Reel Animals Fishing Show Sunday 08-24-25

Reel Animals Fishing Show - Sunday August 24. 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ta Mahoney Company Real Animals Radio Show
presented by Contender Boats and Pro Marines now Here to
chart today's course. Your hosts, Captain's Mike Anderson, Ben Marshall
and the Legend Mike Mahoney.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good morning, tm Hony Real Animals ninety five point three
WDAE and six twenty am. Captain Ben Marshall in the
studio this morning with the legend. Who is just Mike Mahoney,
Good morning Mike.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
That's it. What's up?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Ben? I'd like I never know. I mean you say
I'm using my vacation days. I mean you guys take
a lot of weekends off. You'll be off though soon enough.
I get to guarantee you give us a call this morning.
We'd like to hear from you fishing reports. We got
a bunch to talk about this morning. Give us a
call at one eight eight eight five four six four

(00:56):
six twenty. My win finders telling me Saint thing I
saw on the news early this morning. You got a
southwest wind sustained at sixteen mile an hour. That anything
just I know this one mine I ready was gusting
to seventeen and twenty. Anything above fifteen is pretty rough

(01:19):
I mean is not as much fun. I mean, you're
not headed off sustained sixteen mile an hour rainy hit
some heavy rain coming across the Howard Franklin this morning
spot there there was a road ranger. It was so dark.
I don't know. The lights weren't on. Yeah, I noticed

(01:41):
that yesterday coming in. Yeah, the lights weren't on. So
it was really dark, and a road ranger was blind
to me. I couldn't tell if he was in my
lane or I quickly got over and got out of
his way. But and then we got folks that a
few rain drops hit the windshield and they slowed down
to forty five. And I can't handle it. I have
to go around the big truck. Big truck ain't gonna

(02:04):
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with Reese. Let me tell you an observation I saw
this morning. I got to talk to you about.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Be careful.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
I may answer something no no. I noticed this morning,
and I guess I haven't read I didn't see the
construction plans. I haven't seen it on the new but
they're building a walkway on the north side of the
Howard Franklin, did you see that? And there's like little
cut out rest areas we.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
See something going home.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I don't know if it's all the aluminum handrail, and
I thought, what is that? Well, I'm thinking, you know,
get Rick Gross to call in here, because I don't know.
I guess it's different when you're fifteen years old. But
you know, we accessed all the bridges with our bicycles
ten speeds. You had a bucket on the back of
the tackle box. We use lanterns. The kids to day

(03:45):
wouldn't even know what to do with comb and fuel.
I don't even know if you still buy it. I've
got them, but I don't know that people even know
what to do with a lander Now. I got one
that's kerosene, and I know none of the young people
know about a kerosene landing, which is the brightest one
you can buy. And and those mantles and you have
to burn them first and there and basically that Coleman

(04:08):
fuel is high test white gas. I mean it's it'll
blow up. It's the one. Now they just get led,
you know, flat. The old mag lights and stuff are terrible.
And the woods compared to just a little handheld fit
in your pocke. Yeah, now there you go. The d

(04:29):
cells that hold about six batteries. The leos Popo used
to hold them over one shoulder.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
That way, if you know where that light's coming from.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
That's where that lights. It is always behind you. If
you don't turn around, you don't see them. But anyway,
what I'm thinking now is with an e bike, you know,
in a conservative amount of tackle in a five gallon
bucket or whatever, but an e bike and I don't know,
the little smallest playmate you can and get the one
that would only hold about six beers full of frozen shrimp.

(05:05):
Just a few hooks and tackling. You could just snook
in there. I'm thinking mangrove snapper. I'm thinking you can.
I mean, because that was Richard Seward's deal. Was Howard
Franklin and Ganny more so Howard Franklin. Now, I know
it's been disturbed, but there's a lot more pylons and
stuff and structure there now than there was when it.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Settles down where you're talking about. I was giving a
report there all through Cypress Beach. So if you come around,
you're headed north and you go underneath the Howard Franklin
and then cut back to you right there that all
the depth has changed there. You know where you used
to be able to run up there a little bit
and kind of.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Get up by the base, especially on the high time
you used to fish back in the day. R. J.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Reynolds that you're going to go back in and do
the same thing in that little cove.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
There was oyster bars back there.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
A lot of sand is coming there through the last
couple of hurricanes.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well, and I talked a couple of the really good
Upper Bay guides and they were just saying, nobody really
understands the amount of silt that was disturbed sand and
silt driving piles. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
I mean, you got a wind coming out of the
southwest or the west and it's going to push that
stuff right up in there.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
And there's not a lot of grass in the upper
base still. So I think it's been a couple of
weeks because you know, I was trying to use up
my radio vacation days into the year, but went fishing
down at Anna Maria. Then that's not that far a
run for these guys right there in the inner coastal
north of the mante Avenue Bridge, those grass flats there

(06:43):
that go forever. The trout fishing was stupid. I mean,
it's good to hear the thirty Yeah, I think. Don't
quote me on it. You know, I had a local
with me, Captain Rooster Curry. I think it's three now
maybe four, and it used to be five, but it's

(07:05):
three and one over nineteen inches. You almost got to
read it every day on the trout to get it.
But we had our limit no time. The worst part
of it was comorants. The comrades hung with a boat
and pretty much anything that you turned back they'd catch.
It was that artificial, all artificial. Had a blast. We

(07:27):
had to We had limited out in no time and
had to quit. So we went back in there to
Peminy Bay to Golate's Nobody. It was kind of windy, rainy,
and we bought cut bait, which I never do. Bruce,
Let's have some fun, and we fished the docks and

(07:48):
the marina and a couple of little hump bridges there
in Bemity Bay, and we had a blast. We caught
small group or of course, you take cut bait and
throw it on the bottom, you're going to catch a
catfished down. But we a mangro snapper, a small grouper.
You know, you can't say jewfish anymore, but goliath, those goliaths,

(08:13):
the little baby glias. Yeah, yeah, some of those well,
some of those places we were fishing. Some people would
say pretty much anything you catch, well.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
We better watch what we say.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Richard's listening. But some of you know, I know, I
used to fish the Everglades quite a bit, ten thousand
islands and a lot of tourists would go down there
and they'd catch those because that's the breeding ground for
a lot of those goliath groupers and they get mistaken
for gags. You know, it happens. Yeah, the tail is

(08:51):
definitely different. I mean, once you've seen them and can
figure it out, you know, I need to be looking
at that hard. Just put them in the bottom. Yeah,
I don't think that many people check them down there anyway.
But I'm still saying an e you know, I don't
know how long the Howard Franklin Bridge is. Somebody can

(09:11):
tell us, but anyway, yeah, I'm thinking, but I'm thinking
an e bike on that thing. And man, you can
fish the pilands and the mangrove snapper, I guess. I
guess you got to think about keeping the fish fresh,
you know what. All but some of these e bikes,
you know, some of these soft side coolers. I mean

(09:32):
that's what Captain Rooster was using for stuff on with
trout with a little bit of ice.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well, you can always carry like what you know, we
were talking earlier about going into a stand and where
the wast would get in that little bag. But one
of those bags is good to carry because you can
slide a fish right in there. Put some ice on it.
It looks like a check.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'm just thinking that's going to open up. Of course
they'll be I guess they'll be roller skaters and walkers stuff.
It probably would be. No, you don't see the skaters
like you, the inline skaters and stuff. You don't see
them like you. I used to see you doing that
all the time. Backwards. Yeah, you know, you see me
going backwards pretty much all the time. Give us a

(10:14):
call this morning. We'd like to hear from you. Get
a fish and report one eight eight eight five four
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where Big Mike is, but H and Dylan was off too.

