The Doug Pike Show 7-27-2024 Go to baits

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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.
Saturday version of the program starts rightnow under rainy skies that are gonna
continue to be rainy quite some time, quite sometime today. I looked at

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the Weather Channel radar just about Idon't know, ten minutes ago or so,
and it's looking like it's going torain around here anyway close to noon.
That's one we'll see a little breakin the sky. It's going to
take a while. Melvin, howare you coming out this week? I'm
doing pretty good. Any issues withthe rain where you are, no issues

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at all. We're doing fine.You know. I've heard guys talk about
getting as much as six seven eightinches of rain in some areas. My
area fortunately didn't get that much.But it's just been this miserable Portland like
experience where I think I talked aboutit this past week. There's up in

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the Northwest they get about the sameamount of rainfall we do, only they
get there's a quarter of an incha day almost every day. We save
it up. Well, it's likenature's got a big bucket up there,
and it's just it's raining into thatlittle bitty bucket until it's just a bucket
can't hold anymore, and then itjust dumps on us. Right. Yeah,

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it's a lot of rain we getdown here when we get it.
And of course this past year,I was gonna look it up and I
forgot to. I was trying tofind out and maybe you can research this.
I'm trying to find out what dayour one hundred degree stretch started and
how many days it persisted. Ithink it was Gosh, I don't remember

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exactly how many days, but thefirst the stretch of one hundred degree days
this past summer. Just to giveus some perspective on on what we can
I don't know, I don't Idon't want to say anticipate. Nobody anticipates
and and hopes for hot hot weather. You find something once you got I

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am seeing here. Uh oh boy, let me see. Let me get
to Yeah, it takes it now, take a little time. Yeah,
it felt it felt like it ranfrom about I don't know, February to
September, and the hindsight and thinkingabout how dismally hot it was all summer
long, dry, dry, dry, and we just couldn't get a break

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from it. And what we're gettinga break now. It actually was pleasant
yesterday evening, by the way,in the high seventies or so. The
only the only drawback is the humidity. And if you haven't gotten used to
Houston's humidity after about the first threeweeks you're here, you're gonna be miserable
the whole time you're here. Thisis just something we've lived with in Houston

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throughout history, and so long asHouston is still here, it will be
humid and sticky and nasty. Andsome days you'll walk outside and you'll just
feel like you can you can graba handful of air and feel the weight
of it. You just put yourhands out and hold them there for a
minute, and they'll start to feelheavier from the all the condensation that gathers

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in them. Seven one two twofive seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot com. I got allkinds of stuff just popped up on my
screen over here for no good reasonand uninvited. By the way, where's
my mouse, my little cursor?Take that down? I can take that
down because I have it typed up. Now take that down and get back

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to the emails. Okay, we'rein good shape. Yeah, I have
a lot of stuff I want totalk about this morning, and I think
one of the things putting on mylittle safety sam hat. There are two
and actually there's a third, butI'm not going to get into the third
one. But there are two verysignificant water safety issues that came up this

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week. Just yesterday, the CoastGuard rescued two divers who went missing.
About that. They went missing Wednesday, about fifteen miles off Mattagorda. The
Coast Guard did what the Coastguard does. They put boats in the water,
They put helicopters in the air,at least one airplane in the air,
and covered about sixteen hundred and somethingsquare miles and fortunately, fortunately on well

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see yesterday, I guess it wasthey spotted. Bear in mind, they're
searching under a low ceiling, andyou can't get up on top of clouds
and search the water, so theyhave to fly under the cloud ceiling which
was very low for the last severaldays, and the water was really rough,

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and it's almost and almost is thehint at the outcome of this almost
impossible to find two people floating inthe Gulf of Mexico anywhere. But they
did because one of those two peoplehad an emergency beacon that was still flashing.

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And but for somebody in one ofthose I believe it was in one
of the helicopters spotted that flashing lightin this vast sea of gray and dark
gray and darker gray, they spottedthe light. They found these guys and
hauled them back to Freeport Coast GuardFreeport, and considering what they had been

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through, considering what they'd been through, they came out pretty good. They
were customs, grapes and sunburn anda lot of things. But to have
been in the water for some Idon't know, thirty six hours something like
that and that and come out ofthere even halfway hole, that's pretty darn
good. That's pretty darn good.On the on the flip side, on

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the on the far less favorable outcomeside, Uh, there were three people
hospitalized and two others missing after theirboat crashed into the Galveston Jetties. That
was several days ago, I believe, and uh, shortly thereat. Three

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people got rushed to the hospital andthe other two went missing. Like I
said, and one there was onebody found nearby, but for some reason,
at the time of the story thatI read was written, the coast
Guard wasn't ready to confirm that itwas somebody who had been on one of
the one of them, or beenon the boat when it hit the rocks.

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Anybody who well, if you're goingto go in and out of the
jetties, you need to know wherethey are, and when you get close,
you need to slow down. Anybodywho hits the jetties at full speed
has made a horrible error that isabsolutely positively not going to end well.

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And there are pictures all over theinternet thanks to instant sending, of boats
that have crashed into jetties, boatsthat have crashed onto land. And I
don't know what the cause was ofthis particular accident, but a lot of
times people have been drinking a littlebit, they're not paying attention, usually

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on pretty bright sunny days, becausethat's when, according to boating safety experts,
that's when a lot of people letdown their guard. They feel like
everything, Oh it's a beautiful sunnyday, the water's calm, Oh this
is going to be just so muchfun. Oh, look look at the
seagulls over there, Look at that. Look there's a dolphin coming by,

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and they just don't pay attention.Nobody on the water, nobody in the
boat is paying attention to the boatthat's coming at them, because everybody on
that boat also is not paying attention. And it's just so vitally critical,
so critical to have yourself at leasttwo people on board who are paying attention

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all the time, and you couldrotate it. Not anybody should be assigned
to You have to have somebody soberat the wheel for starters. That's a
good idea. And bear in mindbeing having been drinking while you are driving
a boat. The least horrible thingthat might happen is you might just lose

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control and spin out and somebody getjust shuffled across the boat unexpectedly. But
if you get into a more seriousaction where people are seriously injured and it
comes to light that you were drinkingwhile you were operating that boat, now
you get into legal trouble, andlegal trouble that could last you years,

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like two to ten, depending onwhat happens to the people in the other
boat. It's just not worth it. It's just not worth it. Somebody
needs to be sober driving the boat. Somebody else on the boat, maybe
even someone who's had one beer ortwo, needs to be eyes on all
around, just head on a swivelthe whole time, preferably two sober people,

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prebably, And it's hard these days. I understand to look around and
find nobody amongst a group of guyson a boat drinking a beer, but
it's a really better idea to justtry to do it sober. Please.
I hate reading stories like this.I hate seeing them because at least two

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people out of that boat, oneof them probably the body that was already
found, the three in the hospitalthat there was no really detailed report on
their condition. And I'm not tryingto drag everybody down here on a Saturday
morning, but I just I justcringe every time I see a boating fatality,
every time I see a hunting accident. It's just ninety nine probably at

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least ninety five percent of these thingsare preventable, and it's not doesn't take
a PhD to prevent them either,it's just common sense. That's all,
just common sense. Seven one threetwo one two five seven ninety Email me,
Doug Pocket iHeartMedia dot Com. How'dyou come out over there, Melvin?
And he luck yet, Yeah,we're fine, good things here in

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the state of Well in the cityof Houston, yeah, July nineteenth,
okay, so we've already passed that, right, that was our our one
hundred degree weather kickoff. However,in the state of Techs ooh, okay.
In the state of Texas, wehave from June ninth to July thirtieth.

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In the city of Austin was justcat hundreds consecutively. Oh so yeah,
but you know, Austin's so weirdanyway, I'm not that might maybe
it'll cook some common sense into them, could right? Right? Maybe?
All right? So, and howlong did it persist down here? Is

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there any evidence of that yet orany No, No, not at all.
Huh, go ahead. I believeit's the it's to feel like temperature.
You know, I'm not a bigfan of feels like. No,
it either is or it isn't.If it's if the temperature, If the
thermometer says ninety, then it's ninety. If thermometer says forty two, there's
forty two. I get it.I get and I get it, and

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we're all we're grown up, Sookay, if the wind's blowing a little
bit when it's forty two, itmight feel a little chillier. Stand outside
naked sometime on a calm day,you'll feel the real temperature. If the
wind starts to blow, you'll cooloff right, and you'll be glad you
did, probably until it's about thirty, right. I don't know how those
people on Naked and the freights urvive. I really don't. They're curled up

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in a ball. They've got ateeny little campfire and they show that thermometer
on the screen and it's like fiftysix degrees and raining sideways and they're trying
to keep their fire going and nota stitch of clothes on. Great,
Yeah it is. It really isanything to get on TV. I guess

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you know. Yeah, No,I'm not doing that. Could you ever
see yourself doing something like that?I pass? Ye had hard pass?
Man, whatever the hardest pass is, that's the pass we're taking. This
is Sports Talk seven ninety on TheGoal with iHeartRadio Friends. You've got to
try. The conversation continues this asThe Doug Pipe Show seven nineteen on Sports

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Talk seven ninety. The Doug PikeShow. Thank you for listening to do
appreciate it. Have a need ofmy sunglasses in about what four days?
Holy cow? Need a scuba maskand a snorkel. Oh my gosh.
I dealt with a little roof leakat my house too for three straight days
and it's knock on wood. It'sit's better now. I think we're okay.

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I'll find out when I get home. It wasn't ever serious, serious,
like it was gonna collapse something,but it was just an annoyance and
a hard thing to try to sleepthrough. Well, let me see if
this is gonna work today, Melvin. Let's go to the phone, shall
we. Oh? Good at worked? Mike. What's up, buddy,
Hey, how are you Doug?I'm good good, Hey. I just

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I was thinking about this funny story. I went Quail Honey years ago when
I lived in San Antonio, andI took a friend of mine, real
nice guy. He used to bea rodeo clown up in uh Soul Ross.
He went to soul Ross one here. Jim's casey nice. Anyway,
we went down there and our church, this peanut farm down in Pearside.
You've been down to pierside, butpeanuts everywhere. And we went out on

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this farm and we were just walkingdutchline. We didn't have any dogs or
anything, hoping to scare something up. And we're walking along this deer fence
line and he's in front of meand I'm behind him. We've been out
there for forty five minutes. Ihad hardly seen the bird. And then
a quail jumps up and I shootit. And I was probably about ten
yards behind him, and he wasout to the left and cases to the

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right, and so he stopped andlooked. I went and picked up put
it in my vest, and we'rewalking. I thought it'd be kind of
funny just to act like I wasshooting quail, and you know, because
he was in front of me,he couldn't see it. So what I
would do is I would throw thesame quail up in the air and then
shoot and he turned around and hewould fall. And so I did that

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all the way back, probably aboutthirty forty minutes back, and I had
about ten birds according to him.Right. So we get back to the
truck. He goes, damn,man, I I just never kicked any
up. I go, yeah,I just I just got lucky. He
goes, I looked up for whatI said, started laughing like that.

