The Doug Pike Show 11-17-24

In this episode Doug talks about the St. Jude Golf Tournament and the good that comes for supporting this cause. Why does Texas now have big trout? Is it because of the Texas gaming conservation of the spcies? Ok, Is big fish or longer fish better? If you want the answers to all these question you need to listen to this show. Doug, suggest what he thinks the requirements should be for preserving the fishing population all over the state of Texas. Is their a difference between northern speckled trout and southern trout? I think there is. Also, be sure to check out what a caller has to say about wahing you outdoors clothing and how not be detected by deer while hunting. Other topics Doug talks about: Have you ever heard of a Punt Gun? What about a black power gun? This show is very educational from start to finish.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Dougpike Show, brought to you by American
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, Sunday Morning starts. Now.
Thank you all for joining us here on Sports Talk
seven ninety if you need me for the next twenty minutes.
While I'm talking, and while I'm not talking, somehow I
managed to open about I don't know fifty sixty one

(00:31):
hundred new word documents walking between my desk and here,
and now I'm gonna have to go and delete them
all somehow, and I'm not real thrilled about that. I
hate this technology. I will hate it until the day
I die. I guarantee. I don't know what it is
that does it every now and then it'll do it.
When I'm carrying everything over here. I've got to remember

(00:55):
just absolutely totally shut down, totally shut down ward before
I walk over here, because no matter how I do it,
no matter how I carry my laptop and my keyboard,
it does that to me. I'll get over it. Not
a big deal. Rainy day out there. Welcome back to

(01:15):
semi summer too. Huh. Two days of cool weather. It
felt really nice. Woke up Friday morning to forty nine
degrees and then woke up this morning to seventy something.
I don't know. It's going up to eighty one today
and tomorrow, I think, both along with rainy, muggy, nasty conditions.
This rain's coming off the Gulf, as you heard in

(01:36):
the forecast a little while ago. Still pretty light this
morning and scattered. If it's not raining where you are,
it might be raining around the corner. But it's just
gonna keep going and not a whole lot of rain,
at least until this afternoon. It's supposed to kind of
pick up and maybe get a little bit scarier right now.
Nothing ominous at all, Just a steady procession of mostly

(02:00):
radar blips making landfall roughly between Port Lavaka and Freeport
and then just plowing almost due north in a swath
that's about Brennan to Kingwood Wide, if that makes any sense.
If you've lived here long enough, you know everything I
just talked to you. You understand everything I just said.

(02:20):
Lots of breaks in this stuff, so so, like I said,
don't cancel your plans just yet, but if you do,
head on, head on out to wherever you plan to
do something outdoors today, go ahead and bring an umbrella
or two just in case. Almost every time I put
an umbrella, this is just a quick sidebar. When there's
a thread of rain and I've got golf planned. Almost
every time that I go out there, if I put

(02:43):
an umbrella on my bag, it stops it from rain.
It won't rain. And if it actually does start raining
on those rare days, maybe I forgot my umbrella. If
I put my rain gear on, then that works. It
shuts down the rain. I have to do it because
the foul weather gear I have for golf right now,

(03:05):
while it's a good quality, it's a little heavy. It
it counts on to be comfortable. You have to count
on it being pretty cool when it starts to rain,
and so that means I need another rain suit, a
lighter when for summer. With the long and the short
of it is, once you put that thing on, you're
not gonna get wet from the rain. But if it's

(03:27):
a day like today where it's just warm and muggy,
you're gonna be perspiring in there and probably wind up
a little. If you wear it for maybe more than
three or four holes, you're going to wind up just
as wet as if you just left it off. I'm
not sure how all that works, really, but it does.
One more quick reminder early this morning about the Saint
Jude Golf tournament we're hosting here on December ninth, on

(03:51):
both courses, actually at Golf Club of Houston, and by
here I'm at Houston. We're getting down to the wire
to it, and we have I want to say, there's
just a handful of teams left available for what I
consider one of the premier golf tournaments and certainly a
premier cause in Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, and I

(04:12):
hope some of you feel a little more comfortable maybe
buying a team or even one of the sponsorships we
still have on the table now now that we're past
the election, if you do, if you want to get involved.
I talked to Jason Fortenberry from Primo Doors just a
couple of days ago, as a matter of fact, and
he just casually threw into our conversation, oh, by the way, yeah,
I bought a team for the Saint Jude. Thank you, Jason.

(04:33):
I appreciate that. Primo Doors. What I can't remember what
his hook line was, off hand, but whatever it is,
it's a darn goodwin. Oh here's one for you, Melvin.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
So.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
This guy sells. He sells front doors, back door, side doors, humidors, Cuspodoors,
and Lionel Richie. Do you get it? Commodores. That's it, man,
I knew you'd have that. I thought about that yesterday.
I was so proud of that line. Back door, front door,
side door, custom door, Humidor and Lionel Richie, Commodores. Uh, anyway,

(05:09):
I know that's kind of goofy. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
Uh anyway.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
The Saint Jude. I made a trip over there years
ago and it genuinely changed my life in the way
I thought about kids and sick kids. These are some
of the sickest kids in the country, and if they're
accepted into Saint Jude usually it's it's kind of a
last ditch effort for these families. They're they're they've been

(05:36):
told by a lot of people that their child isn't
going to survive, and they get there and no matter
how long it takes, no matter how much it costs
for the hospital to do all the work to try
to save that child's life, the family pays nothing, not
to not to be transported there or home, not for food,

(05:59):
not for housing, not for any of the exhaustive medical
attention they get from some of the finest doctors and
providers in the world. Pediatric cancer rate has just dumped.
It's gone down, down, down ever since that hospital opened.
And one of the cool things I like about that
hospital is they don't try to make a bunch of

(06:20):
money off their research and what they've found that will
help cure pediatric cancer. They just share it with anybody
who wants it. Now, got a hospital halfway around the
world needs some help with some rare pediatric cancer. I
guarantee you they're calling Saint Jude or getting online and saying, hey,
we need your help, and whatever help that Said Jude

(06:42):
can provide, they do that doesn't cost them a dime.
So it's a remarkable business model that Danny Thomas. Most
of you young people won't have any idea who Danny
Thomas is, but what he did over there in Memphis
is pretty phenomenal. And I'm really proud to be working
for that event. I'm kind of taking the reins of it,

(07:05):
and I'm gonna I'm gonna keep growing it as fast
as I can. If you want to know anything about
getting involved this year, if you want to help sick,
really sick kid get better, then just just email me
Dougpike at di iHeartMedia dot com. Just email, very simple.
All right, So on to fishing. There are and I boy,

(07:26):
I got a few emails this week from guys who
are kind of letting me know that it's pretty much
on already and we've had what one decent cold snap,
we got another one coming in the middle of the
next week, and all of a sudden, people are starting
starting to catch really big trout pretty much from Matta
Gorda south too, at least through Port Mansfield, and then

(07:47):
that's that's really the epicenter, well not Mansfield. Baff And
Bay always will be I think the Texas epicenter for
giant trout. But there's kind of I guess maybe Baffin
Bay's full, because there's some big trout that were caught,
and by big, i'm talking about better than eight pounds,
better than twenty eight to twenty nine inches. There were
some caught all the way up toward or all the

(08:09):
way up through Matagorda and then all the way down
to Mansfield this week, and I can't imagine that those
fish just miraculously showed up out of nowhere. There are
a lot of things going on. There is the tremendous
push toward conservation of those bigger fish, not a whole

(08:29):
lot of people bringing those things home anymore, even some
of the people who would bring home any fish longer
than twenty four to twenty five inches just to show
it off at the cleaning table. Look at this dinosaur
I caught and killed, and there's no reason for that.
I like trout as much as anybody does on the table. Okay,
a delicious fish, but I don't need to kill a

(08:52):
thirty or thirty one or thirty two inch fish to
feed anybody I know. I would much prefer, in fact,
something that's right in the middle of that little juicy
slot that the Parts and Wildlife Department put together for
us a three fish limit and that fifteen and what
fifteen to twenty slot. I don't I don't even really
pay that close attention to the bag and size limits anymore,

(09:16):
because I just don't bring home many fish. I might
bring home one, and I'll know I don't know if
it's right or wrong. I'll know what size to bring home.
The tasty size is what that is those giant trout
if we will just leave them alone, like again, like
most of us are doing now. The overwhelming majority I
believe are are not killing big trout, and with good reasons.

