Eating Stale Donuts (Replay)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, Saturday morning starts right now. Let me get
my headphones on. Frankie was a little worried. I was
down the hall grabbing a cup of coffee and the
music was playing. And that's the first time you've seen
me have to come sliding in here sideways. Huh. That's
a little bit of me too. To the mic, We're

(00:21):
all right, We're all right. It's good. We got three
hours to take care of all the business we got
to take care of today, and we'll get to everything
I've got a little later in the program. I've got
an interview with a man named Scott Croft. We are
going to talk about He's from boat Us over on
the East Coast, and we are going to talk about

(00:42):
so that we almost have this discussion, I want to
say it's been almost every year for oh gosh, every
year for probably ten twelve years. I'm not really sure.
I'm not really sure how exactly how many times we've
done this, but we're gonna talk talk about hurricane prep
for boats. A lot of you in this audience have boats.

(01:04):
Some of you keep them in the water, some of
you keep them stored in a trailer. And that's probably
the best seven on three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Dug Pike at aheartmedia dot com. Let
me stiff, this will let me it works. Hi, yay,
Captain Michael. What's up man?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, my boat's in the water. Hopefully we can catch
a peg out. We've been real nice. All the trout
we're catching are eighteen and nineteen is trout.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
It's a good day.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
If a day just to set your truck and listen
to the Dug pipe show.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
There you go. Huh boy, I was hoping you'll get
that right.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Well I was, yeah, I was gonna get it right.
To go out, dotty four one. Just call it in
a touch base real quick. Say that anybody coming together
the fish our body.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
It is good. It's a good BikeE.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
This dose to getting up there too early.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Everybody is conditioned from when they're little kids to get
up at the crack of dawn and be there when
you can. You can't still, you can't even see yet
before the sun comes up, because you just have to
be there before daylight to get any kind of fishing done.
That's not always true.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Is it. No, it's not. If you read the tide
chart and you got your areas what one the tide
is moving, they're gonna bite. But if it's going too fast,
there's no way to get your bait down your lower
down deepen though, So once it slows up at the
top and their fishing gonna bite, Uh, you can go
at any time. But remember they're not gonna bite till

(02:31):
you get there.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
That's the secret.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Got to get how's that sound?

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I like that a lot. They're not. You don't know
if they're gonna if they're biting before you get there.
So if you're smart when you you're practicing what you
and I are talking about now, you just presume that
they're gonna bite right about the time you show up.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
That's the way it should. I just want to touch baby.
We're gonna still get together.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
But I bet you know. I remember you where you
caught that big writch fish that time with the door,
but we wouldn't. Yeah, well that that's the general area
that we're catching.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
A lot of trout in.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
I know exactly where you got to know right words at, Yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
But we will get together one day again. I'm still
I'm still hammering away at this fishing, and I'm still
doing that. Somebody has never fished before. And I've had
a few people from your show call and I appreciate that,
and I've taken it out and uh, as matter of fact,
I got one guy that's trying to get together. He's
a he's a golf court. He was a golf course.

(03:31):
I can't think of the name of the golf course.
But he said, you talked to him and he called me.
He's trying to get his guys together to go out
that lane. Ricks he was Langrick was.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, he's a good guy. He's pretty good too. Don't
let him fool you into thinking he's never kept caught
a speckled trout and try to get a discount from you.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well, I might come get the golf boss if I
can hit one as far as he can. All right, anyway,
I'll let you get back to business. I'm gonna sit
here and join the show. Always remember to knock on
bite here you get there. I have a good day.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Thank you, Mike, Yes, sir, audios. Yeah, that's Mike Catchiottie.
And for anybody who's never and I get these emails
fairly often, never been saltwater fishing, who should I go with? Well,
for starters, Mike's gonna give you a discount off his
normal trip rate. And he's he's not a specialist unless

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there is specialization in just making sure people have a
good time. He's very casual, very calm. Now, if you
show up with junkie old gear, he probably gonna tell
you and say, hey, try one of these rods and
see if it doesn't feel better, see if it doesn't
work better. But he is a straight up just anything
that's biting, he's gonna go out there and make sure

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that you guys get You get to see the court
go under, you get to feel the line tighten up.
You're gonna get bites. And I like that with him,
I really do. If you want to throw lures, he'll
throw lures. If you want to throw live bait, he'll
get live bait and get after it that way. He
just wants to make sure that anybody who gets in
his boat comes away from there with a few stories

(05:13):
to tell about the fish they caught. And he's very
handy at that, very patient with kids, very patient with
adults who haven't ever fished before. So yeah, I'm I'm
happy to recommend him. I've got a laundry list of
people to whom I will send you if you ask
for my opinion on who you should fish with. What

(05:34):
I need to know from you is going to be
how much experience you've got, whether you want to do
lures or bait, whether you want to stay in the
boat or get out of the boat, all kinds of
questions for you so that I can put you, I
can match you up with somebody who can make sure
that you get done what you want to get done

(05:55):
out there on the water. And there's a lot of
GUIDs down there, a lot of guides and gals up
and down this Texas coast, hundreds of people who will
happily take you fishing. And the big I think the
biggest part of a good guided fishing trip is the
relationship that you have with that guide. Because if you're

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with a good guide and you trust them, even if
you have a slow day, you'll understand why at the end,
and you'll be encouraged to come back and give that
person another try. Some guides and some fishermen's personalities just
don't really mesh right, and you don't end up having

(06:39):
a good time, and you think it's a bad experience.
And I don't want that for anybody in this audience,
I'm gonna try to hook you up with people I
know who are They're fun to be around, They're gonna
make you laugh, They're gonna teach you some things. That's
one big difference between Texas guides and Louisiana guides and
Florida guides. I'm not sure sure about Mississippi and Alabama anymore.

(07:01):
I have it fished over there in a while. But
in Texas and Louisiana mostly the guides fish right alongside
the clients. In Florida mostly and up the East coast,
the guide is there. Guide may not ever pick up
a rod all day long. They are there to help

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their customers and teach their customers and make sure those
customers get put on some fish. I had the darnest
time sometimes down in Florida years ago, and all the
way up the East coast, all the way to Maine,
trying to get when I was going on guided trips
up there, trying to get grab Dave and just let
him know I'm gonna have to ask him to hold
through the break, trying to get those guides to pick

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up a rod and fish. It's just the two of
us in the boat and they're standing on the back
platform or looking around, rummaging for lures or doing whatever,
having a sandwich and telling me how to fish. It's like, man,
pick up a rod. You're not a guide because you
like to be a teacher. You're a guide because you
like to fish. And if it's me, if I'm your customer,

(08:09):
I want you to fish. I need for starters. If
I can't catch any fish, I need you to catch
some that we can take pictures of. And then they
kind of started to understand what I needed from that trip.
And it wasn't a giant bag of filets and a
bunch of dead fish in the ice box. It was
story material. And as soon as they started fishing, they

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lit up a little bit. They were a little happier
to be on the boat. Not just some other outdoor
rider wasting their time. No, I wanted them to have
a good time, and most times we did. There was
one guy in Florida who would not take me out.
He just man, it's rainy, it's kind of windy, and
my little boat just doesn't really do good in these conditions.

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And I'm thinking, I know there's got to be some
places he could go. There have to be places he
could go to where we could just at least get
the boat in the water for a little while and
shoot some pictures. And and it was gonna be okay
if he would just launch the boat, turn the corner
and then just let's just drift over a flat or

(09:17):
two and see if we can find something. If we can't,
we can't. But that man, for some reason, never would
put just never that whole whole discussion period we had
not once did he say, okay, let's go try it.
He was he thought that I was going to go
back and write a story about how bad a fisherman
he was just because the wind was blowing too hard.

(09:38):
I never did that to anybody. I could get a
good story out of any trip we made, and there
was no reason for him to be worried about it.
But he just couldn't get it out of his head.
So h Like I said, there's some relationships. Some Yeah,
sometimes it's just not meant to be, And it wasn't

(09:58):
that time. And I didn't begrudge him that it's his decision.
He's the captain of the ship. And I was respectful
about it too. Okay, Well, if you don't want to go,
we won't go. And that was the end of that
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make a little note here about something really quickly. Then
I'm gonna go talk to Dave, and that's gonna happen
right about now. Hey, Hey, what's up. Man. If you
don't go and you don't throw, you just don't know.

(11:03):
You know, you got you gotta be there. Oh lord.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
He and my son. Yeah, he's been like he's been
fishing down there at Cagle a boat launch, and he said,
they're camping over there, which is right down the road
from where I'm right here on FM.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Eight point thirty.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Right here, it's a double boat launch.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
We got one two, three, four five six bank fisherman
over here next to me. And here's Wilbert and Gertrude.
My pet ducks are coming up here. Yeah, Mallard ducks.
They're right here in front of my feet, almost in
the water. Yesterday, I was out here early in the morning.
Then I had to run back to Houston and then
I came back, but I caught two turtles. I got

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to get a turtle recipe ye wall. And then then
on my on my on my dark rod that was
given to me by a buddy of mine. It's a
little short, little dock rod.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
I had a sh had underneath the cork over there,
and man, the water started splashing and it was going crazy,
and I'm like, wait a minute, this ain't no turtle.
And when I pulled it up, it was about an
eighteen or nineteen inch.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Channel cat.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Oh wow, with it but what wait, wait, wait, I
did the ultimate sin.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
I did not bring my net.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Oh no, yeah, when I when I was trying to
get it up, he broke off.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
How old is the line on your reel right now, Dave?

Speaker 4 (12:32):
No, no, this is this is a brand new reel
that eight pound test on.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well, yeah, that's different. Holy cow man.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Well, good for you, you know, at least I know
I can hook you into something more.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
There you go that, well, that's a yeah, that's a
solid fish that might that might have found you for
a day or two. Hey, and you get them two.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Fil as off there, and that'll feed me and the
wife and I probably eat breakfast, lunch and dinner on
one left sandwich.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
You hey.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
And you know what, h hey, you know, uh talked.
I got to talk with Captain Charlie Paradowski, you know.
He yeah, he graduated from Saint Pi's, you know, and
then he got inducted in and spent time in the
military with Vietnam and Vietnam and he really cool dude,
you know, And I get to talk to him here

(13:22):
once in a while. But I'm proud that he did,
you know, graduate from Saint Pis the tenth High school
and you know that that school did.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
Uh uh.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
It got a lot of people out of there that,
hopefully myself included that. We did a lot of good
work for people like uh in the hospital stuff and
doing everything that we did. They taught us how to
work hard and do what we needed to do.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, that's a good idea.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
All right.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
They don't catch another big channel cat send me a picture, darn.

Speaker 5 (13:53):
Hey, I'm trying.

Speaker 4 (13:53):
I'm looking.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm looking at my court right now. It's going down. No, No,
I'm just didn't I know? All right, man, thanks Dave audios.
Oh no, where'd you go? Frankie? I was just ready
to talk to it? There he is? Hey, Brandon, what's up?

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Man?

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Hello, I'm here.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Hey, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Man.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Hey.

Speaker 7 (14:15):
I just want to keep it simple, real quick for
my son and I. He's a first timer. What do
you recommend as far as the you know, take him
out on a boat, just throw some lines with him
out of Galveston.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Your Boaterre you planning on hiring a guide for him?

Speaker 6 (14:34):
Hiring a guide?

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Man?

