The Doug Pike Show 11-10-24

In this epoisde Doug addresses the 15/20 3 fish limit on speckle trout. Doug and callers gives their tips on how to approach any deer/hog kill. Do you know what to look out for? Here's a hint: "Its in the eyes." Also, be aware of Sandhill Crane to. At some point Doug suggest that you get out of your deer stand and track down you deer. Use those antlers to attrack your buck. Doug suggests you watch some videos on recreating bucks fighting. Do you know how long you should wait before moving to a new area to hunt deer? You'll get that answered by listening to Doug. He'll tell you when to move. Plus, an Interview with Will Doctor of "The Spirit International Tournament"

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Sunday morning edition of the program starts right now. Let
me get these headphones back on where they blow.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
And that's better. That's a little bit better. Not a
bad morning.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
It was a muggier this morning than it was yesterday
at my house at least, and not a breath of wind,
which was also different from yesterday. It was kind of
a cool breeze all day long. I left here after
work and went over to my son's baseball game. They
were playing down in kind of close to Parland. I
guess it would be the best way to describe where

(00:43):
they were, and it was cool. I was in just
studio attire. I was in shorts and a short sleeve shirt,
and when it was not blowing, it was pretty comfortable.
But as the wind kind of would up every now
and then, it would be just enough where if it

(01:04):
had gotten about two degrees cooler, I might have gone
back to the.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Car and gotten another layer.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
And then this morning I was prepared because I'm thinking
about going back down for more games today, and I
put a quarter zip in there and an undershirt, and
boy if it doesn't change from what it was this
morning when I walked outside the house, it was just
warm and muggy, again, typical Southeast Texas morning.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
I guess, is all you can call it, very very typical.
Not a breath of wind.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Like I mentioned yesterday, the Ali it was humping pretty
good yesterday and then still today in other parts of
other regions of the Gulf of Mexico thanks to Raphael
and what's left of him, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Still blowing pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
South Louisiana probably getting the most of it, in the
low thirties in my per hour, but that's gonna be downgraded.
This thing's headed into the Bay of Campeache. It's in
the Gulf of Mexico now, just kind of hanging around
and wandering. The latest forecast shows that going in, not
going on shore, but going southward and then just tracing

(02:19):
its tracks a little bit across the Bay of Campeachy,
and hopefully it'll fizzle out before it can dump anywhere
on land. With more than just a windy, rainy day.
I think that's what it's going to end up. Becoming
it's pretty much a whole lot of talk about nothing,
a whole lot of talk about something. I keep hearing

(02:41):
good things, not only about the quality of the speckled
trout being caught, but also the quantity.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
There were a lot of little fish still in this.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Nature has a way of recruiting when it needs to recruit,
and going and just doubling down sometimes. And I think
that we may have been at sort of a tipping point,
not toward collapse of the resource, but toward like maybe
we did take too many trout. And when the Parks
of Wildlife Department put in the fifteen twenty and three

(03:14):
fish a day thing, that really left a lot of
fish in the bay. When you start thinking about how
how efficient now the guides are, how much information they
have before they leave the dock on where to go,
what to throw, all of that, and add on top
of that a really robust amateur fishery around here. There's

(03:38):
no shortage of people who want to catch speckle trout
when they leave the dock. That's the state's number one
saltwater game fish. And for all of them who are
good at it, and the guides to only be taking
three fish instead of five off the table, we're leaving
We're leaving forty percent. We're leaving four twenty percent of

(04:01):
the fish that would have been caught and probably slapped
onto a cleaning table, leaving them in the water. I
think that's going to bode very well for us, I
really do. There was a lot of whining and griping
when that rule first went into place, but I want
to think that people are kind of getting on board
more with the new rule and adjusting to it. Everybody
has to do that. Anytime the Parks and Wallafe Department

(04:23):
changes anything any limit downward, people get upset and I
think it's going to ruin every day for the rest
of their lives. But it's not. It's going to make
it better. And I for one, can't wait for about maybe.
I think this winter we'll get a little glimpse, We'll
get a snapshot, a peek behind the curtain, if you will,

(04:44):
on how well this thing is going to affect overall
longer term trout fishing in our bays, in every bay
in Texas up here.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yes, it'll have a definite impact.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Start seeing more more two and three pounders, and probably
a lot more also of the little ten eleven twelve
inch fish that we used to catch millions of them,
and you had to you had to just go away
from a big area to get out of little fish
and go find bigger fish. I think we're gonna have

(05:23):
have some some of that gone. Knock on wood. I
don't want to jinx anything at all, but it looks
really good. I've had a couple of people call me
lately to say they're catching more keeper trout than they
have in years. And these are people who are not
professional guides. They're just they're just friends who like to
fish for trout and have struggled over the last few

(05:44):
years to do any good. The guides, they're professionals. They're
gonna catch fish. It's and it's there, and there are
gonna be days when they don't too. And anybody who
tells you that, you know, well, by god, I paid
my money. We should have caught a lot more fish. Sorry, no, no,
you hired a professional guide who if he or she

(06:05):
did their job that day. There's no guarantee you're gonna
catch a lot of fish. There's a guarantee that they're
gonna put you in the best place they can. Are
there bad apples. Yeah, they're like mechanics, They're like anything
any plumbers, electricians, anybody who is in the business of
helping people. There are a few bad apples out there,

(06:28):
but buying large guides are working their tails off every
time they leave the dock to make sure you have
a good time out there, and sometimes that good time
has to be a comfortable boat ride. And this doesn't
happen every time that you get a bunch of fish.
You're gonna get them a lot more often with a
guide than without one, probably, But it's still I will

(06:48):
defend professional hunting and fishing guides overall anytime anybody wants
to challenge me on that, because I've been one of those.
I know how much effort my friends and I put
into our waterfowl guiding. I know how much time we
spent on that prairie. I know how much time we
spent taking care of everything that has to do with

(07:09):
all of that. And we didn't even have to wash
a boat afterward. We didn't even have to wash our trucks.
Nobody care what our trucks look like. But if you're
a fishing guide, you've got all that other scouting work
to do. You've got all that fish cleaning to do
at the end. We didn't have to clean the birds either.
We had somebody else to do that. Oh yeah, fishing guides,

(07:31):
hard workers. Let me go talk to Rick by, see
what's on his mind. Get this mouse where it belongs
and clickeroo.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
What's up, rick.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Doug. I've got two things I'd like to talk about,
but I don't want to talk about first. I want
to talk about something I heard someone say this morning
that I agree with about ninety nine percent of the time,
and I think it's just a good reminder about hunting
this same of the year. It's important that I send

(08:03):
text messages to both of my sons and several of
my post hunting buddies. This is a reminder, okay, And
what that is when you and I'm just gonna pick
on deer and hogs. Okay. If you shoot an animal
and you walk up to it and its eyelids are posed.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, you might be probably not dead.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
You might want to back up. His eyes are open,
you stick your gun barrel by the corner's eyes. Who
don't think he's more than likely dead? But if his
eyelids are closed, you better back up. At a safe
distance and keep now on it because I don't think
there's a lot of people. I think there's amount of
people that do know that. I think there's a lot

(08:47):
more people that don't know that.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
That's a good point.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Well, any if you got a buck on the ground
or even a dough ade, white tail will beat you
senseless with those hooks of hers if you if she
gets a chance.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
I sent you maybe for the second time that video. Yeah,
and of the deer that kicks the butt of them
three guys, Yeah, they did. That's my other point. That's
that's I have had to do that twice yea differently. Yeah,
I did it differently and everything come out good. I

(09:22):
had rope and I had a pistol. They needed to
have a rope and have a pistol. Yeah. And unfortunately,
of course during the cotton field and they didn't have
a tree like I did, but they had a truck
or a forewood or probably had a winch on it.
And if they would have sucked them up, stuck roped them,
tied it to the wind, shucked them up where they