(09:41):
There's no reason to kill those fish unless you're in
some mega million dollar tournament. And I still think that
if if enough people put their minds to it and
put their heads to it, they'll come up with a
way that even trout fishing can be monitored successfully, even
big money trout tournaments can be monitor monitored without having

(10:02):
to actually haul that fish dead back to the dock.
It's very hard to keep them alive too. There there
are relatively fragile fish as saltwater fish go, and now
I have to wonder, if not back in their history
and well even today, they're still preyed upon by a
lot of bigger fish and one big mammalian species that

(10:24):
bottlenose dolphin. Uh, they'll they'll rip through a school of
trout as fast as they can, tear up all they
can and eat them up. But on top of being cannibalistic,
those fish have been chased for for eons probably around
the bays of the Gulf Coast, in the in the
East coast.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
And.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
They're still I don't think they travel well in live well,
So I really don't. And I know there's ways to
do your best to get them their life, and a
lot of guys make it, a lot of those fish
make it. But I still would rather find some way
to have an official measuring device and require some sort
of official documentation of a photograph of that fish on

(11:08):
that measuring device, and get rid of weight. Forget weight,
there's weighing fish for tournament rules, for tournament winning is
just it's antiquated. The true measure of a fin that
goes back to old times when people thought that bigger

(11:28):
fish were smarter fish. Well, bigger fish are just the
ones that ate the most. The smarter fish are the
ones that have grown the longest because they have been
out there the longest. A largemouth bass, a big female
large mouth bass going to weigh a whole lot more
in January and February than it is in July and August.
But if one fish is heavier than the other, it's

(11:51):
presumed to be the better catch. I think we and
I don't know how it got off on this tangent.
But I think we need to go to length. Just
go to length. If you have official measuring sticks that
are provided one per boat, provided to the tournament fishermen,
and they have every one of them's got a phone.

(12:11):
Every one of them can send a message with a phone,
or at least store the picture until they get back.
The pictures are timestamped, the pictures are accurate, and you
know exactly you have to measure the whole fish end
to end, nose in the little crook and then showing
the tails squeeze down so you can get every millimeter

(12:32):
out of it. And that's who wins, the guy who's
got the longest fish or the man, woman child, whoever
caught the longest fish. I really do like that, I do.
I think it's so much more efficient, and it allows
for every fish caught to be released, every single one.
You don't have to you don't have to release them all.
If you like to eat trout like I do. If

(12:53):
you like to eat red fish, flounder, flounder, little crabmeat
on top of it, a little butter, a little garlic.
Uh yeah, I like to eat them too. I'm a
fish eater. Every chance I get, and I don't have
any problem with anybody else who likes to eat them.
But if you're not gonna eat that fish in the
next couple of days from when you caught it, just

(13:14):
throw it back. Don't throw it in the freezer where
it gets kind of buried up behind some other stuff.
And then two months later, three months later, six months later,
you find it and you go, oh man, yeah, I
meant to eat those snapper filets. I just forgot. I
just forgot. All right, we got to tell a little
break here. I'm rambling incessantly about things that matter to me,

(13:35):
and I hope they matter to you as well. Eight
nineteen on Sports Talk seven ninety Working our way toward
ten o'clock. It is this a themed day? Oh lord?
What was the first song? No? No, no, just so,
I'm already, I'm just working. Got to pay attention. God,
I know, I know. I just let it walk right

(13:56):
over me. Okay, all right, we're back eight nineteen. Well,
give me two seconds. The will be eight twenty. There
we go, and we're gonna start with John and work
our way toward geitar day. Let me see if this
thing's working. Nope, we're putting back on hold hit it,
thank you, John. What's up?

Speaker 4 (14:13):
Man?

Speaker 5 (14:14):
Well, two things really, Actually I'll throw this out and
let you wrap up with it so I can.

Speaker 6 (14:21):
I got to get something.

Speaker 5 (14:22):
But you're always talking about the fragility of speckled trout,
and I understand that, But how is it that they
can live up the East coast.

Speaker 6 (14:32):
In those bays?

Speaker 5 (14:33):
I mean, don't they have a lot more severe winners
and harsh culture.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
I mean they are they.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Different subspecies that have that have evolved to manage that.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
But that's the only explanation we can come up with
you and me sitting here right now, because clearly, and
they don't go all I mean, they're not all the
way up off off Chesapeake Bay, but.

Speaker 6 (14:55):
Well they are up in Chesapeake, aren't they?

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Jel yeah, maybe Chesapeake. I was thinking of that. What's
that damn lighthouse up in New York Monta? Oh well
yeah yeah, And if they were the destroyed bass would
eat them all anyway. But yeah, they do adapt and
there if you've ever gone over and fish them, they
look different. Their their coloration is is far more vibrant

(15:17):
than our speckled trout. Actually, they're they're prettier fish. I
got to give them that. So they they had to
have evolved to be able to take a little bit
colder water. Now they also have deeper water access than
our fish here in their bay systems, and that may
be helping them survive some of that cold. Sure, but yeah,
it does get cold. There's no question the point. What's other?

Speaker 5 (15:39):
Well, so I'm going to turn you back to you. Actually,
I was listening to your podcast on the way home
from them. Thank you putting some good meat and freezer.
Good management buck good actually good buck for where I
where I get to hunt.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
Don't don't ever, don't ever put down any buck you take.

Speaker 6 (15:54):
No good no, no, no no. I'm as honestly as much
a meat hunter as anything.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
This was a good five and a half year old,
heaviest you know for my place. One hundred and fifty
pounds on the hoof. That's a that's a that's nice.
That's a good deal. That's that's that's that's a good
deer for for for my sandy, nasty soil.

Speaker 6 (16:13):
I've got okay anyway. Uh, and I bow hunt of
the time.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (16:22):
Actually I didn't have a meat crisis. And wife said
John go fill a freezer.

Speaker 5 (16:26):
Yeah, so I am like, if you exist, if you exist.
But anyway, so you got you all were talking about
sad control. You actually and specifically you had some questions
about ozona.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (16:39):
I do not use it.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
I understand the concept completely and frankly bothers me a little. Well,
it creates ozone. Ozone is a strong oxidizer. Pardon if
I get into much chemistry and stuff, I'm good and
so it it changes just like you know, ozone is
bad for you.

Speaker 6 (16:59):
What if there's an ozone alert.

Speaker 5 (17:01):
Right, because it destroys, it oxidizes things, just like oxidizing
eats up metals and things like that. So so so
molecules that come off you that have odor, it changes
them by oxidizing them, by by putting a wave of
ozone constantly across your scent stream.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Yeah, okay, so it changes them. So the concept works.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
What I don't like is I don't want to be
sitting there being bathed in ozone because it's not good
for you.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
That's a good point. Yet to put it down window
of you, I guess.

Speaker 5 (17:36):
Huh, well, yeah, but then if you're sitting in a tree,
it's hard to you know, you're up to do that,
and then you've got people sitting in a pop up
blind with an ozonics running.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
Don't like that at all personally.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
But yeah, but you know, as they say, you be
you Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
To me, it's all about personal cent control. I uh,
I have a regimen. My clothes get washed every time
I hunt between you know, after each hunt, they never
come and say they come from the driver. They go
out to the porch, hang in the air. I shower
with you know, the right kind of stuff before each hunt. Yeah,

(18:19):
and I go to the porch and you dressed. I
don't care how cold it is, my boots never coming back.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Tougher than me about that. I'm not going out there
if it's twelve degrees.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
Well, you know, after a good hot shower, it's it's
done good.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
That's good. Okay.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
But and and for the most part, if you're diligent
about that, you can control most of your sin.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
I would agree, I agree, I do.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
But you have to You can't say, well, I had
a good shower last night and go hunt in the morning.
You know, your body does it things overnight, and you've
got back to your innery body that do things.

Speaker 6 (18:54):
And so I could get into it forever.

