The Doug Pike Show 7-21-2024

In todays episode Doug talks about the vibrio bacteria and how to protect yourself while fishing in saltwater. Texas has alot of redfish and why is that? Doug explains, could it have somthing to do with the trout population? Do you have a secret fishing spots? Doug tells you how to keep your secret a secret. Fishing knots, braid fishing line, Ultra violet line fishing, and more in this episode.

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,
here we go. Sunday edition ofthe program starts right now. A
lot going on around here, Alot going on. What is it?
I don't know. Maybe two thousand, three thousand miles from here over across

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the Atlantic Ocean at Royal Troon.The big golf news going on is that
the guy I put my money on, well, I don't know where he
is. I think he's at two. Scotti Scheffler. I think Sander Schoffley.
Well, let's start at the top. Billy Horschell, by the way.

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And these guys, they're out andrunning. They're six hours ahead of
us, so they're marching their wayaround the course. They're Scotti Scheffer right
there. Let me see where heis right now. That's on two.
Maybe in any event, long shortof it is Billy Horschel's got a one
shot lead over two four five guys. That would be Lawrence Henley, Burns

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Rose and Showfley. Scottie Scheffler isonly two back of the lead. This
leaderboard has really really tightened up,and it was interesting to watch them yesterday
deal yesterday, well all week,really deal with standard issue conditions for an
Open Championship on steroids, the wind, the rain. It's not entirely unlike

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we dealt with about two weeks ago, but nonetheless it's going to be it's
going to be a grind to finishthis one off. So that said,
I will shift back to last night. What kept me up until very late
I just could not walk away fromthe television watching the Astros and they came

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out ahead four to two over Seattleand now are one hundred leading their division.
And after the first month of theseason there were a whole lot of
people writing off our Houston Astros,So man, what do you know?
And that's without Kyle Tucker, that'swithout half the pitching staff that we thought

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we would start with young guys needingto come up, needing to needing to
carry a pretty heavy load, andthey're doing it. And Valdez, Yes,
last night was just he he dominated, He absolutely dominated. So hats
off to the Astros, hats offto whoever ends up winning the Open Championship,

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and granularly, I just a onequick trip to the golf course yesterday,
haf Lay. I think I playedfour holes and the and went fishing.
And that's about when I'm by myselfout there, and I know that
water's got the fish in it thatit does, although it's not nearly what
it used to be because of wella lot of circumstances, but the water

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levels are up and I just couldn'thave stand it. I couldn't help myself,
and the water slightly off color.I'm old school. I'm just throwing
a spinner bad, and I knowevery fish in those lakes have seen spinner
bates, has seen spinner bates morethan once. So I'm already putting one
hand behind my back. Basically,if I threw soft plastics in there,
I'm certain I would get three timesas many bites. But I just can't

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stand that grind in any event,Yesterday we talked about jokingly about how my
friend Bramtley's broken off giant Mega monsterbass. I'm not even sure he got
a good look at it, buthis claim to fame on that one is
that it broke thirty pound braid.And that's significant except when you figure,

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except when you talk about how heand I both like we'll throw anywhere anyhow,
tangle the lure up in a bunchof stuff just to get it into
a spot that looks bassy. Sosome of his issue might have been just
a little bit of grinding. Itmay even be something so simple as just
some sort of abnormality, some scratchor something on a line guide up his

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rod. And if that's the case, or maybe at the tip, that's
where a lot of that stuff startsto happen. A rod tip insert gets
scratched or dent it or dinged orsomething, and it upbraids the line every
time you bring it up tight.Every time. It's the same spot at

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the end of the rod. Weflip your lure over. If you're not
changing leaders and changing lures to movethat little spot around, eventually it will
phrase. So who knows why helost his But the question yesterday was whether
the couple of well, one tinyfish on Thursday, one tiny bass maybe
ten eleven foot long, maybe somethingthere in there, but I actually caught

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it, whether that was better thanhis mystery monster. And all agreed that
the mystery monster holds no, can'thold a candle to one real fish.
So now the question becomes for me. I caught I think two or three.
Two days ago, I only calledone and they were all dinks,

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I'll admit it. But yesterday Ionly call one fish, but it was
about three and a half, maybecreeping up on four somewhere in there.
So what's better? More bites orjust that one bite? One you could
scratch off as luck you could.You could debate that either way, and
I don't hear fishermen debate often,just the only when they're talking about fishing.

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And everybody's got a better idea thanthe other guy, so they think.
But honestly, I think two orthree bites and the handled fish is
better than one bite in handling abig fish, if you fish the exact
same amount of time, and allthat stuff is I'm putting myself to sleep.
I'm so bored, all right,I want to go back. Yesterday.

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Also, I mentioned that Houstonian Hotelin Spa was doing a fundraiser for
all the linemen and first responders,and I'm very happy to let you guys
know that they raised. They raisedfifty eight one hundred dollars at ten dollars
a plate, fifty eight one hundreddollars at ten dollars a plate. Now

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a lot of people were coming upand tossing in far more than ten dollars,
which is fantastic. And on topof that, the property Houstonian Hotel
and Spa is matching the donation.So first responders Linemen. I hope a
bunch of them showed up yesterday toobecause they got to eat free. But

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all those people who who dug usout of the dark are being being honored
with a donation to I'm not surewhere it's going, but wherever it's going,
like I said yesterday, I knowSteve frounterhouse over there, and I
know that he'll make sure it getsinto exactly the right hands. That guy
doesn't do anything unless he can doit first class and correctly. And so

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I'm really thrilled to have been ableto let you guys know that was over
there. I hope some of youtook advantage of the barbecue. I really
do, and if you did,I'd be curious to know how how long
it took you to get to thefront of the line, because dropping out
that much barbecue had to have takensome time. Seven one three, two,
one two, five seven ninety emailMedugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'll

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take a quick glance before I continueto see how the email's looking. I
haven't even opened emails since I walkedin here this morning, except on my
phone. I took a brief lookon my phone and saw a lot of
the stuff that our news director isforwarding to all of the all of the
KTRH crew and a milla to everybodywho's interested, and we all are.

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And what he finds, he digsup some really good stories. I must
say, Okay, we're okay.There, We're okay, there, We're
okay there. I've got to it'sso staggeringly crazy. I have got to.
I have got to register for ait's a milestone high school reunion.

