What's Eating Our Trout?

Originally aired on November 15th, 2025. On this episode, Doug talks which states have the highest number of road incidents with deer (and what you can do to help prevent any). He also recounts his recent visit to the Lone Star Flight Museum, among many other topics. Go get your vitamin G!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, Saturday morning edition of
the program starts right now. Thank you all for listening.
I certainly do appreciate it. Got to bed a little
late last night. I ended up down in at Ellington
Airport for a fancy gala, got all dressed up as

(00:22):
I should have, and went down there to enjoy the
lone Star Flight Museum. I had never been, and after
being able to get in there and do a little
bit of walking around, I realized that realized how much
I had missed by not going down there. And before

(00:43):
we get to talking about fishing and whatnot, this was
at the invitation of Laura Panino, a woman who does
the pr for that place, and it was an amazing,
amazing thing anybody who is interested at all in flight,
in aviation, just anything to do with here's the bottom line.

(01:05):
They've got They've got an old airline or one of
the original, probably first versions of commercial air travel in there.
This is in a couple of really big hangars that
they have dedicated to the museum, and they've probably got
I don't know, fifteen eighteen aircraft in there all together.

(01:29):
There are big ones, there are old ones. There are
amazing ones. There are little ones, and then there are
several simulator areas where you can actually pretend that you're flying.
And there's some stuff that NASA donated to the museum
that gives you an idea of what these astronauts had

(01:52):
to endure or have to endure whatever, and kind of
how they moved around in space. It's a fascinating place.
And having only been there once and having the entire
place reconfigured to hold about I don't know about fifty
tables of guests for this event, I can't wait to

(02:12):
get back. I really can't. That was one of the
most fun things I've done in a long time. That
was just off the grid. It wasn't a hunting trip,
it wasn't a fishing trip. It was just someplace that
I'd always wanted to go. And now that I've seen it,
I want to go back. I want to see it
as it's configured on a daily basis. And what I

(02:34):
do remember hearing last night from the woman who's the
who's the chief of the museum. She is the CEO,
I believe is direct. I don't know what her exact
title is. I'm apologizing right here and right now for
not remembering. But the bottom line was she shared that

(02:54):
this past year they brought in more guests than they
ever have, and we're talking about thousands upon thousands more.
They host events for girls. There's a women in Aviation
event that's held down there as well, and all these
young girls come in. It's a kind of a combination

(03:15):
of aviation and STEM, encouraging young girls to get into
the aviation field and to study the STEM subjects so
that they can do well in there. It's for the
guys too, believe me. There's a there's an old World
War Two Corsair in there, and I learned from one
of the volunteers who flew in World War Two, but

(03:38):
not one of those that coursir. This is I mean,
I'm getting off into the airplane weeds here. But I
had a model, a little plastic model of one of
those things when I was when I was a kid,
and I love the looks of that airplane. I just
it just looked mean, it was one of the meanest
things in the sky back then when I was little.
And what I learned from him is that the torque

(04:01):
on this giant propeller driven by this giant engine on
this fighter plane when it got going, and these guys
had to really get out of someplace fast, and they
just hammered that throttle forward. It was like a gyro effect,
and they had to countersteer because there was so much

(04:22):
torque being produced that if they didn't, the airplane would
just flip over around that, around that prop. Yeah, think
about that, Frankie. That's it was fascinating to hear that
and have him explain what that would do to the
airplane at take off, at landing, trying to get out

(04:42):
of a hot situation something like that. They had And
these were eighteen nineteen twenty year old kids who were
flying these things. The fastest thing they'd ever been in
the seed of up until World War Two was just
the hot rod they had and the driveway at the house.
And they sign up, they want to be pilots, and

(05:03):
they were thrust into combat, uh with in many cases,
far more highly trained pilots, but just didn't have the gumption.
I guess that our guys had. I'm glad. I'm glad
that one ended the way it did. All right, let's
let's get down to the outdoors and I'm happy to
do that. Uh. The weather we'll start with that. It's
just it's typical for Southeast Texas, is what it is.

(05:28):
We have some cold days. Well we haven't had a
cold day yet, not by my not by my definition,
but we've had some very cool days. We have had
some very warm days. And after a few cool days
this past week, we're gonna have three or four days
where we're gonna have highs in the at least the
mid eighties, and depending where you are, it might even

(05:49):
be warmer than that. Just here's my philosophy this time
of year is make plans and and pack if you're
if you're going out of town to go fishing, hunting,
or whatever, pack for pack for forty degrees, and pack
for eighty five degrees because it could be even one
of those extremes at any time during any day that

(06:10):
you're gone. Just just be happy if you get there
and it's not raining. Okay, might do some of that too,
but we don't have much of that chance even for
several days. Again, let me look real quickly. I have
it up uh TikTok TikTok TikTok, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, fog.
The FOG's not rain. It just feels like rain if

(06:31):
you stand out in long enough. Tuesday beautiful Wednesday, and
Thursday and probably Friday. Yeah, there's where the best chance
of rain comes in. So we still five six days
removed from that. As as those three days go, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
it's forty seventy and thirty percent chances of rain, which

(06:54):
means most of us will get a little bit on Thursday,
not so many of us on Wednesday or Friday. That's
about enough weather. I think there's been some really just
kind of blistering hot days lately down in South Texas,
but at least we don't get beat up by that there.
I think they're kind of getting to a point now

(07:16):
where they could they would greatly appreciate a little bit
more rain in the region. They had it timely enough
that everything worked out well for the deer, everything worked
out well for the quail and the turkeys, all of
those good things. But it's it's drying up a little
bit again now. Lots of guys chomping at the bit
over the winter too, about trout fishing they expect this year,

(07:39):
especially down south. I hearing nothing but optimism, and we
had a little discussion of this last week, Captain James
wade in on Saturday, and then Captain Scott weighed in
on Sunday. These are two guys who have been on
the water a very long time. I respect both of
their opinions. James is not a big fan of the
free fish limit. This is James plog I'm talking about.

(08:02):
He's not really he's not really thrilled with what they
did dropping it to three up here. Bear in mind
that neither of these two guys, I bet they could
count on one hand the clients of THEIRS who want
to keep fish and James was just talking overall about
the entire Galveston Bay fishery, and Scotty was talking about

(08:23):
kind of middle coast and down because that's where he works.
I believe that more people think like Scott and like
this new three fish limit than think like James, who
doesn't really like it and doesn't think it has that
much difference. I so respect his opinion. I'm working with

(08:45):
it in my head to try and figure out where
he's where he is with this, because he's got a
lot of experience behind it. He's probably been guiding I'm
guessing now based on when I started fishing with him,
and we were very much younger. I bet he's got
close to forty forty five years on it on the
boat somewhere in there. I think he's close to my age,

(09:10):
And if he is, then that sounds about right. That
sounds about right. Scott's a little younger than both of us,
but as soon as he retired from his former profession,
he didn't waste any time starting to guide, and I
also respect his position on this. I feel like, no
matter no matter how you look at it, no matter

(09:33):
how you slice the data, the difference between an opportunity
to keep five fish and an opportunity to keep three
fish within a specific slot greatly reduces the number of
fish being taken out of that bay. Now, it's still
pretty much accepted that the average person who leaves the

(09:56):
dock intent on catching speckled trout is only going to
catch one and maybe maybe more than one, but maybe
not both keepers, maybe not even one of them a keeper.
And that was something that came up again last week.
One of the questions I was talking to Scott about,
we do have a lot, a lot of small fish

(10:20):
in the small speckl trout in our bay, fisheries, especially
up here. And one of the concerns that I had
as much as anything for the future of speckl trout
was the fisherman who got two three guys on a
boat and they see birds working somewhere, and they go
over there, and they're they're getting a catching a fish

(10:40):
every single cast. Every cast they bring in a twelve
thirteen to fourteen inch trout, not a one of them
a keeper, but they keep doing it hoping they'll catch
a big one. And one of the educational things we
have to do as as experienced fishermen is when anybody
talks about that, just let them know that overwhelmingly, if

(11:03):
you catch three or four dinks, three or four little
pencils in a row, the next three or four or
thirty or forty you catch probably are going to be
about the same size. Let's fish travel in mostly same
size schools, and it's not unlike the bait fish. If
you watch the surf on a clear water morning, you'll

(11:26):
see in the summertime, you'll see these little schools of
four to five inch long mullet swimming along together, thirty
forty of them, maybe fifty, maybe two hundred of them.
Little mullet swimming where they think they're safe. Maybe they're not,
maybe they are. And then sometimes back in the bays

(11:46):
you'll find schools in different parts of Texas, you'll find
giant schools of mullet that are a foot long, maybe
fourteen inches long, huge, huge mullet. Not a whole lot
of little bitty ones in those schools. So if you're
catching little trout, get out of them. Just just go
somewhere else and try to find something else, and try

(12:09):
to the way you're gonna catch a twenty inch tight
And granted, if you fish around little trout and throw
a big lure long enough, throw a lure that's five
or six inches long, there's a good, fair to good
chance you might catch a trout that's hanging around to
eat the other trout. They are extremely cannibalistic, which is

(12:32):
something I didn't learn until well, I learned it long
enough ago that I it just rolls off my tongue now.
But that's one of the reasons the hatcheries haven't been
able to raise speckled trout successfully the way they have redfish.
It's because you put a bunch of them in a tank,
they finally get hatched out there, a little fried, and
then they get up to Fingerling's eyes. And then if

(12:54):
you're counting or if you're weighing them, you realize when
you take everything out of there, that there's only about
half of what you put in. All right, we got
to take a break. Holy cawbin yapping for ten twelve
minutes already. Carter's Country represents sixty plus years of guns,
AMMO and hunting stuff all over Houston. They don't sell footballs,

(13:15):
they don't sell what else, tennis shoes, they don't sell
a lot of things that a lot of other stores
that also carry guns and hunting stuff, Carrie, and that's
by design. When Bill Carter opened those stores, he was
focused one hundred percent on the shooting sports and on

(13:36):
our enjoyment of them, and everything in those stores of
his before he passed represented just that the family has
carried on the tradition very well. I know them all.
They're all good people. They're all so into the shooting sports,
you just wouldn't believe it. Everybody, the whole family, they're

(13:58):
all still in it, and they're all still very good
at what they do. They've got a full service range
and gunsmithing up at that big flagship store on Treshweek
north of town. We got two more locations to make
sure everybody gets everything they need before hunting season finishes
off on us. Got red tag sales still going on
kind of probably through the holidays. I think where you'll

(14:18):
find things. You look at it once and you think
that's interesting. You look at again at the price. Wow,
that used to be a lot more than that for
that price, I'll get it. That's what's going on a
lot at Carter's Country this time of year. Carterscountry dot Com.
You can go there and see everything online as well
instead of having to go to the store if you
don't want to do that, Carterscountry dot Com on Sports

(14:48):
Talk seven to nine at the Dug Pike Show A
little thank you, Frankie. Yeah, we didn't get to do
that last week. My birthday was Tuesday, the eleventh of November,
and when I was born, my parents recognized it as
a Veteran's day. I think it was Armistice Day actually
that many years ago, and when I was a very

(15:10):
small child. They kind of let me in on their secret.
When I was maybe five or six, but up to there,
when I was a toddler and a little bit older
and finally figuring out what's going on around me in
the world. They would take me downtown on my birthday
for the parade that was being thrown in my honor.

(15:30):
They told me that's a man. Hey, everybody, and I'm
waving to everybody and there as they're coming by and
they're waving back at me. I thought that was the
coolest thing in the world. It really was fun. Let's
go talk to Dave. See what's going on subday.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Well, I'm sitting here on Lake Cairo and I got
my Candy Hardware Wholesale Incorporated yard stick here. It's square,
probably fifty sixty years old maybe, yeah, And I put
it down in the water, and I think the water
levels down.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
About five feet five feet.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Yeah, it's just down.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
It's down to the bottom of.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
The bulkheads here. Okay that way, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
And uh, I think if I didn't send it, I'll
send it to you in a minute. There's a barge
that just left out of here and the boys out
of Louisiana. Now I don't know exactly what they're doing,
and maybe dredging over here or something like that. I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Craw fishing man.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
I'm gonna yeah, Hey, we got about we got about
maybe ten fifteen. We still got boats launched. And I
got one of my buddies. He sits over there and
reads the paper or whatever and watches the boats launch.
That's more entertained than than you here wanted to think.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, afternoons at a boat ramp in summertime can be
very entertaining. On the once the captains of those boats
have had one or two more than they should have
beers during the day, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, Hey, let me and then on that flight museum
gonna start flight? Is that over there by movie gardens?