Speaker 5 (18:57):
But I'm I'm I'm pretty angle about it and uh.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
And it works, or as they say, dialed in John.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
Well, I'm obsessive about it now on a hot afternoon
in October, it's tough because no matter what you do beforehand,
by the time you climb up that ladder and whatever,
if you make three grams of sweat, you know, ballgame,
you know, if you're not in the right win position.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
So anyway, No, that's good, that's good.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Tough, Thank you. I appreciate the call man.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
It's I love it. Once you bow hunch it, it's
hard to go the other way. I shot that buck
yf Sham was like, well, this wasn't exciting.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, kind of, but then but then again it was,
you know, it was a little bit little bit.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
Now, I got to tell you afterwards, I kind of went,
wow that and I and I had it set up.
I had a rifle in one of my boat places. Yeah,
because that's all I have set up. So I shot
him at thirty five yard he walked in. Shot him
at thirty five yards with a with a two seventy
you know, Ok, that wasn't hard.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Yeah, didn't run far.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
No, I intentionally made a made a high shoulder, so
it just dropped there.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
And I'm gonna go catch Dave before my break, but
Joe Day, see you later. That's a couple of really
good points. I cannot make that stop and I can't
get him started, so it's all on you. Melvin. There
you are, Dave. What's up?

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Man?

Speaker 7 (20:24):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (20:25):
No, that that that gentleman right there.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
He's exactly right.

Speaker 7 (20:28):
You kind of want to be up winning, I mean
because dere can smell you, absolutely they can. Yeah, And
that's just like like when we had our border college.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Back when I was a kid, my dad would put
me and my.

Speaker 7 (20:41):
Three brothers in different areas in the backyard and he
would tell the mama dog Pamper, go get fill up,
and she would go.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
Find him and then go get David.

Speaker 7 (20:51):
And yeah, yeah, that was really pretty cool. Yeah, I know, Okay, Yeah,
this morning, Uh, I was leaving out about four thirty
five out out of Willis over there, and I was
heading down eight thirty towards forty five.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
And a visual jack rabbit was.

Speaker 7 (21:11):
You know, I'm going I'm in the right hand lane,
and then yeah, he come out and stopped right there
in the left hand lane there like where the traffic
comes the other way, and just stopped right there.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
And I just slowed down real quick and went on by.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
I thought you were gonna tell me honked and past you.

Speaker 7 (21:28):
Well he stopped, you know how they you know how
whenever they hit with the headlights, it was free, you know.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
And that's it.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Not a smart ye on their parts, by the way.

Speaker 7 (21:37):
Well I know that and no. But anyway, when I
got out of there, when I was got about halfway
here to Houston, they had to clean up this morning.
They the man it come a gully washer big time,
you know. And uh so, but I almost was tempted
to just pull off the freeway there for a little while.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
It probably so bad, but it didn't last way you
experienced there, didn't last more than a few minutes, so right,
because what I was watching this morning looked like it
just kind of pop up and go away.

Speaker 7 (22:05):
Well, I was hit and I would hit a bad
spot and then it would be good, and then i'd
hit a bad spot and then it would be good.
And then by the time I got here, you know,
to part of the road in forty five, it was
it was pretty good. But hey, and then oh, now
big point when you were talking about the Shriners. Man,
you know, man, I'm big time for the Shriners because

(22:26):
I remember my mom teaching us about you know, Danny
Thomas and them and all that. And I've known a
couple of kids that went to the Shriners hospital and
they're doing very wonderful. And also one of the neighbors
down the street, he was a shriner and he would
bring a train and drive around the block because it
was like one third of a mile around and he

(22:48):
would take all those kids riding. You know, yeah, it
was you know, I was back in the late late
sixties or late sixties probably.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yeah, you know, yeah, we did good. And then that
that Chriesapeake Bay Bridge, I.

Speaker 7 (23:04):
Think I told you I went back and forth on
there like three times, you know there and then back
and in there. And that's a long bridge, it is.
And I think that I think that I did here
one time, that they did have a trout freeze over there.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
I wouldn't I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, they do
get a lot colder up that way clearly than we do.
But those trout have learned they find deep holes kind
of like they do here. They just dive deep, get
to the bottom and lead that cold up on top
of them. And I'm sure they do. Okay. That that bridge,
by the way, that doesn't even hold a candle to

(23:39):
the Lake Pontre train bridge. You ever driven across that.

Speaker 7 (23:42):
No, sir, it's like twenty on my bucket list, it's
like twenty.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Six miles long, just forever. Yeah, half time, all right, Dave,
good to hear from me.

Speaker 7 (23:53):
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna keep you all on
iHeart radio and listening, and I'm gonna take it. I'm
gonna take a nap, all.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Right, man, I see, Okay. I think I think what
Day's trying to tell us Melvin is that we're putting
him to sleep. Oh no, he's gonna.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
Leave it on.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
He's gonna leave it on and listen on my Heart
radio and take a nap.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Hmm.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Maybe he's thinking the information was sink in. You know,
just kidding, Dave. You know, man, we are. I am
not number one. I know you were just kidding Number
two or you just misspoke or whatever. And number two,
I'm not thin skin. If you want to call and
tell me I got something wrong, tell me I got
something wrong, I'll listen. But if you're wrong and I

(24:36):
know it, then I'm gonna call you out on that.
And I'm not ever gonna beat anybody up if I
If I disagree with you, that just means that that
I disagree with you. It doesn't mean either one of
us is necessarily right or wrong. I hope we can
get to get back to a place where that's okay
in this country of ours, I really do where I
could tell you this guy's red, Melvin could tell you

(24:56):
this guy's green, and you tell us the sky's blue,
and we all three just agree to disagree and keep fishing. See,
that's where you gotta have some common thread there, find
something you both like to do, and then quit worrying
about all that other stuff. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com.

Speaker 8 (25:18):
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Speaker 6 (25:25):
Back to the Doug Bike.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Show, Hey thirty seven on Sports Talk seven ninety. Okay,
that's the first one I'm gonna remember because I'm gonna
write it down. Melvin, I'm gonna have to play. I'm
gonna play from behind on the theme of today's music.
I write that down and we'll see how it goes
from there, and I'm hoping. I'm hoping it's nevermind. I'm

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not gonna give any clues because I want to see
if somebody else picks it up before I do. And
I'm I'm already working with that one hand tied behind
my back. I really am, because I I've forgotten to
listen to the first time we came back, and then
the second time. I was so busy asking you whether
you had a theme for today that I forgot what

(26:10):
song you played. That's just the way my brain works
is that works or doesn't work, and doesn't make any difference.
I guess here I am with more emails because piling
in here on me, Holy cow, they stack up. Steve
wants to know where the heck the ducks are. Let's
see mention that you're gonna get a duck report from
me on Campo area. What I'm hearing, let's see, yuh?

(26:32):
And Steve hunts some flooded rice near Lissie. That can't
be all bad, but he says, a dearth of ducks
this season. That's not a good way to describe your
duck population, I think, I mean, he kind of. He
explains it the same way I would so far, seeing
as how we're not even to Thanksgiving yet and we've

(26:55):
only had one legitimate cold snap, and now we're here,
we are going to be back to eighty one degrees
today around here.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yees.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Steve keeps going. He says, I realized we haven't had
any weather to speak of. But still, zero ducks doesn't
seem quite right. Well, it's not zero, Steve, it's not zero,
but it's also not We're not at full force yet.
We've got a lot of fronts to come our way.
We've got a lot of birds to come down here.

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And one of the things that doesn't get taken into
account nearly so much as it should, I feel, is
how much effort is being put forth by hunters along
the entire flyway to keep the birds in their backyard
as long as they can. When I started hunting waterfowl

(27:48):
back in the sixth well, not the sixties, back in
the seventies, early seventies, I was hunting waterfowl with a
couple of friends of mine and their dads. My dad
didn't hunt, really, not at all. I don't think I
know that he ever owned a gun, but I can
say that I could count on one hand the times
that he told me in his lifetime he'd been hunting.