(10:34):
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(10:56):
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you about.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Let's hear it.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
For years, you know, I've been listening to Mahoney The
Wisdom of of Mike Mahoney. But there is some there
and you talk about you know, market changes and and
you also express opinions about guides and what they charge
and expect tips and mates, and you have to well, no,

(12:11):
I'm just a but I this something I thought of
you when when my wife told me about this. So
the girls weekend down to the beach. Uh is that
where you were? No, I was there.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
I was in Georgia. You said, Okay, I don't know,
but this.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Girl's although you know, back in my younger days, the
guys make fun of me. I go to girls Weekend
and tell the rest of the guys you're your dumb as.
It's girls weekend. That means there's girls there. And I'm
the only guy. I go go every time, have a
good time to anyway, So it's girls weekend. And my

(12:53):
wife said, you know, my boat's not gonna be down
there because I'm not there. And they were going to
take the tiki cruise or something. And I have seen
come up to Anna Maria where the tennis courts are
a lot of guys starting to use that little ramp
there and there's not much room for a bunch of boats.
And there's this floating tiki bar that you can go
out on. I don't know if it's got a ten
horse motor, but it putts around and you go out

(13:15):
and you sit around the bar and drink and you're
in a tiki hut. So that's what I pictured. No.
A captain who's called it his retirement. Gig picked them
up at her dock at her house in Bemany Bay,
and six ladies got on a thirty six foot pontoon

(13:35):
boat and he took them for a ride. And you know,
my wife's and I've done little Gasprilla, Boca Grand Boculia,
Pine Island, Useppa, all that stuff. She's she's done it.
She's caught some big Her first keeper snook was forty
two inches back when you could, so she's I mean,
she's done stuff. She had a ball. It means you

(13:56):
kept it. Oh yeah, yeah, back of the day. But
what I'm saying is this guy picked him up. He
took them all the way down to Sarasota out, found
the cleanest water he could part, let him swim, cook
them cheeseburgers on this pontoon boat, and brought them back.
And he just said that's he he you know, got
tired of fighting the guides. As we hear Mike and

(14:19):
everybody talk about, there's somebody in every spot you go
to the pressure, the hurricanes, the fish, the red tide,
the lack of grass, all that stuff. But there's still
a market to be made on the water if you
evolve this what's the question. Well, no, you tell me
in the retail you got to don't complain about you

(14:39):
can't sell what you need to find stuff you can't.
So I just thought of you. This guy was beating
the bushes, snooked trout and redfish, and he just said,
you know, there's a different market. I'm getting on up
in years sold his his What he told him was gauze,
a beautiful boat, expensive boat. Bought him a pontoon boat,

(15:02):
said it had I saw a picture. It's got like
a couch on each side. Chairs, had a head on board,
and the girls had them some wine and had cheeseburgers
and went swimming, and he brought them back. It sounded
like it was a five or six hour trip. I'm
just saying there's a market for you know, people want

(15:22):
to go out on the water and maybe not fish.
None of these gals. There wasn't a riding reel on
the boat. So there's a market for still to with
the tourists and such.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Well.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
And it's like, you know, most of the guides, including yourself,
Mike and a bunch of other ones, the ones that
are successful aren't one dimensional. You know, you get bad
weather and Anderson. To be honest with you, it doesn't
mean he's at home. He's doing something else in one
of his nine businesses, right.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
So well book group booking, the group charters and doing
writing and doing all this stuff, and even talking about
Jamie yeah him, but yeah, and Jamie Goodwin Stone crab traps,
mullet row a thirty foot mullet boat. When it's the
coldest day of the year, he's him and his buddy.
They're out there, they're working.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
People talk about being slow, you know, school starts and
this whole industry dips a little bit, but there's really
no job you can get, no industry you can get
into that's.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Busy all the time, not self employed.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Right, so you got to look for other stuff to do,
you know, no matter what it is. But if you
sit back complaining, which you hear a lot of it,
nothing's going to happen to you.

Speaker 5 (16:42):
You know.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
I was even I was even telling Mark Feewalks one time,
you know, build a gaff, call it the Feewalks gaff.
You know, whatever t shirts Jamie did.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Jamie many years ago has got his own tarping gaff
with big heavy duty to illuminum handle those guys come
up with stuff that works, you know. And I and
I talked with Brewster Curry while we're down there bout.
He goes, how's that guy making any money? You know,
thirty six foot or he's got big motors on it.
I don't know. My wife didn't think to notice that

(17:16):
kind of stuff. It does not take big motors to
push a pontoon boat of any size. I mean, there
is a trend now in the past five to ten
years of putting very large motors on large pontoon boats
that go very fast. But it's kind of like a
Carolina skiff. It doesn't take a lot of motor to
push a pontoon boat. I mean, you could have twin nineties,

(17:39):
twine fifteen's. You don't have to have a four fifty
or three hundred or whatever plus these folks that you're
putting on board for. Oh he does. She said, he
does a two or three hour sunset tour and he's
booked solid with tourists. One goes, you know, go out.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
He's right down there in You're not going to find
that if you're on the east side of Tampa Bay.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
No, you know, but I mean, but Anna Maria got
crushed from the hurricanes. And there's still people rebuilding their house.
You know all about that, just some of them not done.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
We're still dealing with insurance. Yes, that's how special the
insurance companies are. That's not the biggest racket.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Well, and you lost the hotels, and you lost the hotels,
you lost a lot of folks that you know that.
Of course, you got the beaches which are saving you.
But just to see some folks taking advantage of something,
some way to make something different other than chasing the
fish all day, it sounded a pretty good gig to me.

(18:42):
I mean, you just take it. And they they were
all fun, they were all in a good mood, they
were having a blast. Just sounded like a pretty neat deal.
Told them it's a high maintenance trip. The pressure may
not be on you for fish, but I guarantee there
was other stuff that the pressure. He was taking to
a place, and it sounded like he was taking them

(19:04):
to whatever they call those two islands. I forget the
dame of them right there and the lumbo Key Pass
where everybody's saying bars right there, and the water was dirty.
That's where he was taking them. All the way from
the North Tip an where he had Beenmany Bay, and
he ended up going out the pass and down the
beach on the Sara side at the Sarasoticide not much wind,

(19:25):
and he found not much wind, and he found just
crystal clear gin clear water and anchored up. And then
I was like, she was, I said, and he cooked
his hamburgers. I was like, sounds like a pretty good deal.
I'm just saying, instead of baiting hooks out there before daylight,
throwing a cast net, worried about your bait dying and
whether the fish bite and the wind and the red tide,

(19:47):
is the tide good enough all that stuff, you just
put them on a pontoon boat and take them for
a ride. I don't know. I just and I thought,
of you adapt.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Oh, yeah, you're just gonna see.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Me out there?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
What ever? Did I thought they I would even be
talking about pontoon boats and trout well.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Keep going. No, I'm just I was very happy, and
I'm trying out your new label batteries. I got a
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Speaker 3 (20:22):
Probably one of the best guys I've worked with over there,
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take care of us. We need a battery, they drop
it off. There is no wait in two or three days.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
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him elsewhere too.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Well, you guys. You guys have done it for years
taking care of the Parker and even my little Maverick
and some other boats here and there, and even the Pathfinder.
But I took the Pathfinder to where I purchased it
because I needed the annual done on the motor. Sure
I told you, I don't know if I told you.
I was like, I talked to Curtis that's been working

(21:45):
there forever, the greatest guy in the world. I was like,
can you all look up the last time I saw
him at lunch one day down at Hula Bay, and
I said, Curtis, how long can I go without an annual?
He says, well, if you're water pumps working pretty good,
if there's no moisture in the oil and the crank case,

(22:05):
you can skip a year kind of. But don't tell
anybody I told you that. I said, well, I'm pretty
sure I know I skipped last year. So I went
into the front office there at Family Voting Centers that
can you tell me when I did my last annual
twenty twenty one?