(09:43):
couldn't move. Yeah, a lot better off anyway. Just uh,
I mean, three guys got hurt really bad. I don't,
I mean, I mean really bad. Awesome, that's an awesome anyway.
That's it. Just want your animals on the ground because

(10:04):
any of them can hurt you. And that point run
up there real quick, all right.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
But yeah, thank you, Rick, it's good to hear from you,
man as always. All right, let me click that off.
I'll throw another animal in that that can hurt you
or your dog. That's a hint where I'm going. It's
not a it's not a mallard, and it's not a
snow goose. That's a sand hill crane. A lot of
hunting goes on for sand hill cranes, and they will

(10:30):
absolutely lay there and play dead and just hope something
comes walking up and dares get in their space. Because
I don't know personally anyone whose dog has been killed
by a crane. I don't know personally anyone whose dog
has been seriously injured by a crane. But I've read
enough of the stories and I've seen enough of the

(10:51):
pictures to let me know that I'm not gonna walk
up there and just reach down and try to grab
that thing by the neck.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
I'm gonna make dog on shore.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
It's dead and no matter what that comes to, because
that beak on a sand hill crane, that's man. That's
just like having a bayonet, having a bayonet at the
end of It's like.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Strapping a bayonet to a cobra. That's what it's like.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
They're means little animals too, and it's a it's a
survival instinct in them. They either fight or they get killed.
And if they have anything left in them and they
take a swipe at you with that beak, it's gonna
it's gonna penetrate your body somehow, like be like being stabbed.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
And yeah, I don't like that. I do.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I do know one guy who got surprised by a
deer that he thought was dead when he was pretty young,
and he goes he took off in front of his
dad and ran up to it, and he knew he
was supposed to poke it, but he didn't really know
what he was gonna do if he poked it and
it moved, and it did move, and it did get

(12:01):
up and throw its head around and banged him up
pretty good, banged him up pretty good before his dad
could get up there and help him and get him
out of there. Dear didn't last long, but that adrenaline
rush enabled that animal to hurt that young man pretty
pretty badly. Nothing permanent, nothing serious, but a heck of

(12:24):
a life lesson all kinds of stuff like that. You
go over to the fishing side. A lot of these
fish we catch half teeth, and if you get your
hand or any other body part anywhere close to those teeth,
you're nod in your head. Melvin, you've ever been bit
by a fish? Yes, sir?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
What species?

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Alliganta gar?

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh? No, man, I was playing? Yeah, you were playing
with him and he wasn't playing. I got nipped just
a little, okay. Well, And that's one of the reasons
I always carry pliers with me, because I don't want
to get my hands up in any fish's mouth that has.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
A few teeth.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
And if you're out, if you're bass fishing, there's an
outside chance you might catch an alligator gar.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
And if you don't have a.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Pair of plyers with you, you're gonna have to put your
fingers in harm's way. And if that gar decides it
doesn't like you, which is a pretty safe bet since
you already caught it and embarrassed it in front of
all the other gars. And now he knows he's gonna
get ribbed when he gets back in the water, so
he's gonna rip you up pretty good. He doesn't want

(13:35):
to take that berating when he gets back in the water. Uh,
you got caught by that guy. Man, you can't tell
a top water plug from a mullet whatever. Yeah, but
I nipped him. Yeah, I got him back. Don't worry,
I got him good man. I don't.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
I don't even need to get into sharks. Everybody knows better.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Everybody knows better than to put their fingers in a
shark's mouth to go try to retrieve a hook. Okay,
that's that's where you need good plyers. Sharks have tough mouths.
They're they're biting and chewing on things that are very
hard and sometimes sharp and can tear them up. So
their mouths are very tough, and if you get a
hook stuck in one, you're gonna need some mechanical help

(14:18):
getting it out of there. And the longer the plyers,
the better man. And that once again it goes back
to why I mash the barbs on every one of
my hooks.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
I want to make it really easy.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
I'm not gonna lose that many fish just because I
don't have my barb on my hook.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
That's not why a barble was put on hooks.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
But what I'm gonna be able to do is get
that fish off my line, get my hook back, get
my lure back, and not get bit.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
And that's that's that's objective number one.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Don't get bit by the fish, don't get don't get
antlered in the ribs by a deer, don't get bitten
up and torn up.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
By a hog. Stay safe out there, man. There's ways
to do it.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
And if you're not really sure how to do something,
to get your hook back or to get a make
sure a hog is dead or something, get online, use
the internet. That'd be good use of your time to
learn how to do it, and then try like hell
to remember what you're supposed to do when you're out
there in the real world trying to get it done.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Your rockets and astros live here we are Sports Talk
seven ninety. The conversation continues this as The Doug Pike Show, Hey.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
Twenty on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thanks for listening, sartinly, do appreciate.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
It and take Billy ways in Okay, curiosity, he's getting
the best of me. So I have to ask, when
your show intro starts, the guy that says how many
fish on our stringer? Doesn't sound like the same guy
who did the rest of the intro. It actually was him,
but I asked him after I don't know how many

(15:58):
years we've had that. It just it was like fingernails
on a blackboard because he would say how many fish
in our stringer? How many points on our buck? And
it just you can't push put fish in a stringer,
So it just I finally asked if we could get
it redone, and we did. And so if it's been

(16:19):
if you've been wondering, it is the same guy. It's
just it was recorded under different circumstances and it's very
difficult for those guys to go back in and get
exactly carbon copy pitch and tone and emphasis on specific
syllables whatever.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
But I thought he did a fine job.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
And I'm glad we have fish now in our stringer
and not on our stringer, or yeah, on our stringer,
not in our stringer. Let me get that right. See
I made a mistake as well, So that's how that worked.
Let's get Dave up here. What's up, d Well? You
do it in the galleria, man.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
No, no, oh no, I'm over here where I'm where
I worked behind.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Okay, I thought you shopping at Sacks Fifth Avenue or something.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
Oh I only wish, but hey, but anyway, No, I
got the party law all cleaned up here.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
You know.

Speaker 5 (17:15):
That's what I do. And everything's good. So I'm gonna
run back out there today. Then I don't have to
come back to a Tuesday, which is a good thing.

Speaker 6 (17:22):
Boy.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
It was gully washing when I left out of Willis Smile.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
It was bad.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
I was. I was having to do forty five way
behind an eighteen wheeler and yeah, it was terrible, terrible table.
But anyway, okay. Meanwhile, back at the wretch, hey, I
tell you what. Okay, yesterday I went and checked on
my buddy Mike over there. You know, it's kind of
camping over there, a little bit boy. He had a
bunch of fish over there frying and a cast iron
skillet and all lo.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
It was good.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
I pulled up behind his boat.

Speaker 5 (17:49):
I pulled up behind his boat, and this young man
was decking it all out. And I went over there
and started talking with him and everything, and I said,
you know, I'm kind of told him that I do
fishing reports or stuff. And I said, man, I watched
this lake being dug. He's dude, can you huh here,
give me your phone? Let me I got a phone number, yeah, Chris.

(18:14):
And I don't know what kind of I don't know
what kind of equipment. It's a nice boat. But anyway,
I told him, Okay, whatever the weather is, I'll dress accordingly,
you know, and I'll bring my I wear my life jacket,
and I'll bring one riding rill and I'll bring one
of my small tackle boxes with everything that I know
that I used to catch bass off of Lake Congrass. Sure, yeah,

(18:35):
and I'll go through and so I'll I'll be schooling
a little bit, you know. And then even if I
didn't I only cast a couple of two or three times,
if I get to go out there and ride around
and come back, I'll be happy.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
You know.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, I'll be fun.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Man, Good for you.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
And then then guess what he said. Then all right,
on the next trip, we're going cat fishing.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Oh man, you made good friend guy with a boat.
There's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
Hell, I tell you what that boat is. Like, whoa, man,
I'll tell you what it's. It's it's it's state of
the art. I'm gonna have to get in there and
look to see what kind of Lorentz equipment defining equipment
he has. But but what my job is going to be, Well,
I'm gonna take my maps, all the maps I got,
you know, like I got an original map, and I

(19:23):
got this, and I got a lot of stuff marked.
And he was wanting to come out of where we're
out there in the south. He wants to go north,
and so I'm like, okay, well, once we get on here.
You know, back in the day we didn't have GPS,
I'll just figure out where we're at and do the
three triangle relation and figure out where you're at. Look
at that tree over there, and look at this over here,

(19:45):
and then look what's behind you, and then you should
be right where you're at.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, buddy, you got that figured out.

