Deer & Duck hunting tips and monofilament fishing line discussion

Today on the Doug Pike Show, Doug talks about the end of Duck season, advice on deer behavior, and takes some callers from the fishing community asking for advice on their fishing line.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
Now here's dog Pike. Get this thing in front of me. Here,
we'll get this party started. Welcome to Sunday. Thanks for listening.
Starry to appreciate it. Melvin playing hooky, Evan's in here.
Thank you for showing up. El it's been at a halt.
Let me rewind and just rewind the table. Thank you

(00:58):
Evan for showing up and taking You're a business. I
appreciate it. It's been a while. How long has it
been since you did anything in here with me?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
It's been some months. It's been at least months. And
uh and every now and then you show up over
there for will You're just kind of a jack of
all trade, doren't you?

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I get busy in this tou deo for sure. Well,
I'm happy to keep you. I hope you enjoy doing this.
Uh and maybe, Lord, if I recall, you have a
little bit of out experience with the outdoors or none?

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Uh? Yeah, no, I was in Scouts growing up, and
I do appreciate the outdoors a lot. I don't get
out as much as I would like to, but I do.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well know whose fault is that, Evan. I'm waving a
finger at you, said, come on, man, you got to
get out of side right now, Doug. Is something that
I don't know what the deal is with this camera.
There's a camera sitting on the console or sitting on
the surface here, and it's just the big old glass

(01:56):
eyes looking right at me. And when I asked Melbourne,
we had a problem with the camera in here two
weeks ago. And when I asked Melboyn if he could
see me yesterday, he said no. I said, well, actually
he said yes, but the camera's on the wrong side.
And I went around to the other side. I didn't
even see a camera over there, but there's this one

(02:17):
staring straight at me, and apparently you can't see me.
I can see you, though, So don't do anything crazy
in there. All right, appreciate it, all right, warming up
tad outside. At least this morning when I left to
come in here, it didn't feel at least like it
didn't feel like I'd been slapped in the face with
a block of ice when I walked out the door,
which is nice, because when it gets down into the

(02:38):
thirties around here, it does feel different. There's a little
bit of bite in the air, typically unless it's raining,
and then it's just absolutely miserable. But that bite is
more like what you would feel at a ski resort
somewhere where the air is still crisp and dry, but
there's a foot of snow on the ground. We don't
see that much. I saw some quick sidebar my buddy,

(03:01):
Robbie Granger, who I joined. Gosh, it's been twenty years ago,
at least, I would say I joined on a hunting
trip down to Argentina. Robbie called me a couple of
days ago from Atlanta, where he's working at an outdoors
type show to let me know that he had plenty

(03:23):
of time to talk in the middle of the day
because they're basically snowed in. Same reason at the Rockets
game got canceled postponed. It got postponed, right, Evan, they're
gonna play today or do you know? Uh sorry, No,
I's okay. I don't know enough about it either, So
it's a good thing we don't have to talk about
the rockets on this program. In any event, it was

(03:45):
snowing over there, and the reaction in that city was
about the same as it would have been had it
been snowing that much here. So the bottom line is
today we're gonna be a little bit warmer. There's still
a chance of rain this morning, but only light rain
like that drizzle that I drove through coming in here.
I put my wipers on intermittent, and when I did,

(04:09):
they weren't coming on. Even the windshield just wasn't even
getting wet enough to activate that next wipe of the glass.
So I had to manually work my way here.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
It was.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
It's not that complicated. It wasn't raining that much. The
bottom line is that the chance of rain yesterday for
today was sixty percent. That's been downgraded to forty and
even better. I flipped up the weather Channel and got
its radar forecast, which shows all of this stuff clearing
out depending on what part of Greater Houston. You're in

(04:44):
either before noon or shortly thereafter, so probably not enough
pre sip today to even change golf course conditions wherever
you might be wanting to play. If they were off
the pass yesterday, they'll probably still be off the past today,
and so probably not a bad afternoon to squeeze in
some fishing either, if it's been a while since you went.

(05:05):
My cub reporter faux pro Wilkinson is, at least according
to the most recent text I got from him, still
sitting in a little mud boat with one of those
Camo frames on it, still attempting to be a duck
hunter this morning up there on Lake Livingston. He had

(05:25):
pretty good spot pinned down. He went in there and
looked around and felt like this was going to be it.
And he actually texted me earlier, right before shooting time,
that he had teal in the decoys, which is nothing unusual.
Those little birds tend to fly pretty early and get

(05:46):
there moving over with before the big ducks get in
the air. It's kind of like the kind of like
elementary school kids in a lunch room. If you're if
you're a kindergartener or a first grader, you want to
get in and get out without attracting the attention of
the fifth and secre creators. His set up, he sent
me a couple of pictures. His set up actually looks
really really good. The only thing missing is is ducks.

(06:09):
Speaking of duck hunting, I want to go back briefs.
I take it before I do. There's a story, two stories.
I want to hit duck hunting ones. First of all,
there were a couple of questions yesterday about where are
the ducks, And the numbers of ducks that are here
now just aren't stacking up to the way the weather
pattern's been just aren't stacking up to what hunters are

(06:32):
used to seeing in different parts of this region. And
I don't really have a good reason for that. There's
there's ample water on the ground, there's ample agriculture, food
sources anyway for these ducks. Uh, there's just there should
be more birds than there are. And the only thing

(06:53):
that could stop them from being here is that they
stopped somewhere up the flyway. And if they stopped up
the flyway, if this previous front we got that dropped
temperatures down to around around the freezy mark, depending on
whether you live around here. If that one didn't do it,
and the next one that's coming right on its heels

(07:17):
doesn't do it, then I don't know that we're going
to see a whole lot more ducks down here. We're
already late in the season. Once January hits, it's late
in the season already. And unless you just want to
be a bird watcher and go out there after the
season closes and take pictures of them, it may be tough.
I don't know where they are. I wish I had

(07:38):
an explanation. I've talked to some people on both sides
of town, and there are pockets where there are ducks,
but not as many as these guys are used to seeing.
And there are other pockets where kind of like what
faux Pro's doing up there on Lake Livingston. They're just
on a lot of ducks. And the only logical explanation

(08:03):
for that, based on what motivates these birds to move
south and move further south and further south, farther south
and farther south, I said, correctly, is food and roost
ponds open water on which to roost. Except for the
tree ducks. Never mind, then they stick around here all

(08:25):
year anyway, So the bottom line is, if the people
up north are coddling these birds and cradling them and
providing them with food and satisfactory roosting opportunities at night,
why would they come down here? The ducks, geese, every

(08:46):
migratory bird migrates to get away from the harshness of
a winter farther north. And if we as people are
making that winter more tolerable for those birds, they're not
gonna come down here. They're just not. There's no reason

(09:07):
for them too. It's it goes all the way back
to the very basics of the reason they're moving. It's
it's conservation of energy. And they don't want to have
to expend any more energy than they must to find
a suitable climate. And once they find that suitable climate,
and I'm not getting into a climate change discussion here,

(09:28):
not at all, But once they find a suitable climate
in which to winter themselves, any extra flying they do
just robs them of the winter stores of fact that
they put on. It takes away calories to fly farther
and farther south they can hold on to and and
maintain if they can maintain maintain comfort in Arkansas, or

(09:53):
maintain comfort in North Texas. They're not coming to Southeast Texas.
There's no reason. So hopefully this is an anomaly. Hopefully,
and some of the bird populations, some of the duck
populations up, and so there's no reason for there not
to be a lot more ducks here. And one thing
I may do after the show today is do a

(10:14):
little digging about how duck hunting is going north of here.
And by north of here, I mean all the way
up through the flyway. How was the duck season in
the extreme north where all the birds are pretty much gone,
And how is it right now in Arkansas, maybe even Kansas.
I did a couple of duck hunts in Kansas many

(10:35):
many years ago, back when I was at the paper,
and it was interesting. All the way down the flyway.
Things are a little bit different the way we hunt ducks.
The way we hunt geese is a little bit different.
Hunt of geese all the way up into Canada, and
that was really an eye opener. I don't want to
get into it and get lost in the weeds of that,

(10:55):
but it was interesting and fun and totally different than
the way we hunt geese down here. And that's that's
just their everyday thing.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
Now.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
They also get a lot of the really large Canada geese,
the true Greater Canada geese, amongst the I think it's
what a dozen subspecies of those birds. That's a little
white cheek patch on that black head. They're beautiful birds.
And the limits up there are very generous too. I
believe when I was up there it was eight per
day per man, and we had a we were shooting

(11:28):
a TV show and hunted a couple of days and
for duck for geese, and then did a little duck
hunting as well. With the long and the short of
it is, you can sit there for quite a while
trying to get eight geese per man, especially when half
the guys in the spread can't shoot. It was fun,
no doubt about it. And uh, I learned some stuff

(11:49):
from them, and they learned some stuff from me, and
it was good. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Oh, Evan,
I got a hold and let me see if I
can fix this myself. I don't want to have to
burden you with coming in here so I can see
the callscreener thing. I'll figure it out. During the break.

