The Doug Pike Show 9-7-2024

This week Doug talks about survival foods. What is the number one survival food? What happens if you leave or don't retreive a bird during hunting season? Humming birds feeder, how often should you clean them? Plus, tons of stories from Doug and callers about there amazing hunting fowl adventures.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Dogpike Show, brought to you by American
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's dog Pike. All right, Welcome, welcome aboard dog
Pike Show on Saturday morning. And a nice bright early
morning it was. But it was a nice eye opener
when you walked out the door, right, it was a
little bit cooler, got some north wind in your face
while we were sleeping this first, I guess, really the

(00:32):
first reel, if you can kind of wrap quotes around
that norther of the year, roll down the state off
just dumped off into the Gulf of Mexico, and we're
getting the we're reaping the benefits of that weather system
right now outside. If you haven't been out yet to
pick up the paper or walk the dog or whatever,
just know that it's going to be more comfortable than

(00:52):
it was yesterday. You could even feel that the air
was drier, considerably drier this morning, would you agree, Melvin.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yes, I really enjoyed it. I mean it just felt
like I was. It was just just a break.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
And to summarize the whole, the whole deal of walking
out this morning, one word, finally, yes, finally, yes, And
that's the good news.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
The good news is we where the seasons are gonna change.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
We knew it was coming, we just didn't know when
we're and we're gonna get what maybe a half a
dozen more ninety degree days before the end of the year,
might come, might come next week. There were a couple
of them on the board in the in the extended forecast.
And it might happen in December. We just don't know
around here, do we. It's just I don't know. I've

(01:40):
lived here almost all my life, except for running away
to school for a couple of years and coming back here,
and brief transfer my dad had when I was very
young over to New Orleans. Other than that, I've been
to Houstonian my entire life, and and darned glad to
say so too. Actually a sugar Lander now Houstonian for

(02:03):
the first I don't know, forty years something like that,
and then a sugar Lander since then. But anytime you
go out of town, unless you're from unless you're from
some place as far away as Victoria and you're traveling
through Chicago or Portland, why you'd be going to either,

(02:24):
I don't know. But the bottom line is when you're out,
you just tell people you're from Houston, because it's especially Sureland, Kingwood, Pearland, Katie.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
The Woodlands, all of those.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
We just tell them we're from Houston because it takes
too long to explain where it is and how much
better it is really to be out of the big city.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
All right, let's get to the outdoor, shall we.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Let's call it September seventh, twenty twenty four. Let's call
this the beginning, beginning, beginning. Let me slow down just
a little bit. My wife says, I talk too fast.
Would you agree or disagree? Moment? I would say you
about right, thank you. You know what a diplomat you
should be running for office. I'd vote for you for

(03:10):
president right now, right here and right now. Man. All right,
So anyway, this is the beginning of what you can't
call more than fau fall. It's just it's a teaser.
It's like the little theater teasers of a movie that's
coming falls coming soon. Look, this is what it's going
to look like here, it is. It's coming so on

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its way. Only the weather people can't tell us exactly
when that run's gonna start.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Uh, but it will southeast Texas.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
For the most part, it's called fall around here because
that's what the leaves do. For the most part, our
native trees don't change color, really, the leaves just fall
off the tree. Up north, they turn colors. Down here,
they just turn loose. That's all they do. And don't
be fooled either, newcomers from Blue States. We're still almost
sure to get some more of that hot, muggy, nasty,

(04:06):
gosh awful stuff. We'll get it, but just for as
not as many days in a row as during real summer.
We've survived summer for a long time down here too,
by the way, so don't be alarmed. You made it
through this one. You'll make it through a bunch more.
You'll make it through winter. Our temperature extremes aren't really

(04:28):
that extreme. We had several days over one hundred degrees
out there in the dry West. I looked at some
days when they had one hundred and ten hundred and
twelve hundred and fourteen And don't tell me, oh, but
it's a dry heat. Well, heat's heat, all right. Let
me get to the phones and talk to Brandy. Gonna
start it off fourth, Brandon, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 5 (04:49):
Good morning, mister p Car.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
I'm doing all right. I felt I had a little
spring in my step this morning when I got out
the door.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
I agree. I think everybody does. It's involved in the outdoors.

Speaker 7 (05:03):
That's for sure.

Speaker 6 (05:05):
Yeah, I just I wanted to touch on something. I
had a privilege of sitting down with a customer and
his son and uh in Glen Floor, and we sat
at a restaurant and they said, man, we haven't seen
Teal like this in a long time. It is till
seasons good. And like I say, in Glen Floor, which

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is I mean, we're all in Wharton County. It's uh
rice is uh spar I mean sparse, but I mean
it's They said, man, we haven't seen Teal like this
in a long time. But the dove they were here.
But I don't know, we'll see well.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
That everybody expects it just kind of. I was jokingly
writing some notes this morning, and based on Rick's call
from last week, I said, according to my reports so
far are there have been doves in just about every
field except wherever Rick wants to hunt tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
That's funny, Yeah, that's funny. The other thing, go ahead,
go ahead.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
No, you go. I want to hear what you have
to say.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
I just wanted to say. I mean, we're vastly approaching
hunting season, and I know some people like to hunt
and they don't want to keep the meat. So I
forget what you call it, hunters for harvest or whatever
it is, and just remember, take a kid into the outdoors,
a youngster. I mean they'll learn more. They will that

(06:34):
seed will be planning forever.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, that's just getting kids outside and teaching them about
the kind of the circle of life stuff. And what
you're talking about, by the way, is hunters for the hungry,
and they accept deer. There's several processors around the state
that will take that deer from you, and you can't
just bring it to them just whole. You've got to feel,

(06:58):
dress the animal and then bring it in there drop
it off. And I think some of them might charge
like twenty dollars for the processing. Some of them do
it out of the goodness of their hearts. But the
bottom line is that meat, that lean, delicious venison goes
to people who really really need it, and especially now
when when Hamburger is about forty bucks a pound, that

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little delicious piece of venison might go down really good.

Speaker 8 (07:25):
Right exactly.

Speaker 6 (07:26):
And I've done this before on a dove hunt, I mean,
or a duck hunt or whatever. I don't mind cleaning
it myself. Just find a family and yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Hey, man, you want some ducks, and I guarantee you
out in a lot of the places where you and
I might go hunting. You don't have to drive far
to find somebody who you could just you can just
look and say, Okay, I'm doing better than those folks
right there. I'm pretty sure based on they got a
car on blocks, they got one that's got a low tire,
and the.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
You know, the just down on their luck at that point.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
And I don't mind at all dropping something off with them,
say man, you want this, and if they say no,
you just drive onto.

Speaker 6 (08:04):
The next house, right and I'll guarantee they'll take it.
They'll take it in the New York manute, Sure.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't them a couple more years, a couple of
more years of this, and I might be out there.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
I might be looking for a.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Couple of lecture doves, all right, man, Yeah, good to
hear from you, Brandon.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
It really is all right good.

Speaker 6 (08:24):
I always enjoy your intellectual so thank you sir, thank you.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
All right, I'm gonna stick with what Brendan was talking about,
Hunters for the Hungry. I haven't talked to anybody yet,
but they usually kind of pop up.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
I'll get a I'll get.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
An email from and as soon as I do, I'll
make sure that I scheduled an interview with somebody who
can tell us more about the program that I can
off the just off the cuff, because it is a
great program. It has been around a long time, and
it provides very very high protein, low fat meat, very

(09:01):
lean deer meat to thousands upon thousands of families every year.
A lot of these bigger ranches, especially have they have
MLD that managed lens or Managed Lands Deer permits MLD
permits that require them to take specific numbers of deer
off those properties. And in many cases, I know several

(09:22):
people who don't have big families, they don't hunt commercially,
they don't do anything but invite friends to come in
to help keep that herd managed, and all of a sudden,
you've got one or two people in there taking out
a big number of deer, and nobody can take all

(09:43):
that meat home. And that's where hunters for the Hungry
really gets a boost is from MLD permits from places
where even if you're not under a permit system, but
you feel like you've got way too many DOS on
your place. For example, you just don't you don't like
the to dough ratio. And so if you want to
take some more of those doughs out and don't have

(10:05):
any place to take them, find a processor. And it's
not hard to find. Find a processor that accepts deer
for the Hunters for the Hungry program and take it
there and drop it off seven two one two five
seven ninety email on me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Very simple to do.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
I've already responded to one email this morning, and uh,
if more come in, I will respond respond to them
as well. Sometimes it takes me a few minutes. And
please forgive me because I'm not always just staring at
my inbox. Uh, but I'll get to them. I always do.
If and if you've ever sent me an email that
I didn't respond to at all, let me know and

(10:45):
I'll make that right.

Speaker 9 (10:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
By the way, as far as summer goes, I've seen
several stories in the past couple of weeks trying to
convince us all that this was the hottest summer ever,
hottest summer ever in recorded history. Well, the thanks change, okay,
the climate changes. It does, and there have been hot periods,

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and there have been cool periods. There have been extremely
hot periods, and extremely ice ages come to mind as
an extremely cool period. And the stories are trying to
convince us that planet Earth is just gonna melt like
a popsicle on a campfire unless we throw something like

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got forty to fifty trillion dollars. And I know we
not the world that these people want us, the United
States of America, to throw forty fifty trillion dollars that
we would have to borrow because we're already in debt
some thirty five thirty four million dollars, trillion dollars. I
don't know. Anyway, not happening, and I'm not gonna waste

(11:53):
my time of year is talking about it on the
show this morning.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
It's except for this.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Okay, just consider this and look back and think of
all the times you've been told that the planet was
going to be destroyed if we didn't do something in
ten years. We've been hearing that for thirty forty fifty years,
probably fifty years now before since before al Gore. And
you've got to ask yourself when they tell you they

(12:19):
want to throw a bunch of money at what they
say is a problem, which in this case isn't even
a real problem. Ask them who gets the most of
that money, Because it's sure as heck won't benefit you
and me to raise the temperature of the planet by
half a degree.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
That won't change a thing. And if the rest of.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
The world isn't on board with whatever plan is made,
then it's a waste of time. China, Russia, they're not
going to throw money at this. They're going to throw
money at building a military so they can come take
all our resources.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
All right, So that's enough of that. It really is.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Fishing plants had to be changed this morning. I guarantee
you I'll talk about that and we get back in
whoever it is. It's chatting with Melvin right now. I
will get to you as well.

Speaker 10 (13:05):
On the way out your Rockets and Astros live here
we are Sports Talk seven ninety. The conversation continues this
as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Welcome Back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety
thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Email me
Doug Pike at a Heeartmedia dot com. Dave's been holding
for a long long time.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
What's up day?

Speaker 11 (13:31):
What is that?

Speaker 7 (13:32):
Hey, I'm not I'm not shaking.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Are you trying a nice truck?

Speaker 7 (13:38):
Oh, it's it's it's the uh wind times, okadabilt Yeah,
let me go round here, rug all right? Yeah, yeah,
I'm helping. I'm helping my girlfriend. She's packing up because
he got a real nice house right there, will stixes
mixed the lake Conro my brother's house. She'll be thirty

(14:02):
five or forty minutes away from me, you know. And
and uh and that's going to be really cool. And
I'm uh yeah, I've been washing out of the barbecue
pens and getting everything kind of ready because it's gonna
be the first part of October anyway. Oh, did you
look look on your Facebook page? Because her electric company

(14:23):
center of magazine and there was a deal in there
nineteen sixty four when the Beatles invaded Dallas, Texas. Oh yeah,
and uh Irving Harrigan DJ Irving Heredon was the host.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Oh my jo, holy cow, I remember that.

Speaker 7 (14:47):
Yeah, yeah, so now I was only uh I would
have that was nineteen before I wouldn't been only three
years old. But uh yeah, but I still kind of,
you know, faith, uh faintly remember that kind of stuff,
you know. But hey, when I've been seeing a few
birds out here, uh white winged up. You come to

(15:09):
my house in Houston, all hiding in my back yard drop.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Through the University of Houston campus sometime this time of year,
it's just it's swarms with doves used to right.

Speaker 7 (15:25):
On the projects about.