Speaker 1 (17:05):
No, no, no, they moved it. It was down there
at the Galveston Island. I believe they call it the
West West Beach Airport or something like that, where the
planes take off and land directly out of Galveston. It
moved several years ago up to Ellington Field and is
in a much larger space and has a lot more

(17:25):
to see. I strongly recommend that for a family outing
for an afternoon or something. It will be fascinating to you.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well, I've been to Electon quite a few times. I've
been there to see one of the ups planes when
they first inaugurated it, and then pt from the PT's
barbecue place over there across the street where you knew
the restanauts that ever lived and had all the pictures
in there, the autograss. You know, that's a pretty cool place.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
And you know the museum itself, Dave is just straight
through the main entrance to Ellington Airport they call it now,
right at the end of the road off I ten
or off I forty five, I mean, and then it'll
be kind of you'll see it out to your left
at about eleven o'clock out the windshield, and it's big.

(18:18):
I mean, you can't miss it.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
I got you.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Hey, I did find an accompass in one of those
boxes that Rick gave me. Oh yeah, and uh yeah,
forty pounds of saying, a stainless steel deal that you've
got to figure out how to flip it open, okay,
and then uh and then a bunch of them. I
got a bunch of stuff that I need to organize.
I'm gonna go buy some new I'm gonna go buy

(18:44):
some new tackle boxes and organize it and.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Good give it to some kids.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
That's real quick. I am gonna have to go again,
uh to doctor Sims and he's gonna put you know,
shoot me in the back again real quick at the
lower back. But uh, I called the left of message
from Captain James Blogg. Yeah, Doctor Seals. When he comes
in the room and right before he puts me to sleep,

(19:09):
he starts talking about you.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Talking about James. That's funny.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
True, that's a true story. Is that true story?

Speaker 1 (19:18):
All right?

Speaker 2 (19:18):
So good to hear from you, Dave ideos.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh my goodness. It's a small world, it really is.
I ran into several people last night whom I hadn't
seen in quite some time, made some new friends, and
it was a great evening. And I did I also
heard from that I believe she's the CEO. I can't
recall the woman's name when she was speaking, that there

(19:45):
are some eighteen twenty fifty thousand, whatever it is positions
in aviation maintenance, in aviation support, all kinds of aviation
related jobs that go unfilled because most people don't think
about aviation that way as a career. And so if

(20:08):
you got somebody sitting around wondering what they're going to
do with the rest of their lives and are looking
to make a pretty handsome living. Actually a lot of
these positions. Why not look at aviation. Huh, it's a
lot easier than being a fishing guide. I'll guarantee you
that said this before and I'll say it again. I

(20:28):
have such great respect for fishing guides and maybe even
just a little bit over the hunting guys.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Now.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
I know there's a lot of day to day stuff
that has to be done by a hunting guide. I
was one out out in Katie for fourteen winters and
well and summer, spring and fall too. There's stuff going
on all year round in that field. But there's also
not When you finish your day and send your people
on out of there and pat them on the back

(20:56):
and shake their hand, there's not still a ton of
work for you to do. And I know that fishing
guides they have it pretty hard. So anytime you go
with a professional, I hope you will compensate them with
a little extra, a little gratuity at the end over

(21:16):
whatever it was they charged you to get on their boat,
especially if the honestly, the the number of fish you
catch shouldn't be the soul indicator of how much you're
gonna tip a god. Did you get along with the guy?
Did you have fun? Did everybody have a few laughs?
Everybody catch a couple? Maybe even if you have a

(21:38):
slow day, a good day on the water is invaluable
really to your your whole soul. How much is your
how much is your well being? Your your mental health worth? Boy,
when I'm out there fishing, not thinking about anything else,
and it just kind of it keeps me. It keeps

(21:59):
me balanced. I don't worry about anything, I don't think
about anything else, and it just keeps me balanced. And
I like that. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let
me see if I've got any emails I need to
address right away. Here, d oh damn weight in about Ellington.
I thought you were gonna say they had a Corsair

(22:19):
that was actually flown by Pappy boying to no, no,
not from bab blah black sheep. No man, you watch
too much TV. Uh damn wead in. Oh wow, good
for him. Finally was able to book a cliff Web
trip next week. Any pointers, Here's here's the pointer I'm

(22:40):
gonna give you, Danny. This is you might want to
write this down. Do what Cliff says to do. If
you do that, you'll catch some fish. You will. He
was talking dumb a little while ago on the way
and I was listening to him, him and my buddy
Mickey down there down the dial.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
He was talking about how the moon phase is is
looking pretty good for the next week. I think it's
next week when all of this comes together. I haven't
been looking, honestly, I haven't been looking that closely lately.
I've got so much on my plate. All good stuff,
by the way, all good stuff. So yeah, Danny, if
you're getting into bath in next week with Cliff, just
do what he says to do. Throw what he says

(23:18):
to throw. Make sure you've got fresh line on your
reels so you don't have to take any sideways glances
from him worrying about you hooking a ten pound trout
and having it break your line, spool up fresh, bring
whatever he said to bring. I'd tell you what I
would throw. But the last thing I want is for

(23:41):
you to be in Cliff's boat not catching any fish
and have him ask you why did you pick that bait,
and have you tell him Doug said to do it.
I don't need that because I don't need that. Yeah,
just do what he says to do. I've known him
god better part of thirty five forty years, and yeah,

(24:05):
it's it's been quite the ride. I've gotten to have
some amazing experiences with him. Good guy.

Speaker 6 (24:12):
So do that.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Danny, Uh Dan, Pappy Boyington, No, man, get off the TV,
get outside, do something. Go sit on the front porch,
get some get some vitamin D. Man. We're gonna have to.
I coined a phrase last week about vitamin G and
there actually was a vitamin G designation on something years ago. Uh,

(24:36):
but whatever it was, I think it's pretty much gone now.
But the bottom line is my vitamin G is golf.
That's That's what vitamin G is is golf. And that's
something you could say, you know. I checked in with
my doctor and he said, my vitamin g's low. The
good news is I'm gonna be able to get some
of it back this afternoon. There's a treatment.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
It takes about four hours, but they say you'll get
a lot of vitamin D from it. I'm really depleted.
I'm just almost at the end of it, and we're
gonna have to go ahead and throw in vitamin F
and vitamin H and just redo the whole nutrition, mental health,
how you feel, what you look like, all of that.

(25:16):
We need vitamin H seasonally, of course, we need vitamin
F and vitamin G in. I think pretty much you
can't od on any of those, so you just get
all you want. That's the way I look at it,
all right, I gotta take a little break here all
the way out. Let me tell you about air ride bikes.
Speaking of fishing and hunting, Wayne Errington and I had

(25:39):
a conversation probably five six weeks ago now about how
he wanted to share some of these new bikes that
he has in his electric bike shop up there. It's
all the way up in Tomball Tomball Parkway. You can't
miss it. It's in the where is that shopping center?
It's in four corners. If you're from up there, you
know where it is. If you don't, just look him up. Errington,

(26:02):
Wayne Errington or Wayne excuse me. Wayne Errington shared with
me this the Troxas and the Rambow bikes, and then
he's got other Those are the big hunting quality bikes
that really strong, really powerful, got long battery life. They'll
run you up a hill if you want to run
you down the hill, you and your deer and one
of your buddies probably if you put them in a

(26:23):
little trailer behind you. And same for riding on the beach.
I think they would be outstanding down there on North
Padre Island Seashore, just riding up and down the beach
looking for schools of fish, not making any noise. Even
the fish down there is so sensitive they'll even respond
and pull out away from shore when people are just

(26:43):
driving on the beach. They sense that vibration. That's what
Cliff tells me anyway, and I believe everything he tells me.
Air Ride Bikes big sale, the Black Friday stuff started
last week at air Ride Bikes and it's on now.
He's got electric, he's got, like I said, Traxas and Rambo,
several other brands, many makes and models. You can try

(27:05):
them right there before you buy them. They will professionally
put that thing together for you too. And that's a
very good idea to have it done that way, so
you know that everything's all tightened up and buttoned up,
and all you have to do is charge it up
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six on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening, certainly do appreciate it. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety. Let's tee it
up with Ryan. See what's going on? Ryan? What's up? Man?

Speaker 7 (27:47):
And you're talking about how you can o D from
vitamin G. But I will tell you it is habit
for me. Uh yeah. I've had this new trend going
on where I've been working on Saturdays on my way
to work right now. Actually, my wife's like, you can't
believe you got to work on Saturdays. They're just taking
a day away from you. What I didn't tell her

(28:07):
is that because I work Saturdays, I get off on
Mondays and I've been playing a lot. I've getting a
lot of vitamin FEE. The problem I have though right now,
is while I love golf, I noticed that here recently,
I've been probably spending a little bit more money than

(28:27):
I'd like. And I made the mistake. I was getting
my my irons regripped. I was switching to one of
the Golf Pride mid sized grips, and I dropped off
my clubs and I was. I was like, man, while
I'm waiting, I'm gonna go roll some putts and just
check out some stuff. And I tried out one of
those new lab putters. Oh man, yeah, I got a

(28:48):
Scottie Cameron into my clause, but I'm not going to
use And my wife's like, did you need a new putter?
I'm like no, but I was making everything and I
was wondering, what putter are you rolling now or when
you go out to play golf.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
I am still after having actually received the thing about
two weeks before they were released, hitting one of the
original spiders. It's big, old, big headed thing, and I've
regripped it several times, and actually I'm gonna change the
grip on it now to go to what's that superstroke?

(29:20):
I'm gonna put one of those on there. They sent
me one that's the size that I kind of needed,
so I'm gonna regrip and do that. But I've had
that thing forever. I actually when I somehow lost the
head cover, the original head cover for it, there was
not a golf store in town that had one big enough,
so I had to go online and find one. It's
about the size of a sandwich, but I just I

(29:43):
felt really good with that putter. And I told myself
a long time ago, I putted well most of the
time I've been playing the game, and even as a
little kid, I won putt putt tournaments and stuff like that.
I kept, I was, I was struggling with my pudding
for a while, and I kept I didn't want to

(30:04):
blame the putter. A lot of people said, oh, you
need a different putter, you need something with you know,
no torque or whatever. And I thought, it's it's not
the putter, because I used to put well with this putter,
and I got. What I figured out is that it
wasn't the putter at all. It was just me being
too lazy to really get in there and read the
putts right, I was. I was seeing it, kind of
kind of seeing it, but kind of doesn't put the

(30:26):
ball in the hole, you know. So I'm curing myself
off that. Yeah, yeah, so you're you go. Where do
you play? By the way, Monday's my day. Monday's my
day off too. Where do you play?

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Man?

Speaker 7 (30:40):
I have bounced around. So I live up in Montgomery,
so I played at Grand Lake Estates a lot. It's
a it's a good affordable course. Yeah, solid eighteen but
super If I uh, if I go play with my dad,
I'm either at a black Horse or Longwood.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Okay, yeah, I know both of those courses. They're good, man,
they're fun.

Speaker 7 (30:56):
Have you played out of Longwood since they went semi private?

Speaker 1 (30:59):
No, I have not. How does it look many?

Speaker 7 (31:02):
Oh it's oh it's great. They got it so obviously
if you played out there along with to be twenty
seven holes, well they got rid of nine of them
because of Cyprus Creek flooding. But the stuff they did
with the remaining eighteen, oh man, it's a wonderful course.
Solid greens. O. The grass is kept up. But you
gotta go out there and shoot you around. It's a
good time. But anyways, man, thank your time. Always a pleasure.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Good luck at work, Yeah, thank you very much. Get
your vitamin G man. Thanks, I'll see you. Oh yeah,
that's gonna stick, Frankie. That's people are gonna be. Guys
are gonna be and and some of the women too
in this audience I know who play golf are gonna
be insisting that they they've got to go back to
the clinic and get some more Vitamin G and you know,

(31:49):
it could take a while. It could take a while.
I that's really gonna be kind of fun. I bet
it will stick. Oh that's hilarious. Viamin g What was it?
There was something I was looking at over here? Oh yeah, damn,
way back in, I said. Jimmy Barrett was talking about
his golf addiction yesterday afternoon. I'll I'll have to share

(32:11):
that that treatment program with him. You know we should. Ah,
it's too soon, too soon. I think for vitamin G anonymous,
where we have to just go into my name's Doug
and I'm addicted to golf. That's okay, Doug, We're addicted
to golf too, And then we could just tell stories

(32:32):
about the puts we made, the puts we missed, and
but that would really defeat the purpose then, because then
we would not be outdoors getting our vitamin G. The
whole purpose of this exercise would be to find ways
to play more golf and not less golf. So there
you have it. We could have charity events, I don't know,

(32:54):
maybe a scramble to support people who who are lacking
in vitamin G. There's a long ways we could go
with this. I'll charge my audience with letting their minds
wander and coming up with some good ideas about how
we can make this sound really legit. And yeah, this

(33:16):
is like a Babylon B type of a program. I think,
all right, let's let's go twenty seconds out early on
this break speaking of golf, about this Timber Creek Golf Club.
I was just down toward friends would yesterday evening on
the way to the museum or to the Flight Museum.
But it didn't make it, didn't make it. The Timber Creek.

