Crickets as Bait?

Originally aired on February 21, 2026. On this episode, Doug recalls a recent fishing trip with Mike Cacciotti, reviews venomous snakes that you should avoid, and much more. Stay connected to the outdoor activities that you and your family love on The Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm coming. Hang on, I gotta plug in over here.
I had to change chairs, and changing chairs and caused
me to unhook from the I don't know the teather
that keeps this microphone on. In any event, I'm here now,
ah Mercy. I've been running around here every time, Frankie,
every time I come in here, I feel like I've

(00:21):
got I look down at the clock.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Okay, I've got.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Plenty of time to prep I've got plenty of time
to put the finishing touches on what I want to
talk about today. And then I look up again and
it's like six fifty nine forty nine, and yeah, but
I made it back the Uh. The only reason I

(00:44):
was a little bit late getting over to the chair
is because I was I was trying to get some water,
and that involves it's too complicated.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's gonna be a cloudy day today, which is that's
kind of like the last few days of both. But
actually it was less humid this morning. I think, at
least when I left sugar Land, less humid this morning
than it was yesterday. Yesterday and today before were like
Thursday and Friday. We're kind of the it's that air

(01:14):
that you get around here. It's a it's a Southeast
Texas there. It's a semi tropical warm weather air that's
just loaded with water. You feel like you could almost
do a backstroke on it and try to get above
the cloud that's just laying on the ground, too lazy
to get up into the sky for a while. But
it turned into a pretty good afternoon yesterday. Actually, I

(01:36):
think I'm gonna try. That's that's such a vague. That's
not exactly a glowing endorsement of what I'm gonna do today.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I was.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
I was about to say I think I'll try, which
is a waste of words. My intention is to try
for another fishing show. Visit either today and if not today,
for sure tomorrow. I've got a lot of people I
haven't had a chance to talk to yet. I was
in there Wednesday for a couple of hours and turned

(02:07):
up there were a lot of things in there that
I hadn't seen before. I got a really good education
on braided lines from an old friend. I just said, Okay,
what's new with this line or line of lines, if
you will, And the next thing I know, I'd been
standing there listening to all the subtlety, the intricate details.

(02:31):
Pardon me, I got a little bubble in there of
braided lines. He reps a couple of different brands, and
he explained to me all the differences in each of them,
and it was really it was a fascinating conversation. I
learned a whole lot. I really really did. And so
if you haven't been yet, kind of wondering why we've

(02:54):
only got two more days of it, and frantically one
of the things that may hold me back, it's just
such a petty little thing. It really won't, but it
would make you think twice, depending on who you are
and how much jingle you got in your pocket. When
I went down there Wednesday, I like to take a
shot at at least before I go just dive into

(03:15):
the garage and pay premium prices. I like to take
a shot at getting one of those metered parking places
around the park in front of GRB. And darned if
I didn't find one almost right away. Boy, there it was,
big old spot. Pulled into it and walked over to
the meter, got my credit card out, punched in my
license number, punched in how much time I wanted, and

(03:39):
then said Okay, let's pay, and it wouldn't take my card.
It wouldn't take anything. I tried to put cash in there,
wouldn't take it. I could have parked there for three
dollars and fifty cents for the amount of time I
wanted to stay there. Three fifty it's all it would
have taken. And in fact that another a woman walked
up to me and said, is this meter working? I

(04:00):
said no, and she said, well, neither is the one
down that way pointing west. And then I said, well,
this was not working. I'll try the one down the
street to the other direction, back to the east or no,
that would have been Yeah, I think it would have
been east. Technically, yes, it would And that meter didn't
work either. So I had two choices, roll the dice

(04:24):
with the City of Houston and see if I can
get back out of the GRB before they tow my
car because it's technically illegally parked, or park in the garage. Well,
I'm a belting suspenders guy when it comes to somebody
rolling up and taking my car away or even putting

(04:44):
a ticket on it. That wouldn't have been necessary. And
I found I felt like there was no way to
leave a note or something met or not working it.
That's the oldest one in the book. That's what i'd
hear if I had to go stand in front of
a judge and plead my case. So I sucked it up.
I thought, how much can it be really to park
in the garage? Frank you we talked about this yesterday,

(05:06):
didn't we. Yeah, so you already know the answer. There's
a big convention in town too, by the way, which
I think influenced.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
It's almost like.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
They have a chalkboard out there like a restaurant, and
if they've got a catch of the day, they put
that on the restaurant board and say you can get
this today for this much money. Well, Wednesday was the
day because the big conference was there. And as I
explained to my wife last night, the reason they jack
up prices when there's a conference in town is that

(05:37):
most of the people who are at that conference are
on expense accounts. They don't care if it's a thousand
dollars for parking, They just write it off. It doesn't
matter to them. But it mattered to me that I
had to pay thirty five dollars to park my car
for two and a half hours thirty five bucks man
fifteen bucks an hour, basically to park my car, just

(05:59):
to leave it in a spot. And as I explained,
I was talking to Don Martindale, the guy who produces
the show, said, you know what, they could fill that
garage every day if they would just always charge even
twenty bucks a twenty dollars bill, that's all it would take.
Bring it down where it's a little bit more reasonable.

(06:22):
I would be willing to bet, and Don kind of
agreed with me. There are probably people who come down
there with their family and they're they're thinking, Okay, I
got to buy four tickets to get in, that's gonna
cost me a bunch of money. I'm gonna get in
there with my with my family, and at some point
they're gonna be hungry. That's gonna cost me a bunch
of money.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
But at least.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Parking won't oh wait, whoa, whoa, what's that sign? Say
three point fifty oh no, thirty five bucks and they
just turn around and go home. I bet some of them.
I bet some people who go down there with intention
or at the very least, what they're gonna do is
they're gonna go ahead and just bite on a stick
and pay the thirty five. But that's thirty five dollars

(07:02):
that won't get spent inside the show with the vendors,
and that's not fair to them. It's it's a bit
of a racket, it seems like to me. Would you agree, Frankie, Yeah,
I mean what I mean, it's just arbitrary. And I
bet you that parking in that garage today is not
as much I would I'm not sure. I haven't been
down there. I'm not going today. I'll probably go back tomorrow,

(07:26):
but I bet you it's not thirty five dollars again,
because all those conventioneers have packed up and left their
hotels and jumped on their jet planes and gone home.
I bet it'll come down. It's it's a it's it's
what the market will bear.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
I guess you know.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
They jack it up when they know they've got a
captive audience, people who have to be there. But for
those of us who are going down there because we're
excited about learning about fishing and buying some new stuff, yeah,
it's a that's a pretty big chunk. That's a pretty
big chunk. Okay, Well, oh yeah, I've got a lot
of things I've got to got some emails, I've got

(08:04):
a reply to.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Let me put this over here.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
I don't need to have that right in front of
me where it's gonna buzz in everybody's ears. Oh I
know who that is, Frankie. Go ahead and just tee
him up. I'll talk to him. I'll talk to him
twice if I have to. At least we don't have
any malfunctions in here this morning. It was nice for
everything to just tee up and run right on time,

(08:28):
even though I was a tad late. Can you go
ahead and just put him up, Frankie, I know he
wants to talk to me. Oh, come on, Kevin, all right,
let me get there's some other things that are kind
of all my good. There he is, now, we're good,
all right, tell me the secret? What do I miss?

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Kevin?

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, that thirty five dollars. If you saw the sign
beside it, it said if you lose your ticket, it's
seventy dollars.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
No. I wasn't losing my ticket, man. Yeah. Yeah, they
double down on that.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
You have to pay, come back and pay and get
your receipt and then go back to your vehicle before
you come out. And if you lose that ticket before
after you paid, before you go out, then it's gonna
cost you one hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh yeah, you know what I mean. Here's that's kind.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Of a racket in itself, because if they just said, okay,
you're coming into the garage to park, and right up front,
right there, as you come in, put your card in,
take you thirty five dollars out. Okay, take my thirty
five dollars as I walk in that way. I don't
need a ticket to get out. I've committed to thirty
five dollars to park my car in your garage. I'll

(09:38):
be out of there before dark or whatever. The time
they shut the thing down. I don't maybe they don't, uh,
but then then there's no way they can get me
for seventy But in the hustle and bustle of this world,
I guarantee you they get probably half a dozen, maybe
a dozen people a day who lose their ticket and said, well,
too bad, seventy bucks.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
Yeah, that it is a racket, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, we're in the wrong business. I saw a story, Kevin.
I saw a story this week. Actually, I talked about
it on fifty plus there are I don't know, it's
like a billion parking spaces in the United States, and
they they're there. They occupy as much state, as much
space as the state of West Virginia. Wow, that's how

(10:24):
many parking places we've got thirty five dollars. Multiply that
by thirty five and see how unless you get only.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
Speaking of speaking of fifty plus, I've turned into it
a couple of times for the first time, probably in
the last few weeks.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Really enjoyed the shawank you man.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
I appreciate you share a lot of the same political beliefs.

Speaker 6 (10:45):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I try not to go too deep and dwell on
those topics, but they're so important right now. I can't
ignore them either, you know, and I bounce off of
it and go to lighter stuff when I can.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, it's a.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Mix of things that are If they're important to me,
I figure they're important to people my age and younger
like you. But nonetheless, yeah, I can enjoy I enjoyed
doing that show, I really do.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Well, I always enjoy this show too, Doug.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Now's you can't get out without telling me when the
next kids tournament is down?

Speaker 5 (11:18):
There.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh well, it's gonna be March twenty first.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
That's not that far away.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
March twenty first. Harvest for the Hungry, good little event.
They've got a twenty acre lake. It's stocked with redfish
that they've released into it. It's a freshwater lake, the
fast catfish, coppied perch and stuff. But you fish for
a limited window of time during the morning and bring

(11:44):
your catches up and William and they hand out a
couple of trophies I think for first two third proceeds
for the event go toward angler education classes. The organization
Harvest for the Hungry is a really great organization. They
raise vegetables there on the sixty acres property that they've
got there on the corner of five twenty three there

(12:06):
in Oyster Creek, or just outside of Oyster Creek. They
raise eggs and make honey and they donate all this
stuff to the local food pantry.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
That's pretty nice. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Absolutely, it's a win win for everything, the kids in
for the community.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yeah, it is. Stay in touch with me on that way. Okay,
let's talk about it again before we get there.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Sure will, buddy, all right, they have a good weekend.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, thank you dad, All right, click that off, Oh mercy,
first break time. Let's do that Bellville meat Market. We're
teeing it up with the meat market. If you have
not been out there, they're in the middle of Belleville,
as the name would imply, And if you don't know
when you get there, just which way to go. Kind
of go to the middle of town, roll your windows
down and drive around a little bit until you smell

(12:51):
delicious barbecue smoke, and then just drive into the wind
and it'll take you right to Bellville Meat Mark. You
can't miss it. It's not that hard, it really isn't.
But once you get inside, you're gonna be thrilled with
what you see. There's beef, chicken and pork cut however
you want, two dozen plus flavors of premium pecon smoke, sausage,
all kinds of different pork tenders. They've got stuff pork chops,

(13:13):
they've got pan sausage, boot and labuchery stuffed chickens, on
and on and on. The list goes. For anybody who's
in an omnivore with a kind of a leaning, a
strong leaning toward carnivore, you're gonna love what you find
in there, even the just kind of grab and go snacks,
the Jerkys dry sausage, dry stick, which I really love

(13:35):
everything you can imagine. Take the whole family out there.
Every single day of the week, seven days a week,
from ten in the morning till seven in the evening.
They serve up a delicious barbecue, lunch or dinner, depending
on what time you get there. Belleville Meat Market. They're
on Highway thirty six, about fifteen minutes north of Sealy,
fifteen minutes south of Hempstead. Very easy to find, so simple,

(13:56):
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while game processing speaking of year round. Just call out
there to make sure that what you're planning to take
out there is on their list of go or no go,
and once you get the green light to bring it
out there, take it out and they'll process it however
you want. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com is the website Belleville

(14:18):
MeetMarket dot com. Hi, welcome back seven nineteen on Sports
Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for
listening this morning. Hope you're off to a good weekend
start on this Saturday, or maybe you started a little
bit early yesterday. Who knows. Around here, there's always something
to go do outdoors, except maybe during a hurricane, and

(14:39):
even then it might be go help a neighbor. But
there's always something to do outside.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
We had a.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Pretty good storm, and I'll wrap I'll wrap storm in
quotes for this one, because it wasn't devastating. But there
were some little pockets where either baby tornadoes or so
I'm real, just real hard wind gusts came through places

(15:05):
and knocked down a few trees, knock some people's power out.
I was stunned when I didn't lose power, because my
neighborhood is on a little tiny grid of I don't know.
I think it's something like sixty sixty customers of Center Point,
and we got lucky. Maybe they've I don't even want

(15:27):
to know. I'm not going to even talk about it
because I know if I do, the next time the
wind blows more than five miles an hour, I'll lose
power again. It was that way for the first probably
the first fifteen twenty years I've been in this house
thirty two years, I think something like that, thirty three maybe,
And for the first twenty of them, nobody could figure
out why our power was going out. And then finally
one of the neighbors actually went and ran the lines.

