Adventures in Argentina

On this episode, Doug talkes about the best fishing lures, the first day of snapper season, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
How many fish on our stringer, how many points on
our buck, how many feathers in our bag.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
That's how we keep score around here.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Sportsmen and women of all skill levels, let's disconnect from
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(00:33):
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experience available exclusively to.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Members and their guests. Now here's Doug Pike, all right,
here we go. Sunday edition of the program starts right now.
Frankie niceliding in sideways. But we made it right, yep,
we made it. And what a good morning for too.
So much different than earlier in the week when it
and we had all kinds of crazy storms and rain

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and I actually experienced a little minor flooding. And now
I wake up this morning and what do I see
on the Saltwater Recan Camp Recon camera but a nearly
flat Gulf of Mexico, nearly flat. And I went to
iwindsurf dot com a little while ago, thinking, you know,

(01:31):
I just got this gut feeling this morning when I
walked outside of my house there was not a breath
of wind, and I'm thinking, this might be the day
that that surf finally settles down a little bit for everybody.
And indeed, I went and I popped up the Live
Live Winter I Windsurf, not Live wind Serf, I Windsurf website,

(01:55):
and everywhere from let me just confirm this pretty much
everywhere from somewhere over in well, let's just call it
the Mississippi River Delta. I'm looking westward now and I
am all the way to Galveston. Now, I'm all the

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way to Matagorda. Now, I'm all the way down to Corpus. Now,
I'm all the way down to the bottom of Texas.
And there is not a double digit number on the
board except for one Truth and Advertising, the only place
at Calcashu Pass, that is the only place right there

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on the Louisiana border that has ten miles an hour
and not far from there. Zero zero zero zero one
one on the beach. Seven on the beach down to Galveston.
Two two five zero two going to Matagorda, five miles

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an hour, six miles an hour Corpus Christy boy, the
windsurfers down there are gonna be disappointed today. Oh my goodness,
it looks so good. Baff And Bay six miles an hour.
Cliff Webb probably won't be able to close his hands
or walk tomorrow because he's gonna be busy all day long.

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If he's fishing today, well he will be for sure.
Even if he doesn't have anybody a haul through the bay,
he will be about kneed a chest deep in that
certain need to waist deep in that surf down there.
I am almost positive he may be on the beach already.
That wouldn't surprise me at all. I got an early
start this morning. I went to bed a little bit later.

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Saturday nights, I go to bed an hour later, basically
because I don't have to get up until an hour
later to get in here and get prepped. Last night
everything went according to plant. Got a nice early dinner,
so I wasn't gonna my stomach wasn't gonna keep me
awake and rumbling and growling. I got to bed, did
a little cross word puzzling, and there's jumbles, all these

(04:04):
little newspaper games. They soothed me, and then lights out,
and when the alarm went off, I felt pretty good,
felt like I'd gotten a nice, good, nice sleep. I
get up, I get ready, I walk out the door.
It's still dark. Sure is dark? Sure is dark to
be six forty five? Wells, matter of fact, it wasn't

(04:28):
six forty five. It was five forty five the time
I got up yesterday. Yeah, Frankie's nod in his head.
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
The one, the one critical element to getting that extra
hour of sleep on a Saturday night is moving the alarm.
All I had to do was push two buttons, just
hold one down until the alarm time chang started flashing,
and then hit the hour button and it would have
moved from five to six, and I would have been
just fine, and I would have gotten another hour sleep. Actually,

(04:55):
I took advantage of the time. I got a lot
of things done this morning in that extra forty five
fifty minutes or whatever it was. I had happy to
say that the weather again looks looks good for the
rest of the next week. They're twenty and thirty percent chances.
But that's almost every day. It's rare that we get
something from the north to dry everything up for three

(05:16):
or four straight days, you're gonna have chances of pop ups.
This is kind of like living in southeast Florida almost
every afternoon in spring and summer around. I felt like
during summertime trips down there when I was a kid
to my grandparents' house, you could almost set a watch
by the three point fifteen ten minute little heavy shower,

(05:39):
the one that put just enough water in the street
for me to run to the garage, grab the skimboard
that my grandfather had made for me, and go out
there and throw that thing and run and jump on
it and ride it until I hit a rock and
then went over the front of it and scraped up
my palms and my knees and my elbows. I left
a lot of skin on that street. What was this

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Southeast sixteenth Avenue that's where they lived and had water
behind them, had a nice little open canal that I
remembered as a kid being much larger and wider than
it actually was. And it turns out you can't. You
can't throw an eighth ounce bucktail jig on a Zebco
two two, as far as I thought I was throwing

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it when I was little, but I did manage to
catch everything in that canal during the daytime. Was pretty
miniature jackfish up to about ten inches, mangrove snappers up
to about a pound, worlds of hardheads. I mean, just
I don't know how anything got to the bottom every

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time you put any kind of a bait out for catfish, which, hey,
I was a little kid, I didn't care. I just
wanted to catch fish. Caught them. I actually did catch
or I hooked my first tarping of my life when
I was maybe I don't know, eight, nine, ten years old,
but I lost it almost as quickly as I hooked it.
It's a longer story than I want to bore you

(07:07):
with today. Sometime, if we hit a if we hit
a stall somewhere, I may go back to that one.
I've told it enough times, I think seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com. I am so jealous of where Cliff is
right now and the access he has to that surf
because I know it's full of fishy and I've been
talking about it for two weeks, maybe a month, and

(07:31):
I told him, I said, when it gets right let
me know, and I'm probably gonna get that call this
afternoon that the downside is, of course, baseball tournament up
in Dallas next week. Baseball tournament in Dallas. So I
either and I can't. I have a very important meeting
on Wednesday, Yeah, Wednesday, with the people from ut Health

(07:56):
and the Institute on Aging. I'm gonna be talking with
them about about really ramping up what we're doing with
fifty plus and how we're doing what we're doing, and
it's gonna make it a much better show. I really
look forward to that meeting. In any event, fishing is
gonna There are gonna be a fish caught in the
surf today, There's no doubt in my mind. Up and

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down the entire Texas coast, now down all the way
down beyond Corpus where the shoreline runs north south instead
of southwest to northeast, and then mostly just east to
west up here at the top. The breeze, it's not
a wind, it's a breeze, is just blowing straight up.
It's just blowing straight up the beach almost. It's mostly south,

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got a little bit of east in it, but mostly south.
So that's an issue. I guess for those guys and
up here. Actually it's a due south wind. I'd be
willing to bet there are people in the water. I'll
go look at the recon camera in a minute or
two to see if there are people in the water
at the surfside jetty, and see if I can count

(09:01):
high enough to get to how many people are on
those rocks right now. Because that area is protected from
the wind, and I don't know what the tide schedule
is today, I'll double check that during the break too.
This might be a day. This might be one of
those days when I break and run in the afternoon
to go make an afternoon surf waiting or maybe rock

(09:24):
walking trip. The rock walking. I've lost a little bit
of my stoke over that because it is just so
unbearably crowded down there now. I mean hundreds of people
fishing in an area where I used to be one
of maybe thirty forty people on the rocks, even on

(09:44):
a good day, on a weekday, good weekday, afternoon, beautiful
water conditions, clearly perfect, just bait everywhere, and there'll be
thirty people out there. Now there'd be three hundred, and
it makes it a little harder to catch fish. You
can't put your elbows out without bumping into somebody else's rod.

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I'm disappointed a little bit in the in that they
made that whole jetty flat all the way. They put
a nice walking top on it, which made it accessible
to so many more people, which seems like such a
good idea. If all of those people are aware of
the limits, if all of those people play by the rules,

(10:27):
if all of those people are cognizant of how much
litter they potentially could leave out there, and willing to
take their trash back off the jetty. That's been a
problem as well. I've seen people down there in the
water near the beach actually just raking the little tiny
clams off the granite boulders and putting them in a

(10:50):
bucket to take home. That's how badly that that asset,
that resource of ours is being just pillaged. Cast nets
being thrown everywhere, and anything that's in the net goes
in the bucket. And we just don't have the law
enforcement presence we need to to keep people from breaking

(11:15):
the law down there. It's frustrating to watch it really is. Okay,
onto something a little brighter. We talked a lot yesterday.
We kind of came up. I think it was Rick
Bise that came up with the mount rushmore of hunting
and fishing equipment, and we had some good, some good
things added to both sides of that equation. And the

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key was that if you put something on it, you
had to take something off of it. And we went through,
Oh my goodness, Captain Scott and I and almost everybody
we talked to yesterday agreed that the Remington eight seventy
wing Master belongs on that list. Scott and Noll added
the Green Corrodo. There was there were so many more.