Speaker 7 (12:07):
Let's do that.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
On the way out, I'm going to tell you that
Primo Doors. This is my buddy Jason Fortenberry over at
Premo Doors. It's maybe two miles it's that from where
I'm sitting right now. It's very close to the Galleria,
just north mile mile and a half something like that.
And at Primo Doors they are holding a jab a
big January sale on all their doors, iron doors, fiberglass doors,

(12:33):
wood doors, beautiful solid wood doors. I've got a brand well,
it's not brand new anymore, it's about a close to
a year old. I bet coming up a beautiful new
door from Primo Doors that we got put on my
wife and I did a while back. All of them
on sale. All the lock sets, all these securities, to
everything that they do to make your house look beautifully

(12:56):
new is on sale big January. It's an opportunity to
get there and get something done that maybe you've been
planning for quite some time. Maybe you haven't really taken
a good look at your front door lately. Walk out.
If you drive up the driveway and go in your
back door every day and don't pass the front of
your house, you may not have noticed that the weather

(13:17):
has done that wood door of yours no favors. I've
got a couple of them in my neighborhood. And Jason
tells me he can drive through a neighborhood. He can
be blindfolded and taken to a neighborhood and drive through
and tell you which way's north just by looking at
the finishes on the wood doors from one side of
the street to the other. Because that street that's most

(13:38):
exposed to our sunshine, the doors get pounded and I
look like something out of the Titanic movie, some piece
of driftwood out of the ocean. Primo Doors can take
care of you on that and they're going to take
care of you even better than ever in this January sale.
Don't miss it. Go ahead and either go by the
showroom or go just go to the website for as

(14:00):
you're sitting around this morning chilling a little bit, go
to the website take a look at what those beautiful
new front doors can do for your home, just like
they've done for thousands more around here. Primodoors dot com,
Primo Doors dot Com. Welcome back. Doug Flake Show eight
seventeen on Sports Talk seven ninety first of two hours
on Sundays as usual. Three on Saturdays seven to ten.

(14:25):
I don't know how I ended up doing this, but
at least it gives me one weekend day where I
can sleep a little bit. I can sleep late on Mondays,
that's my day off. But I feel pulled toward the
golf course most Mondays, or maybe a fishing trip sometimes.
Let me go talk to Rick by see what's on
his mind.

Speaker 8 (14:42):
What's going on, Rick, Doug.

Speaker 9 (14:46):
I'm sitting here in my truck next to an eight
foot elevated beer stand looking out across this pastor at
some deer moving that are about four hundred to five
hundred yards, and I've got a doune never get.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
There, No, man, I'm by myself. Yeah, you got to walk.

Speaker 9 (15:09):
No, I ain't little walking that far. I'm driving if
I well, first of all, it's warmer in here. I
would have time to get in the stand and get
up there, and they never know it. But I got
my gun on a bipod up the tripod. I'm sorry, swivel.
What I was gonna stay is. I did have the
opportunity yesterday to a great opportunity to see a picture

(15:34):
of Captain Scott's buck.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, how about that.

Speaker 9 (15:39):
And I did get a chance to see a picture
of blame Friar Moot's buck who never shoots a deer.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, I don't blame you though.

Speaker 9 (15:51):
And I got to see uh stand George's buck up
in Aubrey, Texas.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Man, you're seeing through everybody deer.

Speaker 9 (16:00):
Yeah, no, I'm in that loop.

Speaker 8 (16:03):
I know.

Speaker 9 (16:04):
I just wanted to send out a congrat I know
some of them are listening. Congratulations to all of them
fans that fantastic deer, good calls on all of them. Age.
Why I'm based on the pictures and beautiful racks. Just
you know, hey, man, that's good stuff there. Congratulation to
all your auths.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Just good looking bucks too. Yeah, I agree with you
on that. I like that. Sometimes they get a little
bit wonky for me when they get super super big.
I appreciate just a nice clean, typical eight or a
typical ten, maybe a twelve with a couple you know,
it's got a couple of drop times or something like that.
But once they get to looking like just a briar

(16:46):
patch that that doesn't do much for me.

Speaker 9 (16:51):
Well, you know, it goes back to introducing deer. You know,
we don't. That's not native stuff here, right, And I
don't want to get end of that. But anyway, they are,
they're nice, they're beautiful deer and all just wanted to
congratulate on this, Uh some ave betting person. Some I haven't,
and but I just wanted to say, you know, just

(17:12):
a shout out to him. How he bombs up man,
that that would shoot her?

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Consider it done? Do you know that's okay? You're gonna go.
You're gonna go shoot one of those deer, aren't you?

Speaker 7 (17:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (17:24):
I bet he is. Good for him, man, good for him.
He's that guy is out now. Aaron, my buddy, Aaron
probably drive. Aaron and Rick probably drive about the same
amount of miles. I can't remember which one of them
revealed the the highest number on the odometer per year,
uh when we talked about it a long time ago.

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But not a whole lot of people spend as much
time just parked and observing wildlife as Rick bye. And
I want to give him one hundred percent credit for that.
There's a tinge of jealousy because I would love to
be out there as often as he is and seeing
as much as he does. But I can't do that
I got to be in here, and that's just that's

(18:08):
the way it is. I enjoy being here. I live
vicariously a lot of times through you, and hopefully through
some of my stories, you can imagine being where I
was at the time when some of those stories were generated.
I've been blessed over all these years that I've been
in this industry to have made some really nice trips.
I've paused while I raised the sun. My wife and

(18:31):
I and he's getting old enough now that he can
he can pretty much handle his own business, and hopefully
that's going to enable me to go out and have
a lot lot of fun in the great out of doors.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I got to get

(18:51):
this mouse over here and see what's going on. Email wise,
I'm still the sidebar. Not a fan of this new
email setup we have. The old one worked very well
and automatically offered I may be able to do this.
The old one automatically offered a preview of an email,

(19:15):
but this one doesn't. You have to select one, and
what it did was just offered a preview of the
first one and that way, I could just look at
it and either hit the keep it box or kill it.
And this one you have to you have to go
too many steps. It doesn't matter. It's not about the outdoors.
I'm gonna stick to the outdoors. So let's get back
speaking of duck hunting, I'm going to go back to

(19:37):
which I was earlier. Go back to that story I
brought up yesterday late and didn't really have enough time
to get into it. Story out of the Island Moon
newspaper that I introduced late and yesterday's show about an
incident down around Padre Island a week ago. And by
the way, I think I may have misspoken yesterday and
said it was at Galveston Island. I don't know where

(19:58):
Galveston fell out of my he but it did. But anyway,
it was down south farther around Padre Island. Picture yourself
on a thirty four foot boat with a lot of friends,
and one evening you're doing little sunset crews down a
fairly narrow channel that's the only water deep enough for

(20:19):
that boat to get from one place to the other,
between neighborhoods of beach and waterfront homes. Fifteen people on
that boat and there's a duck hunter on a spoil
island and for some reason, that guy decides it's a
good Hopefully there was a duck involved. They're better have

(20:40):
been a duck involved. If he was just doing this
out of anger, then he's he made a horrible mistake.
But he decided he needed to shoot for some reason,
shot twice and when the dust set, and this not
from one hundred yards, from two hundred yards from what

(21:01):
the writer of the story said was about sixty yards.
Eleven people on the boat out of the fifteen on
the three hour Crews three hour tour if you want
to go for a Gilligan's Island reference, eleven people hit
with pellets, pretty hard hits to it, and fortunately just
far enough out of that lightweight, non toxic pellet range

(21:24):
that none broke. Skin said yesterday, I'll say it again,
there's no excuse whatever for anybody to shoot and not
see a thirty four foot boat full of people or
hear it moving less than one hundred yards away. Reminds
me of It reminds me of other situations where duck

(21:48):
hunters down there and in other parts of the state
have set up so close to two structures where people
might be hanging out, to neighborhoods, to whatever that their
owners have had paint chipped off homes. There was a
woman at a city meeting down there in South Texas
who actually showed up with a pile, the writer wrote,

(22:09):
of shotgun pellets she'd retrieved from her pool over time. Now,
those would have probably come reining in and landing softly.
But nonetheless, if shotgun pellets are ending up in your backyard,
that's not good. I'm gonna pause and make sure I
can get to Brandon here for a second. Then I
may go back to this Brandon.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
What's up man, Good morning, mister Pike.

Speaker 8 (22:33):
How are you this morning?

Speaker 2 (22:34):
I'm very well, thank you, good good.

Speaker 5 (22:37):
I've got a question. I sat there and watched this
buck yesterday for about fifteen minutes. He was tearing this
sapling up and then he would rub his horns up
in the branches and stuff like that. And I've been
told a lot of different myths, and I know you
probably you know the answer, and I just want to
sit back and listen to what you have to say.

(22:59):
And the other thing is I want to reach out.
I mean, we finished our conversation yesterday. If anybody wants
to donate to the cause of to uh, you know California,
North Carolina, just reach out to Red Cross and Samaritans Purse.
Samaritans Purse is Billy Graham's evangel So.

Speaker 8 (23:18):
Anyway, so.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Why that buck was doing that? Yes, sir, he's in
the landscaping business.

Speaker 8 (23:27):
Right, But I mean they give off a yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, they've got musk glands, okay, and they tear that
stuff up and they leave their they paw the ground,
they urinate on the ground. It's called leaving a scrape.
Look up right, tail buck scrapes online and you'll have
volumes of information to read. And that's letting the other
bucks in the area know this is my territory. Those

(23:53):
are my girlfriends. Take a hike. That's what that okay, Yeah,
that's okay. It was a very nice.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
Three and a half year old buck come here.

Speaker 9 (24:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:02):
I sat there and watched him. Man as he's shining
that tree up. I mean, I could sa green inside
the trees.

Speaker 9 (24:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Now, when you walk through the woods, pay attention and
look for stuff like that. It'll be about like maybe
waist highe ahead high on you, depending on most deer.
When you really realize they're stature, they're not that big,
so you're not having to look eight feet up trees,
but down close to the ground you'll see that bark
all rubbed off, and you if it's a fresh scrape,

(24:30):
you'll see where the dirt's been pulled away down below,
and that's those are calling cards.

Speaker 8 (24:36):
Okay, all right, all right, thank you, sir.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Thanks Brendan. Great to hear from you.