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Why it's good to write that stuff down.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
It's like water fuel separators. You taught me that. I
do that on my pontoon. But first thing I do
is take a permanent marker and mark the date that
I install it, because you can't remember that stuff well.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
And it's even on the batteries right, because the battery
surprised you too when.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
It was twenty seven. They were twenty seventeen's I thought
they were twenty twenty one. Now they were north Stars.
They were good batteries, and you sold them to me.
So give us a call. We want to hear from
you this morning. One eight eight eight five four six
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(23:02):
I see we uh, we got a faithful caller this morning.
Give us a report from way down south. Let's go
to Captain Mike.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
Go ahead, Mike, Hey, Good morning, Ben, Good morning, Mike. Hey,
y'all doing this morning?

Speaker 3 (23:15):
What's happening, Buddy.

Speaker 6 (23:16):
Hey, doing good? Doing good? Had had a good day
hopping through the pop up storms all the way down
off the key US. You guys had them all day
yesterday too.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Up there, it.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Looked like it got worse.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
I thought pretty hard Marko Allen yesterday evening taking it
on the chin.

Speaker 6 (23:36):
Yeah, I have that. I had that my simmarad system
and I have the serious XM weather package there and
it makes it pretty easy to skip around some of
the big ones. And then of course if they're small
and there's no lightning in them, you welcome them a
little bit in this heat. So it wasn't too bad.
But we, uh, we kind of had a little bit

(23:59):
of an adventure. And this is a public address announcement
to people to get their boats checked. I got a
may Day call, not but less than half a mile
from me. Another offshore boat broke a through haul while
they were out, and I answered and pulled up and

(24:22):
they I told the guy, keep the boat running, keep
it moving, make sure your bill is turned on, and
have everybody with your life jackets on and everything just
in case. And when I got to him, they were
I intercepted him and they were moving. I told him,
slow down. I have one of the kits with the

(24:43):
different plugs and everything for that type of emergency, and
I threw it over to him and the guy was
just you could tell he was scared to death. And
I said, just find the plug that fits the hole
that's leaking the best, and he was able to find
the one out of the kit and plug it. I said,

(25:04):
stand on it. Just get it jammed down in there.
If you can. Luckily, it broke in a place they
could get to pretty rapidly and they were able to
save the boat. But we followed them in all the
way to the marina, and uh, when they pulled that
boat out of the water, there was still a whole
lot of water in the in the hull of that boat.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
You know, Mike, some people forget as long as you've
got power, you can always pull the plug too. If
your built pump won't keep up, as long as you're running,
that water will run out. But as soon as you
get as soon as you go back to an idol
and some of the boats you can't reach them anyway.
You're gonna have to put somebody overboard.

Speaker 6 (25:44):
Right right. And I just you know, I did debate,
you know, I talked them through it, and other captains
other people were around, and by the time I got
to them, there were a couple other boats ready, and
we took They had seven people. It was a thirty
foot center console mission boat, and I took three people

(26:07):
on board, and another boat took three people on board,
and then we left the captain and another guy, like
their biggest guy on there to help out. We just
kind of escorted him in to make sure they didn't
go down and there wasn't any other problem, and good they.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
When they hauled that boat out of the water, half.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
The Atlantic Ocean came out of it. I was like,
look at I told my clients, I said, watch the
water come out of there. And I said, that's why
you don't realize how much space, little spaces are underneath
the deck of that boat that can hold water.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
And you know that's a good point too. Jim Fogel
would like to chime in on something like that. If
you look in my console, I normally have at least
six of the type one Type two's commercial life jackets,
but then I also throw three to four or five
of just the regular old legal life jackets. Uh, not

(27:08):
for charter, just for saving lives. And that way, if
I do some kind of rescue like that, I'm not
surprised when the man pulls me over and I'm trying
to be a good Samaritan and says, let me see
your life.

Speaker 6 (27:19):
Jackets, right exactly, you know, And I told that's the
first thing I told them over the VHF. I'm like,
make sure everybody on board has a life jacket on
in case between the time you made this call and
the time we get to you, or somebody gets to
you that if you got to go in the water,
they're floating and they can use my dive ladder and

(27:41):
climb on up. I had had the side hats already
unlocked and the dive ladder ready to go just in case.
So good job, mikes naturally naturally kicks in. So but
the fishing ended up being good. We got our mangoes
and muttons and yellow tails. We got some really nice
trigger fish. Got two that were like seven pounds, nice

(28:05):
big trigger Yeah, big good eating. That's good eating. People
look at them and they think, what can I get
off of these? Well, folks, if you've never had bress
trigger fish, you're doing yourself a disservice. And I heard
you talking about hog fish yesterday. We're starting to see
a few few better hog fish. I think the bigger
ones tend to tend to start feeding a little earlier

(28:28):
than then the smaller fish, the keeper size. But you
get some bigger ones this time here, and then just
as that water will cool off, eventually you'll start to
see a mix of sizes of the of the hog fish.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
It's starting to happen. That's for sure. Mike.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
This uh, you know, August to September. To me, is
that transition for all of them inshore offshore groupers open,
then it's going to be Yeah, it's definitely gonna be.

Speaker 6 (29:01):
One more, one more quick question. Are you guys going
to be h fishing in the CCA? I'll release Richard
Seward tournament coming up in September.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
As far as I know, I got an email from
somebody at CCA Travis or anyway, but just saying Captain Ben,
you're registered from the cancelation last year. I said, Okay,
I'll be there. I don't know who I'm fishing with
or in what boat. You big pontoon boat. Yeah, I'll
be in a thirty six foot pond boat with a

(29:35):
bunch of ladies if.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
It gets If it gets you to where the redfish
nook and chowd are, it's really all you need. So
but no, I was just wondering yet Ricking myself and
Donald will be all chucking the artificial So getting ready
to see if we can't put a grand slam on
that boat.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Go back to the start of your call. You heard
this Mayda on your VH Chef yeah. Ye see, that's
what mine's always on. And it's on sixteen or twenty
one at all times, usually on sixteen when I'm monitoring.
I lecture a lot of folks. Don't depend on your
cell phone on the water. No, you get a pon

(30:16):
pond or a may day is not going to come
over your cell phone.

Speaker 6 (30:21):
Yeah, I keep the one on sixteen all the time.
And I didn't. I was kind of the beginning stepping
over top of the coast guard was kind of giving
them some directions. And then they realized how close I
was by the time everything was, and then they started
giving me. They started giving me directions, and I started

(30:42):
to talk to them a little bit. FWC heard it,
and they kind of about a half mile away from
the marina, and FWC boat kind of saw us all
coming in because by that time there was the boat
in trouble plus myself plus two other boats and guide
them in, you know, just to make sure no issues,

(31:02):
and and uh yeah, I just heard it, and I
had the kid on board. I got I was telling Donald.
Joking with Donald, I said, I think I got more
life saving and boat saving equipment on the boat than
one man really has to have. But when you need it,
it's there.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
You never have enough of that stuff, that's for sure.

Speaker 6 (31:23):
No, but that's about it. From the Keys. The fishing
is good, the weather's still warm, and we're going to
catch him up today.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Good job, Mike. Thanks for the call, buddy, Yeah, Mike
has always thanks for the call.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
No problem. You guys have a great day. God bless
and tight lines. From the Florida Keys, come and take
a vacation.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Thanks Mike. Always a good call.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
I think the fish cops check fishing licenses before they
pulled in.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
No, I'm not doing a rescue, yeah, hope not. But
I always do want a few more life jackets than
in case. You know, in case I picked it. You
can't have enough stuff. No, it's like like fire extinguishers.
I had a fire on board. One is not enough.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
No, you got to put them everywhere, that's for sure.
You know, you know, you got to remember this. And
so many people come in the store and they asked
me what do you gotta have? And I look at
them and go, remember, this is a bare minimum. When
I'm out on the water and something like that happens,
and it happens to everybody, and the biggest thing is

(32:30):
not the panic, and that's so hard to be in
that situation. You got to you gotta know what you're
gonna do. You got to know where you're going to go.
I remember, I think it. You know, I was taking
on water big time and I was out about a
mile off shore, and to be honest with you, my
plan B was to run the boat on the beach.