(11:58):
Kevin yesterday, Well, that's goes to lures. I'll get back
to that. I believe it was he who put up
one of the one of the other reels too. Forrest
weighed in faux pro, Wilkinson weighed in with a spinning reel.
That probably does deserve consideration. It's not an automatic spot
for me for the Mitchell three hundred, but that one,

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that one was a standard, a good, that was a
working man's good reel. That was the cordo of spinning
reels in its day, I think, and its day goes
way back. And then on the hunting side of that
Forest also threw in the Remington seven hundred series rifles.
I don't know how many millions of those have been

(12:43):
sold in this country since they were developed, but they're
still selling them, and they are still fantastic rifles. I
owned two of them at this point and absolutely love them.
I got a two seventy and a seven mag and
they've both served me very well for many years. Holy cows.
At that time, already all right, we got to take
our first break in the program. And in that break,

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I'm gonna tell you about Timber Creek Golf Club down
there on FM twenty three to fifty one in Friendswood,
about four miles maybe west of the Gold Freeway. Been
there for a better part of thirty years. And what
they have is twenty seven holes, not just eighteen. They've
got twenty seven holes, so they can get two foursomes
out at the same time all morning long till about

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I don't know, two hours end of the day. Got
a lot of people out there going around, a lot
of people having fun, a lot of people shouting things
they shouldn't shout out loud. And you know, sometimes your
shots are that bad and you just have to you
just have to vent. If they're that bad and you're
venting more often than you're tipping your cap, maybe go

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check in with JJ Woods and his crew over at
the teaching academy there at Timber Creek Golf Club. He's
set up shop about a year, maybe a year and
a half ago. Now, I want to say, I think
it's that long, and I can't imagine how many swings
that they have made better just with a little bit
of time and a little bit of attention. That's what
golf is about, is practicing good habits, making the good

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stuff habitual, and getting rid of the bad stuff a
little bit at a time. Nobody's gonna fix your entire
swing in one hour. But if you go there every
now and then and just get get some reinforcement to
what they taught you to begin with, and then maybe
add one little piece, that's the way to become a
better golfer, for sure. Big giant practice putting range or

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putting green. There a nice generous practice range. You got
the instruction, you got the great people in the grill
wanting to feed you and water you and make you
feel better about whatever score you shut. Good people at
timber Creek, they really are make a tea time right
now if you want to timber Creek goolf Club dot com.
That's timber Creek Golf Club dot com. Eight nineteen. It

(14:57):
is on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Where'd that song
come from? One heard that one in a long time.
It's a favorite of my dad's. Is it really? This
was for you, dad? I bet your dad's smart enough
that he's told you never to take a what is
it a seventy two month or eighty month car loan?
Oh my god, you'll never pay it off. Don't do that.

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Don't do that? Seven one three. I heard that in
one of the commercials we had just in this past break.
I don't know if it's the average car loan, but
a lot of car Loans now are running seven eight
years and it's just it's a waste of time and
waste of money. You're never gonna get out from under
that thing. So anyway, here we are back at the

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the mount rushmore of where we're gonna do lures today,
saltwater lures and fresh water Luresy. I'm Scott started it
off a little bit yesterday and we're gonna need more mountains.
This might be something kind of fun. We can do
with golf too at some point. But the Mount Rushmore
of saltwater lures, according to Captain Scott, would be a

(16:07):
quarter ounce gold sprite. I really don't have a problem
with that. The spoon needs to be represented on that
Mount Rushmore, it really does, and it almost with a
little imagination, you could almost add it to the freshwater
side as well, because there are a lot of a
lot of very successful older fishermen before electronics, before any

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of that, who caught an awful lot of largemouth bass,
an awful lot of other freshwater fish on spoons. And
I bet you if you put a small enough spoon
into a bunch of tree limbs underwater, you could yank
a crappy or two out of there. Fouk pro And
I may have to try that sometime about a spoon
about an inch long maybe and just jiggle it down there.

(16:53):
I bet it would work. He also put in he's
got the sprite, He's got the rebel jumping minute to
represent top waters. That one was a predecessor to a
whole lot of plugs, kind of a lead into the
skitter walks and the top dogs of the world and
all of that speaking of top dogs, the fifty one

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m Mirrllure makes Scott's list. I have no problem with
that at all. I had so many fifty ones at
some at one point when I was fishing the surf
a lot. It was absolutely fantastic. A great plug to
throw there, a great plug to throw in the bay
depending on conditions. Jimmy West, I don't know how many
giant trout he caught in East Bay. I think on

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fifty ones, or I mean on, yeah, on fifty ones.
Pretty sure they were. And then his soft plastic representation,
the Kelly Wiggler Long John Shrimptiale. That was one of
the earliest saltwater specific soft plastics to hit the market.
And I don't know how many billion of those they sold,

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but it they may have put a dent in the
trout population. It's possible. Let me go talk to Brandon.
What's up, Brandon?

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Not working to get hold on? I got to put
him back on. You got him, y, you take it,
take the wheel. Uh yeah, see that's what I said.
I gotta do that brand and here.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
We go.

Speaker 5 (18:22):
Did good old technology.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
I understand that we do to go.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
We put in a trouble ticket for that yesterday, and
of course the people who need to fix it don't
work on the weekend.

Speaker 6 (18:32):
So what's I understand?

Speaker 3 (18:35):
I understand.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
No, I was gonna Uh I finished all show. I
didn't get to finish the whole thing. But I was
listening to Rick Biss. And that's how I started my
kids out. Uh, that's how I started out. Was a
red rider bb gun. I put up a target and
then I graduated him to a uh you know, teach

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the safety, you know, red white whatever. And uh then
I went to a twenty two and my my son,
I noticed that he had a dead eye for you know,
so I put him in the back of a truck
and we would go up and down the canal and
shoot snakes and uh it was out and all of

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a sudden, I told him about, you know, white tail deer.
I said, you know, the big bucks are gonna sit
back and they're gonna I said, you need to look
for the white of the neck or the white of
the ears. And he goes Dad, I mean, he would
always punch me in the ribs.

Speaker 7 (19:34):
He goes, Dad, there's one right there.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
Where and uh and yeah, I mean I told him,
I said that's what you gotta Yeah, it's amazing. And
that's the way you got to raise these younger kids.
Get off the machine and just sure anyway.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah that's good. You gotta get him outside there. There's
so much evidence now he used to be just kind
of like, yeah, get your kids outside, help him out,
let him have some fun. But there's so much evidence
now that children, young children even develop better. They become
more aware that they're not the center of the universe.
They actually score better on standardized tests than kids who

(20:16):
don't get outside.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
Well, not only that, I mean, it's just it's like
here's son playing baseball. I mean, they notice, they notice
the curveball, they notice the knuckleball, they notice the fastball.
I mean, it's just they notice things. And I mean
that's just the way they need to be raped.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
And that's what I say.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
You know, Siri is not always going to be there.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
It's gonna crack.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
O kah man. There's going to come a time when somebody,
well if if all the electricity goes, yeah, we're we're
in so much trouble, wearing so.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Much well, I'll have to admit I'm very uh. When
Harvey hit I never understood why they everybody said, you know,
get some cash. Well, the whole system was crashed, your
phones crashed. Uh, you know, I didn't have anything. And
my fiance said, see, that's the reason they tell you

(21:11):
get some cash, because the whole system goes down.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yeah, if there's no way to pay by credit card,
they're not going to sell you anything. And you can't
just promise them you'll be back tomorrow with some money
because you can't get the money out of the bank.
For heaven's sakes.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
Well, that's what happened to me. I mean, it's I mean,
they took me at my well, I live in a
small town, so they took me as at my words. Yeah,
I mean, if you're a if you're a big time customer,
I mean that's I mean, you can you can the
heck with it, you know.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
They don't. It is really the dependency we have on
electronics across the board for everything, not just for not
just for fishing and hunting, but for everything. If you
stop and think about it, that e MP, the electromagnetic
pulse that everybody talks about being a weapon of the future.
It's kind of spooky, man, and it's gonna be people

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who know how to who know how to kind of
fend for themselves, who are going to survive that?

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Right here we are.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
We need to put on our tenfoil hats. Now let's go,
all right, man, it's great to talk to you, Brandon,
Thanks buddy.

Speaker 7 (22:18):
Yeah, it's always good talking.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah. I enjoy your intellectual show.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
When does that we got a great we got a
great We got a great crop growing over here in
Wharton County.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
And so farmers get the sir, are you growing something legal?

Speaker 6 (22:34):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (22:35):
No, I'm talking about it in general corn milo.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Oh yeah, I'm just kidding you.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
Now, the illegal, I don't know, don't.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
About that.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
That's all right, but yeah, thank you. I'm glad to
hear that. So you've gotten enough water that everything's growing.

Speaker 7 (22:50):
Oh my gosh, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
I just hope these farmers get it.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
You know, there's a cotton crop that's between my house
and the golf course, and it's probably about sixty acres
of it. I'm looking at every time I drive by it.
And they planted I want to say, maybe a month
maybe six weeks ago, and that stuff's coming up so
dark green and so beautiful. Man, it looks good.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
Really, Yes, sir, Yeah, I'm sure I know the farmer
they planted you probably do, all right, man, thanks, yes, sir, yeah,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Huh audios. All right, there's that. There's that.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Man.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Yeah, I'm so glad to hear that about that. The
farming that's going on, that's gonna be a big deal
for somebody like Riceland Waterfowl Club. I'll have to get
David on the phone. I've got you know what, we
could take this break early and I could just segue
from that right into Riceland Waterfowl Club because it's next
on the list and I want to do that. That's

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David Prewitt probably is a pretty happy guy that all
those rainstorms came through out toward Eagle Lake of wall Back,
and by a wall back, I mean like last week
and the week before, because all that rain means better crops,
better yield, more water that they can be holding. And
now it's not going to last all through summer, but

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you got a lot better chance of having water in
the fall. If you have some in the spring and
early summer, then if you don't, it's hard to make
up water. You can't just manufacture it out of the air.
I guess you could technically around here it's so damp sometimes.
But timber Creer, but excuse me, not Timber Creek Rice
Land Waterfowl Club. That's what David does. That's what he's

(24:31):
been doing for fifty years. Fifty years. He is celebrating
the golden anniversary of that club and the I bet
you there are a lot of members who've been with
him for twenty thirty forty years. He told me the
other day there were like second and third generation people
out there hunting with him because the experience has always

(24:52):
been good. He makes sure that he has plenty of blinds.
He makes sure that he has plenty of water. He
makes sure that every who's out there is far enough
apart from each other that they don't really you know,
one group isn't going to mess up another group. He's
also got a system put together so that all of
the club members, all of the individual units, the groups,

(25:15):
have equal shot at getting the blind they want every
morning that they let them know that they're coming. There's
no favoritism play, there's no guides jockeying for the best
spots every morning. It's just straight up, let's go hunting,
and all of you are in the same boat. You're
drawing out of the same hat. Basically, I don't know

(25:36):
exactly how his system works, but it's been very fair
and nobody seems to complain about it, which means everybody's
shooting ducks, and that's what we're supposed to do in
duck season. If you didn't have a great season last
year and you're thinking about something different, and you like
that Eagle Lake Prairie which is still pretty much intact.
There's a lot of agriculture out there, and that's why

(25:57):
they get so many ducks. The ducks are getting kind
of constricted, and if you got water and you got food,
you're gonna have ducks. And that's what they've got on
that southwest side of town. West side of town. I
guess it is more west than southwest, but it kind
of slithers down south. Sum Riceland Waterfowl Club dot Com.