Speaker 8 (24:40):
Man, you, sir, thank you.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
I love it when I get an easy question, Evan.
Ye know, when when I look up and I say, okay,
somebody's got a question about deer, somebody's got a question
about ducks, a geese or fish or whatever. Let's cross
my fingers. And if I don't know, I'm gonna tell you.
I'm not gonna lie to you, and I'm not gonna
make stuff up. If I don't know, I'll just say,
you know, I'm gonna have to look that up, and

(25:03):
I'll do that during a break, and I'll come up
with a better answer than I could have come up
with out of my own head. Which reminds me of
that game that I think I'm gonna play. There's one
potential sponsor coming on board here, hopefully very soon, and
it would be a perfect setup for that guy, perfect
setup to play. Could I make this up again, perfect

(25:25):
setup in another case to resurrect. Name that fish, Evan,
If you're not familiar with either of those games, one
of them, and name that fish I would give. I
would select a fish off the salt water or fresh
I'd tell them it's a saltwater or freshwater fish, because
there's just so many fish in Texas. It'd be impossible otherwise.

(25:48):
And I didn't go for some of the obscure ones,
for example, the guitar fish. That's a real thing, and
nobody's gonna guess that. It would be a fairly common
fish that somebody might catch if they were out fishing
in a lake or down at the bay, or offshore
or wherever. And I think I gave them four questions
that they could ask yes or no questions about the

(26:11):
size of the fish, the colors of the fish, whatever,
and then they had to name that fish, and if
they got it, they won a fantastic prize. If they didn't,
I'd probably find a way to give them the prize anyway,
because that's what it's all about. I'm a charitable man.
If nothing else got prizes, I'm gonna give them away.
And could I make this up? Was about years ago.

(26:33):
There was a beautiful source I had that just faded away.
They just went out of business. It was something like
odd Ball Outdoor News or something like that. All these
weird stories from the outdoors that were absolutely true and verifiable.
You could chase any of them back and find the source.
That were just so preposterous it was hard to believe them,

(26:55):
and I would I would boil them down to three
or four lines, and then I would do exactly the
same thing. Was something that just I totally made up
in my head, and I got a very vivid imagination,
and so the the the object was to pick which
one's real and which one's fake. And it was about

(27:16):
a fifty to fifty well, it was a fifty to
fifty shot. And as far as me fooling the audience,
probably about half the time. I made them believable, but
not so believable that I could make them even worse
than the well they usually the true story was the
most unbelievable of the two. I'm not gonna give away

(27:39):
anything because I had some good prices for that. I
got another guy I can I can chase for prizes
on that one too. I think it'd be fun. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. On the way out
Belleville meat Market, I'm finding more and more reasons to
send you guys to Belleville, and Belleville meat Market was
the original one, and then Phoenix Knives is the other one.

(28:03):
Belleville Meat Market is where you can go for whatever
reason you're headed out that way, or if it is
your original destination, which is even better because then you
know all the way out there, exactly where you're going
and exactly what kind of a delicious lunch or dinner
you can get. From ten to seven every single day
of the week, you can get that out there. While

(28:25):
as you've driven out there with the whole family, everybody's
talking about what they're seeing online and what products you
can get to bring home and eat for the next
couple of weeks. Before you go back out there and
you walk into the store, you hand off your order
for what you're going to take home, and then you
take a few steps to the left. If they haven't
rearranged the place and get in line. There usually is

(28:47):
a line for this. Get in line for lunch or dinner,
Go sit out on the patio, enjoy your meal, and
then go back in pick up everything to take home,
bring it home, and repeat as necessary as the year
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(29:31):
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(29:55):
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Belleville MeetMarket dot com. Hey, thirty six Ons four Talk
seven ninety The Bold Black Show. Thanks for listening. I
was talking with Evan during the break. He's lining up
a couple of calls right now. He said something about

(30:16):
the Texas Temperature game. He said, Man, you gotta refresh
me on that if we're gonna do it today, because
I just I feel like I made a fool of
myself the last time I was in here. No, you
didn't make a fool of yourself, nobody, No, you didn't
do that. First of all, Evan, And second of all,
second of all, it's okay, it doesn't matter. It's just
a game. It's just a silly, fun little game we play.

(30:37):
We're not gonna play it on Sundays. We only play
it on Saturdays now, and I'm gonna be introducing something
new for Sundays anyway, just like I was kind of
alluding to earlier. Let me go see what's on Aaron's mind.
Stand By Aaron, what's up?

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Man?

Speaker 7 (30:52):
Hey, good morning?

Speaker 2 (30:53):
How are you at top of the morning. I'm all right.
It's a teeny bit warmer here and that feels pretty good.

Speaker 10 (30:58):
Good good. Where are you, uh, San Antonio Santo?

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh you're close to home?

Speaker 7 (31:05):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I just got back from Santa Fe.
That was nice.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
I'm sure.

Speaker 7 (31:09):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Before?

Speaker 10 (31:11):
How long should I wait before I I respool my
monopilament on my on my uh, the reels? I mean,
what's a good amount of time I keep them out
of the sun mono?

Speaker 7 (31:24):
Yeah, in air conditioning. But three years, four.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Years depends on what how serious you are about about
not breaking off on a big fish. If you if
you were to talk to some tournament fisherman, if faux
Pro is listening right now, he just he just rolled
his eyes back in his head. He probably a lot
of those guys will change mono from tournament to tournament

(31:49):
almost wow.

Speaker 8 (31:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Well they get free too, so they don't care. I
would recommend at least every six months, you know, And
it depends on how much you're using it. You are
keeping it in a controlled environment, which helps. Okay, that's good.
I'm not gonna try to tell you got to change
it any more often than that. And you know, as

(32:12):
casual as I have become, as an old guy who
caught a lot of fish already and doesn't really care
that much, as casual as I've gotten now, I don't
have any I don't know that I have a reel
with any motto on it right now, But if I did,
I wouldn't worry about it too much unless I was
fishing around something that was going to upbraid that line

(32:32):
and booger it up. That's one thing you got to
make sure that whatever leader material you're using, and anything
else where maybe you've gotten something hung up in grass
or in weeds or in sticks or rocks or shell whatever,
you got to run fingertips down that line for a
pretty good distance to make sure there's nothing anywhere near
one of your knots or anywhere near the fish itself

(32:56):
that could snap off. Is any little thing you feel
on that line between your fingers that's a potential breakof
right there?

Speaker 7 (33:03):
Man, Well, I better had to bast pro immediately.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
And just how long has that mono been on you?

Speaker 7 (33:11):
About three or four years?

Speaker 2 (33:12):
So is that on spinning reel or casting reel? Spinning
so when you throw it, does it look like a
pig's tail coming off of there.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
On a couple of them?

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yes, yeah, yeah, it's time. It's time Eric, say goodbye,
tell the line thank you for helping you out load
these many years, and then just bury it.

Speaker 7 (33:31):
Okay, Well, all right, tell a girl we got to
go to pro best absolute.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Well, no, don't take her. You don't suspend as much.
I'm just telling you to be careful.

Speaker 10 (33:42):
Yeah, you're talking about all the driving that Rick and
I do. I wonder what as scary as drive is?

Speaker 2 (33:50):
That's interesting?

Speaker 7 (33:51):
Yeah, yeah, as much as as he's driven around?

Speaker 2 (33:54):
What about you? Snow and ice? Snow and ice has
to be the worst, right.

Speaker 10 (33:58):
I went from Denver to Seattle once and there were
two blizzards on the way and they started shutting down
highways and wyoming and what I do, go back or
keep going? I said, well, I'm just gonna keep going.
And that was a mistake. It was minus three and
I said, well, started started getting a little bit low

(34:20):
on diesel and uh oh yeah, no, the gas stations
are open.

Speaker 7 (34:24):
Oh wow yeah.

Speaker 10 (34:26):
And we ended up pulling a lady out out of
an bankment. She had a baby with her. Oh lord, yeah,
it was. It was hairy, But most dangerous would be
driving from Salt Lake to Denver and moving. I couldn't.
I couldn't drive over thirty. There were so many elk
on the road. At first, it cool, really cool at first,

(34:48):
until you see a herd coming down a hill and
they're taking out a whole fence and they're running in
front of your truck and behind your truck, and you
burn every last drop of adrenaline off.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Oh yeah, it's cool to look at the video later
if somebody else have any experience that. All right, man,
I'm gonna I'm gonna punch out. I gotta catch a
couple of r all of a sudden. Aaron, Thanks, man,
it's great to hear from you. I hope Rick's still listening.
We'll see three or four years monopilament on his reels.
Good golly, Okay, next up day, I'm gonna get to

(35:21):
all of you guys, and we may have to take
a break in the middle. We'll see what's up.

Speaker 11 (35:24):
Dave, Hey, I didn't know they named the fish after me.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, guitar fish, not guitar days.

Speaker 11 (35:32):
I pulled it up and said, guitar fish also known
as shovel nose, the family of the Rays with distinctive
guitar shaped body and long points. Now I'll be durned.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
I think you could play. You have to stick your
finger in his nose and strum his back, but you
could play him probably well.

Speaker 11 (35:48):
But wait a minute, I just thought, you know that
for seven years I volunteers a zoo. I need to
call and see if they got one, or they get
one because the braves they used to have in there,
and the pet and zoo.

Speaker 7 (35:58):
I think this barb off and.

Speaker 11 (36:00):
The kids could go down there and actually put their
hand on it, you know. Yeah, oh cool, okay, yeah,
I hate to the uh oh on the pellets. I remember, man,
I was probably about fifth sixth grade, and my cousin
and another buddy who is they were like twelve thirteen
years older. They went dove hunting on the lake we
had there at the farm, and the wind was blowing
pretty good, and we were all out there barbecue and

(36:22):
I think, you know, they were playing little tunes here
and that, and all of a sudden we heard him shoot,
and then a few seconds later, all the pellets were
coming down on the tin roof of the house. You can. Yeah, yeah,
the wind Didge, I guess you know.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
So, yeah, some people don't pay attention. Hey, hey, Dave,
let me jump off and grab Bob real quick. I
don't want to miss him.

Speaker 7 (36:44):
And they got to go.

Speaker 11 (36:45):
It's a man. I appreciate you always, my friend. Thank you,
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Oh yeah, my pleasure. Appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (36:53):
Bob.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
I'll give you the last word before we have to
go to break. What's up?