Speaker 7 (14:35):
But I was listening to you earlier, yeah about talking
about guides and what you said about those personal experiences
with guys. You know that guy that you had on Florida,
those guests talking sounded really knowledgeable.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
He is as good as it gets when it comes
to just first timers. He gives a discount to people
who are going out for the first time in salt Water,
and I promise you you won't be disappointed with him.
I I can't imagine anybody being disappointed with Mike Caciotti.
He's just He's just a happy, go lucky, easygoing guy
who likes to put newcomers on fish. And so that's

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that's who I would recommend, how much experience you got
with it.

Speaker 7 (15:17):
I mean, I used to DC fish with my dad
because he was all four man, you know. Uh so
you know, brought up with difference from eight to like
about fifteen and then I'm forty three now, so you know.
The last time I fish was out in a play
of the Carmen and we d see it out there.
Yeah that was about that was about fifteen years ago.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Oh yeah, wow, for yeah, tell him, tell him. I said,
to go ahead and give you that first time or
discount fifteen years, fifteen years you qualify. I can give
you his phone number right now. You got something to
write with.

Speaker 7 (15:53):
I do not, but I can.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
I can.

Speaker 7 (15:55):
I can look it up online.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
My name, yeah yeah, his last name is Catchiotti, which
is C A C C I O T T I.

Speaker 7 (16:06):
I was figuring it sounded like Italian.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, yeah, he but he he's got more. I don't
know what's the most happy, gold lucky country you could
be from, because he's just a he's just an easy
going guy. You want to throw lures, He'll throw you lures.
I would recommend, especially how old your son. Oh yeah,
get a little live bait for him and let him.
Let him get that. Watch that court go down, or

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watch that line tighten up. Michael, Michael, have you on
some fish? Don't you worry?

Speaker 3 (16:34):
All right, Mike?

Speaker 7 (16:34):
Catch you out things there?

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, thank you, brand. It's good to hear from you, man,
Audio to Hi Man. I love that, I really do.
I just love it when a plan comes together. That
was just so easy. Uh And honestly, for first time,
first time fishermen, they're not a not a better guy
I could send you to. I know a lot of guys,
and I hope I'm not upsetting any of them by

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by sending people to mine. And if anybody else wants
to be thrown into that arena, I'll tell you who
else is good with something like that. A couple of
the guys who fish with Sharky, some of his newer
guides there, I've heard it. A couple of them are
pretty patient too, and know how to put on a
good time. A big part of guiding is what you

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do between bites. And this is kind of like when
I was a waterfowl guide. You're out there, there's not
constant action on but maybe one in one hundred days.
The rest of the days, they are going to be
times when it's absolute chaos because everything is going right

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and in the fishing arena it's okay. Man, we got
five guys on the boat and all five of them
are hooked up right now. That's crazy chaos, and the
guide is thinking about one hundred other things than what
all the fishermen are thinking about. You got five new
people to fish who all have say, good sized redfish
or trout on at the jetties. It's a it's a circus,

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and they've got to manage that three ring circus in
between times when all five of them are standing there
and all their lines are slack, and you've got to
be a little bit of a teacher, a little bit
of a comedian, a little bit of a listening ear.
If somebody wants to tell you a story, you got

(18:28):
to be patient enough to listen. That happens in water
fowling too. If you're in a duck blind with four
or five guys, you don't have any choice but to
get along with them. And most of the guys I
ever worked with out there on the prairie were that way.
We got along with people whether there were tons of
birds coming in or no birds coming in. You have
to establish that relationship. There's some other guys. I don't

(18:51):
want to miss anybody, and you know what I may do.
I may just develop a list of Okay, if you're
at this level of experience, I want you to start
fishing with this guy or these one of these guys
or women. There's a couple of really good women GUIDs
on this coast too, a lot of them. Actually, you
can fish with one of them if you're a little

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bit more interested in ramping up your game. You've already
done the popping cork thing for four or five, six
ten trips, and you want to ramp up to lures.
Maybe then we'll go to this guy. If you want
to get out of the boat and grind down a
shallow shoreline looking for a giant trout. I got some
people I can put you on for. That's there are

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specializations in there that all matter and are all valid
options for the right to match up the right guide
with the right fishermen. That's that's my job. I'm in
the middle. I'm the middleman in this. But I don't
get paid. Frankly. Frankly, Frankie and I both don't We don't,
you know, Frankie, if only there was a way that

(19:54):
we could, we could start our own little fishing guide agency.
Maybe Nah, I like what I'm doing. Yeah, I don't
think the company would want us doing that anyway. Maybe
I've know enough guys I can. I can hook you
up with about whatever whatever you want to go fish for,
and however you want to catch it. I can point
you to two or three different people seven one three, two,

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iHeartMedia dot com. I got an email. Let me go
to it from Mark and see if I can address it.

(21:41):
It's a golf related email. And bear in mind Mark,
I'm not a clubfitter. My first recommendation before I dig
into his his questions is go to a professional, or
at least make a phone call. So here's what he's talking.
First of all, he's already let me know that he's

(22:02):
a pretty good player. He said, my driver, the driver
I have has a ten degree loft. I want a
flatter trajectory. Yeah, so it will going to a six
degree face to keep my ball lower. Well that make
that much difference. Yeah, it'll make a difference. But I
don't know if you want to dive all the way

(22:23):
down to six without hitting something with a six degree
loft out outside where you can see the difference in
ball flight. And bear in mind that if you just
go borrow at a club you're playing at. For example,
if you borrow a six degree driver from somebody, unless

(22:44):
it has the identical shaft to the one you have
right now. With that, with that ten degree loft, you're
not really comparing apples to oranges. I would strongly recommend
going and getting fit for that. He's asking Also if
his two iron a driving iron, He says, he hits
it very straight when the driver's not working for the day.

(23:06):
I do that with my three iron, actually, and I
understand exactly what you're saying. He hits his very high.
You can lower that iron shot a little bit with
the way you're swinging the club and where your body
is and where that clubhead is. That impact it would

(23:27):
that would take more effort than changing the loft on
that two iron, which you could do, but I would,
I would hesitate to do that. And he never mentions
a three wood though, And it sounds to me like
he hits everything in his bag super high. Certainly bringing
the loft, taking some loft off that driver head, it's

(23:51):
going to help you some. But I would not do
that without getting somebody who really knows how to how
to match that the right shaft with that different driver. Loft.
It's gonna affect the ball flight, no question, is six
six even gonna hit it as high. But it sounds
like to me like you're already hitting the ball a

(24:13):
little bit in front of the bottom of the swing.
You you've got it. You've got a ten degree club
hitting a ball on an upswing, and if you try
to flatten that swing with the ten degree, you're gonna
just add backspin. And you don't really want that off
your driver. The two iron, I don't really have a

(24:35):
problem with changing it if you want to, But maybe
just look at going to someplace like second swing maybe
and finding a two iron that has that's already been
knocked off a couple of degrees. I don't know, you
could probably do that six degrees. That's that's pretty low.

(24:56):
I don't remember exactly what my driver head is right now. Honestly,
I don't pay that much attention except when I'm getting
fit and when I'm buying it, and then after that
it's just okay, can I hit it straight? And that's
more important than anything else. I don't mind that two
iron going high off the tee. I wish I could
get my three iron a little higher. Then I hit

(25:17):
it most swings, and that's just the way I swing
the club. Yeah, I'm kind of jealous that you can
get all that height out of a two iron. I
don't even carry a two anymore. I do carry a
three iron, though I'm not gonna give it up either.
I recommend club fittings to anybody who is dead serious
about their game and really wants to get better, because

(25:38):
if you're I don't care what brand of club you
swing if it's not the one that's gonna I went
into a fitting that I had. I went into the
last fitting. I had confident that it was gonna be
as certain manufacturer's clubs that were gonna work best for
me because I've been swinging them for a long time,
and I was very happy with the performance. Thought that

(25:59):
was about it as good as I could get, and
then we got it. This is with Club Champion, by
the way. We got in there and I swung and
swung and swung. This was all six irons, and I
probably swung seven or eight different six irons with seven
or eight different shafts and didn't get overly done, because
you could. You get too tired and you can't make

(26:19):
good swings. But Ultimately, it was a club that I
never would have picked if you'd lined up ten of them,
if you'd lined up three, I wouldn't have picked that one.
But that's the one that got me the tightest dispersion.
And I also picked up about ten or twelve yards
a distance just with that particular club and shaft combination.

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It's an eye opener. I got some new grips coming
by the way, too. They're being made by a company
you probably don't know makes iron grips and driver grips.
You know them better for some other grips they make.
Oh did I send him this? Hang on? I want
to make sure I just sent the email that I
thought I sent, But it doesn't sh that I have.

(27:03):
Oh no, never mind, that's okay. I've already sent a
pretty lengthy response to that one. In any event, the
fishing story that I promised the it could be it'll
make a lot of a snicker. But there's one guy
who is not snickering at all about this. About the
Star Tournament. I got an email from Ronnie and a

(27:28):
picture from Ronnie, picture of his godson. Not even gonna
give you the guy's name, because if you know him,
you'd probably call him and taunt him about this, if
you haven't heard already. Ronnie's godson went fishing with Ronnie
and I guess a couple of other guys this past
week and there was talk about the Star tournament and

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it turned out that his godson had not entered the tournament.
Guess what he caught. He caught one of the tagged
redfish that would had he been in the tournament, would
have qualified him to win a boat, a motor, a trailer,

(28:13):
and a truck to pull it all with. So this
guy's forever claim to fame, at least among people who
can jokingly rib him or as long as they choose.
He could you know what he needs to do, Ronnie.

(28:34):
You could do this for him as kind of a
gag gift for his next birthday. Come up with a
come up with a T shirt for him. Come up
with a T shirt. I'll let the let the creativity flow.
He knows what he did, and he's he's gonna he's
probably lost a little sleep over it already, and he

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might want to go ahead and join up, because the
only thing worse than catching one of those redfish and
not being entered in the tournament. I think would be
catching two if he catches another one and he still
isn't signed up. First of all, I'd let him drive
the boat every time y'all go fishing, but I wouldn't
let him pick up a rod until he's entered, because

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once he, if he does win that new boat, motor
and trailer and truck and all that stuff, then he's
got to take you guys fishing. Seven one three two
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one hundred and twenty five hundred and fifty thousand dollars

(29:40):
now now it's not not for him anyway. Oh, I
hate hearing that. There was a story many many years
ago of someone who's a woman who I don't know
whether she actually did and follow through and file suit
or was at least threatening to file suit. Were pain

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and suffering because her husband had done what Ronnie's godson
did and caught one of those tagged redfish without being
entered in the tournament, and was just went into a funk.
He was just done. He just couldn't take it anymore.
He couldn't believe he'd done that, and he just had

(30:21):
that grand prize right there in his fingers and let
it slip away because he forgot or chose not to
enter the tournament, didn't go anywhere. It's kind of a
that would be one of those frivolous lawsuits. I think

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it's not CCA's fault. The god didn't sign up. I
don't know. You know, if you're not signed up and
you catch one of those fish, you've got a great
story to tell, but you don't have a boat. If
your kids aren't signed up and they catch one of
those fish, you got a great story to tell, but
it's gonna cost you a lot of money when they

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get ready to go to college. It's just such a
simple thing. It's a great recruitment tool. CCA doesn't deny
that they use it to recruit. They want to get
more members. That's what's kept them strong for so many years,
and the Star Tournament has been a great tool for that,
a great tool for that, and I hope they continue

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it for as long as the organization's around, which I
hope is another one hundred years, because they do wonderful
things for our coastal resources. There are a lot of
organizations that are in the same game fighting for coastal resource.
Just for as many red fish, as many trout, as
many flounder, as many of all these fish we love

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to chase as many as we can stack into those bays,
We're going to try and stack them there. Everybody's got
the same goals, but cca is just they tend to
move a little more slowly, but far more surely. There's
no knee jerk reaction to any new rule, to anything
that changes anything along the coast until it's been studied

(32:07):
by a lot of smart people on their committees upon
committees over there, and they sit around a table and
they talk about something that's going wrong, and they talk
about how to fix it, and they keep talking about
it and keep talking about it until everything that could
go wrong has a solution to keep it from going wrong.
That's when they make their decision. I've been trying to

(32:28):
get with them on some business stuff over here for
a long time. It's going to take a little bit
longer too. The people over my head over here in
that regard keep saying, when are they going to do
something when they're ready, When they're ready, when they know
that it's exactly what they want. Seven one, three, two,
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for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Oh, by the way, Billy,

(33:36):
and I'll say this this is all with a wink
and a nod tongue in cheek, Billy, let me know
that the end, Frankie, I don't know if you know
this or not, but the man who invented the throat
Lodgings passed away recently and opted to be cremated. And
then notice it said also that there would be no
coffin at his funeral. Very good?

