Callers Galore!

Originally aired on December 6, 2025. On this episode, Doug talks with Mitchell Holder, Manager of Waterfowl Specialties Inc., to see how many birds have appeared in Texas (the recent cold snap is complicating things). Doug and co. also play the TX Temperature Game, and much, much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's doug bike anohing like riding in sideways and
barely making it back if you can tell, hang on
with it, plug that in.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Gotta get myself sat down here, Oh that move this.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Now we can go to work.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Frankie, Oh mercy, it has been one heck of a week.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
I'll tell you that.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I golly okay, now I feel very comfortable. How I'm
set up right now. I've got that taken care of that,
taking care.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Of who What a week it's been I am.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I woke up last weekend with and I'm kind of glenn.
I didn't have to work last weekend because I handed
it up with laryngitis, thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
That was caused by an allergy. Went into the NT said, look.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
It's allergy, it's dry, it's all this, all that, and
I okay, good, I can get over that. And then
about I want to say, it was early Wednesday morning
here in the building. I went to the restroom and
washing my hands, and some guy right behind me just

(01:16):
absolutely blows a giant sneeze into the bathroom. Thought, oh man,
that guy sounds kind of sick. I hope he didn't
get me. And the next well, no, two mornings later.
I guess it was like Thursday, maybe Thursday afternoon even
I thought, Man, this this.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Horseness didn't really getting a whole lot better.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
And I ended up going back to the e NT
yesterday and I'm yeah, the bathroom bomber got me. And
it's been so long since I've had one of these
little infections that I really I didn't think anything about it.
It just all every now and then something like that
will happen in the grocery.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Store or wherever.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
But this guy clearly had something that wanted to jump
on me and off of him. And so now I'm
still gonna sound a little scratchy, and mostly this is
part of the healing process. Yesterday and Thursday and Wednesday
and Tuesday, it was all I could do to get
enough voice out, and if anybody heard me, you know,
it sounded horrible, absolutely horrible through the week. But I

(02:19):
wasn't gonna I didn't want to come off of an
entire week of vacation and then be out another week
out of side, out of mind, right, And I certainly
wouldn't want that. And there's really not anybody else in
this office who can talk about the outdoors or golf
with I'm not saying I'm an expert at any of

(02:40):
this stuff, but I know a little bit more than
most of them, so I can't just have somebody fill
in for me, like somebody who does news or somebody
who does ball sports can do. There's nobody to drop
in here. So onward through the fog, I go, and
I promise you were going to do the best we
can today.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Where do I want to start?

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well, yeah, if you're planning. I saw a guy I
ran through a drive through this morning out there in
sugar Land to grab myself something to eat on the
way in, And it was really kind of funny because
this was at about five thirty somewhere in there, twenty
four hour drive through. I'm gonna get myself what do

(03:24):
they call it? A sausage, egg and cheese croissant. And
as I'm pulling through the parking lot, there's a guy
standing outside his truck on his phone, and he is
dressed like he's ready to go fishing. And the guy
he's going fishing with and showing up, he's on his

(03:44):
phone and he looks kind of like half concerned and
half upset that the guy who's supposed to meet him,
there isn't there yet, And man, I have been there.
I've been on both ends of that. I've been the
guy waiting for people, especially as a waterfowl guide. Some
of these groups we had come in from out of state.
They would they would stay out late. They're four or

(04:06):
five guys, all on their own. All their wives are
back in Virginia or Tennessee or New Mexico or wherever
they are. And these guys are young and full of
themselves and wanting to go out and show what kind
of partiers they can be and still make a waterfowl hunt.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
So I had to wait on a lot of them.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
And there have been a couple of occasions where I
was running late for whatever reason, I almost missed a
fishing trip. I kept calling those guys and tell them
just go without me, man, just go. Because on the
way down to Galveson, I got to some railroad tracks
on I think it might have been on Highway six, Like, yeah,
I think it, well, I'm sure it was.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
It was on Highway six almost to forty five.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
There's about five miles before forty five there's a set
of tracks, and when I got to it, there were
like two cars. Apparently the train had just kind of
started through there, and this won't take a long I
ended up sitting there for forty five minutes, and there
was no If I'd have turned around and gone back,
as anybody who knows where all those roads are down there,

(05:11):
it would have taken me longer, probably to divert. So
I just sat there and kept letting them know, you'll
just leave, man, just go come back and get me
at ten o'clock whatever.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
But they stuck it out. They hung around, and we
had a good day that day.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
That was a trip I made with Mike Catchiatti as
a matter of fact, and David Branch and his son Henry.
We had a great time down there. Seven one three
seven ninety Email on me, Doug Pike at Ihartmedia dot com.
I'm gonna probably be able to get through today. I
hope so, because I'm also gonna be back in here tomorrow.
I'm gonna stay super hydrated. And if you hear me

(05:46):
taking SIPs of stuff from time to time, I apologize,
but that's gonna be my best shot at.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Getting through here.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
If you are like I was back then going down
to Galveson to fish the Bay somewhere today. There are
a couple of tournaments going on. I know there's one
out of Thompson's. I think there's another one somewhere, I'm
not sure where. So if you were thinking you might
have some peace and quiet on the water because the
weather's still kind of chilly and whatnot, you might want

(06:12):
to think again. It's going to depend really a lot
on where you go. It'll be chilly wherever you land,
that's for sure. But if you're looking for trout and
you know anything about where to look on days like
this for good trout, you can expect some company because
the guys who are fishing these tournaments this is a
pretty good one and they know what they're doing. So

(06:33):
unless you've got some super secret spot where you caught
one twenty years ago and you want to go back there,
just be prepared to share the water a little bit.
Same goes for flounder spots. Interestingly enough, quite a few
people have been pre fishing. I'm getting these emails and stuff.
I don't tell anybody, but I found a bunch of
flounder here or there or wherever, and so I'm not

(06:54):
going to tell anybody where, but the flounder pre fishing
now ahead of the real opening on December fifteenth is
kind of crazy.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
We're pre fishing for an opening.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Day because it's okay to go out there and fish,
and I guess you have to wrap quotes around accidentally
catch flounder. I guess technically it's just it's catching release.
If you catch them and release them, that's okay. And
I'm pretty sure that most of the people who are
catching flounder now and really that serious about it, are

(07:26):
capable of releasing them unharmed for the most part and
kind of good to go hopefully, So anyway it hurts
them talk down the dial on the way in maybe
about dropping the limit on flounder too, which is like
maybe it's down to two a day, maybe even three
a day or something like that, and leaving the season
open year round. But the issue with flounder, I think

(07:48):
rests more on the fish's migration off shore in the
fall and for their spawning, and right now we need
to get all those spawning fish we can through the
gauntlet of hooks and mud minnows and finger mullet and
soft plastics that are gonna hit the water like just
like rain on the morning of December fifteenth. I wonder

(08:11):
how early some of those guys are going to get
out there too. I'm having to sip this water to
keep it nice and nice and smooth. Back there, keep
the pipes going, Frankie, have you ever caught a flounder? No, sir,
you have any desire?

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Honestly, do you do? You really?

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Have you ever thought about catching a flounder? It's okay
if you haven't.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
It hasn't occurred to be.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah, you're more music and movies, aren't you?

Speaker 5 (08:37):
That's right?

Speaker 2 (08:37):
How's John? How's John's show going? By the way, I
see you guys are talking a lot about that.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
It's good. Yeah, we just did one the other night.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Oh yeah, on what?

Speaker 5 (08:49):
Oh about the box office? Right now?

Speaker 3 (08:53):
It's down, isn't it?

Speaker 5 (08:55):
It is down considerably from last year. Yeah, but I.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Think movie these gosh, they I'm not going to say
they're on their way out.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
But you can't you can't deny that.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
There are so many other options now where people don't
go don't have to get dressed and go to the
theater and pay twenty five dollars for a small coke
and a small popcorn.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
There's a whole lot more options and ways to see
these movies.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
And they're being released to the public like that on
TV earlier and earlier too, aren't.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
They Yeah, yeah, on streaming. Yeah, they're on a video
on demand a lot faster.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Now I'm gonna watch movies next time they make another
fishing movie. And I think most of probably most, if
not yeah, most of Hollywood, not all of Hollywood, but
most of Hollywood would be scared to make a movie
about hunting. I think for the backlash they'd get from
people who don't understand why hunting is so important to

(09:55):
the animals. It's amazing how many people I run into,
and usually just at at consumer shows not related to
the outdoors, the outdoors people. The outdoor shows attract legitimate
outdoors people and they kind of know the deal. But
when I've run into some people who have said, yeah,

(10:19):
I really don't like hunting.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
I don't think we should shoot animals.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
And I have a choice to make when they say
something like that, because we either have to thin those
herds every year or we have to be completely ready
for a significant kill off by nature of those animals.
And whitetail deer in Texas are the best example we have,

(10:44):
I don't know, something like thirty million whitetails in Texas.
I'm not sure exactly what the number is, or maybe
it's three million, and we have to take out three
hundred thousand, but it's still a crazy number of deer
that we really need to get out of that herd
so that next year they won't be gaunt, they won't
be starved, they'll be able to make it through another winner,

(11:07):
They'll be able to make it through some other outbreak
of disease with plenty to survive. And it's a balancing
act because as much as we continue to take out
habitat and put up warehouses like on the Katie Prairie,
Holy cow man, I rode that place a few weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
I talked about it already. It posted to Facebook on
it too.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
And every time we take out someplace that wild animals
used to live, those wild animals, even the migratory birds,
try to come back, but they end up scrunched into
smaller and smaller places. By the way, we're gonna talk
to talk to Mitchell Holder about eight thirty. If you
want to jot that down. You have his number, right, Yeah,

(11:49):
we'll call him he sent me a video and as
soon as I didn't even have to open the video
and get the sound to know what it was going
to sound like. But when I heard that sound, I
made a note.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
We got to call Mitchell.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
So anyway, we'll get him on about eight thirty and
get a little handle on what's going on down around
Campo and it from what's going on in that video,
today wouldn't have been a bad morning to be down there.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Let's take a break, shall we.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
We'll go out with Shooter's Corner Palmer High at twenty
Nighte Street down in Texas City. That's Jerry and JTK
arguably two of the best gunsmith's in Texas, there's no
question about that. Pardon me, this is gonna be a
rough one, but I'm gonna make it through. They have
pretty much everything you need and anybody and everybody in
the store, which is important because Jerry and Jay.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Aren't always there this time of year.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
They do a lot of guiding and hunting on it
all over North America. Anyway, whoever's there will help you
get exactly what you need, whether it's guns, amo hunting supply,
or shooting supplies, reloading supplies, optics, Camo.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
It's all in there, and the people are great.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
And if you wear a badge for a living, you
get a discount, which is why you'll almost always see
a law enforcement car out front. Family will and operate
forty something years. The Shooters cornertx dot com. The Shooters
cornertx dot com.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
All right, welcome back fifty plus. Let me take another sip.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
How did I say fifty plus? Now it's affecting my brain.
I don't know that I pardon me.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
I don't know if I.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Spoke that clearly the whole week on fifty plus.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
But I'm plodding along. I'm getting there.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
Man.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
One of the things I wanted to do this morning
to help me and also to kind of kind of
get an idea of what you guys are thinking about stuff,
is I'm gonna ask some questions. Okay, I want to
pose a few questions and see if I could get
you guys to give me some kind of as long
as you want answers.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
This is a rare or rare thing.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
I won't be cutting anybody off this morning because that
means I get to save a little piece of my
voice about fishing and hunting, maybe even a little bit
about golf. You're welcome to pose a question that you'd
like to get answers on, and I'll watch my emails
and i'll watch I'll see what we can get in responses,

(14:15):
just to kind of find out what we do and
don't like about the outdoors in Texas. And I'm presuming
the don't like list will be much shorter than the
do like. For example, I'll give you a fill in
the blank. Okay, Texas has great fishing, but I wish
we could catch more blank in our state. And no,

(14:38):
I'm not going to accept walleyes as an answer. I've
never even caught a walleye. But I don't care where
you're from and how excited you used to get about
walleye fishing.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
But what I've heard, as a sport.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Fisherman, pardon me, and not a meat fisherman, what I've
heard is that walleye fight like a wet sock. Okay,
And that's to me, that's not that's not real fishing.
I want something that when I pull it pulls back,
even a little bitty redfish. I bet a two pound

(15:12):
red fish could pull a four pound walleye inside out
time tail to tail.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
I used to use that as.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
Kind of the barometer, and I wrote about that you
could about how lazy really big bass are compared to
speckled trout or redfish, and I wrote that you could
tie a red fish and a ten pound red a
five pound red fish and a ten pound bass tail
to tail, throw them in the water, and that bass's
gills would be flapping over its eyes in about three seconds.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Red fish would turn him inside out.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Ah, Mercy, I've been on weather watch lately for us,
So we'll start with that question, and then if you
want to go, and if you want to go somewhere else, Frankie,
anybody who wants to call and take me off the
voice hook for a minute.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
That's fine. I want to hear what they have to say.
I really do.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Even maybe I can get somebody who who disagrees with me,
that would be good. I don't get that as often
as i'd like either. I don't mind if you disagree
with something I've said, or disagree with an opinion of
mine or an option of mine for whatever. I'd be
happy to hear why, and then we can talk about
it from there. It's just that simple. I'm I'm not

(16:23):
thin skinned, and I can take legitimate options for you
know the way. I think that's fine. I'll consider anything.
I really will go ahead and put him on hold
and I'll grab him up and we'll see where we go.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Here we go, Hey, Mike, what's going on? Man?

Speaker 8 (16:41):
I gotta say, you sound about fifteen years younger, do
I really?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
I'm gonna try to. I'm gonna try to. I don't
know what filter Frankie's got me on, but we're gonna
keep it.

Speaker 8 (16:51):
You sound like you're talking through one of those wind socks,
fuzzy windsock on one of those microphones on a hurricane.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh gosh, I'm so close. When I wake up, it's
it's it's pretty clear.