Speaker 9 (15:28):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (15:28):
I'm all for you know me. I'm ready to help
anybody and uh for for like donating uh leftover food
and stuff like that for the women shelters and stuff
like that. And you know, this time of the world
is going on. You know, we got a lot of
that going on. A lot of people need help.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yes, they do, they all do.

Speaker 7 (15:51):
Dave.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
You're exactly right, my friend, exactly.

Speaker 7 (15:54):
I'll tell you what. It's It's very I'm watching the
sun come up over here to my tomorrow, right and
the winds coming from that way over here too. Oh
I was flying. Well, I got me another little type
for two dollars yesterday I was flying it out here.
It's fun. Well, I mean I was barbecuing and loud it,

(16:15):
you know whatever. We were listening to music. Oh, we
were watching the baseball game and go Astros.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
I hope, ben, Yeah, that one last night was good.
I hope they didn't waste a bunch of runs they
might need. Just this afternoon, though, I'm gonna be at
that one. I'll be at that game.

Speaker 7 (16:30):
What time is that one?

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Three o'clock?

Speaker 7 (16:33):
Oh okay, well, hey, but now at eleven we got
the Texas Longhorns, and then I think a little ball
after that, and then Texas A and M and you
know what. Probably them boys are up right now getting
ready listening to this program.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well, I don't know. They're young men. Still, those guys
might be a probably.

Speaker 7 (16:54):
Like to finish.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Well, that's the point.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
A lot of them do that, That is true. A
lot of them are outdoors kids. They sure are good
to hear from.

Speaker 7 (17:02):
You man, Amen, Yeah, everything. Hey, and I'm wearing my
dad's army jackie right now because this is a little
British out here.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Come on, all right, just because it's not a hundred
you don't have to put on a coat.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
I do agree.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
With you, though. I think I would have might I
might have reached for something light but long sleeved anyway
this morning, just to stay.

Speaker 7 (17:23):
Still got the mosquitos were a little bit The mosquitos
were a little bit bad. They got a little bit
bad late last night. But now with all this buke
time wins. Uh, you know they're gone.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
We'll blow them all out in Gulf of Mexico where
they belong. Teach them to.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
Swim and come on and come on, humming birds. I
can't wait to see you.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, the hummingbirds are on the move already. They are.
That them and the till the teal and the humming
birds tend to I don't know, they must hang out
together or something, because the migrations tend to parallel each other,
they really do. If you got one, you probably got
the other. And I'm hearing reports of both actually, so
good news for us.

Speaker 7 (17:59):
I think I think I'm gonna get a woman homely
bird feeders. All you gotta do is put sugar.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
And water in your h that's pretty much.

Speaker 7 (18:06):
Get over here right now. Yeah, some of them won't
come by here.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
You don't even have to mix the sugar in the water.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
You can buy that too. They'll sell it to you
if you don't know how to You know that for
people who don't know how to mix sugar with water.
All right, man, I'm not a chef. Yeah, one of
the thinking, I'm not a five star chef. Am I

(18:35):
supposed to concoct that mercy sakes everything. It's so funny
when you go through the store now that you can
buy bread that's had the crust cut off. Who doesn't
know how to cut the crust off of bread? And
how much time does it take? Is it really an
inconvenience you ever? Have you ever bought crustless bread? Melvine,

(18:55):
I wouldn't dare buy a crust word. I don't know.
I've never understood that. I mean, and I can see, well,
clearly there's a want. Clearly there's a niche that it
fills for people who are just so on the go
that who's got time for that four corners four sides

(19:17):
of that bread? You gotta cut the crust off one
at a time.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
I've even seen it to where the peanut, butter and
jelly as well as the crust cut off is already
prepared for you when.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
You Oh yeah, they the company that makes them like
that in the individual little packages. They sent me samples
of that stuff, and it concerned me a little when
I realized that the expiration on.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Those sandwiches is something like a year.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
And when you open one up, it's fresh and it
tastes okay, it's peanut butter and jelly, no crust on
the bread, and it's in a vacuum sealed little container.
Probably I don't know what special gas is in there
to keep that bread from getting moldy or crusty. God
knows what's in there, man, But it wasn't bad, so

(20:07):
as a survival thing, it might work. But then again,
if I'm gonna start buying survival food, it's not going
to be peanut butter and jelly with the crust cut off.
I want the crust. I'll need the crust. If I
need to open one of those, I need that crust. Yeah.
You have to catch some birds with that. Ooh, now
there's a thought. Yeah, that could put that in a

(20:29):
separate package. Come with a little Did you ever as
a kid, did anybody ever convince you to try to
catch a bird in a hardboard box?

Speaker 9 (20:35):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Of course we've done it. Oh, yeah, it's kind of cool.
I never I don't recall ever being successful getting one
to actually go up under there. You're probably one of
those fancy guys who put bird seed up in there. No,
we use the bread, okay, just crumbs of bread and
with the little stick to hold it up in the
string to pull it on a cardboat box.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
Get out of here. What kind of bird did you
catch a string?

Speaker 2 (21:00):
A bird?

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Pigeons? Well, well they're dumb as rocks. That doesn't count.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
But we released them, so you know, yeah, well, yeah
they'll they'll you picked that box up, they'll release themselves,
of course, guarantee they will. They'll be gone. Man, No,
you don't have to worry about that. Yeah, but pigeons aren't.
They're not street smart like the birds in the backyard.
And in fairness though the pigeons are don't eat anything.

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They're like rats with wings, and so you would have
a better chance. I didn't even think about putting out
something like that where the pigeons were. Could have gone
up to the baseball field and done that. We tried
in the backyard a bunch of times, never never successful
at all. Most of what we had in the backyards, though,
were birds that eat almost almost exclusively seeds and maybe

(21:47):
an occasional bug for some protein. We didn't we didn't
do well with that. Let's just put it in New Orleans,
you know. The pigeon is the let's just state bird Louisiana. No,
the pelican is. Oh, that's right, pelican.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
I was just choking though, but you're right, it is pelicans.
I do remember that. Yeah, for the brief time I
was over there. I'm half Cajun, so I have to
know these things keeping tucked in the back of my mind.
I'm glad you reminded me about that. Do you know
our state bird here in Texas? Marking bird? Yes, mockingbird,
ding ding ding d d for all the money in
the world and the camper. All right, we're at break

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time again. Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety.
I'm I'm pretty open to discussion of almost anything as
relates to the turning of the season, the start of
dove season, the upcoming deeal season, the upcoming bow season,
the upcoming deer season, duck season, goose season, quail season,

(22:46):
and all the fishing that everybody who doesn't hunt is
gonna get to do with. A little more solitude. This
is a wonderful time of year. Step out. If you
haven't been outside this morning, shame on you. Get up,
put some pants on if you live in the city,
and then walk outside and.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
Just feel that air. Feel that air. It's so good
all the way out to this break.

Speaker 12 (23:10):
Our Sportstock seven ninety Houston Sports Where you go with
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Speaker 2 (23:17):
Good seven five on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thank you for listening. I'm betting that was
not a request from guitar Dave. I'm pretty confident of that,
right Melvin, Yes, he knows he's over there talking.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yeah, that was my request right there. No, that's a
good one.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
You know, here's a guy. I'm gonna give you a
guitar player that you may not have even heard of,
but just once at least, it'd be kind of cool,
especially on a day like today, when when the surf
is going to be well, I know down South Texas
it's it's pounding pretty hard with all that north wind
on it. It might be laid down. I haven't even
looked at the cameras just yet, but when I do,

(24:02):
I have a hunch what I'm gonna find. It might
just be flattened out on the beach. It'd be rough
as a cob out offshore.

Speaker 13 (24:08):
Though.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Let mean, I'm not gonna do that right now unless
I can get to it quickly. No, I can't. So anyway,
look up a guy named Dick Dale d A L. E. Okay,
and he was known in his day as King of
the surf guitar. So, holy cow, phone calls coming in
left and right. I'm gonna go ahead and start right now.

(24:30):
Started a wing.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
What's up, Jeff?

Speaker 9 (24:33):
Or I have a quick question. I hope so early.
But when do the birds start flying south? Do they
all go together? Or can they sense a front coming in?
I know they're a little bit more sophisticated than that.
I had a farmer tell me, does there's a change coming?
When the birds start leaving?

Speaker 2 (24:50):
They just listen to Neil Frank that's all. Now they
have some there's clearly some internal mechanism. But I you
think that since they they're deep deep in their DNA,
they know they got a long hike ahead of them.
So when the wind is at their backs and the
temperature starts to fall, there's two things. Number one, they

(25:13):
take advantage of the wind to be able to get
farther faster. And number two, they don't want to be there.
When the temperature gets down to zero, some of these
little birds would just freeze to death. So off they
go and here they come, and this front has probably
lifted birds all the way up the flyway who are
now just kind of scrambling to get on down a

(25:34):
little farther and a little farther, and a lot of
them will keep going and end up down in Mexico
and even Central America.

Speaker 9 (25:41):
I have a quick questioners time, What about the predators.
They don't flock together, They just make their way the
same way every year.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
The hawks you're talking about, ye, yeah, oh, they just
go right. Bald eagles are a good example.

Speaker 9 (25:55):
Now.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
I saw a bald eagle yesterday, but this one is
kind of it's here a little bit early, but it's
kind of a sign that it's time. And what the
as a waterfowl gud for fourteen years that that was
it was gonna happen. Every year we'd see a half
a dozen or so bald eagles and they kind of
hang out wherever the geese are they are, And what

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they'll do is fly over a big concentration of geese.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
They'll just soar.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
They don't the mature eagles won't bother to chase healthy birds.
They'll just soar over the roost and everything that gets
up and leaves is healthy and they can't catch it anyway.
But there's gonna be two or three of them standing
down there that that had a bad day yesterday and
maybe got a little bit too close to that shot string,
but not close enough to get put on a strap.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
And that's the ones that eagles will go get. It
was cool walk to your show.

Speaker 9 (26:45):
I appreciate it. I'll look forward to it every week.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
I appreciate your calls.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
I really do. Thank you, Dave or Jeff appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (26:51):
Man.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Thanks.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Yeah, that's that's a good call, David.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
What's up, buddy, Yeah, real quickly, Doug, I wanted a
time your time.

Speaker 8 (26:58):
You mentioned it and survival food. You know the stuff
that the survival food kind of as often is the
stuff that we take to the woods with us.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
When we hint good point.

Speaker 8 (27:07):
I've never been gotten into the enna sausages, but do
you know what one food is that they saved the
before a snowstorm. Of course we don't have anything here, sure,
but before it snows them the food that I think
a lot of people like to take it to the
woods with them. The food that sales sore because probably
because of the shelf flofe, they last forever.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
What's that pop tart?

Speaker 8 (27:29):
Pop tarts?

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Pop tarts? Boy, yeah, I bet they do last forever.
I haven't ever looked at the expiration date on pop tarts?

Speaker 4 (27:37):
What do they give you?

Speaker 2 (27:38):
About a year and a half, two.

Speaker 8 (27:39):
Years probably at least, well, I don't know, you know,
they kind of get conservative on that kind of thing,
but I thought it was kind.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Of here's how you determine the expiration date. How hungry
are you? You know, if it's still in its original
package and it doesn't look like it's been tampered with,
how hungry are you?

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Because it's yeah?

Speaker 5 (28:03):
Pop tartly another thing though.

Speaker 8 (28:07):
I never got into these, but I guess the people
still the Olzheimer's you see them a lot. And that
was sardines and crackers.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Sardines and crackers. Yeah, that wouldn't be the first time
I ever ate them. If I was on a boat
sitting out there and kind of in a lull in
the action. Yeah, I'm not a super fan of sardines.
I can't remember even the last time I ate them,
But I went through a period in my life where
sardines and crackers sounded really good that in those little
smoked oysters you had to pay more for those than

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just for sardines.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
But yeah, it was a weird time.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
Man, you show.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Thank you. I appreciate that. Audios. Holy cow, we're just
just wandering off into the woods down some strange trails, man, Mike,
what's up, buddy.

Speaker 14 (28:52):
Morning, young man?

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Morning.

