Bug Stories, and the Mysterious Catfish

On this episode, Doug talks about bug encounters with callers, gives tips on how to best enjoy golf, 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):
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(00:33):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
And their guests.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Now here's dog Fike alright, who goes? Saturday morning edition
of the program starts right now. Poor Frankie was a
little bit worried about me. I was on a mission
to find I knew there was somebody new, somebody over
on KTRH was back there. I had no idea who
it was. Never seen the guy before, and I still
haven't had a chance to introduce myself and see who

(01:09):
the heck he was. But I knew that somebody had
made a pot of coffee somewhere since we had company.
Pardon me, A lot of times it ends up being
me who has to make it, and I couldn't find
any anywhere. But I traced back where I thought there
was a last chance I could find it in the kitchen,
which is where it should be anyway, and there it was.

(01:31):
So I was fine. But Frank, you didn't realize that
I was watching this clock like a hawk. I knew
I had about six seconds to spare, and I used
all six seconds of it. And here we go. So
here's the deal. Well, first of all, we're gonna have
excellent weather for the next several days, so get outside
and take advantage of it, please. I talk usually at
the end of the program about getting out with your

(01:52):
family and having fun outdoors, and I find very few
things more important than that. Really for me, at least,
I I have to get outside. I have to do
stuff out there, soaking up vitamin D. I don't know
what my vitamin D level is, but I bet it's
I would bet it's a maybe not off the chart,
but it's just hanging on by a thread from falling

(02:14):
off the chart. It's so good. I just love it.
I love being out there. We're getting into sunscreen season.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna lecture you on the
dangers of overexposure to sun. My son, speaking of learned
a lesson about that his first shift as a lifeguard
this year. He didn't think much about him about wearing

(02:37):
sandals and wasn't going.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
To be a big deal.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
He wasn't going to be out there that long. He
just he makes all these reasons up the same as
I did as a kid, for not having to worry
about sunscreen. And when he got home, he looked down
at his feet and the tops of his feet were
just medium, well, let's call it. And we were kind
of my wife and I were, it's scared that they

(03:00):
were going to peel. I wasn't overly worried about it
because I peeled like a like a bunch of bananas.
When I was his age and younger, I was either
surfing or wade fishing, or just hanging out on the beach.
A lot of us would drive down to Surfside, back
when there was an actual beach at Surfside that you

(03:22):
could drive on pretty easily. You got to go all
the way down towards the pass to do that. The
beach at Surfside when I was growing up was wide
enough for I would say four parallel rows of cars
to part at least three and then still have room
in between. Where the kind of the main thoroughfare was,

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it was like a four lane highway on the beach.
And not everybody drove slowly either. You had to be
kind of careful getting to and from the water. Anyway,
I've gotten distracted from a couple of the things I
want to talk about today, and the first thing I'm
gonna let you guys know is that I am henceforth
a man on a mission. I got burned by some

(04:08):
fish yesterday and I still don't know exactly what they are,
but I'm going to ramp up and I am going
to I'm gonna give the bass a break. Where I
do a lot of fishing afternoons, I'm gonna give them
a break, and I am going to set out to
at least see what got me three times yesterday and

(04:32):
not once, not twice, but three times yesterday has done
so once before, and whatever it is, it is very big.
It is very and there's more than one of these things,
because I hooked them in two different places yesterday. And
I'm pretty sure I know this is a pond, it's
a lake, probably about I guess all together. That lake

(04:56):
covers probably twenty acres and there's something swimming around in
there that I have yet to even I don't know
that they even realize they're hooked when I hook them.
They're that big and they're that strong. All well, not
all four of those hookups have resulted exactly in the

(05:18):
same chain of events. But to summarize, here's what's going on.
I'm out there bass fishing usually I think all four
of them. Actually, yeah, I'm pretty sure all four of
those bites have come on crank baits, and I tend
to throw small, inexpensive crank baits in this lake because
I'll throw them anywhere. I'll try to throw them through

(05:42):
a hole in brush that's no bigger than a paper cup.
I don't care if I lose them because I don't
have twenty dollars invested in them, and so I'm throwing
them everywhere.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
They do have good sharp hooks, but they're not terribly
strong hooks. And what's been happening to me and the
fish aren't even really straightening these hooks out, which is
another little mystery I have to solve, and I'll solve
it once I see what they are. But yesterday, three times,

(06:16):
three times, I'm bass fishing. I'm having fun, catch one here,
catch one there, and then all of a sudden, the
lure just stops. I don't feel a big bite. I
don't have any idea what hit that lure, but it
just stopped. Oh that's cute. I got it in a

(06:37):
tree limb again. Somebody threw somebody trimmed one of these
trees out here and threw a limb in there. And
now I've caught it. Now I have to remember where
it is. Only the deal is that when I set
the hook up a little bit and shake it a
couple of times, it starts to move, and it starts
moving left. One time it went left, one time it
went right, one time it went straight away. And a

(07:00):
bear in mind, i'm fishing. I think on that real
thirty pound braid and heavy, good solid, heavy leader. I
got some nice floor carbon sitting out in front of it,
and their bass don't do what these fish are doing.
I had a good long discussion with faux Pro last

(07:20):
night about this, talked to him a little bit, and
it just I'm perplexed. I am confused, not really, I
think I know what they are, but I still haven't
been able to turn one of them and bring it back.
And I'm not talking about a fish that just moves
off a little bit and then breaks off. And they
haven't broken off yet. I haven't lost a lure, No

(07:43):
knot has come untied, no hook has been straightened out,
which leads, which tells me that it's a very very
strong jaw that in like jawbone that I'm trying to
set set up in. Although one of them, you know,
one of them did kind of almost go to ninety
degrees on me. But the bottom line is these things

(08:04):
just when they decide to leave, they just leave. They
just start going off very slowly in a straight line
and just methodically moving off. Twice in the same spot yesterday,
once in a different spot. The one that hit in
the different spot put up well, i'd say a fight,
but it didn't realize it was fighting me as much

(08:26):
as I was fighting it. And this fish, I got
his head turned once it turned almost back to me.
Other than that, it just swam a little bit left,
then it stopped and it swam a little bit out,
then it swam over to the ride a little bit.
And all the while I've got the drag set really tight.

(08:49):
I don't don't worry about having to loosen my drag
for any bass that ever swam, So I've got it
set pretty tight. I want to get these fish in,
especially after this kid named Trooper got bitten by an
alligator when he was trying to bring in a little
fish not there, but somewhere close by. I don't know.

(09:10):
I think I've eliminated gar because a gar is a
pretty hard fighting fish, even a pretty big one. Now,
he'll tow you around for a little while, but he'll
also show himself. So check that box. It's not one
of them. It's not. It's certainly not a bass. Foux
pro said, maybe it's a fifteen pound bass. Nah, not

(09:33):
a fifteen pound bass. This thing didn't come up to
even wallow at the surface. It didn't make any kind
of a longer fast run. There was no sprint in it,
not even two feet. And so I'm whittling down, whittling down.
Not alligators. I don't think it's alligators. They're not crank

(09:54):
bait eaters. Well they kind of. I've seen him eat topwaters.
I had to deal with one over on the east
se out of town once Lake Houston, not at Lake Houston,
somewhere else over there. One of them ate a top
water on me. I had to deal with that, and
I dealt with it by using very long needle those
flyers and saying a lot of prayers, and the guy
that was with me kind of had a paddle ready

(10:16):
to keep it. What we did was we let it
bite the paddle, and then I had these long needle
those flyers that somebody had given to you. It was
Will Kirkpatrick sent me those as a matter of fact,
and we got that hook back. I wanted my lure.
I didn't have an extra four dollars on me at
the time. So the bottom line is it's got to
be just a really there are a handful of really big,

(10:39):
big catfish in that lake, and if you have a
better idea, you tell me. I don't know what else
it would be. I really don't, but these things are
driving me crazy. So what I'm gonna do. I'm not
gonna change rodgers and reels. I've got enough in this
rod I've got enough line on the reel that it's
not gonna it's not gonna spool me, and I'll bury

(11:02):
that drag down a little bit tighter if I have
to the drag that this fish was pulling off that
reel yesterday and effortlessly. It didn't race off. It wasn't
like a bonefish hit where it just streaked across a
flat somewhere for one hundred and fifty yards. This thing,
just when it decided to go forward, line came off

(11:23):
the reel very slowly, but line was gonna come off
the reel, and there was nothing I could do to
stop it. And I'm gonna catch one of those things.
I'm gonna. No, it's not a turtle, Dan, No, not
a turtle. There's not a turtle that big in that lake.
And I've actually seen one legitimate snapping turtle in there too,

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And a snapping turtle would have destroyed the lure. Any
turtle in there, I think would have been capable of
straightening out hooks or snapping turtle would have just chunked
it into little pieces, like eating a potato chip. It's
got to be a big catfish, more than one of them,
and I'm gonna at least see one of them before

(12:09):
I give up on before I go bass fishing ever again.
I got to see these fish and it means I'm
gonna have to totally change my uh my m over there.
I'm gonna be making some cast into a little bit
more open water and what I think might be a
little bit deeper water. I can't be sure about that.
There's no there's no map of this lake anywhere. It's

(12:30):
just a lake on a golf course with big fish
in it. I've got to catch one of these darn things.
It's killed me. It's driving me crazy. I truly am
a man on a mission. That's that's my that's my
next goal in fishing is to figure out exactly how
big it's not what anymore. I think I've gone over

(12:51):
all the scenarios in my mind. And if you've got
a better idea than that than catfish, you let me know.
I don't. And I'm one hundred percent sure it's not
a big guar because a big gar at least I
could turn its head probably and get it to show
me that big, old alligator looking head. But it's if
it's catfish, it's gonna be a big one. I would guess,

(13:14):
based on a lifetime of fishing experience and catching all
kinds of stuff. At least twenty to twenty five pounds
and maybe a little bit bigger. And if this thing
comes up and it's a five pound catfish that's doing that,
I'm I'm just gonna hang it up. I'm gonna put
all my put all my fishing rods in a trash

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can and just put them out on the curb. There's
no fi I'm not that weak, not yet. All right,
good heavens, I gotta take a break here on the
way out, I'll tell you about Belleville Meat Market smoked
sausage samples daily. In the story. You could just go
in there. There'll be a tray full of them on
a platter, and each little slice will have its own

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little toothpick, or maybe there's a box toothpicks up there.
I'm not sure how they do that, but all of
those flavors, there's two dozen plus of them. They're all delicious.
So whatever's up there, just grab a bite and wet
your appetite, and then take a few steps down to
your left and you can get in line for lunch
or dinner that's served from ten to seven every day.
They've got all the traditional barbecue stuff, all the traditional sides.

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Then they've all got also got pulled pork and homemade
hot dogs down there for the kids or for you
if that's what you want. Bulk pricing on fresh ground
beef and all that pecon smoked sausage. The thing that
they've most recently introduced are these chuck Wagon patties, okay,
for you to take home. I would imagine they'd cook
one up for you right then and right there. What

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they are is a half pound beef patty that's seasoned
up just right and then loaded up with cheddar cheese.
So you've just got this one stop cheeseburger on the grill.
And man, you talk about take care of business on
a summer barbecue. Wild game process year round. Of course,
they've been doing that since they open their doors. If

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you can kill it legally and it's got four legs
on it, you can bring it in there and get
it processed. Almost certainly, you might want to go ahead
and call first, just to make sure. Just call first,
make sure that they're whatever animal you intend to bring
in there. They'll process sometimes sometimes it gets a little wonky,
sometimes your stuff's a little old. Whatever. We'll take a
little break here, be right back. More of the Belleville

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Meat market by the way Highway thirty six between By
fifteen minutes north to see Lee, fifteen minutes south Kent
of Hempstead. Very easy to find right in the middle
of town or anytime online Belleville MeetMarket dot com. We'll
take a little break, be right back to Doug Pike
Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. All right, welcome back,
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Doug Pike Show
on Sports Talk seven ninety. Could you grab Brian's call

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when you get a second there, and I'm gonna go
talk to Rick. What's up? Brick Byce, Good morning, Doug,
Good morning.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
Well, I've been listening to your Fishing to Live. I'm
gonna give you my opinion and that I'm gonna talk
about something else real quick. It's not a catfish.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
What do you think it is.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
I think it's gonna be either a big turtle or
it's gonna be an alligator. Yeah, there ain't gonna be
no other way. It's gonna be the way you described it.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah, that's my that's my guess.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
I'm you know, I'm with you. I would I would
go ahead.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
Well, the bottom line is this is the case for
Jeremy Wade. Okay, you need to get on the horn
and get a hold of Jeremy Waite and have him
come investigate this situation.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Most of your.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
People don't know who that is. Okay, Okay, that's this
is perfect for Jeremy Waite, don't sorry?

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, I think so. O. God R what's your other thing?

Speaker 5 (17:01):
I better let go while on the head.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, what's your other thing?

Speaker 6 (17:06):
No?

Speaker 5 (17:06):
No, you're gonna go there? How did I I'm out.
I'm gonna give up. But I just want to give
you my thought on it. Good luck with I hope
you find out all right, man.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Thanks, Rick, I'll see you. Brian, Brian Treubway. What's going on,
my friend?

Speaker 7 (17:23):
Well, I know I have emailed you on some things
that are happening in Texas from a legislative standpoint affect
all outdoorsmen, right, and so a couple of unique things
that are happening out there. I figured I would share
with listeners a little bit on the good news here.
At the end of April, TPWD acquired a pretty good

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chunk of land to kind of create an area in
East Texas for one of their wildlife management areas. And
it's been about twenty years since they've done that, but
they the property was about sixty nine hundred acres over
in Anderson County and it'll become the Trinity River Wildlife
Management Area. Nice, so good news. You know, this is

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a lot of this is from funds from our licenses
that we buy every year. This is what the state
is putting it to good use. We should be very
proud what the state's doing at least TPWD on no doubt.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
You bring up a very good point about I'm glad
you mentioned that this type of thing goes gets done
with license money because a lot of people don't really
understand how many different things that license revenue contributes to
and how much better it makes it for all of us.
It's not just do you buy the license you get
to fish. In the story, that money goes back into

(18:41):
the outdoors for all of us, and I'm glad you
mentioned that it does.