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Let's just say that. I don'teven want to talk about how old I
have got. It makes me feelold just to talk about it. I'm
not gonna do it, all right, anyway, I've got to do that,
and I've got a note here totake care of that. Melvin and
I will be playing along with oneof you in a little while. I
think we'll do it coming up onmaybe in the last break of this hour.
Melvin we're going to play the Texastemperature game, and you have to

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promise that you haven't looked at anysource to find out anything about the temperatures.
And this is coming into the timeof year when it's a little bit
easier to play the game. Duringthe winter time. People who are truly
playing by the rules have no idea. Maybe that a front has rolled through
North Texas, but there's some southerlyflow of warm wind in South Texas,

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because Texas is big enough to haveabout ten climate zones and so there are
greater variations. That's all I wantto say. I don't want to say
too much more, Melbourne, anythingin your world that we need to know
about. Nothing yet. Just quiet, yeah, just quiet, quite.
It's not messing and getting back intothe swing of the normal thing. Honestly,

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you know, from two weeks agoto now, just getting back to
anywhere near some semblance of normalcy isa pretty dog one good thing to be.
That's a pretty good thing to be. Yes, it is all right.
Let me move down my page here. I got that. I got
that, I got that. Letme go back to Vibrio. We at
the very end of the program yesterdaywe had brief discussion about Vibrio wonnificus,

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which is a bacterial infection. Thatis, the bacteria are all around the
world, warm salt water, warmsalt water all around the world. That's
where this is found. That's thebad news because it's a horrible, horrible
condition that quite literally can dissolve yourflesh and eat you up and kill you

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within well. I had, likeI said yesterday, I had a friend
years ago, a dentist, mydentist at the time, contracted that stuff
wade fishing along the middle of Texascoast and died. They tried to save
him by amputating twice, and hedidn't make it. He died within a

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I believe two weeks of the initialinfection and the wound that it got through.
As long as your skin is intactand whole, it can protect you
from this stuff because it has toget into your bloodstream to start doing it.
It's dirty work. So if youare plenty clean and stuff, and

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you don't stick yourself with a fishhook or a fish fin or anything like
that, or step on something onthe bottom of the bay floor or along
the beach front, your odds arepretty slim of getting this stuff. But
if you do have an open wound, you need to absolutely positively protect yourself

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up to it, including just bitingyour tongue and staying out of the water
that day. There I know ofinfections that have been caused by just cutsing
scrapes. That's what killed my Denniseyhad a big scrape on his shin from
slipping on a boat dock. Hescraped it up pretty bad, kind of

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like road rash looking stuff, andthat's that I think let so much of
that bacteria in so fast that that'swhat ultimately took him out. They just
couldn't keep up with him. Iknow a guy who stepped on something through
his wading boot. I don't knowwhat it was, but the infection got
in that way. There was aconfirmed report several years ago, now many

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years ago now, I a guywho contracted it from a stick in the
fingertip from a live Shrimp'll be carefulwith those. There are all kinds of
ways to get that, all kindsof ways to get it, but you
don't want it. If you wantit, if you just insist on going
into the water, if you've gotcuts and scrapes covered up like I said

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yesterday with some of that liquid bandagestuff. And when I go waitfishing.
Now, every time I go,I make sure that I don't have anything
wrong with my I look at thetips of my toes all the way up
to my chest, my hands,everything, and if there's any place where
I've got to scratch, a scrapewhatever, I put some of that stuff
on at night before I go tobed, and then I put a little

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bit more on the next warning beforeI get in the water. Two layers
of protection and the one of thebetter defenses against it. I know I'm
running late, Melbourne. I apologizeone of the better defenses against this stuff.
If you do feel like you've exposedan open site to salt water somehow
old fashioned soap and water. Soapand water. You don't have to carry

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rubbing alcohol in your boat, youdon't have to carry a gallon of neospore,
and you don't have to do anyof that. Just scrub up,
scrub that area with soap and wateras if you were going in to perform
surgery on somebody. And really thesoap and water will kill that stuff.
And that that information has been givento me by many doctors. You don't

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have to carry hydros in, peroxide, none of that stuff. Just good
old fashioned soap and water. AndI would recommend a small pump bottle of
soap duct taped to a gallon ofwater. That way you have. That's
your defense kit right there. That'sall you need and just flush, flush
that stuff away. All right,let's go. We got to go to

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the first break here and we'll moveforward from there. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety. Emailme Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'll
check them again. I've had acouple come in just as I've been yapping
here, but I didn't want torush anybody's response or whatever. This is
Sports Talk seven ninety, the Houstonsports Fan on air and on Facebook.

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That contact back to the Doug PikeShow. All right, off we go,
second segment. Whoa, we're onlyto the second Say, you know,
yesterday seemed to go by so fast? Would you agree, Melvin One?
It was? It was an anomalyin in many ways because a lot
of a lot of times from wherewe're sitting, Uh, sometimes it just

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feels like the clock is barely moving. Sometimes it feels like it's racing in
yesterday. It just felt like itwas racing. Yeah, it's flying,
fantastic, Fly is fantastic, allright? Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety email we dug dougpikeiheartmediadot Com. Got that taken care of.
I responded to that. Oh man, no, yeah, you know,

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Rudy's weighing in and he is tellingme two to three dinks is better
than one giant. What have youbeen smoking? I might have misheard you.
Well, one giant bass is certainlybetter than a couple of dinks.
However, the the asterisk in thatsituation was that he didn't actually catch the

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big bass. Now, my twoor three dinks, I think I'm a
better fisherman for having caught three onone day that I would be just having
caught one on another day. Andthis it all lot depends on There's so
many variables in these little fun timeequations. It depends on where you're fishing,

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how you're fishing, what tools youhave available to you. And the
bottom line is, when you're justwalking the banks of a little what amounts
to a very well manicured stock pond, When you're just walking the banks,
I tend to measure success, noteven in the numbers of fish I actually

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handle, but just in how manybites I get, just how many good,
strong bites I get, because thatmeans my presentation is good. That
means I picked the right lure.You could you could have a situation where
some uh, some bass that hassome sort of restrictions on it, some

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sort of challenges. Just one biggiant bass might eat your loo. And
if that's the only bite you getover a long period of time, then
you're doing something wrong if you knowthe fish are there, which I know,
I have a captive audience in thatlake. So if I'm not getting
bites, that's on me, that'snot on them. It's not like I'm

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in the wrong spot even anyway,I do think, Rudy, that getting
three bytes is better than getting onebite. And if you if you take
size and size matters or does it, If you take size out of the
equation, then three bites is betterthan one bite. If you're if you
go back to the deeply buried inour DNA emphasis on on pounds of fish,

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then yes, many pounds of fishis better than fewer pounds of fish.
And we go on and on.But I digress. Let's see we
talk to Aaron. Uh, notgonna worry. Here we go again.
Good morning, I got you now, okay, good good. How are
you doing this morning? I'm good. Good. Caught a fish, play

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some golf. Well, it can'tbeat that. I'm gonna kind of throw
my my two cents in on thesmall red fish population up and down the
coast. Yeah, I can't.I cannot believe how many ten to fifteen
inch red fish I'm catching all alongthe coast and everybody else as well.
Sure I've heard I've heard some peoplecall talk about it and talk about,

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well, you know, they're they'reeating small spucking trout, this and that.
But I just wondering what your opinionis, whether the limit's going to
go up or if it truly ifit do truly cause a dent in the
speckled trout population, because hey,I'm seeing a lot. I'm seeing more
than hardheads right now. I mean, one after another after another, And

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it's not necessarily a bad thing,but it's just been a dramatic shift for
the past two years. No question. You have to you have to make
care for what you wish for withfisheries because and partial Wallefe Department has come
to recreational fishermen. I think it'stwice now, maybe more often than that,

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and just said, hey, doyou want to raise the limit back
up a little higher? Do youwant to take one more fish? And
so far recreational fishermen have responded witha resounding no, leave it alone.
Threes enough And I don't think thatI don't think that that redfish pose a
threat, a legitimate threat to thespeckled trout population. They're going to eat

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little trout, but so do bigtrout, so you can't blame the redfish
exclusively if anything happens. The onlything that really hammers our resource is now
two things, just pressure overall andweather anomalies. You get a bad freeze,

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you'll lose a lot of fish.You have one hundred thousand people moving
to the Texas coast every couple ofyears. That's gonna mess things up.
And that's why they've had to bringthe limits down like they did on trout.
We couldn't sustain what we had goingon with so many people there.
And it's not that we couldn't sustainit for a day or a week or

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a month. What they have todo is rebuild that population to the extent
that it can rebound from another reallymajor heavy freeze along the coast. So
yeah, I don't. I'm notin favor of making it easier for people
to are allowing people to take morefish. I think the limits are fair.