Speaker 5 (33:58):
Like that?

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Like that, I do. That's pretty good. Isn't it clean
as a whistle too? That's a g rated joke. If
I ever heard one. That was for Billy seven one
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dot com. I actually told that to somebody here in
the office yesterday and they said, really, how old was he?
And like, uh, listen, listen closely. It's all all all

(34:24):
the information you need. It's just right there, just right there. Hey,
will you grabbed that phone, I'll take it. I'm gonna
talk to him real quick. Just put him on hold
and I'll grab him up. That's an easy one. Yeah,
there we go. TikTok, TikTok and boom foux pro what's up?

Speaker 2 (34:40):
What is up?

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Man?

Speaker 1 (34:41):
How you doing? You know what I'm doing? All right?

Speaker 8 (34:45):
Well, we're right here struggling.

Speaker 9 (34:46):
We're right here fishing little company tournament here on Rayburn today.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
We started out.

Speaker 9 (34:50):
Good and it's a big fish tournament. And when you
catch a big fish, measure weight and you text it
in to the to the I guess the tournament director
for lack of a better word.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, I like that idea.

Speaker 9 (35:02):
And uh, uh practiced out here last week had a
seven to two.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Have you found that one yet?

Speaker 3 (35:10):
No?

Speaker 9 (35:10):
I fished the tree. I caught her on twice already today.
I'm sure I'll fish it a third time for the
days over. But uh had a buddy of mine in
the tournament just text text us eight twelve, so I
was like, what the craft?

Speaker 1 (35:23):
That's a good one.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
So so we got to catch better than eight twelve.

Speaker 9 (35:27):
So I've been we've been pretty much beating the banks.
I mean the bike's bike was pretty good this morning
on some rock. And uh, but I got the I
got the spotlight on fishing, looking looking in looking in
the outer realm while I'm fishing the inner realm, just
in case I see something.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, no kidding, that's not a bad idea. If you're
playing for money, you gotta you gotta use your investment wisely. Man.

Speaker 9 (35:51):
Yeah, I ain't no long to have it.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
With all the tournaments. I got a quick question for you, folk, bro.
With all the tournaments, you're fishing and the as close
as you pay attention to it, is bass fishing going
to more catch and release tournaments like you're doing today.

Speaker 9 (36:07):
The only one that's doing it now is the MLF. Yeah, yeah,
and the BFL and all of them. They're still doing
a five fish tournament.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Well you know why. You know why they're doing that.
You got to bring in five fish in the sack
because somebody sponsored the weigh in.

Speaker 9 (36:23):
Yep, somebody sponsored the weigh in, and they want to
they want to see the fish. And you got all
the spectators that go to the way is and want
to see them big sacks come in.

Speaker 7 (36:30):
Oh the money.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah, you know, I hate to say. The salt water
bunch has figured out ways, and the offshore guys, especially
the big Billfish tournaments, have figured out ways to avoid
having to bring a bunch of fish in. At the
very least. What they'll do is put a minimum weight
on what you can bring to the dock of like
six hundred pounds. Otherwise, just measure it and and and

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look at it and stick a tag in it, maybe
take a photo of it, and then off you go
go catch another one.

Speaker 9 (37:02):
And that's what we're doing today. I mean, in case
of a time we were going to measure, but I
think that that probably eight twelve probably he's probably pretty
safe at this point. But it's a it's a big
bass tournament at a big catfish tournament. So we were
we were we were contemplating going to buy some got
some minutes, you know, do.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
What you gotta do.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Man.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
If what the catfish pay as much as the.

Speaker 9 (37:24):
Bass, yeah, well it's more of a bragging rights thing.
But uh, I think the leading catfish right now is
seven inches long, so I mean I'll be able to
or something.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
That pretty much. Holy cow, Yeah, you ought to be
able to do better than that. Oh yeah. My fishing
down where I'm fishing has been slow, man, and I
don't I don't know what's causing it. Really. I've I've
gone when it's cloudy, all of my stuffs in the afternoon,
which puts me behind the eight ball to begin with
a little bit. But still they they've just they've eluded me.

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And I'm I mean, I'm fishing all my spot and
I can't find him. I can't get a bite, I
can't get a bite yesterday. I'm gonna take a friend
of mine down there this afternoon probably and I wanted
to go kind of scout it out like you would
like to do if you were guiding somebody. And man,
I never got bit. It's killing me.

Speaker 9 (38:14):
Yeah, we're still running. We're still running perch beds. He
caught that eight twelve on a swim jig and we'll
catch up. I caught I caught a perch on a
half hound spinner bait a minute ago.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
So we just kind of hit these grind beds and.

Speaker 9 (38:27):
Getting these brand beds and hope want big old sALS
up here trying to get a.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Big All right, Well, good luck to you man.

Speaker 9 (38:34):
All right, man, we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Yes, sir, let me especially if you catch a big
fish call me back. Oh you know I will, yeah, true,
all right, man. I see idios up on Rayburn today.
That guy he's got a real job. He's got a
real job, and every time I talk to him, he's fishing.
It's crazy. Sep One three two one two five seven ninety.
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one round under par I have a couple of them
at Dead Even Part. I had one round. It was
at Golf Club of Houston on the What's now the
member's course, and I'll never forget it because I had
a lot of things go my way that day. I
had one t shot that I hit that I pulled
toward a backyard and I mean dead toward a backyard

(39:21):
that had a one of the little wrought iron fences
back there about a waist high wrought iron fence, And
when the ball went sailing toward the yard, I heard
bang and my ball hit off of that fence, went
back through the ten fifteen yards of giant pine trees

(39:42):
that were between the fairway and the fence, and ended
up on the edge of the fairway, not even in
the rough. This ball bounced and took a left and
probably went twenty five thirty yards to get back to
the fairway. That helped. That was on a five part
I ended up birdying, thank you very much. I shot

(40:04):
seventy that day, and I've said it before, but I'll
say it again, and I'll be brief. So I shoot
seventy and on the eighteenth green, I've got like fifteen
feet uphill for Bertie to shoot what would have been
the only round I've ever had in the sixties, and
I left it short like the chicken I was because

(40:27):
I didn't want to put it above the hole and
risk missing a downhill putt that might have ended up
costing me one or two more putts. I chickened out
and I left it short. And I've regretted that ever since.
I haven't lost any sleep over it, but I've regretted
it ever since. And the only bad part about shooting

(40:48):
seventy with that group of guys that day was that
same other three guys were part of about a twenty
man crew, all of whom and me left the following
week for three days of golf over in Mississippi on
actually one of the finest facilities over there, at Dancing Rabbit.

(41:10):
It's a Native American place where they've got they've got
two casinos and two golf courses and just amazing. What
is it The facility is called, Oh, I can't remember
right now, but the courses are at Dancing Rabbit. There's
the Azalea's Course and the the other one. The azals

(41:32):
Course was modeled after Augusta National And the story behind it,
the very quick version of the story behind it is
that when the the person in charge, the chief of
the tribe that owns that land, over there and owns
the whole facility. And the casinos called to get the course,

(41:54):
called the designer of the course to see if he
would come out and do something for them. He kind
of dismissed them and sent them off to somebody else.
I can't remember the names of who's involved with these two. Anyway,
he got the guy on the phone and said, I
would like a golf course, a beautiful, beautiful golf course
on this property. Will you help me? And the guy

(42:17):
said sure, it's gonna cost you. He said he wanted
this golf course to mimic Augusta National, and the guy said, yeah,
I can do it for you. It's going to cost
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a hole. And this
would have been twenty five to thirty years ago to
at least twenty five years ago, maybe thirty. And the

(42:38):
guy said, I'll take thirty six. When can you start?
And from there it came. And the only stipulation that
was placed on that course that is designed to be
somewhat similar to Augusta is that it have at least
one more azalea bush than is on Augusta. So they

(43:01):
kind of got their way and dancing rabbit. I don't.
I haven't been over there in fifteen twenty years, and
I'm looking right at the fact I can't remember the
man's name who was running the show over there, and
I apologize. I'll think of it maybe during the break
here and tell you his name is super nice guy.
I believe he's running a club out of Mississippi right now.
I'm pretty sure he gets to Texas every now and then,

(43:23):
and when he does next time, I'm gonna make sure
he comes over here and lets me treat him to
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am well out of surfing shape physically. Uh. One of
the well, actually it was I think the number two.
When Sports Illustrated did a study years ago of the

(44:49):
actual conditioning to perform at the highest levels in sports.
Number one was boxing. Number two was surfd and that
it makes perfect sense if you're beating, you're getting beat
up while you're trying to beat up somebody else. You
better be in good shape or you're not going to

(45:11):
last two rounds. And it's the same kind of with
the ocean. The ocean on a big day is trying
to beat you up, and you have to be in
great condition to do that. I've spoken many times about
the conditioning of some of the north shore athletes before.
I guess before they all had gems to go into
and whatnot. But one of the things that Ken Bradshaw,

(45:35):
a former Houstonian who became one of the premier big
wave surfers in the world many years ago. What they
would do is go offshore into about eighteen or twenty
feet of water, not terribly deep, but deep enough, and
they had placed on the bottom these rocks that were
anywhere from bowling ball to basketball sized, and they would

(45:58):
take a deep breath, swim down down to the bottom,
grab one of those rocks, and then run as far
as they could on the bottom, just to get their
lungs and their muscles and all of that accustomed to
being under duress underwater. That was their training for the
beating they were going to take when they came off
their surfboards. A lot of which was going on, by

(46:20):
the way, before the days of leashes on surfboards. When
you fell off a board. Even here, you fall off
a board on a big day one hundred and fifty
two hundred yards off shore, it's a long paddle back
or along swim back to the beach. And that's what
happened to us. You'd have this literal littoral drift. The

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wind would be moving, or the current would be moving
down the beach. The wind might be helping the current
or vice versa, and you come off that board one
hundred something yards off the beach, and even if you
managed to get back to the beach reasonably quickly, you
might be three hundred yards from where you went into