Speaker 7 (18:45):
You know, the TPWD is made up seven different divisions.
You know, law enforcements where a game wardens frone, you
have fisheries, you have the parks, and there's a number
of other divisions that kind of are kind of together
put together in that particular area. I could promise you
anybody working for TPWD is not getting rich. These are

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people that really do love the outdoors, they love the job,
they love what they do, and we should be happy
that we've got all these people that are working in
the state level for us, because that's what they are
and that's what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
So good stuff.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
On the other side of the coin, the flip side,
there's some things that we should be concerned about, and
there's a lot of rumors that are happening that affect
us in the state. I don't know how many listeners
maybe saw something that recently came out on Facebook that
they were trying to close the beaches.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, I saw it.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
So yeah, so little clarification. Nobody's out there trying to
close the beaches. This actually affects all the way down
south at the very very tip in Bokachika. When they're
trying to launch space X, right, they have to have
a certain area that's safe. Does that make sense?

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, if something goes wrong when that thing leaves the pad,
they don't want a bunch of people in the way.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (20:09):
They do this in Florida when they're space shuttles. So
this is merely a temporary shut down on the Bokachka.
They do it on week days and until noon on Fridays.
Was what was happening was in order to do that,
because the state owns the land right on the beach
is going to shut it down, there was a number

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of layers of government in order to do that.

Speaker 6 (20:35):
So rather than.

Speaker 7 (20:36):
Having to go through Commissioner's Court, what they did was
they're kind of allowing the local city that's going to
be there, that's kind of part of that spaceport down there,
to be able to manage that particular aspect. So it's
very restricted to a very very small area. You know,
it's temporary, and it's really in the interest of public safety.

(20:59):
So Elon's not trying to shut down.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Your beat, No, it's not.

Speaker 7 (21:03):
That's that's the thing that So I'm involved with the
group called Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Association, not sure how
familiar are with them, or a national group that really
focuses on access to public land to hunt and fish.
And it's not just in Texas because you know, as

(21:24):
we all know, Texas has made up primarily a private land,
but it's really national. So if you've been to Colorado, Utah.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
New Mexico.

Speaker 7 (21:34):
These are areas that continue to see pressure from private
individuals trying to shut us down and have access. We're
seeing a lot of it in Texas because we have
great river access, but you have to walk across private
land to get there, So more and more fences are
going up, more and more gates are restricting your access

(21:54):
to it. So when you see those particular things, you
know what organization and do the listeners align themselves with?
Who do you go to? So Backcountry Hunters and Anglers
is that nonprofit five oh one C three that's actually
out there paying attention to all these legislative things that
are passing. And so we've really paid attention to a
lot of things that are happening in Texas, whether it's

(22:17):
laws that are being passed for CDWD on the deer,
the chronic waste disease, you know, bills that help support
re establish oyster populations in Texas, you know, and really
kind of focus on science as the potential reasons to
make law changes, not because somebody needs something from whether

(22:38):
it's a private industry group or so on. And I'm
encouraging everybody look into back country hunters and anglers.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
It's a great organization.

Speaker 7 (22:47):
It's worth paying attention to because it's really a small
a small group of people that are really representing a
lot of the things that we all love and do.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
So, yeah, access is we have a lot this country
of ours. We have plenty of resources to go around.
There's a lot of a lot of good opportunity out there. However,
if somebody owns private land between the road and the
public land, you got to count on them to let

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you go through. And if they put up a fence,
if they put up a gate, if they put a
lock on a gate that used to be open, and
a lot of landowners coming in will buy that land,
they'll shut that access down and TikTok, the game's locked.
You can't come through here anymore. And there's really no
reason for it other than maybe a liability reason. And

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I think that scares the heck out of some landowner.
Big landowner typically has pretty deep pockets and they don't
want to get sued because some idiot went through there
after about six beers and tripped and broke his ankle.

Speaker 7 (23:51):
Yeah, so there's an area in North Texas called the cutoff.
Can actually look at that and that a lot of
boaters access to get to the water to either go
do some hunting off of a up of a waterway
and a fence went up. Wow, And so there's still
legal battles that are actually happy with that. Out of state,
there were two pieces of hunting property that met at

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a corner and hunters would cross over the corner over
two fences, think about two triangles that kind of come
from side to side, and they would they would cross over. Well,
the landowners on both sides said no, we don't want
you to do that. We don't want you crossing over
that particular gate. So they were limited access, so hunters
couldn't do it, and there was laws that had to

(24:38):
be looked at at a very very high level in
the court system that says you don't necessarily own the
airspace that goes over those particular areas. And it was
merely a way to cut off hunters from accessing product lands.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah, it wasn't anything about trespass. It was just about
about deterring hunters from hunting. And that that's where it
really starts. Bother me a whole lot. I'm one hundred
percent with you on that. I've seen some of that
stuff where these guys create the hunters who are trying
to access the public land create very innovative ways to
sidestep that technicality of crossing that fence and stay within

(25:16):
the law. And it's tough, it's really tough. But man,
if the hunt's good enough on the other side, let's
let's figure it out.

Speaker 7 (25:22):
That's right. And then most recently, what's happening right now
and legislative outside of Texas. On the national level, we've
got a bill of a budgeting bill that's being passed,
being proposed. Something got slipped in at the very very
last day for public lands to be sold to private

(25:42):
industry up in the Colorado, Utah or Colorado in that
particular area. And it wasn't a small piece of land
we're talking, I believe, and don't quote me on those. Yeah,
of course we'll go one hundred thousand acres.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, that's a pretty good chunk. Even in Texas, that
would be a legit a bit big ranch it is.

Speaker 7 (26:02):
And there was even you know, this is a Republican
sponsor bill. I'm not here at talk politics. Sure, there
was Republican in Colorado that voted no against this, and
so you know, we're thinking that we're here in Texas
or down in Houston. Why does that make a difference
to us. Well, guess what, there's some of us that
like to go up there and draw tags and actually
try to try to pursue an l or.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
I've done that.

Speaker 7 (26:24):
It's this is nash this is this is Yeah, this
isn't just belonging to the state. This belongs to all
of us. And to be able to sell it to
private land. Listen, we're not We're not inventing any more
land out there. Once it's gone, it's gone.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yep, I got it. I hate to do it to you, Brian,
but I gotta go. Man at the bottom, all right,
it's always a pleasure, my friend. Be careful out there,
all right. We got to take a little break here
on the way out. I will tell you all about
Shooter's corner by the way when we get back. Jimmy
West called during the previous break and told me what
he thought the fish was. I walked him back from it.

(26:58):
He came up the pretty good suggestion, had there been
some specific characteristics to this fight that weren't there though,
and he might have missed it, it might've hit a bumpy
spot or whatever, but he had. He was talking about
it maybe being a fish that I hadn't even thought
of yet. But there actually are some in this lake.

(27:19):
So I'll tell you that when we get back on
the way out Palmer Highway at twenty ninth Street in
Texas City. That shooter's corner owners nod body of mine,
Jerry TK He and his son Jay, two of the
best gunsmiths I know. They built amazing custom rifles and
they pretty much got anything and everything you could need
to make your shooting experience tomorrow better than what it

(27:40):
is today. Whether you're a hunter, a target shooter, a
competitive shooter, they've got it. It's period into story long guns, handguns, shotguns.
They've got plenty of ammo, even all the boutique calibers
covered there. They have got camo, they've got optics. I'm
kind of looking around the story as I go along.

(28:00):
I've got pre owned in new guns too. By the way,
there are a couple of my shotguns are still down
there waiting to find new homes. I hope somebody will
go down there. There's one in particular that probably didn't
have twenty rounds put through it. Maybe a box of
shells on a trap field somewhere because it just didn't
It didn't fit me well. And when a gun doesn't
fits you, well, you know how that goes. It's just

(28:20):
no fun to shoot it. Palmer Highway, twenty ninth Street.
A lot of fun to be had with the toys
you can buy there in Shooter's Corner, and if you
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dot com seven thirty eight. It is on Sports Talk
seven to ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening.

(28:42):
Certainly do appreciate it. I got some feedback from a
couple of trusted sources. As I mentioned, Jimmy West had
called and he at one point thought maybe it was
a grinnel. And if you don't know what a grinnel is,
it's a dinosaur. Basically, it's a dinosaur fish that still

(29:05):
lives and breathes and is fairly common in Texas, although
you wouldn't know it, and for whatever reasons, even in
lakes that have a pretty healthy population of grennel. Other
species I guess just tend to get to the baits
and the lures first. They've got a mouthful of teeth,
so don't try to lip one if you catch one.

(29:27):
And if you've never seen one, look it up and
as soon as you see it, you'll if you're sensitive
at all, you'll probably have nightmares about them. But they're
a very strong fish pound for pound. I think it'd
be kind of like I would. They've got the strength
of a redfish in the mouth of a flounder basically

(29:49):
with just but a much bigger mouth, and they will
tear up a lure. They will they will run and
thrash and fight like crazy. So we had to check
that one off of the list with Jimmy because this animal,
whatever it is, it maybe you know, maybe I'm hooking
up hippopotamus or something like that, and it's just walking away.

(30:13):
That's kind of what honest to good is. It's just
what it feels like. I set the hook, the rod
bows up, and if the only other thing that happens
beside doing that. Usually if you hook a mass or something,
you'll feel it move instantly and then it'll start thrashing
around and maybe jumping. These things just don't move. I said,

(30:34):
it'scott an email. It's gotten old email just a second ago,
I said, Man, it's like setting the hook on a
washing machine and then the washing machine just kind of
moves off. So he thinks, I think, and the overwhelming
majority of opinions are catfish, and so now I just

(30:56):
need to find out how big these darn catfish are.
And I'm gonna find out. By the way, the reference
that Rick Bise made to Jeremy Wade, if you don't
know who he is, he's the guy who hosted I
think it was called River Monsters or I don't know,
to Catch a Monster whatever. But he and his crew

(31:18):
flew all over the world trying to catch giants that
lurk in rivers all around the world, and some of
them have almost mythological significance in the communities where they're
found in these water bodies. And he's caught some really
big stuff. They're giant catfish down in South America that

(31:38):
grow six feet long, and in Asia too. He's just
monstrous catfish. Monstrous catfish. I don't think that's not what
I'm dealing with. Okay, it's not something that big, but
I am right now, I'm under gunned for the fight,
and I'm gonna go ahead. Like I said, I'm gonna
ramp up, not necessarily with heavy Roden reel, because it

(32:01):
just becomes burdensome to cast one all day long, but
I am gonna upgrade the lure size just to eliminate
bites from bass. And I'm gonna make sure that the
hooks are well. The hooks that are gonna be on
these lures are gonna be plenty strong, and I'll be
able to really put the hammer down on one of

(32:23):
these things and see if I can get it turned
to where it I can at least get just a picture,
just a brief, just a snapshot of that big, ugly
whiskered face coming out of the water. I can lift
one up there, I would. I would honestly guess that
most of the areas where I'm fishing, it's gonna be

(32:43):
virtually impossible for me to get this fish out of
the water to take a picture unless I actually get
in it. That's a long story about why that is, Dave.
What do you think it is, man, I don't know,
grinal No, Jimmy and I talked about that, those those grinnels.
They they fight three times harder than a bass, for sure,

(33:07):
but they do kind of they get moving when they
get hooked.

Speaker 8 (33:11):
Okay, what happened was we were we were fishing before
Lake Conrod was built up down the Trinity River and
on the try line, and we caught one. And you know,
I was probably like in third fourth grade, fifth grade
or something like that, and anyway, we were up we
caught it, and then we're like, oh man, so we

(33:31):
put it on ice to take it home. But then
it's like the meat is like turns to jelly.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Oh wow. Yeah, that's kind of creepy.

Speaker 8 (33:41):
In I know, I know, the old grintel fish, but yeah,
it does have teeth. And hey, no, I'm here at
eight thirty in uh eight thirty Marina, not Marina, but
at the boat Lone.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (33:56):
Man, I got about five people in my in my
fishing spot here, so I'm gonna sitting here.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Doing the report, right, yea, just make it. It's just good.
Pull up a chair. How you doing?

Speaker 3 (34:07):
You know?

Speaker 8 (34:08):
I know I'm gonna go throw some range cubes out
there and get back some prints, but I uh no,
oh dude, then I gotta go. At three thirty I
gotta go out to Palisade Circle out there. Uh, I
think we're going to get the house. I gotta meet
the realtory lady out there.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Man.

Speaker 8 (34:28):
It's nice, it's it's very, very nice. The front is
on one side of the Palisade Circle and then the backside.
It's gonna be in Late Levingston Heights or states.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
You know, you don't got to pull my tie.

Speaker 8 (34:43):
I feel like I gotta pull my tie. And anyway
there's uh, it's gonna be. If we can pull this off,
it'll be a miracle. And uh yeah, I'll tell you what.
When you go from the back of the property over there,
across the back.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Of the road, there's a boat launch in the park.

Speaker 8 (35:01):
You know, for the for the yeah, for the uh
and the uh. The dude that's the president of the
home association around there, he lives across the street. I
saw a red fox crawl across walk across the road.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
He said that he lives.

