Surf's Up!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Saturday morning starts right now. We'll try to get off
to a good start. It was cooler this morning, and
I know most of us we're kind of hoping for that.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
You know.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's interesting because we were getting we were getting highs
in the eighties and lows in the sixties for quite
a while. And I'll guarantee you, I'll guarantee you that
come next August we'll be begging for that weather. Now.
More recently we've been complaining that it was just too warm. Oh,

(00:32):
it's too hot. Right now, it's eighty degrees. Man, won't
that be a welcome sight when we get through summertime?
Somehow another weather change. It shouldn't surprise anybody. This is
just this is how Southeast Texas works.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Now.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
The fronts that get down here have usually lost most
of them. Talking about northers, they usually lost most of
their punch by the time they get here, which is
fine by me. That is perfectly fine with me. We
pay for not having to deal with blizzards in having

(01:11):
to deal with hurricanes and swampy conditions. What do they
call us the tropics? That sounds so the tropics, Frankie,
that's almost set. That almost sounds romantic. We live in
the tropics, but if you said we live in the swamp,
that's probably as close to accurate as anything else around here.

(01:35):
You walk out in the morning and you can cut
the air with a knife. There's so much humidity. And
I'm pardon the cliche, I know everybody's heard that five
million times, but yeah, I prefer to talk about it
as the tropics. It doesn't make me feel any better.
I'm just astounded sometimes at how much moisture there is
dripping off my house on a morning when it's just

(01:59):
there's partly humidity. We've got water all over the driveway,
all around the drip line of the house. But enough
of that, I guess. Huh, so we were getting yet
another front. And these things tend to drive fishermen a
little bit crazy, uh, especially younger ones, the inexperienced ones

(02:21):
who haven't really dealt with, uh, what's really a fairly
moderate temperature change and moderate water temperature change. It's gonna
cool the water off, no question, all the way down
the little the temperatures on the on the coast are
going to fall, but not so much that they're going
to run the fish off into somewhere else. To think

(02:44):
about this, A lot of fishermen tend to overreact to front.
The fish don't want to pack up and leave, and
they don't want to swim another inch farther than they
have to. It's not like the way people are leaving
New York in California right now, Okay, And they've got
good reason to run as far as they can, well
at least into a state where there's no state income tax.

(03:05):
I'll start there. But that's a story for a different color,
or a different time and place, a story of a
different color. Primarily for fifty plus. I've talked about that
ad nauseum, by the way, I shifted my format for
fifty plus. And I don't know if I told you this, Frankie,
but what I'm doing now, because there's so much bad
news right now, what I'm doing and I'm still touching

(03:28):
on the things that are really important to this country
right now. But every time I do one of those,
and I've shortened the bites on those things, and then
every time I do one of those, before I do
another one, I insert some good news. And there's all
kinds of good news if you go looking for it.
There really is. Everybody thinks the world's just falling apart
and there's nothing good going on. Well, there's a lot

(03:51):
of good going on in this world, and that's what
I bring up. Pardon me in fifty plus on noon
weekdays over on KPRCA AM nine to fifty. What I'm
doing here, I'm actually changing up a little bit. I've
had some people ask me to focus, especially in the
in the seven and eight o'clock hour today and in
the eight o'clock hour tomorrow, to focus more, not in

(04:18):
greater detail, but just generally a little bit more on
the outdoor side of things. Every now and then, I
would catch myself talking a little bit about golf a
little earlier than I probably wanted to. And I know
a lot of a lot of all of you play
a little golf, and you do a little fishing. But
I want to make sure that I take care of

(04:39):
my outdoors people at least as much as golf. I
think for most of us, golf is something that we
can accept will never be extremely good at. It is
for me anyway, And as much as I as much
time as I can, I devote to practice. I devote
to listening. By the way, I'm gonna be talking in

(05:00):
the nine o'clock hour talk to Tommy O'Brien about course management,
which is something that really in anybody's game. If you
manage your way around, you'll shoot better scores. And that's
kind of the same way it is with fishing. If
you manage how you fish, and if you have a
legitimate plan when you leave the dock on on plant,

(05:22):
not just a plan two or three, Plan A, plan B,
Plan C, and really work on it, you're probably gonna
catch more fish. And I'm gonna go into detail on
some of that as we go along today. Back to
this front thing. Though, it's enough to change the pattern
a little bit, but the fish aren't gonna just disappear.
And where are they gonna go? Maybe a little deeper,

(05:45):
maybe to a shoreline or a little bit shallower water.
As the sun comes back out behind this part of it,
they're gonna tend to run from that initial shock of
the cool but as soon as the sun pops back out,
they'll try to find a shallow, clear spot where they
can soak up a little sunshine. Not what we do,

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and they here's the bottom line, it's conservation of energy.
Every animal on this planet, except people, every animal on
this planet that has to fend for itself outside that.
They don't have a house to go back to. They
don't have grocery stores. Animals don't have any of that.
They rely on what nature provides. And they're not gonna

(06:27):
walk or jump, or fly or swim an inch farther
than they have to to get what they need that day.
They don't want to. If they don't want to leave,
Let's say, oh, pick one, leave Trinity Bay and go
to East Bay just because the wind's blowing out of
the north and they want to get out of it.

(06:49):
Think about this, here's a way. It makes a little
bit of sense. Hopefully, so it's pervasive throughout fresh water
and salt water. It's geese do it, Ducks do it,
deer do it. Every animal that's reliant on nature does it.
Conservation of energy. They don't expend one calorie that's unnecessary

(07:13):
to keep them going. Now, they'll stock up. If they
find a great food source, they'll stock up on it.
They'll eat as much as they can. If they're lacking
food and kind of wondering where their next meal is
going to come from, then they'll reduce their activity to
conserve energy so that when a member of the flock

(07:34):
or the school, or the herd or whatever comes back
and says, hey, I found something to eat, follow me,
they'll have the energy to get there. Think about it
this way. If your bedroom gets really chilly at night,
do you pull up the covers or do you get
up and move to the other side of the house.
You just pull up the covers. That makes sense, Frankie,

(07:55):
that makes a lot of sense. Thank you, thank you
very much.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I thought about that a little while ago, and it's
a good example of what I'm talking about. If oh goodness,
if the street floods, okay, get a little water up
to the up to the middle of your yard, the
street kind of flooded, do you move? No, probably not,

(08:19):
probably not. There's no reason to move. You just keep
an eye on it and make sure that the gutters,
make sure that the city clears the gutters. You make
a few phone calls, but you don't pack up and move.
A roof leak, you don't. You don't burn the house
down because of roof leak. You fix the roof. Conservation

(08:39):
of energy and resources. At that point, you know there's
no reason to move. Because your roof leaks. You just
fixed the roof. No reason to go to the other
side of the house. Because it's a little chili. You
just pull up the covers and dive up in there
where it's nice and warm and toasty. Man, my, my
circadian rhythm is is so dialed into getting up between

(09:01):
five thirty and six thirty every morning. And now I've
got a couple of I've had a few nights where
I'm I'm waking up a little bit earlier, and there's
this window and I don't know what it is for you,
but for me, it's about an hour. And if I've
awakened an hour or more before the arm the alarm
is going to go off, I'll I'll try really hard

(09:25):
to go back to sleep. If it's less than an
hour before the alarm goes off, I'll lie there and
think about whether or not I should try to go
back to sleep, and maybe I will, maybe I won't.
But usually I end up just staring at the ceiling, realizing,

(09:45):
because I hear the radio turn on, that's my alarm,
that I've just wasted that hour wondering whether I should
fall back asleep, And it's that's just the crazy World
in which I live seven one three two one two
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(10:06):
Live in in color. Well, yeah, yeah, this is actually
a very colorful studio, especially since Adam and Adams started
doing TV. We've got all kinds of little things in here.
Got one, two, three, four big TV screens, one of
which I'm gonna put back on the bass Master channel here.
Hang on, I'd like to get that knocked out right now.

(10:26):
Where Yeah, there it is, Hold on one second, there
go down down, bam, I watch Pardon me. I watched
this channel as much as anything for reasons to point
out that there's a little bit of hypocrisy in big
time bass fishing still because the the effort that most

(10:51):
recreational anglers go to to protect those fish, to take
care of them whin they're hooked, to release them gently,
and all of that. Some of these pro tours don't
require anglers to be nice to the fish. They're in
a hurry, they're on a clock. I get that, I
get all of that, but the way some of these

(11:13):
fish are handled. Knowing what I know about how bass
react to harsh being grabbed, having hooks ripped out of
their mouths. That's one thing that they don't show a
whole lot of on TV because when they slip and
show how some of these guys really manhandle those fish

(11:34):
and just rip the hooks out of their mouths so
they can hurry up and get another cast, it's disturbing
to me. It's very hypocritical, and I wish more of
us would point it out to them that if they're
not going to do it right, we're not going to watch,
We're not gonna support and the fishing industry is not

(11:54):
gonna quit supporting them because those guys they make a
lot of money selling tackle for us other for companies
that want their lures to be seen and thrown. I
get it, rods and reels, lures, boats, all of that stuff.
I understand marketing as well as anybody. This is That's
how I keep my show going. I need sponsors. I
need people who who consider me a good person to

(12:18):
rely or to present their product, and I've got I'm
looking at my list right now of the people who
are supporting me this morning, and I in turn intend
to do my ever loving best to support their businesses
because I've gotten to know them, and I know that
if I send you there, you'll be treated right. If
you go to to get something from one of my sponsors,

(12:40):
you'll get exactly what you want. Frankie, I know you
well enough to know that you told Aaron to hang
on for a minute because we're going to go to break. Yes, sir, Gosh,
I'm a mind reader now. Not well, no, not really.
That's just knowing who I'm working with, knowing that you're
crackerjack on top of everything. So let's do that. We'll
get a break. We'll come back and see what's on

(13:01):
Aaron's mind. El Kubano speaking up. Good sponsors. Holy col
I met Manny Lopez probably I don't know, six months
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and by make, I mean actually manufacture from some of

(13:23):
the finest tobaccos available around the world. They make them
right there in Texas City. It's one of only four
dozen cigar manufacturing places in the entire country, and most
of them are in Miami, somewhere in Florida at least
not Manny Lopez, though he and his dad came over
here in two thousand and six. They are well. They

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have three or four guys, three or four people. There's
at least one woman I know over there who rolls cigars,
and then three or four others and Manny. They'll all
get in there because they make and ship out hundreds
of cigars every day. You can go to either one
of the smoking lounges. He has the one at the
factory there on Texas in Texas City on Main Street,

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or there's also one in League City, which is more
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either end where the breeze whatever it is, and today's
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(14:30):
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on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank
you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Seven one
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at iHeartMedia dot Com. As I've said so many times,
and I will say more than once today, probably I'm here.
I like hearing from my listeners. I really really do.

(15:37):
I want to know what's on your mind, but keep
it topical. Let's go talk to Aaron. Let me see
if I can jiggle this over here. I got him,
I got him, Aaron, what's up?

Speaker 5 (15:46):
Man?

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Thought I had him? Let me take I'll put him
back on the hold. Try you try there we go.
What's up?

Speaker 6 (15:57):
Hey, not much, just uh, a little early to work.
And I turned the radio on and there you were
and thought i'd call you.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Great.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
I went, I went down.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
I went down to surfside yesterday and it was like
almost six feet of eight seconds it was.

Speaker 7 (16:13):
It was pretty nice.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
I'll bet it was man, I'll bet it was god Lee,
I saw. I got to get back in the water somehow.
I haven't served in too long. I'll just leave it
at that. And and I've actually started a little bit
of an exercise program, so I might be able to
paddle out and probably rest for about twenty minutes and
then maybe try to catch a wave.

Speaker 6 (16:34):
You know, that's funny you say that because I was
riding a ten foot board, which is way too big,
and I made it out to the third sandbar.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, but I had nothing left in my arms. I
couldn't even sit up on the.

Speaker 6 (16:47):
Board and went for a way not cleaned up, and
then I couldn't Uh. Uh, I'm in bad shape. I
got to start a routine of working out.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
You know, just do what I did. Just commit to it.
And even if you just do a little bit one day,
just commit to doing about fifteen minutes a day of
If you've been surfing a long time, you know what
what muscles you need to use, you know what exercises
you need to do, and just do something, even if
it's just go take a walk to get your endurance

(17:21):
back up, you know, maybe just burn those muscles a
little bit farther down.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
Who, my buddies were right where I was surfing at
so they didn't see me because I felt like a
total I know.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
That's That's what I'm afraid i'd do. I've been tempted
to go back down to Corpus and surf with Cliff
a little bit. But before I do that, I'm gonna
have to get in way better shape because that old
goat is He's tough man, he really is. He got
a bad shoulder. He's been surfing on one bad shoulder
for probably two years.

Speaker 5 (17:55):
That's going to do.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, but you got well he does it every day though.
So guy, that was big yesterday, then, wasn't it?

Speaker 5 (18:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (18:02):
It was, uh, you know it was head high at.

Speaker 7 (18:05):
Least on a drop.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
Wow, it was you know, the it was second sandbar.
It's hard to get through and sometimes and I'm sure,
but it was third sandbar, and the water was real nice,
and it was you know, it was the eight or
five and it was sunny and warm, you know, but.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
You go wet suit and all or know, what's a
vest anything?