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I think that three trout and threered fish that's a pretty good stringer.
And if you need more fish thanthat to feed your family in the
neighborhood than fish twice, fish ontwo different days, double up, or
just go to different states like Ido. It takes every state help,
Well, sure, yeah, justload up a little basket from every state
them on home. How are thoserainbow traut? Were you catching rainbow trout

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or brook trout? Well? Iwas down in Tampa. Oh oh that
most recently. Yes, I've headup to Montana right now. So well,
hopefully you'll get into them. Yeah, you're You're a really fun time
of year to get into them upthere, I think, all right,
Well, hopefully save send me sometrout where I get back down. Oh,

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there there will be plenty. Youknow what I'm hear and honestly,
Aerin is that there are a lotof not only little reds, but a
lot of little trout too. Thebays are recovering because we're letting more fish
survive. And you know, whenit comes to a point where if you
if you you find a place inthe bay where there are just fish swimming

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out of the water because there's notenough water for them, then then we've
got a problem. But already,I mean, you know as well as
I do. You're a good fisherman. The fish are in ten percent of
the water. You know, we'vegot plenty of room for more. And
I think we'll see that as theso long as the weather holds up for
us. Save travels, man,I know you guys put a lot of

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miles on your cars trucks. Yes, sir, yes, sir. All
right, we'll talk to you nextweek. All right, thank you,
Yeah, see me all right,let me click that. Thank you,
thank you. Melvin. Yeah,this guy and his crew, the reason
he's driving around so much is heand his crew are the krim dela creme
when it comes to building out giantwarehouses. Building out giant warehouses, and

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I'm not talking about someplace where youcould store a few shoe boxes. I'm
talking about something that covers two orthree acres. Those giant buildings you see
on the outskirts of town next tothe railroad tracks, that's what they go
in. They somebody else puts upthe shell, and then they go in
and for two, three, fourweeks in a run, just start assembling

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the shelving. And he sent mesomething the other day from the most recent
building. They did like three acresof candle leavered shelves up to what looks
to be at least a thirty footceiling. Just staggeringly impressive stuff. It
really is. So hats off tohim. He works very hard. But

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man, when that guy gets tofishing, he forgets all about work.
And he's very good at what hedoes, actually on both ends fishing and
that all right, We got totake this second break of the program.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety,breaking sports news on Facebook twenty four to
seven. We'll get that information tothem. This is the Doug Pipe Show,

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Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk sevenninety. Thanks for listening. Certainly
do appreciate it. Why don't we, Melvin, why don't we? You
know what? This is as gooda time as it to play the Texas
Temperature game. If someone would likea shot at winning two rounds of golf
at Moody Gardens Golf Club down thereon beautiful Galveston Island, which is fully

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reopened. By the way, Igot word about that a couple of days
ago that please let everybody know theentire island. I got word from Moody
Gardens. I got word from somepeople here who who work closely with many
more people down there on the island. All of Moody's attractions are up and
running at with just what three fourweeks of school or before school starts again,

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not a bad time to think aboutdashing down there and doing something fun.
Two people gonna go play golf ifyou can beat Melvin at the Texas
Temperature game seven one three two onetwo five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety we'll waitfor somebody to call and then we'll play
the game, and then we'll havesome fun. Boy. I'm looking at

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one. I don't even want totell you who it is who's coming on
board as a member of my familyhere, but when he does, uh,
he and I are going to havesome great conversations, especially coming up
into Deers season. There's a coupleof questions I want to ask him,
and I don't even want to tellyou what about, because then I would
kind of kind of give away whohe is and what he does best in

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the business, best around here.For sure, I would say, all
right, let me check that,Let me check that. Let me take
a look at this leaderboard and seeif it's moved. Billy Horschel has pushed
it to five under par. Nowhe birdied Apparently he birdied one, because
that's all it holds. He throughJustin Rose at for Scotty Scheffler at three,

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as are Henley, Schoffley and BrownShell. Do not count Scotty Scheffler
out. I talked about that earlyearly in the week, even last week.
I was probably saying, as Ioften do, I'll take Scheffler,
you can have the field, youcan have everybody else. And that's a

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hard step to take. But theway that guy's playing right now, I
don't see how you couldn't like thatman. These guys can vomit. They
got better conditions today, that's forsure. It looks a little cool.
Reilly Horseell, I think may havebeen the only guy out. That might
have been a few more, buthe just he looks so out of place
yesterday because everybody else bundled up.They've got quarter zips on, they've got

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sweaters on, they've got all that. And horsehell was just out there in
a regular old polo T shirt,will not T shirt, but a regular
old golf shirt. So there youhave it. This guy want to win
some golf Melbourne. All right,we got somebody. Let's go bring it

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on. You know what to donow right? Yes, he got it,
Okay, let's get him. Isit hot? Is it cold?
We'll find out on the Texas temperaturegames because you're yours. Col Hey,

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I'm writing some numbers down. Okay, I'm ready bring him up there.
Forrest, I'm here as I getAre you a golfer? Well i've been.
I can tell you. My nephew'sa big golfer and he's been trying
to get me back out there.So I said, if I get out
there, well, you know,make a little road trip down to mood
Yeah. If you can beat Melvin, you can make a little road trip

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down to Moody Gardens. Okay,you want to go first or second?
I don't know. I'll go first. I guess all right, Forrest,
what do you think is the currenthigh temperature in the state of Texas?
Well, judge from where I'm atand when I went outside this morning to
turn off my garage on, I'mgoing to say that little front commit I'm

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gonna say eighty one. Okay,Melvin, what do you think is the
current high temperature in the state ofTexas. I'm gonna go eighty hey eight,
Okay. Forrest, what do youthink is the current low temperature in
the state of Texas? Uh,there's gotta be some sixties somewhere up in

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that pan, had Or We're gonnago not be a suggested, but we're
gonna go sixty nine, sixty nineokay? And Melbourne, what do you
think is the low temperature in thestate of Texas? Right now? Let's
go seven seventy. This is gonnabe close. Yes, Okay, Belvi's
player that price is right pricing onme. I'll see what he's doing,

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right, Yeah, boy, thisis this is one of those do you
feel like you won or lost?Forrest? Uh? Do you want to
change any of your guesses? Now? Usually my first guess is usually the
best. What I change is whatI screw up When I changed fishing state
where I was fisher spots, lures, anything, man, Oh my god.