Speaker 12 (36:57):
Oh, hey, good morning, Doug's real quick. I was listening
to that fellow talking about the monophil.

Speaker 7 (37:03):
Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 12 (37:04):
He keeps it in air, you know, controlled environment they
see and everything.

Speaker 7 (37:07):
I do the same. But I wanted to mention this
product I use.

Speaker 8 (37:10):
It's called real Magic.

Speaker 9 (37:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
That's good stuff, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (37:12):
And oh, I tell you I didn't know if you
knew about it now, but I use it religiously and
it takes the kinks out and conditions to line. And
I had a guy at academy years ago turned me
onto it's called pea line.

Speaker 7 (37:25):
Yeah. Yeah, I've used that.

Speaker 12 (37:27):
I've used that mollscreen pea line and used ten pounds
tests and I've had and I've kept mine on.

Speaker 7 (37:32):
There for two three years.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Oh wow, and I've never broken off one time. Holy cow,
that's it. That's what Aaron needs is something. Just wet
it and forget it, you know.

Speaker 7 (37:42):
Yeah, if you use that, I believe.

Speaker 12 (37:44):
I believe if you use that real magic regularly and
keep it in controlled environment, I just know that's been
my experience.

Speaker 7 (37:51):
Just wanted to look down that.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
No, that's great. That is kind of an extender, I
would think for a casual fisherman.

Speaker 7 (37:57):
Uh, you don't have.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
To play by the same rules as turn fisherman. If
you break off a big fish, nobody's gonna lose one
hundred thousand dollars. It's okay, you know, it makes for
a better story sometimes.

Speaker 7 (38:09):
Yeah, I'd be.

Speaker 12 (38:10):
Changing into every tournament too if I was one who
gets Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
They get the ten pounds spool that looks like a
looks like a spool of underwater cable to go across
the Atlantic Ocean. They just reached it, right, Yeah, they
get it for free too.

Speaker 9 (38:23):
Why not?

Speaker 7 (38:24):
Why not? I just got to tell you I love
your show.

Speaker 6 (38:28):
You.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
I listened to it all the time. And keep up
the good work.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Don't be a stranger. Thank you, Bob. All right, see man,
all right, we gotta take a little break on the
way out. Shooters Corner down at Palmer Higway in twenty
ninth Street in Texas City.

Speaker 7 (38:41):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Jerry and Jtk father and son own that place. Jerry
has since since day one, forty something years. They've been
at it too, and Jay I don't know how exactly
how old he is, but I know he's been in
that gun store learning from his dad from the time
he was a little boy, and now he too, is
one of the most respected big game guides in North America.

(39:06):
He'd been all over the continent. Jerry tends to stay
in Texas and maybe a little bit up in Colorado.
He hangs out down at the som Burrito. That's where
I met him many many years ago and struck up
a friendship that's lasted a very long time. And one
of the things I really like about those guys, and
they and the others who work in the store in
their absence when they're out of town, is that they

(39:30):
can and will take care of pretty much any gunsmithing
issue you've had. I've had so many people over the
years calling just with their head hanging down, said, you know,
I've taken this thing the two gunsmiths and they can't
fix it, so well, here, take it down to Jerry
and Jery at Shooter's Corner and it'll get taken care of.

(39:50):
And I'm confident when I tell him that, and knock
on wood. All these years and all those times, nobody's
ever called back and say, who else do you think
could help me? They've taken care of it every time,
whatever it was. That's pretty impressive really, when you think
of all the parts and a gun, and some that
would be very hard to find. Shooter's Corner will go

(40:11):
out of the way to hunt down the part you're
looking for, and if they can't find it, there's a
fairly good chance they can make it right there in
the shop. V Shooters cornertx dot com is a website.
They've got guns, they've got Ammo, they've got Camo, they've
got optics, they've got reloading supplies. It's an old school
gun store. It's not giant. When you walk in the door,

(40:32):
you can see everything and everybody in there not giant.
And one of the nicest things they do is offer
a discount to anybody who wears a badge for a living.
V Shooters Corner TX dot com The shooters Corner TX
dot com freeze frame. That's a pretty good reference to
antiquated technology right there. Holy cow. I grew up shooting

(40:58):
pictures with a camera with film, and when I was
at the paper, I wouldn't leave the house without I
would say at least a half a dozen for if
I was going out to actually work a story and
go to a place, or just for any reason, if
I had my camera bag, I had at least a

(41:19):
half a dozen rolls of film each with thirty six exposures.
So I'm looking at basically two hundred chances to get
it right and out of a roll of film. Back
in the day when there was no auto focus, there
was no auto exposure. You when you shot the cameras

(41:41):
we were shooting, you had to adjust everything manually. There
wasn't any there wasn't any luck involved. You had to
physically do it right, and you aimed forgetting maybe two
or three, maybe four on a good day, images worthy
of the newspaper or worthy of a magazine per roll

(42:05):
of film. That was about it, and the rest of
it was just going to be odd ball, goofy stuff,
just oddball, goofy stuff nowadays. Fast forward one hundred years
back in now that we're out of covered wagons. My
phone takes far better photographs that I can crop in

(42:31):
an instant than my cameras ever did I came up
and I got I left that part of the business
just as digital photography was really becoming dialed in. The
early digital cameras were. They weren't so great. They really weren't.

(42:52):
They were a cut above film, clearly, but the resolution
wasn't anywhere near what it is today, where I can
practically shoot Hollywood quality video on this little camera of
mine and a boy. It would have been so fun
to have that. We wouldn't have had to lug around

(43:12):
camera backs, you wouldn't have to send them through X
ray machines, wouldn't have had to do any of that,
wouldn't have to have done any of that. We could
just just bring your phone and you can get whatever
you need, so long as you don't lose your phone.
Knock on wood. I've only I can only remember losing
one phone, and to this day i'd gone back through that.

(43:37):
That was several years ago, and to this day I
can't figure out exactly where it went. The only logical
thought was that it fell into a great a drain
grate in a parking lot as I walked past that thing.
But surely I would have heard that. I don't know, Alan,
what's going on this morning? My friend?

Speaker 8 (43:57):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 6 (43:58):
You know what's so funny is my daughter is fascinated
by old cameras. Oh wow, and uh and and I've
given her several I found that uh antique stores forever.
But remember the ones, those ones you could put the
square flash on and then it would you know, after
four flashes, you would have to take it off and
put a new one on.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah, flash cubes, those were flash cubes.

Speaker 9 (44:21):
Yeah, yeah, remember, Yeah, that always fascinated the craft. But
she she's fascinated by all that stuff, which are good. Yeah,
hey you remember the I remember we used to go
to El Campo. We had a place down there. We
goose hunted a lot, didn't lay down blinds. Was that
like a sleeping bag you slipped in? I didn't remember.

(44:42):
I don't remember if.

Speaker 6 (44:43):
It was on the if it was in the dirt,
or you just laid on top of it. Well did
that trap door covered you?

Speaker 7 (44:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:51):
You you some of those things that had kind of
a hah here, I am lid that you had to
flip over.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Some of them opened like down the middle and you
just popped both sides away from you. And those were
actually quicker because if you had to flip that whole
thing night, you know you it. If the only hinge
was on, say the left side, and it covered you
all the way to the right side, then you had
to flip that entire thing out of the way to

(45:18):
be able to shoot the ones that opened from both sides. No, no,
I don't think anything was that. I think you just
had to shove it out.

Speaker 9 (45:27):
Of the way because I remember it was spring loaded.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Oh lord, yeah, you were doing way more fancy stuff
than I was.

Speaker 9 (45:35):
I was thinking it was like a sleeping bag. We
slid into and.

Speaker 6 (45:39):
Then you your head was kind of propped up, and
then you closed the spring door.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Well I never had a sleeping bag. I had a
fallen asleep.

Speaker 7 (45:47):
Well.

Speaker 9 (45:48):
Well, yeah, I don't remember how. I don't remember how
we got into it. I was trying to figure out that.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Well, most of those things, yeah, most of them started
with kind of a and I've still got half a
dozen of them, I think up in my my attic,
like a molded plastic, little long, skinny box basically that
you lay down in, and then people would do different
things to cover those and make it where you could
just have that aha moment with the birds where it

(46:14):
flipped out. There were some that were spring loaded, some
were manually operated. Some did better jobs than others, some
held up better. But the way they're doing it out
there now in El Campo with Waterfoul Specialties, and they're
pretty much on the edge of everything. It's just a
simple little board that has a hinge on the back

(46:37):
of it, and then there's another board attached to it
that creates like a triangle or and they just just
lean back against that wearing a white parka, and you're
in almost as good as shape as Yeah. Now those
don't keep you druyk.

Speaker 6 (46:53):
Remember I almost had a goose laying on top of
me because I wasn't paying attention. I was, I don't
know whatever something, But whatever I in this in this
shoe was right there, I mean, danging there, laying on
top of me, and you know.

Speaker 7 (47:08):
Just about to put the look.

Speaker 9 (47:10):
I just kind of I just fired.

Speaker 7 (47:11):
That's all I did for self defense.

Speaker 9 (47:14):
I should have just cradled her in my arms and
let her go.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Yeah, I had one land. I had a speckle belly
land behind a guy who had fallen asleep. It reminds
me of that. And everybody in the spread but him
knew that bird was standing right next to him, and
we were all just kind of whispering, and the birds
perked up, and it's trying to like, oh I made
a mistake. I don't know what to do. And it
was just standing there, just standing there, and all of

(47:38):
a sudden it let out one of those like that
right in his ear man and this guy he almost
jumped out of his skin. It was hilarious.

Speaker 8 (47:46):
It was memories, I tell you, yes.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Indeed, yes, as cold as it was. Yeah, thank you allan,
I appreciate it. Do me a favor, shoot me an email.
I'm gonna send a picture at least of a camera
that I've got at the house that your daughter might
like to see.

