break at eight, and if it'snot cheap, it might break at twelve
or thirteen. Even though it saysten on the label. That's the they're

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trying to give you kind of aminimum weight of what's going to be there.
And so when you're talking about poundtest lines to use for bay fishing.
If I'm throwing lures, which I'malways doing these days almost for sure
in the bays around here, I'mback to Now we have braid line to

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consider as well. When I wasin monofilament, I would throw like twelve,
maybe big game twelve, because itwas a little stronger than the twelve
and if a big old redfish goton there, you didn't have to worry
about it breaking you off. Butnow that the braids are out there,
I almost exclusively throw either twenty orthirty pound braid because that gives me all

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the muscle I need to catch prettymuch anything swimming in the bay. But
it also gives me that smaller diameterthat the braid comes with that allows me
to put about I don't know,twenty thirty forty percent more line on the
reel. Maybe more than that.It might be almost two to one,
And it's really it's been a gamechanger. You have to learn new knots.

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You have to learn new knots whenyou're using braid, because a lot
of the traditional knots for monofilament willslip if you tie them in braid,
and that's the last thing you wantto happen. It's not really complicated.
You don't have to do a wholelot of different stuff with your knots just
because you're throwing braid. But theknot that you need to learn to tie
in and so you can move faster, and I firmly believe we'll get you

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more bites as well. It's somethingthat you can use to use. Use
braid on your reel, but thenuse a monofilament or fluor carbon liter.
And once you figure out which knotyou like to do, use for that,
you can greatly enhance that fishing experience. You're gonna get all the bites
you would get with the clear monofilamentor clearer fluorocarbon, and you're gonna have

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the strength on the real of whatyou want in case you catch a giant.
I don't use terribly heavy leader,but I do use at least well,
I'll use twenty. I'll use twentyin the base, twenty pound floor
carbon. I like that, andif I'm in the surf, I'll actually

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go to thirty. And I'm thinkingabout North Padre kind of surf for bass
fishing, I also use the thirty. The water's not that clear anyway,
so I'm not terribly worried about fishshying away from line. But that also
gives me some abrasion resistance, andit gives me the muscle that I need

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to really haul of fish through alot of cover, or if one of
them dives down into the weeds,I can get it out of the weeds
a lot easier than I can ifI'm throwing a lighter, lighter leader.
If you're in a boat and you'refishing straight down and sixty feet of air
water, you probably need to goto a very light fluor carbon and just

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a totally different system. But formost of what we do around here,
fresh water and salt water, twentyor thirty pound braid and I start with
about four feet of leader, actually, because I like to tie knots and
change lures all the time. Bythe time I finish, I might be
down to a foot and a halfmaybe, And that's about when I'll cut
it off, even casually fishing.If I'm serious fishing, I'll cut it

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off and retie. Anytime I feelany abnormality in the line between all the
leader, I just run your wetfingertips down it, and if you feel
any kind of hiccups or anything nasty, get that out of there. When
you have to tie on a wholenew leader tied on. Yes, question,

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does that include your weights and yourlure when you picking your line my
lines? I don't really fish anyreally really heavy weights or heavy heavy lures,
So no, that doesn't come intoplay. No, I think everything

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I'm throwing, I'm basing. I'mbasing my line in leader choices on what
I throw. Now, if you'resurf casting and trying to sling something out
there half a mile, go bya drone, let the drone do the
for you, take it way outthere. But no, even then,

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I don't. I don't think whenyou're using thirty pound line and you're using
thirty or forty pound leader. Now, let's say if you want to go
into the surf, you've got enough, You've got enough weight there, you
don't have to adjust for anything.You can throw a four ounce pyramid sinker
and try to get your jackfish baitway out off the end of the pier

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with that and still have plenty ofmuscle to catch you anything you want.
Yeah, I wouldn't worry about thatso much. We'll talk about a little
bit on the other side. Wegot to get This is the Doug Pike
Show, brought to you by AmericanShooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction since nineteen
eighty nine. Now here's Doug Pike. All right. Our number two starts

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right now. We'll start with sipof coffee lukewarm, just like I like
it. I made a fresh pota little while ago. But as it
sits in this studio, which I'vegot cranked down to sixty nine degrees,
by the way, just just becauseI can in here, I wonder if
I could bring in an inflatable mattressand a pillow and hang out here.
Boy, that would bring the billsdown for this holiday or hurricane stay that's