(33:36):
I was not dressed appropriately for a vitamin G injection.
I was actually in I was all gussied up, as
we used to say when I was young, or I
believe the ladies said that more than the men in
any event. Timber Creek Golf Club or golf. Yeah, Timber
Creek Golf Club FM twenty three fifty one and friends,
what about three miles four miles maybe west of the

(33:58):
golf freeway twenty seven holes as we were just talking about,
and courses with twenty seven can if they can maintain
them all and not flood them all, they can get
a lot more people out every day. And that's exactly
what's going on at Timbercreek and has been for the
better part of thirty years. Timber Creek is a fantastic layout.
It's very playable no matter what your skill level, and

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that's one of the things I've always liked about it.
As long as you just don't hit it backwards or
chunk everything you hit, you're gonna have a good time.
And if you're still struggling with your scores, just go
knock on the door of that ten building next to
the driving range and get somebody from JJ Woods Golf
Academy at timber Creek to help you out with your swing.
Great people, great food. Somebody always driving around out there

(34:45):
looking to help keep you fed and watered on the
way around. And I'll wrap quotes around watered. Timber Creek
Golf Club dot com is the website you can set
a tea time right there, right now, Timbercreekgolf Club dot com.
Seveneven just like the airplane. Thank you for listening Doug

(35:07):
Pike Show this Saturday morning. I didn't get as much
sleep as I would have liked to. I got home
a little late from the Lone Star Flight Museum, But man,
what a party that was and what a meal they served.
Holy cow. Oh that was fantastic, Absolutely fantastic. Let's go well, yeah,
let's go to the phones. Talk to Alan. See what's
up Allan? What's going on?

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Man? Thank good morning dog? How you doing.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
I'm doing all right. I'm a little sleep deprived, but
I'll be okay.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Hey, two questions. Sure, my son of laws, he just
became a professional firefighter and for his graduation gifts, I'll
be gonna get him some golf lessons.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
So how do I go about that?

Speaker 1 (35:53):
What part of town are you in?

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Tombo? Okay, I'm gonna horses down the roads.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, but you know that's the far at the far
end of the range at black Horse where those those
little ten buildings looks like it looks like maintenance barn
or something. That's a lesson area.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
I've never been over there, but I'm I'm I'm here.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
What you're saying, well, yeah, yeah, they've got they've got
good instructors there. Pretty much any PG a official professional
instructor is gonna be able to help. And and there
are personality things that that go along with that. You know,
I've got a couple of guys I could maybe ask

(36:35):
for you if you can shoot me an email. I
can send out something and say, okay, who's gonna be
the best up around tom Ball? And I could do
that if you want me to.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 5 (36:46):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Like I said, he's his his shift rotation is like
he can. So I'm looking at a Saturday, right, if
it's possible, I'm gonna try and make it on a Saturday.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Yeah you can. You can get lessons on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
That's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Too soon anyway, So how how's this game right now?
How's his game right now?

Speaker 5 (37:05):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (37:05):
He's just he's just.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Just starting brand new. Okay.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Well then he he used to work at check this out.
He used to work at Amazon, and he found a
brand new you found excuse me, he found a brand
new set of Peen golf webs and someone's trash can.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
Right, Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
And I think that's what I think. That's what got me.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Oh yeah, why not?

Speaker 3 (37:30):
I said? He said, look what I found and someone's
trash can.

Speaker 7 (37:33):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
He used to deliver in these real neighborhoods in Austin, right, okay,
And I said, boss, someone must have got a divorce
and uh so so he so he said, okay, I
want to start playing golf. And so matter of fact,
he told me today he said, hey, let's go to
let's go to somebody's garage, sells, find me a driver.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
Here we go. I'm like, he's getting these bit here.
Here's the thing you don't you don't need to go to.
Now that I know he's brand new to the game,
anybody who's credential is PGA professional will be glad to
get him and happy and capable of getting him started
and teaching him the right grip, the right stance, the

(38:15):
right posture, and just start at square one the last
thing he needs, and tell him when he steps in
front of this person, whoever he or she might be,
to just let him know, hey, I'm green as grass,
I don't know, I barely know which end of the
club to hold, and let them start him in baby steps.

(38:36):
And there's just a nice natural progression in golf instruction
from just making contact with the ball every time, to
get in the ball airborne every time, to then start
kind of fine tuning it on where you want it
to go. And he's at the stage now where pretty
much anybody with one of those with who's a legit

(38:57):
PGA Tour pro can help him out. Not tour pro,
but just a PGA professional.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
Yeah, go there, probably the closest to me. So I said, well,
I'll just I'll just call them and make.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Them do that. Yeah, absolutely do that.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Always talk about it.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
I do.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
I know where it is.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
Yeah, and I trust anybody he'd get instruction from up
there now.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Not that I care too much. Yeah, is that by hourly?
How is that one?

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Yeah, you'll you'll be you'll be buying hours, you know,
or even they'll sell half hours. A lot of the
instructors will, but for him, he'll be better off getting
an hour. And I'll tell you one thing that you
absolutely got to tell him, Say, look, I got you
these on one condition, and he's going to say, what's that?
Take notes? Tell him to bring a notebook and a

(39:47):
pen and take notes during that lesson so that he
remembers what he was told to do. Because a lot
of instructors tell me that they'll show somebody something on
the range one day and then they'll see the guy
out out there three or four days later on the
range hitting balls, and there back to their old habit.
They don't remember what was making it better.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
So do you think I could set up as instructor.
I thought, if I could set up a tripod with
a with a camera that lesson, he don't forget about it.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
Well, that's a good point too. Yeah, it is the technological.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Back and watch the video, you know what they.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, that can be good too, I'm thinking anyway, Yeah,
I'm kind of old school with this pad and pen
hunh Colley.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
He won't he won't, he won't do that.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
He's not gonna do Yeah, just set the camera up,
videotape and then write it down.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
You know.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah, and he could. What he probably needs to do
is get maybe four or five lessons, like maybe once
a week, and then he's got to go out and
practice during the week, though at least once more, maybe
twice more what he learned in the last lesson, and
then at the end of about five weeks see where
he is. Get him out on the golf course playing
some and and telling him not to worry about being

(41:04):
embarrassed the way he hits the golf ball, no matter
what it is, because everybody makes bad shots, nobody.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Cares well, I mean, and that's good.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
I'm sure he's got a lot of great golf courses
up in Austin.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Oh yeah, plenty of them. Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
I mean I used to golf in college, but I
got away from it because I do more hundred fishing.
But now I guess I gotta go find me a
set of clubs.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
You better, can you better?

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Eh? All right, man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Yeah, great talking to you.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
I'll call it j J and the set something up.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Sure, I'll see audio. Yeah, yeah, that's some golf lessons.
We're already jumping into golf at not even eight o'clock yet,
but that's okay. Golf lessons are a great holiday gift
for people, and it's something that if you can, if
they if they're taught how to play golf, right if
it's kind of like you don't want him to try

(41:59):
to learn too much too fast, because golf is about
repeatable swings, and if you're making bad swings, you're just
repeating bad swings. If you're making good swings, you get
to where you're get more good than bad at some point.
And it's not it's a difficult game to master, but

(42:20):
it's it's a relatively easy game to get to the
point where you can just go out and have fun
with your friends and not worry. The average golf score
shot by adults in this country is north of one hundred,
and I know people who routine ly'll shoot one, ten,

(42:41):
one twenty, and they have a blast playing golf because
somewhere in those eighteen holes, somewhere in those bogies and
double bogies and triple bogies, they hit an incredible shot
that they never would have thought they would hit. And
that's what brings you back. Golf gives you at least
east I don't know how however good you are, at

(43:02):
least probably about sixty sixty five shots, or maybe one
hundred and twenty five or thirty. But every one of
those is a chance to hit the shot of your lifetime.
You got four chances every round just to make four
chances around to make a hold in one, and you
don't ever know if it's coming. But you won't ever
find out unless you're out there playing. It's a fun game,

(43:23):
it really is. It's if you don't take it too
seriously unless your business card says PGA Tour Professional. Just
take a deep breath if you hit a bad shot.
So what I didn't you know nobody They're not going
to repossess your truck because you hit it because you
missed a three foot putt, And that's not how it works.
Seven one three two one two five seven nine to

(43:45):
email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm going to
take a look back in some of the deer pictures
I've seen this week and try to try to formulate
a a an idea of how the season's going. I
think if we had colder weather, cooler weather, at least,
there'd be more movement than we've seen lately. Now that

(44:07):
last little snap got things going pretty good, and it
can't can't negate the fact that we're only two weeks
into the season. It's not like we not like it's
middle of December and we haven't seen a deer yet.
I saw somebody posted something on this little neighborhood app.
I'm I need to unsubscribe from it because it's usually
just people griping about something. But there were some two

(44:30):
deer two doughs standing in the esplanade down close to
where I live, on a main road, and this woman
rode a pretty pretty lengthy thing about how to beware
the deer all over the place. Now I saw five
of them today. They yeah, it's that's okay. They're going

(44:51):
to be all right. Mostly deer get hit by cars,
they do. That's granted. Hill countryes, gosh, that's the worst.

Speaker 5 (44:58):
You got.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Windy hilly roads, you got these are county roads that
have no lights on them. But I do. Actually, I
think I remember reading somewhere up north. I can't remember
what state it was has a higher auto deer collision
rate than ours. I might look that up during the
break and just see which which state wins. I don't

(45:21):
think it'll be ours because we are so spread out,
but we'll find out seven on three, two one, two, five,
seven ninety. You can be first up when we get
back if you want. If you got a question or
a comment, feel free to jump in or email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Shooters corner down there
at Palmer Highway in twenty ninth Street, Well, I was
really close to them yesterday when I was down there

(45:44):
at the Flight Museum. Owner and operator of that establishment,
Jerry TK, has been doing this for forty something years,
and his son Jay is following in his dad's footsteps.
These are two of the best gunsmith's i've ever met,
honest to goodness, and they have helped so many listeners
to solve problems that these listeners had been told couldn't

(46:05):
be solved without a major repair, undertaking a major operation,
or just replacing everything. Just bett throwing the trash can
and buy yourself a new gun. Now they fixed so far,
knock on wood. Everybody I've sent down there has raved
about how well they were treated and how well they

(46:27):
were taken care of with a problem that others said
they couldn't fix. It's an old school gun store, that's
all it is. If you don't know what one of
those smells like, just get down there at the front door,
close your eyes, walk in and just just inhale real deeply.
That's an old school gun store smell. It's fun too.
Everybody's in there telling stories. There's usually law enforcement in

(46:50):
there because they get a discount, which I think is
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they've got Camo. It's all there in that tiny, little,
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(47:11):
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back Doug Pike Show Second hour starts now eight oh
three on Sports Talk seven ninety. I was reading emails,

(47:33):
I confess between the last segment and through the break,
so I still haven't checked in yet. On the roadkill
Capital of the United States of America, Mojo weighs in
nominating Missouri as the road kill capital. Let's go. You
know what, I bet I can get there and back
very quickly. Highest dear auto collisions by state. Let's see

(48:06):
what happens. Okay, West Virginia is the winner. Has the
highest odds of a deer auto collision, with a risk
of about one in forty one in forty I guarantee
you that's West Virginia. Doesn't isn't as big as our state,
but it's got probably far more hilly and far more

(48:29):
dark roads. Well not more, but more per square mile.
Let's say Montana is second. The risk is about one
in fifty four. Wow, followed by states such as Wisconsin, Michigan,
and Pennsylvania. Yeah. Now see here's where we come in.

(48:51):
So all of these states have these greater odds per
capita are per driver licensed driver getting whacked. But it
also continues, it says, while these states have the highest odds,
states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Texas report some of the
highest total numbers of claims. That's because we've got more

(49:15):
than three million deer in Texas, and sooner or later
they've got across a road somewhere, and if their timing
is bad, then they have a problem. Here. Let's see
that's got that. West Virginia's had that for over a decade.
The odds in Texas. I'm scrolling down, I found the list. Oh,
come on, total number of claim Yeah, total number of claims. Wow.

(49:38):
Pennsylvania has the highest number of insurance claims, about one
hundred and forty seven thousand a year, Michigan one hundred
and twenty six thousand, North Carolina eighty eight, Texas only
eighty six thousand. That's because we know how to drive.
We know how to drive, and we are cognizant, most

(49:59):
of us, at least who have lived here more than
a hot minute. We just kind of know to watch
for deer because they like eating the tasty stuff on
the side of the highways, poor old deer. I've seen
so many amazing videos too on of deer crashing into cars,
deer jumping over cars, flying across the freeway or whatever.