Speaker 9 (17:05):
You know.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
But now I'm having to I'm really having to wrestle
with all this stuff, and I'm not I'm not quitting.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
I'm no quitter.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
I'm gonna make it through the day even if it well,
it's not gonna kill me. I'm just gonna go home
and take a big nap. I'm all pumped up full
of stuff too, so I'll be all right.

Speaker 8 (17:20):
It was on your mind, man, Here's what I would
like to see in the fishing industry. I would like
to see a lot more small mouth bass lakes.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
That probably would be doable, because we do have small
mouths in farther north lakes. Now, you're not gonna get
them all the way down here because it's just a
little bit too warm. I'm afraid they don't do well.
They've stalked them in a lot of lakes, let's say,
blow below Dallas, but they tend not to.

Speaker 8 (17:49):
Do very well down the fight like a demon.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
I would I would wholeheartedly agree.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
I think that would be a t KO in the
first round between them and Walleye.

Speaker 8 (18:01):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, smallmouth.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
And now that's another fish that I have not yet caught,
and that's on my bucket list still.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
And that'll be a pretty easy one. So we'll go see.

Speaker 8 (18:12):
You're not missing anything I can tell you, all right.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Man, Mike, thanks for yes, sir, Audios. All right, let's
go grab Tim. Then we'll get to Rick and we'll
try to get to Allen as fast as we can.

Speaker 10 (18:23):
What's up, Tim, Hey, Dug, I wanted to answer your
question about one of the things.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
I like about being in the outfit. Come on, uh,
I'll tell you.

Speaker 10 (18:32):
I just got back from a white tail hunt in Oklahoma,
and I'm going on meil guy hunt down at the
Kennedy Rants tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Oh man, now you're just bragging. Yeah, good for you.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
I got lucky came in. I'll tell you.

Speaker 10 (18:45):
The thing I like the most is not being on
pavement and seeing the sunrise without a building in the world.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
God, oh man.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
You know, my window here where my desk is where
I do most of my other work, faces East Okay,
and it also the sunrise, depending on the time of year,
either comes up through a new four story condo complex
they built out the window in the last two years,
or downtown Houston or the older apartment complex. It's about

(19:17):
three stories tall, and I miss some really good sunrises.
Every now and then it'll look good enough that I'll
take a picture of it and post.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
It to Facebook, just.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Just kind of with a little tear in my eye
because I know what that would look like on the
prairie or out in the woods. And it's just, uh, yeah,
I'm with you, Tim, I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (19:34):
Man.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Audios.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
All right, let's go to Let's go to Rick and
then we'll catch Alan. I bet we can do all this.
What's up, Rick?

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Rick, uh dog, I'm gonna make it quick. Say you're good.
I just I just want to make something that's kind
of buzzed me for a long time. I'm all for
law enforcement. I am not an outlaw. I'm not a bandit.
I don't break the law. But there's one thing I've
never quite understood. I can't and if there I know

(20:08):
there's got to be some law enforcement people listening. And
I may be dead wrong and I'm not law enforcement.
I'm not an attorney, but there's something the way I
understand it that just always has bothered me.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
What's that?

Speaker 4 (20:25):
What's bothered me is and I love game wardens. Don't
get me wrong.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
We all need them, there's no doubt about it.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
But it's kind of bothered me that a game warden
has the right to come into my house and look
in my freezer.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah, that's a little search work, that's right.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
But a Texas ranger or a state trooper to come
in and see if there's a dead body in my
freezer has to go to a judge and get a
search WARRK. Yep. And that's why I quite have understood that.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
I don't understand it either, but that's why a lot
of times when they're investigations into drug cases and stuff
like that, the local law enforcement Bria game boarding with them.
It's an opportunity for law enforcement to maybe kind of
get a peek under the covers, you know. And I
don't understand all that, I really don't, but that's that's

(21:23):
been the case for a lot of years.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
I figure that would create a lot of discussion and
save your throat. That was my only goal. But justice, Oh.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Man, I run, go, run, man. Send me pictures of
wherever you're running. I'll see audios.

Speaker 11 (21:40):
All right.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Let me get to h I'll get to Dan on
the on the way out here, and then I'll get
to Allen when we come back, because I want to
hear what you got to say, Dawn, what's up?

Speaker 4 (21:48):
Man?

Speaker 12 (21:50):
Morning's full?

Speaker 9 (21:52):
You know you was talking about building stuff and they
don't know yet. I remember years ago in the late
eighties early nineties when they had what they called the
Branson boom, and they were building all that stuff around
Branson and everything and all their roads and then they
were getting like like fifteen reports. Today they're getting hit
and everybody cry and wondering why, well, they don't know

(22:14):
where to go.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
No kidding, they don't have a choice there.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
They If you build a road right through the middle
of a ranch deer, eventually they're going to hesitate for
a little while, especially if it's a well traveled road.
But eventually they're going to have to cross that road
because that's where they came from and they want to
get back to something familiar or whatever, and that's why
they get hit. We built the roads in their house.
They didn't come into our house.

Speaker 4 (22:38):
And it's hard to Yeah, I mean, you know a
lot of friends of mine, you know, we ate well.

Speaker 9 (22:42):
Yeah, yeah, roadkilled there, doesn't you know.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
I mean, there's still some good there.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
I had a friend years ago I got up north
tell me about We were talking about road kill, and
he said up where he lived, when people would drive
around I guess it was maybe at night or in
the morning or whatever. Anyway, if they saw an animal
on the side of the road, they would spray paint it.
If it'd been there a while, they'd put a big

(23:10):
X on it because the other people who lived around
there and were scouting early early in the morning for
the overnight roadkill, they didn't want them to get meat
that had been out there.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Too long.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
They were they actually had a system on aging roadkill.

Speaker 12 (23:25):
Well, no, we didn't have none of that, and you
know we just hillbillies.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Yeah, usually just cook it a little longer to make
sure it kills all the germs.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Well, always a pleasure friend, Yeah, I see man audios.
All right, let's take a little break here, Alan, I
appreciate you hanging on. I'm gonna be coming right back
to you when we get back. On the way out,
I'm gonna remind you that air ride bikes up there
in Tomball on Tomball Parkway four corner shopping center.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
That's where it is. Big sale going on right now.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Wayne Errington, the guy who loans a place, has been
sending me stuff to talk about, and basically it comes
down to him having pretty much any and every kind
of e bike that you would like to have. Maybe
something for just sending the kids up to the grocery
store to grab a few things in the afternoon. Maybe
a three wheel. This is a big thing with my

(24:19):
fifty plus crowd. A lot of older people would like
to ride an e bike and get out and get
some fresh air and some vitamin D.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
But they're balanced and quite what it should be.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Well, he's got three wheeled e bikes that'll get you
out there and get you back in the game if
you want to go out and go on bike rides
with people. He's also has got those big heavy duty
hunting bikes that have power to both wheels. They have
big fat tires that will get you all around the woods,
all up and down a soft beach of sand, anywhere

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you need to go. And the best part about using
them for hunting two things. Really they're quiet as little mice.
And there's even a headlight attachment. You can get to
where you can kind of see just in in front
of you with that little red light, but you can't
you won't be scaring the deer. And the other thing
I talked about with him that I didn't even think
about was when you're walking to your deer stand, you're

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putting down scent of some sort almost all the way there.
You're not moving very fast, and every time you drop
a foot on the ground, on the ground or brush
up against a leaf or a limb, you leave scent.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
If you're on an ee bike, you're not.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Leaving any scent except maybe the smell of rubber if
it's super hot, and you wouldn't want to be out
there that way anyway. So you got silence, you got stealth,
an unseted path to your deer stand. Maybe get that
big old buck you've been chasing. Air Ride Bikes. That's
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seven nine at the Duckpike Show. Thank you for listening
so very much. Aaron just sent me a picture from.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Where he is in. What did you say here? Current
conditions up? And hold on?

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Oh there it is Trace Padres, New Mexico. He's on
an al cut Uh. Thanks for that. Wish I was there.
M I got to get to Alan. He waited so patiently,
so long. Alan, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (27:24):
Man?

Speaker 2 (27:27):
I'm getting better. I'm getting better every day. Man, That's
all I can ask you.

Speaker 7 (27:31):
Know, So, so have you tried any honey? Does that
seem the smooth your voice.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
I got, Honey, I got this spray that I always choose.
It's called clear Voice that just just for you know,
when it gets a little scratchy.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
I'm I'm all hopped up on honey, right now, I'm good.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
I hear you so so real quick. You've eaten snooped before?

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Oh? Yes, if you have something it's horble, just hand
it to me. It's be okay.

Speaker 7 (27:58):
I've never never been underneath, so try something. But is
the meat between snoop and trout? What's the what's the text?

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Pretty similar to look alike?

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Well, yeah, it's it's a very white flesh and extremely
tasty and kind of sweet as good as it gets. Man,
there's the first time I actually ate it was down
in Florida with on a trip with Mark Nichols, the
guy who founded d o A, and they all they
did with that little batch. Now bear in mind flaing it,

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broiling it, whatever you want.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
To do with it.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Great, But they had just used like a melon baller
and just scooped out little balls of that stuff and
quick fried them.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
And holy cow, man, m m.

Speaker 7 (28:42):
Yeah, Delicia, that sounds that sounds hurts you good.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yeah, yeah, it's a real good, good hurt feeling.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Man.

Speaker 7 (28:50):
So so let me ask, do you know, you know,
I really don't I hear all these big South Texas dear, lease,
isn't it?

Speaker 12 (28:59):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (29:00):
The rock walls and the ten.

Speaker 7 (29:02):
Thousand dollars deer and all that. So I'm just wondering
if there's anybody out there and outfit her, you know,
for like a blue collar guy and his daughter, maybe
go for two or three days in the hill country,
low fence, uh you know, maybe turned his garage into
a little a little cabin for for for you know,

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hunters to stay or whatever. Sure, nothing nothing crazy expenses.
Do you know of anything like that in the hill country.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
I don't personally know of anything like that in the
hill country, But if you're talking about you and your
daughter going, you might give Blamee Friar mood to call.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
He's down in UHK like he's in South Texas.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
I know who blame is.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Yeah, yeah, if you can get a.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Hold of him and just tell him I recommended him
because I don't know how long he's gonna keep doing
it the way he does it.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
But he's he's always.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Made accommodations for families, you know, parents and children to
come down there, and I'm sure he'd do the same
for you. And he's got he's got good access to
good properties. But no, I understand, I understand what those
shooters did. Yeah, not a whole lot of us can.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Do that you see on TV.

Speaker 7 (30:11):
I'm like, no, I didn't know all that.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Just give me yeah, yeah, and it's good.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
How old your daughter?

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh yeah, you don't want to take her on any
big old hunt.

Speaker 11 (30:23):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
I had a friend of mine email and one of
the guys, one of my listeners, emailing a couple of
weeks ago about how a friend of his had talked
about taking his son, I think around ten to a
big ranch and was gonna let him shoot a big buck.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
And I told the listener who wrote.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
To me, said, man, try to talk him out of that,
because if that kid goes out and shoots a giant
buck first time out of the box, he's not gonna
want to.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Go deer out and never again. He's what's to get,
you know.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
So, and it turned out really well that the kid
got to shoot like a little scrawny, little goofy looking
for wint coal.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
And and but it was his first buck. You know,
it was a great deal.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (31:08):
I mean I remember my dad, he you know, he'd
let me shoot my first dough a while back with it,
you know, I shot it with a four tenth slug.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (31:17):
And so so I'll never forget that we were something
on the ground. But anyway, I was just wondering if
you might know something out there, you know, kind of
a blue collar place.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Yeah there, well there are, there are.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Quite a few enjoy the outdoors.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
I'd start with Blaine and just explain the situation you're in.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Blaine's been in.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
That business a long time, and if he doesn't have
something for you, he probably knows somebody who does.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
Okay, you know how to get in touch with him?
I can find it. I'll find it.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
If you don't email me or text me or whatever,
just find find me somehow.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Call me back tomorrow and I'll give you his number.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
Yeah, because I didn't want to.

Speaker 7 (31:57):
I didn't want to drive, you know, fifteen hours south
Tech maybe somewhere somewhere about four hours away where you
Where are.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
You starting from?

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Yeah, so you'd have to drive an hour just to
get to my house that's on the way.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
Okay, yeah, yeah, so you are looking for hill?

Speaker 3 (32:15):
What about East Texas? Have you thought about that?

Speaker 11 (32:20):
I have.

Speaker 7 (32:21):
I have a house in uh in Mufklin soon the lake,
you know, But I don't want to, you know.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
I I don't want to. I don't want to do
the national you know, no.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah, you don't want to start her in the National Forest.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
That's yeah, that's roughly.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
If it was just you, I'd recommend you got some
pretty good public land.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, it's try Blaine.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
And if that doesn't work and you don't want to
really drive that far, reconnect with me by email just
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com and I'll throw a
couple of feelers out there.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
We'll find you someplace, all right.

Speaker 7 (32:53):
I sure appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
That's my pleasure to be this year.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
But just ahead, Yeah, I take you one thing real
quick before I'll let you go. If you checked in
with the Parks and Waldlife departments, state park.

Speaker 3 (33:04):
Hunts, I haven't looked at. That's that's what.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
That probably would be a really good start, because when
they shut those parks down for a weekend to do
management hunts, they're not going to just tell you, you know,
here we all are at the gate ready to go.
They have feeders set up, they have blinds set up
because they need those deer taking off that place, and
that might that might be a really inexpensive way to.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Get in on some of that.