Speaker 14 (28:55):
I got a little niche I want to talk about.
I hear a lot of people. We'll talk about gun
safety programs for youngsters and old timer's. I'd like to
throw something else in there with it, and that's rules
and regulations and hunting season. I've taught my kids and

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now I'm teaching my grandkids that when you're out hunting,
you hunt like there's a game warden in your back pocket.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 15 (29:31):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (29:32):
One of one of the things that I was asked
by both generations now is if you knock a bird down,
say you're bird hunting, you knock a bird down and
you can't find it, does that count as you as
one in your bag.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
If you know for sure that it went down Technically,
if you've made a real effort, I don't know, you'd
have to talk to a game warden, because that's gonna
be a little bit of a gray area if you
if you knock a bird down, it's a heavy stuff
and you spend fifteen minutes looking for it and then
come back. Technically you know you killed the bird, you

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know you took it out of the population, that probably
has to count against your bag. And honestly, I've done
that several times. I'd knock one down in a bunch
of that rose heads out there on the prairie and
it just fell right in the top of it and
trickled to the bottom where it'd be almost like crawling

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through concertina wire trying to get to it. You'd come
out of there cut to pieces. And if you even
found it, and after searching from the edges and doing
everything I could, maybe sending a dog in if we
had one, can't find the bird, I'll just go ahead
and take it. If the limits twelve, I'll just bring
home eleven. It's not gonna nobody's gonna starve to death

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because you left one bird out there. At least you
made an honest effort and at least you didn't take
another one. But that, Yeah, it's I mean, it's it's
a little bit of a gray area. I think it
would be on a case by case basis with the
with the game ward and if you knocked the bird
down a little way just as some inconvenient place for
you to go look for it, maybe you're gonna get

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your boots all muddy or something like that and you
just didn't feel like it.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Uh, that probably writes you a ticket for wasting that bird.

Speaker 14 (31:22):
Well not only that, but by the time you get
to the area where you've knocked them down, a predator
has already gotten it. Like if you're shooting over water
and a turtle or a fish gets.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
It, well, yeah, yeah, I mean that's true.

Speaker 14 (31:36):
I mean I've even seen snakes get to your bird
before you get to the bird.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Yeah. I've had hawks get down on ducks and geese.
When they came down, hawks and eagles both, they just say, oh,
thank you very much, just pick it up, and I'm
getting hauled off.

Speaker 14 (31:48):
I'm getting a little itchy to get out there next week.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
A takes Mike Talky Buddy Audios. All right, grant, if
you promise you'll stick around your first when I get back,
I promise, I've just got a lot of calls lined up.
Everybody who's on the phone right now, I promise you
will be next in order. If you'll just hang around,
or if you have to you have to go p
out of your nose or get yourself a cup of coffee,

(32:13):
call back when you get back and I'll get you
back in. This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the
go with iHeartRadio Friends.

Speaker 16 (32:22):
You've got to try.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
The conversation continues. This as the Doug Fight Show. Nobody
button Dick Dale for sure. He I think you put

(32:45):
out several albums. Even this is back in like the sixties,
probably late fifties, possibly up through the sixties, and he
was kind of a big deal. It was funny when
when Melbourne and I were talking a minute ago, when
there were lots of just as I was talking about
I was asking him to find Dick Dale, king of

(33:06):
the surf guitar, the phone lines kind of lit up,
and I'm gonna go right back to Phil here in
just a second.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
But anyway, Melvin said, yeah, you started a wave. He
did just what he didn't even notice. How cool a
little segue he'd given me there. All right, let's go
get him in order. It's it's Grant first, correct, Yes, okay,
I didn't want to mess up Grant. What's up, buddy?

Speaker 16 (33:32):
Oh not much, mister Doug.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Good morning to you, man, Good morning. Yeah, I'm great man.
He felt so good this morning.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Oh yes, sir.

Speaker 17 (33:41):
I woke up and said, man, it feels like deals season.
Oh boy, do it earlier this yes, earlier this morning.
You spoke about the various suburbs.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Of Houston, and yeah, the middle of the city.

Speaker 17 (33:53):
And about two years ago I moved from the smallest
post in the state of Louisiana to right in the middle.

Speaker 16 (33:58):
Of the heights.

Speaker 17 (33:59):
Oh my, And it's been an adjustment for it, and
we have enjoyed it, and we're moving out the foolsure soon.
But I really just wanted to thank you for continuing
to bring up the topics that you have and represent
the various recreational sports involved.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
In the great outdoors.

Speaker 17 (34:21):
You know, it's it's pretty special that we can be
in the fourth biggest city of the country and someone
can still be speaking on deal season.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
Early in the morning.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Well, you know, I really appreciate you for saying that,
and that fewer and farther between are the outdoor writers
outdoor broadcasters, because this the country generally is being citified
and they're they're kind of trying to make that go
away and around here, especially if you had to land

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in a big city grant as somebody who grew up
in a small Louisiana parish in the rice spot, you
really did, because there are I mean, I remember writing
about this many years ago, many years ago, and even
then there were more than a million licensed hunters and
or fishermen in this region and I don't think that

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number's gone down any Yeah, I'm glad to have you
board man.

Speaker 17 (35:21):
Yes, sir, And you know I was here to a
point earlier when you were speaking on hunters for the
hungry waterfowl seasons coming up. And to be honest with you,
at the end of the day, when it comes to
eating waterfowl, my preferences only teal or wood ducks, and
it kind of leans pretty heavy towards the wood ducks.
And I was just curious if you had any recommendations

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on some different public areas to hunt around the Houston
area that I may be able to paddle in for
wood ducks that may have a little bit less traffic
than some of the places down south.

Speaker 16 (35:59):
For some birds.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Yeah, let me.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
I'll have to think about that.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
I would my first reaction is to check on the
public lakes, the big reservoirs, because there are some hunting
areas on all of them, especially in the farther north.
You go to one of those, the farther you get
away from the dam, the more there is flooded timber
to hunt. So that would be my first look. All right,
all right, yeah, grant to work man.

Speaker 16 (36:22):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (36:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Yeah, I'm glad you're here. I really am. All right, buddy,
Audios to Grant. Let's go to Alan. Alan's been there
a while, and then I'll catch Phil on the way out.
Alan wants up, buddy, Hey you morning, Doug.

Speaker 18 (36:37):
You did.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
I'm good, thank you.

Speaker 19 (36:38):
So you know what time I was shooting some I
probably up in the hill country. I was shooting some
doves and I saw them on top of my little
jeep and I looked. I was about twenty dollars away.
I looked back at this Parkan falcon Land that on there,
and he did a the side away to shuffle and
get to Gregg one of my doves, and took off.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
Yeah they'll do that on you.

Speaker 9 (37:00):
Wow.

Speaker 19 (37:01):
Yeah, I thought that was no funny after day. He's
smart enough. He ain't got to worry about killing one.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
Let me do just walk in.

Speaker 19 (37:09):
So, you know, back in the back in the day, right,
I'm not eighty five, because but way back in the day,
you know, my grandparents they used to take him down
the roll over pass because they didn't have a boat,
but they enjoyed fishing. And what what really irritates me
now is I would like to see them put a
moratorium or whatever on gold and Croker about every about

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every year, you know, let no words to stop gold
and Croker from Beni's for bait for about two years
and then go back to let people catch him for
bait because a lot of seniors loved catching going Croker
and a lot of them, you know, that was their
some of their main fish enjoyed.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah, they were there were cats. They all like crazy.
And I don't know why we can't find some middle ground.
The people who use them for bait don't want to
give them up. And I don't blame them because it works.
But there's got to be some middle ground to where
you can actually go out at some point and catch
up at least a two pound croaker.

Speaker 9 (38:18):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
And oh, I know, I know, I man, it's been
a long time since.

Speaker 16 (38:22):
That we could.

Speaker 19 (38:24):
We could catch them some guys. We got out and
dead bait. You just saw go a golden hook out
there and you catch them.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah, you could catch them on hot dogs if you
had to. They'll eat anything, and they're good eating cash too.

Speaker 19 (38:37):
I don't know what we'll do about water, you know.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, I like that. I like that the cross salt
water sure.

Speaker 19 (38:44):
And uh And like I said, I just wish they
could just hold off for about a year, uh, catching
up for bait, so that the stump could get big
enough and you know, we could start catching some more.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
You know what, Alan, what you got to do is
write a letter, send it to Austin in years.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Won't be the first to get there, and maybe maybe
they'll start looking at it again because it's been a while.
They have kind of laid low. They don't want to
stop people from using something for bait. They don't want
to close down a fishery. So it's really hard in
a state like Texas well, there's so many fishermen. But
there must be a solution. Hey, let me get cracking here.
I gotta get out at the top. All right, thank yeah,

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thank you? By all right, Phil, Let's try to get
in what you got to get in. And if I
have to take a break, I'll interrupt you and then
you'll be still on the phone when we get back.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
What's up, man?

Speaker 11 (39:34):
Nowhere is turkeyep me quick? I just want to say, hey,
real quick, i'spen been a while since I've been able
to listen. And then that gentleman that was talking about
the you know, hummingbird seasons and coming out. I saw
an article a while ago, and was an article or
post or something that saying it was important to wash
out your hummingbird feeders every three to four days because

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the solution can actually gain bacteria and kill the poor thing.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Oh okay, that's good to know. I'm glad. I'm glad
I got you in.

Speaker 11 (40:04):
I don't know how true that is, but I'm not
taking any chances of the poor things.

Speaker 19 (40:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
I would rather put in a little bit of food
for every three days than have just filler up and
end up killing a humming bird. I haven't read that
or saying that before, but that's important yet it is.

Speaker 11 (40:20):
I think the important part is make sure you take
it down and you wash it out three or four days,
so water hot water. And the other thing real quick
I was going to say, is you're talking about those
pre ma PB and J things. Yeah, and you're talking
about I don't know what they put in. My guess
would be maybe R gone gas, Okay. And the reason
I say that is because a girlfriend and we got

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a one of those needle deals that pops into wine bottles,
so you should reuse it without popping the cork. Oh
they use and they yeah, uses the good ones to
use a pressurized capsule kind of like a CO two cartridge,
and you put it in there and pushes argon gas.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Which pressurizes is the bottle.

Speaker 11 (41:03):
But it also makes sure oxygen doesn't get in there
to ruin the ruin the wine. So you could supposedly,
they say, you could like the last a bottle of
wine doing that like up to like three or four
months or something.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
We covered wine and hummingbirds in the same conversation. That's
not easy. I do that's well done, Phil.

Speaker 11 (41:21):
All right anyway, all right, man, I appreciate it. Have
a great day, Thanks you too.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's all right.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Wine, hummingbirds, and peanut butter and jelly all at once,
never ever before, never.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
Ever again, probably on radio, but we got it.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Man.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
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Speaker 4 (41:49):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening on this beautiful
Saturday morning.

Speaker 20 (41:57):
Ed.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Hey, if you like, if you like mild traditionally Southeast
Texas fall weather, you are going to love today when
you get outside. Finally, if you haven't gotten out there yet,
beautiful day. Beautiful. And I'm not gonna say anything about
the weather too much really right now, because probably either

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late in this hour or early in the nine o'clock hour,
since there's no PGA Tour event going on. And I
did look at the the DP World Tour named after me,
by the way, Melvin', do you know that at DP
mel the DP World Tour of Golf. Oh yeah, oh sure, yeah, yeah,
just all for me and everybody else with the same initials.

(42:41):
Don Pardo. You don't know who that Yeah, you might
know who that is. He was an old game show.
I think he might have been the announcer for a
game show. Yeah it was. He was the announcer perhaps
for Prices, right, I can't remember which one. In any event,
we share initials, but that's all.

Speaker 7 (43:02):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
I at some point am going to play the Texas
Temperature game, So Melvin, have that? Have that sound ready? Yeah,
you've played it. You know what it is. You know
what's going on. I have some great prizes and when
I when I go to the next break, actually I'll
go over to my desk and grab the little envelope
full of those that I have now and the winner,

(43:24):
if there is a winner. Indeed, we'll have options because
I've gotten a couple of sponsors who wanted to dive in,
and all of them have sent certificates and whatnot that
I can actually hand off to Rob Skinner. So there's
no question about what the prize is or who's gonna
get it, and hopefully we can pull this off without
getting in any trouble. Seven one three two one two

(43:46):
five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com
awful lot of phishing plans had to be changed this morning.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
I'll shift gears to that for just a bit.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Oh by the way, Mike waged in by email while
we were at break, or maybe just before then, and
he pointed out that one of the foods that we missed.
When we're talking about things that don't expire for a while,
can you can you imagine?