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Yeah, Rudy was kind of pokingfun at me. I'll talk about
that when we finished up. I'lltell you you two played a really good
game for it. Well, Melvin'svery total variation only nine degrees. The
actual high is eighty two, theactual low is sixty three, and Melvin's
score is nine degrees total variation yoursfor us is seven. So you yeah,

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you got golf coming you were coveringwith. All right, man,
put him back on hold, andI'll get us through what Rudy was talking
to me about. Thanks Forest,thanks for playing man. All right,
back to it real, well,holy count, it's almost break time.
I'll tell you what when we getback, I'll tell you what what Rudy
Hold on, let me move this. I'll tell you what Rudy was conter

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or was putting in front of meto say that Brantley's fish counts more than
my fish. And I will withtongue in cheek and just with giggles,
because I could. I could arguethis either way, but I'm gonna.
I'm wanna take my own side.When we get back in I'll tell you
why. This is Sports Talk sevenninetyes Houston Sports Online at sports seven ninety

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dot com. Back to the DougPike Show eight forty seven. It is
this Doug Pike Show on Sports Talkseven ninety. Thanks for listening. Certainly
do appreciate it. Uh, letme get to day first, and I'll
tell you what Rudy was. Rudywas giving me grief about Dave. What's
up, Buddy, Well, Isurvived last night, man, old boy,

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I was there for that one forone said that's about all I can
handle, you know. Gosh.Well, they it's a big noise in
Oise easy and they can play likePink Floyd gimme Hendricks and these at tough
Holy Cow. Yeah, these guysthere was like, well, there was
like five guys in the band andthen they had three or four other guys

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that come to fill in Cow andthey all had they were all like old
hymans. They had long ears.Tim boys had some. But the water
did look good up there. Ididn't get the finish up this morning,
but I got out there and Iwalked around and looked, and the water
was looking good. And there wasa lot of people coming in there last

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night that were out boating and swimmingand sure, I guess and all that
kind of stuff. You know,it's still well it's the weekend. So
but anyway, Uh, I'm lookingforward to seeing what's gonna you know,
what's well, I don't know wheneverthey're going to open back up the Texas
City Dyke and stuff like that,that would be nice. Well, yeah,

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I'm sure it took a beating.There's got to be all kinds of
stuff that floated across there and justas the water receded, just kind of
sat down. They've got to cleanall that up. And I bet there's
a bunch of that whatever it is. I did see on the news this
morning they had a live cam thereon the Texas City Dyke or some of
the dogs over there, and theylook they look perfectly good. Well that's

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encouraging. Yeah, hopefully they'll getsomething going there. Yeah, and you
know all those deals where the picnictables, oh, that's all concrete groups
inside. So it's okay, yeah, yeah, that'll be all right.
We're getting there. Let's go takea while. Well, I know,
and I still got the big treein the backyard, but I'll here you

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what it's kind of hard when yougot a wall there, you know,
you know, anyway, we'll getit, Buddy, I appreciate. Stay
saved, Yes, stay saved,Dave. I'll see man, all right.
Let me get to now. Thisis this little exchange that Rudy and
I had. Rudy was taking theside. Bear in mind, Bradley's fish

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broke off, and I don't thinkhe's taking that into account. If he
caught the fish there, I'd probablygive him some credit. But he broke
it off so that that an equipmentmauthfunction, and probably one that could have
been avoided a slipped knot of abroken line where it had been it had
been abraided somehow, and if theline breaks down where a fish is taking

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you into a culvert or something likethat, or uh. For example,
if you're a fish in baff AndBay and a fish breaks your line across
one of those big rocks down there, that's that's not unavoidable necessarily because the
fish is in control at that point, if it's still hot and fresh and
it hasn't been worn down at all. But that the notion that one big

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bass is better even lost, oreven if even if he'd caught it.
Even if we're talking about my fourthree and a half, well, I
can't say it's a four pounder.I don't think it was three and a
half all day, Probably not foursomewhere in there. But the bottom line
is that fish as a Texas largemouth is no smarter than the little Texas

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large mouse I catch in there.There was a great study done, and
it's been at least thirty five fortyyears ago, on the difference in intelligence
and perception and the ability to avoidbeing fooled of Texas bass versus the Florida
strain large mouse, our local fish. It says nothing about us as Texas,

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believe me. But our local fish, the good old Texas strain of
largemouth bass not the smartest fish inthe lake. In most lakes, they
tend to they'll eat a lure andthen we'll come right back to it ten
minutes later and eat it again.They learn nothing. They learn nothing from

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their pad experiences. So I don'tthink that that matters nearly so much.
Florida BA Florida bass will become lower, wary, lure shy if you if
you hook them on something, they'llremember it for a longer time before they'll

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maybe bite that lure again or eveneat something else again, makes no difference,
but the Texas bass not so much. Something interesting too about the future
of I'm gonna tie live scope intobass behavior. There's a lot of talk
about how how people are using livescopes now and all this what does forest

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call it? Dog gone it?I can't remember now. Anyway, the
bottom line is they're using this fishfinding technology to find the biggest fish in
the lakes and then drop a livebait or a lure whatever straight down to
them and hopefully catch them. Well, that's all finding good because when it

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comes to down to it, unlessthey start changing some of the ways they
fish and doing something to encourage fishto be where they wanted to be,
those fish are going to be alittle harder to find in open water than
the people who are boringly riding aroundand just idling over open bottom looking for

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one giant fish in the middle ofnowhere, because large mouthed bass are most
definitely structure related. They want tobe next to something, they want to
be on something. And there wasanother great study done around the same time
as that Texas versus Florida fish stuffwas where they took these big tanks and

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dropped a bunch of bass in them, and those fish would get big round
tanks, and the fish would justidly swim all over the tanks, they'd
cut across the middle, they'd doall kinds of just lazy wandering behavior.
And then at point the researchers weretaking about a two foot wide strip of

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black plastic, as if you wererolling off garbage bags, basically, and
they spread that across the bottom,just straight across the middle of the tank,
and within minutes, almost every oneof those fish was camped out on
top of that black plastic, notnot something that held minnows. There was

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no food source in there, therewas no vertical structure in there, just
that black line across the bottom,like a racing stripe on an old camaro.
And the fish just gravitated just asif they were drawn magnetically onto that
strip of black plastic. So goahead, flip on your life scope,

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drive over all the open water youwant to, because when you do get
lucky and find the bass, theonly reason you found it is because you
found it in the middle of itstrip to the next piece of structure it
was going to relate to. Itwas pretty fascinating. That was one of
the things that really forced me asa bass fisherman to slow down on just

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chunking into open water where I knewthere was nothing on the bottom. Now,
a lot of these little fish,these little lakes I fish a lot
of times, I'll throw something prettyheavy that'll get down quickly and just drag
it real slow back and make sureit doesn't get hooked up. I've been
known to just throw heavy weights outthere in a couple of tanks to figure

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out where in the heck the stuffis on the bottom, because if you
can find the structure, you're probablygonna find the fish. But a lot
of these little neighborhood lakes are veryThe bottoms of them, if you could
see them, actually are really reallyboring. There's nothing there. There's just
nothing there to see because they're justlittle holes in the ground that were built

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and they use the dirt that theydig the lakes from from which they dig
the lakes, and they just raisethe lots. It's very similar to golf
courses. If you're looking for thedeepest water on a golf course, find
the highest elevation next to water,and then fish right next to that.
Because every cubic yard of dirt theypull out of that hole to make the

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water feature, they turn around andbuild it up as close as they can.
They're not going to transport one thousandyards of dirt across the property.
They're just gonna build up something close. So that's that's how I'm fishing it.
Melvin says, I gotta take abreak. This is the Doug Fike

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Show, brought to you by AmericanShooting Centers, Guns Shooting and Instruction since
nineteen eighty nine. Now here's DougPike. Nine o'clock hour starts now,
thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciateit. Let's go back to that leader
board. This is it's gonna be. It's gonna be a be like water