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Oh I had a wetsuit.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
What's the water? I hadn't looked at the water temperature
in a little while. But it's not going to be
any warmer today than it was yesterday, that's for sure.
It's going to be colder for a few days.

Speaker 5 (18:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
That's something else that I never really liked, I sir.
When I was younger, of course, if you need a
wet suit, you put one on. But now it's just
so restrictive, and it just it's a workout just getting
a wet suit on.

Speaker 5 (18:51):
Yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 6 (18:53):
You know that might be an easier but yeah, it
just putting.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
One on and taking one off.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, and you know what might be a good exercise
regimen for surfing. Go go buy somewhere, go find one
of the old school wetsuits and just put it on
and take it off ten times a day. Yeah, all right, man, Well,
thank you for the call, Aaron. I appreciate that. I'm
a little jealous that you got to ride some waves.
Even if you didn't ride them, well, you were there

(19:21):
and you were in the.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Water, dude, I didn't.

Speaker 5 (19:24):
I didn't.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
I caught one wave and I got up to my knees.
I didn't even go to ways.

Speaker 7 (19:30):
I'm laughing.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
I'm laughing with you, man. Please.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, my left hand is messed up. The fingers won't
open all the way. So I'm having a hard time
pushing up.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
Oh my god, because I grabbed the rails when I
stand up typically, yeah, yeah, put my thumbs on the rails.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Yeah, pop up. Well we don't. The only thing that
pops on us now is our joints, you know. Yep,
we're popping up now. That that was a long time ago,
hey man. And it's great to hear from you. If
you get down there and see it like that again,
take it, take a picture and send it to.

Speaker 7 (20:04):
Me, will you.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
Okay, I'll do it.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Thanks Saron, great, call man later. Yeah, you bet appreciate it, Yes, sir,
you too.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
We got surfers in the crowd this morning. You know
that there was a time. There was a time when
I'm not saying whether I did or didn't once or twice,
if the waves were exceptional. I might leave school a
little bit early. I never faked sick to get out
of school, but I think once or twice a couple

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of my buddies and I just said, look, man, it's
glassed off head High Glass at the beach. We gotta go.
And we would coordinate it the night before. Get the
surfboards out of the house, get the wax out of
the house, get get everything we needed out of the
house and into somebody else's car, whoever was going to drive,
and then I think, like around lunchtime or so, we'd

(20:59):
find some reason to disappear. And fortunately it didn't. It
didn't impact us, any of us. We didn't get in
too much trouble. I think there might have been some
a couple of staff members at the school in hindsight
who may have either been surfers or were still surfers,
but they didn't talk about it. School was school. When
we had to we had to work it all out.

Speaker 8 (21:20):
Man.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
It was hard to resist as a as a young teenager.
Head High Glass. That was the kind of waves you
could trust to get you straight through the surf side
pier without any commotion. And that was the kind of
thing we were looking for then down at the jetties
we served at surfed Galveston some, but not as much
as Freeport and Surfside or Quintana. We went down there

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a lot, made trips, made trips down south all the
way to the bottom of Texas. Surfed up and down
this coast, not much east to here, though. It's really
not that it doesn't set up that well for surfing
east of here. But man from here down and if
anybody tells you that Galveston doesn't get good waves, go

(22:05):
back and just look up pictures of what the good
days look like. And the good days here look as
good as anywhere else. The one thing that is very
different here than on oceanic coast, especially because of the
way we've been silted up for millions of years from
what's coming down the Mississippi River the bottom here and

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the just the waves don't move as fast, they're not
as strong. It's not an ocean pulse that started twelve
hundred miles away. These are mostly well, a lot of
it's just wind swells. But even when we do get
a good ground swell, it doesn't really clip along with
the same power as the oceanic coast waves do but

(22:52):
it's still fun and it's actually an easier place to
learn to surf, I think, than being somewhere else, being
on the East Coast or the West Coast, especially the
West Coast, that stuff pops pretty hard. East Coast a
little bit more like what we have, but it's it's
still coming out of really really deep water very close

(23:14):
to shore, and it gets gets pretty dicey. Sometimes it's
a lot of fun. It's a good sport too. It
was a million years ago when I was I think
it was actually Joe Doggett did the research. He and
I were talking about it. He asked me one day,
what do you think the most grueling sport is? For conditioning?

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You have to be the best condition to do it,
and surfing wasn't number one, but it was second only
to boxing in the amount of conditioning it takes to
do it professionally. And it made perfect sense to me. I, boy,
you get out there and get a little bit tired
paddling around, especially here and especially before leashes were a thing.

(23:58):
When I started surfing, you paddled out with your surfboard
and a little bit of wax in the back pocket
of your bags. That's what they called the shorts we wore.
Then you had your wax in there. And if you
lost your board and came off your board, you had
either swim to it, or swim to the beach and
then walk way down the beach if there was a
side current a big rip running up the coast or

(24:19):
down the coast and just wait for it to get
washed in, or swim back out wherever it was and
go get it. Those were your only two options. There
was no leash that you could just dive off the
board now these days, and your board comes magically running
back to you like a little kitten. Little kitten that
saw you walk through the door. All right, we got

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seven thirty nine on Sports Talk seven ninety the Dugpike Show.
Thank you for listening. It was something I was looking at.
You know what I'm gonna shift over. I got an
email from David and I want to bring it up
because I haven't thought about this in quite some time,
but I it's worth I wonder if it'll spark a

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discussion or maybe a phone caller tour and at least
an email David Wrights. What was that little it was?
Wasn't it Jimmy Fallon who did a segment where he
like read little cards of things that allegedly were set
you know, just it was made up stuff, But it
was like some sort of reading of cards or questions

(28:21):
or whatever. They would have guests, I think, read from Twitter, Yeah,
that might be it. Well, I'm reading from email, and
David writes, remember when you could choose either a gloss
or Matt finish when buying a new rifle scope. Your
decision was usually based on the finish of your rifle,
so the two matched. It seems that has it seems

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that has all changed. Should you find yourself looking for
a new scope for one of the more classic hunting
rifles and then there's a quote here from let me
see if it attributes the quote, Well, here's what it says,
and it must have come from an online site somewhere.
While most modern scopes are Matt, oh, I bet this

(29:08):
was AI generated. I guarantee it. While most modern scopes
are Matt, high end brands like Laika still handcraft exquisite
gloss finishes for classic rifles, and Buris often offers glass
or gloss options, with some forms suggesting Bushnell might have
them too, but generally gloss scopes are a niche premium

(29:31):
item now, with many enthusiasts buying used, vintage loopholes or
similar It makes sense when you think about it, if
you're if you're shooting a scoped rifle. The finish of
that scope probably doesn't impact your ability to get a

(29:54):
clean shot at the animal. If there's any flicker of
shine of glas off of that scope, if it's aimed
at the animal, it's probably not gonna get to the
animal's eyes unless it comes directly off the lens, which
means that some would be right behind the animal and
it would be beaming into your scope and singing your

(30:16):
your retina. So I don't think it is truly. It's
a cosmetic thing. It's not a functional thing at all.
And if you like matching up your your rifles, finish
or maybe you've got a modern sporting rifle and it's
got nothing button matt finished, there's nothing shiny on it.

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That's okay, you can go get a scope to match.
But it at least warrants some thought, I think. And
I'm looking through my brain and all the clutter in
that at my gun case, my safe, gun safe, and
thinking about all the rifles and all the scopes I
have in there, and I'm not I couldn't tell you

(31:00):
right now which of those scopes is Matt and which
of those scopes is gloss. I know they're all quality scopes. Well,
there's one that I do know is Matt for sure,
But the rest of them I couldn't tell you. I
can tell you their quality scopes, That's what I It

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never crossed my mind, honestly to consider one or the other.
I had when I was buying or buying rifles, buying
scopes and whatnot. I would ask people I knew who
were more were better versed in that than I what
they recommended, and I would take their recommendation. But we

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never talked about Matt or Gloss, not once that I
can recall. There's some things that have fallen out of
my head, but I think a discussion of Mat or
gloss finish on a scope I probably would have remembered.
So you want some of that, Let's get any mail
or two and see. I know some of you guys
are just so absorbed and so much closer to the

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intricacy and options that are available with all things rifle related.
Then I I know enough and I know who to call.
That's I've said this a million times on this show.
I used to get asked pretty often when I was
at the newspaper man, how do you know so much
about so many things? I really don't know all about

(32:32):
all those things. What I know is who to call,
and so I have somebody I can call, and I
may do that during this break to see if we
can figure out exactly what the difference is and who
carries what. I'm going to make a phone call as
soon as I finish telling you about timber Creek, and
maybe we'll have an interview pop up really quickly. That
can somebody who can put this topic of eat to rest.

(32:55):
Timber Creek Golf Club FM twenty three fifty one down
there and friends with twenty seven holes open E well,
not not easy. Know, golf course is easy. I've talked
about that. It's very playable, very enjoyable, no matter what
your skill level. They've got great food, they've got great people,
they've got great instruction right there at the JJ Woods

(33:15):
Golf Academy at timber Creek, and all they want to do.
Anybody who's wearing a name tag out there, their job.
Their job description could read, take care of all of
our guests, take care of all of our players, and
then whatever else you do. But number one is take
care of everybody who comes to that gate, and they do.

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I've been down there, dozens and dozens of times, and
I cannot recall any anything even remotely negative about any
experience I had down there. It's all been good every
time I go, thanks to the good people. Starting at
the top. My buddy Mike runs the place, and he's
run it for decades and done a fine job of

(33:56):
keeping everything running smoothly, getting everybody out, getting them around,
making sure they're having a good time. Timbercreek Goolf Club
dot com. You can make a tea time right there,
right now if you want to. Timber Creek Goolf Club
dot com seven forty nine. Already good. Heavens all right,
We'll find somebody who can take care of this for So.
I got a couple of calls out to a couple

(34:17):
of very good gunsmiths, and I'm going to try to
find one of them who can talk to us a
little bit about this and make some sense of it.
Mike even weigh in, and he said, I'd like to
learn a little more about what's available in rifle scopes
these days, price and quality options. I am looking for
the people who can do that, looking for the people

(34:37):
who put scopes on rifles for a living every day.
As opposed to me, who I own good rifles and
good scopes. But everything I've got on my rifles and
scopes right now has been on them for a long time.
They're still good, and that's why I bought them. That's
why I got what I got, because it's quality stuff.

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But there's other stuff out there. I've had this conversation
with Scott and Oll for several times, and we've talked
about it here about how much things have changed in
pretty much everything really, fishing, hunting, all of the outdoors
gear is improved. And there's nothing wrong with a quality

(35:22):
scope that you bought twenty thirty years ago, nothing at all.
Nothing wrong with a quality scope that was put on
a rifle maybe forty years ago, unless there's been some
compromise to the housing itself, some compromise to a lens.
Whatever things can happen to rifles and scopes that can

(35:43):
render them really not serviceable anymore. But it takes. When
you consider the expected shock to that device every time
you pull the trigger on a big game rifle, the
fact that it lasts as long as it does is
pretty amazing. I don't know of many things that are

(36:07):
made so tough. Actually, I wonder. I wonder if cell
phones are are were designed by people who designed rifle scopes,
because the way we drop our cell phones and pick
them up and just cross a finger and say a
little prayer and touch the button on them. It boy,
dog on. If it's not still working, I'll be darned.

(36:29):
Drop that thing ten feet, dropped at fifteen feet whatever.
You see You see videos of people dropping their phones here, there,
and everywhere on very hard surfaces, sidewalks, roads, whatever, and
they bounce back and start working again. That's kind of
what rifle scopes have to do. That's a it's a
big jolt. If you don't believe it, go yeah, go

(36:52):
shoot a truly big game rifle and feel the impact
of that. Seven one three, two one two five seven
nine to email me, Doug Pike. iHeartMedia outcome. I'd like
to have that conversation. Actually, I'm trying to find somebody
it is not. Honestly, we're what January tenth I received

(37:13):
yesterday in the mail the passes for this year's fishing show,
the fifty first Annual Houston Fishing Show. It's hard to
believe that show has been around as long as it has,
and this isn't on the official schedule. I just wanted
to talk about it because I believe that I have
attended out of the fifty one. Probably. I'm not so

(37:38):
sure I've ever missed one. I couldn't say, and it
would have been an early one for whatever reason I
might have been. Oh I'm trying to think. That would
have been when I was pretty dog one old. So
I may have missed one. I might have been out
of town at least for one of them, but otherwise
I probably made every one of them. I've been around

(37:59):
to watched so many different rods and reels and lures
and boats and you all the terminal tackle. I've probably
seen six dozen iterations of the of the popping cork
displayed at those shows. Oh, there's Forest right there. Let
me go talk to faux pro here. I think, what's

(38:20):
up Forest? What was that buddy, you know, marching through?

Speaker 5 (38:25):
Baby man? I was.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
I was telling you buddy on the line there, that
I'm having to sit here and watch ducks on the
television curiously through the TV. So there's certainly not to see.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
Can't find a wood duck out here right now?

Speaker 2 (38:39):
What you need to do is go find one of
those old duck Hunt games, the old video game hook
it up to your TV.