(50:23):
And it's remarkable how how big a collisions I've seen happen,
and then seeing the deer just get up and trot
off or run off or walk off. It's it's rare.
It's rare in those videos to see a deer really
get torn up and knocked around to the point where
law enforcement has to come out and just dispatch it.

(50:46):
But it does happen. And it saddens me to see
a deer on the side of the road because I
understand it's just it's a wild animal. It doesn't understand,
doesn't there's no crosswalks. There's no crosswalks. There's now they
do have in some places overpass is built for animals
to walk over major freeways, and there's fencing that kind

(51:08):
of herds them in that direction so that they're discouraged
from jumping into the roadway trying to cross at high speed.
But that's not everywhere, and it's very expensive to put
those up. I can't remember exactly where some of those are.
But they're there for good reason. I'm glad they're there.

(51:28):
Mojo nominating Missouri. Did I even say that DoD Missouri
even make the list? Frankie, do you recall? I don't
think it not up high anyway. Mike waves in. I
got to go fishing again this past week. Now, he says,
bragging with Hillman, kept three fish and mashed a barb
on the hook for the next dozen or so oversized trout.

(51:49):
The age class let me click here, age class above
eighteen inches is looking more prevalent.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
That's what I said.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Vitamin F and vitamin D well absorbed. Yes, indeed, thanks
for mashing that barb too. That's just so important, so important.
And that's that's one of the things that I mean,
if the bass fishing community really wants to express as
it has for so many years. Well, I'm watching bass

(52:20):
fishing now, and these guys on TV, the TV guys,
because they're in a hurry, tend to overhandle their fish
and just grab them and manhandle them and hold them
close to their chest and just wipe all the slime
off of them, get them on that little scale, then
throw them back in the water. Well, they don't throw
them back in the water anymore. They just drop them
back in, but they've ad the damage is done when

(52:41):
the slime's removed. But I would really like to see,
and I would even I would even turn a blind
eye almost to forward facing sonar if the rules required
that the barbs on all their hooks be mashed flat,
because that would be the best way, the absolute best

(53:04):
way to I can't say eliminate, but minimize the damage
done by a hook to a fish's mouth or its gills,
or its jaw or whatever. That needle in and needle
out would not do near the damage that a barb does.
And if you'll watch these guys on TV when they're

(53:24):
getting hooks out of fish's mouths, there's some really serious
pressure being applied to rip that barb backwards out of
wherever that hook went in. And I know it's something
that I'll probably never see in my lifetime, but I wouldn't.
I wouldn't be opposed at all to having just all

(53:45):
barble sooks on every lure, every hook, in every package.
You're really not going to lose that many fish. I've
been fishing with barble sooks for the last twenty five years,
and I've lost fish. Granted I've lost because of it,
but the fish I've lost, hey, they won. I really

(54:05):
don't care. I didn't miss any meals because I don't
have barbs on my hooks. I didn't miss any state
records because I don't have barbs on my hooks. And mostly,
if you keep your line tight and understand how to
use the rod, if the fish does come up and jump,
you're not going to lose him either. Okay, this guy's

(54:25):
got a fish. Let's see how he handles it. Real quick.
Stand up, dude, there's a little there's a little crawl
at the bottom. That's I couldn't see how he handled
it well. He looked like he was doing okay, though
he might have been changing lures. I'm not sure. In
any event, Thank you, Mike. The above eighteen inch class
looking more prevalent, according to him, and that's good news

(54:47):
because guess what, those fish that get thrown back will
be about nineteen or twenty inches next year, and they'll
just keep on growing. They'll just keep on growing. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Email me
dug like at iHeartMedia dot Com. I got one more email.
I want to check before I go to break. Uh, Desiree,
let's see Desiree Hoffman ways in. Thank you Desiree for

(55:09):
chiming in. Let's see what we got here. I think
an option for vehicles should be radar that warns of
deer or other wildlife. You know that we have we
have search for nearby around our cars. But I'm not
sure how far that radar would have to go, but
it certainly would be something worth having, especially as as

(55:32):
you point out, driving on dark Central Texas roads. If
we can do it for fish, we ought to be
able to do it in cars. Yes, it could be
put onto them. I think it would be more akin
to what's on aircraft actually as far as radar goes,
than on on boats. But there certainly is a way

(55:54):
it could be done. I just wonder what it would
cost to put it on there, and whether that would
you know what's more expensive. Well, I'll tell you what.
If it saves the deer, then okay, let's have it.
I would probably invest in that. If I drove around
Central Texas as much as a lot of people do,
I don't. I don't really spend much time on roads

(56:15):
where there are a lot of white tails, and I'm
trying not to drive as much at night anymore. I
just am. But yeah, that's an interesting thing. Thank you, Desray.
I appreciate the call or the email. Let's see here,
Oh I got one more real quick based on personal Yeah. Yeah,
that's a good point, Mojo waged in when she referenced

(56:38):
Missouri being the the road killed capital of the world.
A little asterisk all species. I guess that brings in
the skunks and the the armadillos and the raccoons and
the rabbits and everything else that makes a mistake and
zigs when they should have zagged trying to get across
the street. I hate seeing animals killed by cars. I

(56:59):
really I don't like to see that in the middle
of the road more than anybody else does. But it's
it's that we started it by building the roads, and
I guess we can do everything we can't. We should
do everything we can to keep these animals from getting
whacked by cars. There are actually places in this country

(57:20):
where people routinely ride the roads looking for fresh roadkill,
which they in turn will take home and eat. It's
kind of crazy, but it's true. Let's take a break.
Here shall we celebration time. If you have some event
going on and everything went well and you would like

(57:40):
to celebrate with your friends, perhaps a fine cigar would
be just the call. That's where Manny Lopez comes in
and El Kubano Cigars hand rolled in Texas City, Texas
City by Cubans who came here. Manny Lopez and his
father came here in two thousand and six, got this
business started. They use the highest quality tobaccos they can

(58:03):
roll up anywhere. I think it's about one hundred and
forty hundred and fifty different specific cigars made with different
specific tobaccos that they can roll for you. And they'll
even put personalized custom bands on those cigars in case
you're celebrating a big event and you want to pass
them out for some reason. It's a boy, that's the

(58:23):
old school thing. Everybody got a cigar when somebody had
a baby in the family, new baby in the family. Now,
I don't know what they do now, but these would
be more in line with golf tournaments, with fundraising events,
with sporting clays events, those kinds of things where you
have a lot of people, a lot of potential cigar

(58:44):
smokers out there who would appreciate something that is it's
actually available to them anytime they want to go down
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nineteen on Sports Talk seven to ninety, the Doug Pike Show,
Thanks for listening, Mercy. Yeah, here's Kevin weighed in in
response to Desire's concerns over deer getting hit in the
dark on the road. And there is a product, and
Kevin reminded me of it. Here these deer whistles that

(01:00:16):
at highway speed emit a very high pitched can't hear
it in the car whistle. That seems to work for
a lot of drivers. They swear by them. Now that
may just mean that they haven't really gotten that close
to a deer with the whistles attached to their front

(01:00:36):
bumpers or wherever you put them. I think that's where
they go, and the airflow over them creates that very
very high pitched. Deer can hear it very well, but
we can't whistle. And if you put those on let
me see what he says that they're on Amazon. Let
me see what they see. If I can get to
this and see what they cost, it's a very inexpensive thing.
I know that. Yeah, there they are. They look exactly

(01:00:59):
the same as they look twenty thirty years ago with
the first time I saw them. Probably costs a little
more now, but the bottom line is for eleven dollars.
For eleven dollars, you get these things, you get four
of them I want. Yeah, you get four of them
in the box for eleven dollars. And they are said
to uh, oh, there's some a bonus. You can get

(01:01:22):
it even cheaper. Just go look them up, says seven
sparted deer whistles for car and motorcycles. Save a Deer Warning,
Save a Deer Warning Devices four pieces for ten ninety nine.
They're just little plastic things. I'm sure they've got kind
of a some sort of adhesive backed pad on the
bottom of them, and you stick them, stick them under
the bumper so they don't show on your car and

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they're not gonna bother you inside the car. Yeah, thank
you for reminding me of those things. Steve appreciate it,
or Kevin, excuse me. Steve Wade in Huntington very close
to Rayburn pro bass fishermen, and yeah, I might talk
to him, Uh shoot me his number or shoot him

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my number, and we try to have a conversation. I'm
always interested in the approaches of professional bass fishermen to
every season, every weather change, all of that, whether the
moon matters. I like to pick brains of people who
know a lot more than I do about bass fishing,
and I'd be happy to talk to the guy. Thank

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you for that. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Mojo sent me a stack of well, not a stack,
send an email, and the email included an attachment, And
that attachment has the quotes from I don't know fifteen
twenty sports figures, some coaches, some players, some everything's too

(01:02:52):
and they're just really funny that I feel like they're
almost all the ones I've highlighted here are pretty dog
on funny in my opinion. And so from time to
time during the show, I'm gonna drop one of those in.
And I tell you what, I'm gonna wait until Frankie
tease this call up for me, because I want to
take that and not waste anybody's time who's waiting on

(01:03:12):
the phone any longer than I have to. And TikTok, TikTok.
He's got him, he's got him. I know he's got him.
Put him up there, Frankie, Can I have him?

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Good, here we go, Thanks Steve, O. What's up man?

Speaker 8 (01:03:24):
Good morning, missakiaw are you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
I'm great, good morning.

Speaker 8 (01:03:28):
Well, I just realized that you said your birthday was
on the eleventh. It was Barry's was on the twelfth,
and mine was on the thirteenth.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
Standing the trifecta is what i'd call that.

Speaker 8 (01:03:37):
Yeah, definitely, definitely. Hey, those whistles. They also sell them
at auto Zone.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
Man, Okay, oh nice for.

Speaker 8 (01:03:46):
Mainly motorcycles and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
But they have them.

Speaker 8 (01:03:49):
They have them all over the place, and I've heard
that they do really really good.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
I can't imagine hitting a deer on a motorcycle. That
would be horrifying.

Speaker 8 (01:03:56):
Oh. Man, I had a buddy that did and he
had a laid cast for about a half a year.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
So oh he must have broken a femur then, huh
holy ken.

Speaker 8 (01:04:06):
Definitely definitely yea, but yeah, no, I wanted to get
with you and tell you about those and I wish
you happy birthday.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
Well, happy birthday to you as well.

Speaker 4 (01:04:15):
We're talking to you.

Speaker 8 (01:04:16):
I haven't talked to you in a while, so I figured, well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
What have you been doing. What's your excuse? What have
you been doing? Something fun?

Speaker 8 (01:04:22):
And I've been working. I told you I had my
own little business. Well that kind of went to crap.
But I had a job, and well and well and
well then you how it is?

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
Yeah, well is not a bad thing to fall back on,
is it?

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
I agree, Yeah, you could be all right.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
He stopped buying those little whistles. It was just buy
a bigger motorcycle.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
Yes right, all right, man, you have a good day,
you too, man audios.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
Yeah, he's a good guy. I hadn't talked to him
in a while. I'm glad he called confirming that the
whistles are good. That's fantastic, Absolutely fantastic. Where I wanted
to go back to these little quotes because they are
kind of funny. Uh, And Frankie, I'm gonna let you pick,
and I'm just gonna give you the name of the
person who said this, and and then i'll tell you

(01:05:08):
what they said. Is a guy named Harry Neil. This
is the first one, Harry Neil. And he's a professional.
He is or was a lot of these guys are was, uh,
but he was a professional hockey coach when he said this.
Or I could give you John Breen, who was a
former coach of the Houston Oilers. We'll go, let's do oilers, Okay, yeah, okay.

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According to John Breen of the Houston Oilers, he once
said to the reporters in the room wherever they were,
we were tipping off our plays. Whenever we broke from
the huddle. Three backs were laughing, and one was pale
as a ghost. Must have been when the old line
wasn't terribly strong, or the opponent had really big linebackers

(01:05:56):
who were really really fast. I'll tee up one more
with you. Let me put a little check mark by
that one so I don't go back to it for
a long time to come. Another Oilers reference bum Phillips
or Tommy John, the man after which the surgery was named.