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watching a race if it were runin molasses, because it's going to be
a grind. These guys are.They're dealing with these these horrible bunkers.
I described them yesterday. They're justlike they're like washtubs, like giant washtubs
full of wet sand at the bottom, especially yesterday when it was raining so

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much, and wet sand has itsown special properties on the golf course.
It's very difficult. Uh, there'sXander Schaffey. Just mister birdie putt.
They'll have a little tap in parthere. The leaderboard reads it this way
right now, Lawrence four, Rosefour, Horsell four all through three completed

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holes. Scotti Scheffler at three underpar through four holes, along with Henley
and Schaffley at six guys all withina shot of each other, and three
quarters of the golf course at leaststill ahead of them. It's going to

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be interesting. It's gonna be fun. I'm gonna watch a lot of it.
I think I've got to My wifeand I have decided that I'm gonna
bag one bag of leaves every dayoff the front port or off the front
sidewalk and eventually put and put themin those clear bags that are required.
And eventually I'll get that done.There are probably probably six or eight bags

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left to go. My son,I'll wrap quotes inconveniently, has been out
of town at a baseball tournament forthe last three days. They come back
today. They have one more gametoday and then we'll come back. And
who was that, Oh, JustinRose. He went to five. He
just took the lead. Justin Rosenow at five Lawrence at four. It's

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gonna be like that all day long. They're gonna jockey back and forth.
I don't think anybody's gonna run awaywith it because they really can't afford to
to take the risk over there.They can't afford to just go for it
on every hole. I think thatwould be kind of a bad idea.

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I don't know, We'll see.These guys are good, they are the
best in the world. Maybe theycan do things that well. I was
gonna say, maybe they can dothings we can't do, but yeah,
that kind of goes without saying.That's why they're on television playing at Royal
Troon and we're not seven one threetwo one two five seven ninety email and
me, Doug pick At iHeartMedia dotCom, Melvine. Have you ever considered

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taking up golf? I thought ofin high school a long time. See
that just shows you, how thatshows me how much younger you are than
I am. Because when I wasin high school, they were like maybe
three kids played golf, and theywere soft as cheese, you know,
they were, They just weren't.No. I think we had a golf

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team. I'm not sure. Yeah, we must have had a golf team
back there, even back then,because golf still with the game's been around
for a million years. But yeah, it just it never even crossed my
mind until I really until I gotout to got out playing baseball over in
Mobile because we got to play freeacross the street at the from the university,

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and that's where I fell in lovewith the game. And I haven't
looked back since. But in highschool and before that, even when I
was much younger, that just nevercrossed my mind. I was either fishing
or playing baseball, and that wasabout it. Fishing almost every Saturday morning
with my dad somewhere, and thenmany I remember it as being many Saturday

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mornings. Not every Saturday morning,but many, I'd say, probably at
least a couple of times a month. And I found a drainage ditch from
our neighborhood over there in Sharpstown.I found my way to that drainage ditch
when I got my nana seat bicycle, I think when I was about ten
or nine maybe, and boy,you talk about open it up. I

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could take off and ride my bikedown the street to the ditch and go
catch a bunch of little tiny fishand then ride back home before the street
lights came on, because everybody knowswe had to be home when the street
lights came on. I don't evenI don't even know that my son could
tell you what time the street lightscome on. We knew exactly, we

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knew exactly in our neighborhood. They'retied to dark. They're they're light dependent,
you know. But nonetheless, whenyou're a little kid and being home
at dark means the difference between beingpunished and not being punished. You know
exactly how long it takes to runhome from down the street or ride your
bike home to be home on time. That was some and that was some

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great. I grew up in agreat time. And I can't speak for
the younger generations because I have nothingto compare it to except my upbringing.
And it was a very comfortable,very safe feeling country in which I lived,
in which we live now. Itwas much safer feeling back then.
All right, let me go geton the brand in here. Let's see

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what's up. Happy man? Therehe is, Hey Brandon, what's up,
buddy? I'm good? How aboutyou and those astros? Man,
you stay up and watch the wholething. I went to bed before it
was over, you know, Itried to. I went in there,
I got myself all ready for bed. I had already turned the TV off.

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This was like in the last inning, in the top of the ninth.
I turned the TV off. ThenI went and got ready for bed,
and I was walking to the bedroom, and I stopped dead in my
tracks and said, I got tosee this thing through. I've just got
to see it through. And I'llbe darned, I'll be darned if they
didn't come up and win that thing. How about that division leaders. That

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was a great game, very greatgame. And poor old hater that guy,
he was mad when he got thatpitchclock violation. He was, I
don't I don't know the circumstances.I'd kind of turned my head away for
a few seconds, and then allof a sudden they're arguing over a pitchclock
thing. And he finally said,okay, fine, put the guy on
first, just give me another baseball, and I'll go strike this guy out.

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He took care of business. Hedid take care of business. Oh
yeah, it was great man,great ending to a great game, and
it puts us in first place allby ourselves, not by a little it
was fun. He pitched very well. Yes, that's exactly how he pitched.
He pitched very well. Yeah,that was a good game. I

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mean they only got those two runs, and they got them in one swing
of the bad if I remember correctly, did yeah, absolutely he did.
Yeah. He pitched strong, verystrong, almost one hundred pitches. Come
on, what you cut? Iwill try see. I'm want to go

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and I might go fishing. I'mready when you are, man, where
are you gonna go? I don'tknow, probably either wake or sure Conro.
You know, you don't have togo far to go catch a fish.
You really don't have to go farthat chances are whatever part of town
you're in, there's someplace you couldgo catch fish pretty close by. Some

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of the public parks, all thelittle city parks and state parks. They've
got water, and if they've gotwater, they've probably got fish and you
could catch them. You just gottagotta bring down your expectations a little bit
and be happy with a few littlefish, and all of a sudden you'll
find them. They're there. Yep. Did your son one their game yesterday?

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You know? True to form forthis little team they have, they've
played three three games. They wonone, they lost one, and they
tied one. That They're just allover the board, Brandon. They're all
over the board, and I neverknow what they're gonna do. I never
know which little bunch of them isgoing to show up, so to speak.

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And when they're on, they're great, and when they're off, it's
like, oh, that's kind ofmessed up. So anyway, it's a
lot of fun, a lot offun to watch them. I'm getting great
reports. And I have a websiteor an app that I can use to
watch the games. I will,I will, I will watch. It's

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called Game Changer. All the allthe all the kids who play these travel
ball things. I'm sure all thosegames get shown on there. All right,
Hey, I blew, I gottarun, I gotta take a break.
Man. All right, thank you. Yeah, great to hear from
you, Brandon. I'm glad youcalled. Man. Thank you. He's

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bringing an astro's luck. I thinkI think he does bring the astro some
luck. I agree he's got.But he's got to stay up to the
end. Man, You got tostay up to the end. You can't
I tell between us, tell mywife. I got to go up and
watch the Astros. Oh you don'twant to stay here and talk to me.
I would love to, but theyneed me. They need me.
And she said, really, youthink the Astros can't win without you listening

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and watching. Uh yeah, yeah, that's it. And I go back
down. I'll go back down andtalk once the game settles out. But
I do. I still just havethis passion for baseball. I love the
game. I love the the intricateparts of the game that the little subtle
stuff that goes on that the averageobserver of just somebody who goes to a