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And one of those is a pretty good duck story.
Maybe I'll tell that later for those of you who
haven't heard it. But the bottom line is when I
was back there getting into it, all these birds would
wind up here pretty quickly, a couple of good coal fronts,
and they bail out of the of the northern nesting grounds.
They'd bail out of the Midwest because everything started freezing

(28:31):
over up there and they had nowhere to roost. Their
food sources were not nearly as as plentiful as they
are now. And all the way down the flyway, and
this is one of the things that heard our goose
hunting down here. Probably I would say as much as
the reduction in agriculture down here specifically rich for me,

(28:55):
they're just they're feeding them all the way down they're feeding.
It's like there's a it'd be like having to drive
from from Canada to Houston, and there are only years
ago there were only two hotels all the way from
Canada to Houston, and you had to stop at one
of those hotels, but you didn't want to stay long

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because they didn't They had horrible food and the beds
were nasty, and so you kept you just kept driving,
and you kept driving. There was really no place nice
to stop. Well, now, now, all the way down the flyway,
they drive a few what's that? What's that resort hotel thing,

(29:36):
Melvin that a lot of kids like to go to?
Something bear? What is it called? Oh not love Bear.
That's a whole different kind of club thing. What is
it said, like Wolf's slides, wolflyigs. Yeah, that's what I'm
thinking of. So there's one of those about I don't know.
A couple hours into your trip, and then you drove
a little farther and there's a there's a moody gardens,
and you go a little farther and there's a rich Carlton. Well,

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every time they turn around, they look down in daylight
and see a beautiful, wonderful roost pond and an adjacent
cornfield or adjacent rice field or soybean field that's been
knocked down or harvested, but they left a bunch of
grain on the ground. Those birds they don't fly any

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farther than they have to to avoid the worst of
the winter weather. There's no need for It's all about
economics of energy conservation. And if they get enough food,
they will hang out in a cold place. If the
little roost ponds and lakes have some sort of bubbler

(30:43):
system out in the middle to keep them from freezing solid,
and they'll stay on that water. They got that big
old thick layer of fat and feathers and down. They
don't get wet. They just sit out there and bob
around in the water. They don't like to roost on
dry ground because then predators can sneak up on them
a whole lot. It's a whole lot harder to run
through a puddle to go grab something that it is

(31:05):
to run through a grassy field. So anyway, the bottom
line is they're getting just babysat and babysat and baby
sat all the way down here, and so they're in
no hurry to migrate any farther than they have to.
And thanks to the hunters who came down here years
ago and took our rag spread system back up north,

(31:30):
took our rags on sticks back up north and learn
how to hunt the snow geese on the way down,
and then farmers up there concurrently are realizing that in
the dead of winter even they can still be making
money off their land. Holy cow, these guys will pay
fifty seventy five one hundred, two hundred dollars apiece to
come out here and hunt for a day. Yeah, come on, bring,

(31:51):
bring your friends, get a bunch of people, least my
whole farm. And it's just it's it's mailbox money for them.
They don't have to get up at the crack of dawn,
they don't have to ride around on a tractor for
ten hours a day. They just they just wake up
and there's a check in the mail. Why wouldn't you
do that? And that, I think is what's That's what's

(32:11):
hurt our waterfowl hunting down here as much as anything.
I'll get specific on ducks when we get back. I
want to catch you Allen real quick before we go
to break well they keep there you go, Allen? What's up?

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Man?

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Good morning, Doug morning, Hey u. Black powder guns? Did
they come in different calibers or is it just.

Speaker 9 (32:31):
No?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah, you can get them in different calibers. If I
was gonna shoot black powder, I'd want to shoot a
big old payload, though, Is that you're not going to
have time to reload and fire again.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like a fifty or yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
What I'm thinking, is fifty all day. I'll look during
the break and kind of see what I can find online.
Because I'm I'm not a black powdered guy. I'm gonna
I'm not gonna lie to you and tell you I
am and then tell you something stupid. But I'll look
at you. I'll look and see what's out here, and
I bet you we got some in this audience who
was saying, man, I love black powder. I could tell
them what to do. Well, then call us and we'll

(33:07):
be happy to hear from you.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
All right, that was good?

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Oh yeah, my pleasure. I hope I'm going to learn
something too, I think. All right, I'll bet we gotta
let him go.

Speaker 8 (33:17):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, Breaking sports news on
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Speaker 2 (33:23):
We'll get that information to them.

Speaker 6 (33:25):
This is the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Okay, holy eight fifties on Sports Talk seven ninety, The
Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Okay,
So I did look up muzzleloader rifle calibers, and I
found I found a list and curiously, now there's a
lot of rifles in there that are fifties. But that's

(33:48):
fifty is a big projectile, okay. And I knew that
coming in. I knew it coming in, and I was
kind of wondering what else was out there, and just this,
very very quick it says simple at hunter hyphen ed,
I think dot com. Let me see, yeah, hunter hyphened

(34:09):
dot com. And it starts at forty five and four
fifty eight, not quite a fifty, and that, honestly a
forty five slug coming out of a muzzleloader, the big
old black powder gun. That'd be plenty. Then it goes
to forty fours, then to forty cow, then to three

(34:30):
fifty seven, then to thirty odd six and three oh eight.
I oh, no, never mind, hold on, let me back
up a minute, because this is deceptive. This is deceptive,
and it's talking about how these are muzzleloader calibers. But

(34:51):
then when you get down to it, it starts talking
about how these are just calibers, These are just common calibers.
But the headline on it and it kind of boy.
I looked at it. This can't be right, but it does.
It says clearly muzzleloader rifle calibers. And I got a

(35:12):
hunch looking on down the line here that there aren't
a whole lot of twenty two muzzleloaders. So I'm sticking
with forty five and fifty. I'm gonna go there, and
somebody please in this audience, man, Alan, I bet you
know something about it, and I bet you're listening this
morning too, But I need somebody to walk me out
of this quagmire I've stepped into. I trusted a source,

(35:34):
and now that I've read, I'm gonna retract all of that.
Just forget it can't be just can't be a twenty
two caliber muzzleloader out there. Maybe there is, but I'm
not seeing one, and I'm certainly not gonna go hunting
with it. There's a full caliber chart that goes with
a lot of shows, a lot of stuff. Yeah, that one,

(35:55):
I'm kind of curious about it. I just if I'm
gonna go hunt deer with a muzzleloader, like I said,
you only get one shot, most likely, and you better
make it good, and it better be enough to just
drop that animal in its tracks and That's why I'm
thinking forty five or fifty or bust or go back
to a more modern cartridge. I've never shot. I don't

(36:18):
think i've ever shot a black powder gun. I actually
owned at one point and have long since passed on
to somebody I thought would love it. I had a
percussion cap shot gun, double barrel, side by side, big
old twelve bore percussion cap gun, not a flint lock gun,

(36:41):
but just a one generation up from there, and it's
pretty cool. Still, I don't think it's shootable, and I'm
hoping the guy who has it doesn't try to shoot it,
although he fancies himself a pretty good, pretty good amateur gunsmith.
But that thing's been around too long to run a

(37:02):
full charge of powder up into it. I had the case,
and I think I still have the case which had
the rod in it. It had a powder horn in
it that actually still had powder when we found it,
and we had to dispose of that, my dad and me.
He found it in my great uncle's house over in

(37:23):
downtown New Orleans. My great uncle and his brother lived
in that house, and the brother was visually impaired, he
was blind, and they I mean, it was a very
cool little setup. My dad described it in detail to me.
He had to go there when this last of the
two brothers passed away and empty the place. And in

(37:45):
that same house, this is pretty interesting, Melvine. In that
same house he found tons of newspaper clippings, okay, and
these got bury in mind. My dad passed away, gosh,
thirty years ago at sixty five. His it was his
maybe great uncle, even uncles who lived in that house.