Speaker 4 (33:32):
And I can find on their website, Parks and Waldlife Department.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Absolutely, state park hunts start there and that should get
you there.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Yeah, man, I'm glad I thought of that. That's a
good one.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
Yeah, I am too. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Yeah, thanks for hanging around, Allen. I appreciate it. Man.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
How do ever, that is one of the greatest resources
this state has. If somebody just wants to get a kid,
or maybe there's a couple of places that they actually
have really good quality bucks even that go out on
those state park hunts, and not as many as the
dose that they have to take off. But if you're

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looking to get a kid, a first deer and you've
got your hunter safety and all that stuff taken care of,
I would strongly recommend that program. All Right, we got
to take a little break here again. Belleville Meat Market
right where it's been for forty something years, out there
in the middle of Belleville. It's about fifteen minutes north

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of Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead. And if you
don't know where it is, when you get into town,
just roll your windows down and when you hear barb
or smell barbecue smoke, just turn into the wind.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
It's right there. You can't miss it, honest to goodness.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
And the best part about it is that they have
now not only all the meat products that they've always
had at Bellville Meat Marketing.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
I'll get to those in a second.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
But just every day, seven days a week, they are
open to receive your deer. And if you've got deer
that need processing through a great processor, Bellville is a.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
Good place to take them. They are three lanes.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
They built an entire building just for a while game
processing about I don't know, five six years ago something
like that.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
It may be more now. I've been talking about them
so long.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
And what you do is you drive up and somebody's
gonna come hustling out there, young strong guys. They'll come
hustling out there with a cart. They'll get all that meat,
take it back in through the one door, and then
you go in through kind of like it's not a
showroom but whatever. There's a big menu that you get
to look at. It's as big as any restaurant menu
you ever saw, with all the options on how you

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can get your deer meat prepared or whatever meat you're
bringing in there. They'll they'll pretty much process anything. But
if you're questioning anything with four legs. They don't do birds,
but if you bring them deer, you bring them access deer, fallader,
cyca deer and help. If you've got one close enough
that you can get it back and still be in
good shape whatever, they'll process that for you and you'll

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get a phone call in a few days saying your
meats ready to come pick it up. On both trips,
I would highly recommend preserving time and setting aside time
to go eat that barbecue, lunch and dinner that they
have every day from ten in the morning till seven
at night.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
That's some pretty good stuff. They've got stuffed pork.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Tenders, stuffed one, two, three, four, five, six different ways,
the processing beef, jerky, turkey, jerky, dry sausage, dry stick, everything,
all the grab and go snacks absolutely outstanding. And their
new sauce this is the Pelicano Hot Sauce.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
You might want to.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Try that while you're out there too. Belleville MeetMarket dot com.
If you can't get out there, they'll ship darn near
anything in the store right to your door. Bellville Meatmarket
dot com man On any other day, I might even
just sing along to this when it comes in. That's
kind of a fun little song to sing. It's got
some good parts in it. Not today, though, if only,

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if I'm maybe someday seven fifty on.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thanks for listening.
Let me go get this call real quick here. What's
going on? Who's this?

Speaker 13 (37:11):
My name is Doug. How you doing this?

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Now? That'll be easy to remember what's going on?

Speaker 4 (37:16):
Doug?

Speaker 13 (37:16):
Yeah, you got a great name. Hey, So I heard
the guy calling about the daughter one yeah, yeah, yeah,
ten year old daughter that instructor. And uh so the
signing up for the state hunts has already been it's
already passed.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Okay, but there's.

Speaker 13 (37:30):
A program called Texas Youth Hunting Program. Oh yeah, yeah, uh,
mixed hunts, and then they have girl only hunts whether
the dad or my mom go with them.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 13 (37:41):
And it's a really good opportunity for one hundred bucks
a person to go out and hunt and kill their
first dear.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
So good.

Speaker 13 (37:49):
And it's all all the way through January. Yeah, and
then even in the spring they have spring turkey hunts. Uh,
they have hall hunts, fishing, fishing. It's just to get
the youth outdoor. Uh, Now. Something that people don't know
is they have a graduation hunt as you get older.
They have an l hunt out in West Texas where

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that one you're you're aged out. You have to be
sixteen to seventeen years old.

Speaker 12 (38:16):
For that hunt.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
I'm so close.

Speaker 13 (38:18):
But the t y hp dot org program boosts UH
State Barts is a great program to get kids outdoors.
They get mills, they get a breakfast, lunch.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
And dinner, Holy cow, for a hundred bucks.

Speaker 13 (38:31):
They learn for a hundred bucks, they get they learn
about the outdoors tracking.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
Uh, you know what side what food is good?

Speaker 13 (38:39):
You know, it's a whole it's a whole program and
it's really good.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (38:44):
At the end of the month, they're going to have
a super hunt out in Fredericksburg, but it's probably already full.
Something for him to consider next year. Also, you can
get my contact information. I know uh a guy that
has cheap hunch for use in Harper, Texas and he's
booked up this year, but I can get him lined
up with him next year.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Yeah, that would be really good. Off the radio, can
you I tell you what?

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Will you leave your number with Frankie? And then if
Allen calls back, he can.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Call you.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
No problem.

Speaker 13 (39:16):
State park hunts are great. Yeah, I've done one before,
and there's some really solid deer on the parks.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yeah, there's a couple of what is it Callahan maybe
is that the one where the biggest bucks are.

Speaker 13 (39:29):
Yes, yes, Callahan? And then uh uh there's a place
up near the lake halfway to Dallas. What's the big
lake right there? Change chant Richmond chains rich Park up
there that produces some studs and you're hunting in front
of a fear and it's no time in the park

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you can have peace.

Speaker 8 (39:51):
Uh. You know.

Speaker 13 (39:53):
The biggest complaint is national parks. We have our national Force,
we have public land. They don't They don't clear out
shooting lanes or have you know, they don't do food plots.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
I don't think they care really whether you get a
deer in the National Forest. I think the state cares
more about Texas deer than the Feds do.

Speaker 13 (40:14):
They They just want your forty eight bucks for the
public lands.

Speaker 8 (40:17):
They don't care.

Speaker 12 (40:18):
Damn.

Speaker 8 (40:18):
You know.

Speaker 13 (40:19):
That's that's been my biggest other. You go to Tennessee
and the National Forest, you go there to hunt. You know,
they're they're clear cut, they have a food plot. Yeah,
you know, it's it's it's enjoyable. It's Texas parks a
while or whoever manages the National forest hunting is a joke.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
Yeah, the national forest we have go ahead, you know,
it's just sad.

Speaker 13 (40:43):
Yeah, because we have in Texas. They don't care, they
don't care about it.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Well, with all the land that's available, they could really
turn that into a special resource because there's plenty of
deer in those national forests, but they're just hard to
get to. And that's why I would never recommend that
anybody try to take a son or a daughter on
a first year hunting in the national force. But the
state park hunts are really legit. And I'm glad you
reminded me about that youth program.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
Thank you, Yes sir.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
All right, Doug, I'm gonna put you back on hold
so Frankie can get your number. Okay, Hey, all right, man,
what a great call that was. Huh, Hunter education instructor.
Those guys know so much. That would be if you're
just starting out looking for someplace to go do a
youth hunt, find a hunter safety instructor. Okay, Brian sent me,

(41:33):
actually he sent me two dad jokes. One of which
is hunting related. Ah, man, I wish I had a
drum roll for this. He figures I'd already heard this,
but so help me. I don't remember ever hearing this one,
and it's something found on the internet, and I don't
there's no attribution anywhere I'd give it.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
It says from at Peter Bush TV.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Whatever that is. To give credit where credit's due. Um, Frankie,
I need you to answer this question.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (42:06):
Why did the deer go to the dentist?

Speaker 5 (42:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Why did he because it had buck teeth?

Speaker 5 (42:14):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Yeah, that's that's pretty good, man, And you can tell
that to anybody.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
That's a pretty good one. There's a second one, but
I'm gonna hold on to it. I might come back
to it later. I don't wanna. I don't want to.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Mess up this one in any any way at all.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Holy cow uh lyle Wade In about Bellville meat Market,
he said, one of my favorite sausages I pick up
there is dirty rice, nice flavoring firms for me and
not greasy yum. I think yum is probably the one
word I see most often when people write me about
going to Bellville Meat Market. There's a whole lot of

(42:51):
yum in that building. I can assure you. Seven one
three seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia Dot
come and go.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
Make sure there's no more emails. I got to get
to Let's see what David's got going on here. Let's
go hunting.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Yeah, David said, just what Doug was talking about, the
Texas Youth Hunting program nine years old, seventeen years old,
and they've got hunts for not only deer, but uh
there's a right here on the front page of this
thing shows a kid with a Havolina shot somewhere in Texas.
Let me get to David before we go to the
break here, stand by David.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
What's up, man?

Speaker 4 (43:28):
Yeah, real quickly, Doug. I think you got the picture
I sent you about the Texas Youth hunting.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Yeah, I just talk about that.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
Yeah, yeah, all right.

Speaker 14 (43:35):
Uh, something I don't like about Texas and I've prefaced
it this way, and I know I got to be quick.
Imagine you pull up, Imagine you pull up to your
fishing spot on Lake condo right out of the publicly
and you see that somebody has put up a camera
to watch whoever's fishing there. Oh wow, really, well this

(43:56):
is I say, I'm prefacing it.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
This is what concerns me. People on you know, more
people are hunting public land because of the price of
pass people are putting these cameras.

Speaker 14 (44:07):
Up on public land, and yeah, I think they're eventually
going to make it illegal. Yeah, because just like if
somebody were to put a camera up over your place
where you fish on Lake Conro, it's creating a sense
of ownership unfortunately, where people put up these game cameras
and then suddenly they see somebody on their game camera

(44:28):
and they want to know, who are you? You know, what,
what are you doing there?

Speaker 2 (44:32):
Well, I'm doing the same thing you're doing there, only
I didn't put up a camera.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
So move on.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
But yes, and so anyway, I just want to throw
that out there.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yeah, yeah, you know what, I'm going to make a
little note of that because I had never really even
thought of people putting private cameras on public land, hunting
spots or fishing.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
It is getting rapid in the in the national forest.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
What is the What are the people who run those
national forces say about it?

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Right now? Nothing not doing.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
It's an example where the technology kind of is getting
ahead of the uh the common sense. Yeah, yeah, God.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Okay, that's a good topic. I'll bring it back up again. Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
Let me get through this break here and we might
talk about that a little more. Thank you, David.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
That's great man audios. Yeah, holy cow, that's the first
I've heard of that. And you know, I'm a little
bit out of the loop sometimes with with some of
the technology that's out there and how it's being used.
I was man when those cameras first came out. I
was one of the first people.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
To have one.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Had to put film in it and had to go
back and retrieve the film and then take it to
the processing place at the drug store or whatever and
see what you got back on your little prints. And
I've said it before, well, never mind, that's an old story.
I don't want to I don't want to rehash any
old stuff unless I just have to today, and I'm

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feeling pretty good about making it through this voice or
no voice. Black Horse Golf Club that might not be
a bad place to play a little golf today if
you don't mind some chili weather up there. Off two
ninety go two ninety to Fry Road, hang a south
about two and a half three miles down, hang a
west back through the gate at black Horse and there.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
You will be.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
You'll be ushered up through that front, nice winding little
road to the clubhouse. You've got the North Course, which
is still daily fee and has been forever, at the
South Course, which was taken private this year, and they're
doing great things with that as more of a country
club experience. There's gonna be a lot more improvements as
they go along. I know that for sure. Either course

(46:38):
you play up there, you're going to have a good experience,
and everybody up there wants to make sure you have
a good time. Now, the membership on the South Course,
bear in mind, gets you access not only to black
Horse both courses there, but there's an option that also
gets you access to both courses at Golf Club of
Houston to black Hawk Country Club out in Richmond. So

(47:03):
basically you get five for one and if you're like
me and you like to play different courses from time
to time, that's a.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Great way to do that.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
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Speaker 3 (47:20):
Here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Second hour starts now feeling better and better. Actually, there
was no way I was not going to come in
here and try to do a show this morning. My
wife came up last night and I was just kind
of avoiding everybody because I was coughing a lot.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
And I'm on the mend.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
I'm better, I'm I'm getting there, but I've been horse
all week. And she said, why don't you just call
somebody or text somebody and just tell them you can't
come in, just stay here and sleep. And I'm like,
I've already been out for a long time. I'm taking
care of this so and I wanted nothing more than

(48:02):
to be in here.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
And that's that's gospel truth. Let's go talk to Dave,
see what's up? It's up date?

Speaker 12 (48:09):
Hey do Yeah? I get that every once in a while,
to that horse soake and stuff like, yeah, man, you
know how you know I talk so much.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
I'll tell you the line.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Let me tell you before you tell me what you
want to tell you, I'll give you the line to
use next time. You're a little horse like that is
just to tell people you're identifying as a pony this
week because you're a little horse.

Speaker 12 (48:30):
Oh like that. Yeah, Hey, let me tell you what
I told the producers there, I said, Frankie, I said, yeah,
all right, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do a
promo for y'all.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
Two one.

Speaker 12 (48:44):
Yeah, thanks to Bellville Meat Marketing that Patia smoke turkey.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Man off the table.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
That's right. You got one of those, didn't you.

Speaker 12 (48:56):
Yeah. When I when I heated it up, you know,
we were here in Willis and we had to drive
to Austin. I had my big big ice igloo icess
in there with some towels in there and everything. So
when I got it, when I got it heated up,
I was basting it with chicken broth and uh. And
then I poured some of that off.

Speaker 7 (49:17):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (49:17):
I poured that into my dogs though anyway. Uh. Then
uh I put it inside that ice chest with the
turkey dressing, and man as eight adults and like six
kids and my son in law, he cut it up
and she was flying out of there. Man, it was good.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
That's good stuff.

Speaker 12 (49:37):
Today is officially my wife and I jay Lynn. She
was named after her dad put jay Lynn on there,
you know. Anyway, our first wedding anniversary.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Good for you, man, it's been a year already.

Speaker 12 (49:51):
Know it's already been.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
She hadn't booted you out yet.

Speaker 12 (49:57):
She's got mad at me. She gets mad at me
a few times in there.

Speaker 15 (50:00):
But I always always always go and go to like
to walk Birder or Dairy Crean and like my dad
used to do for my mom, and bring it back here, honey,
I got this for you if you want to.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
You could get if you have the courage.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
There's a T shirt I saw on on I think
on Facebook or something for sale, and it's for married
couples and it puts both your names on there and
then it says annoying each other since and you could
put twenty twenty four.

Speaker 12 (50:29):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
Hey.