(15:49):
And we'd asked and asked and begged and begged for
them to go just follow wherever our power starts and
figure out why the problem exist. And finally one of
the neighbors went out and just ran the lines himself.
He was trained in that and kind of knew what
he was looking for, and he found kind of in
the middle of nowhere, somewhere out there, a place where

(16:12):
a good breeze would cause tree limbs to slam into
the power lines. Guess what happens when those tree limbs
hit the power lines and the power lines hit each other.
You hear that noise that means the transformers going, and
then just about the end of that sound, that's when
it goes dark.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
And it did.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
It wasn't that long ago. It's a month or two ago.
We had a similar situation where we lost power for
a significant amount of time. I don't mind if it
flickers and goes out for a minute or two or
three while some switch is thrown somewhere automatically, but if
it's something that requires somebody getting out of bed and
getting in a truck to go evaluate it and then

(16:52):
consider the options and then start working on it. And
you get into a half an hour, an hour, two
hours without power. Now you're starting to get into my
refrigerator and the contents of that. I think we ought
to be able to charge back center Point for anything
we'd lose in our refrigerator. What do you think of that, Frankie?
That would be nice. Yeah, you know what, just take

(17:15):
a picture when when the power goes out, open your
refrigerator and your freezer and take a picture of what's
in there, and then go replace it once the power
comes back on, and just send Center Point of bill,
take it off my next month's bill. That's okay, go ahead,
just drop this one hundred and eighty dollars, just three
hundred dollars all this meat I had in my freezer

(17:37):
that's now gone bad. Yeah, just to go ahead and
go ahead and reimburse me for that, Center Point, that
would be nice. But I'm sure they're protected from any
of that, because you know, they they just don't know
when stuff like that's gonna happen. I bet they know
more than they're letting on. And maybe not seven one
three two one two five seven ninety email me Doug

(17:58):
Pike at iHeartMedia on this past Monday, in an effort
to the original intention was to get some pictures for
a magazine story on work working on and I thought
it would be pretty easy. And then I thought, you know,
I'm gonna kill two birds with one stone. I've been
my boss here, Paul Lambert. He's our market president now

(18:21):
and well deserved in that, by the way, and I
don't think he's listening. I'm not trying to butter him up.
But anyway, I thought, you know, he and I have
been talking about taking his son and my son fishing
for a long time, and so I checked with him,
I guess, you know, some part of last week, and
he said, well, you know, what what I said was
find a Monday when your son's going to be out

(18:43):
of school and we can all go fishing. And he said, well,
you know, next Monday's President's Day, Doug, and we're going
to be off. And so I started making phone calls.
I called Mike Cacciotti, who has always been helpful with me,
especially when there's a kid involved. If there's a kid
standing there the rod and reel, Mike's gonna put him
in his boat and we're all going fishing. So anyway,

(19:05):
my son couldn't go because he and one of his
buddies drove all the way up to where what's it
is it Bentonville where the University of Arkansas is, You remember, Frankie,
I can't remember. In any event, he was gone, and
I think he's kind of smitten with his friend, the
friend who drove up there with him. I think that

(19:26):
guy's got a girlfriend up there, and she's got a roommate,
and I think my son's kind of.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Smitting with her. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
It's none of my bees wax, but he chose that
over fishing. So that's a pretty powerful draw because he
does like to fish. In any event, Captain Mike and
I and Jack and Paul get in the boat. Made
it a casual trip too. We met at eight o'clock
in the morning. We didn't try to beat the sunrise
or anything like that. He was coming all the way

(19:54):
from Katie and I from Sugarland to meet in the shadows,
the long Shadows anyway of the Fred Hartman Bridge, and
it was really it was really an eye opener for
me because, first of all, I haven't fished up in
that area in probably twenty five years. And secondly, it
was just really refreshing to have. Well, I had a

(20:16):
little pressure on myself because of needing those photographs, which
I didn't get yet. By the way, I'll have to
do another trip soon. But the bottom line is we
caught fish at every place that he stopped. Mike could say, yeah, well,
let's go try this place first, and we go try
this place first, and we put a couple of sheep's
head in the box and there was I think we

(20:36):
caught a little undersized red or to at that spot,
five or six fish, maybe six or seven. They're fishing
with live shrimp, by the way, so they have the
distinct advantage. I'm using a bait that I've seen used online. Well,
I'll go ahead and tell everybody now because it's all
over the internet. But anyway, some guys are using crickets
to catch sheep's head, and that's what I wanted to do.

(20:58):
And the way the boat was configured and the way
everybody was stationed, it was a little difficult for me
to get those crickets because it's kind of hard to
cast them without just slinging them right off the line.
They're they're just gooey. They don't have anything solid to
hook into like a like a shrimp does. Plus they're little.

(21:19):
I ordered the large crickets when I went into pet Co.
And by the way, if they actually end up do
if they actually do end up catching sheep's head and
maybe redfish and maybe trout and whatever crickets are, wais
cheaper than shrimp? Did I tell you, Frankie? What I
paid for four dozen large crew by large. By the way,

(21:42):
they're like an inch to maybe the biggest one I
had was maybe an inch and a quarter and that
was like Godzilla in a room full of tiny somethings.
So how much I'm buying them by the piece? And
how much for the cricket?

Speaker 6 (22:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (22:00):
How much is a cricket? One cricket you can buy one?

Speaker 2 (22:03):
What do you think? Like four or five? Am I?
Am I lower? Am I under four or five? What cent? No?

Speaker 1 (22:11):
A cricket is eighteen cents?

Speaker 2 (22:13):
That's it?

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Okay, eighteen cents?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Shrimp Probably if you if you peeled out the price
and look at what you're getting, probably at least a
quarter and maybe maybe a little more, depending on the
size of the shrimp, because you're buying those by the
pine of the court. And yeah, they've gone way up
since I used to buy shrimp. I haven't bought live
shrimp in one hundred years. I just I would prefer
to throw lures. So anyway, we get out there and

(22:38):
I get frustrated because I can't catch anything on these
stinking crickets, and I shift over to shrimp for a
little while and have some fun and catch a couple
of fish, and then I just I just devoted myself
to throwing lures, throwing a little soft plastic while they
did their thing from the front of the boat. And
right toward the end of the time we had allotted,
I finally got a little red fish on that jig.

(22:59):
So I felt very uplished. I caught a fish on
my jig. They caught fish on the shrimp and ended
up going home. They ended up going over with a
really really nice mixed bag of a couple of keeper
trout that we got there were sheep's head, a little
drum and and and Paul sent pictures of them on
the grill, and I sent him back a text that said, well,

(23:21):
apparently I ate dinner at the wrong house because I
didn't get any of that seven one three two one
two five seven ninety email on me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com. Overall, that experience was really good because Number One,
I got to go see a place I had in
an area I hadn't fished in a while, and a
lot of it kind of was familiar, but not enough

(23:41):
that I could have navigated us around there and gotten
to where he was going. Number Two, it just kind
of reinforced what I've always felt like is that our
our base system is pretty healthy. Overall. I'm in an
area where we had barges going past us, we had
tug boats going past uh US, large ships traveling up

(24:02):
and down the ship channel, all of that, and still
we caught drum sheep's head trout, redfish. There was something
else I think that his son Jack Jack caught. I
can't remember what it was, but it was like five
species we ended up with on the morning.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
It may have been just the four, I don't know,
but it was pretty representative of what you would expect
to catch up there, but we caught more of them
than I thought we would. It was really it was
really eye opening our base system. At least by that
one little snapshot, pretty dog one healthy, and it really

(24:46):
reminded me of how much fun you could have. There
was somebody at the cleaning table when we came in.
He had kind of the same bag, just a bunch
of different keeper fish that he was going to take
home and eat, and just there they are. All you
got to do is go get them. I'm not really
a snob. I'll catch anything that's biting. I kind of
like doing that. I prefer, honestly to maybe go target

(25:07):
trout or redfish something like that, and that's just been
ingrained in me over the last twenty five years. I
haven't fished specifically for those other species because I use
artificial lures almost all the time and it's hard to
catch sheep's head and drum on jigs or top waters
or whatever. But by and large, it was really nice

(25:28):
to see firsthand how healthy our based system is overall
and how many fish you can catch. You can certainly
go catch enough. If you've got the least little boat
and you've got a fair amount of time and can
grab yourself a quarter live shrimp, you're in business, really are,
And there's a lot of places on the bank where
you can go catch those things too, and just from

(25:49):
little docks and piers and whatnot. It takes a little
more patience maybe.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
All right, check it out.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Shooter's Corner Palmer Highway at twenty ninth Street, right there
in Texas City. Owners, No, buddy mine, that's Jerry TK.
He and his son Jay run the place. Probably two
of the best gunsmiths I know. They built amazing custom rifles.
It's an old school gun store. Okay, these guys know
what they're doing, as does everybody who works in there.
You're not gonna see. I bet they don't have six

(26:15):
employees number for two reasons. Number one, because they have
to be really really sharp in the shooting sports and
in guns and AMMO and all of that. And number two,
they're just not enough room for all that many salespeople
or counter people to walk around. It's a nice, small,
compact store that is loaded with everything you need to

(26:38):
enjoy the shooting sports, new and pre owned rifles, shotguns,
handguns all in there. They have all the amo you
can imagine in every boutique caliber there is. And they
have instruction, well not instruction, but information that will help
you get any question you have answered by a true
professional in the shooting sports The Shooters cornertx dot com.

(27:02):
It's a website. If you wear a badge for a living,
you get a discount. They've been family owned and operated
for forty plus years now. I think it's about forty
five if the If my memory serves me, The Shooters
Cornertx dot com seven thirty six on Sports Talk seven
to ninety The Dugpike Show. If you went to the
Fishing Show this week, or maybe you're going today or tomorrow,

(27:25):
if it's the former, then tell me what you saw
that really impressed you or didn't impress you, And don't
beat up on anybody. But if you saw something it
just kind of made you think, why did they invent that?
We can talk about it, but I don't want to.
I don't want to bust anybody's bubble because most of
everything I saw out there was really good, and most

(27:48):
of the vendors I talked to out there also said
the fishing tackle is selling again like hotcakes. That's a
really good sign. When when recreational gear is moving, that's
a very good sign of a healthy economy. Because if
you'll recall back when the when, when trouble hit with

(28:11):
the with the pandemic and all, a lot of us
kind of just hunkered down. And when the economy under
the last administration, nobody had any money to spend on
twelve to fifteen dollars lures. Nobody had any money to
spend on two and three hundred dollars rods and three
and four and five hundred dollars reels. But they do
now apparently, And that's good. Now, I'm just waiting for

(28:34):
my turn someday. You know, I got an email from
David and that's all. I'm not going to tell you
his last name, but it's really pretty funny. The subject
line says when you know you're retired, and the message
is got up yesterday morning and jumped on the iHeart

(28:58):
or app excuse me till listen to your show just
after seven am. Didn't hear you and thought you must
be once again having technical difficulties. It wasn't until later
in the morning that my wife told me it was Friday.
I got a kick out of that. Thank you for
thank you for the effort, David. I really do appreciate it.

(29:19):
And yeah, now Frankie got that stuff figured out with
it with the help of a few guys, and we're
not going to ever have that problem again if something
else breaks.

Speaker 6 (29:30):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Also, Frankie has learned the did you kind of figure
out who to call first through all that?

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Oh yeah, we got a little protocol going, We got
a little nice Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
So no more worries, huh, No more. I'll go ahead
and knock on wood. I'm not gonna risk that, all right,
seven one three two five seven ninety Email me Doug
Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Like I said, if you've
been out there to the fishing show and you saw
something really cool or not cool, even we can now
I don't talk about the cool stuff because I'm never

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gonna knock somebody whose spirit is such that they've created
this thing that they think they think every fisherman should have,
even if it's kind of not that way. But I
still applaud their effort and I'm not gonna knock them
down at all. And who knows, maybe I'm wrong. That's
certainly as much of a possibility as being right. It's

(30:22):
a fifty to fifty shot when you're talking about fishing gear.
I've seen some of the goofiest stuff come down the pike,
and even amongst the better fishermen I know, i'd say,
what do you think of this? I saw this or
that at one of the forty some odd fishing shows
I've been to. Of the fifty one, I bet I
haven't missed five of them. I'm almost positive I've been

(30:43):
to at least forty six of the fifty one started
way way back when. But every now and then you
see something and just go oh, oh, he didn't have
a chance. That's never gonna make it. And then the
next thing, you know, now that we have social media,
everybody's throwing that lure or everybody he's fishing with that
rod and whatever it is. The good news is that

(31:04):
with AI capabilities and all the new machinery that's out
there to help manufacture stuff once it's past the prototype stage,
there really is some good stuff out there. There really
is some fantastic gear speaking of and I hate to
say fantastic gear and then also say forward facing sonar

(31:26):
right in the same little block. But I saw I've
seen two different versions of this now too, of guys
standing on the bow of the boat and complaining to
somebody else in the boat whoever's shooting the video that
they're and I mean they're just they're whining and crying

(31:47):
like little tiny babies about uh oh, my forward facing
sonar is not working.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
I can't find the fish.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
I don't know how to do it anymore.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
What if I do?

Speaker 2 (31:58):
It can't help it.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
I can't stand it. How do I fish without my
forward facing sonar? It's really if you can find one
of them, they're pretty funny. The first one's funny, then
the second one is like, oh, that guy just copied
the other guy. But it is really there. There is
a generation of fishermen who are growing up kind of
that way. There are people who once again, I've had

(32:23):
some guys, some friends my age, whose sons have called
them or they've called their sons because they knew their
son was going with a friend to a great bass
lake or something somewhere, and they get a cause, Hey, man,
do y'all catch any fish today?

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Nah?

Speaker 1 (32:40):
No, Dad, We never even made a cast. We just
didn't really see anything worth throwing at. Like that, that's
not what fishing should be about. It's just not and
that forward facing sonar, just in case these people don't
realize it is not a picture of everything all around
your boat. It's forward facing sonar, and as long as

(33:05):
the fish is in front of you, you can see it.
But if it's twenty yards to the left, twenty yards
to the right, I don't know exactly how all that
stuff works and how much ground it can cover, but
there's always hiding places. I feel like it anyway. That's
why I keep casting. I don't care. I'm gonna keep

(33:25):
throwing you. You watch TV, I'll be fishing seven one
three five seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. When we come back. I'm gonna introduce you
to a ban on hunting and fishing that's being pushed
somewhere in our great United States. And I don't even
have to tell you it's not here, but I'll bet

(33:46):
you if it works up there, within five years, somebody
will be we knocking on the headquarters of the Texas
Legislature to see if they can get some sympathetic, pathetic
person to back something like that. Here, we'll take a
little break here on the way out Houston Gold Exchange.
I've been telling you for two weeks, three weeks maybe

(34:09):
with the fishing show coming up, and now the fishing
show's only got two more days. If you have any
gold around the house, maybe some boullyon that somebody gave
you as a gift years ago, or maybe just scrap
gold of some sort, some old change you had from
your disco days. If you're my age boy, that would
be something to hang on to, wouldn't it. Maybe there's

(34:30):
a ring that once meant something to you but doesn't anymore.
That ring, if it is, if it's got a high
gold content, that little tiny ring that you wore on
your finger for however long before you finally realized what
was happening to you and you bailed, that old ring
might be worth a couple of thousand dollars. The price

(34:50):
of gold is north of five thousand dollars. This is
historic pricing, historic money that you can get. And like
I've been saying all along, if you've got even a
little bit of gold around the house, and you can
probably go in and cash it in with Brad Schweiss
over at Houston Gold Exchange and earn yourself enough money
for a nice kayak, a really nice kayak, and all

(35:14):
the trimmings that go with it, except maybe ford facing
sonar you might need a little bit more for that.
Brad deals in precious metals, as I've talked about before, gold, silver,
all of them, really, platinum, you name it. He'll help
you with that. He has a nice collection of Rolexes
that he has bought over the years. He'll buy one
from you if you have one that you're not wearing anymore.