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David By the way, if you need help with your calling,
David is a world champion and he's got the trophies
to prove it. World champion caller, So maybe asked for
a couple of pointers when you go out there and
talk to him. Riceland Waterfowl Club dot Com is website
go check it out Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot Com. Eight thirty
four on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show. Thank

(26:38):
you for listening this morning. Surely glad you made it.
I made it an hour early because I forgot to
reset my alarm yesterday. But I'm bright eyed in bushytailed.
I've got a couple of coffee in me and I'm
gonna get another one during the next break. Let's get
to the phone. Shall we tea up Bob for me?

Speaker 8 (26:54):
There?

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Frank you will you? It's up, Bob.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
Heay, good mor and Doug morning man. I sure enjoy
your show. I'm coffee up, just getting up by sound a.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Little drogy, all right?

Speaker 4 (27:07):
I uh man, I heard you talking about those You're
talking about those old green Corodos, weren't you, Yeah, buddy man,
I still got three or four of those that I
still use and love.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
They're so easy to clean.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
And why I think they I think they're kind of
like the two eighty three Chevrolets.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
They took them off the market because they were.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Too good, just lasted too long.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Oh they were just dead of the best reels. I
loved them. But anyway, I was listening talking about favorite lures,
and I had to I had to share.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
There's just a few few lures.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
I would I just wouldn't get out get out of
the boat without and uh and and one of them
they don't make anymore.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
But one is that that super.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Stupid oh buddy.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
Yeah, well there's a particular one and they call it
the clown Are you are you familiar with that one?

Speaker 2 (27:55):
I'm pretty familiar.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Sure.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
Oh yeah, it's gold, you know, gold, Oh my god,
I'm more fish on that. I think that little bit
of sun catches the glare on that gold something. But
I'll always have two with me because one will always
get mauled up by red.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Fish, you know. Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
And then and then the other thing I'd like to
do is at Mansfield malling And yeah, I put a
little sharpshoose, little assassin it with a black curly tailed gold.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
In the morning.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
We didn't think about that yesterday, that mallar rig. It's
it's not a lure, but it's a darned effective way
to catch a bunch of trout for sure. And redfish man, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Well, I used to use it a lot down between
Port O'Connor and Rockport. You know those grass beds, you know, sure,
help get get around that grass. And and the last
one that it's a they don't make me work. There's
a company called Tsunami. They're still in bus. A friend
of mine gave me one of these years ago, and
it's a stupid looking little it. It's a it's shaped

(29:01):
like a sandhill. And and the color was called morning glory.
It was black and it.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
Had the red silver sparks in it with Sharproof's tail.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
And the thing that was unique about it is the
head came, the hook came in it, and it was
really sharp.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
They put a tube around the hook. It was a sharp.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
But the thing that was different is they put the
eye up on top of the head, not in front.
And and and there was something about the weight and
the action of that particular door, and you.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Just tied it right on right.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
Came in a pack of Since I was on Hodge's reef,
I tell you this and let you go. But I
was on hodges Reef years ago and I was waiting.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
I knew the fish were there. You know how you
know they're there?

Speaker 2 (29:46):
You know they're there?

Speaker 4 (29:49):
Oh dude, Well, you know you go through everything in
your everything in your arsenal Right, I got you know,
all eight and nine row eight and nine academy with me,
you know. And then so my friend of mine gave
me that lure. It told me try I said, well,
I might as well put this yeah thing, And as
soon as it hit the water, I called about six

(30:11):
seven ice trout with it the very first time I
used it.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Have you ever have you ever heard bob of a
boone needlefish lure?

Speaker 3 (30:21):
No?

Speaker 2 (30:22):
That one. I don't remember where I found. This is
probably thirty years ago, maybe forty years ago. I tripped
over these things. Maybe they sent me a couple when
I was at the paper. But it's just it. It's
just a it looks like a pencil with two treble
hook I think it was two treble hooks on it,
and it's painted to look like a needlefish. And it was.
It was about a full pencil long. And I had

(30:46):
one of those out with me on the one of
the little rock groins in Galves. And there was a
guy out there at the end as I was walking out,
And you know, you can look at somebody and know
if they know what they're doing or not. And so
and he did. He knew exactly what he was doing.
I said, how are you doing? Said, man, I can't
get them to eat. I feel like there's fish here,
but they're just not really eating anything. I've tried everything.

(31:07):
He tried mirror lures, he tried spoons and jigs and whatnot.
And I thought, well, you know what, what better way
to find out if a lure is gonna work than
when nothing else is working? And I tied one of
those on, man, and I just I slung it out
there and just let it sit and then maybe twish
it and then count to one hundred and twish it again.
And god, they just started smoking that thing. They hated

(31:29):
neil fish. Apparently it was fay.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
You just never know.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, that's all that one about fishing. That one does
not get anywhere near amount rushmore of saltwater fishing. But
under whatever conditions those were that day and on a
few other little days out there in the surf, man,
it was it was something else that's great to hear
from you.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Man, Hey man, good, I really enjoyed your showing. Go quick.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
I know you're not talking about golf yet, but it
didn't it good to see speaking and schefferd go at
it yesterday.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Man to be a full day other day, isn't it?
Holy cown?

Speaker 4 (32:03):
I called speech speaking and uh and uh and and uh.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
It's just good to see him back.

Speaker 7 (32:09):
M H.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
I hope he can. I hope he can keep it up.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
He seems like he's got to figure it out and
he's not hurting and that's great.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Man.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Hey, thank you, keep up the good work. Oh yeah,
my pleasure. Thank you. All right, let me shift gears
and go to Dave here. Let's see him up. We
got time for it before the break. Get tar, Dave.
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (32:29):
Many Yesterday I went down there to my little fishing
hole right there at eight thirty where the boat launches
well in Texas High School.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yeah, fishing or fishing in that place.

Speaker 9 (32:41):
It was packing in And then when I was dragging
my lines up, I seen this one young man come
over there and pull his boat up, and he kind
of started rooting around in his live well and everything.
And then I'm thinking, oh, and then so uh another
young man come from the other way. He's like, shun,
put enough water in there so we can get it

(33:02):
in the live wheel over here.

Speaker 10 (33:05):
He lifted a bass up out of that live wheel
like five and a half pounds swing. I know, I
thought good for him when when they were walking by,
I told him I was fishing your before the bulldozer
we were built this way up and I said, the
biggest what I recall him for the quarter?

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Oh man, please tell me he wasn't taking it to
the cleaning table.

Speaker 9 (33:29):
No, no, he's They were taking it to the way instead.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Okay, okay, that's why I'm here to keep it in
the live you know. Yeah there.

Speaker 9 (33:39):
Okay, so they got enough water to go into the
live weel wherever they we're gonna have to take it
to weigh it in. Yeah I got but uh yeah,
I eventually, if he can pull up later on when
all that's over with, maybe we can you can get
theo you scored on on on that thing. That would
be a good figure out. Yeah okay, And now on
the my bucket list, I'm gonna go on from Mount Rushmore,

(34:02):
go up there, go to Bellville over and get a cowboy.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
To build me a buck knife. You know, And you
know that's not a bad idea.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
It's kind of hard to be an outdoorsman without a knife,
it really is. I'm I'm contemplating finding a place on
and it would have to have its almost have its
own mountain or a little piece of a mountain, because
knives are equally important in fishing and hunting. Oh you know,
you can't finish the job without one, correct.

Speaker 9 (34:31):
We'll see, Yeah, and yeah, but I mean, and I
like my son when you know, when he became an
eagle scout. I had a buck draft with a sheath
on it to that for a long time, and I
went in and gave.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
That one to him.

Speaker 9 (34:44):
And I talked to him the other day. He said,
they've been and his wife, they've been coming over there
and fishing a cable bold launching camping over there.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
I said, well, call me man.

Speaker 9 (34:53):
I mean, I'm gonna be moving over there pretty soon.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
So around that way, so you know, we'll go from there.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
He say, yeah, real quick, told this up.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Uh, and you can talk about a little later. Do
you think we need to add.

Speaker 9 (35:08):
Up the limits on more than one shark? And uh,
you know, because I've eaten shark before and uh, it's good.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
I mean, yeah, black Cat's real good.

Speaker 9 (35:22):
Yeah, that's the one that Barry Pale caught like a
five footer. And we dised that dude up real quick
and barbecue and it was good.

Speaker 6 (35:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
I'm not ready to I'm not ready to loosen up
on sharks yet. They're so overfished already and there's still
a black market for shark fins, and other countries are
finning these sharks and just throwing them back in where
they can't even survive. There's no possibility that they can
ser I.