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Yeah, that's pretty all right,you have a good Oh that's pretty funny.
We go get to Dave here,what Dave? Hey, we need
to get elving to do. Howhigh is the water mama by Donny cash
Boy. Yeah. Man, Wellmy prayer this morning was Lord, please
let put the switch off on therain for just a little wall war,

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you know sometime soon. Yeah,we are getting kind of hosed. Well,
I mean around my house. I'mserious, I'm almost getting the lake
around there. Well, I meanat least. I mean it's up on
blocks and everything. I ain't goingto get in the house, but it's
muddy and nasty. Oh and uh. On the rodeo clown deal, one

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of the magics boys that he wentto Saint Tis with us, he ended
up he ended up being a rodeoclown. And I'm like, if he
played soccer, yell, he playedsoccer. So when if you play soccer,
you're you know, a little bitabout dodging, all right. How
your men on those divers now,I thought about being a diver for a

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welding diver, you know, hegoes down and do the all wells and
stuff. But I couldn't pass thephysical Okay, but I mean I knew
how to weld. But anyway,did they have shouldn't they be carrying some
flares or something? Well, Idon't know whether they were commercial divers or
recreational divers. I have no idea. It didn't say in the story,

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just said two divers. And ifthey were, Yeah, if you went
diving, I think I would havea flare on me somewhere. Yeah,
But if you got flair, Idon't know if i'd trust a flare out
there floating around in the water.I mean, you'd have to have it
all sinched up in a in awatertight package and whatnot, and that's just

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something else you got to carry.I think I would trust the strobe light
more than I would trust the flare. And the flare is going to be
short lived anyway, that Strobe light. If you've got a good full charge
on a brand new battery, youprobably got twelve fifteen hours on that thing
at least. Well, they werethirty six hours out there. Now,
I would imagine that they weren't juststrobing it all the time. They probably

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fired it up when they heard airplanesor helicopters. But nonetheless that, Yeah,
if you make one mistake, you'rebobbing around in rough water, and
make one mistake with your flare andyou dip the hot end into the water,
you're done. I like it.I like the Strove light. I
like the Strobe light. Idea,think about that. But yeah, but

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I mean that's what I would dotoo, is as soon as you hear
something coming over, then start yeah, then whipping fire it up, sitting
little Morse code, me out ofthis water now. But yeah, yeah,
and what's mars cop whistle is?I forgot three dots, three dashes,
three dots, I'm sure three dots, yeah, something like that.

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Yeah, I used to remember,Yeah, yeah, I used to remember.
That's like Morris code. Yeah,that is Morse code. Hey,
that was in the back. Hey, that's where all the first telephone wires
were at all. Right, thankyou, appreciate you. See audios.
Holy cow, Rudy sent me video. I forgot about this. Also this

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weekend boating news is a whale cameup and absolutely capsized. Probably it looks
at me about twenty two twenty threefeet of boat. I'm not sure.
Exactly. It might have been twentyone, whatever size boat it was.
There were a couple of teenagers oryoung young adult men on there, very
fit and very capable of taking careof themselves. But that whale came up

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just out of nowhere and breaches andlands about the front third of its school
bus sized body on the aft endof that boat and flipped it right over
and out came the boys. Andthere were fortunately enough people out there whale
watching that somebody witnessed it and theyscrambled over there and got the kids out

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of the water. But that couldhave turned out a whole lot worse.
Wale didn't know what it was doing. Wale was just having fun and cruising
around and probably trying to knock acouple of barnacles off its back, and
kurse lamb hits about about a thirdof the way up the boat, coming
in from the starboard side and movingat about a forty five degree angle toward

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the port side, and absolutely flippedit right over. The ocean is not
a not a not an everyday friendlyplace. The ocean is can get you
from one hundred different angles. Watchingsome Shark week stuff. I guess it's
shark month or sharky year now onthat GEO whatever it was, last night

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there was a big shark story onabout shark attacks. That's what else are
dramatic attention grabbing show is going tobe about when the subject is sharks.
Although I did see one interesting storyabout bull sharks out of this one particular
river I think down in Australia maybe, And they were curious to find out

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whether the juvenile sharks in this particularriver system were related at all to the
bigger adult bull sharks out in theopen water around that region. And they
had a fairly small sample size.Actually, they had only been able to
recover samples from I don't know,just maybe a couple of dozen sharks maybe.

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And I'm guessing here because I didn'tI didn't just watch this thing front
to back. Yes, and theyhad about it. Half is, half
of them were adult sharks from outand open water, and half were juveniles
from up the river. And darnedif they weren't related. Several of them,
several of those adult sharks way outthere in the ocean were related to

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the offspring that were checked and sampledwell up river. Bull shark will just
keep swimming up river. They don'tcare how fresh it gets. They're pretty
they're pretty rough and tough. Letme catch Brandon here and then we'll go
to a break. It's up,Brandon. Hey, Doug, tell you
the value that on it? Onyou? You were talking with the guy.
That's all right, what's up?I know I stayed up almost to

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the end of the game, almostto the or did I stay up to
the end? It was right atit and I was so irritated because it
wasn't on television last night. No, it was on Apple. Yeah that's
what I heard. I just Iyou know what I did. I did
what most people probably did around here, especially if you don't have Apple TV.
I just turned on the radio yousee, iHeart app and listen.

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And it was It was the firsttime I listened to most of a ball
game in quite some time, andit was very refreshing. Did you of
course I did, absolutely, Iwas going to do the same. It
was good, It was, Itreally was. It was a different It
took me back to being a childbecause most baseball games were not on TV

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back then, and so you hadto listen to them on the radio and
we would just sit there in theden and eat potato chips and drink soft
drinks and listen to the games.And it was. It was fun,
It really was. And your imaginationcan just go wild. And how the
play is playing out and the theannouncer, the person is doing the play

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by play. That's a hard responsibility, it really is, because you're telling
a story in words that people reallywould prefer to see in pictures. Man,
it's it's a it's an art,it really is. Yeah, are
you gonna watch tonight's game? BecauseI'm going of are you? Yeah?
Where are you all Sittingbody's wine?Nice? Oh yeah, good for you?

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Man. All right, Well,he's doing great. He's doing great.
His game, his baseball game isgood, very good. He's kind
of taking a little break from golf. I don't know if he's gonna end
up liking golf as much as Ithought he would. But that's okay.
He's got a long ways to goand he'll figure it all out. Hey,
what's and I need you before?Is about today? Oh boy?

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Okay? Yeah, go charge thatbattery, man. Thanks Brandon. It's
great to hear from you, buddy. Audios. All right, we gotta
take a little break. This isSports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
Nighty dot com. Now more Dougfun a little more than a pre what
three weeks ago? Now? Arewe already three weeks removed from Beryl?

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At least right three weeks? Itjust seems in many ways if you look
at if you look on the onthe little piece of lawn between a sidewalk
and the street, in almost everyneighborhood in town, still you'll know that
Beryl hadn't been gone that long becausethere's still debris everywhere. Unfortunately, I

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wish they would get all that takencare of. City of Sugarland is taking
its time, and I understand there'sall kinds of drawbacks. There's so much
stuff to pick up. It justseems like it all got picked up more
quickly in some previous storms. Letme go get to Tim, see what's
on his mind. What's up,Tim? Hey, Tim, Doug,

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I was calling about your little boatstories. Now, sure this isn't this
isn't a personal story, but okay, kind of serendipitously, I was on
the internet this morning and I comeacross the video this couple out on some
type of barge craft. You know, I don't think it was like a
pontoon boat had some kind of heavyequipment on the front of it, and

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this I don't know, five footsix foot long seal just comes swimming up
and hops up on the boat.If they do that, and right behind
it it's an orca. Oh yeah, yeah, the lady going, the
ladies yelling at the seal, youcan't be on here, You're gonna get

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back in the water. And thenthey panned back and there's like five or
six orcas, yeah, positioned aroundthe boat wait for that seal that jump,
waiting for that seal to jump back, and that seal wasn't budget.
No, that seal is not goinganywhere. He wasn't going. Yeah.
If anybody gotten close to that seal, sealed probably grabbing by the seat of

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the pants and throwing them in thewater. I just thought it was just
it was just so funny that yeah, she'd yeah, and he'd look at
her. I'm not going nowhere.Have you seen the videos from when when
seals jump up on little ice floesto try to get away from the orcs,
and the orcas will rush in,like two or three of them will

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rush toward that little piece of icethat broken ice and then make a huge
wave and flip that ice up sodramatically that it causes the seals to fall
back in the water. They've gotit figured out. That's not fair well,
and finally found something. Yeah,that's exactly right. It's to eat

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or be eating. That's what itcomes down to. Thanks for the story,
Tim, it's great man, allright, you too, Yeah,
that's some I've seen lots of videoslike that where seals have come flying onto
boats. They've come flying into ontodocks. Well not docks. Orcas aren't
going to come close like that,but they will jump on a boat and

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they will stay close to a boatso close that the orcas can't really get
a good bite on them. Theywill hide anywhere they can hide in the
shadows, just under the hall.Try and play a little peekaboo with these
orcas, because that's and it almostlooks you can almost some people I think

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could giggle watching that, thinking,oh, look at him, he's trying
to stay away from that bigger fish. Well, bigger fish is not a
fish. It's an orca, andit's trying to eat that little guy,
the seal or the sea lion,whatever it is, and it's it's one
hundred percent survival mode, and thesurvival of both of them, well,

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the survival of the orca doesn't dependon it catching each individual little seal,
but the survival of that seal certainlydoes. It's amazing how intelligent those orcas
are too, and how they figuredit out ways to kind of outsmart their
prey. And yet nature keeps comingup with just enough seals to feed just

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enough orches. And it's a dancethey do every day in the ocean.
Every fish in the ocean, likeI wrote decades ago in the newspaper,
every every fish in the sea,for all the quadrillions of fish there are
in the sea, every one ofthem is only worried at any given time

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about two fish, two other fish, the one in front of them and
the one behind them. And that'sthat's how their lives work every day.
The one in front, that's theone that maintains them, sustains them,
It keeps them going because they getto eat it for lunch. The one
behind them. If they haven't eatenenough of the fish in front of them,

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the one behind them is going tocatch them and take them down and
maintain its life it's a beautiful,beautiful, it's a dance almost. I
saw something really cool, by theway the other day, and Michael Barry
beat me to the punch saying iton the air. But I thought it
was interesting. Uh, Melvin,imagine this the stars in the nighttime sky.