(38:06):
The bottom line was all these newspaper clippings. And my dad,
the history major over at Tulane University, who instantly got
out and got in the oil business. But never mind,
he was fascinated with history, and I got that from him.
He found a little newspaper article from You'll. You'll know
how far back it is when I tell you the

(38:26):
headline on it. And the story was maybe two columns
wide and about four inches deep. Okay, the headline Lincoln
comma an unknown Comma running for office. Wow about that?
That's I mean, that's real American history there. You know
this guy Lincoln? Who's he Abe Lincoln. We've never heard

(38:48):
of him. We're down here in New Orleans. We have
no idea who that guy is. That's fantastic. But somebody,
somehow he got, you know, the news. And it's not
like they just looked it up on the internet. You
know that. That's a lot of digging to come up
with that for the Times Pickyun, which I think is
what the paper was back then. Yes, it was Times Picky. Well,
we're talking about the eighteen something, so who knows what

(39:10):
it was. I think it was though. I think The
Pickyun has been around that long. I believe so. Oh,
he had just had hundreds of newspapers in that house.
They just collected him over the years, and my dad
went through every page and found not only that, but
many more amazing stories. I may tell my dad's hunting
story real quick. I can do it before we go

(39:32):
to the break. Eighteen thirty seven. Holy cow. Yeah, that's
a pretty long running paper. That's pretty good. So real quick,
my dad's hunting story, Melvine. You haven't heard it yet,
so you got to hear it. So he gets invited
when he's in the oil business over there in Louisiana,
he gets invited to do a duck hunt in the marsh.
He'd never hunted before, he had no idea. They found
him a shotgun, and I probably put him in a

(39:54):
camo T shirt or something. But they get in a
float plane. There's like four guys. There's a host in
three other guys I guess in the pilot. And they
fly down and this guy lands his floatplane and nudges
it up onto the bank just in the middle of
the Mississippi River, Delta somewhere, and drops them off, and
he tells him. He says that, look, you guys, listen

(40:16):
for the plane coming back, because when you hear that
plane coming back, there's gonna be a bunch of ducks
in front of it. Just rip them up, man, tear
them up, shoot them up. My dad has no idea.
He's gone out and bought a hunting license, I'm sure,
and if he needed it, he probably did. Then he's
I know, he's gone out and he's got his duck stamp,
all the stuff he's supposed to have. He's legal, and
he's out there with these guys and the ducks come

(40:37):
and I wouldn't be surprised at all. I never did
really get the straight story on this as to whether
he even pulled the trigger once, because he doesn't know
how to shoot a shot gun.

Speaker 6 (40:45):
Ian.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
If he did shoot, he wouldn't have hit anything. But
the long and the short of it is, those other
guys are blazing, man, and they're good shots, and they're
dropping dead ducks everywhere, and they kind of pile them up.
About an hour and a half later and the plane
comes whipping back in there and slides up sideways on
the shore. They load the ducks in there. I mean,
they're putting ducks in the pontoons, they're shoving them in

(41:07):
the back of the plane, every pretty much everything but
riding copilot. There's dead ducks, okay, And they're flying out
of there, and they come back to where they started
and they they're getting out, and everybody's saying, what a
great time they had. My dad's still kind of confused.
And one of those guys is, man, that was so fun.
Can we come back in there sometime soon and hunt again?

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And their host says, ah, we gotta let it cool
off a little bit. We were in the middle of a
federal game preserve. Like my dad said, he just went
pale as a ghost, like a holy cow. They just
didn't care. They just be like going to Aniwak National
Wildlife Refues and just dropping off in the middle and

(41:51):
blowing up all the ducks. My goodness, no permission, no
checking with anybody, just under his stick and move exact
handing out. You know, he had like and he just
he just shook his head every time I asked him
about that. I never went hunting again. And the only

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time that I know that he went, for sure one
time with me up in Utah and we were elk
and I was mostly mule deer hunting. I saw some elk,
but I didn't didn't get close enough to him. But
that was on a place that his boss owned when
he was in the oil business, big company here in town.
I don't know if they're still around. They probably are.

(42:32):
The law on the short of it was that ranch
was one hundred and twenty five thousand acres. A big place.
Man's I'm huge. I'm not sure Rhode Island's any bigger
than that. We'll check it during the break. How about that.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (42:55):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, Welcome back nine oh
four on Sports Talk seven ninety Doug Pike Show. Thank
you for listening. I did some quick math actually, courtesy
of the Internet. One hundred twenty five thousand acres size
that ranch one hundred and ninety five point three square
miles A big place. Easy to get lost on there.

(43:18):
Uh some one three two, two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Very quickly, Alan
jumped in, and I knew he would. Man, I knew
I could count on him to come up with an
answer about the muzzleloaders, because he's a rifle guy. He says,
I saw one at fifty two cow. Holy moly, he
could take a tank with that. He also has seen

(43:38):
though thirty two and thirty six caliber black powder guns,
says a lot of the smaller calibers are handguns. Midway
has a rifle actually in thirty two cow black powder
lead unjacketed projectiles. That thirty two ought to be enough
to kill a deer. Yeah, the fifty cows, yeah, I

(44:01):
would agree. Fifty cows are going to leave a big
hole on the way out and ruin a lot of meat. Probably.
Let's go to the phones and start with Brandon. Then
we'll get to Mike click us in. Hey Brandon, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 4 (44:14):
Good morning?

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Good morning? Are you I'm doing all right? How are you?

Speaker 5 (44:19):
I'm all right, I'm just as Sunday?

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Yes, need it is? You headed to church today?

Speaker 6 (44:29):
Where are we going to try to know?

Speaker 3 (44:31):
Where?

Speaker 5 (44:31):
Are we?

Speaker 4 (44:32):
Then?

Speaker 6 (44:32):
Watching online?

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Okay, there's nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with that
at all. What's going on? What's on your mind?

Speaker 4 (44:40):
Did you hearry?

Speaker 6 (44:42):
We don't haven't no buying a house yet?

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Or oh not done yet?

Speaker 4 (44:48):
Do you the house yet?

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Okay? All right, Well it'll it'll happen. It'll all fall
into place at some point. Don't worry about that. What
do you think the Texans are going to do tomorrownight?
They can handle the Cowboys? I hope.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
Okay, I know they playing them one night.

Speaker 8 (45:06):
Yeah, needs to do good.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
It's about It's about time they got on Monday night football.
I hope they hope they come through. The last time
on Thursday night they kind of they kind of fell
apart at the end. Unfortunately, if they do that again,
they're gonna get a lot of criticism. I don't know
what for yet, There'll be something they'll they've done wrong,
because if they do, if they do their jobs and
do them even moderately. Well, I don't think they'll have

(45:33):
much trouble with the Cowboys. I really don't have.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
The news.

Speaker 6 (45:40):
We're going to keep them.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
I hope you're right, I really do. I'd love to
see that guy stick around and just just be an
astro for life. And I mean I know that boy.
I mean, if somebody offered me the kind of money
he's being offered, it would be so hard to to ignore.
But then again, how much how much do you have

(46:02):
to have? I think he's looking at quality of life,
he's looking at friendships he's made, he's looking at relationships
business wide. He's made to know that he may end
up being like something like maybe a bag Well where
he becomes an ambassador for the team and just can
kind of hang around Minute Made Park for the rest
of his life. That wouldn't be horrible. Yep, Hey, come

(46:26):
finding me at Rodeo. I'll try. You got to tell
me where you're going to be. That's kind of a
big place. That's a needle in a haystack. Man.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
Yeah, we'll be and why Energy Center?

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Okay, Okay, yeah, I know where that is?

Speaker 9 (46:43):
All right?

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Hey, I got to run catch Mike before we get
too late. Brandon. Always a pleasure, my friend. Great to
hear from you, buddy.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
We'll see you.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
What's that I We'll be here in that three kick Okay, good, yeah,
I will too, God willing, thank you. All right, let
me go get to my Let's see what's up in
Mike's world. Hey Michael, somebody morning, young man.

Speaker 9 (47:05):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (47:06):
You know doing? Okay? I got to play golf, just
fun golf with Alan on Friday under a clear sky
and it was about seventy four degrees. It couldn't have
been any better. I didn't play very well, but I
didn't care.

Speaker 9 (47:21):
I should have played twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
I should have, but I didn't. I had to come back.
I had stuff to do at the house. It always
kind of gets in the way, you know, Yeah, what
can it.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Do for you?

Speaker 9 (47:33):
I was hearing your story about your daddy, man, and
it reminded me. I went through a bunch of old
outdoor life magazines that I have, and I saw an
article in there about duck hunters over in Louisiana. I'm
shooting these long barrels hunt guns through the front.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Of the p roll.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Yeah, that could out about.

Speaker 9 (48:00):
Three feet and they'd shoot into if like a duck
should go up and they'd knock them all down.

Speaker 6 (48:06):
It.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Yeah, those were commercial hunting guns that had barrels about
six eight feet long and big old barrel, big old
boar on them, and they would load nuts and bolts
and roof and nails and anything else they could pile
in there behind in front of that gunpowder. And when
they touched what they would do is they would bait
a pond, okay, and they would get thousands of ducks

(48:28):
on this pond and then lay low and just kind
of use their fingertips to paddle that thing forward. And
as soon as that barrel got exposed and out of
the marshy grass, they'd touch that thing off and it
would it would lay them out.