Speaker 7 (19:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:51):
Well, anyway, it's gonna be a it's gonna be another
adventure of guitar dass.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
All right, man, thanksnel, we'll see audios. Where did my
cursor go? Oh my goodness, gracious? Yeah, same bat Time,
same bat channel. I remember watching Batman. I watched Eric
van Roy and he's at the Worldwide Technology Championship Donner

(20:21):
in Mexico. He just hit a shot on a three
par that tracked straight to the hole the entire way
there and he's on an elevated tea box so he
can see everything, and his ball rolled the last thirty feet. Unfortunately,

(20:42):
the hole was about thirty feet four inches from there,
and so it stopped not even the width of a
cup from the hole.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
That's how golf is. That's how golf is.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
We're gonna be talking about golf in the nine o'clock hour.
To lead it off, I'm gonna have young man named
Will Doctor, who is the media director for the Spirit International,
which goes off next week up at Whispering Pines out
near Trinity, Texas. If you don't know where that is,
you ought to look it up. And if you if
you greatly appreciate amateur golf and you want to see

(21:18):
some of the best young and up and coming stars
in that area, uh, the Spirit would be a good
thing to go see. I'm not going to tell you
right now. I'll let Will talk about some of the
people who have come through the Spirit International and gone
on to significant fame and fortune in the in the
world of golf.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
It's it's fascinating.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
There's a great history behind this tournament and a great,
a great legacy of amazing champions who have really done
the game right, and golf's done right for by them too.
I can assure you seven one three two one two
five seven ninety email me Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

(22:01):
Alan and I are doing our best. We are doing
our ever loving best to set up a golf game,
and I hope we get to do that and put
this microphone back where it belongs. I might not sound
as much like Minie Mouse as I do Mickey Mouse. Okay,
I've got that taken care of. I've got that. I
kind of lean in on this thing and my mouth
gets away from the microphone and it just doesn't sound right.
I'm sure that's all right. I'll go back to something

(22:24):
that I found earlier and I neglected to mention it.
Really that Sergeant Beach, if you didn't know, Sergeant Beach
is now closed indefinitely.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
I guess just not thrown in the towel.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
But they're gonna have to come up with a way
to reopen that beach after what Beryl did to it.
It says because of damage caused by recent storms. Yeah,
I'm gonna say that was probably Barrel that did that.
That was one of my favorite little areas to fish too,
and a couple of friends of mine and I have
kind of semi quietly waited the beach there at Sergeant

(23:01):
and done quite well on most days. We had specific
conditions and tides and whatnot that we'd like to go
down there, but it was pretty good, above average certainly,
and seldom anywhere near is crowded, anywhere near as crowded
some of the other places I fish down that way.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm hoping they can redo that, but I have a.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Hunch there was a lot of sand moved in the
wrong directions by Hurricane Barrel, and I don't know where
it all ended up, but it's my gut says there's
just there's very little beach left and a whole lot
of water. I wish it weren't that way, but I
think it might be. I just think it might be.

(23:42):
On a deer hunting though there have been some really
favorable reports. I mentioned it a little earlier in the program,
and I don't want to get too deep into it
because it's still very early in the season. But nonetheless,
with that little with this northern that's bare down the
state as we speak, there is a good reason to

(24:03):
be excited about getting back in a deer stand.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
Boy.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I can remember during bow season.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
I can't tell you how many times I stood and
either stood or sat up a tree somewhere with just
sweat pouring down my face eighty five eighty eight degrees
sometimes down there in South Texas during bow season. And
that's just that's not what deer seas ought to be.
I know we have to do what we have to
do here in Texas, but man, I much prefer if

(24:34):
I have my brothers probably sixty degrees sixty degrees in
the morning going up to about seventy, and that would
be just fine. I don't want it too cold. I
don't want it too hot. I want it just like
goldilocks of Porridge, just right. All right, we got to
take a little break here on the way out.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
I'll tell you about we are.

Speaker 8 (24:55):
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Speaker 3 (25:02):
Doug found that many Sunday songs. Huh, that's good Melvin.
That's awesome man. And they're good ones too. They're not
You're not having to dig, having to peel back ten
layers of the music catalog to find these things. That's
what's amazing. How long did it take you to put
these together for this morning? Uh? About half an hour?

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Okay, that's that's work. Then it's real work, man. Does
anybody appreciate that other than me? I'm pretty sure I
a lot of the listeners do.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
Well.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah, that's true. I mean around here. Oh, I have
no idea. I probably not. They're not listening to us.
They're all busy with their own I'm probably just throwing
the covers over themselves, right, really, yeah, just pull those
covers up a little tighter.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
I don't even know what temperature it is outside.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
I'm debating whether or not to play another Texas temperature
game this morning, because I've already I take a sneak
peek just to see what's going on.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
And it's just not as. It's not as cold as
I want I wanted it to be. That's the only
thing I'll say in case I changed my mind.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
In the nine o'clock hour somewhere. But yeah, it's it's
kind of a carbon copy of yesterday, and that already
gives you a hint, so I would have to give
the same hint to the player, and I just don't
know if we'll get to it. But man, was it
was surprisingly for all the build up that this approaching
norther has gotten on the way, it was surprisingly warm

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and muggy this morning. And maybe it was just the
moisture in the air that was bugging me as much
as anything else, but it did feel probably several degrees
warmer than yesterday morning, and that just I don't know,
that just went backwards for me. I would much prefer
to have figured that out in a deer stand or
a duck blind and on my driveway, to be perfectly honest,

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or on the way to jumping in somebody's boat to
go catch some fish. That would have been fun as well.
But I just do what I have to do. I
like coming in here too. I do enjoy doing these shows.
So what do you got planned for the holidays? Melboyne?
Are you guys going anywhere? No, we're just gonna sit
back and relax. Okay, then make me a promise get
outside and do some of that relaxing in the.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Outdoor, no doubt, planning at the park.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Don't just plant your behind on a couch and watch
football all day.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I couldn't. I enjoy watching football.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
I do, and I'll watch it at home. But given
the option, and if it's daylight, I'm just be a
little cloud of dust where my feet were.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
When you said, why don't you go fishing? I hear
that every now and then.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Probably yeah, I don't know, never mind, Oh Mercy seven
seven ninety Email me Doug pick at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
The rut that goes on.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Around Texas, it starts along the Gulf Coast Prairie. That's
the earliest rut in the state, and that's like August
and early September. It's too early really for hunters to
take advantage of it. There's kind of a secondary rut
later and then all the way down to South Texas,
those bucks really won't get terribly active until probably sometime

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in December. It seems like every year, unless it goes
off early, things are just heating up as the season
winds down. That doesn't mean you can't go find a
big buck, but they're just not going to be as
they're not going to be as easy to find until
they get that sense that it's time for it's time

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for making new deer, and at that point it's all
bets are canceled for them. They just go totally stupid.
They'll walk right out in the middle of the road
if there's a doe standing there, and just hope they
can take care of their business before a truck comes.
It's a different time of year, and if you've never