Speaker 12 (50:31):
Hey, uh and like she she got me a deal
for Halloween. Uh and it says I feel witchy today.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Oh my goodness, they're staying back.

Speaker 12 (50:42):
She got that on you. No, no, she hanged her
on her office door. I know I'm not to bother you, know, huh.
But no, Hey, we had a good time. I'm I'm
right here on Lake Conrod has slickers, gas glass. There's
a ton of boats and trucks. And trade.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
He was out here.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
I'm gonna tell you that lady.

Speaker 12 (51:02):
Here, one lady sitting here getting all her riggings together,
and she looks like she's seizing. She's a seasoned fishing
or finishing person. Let me tell you all about the
finish over here to where I throw out and range keys.
So look on your Facebook page. Okay, cat fishing.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
I saw that thing. Yeah that's a piece.

Speaker 12 (51:24):
Yeah. Well, this buddy of mine, Samson, a few days ago,
I was up at the at the gas station and
he had a shirt on fishing shirt, and I started
talking to him and he saw my guitar, Dave hat He.

Speaker 16 (51:35):
Goes, I know, I know you my uncle Rick. He
called in the cat mickey all the time and blah
blah blah. He called his uncle and he goes, yeah,
I'm taking I'm taking a guitar Dave fishing with me,
because see it was.

Speaker 12 (51:47):
Pretty windy out here, you know. And he had his boat.
So we went to seven coves over there where he
lives at. We went to the boat stall where it was,
and now I got vi p with him. Could go
over there and fish down the boat dogs. He caught
a big proppery there we went out way past that

(52:08):
lighthouse out there, and we had to go around a corner. Man,
I was sitting in the front seat. It was a
Cauti cushion seat, and I had my feet popped up
on that front gun or whatever you know, and and
uh man, it was like riding the riding the bullet gillies. Man,
lor we were slamming. Yeah, we were slamming. And then

(52:31):
he just had two lines straight down with this big
with the big float on there. And uh so he's
lifting it up. I'm cutting the hooks off and putting
them in a in a little compartment he has there.
And then all of a sudden, here comes that Here
comes that bigger caffish up out of their bed. I
couldn't already lift that thing up, and I got if

(52:52):
you look at the picture I got. I was wearing
steel deer skin and gloves and I could barely get
both hands. I mean, I would hold it with both had.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
The big fish. Hey, I gotta run.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
I'm gonna leave you with the other. Hold on with
the other. Dad joke that Brian sent. Okay, you're ready, Frankie,
you're listening.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
He's listening.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
What do you call a Christmas wreath made of one
hundred dollars bills.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
I don't know what a wreath of Franklin's.

Speaker 12 (53:28):
Franklin's. I got it.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Also from at Peter Bush TV. I don't know if
he wrote them, but he posted him or something like that.
They came through Brian, and thanks Brian. Those are both
really good. All right man, great to hear.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
From you day.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (53:44):
Yeah, Like I said, we're looking looking for Christmas. Now
you know what I'm hanging lights?

Speaker 2 (53:48):
Oh yeah, all right man, I'll see audio. Yeah, those
big old catfish. I saw somebody on Facebook this morning,
actually who I don't know where they were, but they
had a a line set off a tree with like
a heavy duty, if you will, crappie pole and then
heavy duty line, just to know if they had a

(54:09):
bite on that thing. And they did when they rolled
up on it, and this guy reached out and grabbed
the line and kept pulling and pulling, and the catfish
they rolled over the side of that boat and into
it was probably thirty five forty pounds. It was a
legitimate beast of a catfish. They get much bigger, they
certainly do. But I don't know for me, if I

(54:34):
went catfishing today and I wanted to catch a big fish.
I would define that as maybe six or eight pounds
or better. That's a really good catfish, it is. And
a couple of two pounders and one and a half
two three pounders, and those are excellent eating. There's nothing
wrong with them, for sure. I'm going to get to

(54:55):
somebody who. Let me see who was real quick before
I go to break. Somebody wanted to talk about the
rainbow trout stocking. Yeah that's Larry. Where do you find
rainbow trout stocking locations? Okay, yeah, I'll get to that
when we come back, because those fish are being stalked
all over the state right now.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
And I'll get to Larry's question.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
Take a little break here on the way out, I'll
tell you about Manny Lopez and El Cubano Cigars. This man,
if there was a nice time for smoking a cigar
around a campfire and deer camp this would be pretty
much it. Cool nights, cool days, even you can do
it at lunch time, anytime you want to, really, And
El Cubano makes hand rolled cigars right here in Texas City.

(55:37):
That's where their factory is, one of only about four
dozen in the whole United States, most of them in
Florida down toward Miami, and a few of them elsewhere,
but this is pretty much the only one within a
couple of hundred miles, and that if you want to
buy your cigars direct, that's a good way to do it.
You can go right down there to Texas City and

(55:57):
check out the smoking lambs there and many. He has
another one over in League City. As a matter of fact,
it's more Avana style. They don't manufacture over there, but
there's a lot of good stories told over fine cigars.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
They make one hundred and fifty different.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Kinds, and they can make them specially for you or
the cause that you're running a tournament for, or the
wedding reception you're going to have, or whatever, some corporate event,
whatever it is. Many can make your cigars exactly as
you like and then put your company's brand or your
charity's brand on the bands of those cigars. It's a

(56:34):
really great opportunity that doesn't involve middlemen who want to
take a little piece of the pile. All the way
around the block banded cigars, banded boxes for special occasions.
He'll even come to your event and roll cigars for
your guests right there on the spot. Manny is one
of the coolest guys I've met in a very long time,

(56:54):
and I hope you guys are supporting him because he
does make great cigars. I've passed a few around myself,
and he will come to your event and really put
on a show for your folks. Elcubanocigars dot com. Elcubanocigars
dot com eight eighteen on sports Sox seven nine at

(57:15):
the Duckpike Show. Thank you for listening this morning. Thanks
for enduring my scratchy voice, which is, believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Way better than it was during the week.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
I am officially on the backside of this garbage and
it's going away, and it's gonna keep going away, and
by tomorrow I should be pretty good. And then by Monday,
when we play the Saint Jude Golf Tournament out at
Golf Club of Houston, I should be able to just
scream very loudly, either because I missed an easy putt,

(57:46):
or I made a hard putt, or maybe hit a
good chip shot or something.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
I don't know. I'm hoping to contribute to the team,
and I think I can. I think I can.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
I'm gonna try to get out and do a little
bit of practicing. What I'm trying to do is not
go out and overdo anything. I know where my faults
are in my game, I know where my strengths are,
and so I may go out and just focus on
short game because I've already got a little help in

(58:15):
the in the driving area with at least one of
my players and maybe two on my team, and hopefully
that'll be enough to though I don't have to worry
about hitting my drives, although I do qualify, and actually
I think another one of my teammates may qualify to
play from the forward tis because we're seniors.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
We're so old. Now.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Granted, I've lost a lot of swing speed and I'm
but I'm still limping along. But one of my guys,
one of my guys, can still hit it pretty good
and I think he qualifies. Now we'll find out Monday.
That's all Mojo ways in Happy good morning, brook On.
That's something outside of the outdoors. When I talked about Aaron,

(59:03):
Aaron sending pictures from where he's el hunning out West,
and I sent him back, said, Okay, now I'm waiting
on the pictures of a cow, a cow in the
back of the truck, and he sent back three words
working on it.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
Good for you.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
Stay with it, Aaron. I think he's probably listening. If
they're driving around and scouting. I bet you he's listening.
He's been, He's probably listened from more parts of the
country than anybody else. He may not have the farthest
long distance listen that goes all the way back to somebody.
In the very early days of streaming, Frankie, I think

(59:40):
you've heard me talk about this. There was a guy
at Orley Airport in Paris who had a delay on
a flight he was trying to catch and was listening
to the show over there. So that's pretty far out there. Wow,
I know seven one three two five seven ninety. Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
Oh by the way, oh wait, let me go back
to my well.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
I hate not having both screens to work with in here,
but I do or I don't, and there's no way
I can get them, so I've just got to go
back to back. I had an email asking about the
Rainbow Trap stocking schedule. I have it in front of
me right here. If anybody's interested in a particular place,
I have got it sorted right now by city.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
I'm gonna go down to Houston.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Well, hold on, I'm gonna kind of slide down and well,
I'll just go to Houston and tell you where there are,
because there's one really good stocking this year.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
Let me abcdefg there we are.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Eisenhower Park's gonna get its Well, it doesn't get anything
until hold on, let me find some earlier stockings.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
I'm hoping Hockey.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
Gets some fish on the seventeenth of this month, the
Hockey Wrecked complex down here in Houston. Bain Park Lake.
I know where that is. I fished it more than once.
It's gonna get eight hundred and January. Eisenhower Park gets
sixteen hundred and January. Kick a Rillo, Missie. I'm not
sure where that lake is. I got a hunch. I
know it's gonna get twenty five hundred fish on six

(01:01:08):
seventy eight, nine ten eleven. On Thursday of next week,
December eleventh, Kickerillo Mission Lake, I'm not sure where it is,
gets twenty five hundred fish. Now, they may be spread
out into more than one stocking. It doesn't tell me
that here. Let me open this up a little bit
and see if there's more than No, No, that's not
that's from the East Texas Fish Actuery Meyer Park Pond

(01:01:32):
gets his fish, thirteen hundred of them on December eleventh
as well, Sheldon Tom Bass won. That's a big lake. No,
that's the little lake at Tom Bass, isn't it. No,
Tom Bass Won. It is only getting eight hundred fish
this year. That's too bad. That's on December seventeenth. If
I'm not mistaken, that's the tom Bass that used to

(01:01:55):
get four thousand fish. And if they only drop eight
hundred and that big lake, I'm not sure which one
it is. The list goes on and on with other
like Missouri City. I'm pretty sure. Let me run down
to this one, because that's a pretty good one. I'm
not late, am I, Frankie, I'm early?

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Still right?

Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
Oh you're golden?

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I got till the bottom.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
Missouri City. Yeah, here's where it gets multiple stockings.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
Okay, they're gonna get a total of almost nineteen hundred
fish one two, three, four, five, six, seven divided by seven,
So it's gonna be what two hundred and fifty three
hundred fish somewhere in there. Now, bear in mind, this
Missouri City lake is very small. It's a little bitty lake,
so it won't be hard to find them and catch

(01:02:43):
them in there. And they're being released every looks like
about every ten days, twelve days. You can see the
whole schedule at the at the at the Texas Park
and Wildlife Site. Let me check sugar Land, see what
we get down there. Sugar Land officially has zero stocking lakes.

(01:03:05):
There's one that we used to get might have been
sugar Land, might not. Bottom line is they're dumping three
hundred and thirty five thousand rainbow trout plus into lakes
all over this great state of ours. And it's a
really fun opportunity. It's a really good way to if
you like to eat rainbow trout, you can get enough

(01:03:25):
to eat. You can use bait, you can use lures,
whatever you want to use. The current bag limits same
as it's always been. There's no minimum link limit. And
some of those fish, some of those fish eate more
food pellets than others. Let's just put it that way.
Every now and then you'll catch one that's four or
five inches long, but the majority of them are going

(01:03:45):
to be somewhere in eight to ten inches where there's
enough meat on them if you kind of rain or and.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Just splay them out. And I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
About filet and those little guys, they just need to
be put in there and then just gently plucked of
their meat with a fork when you get them cooked
to the way you like them. Any angler fishing in
a community I'm reading now fishing lake or from a
dock peer JETI when texts may use no more than
two poles. Special limits are infect in effect on parts
of the Guadaloupe.

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
That makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Trout anglers will need a valid fishing license that includes
a fresh water endorsement under seventeen not required to have
a license, or about licenses and stamps. No endorsements not
required when fishing within a Texas State Park. If you've
never been trout fishing, here are some tips. I'll give
you the tips. If you can night crawlers, any kind

(01:04:40):
of night crawler, any kind of worm, any kind of
whatever you can put on a hook that'll wiggle a
little bit, will probably catch them. However, I've had as
good luck or better and not had to worry about
fish getting picked off by other things, except maybe a catfish.
With some of these little trout nibbles that come in

(01:05:02):
a jar. The ones that I liked the most were
the white ones that float, and they look like little
dumbbells when they come out of there, or almost like
a string of pearls is probably how they start.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
And then they get cut in between and dumped into
a little jar.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
And with this magic, nasty smelling fish formula, and you
put one or two of those on about a size
sick size six hook and just either if you're using
two poles, you're gonna want to float one of those baits,
or put one of those baits under a float maybe
three four feet, depending on how deep the water is.

(01:05:39):
And then also take one and put a little piece
of split shot on the line about two to two
and a half feet above the bait and throw it
out there. Because the little white ones float. Make sure
you get the floating ones so it'll lift it just
off the bottom enough to where it won't get hung
up in any grass or yucky yucky stuff that might
disguise them from the fish. And then just sit back

(01:06:01):
and watch for the line to tighten up or the
cork to go down and you'll probably be able to
tell kind of where most of the fish are being
caught by where most of the people are standing. But
those fish do tend to move around in little wads
of maybe five, ten fifteen fish.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
They're not rogues. There's a few bigger fish.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
They might go off on their own, but mostly they
kind of stay together, especially in lakes that also have
large mouth bass in them, like Tom Bass one. I
would be willing to bet that those large mouths in
that big lake at Tom Bass probably got a third
of the rainbow trout that were stalked in there when
they were stalking so many.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
Joe Doggett and I used to go down there all
the time.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
That lake was good. There's one up on the northwest
side of town that was good. I can't recall the
name of it offhand, but we probably tried five or
six of them, and we're to varying degrees successful in
each of them. We fly fished, sometimes we use spinning rods.
Sometimes there's nothing really that's about the right size to

(01:07:03):
throw on any kind of bait caster for those little fish,
and it's really just overpowering if you do.