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couple of games a year doesn't reallypay attention. There's a lot of stuff
that's going on even when it doesn'tseem like anything's going on in a baseball
game. And that's one of thethings that intrigues me. It's like it's
like chess, only more common.Iplicated seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me Doug pick At, iHeart Media. We are Sports Talk

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seven ninety. Listen online at sportsseven ninety dot com. Now more dog
fight all right, welcome back DogpikeShow on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thanks
for listening. Certainly do appreciate it, you know, I do. I,
Oh, Melman, I was gonnatell you that one of my neighbors
had the fence between two yards blewdown, and his neighbor came over and

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asked him if he'd seen his dogbowl, and the guy said, I
didn't even know he did. Wait, his dog bowl. Yeah, dog
bowl, he said, I didn'tknow he did. He got it now,
Yes, I saw that. There'sone of those little silly dad joke

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things where these two guys are justsitting there telling dad joke back and forth.
That's a great one. That ispretty good. Yeah, you see
my dog bowl. I didn't evenknow he did, all right? Seven
one three two one two five sevenninety. That one kind of tickled my
funny bone a little bit. Andthere were many many more that did not.
Some of them are pretty lame,but some of them are like that
One's kind of cool. All right. I got a message yesterday that Matthew

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wanted to discuss secret spots and howto keep a spot. Secret fishing spots
I'm talking about, And the truthis there is there are no more secret
spots unless you unless you buy athousand acres and build a thirty foot brick

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wall around it. And build adome over it, and then dig a
hole in the middle of it andfill it full of water. That's the
only way that you're you're going tohave a secret fishing spot, because otherwise
somebody else is going to find it. Now, you might find some way
to gain access to a spot thatis privately held or managed or whatever,

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but as far as just public watergoes, there are no secret spots.
What I will tell you, though, that you can do to make a
secret spot a little more yours,a little more suitable to your fishing hopes
and dreams, is just not telleverybody how you fish it or where you

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fish it. And I've experienced thatwhere I am out there at at that
golf club, I have access,and there are other people who have access,
and I will happily share with themmost of what I know about where
I've caught bigger fish or where I'vecaught lots of fish, or how I

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how I choose my lures on particulardays and whatnot. And I share a
ton of information out there. Ireally do. I don't mind doing that,
but I still keep a couple ofthings tucked into my pocket because that
way, and honestly, there's absolutelyno way that I'm the only guy who's
fished any inch of that place.Between the kids who slip in from the

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neighborhoods and the members who are outthere playing other than myself, there's a
lot going on out there. Fishwas so with between drones and all the
apps about neighborhood fishing spots, that'sone thing that's kind of good and bad.

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If you get on a place likefish Brain. Fish Brain enables you
to kind of brag about what you'vebeen catching and where. And if you
look at all the little the littlepins that have been dropped and all the
places where people catch fish, wellyou'll come to realize is that you don't
have to You don't have to havea secret spot. What you need to

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make it work better is to havea lot of public spots unless you want
to go out and like I said, dig your own lake and put a
big fence around it. Now youhave to have access to and this is
for close to home, no boat, drive up, walk the bank's fishing,

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and you can kind of tweak theplace and learn it better rather than
trying to protect a place by nottelling anybody where it is. Because one
of the fun things about fishing isgoing fishing with someone else, especially if
you're like Joe Doggett and I were, and still are for so many years,
very competitive with each other. Wefished together everywhere from Mexico to the

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Bahamas to Louisiana, I try justall over Texas. We fished a lot
of places together over the years,and every time the two of us were
on the same water, there wassomething going on. There was a contest
between us. Whether there was aprize or not, it didn't matter,
but we both tried to outfish eachother and we became better fishermen for that.

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Places produce different ways, try differentlures, do all these things,
and just make that spot you haveeven if other people show up, just
make it yours. Maybe if you'rein if you're in the best spot and
somebody walks up and you're really confidentthat you're about to catch about to catch
a three four five six pound bass, or maybe get four bytes in a

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row. If two or three peopleshow up, just walk away from that
spot, wait till they go away. Make it better for you seven one
three two one two five seven ninetyEmail on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot
Com. I hate to bust yourbubble, Matthew, but there are no
more secret spots. There's just nowhereelse left to go. Just make make

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the best with what you got.I had a call or an email yesterday
from someone who wanted to we needto get that Melvin or no, okay,
hit it up. Who is it, Brent? Brent? What's up?
Brent? There we go? Nowhe's up, Brent. What's up,

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buddy? Hey man, how youguys doing this morning? We're great.
I just wanted to see how thateast end of Gas and how that
fishing going on down there. Igot some family that lives down out there,
and they said it's going okay andeverything. But I just wanted to,
you know, get a professional attalking about the beach front. Yeah,

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pretty much. Yeah, I cango get a live camera. Look
how far east are we talking about? I don't know, three four miles
down there off the east end.Yeah, just be towards the jetty.
Let me see. Yeah, probablythe closest. The closest I could pick
up. That's gonna really tell meanything. I have forty third Street here.

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Let me get that camera up andI'll take a look. I was
looking at the nineties street for ninetyfirst Street, fishing pier in the wall
was really dirty. Yeah, fortythird Street it's calm. It's calm,
but it does appear to be kindof like off color, muddy, off
color. Let me see if Ican catch a sun a sunny view all

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the while I'm going the other wayone hundred miles basically surfside JETI park.
But at least I think this onewill give me a better sun angle.
I can see if there's any colorat all in that water, but I
doubt it. Ah, that one'sbeing upgraded. Can't get that one.
Let me go back to Galveston.I will look at twenty eighth Street,
and I suspect it's gonna look awhole lot like forty third be flat and

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dirty, which is drive you crazykind of water right there. Yeah.
The other day I was arguing withthe old lady and she started packing up
her stuff and I asked her,I go, uh, what are you
doing? You know, she startspacking up her stuff. She goes,
well, you know, I'm movingto Vegas. And I asked her,
I go, well, what areyou doing that for? And she goes

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because out there in Vegas, becauseapparent on the vekers is like, you
know, I start packing up mystuff. She asked me what I was
doing. I go, well,I want to move back today because she
goes, what are you doing that? Oh my goodness? Oh man,
all right now, no, no, no, all right, goodness gracious,
that was inappropriate, and I apologizeand Mercy Sakes alive. Mercy Sakes

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Alive. Seven one, three,two, two seven ninety. Email me
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ultra light record. I tell youwhat. Let me take a break here.
I want to do that and regroupand we'll be right back. Doug
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We are Sports Talk seven ninety.The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike
Show nine thirty two on Sports Talkseven ninety. Oh ho oh man,
Okay, yeah, we'll figure thisout. Someone five seven nine Email Medugpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh,let's get Richard on the phone. See

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what's up Richard? What's up,buddy? Well, I have a dilemma
that I thought maybe you could kindof help me figure out. Okay,
uh. Down in the League City, San Leon Baycliff area, and I
have two or three secret ponds thatI bass fish almost every day morning and
evening. In fact, I justcaught five or six. I'm on my

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way home listening. I thought i'dcall. There is a pond down in
Baycliff that I frequent a lot overthe last couple of years that got real
low last year with the drought.This year it has developed a lot of
scum on the top, just nastyscum to where you almost no place to

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cast. Oh wow. After thestorm, I went down there three days
later to see if maybe the windblew that scum off, like it has
once or twice on some big windystorms, And sure enough the pond was
clear. It was like, hey, this is nice. All the scum
is gone. Yeah, and it'sclear. But I could see the water

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line about of the trash, aboutfifteen feet out of the banks on the
on the grassy shore, and inthat grass line just above it, there
were thousands of dead fish. Ohwow, big bass, big bass,

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okay, blue gill. They wereAll that was left on them were the
heads, heads and empty eye socketsand their skeletons obviously the critters. Yeah,
yeah, the turtles and yeah,turtles and coyotes, coyotes and buzzards
and out there, and uh,I can't imagine. I videoed it.