(32:53):
You know, I knew that if it got to a
certain point, I'm headed that way. Life jackets were out,
and of course we didn't need to do that, but
I got up closer to the beach to make sure
everything was going. It was actually a live well. You know,
breaking a through hole on a boat. It's not uncommon

(33:13):
to break that through hole going through there, and that's
why it's so important to have anything below the water
line to be bronze or stainless. There's something solid with
a valve. That way you're able to shut that stuff off.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I had my boat's service was bragging on some of
the folks over there. One of the things I asked
him was check all my ball valves and he's like,
what do you want me to check? I was like,
make sure they open and close make sure they operate,
make sure there's nothing loose. And you know, even those
brass rakes or stain I call them rakes, the vented pickups,
the stuff that you put down there there, you're bumping

(33:49):
them on the bottom, sometimes on hard bottom, and it's
they're attached to fiberglass. You know, they move at a
different they flex and move differently, and you can eventually
knock them looser, put a hole in them or this,
but especially coming up from the through holes the threaded fittings,
and then the valves on top of that, and then
you've got a hose. There's something hooked to the other

(34:10):
side of that ball valve. So stuff can fail, stuff
can come loose.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
That's why you need to cut them, keep everything close,
less leverage, and make sure you know, you can go
plastic beyond the valve. But you know, like what happened
to me is my overflow hose had broke, you know,
had to slice in it or something just rotted away.
And as the water was going which as you know
you're going to turn a bunch of water on a

(34:36):
live well, that overflow hose can fill up quick a boat,
you know, So stay safe out there and you never
have enough stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
To keep you safe. You know a lot of guys
that just rig up a big live well, even even
the bait guys that you see that are selling bait,
the bait bars of stuff. A lot of times they
just have like a two inch hose ump and over
the side. It gives you some idea of what the
overflow actually is. Absolutely they just have it just pouring
over the side. You like, what is that, Well, that's

(35:08):
the overflow from the life. Well. You know we're talking
about reese windows and doors and being prepared. The other
thing is trees right now. You know you really need
to start if you need a tree removed, or it's
close to your house, or you know you talk about
all the oak trees you had around your house. Yeah,
and I'll tell you the people that helped me out
with Sools Tree Service. Good guys, known them for a

(35:31):
long time, lifelong friends. Eight one three, eight oh two,
five five four to two. And I know from experience
going through these hurricanes, that's the first thing you start
thinking about high winds.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
What about that tree? Will take care of that tree?
Give them a call over there. Soools Tree Service. You
can find them on Facebook or give them a call
eight one three, eight oh two five five four to two.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
In just the few years I've been around, I've never
seen the tree limbs out in front of the houses
and yards miles and miles. Last year, I mean it
was just like and you see those those huge tractor
trailers show up with a big black boxes with the

(36:17):
crane built in, and then they're pulling a trailer that's
a big, high sighted black box. I don't know why
they paint them all black, but you know what I'm
talking about.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
I think it's so they know who they are and
who they're working for.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
They.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
I tell you, we saw those for months, months everywhere.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
You know. If we we got to have time, can
we go to uh Jim Fogel. I'm not sure if
he's there. Jim. Are you there with our safe boating chip?
I'm not working with Jim right now. I'm trying he's
locked up. Well, Jim, if they unlock you, I'll try

(36:53):
to bring you on there. Oh okay, no worries. We'll
get Jim Fogel get our up there. He did. We
got time for him. Hey, Jim, we got time for you. Hey.
Did you hear good? Did you hear the part about
a rescue down there.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
No, I just as I came on, you guys were
talking about through holes.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yeah, Mike had one broke and had a May Day
and he showed up with repair kits and helped bring it.
Was Mike and Perry down pair keys helped.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
With helping somebody out yesterday.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Heard the call on his radio. Imagine that good had
the radio on.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
Good, good for him, good for him, good for it.
Good at a boy. Yeah, I picked up three minutes
ago or something. Ben, I hope you brought some good
goodies with you today, because boy, did they tear you
up last week?

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (37:48):
Man, I guess they didn't have any food at all
in there.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
No food, No Ben, Ben.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Ben tends to take all his days off on Sunday
instead of affecting his real job, which it seems like,
you know, you trade off a little bit, you know
what I mean. But it's always you know, second fiddle
the radio show with Ben. Well, he's big time now.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
You know, Ben might be.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
The captain, but you know the Admiral is at home
and she kind of gives the orders sometimes.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Oh I know that it's B team. It's all about
B team, you know. I don't aspire to the A side.
I'm on the dark I'm on the dark side.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Ben didn't come because he had a six hour drive
the day before.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
Well, that's kind of hard, you got, he got war out,
he had to drive six hours home on Saturday, couldn't
make Sunday. And how many foodstuffs was there in six hours?
I'd kind of like to know.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
There had to be a couple six hours.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Yeah, that's a long time, bro, that's a lot. Let me.
Let me let me tell you about what we did yesterday. Yesterday,
some of us with a seminar for ladies at the
Helm that Galotti put on over at the yacht club yesterday,
and we put on a program Coast guard Dogs that
we put on a part of the program on mostly
suddenly in command and how to run the boat in

(39:15):
case one of you guys fall out or had a
big one or something. Real good bunch. Had about thirty
five plus ladies in there that were really interested. Their
husbands will probably kill us today when they start, you know,
trying to take over, but that's okay, we'll let worry
about that. Before this, before I really got started, I

(39:40):
gave him these three examples of why it's really, really
really necessary to know at least how to run the
boat and how to call for help. There was a case,
it's an old case that happened down around Miami. I
think it was an NFL player fell off the back of.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
His boat.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
And drowned trying to catch up with a boat, and
the lady didn't know how to handle a boat to
call for help. That was that was a real real
sad thing. I mean, he drowned right there in front
of her. Second case was, yeah, seconds the worse, where
a guy had a big one on the boat. Wife

(40:21):
didn't know what to do to know how to call
for help, and for two days they drifted out in
the golf with him on the boat, her on the
boat that would put her. And then the last one
was that one that's kind of comical that this is
probably ten years ago. This couple was drifting off of

(40:42):
Egmont Key out in the golf a nice day and
they had been, you know, sipping a little bit and
skinny dipping and whatever. And he goes to the back
of the boat to her leave himself, falls out of
the back, drifts away. The boat drifts away because of
course there's a wind out there, and the wind acts
like a sail against that boat and pushes her away.