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unfolding on me. It's all right, man. I told my wife the
other day. She was kindlie,it's a lot of money to do what
we're having to do, you know, And I said, that's perfectly okay.
Whatever it takes to keep her comfortable, to keep me comfort. My
son is just impervious almost to it. He's just kind of having the time
of his life. And to hiscredit, like I've said a couple of

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times already. He really has steppedup. He really has stepped up and
made it easier for my wife andme to feel like he's safe everywhere he
goes. He's driving himself all overthe place to these baseball tournaments, to
the games, and more power tohim, more power to him. What
a great young man he is sevenone three two one two five seven ninety

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Email on me Doug Pike at iHeartMediadot com. All the way over across
the Atlantic Ocean in North Berwick,Scotland, at the Renaissance Club. That
load up. I'll tell you who'sleading over there. Lou vig Oberg seventeen
under par by himself going into today'sfinal round. He shot sixty five yesterday.

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There was some little controversy involving him. I can't remember what it was.
Pardon me, I may go lookduring the next break. Robert McIntyre
is at fifteen alone in second,Adam Scott at fourteen alone in third,
and Richard Mansell. Richard Mansell whohas already finished his fourth and final round,

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believe it or not, he's done, and he is thirteen under Parky
Lee. Yeah, they got peoplescattered all over on that golf course.
Now he's thirteen under, as isAlex Norn, who is five under through
nine holes. In making a charge. Mansell, by the way, shot

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sixty one today, sixty one.That'll move you up any leaderboard. Colin
Moricowa tied for fourth, also atthirteen. He goes out later. Sait
Thigal the same thing, thirteen goingout later, Sung y Am, same
thing, going out later, andone more at thirteen Antwine Rosner all so

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going out a little bit later.Actually it won't be long. They're about
to go now seven three two onetwo five seven ninety Email on me Doug
Pike at iHeartMedia dot com with youknow, with with Oberg at seventeen,
I was looking down the list tosee if anybody else had a real chance.
McElroy's at twelve. That's five shotshe's got to make up just on

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that one guy, and then thereare about well the nine or ten guys
in between him and the trophy.And of those nine or ten, I
don't see all of them opening adoor that wide for McElroy or anybody else
that's that's off more than than heis. Good looking leaderboard people from all

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over the world playing just as asin any open and any nations open.
They come from everywhere trying to makenames for themselves. But the guy who's
making a name for himself right nowis Oberg and that that young man is
going to do really cool things ingolf. He really is. He's a
sharp guy. He understands the game. If you listen to him and his

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pressers, he has a very matureway about him, a very deep knowledge
of the game, not just thegame of golf, not historical golf,
but just a way to play golf. And there's a huge difference in what
most amateurs do, which is justgo out there and drag driver to every

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par four and par five tea box. They go out and they swing as
hard as they can, just incase they hit it square and my hand's
halfway up in the air. I'velearned to manage the golf course a little
bit better in my seniority, butit is fun to swing as hard as
you can. What stopped me fromdoing that, what stopped me from swinging

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driver on every tea box was therealization that I'm playing mostly with younger people,
and those younger people mostly can swingharder than I can, and when
they really catch one, they canout drive me twenty thirty yards. So
rather than do what I would havedone as a younger man and just keep

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swinging harder and harder. I hadsignificant clubhead speed when I was younger,
really legitimate significant clubhead speed, andI could move it out there pretty good.
But I just couldn't move it outthere pretty good and straight most of
the time. And therein was therub I had to I had to fall

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back on, just kind of alittle butter cut off the tea with driver.
I have fought and fought for twentyyears to become a drawer of the
golf ball and really not had muchsuccess at that. I've had a lot
of good teachers try to change meand try to fix me to what I

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wanted, and what I've done nowis just said, Okay, I might
be able to hit it straight,and if I really have to and I
really concentrate, I can draw thegolf ball. There are times in scrambles
and stuff like that when I reallywant to draw a ball around a corner
and help the team, and Ican do it then with probably seventy percent

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success, But I have to gotake it. I have to concentrate so
hard on all the swing parts thatI need a nap after I make that
swing. I'm just so tired andworn out from thinking, Oh my gosh,
I've learned to I have learned toposition my golf ball rather than just