(35:36):
A lot of people don't wear watches anymore. I wear one.
I wear a very nice one. Actually, that's Brad's brand.
As a matter of fact. If you need a good
investment tool, gold, silver, they're very good. Buy them when
you can, sell them when you can. There's never a
bad time. That's something Brad taught me a long time ago.

(35:58):
As a long term investment. There's never a bad time
to buy or sell gold because you're gonna you're gonna
end up making a good bunch of money on it.
If you're looking for a really good investment, or just
something maybe to get you out of the doghouse, go
see Brad. He's over at the corner of West Timer
and Darry Ashford, been in that same building for a
very long time. Or by the way, he even though

(36:22):
he's a die hard fisherman, and he may be fishing.
But he told me to give you guys his cell number, okay,
and if you call him now, he'll start the process.
If you've got gold coins, maybe silver coins, he can
work with you on that, anywhere from five hundred dollars
worth or fifty dollars worth up to a half a
million dollars worth. He's been in the business a long time.

(36:44):
He can handle anything you can bring to him. I
promise you that call this number call him this morning.
I dare you to do it, because he'll answer. He
will answer. I'm pretty sure he's awake, and I'm pretty
I know he'll if he is, he'll answer two eight
one eight five one thirty nine five two eight one
eight five one thirty nine fifty five. Manny Lopez and

(37:08):
the people who work with him over at El Kubano
Cigars on Main Street in Texas City, the big smoking
lounge there and a manufacturer. It's a manufacturing facility as
much as anything else. Interestingly enough, the smoking lounge part
kind of like the one over in League City that
he has. It's more more Havana style, but the smoking

(37:29):
side of the part of the store on Main Street
in Texas city is bigger than the manufacturing facility. Yet
he and a couple of other Cubans sit in there
all day long, every day, rolling cigars to the point
where they're able to offer one hundred and fifty varieties,
by the way, very fresh cigars. These things haven't sat

(37:49):
in the warehouse for any time at all. They make
them and they sell them at wholesale prices because there's
nobody in the middle to want to peel off a
little piece for themselves of the cigars that might have
been somewhere else for sitting around.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
A long time.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Manny and his crew are excellent at what they do.
The company was founded by Many and his father in
two thousand and six. They use only the finest Cuban
seed tobaccos from all around Central America. You can actually
watch the rolling process over there. They start with the
leaves come in from wherever they're shipped from for that

(38:24):
particular batch. Then they're cured and babysat for I think
it's a couple of months, maybe it's that long before
it's time to bring those things out and start rolling
them into cigars. It's a fascinating process. The fascinating thing
to watch and some of the best taste in cigars
you'll ever put in your mouth. Elcubano does custom orders too.

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That's one thing that Manny is really really proud of
is the way he can cater to whatever your company is,
whatever your event is, and create cigars that are banded
and boxed with branding on them to really press your guests.
He'll come right to your event and roll cigars for
your guests if you want him to. One of the

(39:06):
nicest guys I've ever met. I've been really thrilled to
be working with him and get a chance to tell
you about these cigars more than one hundred and fifty
different kinds. Think about that. They ship out hundreds and
occasionally thousands of cigars a week, depending on how many
orders they get in. Put your order in now, go
over there and pick out a few to hand. Just
pick out a handful to maybe take home and try,

(39:28):
or get online if you know enough about cigars and
really dig in and get yourself a box or two
at a better price than you're gonna find probably anywhere
around here. Elcubano Cigars dot Com is the website Elcubano
Cigars dot Com. Seven fifty two on Sports Talk seven
ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening so
very much. I talked about buying crickets at Petco and

(39:52):
guess who I got an email from Petco. We're all ears,
remind us how was your recent visit to Petco? A
few minutes is all it takes to fill out survey.
I don't have a few minutes to fill out of
Petco survey. I'm sorry. I wish you did. Your crickets
are great. What am I gonna say? Your crickets don't
catch fish? Don't catch saltwater fish anyway, not yet, not yet.

(40:18):
If I get a rematch with those fish somehow, and
I've got a there's actually a listener emailed me after
I talked about that this week, somebody who was listening
and heard the story told on fifty plus and he said,
I've been trying to do this too, And I've got
a couple of places he's walking. He's not in a boat.

(40:38):
He's walking to places where there are peer pilings. And
that's a good place to start looking for sheepshead. And
so I might go back to pet COO and invest
another eight dollars in four dozen crickets eight dollars and
forty cents. I think it was something like that. Wow,
I couldn't get a handful of shrimp for that. So

(41:00):
it's if it works, it's gonna be great. And if
it doesn't, well, we can always take them to a
pond somewhere and catch some.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Giant bluegills on them. That'll work.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
I have some interesting stuff in my mailbox right now.
I'm gonna share as much of it as I can.

Speaker 6 (41:14):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Dan, Dan had a really good idea, or so he thinks.

Speaker 6 (41:21):
Dan.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Trust me, Dad, you're the reason that that center point
Walt reimburse us for what's in our refrigerators when the
power goes out. Dan's idea, make sure you take some
masking tape and mark everything in your freezer either RIBI
or Prime rib or filamgnon whatever, and see if you

(41:44):
can I guess to maybe get a little bigger check,
have a little bigger discount on your next bill. Come on, Dan,
now you spoiled it for everybody. Now they're gonna be
suspicious of us when we go to them with the plan.
I'd be perfectly fine with getting my money back on
my ground beef and get my money back on. Maybe
I don't know what else would be in the freezer.

(42:05):
My wife and I really don't eat much ice cream,
so that wouldn't be it mostly frozen dinners. That'd be
about all. Rick weighed in with a public service announcement.
I guess that's about what we can call this. Rick is,
as you know, Rick By, He's a guy I talked
to a lot on this show. He's got a lot

(42:26):
of good information and good advice from time to time.
And he hates crows. I know that, kind of like
I hate cormorants. In any event, he's outside and on
rural land more probably than most of us, unless there
are some actual farmers or ranchers listening to the program.

(42:46):
I saw three snakes on the prowl this week. Rick
wrote me, be aware. I am aware. I've been watching
for winter through winter. When I get to play golf,
if I or somebody else in my groom group hits
a ball out into the rough or into the bushes

(43:07):
or into the forest, depending on where we're playing, I'm
very carefree about walking in, just hard charging in there
to go find that golf ball for them for me.
And now now that we've had a few days where
the temperatures really truly are spring like and borderline summer like.
Today's not going to be cool at all, but tomorrow

(43:29):
and next few days will be really nice. In any event,
I slow down a little bit before I walk in,
because the property that I'm playing on most often does
have its share of copper heads. And those copperheads look
for all the world like little branches on the ground
until you step on one and knock on wood. I've

(43:50):
never done that yet, but I've come very very close
to having a really bad experience with copperheads. I haven't.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
I don't think I.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Can remember the last time I saw a coral snake.
I can remember the last time I saw a watermokus
and a cotton mouth can't remember. I can't remember. Boy,
it would have been back in my lots of trips
to South Texas days since I've seen a rattlesnake. And
that's that was what made me buy snake boots one

(44:20):
hundred years ago that I still wear when I go
trotting around in places like that. Uh, that's that's peace
of mind that you can't replace with anything else. Having
those snake boots, This rattlesnakes probably not gonna get above
a quality snake boot. They're not they're not high jumpers,
but they will zap you. And if you get zapped,

(44:42):
the damage starts very quickly and escalates very quickly. It
lose a lot of tissue. The hematoxin is what it is,
and it affects the muscles. It just eats up your muscles,
turns them to jelly. You don't want that to happen.
Someone three two one two five seven ninety Email me
Doug pie at iHeartMedia dot com when we get back,

(45:03):
since I totally missed a drop of the ball, to
tell you about it this time, when we get back
from the top of the hour break, because I'm gonna
put the paperwork right in front of me here where
I can't miss it. I'm going to tell you about
the state that wants to ban hunting and fishing. Not
the whole state, just a few far left progressive liberal

(45:24):
tree huggers, whatever you want to call them, and they
think it's gonna make it to the ballot in November.
I can't imagine that happening, And even if it does,
I can't imagine anybody in their state who is in
a position of power thinking that that's a good idea,
And I'll tell you why to take a little break
here on the way out of American Shooting Centers out

(45:44):
there on West Timber Parkway between Katie and Highway six.
They are. It is the largest non military shooting facility
in the entire state of Texas, and we do have
some big ones. There are a couple of them up
in the middle of Texas. San Antonio's got that big
gun club over there that's been there probably since the
mid seventies, maybe a little bit later than that, but

(46:07):
it's been there a long time. Americans bigger than all
of them. Two hundred and twenty plus shooting stations and
just as much fun as you possibly could have at
a place where you can enjoy the shooting sports safely.
Ten sporting clays courses are not that three sporting clays courses,
ten trap and skeet fields, five stands setups in several

(46:29):
places around the property. There's a beginner's wing shooting area,
there's a pop up silhouette range. It's a whole lot
of fun to take the young people out there who
like to burn am o because you can just burn
that little rim firem at a whole lot better costs
than center fire or shot gunning. And there's plenty of
instruction too, plenty of instruction and all the shooting disciplines. Oh,

(46:51):
by the way, rifle and pistol from five yards to
six hundred yards. I forgot to mention that West Timer
Parkway between Katie and Highway six fun enjoyable, user friendly,
safe environment to enjoy the shooting sports as much as
and as often as you like. American Shooting Centers dot
Com is a website, American Shooting Centers dot com. All right,

(47:13):
second hour of the program starts right now. I want
to tee it up, uh. I want to get somebody
on the phone to play the Texas Temperature Game against Frankie. Now,
this particular episode of the Texas Temperature Game, unless I
can think of something really quickly, will be played for
pride and respect. That's the only two prizes I have
right now. I've got some stuff I think I could get,

(47:35):
but I don't want to promise something that I can't deliver.
And what I'll do is, if you win, I'll get
Frankie to get your information and we'll find something. And
if you lose, well, thanks for playing seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety By the way, if you
live far away from the galleria and have been hesitant

(47:57):
to play because you know it's it's a long way
to draw, I have to pick up your prize. This
might be your day. This might be your day. All
you have to do is promise me you won't go
snooping around looking at the temperatures around the state and this,
that and the other before you call. And if we
can get somebody on, I think it will be a
fun game. I told Frankie that this would be a
good day for it, and that's all the information I

(48:19):
gave him. And I'm hoping somebody will participate in the
spirit of the game, kind of like the Olympic. Well
they every one of those people. If they participate, they've
probably already been paid a good amount of money, and
if they win a medal. I got a hunch there's
bonuses for those two. I got a hunch, all right.
So while I'm waiting for somebody to call and make

(48:41):
this far more fun than just Frankie playing against me,
because I'm gonna do it, I'll tell you about this
petition that I read about earlier in the week. It
is in the state of Oregon, Okay. And what they're
hoping for, the people, the misguided people who are behind this,
what they're hoping for is to put an amendment on

(49:04):
the ballot that would eliminate well, they call it the
People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions Act, in
other words, the Peace Act, which would bring absolutely no
peace to the animals and the fish in that state,
and the ones that you would care about, the ones

(49:26):
that you might eat if you're an omnivore and enjoy
the outdoor sports, because what this would end up doing
is result it would result in overpopulation. And as I've
talked about a thousand times on this show, Nature takes
care of overpopulation because there's only so much food that
the vegetation can grow for the wildlife that eat the vegetation.

(49:49):
And if the population exceeds what the land can produce
to feed it, then nature says, what we got to
back this up, And there's two ways it's done. Starvation
and disease, and neither of those is pretty to look at.
Neither of those is pleasant for the animals that suffer it.

(50:10):
But these hardheads just don't want to talk about that.
They think that we should get out of the way.
And on top of getting out of the way, they
want to make it illegal to not just hunter fish,
but they want to expand that to that that definition
of cruelty to dogs and cats, to any wild animals,

(50:32):
to livestock, to animals used in research. They even would
they by the language and the law. It would also
matter to people who are coming into your house to
rid your attic of rats and mice. Couldn't do that anymore,

(50:52):
can't spray your house anymore. You can't do anything. Uh,
let's get let's get Glenn on here. We're going more
to go play for a minute. This is gonna be fun.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
I promise, Hey Glenn, good morning sir.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
You game man. You're gonna help me through this. It's
gonna be fun. I promise.

Speaker 4 (51:07):
Let me get you in here, Frankie, I have on TV.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Okay, I believe you. I believe you, Glynn. Frankie, Frankie,
you want to play the music, okay, And I'm gonna
write down the actual temperatures here so I know how
to do the there. It is okay, Glenn, do you
want to go first or second.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
I'll go second.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Second. Frankie, you always get put in the hot seat,
don't you.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (51:37):
Okay, So here's the deal. I want you to tell
me what is the current low temperature in the state
of Texas.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
I'm gonna go with h I'm going to go with
forty forty.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Glenn, what do you think is the current low temperature
in the state of Texas.

Speaker 7 (51:57):
I'll say thirty thirty nine, okay, Frankie. What do you
think is the high temperature in the state of Texas.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
I'll go with fifty one fifty one? Okay, Glenn?

Speaker 1 (52:16):
Why are you laughing?

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Glenn?

Speaker 1 (52:17):
What do you think is the high temperature in the
state of Texas?