Speaker 9 (48:43):
Man. It really would talk about filling your limit.

Speaker 2 (48:47):
One shot, your limit, my limit, Melboyn's limit, everybody in
the building's limit right now, and most of the people
in the galleria.

Speaker 9 (48:55):
So yeah, I got one quick comment about detection.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Okay, it's it's a.

Speaker 9 (49:02):
Place where third ridge come to be corned horses.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Gosh, that's pretty well put. I understand that. Yeah, they've
got they've got the team this year. If they can all. Ever,
it's kind of like we talked about the Astros, only
in football, you only have seventeen eighteen weeks to get
it all done. Uh, they had at least they had
one hundred and sixty two games to kind of get

(49:27):
it right and make it right. But the Texans, they
they've had their goof up. That was that, That was
that Thursday game, and they can't have another one of those.
I don't think and get very far at least crossed.
I will. That's all I saw any of us can do.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
Right.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
I hear you playing Monday on football? Yeah, you too
good to hear from see but all right, seven one
three seven ninety email me, dugpick at iHeartMedia dot com.
I did call Mitchell Holder if you missed it yesterday.
We were talking about ducks and why they're not down
here yet and it's just a matter of time. And
where Mitchell's hunting, which is north of El Campo mostly

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he has properties all over the place down there, like
any good outfit or would, but he does have. He
said this last that one front we had a week
or so ago pushed a bunch of pintails down, which
is always fun. They're one of my favorite ducks. His
number two spread visitors, if you will, were teal. And

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then he's starting to see more wigeons and gadwalls, which
are two of my favorite ducks. Gadwalls and wigeons. They're
not the smartest ducks in the air, and so they
if you need them, they can make you look like
a really good guy, even if you're not. All you
got to do is kind of whistle at wigeons and
they'll they'll turn on a dime if they're in any

(50:49):
kind of a mood to cooperate and can hear you.
And then the gadwalls is kind of a I don't know,
it's it's not a screechy call or not a screechy quack,
but it's it's a little throatier. Maybe that's a good
way to describe it. Kind of a throat to your quack.
But yeah, we could. We could call individual species of
ducks back when I was guiding. And it's a fun

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thing to learn to do if you're a waterfowl hunter,
and if you haven't worked on your calling as a
waterfowl hunter, just tuck it in your pocket and zip
it up and put a safety pin on, so you're
not tempted to open it back up. Just leave it
in your dog on pocket and you'll probably shoot more ducks.
And if you're if you're not a one hundred percent confident,

(51:33):
one percent capable duck caller, and you've got ducks flying
toward you. Now, I'm not talking about something that's up
in the stratosphere at ten thousand feet. I'm talking about
ducks that are working the land around you where you
are and looking for someplace to go feed, looking for
someplace to settle down, maybe in the middle of the morning.

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If they're coming towards you, keep your mouth shut. Don't
risk messing it up. Okay, don't risk messing it up.
If they're flying away from you. At that point, you
have nothing to lose. Never, never blow a call at
the north end of a northbound duck. If you can
see his beak and you can see his wing, especially

(52:15):
if you can see his feet, leave him alone. He's
happy he's coming in, especially when they bud lock those
wings and drop those feet. Man, that's just h I
love that, I absolutely love it. If all you can
see is the south end of a northbound duck, call
to your heart's content because you have nothing to lose,
and you'll learn, you'll learn, you'll do some and undercalling

(52:39):
is way better than overcalling. I promise you that I've
hunted with people who you get two or three people
out there who think they can call, and they're all
calling at once, whether it's ducks or geese or anything
at all, anything else, And much of the time, not
even most, but much of the time, that's gonna hurt
your chances more than it's gonna help you. Because most

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of the time, if you'll ever just if you get
a chance to park next to a pretty good sized
concentration of geese that are actively feeding, most of them
got their heads down, not making noise. They're not calling
in their friends. They're they're busy eating, trying to get
stocked up on calories before a big coal front comes.
And the birds that are over them recognize that and

(53:24):
come on down. If they once again, if they start
to go away, give them a little toot and see
if you can get them back. But other than that,
just let them work. Just let them work. Ninety one
on Sports Talk seven to ninety The Doug Pike Show,
Melbourn's got a nice theme going this morning and hopefully
you've all got it figured out. We're gonna have to
We're gonna have to put our heads together, Melbourn and

(53:45):
come up with something complex, do you Okay? You just
lead them in gently it's coming. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
It's kind of like walking the kid getting him in
the first day school, right, all right, and then then
we'll go to graduate level. They're gonna see what Rick
Bise's got on his mind.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
What's up, Rick, Well, I'm I'm went hunted my deer.
Yesterday we talked about.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
How'd that go?

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Well, I didn't. I didn't have an encounter with him,
but I did see some really good deer. You know,
one twenty five, one thirty.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Five, that's not bad for where he's.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Probably gonna be the one I'm looking for, Doug, I'll
go ahead and say it. He's gonna go one sixty
and he will probably push one seventy.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Wow, Okay, that's a real dan.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
And for where I'm at, where I'm at, that's a
big deer.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Well, you know what, where most people are, that's a
big deer. It really is no question about it.

Speaker 4 (54:48):
Man.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Good for you.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Well, I'm shot neither ones. But the thing is He's
in the perfect place. He's on a twenty two hundred
acre ranch on the Press River farm land. He's got corn,
he's got alfalfa everything. Of course, he's got all that
cover on the river. He's got all that drainage, the ditch,

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the old irrigation canals.

Speaker 4 (55:12):
You know.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
I mean, he's got cover and it's it's never hunted.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Oh wow, that's.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
There ain't nobody out. Nobody's hunting in the twenty years.
I've taken care of them. I told the owner, I said,
I want him and uh, but anyways, this morning I've
been went to a men's Bible study real early and
I've been barming, hunting, calling couts. I got, I got

(55:46):
a cattle problem and crow call him. And I want
to tell you, man, today I was like a one
legged duck. I was paddling as hard as I could
and nothing, doing nothing but going circles. Man, I couldn't
pull one in from and I'm usually pretty good at it.

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And uh, I just I'm back in the truck now.
I'm just watching the windmill turn click click click. But anyways, uh,
that's all I really know. I was gonna update you
on on on my deer hunts. As I mentioned it yesterday,
I don't think I'll see, but I'll uh, I can't

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see if I ain't out that.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
I was going to say, you know, you're gonna be
in a deer stand somewhere. You're gonna be looking for
a deer, the deer that you're willing to take out
of there because it mean something to you. It's got
some history with you. And what what better way could
you spend the afterdoon?

Speaker 3 (56:44):
You know, I was probably looking at his offspring. Uh huh,
And I I'm it's a free range place. He can't
even got a fence. It's farm land. And uh, I
don't have a feeder over there. I mean I'm doing

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this isn't a serious hunting challenge. I think I mentioned
yesterday when the US there was something special about him.
I walked way further than I should have today. My
feet hurt home and and to a bunch of stuff.
I had to go through a bunch of stuff I

(57:26):
really didn't want to have to walk through. But but anyway,
it was, it was it was pretty fun. That's some
cool little bit of a breeze. My wind. The wind
today is out of the southeast and east southeast on me,
and that wasn't helping me. And I got there kind

(57:46):
of late because of my previous obligation, and so I
had to go kind of turn around at a kind
of a bad time. I should have already been on
the ground. But anyway, there's always tomorrow next year. Will
be out there probably three or four times this next.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Week for you.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
What happens.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
Go get them, man, Go get them, Ricky, all right, buddy, Yeah,
safe walks sea, walking in the woods. You can't you
can't get them if you're not out there. I don't
know anybody whoever, whoever got a big buck from the couch,
got a big buck from the from the pillow, got

(58:25):
a little pillow under your head, lying there in a
sweet dream. If it's a big buck been shot and
big buck's been shot while people were dreaming, that's for sure.
Well you're not gonna get one on the ground if
you don't get out there and and get a little
dirty and maybe push yourself a little bit.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
And I know.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Most of Texas, most of Texas deer hunting is done
from a stand, from a blind and I don't have
a problem with that at all. We need everybody out
there who can hunt, to go hunt, because we've got
a significant population of deer, so much so that we
need to take a bunch of them out to maintain