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try to keep hitting it as faras it'll go five pars for example number
two. At Blackhawk, where Iplay a lot, there are plenty of
days if I have any wind atall behind me, or it's just not
in my face at all, It'snot uncommon for me to pull three wood
or even three iron off that teebecause I know it's gonna take two good
pokes to get it there, andI know that my second shot will open

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up a little more than my firstshot. So I'll hit the three iron
first sometimes and then follow that witha three wood or a five wood or
maybe another three iron something like thatto get me in the position I want
to be to try to get upand down for Birdie. That's a hard
hole to reach in two many days. It's not impossible even for my feeble

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little swing anymore, but it stilltakes it takes two good shots to get
it down there, or down thereclose even, and so rather than just
bomb a driver off the tee andrisk splashing it into the lake the left,
I'll hit something that I know Ican keep on the planet on the
dry side and go ahead and gofrom there. There's also a room to

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the right on that hole in anapproaching fair way, and sometimes, oh
time I hit it into that fairway, it won't be the first, and
you just have to hope there wasn'tanybody coming on up over there. There
should be a rule that they haveto put windshields up at least to drive
down that fairway if they can't seethe number two tea box, because it

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could be a crash. There couldbe. I haven't hit anybody, and
I'm very happy, actually I takethat back. In a charity tournament,
actually I hit a the three whatI think it was of my life at
a par five. We were tryingto reach my group and I and it
turned over just a little. I'mleft handed, so it turns over a

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little bit right and ended up whackinga woman and I think in her calf
maybe or maybe a little higher upback of her leg something like that.
It didn't really hurt her, andthey were driving off, and she kind
of looked back, and the wholegroup looked back, and I'm just I'm
screaming, I'm sorry as loud asI can scream. And I jumped in

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the cart and tried to drive downthere and catch her and couldn't. And
then as I knew they had toslow down it one spy and I kept
driving and I finally caught up andsaid, I am so sorry. She
goes, oh, I know it'sokay, don't worry about it. I
know accidents happened, so but Ifelt so guilty, so guilty. I
was standing in a fairway with afriend of mine on one of the two

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golf trips I got to make toHawaii years ago when I was writing for
the paper, when a golf balloff a tee where there was a rise
and then the fairway kind of fellaway, so you had to you had
to get up a little higher onthe hillside by the tee box to see
if there was anybody down there,and the people behind us didn't bother to
do that, and the guy Iwas playing with, standing four feet from

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me, we just hear this splatlike that caught him right in the calf
muscle, and yeah, he waspretty sore. He was pretty sore for
I don't know, two days.Maybe we played through it. He wasn't
about to stop playing golf in Hawaiijust because he got hit by a golf
ball in a calf, maybe ontop of the head. That might slow
you down a little bit. Thisis Sports Talk seven ninety on the Goal

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with iHeartRadio friends. You've got totry the conversation continues. This as the
Doug Pipe Show. All right,welcome back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk
seven ninety on this Sunday morning.I've got to read this to you,
guys, so you'll understand my frustrationa little bit. Yesterday I was told
that they knew exactly what was wrong. They had the parts, they were

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assembling a crew. Something was goingto be done two minutes ago. What
is it? Nine twenty? Igot this at well, actually I got
this text message at eight forty onefrom Centerport Energy Repair crews are assessing the
power issue adder near my address.Will provide status updates as they become available.

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They I was told yesterday that theyhad already assessed everything they wanted to
assessed, that they had everything theywere sending somebody out. Yeah, apparently
not. Apparently not. That's anotherlie once again, that's another lie,
and that I'm growing weary of that. I really am. I really am.

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Oh okay, let's get out ofthat. Let's go back to where
we're gonna go. Whin Are youand I by the way, going fish
in Melbourne soon? What's the dealman? What's to hold up soon?
Just life intervening? Yeah, justtrying to make things fit together. It's

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like a jigsaw puzzle. You haveall the pieces, but none of them
seem to fit, but you haveto mold them a little bit. Yeah.
I heard somebody there was some comedianI think, talking about things that
were really complicated, hard problems tosolve, you know. He said,
imagine a jigsaw puzzle. You gothis jigsaw puzzle and you throw away all

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the pieces, all the edge piecesare thrown away, and then you flip
everything over on that blank side,and that's what you have to put together.
Oh wow, you know, yeah, it'd take a while, it
would take a while, I understand. Just whenever you're ready, man,
I would love to do that.And that goes back to what we touched

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on a little while ago about Ican't remember who it was now is sent
me the email about catching the personalbest bass from a bar ditch. It's
an irrigation canal, I think itwas. Whatever it was, These are
unimposing pieces of water. It's notlike you have to have electronic ten thousand
dollars worth of electronics and a fiftythousand or one hundred thousand dollars boat.