Speaker 8 (35:16):
She lives in the culvert over there and have some babies.
And the one got red. If we got red fox,
he said, Armadilla Popson's raccoons. Sure, I know we got
I've seen squarrels and I saw a rabbit out there,
so that's a pretty diverse. Oh and also in that

(35:37):
back right when you go back out of the fence, backer, Uh,
I got a picture of a uh, there's a deer
tracking there.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Yeah, so we got deer. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
So it's it's in the middle of.

Speaker 8 (35:50):
Well, you know what if it if it, if it
comes down, God bless us, and and hey, let me
do a God bless all our mothers out there and all.
And then I'll tell you what, because it wasn't for them,
we wouldn't be here or teach us how to act
and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
So isn't that the true?

Speaker 3 (36:10):
All right?

Speaker 8 (36:10):
Hey, God bless us, God keep us, God blessed.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Merd Thank you, Dave. I appreciate it, buddy. It's good
to hear from you always. Yes, sir, thank you, Uh
huh audios. All right, we got to take another break.
Holy cow, this hour is going quick. Frankie Man oh Man,
Timber Creek Golf Club down on FF twenty three fifty
one in friends would twenty seven holes, So that means
they can get out twice as many people with tea

(36:33):
times and just kind of rotate them through. And I've
been rotating myself through there well since it opened basically
back in long long ago, back when they opened up
and I went down there with Eddie Cefko to review
the place. We played eighteen holes, came back in, sitting around,
looked at each other, let's go get the other nine,

(36:56):
and we got all of that done in one day,
and then kept going back because it's such a fun
place to play. It's not gonna beat you up. It's
not a terribly it's not a it's a challenging course
for any of us, but it's not gonna make you
feel bad about yourself at the end of the round.
Not gonna beat you up. You're gonna get through there
with most of the golf balls you started with. You're

(37:17):
gonna have some good putts, some good rolls on the greens.
And if you're not satisfied with the way your game is,
you can always go over and knock on the door
of JJ Woods and his staff at that little Timber
Creek Golf Club Academy just adjacent to the range. Good food,
good people, great place to play golf, about two three
miles west of the Golf Freeway. They're in friends with

(37:39):
on FM twenty three fifty one. You make tea time
right now if you want to. Timbercreekgolf Club dot com.
Timber Creek Golf Club dot com. Seven fifty one on
Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show, Thank you for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. Glad to have you board. Captain
Scott Wade in and I missed the start of this
conversation about the big fish that I've not yet seen.

(38:04):
Maybe just maybe because it is a golf course lake
after all, maybe it's the golf ball retriever guy. No, Scott,
although it does feel about that size. But no bubbles,
not seeing any bubbles. Yeah, that's kind of funny. This

(38:28):
past Monday, I play out there on my day off,
usually with a bunch of guys, a bunch of retired
guys who play at least three times a week, if
not seven, and if there was an eighth day in
the week, they play on that one. And there was
actually a golf ball retriever guy there in a lake

(38:49):
next to what green was it? I think next to
five green maybe, And one of the guys was over
there looking for his ball along the edge, and just
out of nowhere, this diver pops up to take a
breath with a storkle like a man of tea came

(39:09):
up and it just hitscared my buddy so bad. I
thought somebody was going in the water for sure, and
he was just beside himself. He was just so taken
aback by it. It's crazy. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Scott. A big reminder, as it was mentioned just a
few minutes ago Dave first to bring it up. I
was gonna hit it a little later in the program.
But tomorrow's Mother's Day, and if you got one, do
something nice for And if your mom's not around anymore,
then just pause during your day at some point and

(39:50):
just remember who got you into this world and got
you where you are today. If you're in a good
spot and your mom's partly responsible for that, which almost
that's almost redundant. Yeah, just make sure somehow, some way
that mom knows you cared and you appreciated what she did.

(40:10):
My mom put up with so much stuff. In hindsight,
because I was a very active, busy outside kid, and
all the little boys on my block were over in Sharpstown,
and we were always into everything. Came home almost I'd
bet twice a week with either a skinned knee, a

(40:31):
skinned elbow or both. Road rash, just tearing ourselves up,
little layers of skin left all over southwest Houston, and
we did that. We jumped off the roof, thinking that
was a big deal. In hindsight, it kind of was.
When you're five, six, seven, eight years old and jumping

(40:53):
off the roof. It had to have been before I
was eleven, because we moved briefly. We moved to Metor,
Louisiana for four years. My dad got transferred over there
for a little while, and then we moved back after that.
But yeah, we'd bring home frogs and honey bees in
a jar and all kinds of We did it all outside,

(41:13):
and bear in mind, most of this was done pre
insect repellent too. We got dirty, we got bit We
ant bites all over the place. I was wrestling with
a kid when I was probably six seven years old,
and we rolled down this little embankment in one of
the neighbor's yards on the corner had a little bit

(41:34):
of an elevated lot. Somehow, I don't know how that happened.
But there was a giant ant bed on the side
of it, and the two of us rolled through it.
And if you know fire ants, you know that when
there's a bunch of them wanting to take care of somebody,
they all stay very silent, and they tiptoe all over
your body until every one of them is in just
the right place, and then they all bite you at once.

(41:56):
You ever had a bad incident with fire ants, ranky?
I've had a few. I uh, yeah, yeah, you don't
want it to I'm sorry I brought it up. Yeah,
these are coming back flashbacks. Oh man, it's like PTSD,
a much more minor scale. But nonetheless, nobody wants to

(42:17):
remember that. Holy cow, they hurt. Oh my gosh, we're
almost to the first hour. I can't believe it. Man,
this is awesome. I'll stay on Mother's Day. What do
you got special plans for tomorrow or no?

Speaker 9 (42:27):
Yes, I'm gonna be doing something with uh, you know
all our extended families out around here, So we're going
to be doing something tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Okay, this is so it's not cookout.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Or is it?

Speaker 10 (42:39):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (42:39):
I think we're gonna go out. We all like Indian food.
Oh wow, okaying like that. So so that's Mom's treat, Yeah, outstanding.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Man.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
So what I'm not familiar with a menu in an
Indian restaurant? What would I be looking at?

Speaker 9 (42:54):
Oh man, you'd be looking at Uh? Well, chicken tika
masala is a really good one. Okay, to be just
your general.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
It's like a curry, good, hearty, nice stuff.

Speaker 9 (43:07):
Uh uh, this robust flavor, a good descriptions, would be good.
If you like a little bit of spice, then a
little bit, yeah, I like.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
A little bit. Yeah, I'm too old for a lot
of bit.

Speaker 9 (43:20):
Well it's not it's not too bad. And then uh
socc paneer is a good one. It's a spinach and
it's got little like it's a goat cheese in it.
It sounds a little crazy, but it's very good.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
I'll take your word for it. What else, All right,
let's let's pause, let me get this break. You grab Aaron,
put him on hold, and I'm gonna get this break
going and we'll be back with more of the Doug
Pike Show. On the way out, El Cubano Cigars. I
don't know if mom smokes cigars or not, but she does,
and there are more and more courting and Manny Lopez
are more and more women coming into his smoking lounges.

(43:55):
There's one in Texas City and one in League City
down there south of town. Very it's a very homey atmosphere.
It's very old school Cuban atmosphere, probably because Many Lopez
is Cuban. He and his dad came over here. They
worked in cigar factories in Cuba, both of them did,
and he and his dad came over here and started

(44:16):
Elcubano Cigars many many, many years ago. They are hand rolled.
There are manufacturing facility as well, not just smoking lounges.
There's tons of those around town. But there are only
about four dozen manufacturing facilities in the whole country, and
El Cubano Cigars is one of them. And one of
the advantages if you get down there and learn where

(44:39):
he is, or just get online, you can order your
cigars directly from the manufacturer. There aren't one or two
middle men in there somewhere who got to get a
little something something for themselves. Many Lopez El Cubano Cigars.
He makes more than one hundred and fifty different varieties.
He and the people who roll with him. Actually very

(45:00):
good at what they do. Manny'll even come out and
this is his busy time of year with charity events,
with golf tournaments and corporate building events, where he'll go
out there and set up a little table, put a
little awning over it, and then actually hand roll cigars
right there in front of your guests. And if you're
looking for something really special to take care of a client,

(45:22):
or maybe something to show off and brag a little
bit about your company, ask him to do a custom band.
He did custom bands on cigars for us over here
at iHeart and they look really snappy. You've got a
big client you want to take care of who likes cigars,
get him a box of cigars or her for Mother's Day.
May be a little bit late for that, but you

(45:42):
know what I mean. El Kubano Cigars dot com. Very simple.
You can find his phone number there by the way,
and you just call Manny and say, hey, I need
two dozen of these, or I need a box of
those or whatever, and he'll take good care of you.
He's taking care of everybody I've sending his way so far.
Elcubanocigars dot Com Elcubanosigars dot com.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
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Speaker 2 (46:23):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, second hour starts right now.
Thanks for listening, serving you appreciate it all. Buddy, Greg
Burlocker sent a video that I can't see just yet.
I've got I'm gonna I may have to wait until
I get back over to my desk, uh, my real
desk with my real connections and whatnot. But I'm trying.

(46:44):
I'll make another attempt during the break. The subject line
just says both in during the spawn, I kind of
like the idea of that. Can't wait to see what
that is? Who knows? Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at I heart media
dot com. Thanks to Aaron for hanging on. Let's get
him on. What's up?

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Erin?

Speaker 4 (47:05):
Hey, good morning?

Speaker 11 (47:06):
Does good morning turned on when I got my truck
head into work?

Speaker 2 (47:10):
Anyway?

Speaker 11 (47:11):
I want to say, real quick or a surfing buddy
of mine Trinidad A Roscoe passed away in a motorcycle accident.
He looks back and we're having a paddle at bay
at surf side at like six p m.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
Okay, but yeah, I'm sorry to hear that, man.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
But uh, he was.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
He was like a surf side local. He was Freeport,
he lived down there. But yeah, he was a good dude.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
He was the guy you called to see if the
surf was worth driving down for.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
I never I was never that good of friends with him.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Okay, all right, that's all right.

Speaker 11 (47:51):
I was calling about the fire ants and I got
because in Richmond, my pint has five acres horse big house. Yeah,
and I'm working in the front yard lawn somewhere, big lawn,
and all of a sudden, I just my whole legs
on fire. And they do exactly what you say, they
get all.

Speaker 12 (48:11):
They were all the way up my leg to.

Speaker 4 (48:15):
Underwear and I was across our yard.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 11 (48:23):
Yeah, that was straight to the water hose.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
And I'm not laughing at you, man, I'm laughing with
you because I've been wherever you can go with fire ants.
I've been there. Oh my god, I hate them.

Speaker 11 (48:39):
All right, well I'm going to Shipley's fucking Shipley's one
of your sponsors.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
They used to be, yeah, until Lawrence sold the company.
Then the company that bought them, they just decided they
had a better plan. So more power to them, Yeah,
I guess so. All right, all right, yeah, thank you.
I appreciate you asking about it.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Man.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
The weather is eat today.

Speaker 13 (49:02):
I know.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
I got to get out of here.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
I'm stuck in a hole. I'll be outside as soon
as I can get there. Thank you, Aaron. It's good
to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Man.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Great, all right, ideos let's go talk to Tony. See
what's on his mind, Tony Box, what's going on?

Speaker 10 (49:16):
Man?

Speaker 4 (49:17):
Well, let's show time day for us. Yep.

Speaker 14 (49:21):
And we've already we've all already unloaded three truckloads and
stuff over there, and the guys are dead at it.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
In fact, I was fixing to go by your former sponsors. Yeah, yeah,
they should listen.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
We all eat there, no kidding, man, no kidd Wait.

Speaker 14 (49:38):
We're gonna open up the doors four o'clock and this
is probably the best auction lineup we've ever had. Good
for you, Well, it's exciting the fact that we have
got some really quality items for hunts and merchandise, a
blevy of weapons to choose from, and other items will
work somebody's time if they want spend about four hours

(50:00):
with It's the CV from four o'clock.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
To I done.

Speaker 6 (50:03):
So.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
I like the way you started early too, and we
talked about that a little while ago. A lot of
the the standard operating procedure for banquets is they open
the doors about six, they sit you down for dinner
at about seven, and then they talk and talk and
talk and do everything they gotta do to promote the cause,
and then at about ten thirty or eleven you look
up and go, God, I gotta get home.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Now.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
We're gonna do that.

Speaker 14 (50:27):
We're gonna run this critical path method. I'm opening at four,
We'll serve beverages four h two, dinner's at five thirty.
Auction starts as six thirty sharp. We've got thirty items.
We're gonna run through the list. We've got a few
things we can sell multiples of, like the fishing trip
to my place.

Speaker 4 (50:44):
Right if you've got you know, if there's.

Speaker 14 (50:46):
More than one group wants to buy that, we'll honor
that and take them at a separate time, or if
they want to enjoin us. Like I said, I've got
my former NBA player that will be the cook nice
on the grill.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
Oh, he's six foot nine and he's about a happy
of men as you everyone meet.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Kids.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
He just just can't get enough of kids.

Speaker 14 (51:05):
And we're gonna take them up pond fishing where they
can grab a bunch of minutes, you know, bring their gear,
take them to town the five minutes.

Speaker 4 (51:11):
We'll let him explore, get four red bugs and ticks
and get get a good can.

Speaker 14 (51:18):
We've got some other trips like the black Bear or
Cougar Hunt, Idaho where she just took a terrific I
think I sent you the picture of the chocolate bear
they took.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
No, I didn't see that.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
I'll have to get that back. Yeah, please you find that.
If you find that older guy that used to write
books and he wants to come, bring him on. I've
got to play, all right. But if like I said,
we're gonna be at.

Speaker 14 (51:44):
The Chateau Christal there on Southwestern there by west Timer,
yeah and doors, or I've got about thirty seats left.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
And that's it.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Okay, how can they get one of those seats Tony.