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Imagine that there are only holes pokedin the jar to let light in.
Wow. So in the jar wherethat leave was well being hell captives?
Wellney, we're bees. Why youknow? Yeah? Did you catch
bees like that when you were little? I sure did. I did too,

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man, And it was it wasan art for him to be able
to catch more and more and moreof them without getting stung. And boy,
we would get to I don't know, maybe in a court managed jar
you could probably get what eight orten? Was this? That sounded about
right? That's about right. Andyou know what, we also did it
with the coke bottles as well.So you do you put the land on
the little uh oh? Yeah?And didn't take that battle cap yeah,

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kind of like what I mean theease and yay, I didn't do the
coke bottle one man. Yeah,holy cow, go get Alan. I'm
gonna go to a break, okay. And when we get back. I
got lots of things I want totalk about here, I really do.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety,Facebook dot Com, Slash sports Talk seven

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ninety. Back to The Doug PikeShow seven eight on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Doug Pike Show. Thanks forlistening. Certainly do appreciate it. I
was just in the middle of avideo when we came back that The headline
says, giant marlin attacks me andsteals my tuna. This guy's spearfishing,

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and I've stopped it, and I'mit's it's right at a critical point.
It like it'd be like getting upin the middle of a movie, right
at the pinnacle of its action.And I'll see what it looks like after
that and if it's if it's halfas good as it claims to be,
I'll talk about it when we whenwe come back from this break. I

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got a couple of phone calls Ineed to take care of. Let's start
with Alan, then we'll get toKevin Allen. What's up, buddy.
You know it impresses me. Iwould like to see a video. You
look at them, you look ata black marlin, a blue marlin,
and you think you know, what, what can they do? What do
they eat? You know, youlook like a gray white shocks that got

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all these big teeth. Blah blahblah. But I would love to see
and I've heard of this a thousandtimes, you know, finding these six
foot tuna inside these black marlin's bodies, you know, and I'm thinking,
how in the world do they dothat? They must be an amazing fish.
I mean, because they don't haveI don't believe they have. They
gotta have some kind of teeth,but you know, they don't have teeth

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like a shark. It's a veryrough mouth. It's it's not teeth.
It's more like heavy no, notlike well maybe a little bit, but
it's there really teeth per se.It's just and that's why you can take
a nylon rope and comb it outto where it's just like a feathery horse's

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mane or something. And in Mexicothat's a lot of old school fishermen use
that instead of hooks to catch thosefish, because once they grab onto that
stuff, it gets all tangled upin that little wad of of abrasion and
it won't come out. So yeah, there's no teeth and like be crow.

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Yeah, yeah, it's very much. That's exactly. That's a much
better way to describe it quickly thanI did. Yeah like velcrow. Okay,
so you know that's the sill sidebarthere. So let me let me
say this. I get a coupleof thanks the real quick. Sure.
So if I live back in theRobin Hood days, I'd probably be the
first one hung because I don't havea big mouth when things need to be

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accomplished. Right, So, soI work for a state agency, and
and every where you live, youknow, I just heard you mentioned I
wish i'd get this to repick that. Okay, well, let me just
clear the air. Everywhere you live, no matter who you are, around
your area, there is a maintenancesection for the county that's that that takes

(33:15):
care of your area. Same waywith the state, there's a there's a
state area that takes care of theroads that are state roads around your area.
So if you want anything accomplished,all you got to do is goal
line, find that office, findthe supervisor of that office, pay them
a visit. I'll pay them anemail visit or a text. But you

(33:37):
know how you know the old sayingsqueaky wheel gets the grease because my my
supervisor of my little county area,he knows me personally. I'm not,
you know, stupid, I'm notthreatening, but I let him know what
needs to be done in so manywords, and guess what, maybe two

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or three weeks it's done. It'sdone. Good for you, man,
I get done that day, butit gets done. He goes, Look,
a lot of things is if youdon't live in the right area,
you don't drive the right car,they don't care who you are. But
if you let them know who youare, they're like, well, you
know, I got to shut thisguy up. And importantly you know that

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you're not a jerk, You're justsomebody who also needs help and is tired
of waiting. That's fairly yeah,Because like in one of the roads I
live on, we have potholes onoccasion, so I call them up.
I said, hey, this iswho I am, this is a road
I live on. We've got somepotholes. I appreciate you'all get out here
and take care of them. Andthey, of course they know me.
But uh, two or three weeks, you know, somebody, some of

(34:43):
the guys get out here and putsome material on them. You know,
you just got to find these officesand let them know, Hey, I
need things done on the roads Ipay taxes on. I'll be looking this
afternoon. Thanks man forget. Ijust want to go that out there.
That's yeah, that's good. Thinksdown and down and you know what snoopyes,

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is right down to Corpus I do. I got just about a minute
tho because I want to catch Kevinbefore the break? What you got?
Okay? Is there anywhere around therethat I can just go fish off the
bank without having to drag my boatdown there? There's a lot of water
around Corpus that you can fish withouta boat. Cliff Webb told me that
several years ago. I took myson down there. The beach front is

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amazing. You can you can tearthem up in the in the in the
surf. You can tear them upat Packery Channel. Uh you can.
I saw that on the map.There's a walk in road like between uh
A and M Corpus Christy and thenaval base down there, and there's a
mile a road you can walk.There's a little bridge there that you can

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actually fish. You got to becareful. You can't go too far,
you end up on the military baseand they'll come run you out. But
there's there's some pretty good fish inthere too that my son and I have
enjoyed. And really, as faras just walking in and fishing, down
there is a lot better than uphere in many ways. Yeah, okay,
yeah, you don't have to holda bat. Yeah, I mean

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I could, but I thought likejust flying so I could do a little
bank fishing or maybe catching you know, flounder or whatever. You know,
Packory channel. You're gonna you're gonnacatch fish there if you stand there long
enough for sure. Man, Okay, okay, thanks, thank you.
Let me go get Kevin up here. Kevin, what's up, buddy?
What's going on? Do Just tryingto get through another Saturday I've got I'm

(36:34):
trying to get used to this newschedule I'm on actually with fifty plus.
We we changed somebody from New Yorkand decided it was a good idea for
us to have our our staff meetingson Monday instead of Friday. So now
I can't take Mondays off anymore.I'm taking Friday. Or actually the meetings
were on Tuesday, they moved themto Monday, so I'm having to adjust
to that because yesterday I was off, which was kind of good, but

(36:59):
I realized about mid afternoon that Ihadn't really started the prep that I want
to do for today's show, andit's my day off, so I'm gonna
have to I'm gonna have to trainmyself to do all that on Thursday,
which is fine, and if somethingcomes up Friday, I'm not gonna skip
it. I just I just keepworking. Friday's off. No, not
at all, not at all.It's fun. I'll make it. I

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sent you a couple of emails earlier, one about the water levels down here
in Brissouria County. I'm out dodgingrain drops running my part. Oh lord.
That One of them was the boatramp there at Hanson Park and on
on the Bernard River. It's completelyout of its banks. Oh gosh.
Actually all the all you can seeis the top handrail of the hold of
that here, next to the nextto the ram and then chot the Baio.

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Yesterday it's out of its banks andit was it was crazy there in
Liverpool. You think you're going tobe good for the tournament next weekend or
no? Yes, sir should be. I'm scheduled to pick the scales up
on Thursday. That's the Texas KingfishClassic in kanxas Bate Championship there surfside Marina.

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The registration and captains meetings Friday eveningstarting around five o'clock and then they'll
be fishing throughout the day Saturday andcoming in and waiting the fish that afternoon.
It's the big Palapa there in theback corner of the marina. Well,
I sure hope you get some goodweather for that, because that'll that'll
rekindle the flame of offshore fishing forus and after so many days of just

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ugly. Oh yes, sir,yeah, And it's a it's a good
cause. All the proceeds that areraised to go to buy presents for underprivileged
children. Yep. Toy Run.Yeah. During December they do the Toy
Run where they have a boat paradeand each boat will be loaded down with
presents and they stop at each ofthe portocols between Freeport and Port O'Connor distributing

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toys to like the local police departmentsin the Blue Santa program helps them distribute
a lot of the presents. Ifthis weather keeps up, maybe you just
need to organize an umbrella and rubberboots run. Oh my word. Oh
yeah. Whenever I first called itand talk to your guy, I told
him I was calling in reference tothe ad for the slightly used arc.

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Melvin's in there laughing right now,Yeah, man, wanted arc any condition
at this point. We'll patch itup. We got guerrilla tape. We'll
patch it up. What's that stuffthat you spray on the guy makes the
boat out of it? What's thatspray? What's it called? You know

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what I'm talking about? Yeah?Yeah, it's like a rubber ized paint.
Yeah. Yeah. We'll get acouple of gallons of that and an
inner tube and we'll be okay.All right man, Thanks Kevin, all
right, yeah, call me nextweekend please. All right, audios,
all right, we're pretty close tobreak time. When we get back,
I'm going to tell you about anotherfishing tournament about which I heard some news

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yesterday and was to share with you, and I will do that when we
get back. This is the DougPike Show, brought to you by American
Shooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction sincenineteen eighty nine. Now Here's Doug Pike.
All right, second hour starts now. So boy, I'm looking at

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all kinds of stuff. I'm tryingto get my find my way through and
to a few things. As promised, I will tell you that the well.
First of all, I had acouple of responses when I was trying
to figure out what that stuff wason TV, and thankfully I have an
audience said is sharp as attack flexseal. It's flex seal. I was

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trying to explain it to Melbourne.This is the guy who takes a screen
door and builds a little frame aroundit, and then sprays the screen door
with flex seal and then straps alittle outboard to the back of the whole
thing and rides it around the lakelike it's a boat. I don't know
that I'd want to go fishing offshore in that, but he makes his

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point that the stuff is pretty waterproof, So hands down, that's that's not
a bad idea. If you everneed to turn a screen door into a
boat, I don't know how oftenthat's gonna happen. All right, moving
forward that the folks over at CCAwanted me to remind you that the tournament,

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the Star Tournament that's ongoing all summerlong, all the way through Labor
Day is still going on, andbecause we've had such horrific weather around here
and it's kept a lot of peopleoff the water, there's still a bunch
of tag redfish out there to becaught, a bunch and they want to.