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
You don't want to use.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
What I don't advise doing is because those fish are small,
A lot of people tend to go out and buy
a really super ultra light spinning outfit or ultra light
bait caster, one of those ones with about a four
and a half foot rod, and it's just like a
noodle and four or six pound test on the.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
Reel you get with it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
You can't throw the little lures far enough on those
things to really get it where it needs to be.
And so I prefer to take a little bit, little
bit bigger rod, maybe a six foot rod with a
very a very aggressive little tip, to spit that thing

(01:07:48):
out there far enough to get them to the fish.
If they happen to be a little farther out, then
you can cast with a little one.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
You'll have a much better time.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Now you can also chum, and this is something I've
talked about forever, for fish, for carp for all of
these different fish. You can chum with corn soaked in
vanilla extract. You can use that for bait too. I've
caught almost as many cars or rainbow trout on vanilla
soaked corn as I have on anything else. I got
to take a break here when we get back, we're
gonna talk to Mitchell Holder out there in El Campo.

(01:08:18):
He stepped me a video of a whole bunch of
geese over a big old spread. I want to know
what's going on out there after we've had this nice
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Country dot Com. Welcome back, eight thirty three on Sports
Talk seven to ninety The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
All the phones we go to find out what the
heck's going on down in El Campo, Mitchell Holder, what's
going on?

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
Man?

Speaker 11 (01:09:31):
And good morning, Doug.

Speaker 4 (01:09:32):
How are you doing.

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
I'm good. Are you out in the middle of a
field somewhere?

Speaker 11 (01:09:36):
No, just uh did a little scouting this morning, okay,
kind to see if there was some geese to poke
around at. Gotcha, bro came up empty, but got to
see a bunch of ducks on my ponds.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
That's nice.

Speaker 11 (01:09:50):
That's a nice change, getting fat and happy and so
not a care in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
All of the worries in the very early part of
the season, the very first two weeks of the season,
when everybody always jumps the guz and why don't we
have any ducks down here yet?

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
Duck season's open.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
It's because the weather didn't change, right, We're now we're
getting back to where we need to be.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
Is that a fair assessment?

Speaker 11 (01:10:10):
Yeah, I think so. I think these last couple fronts,
big full Moon this past week. You know, it helps
definitely a bunch of movement, and yeah, starting to see
big pushes of even more pentail and snowgie showing up.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Now all compare it to the last two or three years?
What numbers of snow geese? Is it any you think
there's a few more maybe here than last year or
not about the same.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
One, Probably about the same.

Speaker 11 (01:10:43):
Okay, they're a little bit late getting down here though.

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
It was.

Speaker 11 (01:10:50):
You know, I just usually I at least have a
couple of goose hunts in November, and the first goose
hunt of the season for us was this past Wednesday,
which is wow, the latest in my in my twenty
years ago?

Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
Is that where that video came from? Yes, that was
worth waiting for.

Speaker 11 (01:11:08):
It seems like, yeah, no, it was good.

Speaker 17 (01:11:12):
It was good.

Speaker 11 (01:11:12):
It was an old cornfield that still had some corn
in it after harvest, and they loaded up in there
and I was able to find a couple of guys
to go and we just small full body spread and
layouts and speckle bellies are mean though, I will tell
you that. I know it's like you will. Usually we're

(01:11:33):
you know, November, they're nice. But yeah, I got to
remember that it's not November anymore, so the the segregation
is on. They don't want anything to do with a
with a white decoy already.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Do you guys have more rice production or about the
same rice production this year as last year.

Speaker 11 (01:11:53):
I would say it's probably on par as last year.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:11:57):
It just depends on the rotation every year, least on
our properties. You know, some years it's it's just give
and take on what fields are getting farmed and what aren't.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
I think you and all the other outfitters out there
have had to just adapt to the development of the prairies.
I mean, and that's across the board Man, that's all
the way from Highway six down to Eagle Lake. Everything's
getting built out and built up, and there's just not
going to be enough food to support a lot more geese.

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But I'm hoping that at least when people drive around
the prairie this time of year, especially people like me
who used to know it for what it was, I
want to see a few geese at least when I'm
making that drive.

Speaker 11 (01:12:41):
Yeah, yeah, where we are definitely.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:12:45):
You know, back back back in the day, we could
you know, you could drive down fifty nine and see
them on the on the side of the freeway. Now
you've got to kind of get off, get off in
it to see some geese feeding somewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
Way off in it. It's okay, you know, I'm just
glad there's still.

Speaker 11 (01:13:02):
Some Pierce Ranch anymore to Yeah, you know that that
kind of hurts.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
That's a good point. I'm still glad there are geese
coming down here. And as long as we can hold
on to at least some to kind of mix up
a mixed bag hunt. You know, got go out and
set up for a big duck hunt. You might shoot
a few geese.

Speaker 11 (01:13:22):
Right, No, yeah, yeah, I think as long as there's
as long as we continue to pump water for the ducks,
I think, you know, you speckle bellies and and what
few snows come down are still gonna still gonna make
make the trip.

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
Do you think you have more speckle bellies than snow geese?

Speaker 4 (01:13:41):
Now that's hard to say. It's hard to say.

Speaker 11 (01:13:47):
It might be close to even, but you know it's
just right now you'll see a group of a couple
of hundred specs here, a couple of hundred there, So
they're kind of spread out a little bit more, whereas
the snows are going to be in bigger water.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
It seems that's a good point.

Speaker 11 (01:14:01):
More snow geese, you know. But yeah, the speckle bellies
are kind of off in their own little pods already.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
Well, yeah, they'll sit around, uh, they'll break out and
and just go in little batches, whereas those those snow geese, for.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
Sure, they're kind of birds of a feather. They want
to stick together.

Speaker 11 (01:14:19):
And I've noticed I've noticed these speckle bellies starting to
more and more to hang out with the sand hills than.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
How many cranes you got down there already.

Speaker 11 (01:14:31):
We've got quite a few cranes, been seeing quite a
few shoot over by one farm. I think it's got
to be maybe a couple of thousands out for the
past month or so. So yeah, and I know there's
more even more south of town.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
So I might try and come slip out with you
one morning to do that. And Tony Crane is so long.

Speaker 11 (01:14:50):
Man, Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, bring something home to eat,
for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
It's not bad eating either.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
As nasty as they on the ground, they really do well,
what do they call them, the ribi of the sky?

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (01:15:07):
That's right?

Speaker 3 (01:15:07):
That's right.

Speaker 11 (01:15:08):
Yeah, you wouldn't think. You wouldn't think when you pick
them up, did they think they.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
Smell like my what I always told people, They smell
like Grandma's attic. That's about it's musty and nasty and
and as a caution to anybody who might be going
out there and and having some of these things flying over,
let them know how dangerous those things are to dogs
and hunters.

Speaker 11 (01:15:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, I've got one of my guys. He's
religious about putting the doggles on his dog ski goggles
on before we go crane on him. So and I've
seen them, Yeah, I've seen them get real close to
those eyes before they try.

Speaker 3 (01:15:49):
That's what they're shooting for. I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
I mean, they're they're focused on a headshot if they
can get it, and that beak, if that bea hits
your hand or a dog's eyeball, that somebody's going to
get hurt and it won't be that bird.

Speaker 11 (01:16:02):
Oh yeah, I've seen those. I've seen crippled crane talons, terriff.
Uh yeah, old pair of lightweight waiters before.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
Oh my gosh, I wouldn't want to be been on
the receiving end.

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
Of that holy cow. No, such a big bird.

Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
Yeah, they're relentless.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
Is it still fair to say that if their eyes
are closed, you got problems, and if they're open, it's
probably dead now.

Speaker 11 (01:16:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's uh. And shoot, when they're running,
you got a better chase them down because they're quick.
They'll run across the cloud field back like a miniature
or something.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
Just take yeah, yeah, all right, So back to the
duct real quick, and I'll let you get back to
whatever you're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:16:49):
You scouting still? Are you just back at the house.

Speaker 11 (01:16:51):
No, I just got back to the lodge that the
boy finished up scouting.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
His breakfast time for you, isn't it just about?

Speaker 4 (01:17:00):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
What about ducks? What other than the pentails? But you
could you had me at pent tails, you know that?
But what else is? What else is showing up on
the straps? Any any mallards at all?

Speaker 12 (01:17:10):
Yet?

Speaker 11 (01:17:11):
Uh, we've shot a couple just between you know, the
whole that's normal.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
Yeah, that's about right.

Speaker 11 (01:17:21):
Yeah now, and then you know you'll see one every
now and then.

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
But yeah, yeah, it's uh.

Speaker 11 (01:17:29):
We've gotten our our first one.

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
You're on the board. One more question. I'm sorry, I
keep racking your brain.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
But one more question, what do you think is the
bigger deterrent to the number of geese and ducks we
get down here?

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
Now? Is it? Is it weather?

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
Is it the fact that everybody up north is heating
their freaking roost ponds to hold the birds? Or is
it well I guess, or is it the changed agricultural
practices down here?

Speaker 11 (01:17:59):
It's probably the combination of all.

Speaker 4 (01:18:02):
I just.

Speaker 11 (01:18:04):
Even you know, they got to make it here first,
you know, and there's plenty of people that are willing
to to plant food comp ponds for them, so I
mean we're we're ready for them. I mean there's plenty
of habitat still down here, I mean between the prairie
and and even down to the to the marsh and
the bay, you know. And I think you got to

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have that push, that real cold snap up noise enough
to make it to justify their trip down here, to
stay down here long enough to turn around and go
right back. I think sometimes if it's.

Speaker 4 (01:18:39):
If it's cold. I was listening to a podcast.

Speaker 11 (01:18:41):
The other day and they said they're not really worried
about the freeze line when it comes to pushing ducks
down into their area. Really they're looking at the snow.
They're looking at the snow line.

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:18:51):
How long does that snows on the ground?

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
Yeah, because that keeps them from feeding.

Speaker 11 (01:18:56):
Right right, more so than just the ice, because there
are so many things to keep a moving water. It's
not gonna freeze up. Yeah, it's really got to freeze
to freeze it all the way up.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
Man, all right, Mitchell Holder, you've had a long day already,
I'm sure, so I'm gonna let you get going.

Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
Get over to that stove and see what's on cooking.

Speaker 11 (01:19:15):
That sounds great, Doug. I appreciate it, and we'll be
in touch, my friend.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
How do they get a hold of you if they
want to come hunt with you?

Speaker 4 (01:19:22):
Just give me a shout too.

Speaker 11 (01:19:24):
Eight one seven four four one eight eight eight or
specialties dot Com.

Speaker 3 (01:19:29):
Thanks Mitchell, see buddy.

Speaker 4 (01:19:31):
Thanks Doug.

Speaker 11 (01:19:31):
We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
A good guy, really good guy and knows this stuff.
He's been out there a long time, just like David.
Talk to David from Riceland time to time as well. Hey, yeah,
I'm glad to have both of them. I got the
west side completely covered. I gotta find somebody on the
east side I can trust as much as those guys,
and I think I think I know where to start.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
At least to make that call.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
On the way out here, I'm gonna tell you about
Belleville Meet Market again. But they're on on thirty six,
about fifteen minutes north to Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead.
Have been there forty something years and just continues to
turn out delicious meat products, beef, chicken and port cut
the way you want, all those delicious sausage flavors, the
homemade stuffed pork tenderloins. Well, they do the wild game

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processing all year round, but this time of year, since
it's deer season, they shift gears at one of the
buildings they have up there and to full time game
processing in that building.

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
That's all they do over there.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
They do it for use it for other stuff during
the rest of the year, but this time of year
it's a steady line of people bringing those deer out
there because it's a great place to drop them off.
You know you're gonna get quality processing. You know you're
gonna have all the options in the world for what
you get when you get it back, and that meat's
gonna come back to you all off your deer. That's important.
Some processors don't do that. Some processors will mix a

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little meat, sometimes not Belleville. If it comes off your deer,
whatever comes off your deer that's edible and in good
shape comes right back to you. Nobody else is dear,
No mixing, no matching. It's all good deer meat for you.
Belleville Meatmarket dot com is the website, fifteen minutes north
of Sealy, fifteen minutes south he Seay. Like I said,

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if you can't get there, the website is available, and
they'll ship pretty much anything you want anywhere you want,
other than a whole cow, I would imagine.

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
I said.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
A gift box once all the way to Park City
to thank some people for hosting my son and me
up there on a ski trip years ago. And the
box arrived exactly perfect condition. Everything was still cold and
ready to eat. And I heard back from the person
I addressed that box who that pretty much everything in
the box was done and gone the day it got there.

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Belleville MeetMarket dot com. That's how good it is out there.
Belleville MeetMarket dot com. Timber Creek Golf Club down there
in Friendswood off FM twenty three fifty one, a couple
of miles west of the golf free maybe about four miles.

Speaker 3 (01:22:02):
I think something like that very easy to find, and once.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
You get through the gates, you're gonna be looking at
twenty seven very fun, very playable holes. There's no easy
golf courses, but timber Creek, if you play from the
boxes where you belong, is really a very fun, playable,
enjoyable course. There's just enough hazard out there the sand
and the water to keep you all honest going around,
but not enough that you're gonna feel like you got

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beat up when you finished around. If you're having trouble
with your swing, you can just go over to the
ten building next to the big driving range there and
check in with JJ Woods and his staff. They'll help
you iron the kinks out of that swing in no time.
And they also have great food in there and great beverages.
I'll wrap and you can get the beverage of your

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choice to either drown your sorrows or celebrate your victory.
Timber Creek Golf Club dot com is a website you
can set your own tea time right now. Timber Creek
Golf Club dot Com eight fifty three on Sports seven
ninety the Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it. I heard during that break there right at

(01:23:10):
the end, coming back that little notification about Kevin Durant,
who just joined the Rockets this year, and he passed
a milestone. You've got to really listen to the number
and think about how many times he's run up and
down a basketball court in his career to score.