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Oh that sounds interesting, those dudes tell me John Tommy John,
New York Yankees at the time, recalling his nineteen seventy
four arm surgery. I actually met him my freshman year
in college over at South Alabama. He and Eddie Stankey,
apparently we were pretty good buddies, and he came down
to talk to us about pitching or something. I don't

(01:06:38):
know what, but in any event, I got to meet
the guy. So Tommy John, New York Yankees, recalling his surgery.
When they operated, I told them to add in a
Coofax fastball. They did, but unfortunately it was Missus Cofaxes.
That's pretty good. That's pretty good. You get it right? No, well,

(01:07:00):
Sandy go yes, because you don't know who Sandy Kohax is.
Do you know? He was one of the greatest picture
pictures of that era and could just throw a ball
a million miles an hour. He was a fireballer, Okay,
And that's what Tommy John was saying. He wanted to
put back in his reconstructed elbow, but they just instead

(01:07:20):
put in however hard Missus Kofax could throw it. Do
that make more sense now? Yeah, we're getting there. Yeah,
I could see the deer in the headlights without a whistle.
Look on your face when you when you heard the
punchline to that, like, I don't know what that is.
That's okay, I forget how young you are. That's all right,
man seven one three two one two five seven ninety

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Email on me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I want
to when we get back, I want to focus on
your those of you who have done a good bit
of fishing in South Texas. I want to kind of
focus on that and what you think, uh, based on
what you saw this so in this fall, what you
think winter is gonna be like? Because my gut says that,

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barring some unforeseen issue, uh, we're gonna have one heck
of a winner down there. And there's gonna be a
lot of big trout, a lot of big trout caught.
They've been left alone. They've been thrown back all summer long.
And don't think for a minute that there hadn't been
plenty of traffic in baff And Bay. It's getting it's
it's with the boats going so much faster and the

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fishermen so much more skilled, and the equipment so much
better overall than stuff we used when I was first
fishing down that way. Uh, there have been a lot
of fish caught, there's no question about it, but they
had to be thrown back. And a lot of those
fish wouldn't have been thrown back but for the new rule.

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So I'm kind of curious. I really am to see
what you guys think. Seven seven ninety Email me Dugpike
Media dot Com. Thank you, Kevin for the email I
just got from you. I appreciate that. Scorpiosia night. Yeah, man,
oh lordy, he's younger than I am by a wide margin,

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I can assure you. And hats off to Kevin. He
just had a birthday too. All right, let's get out
of here. On the way out, I'm gonna tell you
about black Horse Golf Club that's over there on two ninety. Well,
it's on Fry Road south of two ninety a couple
of miles and you can come in from the west
side off ninety nine, or you can come in from
the north side off two ninety. Either way, it's a
pleasant drive from pretty much anywhere in town. Anywhere north

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of I ten, anywhere west of of I forty or yeah,
west of forty five. It's an easy drive to black Horse,
it really is. I've been making that drive for more
than two decades now, going out there and playing in
a lot of tournaments, going out there and just hitting
it on my own ball. When I didn't realize that
the course I usually play on Mondays was closed for

(01:09:58):
a tournament or something, I just keep on going north
on ninety nine and go to black Horse and always
get out right Now. The North course remains daily fee.
The South course went private this year and that's gone
very well. A lot of members enjoying the privacy of
a private golf experience, and still just as many people

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having fun on the South course are on the North course,
where it is a little more forgiving. Honestly, you can
just you can air that driver out and there's a
pretty good chance you'll be able to find it and
hit it again. Not a whole lot of not a
whole lot of congestion on that North course. For tree wise,
South course a little more challenging, but I've heard that
they dressed it up and made it more player friendly

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and really done some nice improvements out there. I need
to call Craig Hicks, he's the GM I'll see what's
going on in this first year of that change. One
of the biggest things that you get if you become
a member of that South course now for the private
factor or private option, is access also to the North
course right there on the same property, plus both courses

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at Golf Club of Houston, plus Blackhawk Country Club right
back down south toward where I play. That's a pretty
dog one good deal. If you like to play different courses,
you can rotate them within your membership and just call
and make the tea time and go have fun. Wherever
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the way, like I was talking about a little earlier,
black Horse Golf Club dot com. All right, welcome back,
Dougpike Show on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Foux Pro
just sent me an email. I think it was a text.
Actually there was an event that occurred. Actually it's finishing

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up today. I think it was. Maybe it might have
been Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I wasn't really all that interested
in it, but he sent me the information on it,
and I'm I'm gonna throw it out and just try
to get your opinions on this. And forgive me if
you're looking for a hunting segment here, what did I say?

(01:12:09):
I was gonna talk about the big trout down South too,
dog on it. I'll do that first and I'll get
to this other deal. Let me make a little note here.
I'll be golf, Okay, I'll come back to that. What
I'm hearing down South from a significant number of people
who fish there regularly is that they anticipate just based

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on decades of notes, in some cases, based on a
smaller snapshot maybe a few seasons of serious effort down
that way, but a lot of guys are driving farther
and farther to go fishing because it's it's gotten pretty
dog on crowded up this way, and they've got faster boats.

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It doesn't matter now that the place they want to
fish after they launch is twenty five thirty miles from
where they put in. They can get there very quickly,
and so there's a lot more information, a lot more data,
if you will, to back up what these guys are saying.
And they are saying that it's going to be really

(01:13:20):
good this winter. They all are predicting out. I hope
they're not jinxing themselves. But I want to get down
there at least two or three times this year and
really kind of see if I can recreate maybe with Cliff.
I hope I can get the vote with Cliff and
try to do this and go back to that very
same spot where we caught all those big trout so
many many years ago now in the early nineties, believe

(01:13:42):
it or not, when we had that trip, and I
still get asked about it when I'm around A lot
of fishermen tell me about that trip. You and Cliff
had again that it was as good as it gets.
And if somebody wants me to repeat it, let me
know and I will. If not, most of you have
probably heard it more times than you want to. And

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it's not me bragging that we caught that many trout,
because I really had little to do with it other
than to throw the lure out there and work it back.
It was he who was Cliff, Cliff Webb I'm talking about,
who had been on these fish for a couple of
weeks actually, and nobody else knew they were there. The

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reports in the newspaper down there we're talking. This is
in late January, good drum in the channel, little of this,
a little of that here and there, but there was
no mention of what he had stumbled onto and it
was good. I'll just I'll just leave that at that.
I do think that you're going to see a bunch

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of guys who typically throw soft plastics and swear by them.
I think you'll see more of them coming up to
the top and throwing top waters because it's just if
the bite is as good as they expect it to
be and the fish are as big as they're expected
to be there's no you're and the fissure in as
shallow a water as they'll probably be in winter, when

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the sun's out bright and they're bait up on top
of those little shelves and those big fish are hungry,
you'll see top waters going out because there's nothing more
exciting than just having that big old toilet flush and
the line comes tight and it's on from there. I'm excited.

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I I hope you guys are two those of you
who like to fish for big trout, And don't we
all really I don't know many people who go out
with the with the notion that they will be most
happy if they catch three keeper trout as opposed to
maybe catching three six pounders and having to throw them

(01:15:57):
all back to the guys I know would rather catch
the big fish and throw them back than worry about
bringing home six little filets. And that just that change
in itself is enough to really help the conservation of
these fish. There's there's just that's we have no choice

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but to do it through limits, because that's the only
reliable means and methods we have of regulating the take
of those fish. And I think I think Parson Wilafe
Department got got this one right, I really do. And
a lot of a lot of people. Some people disagree
with me, and that's fine. A lot of people do
agree with me, though. The people who the people it

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bothers me that are so in favor of this are
are the ones who kind of really spend the less
least time on the water sometimes. Now I'm not talking
about Captain James. He's got more hours on the water
than most humans anywhere, And like I said earlier in
the program, I respect his opinion and I'm glad he

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shared how he comes to those conclusions that he did.
But what the the two of us were able to
agree on is that the problem may may not be
so much how many fish are in the limit and
what size they have to be, but just the pressure
that's on this resource and primarily the environmental factors, just

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the how much how much quality habitat do those fish have,
And that's that's that's an issue, it really is seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'll tell you what
I'm gonna do, Frankie. I'm gonna take this break early
and when we get back then I can talk about

(01:17:44):
what faux pro asked me about earlier in the week.
And even though it's gonna be on TV Tuesday, I'm
not gonna watch it. I have no desire to watch this, honestly,
and if you do, more power to you there. There's
there are some teasers I'm sure that are on TV now,
on this network that's broadcasting this, that probably make it

(01:18:05):
sound like it's gonna be a lot of fun and
very interesting. But I'm gonna have to disagree, and I'll
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American Shooting Centers dot com. All right, welcome back eight

(01:20:13):
forty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thanks for listening. Let me go take this call. See
what's going on down south? Hold on stam by, Rick,
what's up?

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:20:24):
Hey, Derek? How you doing.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
I'm good. I didn't talk to you in a hole long.
I don't even know how long it's been.

Speaker 5 (01:20:32):
It's been quite a while. I'll tell you. I sure
missed the contacts that we used to have together. But anyway,
the question that I had, you been talking about the
fishing in uh, you know, in South Tech. Yeah. I'll
fish the Galveston Bay Complex and have been, for good grief.

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It's been almost fifty years. Wow, and the fish in
there has been absolutely unbelievable the past. Yeah, you go
back about ten years, maybe even maybe even longer than that.
I don't know what's happened over there, but you can
catch all the fourteen inch crouts you want to kitch.

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But it seems like that those fourteen inch trout never grown.

Speaker 1 (01:21:20):
Yeah, that's an interesting you know, it's funny you said that, Rick,
because I got an email this week and I can't
remember who it was from, said something like, you know,
something to that effect. We went fishing and caught twenty
six thousand fish that were fourteen and three quarters inches.

Speaker 5 (01:21:35):
Long, exactly right. Wow, well that's unbelievable. And it's uh,
you know, I fished Trimity Bay, East Bay. Every once
in a while, I'll go over into Galveston Bay along
yeah shoreline over there and just before you get to

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the Callgeway. But it just seems that those fourteen and
a half itch fish never get any bigger.

Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
That's interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:22:07):
I mean, you can you can blame it on a freeze.
You could blame it on all kinds of different things,
but that big freezes five years ago. Yeah, if you
have all those fourteen and a half itched trout that
we were catching five years.

Speaker 1 (01:22:23):
Ago, yeah, and if you blame it on on a
freeze or something like that, and then now there's just
all these fourteen and a halfs. Those fourteen and a
half had to have mommies and daddies, and those fish
should have been bigger by now. So yeah, I don't
know what it is about that base system, but I
think back to what James and I did agree on

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one hundred percent. Is just that there's so much more pressure,
there's so much change along the shorelines. There's just it's
it's not a natural area anymore. Almost half half the
at least I'm looking in West Bay in my own
head now that almost that entire shoreline on the on
the Gulf side is bulkheaded from from end to end

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just about. And that doesn't do those fishing any good.
Maybe it's a food issue, uh within at least within
West Bay. I don't. Are you seeing the same thing
like in Trinity or in Galason Bay?

Speaker 5 (01:23:20):
Oh yeah, campers over there they're going out and making
one drag and making their limen. Wow, there's food everywhere. Okay,
now there's there's there's one thing that I've noticed that
there is not. There's not the amount of buff.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
It used to be the matter of what I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:23:40):
Sorry and everybody, and you know, nobody thrown Nobody keeps
gas top or hard hits. They always throw them all back.

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
Yeah, yeah, well, yeah, that's what you gotta do.

Speaker 5 (01:23:53):
I wonder if that could be part of the problem,
throwing them back. Talking to uh yeah, I was talking
to Tracy Woody the other day. He he's the guy
that runs Jerry Seafood down there now and uh he
was telling me that he thinks it's I thinks it's

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the guar that are eating these uh fourteen It's true.

Speaker 1 (01:24:20):
Oh lord, how many how many gars do you see
on your average trout trip? Think about it? Well, probably
not many caught.

Speaker 5 (01:24:30):
Well, the thing is is, I've caught quite a few,
uh in the last few years.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
Okay, And I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:24:42):
Yeah, I had a guy. Here's a guy the other day,
don't one six and a half feet long? So I
don't know if they're lurking around eating all those small
trout or not. But there's a problem over there somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
It's got I'm trying to figure out what it could
be other if it's not food, and it's not fishermen
taking them out of there or throwing them back. Yeah,
this lack of keepers, it's kind of come back.

Speaker 3 (01:25:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:25:16):
I'm scratching my head and I'm not coming up with anything.
I still want to believe it's environmental somehow where we've
just changed, we've changed that based system so much over
the last few years that maybe there's some sort of imbalance.
I don't know what's missing though. If there's that much food,
it should be able to accommodate as many fish as

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there are. That's kind of how nature takes care of
it after a freeze. If the population gets knocked down
and they're trying to replenish it, Nature's trying to replenish it.
It provides tons of food for the surviving fish. So
I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

Speaker 5 (01:25:54):
Well, I don't know if it does or not either.
But you know, as far as the fishing pressures concern,
that takes care of itself. You're guys are going well,
I mean the boat ramps that that I go to
that used to have one hundred boats in them on
the weekend now have ten. Well, that's not it, okay.