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I could send it to you ifit's important later, but videoed it just
to show my buddies that fish there. They couldn't believe it either, but
there were. The shore was linedwith thousand, big big three four five
pound bass, uh, which Iwas used to catch it and releasing all
the time out there, And Idon't know, I can't imagine. Did

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the wind blow them out of thewater? Probably, I think that,
Yeah, I'm not sure. That'sa tough one. That's a tough one.
I thought either the wind blow them. They were hiding up in the
grass trying to be safe, andthat wind must have whipped up so heavy
that maybe a little funnel cloud liftedthem out. That's possible. Yeah,

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in a situation you like that,almost anything as possible. Almost anything is
possible. Well, I even thoughtmaybe some toxins got in there somehow.
I don't know how. There's noflow into this, it's strictly no.
Well, yeah, and the rainwater I do. Don't think would have
heard it much, but I dothink that, yeah, there's a possibility

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that there are two things at playhere. There may have been because it
was so hot and there was somuch scum on that water before that,
that lake may have just run outof oxygen and the fish died underneath the
scum, and then the the hurricaneexposed the dead fish. That's a possibility,

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I think. Yeah, I'm notsurprised there's no fountains in this pond.
Yeah, yeah, they could usesome circulation. All right, Yeah,
I wish I had a better answerfor you. Maybe somebody out there
does have a better answer, butthat this time of year, we're gonna
see some some little ponds turn overand and the oxygen gets depleted, and

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boy, it'll knock a bunch offish out real quick. That they can't
breathe, they can't live. Sowhen I get when I've hit home,
i'm on my way, I'm gonnaemail you this video so you can see
what I'm talking about. Yeah,I'd like to see that, I really
would. And all right, well, well, thank you. I hope
there's a few left to catch.I haven't fished it in the last week

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I've been in my little local ponds. I didn't see any fish on now,
but this find just uh fiber dress. Yeah, I hate I hate
that, you know, when yousee all those beautiful fish dead beautiful fish.
All right, well, thank youso much, man, I appreciate
the call. Thank you, yes, sir, audios. All right,
let me scoot into these emails thatI'm getting here, Billy, what are

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some of the stronger, more reliable, and relatively easy knots for tying braid
to a swivel or straight to ahook. They're way way too many,
first of all, and I can'tremember the last time I tied braid straight
to a hook. Actually, Ialways had a leader, and the fastest,

(01:03:57):
easiest leader to braid not for meas the surgeons loops and just just
run it through three times and wetit, sense it tight, and off
you go. You can just pullit down tight and that'll hold forever and
ever. It's fast. You cando blood knots if you want to do

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that, but they get a kindof awkward and sometimes we'll slip a little
bit. I just like those loops. The loops just cinch down on each
other. And now there are somebeautiful knots that I have seen on YouTube
lately. People send them to meand or they just show up in my
feed because of how much fishing Ilook at, and I want to sit

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down and learn to tie a coupleof those, But I hesitate because I'm
I've already doing pretty well with theknots I have, and I only tie
two or three. I would,you know, honestly, I would.
Instead of me telling you to tiethe knot I'm tying, I want you
to go and do a little bitof research and just find one that you
tie, that you like to tieand that will serve you well, and

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practice it enough times that you couldalmost tie it in the dark, because
invariably you're gonna be out there ona day when the fish start biting right
before dark and something breaks you off, and you're going to have to do
that in the dark without reading glasses. That's what I struggle with now,
trying to tie something up close inlow light, but you'll still be able

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to get it done. The knotsI tie, I tie, I feel
like I confidently could tie them withmy eyes closed if I had to,
So that's kind of the way itdoes. It see Travis, I want
to go to now. Thank you, by the way, Billy for that.
Travis just tuned in, busy Am. It doesn't matter what kind of

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pet you had, the or buddyyoh yeah, yeah yeah. Travis was
weighing in. He man all throughthat last week's heat and all that gosh
awful mess, that gosh awful messof what we went through. He was
dealing with a six week old puppyand good looking dog too. By the
way, little bitty old thing gonnaget a lot bigger knowing what he's got

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there. That's checked. Check thatbox, check that box, and you
know what. Let's go ahead andtake a break early so I have a
little bit more time when we comeback. I'm gonna talk about something that
came up at an email yesterday thatI haven't gotten to today. I'm also
gonna give you a rundown of theleaderboard in case you're not close to one
for the Open Championship. And otherthan that, I want to talk about

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fishing with ultra light lines and leadersreally quickly. For Alan, do you
ever use a barrel swivel to attachleader to mainline? I haven't thrown soft
jerk baits in a long time,and that would have been the only time
I would have done that to keepthem from twisting in a situation where you
might be working ten percent of yourline back after a long cast as a

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fishing in the fishing area, andthen ripping it back real quick to get
it back out to that long rangeshot. That's the only time I used
to use little swivels, and Iwouldn't put them more than about eight inches
or a foot above the lure,because that's you need to get that lure
up closer to the rod tip tomake a good cast. So no,
I'm not a huge fan of barrelswivels unless you're using that to keep say

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in a worm fishing situation where youwant to use a Carolina rig and you've
got to have that weight sliding onthe line above well above the lure.
That's about the only situation for that. All right, when we get back,
we'll well, we're gonna do alot of stuff. We're gonna bundle
a bunch of stuff into this lastsegment time all of a sudden times kind

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of slipping away are sports stock sevennineties Houston. The sports where you go
with an iHeartRadio Now now get moreDoug all right, welcome back Dougpike Show
on Sports Talk seven ninety. Ohmy coffee's gone cool, Gone cool?
I say seven one three two onetwo five seven ninety Email Medugpike at iHeartMedia

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dot com. I want to getback to an email from yesterday about ultra
light fishing and how how fun itis if you really want to get into
it, and how different it isfrom just standard fishing. And over the
years I've had the opportunity to fishwith some guys who really were into that.

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Even offshore, I've caught king mackerelon two pound test line or class
line, which maximum breaking strength istwo pounds. It's almost like fishing with
human hair. But if you havea very soft, very flexible rod to
absorb the shock of sudden acceleration andruns and changes, it's it's doable.