Speaker 5 (38:46):
You can do that.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
I love that thing, right, I know how sad was that?

Speaker 5 (38:52):
Oh? I love that, dude.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
I played it all the time. But working on a
little bit of sleep deprivation. I took Agi for a
part of a birthday. She'd been dying to see the
new Avatar movie. So we went down there down Nuke
Kenny for an eight thirty viewing, not reallyzing that movie.
It wasn't it wasn't gonna intil midnight.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Oh my word, let me ask you something my son
told me. My son went to just a quick sidebar.
My son went to a movie with his friends a
few nights ago and ended up running later than we
thought coming home. How long were the previews of the
movie you saw?

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Oh my god, I was out actively complaining the movie
is supposed to start eight thirty. I think it actually
started closer to eight fifty. Okay, it was. It was
torture for half an hour. I would be getting there
ten to fifteen minutes after the movie time.

Speaker 5 (39:39):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, I remember that when that started. When when I
was going to movies as a little kid, there were
cartoons that played before the real movie, and now it's
just one one long, boring ad after another that nobody
really wants to see. Good thing, I've got good sponsors.
I like my sponsors.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
Yeah, but she actually made me get up from my
chair and look at my good cabinet earlier. And I
just I just got through, uh, searching the Cosmos for
a rifle scope from my for my rimmage in seven
hundred that I got. You know, my daddy passed away,
and it's probably it's closer to your an eye it
is anything but but it'll still drive nails at two

(40:19):
hundred yards, you know. So I bought a four KS Okay, yeah,
I went in there and look at it. Just nothing
now that done had the original three to nine red
field shiny gloss finish on it, which most of the
scopes were back in the day.

Speaker 5 (40:35):
But I noticed because I looked at several scopes.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
I didn't buy high end, I didn't buy a low end.
I bought what was in my budget, which is a decent, decent,
decent scope. But ninety five percent of them were all
Matt finished. And it seems like now the glossy is
an option, where before the mac was an option. Seems
like it's flipped because almost everything in that cabinet, of
course I bought that academy. Almost everything in that cabinet, well,

(41:00):
that Matt finish out. I didn't see very few glossy
ones even in the you know once it costs two
thousand dollars. That's most of them, all that Matt finish
that I saw.

Speaker 8 (41:09):
You know.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
But well, you know, times changing, and I wouldn't be
surprised at all for us if thirty years from now
it's it's the opposite again. They're gonna go back to it.
Look at the Look at the cars on the highway
right now, there's a bunch of Matt finished cars on
the highway.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Oh yeah, it's like you gotta paint that car today
or you gonna leave it prid you know.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Yeah. Really that's a good point. That's it. I don't
think about that.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
But uh, if we got time real quick. Something you
talked about earlier this morning on patterns and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
With the weather minute and a half, you got.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
To example, okay, perfect example.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
Three weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
We were on Lake Conroe the day before that.

Speaker 5 (41:51):
Pretty good front came in.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
It was southwest, wind, cloudy and windy, everything screen, bring us,
bring a spinner bait, leave all the rest of the
stuff at home. So we targeted deeper banks and was laydowns,
and almost every laydown as you saw had fish on it.

Speaker 7 (42:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (42:08):
And then we went back a.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
Week later post front, still windy, but bluebird skies, and
we noticed after half a day of fishing before we
figured out the fish were still on those shallow foot
foot to half two foot deep laydowns, but they had
all moved to the laydowns where a creek or river
channel was within a few tail kicks from it.

Speaker 5 (42:29):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
They were still on the same cover, but they locked
down and we had to go to a four inch
Texas rig three sixteens outhway, put the poles down and
fish shows laydowns for ten or fifteen minutes when we
were making the water two casts and moving on.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Good lord, you're starting to sell, like you're starting to sell.
Like Mike Ikinnelly. When I fished with him, he said,
I was watching what he was doing. I've told you
this story, but I was watching what he was doing,
and he was out fishing me really bad, and he's
throwing it wood and I'm throwing it wood, and I
finally asked him and said, okay, you're catching the fish.

Speaker 5 (42:59):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
What's the well I've been watching you, Doug, and what
you're you're just throwing to any wood. I'm throwing strictly
the hardwood laydowns. It's like, oh, okay, great. I didn't
know the fish could tell, but apparently they could.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
Yeah, it's like that day we had grass beds, we
had bushes. Yeah, they didn't want the grass, they didn't
want the bushes. They were on hardwood. Wow, points stameter bigger.

Speaker 5 (43:21):
It was that specific, and you had to sit there.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
You might throw a worm in the same laid down
four or five times and all of a sudden tick
you to your line jump and it would just jump.

Speaker 5 (43:28):
He wouldn't run off, he would just.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Have to put it on his nose.

Speaker 5 (43:32):
All right.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
So now now, just we'll just go turn on, just
go turn on the fish finder.

Speaker 5 (43:36):
Okay, I know, right.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
But we did all that without live scope. Yeah, we
never turned the live scope on.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
So I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you, true
to the true to the sport man. All right, okay,
I do I do have to bounce for us. It's
great to hear from you.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
You know that.

Speaker 5 (43:53):
But all right, we'll see her. Yes, good talking, all right.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
You got that, Frankie, Thank you very um much. On
the way out, let me tell you about Houston Gold Exchange. Okay,
this is my friend Brad Schweiss. He has dealt in
precious metals and jewelry for forty plus years. Okay, he's
one of us too. He's an outdoorsman who likes the
direction our country's headed. He likes the way things are going.
He's thrilled that gold is up as expensive as it

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is because a lot of people are coming by to
to drop some off and make some money to pay
off the Christmas bills or whatever it is. And he'll
just sit there and hold on to it till it
goes up some more, because it it will, it always has,
it always will need a good investment. That's a good
time to go see him. Maybe something to get you
out of the doghouse, or maybe something to maybe something

(44:42):
to put a little spark in things around the house.
Who knows, you know what I'm talking about. Go see
Brad or call him. You can call him on his
cell phone two eight one eight five one three nine
five five. That's his cell phone two eight one eight
five one three nine five five. His store is at
West Timer and Harry Ashford, nice little quiet place, very just.

(45:05):
All he's got in there is beautiful pieces of jewelry
and watches, and when you're ready to buy or sell
gold or coins or whatever, he'll take care of that
for you as well. Houston, No, let me start over. Erase, erase, erase.
Houston Gooldexchange dot com is the website. He's a lifelong
member of CCA, was on the board for a while.

(45:27):
There's no AI there, no hard sell. Just just go okay,
just go talk to him about what you can get
for what you have, and I think he'll be very
pleasantly surprised. Houston Goold Exchange dot com. Our number two
starts right now. Thank you all for listening. I am live.
I am sitting in this studio staring at a little

(45:49):
bit of screens, got Frankie on it. He looks about
the size of a mouse on that screen. I know
he's bigger than that over there in the studio. We
are in different rooms, which has taken a little getting
used to. In the old, the old way of doing this,
there was a glass partition between two separate rooms, and

(46:09):
he needs to have a separate room because there's stuff
that he's doing over there that I don't need to
be seeing and working with. And likewise, I'm in here
doing stuff his primary his primary responsibilities keep me on
the air, and he's great at it. I'm glad he's
over there. Mine is to not do anything stupid and

(46:32):
to try, hope, just desperately to entertain and educate my audience.
And like I said, if I don't know something, that's
why I've been But in these breaks, I've been making
phone calls, trying to get one of my gunsmith buddies
on the on the phone, and I'm so far, I'm
I'm three deep in it, and it's a little early,
it's a little late. I don't know what it is

(46:53):
with these guys. I got a hunt sit right here
in deer season. They're out deer honey, so guiding and
doing the things that they do for a living in
this business. And so maybe we'll hear from one. Maybe
we won't, but if not today, then maybe tomorrow. And
I'll keep looking at Mike ask me if I could

(47:13):
find some more available about it too. He sent me
an email and I'm trying. I want to make sure
that I get the right answers to your questions, and
I'm gonna step aside and make sure that I get
in a someone who does this for a living, not
someone who's just reaped the benefit of knowing these guys
so many years. Because I've got good stuff, but I

(47:35):
know that there's good or better stuff out there now,
and I want to make sure that when somebody me
or anybody else recommends something to you, that it's the
right thing. I'll go back to that fishing show that's
coming up. It's not until February eighteenth, so it's not
like you're gonna miss it if you've got something to
do this weekend, so we've got time. But I would

(47:57):
encourage anybody who is who doesn't consider themselves to have
learned everything there is to know about fishing mark some
time to go down there at least at least once
and maybe twice. The parking is not horrible around the
George R. Brown Convention Center. It's not great, but it's

(48:19):
not horrible, And if you get lucky, you can find
one of the spots around the lake where you can
just go and put a little money into the meter.
It's all electronic. You can't shove dollar bills in there anymore,
or even quarters, I don't think. But you can use
your trustee credit card and just hope for the best

(48:39):
and get inside and you will be pleasantly surprised by
what you see. If you've never been to one of
these things. This is the fifty first. It's really hard
to believe it's been around that long, but it has.
And like I said in the segment before, I feel
like I've been to all but one, so fifty of
the fifty one, and every time every year, now some

(49:00):
years have been a little more this way than others,
but every year I've found something that makes me go, wow,
that's awesome. I wish I'd thought of that. And on
the flip side of that coin, if you walk around
there long enough, you'll look down at something and go,
that's a waste of money. So go through there and

(49:24):
enjoy and see. And one man's trash is another man's treasure.
There might be something in lure technology that I really
like and you don't, and that's fine too. The fish
don't know the difference. That's something else that I've had
several conversations recently with friends of mine about all the
lures that we have in our garages. And I don't

(49:46):
need Aaron b now that I have two errands. Now
I got the surfer erin and the l hunter erin.
And if Aaron the LK counter is listening, no, I'm
not play. I have not cleaned out my garage as shit,
so I don't need your services yet. In any event,
all these lures out there were built and sold commercially

(50:10):
because they were tested and they worked and they caught fish.
And guess what, they'll catch fish still. Even some of
these lures that are in my garage that are twenty
thirty years old, still in the box, still still just
waiting for their chance to go big time and get
in the water. They will work, There's no question about it.

(50:32):
I just got to get out there and throw them.
And a lot of people, a lot of people just
dismiss the old stuff as now. The hardware on some
of the old lures could use replacement. It wasn't nearly
as good and nearly as strong as what's out there now.
But once you cross that bridge, and by the way,
if you're not if you don't fish for a living,

(50:54):
you don't have to replace every hook on every lure
you have. If you're serious about your fishing and true
really care how many fish you catch and how big
they are, and and you're you're keeping score with your buddies,
whether it's friendly or whether it's for fifty cents or whatever,
then go ahead and change out your hardware. You will
have better results across the board. But if you just

(51:17):
want to try those old lures without having to really
do anything to them, you can do that as well.
And we read that that call Frankie. Yeah, I want
to talk to him, So in any event, Uh, you
be you, is what I'm trying to tell you. And
if you've got old lures out in your garage, don't
send them to me. I can't take anymore. I really can't.

(51:38):
And I think my wife would would maybe toss him
if I ever. That's one of the reasons I'm scared
to leave town. She say, you know, when you leave town,
I think I'm just going to clean out that garage
for you because you need to help. And I'm gonna
stay close. I'm gonna stay close seven one three two
one two five seven ninety Email me Doug pick At
iHeartMedia dot com. You want to tee him up. I

(52:02):
got a little time. I'm gonna try and get this
scout on the phone. Oh yea, he's going over some stuff.

Speaker 7 (52:07):
I tell you what.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Either now, depending on whether I get this call taking
in time, or when we get back from this next break,
I'm gonna talk about photography.

Speaker 7 (52:16):
Steve sent me.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
A photo yesterday of a young man holding up a bass,
and he questions whether or not the photograph is real.
I'm pretty sure the photograph is real, but I'm not
sure that it did that kid, and he favors because
what it does is he just long armed it. Okay,

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And anybody who's ever seen pictures of fish and taking
pictures of fish knows what I'm talking about. You take
a fish and you hold it up, and you hold
it straight toward the camera as long as your arms
will go. And when the when the camera registers that image,
it makes that image because it is so much in
the foreground and you're in the background, it makes it.