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They have to by the rules ofthe tournament. They gotta give away
those prizes somehow, So they're tryingto encourage you, if you already are
entered, to get back on thewater, go fishing in places that lots
of people, because that's where they'vereleased most of these red fish. I
think they released one hundred and twentysix and there's only just been a relative

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handful cost so far, and everyone of them is worth a really big
prize. There are still some ofthose truck boat motor trailer packages to be
one. All the way this farinto the tournament, there's still some of
those available, so not a badidea. Also, still a lot of
scholarships at play, And if you'vegot kids who need to go to school

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someday and you don't have a bunchof money saved up for that, not
a bad idea or a bad excuseto take them fishing. As many times
as you can, as many timesas you can. So if you're not
registered, go ahead and get registered, knowing that there are still an awful
lot of opportunities to win an incredibleprize in addition to being a member of

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a really good conservation organization for coastalresources. Back when I was editing the
magazine, there were I think itwas just really the relative handful of states
that we had the Gulf Coast covered, and then we're working the way up
the East Coast during my tenure aseditor of Todd Magazine, and now they're

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they've got it all covered. Prettymuch everything is covered through CCA, and
they do great work. They moveslowly, they move slowly. They are
a very much a measure twice cutonce group. But I think that has
overall over the years been advantageous tothe resources, and hopefully a bunch more
of you will sign up and getout there and win some prizes and do

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your thing for conservation. Let's gotalk to Brandon, shall we. What's
up Brandon? Good morning, mister, I'm good man, I'm good good.
I feel like it's it's duck weather. Word. Yeah, if only
duck season would be this warm.Too. That would be nice, right,
exactly exactly I wanted that guy.That's they've called in a lot of

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go about the fishing off the bankingCorpus Christi. I was born and raised
down there, so I did alot of fishing with my grandpa, and
if I had a choice, Iwould go on the Portland side, which
it would be on the if you'relooking at Corpus Christie, would be on
the west side of Corpus Christie.Right. Well, I don't know,

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I'm not familiar with all the terminologiesbecause I was very young. But if
you go to greg Ree, Portlandor whatever, they used to have a
pier out there and they called itIndian Point and but Hurricane Allen ripped it
up and I don't know if theyrebuilt it or not. But we spent
a lot of time out to catcha lot of trout. And there's there's

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a shell road that runs for miles. You can just get out there and
wait. There's grass beds, there'sall kinds of different things. But I
haven't been down there in years andhow much it's changed. But I know
that show road still has to bethere. But if you go into Portland
and ask where's the Indian point thatsomebody around there a local? Oh oh

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god, Then in the right direction. Yeah, once you get to Corpus,
pretty much any place you can youcan walk into down there, all
the way down to the Rio Grandealmost is probably gonna have at least a
few trout hanging out there, acouple of red fish, maybe a flounder

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or two. You're gonna get abite. I really believe that. I
do. I've fished up and downthat place. My old buddy Eric Kilton
and I when we were much younger, would go down to South Padre and
just drive along the Bay Shore Roadand if you saw a little sand cut
in there where you could drive outthere before we'll drive. We just park

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and walk out wherever and catch fish. It's it's that good down that way
compared to up here, where youreally have to you really have to pick
spots to be constant. Yeah.I like it exactly. I mean that's
what I do. I'm just likeyou. Yeah, I mean you can
drive along the highway and say,oh, there's a cut here, let's
cut in there and see where totake a look, see where it goes.

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Just make sure you're not going inthere at low tide on an incoming
todd right exactly, So I tryingto let the guy out. I mean,
if he pulls up Indian Point orgoes into Portland and that's where's Indian
Point there used to be a peerthat, I mean, used to be
a trout. Han. Yeah,well whatever's left of that pier probably still
is that you could just wade to. You know, that's right. I

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mean you can sure. I meanyou can get waist deep, and I
mean it's unbelievable when it's good.It's good. All right, Brandon,
thanks man, I appreciate that.Yes, sir, you're welcome. Thank
you. All right. By theway, that was Stephen Who or Steve
Jefferies who told me about osobeying anemail just a minute ago. And I
know the name. I don't knowthat I've actually fished in that area,

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but he pointed it out and letme see in the email exactly what he
said about it. Where'd it go? Where to go? Where to go?
Where to go? Come back?I know I didn't knock it out,
dang it. I'll have to gofind it. Oh no, here
it is right here, straight upsays they used to catch lots of trout
in os Obey years ago. Anyword on this place now, I don't

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know, but I guarantee you nexttime I go down there, and I'm
kind of trying, I'm kind ofplotting a trip, hopefully before the end
of summer. It's been because ofthese storms and weird weather patterns and whatnot.
The surf still, I think hasgreat potential down there to bust wide
open, and I'm keeping I'm stayingin touch with Cliff. We'll see fingers

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crossed. We will see if Ican coordinate and get down there and knock
it out a little bit. Let'ssee what Allan's got going on. Sometimes
sometimes I'm scared to open these becauseI don't know what they're going to be
showing me. Oh all right,that's pretty good, Thank you, Allen.
Oh I'm moving back to trout fishingdown south. One of the things

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that I've heard lately is how manypeople are still even with as many fish
is as clearly are out there.And I'm not saying you can't just you
can throw a rock. You can'tthrow a rock without hitting the speckled trout.
But there's a lot of fish.There's a lot of red fish.
There's a lot of trout, alot of miscellaneous out there that will eat

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a lure. And if ever,in your or anybody you knows fishing career,
if you will fishing lifestyle, ifever, you were going to learn to
throw lures and catch fish on them, now would be a good time to
do that. In our Texas baysystems, you're going to catch a lot
of little fish before you start catchingbig fish unless you really dive into it,

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just headfirst and learn and spend daysper week on the water. But
nonetheless, you can get comfortable andget confident with lures, which will in
the end save you a lot oftime and money. There's talk about some
of the bait camps down there aroundCorpus and farther south, even in Matta

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Gorda, where people will line upan hour or two before dawn just to
get a bucket full of croakers orpiggy perch or anything. They're just so
reliant on live bait that they endup missing the primetime bite because they were
still standing in line with twenty peoplein front of them and twenty people behind

(49:37):
them when the sun came up.I would rather be fishing with a lure
than standing in line with a bunchof guys who just woke up and maybe
had a couple of burritos on theway to the bake camp. And yeah,
it's just not a pleasant experience.And it's really even it's not much

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more of a guaranteed now this timeof year. The croaker bite, Yeah
it's good, there's no question aboutit. I if it just if you
just have to catch a fish,then okay, use your live bait.
But if you want to learn askill that will save you hours of fishing
time, it probably add at leastan hour to any morning trip these days.

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And go ahead and throw some luresright now. Throw soft plastics,
throw top waters, throw swim baits, throw anything. Accept live bait,
and give yourself a chance, giveyourself a chance. It's really not that
hard, It really isn't There's alot of there's a lot of information online
about exactly what lure to throw whenand exactly how to fish it and all

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of these things, when in reality, the lures themselves, in most cases,
can provide enough action to entice astrike. Throw a rattle trap in
the surf sometime when you're confident thatthere's trout out there and you'll get ate
up. There's saltwater rattle traps.You don't have to worry about the hardware.

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Just buy a couple of those,Buy a couple of mirrorures and throw
them. You don't have to domuch to them because a lot of the
bait fish that trout eat, alot of the baits that that redfish eat,
don't see the fish coming, sothey're not panicky looking. They're not.
It doesn't take a whole lot ofaction to entice a strike. It

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just has to be off the fish'snose somewhere and then twitch off the fish's
nose and twitch and that usually isenough. And it's just I would encourage
anybody who is one hundred percent livebait. Now, next couple of trips
you make, go back to yoursame spots that you know you've been catching

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fish for all your life, andjust tie on a soft plastic tie on
a da shrip, put it aboutthree feet under a cork, and pop
that cork every now and then,like you wild with a live shrimp.
It'll work. I promise you,it'll work. All right, we gotta
take a break. I don't workfor any lwer companies. I don't beg
lures from lower companies. I'll throwthem if they send them, I'll and

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I'll be honest about whether they workedor not for me. But I just
I just so much more enjoy fishingwith lures than fishing with live bait.
It just eliminates one. Lures don'tdie in a bucket. They don't.
You can. You can leave themin a bucket all day long and they'll
still catch fish all right, goingout. This is Sports Talk seven ninety

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a Houston sports fan on air andon Facebook at contact. Back to the
Doug Pike Show. Hi, Welcomeback, Dog Pike Show on Sports Talk
seven to ninety. Got so muchgoing on this morning. Holy Cow Forrest
Faux Pro Forest, by the way, came by the office to pick up
the certificates he won to go playgolf at Moody Gardens past week when we

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played the Texas Temperature Game, andI had those fantastic tusms to give away,
so we sat down for a fewminutes. He actually brought me a
couple of lures, a frog anda swim bait, and I m,
it thinks if the weather does exactlywhat I think, it's gonna do this
afternoon. I got a place Imight go toss that frog a little bit
and for sure should get bites onit, because this place I know has

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some good fish in it, andit's right now it's pretty choked up.
Even though the water's back up reallyhigh. This place has grass. It
comes all the way to the top. And so it'll be fun to throw
it to the edge of a holeand then just twitch it once and let
it kind of sit there, andthen twitch it again and move it into
the hole. I gotta hunch I'llget some pretty good byes. He also

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sent me video of the live scopecapacity he has on his boat but uses
seldomly because he'd rather fish than watchTV. And it's of a bunch of
crappy in some brush, and itreally it's almost it's captivating as a fisherman

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to see what's actually going on underneathyour boat when your lure goes down or
your mental I did. He didn'tsay whether it's usually the lure or many
I suspect it was some sort oflittle small jig, and you can see
the lure go down there about Idon't know it at my estimation eight or
ten feet off the brush, pileoff the fish, and then he kind

(54:27):
of dabbles it over into them,and sure enough, one of them comes
up and grabs it. Into themovie and the fight's on. And I
can see why a lot of peoplereally love riding around till they see a
big fish and then dropping something downto them. But I also think that

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part of fishing is the challenge,which this takes away. Part of fishing
is the anticipation. Part of fishingis not knowing what's under your boat and
having to learn about where you shouldtry to find that big fish based on

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what you can see from the surfaceand maybe just a little bit of information
about the structure beneath you. Butma'am, when you can identify specific species
of fish, as can be donenow with those electronics, I think there's
very little romance left in trophy fishing. There's very little mystery in bass fishing,

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for sure, very little mystery left. You know, if you're an
experienced professional, you know, lookingat that scope now, after three what
have they been out, five,six, seven, eight years? I
don't know, But you can lookat that scope and you can say,
oh, that's about an eight pounderthat one might be a or eleven pounder.

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No, let's don't bother with thatone. It's only about five or
six pounds. And that I thinkjust kind of it just it just washes
some of the shine off what Iused to get from fishing, what I
still get from fishing. Because Idon't have a scope I can carry around
in my pocket, I just lookat the water. I study the water,

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I study any ripple I see inthe water, and really analyze what
I'm looking at, and I canI can catch enough fish to keep me
happy, and I think that thatactually keeps me happier. I still want
to go jumping a boat with Forrestone day and experience this bass fishing.
But I'm also as soon as hesays, okay, let's turn the scope

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off, I'm not going to challengehim and tell him no, oh,
no, I'm hooked on this.No, I won't be turn it off,
and let's see what we can findon our own. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Emailme Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I
had an idea. I had anidea yesterday evening. Now that the Paris
Summer Olympics of twenty twenty four areunderway, and there are all these fantastic

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events, all of these wonderful events, thousands upon thousands of athletes. And
by the way, one hundred yearsago, in nineteen twenty four, when
Paris also hosted the Olympics, guesswhat was an event, Melboyne, an

(57:32):
Olympic event? An Olympic event withnevermind, you don't don't hurt yourself trying
to figure this out, because ina million years you would have not come
up with architect under way. Ithink I got one, okay, marble
shooting, Well, no architecture.What Yeah, that was an Olympic event.