Speaker 4 (44:11):
Can you guess what it might have been?

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Melvin? And this one should have been on the top
of everybody's mind, but he might at least beat everybody
else to the punch.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
My guess would be spam.

Speaker 16 (44:23):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
You guessed correctly, Yes, And the question I have right
now is which will happen first? The can of spam
in the grocery store right now will expire, or those
two astronauts up there after the star liner broke will
get back to Earth. What do you think is gonna

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happen first, Melvin, They'll get back to Earth. Now do
you think spam is going to be It's.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
Gonna be around for a while. Yeah, you know it, spam.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
It sounds great on the surface. I think if you
could keep it cool, but if you were just to
store it under the console of the boat, say in July,
and pull it out like at the end of August,
after it had been in there for I don't know,
twenty thirty hundred degree days baking up to about probably
one forty in that console. I'm not so sure i'd

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want to crack it open and eat it. You think,
does it? You think it's okay when it's overheated like that. No,
I think it may be, uh kind of. I would
tread on thin ice with it. It'll be a race
back to the dock. Everything'd been going just fine. Hey,
I need to get back to the dock. No, man,
we got hours left to fish. No, no, we don't.

(45:39):
Oh no, we don't. I hate the spam, Remember I
hate the spam. But ten minutes ago and now we
have to go home. You mean that spam that was
underneath that since nineteen seventy three.

Speaker 13 (45:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Really, man, Holy cow fishing in addition to perhaps a
gastro intestinal experience, if you eat the bad spam, it's
gonna be difficult at best today. If you're gonna go
out there, if you're gonna launch a boat today, you
better have plans A, B and C on where to
hide and where to hide that boat from the wind

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if you want to stay comfortable and catch some fish,
and it's not impossible. That's the good part about this.
It's not impossible to find places to fish. When when
Mike Kaciotti took me and a friend and his son,
well my son was sick that day, or he would
have been with us as well. But the long and
the short of it is it was it was pretty

(46:39):
windy and we didn't really want to get blown all
over the bay, so we kind of hung out in
a few spots that were not terribly rough at all,
and they wouldn't have been a spots, but they certainly
are on Smart Fishermen's B and C spot list, and
we managed to scrape out some fish. It was fun,
It was fun. It was every cast, but we did

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well enough to have enjoyed the day. And that's one
of the things. Actually, one of the reasons that I
don't really want to take away anybody's bait fish option
is because on days like that, when you are hiding
and you are going into places where it's at a
little more difficult, there aren't as many fish live bait
kind of levels the playing field back or actually it

(47:24):
tilts it a little bit back toward the fisherman's favor.
You might catch a trout on it, you might catch
a red on it, and this would go for the
croakers or shrimp. Trout and reds both not hard to
get them to eat a little croker. And then if
you backpedal one notch to live shrimp, which are less

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expensive than crokers, I think you're still You just add
a couple of more species to the potential, and you
don't give up the others as possibilities. It's been a
long time since I was a live bait fishermen, so
I'm forgive me if I misspeak, but I think i'm
I'm pretty confident in what I just said. Live bait

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definitely gives you an edge in many cases, not in
all cases. I've actually fished on summer days even over
the years, we're being able to move and fish, and
move and fish and find that one hungry one amongst
all the fish on the bottom with lures has has

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been an advantage over just camping out, anchoring up or
drifting even and dragging crokers behind the boat. So either way,
if you're out there fishing, you're ahead of the game. Anyway,
and ahead of most everybody who had to stay home
and rake leaves or mow the lawn or do any
of that stuff. Seven one three, two one two five
seven ninety email on me, dougpick At, iHeartMedia dot com.

(48:49):
Took care of that. Took care of that. I'm not
going to talk about that right now, and we're good there.
Holy cow, lots of good stuff going on dove hunting.
You were gonna go fishing today and you realize that
it was gonna blow twenty five or thirty miles an hour,
which it is. Hold on, I'll go directly to the
Windsurfi windsurf dot com website. Uh yeah, it's still honking

(49:14):
pretty good all up and down the coast. It's almost
a straight north wind. There's actually just the tiniest little
bit of east in it. Up here on our end
of the coast. It's due north. And this is all
circulation around that little leftover of what was had a
half hearted chance of becoming something in the Gulf of
Mexico over the last couple of days. Top speed. Take

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a pop quiz here, Melbourne, what do you think is
the top speed of the wind right now?

Speaker 4 (49:45):
Let's say.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Eleven miles an hour. Now twenty seven? What, Yeah, I
got twenty seven at where is it? Yeah, twenty seven
at San Luis Pass, twenty seven at the little the
first buoye off Alveston. I got twenty five down in
Port O'Connor, got twenty three at Corpus Christy. So yeah,
I'm moving pretty good. It's moving pretty good and mostly north,

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which is gonna settle the surf. And that's why I
wanted to go to that. Oh here's that webcam I
can get to real quick. I think I can pop
in there.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Oh good. Oh yeah, never mind, I don't even have
to see it. It's it's cranking pretty hard, even with
the north wind on it. Well maybe this is an
old shot though. I've got to get it to load up,
and of course it doesn't want to do it quickly
for me. Oh, it's just circling the drain. I'm not
gonna worry about it. So the bottom line is it's
blowing really hard. If anything, even if it is calm

(50:43):
along the beach right now, and I'll go back and check.
But even if it is calm, it's not just not
going to be a good day to fish now the
good new If you want to keep your feet dry,
you'll be able to stand on the beach and pretty
much cast out whatever's on your spool, with help from
a twenty five mile an hour wind.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
To launch it up there.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Oh, a little farther offshore, well this this booye's actually
out there are pretty good ways, but there's a there's
a freeport booie that is registering twenty nine miles an
hour out there now, and all of it again around
what's what the remnants of what was trying to become
something but never got a chance to. There were five

(51:23):
yellow axes on the board. I believe it was yesterday
when I did fifty plus and they're currently is one
now that yellow axe? That well, there are no yellow axes.
Me let me be clear about this. No yellow axes,
but an orange one. I'll tell you where it is
and what it's supposed to do when we get back

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on the way out.

Speaker 12 (51:45):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
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Speaker 2 (51:50):
Now the more Doug fight Ay twenty on Sports Talk
seven night The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening
this morning. I certain we do appreciate it. I've got
some emails at any take care of. I had to
run and get a cup of coffee, though, and that
took priority of starving to death. Oh, Steve Way's in
real quick, Matthew, I'm coming to you in just a second.

Speaker 15 (52:11):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Steve wade in on snacks and that kind of maybe
could double as survival food.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
Beef jerky. Beef Jerky's a good one.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
I'm kind of a fan of dry stick personally, and
there's a subtle difference in all of that, but beef jerky,
dry stick, any of the dried meats like.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
That can be really really good. Matthew, good morning.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
What's up man?

Speaker 15 (52:35):
Hey, I'm a big fan of beef jerky, and my
wife's to sleep. I know she's not listening. Uh, but
if you knew her cooking, you.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
Know, Hey, it's gonna it's gonna taste like jerky one
way or the other. I'm Matthew, a good name for it.

Speaker 15 (52:56):
I better get off that subject for he get in.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Yeah, A good call. Keep keep yours down.

Speaker 15 (53:03):
I was wondering if you would ever because I'm a
surfer like you are, and I'm surfed all over the world.
Thank gosh, I've had the good fortune to do that.
But I know you do talks about gun tafty and
boat safety and I appreciate that, but if you could
ever once just give a talk about water safety, being

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a waterman, getting out there and knowing when to go
when not to go. I mean I had to learn
the hard way. I mean I learned on the you know,
west shore of a Wahoo with a knuckle samwich and
I will want of bowls and wait, I'm made the way,
but hey, I didn't know who had preference, and I

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wore black shorts and didn't know you're not supposed to
wear a black shorts.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Yeah, some of some of those local breaks around the
world are just honestly, especially at your age in mind
right now, it wouldn't be worth paddling out because somebody's
gonna somebody's gonna give you a whipping on the beach
for something you didn't even know they didn't want you
to do.

Speaker 15 (54:10):
I took a pro surfer out to I don't know
if you've ever been around I'm from San Diego originally,
but if you've ever been out of like New Break
or Ads or subs or anywhere like that. But I
took a pro surfer out there like a now I'm surfer.
Guys shredded like you wouldn't believe. Yeah, guy chased him

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right out of the water.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Well you know why because they were embarrassed by him. Probably,
you know, they don't like somebody coming and showing them
up on their own way first time. That'd be like
somebody going to your your favorite golf course and shooting
sixty five and just going, ah, yeah, it's fun.

Speaker 15 (54:48):
Well, another blessing you should always tell, don't ever take
an inexperienced surfer out on a challenging day.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
Oh that's very so true, so true. Big waves.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
I remember many times around just locally here jumping off
the almost out to the very end of the surf
side Jettie, or even back in the seventies we were
jumping off the ends of peers when they would still
let you go do that. You throw your board down
and then jump in somewhere behind it and swim over
to it. Because back then there I grew up surfing

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with no leash, and that was something you had to
really be prepared for.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
And if it was a big day, there was no
way I was.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Going to take somebody out there who couldn't swim a
quarter mile in rough water because you might have to
do that.

Speaker 15 (55:35):
Well, you and I grew up in the day where
they'd come and cut your cord.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Oh god, I remember, yeah, yeah, that would happen sometimes.
Oh lord, that goes back to some rough time surfing.
I don't know. Uh yeah, I'm thinking like even some
little simple place like Malibu that's got such a great
reputation as being a great surf spot. I looked at
some video from there the other day. There must have

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been one hundred people in the water. I don't know
how they don't accidentally kill each other.

Speaker 15 (56:07):
There is nothing but Booie's out there, dude. Is last
time I surfed Malibu? I mean I got out to
first break. Yeah, at four o'clock in the morning. Wow,
the sunrise over the glorious San Gabriels and everything. Yeah,
I get looked around. I thought I was on the

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four or five freeway.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
I mean it was, Oh no, that's not worth it,
you know, for it to learn how to surf Houston,
Galveston surf side, this, the upper coast here isn't a
bad place to learn to be able to stand up
on a surfboard. And turn it. Uh, But then you
get like you were, And I had the opportunity. I

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didn't surf around the world, but I I starved Hawaii
a couple of times. I started small Hawaii, not big Hawaii,
up and down Mexico, and then a little bit a
few other places, but every place else that I went
was still kind of chill back then. I haven't left
the country to go surfing in a very long time,

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and I don't think I would at my age.

Speaker 9 (57:15):
Now.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
What a great conversation, though, Broll.

Speaker 15 (57:18):
The one role is man, the one who's wearing the
least amount of rubber and cash's waves has preference. If
everyone else is out there in a three two and
booty and you're wearing nothing but peril, burgerwell beet Bresches
and beat up vest, guess what.

Speaker 5 (57:39):
You got prepperence?

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Yeah, you better get out of that guy's way. That's
not his first time.

Speaker 7 (57:45):
Hey, old guys, little Doug, thank.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
You, Matthew. I appreciate it.

Speaker 14 (57:50):
Man.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Oh, that was great. That was great. Yeah, old bird
Wells and and a beat up old vest. I can
see that guy in my head too. He hadn't shaved
in about a week. He shaves every now and then.
Half of it he's got about a half a beard,
and the rest of it he'll shave every couple of weeks.

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But he hadn't in a couple of weeks because there's
been good waves and he's been in the water all
day every day.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
That's the guy you got.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
You might want to get out of his way, and
he may or may not be nice about it, but
he's gonna he's gonna be able to surf circles around
you probably, Oh mercy, said my buddy Cliff down south,
been surfing a lot, a lot more surfing than fishing today.
I'm sure there's I think it was supposed to be
like five to seven's down there, something.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
Like that last time I looked.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
So no beach fishing down there for me today or
anybody else really seven one three two one two five
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I'm still thinking about one of the the experiences I
had in Hawaii. Both times I was down there surfing,
I was way out there where the real surfers go.