Speaker 3 (01:23:28):
Thirty one thousand points.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
I have a hunch, Frankie, that there are NFL teams
and even Major League Baseball teams that may not have
scored thirty one thousand points or runs since their inception.
It's just such a staggering number. Now, granted they don't.
The baseball teams play more games, so they would have

(01:23:53):
a better shot than the NFL. I don't think the
NFL teams have a chance of hitting that mark, but
I would. I met that even the baseball teams, with
all their storied history and play at one hundred and
sixty two games a year, that would still take if
they averaged three runs a game, that's only five hundred

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less than five hundred games a year or five hundred
runs a year, So that takes them to at least
sixty years if that was the schedule sixty years ago,
which I know it wasn't.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
So yeah, hats off to Kevin Durant.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
And now I think he's chasing maybe three or four
people in front of him right now who have more points.
I'm not sure exactly who who is the leader all
time points scorer? You want to check that out for me?
Are you my reach search department this morning?

Speaker 8 (01:24:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
Would you? I'm just kind of curious.

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
Don't worry about the baseball and football guys, I just
want to know who Durant's chasing and see what's going
to happen there all time? What all time leading scorers NBA? Okay,
that should pop right up with AI so fast as
it is.

Speaker 6 (01:24:58):
It says the Bronz holds the record, Okay, and where's he?
Kevin Durant is thirteenth all time thirteenth? Wow, Who's Who's
how many points does lebron have?

Speaker 5 (01:25:09):
Okay, let's see.

Speaker 6 (01:25:09):
Let's see lebron is at forty two thousand, two hundred
and sixty eight.

Speaker 3 (01:25:14):
That's just insane, man.

Speaker 6 (01:25:15):
Kareem abdul Jabbari, Yeah, thirty eight thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
Back when, back when, basketball was playing, you know it
was you were taking some hard fouls back and a
lot of his career, for sure, they were tough.

Speaker 5 (01:25:30):
He got shock at nine.

Speaker 6 (01:25:32):
Durant at Oh, okay, the AI is a little funky.
Kevin Durant at eight on this list.

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, okay, yeah, it was
top ten last night. Whatever they were talking about. That's
still anybody who can stay in that game that long,
and it's amazing because their bodies get torn up. Not
as badly as football players obviously, probably not as I
think basketball probably tears them up a little bit more

(01:25:59):
maybe than base except for catchers. I think catcher is
probably one of the toughest. That's like goalie in hockey.
Uh well, no, I take that back. It's not really
that the goalie in the hockey game is only really
on point for basically half the game when the when
the puck is in his end of the of the ice.

Speaker 12 (01:26:19):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
But the catcher in baseball, that's probably one of the
toughest positions to play, I would think, because it's it's
tearing up your knees and hips every time you go
out there. I have a lot of respect for catchers.
I was one of the reasons I was glad I
was born left handed. Nobody wanted me to catch. My
son is plays baseball left handed, and he actually wanted
to catch when he was young, and he I let

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him catch when I was still coaching him when he
was pretty young, and he did a good job. But
it was just and because he was young enough that
there wasn't a whole lot of stealing going on, he
had the arm to throw somebody out. He ended up
being a pitcher, But yeah, I just got him out
of there as fast as I could. To take a
special breed to sit back there and get pounded by

(01:27:03):
foul balls and have your knees hurting you every time
you finish a game, and all that. More power to
them though. Seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com when we
come back from this break, I'm gonna I'm gonna tee
up the Texas Temperature game and offer up golf for
four either at Oakhurst or River Plantation. Those certificates were

(01:27:29):
offered to me by the man who owns the places,
and I've got there'll be your choice.

Speaker 3 (01:27:35):
They're both up on the north side of town.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
But they're both fun tracks to play up played them
both several times, played Oakhurst more. I used to play
a lot of tournaments up there, and it's fun, fun golf,
and I will offer those to anybody who can beat Frankie.

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
It's an honor system game.

Speaker 12 (01:27:51):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
You can't go looking up what the highs and lows
are in Texas right now. You have to promise me,
pinky Square, that you you'll just you'll just do it
right off the top of your head, based on what
the weather conditions are right here, right now, without looking
at any forecasts or any current maps other than that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
What call do you want to take, Frankie? First, second,
or third?

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
I'll take second, second call seven one three two one
two five seven nine zero. If you think you know
a little bit about Texas weather and you think you
can beat him guessing the high and low temperature, we'll
tee it up when we get back from the break.
On the way out, I'll tell you about America Shooting Centers.
That's where Edriigi and his whole team are out there
making the shooting sports both safe and fun for anybody

(01:28:36):
who wants to join him in any way shape or form.
America's been out there for the better part of gosh,
probably thirty years now, somewhere in there, and Ed took
it over just a few years ago and turned it
into something really user friendly too, which is nice. And
what he does out there, well, he's a sporting place guy,
so one of the first things he did was ad

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sporting plays three full courses out there now three full courses,
and so you can do that. You can do five
stand there's a beginner's wing shooting area. There is rifle
and pistol from five yards, although Frankie's got the caller
we're gonna use so if you didn't make it in,
I'm sorry. Rifle and pistol from five yards to six

(01:29:20):
hundred yards. There is a little rim fire silhouette range
from I think it's from twenty five yards out to
two fifty. That's a lot of fun, and then there's
also just all kinds of opportunity that long range shooting
is something fun to watch too on a calm, cool
morning when it's fun to watch those guys shoot at

(01:29:43):
targets that are out there that they're pretty big targets actually,
but they look like a postage stamp out there. You
can barely see them, and these guys are running bullets
out there and doing very well. It's a good place
to learn about that style of shooting if you want
to get into it. All of it's out there, instruction
and every shooting discipline from professional instructors, not just somebody

(01:30:04):
who thinks they're pretty good. H And by the way,
don't ever shoot sporting plays against that. He's really good. Okay,
I've watched him shoot and yeah. American Shooting Centers dot
com West tim Or Parkway between Katie and Highway six.
American Shooting Centers dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:30:23):
Oh, here's Doug Fike. Nine o'clock hour starts right now.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
I think we're gonna make it all the way through
with my voice Frank yet, I know, I am, I
know we're gonna make it. All right, do me a
favor to get Ron up on the phone here. Oh wait,
start your yeah, get Ron queued in, and then start
your intro.

Speaker 3 (01:30:42):
Standby, Ron?

Speaker 5 (01:30:45):
Is it hot, sweat or is it cold? I can
see my own broths here.

Speaker 6 (01:30:53):
Well, but you to the test on the Texas Temperature game.

Speaker 3 (01:31:00):
All right, here we go, Ron, Good morning, how are you?

Speaker 17 (01:31:05):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (01:31:05):
Good morning?

Speaker 12 (01:31:06):
I'm doing great, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
So here's what we're gonna need to do.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
You're gonna you can have the option of going first
or second, and I'll give you the option also of
starting with the higher the low.

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
So what do you want to do?

Speaker 12 (01:31:20):
Okay, I'll start with the low.

Speaker 3 (01:31:22):
And you're gonna go first.

Speaker 12 (01:31:24):
I'll go first.

Speaker 3 (01:31:25):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
What do you think right now is the low temperature
in the state of Texas?

Speaker 17 (01:31:31):
Twenty four degree twenty four?

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
Okay, Frankie, what do you think is the low temperature
in the state of Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:31:40):
I'll go with a little bit higher.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
I'll go with twenty seven twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
I need you to pot up you and Ron, because
I'm not hearing you as loudly as I should. I think, Okay,
we've got that, Ron, what do you think is the
current high temperature in the state of Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:31:57):
I'll go with six one degree sixty one? Okay. And Frankie,
what do you think.

Speaker 5 (01:32:07):
We'll go a little lower.

Speaker 6 (01:32:09):
I'm gonna hit him with a man, I'm gonna hit
him with a fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
Eight fifty eight okay, and that would be that. There.

Speaker 2 (01:32:19):
Frankie did pretty good, he really did. You missed only
by nine total degrees. That's the good news. You want
the bad news. Okay, run, smoke you.

Speaker 3 (01:32:32):
It run.

Speaker 2 (01:32:32):
The actual low temperature in the state of Texas right
now is twenty one.

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
I mean actual low hot. The actual high.

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
Temperature in the state right now happens to be sixty one,
which you nailed.

Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
Pinky swear you didn't look right. I know you didn't.
I'm just just messing with you. That's great.

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
That's one of the highest ranking I don't know that
anybody's ever beat a three. That's pretty tough. But now
you get to choose whether you want to go to
River Plantation or Oakhurst.

Speaker 17 (01:33:03):
River Plantation.

Speaker 2 (01:33:04):
River Plantation it'll be. I'm gonna put you back on hold.
Let Frankie grab you and get your information. Thank you
for playing the Texas temperature game, all right? By you
bet all right? Get him hooked up for River Plantation,
and off we'll go into the middle of this segment.

Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
Man, that was kind of fun. I thought I thought
that both of you would.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
Would miss by a little more because of that twenty one.

Speaker 3 (01:33:30):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:33:30):
I know it's cool down here, but twenty one. Now
we're getting into some real stop. Last year, there were
a couple of zeros on the board later in winter
when we had that big freeze down here, and I
think I don't think we ever made it into negative territory,
but I do remember specifically a few zeros, and frankly

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I could do without those, don't I don't ever care
about seeing zeros anywhere in Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
Coldest I've ever had they had a little hiccup there.

Speaker 2 (01:34:03):
Sorry, the coldest I've ever had to deal with around here,
pardon me. In the Greater Houston. There was a long
time ago, back when I was guiding one of the
major freezes eighty three, eight, eight, eighty nine, whatever one
of them, whichever one it was. I had a house
in Katie, and there was a big thermometer outside on
a wall in a little kind of a gazebo area,

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and I woke up one morning, turned on the light
out there before I was going to go out for waterfay.
It was waterfoul season, going to go out there to hunt,
and the temperature was four, count them, four degrees in
the state of Texas in Katie, and everything out there,
as you might well imagine, was frozen. If you didn't

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have every pipe you owned wrapped with something thick and
heavy and insulating. It was gonna bust, as the guy
next door learned, because he had come from somewhere else
and had no idea how little insulation gets up in
the attics of starter homes, and he hadn't done anything
to protect his house, and I think he ended up
with I don't know, eighteen twenty burst pipes in the ceiling,

(01:35:10):
pretty much every line he.

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
Had in there.

Speaker 2 (01:35:11):
It was just a flood zone. Pretty messy in any event,
I don't want that for any of us. I think
I'm good with light freezes, and I think I wouldn't
have to change a thing if we don't get down
any lowered about twenty six. But if I hear something
else is coming, I'm going to go something lowered and
that's coming. I'm going upstairs and rummaging through that attic

(01:35:34):
to make sure all the insulation I put on last
year is still in place and doing its job. It's
an annual thing, and if you don't check it every year,
someday you're going to go up there and find out
that during the summer, maybe some of the tape fell
off and a piece of insulation fell off, and wherever
that happened, you might be in trouble mess up your

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plans for a long time to come. By the way,
I turned on the TV to see I want to
watch a little bass fishing toward the end of the
show here, just to see what's going on and to
see if there's any change in the way those guys
handle their fish. And I saw that there is now
a pickleball network, and I can see that on a

(01:36:17):
general sports network. But obviously, and I know from knowing
so many people who who play the game now that
pickleball's coming on strong. And actually I'm in negotiation right
now with the man who owns Ace Pickleball Club up
in Magnolia and is opening a new pickleball Ace Pickleball Club.

(01:36:38):
I don't know whether they want to talk about where
it is yet, but I know and it's going to
be pretty close to me. I might have to go
out there and even take a little swing around the court.

Speaker 3 (01:36:48):
See what I got left in me.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
If I can find somebody else close to my age
it's willing to play against me and not be overly competitive.
That's my problem when I think about playing pickleball, is
that I don't want I don't want to not dive
for a shot, and I know that if I die,
I may have problems, but I'll certainly get out there

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and get some of that going back and forth. I've
watched really good pickleball players play, even some older pickleball players,
and I don't. I'm gonna choose to save my hips
and my knees for golf, and that's just a personal choice.

(01:37:30):
I dearly love the game of golf. I'm still working
very hard to try to get better at it. Every
time I get on a course, and I'm gonna focus
on that. I'll play a little recreational pickleball just to
kind of stay in shape. Get that, Cardio. That's the
one thing you don't get from golf, is Cardio. Speaking
of golf, Let me get to the scoreboard of the
hero World. A championship on going into Bahamas. Not a

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place to be or not a bad place to be
this time of year, actually, Cam Young and it's a
laundry list. Four guys, five guys, five guys tied, not
five guys, burgers, five guys tied.

Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
For the lead in this tournament.

Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
Cam Young, at Deki Matziyama, Wyndom Clark, JJ Spawn Oksha
Battia all at ten under par. The interesting name in
sixth place, who would have been in first place had
he not made a double bogie yesterday. Is world's number one,
Scotti Scheffler. That was if I read correctly yesterday, that

(01:38:31):
was only I think the you can count him on
one hand. I believe how many double bogies Scottie Scheffler
made in the entire twenty five season. Maybe it was
a dozen in all the rounds he played and all
the holes he played. I know it was fewer than fifteen.
I'm very confident in that. But anyway, he finds himself

(01:38:51):
tied for six with Alex norn In scept Straka. Justin Rose,
at forty five years old, is eight under par.

Speaker 3 (01:38:58):
And still pretty much in the mix.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
He's only two shots off the lead, and I wouldn't
be I would be surprised, but not a lot if
Harris English or Corey Connors at seven found their way
to the top. Because the course is given up birdies
and eagles, there are quite a few that can't. I
think it was Harris English maybe yesterday who had two

(01:39:22):
on the card.

Speaker 3 (01:39:22):
I'm not sure, but anyway, the.

Speaker 2 (01:39:24):
Course is giving it up and they're all playing in
the Bahamas, and more power to them.

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
Boy, that's a place that I really love.