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So clearly it wasn't all about athleticsat that point. It was about
skill and art and there were thingslike that included in the Olympics then.
And I'll honestly I'd take architecture backif they would throw out ribbon twirling there?
What is that about? Which bringsme to my question. If you
and I and a handful of otherfishermen could sit down in a room and

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come up with three or four fishingrelated events for the Olympics, what would
they be? One I can thinkof, And I talked to Melvin about
this earlier be long distance casting,kind of like the javelin, only with
a rod and reel in your hand, and you're throwing a chunk of lead

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that had some specified weight and usinga rod of a maximum length whatever that
would be designated, and a reelof whatever. Bottom line is long distance
casting. And make no mistake thatthat that is a sport, and there
are people who who participate in itvery seriously and can cast a couple of

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football fields and change. It's anamazing, actually an amazing technique they use.
And it there was Lou somebody Ican't remember his last name, Lou
mcketchen. Maybe I'm not certain anymore, but this guy put on a little

(59:27):
exhibition and took a swing at throwinga weight over the astrodome. If that
gives you any idea how confident hewas when he stood there beside that building.
And I don't remember how far thatlure got. I think it actually
might have made it most of theway or all the way, I don't
know, but it went very veryfar, and the news media gathered that

(59:52):
day were very impressed. I wishI could remember for sure that name,
and it may be right, thatname is sticking in my head for some
reason. The botom line is Ilook at that one as a potential.
I've got another one that I'm thinkingabout that would would be read if you

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look at one Olympic event, thenyou would have to look at this Olympic
event and it's it's more fishing relatedthan any well, it is fishing related,
and so I'll think about that.You think about that while we take
this break, and let me seeif I can get a couple of phone
calls and emails. What fishing relatedOlympic events could we hold? And it

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doesn't It really doesn't matter. Ifit's truly a fishing event where fish would
have to be caught, you don'thave to do it. You don't have
to do it in the River Saineif you're having the the Olympics in Paris,
because they've got the surfing event goingon and I can't remember how to
pronounce that name. I was lookingat it last night. But it's many,
many, like hundreds of miles away, as are the sailing events.

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So it doesn't matter where you couldYou could just as long as it's kind
of tied to that country, thehost country, and you could have fly
fishing events in almost any country inthe world except maybe the Middle East.
I don't know how much fly fishinggoes on there and any of it.
What are you got. I havethe name of the guy who casts the

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Who was it, Big Lou,Big Lou ballu mckecher. Yeah, from
Boma. All that's right, hewas from Beaumont. Yeah. Big Lou
could sling it, buddy, Theycould sling it a long way. That's
I did surf casting forever, builtmy own surf rods and all that when
I was a peer rat down therein Gallus and we would use those long
rods and specific reel to sling baitsseventy eighty one hundred yards off that pier

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and it was fantastic. All right, we're gonna take a little break.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety breakingsports News on Facebook twenty four to seven.
We'll get that information to them.This is the dog Pipe Show,
all right, Welcome back, DougFlake Show on Sports Tax seven ninety eight
thirty five. It is on thisdrizzly, rainy depending on where you are

(01:02:08):
Saturday morning. Let me go rollback out here and take a look at
the I'm gonna go back to theweather channel and catch this radar. I
want to refresh this. I wantto see what's going on now, see
if it's changed, if it willever load. Meanwhile, though, meanwhile,

(01:02:30):
my buddy Brad Schweiss from Houston GoldExchange brought up a good point about
the boat that hit the jetties,and that good point is that if that
boat was on auto pilot, Holycow, looks like it's gonna be a
little more rainy than I thought.Let's see, or maybe not. It
looks like it's trying to fall apart, trying to fall apart about ten thirty,

(01:02:52):
maybe eleven. Let's see what itlooks like then. And then by
noon, yeah, noon, itstarts really lightened. And by one o'clock
all of this and by this,I mean this round and I don't really
you know, it looks like everything'skind kind of moving east and might miss

(01:03:12):
us. After about one o'clock,I'm gonna put this back in motion real
quickly and just get an idea,make sure there's nothing else behind this wad
of garbage that's gonna yeah. Yeah, it looks like it's trying very hard
to move east of us. Nowthere is some stuff still south of Corpus
Christie that's coming off this wave,that may have a chance to get in

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here again. But the farther wego into the weekend, I think the
better our chances of losing all this. Holy cow, there is all kinds
of rain. When I've told backto see all of North America and even
Central America, and there is juststuff everywhere. Wow, Venezuela, Colombia,

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Trinidad and Tobago, they're all gettinghammered. Holy col'. The satellite
stuff is amazing in one sense,and then it's just so consuming because if
you start looking at it, youcan almost it almost becomes hypnotic. I've
got to get that off there,go to something else for a minute.
Seven one three two one two fiveseven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot

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com. I asked earlier before thebreak about ideas for Olympic events that are
fishing related, and I got Billyhad a good idea. I said,
I know you said distance, buthow about casting accuracy at different distances with

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light weights or flies. Now thatI've seen some really interesting casting demonstrations by
people who have they remind me ofthe people who put post the videos of
doing u intricate jump rope, littledemonstrations and things like that. I've seen

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some actual casting demonstrations that show thatpeople have to actually have some very great
skills at accurate casting. That couldbe could be turned into a sport.
It would probably take twenty years toconvince any anybody at the Olympics committee that
casting phishing lures would be an Olympicsport. But you could do that certainly

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with casting gear, and then youalso could do that with fly fishing gear.
And I think the fly fishing gearwould be if you could get fly
fishing into the Olympics, you couldeliminate the ribbon twirling because fly fishing is
every bit is graceful, but youadd the element of accuracy at the end
of the ribbon by dropping that littlefly into increasingly small targets. I think

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that would be. That would beI would watch that for sure. And
there are competitions in that. Justlike anything else that you look at,
distance casting, you name it,there are all kinds of ways. I
what do you got, how aboutOkay, the boats out in the water,
Yeah, and you have to attachthe boats at the trailer, Okay,

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in a timely move, yeah,without dunking the truck. Boat ramp,
yes, yeah, boat ramp,speed loading and speed off loading,
yes, I like that. Butman, there'd be you'd have to just
pull a lot of trucks out ofthe water. It would really slow down
the event. Wow. And Ithink one of the rules would be if
it's afternoon retrieving boats putting them backon the trailer, then you couldn't be

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sobered. There would have to bea minimum alcohol consumption level to make it
more interesting. Right. There area lot of people who can do it
stone sober, but when they comein in the after noons and a lot
of them aren't. And that's probablyone of the cheapest forms of entertainment anybody
who lives near the coast can enjoy. You get a couple of lawn chairs,
you get a nice chest with goodappropriate beverages whatever, and beverage over

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your choice, and then you justprop them up and get a little umbrella
and keep the sun off of youand put a bunch of sunscreen on one
or the other and then just sitthere and watch people load their boats in
the afternoon and just see how badsome people. The internet is loaded with
videos on horrible boat launching and retrieving. One of the coolest ones I've seen,

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Ashley is this guy. He's gota very small aluminum boat, okay,
and he has no trailer, buthe backs his van up right to
the end, gets the bottom ofthe wheels wet okay, and he opens
up the back doors of the vanand just drives his boat right into the

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van, just right in. It'sa little bit he like, maybe a
little eight or ten foot John boat, a little tiny thing. He fishes
a little bitty lake and he justhe just runs it right up into the
vent, no trailer necessary. It'spretty cool, it really is. I'll
give him ten points. I'll givehim a perfect ten for creativity. Certainly,
you don't have to buy a trailer. You don't have to license your

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trailer. You just run your boatright up in your car and strap it
to the back, and yeah,let's get on back to the house.
It's pretty amazing. I'm trying tothink of other events, and I hope
some of some more of you willcome up with some. Yeah. Billy
also mentioned trying to maybe making luresand then reproducing the natural actions. I

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think that would be too hard totoo subjective, really too subjective there,
But I do like the any ofthe casting events, accuracy, distance,
and of course being outdoors, especiallywith the fly fishing being outdoors, the
wind would be a factor, likejust like in a golf tournament, more

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far more so, because the windwill move a fly line a lot faster,
and it'll move a golf ball inany event. I like what.
I like the way everybody's thinking sofar, and I'll keep looking for more.
Let's see what. Let's see whatDan got here? Oh he was
Dan asked me what? Danny askedme what would be my three go to
baits if I could only carry threebaits bass fishing? And I'll tell you

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what those are when I get back. He has a different idea. A
lot of you know me well enoughto know one thing that's not going to
be on that list, and we'lltalk about that when we get back.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston, sports online at sports seven ninety dot
com. Back to The Doug PikeShow on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug

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Pike Show. Thanks for listening.Certainly do appreciate it. What was I
gonna tell him when I got back? I forgot it was? Oh the
copperhead. Yeah, well we're gonnatalk about the copperhead. There was something
else I a. I promise Iwas gonna get to Oh yes, the
three baits before before I get toNow, let me talk to Rick first,
because I want to I didn't talkto him in a while. I

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want to catch up with him.What's up for advice? Well, you
won't believe what I did today.Only you could appreciate it. But Meelvin
says, you wanted to talk aboutwhich copperhead picture or the one girl got
bit or what pick one? Yeah, copperheads. What I wanted to do
is use that picture to remind everybodythat with all this rain, there are

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a whole lot of snakes getting displaced. And if you're gonna be walking a
stock tank, or you're gonna bewalking a walking trail in your neighborhood,
whatever, just keeping eyes up andeyes down all the time because those snakes
are having to move, You areexactly right. And uh, that's like

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this snake and the girl getting abit. The last week and a half
in my travels, I have seena variety of snakes, for sure,
and they're moving and they're they're lookingfor a high ground. And the day
before yesterday, I was behind onthe back end else nowhere behind Summerville,

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and I'm going down this road andI thought, man, that's some horn
toes I just passed. I thought, no horn toes around here. So
I'm backed up and I got outand it was six baby longer head alligator
turn. Oh wow, big aroundas a baseball. Oh wow. Yeah.

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I got my snake grabbers and pickedthem all up and set them up
in the grass. But I wasgonna tell you he's the only one that
Do you have anything else on snakedisplacement. I've seen a lot of them.
I've seen a girl that got metnow that picture I sent you that
bank that was fortunately for her adry bake. Yeah, that's very lucky.