(47:03):
the water, and your surfboard might be another one hundred
yards back up the beach. It was a lot of
huffing and puffing. It was very difficult back then. But
I digress. So here's the deal. Fishing is good, and
that's freshwater and saltwater. I'm kind of hoping I hear
back from faux Pro today that he's done something good
up on sam Rayburn. It maybe wins a prize, little

(47:25):
bragging rights, but overall fishing has been good, except for me,
who struck out yesterday after I put in about an
honest twenty five to thirty minutes and fished one to
three four places. I've got a surface vegetation problem that
I'm going to cure today if I can get back
out there with a specific lure type that I actually

(47:48):
a specific lure that I'm gonna take, and I'm gonna
bring a few, because I'm taking a friend with me
if he can get away. But I'll fix that. The
saltwater fishing has been really good. This three trout limit
at fifteen to twenty for a slot is paying dividends
and has been since about six months after it was
instituted a year ago in May. More big fish, more

(48:10):
fish of almost all sized classes, and then of course
all the redfish we have to go with them. Hats
off to the CCA and the State of Texas for
using that that restocking program for redfish. They I think
it was last year that the billionth fingerling redfish was
released into Texas Bays. The billionth. That's a lot of

(48:36):
extra redfish and we're still the program is still strong.
It's much harder to it's much harder to replenish speckled
trout stocks because they are so cannibalistic. And when you
put sa say you put one hundred thousand fingerlings into
a growout tank down at Sea Center, Texas, which is

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an awesome place to go. It's writing. It's not far.
It's in Lake Jackson, for heaven's sakes, it's not like
you're driving halfway across the state. Go down there, take
the whole family down there and really get a good look,
and schedule that tour so you can see behind the
scenes where those all those breeding tanks are and the
fish that are in those breeding tanks. It's a fascinating

(49:20):
day trip. Boy, I saw something that made so much
sense yesterday. There was a guy kind of laying it
out there about travel sports and select sports and all
of that where one one time you'll hear somebody say,
play different sports year round to develop fully, and then

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somebody else is going to tell you, well, we play
our sport year round. I don't care if it's soccer,
if it's baseball, if it's softball, if it's volleyball, if
it's dance, cheerleading, all of that stuff. Well rounded athletes
to play a lot of different sports, especially when they're young.

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And but the people who run those sports and run
the travel Empires will tell you that. Oh yeah, play
year round if you play with us. And that's a
sidebar for later. Hang on a minute, I've got to
get something up here. I don't know where it went.
I got to get this screen back up here so
I can see what's going on there we go. Oh, good, heavens,

(50:25):
let me go talk to Victory. I didn't realize he
was up there. The screen went black on me. Victor,
what's going on? My friend?

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Hey, good morning, I met you.

Speaker 10 (50:34):
I guess about maybe. Yeah, it's probably about fifteen years
ago over on the Gallaston Fishing Pier.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Yeah, when we were about twenty five, I think, huh.

Speaker 10 (50:43):
Right, I'm sixty now. Oh man, it's a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
I was riding a ten speed bicycle when you were born.

Speaker 8 (50:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (50:52):
No, it's just gotten so expensive to fish there on
that pier because they're not selling the passes anymore.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Oh really, I did not know that.

Speaker 10 (51:00):
Yeah, because before I just moved to Galveston about years ago.
I was originally from Southwest Houston, moved out here, and
before I used to be able to get a pass
for three hundred bucks for the whole year. Yeah, cool, Yeah,
because because sometimes you know, you only half an hour
or two to fish. Sure, and so now I'm kind

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of like looking for other places.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
What does it cost to get on the pier now? Eighteens?
Oh my god, it's like a dollar when I started going, wow, plus.

Speaker 10 (51:32):
Plus you have to pay for the parking also, oh
that's right. Yeah, yeah, it's between ten and six. But anyway,
so so I'm kind of excited because I hear they're
they're building a pier over on the Bottleber side.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
They are. It's it's kind of a consolation prize for
taking away the pass over there and rollover and a
pier is not a pass but it's better than nothing.
And I still I don't know how much progress it's
been made on it yet. I don't know when it's
going to open, but at least it will be an option,

(52:07):
and I hope a lot of people, I know a
lot of people will go to it, especially when it's
brand new and shiny and the fish finally find it
and all of that good stuff. And hopefully that might
convince the guy at ninetieth Street to maybe bring the
rate down a little bit when everybody's going the other way.

Speaker 10 (52:25):
Yeah, Yeah, that's true. You know, I guess it's not
going to be a free pier.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
I don't know, not a chance. I doubt it. I
don't know how they could operate it unless it was
operated with tax money, which that also wouldn't bother me.
There are some states around the Gulf and up the
East Coast that have municipal piers that are paid for
with tax dollars, and that wouldn't be bad.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (52:50):
Sorry, Yeah, over at the Seawolf Park, if you're a resident,
and if you can show them on your license that
you are a Galvestonian, yeah, they'll show you the past
for twenty bucks for the whole year.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
Oh yeah, See, that's how it should be. And I
liked that ninetieth Street pier and the man the next
fish I caught off. That thing wouldn't be but probably
the millionth one I was. I was a peer at
I would spend the night on that pier. Some buddies
of mine and I would we'd stay. We'd get there
in the afternoon and stay all night and just to
get a little you know, sleep, an hour here, an
hour there, if nothing was going on, bring toothbrush and

(53:24):
toothpaste and all that. Stuff, and uh, yeah it was
and it was so much fun, and that annual pass
made that affordable. Right, dang right, you may call go ahead.

Speaker 10 (53:35):
The last time I called into your show was during
a hurricane Nike.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Oh boy, it.

Speaker 10 (53:41):
Was like I think, like, uh, maybe a few days
after and uh, you would ask I guess. It was
a question about they had just found like the the
oldest living animals somewhere, and you asked if anybody could
guess what it was, that you would give him a ride.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (54:01):
I used to have those to give away. I did,
so I called. I called in it to be eternal.
But then I don't know what happened. You're the person
who takes down the information. Baby messed up because I
never did receive that rod.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
Oh well, well, here's the deal on any prize you
win from down here, you got to come pick it up.

Speaker 10 (54:19):
Oh well no, well huh okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Yeah, we don't. You know, we don't like if, say,
if if anybody said, okay, I'll give you a bunch
of rods to give away, Doug. We we can't just
get your information and then ship it to you. It's
it has to be picked up in person, because that's
just kind of. That's like radio rules. They have to
keep track of who wins what. And you know, if
you win something worth a lot of money, you got
to pay taxes on it and all that.

Speaker 10 (54:45):
Stuff, right right, Yeah, I don't know how we got
messed up then.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Yeah, sorry about that.

Speaker 10 (54:50):
No, it's okay talking to you.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Yeah, you too, Victor. Holy cow, it has been a while.
I remember talking to you now and hearing your voice.
I remember talking to you before I do. What's so distinctive?

Speaker 10 (55:04):
What's so distinctive about my voice?

Speaker 1 (55:05):
I don't know, man, It's just you know, it's just
like you hear a voice and it just it just resonates. Yeah,
I've heard that voice before.

Speaker 5 (55:12):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Yeah, if you ever see me at any anywhere I
might be. If you see me and you don't come
up and pat me on the back and say, hey, man,
remember me, I'm gonna be very disappointed.

Speaker 10 (55:23):
Well. See when I met you on a peer you
you came up to me and you asked me, it's like, hey,
I'm doing any good? I said no, not really, and
he says, well you should because you're right here, like
where the between the second and third saturd.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
Bar, I'm like, yes, yeah, you know what you were doing.

Speaker 5 (55:40):
It's hit or miss.

Speaker 10 (55:41):
You didn't tell me who you You didn't tell me
who you were, but I sort of recognized you from
your voice.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 10 (55:50):
All right, you have a good one.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Yeah you too, Man, have fun with your dad today.
I'll see Victor. All right, Man, what a great call.
I'm glad to hear from him. I really am. I remember.
I remember all of that. I do. I used to
walk up to people all the time on the pier
because I wanted to know, not just for work, but

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for myself, because if I'm standing on a pier with
a fishing rod, I'm trying to figure out what it's
going to take to catch fish. And usually you can
spot them on the piers. They're the locals. The locals
you can spot, the people who know what they're doing,
you can spot. And the guy who's got the spinning
reel up on top of his rod and he's cranking

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it backwards. You can spot those guys too. And if
you if you shoulder up to the people who know
what they're doing and strike up a conversation without muscling
into their spot, that's the one thing you don't want
to do is just walk up to somebody and start
casting right next to them. That's that's taboo. You don't

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want to do that. You absolutely don't want to do that.
But you can walk up and just stand there with
your rod at your side and talk to them and
they'll they'll give up a little information, maybe what they're
catching them on, maybe whether the bite's on or a
little slow. Right now, that's a good way to speed
up the way you're gonna your actual catching a fish

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on a pier. Gather all the information you can before
you finally stop and set up shop somewhere. All right,
we gotta take a little break here. On the way out,
I'll tell you about Shooter's Corner Palmer Highway at twenty
ninth Street down in Texas City, owned by Jerry and JTK,
two of the best gunsmith's I know and two of
the best North American big game guides I know. The
store is all about the shooting sports, about self defense,

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about hunting, about competition. If you need it, they've got
it when it comes to the shooting sports. And if
you wear a badge for a living, you get a discount.
That's pretty cool. The Shooters Corner TX dot com. The
Shooters Corner TX dot com. I'm in here tapping my
foot rank. I'm not even really familiar with that song,

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but I'm in here tapping my foot. How's that all right?
Welcome Backdugpike Show. If you haven't ever seen, by the way,
this is a quick little sidebar. If you haven't ever
seen the effects of lightning hitting fishing rods, look it
up online and then tell me that you're you don't

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mind being out fishing in the rain. Let me go
talk to Kevin. Hang on one second, Kevin.

Speaker 5 (58:24):
What's up, mister Pike?

Speaker 1 (58:26):
Was that you who was calling all my numbers?

Speaker 8 (58:29):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (58:30):
Hilarious.

Speaker 11 (58:30):
Accidentally, somehow I always have your number in my call
log and somehow evidently got inadvertently deleted.

Speaker 5 (58:38):
Oh lord, whenever.

Speaker 11 (58:38):
And I've got two different listings on my on my
address book for you. One's your personal stuff and the
other one's the radio show stuff.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
Yeah, the show, the show line you got right after
we talked just then. And then on top of that,
it doesn't show as you coming in, It shows as
another name coming in.

Speaker 5 (58:56):
Yeah, my my better half, my show.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
I couldn't figure out who in the heck it was.
So what's going on down there today?

Speaker 11 (59:03):
And like Jack Man, I'm just riding around Brassouria County
taking care of these inland parks. But other than that,
I sent you an email earlier this morning about the
Texas Kingfish Championship Fishing Tournament. It's going to be held
July twelfth. Okay, they're at Surfside Marina. That's the Freeport

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to Port O'Connor Toy Run tournament where they raised money
for the boat parade they do where they leave from
Freeport and go all the way down to Port O'Connor
and they distribute presence to the police departments along the way,
which you're then in turn distributed to the underprivileged kids
along the coast through the Blue.

Speaker 5 (59:44):
Sign Up program.

Speaker 1 (59:45):
Outstanding man.

Speaker 5 (59:47):
Yeah, it's a really good program.