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hunted during the rut, and you've never rattled antlers to
attract bucks, I'd strongly recommend doing that. If all of
your deer hunting has been restricted basically just sitting in
a box and staring at a feeder one hundred point
zero yards down range, get out, get out, get on

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the ground, walk around a little bit, and he got
to make sure you're on the right place where you
can do that. You can't do that if there are
other hunters around.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Who might.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Mistake you for something. But if you've got enough territory
and you can do it, it sure is fun. I
had a young buck come up and slam on the
brakes not ten yards in front of me.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
I know, I think it was maybe dogged.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
I was talking to once who had a young buck
actually almost jump over him. It came in so hot,
and he was looking for the fight and looked up,
and Joe looked up at him, and the buck looked
at him, and he was still coming full throttle and
just leaped over.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
You know, I think it was shoe. It might have
been somebody else.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
I don't know, but it's really interesting to watch how
those deer approach you to You've got to be very
mindful of your scent because that can spoil a good rattle,
believe me.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
But all you do really.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Is just just learn and learn that in some cases,
less is more. You don't have to you don't have
to just beat those antlers together constantly forever. To stop
and think about the deer when they're trying, when they're
fighting over territory or over a hot dough. When they're fighting,
they don't. It's like a prize fight. You have rounds

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of a little shorter time. They don't just start fighting.
The stop when one of them dies. They break, They
break and huff and puff and then get after it again.
And it's watch some deer fights on video once again,
we've got the internet to help us out. Watch some
deer hunts on video, and then when you're out there,

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try to mimic what you've seen and what you've heard
from those actual hunts. You can rake those antlers across
the ground, you can bang them together, you can stomp
your feet because that's all happening. You have to be
fairly well hidden, but not you don't have to make
yourself invisible. I like to just lean up against a
tree or try to get in a little mot of

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brush and maybe put up a you know, snap a
limb or two off, and create some sort of a
hide on the ground, and then just make sure you've
got easy access to your rifle, make sure you've got
you've got everything you need, and get after it. I
wouldn't sit in the same place for more than about

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twenty minutes, maybe thirty. If I was rattling, they're either gonna.
They're either there or they're not. And they're either coming
or they're not. I kind of feel like, and if
they're if they're hot, and if they're if you're in
an area where bucks have been fighting, if you especially
in an area where you've seen or heard that there
were fights recently. They're gonna be on guard and they're

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gonna be watching, and those big dominant bucks definitely don't
want some little young punk buck in their area, in
their territory. That's one of my favorite parts of deer hunt.
I could do that forever.

Speaker 9 (32:19):
You just stick and move, stick and move, and if
you when you get to the right spot, you'll know
you want to be able to see something coming from
at least fifty maybe one hundred yards.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
If you can find an area where that's possible. They're
gonna be a little bit leary about running farther than
that across wide open ground to come get in a fight,
because they know they're exposed at that point, and any
mature buck has probably either seen or heard and bullets
whistling past them and maybe taking out one of their buddies,

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So they're gonna be cautious about just marching right across
something mode is as flat as a foot ball field
or a golf course. But if you can find a
place where it'll work, Oh man, I'm getting all excited.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
I'll stop, I'll stop.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
I'll state.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
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Speaker 1 (33:13):
Sports Talk seven ninety The conversation continues this as The
Dog Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening.
I'm not familiar with this song that I watched. I
know who it is. I know Johnny Cash when.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
I hear it. Yeah, Johnny Cash, Sunday Morning coming down. Okay,
very nice, very nice about the fulsome prison album gott you.
This is something I saw something funny on Facebook and
send it to my wife. It just shows a picture
of a guy looking at the blinds in his house,
you know, kind of peeking out the blinds. It says,

(33:52):
you know you're getting old when it bugs the heck
out of you when someone parks in front of your house.
You know, boy, I'm glued to the window, like, what
the heck?

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Who is that? Why are they parking in front of
my house? What's the license plate? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Yeah, let me just walk out and casually get the
paper out of the yard and take a picture of
that license plate. Oh man, oh man seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com. I got a picture from Lane Rix,
or not from Lane, but from Billy Stoker, who I

(34:31):
hadn't seen or talked to in quite sometime, and I
miss you know he was he was at He was
at Timber Creek for quite some time, and he's he's
moved on from there and done very well for himself,
well enough. Apparently he's been over at Lake Calcashu fishing
for three days. And he sent me a picture of
himself in his wading attire out there in the water

(34:51):
with a really nice looking flounder that he caught. And
I'm happy to say, and I'm sure the flounder would agree,
he caught and released, let her go back for another day.
He says, that's a that's a thick, big toad of
a flounder. Good for him. And he confirmed that the
wind is quite strong over there right now thanks to

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a little spinner in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. Raphael.
We'll have another day or so of influence, I think
of that thing, and then once this norther gets on through,
I think we'll we'll get to where we want to
be with our weather. I want to take a quick
look at the forecast just to see if it's changed
from yesterday, because I have a hunch that Raphael is

(35:35):
influencing what we're going to have here, and I want
to see today we've got a thirty percent chance of rain.
I have eighty one love sixty six Tomorrow, November eleventh,
Armacist Day aka Veterans Day, eighty one degrees for a high,
sixty two for a low. So there's there's really no

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influence over the next couple of days from it's kind
of dragging its heels. I guess Wednesday, though the high
is only seventy nine. Thursday a high of only seventy five.
That's now we're talking. Now, we're talking. Then the same
thing Friday, Saturday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Well, I'll add Wednesday, Tuesday,

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and Monday the whole week because there's only a ten
percent chance of rain on Wednesday, that that doesn't count.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna worry about a ten
percent chance of rain. But all the way through next week, ah,
nothing but clear sky and sunshine except for that one
little don't change your plans ten percent. My rule on

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changing plan changing outdoors plans based on the weather. First
of all, I don't believe any forecast that's more than
two days out it can change.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
It can change on a just turn on a dime
around here.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
I also, if the chance of rain is is not
higher than fifty percent.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
I'm not going to worry so much about it.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
This is a big region they have to cover, and
the odds of it raining in some part of this region.
Especially the TV people, they're they're casting a pretty wide
net out there, trying to find a rain shower somewhere
that'll make them, that'll give them the opportunity say yeah,
we were right. And so they're essentially trying to forecast

(37:28):
for every place from Victoria to Huntsville, and that's a
big chunk of Texas, and it's almost impossible to get
it spot on unless we have a major system coming
through here.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
I'm about ready for a cold front, I really am.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
I'm ready to get my winter clothes back out find
out how many pairs of my winter pants shrunk during
the summer.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
You know, Melvin's laugh and he knows what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
God, Amen, there was a there was about a eight
or ten years stretch, Melvin, where my metabolism changed such
that I there was a long time in my life
where I could eat anything I wanted, as much as
I wanted, as often as I wanted and just not
gain weight. And I'm I'm very much cured of that

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condition right now. And I went through several several years
where almost every year when I went and got back
into my hunting attire, I found that the pants weren't
weren't nearly as comfortable. It was like putting on like
putting on Spandex or something. Man, little snug, Oh no,

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they were a lot snug.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
There weren't.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
No little snug would would have been about trying them
on in maybe June. They were just they were donations,
is what they were at that point. Man. Right, Yeah,
there's there's people all over town probably wearing wearing donated
clothes that I put in the goodwill stack for him.
Some pretty nice Camo stuff too. That's what's frustrating. You

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go ahead and invest in really good Camo pants and
good camo hunting this and hunting that. Like dang man,
dang mm hmmm. James just sent me an email. I
find it curious. I'm gonna go double check and see
what it says here. Yeah, I'm very specific.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
James. I think was listening perhaps to the.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
To the military appreciation piece that I do, and that
rafter v service is the fence guy's sponsor, which I
really appreciate. And I don't I don't know what he heard,
but I've never said that anybody won a medal of honor.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
I always say earned a medal of honor.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
And if if if you heard that, I want to
go back and make sure that I didn't say that,
because I know, I know better. You can win a
trophy for playing pickleball. You earn a medal of honor
for doing something that is far above and beyond what's
called upon, uh for any soldier in this in our military. Yeah,

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above and beyond, absolutely, And I certainly understand that. Man
oh Man Man oh Man seven one seven ninety email
me Doug pick At, iHeartMedia dot com. James and I
have had some good email swaps back and forth over
the years. He's a good man. He did did dumb.