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That's very lucky. You know,there's a lot of peterhead she went.
She I told her that minimums sheneeded to go get a technic shot
and she really need to get thething disinfected by somebody that can flush it.
Really a case, and they agreedit was a drive bite. But
they did everything. But two dayslater she got sick. Now was it

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related to that? I don't know. That girl's been She make two trips
to the hospital just sick. Youknow, that doesn't today. That's something
to bring up because people I've hearda lot of people say, oh yeah,
copperhead, they'll bite you, butit won't kill you. And that's
mostly true, very rare that somebodydies. I wouldn't want to chance it

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because it's like people I know thatare allergic to wash. Yeah, what
would a copperhead been on a snakedo to somebody that couldn't hardly stand them
well beasting? Yeah, even ifyou aren't allergic to the bite, it's
still you're gonna wish at some pointduring that experience. You're gonna really wish
you hadn't been bitten by that snake. It may not kill you, but

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it'll it'll sure lay you up fora long time and curl you up at
a ball a few times from thepain. There's no doubt. Man.
Well, the copper here is they'reall around your house and get up on
the course. They love to getup on the threshold of a door.
Yep. And I saw a friendof mine knocked on this door one day
and I looked down and there wasa comprehended right there, and he opened
the door. And I said,Frank, I said, there's a coprehending

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right here. I'm looking for astick or something. And he reached down
gonna pick it up, and ittold him on the thumb and that guy
almost died, I mean literally died. Wow. Anyway, okay, watch
out for him, because I wasjust gonna share some way today. I
got one more, so I wantto get to before the ends go ahead.
I'm gonna make it quick. Iwas out taking property becaust of the

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water, got a lot of washedout and stuff, and I see this,
says a state seale. So Ipulled in this old country house and
an old barn. I thought,man, that could be something cool in
there. And you ain't gonna leavewhat I went there, amongst all the
tractors and all the farm equipment andeverything, was gonna leave what I bought.
I'm scared to know. What doyou call You can appreciate this.
I bought four surfboards. Oh wowwow, just sitting in trying to figure

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When I'm trying to figure out whatto do. Put them on the back
of my truck. They're gonna flyout. Yeah, that's a good point.
You're gonna have to wrap them up. No, I've got them tied
down. Yeah, one of them. You'd have to see it, but
it's sticking in the front seat,in the back seat of my truck.
So okay, I may not maketoo many great turns to day. So

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anyway, all right, go getthem kiss send me pictures of those boards,
man, I'd like to see them. Okay, all right, budd,
Yeah, one of those really big. That's really cool. Thanks audios.
Never know what you're gonna find ina bar surfboards. Holy cow,
I would have never guessed that.Probably I've been one hundred miles at least
one hundred miles, maybe one hundredand fifty from the beach. That's somebody

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who just couldn't give it up.Who just couldn't give it up. That's
pretty cool. Hey, Forest,what's up, bro? What's going on?
Man? Going to meet you lastweek? That's pretty cool. I'm
gonna tee up that frog, Ithink this afternoon. I got a place
I want to go with it.They would eat it minute, any kind
of black frog. He's gonna getyour fish somewhere. That'd be one of

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my three lures myself. If Ihad to give me some type of popping
frog. It's got to be oneof my top three beats. I would
agree, what's up man? Butwell, I had a quick idea for
the Olympic thing based they started truestory. So I'll tell you the Olympic
thing, and I'll tell you thestory after real quick. So, so
it's a casting thing. They usethe old school two inch red and white

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bobber that you and I grew upwith with a little button on it because
they're holler right, oh yeah,okay. And the first thing is a
distance you cast out whoever casts itfarther. But then it's a timing thing
too, So you cast out andhits the water, You put your rod
really down, you pick up yourrifle, and you shoot that barber.
Oh my lord, like a biathlon. Yeah. And the reason I thought

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about that this is years ago wehad a deer Lea's up in uh up
in Center Texas up by uh Ican't remember the name of Lake Pingston up
there, and uh, my nephewwas too young to get out there,
too young, and with us,so I went, I went deer hunting,

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and uh, when I come backfrom deer hunting, we have a
big pond on our on our Daileaves my nephew's down there on the bank
with this big old two inch redand white barber out in the middle of
the pond. Yeah, I couldn'tI couldn't resist it. I got back
where I was safe, lying upthirty out to six rim to the seven
hundred up on that barber and shotit. And he liked to climbed up
a tree like a cat. Ihad a very similar experience I'll tell you

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about real quick million years ago,and I've talked about it on the show
before. A buddy mine, JimmyHammond, and I had a little place
we fished up outside of beat Eyes, Texas, and it was Lake Irain,
ten acre lake about ten twelve acreor something like that. Great bass
fishing. We were paying I thinkthirty seven fifty a year for a least
to fish on that. Oh yeah, it was a long time ago,

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okay. And he showed up oneday with a buzz bait, the what
was the original lucker lure? Okay, he shows up with a lucker lure
and he is wearing these fish outand I'm not catching many fish at all,
and I got tired of it.And what we did when we'd go
up there is we would fish duringthe day, and he's got cousins up

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there, so we'd hang out withthe cousin and go rabbit hunting at night.
Well, I got a twenty twoin the back of my car,
in the back of my truck,and I'm tired of watching him catch these
fish. So I went out andgot the twenty two and I laid it
across the hood and when he madea cast way away from himself but still
in range with my little scope twentytwo, I touched it off and she's

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absolutely ruined that lucker lure, andhe was not happy. Yeah, it
was kind of a dumb thing todo, but I was a teenager and
I did dumb things, and Iwas smart enough not to whistle one by
his ear or anything. I mean, this was it was a relatively safe
shot, and I was a relativelygood shot, and yeah, from about

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I don't know, forty forty fiveyards, I just took out his share
or his lucker lure. So yeah, well, yeah, the bad news
is he had another one behind theseat, so he was still he was
still in the game, and Iwas just I was just hopeless and helpless
and not dumb enough to try itagain. Yeah, I kind of felt
bad that was his only bomber,but oh will oh gosh, oh well,

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all right, Forrest's great. Hey, it was great meeting you up
here. Thanks for coming up andhanging out with me for a few minutes.
I enjoyed the conversation me too,Man, I do to you some
time anytime you're in Houston swing by, all right, thank you, yeah,
thank you audios. That's faux proforce. I do want to get
I want to get in the boatwith him and test out that livescope stuff,

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just to see what it's about.Like I said earlier, I don't
want to do it all day.I just want to do it a couple
of times so I can see afish eat lure and say I've done that,
and then I'll check that box andgo to go back to fishing old
school where you can't see what's downthere. I do like his idea about
a kind of a biathlon thing whereyou try to cast that little relatively unweighted

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bobber out there and then retrieve yourrifle. Those rifles they shoot in biathlon
events and the Winter Olympics are amazing. They really are, and they're rifle
and skeet and trap shooting in theOlympics too. And if you want to
see some people who could really shootand watch the if you miss one target,

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you're probably you're probably going to beout of the competition. If you
miss two, you might as welljust go home and pack your bags.
It seems like that way. Butthese are young people with tremendous reflexes who
shoot in many cases, and it'sa very expensive shoot or a very expensive
sport in which to bring up ayoung person, because they have to shoot

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thousands of rounds, thousands upon thousandsof rounds to dial in the accuracy and
the repeatability of the motion of shootingthose targets. Well, I say it,
if you can't shoot several hundred targetsstraight in skeet, for example,
you might as well not even showup. And I can assure you my

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days of even thinking about trying toshoot three hundred straight, let alone even
one hundred straight long gone. Speakingof long gone, we got to get
out of here for this break.This is the Doug Pike Show, brought
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Now here's Doug Pike. All right, welcome back. Nine o'clock hour
starts now real quickly. I'll giveyou my three and those of you who
know me know there's not gonna there'snot gonna be a worm on here.
I just don't have the patience anymore. I really don't. I've tried a
few times, but I don't.I'm gonna carry a top water because just
because I love fishing top waters.I'm gonna carry a spinner bait because they're

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fish finders. And I'm gonna eithercarry a crank bait or a swim bait,
depending on the vegetation. If I'vegot clean water to fish, I'll
throw the crank bait. If Idon't, I'll throw that swim bait.
To keep just a single hook ridingup and not drag two travel hooks through
the salad. I don't like todo that. I had a couple of

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responses before I get to the phone. Let me do this real quick.
Where did I go? Here?We go, Travis, He's gonna throw
a weedless top water scum frog.That's probably a good idea. I don't
know what I've gotten, my littlerepertoire short of that top water I made.
Yeah, I might leave the topwater off and throw the frog because

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the frog is gonna be on topanyway. That might be a good That
might be a good substitute. Andhe's gonna have a yellow eh and ah
spinner. That is so old school? How old are you? Travis?
And a green lizard hooked anyway?Green lizards? I like. If I

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had to throw a soft bait,that'd probably be one of them. Dennis
wide in on the accuracy in casting, he said, how about making it
a little more difficult. Give themall his Zepco thirty three and an ugly
stick and have them cast to afive gallon bucket at thirty feet. That
might be pretty interesting there. Itwould take some real fancy work. That

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may be Yeah, make it hard, Danny Wade in, Mine would be
a tzar spooke. I like thatbass assassin and a plastic crawl. He's
leaning on that salt plastic stuff.He's got patience. I don't all right,
let's get the phones. Let memove over to this mouse here,
and Jeff's been waiting. Joel,you'll be right behind him. Jeff,
what's up, buddy? Well,I want to ask you about snakes.

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I don't hear about it. Iguess the area between thirty seven, not
quite to the Big Van and notquite the Corpus kind of a rugged area
where I guess you guys, yeah, doesn't hunt. What do you got
down? Are the snakes kind ofscarce or night hunters? Or do you
see them when you're out there?You may see them. Yeah, you
may see them on or off theroad, on or off the trails.

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Snakes kind of go where they wantto go when they want to go.
Now, they're not going to beas active when it's super hot, but
if they have to move, they'llmove, and you just it's a good
idea just to keep your eyes outanywhere you go. They'll just Rattlers and
king snakes are totally something different.There could be in that part of the
state. I don't know exactly whatsnakes are the most common, but you're

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certainly likely to walk over rattlesnake anywherein Texas. I mean, all the
way from the Gulf Coast all theway through West Texas. They're they're rattlesnakes.
Thanks for the announcement about hunting.I don't hunt. But it's kind
of a harbinger of fall. Likeit really is kind of nice to hear
about. Yeah, it's an unofficialopener of fall. That that first day

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of dove season and the boy theytumbled like Domino's after that. Good,
thanks, Jeff. It's good tohear from anybody. All right, audios,
let me get to Joel here.What's up, Joel? Oh,
well, I just heard your snakecall. I used to hunt a lot
of swanlike and Greenslake and going downthe inner coastal we killed a number of

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rattlesnakes sinking duck fines down there.Oh, I'll bet and I never you
know, I was like sixteen yearsold and I never walked through the marsh
the same way again, I'll betnot. Yeah, you between them and
in the water moccasins on the Cadiprairie. Yeah that. You just absolutely
have to be careful. You can'ttake anything for granted. Well, I

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was gonna talk to you about theOlympic Skeet International Ski Yeah, okay,
good shot. I shot competitive nSSA from eighty two to ninety five,
very nice, and yes, youknow the one hundred straights two hundred I
shot two forty nine in Holy Cawand never was in the money. So

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that shows you. Yeah, youknow out of two fifty San Antonio Gun
Club. Yeah, yeah, Ilike that place. I did a lot
of pigeon shooting over there. Butthe uh, they invited me to take
part in an international one hundred youknow, to shoot one hundred Yeah,

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targets and it's a zero to threesecond delay. You have to start with
a gun below a line along yourchest. There's a delay, so you
don't know when the bird's coming out. It comes out faster, it's smaller,
and you shoot less shot. Ohmy word, how show shooting twelves?