(59:03):
their level of population as it relates to the amount
of food that the land thereon can produce. And if
you let that get out of whack, if you let
suddenly too many deer stay out there and you don't
take them out. And any wildlife biologist worth his or
her assault who says that recreational hunting is not a

(59:27):
good means of managing a deer herd is telling you
a fib They're flat out not conceding that this is
a good method, because the alternative is to let nature
take its course. And I've said this a million times
and I'm going to say it again. Nature has only

(59:47):
two tools in the box. One is disease, and that's
a horrible thing to see happen in a deer herd.
And the other is starvation, and that's just as bad.
That's just as there's a reason that Hill country deer
are about the size of cocker spaniels now. Over one

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hundred and fifty two hundred years, they've had less and
less to survive on food wise. As more and more
of that ground got developed. They've had hard winters come
through there and knock their population back, and they were
either going to evolve into smaller deer that didn't eat
as much, or they were going to get sick and die,

(01:00:32):
or they were going to starve to death in a
hard winter, and nature took care of them and got
them through it. As smaller examples of the species, South
Texas deer two times the wait of an up hill
country buck or a Kansas buck or a Minnesota deer
that's got to get through a hard, hard winter. Those

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are big, strong animals. The South Texas deer are are bigger.
They're not the biggest deer in Texas. I think North
Texas probably grows a few more big bucks, and I
may be off on that. It's been a long time
since I checked it out, but there's some bigger bucks
up there because just they've got a harder winter to
deal with, they got to put more fat on them.

Speaker 9 (01:01:14):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
South Texas bucks still running around in eighty degree weather
in October. They don't know any better. They don't need to.
They don't need to fatten up too much to make
it through winter down there. But boy, they sure do
grow some nice antlers, as anybody who's ever hunted down
there will attest. And that's that's across the board. Some
of the best operations down there, some are and some

(01:01:35):
are not. High fenced and anywhere in South Texas. You
put the right food on the ground, you put the
right minerals on the ground, and you give them the
tools they need nutrition wise to grow big antlers, and
they will they will. Seven one three two seven ninety
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm watching this
rain come up. What's down south? Let's see, let's go

(01:01:59):
through the current stuff. It's kind of it's kind of
fizzling out now. There's a fair little band of it
coming up through Sugarland in the next hour or two
and a leave and Katie. But everything east of I
tent or I forty five, I mean everything east of
I forty five looks like it's gonna kind of fizzle

(01:02:19):
out for a while. Once we get past about I mean,
roll this thing up just a little bit. Yeah, once
we get past about eleven o'clock east of I ten
doesn't look so bad. So good luck for you. Kingwood
and Cleveland and Pasadena and Baytown and Laporte and Paarland.
You should be okay in about an hour and a half.
And we're gonna have a little bit more rain coming

(01:02:40):
up the west side of I forty five early in
the afternoon, and we'll just work through it from there. Huh.
That's all we can do, and just hope it doesn't
rain too much tomorrow. I got a problem with over
watering in the yards around me, and we're we're all
trying to figure out how little we got, how much
we can stop to get these weeds we've got going out.

(01:03:02):
I've been working with Skip Richter from over here on
Guarden Line trying to get rid of some weeds that
are are suddenly popped up all over the place. They
were nothing, nothing, nothing. Now they're a big problem, and
I'm gonna kill them all.

Speaker 8 (01:03:15):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety Listen online at Sports
seven ninety dot com.

Speaker 6 (01:03:22):
Now more Doug Fike.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
A guy's name Frank, That's what the theme is, Oh,
Frank Zappa, Frank Sinatra, Frank Enstein. That it Melvin? Probably not. No.
I've had a couple of email guys, got you. They
figured it out didn't take long. Where you just ramping

(01:03:47):
up Next week? Man, raise the Annie, make it a
little tougher on him. I sure will do that, man,
we'll get them. The weather forecast. By the way, I
was talking about how much rain we got right now,
there's like a ninety percent chance to marrow. Sorry, if
this thing, if this site would ever reload, it's been
circling the drain now for about five minutes. I'm gonna
go ahead and just cut that one off. It's I'm

(01:04:10):
not a big fan of my laptop right now. I
think I need a new one.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
That was fun. It'll circle the drain and circle and circle,
and then if I just close that tab and open
a new one, it pops right up. So tomorrow ninety
percent chance of rain. Let me see if it's really
gonna be that bad, because today's not gonna be that bad.
Oh yeah, tomorrow it looks scary because it's a ninety
percent chance of rain. Within the first sentence says partly

(01:04:37):
cloudy with showers and chants of thunderstorms. High near eighty one. Again,
that's the same as today's high. That's and the disappointing
part is tonight's low is only gonna be about seventy five.
So welcome back to semi summer. Huh, holy cow, we

(01:04:57):
just got a brief little glimpse, Yeah, just a taste
we got. What we got is one one little fork
full of trace letches after we ate our enchiladas, and
I want the whole thing exactly, you know. Golly. My
wife sent me to Tarasco's to get or something to
eat the other night, and I said, bring back some

(01:05:17):
trace letches. It's so good. I said, okay. But and
she goes, but I'm not gonna eat but one bite
of it. And I said, well, I'm probably not gonna
eat much of it either. I'm really trying, I truly am,
to to curb my caloric intake and to start taking
a little bit better care of myself. I'm eating a
lot of fresh fruit, I'm eating fresh vegetables. I'm starting

(01:05:40):
to pay attention to those vegetable platters that nobody else
would buy for if you have one of those at
a party. Jim Gaffigan said it really well. One time.
He said, every time I go to a party and
see one of those big vegetable platters, I think, oh, now,
that's a waste of money. Maybe so maybe not. But

(01:06:00):
I've got the remnants of one now at the house
where I just sat up there and granted, and my
wife points to it and goes, well, you're dipping it
in ranch dressing. That makes a difference. That's not good.
And I thought, you know, I could be eating fried chicken.
I could be eating a chicken fried steak. I could
be eating some kind of other, some horrible processed foods

(01:06:24):
or something like that. I'm just having overall, maybe three
tablespoons total of ranch dressing to eat to get full
on fresh vegetables. That's gotta be okay.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
The way I went after that trace letches after she
took one fork full, that was not okay. Uh sorry, sorry, doc,
I've got man. I got the test. The big test
is coming up in about like a week and a
half too, Ma, and I got to go in for
my annual physical and that includes blood work ahead of time.

(01:06:59):
So I don't know how that's gonna go. I think
I'll be all right, I really do. I've tried to
cut back on most of the stuff he told me
to cut back on, sort of kind of it counts right,
seven five seven ninety. Let me go talk to Dan
for this break here click him on in Damn, what's up?

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
Man?

Speaker 10 (01:07:16):
Hey dude, you're talking about you can't shoot it from
the couch. Well by cracky. I used to live so
far out in the woods in Arkansas. I could shoot
him out of my fatman chair if I wanted to.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
Just open a window.

Speaker 10 (01:07:29):
No, I just used to have a fat man chair
sitting on the porch, and I set out. Yeah, I
set out there on the front porch and watch the
deer up on the hill. One day, I sat there
and I watched this. I couldn't figure out what it was,
but I kept seeing something coming off down the hill
with the woods. And when it finally come out of
the hill, it was a black beard that across the
fence and set out in my neighbor's front yard and

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started eating grapes off of his grapevines in his front yard.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
Yeah, I didn't move very much. I just kind of
set there.

Speaker 10 (01:07:58):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
Yeah, if the deer no you live there, Okay, they
know there are people there, and they just I think
they kind of test the waters and get a little closer,
a little closer and a little closer, and just to
make sure it's still safe. But they're not going to
run up and sit back in the chair with you,
tell you to move over. But they'll get comfortable with you,

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you know, they really do. It's pretty cold, huge, and yeah,
it's great to hear from you.

Speaker 4 (01:08:25):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
Hang in there, all right? Okay?