(41:04):
He couldn't get on, so she did not have started
and how to turn the radio on. She's screaming and kneeling. Finally,
a good Samaritan came by the boat and sorry yelling
and hollering, and they stopped and asked her what happened,
and she told them them, and they called the Coast
Guarden and FWC started the shirts right away, and luckily,

(41:27):
I guess, within a few hours they found the guy
and he was okay. So it sounds like a happy
ending to the story, right. The story made Yeah, Well,
the story made TV in the newspapers, and it turns
out they were both married, but to somebody else.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
So the guy getting hugging at the Cold Plate concert,
stay away from that kiss camera.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
I'm telling you, I'm telling you, yeah. So it is
very important that somebody at least know how to run
the radio on your boat, beside yourself. And it's even
better if they know how to run the whole boat.
You know. Thats Mahoney, doesn't Mister Mahoney does not always
believe that, But it's.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
Well, the way I look at it is. I teaching
me how to run the boat. Then I got to
ask them if they're using it tomorrow, well.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
You can know you could do you do like you
could do like big man. He's got two three boats,
you know, so if she wants to use one, he
can got He's still got a couple of choices.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Yeah, there you go. You teach him how to push
the button on the uh VHF or on the GPS
so they can tell that D yes.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
Yeah. We talked to them about making sure they know
how to find the lat lawn on the chart plotter
and on the radio if they've got a d s
C on it, and that'll give them the lat line also,
and how to pull the little cap up and hold
them DSc button down for five seconds and that since
I've signaled to everybody, there's.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
No forgiveness on the water. I look at it like
gun safety. There's no do overs. You know, you can't
lose your head. You got to know what you're doing,
and for sure, you don't want to fall in that water.
But it's definitely good to have other people on the
boat that know how to run it, know how to
call for help, know what position you're in one of

(43:20):
the problems I had Jim was I took my wife
to the ramp and I'm gonna teach you how to
launch the boat. And she saw the fiasco at the ramp.
She said, I don't want to know how to launch
the boat.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
Forget that. It's kind of the same way. She can
slip lanes and drive cars and take a champ and
drive boats, but she don't want to back no boats out.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Well, what I have to be careful of is I've
got her on the bow line. When I slide the
boat off and try to teach her to use the
pilings or the cleats, I've almost I'm almost lost her
A few times.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
I've had friends Jim that I launch and I tell them,
you're not going to hold the boat, give me that piling.
And I still remember looking out a mirror and watching
one of my friends trying to hold at thirty one
as it pulled them down the dock, and I'm yelling
both feet forward something.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
Oh yeah, I saw that same happen up Same thing
happened up here at the boat ramp near me. Really
nice couple dressed kind of yuppie, and he has her
go out, you know, on the dock hands are the
lion tries to talk to her and the next thing
you know, she's screaming and flying through the air, fully
dressed well And sometimes you got.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
To let the boat go if you're at the boat ramp.
Oh you can't hold it, do not let it pull
you in the water. Let it go. Somebody will do.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Somebody will help you out. Yeah for sure, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
We've had to rescue people like that at the ramp.
You know, after boat got away and the idiot was
in such a rush to get his truck backed up there,
you know, he didn't tie off the line and the
woman is all of a sudden screaming and yelling because
the boat's going.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
All right, guys, Thanks Jim.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
Time for the Coast Guard AZERI and Saint Pete. Jim Fogel,
be safe out there, great call.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Jim our safe boating tip, Coast Guard Auxiliary, Jim Fogel,
Tim Mahoney, Real Animals Radio, Sunday morning on ninety five
point three FM. We will be back after this. We'd
like to hear from you fishing report, boarding report, if

(45:30):
you saw somebody flying through the air at the boat ramp.
We want to hear about that too, one eight eight
eight five four six four six twenty. We'll be back
after this. Good morning, Tim Honey's Real Animals Radio ninety
five point three WDE and six twenty am. Good morning,
Little Wendy, Little Wet. Captain Ben Marshall in the studio

(45:53):
with Mike Mahoney this morning. Got a couple of people here.
Let's go with a call in Saint Pete. What do
you got for us? Ray?

Speaker 5 (46:04):
Hey, good morning guys. Uh.

Speaker 7 (46:07):
Mahoney helped me get those parts to get my little
boat going, and I needed to get a new battery charger.
And the local people where I get my batteries, they
sell these noco Have you heard of them, Mahoney n
o ceo.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Yeah, I've had them. I don't know that I got
them sitting there, but I've had them in stock before.
It seems like a decent one.

Speaker 7 (46:28):
Yeah, they're decent then.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Yeah, I wouldn't hesitate putting one in for sure.

Speaker 7 (46:34):
Okay, because I try to support my local battery guy also.

Speaker 6 (46:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (46:40):
And then when we were go ahead, when we were
coming back from the Smoky Mountains trout fishing, we always
stop at Carrol's, you know, Yes, as we were checking
As we were checking out, I looked over to my
left and there was a big counter the register, and

(47:00):
that had your name on it.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Yeah, that's when Ben goes through there. He's got VIP
at Carol's. He enters through the back door.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Yeah, I'm usually chaperoned when I go in there.

Speaker 5 (47:15):
Now. I was thinking about that the other day. Boy,
we love that place too.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
It's awesome. All their meats are good. They've even got
some prime stakes in there, some prime Delmonico's, and then
you look around the store, they've got some unique stuff
in there. So occasionally there was There was one time
Mike and I were headed for Deer Camp and he
was about twenty or thirty minutes behind me on seventy
five and he called me and I was in there.

(47:41):
He said, what are you doing? I said, I'm at
the sausage sample station and I'm unsupervised. Yea, like the
lady had to leave, because there's a lady there that
only lets you have one or two toothpicks worth. But
she had left. I was having a good time taking
advantage of that.

Speaker 7 (47:58):
Well, well, we do it like a family reunion up
there when we go and we bought three hundred dollars
worth of Balaids breakfast sausage and the bacon, and the
people were fighting for the bacon more than anything else.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
The bacon is pretty nice. You get the you know,
the smoked apple wood. And then they've got they've got
one called buck board. They've got that's a that's a
wonderful place. Anybody that has a meat counter that's seventy
five feet long, as a friend of mine.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
Yeah, all right, guys, that's all I've got.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Thanks you calling its ray, But that's XIT eighty two.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
I know there's also a speed trap right there because
part of the city limits is it ventures into the
real estate of seventy five. So I would tell you, I.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Would say seventy five periods a speed trap once you
hit Georgia.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Yeah, it certainly can be. So give us a call.
I want to hear some reports from you out there.
One eighty eight five four six four six twenty Mike,
you got some well love for us?

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Yeah, I got another show coming out I do that
Tales from the Dark Side, kind of some advertising. If
you ever wonder, you know, I can guarantee it ain't
me doing all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Lateral Media.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
That's who takes care of us, Mike and quite a
few other people. Great guys over there if you want
to from a website to video them guys. Yeah, they're
right on the edge, young guys. Yeah, and ready to work.
That's what's really amazing about them. Their non stop none
of this I need a break.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
That bag dow and then on the poll.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
And sleep wherever. Wherever you stop, they'll sleep, which is
kind of nice when they go out with me in
video because they've been part of the Shenanigans before.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
For sure.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Good people, Lateral Media. Look them up. You can call
me or Mike Anderson or look them up online. Great
people to work with out of Panolas County.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Yeah, so what so Dylan? Dylan didn't come in yesterday,
had you there? Mike didn't, but he didn't even call. No,
neither one of them. So they're totally bugged out. Yeah,
Mike's playing.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
So you know what, this whole softball thing, I guarantee
you this. I could put a team together that spank
his team. Don't think I can. I know enough people,
I'm telling you, and I was thinking about this yesterday.
We ought to get up this big everybody.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
On your team will have a nickname like Sticky and Tuluage.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
You'll know the people on my team because they've been
on TV before playing baseball. But I know I can
put a team together that would just spank Anderson. And
if it was me pitching to Anderson, he's the worst
swing ever. All upper body, doesn't put the hips into it,
there's no movement. Feet stay planted. Then it still goes

(51:06):
one hundred yards. It does in the Let me tell
you something. The first time I saw him bad, he
was kind of stepping in for Mahoney team that we sponsored,
just a little local thing, not big world champs, ye worlds,
none of that stuff. But the infield left the infield

(51:26):
and the picture threw it up high enough to give
him time to run behind second base. Nobody wanted to
be at that infield when Mike swing the bat. Yeah,
but I noticed Dylan's not not with him, you know,
all that muscle and uh, you know, yesterday was kind
of different for Saturday. We didn't talk granola, yogurt or