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
I did I don't know, maybe a dozen bone fishing
trips down there, half a dozen at least, maybe a
few more than that over the years to different resorts
down there and fishing clubs, and every one of them
were just exceptional. That's the place where I've seen the
Bahamas have some big fish. They're not really known for
their bigger bone fish, but I saw the two biggest

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bonefish I've ever seen in the Bahamas. And that was
on the way back to camp actually, on a a
morning that had gone very well. We caught a lot
of fish, and the guide was driving his back and
he just shut down all of a sudden for no
apparent reason. And then he said, look up on the
beach there and about ten maybe fifteen yards off the

(01:40:16):
beach and barely enough water to cover their backs were
too big, I mean, genuine double digit bonefish. And we
tried to get in there and make a couple of
cash to them, and I don't remember why or how
or what, but something spooped him and off they went.
It was just it was a crushing blow sadly that

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was probably. Yeah, that's the biggest two fish I've ever
seen on a flat like that, and I hope I
wish I'd had a better shot. I've seen some pretty
good ones walking those flats too, and waiting. I mean,
that's a great fun way to fish. It's more like
it's like bow hunting is to deer hunting. That's what

(01:41:00):
fly fishing on the flats is, with bonefish and with
permit and snook and tarping. Depending on where you're fishing,
you can be very successful waiting the flats of Florida
for snooking tarpin, and that's also quite fun. The only
harrowing experience I ever had on one of those fishing
trips down in Florida was when I noticed a significantly

(01:41:24):
large hammerhead about one hundred and fifty two hundred yards
out in front of me and this woman Gud I
was fishing with. I wish I could remember her name,
but I just kind of casually him. He says, Wow,
that's a big old hammerhead over there, and she said, yeah,
he's been in here kind of trying to eat my
snook in the mornings for the last week or so.
And I said, well, I'm glad we're over here and

(01:41:45):
he's over there, so we don't have to worry about him.
And she said, actually, we got to go through kind
of where he is right now to get back to
the boat. Otherwise we have to go into deep water,
and we don't want to do that. And so I
was kind of watching over my shoulder for a little. Well,
that fish eventually eased off. He didn't eat any more
of the snooker on the flat, and we ended up

(01:42:05):
having a really good morning. Holy calm late for a break.
I apologize Franky Kobe Steevens. I'm gonna tell you one
more time about them, and I'll lead with Kobe Gallick,
the man who owns a company and his dedication to
the community that serves him so well by buying his products,
and he gives back to so many tournaments, to so
many events, and I really admire that in him, just

(01:42:29):
he's not just in it for himself. He's in it
so that everybody benefits from what he's trying to offer
to us as golfers and now as outdoorsman too. He's
got great golf clothes, always has from day one, starting
with kid sizes, they've got plenty of women's apparel, and
then the men's stuff starts. I guess it's extra small

(01:42:50):
or however you are, and goes all the way up
to four x, so you know you're gonna find something
in your size, whether it's golf attire, whether it's fishing hoodies,
all kinds of great stuff. He's got shorts now, he's
he's doing a really good job with his line, and
I'm really happy to be a part of this. Kobe
Stevens dot com. There's a store up in Spring if
you want to go hands on with it, or you

(01:43:12):
can see all the latest styles at the website. Kobe
Stevens dot com co O B Y S T E
V E N S.

Speaker 3 (01:43:19):
Kobe Stephens dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
Nine on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dug Pike Show,
thank you for listening.

Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
We're we're living through. I've got enough voice.

Speaker 2 (01:43:34):
I'm pretty confident now I'm gonna make it to the
end without just falling out of the chair unable to speak.
So if you see me disappear from your screen, Frankie,
come on in, just just make the calling.

Speaker 3 (01:43:45):
Come on in. I think I got it. I'm and
I'm gonna rest my voice. The rest of the day.
I'm not going anywhere.

Speaker 16 (01:43:52):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
My team is just gonna have to rely on me
to maybe hit a few iron shots and putt. I'm
not gonna have a whole lot of strength on Monday.
I don't think I got some good cover, so it'll
be all right. Uh, Mike sent me see no check that, Brad. Brad,
when I was talking earlier, I asked the question, what
do you miss? What do you think if Texas only

(01:44:14):
had more what you'd probably never leave the state. And
as a fisherman, Brad reminded me that we used to
catch three and four pounds sand trout and gulf trout
in our base system routinely and along the coast.

Speaker 3 (01:44:28):
Those fish are gone.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
I can't remember the last time I saw a picture
of a really good big sand trout.

Speaker 3 (01:44:38):
And now I know some are being caught, But it
used to be just routine.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
Big sand trout, big crokers two three, sometimes a four
pounder routinely caught on dead shrimp on the bottom. You
didn't have to buy fancy bait, you didn't have to
buy fancy lures, and you could catch them on lures.
But you caught a lot more on for the crokers.
At least it was just dead shrimp on the bottom.
I wish those days would come back. But as long
as we're we're harvesting and netting up all the little

(01:45:05):
ones to use for bait for spectiled trout, it's gonna
be hard for that species to recover it in any way,
shape or form. They clearly there's still enough spawning class
crokers out there to keep that bait industry alive. The boy,
it would be fun if you could take kids down
to the beach and just stop anywhere and sling a

(01:45:26):
piece of dead bait on a on a weighted line
out and just let it sit on bottom for about
five minutes and catch a good fish.

Speaker 3 (01:45:33):
That's been a hot minute. And I missed that. I
really do, I really do.

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
I was gonna go there, I was gonna go here
mentioned Ace pickleball Club coming to town. And now I'm
gonna go to Faux Pro. See what's on his mind?
What's up Faux Pro?

Speaker 17 (01:45:51):
What's up Captain das Boy?

Speaker 3 (01:45:53):
How about Captain horse Man.

Speaker 17 (01:45:57):
Horse yesterday?

Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
I know it's getting better every day, really, and I've
got I've got my routine down now where I'm gonna
keep all this stuff at bay.

Speaker 3 (01:46:06):
I'll be okay, there you go.

Speaker 17 (01:46:09):
Unfortunately, I am, I think unfortunately. Unfortunately. I guess it
depends on your perspective. But unfortunately I get hooking up
to hook it up to old black skeeter, and I'm
gonna go see how many white bass I can catch today.
Because I spent half a day on the Tradity River yesterday.
It covered about probably covered ten square miles of water
and saw two wood ducks.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
Yeah, i'd lead the duck decoys at home.

Speaker 17 (01:46:34):
Yeah, so I'm gonna put the white bass decoys in
the boat. See what I can do with that.

Speaker 3 (01:46:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:46:39):
I had a guy named Geno just to email me
heaping fishing canyon and catching some pretty good hybrids there.
Uh that's Gino's little secret, he let out.

Speaker 17 (01:46:50):
Oh yeah, well that's right, you know it was. It
was a struggle to launch your boat in just a
couple of weeks ago. Now we're a couple of ticks
above that'll stuck in white bass that's that river quickly
and a little waterfall I know of up here that
I should be able to drop the power poles and
make the same cast for thirty minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:47:08):
Hey, I bet how big a waterfall? Is it? Three
or four feet?

Speaker 17 (01:47:11):
Maybe it's probably it's probably about five foot tall normally
when it's normally running, it's probably probably ten foot wide.

Speaker 3 (01:47:21):
Wow. Yeah, buddy, there'll be a few fish under that.

Speaker 17 (01:47:25):
Oh yeah, but when the well we get a flood
at things fifty feet wide and wow. But but I've
had some scary days up there. I'll tell you what
I was a I didn't call earlier because FS two's
got some really good of vintage bass programming on today. Okay,
it'd be from the Tower or two if you had
that channel. But Matt, I got emotional today. I got

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emotional to day.

Speaker 3 (01:47:47):
Oh, come on, what happened?

Speaker 17 (01:47:49):
Okay, do you remember?

Speaker 4 (01:47:51):
Do you?

Speaker 17 (01:47:51):
Does the name Brian Kerschel ring a bell?

Speaker 3 (01:47:54):
Vaguely? It's a faint bell.

Speaker 17 (01:47:58):
Yeah. So in nineteen ninety three he uh amateur fishermen
qualified for the Classic, Yeah, ninety three and Fishing Classic
and finish at last place. Yeah, and uh. He was
the first amateur to ever qualified for the Classic. So
the next year he was more determined. Night before won
the Federation Water Federation Ternament, qualified for the Classic again,

(01:48:18):
and at twenty three years old, won the beast Master Classic. Wow,
and uh, first person ever do it from the amateur
level to this day.

Speaker 3 (01:48:27):
Yeah, I'm sure.

Speaker 17 (01:48:28):
And uh, four and a half months later, died in
the commuter plane crash.

Speaker 3 (01:48:33):
Oh no, man, I didn't know that.

Speaker 12 (01:48:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:48:36):
He had this little he had this little toy whistle
he blew every time he caught a fish. I actually
have an autograph. I actually have an autograph one in
my fishing archives.

Speaker 3 (01:48:45):
Oh that's pretty cool, man, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 12 (01:48:48):
Yeah, it was. It was.

Speaker 17 (01:48:49):
It was a cool story. But man, it kind of
pulled the heartstrings a little bit because he was up
and comer, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:48:53):
Yeah, no kidding.

Speaker 2 (01:48:54):
Anybody who could do that clearly had talent and was
gonna he wasn't going to be an amateur for any
law longer.

Speaker 3 (01:49:00):
Once you win that classic, buddy, you go full time.

Speaker 17 (01:49:04):
He was out there fishing, He wasn't scoping, Yeah, bushes
and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:49:10):
So hey, going back to going back to water level.

Speaker 2 (01:49:14):
You're old enough, I know you are to remember back
many years ago when Lake River Lake Libtyson and Sam
Ravern you and this is when I was back at
the paper reporting on all this stuff. The lake level
be so far down. Everybody was scared of the lakes
were going to dry up. And then two months later
you're you're fishing in the I can remember going on

(01:49:37):
a fishing trip at Rayburn once and the guy said,
I'm gonna take you round a corner and show you
just how high this water is now. And we went
over to one of the little parks on the lake
boat ramping parking all and the water was all the
way up to the tops of the picnic tables, these
concrete picnic tables, and it just it just goes to
show you, no matter how bad it gets on these lakes,

(01:49:59):
now it's gonna change the other way.

Speaker 3 (01:50:02):
Right.

Speaker 17 (01:50:03):
Oh yeah, I remember that. I remember that well, running
down picnic tables on it was cramped up there up
there fishing pine trees.

Speaker 12 (01:50:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
Structure, Holy cow, Manlivus is the same way.

Speaker 17 (01:50:17):
I mean, something that ever happened to Living Center. I
was texta Parks of Wildlife would do it, because they
pretty much told me point blank, we are not doing
anything for black bats on Lake Livacy. Just the habitats
too volatile. So they throw hybrids in here, they throw
captures in there with that with that's that's fine, but
you know, Livuson one year, I remember what year it was,
maybe early Ninetiesleviston got five six feet low and it

(01:50:39):
stayed that way. And when it came back up, I'll
tell you could go out there with a frog, and
if you didn't come there with your tournaments with twenty
two twenty three pounds, you had no you had no chance.
It was better than a rayburn for several years, but
then it all died out and they just so good.
I don't know where the fish go, but I'll go.
You know, I go out there and fish pretty hard. Yeah,

(01:51:00):
you know, if I catch fifteen pounds string, I'm thinking
it was like a you know, four pounder you caught
on that was like twelve pounder at Raby, And I
was like, that's why you see me driving down there
for the net?

Speaker 2 (01:51:09):
Sure, Holy cow man, you don't want to lose that fish.
You're scared of my barbarous hooks, weren't you?

Speaker 7 (01:51:16):
I know it?

Speaker 17 (01:51:17):
At least I get him out.

Speaker 3 (01:51:20):
Good point, good point, no pun intending, all right? Man?
So no ducks on Livingson right now.

Speaker 12 (01:51:27):
No ducks.

Speaker 17 (01:51:28):
I see one. I see a group about thirty millers
that they sit in this one little private cove theah
year and there's no way to hunt them. Sit there,
look at you going by like ha.

Speaker 2 (01:51:37):
Yeah, they figured that out a long time ago. The prairie,
the prairie down there at El Camp. I talked to
Mitchell Holder from Waterfowl Specialties a.

Speaker 3 (01:51:46):
Little while ago.

Speaker 2 (01:51:47):
He's he's loaded up, he's in good shape right now,
and his ducks and got enough geese to hunt too,
and cranes. Man, I'm gonna try to do a crane
hunt with him and maybe kind of cranes and geese
or something.

Speaker 3 (01:51:57):
And I may call you and see if you want
to come down and jump in. I think it fun.

Speaker 4 (01:52:00):
Man.

Speaker 17 (01:52:01):
Yeah, I'm all. I'm all about ruby and the sky
out there. You go.

Speaker 3 (01:52:04):
See.

Speaker 2 (01:52:05):
I mentioned that I mentioned that name for them, and
they are really good to eat. There're no doubt they
smell horrible.

Speaker 17 (01:52:12):
Bring my three and a half tea shot. I didn't
even know if they have tea and shot anymore. I
think it's all just ones, twos and threes.

Speaker 3 (01:52:18):
Yeah, yeah, they I don't know. I haven't looked for it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:20):
That the goose and I made a couple of years
ago on that d You think I dragged out a
bunch of old t shot that I found in the
garage that I didn't even know I still had. I
just thought, before I go buy a bunch of shells,
I'm gonna see what I got out here, and pretty sure.
I mean, they're in a fairly controlled environment, so I
wasn't worried about them being being ruined or anything. And
and every one of them I ran through, the gun

(01:52:41):
went off. So that's that's all you can ask a pardner.

Speaker 17 (01:52:48):
All right, But we get this old skeeter in the water,
and see.

Speaker 4 (01:52:50):
What you see?

Speaker 17 (01:52:51):
What these whites are doing? Do they significant on shoot you?

Speaker 2 (01:52:54):
I will expect photographs and phone calls, all right, buddy,
Thanks faux pro hoody else man, you.

Speaker 3 (01:53:01):
Bet all right.

Speaker 2 (01:53:02):
We got to take a little break here. On the
way out, I will tell you about Phoenix Knives. That's Cowboys, Amanskie. Now,
I did find out from Cowboy and his wife Elina
that there are no more opportunities to get Cowboy to
actually fashion a knife for you or anybody before Christmas.
That ship has sailed, and it sailed weeks ago, maybe
months ago. He puts so much time into the personal,

(01:53:26):
really unique custom blades that he builds that just takes
that much time. So if you've got something coming up
in Q one or Q two, that's a special occasion
for somebody who would appreciate a knife like that, by
all means, get in touch with them.