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They were little calmer breaks way up in way up
in the bay down there by Princeville. But I did
get to see around the corner when I went. And
I was down there on a golf trip one of
those times, and I asked the guy at the front
desk where not the guy at the front desk, the

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guy out that parking cars and whatnot, if he knew
any local breaks where I could go, maybe in a
cab or a rent car or something like that. Later
in the day so I could see some really big waves.
We were down there in winter and there was a
big wave advisory out and he said, oh, no, you
can walk, and he pointed across this big open field

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that was about probably is probably a quarter mile walk.
But I had almost forty five minutes before the van
was supposed to pick me up to go play golf
that morning, so I set my bag down and took
off walking and got over there and looked down. It's
probably a forty to fifty foot drop down to the water.

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And I'll be darned if there wasn't a really good
looking little break over there. That just a local fun
spot that maybe half a dozen guys in the water not.
I don't even know if the place had a name
other than off the coast of Princeville, but there were
half a dozen guys down there surfing the biggest waves

(01:00:29):
I'd ever seen in my life, and I'd seen some
pretty big ones at that point, and it was just awe,
just awesome to watch them, just all how calm and
casual they were about. Yeah, and not every one of
them pro surfers, believe me. These were locals learning to
surf big waves. And they were getting absolutely pounded and hammered.

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Sometimes get about halfway up the face and then realized
they were vertical and just dive off the board and
I just hold my breath waiting for them to come
up somewhere by that wave. Beautiful stuff down there. The
waves I got to surf were what I found different
about those waves in ours. And anybody who's surfed long

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enough and gotten to go to a few places will
know that that big ocean pulse out in the middle
of the Pacific Ocean is a powerful force, even the
smaller waves. Even I was surfing maybe a chest to
head high waves up there in the bay, and they
just they come at you faster. Everything moves faster. It's

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kind of like going from single A baseball to the
big leagues. U single A being here where the waves
are slower. They're a little mushier. Even on the good days,
they're just a little bit slower. But down there or
over there, I should say, and over on that west
coast of Mexico. Even it comes at you in a hurry,

(01:01:52):
and you've got to be ready to jump up and
take care of business. Seven one, three, two, two five,
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convoy has bring back some good memories. Holy cow. Fun
trips down there, down, all up and down Mexico. Joe
Dogget and I used to surf Mosset Line. I don't
I don't know how many times we made trips down there,
combo fishing and surfing trips, and that was a lot

(01:02:13):
of fun.

Speaker 12 (01:02:15):
This is Sportstock seven ninety, Facebook dot Com, slash sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
Back to the Doug Bike Show. Amazon, just let me
know that my order has shipped. I didn't place an order,
but I bet you somebody in my house did. Again.
Holy cow. Oh man, it's either my wife or my son,

(01:02:41):
and I don't know who. Let me see if I
can figure out what this is real quick, of course. Oh,
this is something my wife bought okay, it's it's most
almost always either of them, one of them. I hardly
ever order anything for myself anymore. Seven one three, two
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(01:03:02):
iHeartMedia dot com. Rudy send an email says they're surfing
the ship waves along the Galveson ship channel. That's been
going on for probably forty years, maybe a little bit longer.
There have been people doing that for as long as
I can remember, and I got a pretty good memory
as long as I can remember. And it's actually when

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these tankers are headed out all loaded down, they push
a lot of water. They push a lot of water,
and that water when it hits the edge of the
ship channel where it comes back up to just just
regular bay depth, that those waves break, that push the

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water out in front breaks and because it's being pushed
by a tanker that even if it tried to stop,
couldn't for about two miles maybe more. I don't know
how far it takes big old, loaded down tanker to stop.
But the bottom line is those waves last a long time,
and if you're out there with the right equipment and

(01:04:09):
the right timing and all of that jazz, you can
catch some pretty good waves out there. I've seen it done,
I haven't done it. I would like to do it,
even in my seniority. I think I could manage to
get up and ride in a respectable manner on a
wave that I knew was going to be so consistent.

(01:04:30):
I don't think i'd have to be towed in. I
think I could paddle into one of those be kind
of fun. Long I've got a longboard that I still
like a lot, and it hasn't been wet in a while,
and that's on me. That's on me. Captain Scott weighed
in and just throwing darts at me. Look what followed

(01:04:51):
me home, he writes, And I thought, okay, it can't
be a new truck because it didn't follow him home.
What would it be? Maybe new puppy maybe whatever. Oh no,
it's a new boat and it it's just such a
total jetty rig. There's no way he has been He
has fished that jetty down there at Port O'Connor for

(01:05:12):
a long time, out of a lot of boats, but
this one here just it just says jetty. And I
send back a note I said, the little tarpin have
no chance now that did. They had a chance when
he was he was taking his skinny water boat out there,
they had a chance. I guess on days when he's
not out there. But now does poor little Tarpin. At

(01:05:36):
least he throws them all back. That's good. Give him
a second chance, Let him learn, Let him learn not
to eat that stuff you're throwing at him. That's pretty cool. Congratulations, Scott,
that's a beautiful boat man. Good for you. Seven one
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(01:06:00):
let's get dang it. You know what I didn't do,
and I'll do it during the break. I didn't go
get that pile of prizes, so I will go get
that during the break. And then when we come back
from the forty three break, which is about to happen
going into the top of the hour, we will play
the Texas Temperature game. And during this break, if somebody

(01:06:22):
wants to sit on hold for a while, just find
us a player, Melvin, find us a player, and then
be thinking, be thinking about the high and low temperatures
in the state of Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
You got to do that because you got you have
to challenge this person and die.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
Don't want anybody who's already snuck in a look at
the temperatures around the state. You have to be completely
devoid of knowledge except for what you felt when you
came out of the door this morning. Don't go looking
at maps. Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety.
That's the number you can call and somebody Melbourne. Get

(01:06:57):
somebody lined up, and then when we get back from
this break, we'll play the Texas Temperature Game for something
I can pull out of that little envelope that I
have on my desk that I'm going to go get
in just a minute after I tell you about.

Speaker 12 (01:07:10):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, a Houston sports fan
on air and on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
Pay contact back to the Doug Fike Show. All right,
welcome back Doug Flike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Just before we get to Steve and the Texas Temperature Game,
I'll tell you about that orange X down there in
the just a very bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

(01:07:36):
It's made it through the Caribbean, it crossed over the Peninsula.
Blah blah blah. It's got a forty percent chance of
being something within two days and a sixty percent chance
of being something within a week, and it is going
to be moving, it says here. Environmental conditions are forecast
to be conducive for development, and a tropical depression could

(01:07:59):
form during the early or middle part of next week
while the system moves slowly northwestward to northward over the
southwestern Gulf of Mexico. In other words, it's gonna turn
up toward Texas, but it's a long ways away right now,
so let's not anybody panic just yet. Don't go buy
all the water in the grocery store. We'll keep an

(01:08:21):
eye on this thing. We'll figure out where it's going,
and we'll deal with it one way or the other.
All right, let me get my temperature map up here,
and if you'd like to Melbourne, you can go ahead
and start the music. Is it hot? Is it cold?
We'll find out on the Texas temperature games because you're.

Speaker 15 (01:08:49):
Cold.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
Nice scribbling notes on my sheet of paper here, my official,
official whatever contest form I guess you'd call it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:07):
It's not that formal, Steve, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 5 (01:09:11):
Good morning, Doug?

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
How are you I'm good?

Speaker 4 (01:09:13):
Are you ready?

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
Can you no idea?

Speaker 5 (01:09:17):
But I'm ready.

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
Can you deal with the anticipation? Do you know of
the game? You've heard of it?

Speaker 15 (01:09:21):
I presume I have.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
Okay, good, Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna let you either
go first or second and decide. Yeah, you got to
make that decision right up front, and then we're going
to talk about the high and the low temperatures in
the state of Texas right now.

Speaker 5 (01:09:38):
All right, I want to go second.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
Okay, all right, Melvin, and both of you are on
the honor system that you haven't worried about it, and
so I believe you. I'm fine. Okay, Melvin, what do
you think is the current low temperature in the state
of Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:09:53):
The current low temperature in the state of Texas, I
would say is.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Eighty four. That's the low eighty four. Okay, we'll go
with that. Steve, you're looking good. Yeah, Steve, what is
the current low temperature in the state of Texas? I think,
go ahead.

Speaker 20 (01:10:18):
I think he meant high too, but I'm gonna say
the current low is sixty three.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Sixty three, Melvin, I think he mistook what I said
for the surface of the sun. I think Melvin, what
is the current high temperature in the state of Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
Okay, current high let's go, okay, let's go eighty five,
eighty five.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
Oh boy, thanks Melvin. I appreciate you. Man, he's taking
them for the team. Y'all wants to talk during the break, Man,
I really need this prize.

Speaker 4 (01:10:54):
Man, Come on, Melvin, hook me up.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
The current high temperature in the state of Texas.

Speaker 15 (01:11:00):
I'm gonna say seventy three.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Seventy three Okay, good answer. Yeah, that's way better than yours, Melvin. Melvin,
you only missed the high temperature in the state of
Texas by twenty or the low temperature by twenty nine degrees.
It's only fifty five. You got to remember there's there's wow,
there's Texas above the Rio Grand Valley. A lot of

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it goes way up there on the way to Oklahoma. So, yeah, Steve,
you missed by a total of twelve Melvin missed by
a mile.

Speaker 4 (01:11:33):
So you're going to Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
So here are your options, and this is kind this
is kind of fun. I'm gonna spread this stuff out
because I got a lot of stuff. You get options,
Oh yeah, there are options. There are these options you
can get. There's a fifty dollars gift card to Mario's
Seawall Italian and Pizzeria. There is golf at black Worst

(01:12:00):
Golf Club. Oh, there is golf at Paarland Golf Club,
if that's closer. And there is also Now I don't
know what kind of a museum guy you are, but
there is an annual membership to the Brian Museum, which
I believe is down in Galveston.

Speaker 15 (01:12:21):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:12:21):
So the golf at black Horse that's in Katie, right.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
Black Horse is nor Well, it's north. Black Horse is
about it's north of Katie about maybe ten miles. It's
off two ninety and Fry Road. Okay.

Speaker 20 (01:12:36):
And I'll ask you one more question real quick. If
I get that, can I give it to my son
who loves golf. Of course, I'll take the golf. I'll
take the golf.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
I'll take care of him and we'll make it a foursome.
How's that?

Speaker 5 (01:12:53):
Oh you're the best? Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Okay. So I'm gonna set these aside so I don't
forget what you asked for, and because that's kind of
our role, and uh, it's not a great role, but
it's a role. It's my role, all right. Of course,
golf club coming up. Thank you all or thank you
for playing the game. Melvioyn.

Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
I'm gonna have to teach you how to play the game.

Speaker 15 (01:13:13):
I thank you for men, I got that ten dollars
coming your way.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
No problem. Thanks. Checks in the mail, Melvin, and I'll
see how this work, all right, Yeah, thank you audios.
Holy cow, All right, Melviourn's got him back, get his
address and be sure his big check shows up. Holy cow,
that took me by surprise. Low temperature in the state
of Texas eighty four eighty four. That's okay, man, Hey,

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everybody who's ever played this game has well, not everybody,
but it's that's not the first time something like that's
happening where somebody missed by wide margin. And that's okay.
It's it's all for fun anyway. And I can't remember
the last time I officially had to declare somebody a
non winner. We find ways to give away these price

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This is because they're good prizes and I want you
guys to enjoy them. So that takes care of Steve.
Steve's on his well, Steve's son. I don't even know
if he's listening this morning, but if he is, he
and three of his buddies just got hooked up pretty good. Uh,
and they've got all the way through February twenty eighth
of next year to take advantage. So this ought to

(01:14:20):
work pretty well for him. Seven one three two point
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Where's my official my talking sheet that I had out here?
My talking points? Talking points that I can take care
of that I'm not worried about. There's another page that

(01:14:40):
I'm looking for that's absolutely disappeared. I'm not gonna worry
about that really right now, let me go back to
back to dove hunting real quick and what I want
to know and kind of talk a little bit in
the nine o'clock hour two when we get there in
a couple of minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:14:56):
I want to look back to your.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
Because Dove Dove's season has always to me been the
end of that's kind of the fall transfer day. We
go from summer to fall on the opening day of
Dove season, which we did a week ago, and we
will do for I don't know how many years to come,
hopefully a lot of them. I don't want to ever

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see that goal away. But I'm kind of curious how
much opening day matters to you. Do you if opening day,
if September one, we're on a weekday, would you take
the day off to go dove hunting? If September one
we're on a weekday, would you take your kids out
of school to take them dove hunting? I know that
happens a lot during during deer season, the opening day

(01:15:39):
of deer season, opening weekend, a lot of kids are
missing from school on Friday because they've got to get
to the deer leaves for the opener. But I'm just
kind of curious, or maybe your best ever dove hunt
and the difference between the best ever dove hunt and
the best ever goose hunt, I think are just especially
back a long time ago when goose limits were so

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big and so high, it took a long time to
knock down a limit of snow geese. Plush your speckle bellies,
Plush your Canada geese if they're around.