Speaker 4 (52:21):
Oh, it's at least seventy five.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Seventy five okay.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
So Frankie, if I add these two together, you missed
the overall total. You said seventy five, right, Glenn for
the high Okay, Yeah, I'll just check it out. Okay,
now I have my math done right here, Frankie. Overall
you only missed by fifty eight degrees.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Great, Glenn, Glenn, you.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Missed the low temperature by twenty three, but you nailed
the high temperature at seventy five. The actual low in
the date of Texas right now is sixteen degrees, sixteen
degrees up in the Panhandle, all the way up at
the top of Texas, and of course you go down
the state and you go find seventy five degrees. It

(53:14):
was actually eighteen and seventy five when I went on
the air, and I thought, holy cow, I got to
work in a Texas temperature game. And I refreshed it
just to see a few minutes ago, and it's sixteen
degrees up there. So think you have you have done well.
You got one perfect score and a kind of a
not a bad miss, not a bad miss on the

(53:36):
low really considering, because yeah, that that's the front that's
gonna come through here tonight and tomorrow and take us
down into the sixties.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Ooo. Bundle up, you know.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Yeah, hey man, thanks for jumping in, Glenn. That was
a lot of fun. Buddy. I'll get I'll tell you
Frankie get his information, and if I can find something
to get for him, I will, and I will if
I do.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
I don't have anything right now, Glen.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
If I find something worthy of a man who put
a put a good old whipping on Frankie. I'll certainly
get in touch with him. We'll get something done, all right.
Appreciate it, Thanks man, Thanks pleasure. Yeah, that was kind
of fun. That was a lot of fun. Holy cal So,
back to this thing in Oregon. Uh, the woman there's
a woman from the who represents the Oregon Hunters Association

(54:23):
in this this fight. Name name is Amy Patrick, and
she said, I quote, this is something that has been
around for the last five years. This is an initiative
that is trying to basically outlaw the ability to kill
or injure an animal for any reason other than self defense.
They don't want they want to make Oregon a sanctuary

(54:46):
state end quote. I guess for animals and it God
if they passed this, well, they passed some really stupid
laws in Oregon for the l and Oregon in Washington,
both for the past fifty twenty years, not a one
of which has worked to the betterment of either of
those two states. By the way, she added, and I

(55:07):
quote again, it would criminalize hunting, fishing, trapping, wildlife management practices,
education and teaching with animals, all the way down to
your ability to trap pests and vermin end quote. Vermin
that's not a word you hear a lot in Texas.
Varmits maybe, but not vermin. Yeah, that's just that's what

(55:30):
they call over the top foolishness. And I can't see
it passing. I can't see it passing. It wouldn't stand
a snowballs chance down here. There's no way it's And
on top of just letting all these animals make a
mess of the state, think of the they're medical issues

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at risk when people have vermin running loose in their
attic and they can't kill them. There are ramifications and
just every walk of life. You go down the street,
if there's some uh rabbit skunk coming through there and
until it comes up and actually has its mouth opening,

(56:16):
is ready to bite you and get you with rabies,
there's no self defense involved. There would be some nut
who would who would try to take you to court
and say you didn't have to kill that skunk until
it was right about to bite you. Well, that's kind
of a split decision or a split second decision to
make their sparky. I don't I don't see that being

(56:37):
a good idea at all. Someone three seven ninety, Hey,
the world's full of nuts that it truly is right now,
and they've all got a tambourine to bang, and we
just got to keep our heads down and keep moving
forward with what you and I and most everybody I
know knows it's right for this country, and it's not.

(56:59):
It's not handing hunting and fishing. That's that's a there's
a huge financial impact that wasn't even mentioned in this story.
But as far north and west as Oregon is, yeah,
that's they need to pay attention. They have a significant

(57:19):
amount of hunting and fishing that goes on in that
state and that all generates money for that state that
they're not gonna have if something stupid like this happens.
And it's just stupid, it's just it's thoughtless. There's no
there's no long term study of what could happen if
they pull this off, but they want, so I'm not

(57:40):
gonna worry about it too much. I'd bet hard and
big on that not gonna happen. One of those Calshier,
one of those sites, maybe they could handle that stuff.
I don't know how any of that works, so it'd
be a waste of time for me to even try.
Timber Creek, that's a place I'd like to go try
soon again. I've been down there dozens of time. Timber
Creek Golf Club is on FM twenty three fifty one,

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about three miles west of the Golf Freeway. Very easy
to find and very fun to play. A very playable
golf course for golfers of any skill level as long
as you go to the right tea box you're playing.
If you're my age and you're playing with a bunch
of twenty five year olds, and just tell them, no,
I'm not going back to those back boxes with you.
I'm playing from my tea boxes, and y'all are just

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gonna have to get over it, because if you do that,
if you go where you're supposed to be based on
how far you can hit it, you're gonna have a
good time there. You don't have to be perfect, you
don't have to be down the middle of the fairway.
There are options that are not horrible all the way
around all twenty seven holes. I've played every one of
them enough times to know that and feel very confident

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saying that. And if you're still dissatisfied with your game,
there's always the JJ Woods Golf Academy at Timber Creek
right next to that. It's in a ten building right
next to the driving range over there. Great food in
the grill, great people in the pro shop to make
sure you get out on time, pointed in the right direction.
Starter will be out there to tell you, Oh, that's

(59:03):
your first tea box over there. No, that's their tea
box is first over there. And then you can spend
a little time before you go out putting and shipping
and hitting balls and doing whatever you want to do
over on that range, and just go have a good time.
Take a big event down there, if you need to
raise a lot of money, take yourself out there. If
you're just looking to make three new friends, they'll get
you out with somebody. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com

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is the website you can make a tea time right
now timber Creekgolf Club dot com. Hi, welcome back Dougpike
Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thanks as always for listening.
I'm gonna try a right handed throw into the trash can.
Hold on, man, did somebody take the trash can out
of this?

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Hold on them?

Speaker 1 (59:43):
I don't know they did. That's just great. It's probably outside.
I'll have to I'll have to wait and throw this
piece of paper right handed, which I can't do very well.
It won't be horrible, I want it won't look like
I'm throwing like a toddler.

Speaker 2 (59:58):
But yeah, it's it won't be It.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
Won't be as crisp and snappy as up as if
I threw it with my left hand. It still works.
I blew my arm out years ago in a softball game, unfortunately,
and just it snapped the overtrt my humors in my
left arm and it went off like a gunshot. It
sounded like a twenty two going off when that bone cracked,

(01:00:23):
and I thought I just dislocated my arm, so I
kind of cradled my elbow. I could feel the stretch
in my left bicep and all of that from the
shoulder to my elbow. It was just kind of hanging there,
and I thought I'd dislocated it. So I grabbed my
elbow and start kind of pushing back up, and that's
when I felt bone grinding, and I thought, then that's

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probably not supposed to happen. So called time out and
got off the field and went to the hospital that
was by the way that I wouldn't wish that on anybody.
It's a rare, very rare thing. You've got to be
really throwing hard to do that. And I made the
mistake of throwing hard after not warming up to play

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in just a pick up softball game, like a dope.
I was in the outfield trying to throw somebody out
at home plate right as the game started, and I
had gotten there late, and like a dope, well half
a dope, one side of me, my right arm was saying, hey, man,
I don't think you ought to make this throw because
you're not warmed up over there. You better pump the

(01:01:27):
brakes and just toss it back into second base and
my left arm. So we've been throwing people out for
years in the outfield, take the shot, and I took it,
and I blew my arm up and it was never
the same because the surgeon who was talking to me
about possibly doing something with it, I said, how long
is the recovery? What can I do? What can I

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do during all of that? And he said, are you
going to be playing baseball anymore? And I was in
my middle mid thirties, about thirty three years old or
something like that when it happened. Maybe thirty four. I
don't know in any event, I said, no, probably not.
He says, well, just let the bone heal and don't
worry about that shoulder. The problem wasn't the bone. The
problem was the shoulder because when that thing let go,

(01:02:11):
the momentum threw my arm out really far and just
ripped everything in my shoulder. It's a hot mess in there.
And I said, no, I don't need that anymore. I
can still swing golf clubs, right, Oh oh, yeah, it
won't hurt you for golf, and it never did. My
golf game has continued to be horrible since it happened.
So that wasn't a problem. But yeah, now, all of

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a sudden, fast forward, I've got a son who loves baseball,
and I'm trying to teach him how to throw like
a grown man when he's about little boy. And I
could still help him and his teammates when I was
coaching for a pretty long time, but when they hit
about fourteen or so or fifteen, it was pretty obvious

(01:02:54):
that there was something wrong with my arm. When I'd
try to show them what to do, and it just
drove me crazy. It made me so upset. I so
wanted to help them with that, and oh well that's okay.
I'm still swinging to golf club all right, although now
it's just age that's beating me up. Seven one two
two seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

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In case you missed it, I see what is I see?

Speaker 6 (01:03:18):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
Am I is it?

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
Frankie?

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
Yeah, In case you missed it, there was a very
large largemouth bass caught this past week in the state
of Texas Purtis Creek State Park Lake. A guy named
Austin Miles caught it. It takes over the twenty seventh place. Uh,
this sheer lunker six ninety does as largest ever in Texas.

(01:03:43):
It's in twenty seventh place. Frankie, you've been on this
show for a long time now. You've heard me talk
a lot about bass. What do you think that bass?

Speaker 8 (01:03:52):
Waite?

Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
And any guess is fine because you're not a bass fisherman,
I get it. I'm just kind of curious as to
what you would think would be the twenty seventh largest
bass ever caught in Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Okay, well, I'm gonna say something like maybe thirty pound range.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
Oh no, there's never been a thirty pound bas caught
ever in history.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
Okay, sorry, okay, okay, I'll give you this.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
I'll give you this. Our state record is eighteen point
eighteen pounds.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
Okay, maybe twelve thirteen pound. No, he's better than that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
Actually, this one's sixteen oh four, which is just an
absolute toad, a slob, whatever else you want to call
a giant fish in its species, a sixteen pound or
is just rare. As hen's teeth. They are few and
far between. And I saw a picture of the thing,
and it is a beast, There's no question about it.
Just as big old they get really fat looking, they

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don't look It's not like the saltwater fish, where no
matter how big they get, they still look lean. With
the exception of the groupers, the groupers are kind of
the They're the salt water equivalent of large mouth bass,
because once they get big enough to not worry too
much about being eaten, they'll just kind of back into

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a hole or back in under a rock or next
to a rock or something and just sit there and
wait for something big to come along and eat it.
The guys who fish for those goliath groupers will use
live baits that weigh ten or fifteen pounds sometimes and
down it goes, and that goliath grouper sees it and goes,
that might be a trick, but that sure looks tasty.

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And then the fight is on everything else in salt water.
The billfish, the tunas, the mackerels, they are sleek and
they're fast. Wahoo, they're really streamlined, and they just don't
look fat. They're not announce of fat on them. But

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largemouth bass they just kind of get toady looking when
they get passed about, really pasted about six or seven pounds,
they start to just get that big old dad bod,
if you will. For fish that's about with an extra
large belly on them. And more power to the guy,
though Austin Miles hands off, hats off to him. That's

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a heck of a fish, and I'm glad to see
at least something creep into that level in the state
of Texas. Granted it's only the twenty seventh largest ever caught,
but the other twenty sixth above it, ahead of it,
I would be willing to bet without looking that most
of those fish were caught years ago, years ago. There

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just haven't been really any behemoth bass caught in Texas
in quite some time. Maybe it's a sign, maybe it's
a step back in the right direction toward finally displacing
Barry Saint Clair's fish. I don't know, though. The more
I think about it, the more I'm with all the

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genetic work that Texas has done to grow bigger bass
and more of them for the past literally at like
thirty four forty years, you would think that if it
was possible to get a twenty pounder, we'd get one.
And so what I'm thinking now is it's more just
a case of that's just as big as they get.

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For the say I've talked about this a few weeks ago.
This is for the same reason that you don't see
any five hundred pound white tailed deer running around in
the woods. You don't see any forty pound speckled trout
four foot long, forty pounds speckle trout. There's a top
end for all of these things, same reason that you
don't see any one hundred foot tall giraffes or any

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fifty ton elephants. There's a top end to every species.
You don't see any foot long cockroaches. Everything's got it's limits,
and that's the way the world was built so that
it said, all these animals have a place, and they
can all survive and replicate themselves. And in the world

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for prey and predators stays in a little bit of
a balance that way, And if anything got too big,
then we wouldn't be able to stop them. Then we'd
all be in a big old hot mess. Let's take
a break here. Treaty Oak Development has a place in
central Texas that today if you want to jump in
the car and run up there, it's about ten miles

(01:08:24):
west of Cold Spring a place called Whitetail Ranch. And
Whitetail Ranch is a beautiful development of home sites from
one and a half to more than four acres. They're
interspersed among concrete roads. There will be no mud taxes
to worry about when you buy up there. They have
beautiful amenities either already finished or in the works. It's

(01:08:48):
a very thoughtfully planned Texas ranch style theme. You can
buy now and build later. You can hold onto your
place as a smart investment, which it will be. Their
early disc ouns available too, and the sooner you can
get in touch with them, the sooner you can put
your hat in the ring and go up there. And
pick out the spot for you and your family to

(01:09:09):
either go up there on weekends or maybe just move
up there once you finally finish working at whatever job
you're doing. You could move up into Central Texas and
be as comfortable as and just warm and snug as
a bug in a rug beautiful, beautiful property. I'm gonna
try to get up there as soon as i can.
I really want to go see it for myself. I've

(01:09:29):
seen a ton of pictures and it's it's gorgeous, it
really is. It's very peaceful, very peaceful. Take a look
at it. Whitetail Ranch TX dot com. Whitetail Ranch, tx
dot com. If you are interested in an e bike,
whether it's just a fun little bike for maybe your
children to ride, get the helmet on for sure, or

(01:09:51):
you to ride and take short trips down to the
neighbor's house around the corner to a little fishing hole
you know about. He's got those. This is he meaning
Wayne Errington up at Air Ride Bikes in four Corner
Shopping Center in Tomball. He's also got it. If you
have somebody in the family may be a little older,
the balance isn't quite so good. You don't want them
on a bicycle. He has three wheeled e bikes, which

(01:10:13):
I didn't even know existed until I had a good
long talk with him. And if you are serious about
using a knee bike to maybe do some long rides
up in the mountains and hills of Texas, or maybe
you want to take it to the beach and run
up and down the beach at North Padre Island looking
for fish in the spring and summertime. Maybe you want
to use it for deer season to haul yourself and

(01:10:34):
all your gear in and then haul yourself and all
your gear and your deer out. He's got some really
high powered, heavy duty bikes that'll do that. And you
can get wherever you're going on that ranch without leaving
a scent trail, no human scent whatsoever, because your feet
don't touch the ground. That's a pretty pretty good advantage
you can get over those deer. Air ride Bikes dot

(01:10:55):
com is the website. Air ride bikes dot com. Go
check them out. By Hey thirty six four Talk seven
ninety the Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. I
certainly appreciate it. I ran down, I got myself a
little coffee I'm I'm hooked up and all set here.
We'll tee it up with Captain Dave, or not Dave,
not Captain Dave, but just Dave, and then I'll get

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to captain. Might catch you aut in just a second.
What's up, Dave?