Speaker 14 (51:56):
Uh, they can walk up and pay for it there,
do it lying because I won't get the acknowledgment.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Yeah, that's a good point. It's a little bit late
for that.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
Little little Yeah, I had it that.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
You know.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
I can write you a check, I said, I will
take checks after Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Yeah, just roll up with a handful of money.

Speaker 14 (52:11):
Well, Carb, we'll run the machine right now. Oh yeah,
we got burned one year on taking a late check.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Really yeah, don't tell me who because that would be unfair.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
But no, no, no, no, And it was with it
was with barbecue cookofs.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (52:27):
If we had a guy cook us for five thousand
dollars and he had all kinds of excuses why he didn't,
it wasn't good.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
I'll be.

Speaker 14 (52:35):
This is for you do remember we don't get to
keep This is fundraising, uh, Park And let me tell
you guys this. We go to work next week in Washington,
d C. As a lobbyist, and what we're working for
right now is to bring lead shot back for waterfowl
because there's not been a correct scientific study as to
why we should be using anything butt let. And I'm
going to approach several congressional members about that on Thursday

(52:59):
and Friday next week in Washington, d C.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
So that's fny for all, right, Tony Box, much obliged,
my friend.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
I hope you.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
You couldn't have asked for better weather for this thing.
Even though a lot of people are probably gonna kind
of be looking around smiling and saying, you know, I
could be bass fishing right now. Well they could be,
they could be, but they're gonna be doing something for
a better cause.

Speaker 4 (53:21):
For the follow On October fourth, we're gonna do a
shrimp ball.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Oh yeah, that sounds good too, man. Let me know
about that one. Where are you gonna do that?

Speaker 14 (53:29):
Well, that will be at the tasting room on Middle
Highlight Drive at the Houston Distributors.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Oh wow, okay, yeah, a bad place.

Speaker 14 (53:39):
There will be nothing but country music with beer drinking
influence and Cajun music played at that. Holy all we're
going to do there is raffles.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
We will not do an auction.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
Okay, all right, sounds good to me, Tony.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
Maybe I'll see you and the young man and that
old guy just said I'll.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Be able to roll over there for that. That'd be
pretty good. What is the website they should go to
to out more about you guys.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
Sci Houston dot org.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Let's see I Houston dot org Conybox. Thanks man, you
couldn't have picked a better today to have your event.
I'm so happy for you. All right, click that there's Greg.
Oh Greg, maybe I think I might have gotten a

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second issue of this picture. It's gonna be oh yeah, yeah,
that's a nice one, all right. I don't know how
he snapped that out of there, but there it is. Grinnel.
Grinnel get when Jimmy and I were talking earlier, they
get six seven eight pounds and the ones that I've
caught years ago, I haven't caught one in a while.

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My son caught one where I'm fishing now and not now,
you know what I mean, where I've been fishing most recently,
and he and I both thought it was a much
bigger bath than it turned out to be. Grinnel. But
they are are just They're just muscles and teeth, that's all.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
They are.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
Kind of a they almost look like an eel. They
don't have really distinct fat bodies. It's more of a
catfish looking body with a flounder flounder teeth in a yeah,
in a catfish smile, the catfish shape, mouth, flounder teeth,

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and then the body is kind of like a catfish too,
just big, long, skinny looking things. I haven't seen. I
haven't seen a big enough one to know if they
get much fatter, I'm not really sure. Let me go
get Oh gosh, David, hold on, I want to hear
your story, I really really do, because that's man, It's
gonna send chills up somebody's spine.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
You know that. On the way out.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Need you go through the break and I'll get you
first when we get back. American Shooting Centers, Boy, you
talk about a good day to go shoot light north wind,
You got a beautiful clear sky, be a great day.
I can just about guarantee you there are people out
there on that six hundred yard range at American Shooting
Centers right now taking advantage of the weather and lobbing

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some lead way down range. American Shooting Centers out there
on West Timber Parkway between Katie and Highway six been
there for the better part of I'd say thirty years.
I'm not sure exactly how long. Over the last eight
or ten years, ed Riggi has operated the place and
done so in grand fashion. He is a big Sporting
Clays guy, which is why they have three Sporting Clays

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courses at American Shooting Centers. Every one of those shooting
stations a little bit different than the others. It will
really challenge you as a shotgunner, and if you can
get good on those ranges, you'll light them up next
September when the dove season starts. Rifle and pistol from
five yards out to six hundred yards. Like I said,

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they've also got plenty of five stands setups around the place.
They've got ten trap in skeet fields, beginners areas, and
instruction and every shooting discipline you can get better at
it and better at it so you enjoy it all
the more. American Shootingcenters dot Com is a website. Go there,
check it out, and then get outside it and see

(57:12):
for yourself what a good fun experience the shooting sports
can be. American Shooting Centers dot Com. All right, welcome
back eight nineteen on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show.
Thank you for listening. I really do appreciate it. Well,
let's get back where we started from, and I'm gonna
go straight to David. He's been holding the longest thing.
I'll catch up with Brandon David. What's up, buddy, Yeah, dereg.

Speaker 5 (57:33):
I want to call you your fire ants and raise
you yellowjackets.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Oh man, I forgot about them.

Speaker 5 (57:40):
Go ahead they You know, fire ants you can typically
see their mouths. Yellowjackets, you don't know that you've gotten
in them until they, like you say, they attack in unison, Yes,
they do, and typically out of a hole in the
ground that you just walk over, step on, or hit it,
hit it with the mower. My worst experience as live
as a team, you're hit one with a mower and

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you look down and they're just all over your leg,
you know, Oh my gosh, and they.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
My first memory of yellow jackets, and I've talked about
this before, was when I was a little kid. We
had big lagustrooms along the back fence in the backyard
and I was playing catch with somebody in the backyard
and the ball got up in the bushes and I
just went running in there, just dove in like I'm
eight years old. I'm going in and I reached down,
I grabbed the ball and I look up and right

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off my nose is a nest of yellow jackets right there,
and they all just went and jumped on my face,
like oh god. It hurt for months. The most recent
and it's been a while, but probably seven or eight
years ago. I reached in the mailbox. We got one
of those community mailboxes where there's twenty boxes there, little
silver boxes, and I reached them out. You getting a wreck?

(59:00):
You all right?

Speaker 3 (59:00):
David?

Speaker 2 (59:03):
David, David, David, are you there?

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Dang?

Speaker 2 (59:11):
That didn't sound good, David. Call me back, man, I
can't hear you anymore. Okay, let's yeah, let's do that.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
Francky not sure what's going on there, Call me back, David.
Let me know you're okay man. That kind of spooky.

Speaker 9 (59:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Let me go to Brandon. Well my very quickly the
yellow jacket in the mailbox. I reached in there to
get the mail out and got snapped just right, smacking
the tip of my index finger. And that hurt too. Brandon,
what's up, buddy, I'm okay good.

Speaker 6 (59:44):
I heard telling the story.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Yeah, okay, I hope.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
So yeah, it's I think it just was wind noise
or something. We'll find out. We'll figure it out. So
what's up with you?

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Buddy be a car.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Yeah, I think he's okay. So what's going on, Brandon?

Speaker 6 (01:00:03):
Okay, did you watch the answers game?

Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
I did.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
I was glad to see him win two three three
nothing or three three nothing or three one? I think
it's three nothing. Yeah, that's good. There's the Bats are
finally heating up a little bit. I would much rather
see them score six than three, but that's still good.
And as long as they get to win. I really
don't care how they do it.

Speaker 6 (01:00:26):
I think David is okay. I think he I think
he hit somebody.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
No, I don't think so. It didn't sound like that.

Speaker 7 (01:00:33):
I think nobody hit him.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Nah, I just that's just win noise for some reason.
We'll be all right.

Speaker 6 (01:00:42):
Hey, Just do want you to know he will call you.
He'd call you guys back.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Sure, sure, Sure?

Speaker 6 (01:00:49):
Anything else going on, Brando, I'm going to the ass game.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Oh good for you, very good for you, very good
for you.

Speaker 6 (01:00:59):
Well, look, you you you haven't heard of Dan?

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
Have you heard of what?

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
He was on the weekend show? When you guys on
at ten?

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
Are you talking about Dan Matthews? Yeah, of course I
know him.

Speaker 6 (01:01:17):
He was at the Weekend Show.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
I know yeah, he would come walking in here right
as I was walking out. Yeah, I've known him since
he started here.

Speaker 6 (01:01:28):
He's going to be coming to the doing pre gaming
post game.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Yep. He's a good one for it. He's done a
lot of them, done a lot of them.

Speaker 6 (01:01:40):
I did you listen to the eighteen?

Speaker 13 (01:01:46):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
I didn't. Yesterday.

Speaker 6 (01:01:49):
We're losing somebody. We just want somebody who.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Pardon we lost for as Oh okay, okay, yeah, yeah
that's too bad. Hey, Brendo, I gotta go. I need
to go check in with doctor George here.

Speaker 6 (01:02:10):
And this what you know? He Dave should be calling
you back.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
Okay, good, Yeah, I hope so, I hope he does.
All right, partner, I gotta run. I'll see you later.

Speaker 6 (01:02:21):
Have a good weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
Okay, you too. Make sure you take care of your
mom tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (01:02:26):
Hey, tell your mom happy to day.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
Okay, Well, thank you, Brandon, I'll see you buddy. Audios.
All right, let's get to George. What's up, George?

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
Good morning?

Speaker 12 (01:02:39):
So Hey, Doug, gathering gathering the cattle out in the pasture,
you know, and you have six or eight hundred thousand
acres and six you know, half a dozen on horseback
and you get around him and you push him up
to catch pins and then you know, you just do
whatever backsnate war them and whatever. And so sometimes in
some of that thick country down there by the river,
you have to make two or three passes to get everything.

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So I was on a pretty solid horse and a
couple of cows get away from me, so I get
off the beaten path and to push him back with
the herd, and my horse starts jumping around, says, what
the heck is wrong with you? And not two seconds
later I figured it out. We've been going the same

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way every way, and so that scares everything off. Hogs
will jump up in front of you. But when I
got off the beaten path, I got into it. Wow, man,
get your attention. Yeah, I'll say, oh man, one thing
that you got to keep in mind with any of
those biting insects is if there's enough of them. I mean,

(01:03:44):
there was a rancher out there, so I'll shoot to
say fifteen twenty years ago back in the Killer be Scare.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
Yeah he was.

Speaker 12 (01:03:51):
He was bush hogging and got into the nest of
them and before they could get to him, they stunt
him to death.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
So yeah, they're quick.

Speaker 12 (01:04:00):
There's Yeah, if there's enough of them, you can experience
an immediate reaction animal axis, and yeah, it'll get you.
So we're good friends.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Right, Yeah, sure, you set me up for something.

Speaker 6 (01:04:15):
Yes, I am so.

Speaker 12 (01:04:17):
All them hornets all over your faces, that's what's happened
to you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
H So you're thinking that's why I'm on radio. Huh yeah, fringe,
God dang, all right, Doc, I'm gonna let you go
on that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
Thanks, buddy, I don't blame you, let me go.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
Yeah, I can laugh at myself. It's I make it
really easy. Oh yeah, let me get Let me get John,
and I'm gonna try to get to David. David's called back, man,
I want to get to him. What's up, John?

Speaker 15 (01:04:52):
Well, you're talking to an outdoor show and outdoor audience.
So everybody's got a insect by that destroyed.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
Only got it unusual. I've never been stung. I've never
heard that.

Speaker 16 (01:05:05):
Yeah, so the previous guy just sort of stole my thunder.

Speaker 15 (01:05:09):
I was on a tractor, uh shredding some trails around
a place where I maintain and uh has a bucket
on the tractor, and I went by a tree that's
leaning over the trail.

Speaker 16 (01:05:22):
That looks, you know, like that's going to go over
the trail.

Speaker 15 (01:05:25):
So I just get up on the bucket and start
pushing the tree the other way and knock it down.
And it didn't move the first time. So I got
around the other side with the tractor and push on it.

Speaker 16 (01:05:35):
And I notice there's a big hole in the tree.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
What could that be?

Speaker 16 (01:05:42):
And I turned around and come the other way. I
got to give it one more push and all of
a sudden, you know, my head's on fire.

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
How they go?

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
And oh my god?

Speaker 15 (01:05:52):
And the bad part of the fortunate part is, you
know you're not thinking this is this is scared?

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Have ever been?

Speaker 15 (01:06:01):
I just jump off that tractor and the safety seat
I had just bought the tractor second hand, and the
little safety switch in the seat had been disengaged.

Speaker 16 (01:06:11):
So it's still running with a shredder on.

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
And that's how people die.

Speaker 15 (01:06:16):
That's how farmers die, you know, they get under a
track and farm equipment.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Is is dangerous stuff.

Speaker 15 (01:06:22):
It is, okay, And and I'm really fortunate that somehow
I disengaged something as I jumped up and ran and
they're following me, and I'm like three hundred yards from
the house and running home because and they chased me
for about one hundred yards. And I get home and
I'm screaming, just scared as I've ever been. It's just frightening.

(01:06:45):
And I get in the house. I'm screaming at my
wife because I'm I'm fearing. What the guy just described
is I'm going to go into shop. Yeah, and I said,
get some bangery, get some something, get some whatever, and
and and long and short of it, I turned out fine.
My name my other neighbor sort of was came over,

(01:07:05):
so here's what you do. And she starts picking stingers
out of my my head.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
Yeah, that pulled.

Speaker 15 (01:07:12):
And when I researched this, they said, so I think
they were probably Africanized bees.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Yeah, it sounds like it.

Speaker 15 (01:07:18):
They they will follow you a long way, and somehow
they know to attack the face and head and whatever.