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I presume? Still yes, Sohow much shot do you hit?
It's fifteen grands, it's around seveneighths of an hour. Yeah, okay,
all right, And so missus missusare not uncommon. Yeah, and
it's completely different than American skeeet.You shoot doubles all the way through station

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three. You don't do doubles onfour. You do doubles on five,
six and seven. Wow. Uhbut it let me tell you that humbled
me. I'm did and I youknow when I shot that that round or
well, it was either targets.Yeah, that's what humble to me.

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It's like, so you think youcan shoot, okay, step up here,
Holy cow. Yes, well youknow, but the missus are more
common in Olympic or international speed thanthey are in America's pressure and well in
the level of difficulty. But there'salso well yeah, yeah, it's this
boy, it's a tiny target.And okay, if if you foul,

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if you pull your gun up alittle bit early, you get one I
think per hundred and if you foilagain, that's just a miss target.
Wow. So uh and you knowit's just but think about that. You
call pull and you have zero tothree seconds before the target comes out,

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but it could be anywhere an holyit's like a pitch clock, only way
shorter. Well do you remember WayneMays? Yeah, yeah, Well I
got to shoot four ten with himone time. Wow. We had totally
well it was in a prime thisround and we had totally different shooting styles.

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But he was just amazing guy.Yeah. That was at San Antonio
and you know, I he shotthere so much. I almost felt like
that was his home club. Hewas. He was from where somewhere from
the southeast. Uh, but uh, yeah, I got to I got

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to see a lot of birds witha lot of different people a bit.
Well. I appreciate the call,man, I really do. I got
to take one morning. Well,uh, look up Dannya dez Uh.
She is one of the women onthe Olympic team and she's pretty incredible and
uh she's also a trick shot artist. So oh yeah, I'll take I'll

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take a look at that for sure, just to see some of that.
Thank you. I appreciate the call, man, I really do. All
right, Joel, I got torun, buddy. Thanks all right,
let me go get Steve before weget to the break here, Steve,
O, what's up man? What'sup? Miss fake? Are you this
morning? I'm good, wonderful.So I did see that you're talking about
fishing lowers and all that stuff.I did see a post on Facebook this

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morning. This guy he was offshore, but he took an eight inch shiny
adjustable crushing wrench with two hooks onit. And so like all these guys,
listen, man, you don't needto buy the one hundred dollars lures
or even the more expensive ones.Man, Like just the gults were great.
I'm gonna tell you gult's one ofthe best things invented for fishing since

(01:29:33):
a fishing hook. No there,great, But I mean just let you
guys know, you know, youdon't need all that one hundred dollars stuff
or the really expensive stuff. Man. Just the cheap stuff will get you
there. It will catch fish,promise. Yeah. The fish aren't as
smart as a lot of people takethem to be. Yeah. No,
yeah, And if they're if they'rehungry, they will eat just about.

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Ah. I've caught largemouth pass onblaze of grass fly fishing. I've caught
him on just the little the littletops of I don't remember what kind of
weeds they are, but the littletops that are about two inches long look
kind of like a fuzzy little worm. Just put the hook through there and
and just dabble it out over abunch of brim on beds. They'll come

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up and smoke that thing. Ohyeah, they were super smart. And
also, man, this rain isit ever going to stop? Then?
It's supposed to start this afternoon fora while. I pulled back on the
weather channel thing just a minute ago, and I pulled it all the way
back where you could see pretty muchthis hemisphere and there's just rain everywhere.
It's just everywhere. It's that season. Yeah, all across Central America down

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into South America. There's just raineverywhere. So it's horrible. The last
time I played golf, last timeI played golf was Saturday after Burrow and
oh I got a irons out sobad and it's just not helping. Oh
well, good luck, man.The sun will come out. It will

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come You and me doubtsruddy budeos.Oh my word, we gotta take a
little break. Here we are SportsTalk seven ninety. Listen online at sports
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on Sports Talk seven ninety. Bythe time is kind of running away from

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us right now. Melbourn. Huh, holy cow, it sure is.
I want to get to the threeM Open. There is a golf tournament
going on this weekend, but I'mgonna get to I'm gonna get to Steven's
email first because it's it's a yetanother warning about snakes. Here's how it
goes from Steve about five years agogot bit by cotton mouth in my own

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swimming pool. Moil to that storyis always look in your skimmer before you
reach down to pull the basket out. About three weeks of pretty severe pain
and in my right hand all theway up to the elbow. I now
have a long hook to take mybasket out. L O L. Well,

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it's good that he could l aboutthat, now, Holy gow,
I bet he wouldn't. But it'skind of like when I talk about getting
that little crack in your windshield andhow you say words that you really don't
want the kids to hear. Ibet them. I bet if the kids
were out there playing around that poolhe was he was either we'll give him

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a pass if he said a fewthings he shouldn't have in front of them,
and if he was able to corralthem, I bet they came out
when he got in the car byhimself to drive to the doctor. Holy
mackerel, I can't imagine that.And that's I was gonna say. It's
avoidable. But you you become complacentwhen you you reach in there and pop

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that lid off and grab that basketa hundred times and nothing happens. It's
that one hundred and first time thatjust bam, Look what got me cotton
mouth in the basket? That cottonmouth was not happy to be in that
basket either. I can assure youit had been just circling and circling and
staying afloat and trying to figure outhow to get out of there. And

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anybody who has a pool knows that'snot easy for a snake to do.
And they're just waiting for somebody togive them something to bite and grab onto
and then jump out of there andrun away. Ah, that had to
hurt. I think a cotton mouthbite, And I don't know because I
haven't been bitten by either one,but I think the cotton mouth bite would

(01:33:38):
be worse than the copperhead bite.And then going up from there it becomes
rattlesnake. And then if it getsa good grip on you, coral snake,
that's another one that can really messyou up. Some are hemotoxins,
some are neurotoxins. They're all nasty, venomous snakes. Will never do anybody

(01:34:02):
any favors. There's not a notmuch good comes from them except what they
do in the for the rodents andkeep them down. I'm I'm very slow
to kill a snake. I'll relocateit if possible, but I don't just
automatically reach for a shovel or anythinglike that when I see a snake,
and I've I've helped a lot ofthem get away over the years, I

(01:34:26):
have helped a lot of them getaway. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. Email me Dougpikeat iHeartMedia dot com. Let's take a
look at the three M Open happeningalmost as far away from here as it
can up in Minnesota. Let mesee exactly where it is. See if
it'll pop back up. Yeah,and it is at TPC Twin Cities in

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Blaine, Minnesota. I'm sure that'scloser to a big town, kind of
like Golf Club of Houston is inHumble, Texas. But it's it's Houston
for everybody around here. The leadersTaylor Pendrith through two rounds twelve under par.
Matt Nesmith is at ten by himselfin second. Tied for third are

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Andrew Putnam and Jacob Bridgeman at nine. Let's go to the age because there's
still thirty six holes to play.That would include Doug gim Lanto Griffin,
Johnny Vegas and Alex Smalley are holycow. There is a school bus of
people at seven under par in thistournament, which puts them just five shots

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off the lead. Not exactly insurmountable, but there are a lot of them.
And then, of course the whereis that the eight people in front
of them who have to climb thatladder to get back anywhere near the winner
circle. This is another one ofthose tournaments where the scores are already low.

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You're averaging six under par for theleader, averaging five, averaging four
and a half on from there perround. I think the days when a
score of ten or twelve under wouldwin a lot of tournaments are gone forever.
They're either not setting them up terriblydifficultly to be terribly difficult, or

(01:36:19):
these guys are I guarantee you theguys are getting better. There's no question
about that. They are getting better, and much so. But it's still
possible that the courses could be mademore difficult. They don't need to be
made longer. I'm not in thatcamp. We don't need eight thousand yard
golf courses for starters. It takestoo much land to build them, and

(01:36:42):
it takes too much money to maintainthat much more, that much more mode
and pampered turf, and so thatreally isn't necessary. What can be done
is to grow the rough, tonarrow the fairways, to just look at
any US Open setup, look atthe Masters setup, look at all of
these Majors setups. It's perfectly possibleto keep these guys pinned down to about

(01:37:10):
six eight under par for four roundsor even even more. But they've got
to be willing to do that.And that is not what I think.
What people go to see at thesetournaments is is birdies. They don't go
there to see bogies. They don'tgo to see these guys scramble around and

(01:37:33):
have a hard time. So themore the more birdies they make. And
bear in mind, and on aplus side to this, birdies make money
for charity. So if you makethe courses harder and you bring the scores
down, you actually are taking moneyout of the pot for charity. So

(01:37:59):
let's take a break. Let's dothat. I'll leave on that note,
we'll come back and continue. I'mgonna check my emails again because I know
a couple more have come in,and we'll plod forward. By the way,
I've been some interesting, interesting ideason the three lures and and then
on casting competitions. I still Ithink the zeb coo, the little five

(01:38:24):
gallon bucketed thirty feet, that wouldbe fun because it would be hard zeb
coo in a Yeah, that setupwould be great. What is the name
of that rod? Again, it'sfallen from my head. I'll get it
out of there later, you knowwhat I'm talking about, The one with
the fiberglass tip and the graphite backin the back in the heel. Great,

(01:38:47):
great setup for a little kid.Not so much for a casting competition.
That would make them work your rocketsand astros live here we are Sports
Talk seven ninetynversation continues this as TheDoug Pike Show nine thirty five on Sports
Talk seven to ninety The Doug PikeShow. Thank you for listening. I

(01:39:08):
certainly do appreciate it. Let mego straight to doctor George here stand by
there we are. What's going on, George? You have come on?
Yeah? What are you doing?I'm listening to your bumper music? Oh
my gosh, Oh you were singingalong, weren't you. Well, let's
you call it. Somebody stepped ona cat's tail there in the clinic.

(01:39:31):
I don't know, standing there andgrabbed a snake by the neck. So
do you remember that scene and LOANSOdo when they're crossing the river the first
time and young cowboys get sewed offhis horse in the pilot water moccasins.
Yep, I don't know. Yeah, all right, So about thirty years
ago Joe Mandel Loan's Richmond animal hotright, my best friend. So thirty

(01:39:57):
years ago he calls me. Hesaid, don't keep listen to this,
which means you're about to have agood story, and told to sure.
So he said, I had adog come in. It's four legs where
front legs weren't swollen, and couldn'tfigure it out. I only didn't know
what happened, So you know,kept him third or four days, non
specific antibiotics and stereoids right here.Anything went down, sent the dog home,

(01:40:19):
came back again, did the samething again, went home a few
days later, came back and theowner said, listen to this. The
next door neighbors gone, the poolis green. So we hear this dog
barking. He's standing on the stepswith his front legs and the water biting

(01:40:42):
at the water. They drained thatpool three hundred water mookers holy cow.
Now that story is thirty years oldand the hair on my neck is standing
up right now. Wow, Holythat's frightening. Coly Yeah, yeah,

(01:41:05):
it'd just be over immediately. That'snuts, man, jo Lee. No,
I don't want any part of that. Thank you very much. No,
thank you very much. Once again, Doug. A good show and
I enjoyed it. Thank you justa lot. Real quick question. What's
worse for a Is he there?Do you leave? Dang it? Oh?