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You're pulling it with a ninety thousanddollars truck for three hours to go catch
a fish that might or might notbe bigger and may probably even be smaller
than the one that's gonna get caughtthat day by the guy who just hung
out in his neighborhood and has learnedhow to fish the little lakes around there
and catch the fish that are init. One thing good about neighborhood lakes

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not a whole lot of people keepingthe fish they catch. It's mostly catching
release. Every now and then I'llsee somebody put a catfish away and take
it, and I'm okay with that. The catfish come back, they reproduce
pretty well. But the frustration isthat every now and then I'll also see

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some little kid driving a bicycle throughthe neighborhood, got the riding reel across
the handlebars, and then got athumb and a finger holding up a four
or five pound bass that they're dragginghome just to show mom and dad,
who aren't gonna let him eat itbecause they don't know where it came from.
They don't know what's in that water. And yeah, I hate to
see him take them away like that. That's the one thing that if you're

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gonna introduce your kids to fishing,I have no problem. If you're actually
wanting to take a few fish hometo eat, and you're gonna take them
home, and you are going toclean them, and you are going to
prepare them, and you are gonnaenjoy them with a knife and fork,
I have no problem at all withthat. So long as you're staying within
the legal limits. So long asyou've got the license to do that,

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more power to you. I hopeyou enjoy the fish you catch. But
if you're just fishing catch and release, you still need that license. That's
important. And teach your kids thatthey don't have to haul home every fish
they catch. It's a good lessonto learn they can it's fine to bring
some home to eat. But it'sa good lesson to learn that you don't

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have to kill them all. AndI still know people who kind of do.
I don't fish with them, butI hear the stories. People call
me. Sometimes. I say,yeah, man, we caught eighteen speckle
trout the other day. How madeyou throw back none? I said,
lose my number, Just lose mynumber. I don't want to hear that

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stuff. I've been really tell acouple of times to actually call operation game.
These on some people I knew prettywell, but I didn't, And
in hindsight, that's on me.Shame on me for not reporting that.
Shame on me. Oh well,that's a soapbox that I've been on for

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a very long time. Is notwasting these resources that we have. It's
hard enough for the Parks and WildlifeDepartment to keep up with the number of
real, big time poachers, bigtime poachers we have in this state,
and we have plenty, especially onthe deer side. Deer and fish both
get poached unmercifully, and there's absolutelyno excuse for it, except that it's

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not an excuse, but it's areason, and that is because we don't
have sufficient law enforcement personnel to stopthem to catch them. Now, there
have been some excellent, some reallyreally good undercover operations over the years,
and I've been I've been lucky enoughto kind of get inside information on a

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few of them for many years.Every now and then I'll hear from a
game warden or I'll hear from somebodyin law enforcement saying, hey, we're
really working hard on something right now, and we'll let you know when we
can what we can, and youhear some and see some interesting things come
out of those. There was onemany years ago called Operation Yard Dog,

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and I won't go into the detailshere, and I've talked about it on
the show before actually, and itinvolves some East Texas poaching operations that were
just egregious and horrible. Those folkswere taking a lot of animals and shouldn't
have. And the part that madeit all of that, all of the

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poaching part was horrifying, but thepart that made it made you kind of
giggle a little bit and then realize, oh wait, that wasn't so cool.
Is how that thing got its name. I don't want to get into
it on the show, maybe ifsomebody wants to, if you're curious enough
just email me or call me ifyou have my number, and I'll tell

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you the story of Operation Yard Dog, and i'll tell you what I'll test
it on Melvin during the break,and if Melvin thinks it's okay to tell
on the air, I'll tell iton the air. And if he doesn't,
I won't. So it'll be upto you, Melvin. But I
will tell you the story of OperationYard Dog as it was told to me
about I don't know, gosh,at least twenty five, possibly thirty years

(01:00:38):
ago. It was a long time. East Texas used to have a really
bad reputation. I haven't heard asmuch bad out of there in a long
time. And I'm hoping that ageneration of change, maybe a generation and
a half, has has tilted backtoward conservation of our reb sources and protection