Speaker 11 (35:48):
Forgot all about it. Yeah, yeah, oh lord, all right,
there's always something, all right, man, Hey, I got a bounce,
Thank you, Dave. I'll see man. I hate to cut
people short like that. And I bet Bob's going to
call back after the break. I hope he does.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
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about midway between Katie and Highway six. Very easy to find,
very easy to find out there, and anything you like
as regards to shooting sports you can enjoy out there.
Ed Riggi, the guy who owns a place, is a big,
big Sporting Clays fan. When he bought the place about

(36:27):
eight ten years ago, whatever it was, he expanded it
to where there are now three complete sporting place courses,
trap and skeek covered on ten different fields. There are
five stands setups in several places around the property. There's
a beginner's wing shooting area. There's a pop up silhouette
range for plinking with your center fires or your rim

(36:47):
fire excuse me, rimfire, not center fire. Starts at about
twenty five yards or so and goes all the way
out to two fifty. Great little place to burn inexpensive
ammo and get the kids used to shooting guns and
learning how to be safe with them. Rifle and pistol.
The pistol range starts at five yards. That's your home
defense stuff right there, and then it goes out to

(37:09):
on the rifle side six hundred yards. All the way
out there. On a morning like this, I would be
willing to bet there's somebody out there taking advantage of
the still air and teeing it up before it gets
real warm during the day so they can take more shots.
Six hundred yards is a long way to shoot a rifle,
whether you're trying to do that, or whether you're trying

(37:29):
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(37:51):
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Holy cow, I'll tell you what. We're not gonna waste
much time chitty chatting right now. I need to get
the two phone calls for sure, and then might have
to wait on the third one. Who's holding on along?

Speaker 7 (38:10):
Is?

Speaker 2 (38:10):
That would be?

Speaker 5 (38:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:11):
There we go that you Bob?

Speaker 5 (38:14):
That's me?

Speaker 3 (38:15):
But Doug, how you doing?

Speaker 2 (38:16):
I'm good?

Speaker 12 (38:16):
Come on, Well, I really won't take much time. I
want no fishing story or anything, but I just wanted
to thank you for your show.

Speaker 6 (38:25):
I have a lot of health problems.

Speaker 12 (38:27):
Not able to get out anymore, so, dang, I live
vicariously through your show, and I just want to know
what you know, how much I appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Well, I have to ramp up. What do you want
us to vicariously do this week?

Speaker 5 (38:40):
Well?

Speaker 7 (38:41):
Me, do we have to?

Speaker 2 (38:44):
We don't have to go far, do we We can
just just whatever, you know, sometimes I feel like I've
got that going on with some of my friends who
who are doing a lot more outdoor stuff than me
lately too. And I understand, I really do, but just
hanging there.

Speaker 12 (38:58):
Many, Yeah, I enjoy everybody you know. Tell you about
the old fishing lawyers. I remember the old uh needle.

Speaker 9 (39:07):
One long time?

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Yeah, tie it on?

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Sound like me now?

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (39:17):
I always I was one of these guys.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
I very seldom changed some water.

Speaker 12 (39:23):
I'd go with my morning Glory when it come out
and a silver spoon and I you know, those were
my to go to. And I never liked mirror Lawyer
because I didn't like trouble too many trouble hook.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Sure, yeah, I agree.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
With you on that.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Well, look, anything I can do for you, let me know. Yeah,
if you need to email me and get a special
request in, you do that, will you?

Speaker 3 (39:45):
I will. I appreciate it. And I love your show.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Oh, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
I appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Bet. All right, let's grab Rick see what's on his
mind this morning? Rick, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Buddy?

Speaker 6 (39:57):
Well, the first thing we need to do is we
need the lift old Bob up as a fellow outdoors,
but in our prayers and pray that he is uh
that he's doing well, and uh that he's he's in
good hands. So we want to we want to take
care of our fellow outdoors. Good luck, Bob, Hey, I

(40:17):
want to play this knock knockout game again. I call
it knockout game. You call it Mount Rushmore. Right, yesterday
on the fresh water I called in or sence you
a text that the the go to was the spinner bait. Okay,
remember all right, My question is as anybody gave a

(40:42):
second fresh water because I'm gonna try to knock somebody
out here from.

Speaker 7 (40:45):
The other one.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Captain Scott through four of mat me this morning. He
has the Jitterbug, the hula pop, water man.

Speaker 6 (40:52):
That's cheating.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
That's cheating.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Four yeah, well four. There are four faces on Mount Rushmore,
and we could talk about taking stuff off. So what
he has on there is the Jitterbug, the hula popper,
the cream worm, and the asient h black yellow spinner bait,
which and I sent him an email back that said

(41:15):
all of those lures are now in museums or in
my garage. But and honestly, the ancient h it stands
the test of time. Okay, it's still for sale. H
and H bachure for sale. The hula popper. I think
I might pull that one and replace it with a
Lucky thirteen. Possibly maybe, I don't know. So what are

(41:37):
you thinking?

Speaker 6 (41:40):
Well of mind, col that's that's almost that's.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
Flattering to you.

Speaker 6 (41:46):
You beat me the hula popper, the top water jitterbug
in the Anchi and h black and yellow.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
That's that was.

Speaker 6 (41:54):
That's that's go to right there, even still today.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
So now I'm gonna knock somebody knock one of them all.
I'm gonna knock off that uh, that white worm or
whatever he said.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
I never even heard of.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Knock that off. They were the first plastic worms to
saw plastics.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
Okay, I'm gonna knock that off a little more of
a modern lure, okay. And I'm gonna I'm gonna do
a slash thing. I'm gonna do a plastic worm slash
plastic crawl lizards.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Oh oh, yoh god. Yeah, I can't imagine you not
wanting to throw that crawl lizard in there.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
There.

Speaker 6 (42:35):
We got drank it, drank it up. Hey, thanks Scott,
you beat me, brother, You owe me one.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
All right, Rick, all right, let's tee up, faux pro.
We got a couple of minutes here, Faux pro, where
are you standing on all this?

Speaker 4 (42:54):
Well?

Speaker 13 (42:54):
Uh, as a fresh water fisher, but as a bass
Fisher's easy for me to if you know, if if
you pick, if I got to pick one bait, you
tell me I got one bait, throw and take another
nine hundred out of my boat I'm taking. I'm taking
a half ouse black and blue jig with a rage
crawl trailer, and I can fish it a foot deep,
I can fish it on top, I can fish it
in forty feet of water. I pretty much do whatever

(43:17):
I want to do with that bait, and it's weedless.
If you crowd them into one bait, that the jig
would have to be.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
On my list.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
That is such old school bass fishing. It is, and
I respect that, I really do. I just lack the
patience to fish with jigs because it seems like it
just I have to just I'm crawling this thing across
the bottom, man, and I like to cover water.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
You know me.

Speaker 13 (43:43):
I think you get you a quarter ounce of green
pumpkin swim jig with the with the green punkin rage
crawl in the backup you can fish it, you can
burn it, just like a spurre bait.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
You can be surprised catching.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
In ponds on that.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
But as soon as you said crawl, crawl, Rick Bise
perked up. I guarantee you he loves those little trawl worms. Man.

Speaker 13 (44:03):
But as far as saltwater, real quick, now, what I what,
I grew up on it, what I learned to fish,
and I'm not a big time of saltwater guy. I
did all my stuff under a cork court, actually cork
popping cork with the shrimp when I was good. But
but back then my daddy had me throwing a peak
o perch.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Yeah yeah, And today.

Speaker 13 (44:19):
I'm still throwing the I don't know, I know, to
bet you got a thousand of them today, I'm still
throwing a do a shrimp under a popping corn.

Speaker 7 (44:26):
You know.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
That's that's a Florida thing. More than here. There are
so many people here who who just don't throwd a
shrimp because they don't understand how Mark Nichols built them
to be fished without having to really do much at all,
but just let it kind of ride the tide.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
That that's a bait.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
That's all you do. You just throw it out there.
I man, I kill them at Packery Channel when the
water was moving through there pretty good years ago, several
years ago. I went down there and everybody's throwing this
and that and doing whatever. They just not doing much
of nothing. And I taed on tight on that day, shrimp,
and I threw it out there as far as I
could throw it and just just held on and I'd

(45:07):
strip a little line out so it would float with
the tide and not against it and not get turned
around and whatnot. And man, they just absolutely smoked that thing,
doing nothing to the rod. Oh yeah, we'd duck hutting
the mortar out there.

Speaker 13 (45:20):
Might to go to bay or around Rockport, and we
get out there, just kill it around the bay around
the red under popping cork about three foot deep and
just dripping under popping cork, just popp it once every
ten minutes or something.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yep. Well, hey, look I got I got a bounce,
but I got one fresh waterloore. I'm gonna throw at
you that. Somebody who was it sent me that this morning.
I want to say it was Kevin. Maybe I don't
see it right now. It was, Yeah, it was Kevin.
Rattle trap dude, what about that catch you.

Speaker 13 (45:45):
They'll catch anything that swims and any kind of fish
that swims water.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Got to be there.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Yeah, the real giant ones. I was throwing off the
end of the surfside jetti in the fall and let
it go all the way to the bottom and then
just kind of just lift it and drop it almost
like a jig, kind of like a crab swimming across
the bottom and cost so many bullreds. Oh my god,
so fine.

Speaker 13 (46:07):
Man, Cool on the gulf side, real quick before you go.
The second to the last put Griffin made yesterday made
me believe Shepard's got it. I think I think Griff
is gonna get it between his ears and he's not
gonna be able to sustain.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Yes, Scottie Scheffer's not gonna let go of this one.
I don't think even on just one shot lead. Okay,
I got a bounce, man, I really do think. Great
to hear man all right. On the way out, I'll
tell you all about El Cubano Cigars well as much
as I can. El Cabano Cigars is owned by a
guy named Manny Lopez. He and his dad came over
here years ago from Cuba working in Cuban cigar factories.