Speaker 8 (01:11:20):
Oh I'm playing first fiddle.

Speaker 9 (01:11:22):
Oh gosh, guys, Oh my god. Hey, yeah, I'm looking here.
I'm sitting right here at FM. A thirty boat got
right here to the lip. We got a couple of
guys right here. You were talking about the TV fision.

Speaker 8 (01:11:35):
Yeah, and these guys.

Speaker 9 (01:11:36):
They're they're methodically working these boat.

Speaker 4 (01:11:39):
Docks and fan casting.

Speaker 9 (01:11:41):
Yeah, you know, and and and that's the way you
worked it, and work the work the structure and uh
and go from there, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
And you're supposed to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:11:53):
That's what I thought.

Speaker 9 (01:11:55):
And then and then uh and then just sometimes it's luck,
you know, and and uh but uh, everything there's quite
there's a few boats coming out here right now. The
water's real calm. But uh, real quick. My wife I
had to leave rupp her in Dallas. She won't be
back home till next Saturday. So uh, yeah, they're gonna

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they're working on that knee. But at least you've got
two uh retired Army, Army, Air Force and Army and
Air Force and Army nurses that are there that work
for the hospital, so they're taking care of yeah. So
other than that, everything's good. All right, I'll holler at
you tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (01:12:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:12:35):
I got a boat coming in right here, and I
got my ducks and everything, and I got two lines out.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
All right, man, let me know. If you catch catfish, we'll.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
See, sir.

Speaker 6 (01:12:44):
All I got them baited up.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
All right, buddy, I'll see man audios. All right, let's
go talk to Captain Mike's he was on his mind.
Mike's up, buddy.

Speaker 8 (01:12:53):
Hey, good morning. How you doing this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
I'm doing fine, man, how are you?

Speaker 8 (01:12:57):
Hey, I'm in great shake.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
Now.

Speaker 8 (01:13:00):
I had to take my boat in to get the
all change in the lower unit and all the filter
has changed. You know, you need to do all of
that before you hit the water. And I put a
lot of yeah, and I put a lot of hours
on my boat. So I keep up with that one
hundred dollar check up.

Speaker 6 (01:13:16):
But no, I was going to.

Speaker 8 (01:13:17):
Talk about there's fishes to catch. There's other fish besides trout.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
And reds, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Yeah, I mentioned that in the first in the first
hour a little bit, I kind of gave everybody an
overview of our trip. But that's one of the things
I like about taking newcomers and kind of beginner fishermen
with you. You can flip over to you and I
could have stood there and thrown lures all day and
had a blast. But for all in his son, they

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need to catch some fish. And that's I like the
way you handle that stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:13:49):
Yeah, it's uh, it was fun. I had a great time.
I enjoyed doing it. I enjoyed watching that young man catches.
He said, that's the biggest fish caught in his lafe.
And I know he's done a lot of fishing, so
I said, well, I guess I accomplished one thing today. No,
it's you know when the trout or not bite like
they all too, and that happens. You get the the

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weather is not.

Speaker 4 (01:14:12):
Right, sometimes the barrements or pressure.

Speaker 8 (01:14:14):
You know, there's a lot about catching a speciled trout.
You know, not everybody just run out and catch a
limited trout and then you know it just doesn't happen
all the time. But there's other.

Speaker 6 (01:14:24):
Fish to catch.

Speaker 8 (01:14:25):
You got sheep heads, you know, and that's a good
eating fish. Ready. And you got some what's called a
drum fish. But you got what's called puppy drum. That's
the smaller type of a drum. That's not the big
you know, twenty eight giant drum that's a big boy.
And they're catching those right now the jetties and off
the Texa City dyke. If you want to get your

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line stretches, go out to the end of the dike
or go out to the jetties and put your half
a crab on. That'll work. If you can't find any crabs,
some big big shrimp. If you can find that dead shrimp,
change it. And a lot of people overlook fishing for
these big drums. If you can't find the bait.

Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
Use crawlfish, yeah you can.

Speaker 8 (01:15:09):
You can use crawlfish that you get from I guess boys,
wherever you get it from. And just put that on
the hook and.

Speaker 4 (01:15:16):
And taking piece that head of the crawlfish.

Speaker 8 (01:15:19):
You want that genus out there, and then put them
on the hook and then hold on.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
You want to catch just as me.

Speaker 8 (01:15:25):
You'll catch red fish like that. You just bull redyeh
rat red. I mean you to be pride. But you
can catch with crawlfish.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Yes, indeed, But how do they how do they measure
up pound for pound price wise to shrimp?

Speaker 4 (01:15:40):
Oh, I think it's uh probably about it even.

Speaker 8 (01:15:43):
I think craw fish pounds is about the same.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Yeah, it's all about the same.

Speaker 8 (01:15:51):
Yeah, you know crawl fishes. Yeah, crawlfish is seasonable too.
You know, you can't get them here around and a
lot of times you can take them, get them now,
you can freeze them, and then if you want to
go fishing when they can't by them, you'll have your Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
But that's kind of like frozen shrimp. I want the
fresh stuff, man, I want the fresh stuff every time.

Speaker 8 (01:16:12):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:16:13):
And also if you want to catch sheepids, you can
use crickets.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
I guess no, stop it, man, uh stop it.

Speaker 8 (01:16:20):
But anyway, that was a low blow. No, I was
just kidding. There's people you can We're gonna work on that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:27):
Yeah, I was fishing out of the wrong end of
the boat, I think.

Speaker 8 (01:16:30):
Yeah, you got bit the front of the end, because
you know it's where all the fish was caught.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
Yeah, I know, I knew exactly where they were going
to be caught. I knew when we started, and those
dog on crickets, it's it's so hard to throw them
that they, Paul and Jack had the advantage because they
could cast farther and and I wouldn't. I didn't have
a problem with that. I didn't really care if I
caught one on a cricket or not. That's why I
started throwing trimp for a little while. That's why I
started throwing lures at the end of the trip, because

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I just wanted to make sure they got bit a lot.
And they had a blast. They had blast.

Speaker 8 (01:17:00):
Oh yeah, yeah. And they they gave me a little
little tip saying that they had a great time. And
absolutely and I think your wife sent something to me.
But I did appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
Yeah, but you did.

Speaker 8 (01:17:14):
You did in the final hour of the fish and
Chip you did. You did pull it out. I will
say that you caught that red fish and then you
turn around, picked your lure up and caught a red
fish with the lure, and then I mean, you know,
so so your day. I thought it was at a
great time.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
I think if I'd have been throwing jigs the whole time,
I probably well, I wouldn't have caught the sheep's head.
I wouldn't have caught the drum, but I probably would
have caught a couple of more red fish and maybe
a couple of trout, just based on what I saw
on the shrimp.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:17:46):
Yeah, what at one spot we stopped at there was
trout there.

Speaker 8 (01:17:49):
Oh yeah, trout. And so anyway, I just want to
call in and tell you, uh, thank you. I had
a great time.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Well, tell you, tell my listeners what you're number is
so they can call you and and I'll let them
know since we were kind of tight on time that
if anybody has never been fishing in salt water, you'll
offer them a discount and get them out there and
get them kind of hooked on it, won't you.

Speaker 8 (01:18:13):
Yeah, that's true. Now for a spring break, it's coming up.
They can call me at two eight one five O
seven one nine three three.

Speaker 4 (01:18:21):
And if they got kids, I don't charge kids to fish.

Speaker 8 (01:18:24):
They got to be six years old to fifteen. Once
they get a fishing license, they're no longer a kid.
Oh boy, No, they fish three They fish free out
of my boat along with a parent or a guardian.
They have to have one of them along.

Speaker 4 (01:18:39):
Well, yeah, they just can't.

Speaker 8 (01:18:41):
Parents just can't drop them off at the boat. They are.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
It's not daycare.

Speaker 8 (01:18:44):
Man's not gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
God, I wish there'd been something like that when I
was When I was young, though, it would have been fun,
just three or four little Can you imagine chasing three
or four little kids around your boat?

Speaker 8 (01:18:56):
Yeah, yeah, that's been fun.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
Yeah, No, it wouldn't have been.

Speaker 8 (01:19:00):
All right, Mike, get back to the show. Yeah, and uh,
we're gonna do it again. It one evening. You know
it's daylight saving times. Little change here, I think, right March. Yeah,
so we'll have the evening time. If you want to bitch,
you're out right here close to my house. We can
go out and make it happen.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
That sounds good to me, Mike, Thank you, buddy.

Speaker 8 (01:19:19):
Oh you take care yees, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
Ideas that's captain might catch you OUTI if you didn't
catch his number, it's two eight one five zero seven
nineteen thirty three, all right, And if you need it
and you didn't get it, then just call Frankie. I'll
give it to him in a little while. Real quick.
Berry Hill out there in Sugarland, Sugar Creek Boulevard exit
on the inbound side of fifty nine down there in

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sugar Land. It's Man, if you like tex Mex food,
you're gonna absolutely love Berry Hill. The two people who
are primarily responsible for that kitchen and what comes out
of it, each of those two have been there more
than ten years apiece. They do awesome fish tacos a
I love the seafood inch lo the cheese enchiladas. Depending

(01:20:03):
on which sauce you put on them, you're gonna find
a favorite there. All the traditional stuff, the heat is
whatever you want. They've got them at berry Hill and
they've been serving up delicious food like that for thirty
plus years. Family style dining is not fancy er no tablecloths.
There's boosting tables on the left side when you walk in,

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sports bar on the right, and then outdoor dining, which
is going to be really nice probably this evening, maybe
not so much smart. It's going to be low, low temperatures,
not that low. Yeah, you could do it with a
little jacket on. I suppose wonderful people that run the place.
Like I said, it's family owned and has been forever
by the Brooks family. Berryhillsugar Land dot Com is a website.

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They also do catering all over town too, in case
you got a big event coming up and you want
to serve some awesome, amazing food. Berryhillsugarland dot com. I
don't guess it's really last call for the Fishing Show,
but it's next to last call today and tomorrow. That's
the only time you've got left to go down to
the George R. Brown Convention Center and see and touch

(01:21:06):
and experience all that's new in fishing. I have talked
to I don't know, probably forty to fifty people on
Wednesday and learned a lot about some new stuff that's
come out. I stopped over in the Shimano booth, for example,
and got handed a reel, one of their newer spinning
reels that it felt like a feather in my hand.

(01:21:29):
I wondered, I wondered why it was being taken off
a little holder it had, and it was to impress
upon me how light this thing is. That's a game
changer right there. Some of the new direct drive, or
not direct Drive, but some of the new bait casters
a lot of new features on them, a lot of
weight being saved using different materials in these things, and

(01:21:52):
all of that's going to make it easier and more
fun to stay on the water longer, as though we
needed any inspiration to do that. Saw tons of soft
plastics out there, conservative guests. Half a million saft plastics
under the roof right now, maybe more. It's hard to
tell all kinds of new rods. I saw a couple
of new not brand new, but still fairly new rod

(01:22:15):
manufacturers that are worth taking a look at. There's some
really good looking stuff out there, all of it designed
for you and me and anybody else around here to
go catch more fish and get out there on the
water and do what we do. Lots of beautiful hard
baits out there, lots of offshore stuff. I was glad
to see half a dozen outfitters from Alaska I think

(01:22:36):
I saw in there, which was really refreshing and cool too.
There were only two or three I think last year,
but they've doubled down on Texas and there's a good reason,
because we all loved fish and it's really not that
hard a trip logistics wise, from what a couple of
them told me. Boats, kayaks, lures, lines, rods, reels, you
name it. If it's for fishing, it's all there at

(01:22:57):
the fifty first Fishing Show today and tomorrow. That's all
that's left. It's George R. Brown Convention Center. If you
want to check the seminar schedule before you go and
make sure you're there to hear who you want to hear,
go to Houston Fishingshow dot com. Houston Fishingshow dot com
eight fifty two on Sports Talk seven ninety The Duck
Pike Show. Thanks for listening. Let's get Rick on the phone.

(01:23:17):
He's been hanging out a long time. Rick, what's up, Buddy?

Speaker 6 (01:23:22):
Good morning, been listening to your show talking about crickets
and shrimp and all that. I know, my goodness, and
I couldn't Buddy get to our days. It's don A. Conroe.
But I was gonna throw in just a tip. And
probably some people know this, but I doubt many do.
When we were growing up, we you know, access to

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bait was not easy because you just couldn't go down
and buy a bucket of worms and cature. It wasn't
an academy. And we couldn't afford shrimp anyway, So but
he much less use it for fishing. We couldn't afford
it to eat. Yeah, what we did, now, that's only

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work in sandy long soils. I don't think it's gonna
work in solid red clay or black dumbo. But most
of the people you listening can probably walk ten foot in
any direction and hit some sandy long. Give you a
hole about how I don't know, foot foot and a
half in diameter, or about six eight inches deep, and
tell you some potatoes, whole potatoes, the skins and all.

(01:24:30):
Just slice them up, them in that hole and cover
it back up with a dirt, and then put some
kind of a board or a garbage can lid or
anything over it, just to block it from the sun.
And what happened is I will guarantee you that red
worms and grubs and all kinds of bugs are gonna

(01:24:51):
come get that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:52):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 6 (01:24:53):
And so when you're ready to go fishing, you just
reach dig down there to your hand and grab you
a whole handful of lead whiger, put them in your
bait bucket and go fishing. Or you might get some grubs,
them more white grubs. We used to mugg it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
Oh yeah, man, yep, they're good bait too. I didn't
think about that, Holy cow, I'd forgotten about that.