Speaker 9 (48:01):
Oh, yes, I sure will. Thank you for shooting you.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
With Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 9 (48:08):
I We'll do thanks, all right.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Man, thank you. Yeah, I appreciate Okay, all right, we
gotta tell a little break here on the way out
Timber Creek Golf club, it's gonna be a pretty good
day in about three four hours. And I don't think
there's nearly enough rain to mess up golf courses around town.
If they were okay yesterday, they're gonna be okay today,
and probably even a little bit drier once the sun
comes out this afternoon and it gets a little warmer

(48:31):
out there to be out there doing that FM twenty
three fifty one in friends, would twenty seven holes been
there for a good I want to say twenty four
twenty five years, right around maybe ninety eight, maybe a
little bit longer than that. Even that Timber Creek's been
around and just been getting better the whole time it's there.
Got a fairly new new this past year anyway, teaching

(48:53):
facility opened up by JJ Woods, and that guy and
his staff can pretty much knock rush off any swing
you've got, no matter how bad and ugly it looks,
and no matter what scores you're shooting. Now they can
help you get better at the game of golf. There's
great food in there, a lot of people just walking
around hoping that you'll ask them a question about how

(49:15):
they could help you, and every one of them will
do that for you s.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
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Speaker 2 (49:30):
Now Here's Doug Pike. Hour two begins right now, The
Dugpike Show on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Thank you
so very very much. We're listening this morning. Do you
know it's a Girl Scout cookie season, by the way,
or evan, Oh, I did not know that this. Indeed,
it is open, all hands on deck, go get you some.

(49:51):
This will be, however, the final year for two that
I don't really care. They should never brought them out
as far as I'm concerned. It's either a cookie or
it's a s'more. And a cookie that tastes like a
s'more is not a smore, And a s'more that tastes
like a cookie is not a cookie. Would you agree?

Speaker 8 (50:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (50:10):
Thosemores were never my favorite. As long as they don't
get rid of those peanut butter patties or whatever.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
Amen that and thin minutes that that those are my twos,
Keep those and they can you can throw the rest
of them into garbage. What about toast Ya's you ever?
Do you even know what those are?

Speaker 4 (50:26):
No, I had a sister that was in Girl Scouts,
but then they changed the name years ago, and I
don't know what they're called anymore.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
You now, Yeah, well, whatever those are, anything that starts
with toast is also not a cookie. As far as
I'm concerned, I'm not going to eat any of them.
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety Email
on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I would
be happy to entertain questions, comments, whatever. You know how
this works. If you've been around this show at all,
you kind of know that I'm I'm willing to jump

(50:53):
off of a topic so that you can jump onto
one if it's If it's important to you, it's probably
important to a whole lot more people in this audience. Oh,
by the way, Evan, I was gonna give you a
chance to just polish your skills at the Texas Temperature
Game if you wanted to take a swing right now.
We're not gonna use the intro or any of that
stuff because we're not gonna give We're not gonna give
away a prize, and we're not gonna bring in a listener.

(51:16):
This is just for you to keep your skills up
so what do you And by the way, yesterday in
the game, we had some horrible misses on both sides,
so don't think that you have to come close to
even well. You probably without even starting now, would have
beat the the scores from yesterday, and I wish I
still had them in front of me. So what do

(51:37):
you think is the current low temperature in the state
of Texas.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
There's been a little warmer today, so I'm gonna say
a low of thirty one, and then maybe i'll go
with with a.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
High of maybe seventy nine, seventy nine. You did pretty
well with the low, and you can go get the well, yeah,
real quickly. You did well with the low. You only
missed it by four. The actual low is twenty seven.
You're seventy nine. However, that threw you into yesterday's gosh

(52:10):
awful miss You only missed by twenty five degrees. There
it's fifty seven even down there, fifty four excuse me,
And in the Rio Grand Valley it's in the mid forties.
That fifty four is at Galveston, So you never know
what Texas do you?

Speaker 8 (52:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Right, all right, let me go tag these two phone
calls here. We've got plenty of time for him too.
This is good. Uh, well you're talking to him, okay, Mike, what's.

Speaker 13 (52:39):
Up morning, young man.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Good morning, I'm doing great. Thank you.

Speaker 13 (52:44):
I going to touch on your way back machine here.

Speaker 8 (52:48):
Oh lord.

Speaker 13 (52:49):
Back in the sixties out on rural property, utility lines
and telephone lines used to be these big kreo soap poles. Yeah,
those were the biggest scraping points on the entire property.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
Oh wow, I'd forgotten about that.

Speaker 13 (53:07):
Yeah, they were all torn up on the base. So
finally the utility companies got tired of replacing them and
they went the metal.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Yeah, for a lot of reasons. Yeah, yeah, So the
deer were tearing up the phone line poles or.

Speaker 13 (53:25):
That there would be maybe maybe at the core there
was maybe two inches of wood left in some places.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Oh lord, holy cow.

Speaker 8 (53:33):
Yeah, they can hear that.

Speaker 13 (53:35):
There were some monsters out there. But you know, that
was all a low fence and slow times and you know,
simpler times, so you know, it was quite a deal
of sitting up a blind, a ground blind around one
of those things.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Some of the best deer hunting in this region occurred
out where what what now is the Attics Reservoir. And
well that was Sinco Ranch. That was that was a
real ranch, and there were really big deer on Sinco Ranch.
From what I've read and heard historically, out.

Speaker 13 (54:07):
There bat and packs of coyotes.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's no shortage of coyotes out there
even still I think that now, what what's there now
that wasn't there in that area around with American shooting
centers all of that, that whole big you know, flood
control area, the reservoir area is wild hogs. Oh yeah,
there's no shortage of them out there, and every time
they kill one, three more show up.

Speaker 13 (54:32):
Yeah, like hydrant really are thanks? As how's your boy
doing in baseball this year?

Speaker 2 (54:41):
He's doing fine. They're having winter workouts. They're not playing
any games right now, and uh, he's getting bigger and stronger,
and hopefully he'll continue to do better. I'm gonna I
can't wait to watch him do a little pitch and
do a little first basin in uh in games come spring.

Speaker 13 (54:56):
It'll be fun.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
These are fine that he hadn't had any God, don't
even bring that up. Yeah, they're doing okay. Both knees
are not built for a lot of lateral movement, like
you would have to do in well, tennis is where
he dislocated his first knee. There was actually one incident
with baseball where he dislocated his other knee, and then

(55:18):
there was a second one on one knee. One need's
been surgically repaired, the other one once again. Knock on
wood is holding up just fun so fingers crossed. Yeah,
he's doing all right.

Speaker 8 (55:28):
But I have a good day.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Thank you, Mike, appreciate it. Audios. Let's go see what's
on Jeff's mind. What's up Jeff Owning on.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
This dreary day. It's thanks for being there, beauty. It function.
They'll take your shows, old cameras or old maps, and
whether you use either or just for fun or for
certain effect. I mean, maps are great. Even a road
atlas can be fun. But you probably can't find one.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
Yeah, that's the hard part. My wife actually said she wanted, uh,
what is the name of that darn thing that people
use that It was kind of an orange plastic cover
that had all the key map. Yeah, no, not a
key map or was it?

Speaker 7 (56:08):
But that?

Speaker 2 (56:09):
I mean it's a thick book of maps.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Used to sell one on Alabama Street. I had a
shop just dedicated to them.

Speaker 8 (56:16):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
Yeah, that's that's something that she had when I first
met her, and I used from time to time over
the years. You could you could just kind of dial
down to a particular grid of the city and find
whatever you were looking for. Now it's just all electronic.
I would I don't think I would ever use a
paper map again, so long as I had electricity. But
if I was going into some place where the power

(56:37):
might die and I couldn't recharge, then absolutely I would
take a paper map with me and I would know
how to read it. That wouldn't be a problem.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
If you're in a marsh area, you're shooting ducks or
something with a camera. Is it a stupid question to
ask if you had to water proof or did you
just keep the thing from being immersed in the water.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
No, we just kept going. Yeah, they might get a
little damp if it was foggy or something like that.
But those cameras were built to take some of that,
the ones that we were shooting anyway professionally, and I
wasn't too worried. I didn't take any of the Nikonos
cameras or something like that. Some deep dive camera I
have some of those still, I wish I could find

(57:16):
somebody who wanted to buy them, they could have them both.
I got one one of the it was the I
think it was may have been the last film underwater
camera that that Nikon put out there, and I never
put a roll of film in it. It just all
went digital after.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
That and just cased them any European stuff before everything
went to Japan.

Speaker 9 (57:36):
Not that that's a bad thing that.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Yeah, No, I didn't come along early enough to be
worrying about the European lenses, and I just stayed with
Cannon the whole way through. I was a cannon guy.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Appreciate what you had to say about both military history
and this sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Yeah, my pleasure. Oh by the way, what about electronics
that what do you think of? Is there anything you
would replace with old school if you could that's electronic now?
Because I know you're into this.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
Stuff, tactile feel, I'm still not really used to phones yet.
I have one.

Speaker 11 (58:11):
I use that.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
I like to be able to see and hold stuff.
I don't care how heavy it is or whether you
need to work on it. Not that I'm very technical,
but sure I like stuff to wear in a little
bit everything is so plastic. Even as high tech as
it is, I still can't believe a camera and a
cell phone can outperform a good camera.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
But you know before the only thing it can't do.
The cameras can't do yet is zoom like a good
big lens can. And that's one thing that the resolutions
just not there. When you start zooming and zooming and
zooming in, you lose a lot. But if you're shooting
stuff out to about twenty five yards thirty yards, as

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far as I'm concerned anyway, that camera mine will do fine.
And what I do is I don't try to get
that super tight image because it starts to pixelate a
little bit. But I'll just take one that's pretty open
and then crop it down. And I've got pictures I
could send you or show you that I've taken on
my phone that are pretty dog one good up close,

(59:14):
but as far from fifty to one hundred yards to
whatever out from there, yeah, I'm gonna go pick up
a I'm gonna go rent a really like a six
hundred or something and go with that.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
Does anybody stay with the old school track, the typod
and setting up the picture and waiting for the light
and looking at the clouds and whatever else. Is this
kind of get that one shot of the day or
is that?