Speaker 16 (01:07:26):
They don't they don't go after your arms. They know
to go after your eyes. And know I had them
in my ears.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
I had him.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Yeah, I'll swear your face up.

Speaker 16 (01:07:35):
Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, I have the same
problem you do. So I, you know, have that face
for radio.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Stop it. Good God, no, we're not gonna let this happen.
I gotta go all right by later, all right, before
we go to break, I'm gonna get to David. David,
what happened?

Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
Man, Yeah, real quickly, dug too much technology. I like
to listen to you in my earbud. Turned the I
disconnected the ear but I was talking to you on
my phone for quality purposes, and I'd walked away from
the bench where I left the ear bud. Anyway, for
some reason, my phone went back to the earbud. Oh wow,

(01:08:14):
I apologize.

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
If you'd have heard it, if you had heard on
air and what we heard, you would have you would
have been worried too, man like, oh my gosh, it
sounded like screeching tires. And then you're gone. Oh great, Well, I.

Speaker 5 (01:08:32):
Thought again, maybe we need to leave all the technology
at home.

Speaker 17 (01:08:35):
Doug.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
Yeah, yeah, just just.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
Get everybody who wants to talk to me, just come
and meet in the studio at about seven o'clock and
we'll go. Man. I'm glad you're okay, buddy, Thank you,
all right, thank you. I'll see you earbuds. You know
I've done that. I'll be sitting upstairs and or wherever
and wanting to listen to stuff in a place where

(01:08:58):
it needs to be quiet. So I'll put there buds
in and I get a I'll get a call from
my wife, and I'll I'll instinctively take the phone and
take the earbud out and put the phone up to
the empty ear and of course there's nothing coming through there,
and I'm going, are you there?

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Hello?

Speaker 13 (01:09:18):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
And I yeah, I just feel like a fool. I
haven't done that in a while, but I did it
for a little while. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. We're gonna take a little break now
when we get back. More interesting. Well, if you've got
bug stories, I'd love to hear them, and so far
the list can include up to and including and however
far you got to go to tell a funny story, ants, chiggers, ticks,

(01:09:43):
yellow jackets. We haven't had a bumblebee story yet, but
I know about one of those. And actually Captain Scott,
I know that he had an encounter with Africanized bees
not around here, thank goodness. Uh, but maybe he'll share
that story too, if he's still listening and has a
minute to take his hands off his cameras. Black Horse

(01:10:05):
Golf Club, two ninety Fry Road, Hang a south. About
three miles down the road, you'll start seeing golf course.
Then you'll see the gate. Pull into the gate. That's
a west turn. Whichever way you're going from Katie or
from two ninety, make a west, get in there. And
from that point forward, anybody you see wearing a name tag,
their entire purpose in life is just to make sure

(01:10:26):
you're happy and have a good time playing golf, up
to and including if you end up having to go
to the far end of the range, you get some
instruction because your golf game stinks. I'm making progress with mine,
I really am, and I'm hoping I'm going to play
well on Monday with some friends that I'm going to
play with. But if you're having trouble with it, black
Horse is a great place.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
The south course has been taken private. They did that
at the start of the year because there was a
lot of requests for that, a lot of the members
up there who wanted that type of an experience in golf,
so they did that. The North course, which is fun.
I spray the ball a little bit, so I kind
of like it a little more. It's a little more open,
a little more forgiving than the South, but both courses

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are fantastic and if you can do that membership option,
there actually is one option that you can get that
also gets you access to tea times at Blackhawk and
at Golf Club of Houston's two courses, and of course
at the North Course at black Horse. It's a little
bit confusing, but the bottom line is you get access
to five golf courses, five really good golf courses, just

(01:11:32):
for that one little fee. Black Horse Golf Club dot
com is a website. You can make a tea time there,
you can find out about membership options, you can find
out who to talk to about throwing a big tournament
to raise a lot of money. They're good at all
of that at black Horse Golf Club GM Craig Hicks.
He makes sure that everything goes smoothly up there, and

(01:11:52):
he was so excited to talk about that membership option
for the South course, and the last time I talked it,
it's even more exciting. Corse Golf Club dot com. A
thirty seven on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show,
Matt Skadden wide in by text and there's a couple
of more texts I have to get to But matt
waded into the grass to find a golf ball, probably
the one time he missed a fair way at his

(01:12:14):
entire life and got stung by two red wasps. I
just sent back, Man, You're lucky to be alive. Those
things are so horrible. Let me get to Matthew. Then
I'll go to Scott. Matthew, what's up my friend?

Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
Hey Doug, how you doing, budd? All right, I'm headed
out west and I'm wondering whether I need to just
go buy a bunch of old range balls because we
got to play toy times North and South two days
in a row.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Yeah, you need, you need to pick a bunch off
the bottom of a lake somewhere. You're you're gonna lose
some golf balls. Don't don't go stack up on fifty
dollars a dozen golf balls. Just get get some that
you You know, man, I wish you lived close to me.
I'd give you a bucket full. I had the same
experience when I got to play down in Hawaii. The
first place I played was Princeville, and this the pro

(01:13:04):
came out and he said, hey, you know, y'all might
want to go. He had just this giant bushel basket
of old beater golf balls. Y'all might want to grab
some of these, and every one of us as stubborn
and egotistical and stupid as we were, and now we're good.
And then we came through it to turn and he
came back out. Any takers now, and everybody just went

(01:13:27):
preaching in the bucket. It was so embarrassing. He just laughed.

Speaker 5 (01:13:31):
One of my favorite jobs ever was driving picking up
rains fall sure in that part and when people would
aim for you, oh yeah, that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Was all right, Yeah, I would. I would recommend, you know,
go to one of the stores and just buy yourself
a bag of those reloads, because they're not horrible and
you won't feel nearly so bad if if you lose
a dollar golf ball, then if you lose five hour
golf balls.

Speaker 5 (01:14:05):
At least the weather's gonna be perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Oh good for you. So you basically you just called
to brag, didn't you.

Speaker 5 (01:14:14):
It might be a little foggy in the morning, but
nobody afternoon and it's gonna be perfect.

Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
There's no bugs, all.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
Right, Matthew, Yeah, nobody, nobody wants to hear any more.

Speaker 4 (01:14:25):
Of this man.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
Congratulations, seriously, congratulations. I know you're gonna have a good trip.
That's a fun place to be. Man, all right, good luck.
Let me know how it turns out.

Speaker 5 (01:14:38):
I'm gonna if I break a hungrd, I'll let you know.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Yeah, do that, all right, man, see you all Okay,
people are telling me I got a face for radio.

Speaker 6 (01:14:46):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
They're bragging about going and playing Tory Pines, Cap Scott.
Let's tell that story.

Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
Man, Man, I really think that you got a frog
man out there.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
Well, I told you if I do. After setting up
on him four times, he's got away two fifty because
he's not moving.

Speaker 4 (01:15:09):
They got those three breathers.

Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
They don't like bubbles.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
Oh my gosh, don't even tell me that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
I also got to consider the alligator thing a little bit.
I mean it's not an alligator, okay, but one of
those kids who works out there was fishing a pond
a few miles away. I'll just leave it at that,
and reached down to pick up about a one pounder
and about a six foot alligator came out and and
said you can have the fish. I'm gonna take your forearm.

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And he's walking around all bandages up. We got ten
stitches from that darn little thing. That scared him a
little bit. Huh yeah, just a little bit. So tell
me your b story.

Speaker 13 (01:15:46):
Oh, me and Jeff Herman were going down to Bellies
on a trip for.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
A magazine, one of my favorite places, and it was.

Speaker 13 (01:15:55):
A paddling trip, and so they put us in pegus
and they'd run us way ahead. We're supposed to go
out flass fishing, but it was blowing nine hundred miles
an hour as usual, was like milk.

Speaker 3 (01:16:05):
So we went snooking, talking fishing, baby tarping.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
Sweet.

Speaker 13 (01:16:09):
So they they put us with this guy who knew
the backwaters like the back of his hand. And I mean,
this dude, we're Bellies River Lodge.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
And we went an hour and a half, two hours
into the into the trees, way beyond everglades stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
Waiting to hear a banjo crank up. Weren't you?

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
I mean we were looking for mayans.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, back there.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
And we went down this.

Speaker 13 (01:16:38):
Little canal and he said, there's a big lake at
the endo.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
It's got a bunch of baby.

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
Tarping in it.

Speaker 13 (01:16:43):
So we set up, we throw the kayaks in and
then he would hang back one hundred yards behind us,
and we would, you know, paddle along there and sure.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
Fetch fish and take pictures and do all that.

Speaker 13 (01:16:55):
We went through this little creep and had a palm
tree laying across it, and we eased around the end
of the palm tree.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
No problem.

Speaker 13 (01:17:03):
Well, he would bring the hang up, you know, catch
up with us every couple of hundred yards or so,
just every once in a while, keep him bothering us.
And we heard him coming up behind us, and then
all of a sudden we heard a thump and he
had hit that palm tree going over it. You know,
they do that and those pangas all the time. And

(01:17:24):
then we hear screaming and yelling and we look back
and he is.

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
Covered in bees that have come out of that man.
I'm talking, you look like smoke.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
It justn't get second to realize what it was. I
really thought that the engine had caught fire or something.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
And I get back to him and Jeff is paddling
up behind me, and we don't know what to do.
I'm hollering at the guy and he's still.

Speaker 13 (01:17:52):
Standing in the boat and he's just hitting those hitting
the bees you know when you one you've set off
a pheromone and the rest of them follow that.

Speaker 4 (01:17:59):
Yeah to whatever.

Speaker 13 (01:18:01):
You know, it's danger it and so fine, I'm yell
and turn that motor off, turn the motor off, and
jump in. So he turns the motor off, runs to
the ballot boat, dives in and we can't find him.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
It's not scary.

Speaker 13 (01:18:14):
He's gone in down a flack of shot. You know,
he's underwater. I don't know what the hell to do.
So finally he pops up under the bank. And every
time that guy would pop up, those bees would attack
his head, and I mean it was it was like
a horror movie. And trying to get to him to

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pull him away, well, the bees start hitting me and
Jeff is Jeff's hooking him back up the river.

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
You know, he's paddling. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:18:45):
I turned around the paddle with Jeff, and I've been
hit I don't know, probably a dozen or more times
in the top of my head different places. Thank guy,
I knew not to kill them, yea, for whatever reason,
that clarity hit.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
Don't kill these things. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:18:59):
I just kept paddling until I got away from it
so I could think clearly what I needed to do
to get back. I get up there and Jeff tells me, who, man,
that was close. I said, Bablo's in trouble up there,
and I got hit a bunch. How many times you
hit it?

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
He says, you got hit? I said yeah. He goes, no,
I didn't get hit at all. It's a good thing
because I'm allergic.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
Ohh boy, wouldn't that have been a different ending?

Speaker 4 (01:19:23):
Oh my god?

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Like how allergic?

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
He goes like, like, I'll die allergic emptipen allergic? Oh
my god.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
I said, all right, well, so where's your EpiPen? Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:19:33):
All my police stuff just kind of came rolling back
and went back into that mode. Yeah, And I'm Paul
as can be, and I'm like, okay, where's your EpiPen?

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
In case you do get hit? I want to know. Yeah,
take it back to Pablo and goes it's in Houston.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
Go perfect spot for it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
Oh man.

Speaker 5 (01:19:51):
All story short.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
We ended up getting him out of there. I had
to go back in there two times before I could
get to him. Yeah, and got him.

Speaker 13 (01:19:59):
Got him to crawl down and he had climbed up
on the bank. I got him into the pengu and
don't don't turn the motor on.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
I tied it off. This pad away paddled with a kayak.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
Pulling a twenty six foot pengu.

Speaker 2 (01:20:15):
All right, that sounds fun.

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
That picture ended up in Paddler magazine.

Speaker 13 (01:20:21):
I'm sure i'd left off my camera gear with Jeff.

Speaker 3 (01:20:23):
Oh yeah, I might have to bail out.

Speaker 13 (01:20:25):
Yeah, they come out of the corner and Jeff's taking truth.
Of course, that picture ended up like a centerfold on
the Paddler magazine.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
Oh lord, pulling a Oh my god, man, I gotta
go to a break. I hate to do it to you, Scotty,
but it's good to hear you.

Speaker 3 (01:20:43):
Good.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
You made it back from Belize.

Speaker 3 (01:20:46):
Buddy might call me tobot bellies.

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
Yeah, that's about right. Oh my word, all right, Pardner,
I see you care. Yeah, I is holy cow faux pro.
Hang on, man, you know I you know, I'd love
to push the button, but I would get in trouble
with Frankie and I don't want to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
I'll tell you what. Let's just go straight to this one.
That'll make it easy, and we'll come back. I'll lead
off of faux Pro when we get back. More than
Dougpike Show right after this. Hi, welcome back, thanks for listening.
Dougpike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety all kinds of
things going on. Huh, let me get to faux pro.
He hung on for a very long time. What's up
forrest Man.

Speaker 18 (01:21:24):
I'm just here try and try and try, and I say,
trying to watch the bass Master Elite series on Late
fok where my hero Greg Hackney with forty six pounds
actually fishing for bass, wishing for bass. I understand, you
got forty six pounds and in seventeenth place with forty
six pounds in two days, we'll best sider who's kind

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of fishing fishing like we fish is in seventh place, yeah,
with fifty seven pounds for two days. But the top
three spotlighters are all over sixty pounds.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
That's just for two days. Stupid. I'm sorry. You know
I had that on my list of stuff to talk
about today too, And that's it's getting really really silly
to see how bass fishing is going to have to
have a separate category for that or it it's gonna
lose a lot of its luster.