(53:01):
It distorts the image so that it looks like the
fish is much larger than it actually is, much much larger.
And in this case, this guy's probably in his late teens,
maybe twenty years old, and it's a good bass, there's
no question about it. Probably I don't know, five six pounds,
maybe seven. But the long arm makes it look big

(53:24):
enough when you just look at the proportions there, makes
it look big enough to swallow that kid's head. And
I'm pretty sure that there aren't many bass that could
put a twenty year old's head in their mouths. So
just do all of us a fact. It's cute manipulation.
It was when it was new anyway, but it's so
old it goes all the way back. I think the

(53:45):
black and white film in brownie enstomatic cameras or what
they were called, whatever they were called, and they're just
about as believable, not as all those pictures of nine
foot cotton mouths and twelve foot rattlesnakes that are being
held on a sixteen foot pole two inches in front
of the camera while the guy's back there on the

(54:07):
horizon somewhere pretending to hold it up. Most people, I think,
can take good photographs if they learn how to do it.
They just don't know how tay what. We'll take a
little break here. When we get back. I want to
get into a little bit of that. I'm not gonna
go into the weeds and start talking technical stuff, but

(54:27):
I will just give you some ideas of how to
set up better shots and make sure you portray what
you want to portray in that image. All the way out,
I'll tell you about air ride bikes up there in
Four Corners shopping center and Tomball right there just going
up what is it two forty nine that goes up
that way, Tomball, get the Four Corners and inside that store,

(54:50):
what you're gonna find is a great selection of e bikes,
starting with just little commuter models that are okay for
the kids as long as they wear their helmets. Okay,
you and me, as long as we're wearing our helmets
to just run little simple errands around the neighborhood when
you don't want to start up the car and have
to drive it halfway around town. All you got to
do is go up there and learn from him which

(55:12):
bike is going to be best for you. They even
have for for seniors who have a little trouble with balance.
There's even three wheel e bikes that air ride bikes.
Now for the hunters and fishermen among us. Waite and
I have talked a number of times about the advantages
of using an e bike to get to and from
your deer stand Number One, they're super quiet. Number two,

(55:34):
they don't leave any human sent on the ground because
you're off the ground riding all the way in. It
might be a little bit of wafting smell off you
if you didn't de smell yourself and your clothes. But
if you do that, then the only other way that
they would smell you would be through your footsteps and
your boots, and those are off the ground. And these bikes,

(55:54):
the ones that are used for hunting, are tough enough
and strong enough, and even with a little uh trailer attachment,
can get you and your deer out of those woods.
No matter how big your ranch is, even Texas sized ranches,
there's still plenty of range, plenty of power on those
bikes to get you to and from same with riding
up and down the beach down in South Texas, you

(56:15):
could cover a lot of North Padre Island on an
e bike on a beautiful man beautiful spring summer morning,
up and down the beach looking for activity. You stop,
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idair ride Bikes dot com. Hey twenty on Sports Talk
seven ninety the Doug Pike Show, thank you for listening.
I'm trying to gather information. I'm trying try and trying
to gather information, and I'm getting some. That's a good part.
I might get a call from Scott in a minute,
and he was outside with the dogs, he said, and
came back in and heard something. I'm gonna go to

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j J tk Wade in you want to feel you
want to feel sorry for yourself wherever you are around
here in Houston, Jay Ways, I said, hey, man, can
you do a couple of minutes on rifle scopes. Dang, sorry,
I'm literally sitting in a blind in South Texas right
now watching deer. H Great, I'm not, but there really

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isn't much. This is from a guy who does this
for a living. Okay, he says, there really isn't much.
Pro to con on scope finishes. Matt's the only way
to go. Actually, it's pretty much the standard used by
your top manufacturers nowadays, to which I replied, if you're
sitting by yourself in that stand, a call from a
from a deer blind deer stand would be awesome. We'll

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see what happens if he's hunting. If he's serious hunting,
he probably won't call. If he's just scouting and looking, he.

Speaker 5 (58:11):
Might let me go.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
See what's on Scott's mind? What up, Scott?

Speaker 8 (58:17):
Oh wind, that's what's up.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
I tried to get in touch with a couple of
guys down in Galveston this morning, and but one of
them responded, Man, I'd love to call you, but the
wind so strong you wouldn't be able to hear me.

Speaker 5 (58:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (58:31):
I walked inside the shot sock tell.

Speaker 7 (58:33):
You hall, Yeah?

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Yeah, sent a shot A text of Mitchell holder down
there in El Campo. He's out on either a duck
or a goosa. It's got to be a goose because
he said he's in a spread and he said, I'm
having a hard time because the guys can't hear me
calling the shot, Like, oh boy, I'm gonna have to
take a megaphone, get a bullhorn. Heard them everybody good?

Speaker 8 (59:02):
Down?

Speaker 5 (59:03):
Come?

Speaker 8 (59:05):
I heard you say I ain't maybe in a deer
blind or you know, may be out fishing or a
deer blind.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
Yeah, you're at the house, aren't you.

Speaker 8 (59:14):
Cow man?

Speaker 2 (59:16):
Holy cal So what about this Matt versus Gloss finished?
I'm one hundred percent if I buy another scope, it'll
be Matt. There's no way I'm going gloss.

Speaker 8 (59:26):
Yeah, that's the only way to go.

Speaker 5 (59:27):
Really.

Speaker 8 (59:28):
Just it was it was available way back, but it
wasn't easily available and it costs a lot. On well
now it cost is the same. You know, you still
have options to get get the shiny one if you
want to. But everything's gone tactical, Like you talked about vehicles.
Everything is gone to Matt finished, tactical. Look, it's the

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cool thing to do.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Yeah, other than being cool, Scott, Other than being cool.
Is that Matt finished functional at all? Because you're going
to be one hundred two hundred, three hundred yards away
from the animal, And if that animal notices some little
glisten in a box three hundred yards away, it's not
gonna spook and run over the over the hill, or
is it now?

Speaker 8 (01:00:11):
But I mean I do hunt outside pods quite a bit, okay. Uh,
And that you know, that's one little thing that's not
gonna shine, That's true. You know, everything else on my
gun is Matt Yeah, I've got Yeah, I've got a
Matt finished stock, and I've got a carvered fiber barrel.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
That's Matt finished.

Speaker 8 (01:00:32):
Why not have a Matte finished scope? Well, lest thing
that I got to worry about that shining.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point.

Speaker 8 (01:00:40):
And if I got to you know, if I have
to swivel around and that that cheer. Yet, I got
a deer comes up pretty close and I need to
swivel around in that chair, you know, mirror flash probably
not the best thing.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Yeah, And you you bring up a very good point,
especially on a tripod. Uh, there's a good chance that
a big buck might just wander right out in front
of you ten twenty yards. Oh, it doesn't happen often,
but it does.

Speaker 8 (01:01:05):
Yeah, that's why I can move around and I'm usually hunting.
You know, it's not a feeder hunt. It's a scenario
hunt or cross sense.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
I kind of prefer that.

Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
Even Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 8 (01:01:20):
I really enjoy it because I you know, guiding hunts,
I sit at feeders so much. Yeah, on guided hunts
that I'm done with it. You know, when it's time
for me to hunt, I'll still go to the figure
if I need to take out a door or two,
or I've got a buck that's coming around that you know,
it's something that needs to be taken out of the

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gene pool. Yeah, hanging out of a feeder and I
don't have a hunter to guide, Yeah, I mean I'll
go sit at the feeder. I got no problem with it.
But as far as the enjoyable hunt, yeah, I'm I'm
gonna bounce around with a tripod and move it around.

Speaker 7 (01:01:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
I usually for the for the last many years, when
somebody says, hey, you want to come down here to
deer hunt, Yeah, sure, I'd love to. Where do you
want to hunt? Wherever you haven't hunted a long time
where I want to go somewhere where you're not really
sure what's in there, and I'll go down and I'll
scout it out, and if I see something great, i'll
let you know. If I've got a green light to
take a good mature deer, I might take it. Probably won't.

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I'll leave it for one of your customers. But I
just like to go out and see what's somewhere that
they don't know what's there. They don't even know what's there.
That's the fun for me. It's really the mystery of
it all.

Speaker 8 (01:02:32):
Yeah, that's becoming more and more rare with on feeders
because everybody's got cameras. We'll sure everybody's got to sell cameras.
And yeah, when I'm like saying, when I'm gotten a hunt,
it's real handy because I'm sure we're looking at those
cameras all the way up until the time we're leaving
in the morning sintime. Before heading out to hunt, I'll

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do a quick check and make sure there's no good
buck standing at that feeder when we drive up.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Well, I didn't think of that.

Speaker 8 (01:03:01):
Yeah, hold account, Yeah, I've done I've done that. I've
also hunted a stand where I know that I have
a pathway to do a walk to the other stands,
and I'll hunt that stand and I'm constantly watching. These
guys are paying me a lot of money, yeah, and
you know, to get their deer. Then we only have

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a limited amount of time. It's not like it's not
like a season of hunting where you get to Yeah,
that's what I do. Miss It was finding a you know,
seeing a good deer while you're out riding around or whatever,
and then trying to figure him out and figure out what,
you know, what area he's going to, what stands is
he going to? On your own by going and sitting

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and spending the whole entire season doing it, and some
seasons you got that deer and some seasons you didn't.
And now it's it's more of a given. I can
tell you pretty much where that deer is. The place
I take Gar.

Speaker 7 (01:04:00):
Up next door.

Speaker 8 (01:04:00):
His all these cameras, uh went out on him this
past year, all but one, and it was sketchy and
he's like, yeah, he wasn't coming down much. It's the
ranch I take care of, yeah, And so we didn't
put any cameras out. It's been kind of fun going
over there. I'm sure because I go sit, you know,

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before they come down, I go sit and watch and
tell them where, you know what deer coming to?

Speaker 5 (01:04:27):
What's what?

Speaker 8 (01:04:28):
For years and it's been it's been a throwback.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
The best deer I shot on the Samburrito many many
years ago came on. Joe Dogg and I had gone
out kind of scouting one afternoon and we stopped on
the little hillside and I saw a really good deer
take off and both out of the brush down kind
of low and right then and there, I got out
and and Joe helped. Joe helped me build a pretty

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good ground blind, just something that would cover me up
with native stuff that was sitting there growing there, had
fallen off or whatever. And I got back into that
place in the morning, early early early, and I got
that deer, you know, he finally came back. I had
no idea it was nobody did.

Speaker 5 (01:05:11):
Yeah. We did the same last week and.

Speaker 8 (01:05:14):
The place I was counting on, they just weren't coming
around the theaters at all. And I had a customer.
We bounced all over the place trying to find.

Speaker 7 (01:05:23):
A good deer.

Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
And we were riding around in.

Speaker 8 (01:05:25):
The afternoon, me and the other guy that was a
ranch and we rolled up the middle of the day
on a really nice tend point stayed wide. I sent
you a picture of.

Speaker 5 (01:05:38):
Him last week.

Speaker 8 (01:05:39):
Yeah, I remember, And it was like one o'clock in
the afternoon that song. I was walking right across the
scenario and we didn't even expect him to be over
in that area.

Speaker 5 (01:05:49):
We knew about him, but we didn't think he was
over there.

Speaker 8 (01:05:51):
Yeah, and so we went sat up the next day
he was there and he came back.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
Yeah, buddy, Nope, that was a fun hunt.

Speaker 8 (01:06:02):
I'll bet head to another one next weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
So good for you, man. Yeah, stay in TuS. Let's
keep this going, man, all right Calvin good, yes, sir?
Right audio.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
Word?

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
Oh there is okay, thank you, Frankie. All right, I
gotta take another little break here, and on the way out,
I'm going to tell you about a great place to
go get yourself a little something to eat. Today, not tomorrow. Today,
closed on Sunday. That's Berry Hill, Sugarland. Okay. I hate
to give you bad news about Berry Hill, but it's
closed on Sundays, always has been, or at least for
as long as I can remember. But the other six
days of the week churning out delicious text mex food

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that's been prepared for more than ten years. They've been
in business thirty something years, i think, but for the
last ten plus years, the same two primary cooks have
been in that kitchen and they have been able to
really fine tune their recipes, fine tune their cooking methods,
churn out some of the best fish tacos you'll ever taste,

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chicken tacos, beef tacos. I'm partial to the seafood enchiladas.
If you listen to me talk about them, you know that.
And they're in sugar Land, Okay, at the Sugar Creek
Boulevard exit right there on the well. There's big strip
center and a couple of other things. There's a gym.
There's always a gym somewhere in a drug store. But

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Burry Hill's right out there by the freeway and it's
easy to find. It's very family oriented. You could go
in there and you'll see what I'm talking about. You
walk up to the place and you'll see the outdoor
dining outside, very casual. Inside to the left is tables
and boosts for families and whoever else wants to go there,
then the right side it's kind of a sports bar area.

(01:07:45):
And if you've never been there, you've never if you're
new to sugar Land, even just go ahead and kind
of make an announcement of that when you get in there.
And I've seen this happen, so I know it does. Hey,
I'm new to sugar Land. Can anybody kind of give
me an idea of where to go and what to do?
And somebody's gonna I'm gonna escort you on over there,
say hey, come on sit with us. We'll talk to you.
I've seen it happen. It's really kind of a cool

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thing too. Barryhillsugar Land dot com. If you need help
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Berryhillsugarland dot com eight thirty five on Sports Talk seven

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ninety This is this is coincidental. And now let me
get Chiff on the phone and talk to him, and
then I'll tell you why it's coincidental. Hey, Chiff, what's up?

Speaker 7 (01:08:36):
Man, good morning, How are you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
I'm good, thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:08:42):
I had a question.

Speaker 4 (01:08:43):
You were, you know, talking about Berry Hill and their
fish tacos and stuff like that, and I.

Speaker 7 (01:08:48):
Want you to talk me off the ledge about tuck
What about it?

Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
I mean, when I hear the word cloppy or see
it on a restaurant, I just think I probably passed.

Speaker 7 (01:08:58):
Four of them in the ditch on the way there.

Speaker 8 (01:09:00):
Yeah, And.