Speaker 7 (59:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:39):
You know, I mean it's still if somebody's gonna set
up and do all that, they're probably just gonna put
their phone on a tripod and just let it sit there.
I know, it's that easy. It's that good, Jeff, it
really is. You just have to come on, come on, man,
I know, and over there from what I've heard, I
don't know that this is absolutely true over there, Like

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the latest and greatest iPhone costs about twenty bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
I'm not surprised over two and a half dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Really made for two and a half, and they sell
over here for a thousand because we'll buy him. That's
the only reason they sell for a thousand is because
we'll pay a thousand, and.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
They're obsolete in a few weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Well, that's that's kind of like drivers in golf. That's
exactly like thank you man, audios. That's fun. I always
enjoy talking to him. Yeah, the golf club business can't
survive without offering up new stuff more and more regularly.
And I'm not knocking him. I'm just saying that the

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driver that I'm hitting right now is actually probably I
want to say, five or six years old, but I've
I'm comfortable with it. I still hit it as far
as as I want to. I wish I could hit
it farther, but that's going to come from being able
to swing harder again, and that means I'm gonna have
to get in the gym and do a lot of stretching.

(01:01:02):
And even Tommy O'Brien, the last time I'm standing there
in front of him hitting balls miss you need to
lengthen your swing, and right now I already feel like
I'm twisting around like John Daley used to in his prime.
It's a long swing that I have, but he said
You've got more in you, and that I took as
a personal challenge. So now every time I go to

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the range, I was out there yesterday as a matter
of fact, and I may go this afternoon, but every
time I go, I try to just take it another,
maybe another inch farther back, and see if I can't
develop another one or two miles an hour of club
speed off the horribly slower than it used to be
club that I swing right now, man at my peak,

(01:01:48):
like one fifteen. I think it was as fast as
I could swing it. Some of these younger guys swing
it a lot harder than that now, but that would
put the ball. I have moved the ball out there
pretty far, even with the old technology. It's just like
I hope I can get it out of my shadow.
All we gotta take a little break here on the
way out. American Shooting Centers is the largest non military

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shooting facility in the entire state of Texas. Think about
how big that must be. There are more than two
hundred shooting stations. That's a lot of room for a
lot of people to be enjoying the shooting sports in
a lot of different ways. Frankly, there are three sporting
place courses. There are I think it's ten trap and

(01:02:32):
skeeep fields. There are five stands setups around the property.
There's a beginning wing shooting area. The rifle and pistol
facility starts at five yards for home. That's right there
at home stuff in personal defense, and moves all the
way out to six hundred yards, where you actually have
to qualify at either three or four. I can't remember

(01:02:54):
one hundred yards to shoot on the six hundred range.
Because it is so specialized and the people who are there.
If you really want to learn about ballistics and reloading
and all of that, just pull in one time when
there's a couple of guys on that six hundred and
just watch them, pull up a chair, talk to them,
listen to them, ask them questions, and they'll have you

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roped into long range shooting before you can imagine. There's
even a pop up silhouette range, little rim fire range
where you can shoot your twenty two to your hearts
content at pop up metal targets that start, I want
to say, around twenty yards and go all the way
to two hundred and fifty yards. You can read a
book between the time it takes a twenty two bullet
to get from the front of that range to two

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hundred and fifty yards. American Shooting Centers it's on West
tim Or Parkway between Katie and Highway six. Been there
a very long time. Edorigi took it over a long
time ago and has only made it better and more
user friendly and even safer than it was before. Great
place to enjoy the shooting sports. American Shooting Centers dot

(01:03:58):
Com is a website and shooting Centers dot com Well
nine nineteen on Spour' talk seven ninety. Haven't talked to
any golf yet. Not going to right now. I'm gonna
go straight to faux pro. See what's going on in
the marsh? Foulk pro? What's up? How many ducks you got?

Speaker 7 (01:04:14):
And the next one I shoot will be the first.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Gosh, he didn't You didn't line those teal up while
they were swimming in the decoys early?

Speaker 14 (01:04:22):
Well, see, I should have put a letter A in
front of that text. I said you had a teal.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Oh yeah, I didn't know it was plural or singular.

Speaker 14 (01:04:30):
Yeah, he come lad on the outside of the spread,
and you just kind of started to ease and times
of got shoot down. So that's too far for a
skillet shooting. I at walking that far for a teal three.
I had four woodies come by on the fridge, and
you know, hunting woodies as long as I've had one
thing I've learned about woodies in a group. If you can,
if you can at least wing that front bird and
knock him down, the whole rest of them will come.

Speaker 7 (01:04:52):
Laying with it.

Speaker 14 (01:04:53):
Oh lord, they were They were probably about forty five yards.
I said, it was kind of yeah do I don't,
I do. I don't know by then they were. But
we're kind of on that friend, you know, so I said,
I said, relaxed a little bit more so.

Speaker 7 (01:05:06):
It's a little bit of shooting at daylight.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Sure, kick back and relax, man, you know, don't.

Speaker 7 (01:05:10):
Got to be at least one mallard on this lake somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Be one with the lake, one with the decoys.

Speaker 8 (01:05:16):
You know.

Speaker 14 (01:05:16):
I was about to sell on the game more than
that that poleted woodpecker I thought was a hooded mergame.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Oh, good lord, Probably not. I don't know if good golly,
have you heard any shooting? Did you even hear any shooting?

Speaker 9 (01:05:30):
Really?

Speaker 14 (01:05:31):
Quite a bit of shooting early, okay, okay, that's about
the first twenty minutes. And yeah, in the last hour
I probably heard two shots.

Speaker 7 (01:05:40):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (01:05:41):
And I'm kind of in the heart of you know,
where a duck would tend to want to be, you know,
historically this is a good area I'm in, and I'm sure,
but I tried to set up at least in the
wood duck fly away. But it's just I'll tell you
what that it is on TK. I'll think TK and
Mike could shoot a duck out here.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Good lord, all right, Well, what somebody asked me about
crappie fishing yesterday at Lake conra. I know you don't
get down to Lake Conroe very often, but what generally
would be your your gut feeling about crappie fishing this
time of year.

Speaker 7 (01:06:14):
This time you know Conroe.

Speaker 14 (01:06:15):
I'd look for them with brush piles and at twenty
to twenty five feet off yeah points, and you could
always try around the ten ninety seven bridge is always
a good spot. There's plenty of brush and maybe when
the river run sanseit Of River runs under that bridge,
you could generally catch a few crappie. And if the
croppy ain't there, and if he's.

Speaker 7 (01:06:31):
Got the spotlight, you know he's got the.

Speaker 14 (01:06:33):
Cheaterball boy cheat get out there to find them big
groups of if he's got minutes, he could find me.
And I've went across some massive schools of channel catfish
on that lake where crappie days have turned into channel
catfish days.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
You know, that's one of the best. It remains one
of the best catfish lakes in the country. And that
goes back twenty something years to when I was still
writing for Field and Stream, and they sent out a
query across the country to all of all the people
on the masthead that just said, Okay, we're we're gonna
do something on places where families can go catch fish.

(01:07:08):
And I've talked about this before, but I pitched Conro
because there's a lot that the family can do. What
they wanted was good fishing, reliable fishing, and other things
for the family to do when you're around. And where
else but Houston an hour down the road. There's all
kinds of stuff they could do here. And so they bit.

(01:07:29):
They said, yeah, we want we want you to do
one on Lake Conroe. And the word count is one hundred.
I had one hundred words to convince a national audience
to fish on Lake Conra. And that was the hardest
writing assignment I've ever had, but it really taught me
that every word counts.

Speaker 14 (01:07:49):
Yeah, I would, I would write that whole thing in
a couple of centus and gab. You go to the
feed store, grab a bag of range cubes and box
of nightcrawlers, and a bought in a some that old
punch bab sure and just drilling rage cubes out on
a creek channel type to a tree, drop straight down.

Speaker 7 (01:08:05):
And hold on. I mean, that's it's that easy on.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Yeah, that's that's cute and all. But I also had
to tell them what else they the whole family could
do the whole time they were here, all in a
hundred yard. It was tough, man, It really was min
south end of ski boats.

Speaker 7 (01:08:23):
We call we call anything without a troll boat or.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
A dumb dumb boat sous mercy sakes.

Speaker 7 (01:08:29):
Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna ride the hole.

Speaker 14 (01:08:32):
As they say, yeah, how long are you gonna stay
out there, I'm thinking eleven o'clock.

Speaker 7 (01:08:37):
I'll wait all these duck dynasty guys leave.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
And well, as they leave, this is the same thing
that used to happen on the prairie. As those people
pack up and leave, they're gonna put some ducks in
the air. They're gonna just you know, all these little
ducks have been swimming around quietly because everybody's still politely
sitting in their duck blinds waiting for something to happen.
But when those people get up and move, same as
you used to happen in goosebreads on the prairie, when

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all that traffic starts up again. It'll it'll put some
birds in the air. I bet it will.

Speaker 7 (01:09:08):
Man. And there's no when to speak of here.

Speaker 14 (01:09:11):
But if I had, I had ten dollars and twenty
four cents for every water turkey i've seen today, you
and I could both retire up there too.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
Huh oh yeah, goly man. I wish there was an
easier way to decrease that population. We don't need any
more corner ants, we really don't. And I jokingly preached
it for a long time about what they can do.
And I just finished a column for Texas Fishing Game

(01:09:40):
about what they've done to that little lake at the
golf course that I fished with my son and used
to catch two or three dozen fishing afternoon in an
hour and a half. And now the last four or
five times i've been, I haven't even gotten a bite.
But the corner ants are there, and they're always there.