Speaker 6 (01:25:11):
I'll tell you what, and I'm not talking it's gonna
pull in one, it's gonna pull in hundreds.

Speaker 10 (01:25:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:25:16):
That they'll come to that pretty quick.

Speaker 6 (01:25:19):
On any thing like that. You can waste anything you're
cutting up in the kitchens. Don't throw what the trash
is gonna put, you know, set it in a bucket,
and then when you get time and go dig it,
dig it up and just put it under the ground.
I'd say about four to six inches is a plenty.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:25:35):
Yeah, I'd like to try that again. I haven't I.

Speaker 6 (01:25:40):
Youters out there try it just for fun?

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
Yeah? Why not?

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Yeah, any kid who likes the outdoors, I guarantee is already.
He's already tugging on his dad's belt and saying, come on,
we got to go to the garage and get the shovel.

Speaker 6 (01:25:53):
We're digging a hole in a shady area. Digg you
hole in a shady area. So they don't, you know,
it's just cool, so frowling there, rowling their bikes. And
I learned all that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
I like that. Man.

Speaker 1 (01:26:04):
Thank you very hey. By the way, you had a
nice little p s a earlier when you talked about
seeing three snakes already. What species were they.

Speaker 6 (01:26:12):
Well, was I hit the I hit the trifecta. A
rat snake, kicking snake in the copper head.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
Oh man, Yeah, those chicken snakes are cool. I love them.

Speaker 6 (01:26:22):
Two were on the road crawling. I mean, he's were moving.
It's not like I was digging under and they were
still burrowed down there. They were on the move.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (01:26:30):
And the copperhead he was trying to crawl up a
brick wall.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
I don't doubt that that or a rat snake.

Speaker 6 (01:26:37):
I've seen them get up on the window sills of
the house, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:41):
Yeah, rat snake and climb flag. You're right, man, that's.

Speaker 6 (01:26:48):
Being aware time you start digging around after being.

Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
In the wintertime.

Speaker 6 (01:26:52):
We don't think we see snakes from here. This February
and they're on the they're on the move.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
They are, indeed, Man, I'm glad you They don't.

Speaker 6 (01:26:59):
Know it's February. They just know it's getting more mouthsied.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
That's all that's all they care about too, all right, man,
Well go find something else cool to talk about. Let's go. Yeah,
thanks man, ideos Rick Bise, He's, like I said earlier
in the program, he spends so much time outdoors three
snakes in the last day or two, two on the road,
one on the prowl. I guess you could say chicken

(01:27:24):
snakes are fun. They're pretty snakes too. The copper Head,
the cotton mouth. I don't want any part of that. No,
I don't want any part of that. I'm looking for
him all the time, like I said earlier, and I've
been very fortunate lately my drivers.

Speaker 2 (01:27:40):
I don't want to chinx it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
My driver's been cooperating at least, so I haven't spent
that much time in the woods as I did years ago.
But like I said, anytime i'd volunteer to go into
the wood to find somebody's golf ball because they won't go.
I'm paying a lot closer attention now. Even we're gonna
get this cool snap after today, and that will that

(01:28:06):
will maybe slow those snakes down a little bit. But
now that they're out, it'll just be a cool day
to them. It's it's not hibernation time anymore. They've got
to get out. They got to replenish their bodies after
a very long well, not a long winter here, not
a harsh winter either, but anyway, they just kind of
chill out for a long time, go find a warm
place to settle, and they're gonna be popping out. They're

(01:28:30):
gonna be popping out. So please, if you're gonna go
on walks, if you're gonna do anything in a fairly
ungroomed area, let's say, keep an eye out for snakes.
I'm still waiting to see the one that I saw.
I saw a really big banded water snake close to
one of the spots where I fish. I was just
walking down there, and I looked and it was ahead

(01:28:52):
of me and running from me, well not running, but
slithering away from me, a little too fast for me
to get to it and catch it before it ducked
under a rock that I didn't even know had space
under it until I went over and really examined it.
I don't know how far he got up in there,
but he was far enough that I couldn't see him anymore.
All Right, We got to take a break before we
teed up for that last hour of the program. All

(01:29:13):
the way out Houston. Gold Exchange told you about him
a little while ago. I'm going to tell you about
him again later. I'm really trying to impress upon this
audience of mind that now Gold is at historic prices,
and if you haven't looked, go look at what it's
worth now and compare it to what it was worth
when you bought. Whatever it is you bought that you
don't wear anymore, whatever bouyonn you might have bought years

(01:29:36):
ago as an investment and haven't really thought about it
that much. Maybe you've got some coins, whatever it is.
By all means, please give bread Schwie a call, because
he will turn that stuff into cash for you. And
I'm talking real cash, like a tiny little just a
little thumbnail of gold might be worth a couple of grand,

(01:29:58):
a little bit more than that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
Hey, if you can.

Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
Find an ounce of gold somewhere, that's five grand right
now for your pocket, or maybe somebody at the fishing
show you can haul that money down there. Couldn't get
it done today, of course, I mean it's a little
late now to get that done. But the bargains that
you can find in the fishing world with the money
you can make off gold or silver right now are
gonna be real for forever. All you got to do

(01:30:23):
is call Brad. All you got to do is call him. No,
there's no AI answering the phone. There's no hard sale
when he gets on the phone with you. He's a
good old outdoors guy, loves Cca. He's been on he's
been a lifelong member, served on their board for many
years to raise a lot of money for them coins boollyon.
If you want to sell it for anywhere from a

(01:30:46):
few bucks to half a million bucks, he can cover
that transaction. He's been doing it for forty years. He's
really good at what he does. He also buys rolexes too,
by the way, in addition to the precious metals, Houston
Gooldexchange dot Com is the wite they're at Darry Ashford
and West Timer. Brad's cell phone. He told me he'said,
just tell him to call me. I will pick up

(01:31:06):
the phone, and if I don't, it's only because I'm
talking to somebody else, and I'll get right back to him.
Brad Schweiss two eight one eight five one thirty nine
fifty five two eight one eight five one thirty nine
fifty five. Give me him a call, all right, thirty
five hour starts right now. Thank you all for listening
so far. Hope you can stick around for a little

(01:31:27):
bit more. I'll tee up a little bit of golf
here real quickly. Oh by the way, uh, something I
saw this week that kind of disturbed me. As much
as we love our dogs in this country. Over in Morocco,
where there are gonna be some some World Cup matches held,
the government in Morocco has ordered all straight dogs to

(01:31:49):
be rounded up and killed. And I would say euthanized,
but that's not what they're doing. They're they're shooting them,
they're poisoning them, they are burning them literally a few million,
estimates say, before those World Cup soccer matches get there.
It started quite a while back, actually, and reporters say

(01:32:11):
that they're doing it to appease in the Middle East,
where the Muslim faith is very dominant. The Muslims believe
that dogs are impure and dirty and don't belong indoors,
and so Morocco is doing what it can to make
those guests feel welcome and not be disturbed by the

(01:32:35):
presence of the dogs. That just shows you how different
the rest of the world is, that's all. And it's
their country. They can do what they want. But I
can't imagine that flying anywhere around here.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:32:53):
I've got a friend here in the office who had
her dog for twenty years almost and that dog died
on Monday, and she's pretty tore up over it. I
told her, talked to her just a few minutes ago
and said, you know, once our shows are over, once
you're finished doing what you're doing, once I'm finished doing
what I'm doing, I'm gonna come back and give you

(01:33:13):
a hug. You need it. And she said yeah. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. Email me
Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh, in case you didn't know,
and a lot of people wouldn't, I guess. The app
early application for the one hundred and twenty sixth US
Open was announced by the USGA. Early entry applications are

(01:33:37):
now available for that tournament, which is going to be
played June eighteen, Dash twenty one at Shinnecock Hills up
in Southampton, New York. Thousands. They say, well, a tempt
to qualify, And that's that's underestimation. It'll be a lot
of people. They're gonna try, they're gonna try so hard,
and you got to be so good just to even

(01:33:58):
even try to try. See all the way down to
where it says entry applications, along with a list of
qualifying sites can be accessed at Champs dot USGA dot org.
Entries will be accepted through Wednesday, April eight, at five
pm Eastern daylight time. To be eligible, here's the fun
part for all of us who think we can play.

(01:34:21):
To be eligible eligible for twenty twenty six US Open qualifying,
a player must have a handicap index not exceeding point four,
not four. You can't be a four handicap. You can't
be worse than a point four index, or you can
be a pro. Now, if you're a pro and you're

(01:34:43):
having a rough year, maybe your index would be a
little bit higher than that, actually, but at least you're
a pro and you can get on out there and
take a swing at it. A point four. That would
be the equivalent of throwing a swim meet and saying

(01:35:03):
that if you want to try to enter the swim meet,
you got to be almost as good as Michael Phelps
and not happening. Not happening for most of us, says here, Yeah,
nearly a thousand players. Oh well, we've got to get
to the thousand hole. On thousands of people are going
to attempt to qualify. Non exempt players will compete in

(01:35:25):
one of one hundred and ten eighteen hole local qualifiers.
In other words, you don't get thirty six holes, you
don't get any room to make up for a mistake.
You got to play eighteen solid holes under that pressure
to then go. There's one hundred seed one hundred and
eight in the United States and one each in Canada
and Mexico. Those are going to be held between April

(01:35:47):
twentieth and May eighteenth. All the sites are listed at
the usg eight website. Then you go to those thirty
six hole qualifying matches. One thousand players are going to
advance to those scheduled at thirteen sites worldwide. That's how
big the US Open is now. We have to have
qualifiers all over the world. See there's one in England,

(01:36:11):
one in Japan, one in Canada, ten US sites, including
one in Dallas. Nine on June eighth, also known as
Golf's Longest day, twenty five categories for full exemptions. That
there's all kinds of ways the really good golfers get
in there. If you've ever it's something that's not even

(01:36:36):
dreamable for most of us. But it'll be fun to
watch the Open when it comes along. I'm curious to
know what kind of course you enjoy watching when the
US Open comes along, because because it has become traditionally,
sometimes a little bit too trumped up, a little bit
too tricky, a little bit too fast on the greens,

(01:36:59):
a little bit too deep on the rough for even
the best players in the world to post good scores.
And I don't know, I would like to see these
guys at least be rewarded for a good shot and
not have places where a ball that misses its target

(01:37:20):
line and misses its target by a foot suddenly turns
into an eighty foot chip to a short sighted hole.
It's just I want them to have a chance. I
want them to have a chance. I want the best.
The best golfer always wins, there's no question about that.

(01:37:40):
It could be debated of what qualifications you'll probably have
from course to course. Maybe some of the longer, tighter
courses demand more precision. Maybe something that's a little more
open favors somebody who can just bomb it and gouge it.
But somehow, some way, I would like to see them

(01:38:00):
back off of just trying to humiliate and embarrass the
best golfers in the world. I want them they need
to be made to think. They need to be made
to be scared of some shots that they might want
to attempt, but not quite so scared that they don't
attempt them and just take the software around. It's gonna
be interesting one way or another. It'll be interesting one

(01:38:23):
way or another when we get to June and they're
all up at Shinnecock Hills and going after it. Currently,
the tournament DuJour, if you will, is the Genesis Invitational,
ongoing at Riviera Country Club out there in Pacific palis Ades, California.
Leading the way, Marko penge is at twelve, along with
Jacob Bridgeman, Rory McElroy at eleven, Xander Shaffley, Adam Scott.

(01:38:48):
Let me see if there's another one below the ad Nope,
those two at nine under par, Max Grazerman at eight
along with Min wou Lee. A handful of sevens. That'd
be Matt Fitzpatrick Wyndham Clark, Kirk Kidiyama and Tommy Fleetwood.
And if you scroll way way down almost to the
cut line, almost there, Oh, I got it, I went

(01:39:11):
too far. There he is right there. You find Scotti
Scheffler tied for forty second. Right at the cut line,
right at the cut line. He made it, but just
barely world's number one. I don't think he cares. Maybe
he's working on something. I can't know for sure what

(01:39:34):
his mindset is when he goes to a tournament. I
would imagine he wants to win everyone. But if there's
some little tiny hitch in his gide up that he
wants to work on, I think he would rather do
it in a tournament, under tournament conditions than on the
range at home and so. And he has that luxury
he can play whenever, wherever he wants, and this week

(01:39:59):
he he teed it up Thursday and shot seventy four.
I have actually shot better than that, like maybe I
think three times in my life. I once would have
beat that score by four shots. Now not on the
same course, probably not under the same conditions, not under
the same pressure. I'm joking, of course, putting myself in

(01:40:22):
the same sentence as Scottie Shuffer.

Speaker 2 (01:40:24):
But it just goes to.

Speaker 1 (01:40:25):
Show you he's human.

Speaker 2 (01:40:28):
He's human.

Speaker 1 (01:40:29):
Why or how he shot seventy four, and I doubt
he made any excuses about it, but he did at
least follow that seventy four with a sixty eight to
make the cut. He shot I think he shot three under.
On the back he had three birdies and six pars.
If I remember correctly, he birdied ten and eleven, I
want to say, and then birdied eighteen. Maybe hold on,
I can find out real quick. I'll click on his

(01:40:51):
name and I'll see his scorecard round two scorecard. Yeah, Bertie, Yeah,
exactly what I said, bird ten, eleven, and no, excuse me,
Birdie's seventeen and then part eighteen to squeak in right
under the wire and have something to do on Saturday
and Sunday. It's a good player. I like watching him play,

(01:41:12):
very very calculating. He'll take a chance if he needs to,
which he did yesterday to get himself from having an
early vacation. But he's also he's also careful not to
make mistakes that could cost him more than one shot.
All right, we've got to take a little break here.
All the way out. Let me tell you about white

(01:41:33):
Tail Ranch up in about ten miles west of cold Spring.
I think is correct. Maybe twelve, maybe a little bit
more than that, I'm not sure. But once you get
to cold Spring, you're almost there, and you'll already know
by the time you get there that you're in an
absolutely gorgeous part of this state of ours. And what
you'll find up there is Whitetail Ranch, which is a
gated acreage community that offers home sites from one and

(01:41:56):
a half to more than four acres, which is a lot.
That's a lot of ground. Really, when you start talking
about some place you can go to relax, someplace where
you know it's going to be pretty dog on quiet
most of the time. Not a whole lot of partying
going to go on in a place like that. It's
kind of away from all that party stuff. And I
think that's one of the great appeals to being able

(01:42:19):
to have a little bit of acreage. There just aren't
that many neighbors who could bother you, even if there
is one that be it, and they might be a
mile away, who knows. Early discounts are available if you
want to take advantage, and you have the option at
any time to buy now and build later, or buy
now and build now, or just hold on to the
place for a long time as an investment. Concrete roads,

(01:42:41):
no mud taxes there is. It's a little late maybe
unless you just took off right now. There's a one day,
one day only sale going on today up there, and
I hope a lot of you are either on your
way there or really close to there by. Now go
check it out. It's kind of a country lifestyle, a
Texas ranch theme, and it's just a beautiful piece of property.