Speaker 4 (01:09:02):
I mean, what do you know about those things? And
it just seems to me like when I see it,
I don't want to eat it. And I also think
bad of the restaurant when I see that they're selling pilapia.
The only you know about those things.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
I know that the state of Texas doesn't want them
in our waterways because they are They are pretty prolific breeders,
and they will They're kind of an invasive species situation,
and according to Parks and wallete they want you if
you catch one, they want you to kill it. But
that doesn't mean you couldn't or shouldn't eat it. It's
still a tasty fish and pretty much every grocery store

(01:09:38):
in town sells it. And there's a reason for that.
They're selling farm raised fish obviously, but it's not a
bad tasting fish, and if it were, they wouldn't be
able to sell them in the stores, but they certainly do.

Speaker 4 (01:09:52):
It just seems like they get a bad rap and
I'm like helping that bad rap along.

Speaker 7 (01:09:56):
Just are there? Have you ever caught one?

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Or I've called them? They're in a lot of water bodies.
There's a baseball complex over off Beltway eight. I can't
remember the name of it. My son played a ton
of tournaments over there. Good lord, I spent a crazy
amount of money on parking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, parking a
million dollars in any event, every time you pull in
the gate. But that's a different story. There's a drainage

(01:10:23):
ditch behind those parking lots over there, that is it
was at least loaded with tilapia. And somebody who lives
in that neighborhood called me one time and said what
should I do? I said, go catch some and eat them.
They're not going to be horrible. Unless you're fishing downstream
from a chemical plan or something like that, that might
be an issue. But as long as they're in kind

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of a free flowing established water body, that where the
water moves and doesn't have time to get really stagnant.
I wouldn't be scared to eat one as long as I.

Speaker 5 (01:10:54):
Cooked it right.

Speaker 7 (01:10:57):
Well, you're not gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
You're still not convinced, are you what?

Speaker 4 (01:11:02):
And you just said there was a draina ditch behind
the baseball, Yeah, yeah it is.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
It's it's a it's a storm drain. Basically, it's got
con it's lined with concrete and all of that stuff.
But apparently it was pretty full of tilapia. And this
guy wondered whether he ought to go try one, try it,
and he hadn't called back, so maybe.

Speaker 7 (01:11:21):
Well there's two reasons. Maybe, ye know.

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
He probably they probably migrated across the road from another
pond and just walked across the street and dumped into
the ditch.

Speaker 5 (01:11:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
Yeah, I would love to know where the first one
came from and rewind all the way to them and
then take that one out and ditch it. But that's
not the case anymore, and they are. And every time
we get a flood around here, you got to remember
when my golf course lakes are a prime prime example
of this. You get a big flood, like with a

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hurricane or something, and the water levels rise and these
little ditches and bios come out of their banks. All
those fish get shuttled around and shuffled around, and when
the water goes back down, they just go to the
deepest spot and hope it's to their liking. That's why
there's tons of gar in that lake out there where
I fish. It wasn't because they'd been there for one

(01:12:15):
hundred years. It's because when the water comes up, they
come out of the bio that runs very close to there.
You want to know why I was talking about it
being coincidental that you just called, Well, well, your name
is Chip and Forrest faux Pro just sent me a picture.
This will be a lot more tasty for you too.
Somebody had the comedic brilliance to put a picture of

(01:12:39):
a croppie on a pringles can and make it that
they're croppy flavored pringles. He said, I try some of those.

Speaker 7 (01:12:48):
It depends on the seasoning to Okay, So so are.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
I was gonna say, can you clear up another little
misconception maybe I had?

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
I'll try.

Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
I've always grown up thinking that a lot of times
fish will show up in a pond out of nowhere
because birds will eat a fish that has eggs and
then poop those eggs into another lake.

Speaker 7 (01:13:13):
Is am I just where did I get that from?

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
Theoretically, I think it's possible, and I think it's happened.
But does it happen all the time?

Speaker 7 (01:13:21):
No, probably not.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
I think you have to consider that for that to happen,
the carrier the bird has to eat a fish over
there and then fly all the way over here. And
if it's getting what it wants over there, why does
it fly over here? So yeah, I've read that and

(01:13:44):
I've heard it. I don't know that I've ever seen
any scientific paper on it, but I believe that it
can happen. I think that's a lot that would probably happen,
more than when the sun is supposedly evaporate fish eggs
out of the water when it's it's boiling over a

(01:14:04):
small pond and then they fall in rain somewhere else.
That's I can believe. The bird thing before. I believe that,
But I know both happened.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
You know, I'm thinking out loud, I mean as I'm
saying it, and then it have to be uh, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:14:18):
There'd have to be the male to do things.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 7 (01:14:22):
Too too, So I don't know. All right, I'm still
I'll eat those springles.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
Yeah, Forrest needs to send us a couple of cans
of those pringles. Will work it out. That's a good call, man,
I really appreciate it. I wish try one sometime.

Speaker 7 (01:14:37):
Just try one or on accident.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
May maybe on accident, however you gonna do it, go
buy a nice Here's the problem. One of the grocery
store problems is it a lot of times there are
fish isn't super fresh. I know they all try, and
I know they do the best they can. But a
fresh fish you go catch it yourself. Then you know
it's fresh, and then.

Speaker 7 (01:14:56):
I think you have a shelf life of a couple
of years.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
Any yeah, then throw it in the trash and go
get yourself a snapper file at all?

Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
Right, thanks hip? Great, Yeah, that's a fun call. It
really was. You know, like I said, do fish eggs
get picked up by birds and dropped in other lakes?

Speaker 7 (01:15:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
Probably so. But Chip makes a very good point. They
have to be fertilized before they can become little bitty
fish and so, and then that ruins that theory. If
the bird picked up the big fish and ate it
or most of its eggsac or whatever, and then expelled
it over the new lake, And what are the odds?

(01:15:40):
Stop and think about how many things have to happen
for that to occur and become successful. So I think
that one's a little bit easier to knock off, even
in hindsight, than the one about them being lifted up
by heat and transported somehow on a cloud. Well, there's

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a lot of Yeah, I'd have to do more research,
and I got way more important things to research than that.
But if you think about it and you know about it,
I'll listen. All right, we got to take a break.
I'm running a tad late. When we get back, I
think I'll try to get to Steve's questions about get
into a little bit more about photography. And I'm not

(01:16:22):
going to go into the weeds. I'm not gonna get
super technical. I'm just gonna basically talk about how to
get a usable image that you're proud to put on
social media compared to some of the other ones that
are done by really good photographers. But black Horse Golf
Club first and foremost, the reports are that the greens
are really in good shape. Now I haven't talked to.

(01:16:44):
I haven't talked to Craig in a little bit, but
I may give him a call this week as a
matter of fact. And what black Horse offers now is
something that hasn't been available in quite some time, and
that is the opportunity to play the South Course as
a membership course. The North Course is still daily fee,
and it's still fun, and it's still it's still you
can still hit it as hard as you want, and

(01:17:04):
it can go off target, offline a good bit and
still be findable and playable, which I kind of like.
The South Course equally fun to play, just a little
bit tighter, and that's all. And I'm not talking about
restrictive tight. I'm talking about just make you think a
little bit before you hit a shot sometimes. Both are
great courses. The South Course, as I said, has gone

(01:17:25):
private now, and with that membership you also get the
option to play both courses there clearly, plus both courses
at Golf Club of Houston plus Blackhawk Country Club. You
can get a lot of access for that one membership,
and many, many people have taken that option and they're
seeing the improvements being made to the South Course and

(01:17:45):
the North Course. There was a good amount of budget
allocated to Craig this year to work on both courses
and make sure they're up to snuff, to his snuff,
and he does a fine job of taking care of that.
He can make shelf of tea time right now out
there by just going to black Horsegolf Club dot com.
They're on Fry Road, just a couple of miles south
of two ninety. Really easy to find up there on

(01:18:06):
that northwest side and great fun to play. Black Horse
Golf Club dot com. Oh, mercy me, So I've probably
ruined Kevin's day with the email. I just said, let
me turn this down. Holy cow, that's just allowed my ears.
So Kevin writes and says, Hey, Doug, my telapia experience

(01:18:28):
turned me into kind of a hard no. My buddies
and I were fishing on Colletta Creek late one night
with a guide. We came up on an island that
was I guess a breeding ground for birds. As we
were trolling around the island, there was probably a twenty
foot sheen on top of the water that was caked
over with bird droppings. Well underneath that were talapia eating that.

(01:18:52):
And that's that's how he says he became a catfish
man forever. So I had to let him in on
a secret. Years ago, back when I was still writing
at the paper, there was a guy who on Lake
Livingstone was taking full advantage of the tilapia that were

(01:19:13):
roosting on that lake over the water, and he created
a lure sort of a lure bait, kind of a
combination that looked a lot like what Kevin's talking about,
and he used that under those trees to catch giant catfish.
So hey, everything in nature has a purpose, and it

(01:19:38):
doesn't It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with those fish,
but it sure does make you scratch your head right
seven three two five seven ninety Email me Dugpike at
iHeartMedia dot com. Let me go make sure I don't
have any other emails I need to address at this point.
That's okay. Oh oh, by the way, yeah, Brian, Brian

(01:19:59):
just sent me pictures and I'm glad he did. I
wish you would do this more often. I wish all
of you would do this more often. From the blind,
he's in a deer stand and he've got sand hill
cranes at the feeder with white tails. That's not the first,
I promise you that happens more more than you think, Brian,
and it's really cool when it happens. They're all all

(01:20:19):
in there for the corn. That's what they're there for.
And the sand hills are actually taller than the deer
standing there, which a lot of people wouldn't realize. But
and by significant margin. It's it's Shaquille O'Neil. And who's that,
Oh gosh, who's that short relatively short player for the
rockets that's so good at shooting threes. I'm looking right

(01:20:44):
at him and I can't call his name. Frankie helped
me out, man, help me out. In any event, there's
the height differential or difference is significant, and they're both
just chilling along and neither bothering the other. I like
pictures from deer stands, man, I really do. And it
doesn't have to be a giant buck. And if if
you've got a deer and you're proud of it, send

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me the picture. I'd be happy to have it. Speaking
of pictures, I'm want to kind of go back to
photography for a little bit. And like I said, I'm
not going to go into the weeds. But but and
I said, early on. Most people can take good photographs,
but they just don't really know how, and rather take
a college level course. Just start by looking back at

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some of your own photos and ask yourself what you
could have done to make them better. What did somebody
holding a fish, somebody holding the deer, a bunch of
ducks flying by your duck blind whatever. Figure out what
you were really trying to show with that picture, and
then ask yourself if you got it right, if you

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achieved that goal. And I know I'm going to sound
like a broken record here, but in the outdoors where
things can happen really quickly and do most of the time,
first things. First, get the image. If you see something
cool unfolding in front of you, put the camera up,
take a couple of shots so that you have something

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at least before the bird flies away, before the deer
runs away, before the fish swim away, whatever. You have something,
and then try to see if you can do better
before that that opportunity passes. Sunrises are a prime example.

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

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
I've seen a couple of guys. They'll get out there
and they'll they'll see the sun starting to come up
over the horizon and this beautiful glow in the sky,
and they'll hold up that this happened a lot when
I was guiding hunts years ago, and they'll hold the
camera up and take one picture, put the camera back down,
and then just let the whole thing unfold more and
more and more, and at some point something really cool

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might happen, but they won't. They won't have the camera
ready for the second part of the image that really
would have made it. And it just it used to
drive me crazy. I sent a lot when email finally
came around, I sent a lot of my own pictures
to people who had hunted with me, and hopefully they
enjoyed them. I think they would have. You gotta here's

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Once you get that primary image to one or two,
then then try to get something different. Try to get
some tighter shots, Try to open it up a little bit,
move the camera just a little bit left or right,
and see if you don't like or dislike that image
from that angle a little better or worse, and take both.
Take both, because here's what you get. When you get

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all that you Once all of that's done, all that's done,
you get to take it back now, and even on
your phone, you can crop that photograph. You can change.
I don't like to use filters necessarily, I really don't.
That's not what I saw, and so I don't want
to put that up as something I saw. And I
can count on one hand the time the times I've

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filtered something to look a little bit different, and I
always kind of cringe when I do, and usually I
end up not posting them. But just do all your
cropping and editing later. Make sure you eliminate dead space
in a photograph. That's something else that can make photos
a lot better. And if you're wondering maybe what I
would do with a photograph that you've taken to change it,

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or you want a little bit of advice from somebody
who even before it was possible to edit on the fly,
I was shooting a lot of pictures and I did
very well actually in competitions with them. I'm quite proud
of of the awards I earned for my photography. So

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I'm not going to tell you how to shoot with
the new stuff. I'm kind of out of that. I
shoot a lot of stuff on my phone and I've
gotten some really good images on my phone, and so
I'm not really I'm not in competitive photography anymore, but
I still pride myself in being able to get a
good photograph and then crop it to make it even better.