(51:50):
none of that tree bark, tree bark pro to get
you'll give in up telephone poll.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Yeah, it was good, but they've got a CCA event
not well, we have the CC but occ coming up
with Jeff Hasack this Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
You gotta make that. What a great venue, what a
great place you get to see you know. One thing
I like about it, and when you see people on
TV sometimes they're kind of controlled, let's say, but you
really get to see the personality of Mike and Dylan
when you're there and whatever guest is there. They had
Glenn Taylor last month. Really good. It's just a good

(52:35):
There's a bunch of fishy people in there. They don't
sticky outside in the heat. You're in the main dining room.
The dining room looks like it could hold a couple
hundred people. There's plenty of parking.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
I saw Dylan on a report of the you know,
the businesses coming back on the beach. I think Dylan
is a little bit like Grady over there in Polk County,
and one of the most dangerous places to be is
between them and a camera.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Yeah, that's for sure. Dylan does a good job. He
doesn't know what he's doing this weekend, sleeping in or something,
but definitely not calling or well, he's got kids now,
so he's got to do that.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
With the Disney well, he did Disney cruises and stuff.
Maybe he's on a Disney It might be a birthday
Disney cruise. He does that a lot, might even be
sponsored by Disney. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
He's kind of like a Disney character sometimes Dad or
Cracker Barrel, Cracker Barrel boy. They got in trouble just
for changing their logo huh and changing the inside. They
got rid of the the old man. And then they
don't even have a barrel. I mean, what's cracker barrel
without a barrel logo? Not sure? And then all the
rocking chairs out front. They took the rocking chair out.

(53:48):
A whole bunch of people got upset about that. I
would have never even noticed. It was matter not a
bad place for breakfast. But other than that, I know
I shouldn't say that. Good yep and go ahead, Yeah,
I think you ought to be careful. Give us a call.
We'd like to hear from you this morning. Captain Ben
Marshall in the chair this morning, sitting across from the legend,

(54:12):
who is just Mike Mahoney. Give us a call one
eight eight eight five four six four six twenty Tim
Hohony Real Animals Radio will be right back after this.
Good morning. We are back, Tim Hohony Real Animals Radio
ninety five point three WDE and six twenty a m.

(54:33):
You're at the iHeart Mega Center Captain Ben Marshall in
the studio this morning with Mike Mahoney. So selling a
few cast nets. Yeah, we uh.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
We took on Dropout cast nets. And I know they're
a sponsor of the show also, and that's not the
only reason I had them before Mike, they became a sponsor,
but they are a heck of a net. And what
I like about them is it's not just you know,
the net business. Here in Tampa, we had West central Florida,
which I'd say from Boker Grand to Crystal River, including

(55:10):
Tampa area. In Saint Pete, we had the best builders
for cast nets anywhere, from Carter's cast Nets, cast net King,
I mean just tons of them. Back thirty years ago. Well,
the guy who sold nets thought he would start messing
with their pricing and he would get all the business.

(55:31):
And that's not the you know, that's not the way
it went. Dropout really puts a lot of effort into
designing that net. He's using it daily. The networks he's
also got a lifetime warranty with it where if you
rip the net. I don't know the exact warranty because
I haven't had to do it.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
It's like half off the next Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
It's like And I even told him one time, I said,
you know, I hooked a marker one time and had
to get it off with the boat, which is never good,
right to tie the hand line off to a cleat,
And I said, all I got was a handline in
braills And he said, I can tell that's my net.
And that's how much he studies those nets in orders.

(56:14):
He's you know, he's going to have the round leads,
he's got the long leads. Mullet nets are on their
way in, which is going to be just in time
for that November you know, kind of the mullets start
running pretty good there.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Yeah, you got the eighth and the quarters in a
few weeks ago, just for that fry that's.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
Coming in in July and August. And he does a
really good job. Look them up. They're out everywhere.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Now.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
All you got to do is look up drop out
cast nets. He'll tell you where they are and who's
got them. We got them there at the store. Swing by,
take a look at them.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
They are good. Some of my custom nets years ago
I used to bring to you because there was only
a couple of folks that could actually repair them or
sew in a new panel. I used to bring them
in when you had, you know, several even three hundred
dollars in a custom net. I used to know a
guy that could throw a pretty big net, but he
got old. Let's go to Mike and Brandon.

Speaker 8 (57:09):
Good morning, gentlemen. Mahoney. Yeah, it's a great, beautiful Sunday morning.

Speaker 5 (57:14):
Man.

Speaker 8 (57:14):
I'm out by my pool just chilling.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Man.

Speaker 8 (57:19):
Let me ask, mister mahoney, did you go to Brandon
High School?

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (57:22):
I went there for a short time. Then I got
a full ride scholarship by this by Hillsborough County in
the state of Florida, which included meal playing and lodging.

Speaker 4 (57:33):
Nice.

Speaker 8 (57:34):
My brother graduating eighty two. He was a baseball player,
and he used to tell stories about a Maloney pony. Mahoney,
So I was wondering.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
If that's you, it may have been me or my brother.
I had a brother that graduated there. He was a
little bit. I was eighty four eighty five, my brother
was at a little bit and I had sisters there. Also,
what was what's your brother's name?

Speaker 8 (57:55):
Greg Paris?

Speaker 5 (57:56):
He was a baseball player.

Speaker 8 (57:58):
I wanted to say, I wanted to say it was
Mike Mahoney, but I'm just not sure.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
Yeah, and you know, I didn't play baseball. They really
didn't want me on a sports team at that time.
My full ride came from breaking the law.

Speaker 5 (58:13):
Hey, he was in.

Speaker 8 (58:15):
Key club and so he told me some stories. I
don't know if if you were in Key or another
club or anything, but I heard a story or two
about Mahoney from Brandon, So neither here nor there. I
just wanted to see if that was you. But I
wanted to let you guys know, I'm a home caregiver
now for an elderly parent, so I really.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Can't get out more.

Speaker 8 (58:36):
Exactly right. It's a challenge, but it's a fun challenge,
that's right. But so I haven't been able to I
haven't been able to get out fishing in a long
long time. But you still have a fan in me
every Sunday morning listening to the fishing stories. And there's
never a lack of fishing stories that come through your show.
So I listen every Sunday while I sit out here

(58:58):
and smoke my breakfast. So I just wanted to tell you, guys,
you got a fan and someone that can't even fish anymore.
So keep doing a great job.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
I love the show man.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
We appreciate that, and we appreciate you taking care of parents.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
You know. That's one of the.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
Ways I feel the same way. The loyalty is unmatched
from a kid to the parent, and a lot of
these people would rather put that parent off somewhere. I'm
with you, bro, I am taking care of them the
rest of my life. I've done enough to them. I
owe them, you know.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
And I don't think you were a high school club
guy either.

Speaker 5 (59:35):
Club.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Let's check what Gary down in Inglewood. He was probably
in a club, probably my brother.

Speaker 9 (59:42):
Yeah, running that club. But Mahonti, from that conversation, am
I to understand that you had the education of three
hots and a cot perhaps a sling in the ditch?

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Yeah? I did you know? I got my degree in
that and I learned from it, and it took me
a while. I went to school, but it wasn't a twelve.
It wasn't a good twelve. You know it was kind
of broke up in between there, but yeah, I came
out all right.

Speaker 10 (01:00:11):
Doesn't make you a bad guy, just a few bad
decisions when you're younger, but scored yourself out, that's all right.

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Well, my problem was I got caught. You know, most
of my buddies didn't get caught.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
And you talked, didn't you. That was before you knew
not to talk.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
You can bet I didn't talk. That's why I say.
It stayed in there so long.

Speaker 9 (01:00:28):
Okay, back then it was hard to get caught, so
I don't I never got caught.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
I could tell you some stories that they weren't too good.
I definitely found out what undercover cops were at sixteen
years old. I can tell you that they looked just
like a regular guy.

Speaker 9 (01:00:48):
Well you were, you were in the sales program. That's
that's that'll get you, no doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
It was bad.