(01:43:03):
I gotta get up there, I really do. I'm tired
of looking at the pictures. I gonna make a drive.
Whitetail Ranch TX dot com. Whitetail Ranch TX dot com.
All right, Welcome back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk
seven ninety Saturdays and Sundays. Every time I can make
it down here and every time nothing breaks right, Frankie,
I've got the best mechanic. I got the best radio

(01:43:24):
mechanic in the business sitting in it in wherever he's
sitting down the hall there, Thank goodness. And I think
you will appreciate, like what I've told a lot of
people when they say, man, you you sure know a
lot about a lot of things. And what I'll tell
them in all honesty, and I did this a lot
when I was at the newspaper is I don't know
everything about everything. I just know who to call to

(01:43:46):
find out. And that that worked out very well for
me for a very long time, and it still does.
If I get asked a question I can't answer, I'm
not gonna sit here and try to make something up
and make a fool of myself. I would rather say,
you know what, let me do a research and I'll
get back to you. And either you can email me
and get the information straight from the horse's mouth once

(01:44:08):
I've talked to another horse to find out exactly what
the answers are, or you can we can talk about
it on the air. Steve, Yeah, Steve wade In, this
is something that I've thought about more than once. Steve
wade In, it would be fun to watch those PGA
tour guys play some old ragged city course somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:44:29):
I can think of a couple of them that they
might just walk off. The quality and the grooming of
the courses on which they play is just unparalleled. It's
just unparalleled.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (01:44:44):
Holy Cow. Aaron asked me a little while ago about
the temperature in Salt Lake City, because that's where he
is right now, and I guessed it would be around
fifty five. It sits down in a valley, but I
guess it's the aftermath of the front that's headed our
way right now, and the one that dropped the the
temperature up in the Panhandle to sixteen degrees a little

(01:45:06):
while ago, Salt Lake City twenty one degrees this morning.
Holy cow holee cow uh? Forest? Where is Forest's gonna
talk to me? Or is he's gonna chat with you?
I need to get him on the on the phone here.
I got a couple of questions for him. Bass master
event going on at sam Rayburn the lakes nine feet low,

(01:45:30):
eighty plus pounds leading to the eighty pounds. I need
to get him on the phone and find out just
what's going on. Well, yeah, there's part of the reason
right there, Ford facing sonar crushing it as usual.

Speaker 2 (01:45:44):
Forest rights.

Speaker 1 (01:45:47):
I'm I'm I'm coming to the conclusion that there's gonna
have to be some way to drop that. Okay, let
me get him on the phone. Folk, pro what's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:45:57):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:45:57):
I got a lot of questions for you.

Speaker 5 (01:46:00):
Tell you. I'll let you go first.

Speaker 1 (01:46:01):
All right, let's go with Rayburn. Is that tournament going
on now?

Speaker 8 (01:46:08):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:46:08):
It is right now. Like I say, it's today's day
three and the leaders are already up to eighty pounds.

Speaker 1 (01:46:15):
Eighty pounds on how many fish pounds.

Speaker 5 (01:46:19):
That's fifteen fish.

Speaker 1 (01:46:21):
Okay, okay, third day, okay, that's still pretty solid. All gone.

Speaker 5 (01:46:27):
They weighed in thirty thirty. They weighed in thirty plus yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:46:31):
Good heavens.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
Yeah in the lake is what nine feet low? It
says here?

Speaker 2 (01:46:37):
Is that what I'm reading about?

Speaker 5 (01:46:38):
Nine feet low?

Speaker 1 (01:46:39):
Holy cow?

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:46:41):
So I guess all these fish are just pre spawn.

Speaker 5 (01:46:44):
Huh yeah, pre spawn. Of course they're out there. You know,
they're out there looking at them. You know, they're out there.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
Got the TV on, got.

Speaker 5 (01:46:51):
The TV all and stuff like that, which which kind
of led to the reason I called today because you know,
you were talking about that a little bit and I'm
I'm watching it on TV. Basically, I've been wanting to
go to Rayburn to learn some new trails, so I
wanted to kind of see what it looks like. I
tell you to get over there, because I know my
trails are probably in dry land now.

Speaker 1 (01:47:11):
No kidding, but uh, that's certainly the time to go
up there, though, you know, I mean, it really.

Speaker 5 (01:47:17):
Is definitely time to go learn the lake.

Speaker 2 (01:47:19):
Yeah yeah, yeah, man.

Speaker 1 (01:47:20):
I talk about the same thing when we get big
Norther's on the coast here, it blows all the water
out of the bay. And if you don't take advantage
of that and just go putter around just an idle
speed and really mark some of the bottom structure that's exposed,
and mark some of the little guts and gullies that
are exposed, that's invaluable information.

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:47:42):
Oh yeah, I did that years ago here on Levyson
when it was about five feet longer Levyson. It's like
twenty on Rayburn. Because the lake's so shallow, and if
we were out there walking around taking picture, man, there's
going to be a bass on that stump.

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
When the lake comes back up.

Speaker 5 (01:47:54):
You know those kind of pictures back when you took
pictures and saved it in a you know, saved it
in a portfolio. Old yeah, pretty close. But yesterday my
buddy didn't want me to name the lake per se,
but one of these. You know, I got several smaller

(01:48:16):
East Texas lakes around me, right, and we went to
one of them yesterday and uh so he he said, hey,
we're gonna go here. It's gonna be pre stpawln Lke's
gonna be a little dirty. Based on historical and uh,
I said, okay, So I kind of rigged up my
stuff and went and't gotten his boat. Something I don't
do a lot, which I enjoy. I could just fish
and not worry about running the boat. But so we go.

(01:48:40):
We start out fishing deep not deep, you know, I'm saying,
you know, five to ten feet deep. And now I
don't know if you saw my post and not. Of
course I'm I'm I'm slow rolling a half out spare bait.
First fish, I catches a crappie.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
I'm like, okay, so.

Speaker 5 (01:48:54):
It's like I ain't complained.

Speaker 8 (01:48:55):
I'll take it.

Speaker 5 (01:48:56):
But so where we're at as a preak channel. So
we're fishing creek channels adjacent to pre spawn areas, right
where they might be staging to move up. And I'm
looking at the water. I'm looking up the water trimps
for the back of the boats in the low sixties.
I said, hey, I said, you ever fish that pocket
right there? He goes, yeah, in the springtime when they
start spawning, I'll go up there and catch them pretty good.

(01:49:18):
I said, I know you want to fish this way,
but you saying you got time to go up and
just run through there with a trick worm and maybe
a chatter bait real quick. He says, yeah, we can
go running real quick, just to see. We went in
there and crush him. He was like, I can't believe
his fisher here. I said, Now I come from Livy said,
I fish as shallow.

Speaker 4 (01:49:35):
As my boats will go.

Speaker 1 (01:49:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:49:37):
Yeah, And we ran that pattern all over that lake
and he had one about five and probably had twenty
five fish. I mean in the dirt. I was letting
throw a chatter bait on the bank.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:49:52):
Bit, I can remember doing that over at Gibbons Creek
a lot of times.

Speaker 6 (01:49:57):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:49:58):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, that was good. But the forward
paces sonar part of this. We came. We came back
to that spot a few hours later after we after
we check everything else, and there's two young kids, a
very nice bass boat sitting in the mouth of this
little little sleep in this little cold I guess you check.
So we added up there being courteous. I said, hey,
I said, I study y'all going in here. No, No,

(01:50:20):
we're just we're just we're just we're just hopping around
points and checking stuff. Stoping was okay, cool. So we
went around the corner, I said, I said, I told
my bus said, let's stop right here and start fishing,
because we knew what There weren't no fish here because
they were still in sight. So they went around the
corner and we went on up there and started to
catching them again. And I said, you know what, my
buddy's name is, Michael. I said, you know, Mike. It
makes me happy and sad at the same time. I'm

(01:50:41):
happy that those kids are out there scoping, sure, but
I'm sad that they got no clue how to read
conditions and understand these fish are already here. Yeah, that
they can't scope that shallow water stated on fishing. So
it's kind of sad that this generation doesn't know what
you and I know about just fish, the pattern, fish, fish, fish.
This will happen today.

Speaker 1 (01:51:01):
If you can't see him, you can't catch them.

Speaker 4 (01:51:03):
That's what they say, now, hey, exactly, That's.

Speaker 1 (01:51:08):
Just it just makes my skin crawl to say that,
even and I've heard more than one person say it,
and you see it every now and then. Have you
seen those funny videos. There's two of them I think
I've seen. Now, We're a guy standing on the front
of the boat and he's just crying and whining, and
my fore faces broke.

Speaker 2 (01:51:26):
I don't know what to do. Well, yeah, I just
go fish then, dude.

Speaker 5 (01:51:31):
That's like local legend. Todd Casseldron had a video about it.
The first Bassmasher was no life scope, and all the
people you expected, the veterans that know how to fish, Yeah,
dominated that.

Speaker 1 (01:51:42):
I'm sure they did.

Speaker 5 (01:51:42):
The next tournament. Yeah, the very next tournament was a
scoping tournament, and and the and the leader board just
slipped it upside down. And he was like, I told y'all, yeah,
I told y'all.

Speaker 1 (01:51:52):
Yeah, yeah, well yeah, and are there still I presume
there are still guys on that tour who who just
refused to fish life scope?

Speaker 5 (01:52:04):
Oh yeah, there's there's still And that's why they have
the new uh the new tour. Now, yeah, national don't
make don't make a lot of it's a national something tour.
That is it is. It pays just as much as
bass Master, and a lot of the veterans have left
bass less email less a went to But it is
a no scoping.

Speaker 1 (01:52:21):
To h It's just yeah, just go fish. Did you
see that there was some sort of a scam involving
a bass fishing organization or a big tournament. Did you
see any of that? You know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:52:34):
I heard something.

Speaker 5 (01:52:35):
I heard something about that on YouTube visit of the day,
but I didn't have to have time to dive into it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:41):
Same here, I may do that during the break. I'll
take a look. I'll see if I can go back
into my emails and find that, or maybe get on
Facebook somewhere and find it or YouTube. But yeah, there
was some All of a sudden, it was, you know,
the biggest best thing ever, and then suddenly it was
a scam.

Speaker 5 (01:52:59):
So I'm gonna go look and something about I heard
something about it, like a ninety percent payback. There's no
way they can give a ninety percent pay back and
hold this tournament. I don't know if that was it,
but I heard something about something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:53:08):
I'll take a look at you.

Speaker 5 (01:53:11):
Yeah, cool deal.

Speaker 1 (01:53:12):
Oh you said something about snakes too. Oh the water
snakes are out. That's good.

Speaker 2 (01:53:15):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:53:16):
I like seeing them.

Speaker 5 (01:53:20):
Yeah, that was up there reckplace. Like the other day.
He swam to the boat, kind of looked up like
he was going to get in it, and he went
under the boat, come up to the side. I said, okay,
that you're going I'll go back the stition. I know
it's just a water snake instead of water snake in
my boats.

Speaker 8 (01:53:31):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (01:53:32):
Yeah, I want to talk about that when we get
back to I want to talk about encouraging you and
everybody else to do just some basic snake identification. How
you can tell the difference between venous and non venomous.
And it's really not that hard. And we've only got
like maybe five venomous snakes in Texas. That's all you
got to learn. If you can clearly identify that snake

(01:53:52):
as not one of those five and catch it, pick
it up, have some fun with it.

Speaker 2 (01:53:57):
It might bite you, but it won't hurt I know.

Speaker 5 (01:53:59):
I know copperhead to rattle snake. Anything else doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:54:02):
That's what freaking out.

Speaker 5 (01:54:04):
It's not one of.

Speaker 1 (01:54:04):
Those when I catch a snake and it turns around
and bites me, and people just, oh, no, you're gonna die. Like, no,
I'm not gonna die. It's just like a paper cut.
It's okay. He's just he's just.

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
Telling me he didn't want to be caught.

Speaker 5 (01:54:18):
Yeah, if you do that, educate people on cours Now.
I know coral snakes are one of the most venomous
snakes in the world. But they well they got to
do gnawing you for ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:54:25):
Yeah, they gotta hang on coral.

Speaker 5 (01:54:26):
Snakes all the time. They need to leave them alone,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:54:29):
Back things.

Speaker 1 (01:54:30):
Yeah, I just just you know, they don't want to
None of these snakes want to be around us, not
on one of them. They're not gonna chase us down
the street. They're not just they just want to be
left alone. Let's go eat a frog.

Speaker 4 (01:54:40):
Or something exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:54:43):
All right, partner, how gonna bounce.

Speaker 8 (01:54:46):
All but we're gonna go eat.

Speaker 5 (01:54:47):
We're gonna go eat crab and cross fish.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
Stop it.