Speaker 10 (01:08:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Click there we go there. I was looking at something
over here? What was it? I got an email I
want to get to. If I can, I tell you what.
I'll hold it till we get back from the break.
Not a whole lot going on on the PGA tour.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna deal with that. The
Spirit International wrapped up at Whispering Pines yesterday. England won
the competition, the International Amateur competition, and I could do

(01:08:54):
a little bit more on that if you want me to.
If somebody sends me an email and wants to know
where everybody finished up, I'll take a look. Otherwise we're
gonna slide on forward. And I've got some duck stuff
I need to talk about when we get back. A
couple of other things. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
We gotta take a little break here your rockets and
astros live here. We are Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (01:09:18):
The conversation continues this as The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. I did find one interesting story there.
There's a source that I have for just unusual and
often funny or different or weird stories, and one I
found this week that I never did get to on
fifty plus because it just never it never worked its

(01:09:45):
way in, uh easily. Police, And I'm gonna let you
fill in the blank. The what the blank I'm looking for.
Melvin is the name of a state police in blank
arrested a man who was shooting a tree in the
woods with nine guns. He's looking at charges for reckless

(01:10:06):
conduct and disorderly conduct. What state was that in? And
you'll never get it, so just throw one out there
and I'll let you off the hook. I'm gonna have
to say Florida. No, it wasn't Florida. It was New Hampshire,
New Hampshire. That's Florida. Somebody's out in the woods, now,
bear in mind, not in a neighborhood, not in a

(01:10:29):
city park in the woods, shooting at a tree with
nine guns. That's at a lot of deer leases in Texas.
That's called sighting in. That's just getting your that's just
getting your your hardware ready to go out into the
woods and hunt deer. And nine guns, that's kind of

(01:10:49):
entry level. I think for this audience. There's a couple
of people I can think of right right here that
right now that probably got nine of them between the
front door and the first bathroom in their house. That's
kind of minimal in Texas. Yeah, it's just like that's
entry level. So yeah, but this cow, he's just out
in the woods, minding his own business and target shooting

(01:11:09):
is what he was doing. And they charged him with
reckless and disorderly conduct. And unless he's shooting toward a playground,
if he knows what's behind what he's shooting at, and
he's I don't know, I just don't see that happening.
And man, I've been out in the place that my

(01:11:31):
buddy Philip Mountain I used to go hunt. There was
gunfire constantly around there on the weekends, especially because some
of the people who had little weekend homes out there
would come out there into the country because they could
shoot their guns there because they couldn't do it in town.
And what's wrong with that? Was it a danger tree? Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:11:52):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
Holy cow? Who knows? We don't know? Who knows? Yeah, man,
I know it's just target shooting and I don't. I
don't have a problem with that. Who was it sent me?
Hold on, there's an email I got that I do
want to address here before we get done. Oh yeah, Uh,

(01:12:13):
Alan waded in me talking about Trace letch is. He's
he's a terram Assioux guy. You have no problem with
that either. The next, the next big old helping of
that I get in front of me won't be the
first either.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:12:26):
John was the best diet. John sums it up pretty good. Melvin,
if it tastes good, spit it out godly, that means
it's bad for you. Yeah, I guess so. Mm mmmmm.
Ducks got covered.

Speaker 5 (01:12:45):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
Deer hunters, Yeah, there was there was some, and I
think it was more tongue in cheek than anything else.
When I can't remember exactly, I think it might have
been John maybe who talked about being a bow hunter
but shooting a deer with his rifle because his wife
needed more venison in the house. I don't think he was.
I don't think he was knocking bow hunting because he's
a bow hunter himself, and it is a little different

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shooting bow hunting. I find fascinating and fun. I haven't
done it in a while. I'll be the first to
admit it, but I so enjoyed it when I did it.
And if this whole working out program of mine starts
up and actually bears fruit and I can get myself
a little stronger than I am right now, I'll feel
comfortable climbing back up up a tree with a bow

(01:13:31):
in my hands. I really will, or better yet, climbing
up into the tree and then pulling the bow up
to myself on a little rope system. I'm not going
to haul it up there. There's all kinds of things
you can do. Here's one from Allen. By the way,
the modern jacketed muzzle loader projectiles can change from forty
five to fifty four calibers two hundred and fifty grains

(01:13:55):
and much heavier. Holy cow, that's some serious stopping power there.
And then he goes on to more. We talked about
that a little earlier too, malviourn, You got any plans
for the week here other than taking care of the
the TV boys, the Dynamic duo. That's about it. Just
that plans. That's it. How they're doing with that. You think,

(01:14:16):
what kind of a grade you give them on what
they're doing there? I give them a plus A plus.
It sounds pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
I've watched and I watched a good bit of their work,
and I like what they're talking about always. That would
be Adam and Adam on the afternoons at three. They
started as a correct yes, three people. Oh thank god
I got it right. That would have been embarrassing. I
was pretty sure, but I didn't want to just I
just I put my toe in the water before I

(01:14:43):
dove in, just to make sure. Yeah, that's that's fun
to watch those guys. I like them too. I send
them text messages every now and then, and when they
say something that sparks a good response, I don't just
do it just to be doing it. Yeah there you go.
Oh wow, yeah, Mojo, oh man, Moja. Have been working
in the yard cause it dirt therapy. I like that.

(01:15:05):
I got to think about that, Melvin. Working in the
yard is very healthy for you. It's very it's very.
You get your vitamin D out there, you get moving around,
you keep your your joints loosened up. That is correct,
and if you I can't just kneel on dry ground
with my bare knees though now for not for long
or concrete. I used to be able to just just

(01:15:27):
crawl around on the concrete working under a car or
something like that, and not worry about getting scraped up
scratched up. Now it's like, ugh, I need some neosporing.
I'm not that bad icy hot, Oh my gosh, oh
icy hot yet Now I don't knock on wood. I've
been Okay, I haven't. I haven't gotten to the point

(01:15:48):
where I'm falling apart yet or where I can't I
can't do something that I want to do. I can
do everything I want to do. Still, I just tighten
up afterward quicker than I used to. So it's that
it's that forty eight hour delay. No, not that, not
that long.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
If I go play golf, well, I play golf on Friday, okay,
and I drove home. It took us about a forty
five minute drive home. And when I got out of
the car, it's like a little tight in the back.
Lower back tightens up sitting in that car that long mine.
Usually it's a delay, so's it'll be like, okay, I'll
do it, do something, and then all of a sudden,
two days later, I'm being oh, why is my back hurting?

Speaker 10 (01:16:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
Lower back? Yeah? Yeah, well well way to your my age, dude,
you think it's hurting. Now, that's funny, Melvin, that's a
that's a good one, man. I'll keep that in mind. Yeah,
my wife is ten years my junior. I've talked about that,
and she she has no idea, you know, oh something
hurts and yeah, okay, yeah, I've already gone through that.

(01:16:48):
I've pressed on through that. It was ten years ago, right, Yeah,
it's you just got to take care of yourself. And
that's what I'm starting to do more because I don't
want to get I hear guys talking about, well, I
want to take my son or my family on this
this or that vacation or hunting trip or fishing trip
or whatever. But I don't want to wait until it's
too late. Well I don't. I don't ever want it

(01:17:09):
to be too late to go do that for me. Now, granted,
going over into Eastern Europe and hiking up a mountain
to hunt a SHAMMI maybe not, maybe not that I'm
gonna check that box and just just ignore it from
now on. Would I like to get up to Alaska
before I'm done?

Speaker 9 (01:17:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
I would. I haven't made that trip up there, And
during my time at the Paper, I had several opportunities
where all it would have cost me really was airport
parking to go up there and either fish or hunt.
But out of out of respect for the audience that
Joe and Bob Brister, Joe Doggett, by Brister, Shannon Tompkins,
and I all wrote to, we didn't need a ton

(01:17:53):
of stories from up there, and Doggett was going up
there every year anyway. So I opted for the Caribbean,
and that wasn't really a bad call. I can assure you.
I got to visit some really nice places down there.
There's so much in the outdoors that all of us
can do if we just put our minds to it,
make sure we're in good enough shape and health to

(01:18:14):
get to it and do it right and really enjoy it.
I hope every one of you gets to check off
everything on your bucket list. Okay, I will be back
tomorrow at noon on fifty plus over on nine point
fifty KPRC. Be back in here Saturday morning, bright and
early again seven o'clock. We'll kick it off.

Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
Then.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
It's a gentleman's hour, is what it is. It's a
gentleman's kickoff. Thanks for listening. Stay safe, stay happy, stay healthy,
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