Speaker 1 (59:49):
What's a website for the tournament?

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Do you know what?

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Off hand?

Speaker 11 (59:52):
It's I don't know it right off hand, but it's
on the email that I sent to you.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
Okay, yeah, I'll double check.

Speaker 5 (59:58):
There's a link link link for it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
All right, Kevill Hey, it's good to hear from you, man.

Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
Yes, so you too, have a great weekend, you too.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Thank you boy. My son and I left the house
about the same time this morning. He's got a baseball
game and I had to had come in. Well, I
didn't have to come in and do the show. I
could have taken the day off. I left ten vacation
days on the table last year. I'm not doing that
this year, I can assure you. And here we are
six months into the year, and or five and a
half months anyway, and I haven't used up, but like

(01:00:28):
one of a lot, so there's gonna be some quiet
times around here between now and the end of the year.
I've got to Actually, I've got a couple of short
trips coming up. What I need to do at some
point is take an entire week off. Just take a
week off. The world's not gonna stop turning because Doug

(01:00:50):
Pike takes a week off. I recognize that. Believe me,
I would hope that a couple of you would might
maybe email me during the hiatus say man, we sure
miss you. That would make me feel good. But even
if I don't get something, I don't I don't have
to have that pad on the back, but it sure
is nice every now and then, I've got to finish

(01:01:11):
this email. Two I'm not gonna do it right now.

Speaker 8 (01:01:14):
But.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
Yeah, peeb you know who you are. I'm gonna get
you an email in just a second. I haven't had
a chance to read what you sent. Let me see
who else is in here. I need to deal with
Mojo A good morning, and I've already taken care of that. Uh.
That's an interesting I hear from Mojo and Mojo here's
from me every single time over the weekend, and I

(01:01:39):
get worried if I don't hear. If I don't see
that email, I worry. It's yeah, we never even met,
and become like, okay, is she okay? Is he okay?
Is she okay? Is he okay? I got a couple
more emails. I gotta deal with here at a minute. Uh,
and I will seven one three two one two five

(01:01:59):
seven ninety email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Oh,
grab that thoone man. I want to talk to him.
I think I know who that is, Frankie. Let me
go to Alan see what's on his mind?

Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
Allen?

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
What's up? Man?

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
You you doing so?

Speaker 8 (01:02:17):
I was up my little property in East Texas putting
out some minerals yesterday, and I was taken. Okay, so
down in South Texas, I'm assuming the deer get big
in Mexico because of the minerals in the ground, could be,
and that that's why we put minerals, you know, in

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our part of the world where you aren't that big,
so we try to help them out culth wise and
maybe growth wise. So can the same be said about
trout and Baffin Bay compared to trout and back of
Gordon Bay. I mean, why is it such a contrast
between big trout South Texas compared up here in our

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little Galston Bay.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
You know, you bring up that's a really good question.
And while you were asking it, I'm thinking, Okay, baff
And Bay has the reputation. That's where that's big trout
Mecca right, that's it now. Twenty five thirty years ago,
Trinity Bay giant trout, Matta Gorda Bay, giant trout. Even

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over into Sabine Lake, there were some really big trout caught,
and big numbers of them too. Trinity Bay. I can
remember making trips with Blaine and Mickey and James and
Kyle a Lei, all those guys. I can't every one
of those guys. I fished with over there, and we'd
stand around and catch just as many six seven eight

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pounders as we wanted to. On some mornings, Mickey'd always
be out farther than us because he's darned tall, and
James would. Mickey be in front of me, and James
would be behind me, and we're all trying to get
as far out as we can without drowning, and just
hanging on to one big giant trout after another. And
then all of a sudden we got some freezes come

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along and the trout populations rebounded, but the size didn't rebound.
And so now you have to ask yourself what is
different about Baffin And the only thing that pops up
is all those rocks in Baffin. Think about that. What
are they made else too?

Speaker 8 (01:04:29):
They have a lot more inlets and outlets.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
Well, yeah, there's more exchange. Well now there's nothing.

Speaker 8 (01:04:35):
Really, there's not.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
That much exchange really down south. I bet that something. Well,
think of this too. Baffin Bay doesn't have skyscrapers around it.
Baff And Bay doesn't have giant developments of beach houses
around it. It's still kind of natural runoff, which is
what Matta Gordon was thirty forty years ago. At fifty

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one hundred years ago, Yeah, which is what ye Galveston
Bay was fifty years ago. There weren't all these and
that's that's the only major visible change you can look at,
is is human development. So maybe that has something. Whatever's
washing off of that land in baff And Bay and
into the bay, that's that's trout food whatever or trout minerals.

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It's not food, but it's.

Speaker 8 (01:05:25):
Now you know my dad, you know my dad, he's
going up there this week, uh with my nephew to
do some fishing, and he was asking me where should
I fish And I said, well, if Rollover Pass was
still open, yeah, I would tell you in that area.
But since it's not, move further, move further towards the
ship jail and in the yacht basin because that's where

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you're you're less fresh water is going to be because
we have so much fresh water coming down. So hopefully
they'll have some success.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Yeah that the beach front is going to be on
pause until all this fresh water gets out of there.
But yeah, that's a really good question. And the only
thing I can look at is development. That's the only
major change yeah, we haven't had everybody's had freezes. We
all have up and down the coast. We've had freezes
up and down the coast. We've had drought, We've had

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all all these different things. But the development is what's different.
The development.

Speaker 8 (01:06:21):
Yeah youah, no, that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
I mean, if.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
Anybody's got a better idea, I'd love to hear it.

Speaker 8 (01:06:28):
I was just putting up minerals yesterday and I was like, yeah,
for whatever reason that crossed my mind, I thought Monday
about that, maybe he knows.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Yeah, well yeah, so something about that water was different
in the exchange there there are there, there's not as
much tidal exchange. Most of the water movement down south
is just wind driven. That's it. Yeah, they've got a
couple of little spots that will open up every time
we have heard I.

Speaker 8 (01:06:54):
Know, I knew that. I knew that. Uh there's a
guy down there. Christy Cliff Cliff Webb Cliff, thank you,
was telling Mickey a while back about you know they've
got there opening them some more channels.

Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
Yeah, there have been what packery is a great thing.
We closed up.

Speaker 8 (01:07:15):
The fresh water and salt water. So I was like, okay,
well that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
Yeah, we closed up rollover pass and they opened up
packery channel and guests, who's better fish? It just makes
no It made no sense at all except for a
money stand.

Speaker 8 (01:07:30):
It still makes me sick, but me too, you know,
it is what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:07:34):
Yeah, me too. You know what. Yeah, the next big
old hurricane might just open up one or two now
that rollovers not there. A big storm is going to
want to open land, open up a pass somewhere, now, Beckett,
what was it twenty thirty years ago or not that long?
Fifteen twenty years ago, big hurricane in South Texas opened

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up temporarily at least like eight or nine new passes
to the Golf of Mexico from the Bay. And that's
gonna happen at some point somewhere, all right.

Speaker 8 (01:08:06):
Man hopefully said it's man made, they can't close it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
Then, well yeah, that well sadly all like a lot
of those ones that happened in that South Texas hurricane,
they kind of close themselves up after a little while.
They don't really wash out channel deep, but it's a
pass for a little while. And what that does think
of think of hurricanes as nature flushing the toilet. Okay,

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and that's exactly what happened, so that all that water
rushes in and that pass opens up temporarily so that
all the bad, gooey, nasty stuff on the bottom of
a shallow bay gets flushed out into the ocean, into
the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 8 (01:08:50):
All right, that was a fun exchange.

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
You had great ideas. Thank you. See you, oh many
get me thinking about things. I love thinking about stuff
like that. And the only thing I can look at
is development. And the other thing, at least specific to
our Galaston Bay system is the loss of rollover pass.

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But you know, we got some new beach houses down there,
and more power to them. That's you know, that's so important.
I would much prefer better natural resources than more houses
on the beach, honestly. And you know, if you've got
a beach house down there, more power to you. I
wish I had one too, but I don't. And it's
just the way it goes. All right, we got to
take a quick break. Whoever that is, Frankie, let them know.

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I'll get to them right when we get back. We'll
talk to Camille. No, Camille, are you there?

Speaker 8 (01:09:42):
I am?

Speaker 12 (01:09:42):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
Barely? Hear you.

Speaker 12 (01:09:46):
How about that any better?

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
That's a little better. I think we can I think
we can work with that.

Speaker 12 (01:09:51):
Awesome. Well, I'm headed to a Ransis pass and for
an all women's veteran in first responder kayak fishing.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
The Holy cow, how many people you got lined up?

Speaker 12 (01:10:06):
I think she said they're full, so probably around ten
or twelve.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
That's gonna be. Yeah, that's gonna be a fun day,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
It is.

Speaker 12 (01:10:12):
It's gonna be a great day.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
On the water.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
So how does this work? Cameal? So, all these all
these first responders who sign up, do they get to
fish with a pretty girl?

Speaker 12 (01:10:22):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:10:22):
This one is?

Speaker 12 (01:10:24):
This one's all women.

Speaker 1 (01:10:25):
So oh oh okay, I got it.

Speaker 12 (01:10:28):
This one yeah, And and we do we try to
do periodically all women advents.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
Well, so basically they are all fishing with pretty girls, then,
aren't they?

Speaker 12 (01:10:38):
Yeah, they yah fish with each other?

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
Yes, indeed, So what's what's the target? What are we
fishing for today?

Speaker 12 (01:10:47):
So we're in Arima's past. We're probably doing lighthouse slates
are brown and rude. I haven't figured out where my
pen is yet, right, So we're doing redfish, trout, flounder.

Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
But mostly the usual suspects, as they say, exactly and
just so these guys aren't just kind of snickering right now.
Talk about the skill level of the people who are
going to be fishing here.

Speaker 12 (01:11:13):
Well, some of these aren't gonna be first respect our
first time.

Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
That's okay, good for them.

Speaker 12 (01:11:19):
Yeah, some of them they have never been out on
a kayak, never been out saltwater fishing. A lot of
them grew up around here, they work around here.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
So yeah, they fitch, they're the sleepers. They're the ones
who are gonna win. You know that, except for what,
there's gonna be one there's gonna be that one person
who's never caught a fish who's gonna catch the perfect
slot red.

Speaker 12 (01:11:41):
Fish at beginner's luck always.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
You know it. Yeah, I'm glad they're getting out there.
You can't have a next time until you have a
first time. You know, this is awesome. How are you doing?
How's the kayak business? You're still in it?

Speaker 7 (01:11:56):
I am?

Speaker 12 (01:11:57):
I am, but I'm more I'm more into the taking
veterans at first responders.

Speaker 8 (01:12:05):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
When do you have another event up this way?

Speaker 12 (01:12:12):
I'm you know, right now, Doug, I'm looking for volunteers
to take over my Galveston chapter, my my coordinator that
I had down there for years. I've been deployed on me.

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
Oh no, no, I know.

Speaker 12 (01:12:31):
But so I've got some great support team.

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
Up in that area, but I.

Speaker 12 (01:12:36):
Need somebody to take the reins and helped coordinate the
events throughout the year. They have equipment, they have everything
ready to go. I just need a couple of warm bodies.

Speaker 1 (01:12:49):
Okay. One of the qualifications you need is just in
case somebody is interested this morning. What do you need?