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It's actually doable. I've caught selfishon on eight pound line and caught some
other big fish in open water onpretty light line, and the question was
in the email was how do youkeep from breaking off in structure And ended
up with a bunch of fish downthere with hooks in their mouths. And

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you kind of can't. And ultimatelywhat I wrote in there was that maybe,
well not maybe, certainly in mymind's eye. Anyway, ultra light
fishing should be reserved only for openwater. If you're fishing around rocks,

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you're fishing around. If you're tryingto bass fish in normal bass fishing cover
with two or four even six poundline, you're probably gonna leave hooks in
fish's mouse. They're gonna break youoff. They're gonna tangle themselves around something,
and the line's gonna snap, andthey're going to have a lure hanging
out of their mouths for however longit takes them to shake it, and

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it may not shake out, dependingon what it is. And that's something
else to think about too. Ifyou're gonna go after it with ultra light
tackle and ultra light lures, wellnot ultra light lures, but just ultra
light gear. Number one, goahead and mash the barbs down. It
doesn't matter, and it'll help thatfish shake it. If it does actually

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break you off, just out ofpower. Number two. Don't do it
near anything that could change the pathof your line through the water. Offshore,
I had no problem at all fishingthat stuff. We were dropping back
well behind rigs and pipe stands andwhatever else out there are over deep deep
rocks and fishing up shallow and catchingis a pretty big fish. We'd chum

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those king mackerel up behind the boatand then just throw a bait out to
them and they'd snap it up andtake off running, and it was a
lot of fun. It took foreverto catch those things on that super lightline,
but it was challenging and fun.I had one actually, I was
trying to trying to break a fourpound tippet record for king mackerel on a

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fly, and actually, boy,I rigged up about ten ten leaders because
I knew we were going to breaksome fish off and on and on and
on. And the very first shotI took, we caught the fish and
it was about I don't know,it was about a twenty pounder. It
It was a good fish. Wehad it right there and I said,

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break it off, we can geta bigger one, and was not break
it off, but just unhook it. We'll get a bigger one. So
we got it up close, retrievedthe fly, and sent that one on
its way, and in the nextthirty minutes or so proceeded to botch the
whole. Every other leader I hadalready made and was ready to fish with

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just kept getting broken off one afteranother. And it wasn't necess necessarily well,
it was user error because I wasa rookie, for sure, I
made I made a lot of mistakesin hindsight on that trip and should have
done things a couple of things differently. But the bottom line was I was
getting I was getting broke off justby the strike. Those fish had gotten
in that chum so heavy and wereso aggressive that just the actual just the

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pop of that hit was snapping thatfour pound stuff. I didn't know a
whole lot about ultra light fishing backthen. I did. I did say
in that email, though, thatI think it really would be a legitimately
good idea to just just not eventhink about fishing lightline, uh in any
kind of cover. It's an openwater sport, it's an open water discipline,

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and it's it's it's a next levelkind of a thing when you've caught
all the fish you want to catchon your traditional gear. A lot of
people then moved to fly fishing,especially down here. You don't really start
fly fishing start with probably a spinningrig. Then you go to a bake
caster, because people in Texas throwbake casters. Once you get out of

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Texas, going around the Gulf Coastand all the way up the East Coast
and on the West coast, overwhelmingpredominance of spinning gear, and that starts.
It starts. Actually, Louisiana ismore bait casters than most of the
other states. But once you geteast of Louisiana, all the way around
Mississippi Coast, Alabama, Florida,up through the Carolinas, all the way

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up, almost everybody throws spinning gearinshore, offshore. Whatever they're throwing.
That another bass fishermen are heavy intothe bait casting stuff, But saltwater is
almost all spinning gear, and withgood reason. It's certainly functional, and
it certainly is up to the task. The newest and latest and greatest spinning

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gear is excellent equipment, there's noquestion about it. I just I prefer
the more direct connection, the moredirect connection to the rod and reel of
the bait caster, than I dothe spinning reel where the line is four
or five inches below your your fingertips. I want to be able to put

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my thumb on that spool and feelthat line going out with the same hand
that's holding the rod, and baitcasting gear allows you to do that.
With spinning gear, you can youcan kind of touch the spool and do
what you want to do. Butit's not nearly the same, not nearly
the same. Seven one, three, five, seven ninety. Got time

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for probably one more call before wehave to punch you out of here,
and I'm going to be going home, uh to put one more bag of
leaves. I'm going to reduce thepile at the front porch to one more
bag of leaves and a shorter stackof leaves. I've gotten mixed review or
not mixed, but mixed reports fromneighbors about whether or not they're actually going

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to pick up the loose debris leavesand limbs and whatnot. We've had emails
from the City of sugar Land thatsay, we'll get to it all.
You don't have to do anything withit. Just leave it there at the
curb. Don't put it in thestreet. Just leave it at the curb,
in your yard somewhere or on yoursidewalk, and we'll get to it

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sooner or later. And then therehave been other emails that say that it
has to be in those translucent,if you will, leaf bags so that
they can be sure that's what itis. I don't know what anybody else
would be thrown away at the curbwith a big stack of leaves out there,
And you don't have to bundle either, but I've already got I think
six bundles of twigs. Looks likethe three little pigs could build a house

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out of those sticks. Man.And that's just a little bit of what
there is all right now. Butanything, I'm oh, I have one
more. By the way, Iwrote a book on reverse psychology. Don't
buy it? Wow? You likethat one? Yeah? Which one's better
than dog bowl or that one?I'll take the dog bowl? Yeah,

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me too, I too. Haveyou seen my dog ball? I didn't
even know he did. You knowwho's gonna use that joke at some point?
Who's that? Travis? He's gotthe new dog? Uh a lab.
By the way, I love laboratoryretrievers. That's my favorite dog of
all time. There's no question aboutit. They're they're great family dogs,
they're great watchdogs, and they're outstandingretrievers. And that cannot be said for

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some of the little foo foo dogsI see walking around walking around the neighborhood.
I'm just I'm a hunting dog guy, I really am. I love
watching pointers work. That's something elsethat I'm is on my list this year.
I didn't get to go quell huntingat all last year, and I
want to put it back, pushit back up to a top burner.
I am still trying to squeeze ina trip down to North Padre Island,

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see sure, And I'm waiting.I keep calling Cliff Web to see when
is going to be the right time. And boy, I'm just gonna get
in the car and go. I'mgonna I'll be hitting these little hitting this
keypad in front of me, takingabout two days maybe three of vacation,
depending on how I time it out, and I'm gonna get that done.

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I have not been down there eitherin a while. I'm getting my fixes
up here with some good friends andgetting to fish and catch catch as many
fish as it takes to satisfy me. But I want to go beyond just
that minimum. I got to getback out and man, I got lots
of fish left to catch, andI plan to live long enough to get

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it all done too. I gota couple of trips I want to make.
I think we all should. Ithink any fisherman who truly is passionate
about the sport like I am,should have a couple of bucket list tripped,
bucket list trips that maybe you make, maybe you don't, but they're
still on your list. And ifyou if you were to win the lottery,
for example, yeah, now,now we're going different places than if

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I don't. I guarantee you weare. I'm gonna take some friends and
we're gonna go. And well,no, I wouldn't buy a jet.
I think even if I won thelottery. I don't think if I won
three hundred million dollars, I don'tthink i'd buy a jet. I don't
need a jet. I just Ijust need some a few airline tickets or
a charter. That's what I'll do. I'll rent it, all right.

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We'll step away from fantasy land hereand get back to it next week.
I start Monday, Monday through Thursday. That's when fifty plus is going to
be live on kPr C at noon. Shifting my off day to Friday still
gives me one good solid day toplay a little golf. Huh. We'll
be back next week here Saturday morningat seven. God Will and thanks all

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of you for listening. I reallyappreciate it. Audios.