Speaker 4 (01:16:11):
And by the time the season gets in full swing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
And I'll probably talk about that more in the coming
weeks than this week, because we've still not even started,
not even started teal season yet, and I'm already amped
up about ducks and geese.

Speaker 4 (01:16:25):
That's kind of how it works for a lot of
us around here.

Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
I'm gonna go ahead and get to this break, and
when we get back, I would love to hear from
some of you about maybe you're just your best ever
bird hunt. Let's go with that. With so many teal
moving into the area right now, and by the way,
those teal are going to stick around. We had that
rain for almost we had several days of rain before
dub season. We've had more rain this week on some

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of the prairie prairie properties that really needed it. It
was more coastal rain really than inland, but still there
was enough rain around here at least to keep the
water levels from going down. So maybe we'll talk about that.
But I'd love to hear about some of your best
ever bird hunts, because I've got, boy, I've got a

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laundry list of them after fourteen years of guiding, and
best or most memorable, and maybe on the fishing side,
with all the wind out there today, maybe a time
when you got caught out there in the wind and
didn't know if you were getting back, but clearly you did,
so you can tell me the story. I love hearing
your stories, and I hope you enjoy mine when I
get a chance to share them. Any experience you have

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outdoors that you come home home, come home safe from
that's a good one.

Speaker 11 (01:17:41):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
I got to get out here and we'll be back
safe in a couple of minutes.

Speaker 9 (01:17:45):
All the way out.

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I took these certificates for a black horse and put
them straight on the desk on which they belonged. Just

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made a big loop around the office at at full
tilt pace and just barely got here.

Speaker 4 (01:18:22):
As the music started, I rode.

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
I went by the restroom and Melvin, you'll appreciate this,
probably as someone who also drinks coffee in the mornings.
As I went by, my body said, hey, you might
want to stop in here. No, No, I have to
get back to the studio. I might want to stop,
and I didn't have a chance to, So I'll be
tapping my feet here when I'm talking to Forest here.

(01:18:45):
Let me go get him on the phone. TikTok, TikTok,
and there Forrest. What's up?

Speaker 11 (01:18:51):
Man?

Speaker 6 (01:18:52):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
Oh, it's not working again. You're gonna have to bring
him up, Melvin, click him? What's going on? What do
you got?

Speaker 16 (01:19:01):
Can you hear me that?

Speaker 11 (01:19:03):
There he is?

Speaker 19 (01:19:05):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:19:06):
Pro Kobe Stevens, Pike, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
Kobe Stevens got some good stuff?

Speaker 9 (01:19:10):
Man?

Speaker 4 (01:19:11):
You need to check out their fishing stuff.

Speaker 16 (01:19:13):
Hey, I need I need you listen.

Speaker 18 (01:19:15):
If we shake what in the woods, but I throw
it in a tree, at least will look good duty, right.

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
Absolutely, I lost the lure yesterday and I just almost
what just was so depressed.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
It was at the golf course.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
And the only way I'm gonna get that one back
now because I buried a hook in a really thick
read of some sort. I don't even know what that
plan is, but it's it's a it's a lure killer,
that's for sure. I'm gonna have to get one of
the rakes out of the bunk or late late one
afternoon and go over there. I think I can reach
it with a rake, and if I can just get

(01:19:47):
it out of that stalk, then I can. I can
use another lure on a on the end of the
line somewhere to pick it out of the water. But
right now it's just it's just flapping in the breeze.

Speaker 16 (01:19:57):
Man, I thinks you know where it's at.

Speaker 6 (01:20:00):
You go back.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, I can't miss that one. The other
ones that are buried up under the water. I'm gonna
have to wait till let lake gets drained down a
little bit lower.

Speaker 4 (01:20:08):
What's going on, man?

Speaker 16 (01:20:10):
Yeah, I was sitting around this morning. You go to
a good deal story.

Speaker 18 (01:20:13):
I was sitting around this morning and uh as I
was trying to figure out how to get the tie
and off by a crustless loaf of bread this morning
when I was trying to figure out my sugar water recipe.

Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
Too hot.

Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
Oh good lord.

Speaker 18 (01:20:27):
But we had a time on Lake Livyson. And I'm
sure you've hunted Lake Levies in the time for fifty
couple and you're back in the day.

Speaker 16 (01:20:33):
Sure, But it was a year.

Speaker 18 (01:20:35):
When the lake was like five feet low and we
were up in one of the upper in Lake Creeks,
and there was only about a ten twenty foot wide,
six inch like ditch of water that went way up
in this mud flat and there was an old pond
back there upon it.

Speaker 16 (01:20:50):
You can stand down, you can stand at the edge
of it, cast the whole pond's perfect.

Speaker 18 (01:20:55):
And uh we we went back in my gold double
and built a built the stand there in that dove season, me.

Speaker 16 (01:21:02):
And two buddies and all that hunter at this is
just dirty till season.

Speaker 18 (01:21:06):
I remember, we have jobs, so we're just something on
the weekend, sure, but during tell season to the whole
till season, me and those three guys, not on Saturday
and Sunday and maybe a couple of days we killed
one hundred and thirty two green wing teal out of.

Speaker 4 (01:21:19):
That blynd good golly, wow man, it's.

Speaker 16 (01:21:23):
Crazy that dirting duck season.

Speaker 18 (01:21:25):
I don't know how many pintail we shot out of
that same blode during regular dutchy.

Speaker 4 (01:21:28):
Wow, man, that was awesome.

Speaker 18 (01:21:30):
It was it was like the only water back and
you have them, and it was it was kind of gumboie.
But you know how them teal like they walk around
on that buzz.

Speaker 4 (01:21:37):
Yeah, they don't have a problem with that at all.

Speaker 14 (01:21:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:21:40):
And my most memorable, even though that was an epic
numbers my most memorable duck season. I won't say where
it was. I'll just say it was in South Texas.
And there's a place down there being you need to
go that you can pretty much stand at the decoy
as you shoot your limit.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
Oh my word, Holy cow.

Speaker 18 (01:21:55):
But but I've got a mount in my house I
have to senend you a picture of and real quick,
if you want to get taxidermy done, please use somebody
good and pay them money.

Speaker 9 (01:22:06):
Cow.

Speaker 18 (01:22:07):
I didn't do it on this mount And every time
I look at it, I want to cry because it
because to me, it's a rare It was a rare day.
So what we did down there, we shot blue wing
green wing, and we had a big flock about fifteen
cinnamon come in. And so I have a mountain with
two cinnamon, a blue wing, and a green wing all
in one mountain.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:22:28):
And I wish I.

Speaker 18 (01:22:28):
Would have paid a thousand dollars to get that thing
done versus what I paid for. I look at it
now and I cried, and I was like, yeah, but it's.

Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
Like there's a lot of two word expressions that just
don't work and discount taxidermis one of them.

Speaker 18 (01:22:43):
I had a friend of mine that did tax derby.
But man, I'll do it for you friends. And I say, okay,
back then you're younger, you don't out of money.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
No kidding.

Speaker 16 (01:22:50):
But now now I go to whoever's I want to
see awards on his wall?

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
When I go, yeah, yeah, I want to see his work,
and I want to see prizes. I'm with you one
hundred percent. I want to see a bunch of blue ribbons.
Yeah that's so boy. I'm glad you brought that up
because I've seen I've seen a lot of fish mounts,
especially where people just didn't understand it. All you're paying
for is a paint job. Really, because you can go

(01:23:17):
you and I can go online and buy the mold
for a thirty inch speckled trout. We can buy a
mold for a four foot sailfish, a six foot, seven foot,
eight foot sailfish, whatever. But it's up to the person
who's painting it to make it look realistic. And if
they can't paint, you're not gonna like it. You're not
even gonna recognize that as the fish you caught.

Speaker 16 (01:23:39):
It's easier to screw one up that it is to
get one right.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
Boy, isn't at the truth. Yeah, there was a guy
out and the guy named Cecil White Out and Katie
who was pretty good, and I used him for a
lot of time or a long time. And then there
was a guy who worked for him and ultimately went
to work for himself. I can't recall that man's name,
but he was the best out there for a very
long time. And I had several things done by him

(01:24:02):
and they all look just amazing. It's amazing.

Speaker 18 (01:24:05):
Okay, I'll chime in real quick before I go on
a survival. Food in the boat or in the dust. Yeah,
I always have smoke being a sausage in my boat.
It's got to be the smoke because it has that
fake kind of it's cooking. It's bakeding liquid smoking.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
It almost tastes like real food.

Speaker 16 (01:24:22):
Yeah, it almost tastes like food.

Speaker 18 (01:24:24):
And but the best, the best duck buying boat food
that I've ever had, and we still do it. If
you have a food dehydrator, you're out there. You know,
everybody could play. I don't want to shoot a spoony
or a black jack or yeah, but you take them
and make a jerky out of them, diving ducks. And
you're sitting there shooting ducks and eating ducks. It's not

(01:24:45):
bad for diving ducks.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
Let me tell you what. Divers up where you are
probably aren't bad that a spoon bill down here on
the prairie. Once we had a couple of good and
orders come in and blow all the ducks to the coast.
And then about a week or week and a half later,
the wind switches back to the southeast and it blows
all those spoon bills back up onto the prairie after

(01:25:08):
they've been down on the coast eating snails. Not so good.

Speaker 4 (01:25:13):
I'm not so good, man.

Speaker 16 (01:25:17):
Sometimes you gotta shoot the smiling mallards over. Ain't nothing
else flies.

Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
Oh man, I'm gonna you know that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
That reminds me of a duck story. I'll tell when
I get back about some guys I had. I mean,
we worked hard to get where we were, and that
flat was loaded with ducks, and we did something that
I don't know has ever been done before since, and
it it made great sense to us at the time.
I'll tell you when we get back. All right, great

(01:25:43):
to hear from you.

Speaker 4 (01:25:44):
Yeah, thanks, a good day.

Speaker 16 (01:25:46):
Tell Melvin to work on that meteorology.

Speaker 2 (01:25:50):
He's laughing. Yeah, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna sign him
up for weather school. All right, man, I'll see you audio.
All right, melv it's been it's been thrown at you.

Speaker 16 (01:26:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
I'm enrolling right now. Online online.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
What one of the universities you to me?

Speaker 16 (01:26:09):
You to me?

Speaker 4 (01:26:12):
Oh, we'll take a little break.

Speaker 12 (01:26:14):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety breaking sports news on
Facebook twenty four or seven.

Speaker 2 (01:26:19):
We'll get that information to them. This is the Doug
Pike Show. Bye, Welcome back, Doug Pike Show on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 15 (01:26:28):
Drum.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
Okay, that's that. That's taken care of.

Speaker 4 (01:26:31):
Let's go to the phone show and see if this
thing's gonna work.

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
Stand by. Oh it's working now, Melvin, I don't know
why willis. What's up, buddy?

Speaker 5 (01:26:40):
How you doing this morning, Doug?

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
I'm good.