Speaker 12 (01:12:55):
I don't, you know, a little kayak fishing experience would help. Yeah,
and a willingness to you know, understand how to put
together an event. And the events are easy. Pick a location,
set of time, put it in you know, put it
in event right and get people out there. So, I mean,

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it's it's not it's a lot of work, but it's.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Not hard work.

Speaker 1 (01:13:24):
Well it's also very rewarding work too, you know.

Speaker 8 (01:13:27):
It is it is.

Speaker 12 (01:13:29):
They say that some of the best healing is giving back.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
Mm hm.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
I couldn't agree.

Speaker 12 (01:13:38):
Yeah, I you know, it's why I do what I
do at this point in my life.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
You know, well you forgot, you forgot one very important
step in in event planning for these things, and that's
to call me, okay every time, every time.

Speaker 12 (01:13:53):
I know, I know you're right. Well, at least I
remember to call you this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:13:58):
Yeah. No, we're not totally gone. We can we can
remember some things. Huh.

Speaker 12 (01:14:05):
Yeah, well you know I am getting old.

Speaker 1 (01:14:07):
Going no no, no, no, no, no, no no. Just anytime,
anytime you feel old, look up my birthday.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
So how do people get in touch with you since
you're still at the helm here and learn more about
what you're doing.

Speaker 12 (01:14:24):
It's at Heroes on the Water dot org.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
Heroes on the Water dot org. That's very easy.

Speaker 12 (01:14:33):
It is, it is, And you can find everything you
need to know about us on our website, including any
events that we have across the US, because we've got
fifty seven chapters in twenty six states.

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
Wow, so you've got half of you. You need to
get the other half.

Speaker 12 (01:14:52):
I agree, I agree wholeheartedly. But yeah, all of our
events are listed there. All about us is there. We've
got some phenomenal stories on there about some of our participants,
their career stories as well as they're on the waters stories.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
So also at that website, is there information on if
somebody's sitting there going, you know, I think I could
do that. Is there contact information for you?

Speaker 8 (01:15:23):
There?

Speaker 12 (01:15:25):
There is on the bottom of yeah, on the bottom
of the web, on any page on our website, down
on the bottom there's start. There's a thing called start
chapter okay, and it and it gives you all the
details and a link to my calendar and my.

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
Contact perfect perfection. Camille. Now, thank you so much number
one for doing what you're doing, and number two for
letting me be a part of it.

Speaker 5 (01:15:50):
Thank you, Doug.

Speaker 12 (01:15:51):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
That's my pleasure.

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
At anytime, Camille, have a good day. Yeah, drive safe
by way. Holy cow, what a great thing she has been.
She's kind of quiet about this stuff. She works so
hard behind the scenes. And if you're if you're interested
in helping her with this chapter up here, great jump on.
She can talk you through it. She can walk you

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through it, and you'll be surprised at what a wonderful,
wonderful opportunity this is to help a lot of people
who will truly appreciate it. First responders, first responders, military,
just like the name says, heroes on the water. It

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gives them an opportunity to do some stuff gives them
an excuse to go fishing. And I love doing that
for people who who probably don't get as many opportunities
as they deserve, certainly to get away from their jobs.
Those jobs are very stressful. If you can get them
away from that job and put them on the water
in a kayak, maybe they catch a fish, maybe they don't,

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but they won't care. They truly won't. They'll be happy
to be on the water. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
You know, the good news is right now trout fishing
is just is is so much better than it was
a year ago thanks to that limit. And we're gonna

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talk about that some and and how how much fruit
this new tree has already borne just in a year
and a couple of months.

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
On the way out, though, here's what I got to
hang on one second, let me go take a look
at this. See what this is. I'm looking for your list, Frankie,
there it is right there. Okay, that's what I needed
to know. And on the way out, remember all the
trees that went down with Hurricane Barrel last year, Well,
it's that time again, Are your trees ready? Do they

(01:17:48):
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All right, welcome back to Doug Pike Show on Sports
Talk seven ninety. Thanks for listening. Let me go straight
to Jim. He's been sitting there a little bit of
a wall. Jim, what's up man?

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
Hey Doug, how's it going this morning?

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
I'm great, man, feel good? Got a little cost.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
Do you.

Speaker 6 (01:18:27):
I'm not a coffee drinker, but I bought a you
actually used a Remington eleven twenty gage, I know, about
two weeks ago, and I am headed to American Shooters
as we speak.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
Good for you.

Speaker 6 (01:18:42):
Turned off I ten on the highways Exy and going
out there to to uh try it out.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
Yeah, good for you man.

Speaker 6 (01:18:52):
You bet had a twelve gage years ago and ended
up just saying, heck, I been looking for this twenty
for several years and finally found one at a really
decent price out there at the Pasadena Gun Show. So yeah, So.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
Why the twenty games? You're just tired of shooting twelves?

Speaker 6 (01:19:15):
No, I've got a wife and uh, I have four
daughters also with my wife, and my youngest daughter wanted
to get into dove.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
Shooting, and oh yeah, I gave that.

Speaker 6 (01:19:27):
I bought them a little old eight seventy pump a
while back, and it's a good story. Just kind of
like that semi automatic, and you know it doesn't kick
near as hard either, so not at all. Yeah. Let's
been listening to you for years and years and used
to hunt with you out on the Katie Prairie.

Speaker 1 (01:19:48):
I hope we had some good ones. There were a
lot of them.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:19:52):
You and I've talked before about bo and some of
his adventures, and my gosh, my dad. He's eighty nine
years old and he listens to you every weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:20:03):
So that's awesome looking back to when you and I
were hunting. The experience now is just so expensive, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (01:20:11):
Yeah, I'm telling you, I used to hunt that exam
I lived. I grew up off of it and Wilcrest,
so you know out there, and also over off a
Braverburn Village country club. I used to go fishing ponds
on that golf court out there when I was a
little kid, So me both. It's just I know, that's
why I brought it up. You know, it's a lot

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of fun, you know, just completely different these days.

Speaker 1 (01:20:38):
It was. Indeed, Jim, it's great to hear from you.

Speaker 6 (01:20:40):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
Go have some fun an American.

Speaker 6 (01:20:43):
I'm going to and I will talk to you later.
Good hunting, good fishing, and a good life to you.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
If you can find Ed or Riggy out there, tell
him I said, hello, will you ed?

Speaker 10 (01:20:55):
Ed?

Speaker 1 (01:20:55):
Yeah, he's the guy who owns a place. Just ask
for Ed.

Speaker 7 (01:20:58):
Okay, good day, thanks jim By.

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
All right, All so he's getting to go do something
fun today. Anybody else, anybody else? Want to call it?
Just brag? Yeah, I'm going shooting today seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Email me dougpick at
iHeartMedia dot com. Uh, where Cay, Where do I want
to go?

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
Here? Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
Trout fishing. You can't ignore that. Gosh, it's it's been
good and getting better for the last well, for the
last since a year ago. May let's just take it
all the way back when we went down to three
fish and said, you know, enough's enough of over harvesting
these fish, enough's enough of having a freeze whittle that

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population down to nearly nothing and threatened a far worse
issue than just having a few trout. It's good. It's good,
from one into the coast to the other. And I
hope it keeps up for many many years to come.
Hope I get to go some of these places. I
haven't been in a while too. I used to it
before my son was born. I was out as much

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as I was in. I was up and down this coast.
I fished all the way around the Gulf Coast, all
the way up the East coast to Maine, and and
just didn't miss a lick, and and had a tremendous
time doing that. And now looking back, there are a
lot of places that I want to I want to
see again. I want a second chance at some of

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those fish, a second chance to see some of the
things I saw. And he's darned near fully independent. He's
still he still comes around to get gas, money and food.
But actually I can't say that about him much. He's
still he's working and so he's earning his own money.
But yeah, there are places I want to go. I've

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still got snooked to catch.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
I want.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
I haven't caught a snook in a while even, and
that really needs to be remedied soon, and I'm I'm
thinking about when and where I'll do it. I'm gonna
even go to South Texas because I got some friends
down there. I think I could hop in with and
do a little snook fishing down there. Or I may
just jump on a plane and go over to Florida
and try to fish with Mark Nichols again before he

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and I both get too old to go do that.
I don't think that's anytime soon for either of us, frankly,
but we're not the spring chicks we once were, that's
for sure. And in fairness, Florida does have bigger snook
than we have and more they. Yeah, that's just where
I want to go if I'm going to go catch them.

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Very healthy population here though, And honestly, if we can
avoid severe winter weather for a few more years, uh,
this snook population is going to keep creeping up our
way uppear toward Galveston. The next one that gets caught
off the surfside, Jetty won't be the first one. I
can assure you. I watched a kid catch one one

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day years ago, years ago, and he and his buddy
knew exactly what they had and told me in fact that, yeah,
they caught a bigger one the day before. So those
and I know enough about snook to know that one
strike that I got walking in throw on the top
water along the rocks right at dark one one year,

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one hundred years ago, whenever it was that, that was
a snook bite. That was not a trout bite. That
was a snook bite. And I'll never believe anything different.
And it was a significant fish, a very significant fish.
And of course I missed it, totally missed it. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety email on me,
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia Dot Come. I've got that. Check

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that box, check that box. You know what I would
I would love to be and I'm thinking about this
is a good question for the day. Actually that spark
a little interest and get your minds working. I wouldn't
mind being in dropped into a time machine with the
gear I have now and taking for a long time,

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Texas had a commercial snook fishery. There were that many snook,
big giant snook in Texas, and so many of them
that it supported a commercial fishery for many, many years.
And I would love to go back with what I
have now and just be dropped into that mix for
a little while and be able to go wade the

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surf and catch giant snook. Now you can still catch
one every now and then off Corpus. That's I'm gonna
be heading there and not too far into the future
for a couple of days. And who knows, if the
weather's right, we might pop one. We might we might not,
might pop a little tarpain in the surf, might catch
some big trout in the surf. That's a great place
to do that. And it's a little more consistent down

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there than up here. But the time machine would take
me back to when there were trout and trout, well trout, yes,
of course, and snook and redfish and tarpin all up
and down the coast, all up and down the coast.
Most of you in this audience probably are a little
too young to realize that Galveston Bay in the heat
of summer was home to some really big tarpat, I

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mean tarpin in the one hundred, one hundred and fifty
pound class. They were in there every summer, and we
fished for them regularly and caught them and caught them,
not every day, not any different than just offshore where
most of the tarpain fishing goes on now. But they
were there and a lot of people were catching them.