Speaker 9 (01:00:56):
So anyway, this week I was lucky enough to get
my nephew Kevin down there, and he brought a bunch
of frozen shrimp and I'm like, dude, you know I
only throw a artificial and he's like, Uncle Gary, we're
gonna catch catch some mangrove, and I'm like, yeah, whatever, man,
we did. We got some pretty nice mangrove down there.

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
Nice.

Speaker 10 (01:01:16):
Yeah, yeah, Well we worked. I always worked from the
bridge all the way down to the pass, and it's
such a great gary and during the day nobody's there,
you know, and unless the seasons. So this time you're yeah,
it's a little warm, the water's not perfect, but there's
very little traffic and you don't bump into anybody, which
is kind of nice.

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
So cast yeah, yeah, slide into the marina and catch one.

Speaker 9 (01:01:42):
Well that wouldn't be bad either, but you know, we
got to do that at night. And I don't want
to be being at the Mahoney School of Hard Knocks
locked up at fifty four years old. You know, I
gotta say that for all of us guys out there.
When you're out there bayfish and all sad. You get
a big hit and you're thinking, oh, man, I got
me a big red fisher, I got me a big snook,

(01:02:04):
and you're you're pulling, your pulling, he is working, and
then you get where you're about ten feet away from
that hook and you see the slime on that line,
you go, dang it, kitty cat.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
Man, I can tell you some of my I've been
out there at the Alifi and I'm getting excited about
September because the big snook come up in the rivers
here in Tampa Bay and I fish the Alify quite
a bit. But you will have a catfish eat a
bait as big as he is and they just can't
even get it in their mouth. But they hold on
to it all the way up. But yeah, they will

(01:02:35):
slim you. I take that slime off. I think it's
bad luck.

Speaker 10 (01:02:40):
Oh it's terrible. Sometimes I cut the bait off if it's.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
So bad.

Speaker 10 (01:02:45):
But you know, you know I've taken them, thrown that
line out and when that bait hits the water, it
explodes and you're like, oh man, I got me a
good one.

Speaker 9 (01:02:53):
It turns out the big a big sale cat.

Speaker 10 (01:02:55):
I mean they're they're predators.

Speaker 4 (01:02:56):
Man, they're powerful.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
The best fight I've had, Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 10 (01:03:00):
You get a five pound, five pound sell cat on
small rag, you will you're you're for about a five
to fight.

Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
Well, and they used to have that cat fill. I
don't know if they you have some slime getting called.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
People talk about the quality of people they see at
Ay or the range of people they see at a
NASCAR race. You want to see quite the range of individuals.
Go to the way in at the catfish tournament at
Aliphire River on Father's Day and I used to enter
it and then the guest next week at CCA, Jeff Hageman,

(01:03:36):
him and I would fish for it. And I remember
my my wife said, you guys are famous back then,
I was famous guys some people. She thought I had
her convinced that. Anyway, she says, you guys are famous
guides tournament fishermen, and you are going to go catfishing.
And I said, honey, you know how to guarantee you're
not going to catch a catfish? Try to fish for them.

Speaker 10 (01:03:56):
That's ali Is that like a brackish water chat fish
or is it?

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Well it was Tampa Bay. It was Tampa Bay. That's
all cat right there. It sailcats. But that's where the
wig in was. You catch them anywhere you want in
Tampa Bay.

Speaker 9 (01:04:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
Anyway, Yeah, this is still good.

Speaker 9 (01:04:16):
A lot of traffic, so Cole Beans enjoining the show.

Speaker 10 (01:04:20):
Guys, you have a great day.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Appreciate the call man. Thanks Gary. We got Donald and
Loots hanging on there. Uh, t. Mahoney, Real Animals Radio
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(01:05:24):
Donald the chance.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Well that's a great uh intro for Donald, and that
great it is.

Speaker 11 (01:05:30):
I've been in the back of a squad car a
time or two when.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
I was uber driver. Wasn't too have he was he?

Speaker 4 (01:05:40):
No?

Speaker 11 (01:05:40):
No, oh my god. You know on the woods on
Long Island. You know, there was nothing to do back then.
You know, back in the seventies. So but to any
who is it's what we are today and today, you know. Yeah,
so it's it's what we are today and what we've done,
know as long as we didn't murder anybody, and uh

(01:06:03):
you know, I didn't go that far. But you know,
time or two there's bad stuff. But hey, who catch
us some nice fish out of hand, cloat. I woke
up late this morning heading back out there right now,
and uh so some I know a good spot that
I've caught reds consistently, so and I know according to

(01:06:25):
uh Cca, there's a tag red fish running around and
hopefully a couple and hopefully it hasn't been taken by
uh a non registered angler. So I got some bait
and some lures, so we'll see what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
It should be a good We hope you get that
tag fish. Donald. I know you've been working hard.

Speaker 11 (01:06:47):
I have been, but h I appreciate that, and uh
you know, I'll bring it by your store and we
can rig it right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
And uh you know, so that's great.

Speaker 11 (01:06:59):
But uh yeah, everybody Thailand, stay safe and let's go
catch them up. And it's a great day in Tampa.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
Day all right, thanks. Yeah, CCU tournament. Mike was talking
about you and Rick Gross and we'll see you there.
Thanks for the call. Donald. Let's go to Captain Mark
this morning. Must not be out sure, Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
No off shore today?

Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
Hum, Mark, Man, I'll tell you what we were booked,
but yesterday too, and it was more prudent just to
stay here on land, I believe, with all the craft
that's going on out there.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
Yeah, it looked almost like it got worse. I looked.
I did Mike Show yesterday morning, so just before six
I took a look and it kind of looked like
all the storms were to the north or like even
with us and to the north. But by the time
I got home and checked it, the whole golf seemed
like it had storms in it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
I was never happier than to have made the right
call yesterday. I was like, ah, we might can dodge them.
And I just started seeing and we decided to call it.
And yeah, by like eight thirty, man, it was like
no way, man, it was just covered up. I saw
that bad stuff. So yeah, man, I heard a couple
of things on the show this morning made me laugh.
The uh that Captain Mike called in about the broken

(01:08:19):
through haul. Yeah, down there. We had one half and
me and my younger brother. Back in the nineties, I
had an old twenty foot makeup. When we were running
out the Kingfish in the fall and it was rough
and I had the boat started feeling heavier and heavier,
and I lifted up the back little hats. They had
like a one foot by three foot hat you could
lift and see down in the back of the boat,

(01:08:39):
down down there, and uh, water just shooting in through
the scupper, you know. Because those boats they were so
low to the water line, your drains basically were at
the water height on the deck where if you put
too many people in the back of the boat, you know,
the water would come in. We ended up shoving. I'll
just tell you if you don't have one of those
plug kits around, a Snickers bar in a wrapper, a

(01:09:01):
Snickers bar, just fine Snickers bar. We shoved a Snickers
bar and that thing and just left the cover off.
We fished the rest of the day, but that thing
held all day long.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
That's funny. I was thinking that when you were telling
the story, Mark, I was thinking, I know he didn't
go in if the Snickers bar work. He stayed fishing.

Speaker 5 (01:09:19):
Just keep an eye, keep an eye on it to
make you know, build pumps working good. So yeah, left
that in there. But yeah, I was laughing thinking about
some of the dumb stuff we did when we were younger.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
That's all we cared about was getting out there, getting
back and uh what in an issue? I always say
to people, are we well?

Speaker 5 (01:09:36):
Yeah, I mean check your odds. I mean it's holding good.
And I think we even had a spare snickers if
that one went out. We were pretty good to go.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
That's awesome, great story, yeah, man.

Speaker 5 (01:09:46):
So yeah, just uh, you know, watching the weather, getting
ready for uh about a week out now. Man, we're
getting close to the countdown the gag season.

Speaker 3 (01:09:55):
Yeah, how you doing? You got everything booked?