Speaker 1 (01:54:50):
Yeah, thanks, I'm gonna hang up on you. I'll see
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(01:55:15):
And now he's got that store open on the north
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They started out with just that website. They've grown the brand,
grown into Time to Go brick and mortar, and you're
welcome to go up there and check it out anytime

(01:55:35):
you want to. Or you can just get online and
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in there too. And this is not stuff that's ten
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(01:55:56):
I wear them as often as I can. Make me
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whatever that is. And I encourage you to go check
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also the men's stuff goes all the way up to

(01:56:18):
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(01:56:40):
tell them to call me. Tell them to call me
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He's a In case you're wondering, he is an A
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than forty years, and what he deals in is precious
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(01:57:02):
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(01:57:24):
to exchange something that you don't wear anymore, you don't
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If you need a good chunk of change to do
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(01:57:46):
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(01:58:07):
five five two eight one eight, five one three nine
nine thirty seven on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dug
Pike Show. Thanks for listening. Before I get to snakes,
I want to talk about this uh bass fishing scam
that the biggest names in bass fishing now are calling

(01:58:28):
just that. Pardon me. I found a lot of information
on it. There's a very long Yahoo Sports story about
this that was published actually it's what's at Yahoo Sports,
but it says story by Outdoor Life, and the headline
is the Dual Threat Fishing League might be the biggest

(01:58:49):
scam in the history of bass tournaments. I'm not saying
what it is or was, it isn't, but I'm just
reading here and the more I read, the more I
see that, well, there there was talk by the guy
who put it all together. First of all, there's there
are some people who think this guy even used a

(01:59:09):
fake identity to pull off this tournament. That really hasn't
well that they had two tournaments, and a lot of
the people, well everybody involved says they're basically ripped off.
None of the winning angler has been paid, yet some
of them still owe deposits DTFS. I'm reading from the story.

(01:59:31):
Dtf's owner has also disappeared from contact, and some involved
are now contending he was using a fake identity. It
just goes on and on and gets worse and worse.
Whoever this person was. If indeed all the allegations are true,
they always innocent until proven guilty. But when somebody promises

(01:59:52):
a bunch of stuff and none of it ever comes true,
it's not looking good. Even Scott Martin, very well recognized
professional bass fisherman for many many times. He said in
a YouTube video this past Tuesday, I think it was
it is what it is, tournament organization was a fake.

(02:00:14):
He led that quote with this, and I quote from
Scott Martin. We've all had our suspicions for the last
several weeks, Comma, but dual threat is a scam, guys
end quote. So when Scott Martin comes out and says
that he wouldn't say it unless he was pretty confident,
there's just all kinds of information in this story that

(02:00:39):
says exactly what Scott said. Second tournament, let's see following
that had the first I'm trying to find the first
of the tournament. It's a tournament on big O that
would be Okachobee. Took place January twenty one to January
twenty three. First place team Matten Laife Messer supposed to

(02:00:59):
win fifty gre a peace. The brothers received big novelty
checks at the event. They say they're actual checks never cleared, however,
and Laife is one of several angers who claims to
have been ghosted by the guy who put this all together.
Second Tournament took place the following weekend on the Saint

(02:01:19):
John's Jace Lacy and Fisher and A won the tournament
with a three day total seventy six point seven to
one pounds. Just like the Messer brothers, they were declared
the winners and giving large novelty checks at the event,
and just like everyone else who finished quote in the
money end quote says the story, they still haven't been paid.

(02:01:40):
So it's not looking very good for this guy, whoever
he is, who has now suddenly just disappeared, probably with
a big old at least enough money to get him
out of the country in someplace where he can live
on whatever he picked up from all these fishermen the tournament.

(02:02:00):
The idea is a good one, and it's a it's
a legitimate one, but clearly, I mean, he talked everybody
into paying him money to do all this stuff and
still hadn't paid. Since Lace thinks it's odd that when
the two brothers tried to pay their five thousand dollars
entry fees early on, he had no interest in taking

(02:02:20):
their money. While initially perplexing to the Messrs and other anglers,
some now believe this was part of the of this
man's long con if you will to Yeah, yeah, this
is this is really disturbing and it's kind of a

(02:02:40):
wake up call. I think bass fishing has enjoyed a
really strong tournament. Bass fishing has has enjoyed a really
long history of some really good events that made household names,
at least around lakes in this country. Household names of
people who otherwise just probably would have been fishing guys
the rest of their lives. Go back to all the

(02:03:04):
guys who started all this many many years ago. Rick
Klunn a great name. I'm trying to Oh, I don't
want to forget all of them. Dog gone it. Kevin
van Dam fished with him. No, it wasn't Kevin. I
fished with it was. I'm looking right at the guys
from up north. I'll think of his name during the
break here. But anyway, all of those guys worked their

(02:03:26):
tails off to become excellent bass fishermen and did that
and made really good livings doing that. And then a
where there's money, there's going to be somebody sniffing around
trying to take it from other people, and it looks
like this guy pulled it off. I'll go to the
snakes after we get back from this break and snaked out,

(02:03:46):
I think at least, well, I don't want to talk
about this. Look it up. Just look up dual threat
bass fishing, dual threat fishing, and you'll find all you
want to.

Speaker 2 (02:03:57):
Know about what happened.

Speaker 1 (02:03:59):
Pretty pretty disturbing. And this guy is just flat and
nowhere to be found. As far as i'm I'll look
for a little bit more when I can find it.
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and he's been able to put out more knives. He
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(02:04:40):
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if you want to just take the family out for
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those journeymen kind of a first come, first served. One
of those journeymen will teach you how and let you
make your own knife right then and there. It doesn't

(02:05:01):
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(02:05:47):
this whole scam thing. By the way, I did a
little bit more reading, and there was a very concerted
effort to figure out just exactly who this guy was,
because he was at those tournaments, he was writing check,
he was waging fish, he was there doing all kinds
of stuff, and the best evidence so far that's been

(02:06:08):
found apparently leads to a Tennessee man who is using
I think it said his son's first name and maybe
a false last name. I'm not really sure. But the
long and the short of it is, nobody's been able
to find that guy since some checks he wrote that
total about seven hundred thousand dollars have all bounced. There

(02:06:33):
is no money in the accounts, and that guy is
nowhere to be found. It's very interesting. Just the more
I read, the more I kept reading Montgomery County, Tennessee
on a Facebook group, all kinds of things source that
the Sheriff's office told him to have somebody in their system.

(02:06:54):
There's just all kinds of stuff about this guy. My
gut says he knew he was he was being watched,
he knew that law enforcement was looking for him, and
that he just found a way to make a big
pile of money and take off. Because if he collected
enough money to pay out seven hundred thousand, I think

(02:07:16):
he may have been talking about having big record setting
payouts and stuff like that for bass tournaments, and just
like Forrest said, if he was trying to do that,
he wouldn't have been able to hold those tournaments.

Speaker 2 (02:07:30):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (02:07:30):
Thelong and the short of it is, he sounds like
he got his and all he's doing now is putting
everything he knew behind him, and he's I'd guess he's
out of the country at least at this point. I
don't know, and like I said, innocent until proven guilty,
but he probably ought to come back and at least
explain himself and see what happens. I'll go to those

(02:07:53):
snakes again for a few minutes. There aren't but I
think four or five is kral snake, copperheads, a few
species of rattlesnakes. Mare's what am I missing here? Oh
dang coral snakes, copperheads, cotton mouths, rattlesnakes. I know I'm

(02:08:15):
missing one and it's just not coming to me. But
in any event, that's all you got to learn is
what they look like and how to avoid them. And
as I said earlier, snakes aren't gonna come bother you.
They're not going to come bother you at all. Now
it's it's it's driving me crazy, Texas. I gotta go
see what I missed Texas venomous snakes.

Speaker 8 (02:08:36):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (02:08:38):
That would be the rattle snakes, copperheads, cotton mouse, and
coral snakes.

Speaker 2 (02:08:41):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 (02:08:41):
Now there's subspecies. There's several that said Texas is home
to fifteen species or subspecies of venomus snakes. I think
that's where I confused myself. I had the Big four covered,
but not their their little brothers or whatever.

Speaker 6 (02:08:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:08:58):
They're found state wide and various habits hats duh, partly
particularly in brushy, rocky, or wooded areas. The pit vipers
are identified by triangular heads, while coral snakes have distinct
red yellow and black bands. Red on yellow kill a fellow,
red on black. I'm just repeating what I've known forever,

(02:09:19):
red on black, friend of Jack. So don't worry too much.
If you see a snake that's red on black, it's
probably a milk snake, not gonna hurt you. Red on yellow,
stay away, just keep out of the way. Red Brian
real quickly put him on. I know who he is,
I know what he wants to talk about.

Speaker 2 (02:09:35):
Let's just do that.

Speaker 1 (02:09:36):
That's way more important than me giving a second grade
snake identification deal.

Speaker 2 (02:09:43):
TikTok tic talk tic talk tik.

Speaker 1 (02:09:45):
Put him on, put him on, put him on, put
him on, put him on, Franky, go ahead and see
him up. Oh he'd leave already, did you bump him off? Frankie,
There he is. I'll get him. Hey, Brian, what's up man?

Speaker 10 (02:10:00):
I figured I check in with you guys. See how
the world of the outdoors is working on on the
waves out there.

Speaker 1 (02:10:06):
The world of the outdoors is doing great.

Speaker 6 (02:10:08):
Man.

Speaker 1 (02:10:08):
Where are you pinned up? You back at the show
today or no.

Speaker 10 (02:10:11):
I'm working the show the rest of the week, talking
conservation with my group, and lots of things happening across
across the country. I know you were talking snakes. Yeah,
I got two cents.

Speaker 4 (02:10:21):
I'd love to weigh in on.

Speaker 2 (02:10:23):
You got what to do after your bit and.

Speaker 10 (02:10:26):
Understand those things and a lot of people are surprised
and they actually look it up and actually see it
for themselves and just simply.

Speaker 6 (02:10:32):
Clean the wound.

Speaker 4 (02:10:32):
And not all snakes are venous, venomous bits, but you
got to treat.

Speaker 2 (02:10:37):
Them that way.

Speaker 8 (02:10:38):
Yeah, don't use the old way of.

Speaker 10 (02:10:40):
Trying to suck it out. Don't use the yeah like,
don't hit it with ice, circle it. Uh, you know,
seek medical attention, don't kill the snake. Get out of
the area. There's lots of you know, those particular components.
And you're exactly right, snakes will not come after you.
I've had to stop board than one scout as boys do,

(02:11:03):
from throwing rocks on top of cotton mouse.

Speaker 2 (02:11:05):
Oh yeah, that's not a good idea. What do you
do when you're a boy though?

Speaker 8 (02:11:11):
Right?

Speaker 3 (02:11:11):
You know?

Speaker 10 (02:11:12):
I was like, hey, they won't mess you. It's just
it's just growing up and having the right person.

Speaker 4 (02:11:17):
Guy again, you.

Speaker 1 (02:11:18):
Gotta well, yeah, you got to learn one word or
the other. And it's better to be better to learn
from somebody says no, don't throw that rock. Then by
throwing a rock and maybe just ticking off a venomous snake.

Speaker 2 (02:11:32):
Man, that's it.

Speaker 4 (02:11:33):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (02:11:34):
That's it.

Speaker 10 (02:11:35):
If y'all are down at the fishing show, come.

Speaker 4 (02:11:36):
By and see me mentioned.

Speaker 8 (02:11:38):
Doug Pike show.

Speaker 10 (02:11:39):
I'm at the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers booth talking conservation
And if you mentioned Doug Pike's name, I'll throw out
a price.

Speaker 1 (02:11:48):
Thanks a lot, man, I appreciate it. Broun. I'm going
to be out there probably tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (02:11:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:11:53):
I may come out today, I may go out tomorrow,
but I got to make one more pass at least,
so I'll see you.

Speaker 6 (02:12:00):
Done by.

Speaker 10 (02:12:01):
I got some really cool conservation topics that are happening
across the United States and loved bout talk there.

Speaker 4 (02:12:07):
You see a lot of them.

Speaker 10 (02:12:07):
Where's the booth so I'm in. I'm in the middle
towards the back. I think in the four fifty range,
right near the right there safe floor in Texas rattling riggs,
which is the Rockport Ride.

Speaker 1 (02:12:20):
I talked to that guy the other day, So okay,
I'm fine.

Speaker 4 (02:12:24):
Right there, all right out there, Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:12:27):
Thanks bro, See buddy, all right, Brian treadway up man.
He and I have been talking about all kinds of things, flounder,
you name it. We started with a lot of flounder
talk and then just evolve from there to now we're
talking about snakes.

Speaker 2 (02:12:41):
How about that?

Speaker 1 (02:12:43):
All right, I'll go back to it and and kind
of go a little deeper than we did just then.
And if you see a snake, just kind of like
he was saying, don't throw a rock at it, don't
hit it with a stick, just give it a chance
to slither away, which is in ninety nine percent the time,
unless you provoke that snake somehow, that's all it's gonna do.

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Even cotton mouse, they get kind of a bad rap
for coming after people and whatnot and chasing you across
across the marsh. They don't want to do that. They
want to get away from you. If they're threatening. Ow,
if you back them into a corner, they'll they'll try
to get out of that corner and go through you
or buy you. But basically you just don't You just

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don't have to be worried about that. Many snakes learn
about the little bands or the little bars on their mouths.
If you're worried about a cotton mouth versus one of
the water snakes, the water snakes, if you know what
their heads look like, if you know what their color
patterns are. And there are a lot of really good
sites snake identification sites online on Facebook. There are a

(02:13:51):
lot of good pages on Facebook where people just post
pictures of random snakes they've seen and ask what kind
it is. And there are are experts. Now there's some
clowns who answer stupid stuff, but the experts will set
those people straight and boot them out of there, and
you can really learn a lot about iding some of

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the water snakes, especially because there are a bunch of
them and only one cotton mouth. Now there's different cotton mouse.
We don't get them all here. There's a northern, and
a western, and eastern all over. The bottom line is
stay away from snake.

Speaker 2 (02:14:27):
She'll be all right. I may see you at the
fishing show this afternoon.

Speaker 1 (02:14:30):
It might be tomorrow, but I'm gonna get out there
one of these two days for another lap around the block,
and hopefully not a thirty five dollars parking charge this time.

Speaker 2 (02:14:39):
That's about it.

Speaker 1 (02:14:40):
We're about wrapped up, aren't we, Frankie, OK, I'll be yeah.
I'll be right back here tomorrow morning at about what
eight o'clock.

Speaker 2 (02:14:46):
We'll tee it up.

Speaker 1 (02:14:47):
Then we'll go to ten as we always do. And
in the meantime, get outside, have some fun with your family.
It's gonna be a great too or three day stretch
here for us. Stay safe, get outside, have some fun.

Speaker 2 (02:14:57):
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