(01:26:18):
And I just wanted to plant a seed. And uh,
maybe some other year callers out there are listening in.
Maybe they've got an answer to it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
I don't know, but we'll find out.

Speaker 5 (01:26:30):
Uh uh, And I hope that, uh, the fishing down
South Texas is real good this this winter. Uh, maybe
I'll have to hook up and go down there.

Speaker 1 (01:26:43):
Yeah, there have been some some pretty good trout caught
up at the Galveston bassis and this just this past
week even, but by by this time of year, I
would have expected more. Let's let's get another coal front
through here and kind of see if that gets them
into a little bit more predictable pattern. See what we
can do, all.

Speaker 5 (01:27:04):
Righty ok, buddy?

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
Yeah? Thanks Rick?

Speaker 1 (01:27:07):
Yeah you too, Rick, Thanks a lot man, Audios. Wow,
I'm calling blooney on gar being able to devour all
the bigger trout and leave the little ones behind. If
I'm a predator and there are tons of little fish

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that aren't experienced in trying to escape predators, then I'm
going after those little fish. I'm not eating fifteen inch trout.
And I don't think the gar has the brain to
be that selective and target fish that are fifteen or
sixteen inches and leave alone the fourteens and thirteens. Uh.

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That one doesn't. That one doesn't hold water for me.
And I'm trying to think of what does. And I
keep coming back to something to do with the the
changes in that entire bay system, and I'm not I'm
not sure exactly which one of those might do it.
Oh my goodness, I just watched the guy on TV
just absolutely he the fish that he caught had kind

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of inhaled his little swim bait, and the barb was
stuck somewhere inside that fish, pretty deep. And this guy
absolutely with his with the palm of his hand just
slapped that he was holding the fish by the lip
and slapping really hard at that lure to dislodge dislodge
the barb. And no way he did that without damaging

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that fish. That's just unnecessary. That They've got to do
something about that. And the only thing that they can
do to make that work is get the barbs out
of there, because then you can reach in there. First
of all, you need to have a little pair of
plyers on your on your belt, and you just reach
in with those plyers and you can get that barbarous
hook out from just about anywhere without doing any damage
to the fish. Wish they'd think about that, all right,

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Holy cow, we're getting right up to the top here,
aren't we. Good grief, Good gully. Haven't talked about deer
season at all, really, but I want to do that.
And I did hear a good story recently about antler development,
A good story about I have lots of them about
kids shooting their their deer this year, and I'm so
glad that more and more people are are starting starting

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these kids slow and bringing them up with always with
a little bit room left to improve up until they
get into adulthood, and then you can just tell them, okay,
you want to go shoot a big deer, use your
own money. Because a lot of us, as dads, want
those kids to really do well. They want those kids

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to really love the hunting experience. But what I think
some dads neglect is the fact that the experience is
what these kids enjoy. The experience is going hunting with
their dad. If they get to shoot any thing, that's
a bonus, whether it's a pig or a whatever. If

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they if they get something that's a bonus. When it's
time for them to shoot a deer, maybe start them
out with a dough at least for one season. Say
you know, we'll we'll maybe we'll take a swing at
getting you a buck next year, and just leave it
at that. Don't jump from a doe to twelve point

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two hundred inch deer, because that that's the top of
the heap and there's nowhere to go from there. I've
talked about that ad nauseum. I won't do it here
seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com all the way out.
Let me tell you about Belleville Meat Market where they
are processing deer all day every day. Now, they're not
open all day every day to drop off, but the

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processing is going on rapid fire, and it's taking up
an entire building that they built about I don't know, gosh,
it's been the better part of seven eight years ago now,
so that during deer season they run three lanes of
traffic by the front door of that place, and as
soon as you pull up, somebody's gonna come out there
with a big old cart to get all that meat

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out of your truck or suv or whatever you're driving
and into the processing house. And then you go in,
you get to look at a menu that just reads forever.
There's so many options of what you can do with
that deer ears. And then you get to go over
across the street and eat a nice barbecue lunch right
out of Belleville Meat Market with all the trimmings. You

(01:31:34):
talk to other hunters out there and talk about your experience,
what kind of deer you got, and where you hunt
and all that good stuff. It's a very fun, friendly
place to spend an afternoon on a beautiful day like this.
They got that big old patio where you can eat
outside now taking orders. By the way, tis the season
for pecan smoked turkeys that are absolutely delicious. They average

(01:31:56):
about thirteen twelve, well, eleven to thirteen pounds, let's call it,
and that's plenty to make a nice meal for about
ten to twelve people. They say, beef, jerky, turkey, jerky,
dry sausage, dry stick, everything you can imagine for grabbing,
go snacking, whether it's just to drive to a baseball
tournament or to drive to the deer lease or to

(01:32:17):
the boat dock or wherever you're going. And of course
they've got those stuffed pork tenders in several different flavors,
and then just everything else you've always enjoyed at Belleville
Meat Market fifteen minutes north Sealy, fifteen minutes south of
Hempstead on Highway thirty six, or online anytime at Belleville
MeetMarket dot com. That's Belleville meat Market dot com. Third

(01:32:41):
hour starts now. Thanks for listening, certainly, do appreciate it.
Let me I've got one little piece of business I
gotta take care of here. I'm gonna click that, I'm
gonna click this, go down to here? Where did he go?
Come on? Come back?

Speaker 7 (01:32:55):
Come back?

Speaker 1 (01:32:57):
That goes there and there we go. That's what I
was looking for. So let's go to is that faux
pro on the line, Reggie? Was that faux pro? Or
did he bail on me? He may have chickened out? Yeah, okay,
let me go get him faux pro? What's going on? Man?

Speaker 6 (01:33:20):
Man, I'll tell you what it is. We got some
phenomenal fishing right now. It's like this, it's like the
second I'm going to call it the third crappie spawn
of the year going on there out of here, and
it's like, dude, it's like I don't know if you
saw my post from yesterday, but it's like, it's like
saltwater fishing the way I look at saltwater fishing. So
my crappie last week were shallow but over deep water. Okay,

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So I go there, I go there yesterday and they're
still seven hundred and forty two thousand crappie on this
on this cover, but they're all like, you know, eight
nine ten inch crappie, which is great kind of relating
to your trout thing, which is great if you got
a kid out there and you just want to catch him. Right,
So I go looking for I go looking for these
bigger fish, because if I got to measure my throwing back,

(01:34:05):
that's just the way I fish. But I'm when I'm
me hunting. So so I go looking, looking, looking, and
finally I decided to go bass fishing. I caught a
quick limited bass in probably an hour.

Speaker 1 (01:34:17):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:34:17):
And then while I was up there bass fishing, I
keep my life scope on, just looking around and I
and I saw one stumping three to four foot of
water and had five or cent croppy on it. And
I said, so I got my crappie stick out. Boom
boom boom, big crappie. I'm talking two pound class cropping.
So I started following that pattern, and I went to
one place, I thinking, okay, we're going normally bass fish

(01:34:39):
this time of year. I went there. I spent an
hour and a half though between a fifty yard stretch
and almost limited out in two to four feet of water.

Speaker 1 (01:34:49):
Wow already, huh, holy cow.

Speaker 6 (01:34:52):
But it's just it's just it's just stupid how easy
it was. But I had a blast doing that. I
was supposed to take a guy as Grants Grant sent
out to Day to look for the White Bash or
the White Bash run. But Grandson six, I guess on
to these honeydew.

Speaker 1 (01:35:06):
Day doesn't have to be.

Speaker 4 (01:35:09):
That doesn't have to be.

Speaker 6 (01:35:10):
I may still get the boat out, but the lake
is so low. I had to push my boat off
the trailer yesterday for fear of dropping off the end
of the boat. Rap wow, wow, fun.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
No, that's not something you want. That'll ruin your day
pretty quick. One.

Speaker 6 (01:35:25):
Oh yeah, for sure. I sent you, like I said,
I sent you a little a little Twitter thing and
and uh, I know you're about to talk about it.
But on the MLB golf thing, the reason I'm going
to view it is only because I'm a hardcore baseball
fan and it's kind of like you with your buddies
on the golf course giving each other grief on good
shots or bad shots. That's really all I want to

(01:35:45):
see for the entertainment purposes. But I don't think I'm
going to see any Tiger Wood ask golf going on
out there. But for me, it's just entertainment to see
the players bancher with each other.

Speaker 1 (01:35:55):
They can play golf, and there's a reason for that
because most of them when even when they travel, they
a lot of them take their golf clubs with them
and if they've got a half a day, they go
play golf. They'll play golf in the morning and go
to the baseball park in the afternoon. A lot of
them they play religiously at spring training when they've got
days off. They play all through the off season. They

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take lesson after lesson after lesson. They ought to be
good golfers. I get that, But for me, if I
want to watch golf, I want to watch people who
can really play. It doesn't I don't want to see
people who play like me or a little bit better playing.
I want people who can really hit shots. And I

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know some of them can, and that's cute and all,
but they're they're claim to famous baseball and I don't know,
kind of cringe.

Speaker 6 (01:36:49):
For you have to learn anything, Like like you said,
with the PGA guys, they're pulling handies in a in
a softball tournament. You know who wants to see that?

Speaker 1 (01:36:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:36:59):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:37:00):
Yeah, I don't want to watch football players play basketball.
I don't none of that. Just just let let them
be what they are. But I think some of these guys,
I don't know, I don't know why they do it.
I wonder if there's some sort of like they missed
the spotlight, they missed being fawned over, they missed the
the accolades and all of that. And now the only

(01:37:21):
redeeming value to this, I think is what you're talking about, though,
is if they they truly let loose with how they
used to ride each other on the baseball field. Or
you know, boy, you never hit anything that far on
the on the baseball field, buddy, but that was pretty good. Whatever,
Or they shank a dry and somebody's gonna at some point,

(01:37:43):
somebody's gonna holler foul ball. When somebody yanks one left
or right, that's gonna happen. I bet on that.

Speaker 6 (01:37:52):
Twitter link I said, if you got a chance to
look at it, you know it is Joe Carter making
his long put and he's just running around yelling at
Mookie bitch about whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:38:00):
So that's funny to me, is entertaining?

Speaker 1 (01:38:02):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 4 (01:38:03):
I'm not watching I'm not watching golf.

Speaker 6 (01:38:05):
I'm just watching baseball players act like a bunch of
big kids.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
That's a good point. Yeah, I might be able to
accept it as that. As baseball players, and frankly anybody
who plays baseball for a living to a good extent,
they are kids still enjoying what they loved as a kid,
and I like that. I do like that about any
professional sport. These kids that most of these kids who
grew up playing little league or pee wee football or whatever, basketball,

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any of that stuff, and made it to professional sports,
that's just in them. They worked hard for that. They
deserve that to still get to have fun and make
a great living at it. I can't. I'm not taking
any of that away from them. It just kind of
it's cringey. I might watch five minutes to see if
I can can handle it, but I'll have to maybe
change out after that. Somebody better do something really funny

(01:38:54):
that doesn't look staged either. I don't want that.

Speaker 4 (01:38:58):
That's what I'm hoping it's not.

Speaker 3 (01:38:59):
Stay.

Speaker 4 (01:38:59):
I hope the guys are just real.

Speaker 6 (01:39:00):
Just like if me and you were out there and
we shank a shin or you throw a buz bait
into a tree, I'm gonna give you grief about that
squirrels or something like that, you know, squirrel clothes man
look at to aim lord. But on the way out
of I'm trying to get my nephew to call you
today from my.

Speaker 4 (01:39:18):
Nephew, Michael from a Swiss houp, because he's got the details.

Speaker 6 (01:39:22):
On the game warden deal where his son, first time
out on the bay got checked by a really cool
game warden and then they got checked by a different
game ward It turns out at a refuge somewhere and
I won't say where who, but a refuge somewhere with
a game board really gave these kids a lot of
grief when he could have said, you know, I understand,
you got you got pictures of documentation what you called.

(01:39:44):
And it came down to they didn't know they had
clean birds without the wings, but they only had five birds,
and they had the pictures of the previous hunt, the
game board. They talked to all that stuff, and it just,
you know, you get the young guys trying to maybe
maybe he's trying to make a name, maybe he's strictly
black and white law. But I've talked to a lot
of older game wards. It's like, man, I understand you've
got documentation. Don't do it again.

Speaker 4 (01:40:07):
It was just kind of kind of rubbed me the
wrong way.

Speaker 6 (01:40:09):
The way this particular game boarding action, you know, it's unnecessary.

Speaker 1 (01:40:12):
Yeah, yeah, I'd be interested in hearing that story. If
you can get him a call.