(40:36):
He served our country in Vietnam, and that had to
have been tough. My my cousin was over there as
a Green Beret as a matter of fact, and he
didn't like to talk about what happened over there. I'm
just I'm just hoping we can stay out of war
so we can keep fishing, keep hunting and keep doing
the things that.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
We like to do over here.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
History history shows that a lot of a lot of
nations that were eight strong for many, many years, uh,
wind up falling. And I hope, I hope we're taking
a turn for the better here and we'll regain some
strength that we've lost and and make sure that we're
all out there working and reading from the same playbook again.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
All right, I'm gonna take a.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
Break here at the top of the hour, and when
we get back, we're gonna talk to a man named
Will Doctor who is media director for the Spirit International,
which kicks off next week, actually kicks off on Tuesday
and runs all the way through the weekend up there
at Whispering Pines, which is in trip Well, it's near Trinity, Texas,

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right on the right on the river too.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
It's it's got it's uh.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Routinely named best golf course in the state of Texas.
Every now and then something will bump it out for
a little while, but it seems to be it has
always been for as long as I've been watching this
stuff closely. It's I don't know that it's ever been
lower than maybe third or something. A very just an amazing,
memorable place for anybody who's ever played there. And if

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you go up there to watch this tournament you will
be treated to some pretty amazing stuff as well.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
We'll talk about that when we get back.

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Speaker 2 (42:24):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
Nine o'clock hour starts right now.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I truly do.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Man. I'm not kidding when I tell people I enjoy
what I do.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
That's why I'm still here.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
I'm old enough to have retired and probably could, but
not for a while. I still got fish to catch
and birch and deer to hunt, and golf to play.
Maybe not all that great in any event. Let me
get this piece of paper up over here, and we're
going to talk in this segment segments segment. Let me

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get Will Doctor on the phone. Maybe he won't stumble
over his words like I'm doing here.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
Will try Will.

Speaker 10 (43:05):
How you doing, man, Doug, Thanks for having me on
this morning. Great day here in Houston. Always a pleasure
to be on with you, you.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Bet man, upcoming international golf tournament right here in Texas
every even number year, and that would be the Spirit International,
played at one of my all time favorite golf courses,
of course, Whispering Pines out near Trinity. And to help
explain what this tournament is and why it is, well
that's why Will doctors here. He's media director for the
whole kitten kaboodle man. So let's start with a little history,

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do that. Whose idea was it to start this tournament? Will?

Speaker 10 (43:39):
Yeah, Well, our founder and chairman, mister Corby Robertson Junior.
He's a great Houston philanthropist. He came up with this
idea in two thousand and one, maybe a few years before,
but this tournament debuted at his golf course there in Trinity, Texas, Doug,
where you've played. It's become you know, the number one

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golf course uh in the state of Texas. But uh,
this is the eleventh edition of the event, and uh,
mister Robertson had a had an idea that he you know, Uh,
mister Robertson is obviously a big golf fan in general,
but more specifically, uh, the amateur game, and he was

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very in tune with what was going on at the
World Amateur Games and the Walker Cup and many other
of these you know, great amateur events, and uh, you know,
he wanted to host one, you know here at home
in his backyard in Trinity, Texas at Whispering Fines and
and he came up with a format that that really modeled,
you know, before the Olympics came back to golf. You

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know that he wanted to create an amateur style Olympic
format of competition. So, you know, he he brought in
the eighty best men and women amateur golfers from twenty
country and six continents. And you know, as I said,
this is the eleventh edition, and he's had a lot

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of success. But I think first and foremost, if you
asked mister Robertson, you know, I think his you know,
his main goal here is to host a great amateur competition.
And most of these eighty men and women are representing
their countries at universities in the United States already. That's

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been you know, a big shift in the golf landscape
over the last probably ten years. A lot of players
from Europe, Africa, South America now taking their talents to
the United States as far as college is concerned. So
you know, he he flies them into to Houston and
to Whispering Pines to play in this three day competition.

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And I think the most important aspect of this Doug
is the global impact he's making through the The Spirit's
charitable partners. You know, this this tournament is not only
going to make a strong impact on the Houston community,
but also on the local community there in Trinity.

Speaker 6 (46:10):
We partner with Trinity High School.

Speaker 10 (46:12):
They volunteer their time as standard barriers and hospitality workers
at Camp Olympia where the competitors stay right next door
to Whispering Pines, And there's going to be local Trinity
restaurants who are going to help feed the hundreds of
people during the week of the Spirit. So not only
you know, is it a phenomenal field. You know, we

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have most of the top fifty on the world amateur
golf rankings that are going to be competing next week.
But we're also really proud of the impact it's going
to have on the community, and we're very appreciative of
Trinity in Houston getting behind this tournament to help the
next generation of golfers become global household names.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
Boy, that's going to happen too, for sure, and it's
already happened with past events. Talk, you've had some really
incredible players participate, have DoD You go ahead and name
drop a little bit. Who are some of the big
time players we've gotten to see early at Whispering Pines
at the Spirit.

Speaker 10 (47:09):
Yeah, Over the first ten editions of this championship, you've
seen the likes of world number one Scottie Scheffler, Rose Zang,
who is one of the superstar LPGA players you know
out of Stanford. She won three Mark H. McCormick medals. Shoot,
she played in twenty twenty one. Going back a little

(47:30):
further than that, Doug loreno Ochoa, who was already in
the LPGA Hall of Fame, We've had a Lexi Thompson,
she competed twice, Brooke Henderson competed twice. As far as
other males, you know, not only Scotty Scheffer, but Jordan Spieth,
Victor Howlin, Martin Kaimer. A ton of great champions, as

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you've said, have come down and competed Whispering Pines.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
And I could go on with names in Charles Schwartzel.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Sure the SGA.

Speaker 10 (48:00):
Has had, you know, competitors of the spirit go on
to win twenty seven major championships in over six hundred
and seventy five tottle lug on the PGA Tour and
LPGA Tour. So we really feel like, once again, you know,
looking at the field, Uh, you really have to pat
your back to pat the backs of the federations and

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the job that they do to send their you know,
top two males in their top two female individuals to
come and compete, because ultimately it's it's it's up to
them to send you know, the players that that are
going to be representing their country, and typically they send

(48:42):
their you know, country national champions and and that's resulted
to great success of of our alumni.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Doug who's carrying the flag for US this year, Will
Who's on our team.

Speaker 6 (48:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (48:56):
So captaining, you know, each team has a captain. All
twenty countries send a captain to you know, call the
shots for the team. Nathan Smith is going to be
the captain of Team USA this year. He is an
amateur golf legend. We've had various captains over the year.
Stacy Lewis, you know, LPGA Major Champion and Yeah, as

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you note, Doug, you know, led the Americans to a
Solheim Cup victory this year. She served as the captain
in nineteen and twenty one and she was just phenomenal.
We talked with her a few days ago and you
know she went through how you know, in both editions
in nineteen and twenty one. You know, the players you
know would call her in to read putts throughout the

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championship and you really get that team feel with how
connected the captains are with the team. But we have
Nathan Smith captaining Team USA this year. He's played in
the Masters four times. He won the US Mid Amateur
four times, which, as you know, get yourself an invitation
to the Masters tournament. And Nathan also competed in the

(50:06):
two thousand and seventh Spirit, so he's got a personal
connection to the tournament and he's really excited to get back.
But as far as Tmusa and as far as the players,
you know, David Ford is the four names are David Ford,
Tommy Morrison, Jasmine two, an asteris Tali.