Speaker 5 (01:09:59):
H do you? I've got a few dates. I think
I got three or four open, but I've got a
couple of you got to call me later on today, man.
I got I got some of some decent tides the
first start of the season, got those flow two tide days.
So I'm gonna put you off for about four or
five days and then we're gonna go.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Yeah it sounds good, man, Give me a date and
I'll put a crew together. I know they've you know
what my problem with it is, they don't give us
a full moon cycle. They're giving us full moon on
the ninth, I believe, is full moon of September. So
you got to kind of change your strategy a little
bit as far as going out. You're not gonna have

(01:10:35):
two double feed times during daylight hours, and I think.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
That that's right.

Speaker 5 (01:10:40):
And the first part of season, the feed times are
not accessible unless you leave the night before.

Speaker 3 (01:10:45):
That's right, That's right.

Speaker 5 (01:10:47):
So I've kind of, yeah, I've looked through it. I
think I picked out a few good ones.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:10:52):
You know how it goes with gags. They're gonna eat
when they're ready to eat, you know, and a couple
of times a day they'll they'll really get crazy. But yeah,
looking forward the gag season, we've got a few days
left open, so we need to get it filled up. Man,
I'm hoping the weather this year doesn't do what it
did to us last year. And everyone's saying the same
thing when you talk to them. They gave us at

(01:11:13):
that time last of the same couple of weeks, and
I think we had like nine days you couldn't even
get out.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Yeah, that happens, and that's a problem with the short season,
and they keep playing with it still. I'll tell you
it's crazy that I today I have to release a gag,
but I can go buy one from a fish mark,
and I'm not really down with that.

Speaker 5 (01:11:35):
Yeah, I know, man, But you know, I've kind of
seen it from I agree with you. I've seen it
from both sides. Commercial fishing has been down to a
fifty pound limit for a couple of years now, trip limit.
You know, some people have some quota. But I agree,
if the fisheries in trouble, shut it down down till
it's good and open it up again, that's right. I

(01:11:56):
mean that to me makes sense as well. You can't
really argue with that logic. If they're in trouble, shut
them down, especially they're talking about, you know, the age
range of fish and all that. You just you know,
shut it down, and look how quick it bounces back, right, Yeah, yep,
within even like the gags. You know, I mean anecdotal evidence,

(01:12:19):
but you know, you're if they're not getting yanked out
of the water, they're breeding every year, and it really
happens really quick that the populations tend to bounce back
I think anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
Yeah, and there's a lot of people catching them right now,
that's for sure, for menshore to offshore and having to
release them, so there's should be plenty of them out there.

Speaker 5 (01:12:40):
Yeah, we're hoping for a good year. We still have
snapper going too, so you know they're busy catching. You know,
we'll be plenty of fish to bring home this year
during gag season. So it's it's going to be a
really good time.

Speaker 3 (01:12:50):
Hopefully we can get out there in that weather cooperate,
We'll do it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:12:55):
Yeah, I'd like to supposed to have one of those
banner days for sure. I think it's going to happen,
and it's lining up to be really good.

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
Well, good deal, Mark, appreciate the phone call, buddy.

Speaker 5 (01:13:06):
All right, guys, Yeah, if anyone wants to go, we
still have some days left, hit me up Facebook or
Instagram at marking fish or eight one three three three
three eight two five seven. He would have got left.
We'll get you out there.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Good job, Mark, Thanks Mark, thanks for the call. Wasn't
he a one time making a mess? Mark? Or is
that a dace?

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
Yeah, he's still making a mess, but he's making it
in his own boat. Now he does a little bit
better in his own boat. But I had to give
him that name. When he was fishing with me, he'd
open stuff and just stuff everywhere. I'm not into that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
I just remember making a mess mark, you know. I
just you know, of course, like he's talking about, stayed
in yesterday to dodge those storms. What I saw this morning,
and what my wind finder tells me is your sustained
wind out of the southwest greater than fifteen miles an hour,
you know, very in sixteen seventeen even gusted at twenty.
So the wind's not right. The rain I saw the news.

(01:14:05):
Local networks were reporting, you know, up to seventy percent
chance of rain. So and I mean yesterday was a
real soaker with lots of lightning. So a good day
to catch up on your tackle and clean things up.
Maybe clean your rifle and your shotguns while you're just well,
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around a while, Captain Jeff Hageman coming.

Speaker 3 (01:15:12):
To uh Tuesday night.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
Yeah, he's gone. I'm good.

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
I threaten you'd have to take the next day off
of work.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
Well, if I was out, if I was outside after dark,
I wouldn't be able to make it the next.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
It's a fun time. I thought the same thing going there, Ben,
because I'm usually one that goes to bed early and
wakes up early. But uh, it's a fun time. I
mean it's a big, wide, open area, great venue. Mike
and Dillon are there. It's kind of open discussion.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
They're going to have to back up a little bit
and give Jeff some room though, I mean the two
of them stand too close to you. They deplete the
oxygen right where you're stating they you won't even be
able to see him. I mean, yeah, no doubt. He's
not a small guy either. No, he's not a little fellow.
But when you stand between those two, you know, you
kind of just disappear.

Speaker 3 (01:16:05):
They just kick him in the knee and they'll bend
down and you can get your talking.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
But anything, Well, show them some food, Yeah, not Dylan.
You got to show him tofu or bark granola and
granola yea, and pine trees. Yeah, like all. I bet
he drinks almond milk.

Speaker 3 (01:16:23):
But it's a good time occ Lots of shiny stuff
to look at. Yeah, they got the motorcycles there and stuff,
but really just a great venue, big open dining room.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
We got a minute here. I wanted to ask you
something because we see it here in the studio. You're
not looking at it, but I do. What happened with
the whole lionfish thing, man, They were worried about them
being so invasive, and they were having these big tournaments
where guys were spearing them and you get points for
as many of them as you can stuff in a tube,
and then some people clean them and cook them. They're

(01:16:55):
supposed to be a way to I'm not. Yeah, I'm
touched for now. I take them off the hook shot gun.

Speaker 3 (01:17:03):
It's the easiest way. Sometimes you have to retie, but
they don't.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
They don't have any natural predators those fish.

Speaker 3 (01:17:11):
I've caught a dolphin I called a dolphin a couple
of years ago with one in his stomach. Really yep,
and they've shown it. I've seen a grouper with them too,
where people are cleaning them on you know, social media,
and you'll see one, half decayed come out of the stomach.
So I think they you know, it's crazy about that.
It's all in that, you know, research in the name

(01:17:32):
of research, and the glyn flem Yeah, it's all flim
flam stuff. They spent more in a year on line
fishing they did on Goliath grouper. They just shut Goliath
Grouper down. And now what they got is we can
keep them, but they got to be under a certain limit. Well,
never have I ever seen management to where you shoot
you want to kill the young one and let the

(01:17:54):
four hundred pounder keep eating, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
So it's been a problem for a long time. You
guys talk about the sharks too, and my buddy's down
there in Marco. They can't hardly bring a fish.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
Well, that's about your wife going on the pontoon boat
out a longboat pass special put me right in the
middle of all the sharks, right on the beach. If
you flew over these beaches this time of year, I
don't know anybody that would go in the water.

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
Wow, when the tarpain come those bull sharks that the
hammerheads come of. If you've ever I had one point,
was standing about knee deep at Anne Maria when hammerhead
caught a tarpain in front of me. Now it might
have been fifty yards, but it felt like ten feet.
And a hammerhead can turn and they can move, and

(01:18:42):
they can move fast. I mean he parted the water
and it made me back out quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
You could kill one every day and you're not going
to hurt the population, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
Ta Mahoney, Real animals. On Sunday morning here on ninety
five point three wde in six twenty am, Captain Ben
Marshall signing off with just Mike Mahoney and we'll be
back next week. Tight lines, everybody