Speaker 14 (01:09:57):
If Texas Parks and Water Life really wanted to make
a lot of money, they could offer a shoot all
you want water tricky license for one hundred dollars and
I would do the first one.

Speaker 7 (01:10:05):
That'll be right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
I'd step over you to get in front of you. Yeah,
that's but the problem and the problem then I bring
it up in this piece. The problem is that so
many of these birds now are feeding on private lakes
that are surrounded by houses. You can't do that, you know.
All right? Oh well, good luck fall bro.

Speaker 7 (01:10:31):
Well I'll leave you with them.

Speaker 14 (01:10:34):
That's pretty good, all right, first time I blowed it today.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
Catch here, it works, all right, man, I'll see you
all right, buddy. Yes, sir, audios, let's go talk to Bob.
What's up, Bob?

Speaker 15 (01:10:48):
Morning is always a good spot, Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 8 (01:10:55):
I want to share them with you.

Speaker 15 (01:10:57):
It's way off the wall times ahead of time. But
I thought I heard you say something about a BB
gun and it wasn't.

Speaker 8 (01:11:05):
It's just my imagination.

Speaker 15 (01:11:08):
Close to seventy years ago, my dad bought me a
BB gun and my dad was very strict that if
you he begins a target practice and if you're hunting,
if you shoot something, it's to eat.

Speaker 8 (01:11:22):
Yep, that was a strict rule. Man.

Speaker 15 (01:11:26):
My buddy were out and a shot of robin and
my dad saw it. I cleaned that, cooked it and
ate it.

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
Bet.

Speaker 8 (01:11:37):
Look, really, I'm sorry. Oh it was terrible.

Speaker 15 (01:11:44):
You know, because he didn't let me put any seasoning
on or anything I did not have to cook.

Speaker 7 (01:11:51):
Oh man, it was yeah, I've heard.

Speaker 8 (01:11:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:11:55):
I just wanted to share that because I'm on my
way to church. Some miserable day out here. Have fun
at the driving range.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
If you make that there, I'm gonna wait till a
little bit later this afternoon before I tee it up.

Speaker 9 (01:12:07):
I think, yeah, I don't know what the weather's gonna be.

Speaker 15 (01:12:10):
Like, I'm on my way to church, and.

Speaker 8 (01:12:13):
I just take it easy.

Speaker 15 (01:12:14):
Did you watch that Texan game yesterday?

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
I did, Yeah, I did. As a matter of fact,
I was. I was concerned during the first quarter, and
then you get a little comfortable, and then they turn
around and score and you get a little more comfortable,
and ultimately it really worked out well. I just hope
they can catch lightning in a bottle again. It's gonna be.

Speaker 8 (01:12:34):
If they play like they did.

Speaker 15 (01:12:36):
Yeah, they have a good chance put it together.

Speaker 8 (01:12:39):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
They better keep mixing healthy too, because that's about all
they got on the ground. Oh boy, that guy's.

Speaker 7 (01:12:46):
Oh my goodness. And CJ is not bad. No, it's not.

Speaker 8 (01:12:52):
Boys.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
They covered him. They took care of him a lot
better yesterday, and I think that's gonna be a big,
big key.

Speaker 7 (01:13:00):
That's what they.

Speaker 8 (01:13:00):
Got to do.

Speaker 15 (01:13:01):
You know, you got a million dollars a game quarterback.

Speaker 8 (01:13:04):
You can't let him get banged around.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
I think he's probably making more than that, isn't he?

Speaker 7 (01:13:09):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
You know, but who's counting? Who's can not me? And yeah, for.

Speaker 15 (01:13:14):
Sure, No, I appreciate the information. On the ten ninety seven. Hey,
I was up there yesterday. I got seven. I'll send
you a picture. I also want to send you a picture.
We got kicked out, well not kicked off the here
she's exclosed and I went and picked up my cameras
and I'm going to send you a picture. Is it

(01:13:35):
Doug Doug Pikett I hired.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
Yeah, Doug pike Itt. iHeartMedia dot Com.

Speaker 9 (01:13:42):
Yeah, you should count nine points on one side.

Speaker 8 (01:13:47):
Sending beauty.

Speaker 15 (01:13:48):
I said, that'll that little later.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Today, all right, you bet? Thank you audios. That's Bob.
Bob's out there in Crasby. He's been around a while.
I have Bb guns Man, a good friend of mine,
Rick Stovall. He and I made some trips years ago.
He and I and Joe Doggett made all We used
to break and meet for lunch over on I ten

(01:14:14):
for a long time and haven't done it in a while.
I think we need to do one of those again.
But when my son was pretty young, younger than my
wife would have liked, but I was just fine with it.
He bought my son a BB gun and that was
pretty cool. That was pretty cool. I've still got it too.
We've still got that BB gun seven one three two
one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia

(01:14:37):
dot com. I'm going to go through some of these
emails when I get back or while we're in this
break that we're going to because it's not like I
was ignoring you, I promise, it's just that it's just
it's been a weird morning, that's all. There's no excuse.
I'll get to them and respond to them when I
get into the break.

Speaker 8 (01:14:54):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
All the way out, I'm going to remind you that
Brass River Provisions Company make some of the most delicious
They're one of a kind jams and jellies and sauces
that can be paired with pretty much anything you eat.
I jokingly said yesterday and yesterday evening I was talking

(01:15:15):
to Foulk Pro actually and I said, next time I
talked to Mike Marcatta, the guy who owns Breast River Provisions.
I'm gonna see if he can't tell me what which
of his jellies or jams or sauces would pair best
with Vienna sausage and pop tarts, because that's what a
lot of bass fishermen end up eating when they're out
and why not spice it up. Why not spruce it

(01:15:38):
up a little bit, make it more palatable, right? He
no fooling. I've talked to him and he if you
can get him on the phone, which is pretty easy, actually,
just ask for Mike when you call out there, and
he can help you with anything you're about to put
on the grill, maybe to wow some some friends or
neighbors or customers or whatever. He can help you with

(01:16:02):
anything and everything related to He's like a somalier for
jams and jellies and sauces. He knows what they pair
with and he'll help you with that, so you can
pick something that's going to be just as delicious for
you as it is for everybody else who gets it.
Several dozen varieties overall, they're great gift items for anybody

(01:16:22):
who appreciates the finer things in life spread over anything
from toes to chips to brisket, and while you're shopping
for everybody else, you might as well grab a couple
for yourself. Right they're out in Rosenberg one thousand Wilson Road,
and they welcome people. It's not a big, fancy place.
It's not something that'll take you an hour to tour. If

(01:16:43):
you go in there, they'll just it's a storefront inside.
And then I'm presuming I haven't even been out to
a store yet. I got to go out and check
it out. That's the store and the factory and everything
else that's been put together by a man who was
in the restaurant business in Reich Village for ten plus
years and decided he wanted to try something new. And

(01:17:04):
Mike is now making these jams and Jelly's alongside his
wife and a couple of other people out there and
doing a fine job of it. Everything I got to
pick up from him when I picked up the gift
baskets we're using for Melvin's Jams and Jelly's on Saturdays.
Everything I've tried has been absolutely excellent. Brass River Provisions Company.
He welcomes people out there once again, one thousand Wilson Road.

(01:17:28):
Sweet B. I don't know how many letter sweets there are,
but he's in B for bodaciously good. Let's call it
out in Rosenberg. Burprovisions dot Com is a website. Go
check it out. Burprovisions dot com. Thanks for listening, certainly
to appreciate it. It's one of my little baby rant
off air with Evan And now I'm done. I got

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it out of my system. I feel much better now.
So back when we were talking about photography and pictures
and all those things, that's a long song. Drupper down,
drupp her down. Who makes you leave those things playing
that long? I'm just curious.

Speaker 7 (01:18:06):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:18:06):
I usually just handle like the volume myself, but that
one was a little louder.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
So yeah, sometimes, well, you know what's loud is our
commercials And I don't know sure, and we're not TV.
You don't have to. You know, people can hear it
when they're sitting in the core or streamer or wherever
they're listening. I know that, but the TV people are
really bad about that because they want to make sure
you hear that message, even if you get up and

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go to the bathroom and close the door. They want
you to still hear it. So when we were talking
about photographs, talking about film cameras and all that antiquated equipment,
Mojo emailed and thank you for doing so, to reveal
that it's a good thing. Back when Mojo was in college,
that there wasn't any way to store photographs anywhere, and

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there was some mention of incriminating evidence. I don't know
what should be talking. I have no idea what that's about,
but it is kind of funny to think about that
some of the things that a lot of people in
my fifty plus audience did in college and in high school,
had there been cameras that recorded everything and stored it forever,

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world might have been a different place. Who knows. It's
amazing to me some of the things I see on
the Internet, on social media sites, where people just confess
the most bizarre things just because somebody stands in and
puts a microphone in front of their face or waves
a few dollars at them, They're willing to just give

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up their deepest, darkest secrets. It's pretty pretty bizarre, actually.
So let's go to golf, shall we. I want to
get to I want to get to this before we
before we end up running out of time. Here, we've
got one more good full segment and in about five
minutes here, let me get back over to this. I
want to go down to Hawaii and take a little

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look at what's going on at the Sony. It's just
so hard to be a PGA Tour player. It's actually
hard to become one. Let me rephrase that, it's hard
to become a PGA Tour player. Once you do, if
you're any good at all, you're gonna make a very
good living and you're gonna get to travel to some
amazing places. The downside also is to travel because a

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lot of these tournaments these guys go to by themselves.
Their families have to stay behind. The kids have to
go to school, the wife may work or may not
outside the home, so who knows. But the bottom line
is they do tend to take their families when they
go to this one. JJ spawn thirteen under par, leading