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And I'd be happy if you if you want a
little bit of advice or maybe a little here's what
I would have done. I'd be happy to do that
for you. Get the dead space out crop it so
that the elements of the photo have to have somewhere
to go to. If a buck is standing and facing
to the right, okay, don't put its nose on the

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right side of the image. Please don't do that. Please
don't do that. That just that's very simple, but it
kind of conveys what I'm talking about. I could go
on photography is about and Scott correct me if you
think I'm wrong. I think he's still listening. Photography, I
want to say, is about eighty percent preparation, okay, And

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that includes your equipment, It includes the plan you have
and really knowing in your mind what you want that
day from those photographs. And it's five percent luck because
you great photography overall is not lucky. I'm giving it
five percent luck. It's it's about investing the time, invest

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see the effort to be where you need to be
exactly when you need to be there hoping that whatever
you're looking for happens, and when it does, you push
the button. And if you have to, if you can
push the button again and again and again, because you
can always erase them from your phone, that's the beauty,

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and raise them from cameras, that's the beauty of digital photography.
Holy cow. When I was shooting, most of what I
shot was still back in the film days, and you
only had so many rolls of film. And if you
rush through, you got the motor drive going. And you're
rushing through rolls of film, you got to stop and
take one out and load another one. And while something
really cool is happening and you miss a shot, you're

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all upset. But now you can just keep pushing the button,
keep pushing the button, change it a little bit, push
the button again, change it some more, push the button again,
and then when you get home, go through those images.
And for most of us, at where I am now,
and for most amateurs, just fishermen and hunters, might have
a couple of dozen. Somebody who does it for a

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living might have a couple of hundred from a little
session they you know, a one hour session somewhere where
things really just started to look right there, trying to
get that get that one in a thousand image, and
the good ones do they always do seven one three
seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Oh, Aaron,
hang on, man, I just looked up and saw you there,

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and I will get to you when we'll have some time, uh,
when we get back, and when we when we're out, Frankie,
call Tommy and ask him if he could do about
the second segment, next next break, that would be good
to it. Houston Gold Exchange. I'm gonna tell you again
this is where Brad Schweise is, okay. And I've known
him for god, I don't know how many years. It's

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a very long time, probably back to his CCA days
when he was on the board. He's a lifelong member
of CCA. He's an outdoorsman. Half the time when I
call him, he's down at his bay house talking about
the fish he's caught. And he's just somebody who likes
the direction our country's headed too, and I appreciate him
for that. He thinks like I think, and like most

(01:28:07):
of you think. If you are looking for he's been
selling all of this stuff, the well precious metals and jewelry. Okay,
that's basically what's there, and watches and if you need
a good investment long term, gold certainly is one to
look at if you need something to get you out
of the doghouse or maybe fire up a little romantic

(01:28:29):
spark around the house. He's got that too. You can
call him on his selfe I'd love for you to
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I'd love for you to go by there and take
a look around. If you can't, call him on his
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online take a look there, Houston, goold Exchange dot com. Houston,
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(01:29:11):
I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna pull
your leg. Let's I'll tell you what. I'm gonna go
talk to Tommy, and then after that I'm gonna talk
to Aaron. Tommy, what's up, my friend?

Speaker 7 (01:29:23):
What's going on?

Speaker 8 (01:29:24):
Doug.

Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
It's funny you were talking about Barry Hell. I was
just there last night tearing up some Paheita this good stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
Over in though. Holy cow, man, I appreciate you, appreciate
you sharing that. It's Tommy O'Brien from out at Blackhawk,
the guy I trust with my swing now and have
for several years. Although I tell you, man, if if
I don't get more daylight in the day where I
can get out and practice what you preach, I'm I
might just take up some other sport.

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
It's just so frustrating.

Speaker 1 (01:29:50):
Congressman. We got around for Congress. They changed that that
time just alone I need.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
In one hour, that's all I need. Really, It's just
one more hour of daylight in the end of the day,
I know.

Speaker 7 (01:30:02):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
So let's we were talking yesterday about course management, and
I want to kind of dwell on that because it's
so much easier to help a golfer with course management
on the radio than it is with swing thoughts and
it is.

Speaker 1 (01:30:18):
It is, and I you know it's important when I
teach that.

Speaker 9 (01:30:22):
Yeah, you get someone hitting the ball, Donner, but then
you got to tell him how to play golf as well,
because you want to go beyond the driving rais there,
So I'm always and also to get their expectations at
a realistic level. People's expectations are far greater than a
tur pro. Is more often than not that the perfection
they think to have to achieve is just not correct.

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I often tell people, look, here's this black flag out here.
I promise you Scottie Shepherd does not come out here
and say if I don't aim at that black flag
and hit it fifteen times in a.

Speaker 1 (01:30:51):
Row, I'm terrible. That is not what he does. What
golf is is.

Speaker 9 (01:30:56):
Acceptable patterns, okay, Meaning if you've got about a fifteen
twenty yard wide pattern of a shot for an iron
per se and as solid with compression, you're doing great.
If you can keep your driver within about forty yards,
then you can take on anything on the golf course
with realistic expectations right there. But to think that you

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have to aim at a single target and if I
don't hit that, I'm terrible. I need to retool my
golf swing.

Speaker 1 (01:31:22):
It's just it's just a.

Speaker 9 (01:31:24):
Very terrible way of thinking right there. Also unrealistic and
you'll hate the game. But so important to understand how
to pick a tour level target.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
After you've taken that lesson, you've improved your driver, you
can prove your approach.

Speaker 9 (01:31:38):
Play and whatever the case may be right there. And
I'm just shocked how many people don't.

Speaker 3 (01:31:43):
They just don't get it.

Speaker 9 (01:31:44):
I've been blest to spend some time with Scott Fawcett.
He has come up with Decade Golf, which is a
golf course strategy.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
App and website, and he's done some great work.

Speaker 9 (01:31:57):
As he says, I'm a failed tour player, and he
was failed when Tiger Woods was at his peak, and
so he really studied Tiger and how he attacked the
game from a course manage the standpoint, and came up
with some really, really good stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
I mean, some people are just blessed ug and they
get it.

Speaker 9 (01:32:12):
Or they played with good players and they kind of
get a feel for kind of what good players do.

Speaker 1 (01:32:17):
The decision making process and whatnot. But some people just
don't get it.

Speaker 9 (01:32:21):
And so this is a blueprint for the person that
is fairly new to the game doesn't quite get it,
but yet they understand. Hey, look it's all good, hitting
the ball good, but if I don't have a tour
level target, I'm gonna set myself up for failure right there.

Speaker 7 (01:32:33):
So at any rate, Well, so let's start.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
Let's start at the tea box. Okay, you mentioned forty
yards with driver, which is it's a pretty generous miss
twenty yards to both sides of your target. But that
will probably put you where you need to be. Start there,
and then we'll move closer to the hole.

Speaker 9 (01:32:50):
Well, first of all, from the tea box, you got
to look at where's the trouble.

Speaker 1 (01:32:55):
Is there trouble on the right side or left side
of the hole? Sometimes some both sides. You just got
a man up and hit a good year. But if
it's on, you want to tee off or tee up
on the side of the trouble, so you're hitting away
from it.

Speaker 9 (01:33:07):
So if the water's on the right side of the whole,
tea up on the right side of the tea box.

Speaker 1 (01:33:12):
So if you do happen to push it a bit
as a righty, at least you.

Speaker 5 (01:33:16):
Don't go on the water.

Speaker 9 (01:33:17):
So again, it's just little things like that that, you know,
shots that were really pretty good that ended up in
the water or ob because you were just standing on
the wrong side of the tea box. That's one thing
people can do immediately to really help themselves in this
episode of for Success, off the tea box right there?

Speaker 1 (01:33:33):
Yeah fine, literally this sounds yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
Number five on black hole, man, there's water all the
way up the right side and one hundred yards of
grass to the left with another fairway.

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
And where do people hit it in the farewell?

Speaker 5 (01:33:45):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
Yeah, the good players get it over there left.

Speaker 5 (01:33:49):
Yeah, they bail over there.

Speaker 9 (01:33:51):
But literally there's the blue and the green flag on
our range is about forty yards wide, so you're gonna laugh.
I take my fingers, my thumb and my forefinger there
and I make it match that. So I'll get behind
the ball, spread my.

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
Fingers like that. And then there's there's my area. There's
my target per se right there.

Speaker 9 (01:34:10):
And I center that to whereas I've got twenty yards right,
twenty yards left, and I'm okay. And sometimes that means
bringing the rough into play a little bit. Believe me,
the rough is not nearly as bad as a deep
cavernous fairway bunker or water or something of that effect,
you'll leave super players go look in order to hit.

Speaker 1 (01:34:29):
Driver and I have to hit an iron off the tee.

Speaker 9 (01:34:31):
They're fine with being thirty or forty more yards down
the fairway and the rough because they got a short
iron versus having a six.

Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
Iron from the fairway there, so they can hit the
green more often than not right there. So that's that's easy.
Off the tea box. To pick the side of the
tea box.

Speaker 9 (01:34:45):
Where the trouble is that you're hitting away from it.
And then if you can give yourself about forty yards. Now,
if you have trouble on both sides and it pinches
closer than forty yards.

Speaker 1 (01:34:55):
And hit and sup the short of it, it hits
up the short of it, hit the three wood, hit
a hybrid, w whatever.

Speaker 9 (01:35:00):
It is you got to do. Don't challenge that percentage wise,
that's a that's a that's a smart thing to do.

Speaker 2 (01:35:04):
Right there, it's on seven, got that bunker left next
to the water, and yeah, a lot of times I'll
just pull three wood and leave it shorter there a
little bit.

Speaker 9 (01:35:13):
Oh no, one hundred percent, because I said, really next
right there. Yeah, unless you tee off from the nationwide.

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
Tortise in the back. Right there, you got all open
it up for you right there.

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
You can hit all all want twice probably from there.
Good gosh. So let's let's let's try in the fairway.
That's fine. What if we miss the fairway and we're
just off in the woods or something, what's the what's
the standard operating procedure for recovery from the course management
side to just get it back in play? Do you
try to advance it at all? Or you just get

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it out of there somehow?

Speaker 1 (01:35:46):
Well, rule number one, when you're in trouble, get out
of trouble. That's rule number one. When people try to
get cute and do something else and it hits.

Speaker 9 (01:35:55):
Three more tree and stay right in there. You're you're
you're wasting shots and whatnot. So take the eat his
way out when you're in trouble, get out of trouble.
Very very easy train of thought on that right there.
So don't try to be a hero.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:36:09):
I mean, even Phil Mickelson makes that mistake every once
in a while. He's really good, and sometimes he pulls
off a great shot.

Speaker 7 (01:36:15):
I've even heard him say he.

Speaker 9 (01:36:17):
Doesn't doesn't always tell us cavvy what he's gonna do,
because he would get some get a confrontation on that.
But obviously he's he's a very talented human being and
he can get away with that a lot. But even
still there are times like, dud, just hit it back
in the fair way, man, you got.

Speaker 1 (01:36:33):
You can get up and down. You're really good at that.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
Speaking of let's let's what's the management strategy for chipping
and putting or not chip chipping and pitching?

Speaker 1 (01:36:44):
Well, a laugh, but no wise, just hitting the green
in one try.

Speaker 9 (01:36:51):
You're like, what, yeah, if you're if you're thirty forty
yards away or in, the worst thing you can do
is miss the green after a ship or pitch.

Speaker 1 (01:37:00):
You want the next shot to be a putt.

Speaker 9 (01:37:02):
You don't want to be another chip or pitch or
if God forbid, a bunker shot because you missed the green.
Even for churn players, the percentages say to just hit
the green in one try. You know, it sounds stupidly
elementarily elementary.

Speaker 5 (01:37:17):
But that is the case right there.

Speaker 1 (01:37:19):
So at any rate, getting on in one try.

Speaker 9 (01:37:22):
If if average Joe does that, and sometimes Doug, that
means going away from the hole.

Speaker 7 (01:37:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:37:27):
So if you've got a pendents and a tricky little location,
but there's a fatter part of the green right or
left of that, go for the fatter part of green.
Make sure you get on the green and see you're putting,
because it's way easier to do. But then the chip
and get up and down again when you've missed the green.

Speaker 2 (01:37:40):
I saw it on Facebook last night telling people not
to look at the hole on chips, but to look
at where you want to land the ball. Where do
you stand on that?

Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
Oh no, that is wonderful.

Speaker 9 (01:37:49):
Actually, my good friend stand outly said for years that's
how that's what he does. He goes, he focused on
the landing spot. He's visualized the trajectory and what the
ball is going to do, but he tries to hit
his spot, so he's aggressive to his spot all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:38:02):
I said, no, that's magnificent information right there.

Speaker 7 (01:38:05):
That's really really good.

Speaker 1 (01:38:06):
I've got some stuff for approach play as well.

Speaker 9 (01:38:09):
Would you want to hear how to pick a target
when you're hitting.

Speaker 1 (01:38:12):
To the green right?

Speaker 3 (01:38:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:38:13):
In a minute. Oh yeah, and I know what you're
going to say, so say it, absolutely yes.

Speaker 1 (01:38:18):
So here's the deal.

Speaker 9 (01:38:20):
If the pin's in the middle of the green, it's
a green light pin, go right after it, right there.

Speaker 1 (01:38:24):
But if the pin is on one side or the other.

Speaker 9 (01:38:28):
Side, let's say the pin's on the left side of
the green, you want to stay on the right side
of the pen or the strong side of the pen
at all times.