(46:43):
They kind of know what they're doing. And man, he's
taking over the business now and he is manufacturing cigars
right down there in Texas City. Cool place, some main
street in Texas City. Ought to go down there and
see how it's done. He's one of only four dozen
cigars manufacturers in the whole country, and he ships hundreds

(47:04):
most weeks, thousands some weeks of cigars here there and
everywhere all around these United States. Of bars to people
who just love find cigars, to people who are having
something they want to celebrate with a lot of people,
and give those people a cigar. Some parties. Client, you
got a good client, somebody spends a lot of money

(47:25):
with you, get them a box of cigars. See if
they're cigar smokers, they'll love them. You got a golf
tournament coming up, hand out cigars with your company or
the golf course or whatever logo on the bands. He
did that for us here at iHeart. He set up
a box of cigars with iHeartRadio bands and they are
pretty cool and people who get them like them, and

(47:48):
they remember that cigars for people who are cigar smokers.
That would be golfers fishermen, hunters, a lot of outdoor people,
men and women. If they like a cigar, they're gonna
absolutely love many. He does about one hundred and fifty
different cigars. He's got two smoking lounges, one in Texas City,
one in League City. Uh, just go to the website,

(48:09):
look around there and see. If you can't get to him,
go ahead and call him. He will take your order
over the phone and get those cigars shipped to you
right away. Elcoubanocigars dot com, Lcubano Cigars dot com nine
oh four almost nine oh five on Sports Talk seven
ninety this Sunday morning. Thank you all for listening. I
truly do appreciate it. He just I It warms my

(48:31):
heart quite literally to know that I've got a good
group of dedicated to people who like this show and
what I'm doing over here. Because I try to touch
as many bases as I can, I try to make
it as interesting as I can. I don't I don't
just go over the same stuff over and over and over.
I like to mix it up. And I love this
this idea that I believe it was Rick who.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Came up with it.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Yesterday The Mount Rushmore of lures and hunting and fishing
stuff and whatnot. Let's let's get to Robbie t him
up for me. Wait, Franky, hey, Robbie, what's up man?

Speaker 3 (49:03):
Morning, Doug.

Speaker 9 (49:03):
How you doing.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
I'm good, Thank you good.

Speaker 14 (49:06):
Hey, you keeped my long term deep memory bank. Talking
about those needlefish lures earlier years ago, I was I
don't even know where we were, and it was probably
thirty years ago or more, beer down fishing under the
lights in some canal and catching them hardly any trout,
and we were We had them at the cleaning table

(49:27):
and I cut one open and said, what are these
things eating? And I said, these guys are eating needlefish.
Of course, like there's no such thing as a needlefish lure.
So we went to the store, bought some bic pins. Yes, sir,
end took the insert out, ran about it. I don't know,

(49:47):
twenty thirty pounds leader monofilament through the middle, tight little
uh treubbook on the back, and put a tight little
barrel swivel on the front, threw them out there and
just kind of worked them slow, and we camera with
a just complete shop made lure.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
There was there was a time when I was. I
had to say a very similar experience with those. I
never did full pins. I was cutting them in half
when for for when, like especially at night under the
lights under the piers along the coast, those fish were
eating glass minutes, and cut them in half. And you know,

(50:26):
the the high grade that's yours is yours is a
working man's needlefish or glass menow. I went to hobby
lobby and bought metallic pipe cleaners and shoved them up
in there to where you got like a green back
and a silver belly on your little big pin lure.
And you talk about something that looks real, Oh man,

(50:49):
putty worse things out. Necessity is the mother have been jams.
I don't I don't know why somebody hasn't come up
with that a little more commercially, you know, just kind
of dressed it up. But yeah, those clear big pins,
there're more than one twelve pack or whatever. Those four
of those that god, just the pen parts just got
thrown away. Who cared. I didn't have to. I didn't

(51:11):
need to write a letter. I needed to catch a trout.

Speaker 14 (51:14):
You know, right, exactly exact great to hear from you, man,
Absolutely absolutely, we're slammed right now. Of course we're you know,
I have that deal going down in Argentina.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Yeah, yeah, is this your business season?

Speaker 14 (51:26):
Oh gosh, we're slammed. We're about one hundred days. Well
we take off on the weekends, but yeah, a hundred
great days with full lodge.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (51:38):
Great on the ducks.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
The perdees had really nice numbers this year.

Speaker 14 (51:41):
So we're this is one where it's our you know,
if we don't get it done this time of year,
it doesn't get done. And yeah, we're blessed after entering
our thirty year now, so it seems to be working well.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
I look forward to teeing it up with you a
little later in the year. I'm gonna I'm gonna spread
the word officially for you. What's your right? What's the
website you want to be if somebody, First of all,
I've been to Argentina and I've hunted doves with you,
and I know what it is, and I know that
the first time somebody said take them and I looked
up and saw a bunch of parakeets, I was kind
of confused. I gotta tell you, right, what.

Speaker 14 (52:17):
If they want to go to the to the interweb
Exciting Outdoors dot Com. Okay, and and we're it's Localerellis
is the name of the lodge. And you know, on
the mixed bag we're doing September to April. You know,
we're going to concentrate on dove and some pigeons and
then what's in Great Golden Dorota fishing All. We're on

(52:38):
the river and that August is when we get into
the the ducks and the parties, and of course the
dove are there year round. And we're a different part
of the country than most people are used to hunting,
but most of the country doesn't have ducks like we do.
We're more delta ish type country on a great, big river.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Is there a tougher bird on the planet than an
argentine An pigeon? I'm not aware.

Speaker 14 (53:03):
Oh well, they're big, you know, they're not feral, and
and they can I mean we sheet you know, let
us legal down there, use it, you know, kind of
My shot of choice on those pigeons is uh number five.
They sell them and and they can take a lot
of they can take a lot of abuse.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
I get back down there. I'm bringing some buckshot man.
I'm telling you, I'm watch I was a pretty good
pigeon shooter up here competitively for a very long time.
And and I knew I thought I knew about shooting
pigeons the next one, you know, it wouldn't be my first, Okay.
And I get down there and these pigeons are flying
around and I'm center punching these things with seven and

(53:48):
a half's and let seven and a half and they're
just like they're just brushing it off. They just kind
of fold a wing tip on their chest. It's kind
of flick them out, like holy now.

Speaker 14 (54:00):
What makes them well? I mean, we we have different
methods and we shoot them decoyed. It's like a dryland
and we build a blot. These things are wilder. There's
wild as any bunch of pintail coming in. Yeah, and
they if they see anything they don't like, they're out
of there. So it's I mean, the pigeons are well,

(54:23):
they're fun, they're challenging, and it is very similar to
what I call a dry land dunk cut.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
I would I would not have been surprised if if
if one of them had just flown straight in kind
of like a kamikaze and then just lit on my
shoulder and messed up my hat or something like that,
just to let me know that I wasn't gonna take
them down. That's how tough some of those birds were.
It just drove me nuts. Man, So fun, so fun, holy,
all right, Well.

Speaker 7 (54:52):
Look forward to getting started with you here and the
fallen and uh.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
And I think we condition did. Oh yeah, we're gonna
have some fun exciting outdoors or outdoor outdoors. Exciting outdoors. Well,
because there's more than one thing to do down there,
I guess. Oh yeah, all right, man, God, thank you, Robbi.
It's good to hear from you, buddy. Absolutely, you bet Audios.
That's a good dude right there, and no fooling. I

(55:18):
went down there on a magazine assignment too with some
women big game hunters, and there was a water buffalo taken,
there was a mountain lion taken. There were a couple
of other animals taken. They've got big giant red stags
down there and out of just out of nowhere, Robbie goes, hey, man,
let's go dub hunting this afternoon. I don't know. I didn't.

(55:41):
I don't have any stuff to dove hunt. Really, Buddy said, oh,
we got everything you need. Right here at the lodge.
It's not a problem.

Speaker 7 (55:47):
So I got.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Outfitted and we went out there, and I thought, well,
I'll just shoot a couple of boxes of shells. And
I've heard it's pretty crazy down here, but we're only
going to be out there a couple of hours. What's
that going to be? And before I know it, I'm
like through a half a case of shells. I got
dead birds all around me. I got reloaders reloading my
gun for me. I got in just by the time

(56:10):
you can get that gun reloaded and pick it up,
there another hundred doves in front of you, all directions.
I tell you what I did. Mostly, I know my
strengths and my weaknesses as a shooter, and when we're
dove hunting. When we were dove hunting down there, what
I did was let the shots that I know I
can make, Let the easy ones for me go and

(56:33):
focus on shooting the harder shots, the ones I had
trouble with at home, on ducks and geese, on doves,
on everything, pigeon whatever we were shooting up here, I
made sure that I got better. I used it kind
of as a learning experience. Actually, it made me a
better shot. Because you're not gonna go anywhere really on
the planet and get that much opportunity to practice a

(56:56):
particular shot. Mine was slightly going away for right to
left and slightly going up and away from right to left.
That's one of the hardest shots I've got as a
left handed shooter, and I got pretty good at it
before the end of those two or three hours. Great
place to go, a lot of fun. Robb's a good
guy to get you there too. He knows how to

(57:16):
do it. He knows how to do it in style.
He really does. I'm forever grateful to him for taking
me down there. We have to take a break yaping
away about Argentina. It was so fun. I haven't done
the fishing down there yet, though, but I'm I'm gonna
try and figure away. I could put that on my
calendar this fall. Shooter's Corner Palmerharghwaent twenty nine Street down

(57:37):
there in Texas City. A fantastic little gun shop. It's
not a big, fancy, giant retail place. It's just a
old school gun store. It smells like one, it looks
like one. Everything in it belongs in a gun store.
Everything in it, whether you need AMMO, whether you're looking
for a new gun, a pre owned gun, whether you
need gunsmithing work, Jerry TK has helped. I don't know

(57:59):
how how many of my listeners over the years who
come to me, They call me and they say, I've
been to two other gunsmith's. They say, I'm gonna have
to spend a ton of money to get my rifle
or my handgun or whatever fixed. What can you?