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by a stroke at present over three guys. This is
through three rounds of play. They won't be started for
a few more hours. Out there in Hawaii. It's I
think it's about five or six time zones away. JJ
is at thirteen Steven Jaeger, Eric Colepatrick Fishburn, all at twelve.
Low score yesterday that I can see so far was

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a sixty four. Oh check that Jeger shot sixty two yesterday.
That's not bad. Kicking Bradley at eleven under par along
with I gotta take a long, deep breath for this.
There's five more guys at eleven besides Bradley, Harry Hall,
Nick Taylor, nico At Javaria, Brian Harmon, and Lee Hodges

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with one round to go. I don't know if any
of these tens are gonna get there. They would have
to step over they would have to step over ten
guys who are all leading them right now. There are
you know, there are five of them at ten, and
then a boat load at nine and eight, and it
goes on from there and all the way down to
the bottom where the people who did make the cut,

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and even I think most of those who didn't make
the cut are still down there. They're not going to
bail out early just from Hawaii things I wouldn't. I've
been down there a couple I've been down there three times.
Actually played golf on two of those trips to Hawaii
and got to do a little surfing on both of
those and that was not unfun, I can assure you

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seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I talked to Craig
Hicks yesterday, by the way, the GM at black Horse
Golf Club about him making the decision and getting the
thumbs up from from the company that owns that golf
course to take the South course private. And there is

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through today, through the end of today, there is opportunity
and it's came up on me kind of quick. I
didn't even know this was going on till pretty recently,
but through the end of today if you like that,
like either one of those two courses, and because the
membership will include privileges also at Golf Club of Houston

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and at Blackhawk, essentially you'll get five courses for the
price of one. Now you go in there and sign
up for a couple of grand I think it is
two or three by the end of today and tomorrow morning.
If you try to do the same thing, it's gonna
cost you ten to get in and then it'll go
from there.

Speaker 8 (01:23:22):
Craig.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
Craig's excited about it. I'm excited about it. It's gonna
be a fantastic They're gonna renovate all the bunkers. That's
the first big project he's gonna take on on that
South course to make it bigger and better and more
beautiful and still still has the same good stuff going
on with the North course, which is that's the one, boy,

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that's the one to keep public if you're going to
keep one public between those two, because it's a little
more forgiving to those of us who may or may
not tend to spray their drives a little bit. Either way,
if you sign up for this thing, I think it's
a really good long term investment on that side of town.
As country clubs go, it's going to be that course,

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the North Court or the South course excuse me, will
be private and once you cross over the bridge, you'll
be in your own little world over. There be a
lot of fun, a lot of room. And as you know,
if you've already played at a really good golf course,
and boy, you know, if you get in today and
avoid that bump tomorrow, you can buy a lot of

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new golf clubs and sharp golf clubes. For what you're
gonna save go to black Horsegolf Club dot com. I'm
pretty sure you'll find all the information you want about
what's going on there if you take a look. Yesterday
we talked a little bit about the weather, temperatures and whatnot.
And along with these cold fronts come also the north

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wind that blows a lot of water out of the bay.
And I got an email from I got a photograph
from Robert down there in Galveston that showed the water
level behind his house, behind his heay, he lives on
the water down there, in a really good place for
winter fishing, by the way, and what he showed me

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was the lack of water in there under a combination
of pretty strong north wind and pretty low tide. And
I'll tell you I got to take a break here.
I look up in on a little bit late and
Evan thankfully didn't click into my ear. He probably had
the finger on the button, though, So I want to
be on time. I'll get out of here and when
we get back we'll talk about what value there is

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in low water, because a lot of people just look
at it and there's no reason to go out there.
Mike might mess my boat up, might do anything, but
a patient fisherman with a little time on his hands
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the bays weigh down like that, or a lake for
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come up behind a big truck or a little car
or anything else that might throw a rock. There's a
big hint to what's coming, and you hear that nasty
little click. Well, I wish I could make it louder

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through that microphone screen. Bottom line is you know what
I'm talking about. The rock comes up the whatever it
is on the freeway. I actually had a bolt fall
off or fly off of something and hit my windshield
and my old pickup, and that was an eye opener.
That was a fairly loud sound. If you hear that
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You can just make that phone call right then and
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and worst case, the next day, which means you're gonna
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dot com as a website. More importantly, put this number
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one four eight eight. Final segment of the program is
going to start right now, And to kick it off,
I'm gonna go reach out to my old buddy here,
Greg Burlocker. Greg, what's up man?

Speaker 8 (01:28:31):
Hey, good morning, Happy Sunday, Doug, thank.

Speaker 2 (01:28:33):
You, Happy Sunday, Happy New Year, all that stuff we
missed earlier.

Speaker 8 (01:28:38):
Yeah, I was listing about the low water. Yeah, and
I took my boat out. It was one of the
nastiest coldest days down at Rockport and uh, you know,
behind Harbor Island you have the brown and Root flats
and there's a great, great drop off there. And I

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went down there on the oldest, the lowest tide and
my wife says, what do you what are you going
out in weather like this for? And I said, I'm
going to mark spots. Yeah, yes, yes, maam. So it
wasn't just all ver, you know, sight seeing. I took
the fish finder and I marked all these spots. Our

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friend left you, Rah Chapad told me there was like
five cuts uh there, and I found eight and I
marked every point and all of those things were I
never knew that they were there.

Speaker 2 (01:29:30):
Hold on a second, and did you tell what did
you tell Lefty Ray about those other three?

Speaker 9 (01:29:36):
Of course not.

Speaker 8 (01:29:39):
He can still he can still paddle a kayaks so
he can find them on his own. So so you know,
there's there's, there's you. I found all sorts of little
cuts and drains and things like that. If you if
you wade fish, you know that's one of the benefits.
You can feel and find those things when you're waiting. Sure,

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but if you're confined to a boat, you know, this
is a great time to go do the recon. The
other the other story you know about low water people
don't always think. But I had a friend that fished
the land cut, you know, south of Corpus, And he
was down there and about halfway in the land cut

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and a big LNG tanker came flowing by and it sucked.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
All the watery.

Speaker 8 (01:30:30):
Yeah yeah, and he and he looked over and he
saw this cut that he never knew or a drain
never was you, you know you, right before the break
you said, if you're patient enough, he followed this barged
followed this barge for two hours. He marked like two

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hundred spots on his GPO. Absolutely. And now when the
land cut is just stacked wall to wall with people,
he just puts up this book and says, oh, we'd
go over here, here's one that's not being fished.

Speaker 2 (01:31:03):
You know, video now, just willing to with the phones.
Having video now, it gives you even more benefit to
being out there, so you can document all this stuff.
You punch it all into the GPS. But and then
and then the barge comes by and sucks all the
water out. Holy cow. You see just more and more
and more. And if you take video of it and

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make sure you get a good background and it, you
can go right back to those spots and goly. It's
just such an opportunity that gets missed by so many
people because they just say, oh, the water's too low
and it's too cold to go out there. That bundle up,
buttercup and go learn something.

Speaker 8 (01:31:44):
Absolutely. The other the last story that I had, Uh,
Jay Watkins, you know, grew up there in Rockport, and
he would fish in all these periods. Well, when it
gets this cold, all of the plankton dies and the
margets real clear.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
Yes it does.

Speaker 8 (01:31:59):
And well what he said, you know, when he gets
super clear like that and you have a strike, you
can actually see how the fish attacks the lure, and
then you put you never get to see that during
the rest of the year, right, It's only only during
the wintertime. So I was like, yeah, there's a lot

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of benefits that we don't ever think about, uh to
cold water. And I'd encourage everybody to, like you said,
bundle up, man and go.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
I was way up on the north end of calcas
She we're almost out of time, but I'll tell you
this real quick. Way up on the north end of Calculsy,
you throwing quirkies years and years winters and winters ago,
and the water was just air clear. Man, it was beautiful.
And I was standing on a little casting platform on
the bow of this boat and watching these fish come
up behind that lure and seeing them and they would

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I mean, I was working it just really slow, and
they would come up behind it and then just kind
of follow it very slowly from maybe six to eight
inches under about one good tail kit under it, you know,
and they would study it and they'd kind of look
it over from the left. They'd slide left a little bit,
slide right, and then either they would just drop out

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of sight or on a few occas they weren't. It
wasn't a big bite. But on a few occasions I
could see them come up and roll that mouth open
and just slam that thing and then turn and go
one direction or the other. And that boy, that taught
me a lot about how those how patient you have
to be with that lure in the water. They would
follow it thirty forty feet coming back and then make

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a decision, and it just it's excruciating.

Speaker 8 (01:33:35):
Time, and absolutely you know you have to keep it
there in the in the water. Yeah, I told you
the last story. But Mark Nichols gave me this bait
to cast, you know, down there in Florida, and I
couldn't get a bite. And he said, Greg, I told

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you to work it slow. I thought I was working
at slow, yeah, And he said, here, let me let
me see it. Two casts later, he was just itching
this thing along when it was just you know, with
with glacial speed. Caught a nineteen pound snook.

Speaker 2 (01:34:12):
Don't get me started on snook man.

Speaker 8 (01:34:16):
Oh yeah, but but you know when he says slow,
he yeah, I have a hard time winding lures.

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
That slow lations is short. Thank you, Greg. It's great
to hear from you. Yeah, we'll end it on that snook.
Thank you. I'll see buddy, holy cow, all right, be good,
all right, audios giants nook. That's a good way to
end one. That gets me all fired up. Oh I
got to go back to Florida, or at least the
South Texas go catch some more snook. It's been a while.

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Thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. I'll
be back next Saturday at seven. I'll also be back
Tuesday at at node over on kPr C doing fifty plus.
If you're in that category or you know somebody who
is care about them a lot, give a listen, will you.
Thank you all for listening. Stay safe, get outside, have
some fun with your families. It's gonna be sunshiny this afternoon.

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Get outside, breathe in that fresh air. See you then, Audios.