Speaker 1 (01:38:35):
You do not want to go on the week or
short side of that pen.

Speaker 5 (01:38:38):
Right there.

Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
My good friend and.

Speaker 9 (01:38:40):
Teammate, and he's the coach at Sammue State, bran Keishmik
get a study with his kids for the year. When
the team missed the green on the strong side of
the pen, they were one hundred and twenty under par
as a team. Collectively, when they missed it on the
short or the weak side of the pen, they were
ninety over park.

Speaker 1 (01:39:00):
Wow, collectively had the team right there.

Speaker 9 (01:39:02):
When they missed the green completely on the strong side,
like they had the chip, they got up and down
sixty to seventy percent of the time. And when they
missed it on the weak side and had a chip,
they got up and down thirty to forty percent of
the time.

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
Yeah, I can't tell you how many times I get
short sighted. And that's my own fault.

Speaker 1 (01:39:19):
Yes, yes, it's like, man, I didn't ship very good
on this, and well no, no, the problem wasn't the chip.

Speaker 5 (01:39:25):
The problem was the shot before. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
It's like I tell, yeah, people with you know, like
we're playing pool.

Speaker 9 (01:39:33):
Pool is great because you're always setting yourself up for
the next shot.

Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
And people don't think that way. On the golf course.
You're trying to set yourself up for the next shot
right there.

Speaker 9 (01:39:41):
So those little things would be very helpful to people
when they're when they're playing golf without having to do
a thing differently to their golf swing.

Speaker 1 (01:39:49):
Just think better, make better decisions. And you'll say, there
was an.

Speaker 9 (01:39:52):
Old deal where Raymond Floyd said years ago, if I
could caddy for the person I didn't hit their shots,
just tell them what the hit, when to hit it better.

Speaker 1 (01:40:00):
I have to get them to break eighty.

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

Speaker 1 (01:40:01):
And that's that's that's true. The way these guys their
course management is just it's just stellar compared to.

Speaker 7 (01:40:09):
Average show.

Speaker 1 (01:40:10):
I mean, Ben Hoag has said it best. He goes,
you can hit a great and shoot eighty. It's an idiot,
you know me. If you don't know how to aim
and hit pick targets.

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
Anyway, you don't know where to put it. Tommy, thanks
as always, man, my friend. Out of black Horse, you've
got black Hawk, excuse me, black Hawk country Club. And man,
almost every time I'm out there, you're standing there helping somebody.
So they'll just get a lot, got to pay them.
Tommyogolf dot com. That's his website, tommyogolf dot com. Thanks man,

(01:40:39):
all right, Doug, thank you so much, buddy, you bet
ok videos. All right, We got to take a little
break here on the way out, and Aaron, I promise
you you're going to be next when we get up,
and you're gonna get as much time as you need.

Speaker 8 (01:40:49):
You know that.

Speaker 2 (01:40:50):
Kobe Stevens speaking of golf apparel, anyway, if you want
to look better, to kind of match up with the
improvements you get in your game, talking to Tommy, check
out Kobe Stevens dot com.

Speaker 7 (01:41:02):
Or go to the new store.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
It's opened up on the on the north side. Now
it's all ready to go and grand opened and man,
they are showing off and with good reason. Beautiful golf apparel,
great fishing apparel as well. There's a lot going on
in all of that world. They have men's, women's, and
children's sizes the kids stuff all the way up to

(01:41:24):
four X for the men. You're gonna look good when
you play golf.

Speaker 8 (01:41:27):
You want to.

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
It's gonna make you wanna shine your shoes when you're
wearing Kobe Stevens apparel. You want to look good. You
will look good, and you'll feel good, and you'll probably
play a little better too. And now, if you're looking
to run into Kobe Gallic at the store, maybe he'll
be there, maybe he won't, because most of the time
he's out helping charities raise money at charity golf tournaments.

(01:41:50):
That I've learned from knowing him a couple of years now,
it seems like every time I call him, I can't
play golf tomorrow because I've got to go to this
tournament and help him raise money for that. And I'm
thrilled to be associated with somebody who is that devoted
to the company that is supporting him. Kobe Stevens dot
com is that website C O B Y S T

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E V E N S dot com. All right, welcome back,
thanks for listening Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven
ninety Until we get neck deep into PGA Tour season,
that's about the extent of golf coverage. I want to
do from week to week. If there's something interesting that
can make us better, I'll do that. By the way,
very quickly before I go to Aaron, Captain Scott sent
me pictures after I talked about the photographs that I

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got of the sandhill cranes on next to the deer
stands down where Scott is. Yet another picture of whooping cranes.
Whooping cranes at his deer feeders, I presume eating him
out of house and home. Let's go get aeron.

Speaker 5 (01:42:50):
What's up man, Hey, good morning? How cool is that
a picture of a hoopy crane? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
Yes, there's five of them in front of that, in
front of that deer stand.

Speaker 5 (01:43:00):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
Yeah, they get them all the time down I wonder
what the.

Speaker 5 (01:43:04):
Numbers are up to these days. I remember it was
down into the low hundreds for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
Yeah, it was very very low while I was at
the newspaper and we were writing about it pretty much
every year, the migration down here. How some of these
flocks of them were actually being escorted by little pair
of gliders and whatnot. Yeah, ultra light airplanes and they
come down here and they eat all the crabs out

(01:43:29):
of the bay and more power to them.

Speaker 5 (01:43:32):
Yeah, I understand that hurricanes kind of effective as well. Yeah,
they kind of blow their their nests down.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
Yeah, that's true. Well, so what's on your mind?

Speaker 5 (01:43:43):
Well, okay, so last year, you know, just kind of
going through some of the bay fishing trips that I
went on. Okay, if it was glass mood, you know
that terms. I think it is shown around too often.
It was literally glass smooth after after a ravestorm. Right,

(01:44:04):
would you would you throw like a spook or super
spook up there or do you think that's just too
much calamity on top of that water? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:44:10):
There are different top waters create different levels of splash
and splutter and and and all of that commotion on
the top, and I think you don't want to have
something that's just going crazy and like a chugger or
something like that out there that's gonna really make waves. Basically,

(01:44:31):
you can downsize a little bit, like maybe to a
oh gosh, I mean any any of the smaller, smoother
nosed bas more the dog walking base, not stuff that's
gonna splash water forward. You can manipulate those too.

Speaker 8 (01:44:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
Just yeah, just something oh skitter walk maybe in one
of those little small skitter walks. They're they're really good,
uh for that, And you just got to slow everything down.
And one thing that you can and do that a
lot of people don't do with top waters, especially on
calm water, is when you throw that thing out there
and it's splat, it hits the water, okay, and the

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rings start to generate around it. Pause, don't even touch
that thing, don't move it at all until all those
rings have kind of dissipated, and then maybe just give
it one twitch and then wait a little bit and
give it one twitch. Just slow everything down, because the
faster you bring it back to you, the more commotion

(01:45:29):
it's making, the more likely this to maybe spook a
fish rather than attractive fish. I can't tell you how
many times I've stopped. Back back when I was a
cigarette smoker one hundred years ago, I'd throw a lower
way out there, big old top water and think, okay,
I'm gonna fire one up here real quick, and I'd
light that cigarette and I'm just standing there holding the
rod in my other hand and boom. Fish would just

(01:45:50):
blow it up, absolutely blow it up, just sitting there.
So don't be scared to do that. Give it you
throw it out there, let everything settle completely, and then
just give it one on twitch because there's a fair
chance that if you're in the right spot, there's a
fish just sitting under it, just watching it, just waiting
for it, just daring it to move, and it'll happen.
It'll happen, man, I promise you. What else is going

(01:46:13):
on with you?

Speaker 5 (01:46:14):
Not much, Just doing a couple of couple of jobs
in Texas for one. Yeah, yeah, back out Fall Lake
at the end of the month. But uh, I've heard
you talk about garage. Man. Hey give cleaning time, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:46:32):
So I appreciate the help, and I'm I'm motivated. I've
said that, I know a hundred times. I'm sure Scott's
rolling on the floor right now.

Speaker 5 (01:46:41):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:46:41):
But yeah, I want to get this done. I walked
out there the other day and I was going to start,
and I came back in. I told my wife, I'm overwhelmed.
I just don't know where to start. So I'm going
to have to start somewhere. And if that means hiring
a big dumpster to put in the driveway for a
little while, I may do that. Because there's a lot
of stuff out there. I mean, I hate throwing away

(01:47:01):
fishing lures because I'm sure somebody yeah there you go. Yeah,
I may just put a big giant pile of those
things for you. That's not a bad idea. You'll find
that they'll all catch fish. I talked about that early
in the show. So where are you planning on throwing
these top waters?

Speaker 5 (01:47:16):
Man? Well, the little secret spot I'm telling you about
it out there there, so you know, it's just a
money spot for me. But after a rainstorm. There's been
two times I've been out there and what I say,
glass smooth on eerie eerie. Yeah, I didn't, I didn't
know it. You get like that out there, and uh,

(01:47:36):
I just didn't want to throw anything that was gonna
make a big calamity.

Speaker 2 (01:47:40):
But just go to something smaller and and nothing with
a lip on it, because every time you twitch those things,
they push a pretty big wake. Now, if you know,
if you see bait fish flipping around, then you can
kind of imitate whatever whatever calamity they're dealing with underneath
them and and the splashing they're doing. But by and large,

(01:48:01):
just something slow and quiet, because if it's if the
water's that calm, any commotion, just the least little ripple
on the top is going to be felt for a
long ways away from that lure. So they'll find it. Well,
I'll find it, man.

Speaker 5 (01:48:14):
I was tying up my game a little bit. You
were in at the monster with Heather over there.

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
Gosh, I know, man, Hey, thanks for the call erin.
Always a pleasure, you bet man. By way, all right,
here we go, take care of that. Seven one three
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(01:48:39):
I was trying to solicit some of that and I
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you've I don't care. If you've listened for years, it's
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starting my twenty six year doing this outdoor show. Or
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I would be happy to have that discussion with you,
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This is one of the somewhat unique things that I
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That's why I keep them around. There's there's our occasions

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when when we have to regroup and maybe change a
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Don't there's not anybody on my list that I wouldn't
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There's room in this show for a few more. There's
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That's my goal. I want to make sure that as

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many people as I can support, who will support me,
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shall we, and we're gonna tea it up this hour
with one more time for my good friend Brad Schweiss,
who is over at Houston Gold Exchange. Well, I don't

(01:51:06):
know if he's there today. He may be down at
the beach house because he does love to fish, and
he may be off helping somebody do something because he
does love to do that as well. He is a
he's a sole proprietor of this business of his West
Timer and Darry Ashford, and he's been there for more
than forty years. He buys and sells jewelry, precious metals, watches,

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fine watches, not just yeah, all the good stuff. And
he's an outdoor Like I said, he's an outdoorsman. He
loves to fish. He's constantly down. Hey man, look at
what I caught. Let me tell you what I caught.
I said, Okay, fine, Brad, tell me what you caught.
And it's always something pretty good. He also is kind
of he thinks like us. He's a good guy. He

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loves the way our country's headed. He likedt like I do.
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nine thirty five. On Sports Tax seven ninety What is that? Frankie?
Never heard that song? I don't think called disco duck?
Oh yes, Oh my gosh, yes, now I remember, sadly, Yeah,
disco duck. That's where the quacks come from, obviously, that's
that's back to the days of parachute pants of I

(01:53:21):
don't remember what the fabric was for all those shirts.
We wore nylon, dacron something lown gold chains. A lot
of guys wore real big, heavy gold change chains. I
was never into that. I was proud to wear my
blue Marlin pennant. I've talked about that before on the show,

(01:53:43):
except that the original one started stabbing me in the
chest when I would lean over or twist the wrong way,
and so I had to get one that had kind
of a ribbon around the actual fish to protect me
from stabbing myself. Platform shoes, we had those. That's embarrassing.
What else was common and cool back then? There were

(01:54:08):
a couple of specific brands of clothing we wore to
the discos, and I can't even remember what they were now,
And I'm almost scared to ask this audience because I
know a lot of them. A lot of people in
this audience were right out there with me, even if
they weren't on the same dance floor on the same day.
There were some big clubs in town too, and I
did a stint as a bartender. I've talked about that before.

(01:54:30):
I did it for a few years to get myself,
get myself moving in the right direction, save a little money,
and yeah, it was interesting. This was a very busy,
booming side of town, the southwest was. And we would
because my friends and I a lot of us who
work together, at least not in the same clubs, but

(01:54:52):
we had the same mindsets. We would close up get off,
the bars would close and clubs would close. It two
take you about an hour hour and a half to
get all the other work done, get you get your
money counted, and do all the prep work for the
next day and whatnot. And then we would actually go
get breakfast and then drive straight to the beach if

(01:55:16):
it was a good day for surfing or for or
for fishing. And I can't tell you how many times
I did that. It was a it was a Uh
that's a young man's game. There's no question about that.
You've got to stay up for a lot of hours
and then come home, take an hour and a half,
two hour, and app and be right back to to
accommodating customers. Yeah, that was that was Noah. I couldn't

(01:55:40):
replace that. It was a lot of fun. It really
was seven one three two one two five seven ninety
email on me Dug pick at iHeartMedia dot com. I
sent Mitchell Holder a text a minute ago.