Speaker 6 (50:27):
David Ford is number one on the PGA Tour University rankings.

Speaker 10 (50:32):
You know, the PGA Tour U rankings are a new
system as of the last three years that the PGA
Tour has to kind of better connect the NCAA and
the PGA Tour, allowing collegiate players to garner points while
they're in college that could ultimately lead to full status
of a PGA Tour without going into the developmental tour.

Speaker 6 (50:54):
So David Ford as it stands right now, he's number
one on PGA Tour.

Speaker 10 (50:58):
You as long as he stays in the top five
by May, he will get a straight shot to the
PGA Tour next year. He's a senior at the University
of North Carolina, great lefty player. We're looking forward to
seeing David Ford. The second male Doug. He might be
familiar with this name. He's a phenom. Tommy Morrison. He's

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a junior at the University of Texas. You know, he
stands at six foot nine. I'm not sure we've seen
a taller golfer Doug. Maybe Bill Blackmar you know, who
also played at Texas. But Tommy has just had, you know,
an outstanding amateur career. This past summer he became the

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first American to go and win the European Amateur.

Speaker 6 (51:50):
You know, he was a medalist at the twenty twenty.

Speaker 10 (51:52):
Three US Junior and you know, it's always great, you know,
to have someone on Team USA from the University of
Texas and to have some local representation there. And the
two females that are representing Team USA are equally, if
not more talented. They've got large shoes to fill, being
that Roseang and Rachel Heck, two incredible players from Stanford

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came and represented the United States in twenty twenty one.
But Jasmine Coo is ranked fifth on the World Amateur
Golf rankings. She's coming in from USC And then Astik
Tally is only fifteen years old and she is a
she's a sophomore in high school's ranked she's the number

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two junior in the country. She's already ranked thirty third
on the World Amateur Golf rankings after finishing runner up
at the US Women's Amateur and the US Junior Women's Amateur.
Came runner up in both of those events. So that's
an interesting feature and fascinating feature of this tournament is that,

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you know, comprised of Team USA is a senior at
the University of North Carolina. But you know, even junior
golfers like aster Caali if they've done good enough on
the amateur level have a chance to be invited to
this tournament. When you look back through the history of
the tournament, Jordan Speeth competed with the Spirit in two.

Speaker 6 (53:21):
Thousand and nine.

Speaker 10 (53:22):
He was still in high school and Scottie Scheffer was
the same situation.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
So crazy, those guys are high school players.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
And here comes as and she's fifteen years old.

Speaker 10 (53:35):
Fifteen years old, and you know, you know, Asterix means
little star in Greek, and that's exactly what she is.

Speaker 6 (53:45):
You know, she was the first player in history.

Speaker 10 (53:48):
To play three USGA Championship matches in one year. You know,
she was the youngest competitor DOUG at the US Women's
Open this year. So she has earned her spot. Very
incredible and Team USA is ultra talented. But you know,
when you look at the rest of the field, I
don't just want to stick to Team USA because you know,

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as we talked about, you know, twenty different countries are
coming in from six continents, and you know, let's let's
let's keep it in in Texas. You know, Adella Cernasek
is the number eight female amateur in the country.

Speaker 6 (54:28):
She's from France. She's the number one player in France, Doug.
She's a senior at Texas.

Speaker 10 (54:33):
A and M so another international player coming in from
Texas and she finished. Adella finished fourth among amateurs at
the twenty twenty four US Women's Open. She's a great
international player that will be on property. Christian Moss, who
is from South Carolina. He's a junior at the University

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of Texas. He's the number nine amateur golfer in the world.
He'll represent South Africa next week. Omar Morales is a
great name. He's from Mexico. He's a good player, played
in the US Open this past year, fourteenth on the
World Amateur Golf Franking. So all in all you know,

(55:16):
and and there's more dominant. Clemens from England just won
the Folds of Honor Intercollegiate, which was shown on Golf Channel.
It's a great field all around. If I had to
predict a winner, I really couldn't say at this point
that it would automatically be Team USA because looking at
the field list, every country DOUG is sending their national

(55:39):
amateur champion and they're going to be trying to They're
going to be looking to take.

Speaker 6 (55:44):
Away the medals from Team USA.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Yeah, they're gonna try. We'll see what happens.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
What tell me about very quickly, tell me about the
spectator experience. What what do they need to do to
get up there and see this, and how much is
going to cost him?

Speaker 10 (55:56):
No, it's it is free to the public to go see.
Were located in Trinity, Texas. If I can just run
through the schedule here real quick, you have you know,
starting with Wednesday, you have team practice rounds. You know,
spectators are welcome to come out even for practice rounds.
But you know, the juice of the tournament is Thursday

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to Saturday of next week, Thursday, November fourteenth through Saturday,
November sixteenth. Team times in the morning run from eight
thirty to ten eighteen. Obviously, the final round on Saturday
is going to be you know, the marquee day with
the final round of competition and the closing ceremonies and

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the metal presentations. Fans are welcome to come out and
watch and to follow the tournament digitally. We'll be running
highlight videos every day at the Spirit Golf on any
social network that you may be a part of, Facebook, Instagram, x.

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It'll be very very accessible to follow along on social
media too, but once again all spectators are welcome to
come out. It's it's free every day and for more
information on the tournament, you can visit www dot thespirit
golf dot org and and really look forward to seeing
all spectators out there.

Speaker 6 (57:17):
It's it's really a special week.

Speaker 10 (57:19):
And once again, Doug as you know Whispering Pines, you
know we have we haven't talked about the course and
I don't I don't want to run through our time here,
but you know, after the storms we got, you know,
in in and at the end of the spring, the
middle of the spring, uh, you know, Whispering Pines went

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through a really tough time with a couple of floods,
and I think a lot of credit has to be
given to to to the general manager out there, Whin Chapman,
and Chris Rowe, the director of golf and Michael D.

Speaker 6 (57:51):
Cooff, a superstar agronomist.

Speaker 10 (57:54):
It is unbelievable the way they put this course back
together in a short amount of time. And and you know,
when you're out there, everything looks like a painting. The
turf conditions are spectacular and really an amazing jobs in
the Whispering Fine staff as far as getting this golf
course ready.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
I had no doubt in my mind when we were
up there for the media round recently that everything would
be ready for the Spirit they have. That's an incredible
team they've got put together up there, and with with
mister Robertson involved in making sure that everything they need
is there for them, I had no doubt in my mind. Man.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
I'm looking forward to it, I really am.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
I'm going to be in touch with you over the
weekend next weekend and on Saturday and see what's going on.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Man, keep me keep me abreast of what's happening up there, Will.

Speaker 10 (58:45):
I sure will, Doug. It's always a it's always a
treat to speak with you. We'll talk soon and I
hope to see you out there next week. All right, man,
Thanks well, audios.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Will doctor from the Spirit golf dot Org. To go there, you.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
Can find everything you need know about that tournament, and
it is really fun to go up there and just
walk around.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
It's a beautiful property.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
It's not the easiest to walk, but it's nor is
it terribly hard. We're gonna take a little break here, Brandon,
hang on if you can. I'll get you first. When
we get back. We ran a little bit long there
with Will and all the way out.

Speaker 8 (59:17):
We are Sports Stock seven ninety Houston Sports where you
go with iHeartRadio Now now get more.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
Doug nine five on Sports seven ninety Doug Pike shows,
thanks for listening. The Spirit International thespirit golf dot Org is.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Where you need to go find out more about that
tournament and it is.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
It's an amazing event and there's a chance you'll see
the next world's number one.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
There really is at that event.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
We Scheffler played there, like Jordan Spieth played there, like
you was talking about loreno Choa, on and on and on.
The list of high powered, high caliber talent that's gone
through that tournament and just eleven of them, and it
doesn't of majors and hundreds of worldwide victories amongst those players,
it's pretty remarkable. I promise Brandon I'd get to him.