Speaker 18 (01:22:17):
I think it's almost it's almost like the steroid gas
trick in the Hall of Fame, you know, put him
in there, but put it he need to really catch
these fishes.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
Video gave it the fish.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
But yeah, that's exactly what you have to call it,
because they're not really they're not fishing, they're looking and
that and that the guy who made I don't remember
who what the guy's name was, but the one who
said you can't catch him if you can't see him.
That just sums it all up.

Speaker 18 (01:22:42):
Yeah, that kind of that's kind of the quote of
the year right there.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
Yeah, it really is.

Speaker 18 (01:22:46):
And Todd and Todd Castle I said it best, I
guess because he fishes for a living. Yeah, so he's
either you got to get in there and get with
him if you want to make a living, or you
got to get out.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
There's no there's no middle way.

Speaker 4 (01:22:57):
If you if you if you want to win, you
got to get.

Speaker 18 (01:23:00):
With it and do it because otherwise you're you're gonna
be left. Well, and it's kind of forcing people to
fish the way they don't want to fish but have to.

Speaker 2 (01:23:07):
Well, it's also forced it by default, is forcing a
lot of potentially really good fishermen out of competitive fishing
if they can't afford to throw twelve fifteen thousand dollars
worth of equipment on their boat and that that's wrong too.

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
Tired.

Speaker 18 (01:23:28):
Yeah, KVDS retired, Rick Cluds retire, skeat reason is retiring.
I mean you got people that are just like, okay,
I've had a do Yeah, And I ain't say that's
the whole reason, but it had to had to.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
Spark it, you know, Yeah, that was probably a tipping
point for him. Well, if I've got it, you know,
these guys aren't playing the same game that we played,
and for them, that's kind of really demoralizing. They don't
want to do that because they know how competitive it
was when everybody was actually fishing and not just staring

(01:23:58):
at the screen. And you know, hey, I don't don't care.
If they want to use the screens for competition, that's fine,
if they don't find If a recreational fisherman wants to
put it on the boat, that's fine with me. I
fished with you. You've got it on your boat. But
it's just different, it really is, and it needs to
be acknowledged as such.

Speaker 18 (01:24:18):
Yeah, and we used it yesterday as a pool, you know,
went to the lake.

Speaker 4 (01:24:22):
I don't want to say the name of it.

Speaker 18 (01:24:23):
I haven't been there in thirty years, but we went
yesterday and it was just like, why haven't not been
here in thirty years?

Speaker 3 (01:24:28):
That was that good and I have to take you
up there. But so we're conventional bass fishing.

Speaker 18 (01:24:33):
We're picking up a few fish, we're kind of figuring
out flipping a beaver in the reeds.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
We'll catch us a few.

Speaker 3 (01:24:37):
Fish, a little bit of a top water bite.

Speaker 18 (01:24:40):
Earlier and got basically pre front storms about they we
should just be killed them. Yeah, And I finally turned
on the spotlight. I said, man, let me investigate and
see what these fishermen were doing. Later in the morning,
of course I've turned it on, and we found a tree.
Like I told you, Yes, we found a tree that
looked like it had Christmas balls hanging on the tree,
A pound pounds and a half croppie. I sent you

(01:25:02):
the pictures, and so we went out deep. Nothing deep.
I said, Okay, well, these bass are probably postponed. So
we went got closer to the bank and found out
that that the hydrilla just off the reeds and cattails
and stuff. The bass were just laying on top.

Speaker 3 (01:25:20):
Of these reeds.

Speaker 18 (01:25:21):
So you could just take a swim jig and watch
it go down to the top of the reeds. You
couldn't see the bash really good, but you just swimming
across the top of these reeds or chatter bay and
you see them pop out and follow it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
Needed Wow. So we figured we figured that out later.

Speaker 18 (01:25:34):
And then I found another tree that I put spot
lock on the trouble and I called my buddies to
go up here look at this.

Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
And he was like, holy blank.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
He sat there.

Speaker 18 (01:25:43):
We sat there until the sky got black, just snatching
big cropper.

Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
I was we'll be back with the ice chest maybe.
So that conversation yet, Oh yeah, a conversation yesterday. And
I thought about it real quick. I've had this.

Speaker 18 (01:26:00):
Happen to me numerous times because I live on this
lake and they will go out there and just lay
on the bottom and you don't think it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
Is but maybe it is an alligator. That's exactly how
they act. They just go out there like they don't
care about you.

Speaker 18 (01:26:10):
And I've had six switters just lay on the bottom
like I dare you to pull me off the bottom.

Speaker 2 (01:26:16):
Yeah, we've got a couple in there. But I think
that the pressure I put on the one yesterday, the
one that stayed on the long it says about two
and a half three minutes somewhere in there, maybe four.
And the pressure I put on that thing, it was moving.
And I don't think it's an alligator. I've fished out

(01:26:39):
there for a lot of years for us, and I've
never had an alligator eat anything I threw.

Speaker 4 (01:26:44):
Ever, And.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of. That's what it's got
to be a case. I hope it's a catfish because
I don't want to have to deal with an alligator.

Speaker 3 (01:26:56):
Catch it and you'll make you some tacos.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Out of it, all right, man, that's great to hear.
Frod adios. So yah, Oh my goodness. Yeah, there's I'm
gonna I wonder well, we're gonna be fast into the
nine o'clock hour here, and we're gonna talk a little
bit of golf and once well, in between golf talks,

(01:27:21):
if you want to share a story and just reveal
your deepest, darkest secret that has to do with chiggers
or ticks or yellow jackets or ants or bees, just
bring it on. But some of my funniest memories of
fire ants were as a waterfowl guide. When I would
tell these guys, we'd be hunting flooded rice fields, and
i'd tell them, so, look, you're we're gonna be lying

(01:27:43):
against this levee here. They're not totally flooded, but just
enough water in there still to make it where you
had to wear waiters to be comfortable in there. And
I tell them, before you lie down on that levee,
make sure that you're not lying because a lot of
the high spots or where the ants go, and there's
gonna be a little bit of an ant bed on

(01:28:04):
the surface, but there's a bunch of ants underneath there
in what's left of the dry ground on the levee.
And about once a month during ten goose seasons, i'd
have somebody curl up on that levee right before shooting time,
and everybody's quiet, and we're all talking about how we
can hear the geese, and it sounds like they're getting

(01:28:24):
off the rooft way over there and they're gonna come
over our way. And then all of a sudden, somebody
would just stand up and start stripping down. And I mean,
these guys in thirty degree weather, windy, nasty goose hunting weather.
They'd strip all the way down to their underwear just
to get all the ants off of them that had

(01:28:45):
crawled up and gotten into their waiters or if they
were in hip boots, they were just goners from jump.
These things found their way onto your skin and just
started biting. And the more clothes you took off, it
seemed like the more they bit you. And yeah, that's
pretty sporty for some of them, pretty sporty. Seven one three,

(01:29:06):
two one two five seven ninety. Give a call during
the break. We'll get to you when we get back.
On the way out. I'm going to tell you about
Phoenix Knives out there in Belleville. This is this is
a guy named Cowboys Lemanski started this back in the
late seventies. Okay, he became his own knife maker. I
don't I don't recall. I've had to story. I've talked
to him about it before, but I don't recall how

(01:29:27):
he started in that. But what he has done has
grown a name for himself and become one of the
premier custom knife makers in the entire country. And he's
right out there in Belleville. Every kind of knife you
can imagine, either. He helped build, or many of the
journeymen that he that worked for him, helped build, and
those men and women who are out there with him

(01:29:50):
make sure that they have hundreds of knives to choose from,
every kind of knife, every kind of bladed object, whatever
it is that you can imagine they can make. Right
there's Phoenix Knives middle of town Belleville, right on Main Street.
Bigger space this year than they had last year, and
he's using that to build more knives. You can go

(01:30:10):
out there and build your own knife. In fact, you
a group of people, you roll out there and just
kind of like, hey, we're here to build a knife,
and they will take you through the process and you'll
walk out of there with your own knife that you
built with your own two hands. Now it won't be
as pretty as the ones Cowboy and his guys make,
but it'll be your own. If you want an amazing

(01:30:31):
gift for somebody Mother's Day, maybe kitchen knives. How about that?
If you're if mom loves to cook and needs new
kitchen knives, there's no better place to go get them
than Phoenix Knives. Phoenix knives dot com is the website
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Phoenix Knives dot com. This is the Doug Fike.

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To members and their guests. Now here's Doug Pike. All right,
welcome back, nine o'clock hour. Dougpike Show starts right now.
Thank you for listening to certain to appreciate it. Normally
I would lead into some golf talk, but the guy
on the phone's got something more important to talk about
than golf, and that's my buddy Kevin down there at

(01:31:32):
Lake Jackson. Twenty fifth Annual. Is it really the This
is Frankie, the producer.

Speaker 9 (01:31:38):
I messed up a little bit during the broadcast, so
we're going to cut back to Doug here. Thanks for
your patients.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
Hang on, Kevin, now, okay, Bud, now let's go all right. Yes,
it's the twenty fifth annual.

Speaker 10 (01:31:53):
I've been involved twenty four to the twenty five years,
and I am about the last fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
I've been the way master for it.

Speaker 10 (01:31:58):
Yeah, but they just sounded the hole, got kids lining
up all over the river bank, looked like a little
lighter and turned out the normal probably two hundred and
fifty kids.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
It's a bus.

Speaker 10 (01:32:08):
I'm sure they'll they'll continue to trickle in because the
tournament's just now starting. Just watched a little girl really
in a black drum. The first fish I saw that
was caught. Fortunately it wasn't quite fourteen inches okay yet
it go Yeah, yeah, But I sent you a couple
of emails with some pictures of what's going on so far,

(01:32:33):
and with the picture of the crowd and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
I like seeing all of that. Man, Yeah, twenty five
years you've been doing this. Twenty four of the twenty five.
I used to look at the port and it was.

Speaker 10 (01:32:49):
I was a sponsor for the company that I worked for,
and then after I left there and I became a
waymaster that I've been working it as a waymaster ever
since then.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
I'm looking at that picture you sent me. There are
a bunch of kids lined up over there. It's like
running the some poor fish trying to get out of there.
There's no way.

Speaker 10 (01:33:08):
That was fifteen or twenty minutes before it actually started.
Oh wow, they packed in even more that down along.
They're gonna have a great time. They're gonna have funny.
But I'll touch base with you tomorrow and kind of
let you know, give your cap of what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
I would love that. Yeah, if you can get a
head count too. I just kind of be curious because
you couldn't have asked for better weather. You really could.

Speaker 3 (01:33:30):
It's beautiful.

Speaker 10 (01:33:32):
I know last year they had three hundred and twenty
four kids fished and about seven hundred people. By the
time you figure the parents, I would I would guess
that there are probably about twenty or thirty kids who
live around there, tugging at their mom and dad.

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
Right now, going come on, come on, we gotta go.
Look look outside.

Speaker 4 (01:33:49):
I know we're late.

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
Yeah, yes, we're late. All right, Well, I hope for
a good full report tomorrow, Kevin, thank you man. All right, buddy,
have a yeah you too, Audio, all right, let me
take care of that. Took care of that, Marty. Let's
see what Marty weighed in. I was stung by a
red wasp on my elbow crease. Oh god, that had

(01:34:13):
to have heard about eight. When he was about eight oh.

Speaker 4 (01:34:17):
I remember this.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
This is exactly what we used to use to take
the sting out of there. A little tobacco, Take a
little tobacco out of a cigarette, moisten it, put it
on the sting with a band aid over it, thirty
minutes back outside playing. I do remember that being one
of the methods back When enough people smoked it, they're
you didn't have to look far to find a cigarette.

(01:34:40):
I use that method to this day, except I used
my snuff and everybody I've used it on has called
it a miracle, an old farm trick that works like
a champ. That's exactly right. You don't have to reach
for benadrux if you got a smoker around you. You
know what I ought to talk to And I'm joking
about this, but I ought to talk to Manny Lopez
down there at El Kubana see if they could maybe

(01:35:03):
box up make little band aids. Instead of having a
gauge pad in the middle of the adhesive strip, just
have a couple of a little chunk of tobacco leaf
in there. Maybe that would take care of that. That'd
be kind of fun. Let me see, I'll take a call. Sure,
Alex what's up man?

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 19 (01:35:24):
I wanted to talk a little bit about a spotted
and his management over the astros.

Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
I can do that for a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
What do you want to know?

Speaker 20 (01:35:34):
Real to the point, yesterday, with Brown walking his fourth
man and two thirds, a spoder comes out of the
dugout and pulls some.

Speaker 21 (01:35:46):
Thank god, because it was obvious that Brown was losing
the stem. And this is what a spotty needs to do,
because he lets pitch you stay in their way too long,
the starters, the relievers when it's is that something bad,
damage is going to occur, and he doesn't make his
move timely.

Speaker 19 (01:36:06):
We've lost a bunch of games because of that. He
needs to do what he did yesterday, and if he's listening,
I hope he follows this audvice.

Speaker 5 (01:36:18):
Exactly exactly.

Speaker 21 (01:36:21):
I saw the other team doing it.

Speaker 19 (01:36:22):
And you know, and they won because they did it.
We won yesterday again because.

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
Of a Stata.

Speaker 19 (01:36:27):
I give him all the credit for what he did.
We had a three to nothing lead and they got
nothing more because he pulled Brown in time.

Speaker 2 (01:36:36):
Is it just me, Alex or was that umpire yesterday
pretty horrible?

Speaker 5 (01:36:42):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:36:42):
My god, you too.

Speaker 19 (01:36:45):
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
It's shocking just talking to the TV. Now, how can
you miss that when they show the little replay the
entire baseballs inside the box? Yeah, all three ball four whatever,
and that I know, Yeah, that's.