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Little ones built, there were little ones at the jetties
that juveniles were at the jetties. You could go catch them,
and it was it was just a different time. I'm
kind of interested. So the question for the day and
either actually I don't care, hunting, fishing, whatever, if you
could hop into a time machine with the gear you
have now to enjoy the outdoors and have unrestricted access

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to the outdoors in that period, for when and for
where would you set the dials? Waterfowl in the eighties,
speckle trout in the nineties, redfish, I don't know, no
reason to go anywhere. But now for redfish, holy cow,
we've got plenty. Although it was it was really really
good until it got really really bad thanks to all

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the gill nets and purse sayings and whatnot. They were
on the brink. Redfish were there were. Captain Scott and
I have talked about this more than once about how
many days sometimes we would go fish in the bay,
and he is a guide and all the other guides too,

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go for days and not catch a single red fish.
You might catch a bunch of trout with your guys,
your your clients, but you may not catch a red
fish for days. Now, I think it would be almost
it would be harder to get to a day when
you didn't catch a red fish than it was to
catch one back then. Even very interesting way to look

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at that, you know. And here's a twist on that too.
I would I wouldn't mind going seven or eight, maybe
ten years into the future to see just how good
trout fishing is going to be once this three fish
limit really gets its teeth sunk into the whole deal
a few more years under its belt. I don't think

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we'll ever see a return to five fish, by the way,
and I don't have a problem with that at all.
Nobody should. With all the pressure on coastal resources now,
three is a fair number and it's worth getting used
to the Parksing Walleafe Department has sent out surveys for
the past several years, a lot of years saying, hey,

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the red fish population is doing really really good. You
want another fish on your stringer and recreational fishermen, the
people who are responding to these surveys are saying, no, no,
leave it alone. We're happy to be able to go
out there and catch all those fish. We can't bring
home as many, but that's okay with us, and it's

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working out really really well, really really well. If you
didn't experience all that people my age have experienced, you
don't really have the history of knowing how bad it
can get. You've seen a few freezes, probably, but you've
never really known how bad red fishing got. Because those

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fish were grossly overfished. It's hard to kill them with
freezer heat or red fish I think could could live
in a bucket of damp sawdust. I've written that and
talked about it many times. They're just that tough. But
speckle trout are pretty fragile, and when they go they
go hard. Those freezes back in the eighties wiped out

(01:29:38):
some bays, virtually wiped them out, not entirely, but close,
very close for years. It was years before they recovered
and we changed a limit from five fish to three,
and suddenly happy days are here again all over the
Bay system. I'm happy, I really am. All right, we
got to take another break. All the way out, you

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can find your way to two ninety and then to
Fry Road, and then a little south on Fry Road.
And you like golf, that's gonna put you right at
the gate to black Horse Golf Club. Two great golf courses,
the North Course, which is still daily fee and a
great track, and the South Course, which went private this
year and has membership options up to and including access

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also to Blackhawk Country Club and Golf Club of Houston.
Black Horse Golf Club dot com is a website, black
Horse goolf Club dot Com. You know, Frankie, there's just
nothing better than a stale donut and cold goffee. Goll oh,
hell the mighty have fallen. Yeah, that's what I'm having

(01:30:42):
for breakfast in here. I did eat. I ate a
protein bar and had a banana on the way in,
so it's not all bad. Let's go talk to Mike,
shall we. Hey, Mike, what's up man?

Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
Good morning? Young man.

Speaker 13 (01:30:55):
How you doing today?

Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
You know, I'm good. I actually am. I feel pretty
good about the day.

Speaker 13 (01:31:00):
Fak was a little bit younger, and I say a
little bit. I would love to go back and spend
a season hunting, fishing, and trapping with the old mountain men.

Speaker 1 (01:31:13):
Oh wow, yeah, how far are we talking?

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
Eighteen hundreds, eighteen fifteen?

Speaker 13 (01:31:20):
Yeah, seventeen wow. Yeah, man, you were talking about buffalo
a few minutes ago.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
I'm reading.

Speaker 13 (01:31:27):
I'm reading an old book written back in nineteen forty
five about the buffalo hunting and the four buffalo herds
that were real prominent back about that time. Can you
imagine millions of those buffalo roaming? I mean, it would
be all inspiring.

Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
Did you just sit up on a hilltop somewhere, on
the back of your horse, of course, and watch buffalo
pass in front of you for hours?

Speaker 13 (01:31:57):
They were talking about you could smell them and hear
them before you saw them. Oh, I'm sure the ground
would shake so much.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
Yeah, that's what I was just thinking, that they would
have to with that much weight trampling the ground. You
would have to be able to feel at from a
long ways off. Not amazing, golly, not a good.

Speaker 13 (01:32:17):
Place to be a groundhog. I can tell you that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:21):
Only call yeah anything under those feet, man, that's all
I got. Yeah, that's a great, great thought. I appreciate that. Mike.
Let's go, let's go talk to brand and see what's up. Brandon.
What do you got going on?

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
Good morning, mister Pike.

Speaker 3 (01:32:38):
Carry you.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
I'm good, Thank you, good good. H One thing, everybody's
wondering why we don't have the big trout like we
do in South Texas. And I have a certain opinion
about this. It's because we have urban development and our
number one everybody wants to blame farmers and ranchers for fertilizer,
pesticides or whatever, but the number one abuser as a homeowner.

Speaker 1 (01:33:01):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:33:03):
Yeah, that's it is. And I mean I learned that
in I learned that in college. And the reason why
I say that is how many guys try to put
a bike together before Christmas but don't read the direction.

Speaker 1 (01:33:13):
Of course, Yeah, we don't need to do.

Speaker 3 (01:33:19):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
It's like taking medicine. Oh, if one is good, two
is better.

Speaker 3 (01:33:23):
So yeah, but I mean it is.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
I mean, and the reason why I think is South
Texas grows bigger and better trout is because it's still
all natural. It's you don't have the pollutants like you
do here.

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
Yeah, there's not a whole lot of lawn clippings roll
into the bay through the King Ranch shoreline. Very good,
you know, right.

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
You don't have the fertilizer and the pesticize that people
put out there that don't know what they're doing. So
and that's just that's just the way it is.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
But I do have a question.

Speaker 2 (01:33:56):
I'm looking at buying, uh like a two says or
some type of rifle, but I would want some help
in trying to siding in. I don't want to do
it myself. Why not I would? Well, I mean I
just want I just needed some or advice or where
can I go to have somebody to help me dial

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it in as well?

Speaker 1 (01:34:18):
Go right out to American shooting centers or if there's
a rifle range closer to you, and just take it
out there and have them bore sighted or they can
do the whole sight in for you. It's just going
to cost you a little bit more money and take
a little bit more time. The best people I know
who do that stuff, they'll sit out there and work
with you in that rifle for an hour and a

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half two hours to make sure it's as good as
it's going to get. But if you just the way
I the old school way to do it, if you
can't afford some to pay somebody to do it for you,
is to go out there and just kind of start
at like fifty yards and just get it on the
paper somewhere at fifty yards and then just start kind
of working it in and working it in, and then

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you're gonna shoot a lot of ammo, and the barrel's
gonna get hot, and you're gonna have to wait until
it cools and do all that stuff. But you can
get it. You can get it kind of done. You
can get it pie plate at two hundred yards the
first day you're out there.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
And not too long a time, right, But aden is
am I correct when I say that the number one
step is to get it bure sided first?

Speaker 1 (01:35:26):
Yeah, I mean it's unless you just put the scope
on the rifle, somebody put it on their sideways. You'll
be able to hit paper at fifty yards. You know,
you'll get it on that paper as soon as you
can see the hole. Then then you're now you know
where to adjust and how much to adjust and then
just work it back from there. Takes some time, you know,
get a friend to go with you and just take turns, right, sir,

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just skip on out to the rifle rangeing enjoy a nice, calm.

Speaker 8 (01:35:54):
Quiet day, right, yes, sir, yeah, man, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:35:59):
If if you're concerned about doing it yourself, then I
would I would call. I'd go to American Shooting Centers
in a heartbeat. What's what part of town you in?

Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
I'm over here in Wharton County, Okay, yeah, that.

Speaker 1 (01:36:11):
Wouldn't be too terribly far. Yeah, it shouldn't be. Just
up fifty nine, uh.

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
Fifty nine and where are they located?

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
On West tim Or Parkway between Katie and Highway six?

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
So I would yeah, I would go.

Speaker 1 (01:36:27):
Yeah, I'd go fifty nine to maybe fifty nine to
ninety nine actually, and then cut up to Katie and
get off at West tim Or Parkway and go back
east a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
More and you'll be there. Yeah, okay, all right over there, So.

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
Two good reasons to go then. Huh is that all right?
Thanks Brandon, I'll see you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
Yes very much, man, that's yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:36:53):
If you're if you're hesitant for any reason to get
anything done to a gun. Just get out your wallet
and hand it over to a professional and it will
be returned to you exactly as you like. Tell them
what you want. I need you to cite this rifle
in where it's hunting season ready, and in a day
or two you can go back there and pick it

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up and it'll be hunting season ready. Site it in
to perform its best. One of the things about siting
in a rifle Brandon, by the way, is if you're
going to do that yourself, or even if you're going
to do it with let somebody else do it, know
that every rifle out there has a particular favorite AMMO

(01:37:33):
that it's going to be most accurate with. It's it's
kind of like we all have favorite foods, we all
have favorite drinks. Rifles have they like to eat favorite AMMO.
And the best way to figure out which is going
to be best for your rifle without breaking the bank
is to find Now you're buying a two seventy, then
you find a couple of other guys who also have

(01:37:54):
two seventies, and then each of you go buy a
box or two of two seventy ammo. You buy different stuff.
You know, one guy gets some Winchester, one gets Remington,
one gets whatever, and maybe a different bullet size, even
a different bullet weight, something different about each of those rounds,

(01:38:16):
and you can get as many different kinds as you want.
With two seventy probably have two dozen options. Make sure
your rifle is pretty well sited in as best it's
gonna be, and then run three rounds through with each
different kind of AMMO with the same temperature on your barrel.
You gotta if you gotta let it cool off, let
it cool off a little bit, planning to spend some
time out there. Nobody's gonna run you off. All three

(01:38:39):
of you shoot the different ammos through your guns, and
I guarantee you every one of them is every one
of those rifles is gonna like one more than the
other and shoot a tighter group. My seven Mag I
don't know why I got so lucky, but my seven
Mag likes and I still have a couple of boxes
of these things, just an old Remington cartridge that was

(01:39:04):
basically the cheapest box of shells you could get, cheapest
box of rifle cartridges you could buy in seven MAG,
and I tried some really high priced ones. I tried
some really fancy ones and everything fell that. They just
they didn't shoot as tight as a cheap stuff in
ifols happy as a little lark because I didn't have
a lot of money back then. It was a good

(01:39:27):
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seven ninety's It's funny for me to do this show
because I I come in here with a pretty healthy
list of things I want to talk about, reasons I
want to talk about them, and I know that at
some point, and it doesn't take long, usually at some

(01:40:55):
point we're gonna get thrown off topic and I'm gonna
I'm just gonna wander off into the into the weeds,
and and once I get there, realize that we're we
should be talking about something else. Pro Can you do
it in two minutes?

Speaker 8 (01:41:10):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:41:11):
I'm good like that.

Speaker 9 (01:41:12):
What you got, I'll do a quick reverse brag.

Speaker 3 (01:41:15):
I'm bragging.

Speaker 9 (01:41:16):
I already got my fishing in so so I'm bragging
that I ain't doing nothing except getting my daily dose
of Doug on the dial.

Speaker 1 (01:41:22):
A boy, wow, that's a lot of alliteration there, I know, right,
some time to take that up. But worked on that.

Speaker 9 (01:41:32):
Okay, So the time machine thing real quick?

Speaker 1 (01:41:34):
Yeah, where would you take I'm little take you.

Speaker 13 (01:41:38):
Joe Doggett.

Speaker 9 (01:41:39):
We might even let Bob Brister come if we're gonna
get it at twenty foot God Devil fifty sixth wide,
and we're gonna go back to the early seventies and
we're gonna go up to the jungle on Lake Livingson
with the sho.