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I'm gonna do that right now. What's up, Brandon?

Speaker 7 (01:00:11):
Good morning, Doug, Good morning?

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
How are you?

Speaker 7 (01:00:14):
I'm all right. I'm I was just waiting.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
For the I was going for you to get me on.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
I got you. What's going on? What can I do
for you?

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
I like golf, do you. Yeah, that's a game. I
think you should try to play, Brandon. I really think
you would enjoy it. Have you played yet?

Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:00:40):
I'm gonna like Christmas is coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Oh baby, here we go. You're getting some clubs.

Speaker 7 (01:00:46):
Maybe if I can.

Speaker 5 (01:00:50):
Okay, Yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
Good man, that's good. There's all kinds of places to
play around Houston. There are great municipal courses, there's great
daily fee courses. There's great country clubs. There's all kinds
of places to play golf. One hundred and something courses
around here.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Lots of golf.

Speaker 7 (01:01:07):
Are you gonna watch the Texans game?

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
I'm gonna try to if I can keep my eyelids open,
I'm gonna try.

Speaker 7 (01:01:13):
To of what can beat Detroit Wyans.

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
Yeah, that's a that's a that's gonna be a tough battle.
Those guys are good, there's no question about it. They're
very good. Yeah, we'll just have to see. We'll just
have to.

Speaker 7 (01:01:25):
Hear what happened to the New York Yankees fans got
kicked out?

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
No, what happened to him?

Speaker 7 (01:01:33):
They the ball was hit by New York and Bets
caught the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
And oh yeah I did, Yeah, I did see the play.
I thought that. I know they they booted him.

Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
Out of there that day, right, Yeah, they've showed it.
Oh yeah, yeah he I don't know what that guy
was thinking, but that was kind of That wasn't a
very smart thing to do.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
It really wasn't.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
And I like the way they took his tickets away
for the next game and gave him to a child
who had had to miss a very important opportunity to
meet some of the players, and he ended up getting
a great experience him and his family. I like that.
I didn't have a problem with that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
It was four Yeah, that's right, it was, wasn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:02:20):
Wait, yeah, it was game five? Oh okay for New York.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Yes, it was too bad for New York. That's okay
with me. What about the well, yeah, what.

Speaker 5 (01:02:34):
I was thinking that share Astros, we're gonna do good.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
I think so too. Do you think Bregman's coming back? No,
I'm kind of worried about that.

Speaker 7 (01:02:44):
I don't know. Yeah, maybe so.

Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
I would like to see him back.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
I think if they can make that work, it'll be
a tremendous addition to the team, or at least to
keep him on the team. You know what, though, if
he has to go. I feel confident that the Astros
can find someone who can maybe not completely fill his shoes,

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but at least come close, you know, oh yeah, or
really well, you know, I'm not surprised. I don't think
he's really liked being the eighth inning guy. He was
always a closer, or mostly the last several years, he's
been our closer, and then along come somebody else to

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kind of knock him down a peg. And I don't
think he really liked that. He'll go make a lot
of money somewhere else.

Speaker 7 (01:03:42):
He'll be all right, probably cleve.

Speaker 11 (01:03:47):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:03:47):
I don't want him with some New York No, we
don't want that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
That's something else that was talking about. Bregman might be
going to New York. I would boy, I wouldn't like
to see that.

Speaker 7 (01:03:58):
In New York.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
No, all right, Brady, Well, I'm at the bottom of
the hour, man, I got a bolt.

Speaker 7 (01:04:05):
I will see you probably that week, Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
Sir, I'll be here.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
Thanks Brandon, I'll see you, buddy, audios man, all right, we.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Gotta take a little break.

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
I don't want to get behind. I don't want to
get behind. I don't want to get behind.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
This is sports talk. Seven ninety on the go with
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Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
You've got to try.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
All right, welcome back, appreciate your listening Doug Pike Show
on Sports Talk seven ninety. I just saw something that
was pretty pretty good and I'll share it with all
of you. It says quote of the day. If anybody's
having a bad day, remember that today. In nineteen seventy six,
wrong Wayne sold his ten percent stake in Apple for

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eight hundred dollars. Now it's worth fifty eight billion dollars. Yeah,
you feel and Ronald I wonder how he I wonder
what he did with that eight hundred I wonder what
he did. Let's go talk to faux Pro. See what's
happening up north. What's up faux Pro?

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Hey, good man.

Speaker 11 (01:05:16):
Just polishing off some deer sausage and eggs. The little
cheddar cheese sprinkled in sah. Thanks, thanks for telling me that.
Appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
I think a protein bar on the way here.

Speaker 11 (01:05:26):
Oh man, Sorry, I said, that's your protein barner fridge
over here.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
God no, I kind of went out.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
I went out yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
The maiden voyage of the new Kyako.

Speaker 11 (01:05:37):
That's right, pretty well, got a little spot set up,
but it's really limited to where you can hunt right
now because of the lake solo.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
You can't really get you know.

Speaker 11 (01:05:46):
Close enough to the water's edge you or to you know,
have your first show, your first shots already at twenty
five yards.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
So lord, is the ground drying up that you could
go out there and maybe just kind of put some
put some brush steaks, some brush into the mud or
whatever and then not just drowned or get lost in
quicksand Well, the.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
Place I was at, it it had about it.

Speaker 11 (01:06:08):
It had about acho thief of that mug, that kind
of muck that will do you lift up your foot
and your sock comes out of your boot.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
So it's not really good.

Speaker 11 (01:06:16):
I don't like that stuff, man, No, not really good.
So I went back out this morning. I had a
feeding based on yesterday. It was going to be bad
knowing out this morning, foggy steel, you know, plenty of
mosquitos in the decoys. But that was about it, oh man,
But didn't hear nobody in the area fire shot this morning?

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
I heard a couple of month boats.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
But what do you what do you do for your
mosquitoes up there? How do you keep them away from you?

Speaker 11 (01:06:40):
I'm a deep woods off guys, never either deep woods
off or if if I've got the time, I do
the old the old vanilla in the water spray bottle.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
Deal aged to keep that in my bass boat, but
walk through what I.

Speaker 6 (01:06:53):
Don't hurt the bass.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
Back when I was guiding, if the mosquitos were, especially
during teal season, I carried a can of yard guard.
And wherever you sit down, you just you just stand
up and just just put a barrier around where you are.
If it's if there's brush, just spray the whole brush
around you. If there's not, spray the ground around you

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from about eight or ten feet out and they won't
come in. They won't come in for a while. Every
you know, it'll fade eventually and they'll start coming back in.
You just hit them again and that'll I mean, that
worked in duck blinds, It worked on goose levees and
all kinds of stuff. To keep these guys from just
moving and swatting and complaining about the mosquitoes. Yeah, it's

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worth a try, man.

Speaker 11 (01:07:39):
Yeah, I'm spraying that craft on yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, you don't have to use the ear
as much all over your own skin and clothes.

Speaker 11 (01:07:46):
I don't know if it works sprayed on my bass boot,
but definitely work out of the field. Heck, yeah, I
did have a I didn have a quick golf question though,
all right, And like I say, you know, my my
golf game is limited. You know, I probably around my life.
Well yeah, but I'm just curious what's more frustrating to you?
To me, the most frustrating thing is coming up short

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on a put. Now to you is it is it
overshooting too much or is it coming up short? Out
of those two, what would.