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of our resources. I don't knowthat one way or the other, but
I just I would hope that overtime, some of the people whose fathers
and grandfathers and great grandfathers were diedin the wool everyday poachers, maybe that's
softened, and maybe the young peoplecoming up realize that that's just unsustainable and

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unfair to everybody else in Texas.That's why that number is on the license
operation game thief number. It answerstwenty four to seven. You can remain
anonymous with the information you pass along, and you can if you want to
leave a way for them to Idon't know how they do it. There's
probably some code or something you enter. But the long and the short is

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if indeed the information you provide givesthem the opportunity to catch someone doing something
wrong, to charge them and toconvict them, and you're eligible for a
reward, and those rewards kind ofby the severity of the act that was
uncovered and detected and prosecuted. Sevenone three two one two five is seven

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ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMediadot com. I'm gonna take the Scottish
Open down from my laptop. I'vetalked about that as much as I really
want to talk about the Scottish Open. I'll watch a little bit this afternoon.
Perhaps I might do that. Takecare of that. By the way,
the wind on the coast is.I know we got to go to

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break in just a second. Butwhat you know what I'll tell you when
we get back. I'll tell youwhen we get back about the wind on
the coast. This what a weekafter Beryl it was. It was one
week ago tonight that Barrel moved intoTexas and tore it to pieces. This

(01:02:52):
is Sports Talk seven ninety online atSports seven ninety dot com. Now there
more Doug Fight. All right,welcome back Doug Bike Show. Thank you
for listening. I certainly do appreciateit. Nine thirty six, we have
rounded third and are heading home,which unfortunately the Astros did too few times
last night to win their game.The third and determining game of this series

(01:03:19):
takes place tonight and I really reallyhope they can go ahead and get the
win and finish this off on ahigh note. They've been playing so well,
so well. That snapped a tengame home winning streak for them,
and I was just oh, Iwas just crushed, this crush to see

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them lose that. I didn't seethe game, but I saw the result
on my phone And like dog Gaunet, well, my son's team is having
a rough patch right now. There'sseveral of the best players on the team
are out right now on vacations andwherever and whatever else, but they're not
available to play at least and that'skind of driving him crazy because they've not

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fared well in this tournament so far, and I feel really badly for them.
They've been driving all the way upto Tomball every day and this morning
their game started at eight o'clock.As a matter of fact, it won't
be long before it's over. Unlessit's already over. I hope it's not.
But yeah, they're trying. Theyare trying. Huh. Skeeter Brown

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from from Brown's Roofing, Good morning. I called you radio station yesterday morning.
This morning, I have nine centerpointelectrical service providers at my office.
Don't know what's going on. Huh. We send one of them my way.
Please, if you're still listening,Skeeter, send one of them my
way. Holy cow, I needone of them. Thanks buddy. If

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you can do that for me,I would be greatly appreciative. Skeeter Braun,
by the way, this is ifyou have roof issues. And I've
spoken for him for many years andhe has helped my family and me so
many times to solve problems, littleproblems before they became big problems, with
just repairs and then actually to replace. I think the roof that I got

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just two weeks ago, a weekbefore barrel hit. That roof was the
one two second full roof. Hedid a full complete roof at my mom's
house out in Katie before she passed. She did, he did, Actually
he did one for me years agoas well. So that's the third full
roof that I have gotten from BronzeRoofing, and I've been eminently satisfied with

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all the work they've done. Sevenone three two one two five seven ninety
email on me. Doug Pike atiHeartMedia dot com has promised. The wind
along the coast almost a straight onshore wind. There's a little more south
in it than there is east uphere on our end of the coast,

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which is kind of causing that windto hit it sideshore a little bit.
I would imagine the surf side JettyGulf side is protected from that wind mostly
but maybe not completely. That's kindof the direction it is. It would
be a like a south southeast wind. The farther down the coast you go,

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the more easterly it becomes, anddown around that North Padre Island shoreline.
I bet it looks really really prettyright now. I just can't imagine
it not the velocity of all thiswind. By the way, the highest
number on the board is at Portof Ramses. That's thirteen. Everything else

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that I can find, let mescroll down a little farther and make sure
I don't want to go fire andoff and have to eat my words all
the way down to the tip ofMexico all the way from the border up
to well, actually, the thirteenjust went down to an eleven at Port
of Rans's. Everything else is singledigitsything else it's single digits outstanding. Dan