Speaker 5 (58:12):
Who do you know?

Speaker 2 (58:13):
And I just send him down there to Jerry. And
the last time, and I love telling this story because
it's absolutely true. There was a guy who called and
said he was told that his rifle repair was going
to be something like three four hundred dollars or maybe
he should just consider getting a new barrel or whatever
it was. And he called me. He said, Okay, I'm

(58:35):
at my wits end. I don't know where to take
this thing. I said, take it to Jerry. See what
he can do. If he can't fix it, nobody can.
And I never heard back from the guy. And I
called Jerry a week or two later and asked on
other business and I asked him and he said, oh, yeah,
he was in here. I said, were he able to
help him? He said, yeah, it was just a little
bird that I found up in there, and I just

(58:57):
got I don't know what he used. I don't know
how he did it, but he he said basically, he said,
I fixed it for him. I said, what'd you charge him?
He said nothing, It only took me about ten minutes,
No big deal. I just did it for the guy
because needed being done. That's the kind of people you're
working with at Shooter's Corner. Same kind of person who
since the in the forty something years he's been in

(59:17):
business down there, him and his son Jay. The same
kind of guy who also gives a discount to anybody
who wears a badge for a living. That's pretty nice
and I appreciate him for doing that, I really do.
He's very heavily involved in his community, very heavily involved
with NRA and will if he doesn't have it in
the store for you, he'll get it. Whatever it is.

(59:38):
With the Shooting Sports, The Shooters Cornertx dot com is
website The Shooters Cornertx dot com nineteen twenty on Sports
Talk seven ninety. Holy cow, these two hours are going
quickly this morning. I've still got a little bit of
a ground to cover on fishing. It's an opening day
of snapper season, for heaven's sakes, and the entire Gulf
of Mexico's flat as a lake, just flat. It's not

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quite glass. There's a little bit of a ripple, a
little pulse about a six or eight second one foot
pulse coming on to the surf side. Jetty almost dead
on shore. But man, what a great day to open
up snapper season. Ho lee cow, what a great day
for that. I have got there's something missing here. I've

(01:00:22):
got to type something in real quick. Oh what happened?
Where are you going? I got to get the Women's
US Open leaderboard back up. I don't know why it
fell off leader board. Blah blah blah. It'll figure it out. Yeah,
there you go. Oh that's not the one I wanted.
It doesn't matter. One quick return to the Mount Rushmore

(01:00:47):
of lures, something that I hadn't thought of, Scott didn't
think of, but probably as worthy of consideration when we're
talking about lifetime achievement awards. It most of this audience,
I believe, But the good old fashioned bingo saltwater lures.

(01:01:08):
Those Bengos caught an awful lot of awful lot of fish,
one of the original hard plastic baits. That was the
early versions of that family of baits. There were several
people who made them, but Doug English and his crew
Top of the Hill, Top of the Hill. The earliest

(01:01:30):
ones were actually carved from toothbrushes. And I learned that
from a lure historian, Ben Koshin, who was editor or
the art director actually of Tied magazine was when I
was the magazine's editor, and he had one of the
most incredible extensive lure collections in the country, tens of
thousands of lures, and he taught me an awful lot

(01:01:53):
about that. But yeah, the bingo might deserve a spot. Okay,
let me boy, I'm very just appointed in this one
particular leader board because all it does is give first
initials and last names, and that doesn't help me at all.
I can tell you. Also, let's see, oh, this isn't
even the correct the correct one. Let's just go to

(01:02:15):
the memorial first and then maybe I'll hold on. I've
got the wrong mouse in my hand. Now, maybe I'll
come back to that one. I've got the memorial leader
board up here. As I said yesterday, I mean, how
could it be anything else. Honestly, we had, we had
there was this guy everybody's heard of, and he was
kind of down down the list of little ways yesterday.

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That was yesterday. This morning we wake up and Scotty
Scheffler is one shot clear of the field. Ben Griffin,
who held the two round lead, got shot a mediocre
even parr yesterday and finds himself waking up going out
this afternoon with Scotty Scheffler. But boy, old boy, is

(01:03:01):
he going to have a task ahead of him. Scheffler's
at eight, Ben Griffin at seven, Nick Taylor at five,
all alone in third and then tied for fourth at
three under par, five shots off Scotty Scheffler's heels and
probably not a chance, but we'll talk about him. Stepstraca,

(01:03:25):
Keegan Bradley and Jordan's speeth. Of the one man in
that crew at three under par who has any momentum
I think and a snowball's chance of at least making
Scotty look over his shoulder that or at least looked
farther down the course look ahead. That'd be Jordan Spieth,

(01:03:47):
Rickett Fowlers at two, Patrick can't lay at two? Thanks
for playing. That's the kind of thing that's going on there.
By the way, I did see something that caught my
attention going to the US Women's Open up at Aaron Hills,
which is one heck of a tough course.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
It really is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
I don't know, I don't know how they have it
configured now, but the one time I got to play
that golf course in its infancy, it was a beast.
It was an absolute beast. And if you were either
on the fairway, you were in a very narrow first cut,
or you were in something that could be bailed and
rolled and sold for winter food for horses. It was

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that tall. It was knee high to thigh high grass
everywhere that wasn't actual golf course. So I looked at
the leaderboard early this morning. The top American in the
field is Nelly was Yeah, they may not have started
or let well, the leaders certainly aren't out yet. Nelly
Korda World's number one alone in sixth place behind a

(01:04:49):
Swedish woman, then a Spaniard and then three Japanese women,
and that, hey, that's just the best in the world
right now, and that's where they are. Korda was in
a pretty good spot going into Yester but she put
up a forty on the front of forty, and then
she kind of rocked back with a thirty three on
the back, but still she lost ground. One other interesting

(01:05:13):
thing I saw on the leaderboard at the Women's US
Open this morning. The women who barely made the cut. Okay,
they got a check coming, but they made the cut
at plus one on Friday then pretty much threw in
the towel and checked out yesterday. Only one woman outside
the top twenty yesterday broke par. Only one. That was

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Charlie Hall. She shot one under par. The rest were
either north of eighty or flirting with it. I can't
be sure about all of them, but they surely seemed
to have just totally disconnected and started thinking about how
soon they could get out of town. Today. Yeah, they're gone.
They're gone, even the one they made the cut. But

(01:06:01):
they know they're not going to change their paycheck with
almost anything they could do today, And that I understand.
But I'm so competitive that I would still if I
was in seventy fifth place and there was somebody in
seventy fourth place a shot ahead of me, I'd kind

(01:06:22):
of want to I'd kind of want to beat them out.
Of that spot, even if it didn't mean any more
money for me, even if it didn't mean getting out
of town sooner, any of that stuff. These are people
who made the cut at a major, and I mean
there were a couple of eighty fours and several scores
in the eighties among people who still were in the

(01:06:43):
top fifty. I just don't understand that. As a competitor
and as an well, not as much athlete as I
used to be, but I'm still I fancy myself someone
who at least respects every game I play, and I
try to do the best I can. I couldn't give
up like that and just kind of just mail it

(01:07:04):
in for the last for the third eighteen holes, it
seems like they did that. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 7 (01:07:12):
Let me see.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
I've got the I've got the memorial leaderboard up here
right now. Let me see what some of the boys
who made the cut yesterday. The cut, by the way
at the Memorial was plus five. And let's see what
these guys shot yesterday. Eighty one, seventy seven, seventy six,
seventy there's only one person unless it's way up here,

(01:07:34):
there's only one person out of all the people who
made the cut, fifty seven of them in all who
shot eighty and that man was where'd he go?

Speaker 7 (01:07:47):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
Yeah, that was Austin Ekrot. He was the he finished last.
He shoots eighty one yesterday and he'll probably he's probably
halfway around already knocking out that force round. He might
do that again. Everybodybody else is at least in the seventies. Yeah,
it's just that's the competitor.

Speaker 7 (01:08:05):
Me.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Let's get allan up here, see what's going on? Allen?
What's up, buddy, Hey, dougy sir.

Speaker 7 (01:08:14):
I thought I was about to wait thirty minutes I
was told, But that's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
I looked up. I looked up at the at the
board here and nobody was there. But you man, let's
go what's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (01:08:26):
So does it do me in a benefit to load
my own shells? Or or or doesn't really it's is
it okay, it's a hobby, or just go buy some
good shells and be done with.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
What are you loading rifle or shotgun?

Speaker 7 (01:08:41):
Or what shot got your shotgun?

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
I don't have a problem at all with loading your own.
There's a couple of reasons. One you'll save a little
money overall if you actually, if you get with it
and learn how to do it efficiently and effectively, and
it also allows you to kind of tinker with little loads, yeah,
changes you might want to make. The other thing is
that when you sit there and start reloading shotgun shells,

(01:09:07):
it's almost therapeutic. It's just it's almost hypnotic because there, yeah,
I agree with you. Down handle, up handle, move it around.
Down handle, up handle, move it around, and you can
just kind of get lost in that and not worry
about what who's hollering at you to go to the
grocery store or mow the lawn or whatever it is
you need to do, or kids are giving you trouble.

(01:09:30):
And this time I got to red atle more boxes,
you know.

Speaker 7 (01:09:34):
Yeah, well, you know, because I don't really shoot a
lot right now, because I'm thinking, I don't want to
shoot up my shelves. I don't I don't want to
go buy no more. And I'm thinking if I just
start loading on shells, I won't be so worried about
going wasting some shells on targets or whatever. Sure, because
I'm like, oh, I'll.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
Just load some more.