Speaker 8 (01:55:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:55:49):
He let me know early that he really didn't feel
comfortable trying to make a call from out there on
the prairie because it was just so windy and he
didn't want it to be bad radio. And I send
him a text saying okay, how about a text report
on those ducks, And I haven't heard back yet. I
got a hunch he's picking up the spread and trying
to get out of there. I would imagine that if

(01:56:13):
things went the way I think they went, they have
a pretty good strap of birds. Now there's no concern
over that. My guess is the weather's changing. Those birds
are going to get up and move, and if it's
pretty windy like that, they'll probably move pretty low, which
makes it a little bit more advantageous. A good goose
hunt under clear sky is extremely rare, but it's also

(01:56:37):
extremely rewarding and cool to watch those birds work down
from way up high. Of course, it's also cool to
watch them fighting a headwind trying to get to where
you are. And it seems like it's taking an hour
for them to fly one hundred yards at fifteen twenty
feet off the deck, pushing and pushing against a strong

(01:56:59):
north wind just to get to the to the spread
and get to where you are. And I can't tell
you how many mornings we had to rearrange hundreds of
decoys just to make sure that we could get where
we needed to be. We would leave we would I'd
leave the hunters where they were, but half at least

(01:57:19):
of the decoys that were in front of those hunters,
where on a milder, calmer day, the birds would have
floated on over us. We had to move those to
the very back and really hide very well, being closer
to the front of the spread. And when I had
groups that could just just stay still and not fidget

(01:57:41):
and not move and not otherwise spook these birds, man,
it would be okay. Take them, and these guys would
look up and the geese would be ten fifteen feet
over their heads and just hanging there and all kinds
of good times. Let me go see what's on Bob's mind.
What's up, Bob?

Speaker 5 (01:58:03):
Hey, Doug, here are you this morning?

Speaker 7 (01:58:05):
Good man?

Speaker 5 (01:58:07):
I suld appreciate your show.

Speaker 7 (01:58:08):
Man.

Speaker 10 (01:58:09):
I don't get out there as much as I used to,
and it's kind of like being out there when I
listen to you.

Speaker 5 (01:58:15):
Hey, I just wanted to mention something.

Speaker 10 (01:58:18):
I was listening to talk to that guy about the
small top water and I thought that was just excellent,
excellent advice for that guy. And I just wanted to
mention the lure. I know you remember it, Old Bill
Dance up spitting image. Oh yeah, yeah, remember that little
shad imitation with the BB's in it. My Lord, I've

(01:58:39):
caught my Friday friend of mine turned me onto that
baked years ago, and I've caught more fish on that thing.
I've changed the hooks out and make them stronger, but
they sell them. They sell them now over cut rate
or I mean a fish tackling limits in all different
colors and with some good hooks on them, And God,

(01:59:01):
I just can't tell you how many fish are caught
on that little top water.

Speaker 2 (01:59:04):
It's interesting you mentioned that because I'll say the very
first time, the very first cast I made with a
spitting image was down south somewhere I can't remember, in
a bay, and I threw it out there and this guy,
the guy who sent it to me, was you know,
they were all hyped up over it when it was
first released and it was going to be the next
best thing ever. And I'd seen that same spiel from

(01:59:28):
every lure maker there.

Speaker 7 (01:59:29):
Was back then.

Speaker 2 (01:59:30):
But it looked, it looked really fishy, and I really
wanted to throw it. So we get out there and
we're wade fishing, and I throw that thing out there
and it hits the water and so helped me.

Speaker 7 (01:59:39):
Bob.

Speaker 2 (01:59:40):
I cranked a handle like three times, and there's just
this explosion on this lure. My holy cow, it really
does work. And I reeled in about six and a
half pounds of speckled trout the very first cast, within
ten feet of it hitting the water. And that's what
I caught too. I was sold.

Speaker 5 (01:59:55):
Man, Oh yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:59:57):
And then it's a natural color. I mean, it looks
so real. Scott even got the little dot on the side.
And we used to call them.

Speaker 5 (02:00:05):
Boat fish down there on the Tree River anyway, and uh,
but uh, it's just a little tidbit. Sometimes that's all
they want, is just a little tidbit like that.

Speaker 2 (02:00:16):
You know, it certainly is man.

Speaker 5 (02:00:17):
Gat anyway, I just thought i'd mention it, sir. Thank you.
He can find some older like I say, over there fishing.

Speaker 2 (02:00:24):
Yeah, this the first time you've called this show. Oh no,
I'll call you. I thought so. Yeah, I thought I recognized.

Speaker 5 (02:00:32):
Over the years. Sure, man, keep up the good work, buddy,
we need you.

Speaker 2 (02:00:36):
I appreciate it. Thank you, Bob. I'm going to be
here as long as they'll have me. Man, he've been coming.
If you know anybody who wants to support this show,
telling to call me or email me.

Speaker 5 (02:00:44):
You bet, thank you, sure will man, thank you, sir.

Speaker 2 (02:00:47):
Yes, sir, my pleasure. Oh it's so good to hear.
This is kind of this is what I want this
show to be. I want it to be. Hey, I
heard what you were talking about, and let me add this. Hey,
I heard what you were talking about. Let me throw
this out for thought, and whether you agree or disagree.
I don't have a problem with disagreement. I've talked about
that a lot. If you don't agree with what I'm saying,
tell me why and make your case. And who knows,

(02:01:11):
I might be turned over to where you're thinking, or
I might turn you to where I'm thinking. But we'll
have a good discussion about it. And I think that
I know that my audience is smart enough to make
their own decisions too. I tell my fifty plus audience
this all the time. I'm not going to sit there
and try to convince you of anything. What I'm going
to do and what I do with that audience is

(02:01:33):
try really hard to give them enough information to make
them curious about that particular news story or that whatever
it was, and then you and they can do your
own research. If you want to hear more about it.
If it's something that bores you to tears, just toss
it over your shoulder. But if it's something you go, yeah,
I've thought about that before. I wonder what this is,

(02:01:54):
or I wonder what that is. And if you don't
know what any of this or that is and you
want to ask me to go looking for it, I'll
do that too. I have no problem at all helping
helping all of us, because I'm sitting here every weekend
doing three hours today and two hours tomorrow, and I've
got time during breaks. I've got time before the show
or after to look stuff up. If you shoot me

(02:02:15):
an email, I'll try to look up whatever you want
to find out about and it'll either pop up in
the show tomorrow or practice well, actually it'll be all
the all the above. It'll probably pop up tomorrow if
I have time, and if I don't, if it doesn't
fall to the bottom of the stack somehow, And I'll
also respond to you directly with an email that says
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Fifty two on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show,
Thank you for listening this morning. I really do appreciate
that little Wendy lot cooler. Gonna get cooler for the
next two days, so just hold on tight and see
what you can do seven one three, seven nine. Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I got time
for a couple more calls, and I'm gonna start with Matt.

(02:06:13):
What's going on?

Speaker 5 (02:06:13):
Matt, Hey, Doug, how you doing.

Speaker 2 (02:06:16):
I'm doing great.

Speaker 7 (02:06:17):
Thanks.

Speaker 2 (02:06:17):
Let's see up here. Frankie said, you're a first time guy.
What's going on?

Speaker 11 (02:06:22):
I've been going in wsands time to figure out where
I can go freshwater trout.

Speaker 2 (02:06:28):
Sushi like rainbow trout.

Speaker 11 (02:06:31):
Yes, I grew up on the Snake River.

Speaker 2 (02:06:34):
Well, you might be disappointed at what you can do
around here unless you go to the Guadaloop River up
there in the Hill country. There's an actual there's a
year round fishery for them up there. If you want
to just scratch the itch a little bit, go to
the Parks and Wildlife Department's website and look at where
they have stocked rainbow trout, and there are probably at
least a dozen locations pretty close to Houston there where

(02:06:58):
you can go and you want to do with these
little put and take fish is kind of be there
within maybe three, four or five days of when they
drop those fish, and they drop them all over and
at regular intervals at some lakes even and just be
there with corn. Or if you want to fly fish,
you can fly fish for them. If you want to

(02:07:19):
throw little lures, you can throw super duper spoons and
probably do pretty well in some of the lakes they're there.
They're not giant fish now, mind you, they're going to
be Probably the state I think will tell you they're
like eight to ten inches. Some of them will be
six or seven, some might be twelve. But they're at
least rainbow trout, and they released one hundreds of thousands

(02:07:42):
of them each year.

Speaker 5 (02:07:44):
I've been doing that for the last three years.

Speaker 7 (02:07:47):
I've got the hitch to actually get on a river.

Speaker 2 (02:07:49):
Oh okay, yeah, okay, Guadaloup Yeah there, and look up
trout guides Guadaloupe, and you'll find somebody who can point
you in the right direction. And then once you kind
of get up in that area, you can learn where
the public access is and you don't need any help
knowing how to catch them. You just need to find
where they're hanging out.

Speaker 5 (02:08:09):
Right, Yep, that's it.

Speaker 2 (02:08:10):
Yeah, House the snake, river man cow. That had to
be fun.

Speaker 5 (02:08:14):
It was beautiful. Six years old. I caught a ten
pound four on ter rainbow.

Speaker 2 (02:08:19):
Oh lord, that's not going to happen down here on
these putting take fish. I guarantee you only cow Man. Yeah,
that set the bar pretty high for you, didn't it.
Ye did?

Speaker 5 (02:08:29):
Oh my word.

Speaker 1 (02:08:31):
I've lived in California and I'm east oh Man.

Speaker 2 (02:08:36):
Yeah, Well, you can stick around here for a while.
You'll find everything you're looking for there, with the exception
of there's a little bit of el cunting available out west.
There's uh the fishing in this state. Once you learn
it and know where everything is. I'd put it up
against any state in the country. I really would, because

(02:08:56):
our off shore stuff is great. It's just a pretty
long boat ride. Our inshore stuff is outstanding, and I
fished in thirty something states. I kind of I have
an idea of what I'm comparing to. And our fresh
water bass fishing is great. Our rainbow trout fishing, like
I said, because most of our water is a little
bit too warm to really support them, but the water

(02:09:16):
below the dam coming into the Guadaloup is cool enough
and this a year round population there. You'll find them.
You get up there, you'll find some rainbows. You know
what you're looking for. And where to cast.

Speaker 5 (02:09:28):
All right, all right, thank you you bet man, thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:09:30):
Glad to have you on board. Don't be a stranger, okay,
all right, see the Matt, all right, Dave, I got
about a minute.

Speaker 5 (02:09:39):
I get that's good.

Speaker 11 (02:09:40):
I want to hear some more from that man there too,
because you know that's one of my bucket lists is
go catch rainbow trout.

Speaker 2 (02:09:47):
Oh yeah, man, yeah, native rainbows. Oh no, no, no, no,
absolutely not.

Speaker 4 (02:09:55):
No.

Speaker 2 (02:09:55):
There's a lot of people throw little spinners. They throw
very small Menno imitations, the Rappeler lures, the little bitty ones.
Uh yeah, there's all kinds of things you can throw
and catch them. You don't have to throw, you don't
have to fly fish at all.

Speaker 8 (02:10:11):
Right, right.

Speaker 11 (02:10:12):
The stock him around here every once in a while too.

Speaker 2 (02:10:15):
But yeah, those are pretty little and it's fun. Joe
Doggett and I used to do it just because we're
so competitive with each other, and we caught them on
everything from from little natural bait like little nightcrawlers. There's
some the stink or not stink baits, but those little
prepared baits, the power baits and all of that. There's
some called trout nibbles that are great. Uh, And then

(02:10:37):
we threw a half a dozen different kinds of lures
at him and caught him on all those lures too.
You just got to be where they are.

Speaker 5 (02:10:44):
Real quick.

Speaker 11 (02:10:45):
What about at the show where they put them? Yeah, man,
the professional guys would go there, they'd have to run
them off.

Speaker 2 (02:10:53):
I had a friend of mine with those rainbow trout,
a guy I knew a long time ago. He long
since past, but anyway, he would sneak's the cheese in there,
and you know, they'd hand you this little four foot
cane pole with a few feet of line and a
fly on the end, and he'd reach into his coat
pocket and pinch a piece of cheese and put it
on the bottom of that fly, put it.

Speaker 7 (02:11:11):
On that fly.

Speaker 2 (02:11:12):
Caught one every time. Shame on him. All right, you
know what that music means?

Speaker 5 (02:11:19):
Hey, I got you?

Speaker 11 (02:11:20):
Hey, Hey, well thanks lot y'alling you. We'll talk more
about the tournament fishing for college.

Speaker 2 (02:11:26):
Yes, sir, you got it. Thanks see you, Dave. All right,
Holy cow, I'll wrap it up for today. I can't
believe it's already over. This is a nice, fun show.
I enjoyed hearing from all of you. Keep calling that's
I love hearing from you. It really works better when
we're just this giant community of people helping each other.
I don't know everything. I'll be the first one to
admit it. I want to learn from you as much

(02:11:47):
as I want you to learn from me. That's it
for today. Get outside, have some phone with your family,
Stay safe. We'll see you tomorrow. Eight audios

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