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
Find there's absolutely no excuse to leave a put short
because I don't remember who it was. It was some
goofy thing. You know, ninety percent of short puts don't
go in. It was just kind of But it's it's
not ninety man, it's one hundred. It's one hundred and
fifty percent of short puts don't fall.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
And so if you don't give.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
A chance, if if you don't give the ball a
chance to go in the hole, then you do you
never make it. The flip side to that, though, forest
and you got to be careful, is that if you
run that thing three or four feet by then, now
you've got a pretty significant putt coming back. That's something
I would I would recommend that anybody who wants to
lower their scores work on is not three. You've got

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to get yourself set up where you're not gonna three
putt and the fewer three putt and try if you
do start playing golf, keep track on your scorecards of
how many times you three putt and then get that
down to zero. And you know, you may not be
on the you may not be on the green even
by the time you start putting or in regulation, but whatever,

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whenever you pull that putter out of the bag and
start using that too, two swings and you're in the hole,
whether it's for a five or a six, or a
three or a four, whatever, two putts that's all you
get there, you go.

Speaker 11 (01:09:38):
Yeah, to be more specific on that, it's not so
much coming up short. I mean, if you're five yards
off the hole of your short, that's probably a good thing.
But it's sometimes when that hole, that ball, you know,
if you hit it a little bit harder at winning
the hole, Yeah, you're just like.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
Oh, I had two of those. I had two of
those on Friday, I really did. I had two of
them that I rolled, in fact in our group that
it was just is just leave it six inches short day,
I guess, And we had probably six or eight puts
the three of us that just tracked straight to the
hole and then just stopped six inches. He was killing us,

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man killing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
We hopefully get some cool weather in here.

Speaker 11 (01:10:14):
Man, I'm gonna I plan on being I'm gonna relocate
next week and I'll be I'll actually be within earshot
of whispering Piles and the nurse my off golf, so
they're to be shooting, so gosh, kind of a and
I've never understood a term casting blast. It's always blasting.
Then you cast casting blast, but try to do a
little bit of that for a white bash. You couldn't

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get hold, couldn't get tensed with laying this weekend because
he had short trips and I had weird stuff going on.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
So no, boy, maybe catch lame next weekend.

Speaker 11 (01:10:43):
And yeah, I pick him up at the dock, you know,
since he lives right there.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Heck, yeah that's easy next weekend, I guess.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
They said.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
All right, Parder, well good luck to your buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Thank you. Proy always a closure, man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
Holy cow. Yeah, that's good stuff there real quickly. I'll
go through the leader board down there at the Worldwide
Technology Championship El Card Donal at Diamante down in Mexico.
Justin Nico Ichiveria was leading yesterday. He is now tied
for the lead. Yeah, lead, Justin lower Nico Ichavaria, Carson

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Young all at sixteen.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Under par through three rounds.

Speaker 3 (01:11:26):
I'm telling you, I don't know whether golfers are getting
better or they're making the holes easier or whatever, but
these guys are shooting crazy scores. Fifteen under par, Austin
Eck wrote, Max Reiserman, fourteen under, Ben Griffin, Maverick McNeely.
There are well, there's too many guys at six under
at even read them. I think there's six or seven
of them, I think. And I'm not gonna do that

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because I'm already ready late for a break.

Speaker 1 (01:11:52):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
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Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
Now the more Doug Fit.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
I'm fifty two on four' Talk seven night at Doug
Pike Show. Who is that Melbourne Earth the winning fire
It's yeah, it kind of had to be didn't it. Yep,
the elements, Yeah, it had all the It all had
all the trademarks. I'm unfamiliar with the song though. I
wonder how many. I wonder if more songs have been
written around Saturday night than Sunday morning.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
Hmm, interesting?

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
And the only one I can think of for Saturday. No,
there's a couple of them.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Actually, it's a lot. Yeah, Saturday.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
Yeah, we might have to look at that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
Yeah, we'll do that next week through Saturday night songs
on Saturday, and then do Sunday. Well, we've already done
Sunday morning songs, haven't we. This was good today, man,
I got once again, I get a couple of emails.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Hey, this is great.

Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
We like the music. You're You're onto something, my friend, Yes, sir,
well should we?

Speaker 4 (01:12:48):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
What we might do is some and it's been done before.
It's not We're not breaking any new ground. But maybe
do a little contest where people can guess what the
actual theme of your selections is that day.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
Oh nice, Yeah, I would love that. You have to
put some thought into it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
It couldn't be so easy as Sunday mornings because there's
a lot of those apparently, and you have to stay tuned.
You have to. Yeah, you gotta hang on see and
we'll keep them around. Get those little get those little
punches on the card, you know. Nice. Yeah, we'll figure
it out. Seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I have I

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wanted to go back to fishing because with hunting seasons
wide open like they are, and the the water kind
of gets a little uncrowded, and it's a fantastic opportunity.
Now I know a lot of us. It could be
argued by and I could. I could stand on either
side of this one that you have to make hay

(01:13:54):
while the sunshines. With hunting seasons because they are limited,
there's only so many days you can go duck hunting
or goose hunting or deer hunting. You can fish a
year round. But man, oh man, there's something to be
said for winter fishing because the fish tend to stack
up a little bit. Now we're still I think we're
still not into full autumn, full late fall, early winter patterns,

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not at all. Just shit, there's still a ton of
shrimp up in the marshes. There's still a ton of
bait fish up there, and until all that stuff gets
dumped out by a few hard orders, we're going to
be in this kind of holding pattern that's a little
a little bit of summer and a little bit of winter,
and that's got the fish kind of scattered out some too,

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which makes it harder to really hit them a good lick.
As they say, we'll see, we'll see. I get so
torn this time of year. I don't hunt as much
as I used to. I wish I did, but work, working,
life getting away sometimes and don't. I can assure you
I never got cheated on how often I got to

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hunter fish in my life. I feel very blessed to
have gotten to do the things that I've gotten to do,
and it's worked out really well for me. I've gotten
to fish all over the place. I've gotten to hunt
all over the place, and boy, I'm just in my head.
I just went right back to a goose hunt I
did up in Canada, and the most fun I had

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up there, as someone who had guided goose hunts for
a long time, is having a really good idea how
far steel shot, which is what we had back then
when I made that trip. How far steal shot will
actually knock down a goose if you know what you're doing.
And the first group of geese that came into this

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very interesting setup we had, We're maybe twenty twenty five
yards high, and I was starting to lift my gun
and we're in this big setup where you're kind of
it's kind of like a giant duck blind, but it's
on land. They just they bring benches out and they
put brush around the benches and all this, and I'm

(01:16:08):
sitting next to the guy. We were about four or
five media guys and I think the guide and maybe
one of his hands, and then cameras behind us.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
We were shooting some TV stuff and.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
I started to bring my gun up and the guy
taps my knee, goes, no, No, they're too high. They're
like twenty yards high. Twenty yards that's it, and almost
right over it. Don't know, they're too high. Well, let's
get them a little closer. Hey, I'm in your house.
I'm gonna listen and watch what you do. And I
let him, well I didn't let him, but the birds

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went around and made another pass and came in almost
where he had to stand up and shoot straight across
the ground. To get them, and we we knocked down
all of the birds that were in that early flight,
but nonetheless it was it was very interesting. And after
the hunt was over, we had several guys in that
in that blind and we had a lot of room
the limit. Oh man, I gotta talk fast, a lot

(01:17:03):
of room in the limit. After the hunt, we still
had room to take a few more birds, and there
were a couple of geese flying over it about an
honest thirty five forty yards and the guide turns to
me and kind of goes, then, so you're from Texas,
y'all can shoot him that high?

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Really you think?

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
So? I said, yeah, if you don't mind, I'll take
a swing. And this bird just he set himself up
and he messed up, and I took that bird down,
and that I don't know that that guy's jaw ever
came off the ground after he saw how it works
if you hit him. He opened up a whole lot
of stuff. I'll be back tomorrow for fifty plus on KPRC.

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I will be back in here on Saturday to do
this again. And I hope every one of you guys
have a great week, Stay safe, get some time outdoors
with your family, I'll be back. I hope you are too. Audios.