Speaker 5 (01:26:46):
I grew up in the Texas City area. Well after
I became a teenager. I was born and raised in Carwell,
Texas about I don't know, fifty or sixty miles west
of Austin, right and got in to my teenage years
and we moved to uh, Texas City and did a
lot of fishing down the surfside, around the jetties and

(01:27:08):
off the point down on Galveston Island. When you used
to be able to drive out there in your car
truck and spend the whole weekend fishing serve. Yeah, you
know that's that's been a day or two ago now.
But Uh, I left, I left losing.

Speaker 6 (01:27:23):
I left for left Texas and mood losing down about
thirty two years ago. But uh, me and a wife,
I got vacation coming up here in a couple of weeks,
and me and a wife are planning a trip back
down over to uh Galveston area, And I uh wondering
what the fish is like for as far as reds
and specs and uh what it's like down around the

(01:27:44):
uh the jetties, And I don't even know if you
fish off the off the point of Galveston Island anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
Yeah, everything's changed down there. You're gonna have just kind
of probably best met there is to just figure out
where you used to go and then maybe make a
phone call or two to somebody who's still here. You
got any friends here you can call?

Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:28:06):
Yeah, ex brother in law still lives down there. Me
and him are still real good. We're still tight. One
thing that's a good all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:28:15):
That's one thing that's really good this time of year.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
It can be anyway on the right day, and especially
on a bumpy day, like if the wind changes a
little bit and the surf gits kind of rough, those
big old redfish are running up and down the beach.

Speaker 4 (01:28:26):
It's spawning time for them.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
And I've seen a couple of pictures already there's a
lot of really big bull redfish being caught. And when
the piers get super crowded on those I used to
go and unless it was super rough but just kind
of bumpy, you can go to almost any of those
rock groins down right there in the middle of Galveston
and walk out to the end and sling a piece

(01:28:49):
of fresh men hayden or a chunk of finger mullet
or something out there, and do every bit as well
as the guys on the piers, because those fish are
just running up and down the beach.

Speaker 5 (01:29:00):
Yeah, that's what we're catching over where I'm at. I
live over in southeast Louisiana around Clydell off of I
ten Hot twelve area, And uh, get up in them
little slews and stuff, and we're we're we're catching a
ton of of some really nice big bulls and uh
even some drum here and there. You know, nice I

(01:29:21):
heard drum.

Speaker 15 (01:29:22):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:29:23):
But uh, I want to take the kids and just
kind of show them where I grew up, you know, Uh,
show them my old stomping ground.

Speaker 19 (01:29:31):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:29:32):
While I'm still young enough, you.

Speaker 4 (01:29:35):
Can still stomp it.

Speaker 5 (01:29:36):
Huh, well, at least pretend to know. Uh, I don't.
I don't get to go as much as I used to,
you know, driving a big truck these days, you uh
the whole saying that if the wheels ain't turning, you
ain't earning. And Mama and the kids have gotten used
to having food on the tables. I spent a lot

(01:29:57):
of time on the road.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
I understand, man, I really do.

Speaker 5 (01:30:00):
In fact, I'm on my way into a Fort Worth
area now I'll be I'll be in Fort Worth tomorrow, Uh,
make a delivery and head back up towards Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 (01:30:11):
I don't I don't think. I don't think you'll find
Galveston that much different than what it was. You're gonna
have to pay for parking pretty much, no matter where
you parked that thing on concrete anymore. But that other
THI that it'll be about the same. Probably you'll be
able to find some spots. Most of your old spots
ought to still be accessible.

Speaker 5 (01:30:31):
Ah, that's great, that's great to hear. Uh I miss
sometimes I miss the old stomping ground. But you know,
I live in a little small area.

Speaker 15 (01:30:42):
It's very.

Speaker 5 (01:30:46):
Almost unpopulated. My closest neighbor is almost a mile away. Yeah,
it makes it a lot easier to get my truck
in and out of the house without bothering too many neighbors.

Speaker 12 (01:30:57):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:30:58):
Yeah, you got a got a big out, do you.

Speaker 5 (01:31:02):
Yeah, but uh, I listen to you every weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:31:07):
Do you get a chance to uh to call in?
But I love your show. It gets it gets my
Saturday morning is going and gives me something to listen
to for for a couple of hours every weekend, well
other than all the other hooplaw that's going on.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
Oh yeah, I'm glad you're bringing the kids to show
them where you used to fish, because I've had a
chance to do that with my son a couple of times.
And even yeah, you never know how much of that's
really soaking in with them but it'll mean a lot
to you. And that's that's got to be enough, you know,
And it should it should mean a lot to you
because it'll bring back a bunch of cool memories.

Speaker 5 (01:31:43):
Oh yeah. I've got five girls, Oh yeah, and they
that every time I come home or when they you know,
they know when I'm coming home, and they'll ask, uh
that we're going. We're going fishing this weekend. And more
times than not where we're going to a small lake

(01:32:04):
or you know, a private pond, or a lot of
times we'll we'll go down to uh to Salt Bala
there and slide Hill and we'll either go crabbing or
or we'll go uh, we'll go with a hook, you know.
And and I always said a bad day fishing is
better than a good day at work.

Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
Amen. At that Holy cow, you.

Speaker 5 (01:32:24):
Know, I can go sit out there for four hours
and never catch nothing but.

Speaker 12 (01:32:31):
Woods.

Speaker 2 (01:32:32):
What you what you catch on that day when you
don't have fish to show for it, You just catch
a calm that can't be replaced.

Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
By anything else, you know, exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:32:41):
You know, you look around and you see the smile
on your children's faces and the light in their eyes,
and they're they're enjoying ourselves. And at the end of
the day, that's what it's all about. You know, you
can give a man of fish and he can eat
for a day, or you can teach him how to
fish and he can eat the rest of his life.

Speaker 4 (01:32:59):
So spend all his money on fishing gear.

Speaker 19 (01:33:03):
Well, that's that's true.

Speaker 5 (01:33:04):
No, wrong, that that's no, that sure. I ain't that sure,
I ain't. But look, I ain't gonna keep you tied up.

Speaker 20 (01:33:11):
You got other people to get to.

Speaker 5 (01:33:14):
Soas you're talking to you, likewise, will stranger listening to
your show? Oh no, sir, No, sir, I will definitely
be giving you a call back, especially when it gets
into deer season. Go get me a good one this year.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
All right, Well, yeah, I expect to see picture. You
get a big buck. I expect a picture.

Speaker 5 (01:33:33):
You can count on it. I can count on it.
Y'all have a wonderful day there, and you too, take
care of yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
Yeah, safe travels. Well, thank you buddy, audios. All right,
let me go catch Trey before we got to go
to the break trade. What's up man, Hey, Doug, how
you doing.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
I'm great, Thank you.

Speaker 15 (01:33:48):
I'm gonna tell you were asking about old before the
hour is old good goose huting bird stories.

Speaker 13 (01:33:54):
Then this this goes back to the early seventies. I
know you got it with Lyle, but we were allowed.
You Jordon's probably seventy two, and you know, he owned
a lot of properties south of I ten, but he
owned a little bit north of I ten and in factors,
on the other side of the rail tracks. There's a
house that's still there with the pond next to us.

Speaker 5 (01:34:13):
Still see it every now and then.

Speaker 13 (01:34:14):
Everything's changed out there, but right near that house in January,
Lywle used to let my dad and his friend that
was one of the first guys that signed up with him,
you know, And when the season was almost over, he
let us hunt in the afternoons, which he never did
during the season. So we drive around, you know, just
look for concentrations of geese, and as you know, in

(01:34:34):
the seventies there was just I mean out yeah in Berkshire.

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
Caney area is unbelievable. Anyway, we got that.

Speaker 13 (01:34:40):
We found a concentration one day. It was like a
day like today, went kind of wendy, and we got
in a ditch and we were just you know, pick
those geese coming back and forth from the concentration. They
were far enough out where you could shoot and they
wouldn't get up.

Speaker 15 (01:34:55):
And we sat there all.

Speaker 13 (01:34:56):
Afternoon and just you know, one and two's and it
was it was so anymun And you.

Speaker 15 (01:35:01):
Didn't you never got to do that, you know, because
I get it.

Speaker 13 (01:35:04):
You know, he didn't want you hunting the afternoons during
the season, but at the end of the late January
he'd let us do that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
Boy, he was a lot of fun. Pass shooting out
of ditches was something that as a guide a lot
of times people didn't want to do that, but after
they'd done it a couple of times and it actually
worked the way it's supposed to work.

Speaker 4 (01:35:22):
Man, it was a lot of fun to do it
that way because those bird and.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
You can say, your decoys two hundred yards off that dish,
but as they fought a wind trying to get to it,
they just they just get lower and lower.

Speaker 15 (01:35:33):
Man.

Speaker 13 (01:35:35):
Yeah, it's you know, it's it's I don't want to
get nostalgic, but it's so sad you can't drive out
there and see geese anymore. And you got to go,
I guess to hell Campo down to find any geese.
But boy, it was back in the seventies and eighties.

Speaker 16 (01:35:47):
It was great.

Speaker 6 (01:35:48):
I know it was.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
I was right there besides you. Man, that's a great call.
Thank you, Trey, thank you, yes see, buddy Audios. Yeah,
holy mackerel. The anybody who didn't experience what we did,
what Trey and I and all my friends did back then,
and all of the people who came here from literally
from around the world to goose hunt on the Katy

(01:36:11):
Prairie and on the prairie east to town, not to
quite the same level, but nonetheless, the number of birds
here during those winters was unparalleled. I don't know of
any place on the planet where you could find that
many geese in one spot. It was just staggering, staggering.
How many concentrations would get up every morning. You'd see

(01:36:33):
the sky would just turn dark. I mean, some of
the concentrations. If you were fairly close to them and
the sun was just starting to come up and all
those birds got spooked at once, there would be a
shadow basically from the entire that big flock of birds
that would come over you and everybody where you were
until they started scattering out a little bit. They could

(01:36:54):
they could block the sun quite literally. It was just amazing.
The waterfowl story I wanted to tell a minute ago
about a duck hunt that I made with I think
I had four guys with me, maybe five, and we
needed to hunt in the middle of this big flat
and there was no blind out there. This is one
of those hunts where you had to have some guys

(01:37:17):
who were willing to do some work but to be
rewarded for it. And the scouting report on that flat,
and I'd looked at it for a couple of days,
it was building up with more and more ducks. It
was a rice field, a flooded rice field had already
been harvested. But the levees that wound through there had
a little bit of brush on them, but the birds

(01:37:38):
were in. It was a big flat too, so they
were in the middle. It was late in the season.
They knew to stay away from the edges because they'd
been hammered all month, or for a couple of months. Anyway,
The long and the short of it was we got
there early because it was this thing had a lot
of pententails in it in the scouting going on, and
we were going to go in there and get a
full limit of big old bulls frig pintails, and we

(01:38:02):
got there. We got there about a half an hour
early and chopped a lot of a lot of tall
grass off the side of the road, a lot of
cover that we could take out there, and we hauled
all that stuff out there.

Speaker 4 (01:38:14):
We propped it all up.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
On the levees and just made our own little impromptu
curl up underneath it, kind of lean to's of grass.

Speaker 4 (01:38:22):
We put a lot of effort into that thing, and.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
Just at shooting time, ducks started to fly and I'm
looking up and they're looking up, and they're seasoned hunters,
they know what's up, and we're not. Really we're seeing
some teal, we're seeing some spoonies, and we're really not
seeing the pintails. And I just said, look, you know,
if we're gonna do this pintail thing we're planning, we're

(01:38:46):
gonna have to wait a little while. And we had
ducks flying all around us, and finally this one guy
us on his own, just reaches up and knocks a
big fat drake spoony out of the sky, and our
opportunity to take all pintails had flown out the window.

Speaker 15 (01:39:06):
So we just.

Speaker 2 (01:39:07):
Shifted to a gear that not many prairie hunters would
shift to, and we set about taking a full limit
of drake spoon bills and managed to do it. And
when you start looking for it, when you're looking for pintails,
all you see is spoonies, And when you're looking for spoonies,
all you see is pintails. As soon as that first

(01:39:27):
one dropped, as soon as that first spoon bill dropped,
it was pintails everywhere. No, no, no, don't shoot that.
That's a big old drake pintail. No no, no, stay
out of the No, that's a greenhead. Don't shoot that.
And all of a sudden we just kept strapping up
and went right into the picking place, just right into
the processor like we had, like we had done something

(01:39:48):
nobody and probably had done something nobody else had ever
done before.