Speaker 3 (01:53:40):
They're out in Belleville, right.

Speaker 2 (01:53:41):
There on Main Street, down the street from the market,
and been there since nineteen seventy nine. Now they moved
into a newer, bigger space this year and have been
able to accommodate a whole lot more people, to accommodate
a whole lot more journeyman knife makers under Cowboys Watchful Eye,
and they've got on average about a thousand knives for sale.

(01:54:03):
And that's any and every kind of knife you can
imagine that you would want any really anything that's bladed,
they will either have in stock somewhere or they will
make for you. They got seminars to where you can
learn to make a knife, and it's really just kind
of on a first come, first served. You get in
there and say, hey, I brought the kids out here,

(01:54:24):
can we learn how to build a knife? And I
presume as long as they're older than a toddler, they
will probably be able to fashion their own little blade
and take it home with them and feel pretty good
about building their own knife, something they can have with
them for many, many years to come.

Speaker 3 (01:54:40):
Great plays, great people.

Speaker 2 (01:54:42):
Everybody I've talked to who's been to Phoenix Knives and
gone in there and talked to Cowboy, talk to everybody
who works there, comes away nothing but raving about how
well they were treated and how much they learned about
knives while they were there. If you've got a couple
of knives you want church, don't bring a bushel basket
of them. But if you've got a knife or two
you want professionally sharpened, they'll do that for you. Phoenix

(01:55:04):
Knives dot com is a website p H E n
I X Phoenix Knives dot com Shooters Corner Palmer Highway,
twenty nine Street in Texas City. Been down there for guy.
The better part of it, I want to say, about
forty three forty four years now, own and operated by
the same two people since Jay. It's Jerry TK the

(01:55:24):
Dad and JTK the Sun who've owned that place since
it opened, and by both of them probably thirty five
years or so, and by Jerry himself at that forty
three forty four year mark. Fantastic place to go. Whether
you're brand new to shooting or you've been punching holes
and hunting all your life. If you are a target shooter,

(01:55:46):
they got stuff for you. If you are a hunter,
they got everything you could possibly need. Jerry and j
two of the best big game guys in North America,
and they've got trophies in their store to prove what
they've done when they've hunted all.

Speaker 3 (01:56:00):
Over the world.

Speaker 2 (01:56:01):
And I could find you a list of people a
mile long of happy, satisfied hunters. Go in there and
ask them talk about their favorite hunts, talk about the
places they hunt, what they hunt.

Speaker 3 (01:56:12):
Maybe you could set up a hunt with one of
them somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:56:15):
Jerry tends to stay more in South Texas, down on
the som Burrito where he's been guiding for about I
don't know, twenty five thirty years, maybe more than that.

Speaker 3 (01:56:22):
I bet more than that, probably close to forty.

Speaker 2 (01:56:24):
And then Jay is the guy who likes to go
up northwest out to Alaska and end up into that
region hunt the big bears. Anyway, in the store itself,
anybody who's there working when you walk through the door
can help you get exactly what you need, whether it's
a new or pre owned gun, handguns, rifles, shotguns, reloading supplies,

(01:56:45):
AMMO for any and all of the boutique calibers you
might want to get them for.

Speaker 3 (01:56:49):
They've got a discount.

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
Available to which I think is pretty cool for anybody
who wears a badge for a living.

Speaker 3 (01:56:56):
That's a very nice thing.

Speaker 2 (01:56:57):
If you go in there, be ready to stay for
longer than you thought you would, because somebody will be
telling the story and you'll get wrapped up and listen
to it, and then it'll trigger you to tell a
story of your own, and the people in there will
stick around and listen to.

Speaker 3 (01:57:09):
Your story as well. It's a very comfortable.

Speaker 2 (01:57:11):
There's some chairs in there and a big leather chair
and a little sofa, probably been sat in a million
times by people just in there enjoying talking about the
shooting sports. The Shooters Corner TX dot com is the
website The Shooters Corner TX dot com. On Sports Talk

(01:57:34):
seven ninety The Duckpike Show, thanks for listening, been nursing
this voice. Alan a little late to the party, said man,
you says man, You okay? Sounding a little under the weather. Yeah,
that's been all weak. Thanks to laryngitis and all kinds
of garbage going on. But I'm I'm limping through and
I'm not gonna give up. I'm gonna have a nice
long nap this afternoon and just basically shut.

Speaker 3 (01:57:58):
Up for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:58:00):
That's all I need is to rest this voice of mine.
But there was no way I was going to miss
this weekend after missing last week and hang on every
little sip I take of warm coffee. I told Erica
over on KTRH news desk this morning. She said, you
need an energy drink or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:58:19):
I have one.

Speaker 2 (01:58:20):
I had a little and she's got some little energy
packet she was offering me to try to make it through.
I said, no, I've drunk enough coffee now that if
I have one more cup, I may not wake up
till Christmas Eve. I just I'm bouncing off the walls
right now and feeling better. It sounds horrible. I know
it does, and I apologize for that, But again I

(01:58:40):
didn't want to. I didn't want to not show up
for this weekend. We're right in the middle of hunting seasons.

Speaker 3 (01:58:47):
We are.

Speaker 2 (01:58:47):
In fact, there's a call I'm going to try to
make tomorrow to get a little South Texas update and
hopefully we can get him on the phone. Blame fire Mood.
I won't see what's going on in his world. He's
sometimes it's hard to reach down there unless he's on
a little hilltop or up in a tower, blind or
something like that. Service isn't exactly great in much of

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South Texas. And that's actually to the benefit down there,
because when I go hunting in South Texas, I don't
really want to be connected if I can possibly help it.
And I've never done it before, but the more I
think about it, it might not be a bad idea
if you go down there on a hunt to just
send out an out of office message that says, or

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out of town message whatever he says. Look, I'm probably
not gonna have any access to email, to text messages,
to anything until I get back into civilization. And not
to say that South Texas is uncivilized in any way,
shape or form, but yeah, at least it's close to
wild space. Without going all the way out to the

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Big Bend area. You can go out there and probably
get out of service for one hundred or two miles
in a lot of directions. South Texas is pretty well
covered now though, and it's gotten better. Certainly, the first
couple of times I got to go down there and
hunt with Blaine years ago, it was very hard to
get any kind of a signal. The cell phones themselves

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weren't sophisticated. There weren't very many of them out there,
so the company's putting out the towers and whatnot didn't
have much motivation. But now it's just getting better and
better and hopefully well. No, I don't really want to
be in touch when I'm down there, not hunting down
South Texas. Man, when I'm on one of those ranches

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down there and it's been a while, I'm hoping to
get a trip or two this season, But I like
just going out there, leaving my phone at the camp,
or at least turning it off unless I need it
for an emergency, and just immersing myself in what's going on.

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The last thing I would want if I was walking
through the woods in the middle of the day in
a part of the ranch it hadn't been in a while,
or just needed to be scouted for whatever, the last
thing I would want would to be to walk around
and really feel like I'm immersing myself in it all
and then just hear that.

Speaker 3 (02:01:14):
In my pocket. I don't want to pick that up.

Speaker 2 (02:01:17):
I just know I'll just turn it off, go rig
for silent running, kind of like the old submarine guys
in World War Two had to do. Just had to
be very quiet down there so the big enemy boats
above them.

Speaker 3 (02:01:29):
Couldn't figure out where they were. Good happens.

Speaker 2 (02:01:33):
Let's go ahead and take this last break right now,
and I will tell you about Berry Hill. I was
just in there a couple of days ago. That's where
I took the owner of Ace Pickleball Club, as a
matter of fact, for lunch, and he devoured two big,
old juicy tacos that he said were as good as
he'd ever eaten. So I'm letting him vouch for that

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a little bit as well as me. I've been eating
in there for thirty years. I'm a very part to
the seafood enchiladas with the cream sauce. I also love
their fish tacos like everybody else who's.

Speaker 3 (02:02:05):
Ever eaten one. They've been there a very long time.

Speaker 2 (02:02:07):
It's a family run business, and it's a very family
friendly atmosphere. There's tables and booths for family stuff. There's
a sports bar area for anybody who wants to hang
out over there. And then there's outdoor dining too, which
is going to be kind of really nice for the
next few months until it gets in. Case we get
super cold, maybe you want to go inside, but it's

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really pleasant out there in the evenings.

Speaker 3 (02:02:32):
See a lot of people sitting out there.

Speaker 2 (02:02:34):
Berry Hill Sugarland is the website, Berryhillsugarland dot com.

Speaker 3 (02:02:39):
They're at Sugar Creek Boulevard.

Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
And fifty nine inbound and it's Sugar Lakes Boulevard. I
think if you're going outbound on fifty nine. They'll cater
all over town too. By the way, if you need
something for a family gathering or a corporate event, they'll
bring delicious, delicious Mexican.

Speaker 3 (02:02:57):
Food right where you are.

Speaker 2 (02:02:59):
Berry Hill sugar Land dot com, berryhillsugar Land dot com. Indeed,
it is the final countdown to this first foray into
three hours of live radio with this.

Speaker 3 (02:03:17):
Raggedy voice I've got.

Speaker 2 (02:03:18):
It'll be better tomorrow, I'm gonna told Frankie after I've
finished the show.

Speaker 3 (02:03:22):
I'm gonna go take a big long nap.

Speaker 2 (02:03:23):
I'm gonna get a little work done here first, and
then I'm gonna take a big, old long nap, which
I think will help if I can just shut up.
It's very hard, and my wife, my wife has told
me many, many, many times, you just can't be quiet,
can you, And it's yeah, she's pretty much right.

Speaker 3 (02:03:40):
It's very difficult for me.

Speaker 2 (02:03:42):
And so she thinks that because my voice needs to
be rested, that I can just sit and listen for
long periods of time without saying anything.

Speaker 3 (02:03:56):
That's just not in my DNA. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (02:03:59):
I feel badly for her because I know, uh, she
spends a lot of time doing stuff from home and
working around the house when my son's off playing baseball
or doing whatever he's doing, and I'm here at work,
and so when I get home, she's got lots to
talk about, and I listen, but I interject sometimes a

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little too often for her liking.

Speaker 3 (02:04:23):
Anyway, I've learned, I'm learning. I'm learning.

Speaker 2 (02:04:27):
We've been together thirty five years. We're hanging in there
seven one three two one two five seven nine. He
might have time for one more call. We're gonna bump
out a little bit early.

Speaker 3 (02:04:36):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:04:36):
Earlier in the program, when we first teed it up,
I asked one of the many questions. I was gonna
ask today to see if I could get some help
from you guys to save whatever little voice I had,
and I'm gonna make it through. So I'm happy, and
I appreciate I did get a lot more calls and
from some new people too, and I greatly appreciate.

Speaker 3 (02:04:54):
That all the time.

Speaker 2 (02:04:55):
Your calls are always welcome here. I do ask that
you kind of stay on point and not just make it.
Make it about the outdoors in Texas and your experiences
with that, and we'll we'll focus on that because that's
what we're here to talk about. And speaking of, I
got an email a little while ago from Scott Knowle

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and he said, man, if I got a story for you,
it's about a deer hunt. And that's basically all he
told me. Well, I sent him a message call, didn't
get a response. I called him during the last break.
He said, I'm still with my hunters this morning, but
i'll call you tomorrow. And I said, great, I'll give
you a couple of minutes and he goes, this may
take a half a segment. And knowing Scott, when he

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says it's one of the craziest hunting stories he's ever
been involved in whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:05:44):
Amount of time it takes, he's gonna take it.

Speaker 2 (02:05:47):
He's a good storyteller and he's got he says, one
of the craziest deer hunting stories ever. And we'll see
what happens. We'll we'll be the judges of that, won't we.

Speaker 3 (02:05:58):
Frankie, Oh, yeah, I know. I've heard a few deer
hunting stories.

Speaker 2 (02:06:01):
I've involved in a lot of deer hunting stories that
are semi crazy to absolutely crazy and whatever this one is.
Though knowing Scott, he wouldn't say that if he wasn't
confident that it's a good story. So we'll get that
when we can from him tomorrow. I asked about where
and what you guys would do to make Texas a

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better state. If we had more of whatever in Texas,
it would make it a better outdoor state, and there
really weren't a whole lot of responses, which confirms kind
of what I think that Texas has most everything.

Speaker 4 (02:06:38):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:06:38):
I would love to see more snook here farther up
the coast, but that's a matter of temperature and just
the range that they can tolerate. And if it keeps
getting warmer, and maybe we'll get some more snook moving
up this way. There are already quite a few of
them down south, so that's good. We also have tarpin
that I would like to see in numbers, and the

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smaller fish too.

Speaker 3 (02:07:02):
Now there is more tarping breeding going on farther up
the coast. I think that a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (02:07:07):
Realize, but it's it's still not enough that it makes
it a targeted species anywhere. It's kind of an accident
when you catch them. That would be nice to have
some of that. And then, as I believe it was,
I can't remember who. I apologize for not remembering who
talked about. Oh it was Brad, Yeah, Brad Schweiss from

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Houston Gold Exchange. So what about those three and four
pounds sand trout and golf trout we used to have.
I'd be in croakers. I'd like to see them make
a comeback. That would be fun because there are great,
great teaching fish, a great learning fish for kids, and
they were big enough to fight hard too.

Speaker 3 (02:07:46):
We've got it. We've got the best state.

Speaker 2 (02:07:48):
In the world as far as in the country, as
far as I'm concerned for all around hunting activity. There
are little glitches here and there, but by and large.
We learned a lot about youth hunting today too. We'll
touch on that again the morning. Well, I'm gonna get
out of here, go rest my voice a little bit,
and i'll be back here tomorrow morning, probably hopefully sounding
a little bit better than I did today. Thank you
all for listening, Get outside, have some fun with your families,

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and stay safe.

Speaker 3 (02:08:10):
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