Speaker 19 (01:37:01):
Now in contention like in playoffs, I mean, umping like that,
you know, probably the umpire would be killed.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
Let's let's don't make that a probability. Oh my word, Alex.
All right, hey, but I got a run. I gotta
get to this golf tournament now. But thank you for
the call. I kind of agree with you, I do.
I think I appreciate it, sure, man, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:37:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
Yeah, the astro Joe Spatta, he's a good manager. But
I'm gonna agree with Alex. You know, if a guy
doesn't have his best stuff, even as good as Hunter
Brown is, sometimes they it's just not their day. And
if you can figure that out before the other team does, uh,
maybe you got a better chance at winning. And it's

(01:37:51):
great that they scored three runs yesterday and the Reds
only scored zero. But man, oh man, that's when you're down.
When you're up three to nothing, the other team is
still if they get a couple of guys on base
there's still only one swing from tying the game, and
that's what you got to avoid. And Hunter Brown just
didn't have his best yesterday. It's not that he's not

(01:38:13):
an outstanding pitcher. He's one of the best in the
league right now, but he didn't have his best stuff
and hopefully, you know, well, obviously we got him out
at the right time. Let's go to the Truest Championship
leader board, the Truest Championship, it's one of the signature
events of the PGA Tour. And oh man, go back,

(01:38:35):
go back to the leaderboard. I didn't want to do that. No,
go back to the leaderboard. I didn't want to do that. Standby,
it's up in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cricket Club, the Wissa hat
wiss A hick And Club and leading away at twelve
under par would be Keith Mitchell, Shane Lowry at eleven

(01:38:56):
just one shot off the lead. That's pretty obvious, and
step Straw at ten under par. There are one two.
There's six guys at seven under par, although they're five
shots back with two rounds to play, don't I don't
see them as being out of contention at all. Straka

(01:39:17):
a one shot lead Lowry or excuse me, Mitchell the
one shot lead than Lowry and Straka behind him at
eleven and ten respectively. They're all out there working really hard,
and if they make any mistakes at all, and one
of these seven's rears up and does something good, got
a shot, and that would be listening to the names

(01:39:38):
who were at seven hundred par Justin Thomas, Rory McElroy,
Colin Mori, Kawa, Aksha Batiya See Woo Kim and Patrick Cantley.
Not a one of those guys. Ezachly is out of
contention until the last putt falls on eighteen. Every one
of those guys could just go on a hot streak.
The six is hey, it's a little bit more of

(01:40:00):
a stretch, but there's still some pretty good talent there
as well, Max Homer, Thomas Detrie, Stephen Well, Stephen Jaeger,
and Ricky Fowler. Oh and one more, Gary Woodland. All
of these guys certainly in contention, and who knows, one
of the fives could just light it up and post
a low round. Colin Moore Kwa shot sixty three, so

(01:40:21):
did that actual batilla on Thursday, And there's no reason
why any of those guys couldn't do the same before this.
See what I want to see what yesterday's low round was.
If it'll let me, and no it won't. It doesn't
have a little clique for that. Bottom line is the
truest is going on up there in Philly, and they've
got I believe they've got good weather. Let me run

(01:40:42):
back up to the top of the page here. I
don't think it's as good as ours. It should be hoping.
Oh yeah, well it's a lot cooler, clear sky, fifty
nine degrees, thirteen mile an hour southeast wind. They'll be
all right up there. Nobody's gonna have to well, they
might be pulling out sweaters. You'll see some guys in
long sleeves at fifty nine degrees, especially the guys who
go out early. By the afternoon, it should be warming

(01:41:06):
up a little bit, but not like we're gonna warm up.
By the way, when I walked out the door this morning,
it felt so good. We're gonna get a couple of
days of this, and then come Monday afternoon, we're supposed
to be and probably will be right back tickling ninety
degrees at present. I found this kind of interesting too.

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This morning during the winners when I really like to
play the Texas temperature game because we get some really
wide ranges of temperatures. Right now, the low in the
state's only fifty five, so that's not exactly going to
haul out gloves and overcoats and sweaters. The high is
only seventy seven, so we've just got that little twenty

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two degree range, and in our state, as big as
it is, that's not that much everybody basically, since we
just had that big old sky sweeper front blow through here,
everybody's enjoying blue sky and comfortable temperatures, all relative. Of course,
I would rather be at about sixty five than the

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seventy two, four or five we're looking at now. Got
a seventy eight. There no good temperatures. Everything's running full
bore for today and for Mother's Day. So if Mom
likes to be outside, make the plans. Now, let me
say about Riceland Waterfowl Club. This is a company that's
been around for exactly fifty years. They're celebrating their fiftieth

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anniversary at Riceland Water Waterfowl Club, run by a man
named David Pruett. He's owned and operated this club out
there for fifty years. He's a world champion goosen duck caller.
If you need help with a little call and maybe
he can help you out. He also spends the entire
year making sure that you and anybody else who becomes

(01:42:52):
a member out there or is lucky enough to be
the guest of a member out there, has a great
blind where you're gonna see ducks, You're gonna get shots
at ducks. He had a good good year last year
when a whole lot of people I was talking to
were kind of scratching their heads and wondering where the
ducks were. He's got tons of water. He's talking about
adding something like another thousand acres of water this year.

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All of his blinds are at least a quarter mile apart,
except for there's one. You can ask him about it.
It's kind of a joke. And he doesn't do any
guided hunting at all on club land. No place out
there where you would sign up as a club member
is gonna be oh, I'm sorry, I can't let you
hunt there. One of my guides is going in there.

(01:43:35):
It's all for the members. And he's even got a
system set up where there's just virtually no way that
anybody can get preferential treatment. Everybody's on the same footing,
whether you're brand new or you've been hunting out there
for fifteen years. All those birds and the only people
who are gonna have access are club members in their guests.
If you're hunting, this past season wasn't all that great,

(01:43:58):
and a lot of hands are probably in the air
right there. Check out Riceland Waterfowl Club out there in
Eagle Lake. You'd be glad you did. Riceland Waterfowl Club
dot Com nine twenty one. On Sports Talk seven ninety
I was just telling Frankie, there's somebody new down on KTRH.
I don't recognize the guy, but we passed each other
like three times in the halls, and he's all he's
got his slacks on, he's got his shiny shoes on,

(01:44:20):
he's got his button down collar on. And I'm in
here in blue shorts and a blue T shirt and
some kind of blue I think they're under armor shoes whatever.
And I told Frankie, I feel like an impoverished smurf.
That's just terrible. It's just terrible. But it's radio and
as everybody, as so many of my friends have pointed,

(01:44:44):
out to me this morning. I have a face for radio,
that's what they're saying. I had fun with that years ago.
I'm just a regular old dude.

Speaker 3 (01:44:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
But anyway, the long and the short of it is
years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:44:56):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:44:56):
I've already told that story enough times on the air.
I'm not gonna do it again. A It's a Saltwater
sportsman story, and I'll get to it at some other time.
Sticking with golf, I want to emphasize how important it
is to do things. And I got had somebody else
ask me the other day, Hey man, I want to
get started in golf, but I don't know where to start.

(01:45:18):
Where should I start? And my recommendation has always been
to start with getting yourself some clubs, and not brand new.
Don't go out and buy a brand new set of
fifteen hundred dollars irons and a seven hundred dollars driver
and all of that. Just go get your hands on

(01:45:39):
some golf clubs somewhere. Maybe meet a friend at the
range and swing his or her clubs a little bit,
just to see if you've got the patience that you
will quickly learn it's going to take to get better
at the game, and then from there you're gonna need

(01:45:59):
to get your own club. If you want them really
shiny and pretty, you can buy kind of a beginner's
set for a reasonable price. You can find club there's
all kinds of secondhand clubs on the internet. There's several
really good sites where you can get legitimate deals on clubs.
There's one called Second Swing. There are two or three
others that are pretty good about getting finding new homes

(01:46:24):
for abandoned clubs. Okay, that's the best way to put it.
Once you find that as you feel like you're kind
of getting more and more interested in the game. If
you are, then absolutely you need to go get some lessons.
And by the way, the clubs you buy whatever wherever,
make sure they have good grips on them. If those

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grips are dry and hard as rocks, then you're you're
not going to do yourself any favors. You're going to
have to grip the club too tightly to develop a
good swing. And then go get whether it's a group
lesson an individual lesson, get at least a couple of
those under your belt. However economically you can, so that

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you start with a good posture. You start with a
good basic swing, a good grip, so that you don't
have to if you really get into the game a
little later on. You don't want to have to go
to an instructor and have hearm or her look at
you and go, Okay, I got to dismantle. What you're

(01:47:28):
doing here will never let you get better. You got
to start from scratch if you get that good foundation
laid first. It's kind of like building a house. You
don't want to build a house on a bad foundation.
Where you don't want to build a golf swing on
a bad foundation either, So get somebody who knows what
they're talking about to help you. Starting like that and
then just go through the progression. Go through the progression.

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It's not that hard. And when you start taking real lessons,
take notes. My brother in law is is probably as
good at that as anybody I know. He's gotten notes
and notes on top of notes from almost every lesson
he's ever had from some really really good instructors. And
when he's having a particular issue, he can go back

(01:48:12):
to his notes and try to figure out what's changed,
what's different, Mostly what's changed with him and me as
we've just gotten older, That's about it. But something else
that I get all the time is, yeah, I'd like
to try golf, but I don't want to embarrass myself.
And I'll keep saying this until I'm not doing this anymore.

(01:48:35):
Nobody's paying attention to your game unless you're slowing them down.
And if you've hit the ball, as long as you're
keeping up with your group, then it's okay. It's okay
to make bad shots. You're gonna make bad shots professional golfers.
Tiger Woods has hit bad shots all through his life.

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He just doesn't hit as many as most of us.
That's the difference. And so as long as you're not
slowing people down, it's fine. If your group is on
the green and you're still seventy five yards down the
fairway with a bad lie and thick rough, pick your
ball up and put it in your pocket, go down there,
tend the flag for the rest of them, and then

(01:49:18):
tee it up again on the next hole. Nobody cares
what you shoot. Nobody cares whether your arms or we're
in the right position at your top of your back swing.
They're more focused on their own game. They'll tell you
they'll analyze every swing. They make if you let them
every swing they make, they'll talk about their own shots,

(01:49:40):
but they won't analyze yours probably, And if you do
have someone offer you advice, make sure that you're not
getting your advice from somebody who's a twenty handicap, because
all they can teach you to become is a twenty handicap.
That's the level of their expertise right there. And there's

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a saying that those who can do and those who
can't teach. But in golf, you do kind of have
to know what you're doing and understand how different movements
are going to affect ballflight before you can teach the game.
Almost everybody I know who's a really good teacher, and
I've been blessed with access to a lot of really

(01:50:22):
good golf instruction and instructors, they were all very good players,
either professionally or just darn near scratch players just for fun.
But they're all good players and they understand the golf swing.
That's all you gotta do. Don't invest heavily until you

(01:50:44):
know you're committed to the game, because once you start,
you can't stop. Every six months, the big golf club
manufacturers bring out new stuff. If that sometimes the drivers
for one stretch of years were coming out at seem
like every two weeks there'd be a new driver from
all the manufacturers. That slowed down a little bit. And

(01:51:06):
the reason that's they can do that is the technology
in the golf clubs now is all being delivered through AI.
It used to take all kinds of well, we got
to build a prototype, and building one prototype would take
weeks of a particular club. They got to make the molds,
and they got to do all this stuff to make

(01:51:28):
a golf club and then then go test it to
see if that theory worked. The design theory. Now they
can just put it up to AI and then just say, okay, AI,
simulate a thousand swings with this club and that ball
at this club head speed and that launch angle, and

(01:51:48):
on and on and on, and the computer will tell
them whether it's worth starting the process of actually manufacturing
these things. Technology is good. There's no question I'm hitting
the ball for my age, I'm hitting the wall pretty far.
I feel like the people I play with are some
of them are younger than me, some of them are
my age, some are a little older. And I'm I

(01:52:10):
feel pretty confident that I'm making a strong enough swing
and a hard enough swing, fast enough swing, big difference.
Tommy O'Brien reminded me of that there's a difference between
a hard swing and a fast swing, and I tend
to try to make it too hard and instead of
just finding places to get the speedback. And that's what
he's working on with me. He keeps telling me I'm

(01:52:31):
still a good athlete and I can still make the
swings he wants me to make. And I'm find the
light came on a couple of days ago. I hope
it transfers to Monday, because I'm playing on Monday, and
I really don't want to make a fool of myself,
and I don't think I will, but yeah, golf's a
fun game, but it will. It's kind of like fishing.
It's an addiction, it really is. And the more you play,

(01:52:52):
the better you're gonna want to get get there.

Speaker 3 (01:52:55):
You will.

Speaker 2 (01:52:56):
It doesn't take it doesn't take that much to have
fun and just remember to be fun. Unless your business
card says professional golfer, then it doesn't matter what you shoot.
The average player shoots about one hundred, a little over
one hundred. Actually, there was a chart I saw. I
think players who actually break eighty. It's only like two

(01:53:16):
percent of golfers ever ever break eighty. Playing by the rules.
That's why it's a lot more fun and especially for
a lot of people I know, even a lot more
fun to play almost by the rules. Give yourself a break.

Speaker 4 (01:53:31):
If you got a.

Speaker 2 (01:53:31):
Bad lie and you're not playing for a ton of money,
give yourself a break. Bump the ball over a little
bit and give yourself a chance to make a good shot.
Make sure just everybody's playing by the same rules. That's fine,
improve your life. Fine, gimme's at three four feet Yeah, fine,
sweep it away. Speaking of getting away, we're gonna get
away right here for this break. And I'm gonna tell

(01:53:52):
you about Barry Hill. Barry Hill is the Grill. It's
a grill restaurant. I don't know what they want to
call it. It's just what it is. Is a family friendly, relaxed,
easy going chill place where you can go in Sugarland
to get some of the best Mexican food you'll ever eat.