Speaker 4 (01:40:16):
Hopefully i'll call it you there tomorrow. I'll try to
wake him up.

Speaker 6 (01:40:18):
So how old is See, he's only about ten years
younger than me, so he's in his forties.

Speaker 4 (01:40:25):
Oh lord, he actually.

Speaker 6 (01:40:27):
And congratulations to him. He just got his uh he
bought his first Skeeters. It's a used skeeter, but I
used to have one. It's a Skeeter Eye class. So
I'm gonna be getting with him, training him on proper
operation and good safety and all that kind of stuff,
you know, to get him out there to have to
run a boat at fifty to sixty plus miles an
hour and be safe about it.

Speaker 4 (01:40:45):
So yeah, it'll be fun training them up.

Speaker 1 (01:40:46):
So all right, man, Well, good to hear from you.
As always, folk bro, keep me posted all the boss
you've got it man, Thanks audios.

Speaker 7 (01:40:56):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (01:40:56):
Yeah, that this MLB golf thing, it just it it
smells a little fishy to me. Honestly, I think there's
gonna be some some scripting done and some lines that
they want to get in. Otherwise they they wouldn't be delaying.
They would they would broadcast live if they thought they

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would have enough stuff. There's a there was a pitch
I saw for it that says, see every shot and
every and watch every putt or whatever. That's not going
to be what they can show of a two day event.
The first day, I think it was Wednesday, was a
pro am to raise enough money to get the production

(01:41:38):
costs down, I guess. And then the two days of
competition between these guys. I for sure there's nobody more
competitive than me and whoever I'm playing with. If I
can get a fair bet, well, I don't really gamble
when I play golf. I'm not a I'm no big
money player. But if I can, if I can get

(01:41:59):
a friend one dollar bill or he, if I'm happy,
and if he gets mine, I'm upset because I am competitive.
But I don't know whether. I don't know what motivated
these guys to go do this. It had to have
been a paycheck, but I think I don't know. Maybe
just a competition was enough to get them off the couch.

(01:42:21):
These guys are I'm sure every one of these guys though,
every one of the pro baseball players who are involved
in this play a lot of golf, and they're gonna
be very They're gonna hit some good shots. There's no
question about it that I don't doubt. But I just
wonder whether they really care because they've already they've had
their moments in the sun. They they've been to the
top of the mountain in baseball, and that was that's

(01:42:43):
the mountain they wanted to climb as professional athletes. So
this is more it's clearly entertainment value. It's not gonna
go any farther than that. And if they did it
next year, they might change the entire lineup, or maybe
even just bring back the champion and let bring the
whole another bunch in, just so the same lines don't

(01:43:03):
get repeated and the same things don't happen. I don't know.
I'm a little skeptical about this. When somebody proved me
wrong and tell me it was an amazing thing, I
guess I'll get a report from Faux Pro when it's over.
I think it airs Tuesday evening, I think about eight thirty.
I don't remember exactly which network, but it's MLB Golf
or something like that is the name. Phoenix Knives out

(01:43:26):
there on Main Street in Belleville since nineteen and seventy nine,
now in a newer location. Early early in this year,
they made that move, and they've got a lot more space.
They've got a lot more people in there working and
building knives every single day to make sure that you
and anybody you bring out there with you can find
exactly what you're looking for. Cowboys Zamanski will do a

(01:43:49):
custom knife for you, and there may still be time
to get one before Christmas. I'm not one hundred percent
sure of that. You would have to either call or
go out there. Better yet, just go ahead and go
out there, right there on Main Street in Belleville. You
can't miss them, and get in there and ask while
you're in there checking out the prospects on a custom knife,

(01:44:10):
ask them to show you how to build your own knife,
and kind of on a first come, first serve basis,
they'll do that with you, just to show you what
goes into what they do, and probably as much as
anything else, to show you and me and anybody else
who doesn't do this for a living how hard it
is to actually do it for a living. I'm fascinated
by the idea of taking a chunk of metal and

(01:44:33):
heating it up so much that you can beat it
with a hammer and turn it into something as beautiful
as these knives that these guys build, really amazing, and
every kind of knife you can imagine too, it's out there.
If you need kitchen knives, they got them. If you
need fishing knives, they've got them. If you need any
of the specific hunting knives, they've got them. Pretty much
anything that has a sharp edge on it, they've got

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them at Phoenix Knives, phe nix, Phoenix knive dot com,
Phoenix Knives dot com. Nine twenty on Sports Talk seven
ninety Doug Pike Show, thank you for listening. I certainly

(01:45:16):
do appreciate that. I'll get back. I was gonna reply
to an email, but I don't have time now because
I want to talk to you guys. Now that done,
that's done, Let's go. Shall we to the where's the
name of this thing? Exact name? The Butterfield Bermuda Championship,
where there's some pretty dog on good golfers having a

(01:45:36):
great time. All the storm systems have left that area. Boy,
it wasn't about what Maybe two three weeks ago might
not have been a fun place to be for a
golf tournament, but it is now. I suspect it says here,
let me see if it'll tell me the weather real quick.
I don't think so. It doesn't matter. Oh seventy one
degrees and Sonny, Yeah, that's not so bad. I'm looking

(01:45:58):
down the leaderboard all this event kind of one of
those off season events. But there's some pretty good players
in here. Adam Hadwin and Chandler Phillips both are at
ten under par through their first two rounds. A guy
named Brayden Thornberry I don't know well, and Noah Goodwin
both at nine under par, one shot off the lead.
Rico Hoey, Frankie Kappan the third, and Vince Waley. Oh

(01:46:22):
there's more, Khosho rikuya hoho she know? And Takumi Kanaya
and Zach Blair and Adam shank all at eight under par,
and then just as many guys at seven under par
tied for twelfth, and it goes on down from there.
I'm looking for somebody. He's a big name. Doug Gimms

(01:46:42):
playing he's been playing pretty well lately. There's Matt Kocher.
Matt Coocher is just a grinder man. He's at almost
every tournament. Every time I look at a leader board,
after the first couple of days, he's he's pretty much
made the cut and he's not in a bad spot.
He's tied for twenty fifth right now. But you do
that every day or every week, and you make a

(01:47:03):
pretty good living on the PGA Tour. A little farther down,
some of these people are probably playing because they qualify,
and if they can win it or place well, they'll
make a really good check. And if not, they'll have
worked on a part of their game that needs a
little work, and that's quite valuable to those guys well

(01:47:26):
as well. So that's what's going on in Bermuda. In
case you were wondering around here. I played two weeks
ago and shot a very good score. I played in
a tournament on Monday and struggled to hit any good shots.
I drove the ball better than I've driven it in

(01:47:46):
a long time. I don't think I missed maybe two
fairways all day long. But the problem for me in
a four man scramble was that I don't hit it
nearly as far as I did years ago, and one
of the guy that was the good news.

Speaker 3 (01:48:01):
Though.

Speaker 1 (01:48:02):
The good news was that one of the guys in
our group, he pops it about I don't know, three ten,
three twenty, which is way down past where my ball
usually fell. There were were there were two drives I
think where I may have hit a sprinkler head or
something like that and gotten down with with the big
boys as it were. But it was fun in any event.

(01:48:23):
It was a tournament that Kobe Stevens, the golf apparel guy,
put on to benefit a place called Mosaics, and that
is a group up on the North Side, way up
on the north Side that caters to people who have
struggled with either mental health issues or addictions or dependencies

(01:48:44):
and are looking to find a better path for themselves.
So hats off to them. I'm gonna, actually I'm gonna
interview a woman from Mosaics next week on fifty plus.
If you're interested seven to one three two one two
five seven ninety email me Doug Pike at iMedia dot com.
Rudy and I exchange a couple of emails in which

(01:49:04):
he poses the thought that it's bullreds, which have pretty
much taken up residency in the galveson based system in
the past several years, thanks I guess in large part
to the hatchery program that's been so successful. We're just
we're just loaded up, absolutely loaded up with bullreds in
our bass systems up and down this state. And there's
nothing wrong with that. And if there's so much food,

(01:49:28):
Rudy contends and a couple of guides that it's the
bullreds that are responsible for eating up so many trout.
But I'm having a hard time with that because the
bullreds wouldn't be specific in the size of trout they
ate and so and if they if they did have

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the option, I would imagine they would just plow through
schools of smaller trout, easier to catch trout and in
greater abundance trout than the schools of the larger fish,
which would probably be a little more spread out and
a little more capable of eluding a predator. There's no
doubt in my mind that redfish are eating trout period.

(01:50:11):
In the story, they're eating trout. But to think that
they're eating only keepers and letting the little ones go,
I can't rationalize that. I can't put science to that
and make it work. It just I can't get there.
And it's no knock on Rudy in his theory. And

(01:50:32):
it's the same thing James and Blaine have talked about
that quite a bit. All the redfish in that based
system of ours up here are clearly having impact. But
the conversation I had earlier with I can't remember who
it was who called talking about talking to that seafood
place owner, it said, the shrimpers are only having to

(01:50:54):
make one drag to get their limit every day. So
it's not that we don't have any shrimp in the bay.
It's not that we don't have any mullet in the bay.
It's not that we don't have any small trout and
big trout somewhere in that bay system. Those keepers are
just there. They're m I A now, it's it's possible

(01:51:15):
since we did put the slot in that the pressure
on those slot fish because there are a lot of
boats in the base, there's no question fewer and fewer
as as we talked about with Oh who was that
with Shoop talked talk to him about it a little
bit ago. It's possible that the fishing pressure in Galveston

(01:51:40):
may go down. Thank you. Okay, it's okay. Now that's okay,
Rick Shoop, that's who it was. Uh, it's possible. I
wondered why my microphone stopped. I couldn't hear myself, But
I'm good, Thank you, Frankie. It's quite possible that those
keepers a lot there was There were still a lot
of people catching and keeping trout all through the spring

(01:52:03):
and summer, long after that limit went into effect. I
made a trip down to Galveston Bay. Actually didn't. I
didn't throw any croker. I think I may have thrown
a croker once on the boat. The other two guys
were throwing crokers and we caught our trout. They wanted
to bring some home, and that was fine with me.
They stayed within the limit. But I wonder if fishing
pressure might have anything to do with that, because when

(01:52:26):
you pressure only one class of fish in that fairly
tight slot, it's probably going to have an impact. And
that's I'm spitballing here. I don't have anything to back
that up, and I don't think that the Parks and
Wildlife Department would have set up that slot knowingly if

(01:52:47):
there was any risk to damaging that population. I don't
know why these fourteen and a half inch fish are
dominating the size class right now, but I suspect that
their presence in a year from now will only it
can't do anything but get better. Those fish. They're not
gonna shrink that and if there's food in the bay form,

(01:53:10):
they're not gonna stay the same size either. They've got
to grow, and maybe maybe it'll take a little bit
longer to get that real abundance of keeper sized fish.
Maybe there was a glitch in the number of keeper
sized fish we had to start the new limit. There's
just a whole lot of questions and not a lot

(01:53:30):
of answers because it's only it's been less than a
year since we kicked this off. So let's just kind
of adopt a wait and see. And my gut says
that we're going to see next summer all these fourteen
and a half are going to be certainly longer and
in keeper size, and that will take pressure off a

(01:53:53):
whole lot of this fishery. And I want to go
to South Texas this summer or this winter. That's I
got to put that on my list three or four
times to me even make it happen once and find
a way to change my schedule just a teeny bit.
I have a theory or a proposition I'm going to
pose to management here about something I might be able

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to do to get a little bit more time. Barry Hill.
I spend a good amount of time going into Burry
Hill and picking up food to take back to the
house for my wife and me. Great place to just
go dine out too, very casual, very comfortable, no dress
code except decent. And once you get in there, you're
going to see a lot of people who are just
most of them are going to be locals. You might

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see a couple of golf carts in the parking lot,
and they're on fifty nine at Sugar Creek Boulevard and
right there, right there on the feeder of the freeway.
It's the farthest toward the freeway. Business that's there to
the left when you walk in, family dining tables and
booths to the right. When you walk in, more of

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a sports bar atmosphere, and they're bound to be something
on there, some sporting event going on. This time of year.
There's always basketball, always football on and then outdoor dining
as well, and the nights have been really nice for
that lately. Great Mexican food, great tradition. The two people
primarily who are making all that food in there have

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been in there each ten plus years. They kind of
know what they're doing, and they put their nice little
berry Hill twist on everything that comes out of that
kitchen so you'll remember it next time. Their fish tacos
are incredible. I've bragged about their seafood. Enchiladas also incredible.
Just everything in there. My son used to just wolf
down the cheese. Enchilada is one of the most basic

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dishes there is in Mexican food, and even they have
their own little berry Hill twist. They'll cater anywhere in
town if you want that for a big gathering of
a family or friends or workers whatever. They've done that
for us down here several times, and we've always just
gobbled up everything they bring. Berry Hill sugar Land is