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Matthews just wighed in to correct mewhen I said I hope they win tonight
in reference to the Astros. Actuallya one to ten first pitch today.
Thank you, Dan, Thank youvery much. I appreciate that. Because
my connection to the real world hasbeen kind of fragmented lately. I am

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growing very weary. I have stormfatigue, and yeah, I just want
it to go away. PTSD.No, I don't think I'm full blown
PTSD over this yet, but Iwill. Every time a lightnings now I
will flash back to this week,and that's not gonna be fun. Every

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time it lightnings, I'm gonna flashback. It's driving me crazy. I
do on the optimist side. Ofcourse, we are going to get power
at some point, hopefully before I'mbroke. And at that point, I'm
gonna rapidly move right back into myformer lifestyle and hope that just hope that

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we're spared another one this year,if you're recalled. There have been some
recent years when a few places overon the Panhandle of Florida have been hammered
twice, hammered twice in the sameyear. Let me go get Kobe on
here, Kobe, what's up?Many Listen, I've been I'm circumnavigated driving

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Lakeior. You can you turn yourKobe, Kobe, can you turn your
radio down or something? There's kindsof feedback in here. I'm not sure
what it is. Oh, yeah, that's off. Okay, okay,
all right, go ahead. Yeah. I've circumnavigated driving Lake Superior twelve times
for sure, probably fow okay sideand down the other. And I've been

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to thirty five fly in fishing trips. When you drive you end of the
road and then you then you flyin. Yeah, wow, good for
you. With my dad father's son, he passed that Christmas. So I
need a new partner. I needa new partner. My fantasy trip is

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to get a nice boat and somethingthat will sail and cruise the Great Lakes.
I want to go out spend awhole summer and and island hop the
Great Lakes. That's interesting, that'sfascinating, and that summer. Yeah,
that's right, you know. Andso you're you come to mind? O,

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Man, if I could take allsummer off, I'd do it.
I think I'd jump on that boatwith you. Oh man, Well,
I need a partner. So whatI'm looking for One? What would be
your target species? Your number onespecies? And what's the backup if they're
not eating? Oh? I lovewalleye and I love pike, and I

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love perch. They keep saying perchin Texas. There's no perch in text.
Well it's a great lady. Iknow what you're I know what you're
talking about. It you're talking aboutyellow perch. Yes, I understand.
Yeah, Okay, slabs they callthem back there. How hell, how
how many big pike are caught upthere in the Great Lakes? Oh?

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God, Lee, Well you gotto if you go up to uh,
Michigan in the Upper Peninsula up there, you're going to catch forty pound I
could do that. I could dothat. I've got fish mounted on my
wall, beautiful fish, you know. I mean, I'm seventy three,

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okay, so I'm I'm closer toyour age, sure, And I've been
around and i'd s got my healthand I want to go down somewhere.
Man. Good for you, Goodfor you. Yeah. The only place
I've ever caught pike was over inSweden, believe it or not. I
haven't caught one in North America anywhere. I might just try. Oh did

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what lose him? Jack? Jack? You there? Dang it? Dang
it? Oh? Well, heprobably you know, he probably got himself
all fired up and just punched usout and decided to go make reservations for
his fly around the world trip wellup to the You know that doesn't that
does appeal to me. I can'treally say that I've ever thought about fishing

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the Great Lakes because they're fresh waterand there's not that much there. I
did want to ask him at somepoint, Well, we got to get
to a break here, but Iwould I would have liked to ask him
if if it's true that that walleyefight about like a wet sock, because
that's what I've heard that they justhave very little interest in resisting being caught

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and released or caught and thrown ina frying pan. Maybe it's just that
bad. Maybe Center Point turned offtheir power a long time ago. That
just just just hooked me, Throwme in the pan. All right,
man, let's take a little break, shall we. This is Sportstock seven
ninety, Facebook dot Com, slashsports Talk seven ninety Back to the Doug

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Fight Show. Sounds like sounds likeMelvine's trying to get us to go on
that trip. Kobe Jack m M. Two tickets to Paradise, two tickets.
You know, boy, I'm gonnaneed a trip somewhere. I don't
know where I'm gonna go once Iget out of this disaster I'm in right

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now. I'm gonna need somewhere somehowto go relax, put all this behind
me, And honestly, it couldbe something as easy as just going and
sitting and watching one of my son'sbaseball games knowing I have electricity at home,
or coming into work knowing I haveelectricity at home, or playing golf
knowing I have electricity at home.You see the common theme here, You