Speaker 7 (01:09:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Well, you say, because you also, if you're reloading, you
just but when you finished shooting around a skeet or
around a trap or sporting plays whatever, you've got one
hundred holes that you can go reload again and again
and again. You're not paying for new holes every time
you go shoot.

Speaker 7 (01:10:13):
Yeah, exactly, you know what, I ain't think about that
that it even makes more sense.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (01:10:17):
I don't know how long them holes last. I mean,
how many shots you can run through them before you
can't use.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
Any I don't know the number, but it's quite a few.

Speaker 7 (01:10:24):
Figure that out.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
Yeah, and you bring a grocery sack. You can pick
them up all over the during sporting clays ranges and
trap and skip field. They're all over the place. And
the people who work there probably don't care too much
unless you just start emptying their trash cans, because I'm
sure they resell those things too, they sell them to
a wholesaler.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:10:43):
Yeah, yeah, run out of.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
Empty holes to load if you're out there just shooting
with your buddies, and get all your buddies to give
you their holes too.

Speaker 7 (01:10:53):
Plus well, I'm going I tell you a while back,
I'm going to four to ten because I'm a little
bit older almost.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Yeah, And if I.

Speaker 7 (01:11:03):
Can load my own two for turkey loads, I could
put a little more umph in them because I'm loading myself.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Just don't just don't over own them. Can stay within
the book.

Speaker 7 (01:11:14):
Okay, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm with you there.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
Yeah, I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
I'll tell you a quick reloading story. And then I
got to kind of hustle out of here. Years ago
in high school, one of my friend's dads had a reloader, Okay,
and my buddies and I were just dumb enough that
we wondered what would happen if we put different things
into those shot shells other than lead pellets. And we

(01:11:40):
whipped up about a half a box that had just
miscellaneous nuts and bolts out of his his big jar
and the mayonnaise jar full of nuts and bolts in
the garage. Yeah, and that was fun because a lot
of that stuff would whistle when it came out the barrel.
The other thing that we found interesting was with a
full powder load, and then the wad goes in on

(01:12:04):
top of that, and then inside of that goes a marble,
a standard sized marble, and I'm not exactly sure what
the muzzle velocity was that marble coming out of a
twelve gage barrel, but it was way faster than any
lead pellets ever flew in history. I mean, those things
were just funny. They just you could just hear the

(01:12:24):
air sizzling as they left that barrel. Just well they
were gone. Man, Yeah it was. It was very stupid,
very stupid in hindsight. But nobody got hurt.

Speaker 7 (01:12:34):
Yeah, that's so good.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
Nobody got hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:12:36):
Good thing that all right?

Speaker 6 (01:12:38):
Real quick?

Speaker 7 (01:12:39):
Yeah, let me just say this real quick. On these
new bass tournaments, and I know they have a bunch
of issues with all that. What I would like to
see is forget, forget the down imaging and all that.
I would say, each lake the tournament needs to say
okay and tell them a week in advance, because the
younger guys will be lost. Guys will understand, say, for

(01:13:01):
this lake, all you're going to be able to use
is a topographical map and a flasher. Oh that's it. Yeah,
because you guys have to learn quick how to use
a flasher like they did back in the day. You know,
that would make it more interesting of a tournament.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
You could almost if you really wanted to bear bones
that you could just make it. Here's your map, good luck.

Speaker 7 (01:13:23):
Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
Think it would be amazing, and you would actually have
to know bass habits, which would everybody crazy, because now
that we have forward facing sonar, everybody knows that a
lot of the biggest bass in the lake are out
in the middle of nowhere, and it would just make
their minds explode. But it'd be fun to watch. Oh

(01:13:47):
thank you. All right, we gotta take you a little break.
Let's go to Belleville, shall we? Belleville Meat Market specifically.
You know what you could do anytime now through July. Okay,
you can go out there, and of course they've got
the smoke sausage samples. They have them all the time.
Of course, they've got the smoke barbecue served Monday through Sunday,

(01:14:08):
there aren't the other days of the week ten am
to seven pm. They've got the complete traditional barbecue stuff,
all the sides, and then additionally for the kids or
for you if that's what you want, homemade hot dogs
too on that menu. Bult pricing available always on fresh
ground beef and all that pecon smoke sausage they've got, boy,

(01:14:29):
you name it. They've got the homemade hot dogs, original
and with cheddar cheese. They've got hamburger patties, stuffed pork,
tender stuff, pepper stuff, mushrooms. Let Bellville Meat Market be
your backyard barbecue and block party and tailgate party headquarters
all year round. Really, they've got these chuck Wagon patties too,
now half pounds of beef well seasoned, perfectly seasoned. Everything

(01:14:54):
from Belleville's perfect and loaded with cheddar cheese too. And
of course wild game processing all year round. Dear to
Molly's Venison hot dogs.

Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
Anything.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
If you've got deer quarters in your freezer that you
swore you were gonna process yourself this year and you
haven't take them out to Belleville Meat Market, they'll make
that stuff into something good for you. Beef, jerky, turkey, jerky,
dry sauceage, dry stick, everything for grabbing, goes snacking. It's
about fifteen minutes up Highway thirty six from Sea Lee,

(01:15:24):
fifteen minutes south of Hempstead on that same little highway,
Grab some and go, or stay and eat a whole
meal while they prepare all the delicious meat products they
want or you want to bring home for the next
couple of weeks. If you can't get out there. I
understand it's not terribly close to Pasadena, not terribly close
to Kingwood. But if you can't get out there, you

(01:15:44):
can get almost anything in the store shift right to
your door. Belleville Meatmarket dot Com is a website. Belleville
meat Market dot Com. All right, welcome back nine forty already,
my gosh, I'm gonna blink and have to go to
another break here, but not before I get to talk
to George. Let's tee him up and George, what's up? George? Hey,
good day, Doug.

Speaker 8 (01:16:07):
Last week you were talking about the technology, the confluence
of technology, and.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
You know, the fishing forward. Uh uh yeah, and you
know where is it all in, Doug?

Speaker 8 (01:16:22):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
The trick.

Speaker 8 (01:16:25):
You know, we like to get outdoors because we like
to be out in the wild, the nature. And right
now there's you know, with all this AI and everything,
there's bio convergence. To look it up, there are people
that want to chip you so you can go to
the grocery store and you can run through the line
and run your hand across the scanner. No, thank you,

(01:16:47):
And that's already a reality.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Are you aware of that?

Speaker 8 (01:16:51):
Oh yeah, I'm aware of what's being I mean, I mean,
this is uh, that's like Frankenstein to me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
You know, you mess you don't mess with Mother Nature.
Remember that commercial back in the soies.

Speaker 8 (01:17:05):
Yeah, I think it was a buttered commercial or something,
you know, And that's what we're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
You know, your worders it in.

Speaker 8 (01:17:12):
You're gonna have a lure that's gonna you can send
a drone down there to target a fish and it
hits it with some kind of code. Then you send
a lure after it. You know, it's not going to
target any other fish but the one that got I mean,
here and look, I'll give you a real world, real
time example. A new Tesla Model three with the latest
full self driving FSD Supervise update. If varied off the

(01:17:36):
road just recently, the drivers using his hardware for a
lot of the incident came UH to light after the
driver with UH made he made it aware on public media.

Speaker 7 (01:17:48):
I guess it.

Speaker 8 (01:17:50):
Swerved off the road and hit a tree and flipped over,
and it's luckily he wasn't seriously injured. But I'll tell
you another thing I stumbed across the video synchronicity. Uh
there they got driver lest trucks in Texas, Oh yeah,
forty five that they're running back and forth and some
of and and these these this video, these people are

(01:18:11):
washing this and see that this takes a takes a
you know, a truck driver.

Speaker 4 (01:18:15):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:18:15):
We're so dependent upon them on it currently. And and
that's a that's a good uh occupation income for a
lot of people that don't have a college education. Whatever
we're taking these you know, we need to think about things,
all the other repercussions and uh anyway, you know, you
got these drivers instructures. I want somebody behind whell you know,
for my money that that's where I'm at with all that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
And let me let me bring you back. Yeah, let
me bring it back to the outdoors. Though I don't
want to get caught on highway transportation right now, because
you made a very good point. The whole idea from
from the time I was getting outside and as a kid,
was to get away from all the technology and to

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interact with nature, to interact with the wildlife, with the fish,
try and figure out where the fish are. Indeed, man,
the heart and soul.

Speaker 8 (01:19:06):
You're cutting out the heart and so people like yourself
and myself who have it's experienced as your greatest teacher, and.

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
We've got years of experience to draw.

Speaker 7 (01:19:16):
And I'll tell you to give you an example.

Speaker 8 (01:19:18):
Out there on that beach front along Fall, that's island
surf side, there are in the first gut. People think
it's all about that second and third gut.

Speaker 7 (01:19:25):
The second is where the.

Speaker 8 (01:19:27):
Hey that first cut and look and later on in
the day when you're the fish will always fool you.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
And one thing I'll learn.

Speaker 8 (01:19:34):
Fish in the upper flats uh uh in the winter
time is that those fish, when you think they're gonna
be deep.

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
Oftentimes they're shallow. And people fish too deep. Uh is
a big thing.

Speaker 8 (01:19:45):
But if you'll get out there in that first cut
and use use when your title tide is not on point,
you know when you when you after your title movement,
when things get slow us raded line with a floral
carbon leader and and get in that first gut and
throw and throw the smallest payload that you can deliver.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
And you don't have to throw it far.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
You don't have.

Speaker 8 (01:20:10):
But some of that first gut Douglas is four to
even five feet in fact years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
You have to be careful.