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the website Berryhillsugarland dot com. Thank you, nine thirty five
on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dunkpike Show, Thank you
for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. What does this say,
Oh no, that's messed up. I don't need to do that.
I'll go back over here, push this, see what's going on,

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and huh, I'm getting furniture clearance outlet emails. Now I'm
not interested. Right now, that's done. That's done. To check
that box, check that box. I'm all good with emails. Yeah,
I'm not sure. Just talk about trout and redfish kind

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of got me thinking more about the the bigger picture. Really,
we're looking at specifics within a system that really needs
to be watched closely over the coming years with more
people moving here, more people who are going to discover
just how good our fishing is compared to wherever they

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came from. And that's that's not brag, that's just that's
not Texas Bravada. That's just fact. I've been very fortunate
and gotten to fish in a lot of places around
this country, all the way up the entire East Coast,
almost not know. A couple of states have tiny little

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shorelines that I didn't get to fish, but I fished
all the way up to Maine with very few exceptions,
and all the way I fished the West Coast, I
fished many of even other countries, a lot of them,
and inshore, offshore fresh water, salt water, Texas probably has

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as good or better fishing than anywhere else for anything else.
The one thing I would love to see more here
that we don't have yet is snook. They're very well established,
and weren't for a while, but over the past twenty
years the numbers of snook down there in South Texas
have increased dramatically. Where you can if you want to,

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you can absolutely go down there and tell a fishing
guide I want to fish exclusively for snook, and you're
going to catch some. There's almost no Brownsfield ship channel loaded.
It's not like you get one every cast, but you
will catch some. Our offshore fishing is excellent now. Granted,
up here on the upper coast it's a longer boat

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ride to the bill fishing grounds, much longer boat ride
because you've got to get in significantly deeper water. But
South Texas it's just right around the corner practically as
bill fishing trips go, and once you get there, our
catch rates are as good or better than most places anywhere.
They really are. It's just the ride and the expense

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of going all the way out there. When you've got
these big, giant boats with twin giant diesels turning thirty
plus knots, they're gonna suck out some fuel. These guys. Routinely,
they just keep getting bigger and bigger gas tanks on

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those things because they've got longer and longer to get
farther and farther to go to get to where they
want to fish. But once you get out there, it's
it's pretty spectacular. Inshore fishing outstanding. Are bay fishing, even
even right now with with all the little bitty trout
in the in the Galveston Bay Complex and a lack

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of keepers. There are a lot of places I've been
where if you could go out and catch five trout
of any size in the day, it would be a
pretty good day. They don't know. The East Coast has
has some decent fishery. Florida's fine. I'm Florida's great. I
love Florida, I do, but I couldn't. I couldn't give

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up Texas hunting opportunity just for Florida's snook. And I
still want to go catch one of those clown knife
fish that I've only heard of. I've never actually seen one.
They're pictures of them all over the internet and they're
really really cool looking, and they're all over South Florida apparently.
I talked to Mark Nichols FROMD A. Lewis probably two

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years ago when he was in town for one of
our fishing shows, which is upcoming by the way, and
about month and a half, no two months and a
half in any event, I talked to him and said, hey, man,
I'd like to pop down there and take a swing
at one of those clown knife fish. When's the best
time to come down for that. He said, whenever you

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can book a flight, we can go catch one of
those things just in a snap of a finger. I
like that idea. I want to see one of those.
I still haven't caught a peacock bass in my life.
I never made any trips to Central America or to
South America to do that. I made one trip to
South America and that was for hunting more than fishing,

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and I haven't gotten to do that yet. But I'd
like to catch them, just to see if they're all
that they're billed to be. Other than that, I'm I'm
really comfortable with my options in the state of Texas,
and I'm comfortable in the price of a license to
go chase everything I like to chase, especially since I
hit seniority. The price it's a it's a handy discount

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you get when you earn the stripes I've got on
my birthday cards. It's really it was really a nice
change of pace from having to pay the full freight.
But even if you take that standard combo full combo
super combo license and amortize that against the and weigh

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it against the opportunity you get for having that license,
it's a tremendously affordable thing to have in your pocket.
Don't leave home without it either, kind of like the
old American Express card commercials. And you can keep that
license on you and do what you need to do.
Talking to Faux Pro about his issues with or not

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his but his I believe it was his nephew's issues
with a game warden. A friend of mine had a
similar experience years ago, many years ago, probably twenty five
years ago now and shared it with me. There are,
just like in any other profession, there are people who
are cut and dry by any law enforcement. Especially, some

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people will give you a break if you're honest and
you confess your sin and you just say I didn't
know and have a legitimate kind of reason for not
knowing or not understanding. Maybe it's your first time, maybe
the person sold you the wrong license with the wrong
attachments on. It has happened to that buddy of mine,

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whatever it is. Though, when you're told that there's been
an infraction, you have to understand that all all these
infractions are on you and not on the game warden,
And it's up to the warden to make the decision
whether or not to write you a citation or a warning,
or just warn you verbally, so you're at their mercy,

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and some are going to be more strict than others.
They have within their boundaries. They can either right you
or not write you, depending on how the experience goes,
and depending on how tight they are with the way
they enforce the law. So if you messed up, you

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messed up. That being said, though a lot of game
wardens I've talked to a lot of the older ones anyway,
do try to find a way to teach the personal
lesson without having to rip into their wallet too deeply.
Some some people cop attitudes. It's kind of like they
do with police officers and sheriff's deputies and constables and

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all of these other people that literally are putting their
lives on the line every time they go to work.
I just can't see doing that. If I mess up, Hey,
I messed up. Can we talk about it? And if
that person, that person wearing the badge says no, I'll say, okay, okay.
If they say why did this happen, I'll give them

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an honest answer. And believe me, if you're trying to
cook something up real fast, when you see the lights
come on, or when you see the game warden walking
into your spread, don't don't try to fool them with
something you can make up in your head, because they've
probably heard whatever you can think up. They probably heard
it at least three or four times. And if it's
just too simple, they've probably heard it one hundred times.

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If they've been on duty for a long time, they're
out there working for us. You got to remember that,
and there are rules and we have to follow. I
don't have a problem with that. If I if I
mess up somewhere down the line, and I deserve a ticket,
and I'll take my ticket and get on down the road.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety email
on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com that said,

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though there is room, and these men and women have
that room to not write you, and hopefully they will
for some of some of us if as long as
we're doing the best we can with what we got.
Kobe Stevens, you talk about doing the best you can.
That guy is constantly doing things for other people. He

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constantly hosting. Well, he hosted his own golf tournament this
past Monday. That's the one I got to play in.
And then he also works tournaments. He sets up shop
at these tournaments all around everywhere to make sure that
as much money can be raised for other good causes

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as he can possibly help them make. At his website
and at his store, which is up on the north
side Champions Area, you will find men's apparel, women's apparel,
kids stuff. The men's stuff goes up to four x
two that'll cover were a lot of golfers all the
way up, all the way from little kids all the

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way up to four x that make everybody look good.
If only everybody on the golf courses was wearing Kobe
Stevens gear, it would look pretty fancy. I gotta tell you,
I love his stuff my wife, and my wife bought
me some stuff from Kobe Stevens for my birthday. She
picked some stuff out well, she actually she got him

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from Kobe and that worked out. I don't know what
they did, doesn't matter anyway. The bottom line is Kobe's
been very generous with me now that I've been speaking
for him. He's given me some shirts to wear, and
I'm proud to wear them and represent the brand. It
really is nice. He's a very generous man, and he
makes very cool apparel, golf apparel, outdoors apparel. He's moving

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into the outdoors world, the fishing and hunting worlds, slowly
but surely. And if you're looking for something like that,
that's a good place to look is at his website,
Kobe Stevens Diet Kobe Stevens dot com. Then whatever comes
out with Hi, welcome back nine to fifty on Sports

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Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening.
I do appreciate it. I'm still still I got one
more since one more since the furniture clearance outlet email,
and that's from faux Pro and he found a video
of I'm gonna look at this. Afterward, he found a
video of a buck fight in the water. I'm gonna

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pull it up here, and I want to see something
real quick. Ding come on, Oh lordy, I'll have to
wait till I get back over to my main place
where I can see this thing. It's asking me to
do a bunch of stuff I don't want to have
to do. Uh. Back to where I was kind of
headed a little while ago on overall conservation of our

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fisheries around here in Texas, freshwater and salt water. There
are a lot of organizations out there, and uh, the
one that I'm most familiar with and have followed throughout
its tenure around here is CCA. And there are others,
of course, and some people like them better than others

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and whatever. But the bottom line is, every one of
us who truly appreciates these resources of ours needs to
be affiliated, at least somehow with at least one organization
that genuinely cares about our fish and wildlife in this state.
I don't care which one. Like I said, I know

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the most about and understand best CCA because I actually
edited Tied magazine for ten years and I learned about
the inside what goes on on the inside of that
office building over there and not just what they do
outside the Star Tournament comes to mind, and both Michael
Berry and I will be talking next year, fairly shortly

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into the year actually about that tournament and all it's
going to offer to everybody. That's a fantastic tool that
they have to get new members. And the bonus is
that by becoming a member, if you catch the right fish,
you're gonna win a big old prize. I think I
want to say they gave away nearly two million dollars
worth of stuff last year. I believe that's the number.

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I may be a little off with the prize value
of all of what they do in that Star Tournament
is fantastic, and what they've done for these resources of
ours is fantastic as well. I want to say it
was last year, maybe the year before last, possibly when
they speaking of red fish in the bays eating trout,

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maybe the billionth, the one billionth red fish fingerling was released. Now,
clearly all of those fish don't survive. As soon as
those fish hit the water, and a seagull or a
pelican or any other water bird down on the coast
that eat fish flies over. They're going to start getting hammered,

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but enough of them make it to the point that
we've pretty much recovered the redfish population that had been
through the seventies at least more like the eighties, I
guess in early nineties, nearly depleted by commercial harvest, that

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species was on the brink of extinction, potentially just going
away forever if nothing had been done, Especially in Texas,
we were really down to our last few redfish. And
all of that work for thirty forty fifty years now,
whatever it's been, it's paid off in sphase. Obviously, when
when there's talk of how the red fish are eating
up all the speckled trout, how the red fish in Louisiana,

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the case that was being made against red fish for
the longest time was how they were eating up all
the crabs. That didn't turn out to be the case either.
There's nature will find a balance somehow it will, and
we just have to do our part to give nature
the chance to do that. Whether we need to take

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a hard look at how much development we're doing along
bay shores, whether it means we have to take a
hard look at what's being dumped into our bays, dredging.
There's nothing we can do about the Houston ship Channel.
That's one of the biggest ports in the world, and
we're gonna have to keep that shipping lane open from

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the galvest and jetties up to the Houston Docks. Nothing
we can do about that, but we still can in
smaller ways make sure that that water stays clean as possible,
that we mitigate any damage that's going on. If there's
a spill somewhere, whether it's chemical or oil or whatever,
we take care of that as fast as we can,

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and just do our best on the fresh water too.
I'm gonna I'm gonna keep watching these fishing shows and
try to count how many times the fish are just
horribly mishandled and hooks are ripped out of their mouths,
and it just it really disturbs me that I'm working
so hard with barbless hooks and trying to get everybody

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else on board with it. Honestly, if you'll try it
for six, eight weeks, ten weeks, or let's call it
ten fishing trips, make sure that every barb, every hook
you throw out into the water is barbleous, and I'm
fairly confident that you won't notice any difference in your
catch ratio, if you're able to keep tight line, and

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if you're able to kind of learn after one or
two little slip offs, how to manage the rod tip
to keep that line tight when the fish is jumping
around in the air. You're not gonna lose that many fish.
It's not gonna bother you. I promise you it won't,
and it'll save you some trouble. I had that problem
about what was it two three weeks ago now, where
where a crank bait came out of a fish's mouth,

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not that far off the rod tip, but far enough
to have enough line for it to just one of
the hooks on the back of the crank bait just
absolutely buried itself in my between my triceep and my
bicep and pardon me, on my left arm. That's I
crank right handed like most people do. I crank with
my right hand. And I looked down and I thought, okay,

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it's now or never did I Did I get it
right by telling people that Barbara hooks will save them
a trip to the the urgent care clinic? Or did
I not? And I reached down and I pushed that
I picked that little hook up and I pushed it
backwards and it slid out of there like a like
a toothpick coming out of a.

Speaker 6 (02:13:49):
Well.

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My muscles are bigger than pudding. Hey, I gotta go,
that's what the music means. I'll be back tomorrow morning
at eight. I hope you can join us. Then get outside,
have some fun, get some vitamin D, get some vitamin H,
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