Speaker 4 (01:39:52):
We went in there with full limits of spoon bills.

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
And proud to do it. By gosh, we were all right,
I'm wrong, a little bit late for this break prove it.

Speaker 16 (01:40:02):
Ninety.

Speaker 12 (01:40:03):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston Sports online at
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Speaker 2 (01:40:09):
Back to the Doug Pike Show. Hi, Welcome back, Dogpike
Show on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 11 (01:40:14):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:40:15):
I can't believe it's already almost nine forty. Holy cow, Melvin,
Holy cow. Just suddenly it just blew by, by the way,
my one little golf comment. I have here, real quick,
hold on one second. I just noticed something that I
don't want to happen, because it happened last week and

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I don't want it to happen again. My laptop is
about to the battery is about to die. And if
I don't put it on this chargers I'm grabbing right now,
and it does, it'll take forever to load back up.
I think I'm gonna have to get a new one.
It just has so much stuff on it that it's
getting a little bit slow. There are you happy? Now,

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little laptop.

Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
Might need a new battery. Wead that just replace the
whole thing by that time.

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
I talked to it last week about this because it
was taking so long to get back up and running,
and they said these things only last about three years,
and mine's probably four. And so it's not that there's
anything little that can be done. It'll just get replaced
once it becomes any more problematic than it is right now.

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I heard a commercial this morning.

Speaker 4 (01:41:27):
I don't even remember exactly where, but.

Speaker 12 (01:41:31):
Not it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
AI is alive and well in that company's commercials, and
I don't even remember what the company was. I just
almost laughed out loud though, when in the commercial this
voice that. Having listened to a lot of AI commercials
and no, I know what I'm listening for, this one
was one of the most egregious mess ups and mistakes

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that they let get through.

Speaker 16 (01:41:57):
Ever.

Speaker 2 (01:41:58):
They were trying to make a golf reference, and the
and the words and exactly how they were said went
something like this, and when you're on the twelve te box, Well, no,
it's the number, it's the twelve tea box. It's a
T box. It's not a T box. They it just

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I just it just screamed AI. And nobody who plays
golf knowing how to say it.

Speaker 16 (01:42:26):
So I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:42:27):
I just found that humorous steam o.

Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
What's up?

Speaker 16 (01:42:32):
What's up?

Speaker 19 (01:42:32):
Mister practy are you today?

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
I'm good? How are you?

Speaker 6 (01:42:35):
Man?

Speaker 9 (01:42:36):
Oh man?

Speaker 21 (01:42:36):
I'm actually working over on Persolly war on a boat
over there. That's I told you, I'm a welder, small
business on and stuff like that, and I'm.

Speaker 16 (01:42:43):
Just enjoying this weather.

Speaker 2 (01:42:45):
For one my boy, I bet I wanted.

Speaker 7 (01:42:48):
To tell you.

Speaker 21 (01:42:49):
In the middle of all this uh rain we've had,
I haven't had to get much practice on the.

Speaker 11 (01:42:54):
Golf game or anything.

Speaker 21 (01:42:55):
But about two weeks ago, I went out and shot
a seventy seven at Beacon Lakes.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
Get out of here.

Speaker 16 (01:43:01):
I was blown away.

Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
Wow, good for you.

Speaker 2 (01:43:05):
You show.

Speaker 11 (01:43:07):
It was actually I shot a thirty fish eight on
the front.

Speaker 4 (01:43:12):
It was just it was great, man, Wow, holy cow.

Speaker 15 (01:43:14):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:43:14):
Yeah, you lit him up. I did, but that was good.

Speaker 5 (01:43:19):
Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 21 (01:43:21):
Also, I want to talk to you, man, because I
remember as a kid, I grew up doing everything. I
grew up here in Galveston. We finished we love hunted,
we did everything. I went to the deer lease with
my grandpa, like all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:43:33):
Man.

Speaker 21 (01:43:33):
Yeah, And like my son is taking that pathway as well,
Like every day like here for the last month, every
day after school he's been going right across the street
and going fishing nice and it's it's taken off. But
the other day he just told me, man, Dad, thank you,
Like no, Joe, I really appreciate it, like all just
teaching me and stuff like that. He actually told me that.

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And I'm to tell you, man, if I had my
grandpa or anything like that around, I would love to
do that. So maybe just so like let everybody know,
you know, it's pretty good to make people feel good
every once in a while and just say appreciated pops,
you know, or whatever, you know, because I promise if
I could, I would.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
Right now, I'm the same way.

Speaker 18 (01:44:11):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
My dad died very suddenly when he was sixty five,
and nobody saw it coming. Nobody knew it was coming.
It just so he just had a major heart attack
and was there one day and go on the next.
And boy, I'd like to have just an hour to
sit down and tell him a lot of things too.

Speaker 11 (01:44:28):
Exactly my dad, same exact thing happened he was fifty six.

Speaker 4 (01:44:32):
Oh man, exactly.

Speaker 19 (01:44:34):
Oh wild stuff. Man, Just don't take for granted what
you got.

Speaker 4 (01:44:37):
And you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:44:38):
You can't, man, I wonder. Yeah, I hope I've got
a lot of years left because there's still a whole
lot I want to teach my son. But I'm trying
to squeeze as much flower into the sack as i
can while I'm still around.

Speaker 11 (01:44:51):
I agree, man, I agree.

Speaker 21 (01:44:52):
Anything's better than going out and acting stupid and going
to jail.

Speaker 16 (01:44:56):
I'll tell you what really.

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
All right, man, thank you, have a good day, sir.
I appreciate the talk.

Speaker 4 (01:45:02):
Oh got it, Yes, sir, Thanks Stevo audios.

Speaker 2 (01:45:06):
Yeah, getting getting out, getting kids in the outdoors and
getting them kind of and bringing up right too. This
is something that I kind of go over every year
before hunting season starts. If you've got young kids, it's
a good idea to start them small and let them
work up. If you're gonna take them dove hunting, let

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them start with a little single shot twenty gage shotgun.
They're not gonna hit a lot of doves, but frankly,
nor are they gonna burn up six boxes of AMMO.
Not hitting doves will teach them that every shot counts,
and they will become better shots really quickly. If you're
gonna take them fishing, don't take them to some place

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where they're gonna catch a fish every cast, because they'll
get bored if they don't. If you're gonna take them
deer hunting, don't invest in a world class deer or
even anything remotely close to what other people would consider
a giant buck. Or after they knock that deer down

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and they go out on another hunt, expecting to shoot
one bigger and bigger and bigger. Suddenly the fun wears
off because there's not another step up, there's not another
way to improve upon what they've already had, and it
makes it very difficult, and they they're gonna wind up
in the mall. They're gonna wind up goofing off playing

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video games and things that don't really don't really change
them as a person for the better.

Speaker 18 (01:46:41):
I know that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:42):
I'm sure there's still people out there who play video
games for a living, but there are a lot more
people who love the outdoors and do other things than
play video games for a living, who make very good livings.
And most of the people I've met and been around
who are outdoors people golf, fishing, hunting, camping, sailing, surfing, skiing, backpacking,

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pretty much any of it, they're just generally pretty good people.
They're really there's bad apples in every bunch. I understand that,
but by and large, outdoors people are good people. Holy cawn,
yeap and yeap and yap and huh yeah and away.
I gotta take this little break here. I'm a couple
of minutes late. I apologize, Melboyne, so sorry. For that,

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and thank you for not getting in my ear.

Speaker 12 (01:47:36):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. Listen online at sports
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Speaker 2 (01:47:46):
That's an old holy cow soul that even I remember it.
I could sing it if I had to, but I
think we're all in agreement that that's probably not a
good idea. Three one two, five seven nine Email me,
Doug pocket Ihartme dot com. Capin Scott ways In had
a dream. This is so hilarious I'll just I'll just

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read it because I was in the middle of the
best sunflower field of doves I've ever seen. I was
swinging in every direction, shooting at doves constantly, but none
would fall. Then I realized I had my grandson's baby gun.
How those things come into our heads and I've had

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the same experience we all have. We all have, and
how they get in our heads?

Speaker 4 (01:48:38):
Who knows?

Speaker 2 (01:48:40):
Oh, but yeah, all the way from Mark over in Georgia,
listening again this morning. Thank you so much.

Speaker 16 (01:48:46):
Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
Yeah, the September issue of Coastal Angler magazine down in Florida,
and I have seen this, I've heard about it, I've
read about it, and it's gone going on the Florida
largemouth bass a totally different species than the Texas largemouth bass.
I think is the designation. Maybe it's Southern. I don't

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know what the other one's going to be. But the
bottom line is that they're now going to be separate
records for each So if you were ever wondering if
you could get your nate, well, I guess enough people
have already figured this out that it's a waste of
time by now. But I was going to say that
if you wanted wanted to get your name in the
record book, at least for a few minutes, there would

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be open categories. It's an article genetic research prove that
Florida largemouth bass are a different species, brought about because
Florida largemouth bass grow faster and bigger than other bass
in the southern US. Yeah, we already knew that in Texas.
That's why we've been stocking Florida bass forever over here

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and the offspring thereof We all know that they're smarter,
we all know that they grow faster, but we still
can't grow well, we still can't catch at least a
twenty pounder here in Texas, and hopefully someday we will
thanks for sharing Mark. That story's been going around, and

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more power to them. I don't I just don't understand
why we can't get a twenty pound bass. It just
boggles the mind. It just boggles the mind. Oh yeah, yeah,
I'm not gonna don't worry all and I won't read
that one on the air.

Speaker 4 (01:50:35):
And it's nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:50:36):
It's nothing, really horrible, but he just I'll share it
with Melvin, no big deal. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. I've got time for another call.
If somebody wanted to jump in and get last shot,
I don't know. If I'm sure I want to, I'll
I'll let Scott brag about his new boat again for
just a second here. That that, and I love the

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way he presented it, so I'd have to go open
it up and see. Thinking it might be something else.
The subject line just read this thing followed me home yesterday.
And like I said before, I eliminated a new truck
because it wouldn't have followed him home. Thought maybe it
was a new dog. It wasn't. It was this new boat.

Speaker 4 (01:51:15):
That just it screams jetties and it's I'll tell you
what else.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
It's gonna see it's gonna see a little bit of
open Gulf of Mexico on flat days, so that he
can run up and down the beach in something very
well suited for that. I need to make a phone call.
I need to go down there and fish with Somebody's
got to help him break in that new boat. And
if he'd still take me, Yeah, no sense doing it

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by yourself, you know, got to figure out how the
amateur fishermen hold up in there too.

Speaker 4 (01:51:47):
That poor little old guy like me doesn't know much
about fishing.

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
So man, oh man, I have been so blessed over
the years and gotten to learn from so many people
and every pretty much every boat I stepped into, I
was able to learn something from the guys on them,
and in turn I was able to go different places
around the country and share some of our Texas ways

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with people in pretty much every Gulf state and every
Atlantic coast state all the way up to Maine. I
fished them all, and I had great experiences with them all,
and there was mutual exchange of information all the way
to the top, all the way up into Maine.

Speaker 4 (01:52:33):
I didn't know what I was going to learn in Maine.

Speaker 2 (01:52:36):
But I learned a lot of stuff about big stripe
bass on flies as big as your hand. That was
kind of fun and different, lead core line to get
it down in the fast flow of the river, all
that good stuff. And when it worked, buddy, it worked great.
Kind of like anything around here. When you get it
right and the fish cooperate or the birds cooperate, you

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have a great time. When the birds and fish don't cooperate,
guess what, you still have a good time if you
really understand what you're doing out there. I'll be back
tomorrow at eight. I hope you can join us again.
Then thanks for listening. I'll let you get out of
the hod man. I'm not going to keep you one
more minute from getting outside and enjoying this day. It's
beautiful outside. Get the family out there. Yeah, amen, all right,

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we're out of here. I'll be back tomorrow. Audios.