(01:54:12):
Their fish tacos are there claim to fame, but I've
sampled probably by now almost half the menu. I would
think there's some things that's too spicy for me and
stuff like that. But if that's your cup of tea, boy,
they got you covered there too. I am very fond
of the seafood and chilatas I tackled, and I mean

(01:54:35):
that almost literally. I tackled a seafood burrito once and
realized that my appetite was bigger than my stomach, because
this seafood burrito that you get there is huge. It
is something you're just gonna have to pace yourself to
eat because you're gonna want to eat the whole thing,

(01:54:57):
but it's gonna be difficult because it is such a
large survey. They make excellent to Molly's. They make excellent
and chiladas anyway you like them. They have some specialty
dishes that you can look at on the menu when
you get there. But that big claim to fame, of course,
again is those fish tacos there to die for. We've
had them catered here now a couple of times at work.

(01:55:19):
The last time I missed it. I was so sad
to realize that, but I knew I had missed berry
Hill the next day when I came in and saw
the the Tracey letches in the refrigerator and got it
out and carved off a big chunk and had that
for lunch. Don't judge me for that family friendly place.

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If you're new to Sugarland, go it. There is Sugar
Creek Boulevard in fifty nine on the inbound side, right there,
the closest building, the closest business to the freeway, right
there in that big strip at Sugar Creek and fifty nine,
And just go in if you're brand new to sugar Land,
and announce that you're new when you get in there,

(01:56:02):
and see if you can't find somebody over in the
bar Area's kind of a sports bar feel over there.
They got the TVs everywhere, and then there's also to
the other side is the more restaurant booths and tables
and that, and they've got three private rooms towards the
back of the property.

Speaker 3 (01:56:17):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:56:18):
They'll they'll make you feel right at home, and you're
gonna love the food. The people in the kitchens have
been there forever. There are two guys back there have
been churning out the same consistent, delicious product for more
than a decade. Apiece Berry Hill sugar Land is the
website finally got this right Berryhillsugarland dot com. Check them
out nine thirty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety The

(01:56:40):
Doug Pike Show. Thanks for listening, certainly do appreciate it.
I was scrolling through the internet during the break and
came across there's a site. I don't know how I
got on their list, but I'm on it. It's called
so col Golfer, and it's an interesting site. It has
a lot of good information, a lot of breaking news
type things, and then a lot of tips and hints

(01:57:02):
and whatnot. And there's one here it says, improve your
chipping with a coin. And I'm thinking, okay, man, I'm
working on my short game. I'd love to improve my
chipping with a coin. But here's what it tells you
to do. This is interesting. I'm gonna read from it

(01:57:22):
because it's kind of fascinating. And imagine yourself telling your
spouse that you're gonna do this at the house, okay,
and it says here it leads off. Many golfers find
this drill an excellent chipping technique that you can practice
from your home. You can practice this drill pretty much
anywhere using a coin. Challenging yourself by chipping various coins

(01:57:44):
does not only equip you with effective skills of making
or an adequate encounter with your chipping shots, but it
will also make chipping at the ball much more comfortable.
Many golfers find this drill effective because it makes you
assume a downward position while chipping and play at It's
poorty written and play accurately with your wedges. So here

(01:58:07):
are the steps, uh and mercy sakes frank. You imagine
yourself going to the house and saying, hey, hey, mom,
I'm gonna do this. Okay, I need to work on
my short game. So here's what I'm gonna do. Step one,
set about ten coins in your living room carpet. Step two,

(01:58:30):
try to get clear contact with the coins as shooting
them in the air. Step three. Shoot the coins one
after the other as you aim for a specific position
in the house, probably a corner of the house. Step four.

(01:58:50):
Calculate your score out of the ten coins and ensure
that you score at least seven out of the ten
for better performance. Step five. Practice this drill more often
at home to ensure you achieve the highest level of vacacy.
Step six. Pack your bags because your family's gonna run
you out of the house. It didn't say that I

(01:59:12):
made that one up. I cannot imagine telling my wife
you might want to back up just a little bit,
because I'm gonna be chipping these coins across the room
at the wall. So what you're gonna end up with
is spots on the wall anywhere from the base board

(01:59:33):
up to broken lamp bloke, broken light on the ceiling,
where you're gonna be hitting these coins a quarter. You
hit quarters across the room, you're gonna leave a mark
on the wall. Okay, this might be cute if you've
got shag carpet, and man, if you really want to
work on your game and get kicked out of the

(01:59:53):
house faster, do it on the wood floor if you can.
If you can chip coins off a wood floor, I
want to watch that. That would be impossible. Actually, Or
a tile floor be a good way to break all
the tiles in your kitchen. Just go ahead and chip away. Literally,
this is on tile floor. This literally would be a
chipping drill, even if you didn't have a coin on

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the ground. Be good for tight lines. Though some of
these tips I swear Jim Murphy. Murphy and I used
to talk a lot. We haven't talked in a while,
and that's my own fault and partly his too. He
hadn't called me in a while. I haven't called him
in a while, but he used to tell me, and
he still is instructing over at Sugar Creek Country Club,
where he's been for probably the better part of thirty

(02:00:37):
years and still one of the best instructors in the country.
And Jim used to tell me that he could he
could tell you what he could see the players on
the on the tea range, on the practice range there
along that tea line, he could tell who'd been reading
what tips from what magazines, just by what they were doing.

(02:00:58):
Sometimes they got a towel under arm. Sometimes there's a
stretch band, some all this stuff that you see in
the in the magazines, these tips, and now it's it's
in the it's on video, and it's in on the
on the Internet. I stumbled across, so I think it's
called a two minute tip or two minute drill. There's

(02:01:19):
an instructor, I think he's from out West who's done
an entire series of these little two minute drills. And
I got roped into there so fast. I just couldn't
wait to watch the next one, and then I would
see what I liked and I would I would click
it and copy the link so I could watch it
again later. It was just I had to just stop

(02:01:39):
because all of this stuff makes sense, but if it
but there's a good chance that it doesn't make sense
for everybody. And that's the that's the tricky part, is
making sure that you're getting the right tip from the
right person who actually knows your swing. Not everybody can
do the same stuff, and that's that's proved every time
somebody goes on a golf course. Robert, what's going on.

(02:02:01):
It's been a while, man, what's up? What's up, buddy?
It has been a while. And I wish today I
was calling you. I wish I was calling you today
about some fishing.

Speaker 17 (02:02:09):
But uh, I'm gonna have a shamelessly uh plug for you,
anybody that is coming down to Galveston today. We have
our twenty ninth annual Yaga's Children's Fun Wild Game Barbecue
Cookoff going on to Moody Gardens.

Speaker 2 (02:02:28):
Okay, you know I talk. I'm gonna talk to the
people at Moody Gardens. I'm gonna get on this somehow
I'm gonna get them to let me just have access,
pull access to that calendar and just announce what's going on.
So tell me a little bit more about your cause though.

Speaker 10 (02:02:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (02:02:42):
So so with the organization, I used to be on
the board for years. It's a nonprofit children's organization.

Speaker 2 (02:02:49):
And what they do is they raise money.

Speaker 17 (02:02:50):
They put on this event and raise money to help
different children's organizations within Galveston County.

Speaker 2 (02:02:57):
Excellent.

Speaker 4 (02:02:58):
So so you know, the.

Speaker 17 (02:03:00):
Sponsorship through selling barbecue tickets to silent auction, you know,
that's how they're raising their funds. We had a big
drawing on a sponsor party last night was beautiful weather.

Speaker 3 (02:03:10):
It's great.

Speaker 17 (02:03:10):
It's gonna be an absolutely gorgeous day today for cookoff.
So the event is free to attend. You can walk around,
you can. I got a family that's cooking in the
in the event, so you know, they can walk around.
We'll have a different, uh, a little bit of entertainment
throughout the day and then judging is around.

Speaker 3 (02:03:29):
Six six thirty this evening.

Speaker 17 (02:03:31):
But yeah, if anybody is coming down to the island,
feel free to stop by and come take a look.
They have some vendors set up so it'll be a
little shopping, maybe get a little Mother's Day gift or
something for somebody. Are you so that it's it's in
the parking lot, Yeah, big parking lot kind.

Speaker 2 (02:03:49):
Of you know, adjacent to where the pyramids are. Yeah,
and so you kind of got to go around towards
the back whereas where it's all the big parking lots.
So sure you can't miss it.

Speaker 3 (02:04:00):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (02:04:00):
You could smell the barbecue smoke and just get down
wind and fall your nose exactly exactly.

Speaker 3 (02:04:06):
So.

Speaker 17 (02:04:07):
Uh But other than that, buddy, Yep, just got back
into town from work, and then, like I said, I
wish I was doing a little fishing today.

Speaker 2 (02:04:13):
What's the latest backyard report? What's the latest back man?
You know, I actually I haven't been out unfortunately.

Speaker 17 (02:04:22):
We just we've been having a lot of pool work
done in our backyard, so access access has been a
little limited. But they're they're out there that that water
has been looking beautiful green though.

Speaker 2 (02:04:31):
I'll tell you that, I know, I'm just looking at
it going. I just need to at least take a
lure out there or something now, or in the in
that garage, you know, lures man, it's so much more
efficient and fun and easy. I hear you, all right, Robert.
Good luck man Moody guards big barbecue, good cause, thank you, Yeah,

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thankful audios. Yeah, that's that's a good guy. I need
to get back down there and do fishing with him.
He's got access out the back door to some good fishing,
and I haven't done enough of it with him. And
I apologize. I'm a bad friend. Robert, you got a
great place to fish. I having come down there and
stepped on your pier and way too long. Seven one

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three seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
This this one's blown by Frankie. Holy cow man. We'll
take this last little break of the program, then we'll
come back and wrap it up on the day before
Mother's Day. If you just realize that's the day it
is and you haven't done anything for mom yet, you
might wanna. You might wanna high tail it away from

(02:05:38):
the golf course. Take care of that first, away from
the lake, take care of mom first, and then go
have your fun. A little bit more of the Doug
Pike Show left to go. We'll be back in a minute.
Nine fifty one already on Sports Talk seven ninety. What
a fast day. This has been a couple of quick notes.
I heard my this week in US Military Hre Street

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brought to us by Phoenix Knives, Thank goodness, and wanted
to remind everybody this is Military Appreciation Month, the entire
month of May, and no time like the present. I
think I would love to have more sponsors of that feature,
playing it on more stations in more markets. I proudly

(02:06:22):
do those things every single week and really really want
to ramp it up. Oh, if you fancy yourself somebody
who appreciates the freedoms we have and recognizes the sacrifices
that so many people made for us to be able
to go out and go fishing, or play golf or

(02:06:43):
do what go shoot at wherever today. If you appreciate
that and want to recognize the people who make it possible,
just shoot me an email and I'll lay it all
out for you. It's not going to break anybody's bank,
and I can do it and on any station in
any market we have, and that's about eight hundred and

(02:07:04):
fifty stations in about one hundred and fifty markets. But
it's that easy. Just Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dotcom will
start the ball rolling. A couple of things. I wanted
to get to Jeremy Wade. I think I mentioned hit well, No,
I didn't mention it. Rick Bace talked about him earlier
when we were talking about this giant fish that I
still haven't caught yet. They're in there. Jeremy Wade's the

(02:07:27):
guy who hosted River Monsters. I don't know if the
show's still in production, but he was all over the
world catching these giant fish and stingrays and whatnot. Also,
I had their kind of sad news from Florida this
week and eighty nine year old guy and his dog
were killed by three black bears, first time in that
state that black bear has ever killed a man. Already

(02:07:50):
say that the black bears were located and dispatched, and
I'm kind of just time to get them out. Once
that starts, it rarely stops. The guy's age and the
dog probably trying to defend its owner from the bears,
and then it just all of the evidence stacked up

(02:08:11):
against that guy. He was old, he was in He's
eighty nine years old, so he's not going to be
able to fight back. But the dog probably made such
a ruckus that they got angered rather than scared away,
and unfortunately, kind of that's how that turned out. Also
in Florida this week and not certainly not for the

(02:08:31):
first time, almost killed by an alligator while she and
her husband were canoeing somewhere over there. I don't know where.
If you've never heard of mitten crabs, I hadn't until
this week, but I have now. And here's what's going on.
This is a very dangerous invasive species that is now

(02:08:52):
being found in American water ways. I don't know how
they got here, but they're here, and they will dis
place native species. They can live in fresh and salt water,
and they'll burrow into levies kind of like armored catfish
and eventually cause them to fail. If these animals aren't

(02:09:13):
aren't checked where in the United States you ask? Fortunately
not in Texas. They found him in the Great Lakes.
They found him in Chesapeake Bay, they found them in
Delaware Bay. They're in the Hudson River, the Mississippi River,
they're in San Francisco Bay, and they're in the Columbia River.

(02:09:33):
So far, we don't need them around here. If look
them up, they're really kind of interesting looking creatures there.
Just as the name implies. They look like they're almost
wearing boxing gloves. It's just this fuzzy stuff that's on
their claws. Really cute, but very dangerous for our ecosystem,

(02:09:55):
so we'll try to get rid of them, all right.
One more reminder that tomorrow is Mother's Hey, this is
your last chance. Get outside. Go go straight to whatever
store Mom likes the most, and get something beautiful, get
something wonderful to recognize the contributions she made to your life.
And then go out and have some fun till tomorrow.

(02:10:15):
Then give the whole day tomorrow tomm That's.

Speaker 19 (02:10:17):
It for now.

Speaker 2 (02:10:17):
I'll be back here tomorrow morning at eight o'clock. Hope
you can join me again. Then see you, audios