Speaker 7 (01:20:17):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:20:17):
I always wear PFD because years ago we had a
tropical to pressure come through and there was off right
off the beach man and young it was very sad. Uh,
young twelve year old girl would drowned down there because
and I waded into it right there at the surface.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
It went over your head and I went back in
and got my PFD. You know, I slid off as
a d pot. So you got to watch that.

Speaker 8 (01:20:37):
But but just you know, if you get familiar with
that down there, and that's based on experience, and that's
the mistike, and that's the experience that you don't want
to just.

Speaker 7 (01:20:46):
Take all that and just make it just a textbook,
you know, affair.

Speaker 8 (01:20:50):
I'll leave you that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
I'm sorry to put you on. That's all right, man,
it's all part.

Speaker 8 (01:20:55):
Of you know, it's all part of this bio convergence
and this that's uh, we don't want to go down there.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
You got to watch.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
We don't want to be polyanna about technology.

Speaker 3 (01:21:04):
I got it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
I appreciate you calling. Yeah, thank you. It's good to
hear from you.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
He makes some very good points, very good points about
and I think I kind of put the cherry on
that Sunday with reminding us all that The whole reason
that fishing and hunting appealed to us growing up was
that it got us away from an office desk. It
got us away from the landline phone that might ring

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and somebody wants you to have to go do something else.
That there were a lot of reasons that we wanted
to be distracted from what was then a very simple life,
even in hindsight, because we needed that connection with nature.
And now what's being forced into the mix is technology.

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There's so much technology in nature now, and I'm not
saying it's bad, but maybe just maybe just use in
moderation rather than one hundred percent dependency on it. I
go back to that same quote from that same young pro.
You can't catch him if you can't see him. That's

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such a load of hooey. It's it's it's garbage that
he's so wrong. He is so wrong, and everybody and
from my era knows better. You can catch him if
you know where to look, if you know when to
go to what spot. They don't care about that. Now
they've got a crutch. They got this forward facing sonar blink.

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Oh there's one right there. Let's just drop something down.
Watch the fish eat the lure. That's that's not That's
not what fishing is supposed to do. It's supposed to
to give us something else to think about that is
relaxing and pleasant, makes you work a little bit. Maybe

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it's not very hard to just draw around and watch
a TV. I do that at the house. I put
wheels on my recliner and I can do that at
the house. That's ridiculous. I'm not a big fan of
forward facing sonar in competition. Now, if that's what makes
it easier for you to go catch fish with your
grandkids or something like that, more power to you. But

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if you don't know how to just go fishing and
not really worry too much about it, then we're all
going to be lost. And I'm not talking about this audience. Honestly,
this audience knows better. This audience, I believe, feels a
little bit more like I do. And if you disagree
with me on any of this, by all means, please
let me know. I'd love to talk to you. Let

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me catch Kevin real quickly. Then we got to get going.
Hey Kevin, what's up man? You're gonna be about it? Hey, Doug,
how you doing a day? George pulled me up on
a high a big old hide box that I had
to stand on for a little while, up on that
soap box.

Speaker 15 (01:23:59):
Yeah baby, Hey, yeah, I sent you my rush more,
one of the things on the salt water that I've
I've really it's my one of my go tos.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Have you ever thrown a crocodile spoon?

Speaker 4 (01:24:12):
I have?

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
Yeah, absolutely, I have crocodiles.

Speaker 15 (01:24:15):
They're actually a little more dnse than the Johnson sprite
and you can whip those things for a mile.

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
Oh sure, that's one of my go tos.

Speaker 15 (01:24:25):
Another thing I wanted to kind of discuss with you
is this morning was opening season or opening.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
Day for snapper season.

Speaker 15 (01:24:32):
Indeed, at five o'clock this morning, you should have seen
all the my god, the convenience stores, you know, the
ones named after a road, sure that are? There were
boats everywhere, everybody buying up twenty and thirty bags.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
I can't you know. What I don't understand is why
these people didn't do that yesterday afternoon. I know, if
you got that much ice, you're not gonna melt it
all down overnight. I mean, just fight a few hours early.
Oh yeah, yeah, And what a day. It was the
best opening day for snapper season that I can remember.
It's flat called the whole Gulf of Mexico. Yeah, they

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got a great day to go out and tear them up.

Speaker 4 (01:25:11):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
You know what I'm waiting for now? National Fishing Service. Yeah,
you got your quota, you're dog well, you know.

Speaker 15 (01:25:22):
Yeah, my Mount Rushmore that I sent you to also
I included offshore lures.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
Oh what did you have it? How did I miss
that email?

Speaker 8 (01:25:32):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
What do you got for offshore?

Speaker 15 (01:25:34):
I sent it to you off shore, the rappola, Yeah,
diving lure for trolling.

Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
Oh yeah, big old wahoo lure. Man, that's good stuff.
The white and white and red was always our go
to color one white and red for almost anything.

Speaker 15 (01:25:48):
Really yeah yeah. And then the tube jigs for trolling
picking up dolphin around.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
Then, yeah, that's good stuff. The Russell lures are all
is a good go to you know. You know that
that was one of the weirdest. The first time I
saw one of those, I thought, Holy cow, what is
this gonna do? But boy, they were so well built,
and they also gave you that I think it was
three options of where to where to hook the swivel

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to make it go a little deeper, a little shallower,
and oh my god, when you get out there dragging
those around rigs and stuff, it was like, oh, if
there's a kingfish within two miles, he's gonna find it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:26:29):
Those snapper slapper, which you're a drop.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
Drop bait, and then diamond jigs are always good. Yeah yeah,
but do they belong on the mount Rushmore of saltwater
fishing for well for offshore? Yeah yeah, I've got a
separate list. Yeah, I'm sure we're gonna need more mountains.
We're gonna need mountains. Hey, i gotta run catch Mike

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real quick before we have to get out of here.
Thank you for calling, though, man, I greatly appreciate my friend.
Next week, you bet Audios. Let's get Mike in real quick.
Then we'll get that last little short break.

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:27:05):
What's up man, morning, young man?

Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
Doing I'm good.

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
Using technology is like going grocery shopping.

Speaker 8 (01:27:14):
If you don't use your five senses, you're not experiencing
the real thing.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
Hmm okay, I agree with that. Yeah, yeah, I'm going
to take a sniff of some of that stuff. I'm
buying some of them in the produce department for sure.

Speaker 7 (01:27:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:27:28):
If you're already locating your your quarrying, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:31):
You mission to have to deal.

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
You know, that's that's so true. Man, You're just not
taking advantage of all your senses. I could, I could
just see somebody out there trying to bass fish and
looking for a giant bass, and behind them is a
school of bass pushing a bunch of a shad to
the top and blowing up all over the place. And
these guys are still looking at the TV. Yeah, how

(01:28:01):
garage see you. I'm sorry, we have a bad connection.
Leave my garage out of this man, all right, real quick.
On the way out here, black Horse Golf Club two
ninety to Fry Road, Fry Road South. When you start
seeing golf course on both sides of the road, take
a west. That'll be a right from two ninety and

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you'll be on the property of black Horse Golf Club.
Two great courses. The North course still daily fees, still fun,
still still can take some slightly errant drives on most
of the holes. South course has gone private. Now it
is an official private club and it is being gussied
up and dressed up accordingly.

Speaker 4 (01:28:45):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
Both courses have their own separate maintenance budgets. Neither one
of them is going to suffer from that change. The
only difference is that the people who have joined the
South Course as private club members, if they for there's
a specific option you can get that also gets you
in addition to just those two courses, it also gets
you Blackhr or excuse me, black Hawk Country Club where

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I play most of my golf, and both courses at
Golf Club of Houston. Five for one, five for one.
Not a bad deal if you love golf, Not a
bad deal if you like to change it up every
now and then. Got great instruction out there as always
down at the far end of the range, and they
are working on transitioning more than just a little halfway

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house over there on the South course. If you know
where that little building is as you go across the bridge,
it'll be in front of you. It's going to be
bigger and better as time wears on and they are
able to get that project done. Either way, it's a
fantastic place to go play golf, fantastic place to host
a big tourney tournament for charity, and you'll love it.
You can make a tea time right now. Black Horse

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Golf Club dot com that's black Horse Golf Club dot
Com gliding insideways, coming in hot right toward the end
of the program, Man, I squeeze in as many calls
as I could. We're just kind of out of time.
Holy cow. I was telling Frankie, this is probably one
of the fastest weekends I can remember, and quite some time.
Had all kinds of fun discussions, all kinds of things
we talked about. The one thing that I hadn't gotten

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to that I wanted to was this study that was
done to see how many shots you and I as
golfers would need to compete head to head basically with
the PGA Tour players on a US Open layout. They
say forty forty shots. The pro would have Scottie Scheffler,

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Ricky Fowler, Jordan Speed, any of them. They got to
give you forty shots for you to have a chance. Yeah,
I don't know that I would need forty, but I'd
take them and I'd see what I could do. Think
about that, Think about that, fired up, Frankie. I'm cool,
it's all right. I know we're late. I know it's late.

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I know what's that song I can't remember? All right,
let's wrap this up. Let's wrap this up, shall we. Yeah,
And but there's no way, there's no way I can't
come within forty shots of them. I would play the
golf course differently. I wouldn't hit as many drivers. If
I got forty shots to burn, that's to a hole
that I can manage to get myself close and somehow.

Speaker 9 (01:31:23):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
It's fun to dream, it really is. It's fun to dream,
and it's good to have confidence. Never mind, we just
won't maybe we just won't play all eighteen holes. All right,
that's it for today. Thank you so very much for listening.
I'll be back Tuesday on fifty plus. I will be
back next Saturday right here. In the meantime, gonna have
some good weather this week. Get outside, have some fun
with your family. Okay, fish the old fashioned way, Turn

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off all those electronics, turn off your phones, and talk
to your family. That's your assignment this week. See you
next week, Audios,