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see it. It's it's yeah,Betty, I need lights, and I
need them quick. Man. Ifar overstayed my welcome at my friend John's
house. John and Ann have beenthe most gracious, most kind people.
They will forever be two of myfavorite people on the entire planet. I

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don't care what happens in the restof my life. I don't care who
I meet, the overwhelming generosity they'veshown. They've invited me to dinner every
night, and finally I finally kindof got over there in time to eat.
And I've been telling them, no, I'm just gonna stay and eat
with my wife, and I havedone that both nights. But yesterday,
by the time I got over there, I thought they would be a little

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farther along and I wouldn't be botheringthem and the other two guests who are
who are longtime friends of theirs.I thought I would not be intruding on
their dinner, and lo and behold, they hadn't even started eating yet.
So they insisted that I join him, and I wasn't gonna turn down a
little red snapper, and m oh, that was so good. It was

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so good. Seven one three,two, one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike Adiheartmedia dot Com.Dump Truck Dan was so so quick to
let me know I don't blame me. Remember when I just told you,
Melvin, Remember when I said DanMatthews had waged in to let me know
that start time as one ten.Yes, I didn't read past Dan.

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I just presumed it was Matthews.It was not. It was dump truck
Dan. And he gets credit forcorrecting me and sharing that the game time
today is one ten and not seventen or six to ten or any other
ten. Turn on the lights ten. That's what I'm waiting for. Oh

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man, I can't get this outof my head. It's killing me.
It's killing me. Someone three twoone two five seven ninety. We've got
about five minutes left. I willI'm gonna use these last few minutes,
and you're welcome to call if youwant to jump in real quickly, if
you comment or question or whatever.I appreciate the emails that I've gotten.
I've got a lot of people rootingon me, rooting for me to get

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my to get my power back,and I appreciate that. Thoughts and prayers,
my way, my family's way,and don't forget everybody else who's still
without power. That's one thing thatI'm I'm not gonna do is give up
on it. Once my power getsback, that just means I can spend
more time advocating for those who don'thave it yet, because there's just no

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reason for it, just no reasonfor it. There's Captain Scott weigh in.
Oh my goodness, Scott Scott lostpower. I think it was hold
on, let me find his originalemail. I think I can probably scroll
down. We're in a big threadhere now. Yeah, this is Captain

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Scott from down there around Port O'Connor. We did almost three weeks post Harvey,
in almost two weeks from the freeze. He had generators, but the
issue he was having was with gasoline. When the powers out, the gasoline
can't be pumped. That's something elsethat needs to happen. In the nation's
fourth largest city. We need standby generators at at least one gas station

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every couple of miles so that peopledon't have to ride out a half a
tank of gas to find someplace theycan actually get gas. There's no excuse
for that. And if the cityhas to pay for it, if the
state has to pay for it,if FEMA has to pay for it.
I don't really care, but toleave so many of us without gasoline,

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without electricity, and I've heard ofsome areas where the electricity had been out
three four days and then all ofa sudden they've gotten no water. Do
you hear about that, Melvin?Yes, I did. That's really strange,
peculiar. It's just it says,though we live in some backwater,

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tiny little country where there's never beenelectricity in a week without it leaves me
feeling that way. It really does. It's a helpless feeling, all right.
So that's enough of that. Thesurf is actually very calm. I
don't know the tide schedule, butif you could get down to I would
say Galveston, or down toward thepass somewhere, and it's at least barely

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green, I would suspect you couldcatch some speckled trout. I would be
throwing, probably just for old time'ssake. I throw mirrors all day long,
and I bet you i'd catch sometrump. The bass lakes are,
they're up and running, certainly hoping. I want to get out to the
golf club to see if we gotsome extra water in a lake that's been
about three or four feet low forthree feet low anyway for quite some time.

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Hey, the sun's out, everybody'sgetting back to it. I'll get
back to it sooner or later.I might even put something on Facebook when
I do. I'll be back sooneror later. Don't worry about me.
I'm gonna be okay. I justhad to bend a little this weekend.
Thank you all. I'll be backTuesday for fifty plus. I'll be back
one week from yesterday at seven amnext Saturday for this show again, and

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hopefully all will be well in theworld. Everybody will have their power back
by then. Thank you, God, bless you, and I'll see you
soon. Audios.