(01:41:25):
I had a question for him.That's okay. I've got to ask
him next time he calls, andI know he will. He's he's a
regular and one of my favorites becausehe's got credentials that most of us don't
have, and that he's been aveterinarian for a very very long time.
And I was gonna a What Iwas going to ask him is which is
worse for dogs? And I thinkI know the answer, but I want
to hear it from him because thiswould be the most too most common,

(01:41:47):
probably uh, a cotton mouth biteor a rattlesnake bite. I suspect it
would be the rattlesnake because it's ahematoxin. But I'm just curious seven one
three seven ninety Oh already boom.Let me just go straight to him.
What do you want to hold?I'll take it now. What's going on?

(01:42:08):
George? So what is it?What's worse? I got a bad
habit from years ago when they chargedyou by the minute on the cell phones.
It's okay, George, They're notgoing to charge you extra to stay
on Yeah, real okay? Yeah, cotton mouth or rattlesnake on dogs?
What's worse? Oh? I thinkrattlesnake. Yeah, probably they're well,

(01:42:29):
they're both him and talking. They'rethey're There are two forms of toxins in
poisonous steak neurotoxin, which are cobrasand a bunch of those most reptiles.
And yeah, the coral snake isis I think the only neurotoxin in the
United States. I was out witha rodeo cowboy several years ago and have

(01:42:53):
three legged dogs. They go laugh, cur looking dog. I said,
what happened? Gunshot? Car wreck? He said, nope, snake bite
yep. And I talked to somebodythat got hit by a radle snake once.
He said he thought he was hitby sledge hammer. Oh, I'm
sure I'm sure that's got hurt.So they're both in the same toxin family.

(01:43:18):
And fortunately, I don't, tobe honest with you, Doug,
in forty three or four years ofbeing in the in Fort ben County,
I bet I haven't seen three snakebites. Wow, I think. Yeah.
Well, I was out in theswamp with a rancher friend of mine
and I looked down in this gully. It looked like that Kermit the Frog

(01:43:39):
cartoon. It was just a swamp, and I said, Ralph, there,
Ralph, why isn't that hole fullof snakes? And his family's been
here since early nineteen hundreds, seniorfamily, senior family down there in Arcola,
And he said, I got atheory about it, because I see
nothing like the snakes we used to. He said, I think all these
hogs keeping them under control. Yeah. Three cheers for the hogs all of

(01:44:02):
a sudden. Huh. It makesgood sense, it really does. It
really doesn't. So, so yeah, you Unfortunately we don't see much in
the way rattlesnakes. Right. Ithink it's too I think it's too wet
for rattlesnakes around here. Yeah,it may be that may be part of

(01:44:23):
it. The worst scare I've hadwith my son with a snake was when
he was maybe five or six yearsold and we were fishing this little oxbow
lake in one of the neighborhoods andI was walking along and he was walking
along, and he just set hisRoden reel down. It was playing and
jumping up and down on tree rootsand whatnot, and then he just froze.

(01:44:45):
And I said what's up? Andhe said snake. And I taught
him to do that, taught himto just stop wherever he was if he
saw one, and not move againuntil I could get there. And sure
enough, boy, I mean likethree feet from his little tiny legs at
that point, three feet was aboutthe significant watermarks. And I was just

(01:45:06):
like, oh my god, Okay, I got you, Bud. And
I got over there to him,and he stayed absolutely still, and I
got close enough and just snatched himaway. And that snake, fortunately it
wasn't it wasn't in any hurry tohurt anybody. I don't even know that
he really recognized that my son wasthere at that point, but it was

(01:45:27):
a really close call. It wasa really close years ago. I was
in South Florida, hunting blocks withdogs and weren't having much luck. So
we just let the dogs loose torun a little bit and if tink O
changing something, so I'm running afterhim and my partner was behind me.
And so all of a sudden wesaw these dogs jump over something, turn

(01:45:48):
around and come back. And hesaid, I don't know what you saw,
but you were going as fast asyou can in one direction, and
then just as fast in the opposite. And they run across the sixth Rattlesnake
lower the Southeastern is down there inFlorida, and get it. Did get
one of our dogs. Oh andthat's saying, boy, you know we

(01:46:11):
held it. We cut his headoff, held him up by the tail,
and he's still curled around on theground. Oh my word. Got
all right, George, Thanks buddy. Great to hear from you in I'm
doing that, I think. Solet's see you. Thanks boy. Yeah.
If they're still charging you by theminute, George, you need a

(01:46:32):
new plan, buddy, you needa new plan. And there are plenty
of them out there, oh aslong as they can keep them off and
running. Our sportstock seven nineties HoustonSports where you go with an iHeartRadio now
now get more Doug. All right, welcome back fifty plus. Not quite,

(01:46:58):
Let's let me rewind that. Allright, Welcome back the Doug Pike
Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.Thank you for listening. I certainly do
appreciate it. I was telling MelvinI had a little little hiccup yesterday in
my electric service. I thought,oh boy, here we go again.
It stopped for about ten seconds andthen restarted, and about fifteen seconds later

(01:47:20):
it did it again, and thenthe third time I think, or maybe
the fourth, I don't recall exactly. It stayed out for about fifteen minutes,
and I actually got a text messagefrom Centerpoint that said it was going
to be out for a few hours. And I think they handled this right
because it actually was restored in aboutfifteen twenty, maybe thirty minutes tops,

(01:47:44):
I don't know. I was justsitting I sat next to the window because
the sky was bright at that time, and I just sat there and actually
read about ten pages of a bookthat I've never read, and I thought,
Okay, that's cool, and I'mgetting kind of into it. So
now I'm gonna end up having toread the whole Orange Book. If I
was going to do that, Ishould have picked a smaller one. I
don't do a lot of reading becauseI still do so much writing and I

(01:48:09):
words. I work with words allday long, so when I'm not when
I'm not writing, I don't reallylike to just sit and read except news
stories. I do involve myself prettydeeply with the news, so I can
uh present good information over the weekendsand during the week on fifty plus as
well. Seven one three two onetwo five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at

(01:48:32):
iHeartMedia dot com. I also,I'm I'm proud to say that my little
roof leak I dealt with. Ifyou listened to fifty plus this week,
you knew about it. I hada little roof leak this week and it's
been it's been fixed now. Itwas it was a tough one and it
was but to the credit of thepeople who who took care of it,

(01:48:55):
they solved the issue. It wasnever it was never something that was going
to flood a room in the house. But I did have to put some
put some water catching devices up therein the attic. And fortunately it's not
a climb up the ladder attic wherethe roof where the leak occurred. It's
just a walk through door so Icould get into that part of the attic
and everything else looks good. Everythingelse is high and dry and knock on

(01:49:17):
wood, keep it that way,keep it that way. And I think
I believe, I believe the leakis completely fixed. They'll come back and
redo that little part right there.It needs some repair, but while it's
still raining like it is, themain main focus is just off on shutting
off the leak first so it doesn'tdo any damage. And I think that's

(01:49:41):
been taken care of. I cansleep finally now. I was having a
hard time sleeping overnight, thinking itwould get worse and every water just pouring
into the house, and it neverdid that. And I'm sure the roofers
were all kind of laughing, Oh, he didn't know what a leak really
looks like. He hadn't had abad leak. And to all of you
who had a tree fall on yourhouse during that hurricane and you had a

(01:50:04):
real leak where the water was justpouring in, I'm so I feel so
badly for every one of you,and I hope you can get your house
patched up and put back together asquickly as possible. I can't imagine that.
I have had people talk to meabout how ultimately insurance. First of

(01:50:25):
all, the I think the powercompanies like Centerpoint are gonna have to just
say, look, we can eliminatethese problems with trees falling on power lines
by eliminating the trees near the powerlines, and I think they could make
a strong case for that. Ithink also eventually we're going to see insurance

(01:50:47):
companies say, yeah, you canhave those big trees in your yard,
but if those big trees are closeenough to your house and big enough that
they might take out your roof ifthey fall, you're gonna have to pay
extra for insurance. And I wouldnot want it to come to that,
but I think it's going to.And I think anybody who's gotten a renewal

(01:51:10):
notice for their homeowners insurance lately kindof understands that the insurance companies are going
to get their money. They're usedto making a pretty handsome profit, and
I think it's necessary for them tomake some money to pay off some of
these repairs. But at the sametime, as pretty as trees are,

(01:51:31):
if there weren't so many big onesin so many people's yards, and fewer
of them fell on homes. Maybeit wouldn't cost so much to ensure our
homes. That's a tough one,it really is, and that's something we
need not worry about. Right now. We're getting out of this rainy cycle.
We're slowly but surely at least workingour way out of this rainy cycle,

(01:51:54):
and hopefully we can get back toplaying golf and fishing and getting ready
for hunting season. There's a lotof work that's got to be done before
dove season, for example, andI can guarantee you a lot of that
work is being postponed right now,work that would have taken place over this
weekend. That's all gonna have tobe crammed into three or four, well

(01:52:16):
three probably weekends now before hunting seasonreally starts after this one, because this
one literally and figuratively is a wash. It really is. It's for an
outdoorsman like myself, or like anyof you in this audience, Randy,
weekends are just hard on us.You can't go play golf, you can't

(01:52:39):
go fishing, you can't go domuch work at the deer lease or the
dove lease or the duck lease oranywhere because the roads are muddy. You
can't tear up your ranch roads.You can't tear up farm roads when it's
super muddy like this, or thefarmers are gonna get pretty irritated. You
can't go out and play golf becauseit's it's just no fun to play golf

(01:53:00):
in the rain. If I wereto go, if there are courses that
are open today, they're almost certainlygoing to be cart path only, and
that's not as fun as just ridingaround at about eighty degree day in bright,
sunny, beautiful weather. But atsome point we're going to get back
out there. At some point,we're going to be moving forward, and

(01:53:23):
at some point, at some pointwe're gonna forget about this week. We're
gonna kind of forget about Beryl andhopefully get back on a little bit better
track that one. I think thatone was a surprise. Every hurricane that
comes along, every storm that comesalong, is a learning experience for all

(01:53:44):
of us, and all of uswho have survived hurricanes in the past,
I think get a little bit betterat surviving the next one by getting through
this one. My family and Ihad to do some different stuff to get
through Beryl. And now we're havingto do some different stuff to get through
this rainy, rainy, rainy period. Fortunately, no flooding in my neighborhood.

(01:54:05):
I'm blessed enough and happy enough toreport that to you. But there
is a lot going on, anda lot of people are still a lot
of people are still pretty rocked byBeryl. So don't go announcing to the
world and oh, we're sure gladthere's nothing wrong anymore after Beryl, because
a lot of people still got Iknow a guy who's still dealing with not

(01:54:26):
one, but two trees that crashedinto the roof of his house and still
trying to get a lot of workdone before the next one comes. All
right, I'll be back tomorrow.Let's try and find some more Olympic events
that tie to fishing. I wouldlove to see emails. I love to
get those calls tomorrow, and we'llmove forward from there. That's it for
now. Be safe outdoors, havesome fun. Thank you. I'll see

(01:54:48):
then, Audios.

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