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, I could do some of that. I
could do some of that, man, I did some of it.
You're the stories, Yeah, that'd be good. That's you know,
And that's kind of an overlooked part of Texas. Water
fowling the prairie get most of the attention, but the

(01:42:13):
upper of the northern ends of almost every lake we've
ever dammed up in this state flooded a ton of
timber and those ducks would get in there, so good man.

Speaker 9 (01:42:24):
Oh yeah, I've had some killer days on rich and Chambers.

Speaker 1 (01:42:26):
I've had some killer days on Falcon Yeah, yeah, I
mean Conrad.

Speaker 9 (01:42:32):
Yeah, Conrad believe it or not, an urban urban duck
honting right, you can kill some green heads on there.
I mean they may have a French fry handed out
of their mouth, but you can kill.

Speaker 1 (01:42:39):
Them Cheetos in the backyard mallards.

Speaker 9 (01:42:47):
Called renders over there. But yeah, falcons. I got one
of my favorite mounts. I don't know if I should
it to you not when you were here, But on falcon.

Speaker 3 (01:42:55):
We went down a falcon.

Speaker 9 (01:42:56):
We shot green wing, blue wing, and cinnamon till all
one and I got all three of them mounted.

Speaker 1 (01:43:02):
Yeah, I've got a cinnamon still. I held on to that.
When he was pretty he came in with a bunch
of blue wings, and no, I don't remember, I don't
remember what the other ones were. I didn't care. It
was a bluebird day and I could see that duck
up in that little bunch of it. It was like
twenty thirty of them, and they rolled around the spread,
and I'm telling my guys that stay down, stay down,
stay down. And instead of saying okay, shoot them and

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then bringing my gun up, it was like boom, take them,
and little Cinnamon rolled and drop behind us. And to
my dog's credit, that was old bow Man he knew
what I'd done. He ran back there and grabbed that
cinnamon and came and put it like right next to
my leg, and then took off to ketch up with
the all the all the other ducks they'd knocked down.

(01:43:43):
He was smart man. Not on one of them saw
that duck. I just kind of wanted it from my wall.

Speaker 3 (01:43:49):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:43:50):
Actually I got a standing mount for him. He's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (01:43:53):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
Yeah, it's beautiful. I saw you sent me that record
for common snook man. That's just such a what a
crazy pair's me and a ranch. I've actually been there
and I know where it is. And back in seventy eight,
long before I ever got there, the world record for
common snooke was caught. It weighed about fifty three pounds.
It says about fifty three pounds and ten ounces. That's

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not how records are weighed, but I think that's what
the official fifty three to ten is still huge. The
biggest one I've ever seen was caught by a guy
down in Florida. I'm looking right at him and I
can't call his name. I'm so embarrassed. Good guy down
there too. I'll think of it probably after we talk
about it. But anyway, there was a big media trip

(01:44:36):
down there with the guy Mark Nichols who owns de
A Lewis, and this guy worked for Mark at the time,
and he caught one that was probably thirty five, maybe
forty pounds of just a beast. I mean, oh oh yeah,
they're huge and they stayed. They just stay mad at
the world. Even when they get that big. They don't
get lazy, they don't get slow. They just get bigger

(01:44:58):
and meaner and stronger. Cool fish. Uh you know, I
bet you could kind of like the same way redfish
will eat a spinner bait, but I've never thought about
throwing one.

Speaker 3 (01:45:11):
That.

Speaker 1 (01:45:11):
My most fun ever was in the in the inlet
there when they were stacked up during spawning season.

Speaker 3 (01:45:18):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:45:18):
We actually there was a little hump that they got
on that was pretty shallow, and we were catching them
on top waters and it was just awesome, like these
were ten ten to twenty pound.

Speaker 5 (01:45:27):
Fish top waters.

Speaker 1 (01:45:29):
A little way to go. Amen to that. Holy cow, Jeff, Yeah,
I need to talk to you real quick about freshwater fishing.

Speaker 8 (01:45:39):
I have.

Speaker 1 (01:45:39):
I have struggled now for two weeks. I have thrown
pretty much everything I see that the list of lures
that I have thrown that have been unproductive in the
last three weeks probably includes, but is not limited to,
crank baits, spinner bait, swim baits, chatter baits, top waters,

(01:46:03):
and frogs, all thrown in places where there used to
be and still should be bas And I think the
problem isn't what I'm throwing or where I'm throwing it.
I think the problem is all this snot grass and
stuff that's growing up along the shorelines where you can't
fish the first thirty feet up and you can't put

(01:46:23):
a boat in there either. They won't let you. And
I'm not going to throw a worm. Don't tell me
to put on a plastic worm. I don't do that.

Speaker 9 (01:46:30):
Oh I was, I was leading there, but I know,
I know you don't.

Speaker 13 (01:46:33):
I know you don't like grass.

Speaker 1 (01:46:35):
I don't have that kind of time. I want to move.
I'm shaking and moving when I'm fishing.

Speaker 9 (01:46:41):
Oh well, one thing, one thing that I keep tyed
on it all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:46:45):
What's your water clarity there? One of the lakes is
real good and the other is okay. One's a foot,
one's three feet, oh okay.

Speaker 9 (01:46:55):
I mean I would recommend I mean, you have to.
It ain't nothing is good. It's not grass. We don
wanna throw a worm, so you have to get around it.
But a quarter ounce black and blue swim jig okay
with a with a strike king full sized rage crawl
on the back of it. Yeah, and it's got a
lot of kick to the high And basically wherever you

(01:47:16):
fish a spinner bait, you can fish that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:18):
Some people throw it out there and they're.

Speaker 9 (01:47:19):
Like twitch to twitch, which which all the way back.
But you can throw it straight out and reel it
back in. And the other option, it's that same rage crawl.
Just rig it up on a Texas rigged hook. It's
worm basically, but you're just throwing it out and reading
it back into some surface.

Speaker 1 (01:47:35):
And there are times and they will crush that thing.

Speaker 9 (01:47:37):
It's but it's but it's but it's a it's a
chunking wine deal.

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
Like I know you like to do.

Speaker 1 (01:47:42):
So something else I'm gonna I'm gonna try out there
some of Mark Nickels snakes. Have you ever seen those
d A snakes? Oh yeah, oh buddy, I love those things.

Speaker 9 (01:47:51):
Man, and and a swimming in a in a swimming sinkcoa.
They got a Sinco that's got a swimming foot. Swimming
foot on the back, y'all. Momoto makes same thing. Texas
rig chunk and wine. And that's what they do in
Florida when they can't catch fish. Yeah, it's a swimming
sinto that's that's like a daily baby. And that's and
that will come to that.

Speaker 1 (01:48:11):
That's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 9 (01:48:12):
If you yeah, when you when you rig it up,
Texas rig, just make sure you bear you're not outside
the worm where the other things taking out that line.

Speaker 1 (01:48:19):
A little tag in it looks like a boat hook
coming through there. Oh my word, all right, faux pro.
It's always a pleasure, my friend.

Speaker 9 (01:48:28):
Oh, yes, sir, we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 1 (01:48:29):
Okay, I'll see. Let me go, let me go talk
the captain Mike here. I want to do that. What's up, Mike?

Speaker 6 (01:48:36):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (01:48:37):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:48:37):
You No, I was going to talk to you about
the three trout limits. Tell you how I'm doing it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:42):
But you know, I've caught a lot of fish in
the last four trips on.

Speaker 2 (01:48:48):
I can't tell you how many twenty four twenty five
inch fish if turned loose.

Speaker 1 (01:48:52):
Oh my god, that's good, you know, and and you
know when I.

Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
Got customers, they want to have a few fish. So
the three fish limit is paying off. It's working, That's
all I want to say. Because when there's more bigger
fish out there than there has been, people are catching
them and I'm just hoping they're releasing them the right way.
What I'm doing now is after we get our three
fish lin it and that's enough for anybody to eat,

(01:49:16):
you know, keep them fresh because you don't want to
freeze or burn them. Well I'm doing. I'm telling my customers, now,
let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:49:23):
Throw some lures. Yeah, you got you, you got your
fish to eat.

Speaker 2 (01:49:27):
Now let's go practice and let's throw some lures. Let's
see how that is. Let me try to create you
to another concept of fishing. Well you do that because
you know you do that.

Speaker 1 (01:49:36):
Mike, and you also get an opportunity to say, okay,
let's go see if we can catch a big sheep's head.
Let's go see if we can catch a big whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
Well, you're right, there's other optacles with bait. You can
use sand you can catch sand, trout, you can catch
keep heads, you can catch some more red drum. And
I'm trying to, you know, trying to tell them, look,
let's use a few lures getting them going. And if
they're not for that, well I just get some the
log fish.

Speaker 3 (01:50:01):
They go catch some fish. Now there's already been some
tag red fish caught. I realized I know it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:06):
And right now the leader on a I believe it's
right on a big sheep. It's over nine pounds and
that's a.

Speaker 1 (01:50:13):
Huge sheep's head. Hey, I got something I want you
to try, Mike. I saw a video the other day.
Guy in a kayak fishing down in Florida around bridge pilings. Okay,
and he's he's targeting sheep's head. And unless you've seen
this video, there's no way you would know what he's
using for bait.

Speaker 6 (01:50:31):
You know what that is.

Speaker 2 (01:50:33):
Yeah, he's using finger crabs. Nope, he's using hot dogs.

Speaker 1 (01:50:39):
Just just throw your towel in. Let me tell you.
He is using black eyed peas soaked in like sardine
oil or anything to make them smell a little fishy
because they look like barnacles. They look like barnacles.

Speaker 3 (01:50:53):
There you go. I can add to that too.

Speaker 2 (01:50:57):
If you really want to catch a big sheep hit, yeah,
I can tell you exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
Where to go.

Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
But I'm not what you do. You find, you find,
you find a pollen and it's not far from Houston,
real close to Houston, and you just take a rake
and you rake the yea off of it, and then
you fish right where you just rake them off. Now
that's against the law to do in Florida, I believe
it's I think Florida or North Carolina it is against

(01:51:23):
the law to rake it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:24):
But you can do it in Texas and that.

Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
Will draw the sheep head in and you will get
them pretty good sized sheephead. This food for Also, if
you're in the Star tournament, you can also fish for gafftop.
Right now, the leading gaf tops only a little over
six pounds beatable all gaff top, so that's beatable.

Speaker 3 (01:51:44):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:51:44):
And the lane offshore is like fifty two plus pounds
and that's beatable too. Yesterday we caught probably maybe fifteen
black tip small bat black tip ups which we turn loose,
and we also had a limit a trout also, And
then every now and you bring a trail and then
the mama decides to take it away from you.

Speaker 1 (01:52:03):
But that's just the way it is that NATO.

Speaker 3 (01:52:06):
But anyway, I just wanted to bring that up about
the three fish. It is working.

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
And so the people that really was upset about the
three fish, I hope teacher said, well, you know what,
it is working. Captain Mike says, we're catching bigger fish
as we are. It's it's the way of life right now.
And if we go back to five fish, that's fine,
but I'd like to say keep it to three fish
because it's working, and let's have it for our youth,
our young kids, to have fish later on when I'm

(01:52:30):
not even there. You know, I'm seventy six years old,
so and I'm doing.

Speaker 3 (01:52:33):
The best I can to reserve the resources for the
young kids.

Speaker 1 (01:52:37):
Yeah, where can they find you? Mikey's I gotta run.

Speaker 2 (01:52:40):
Oh I'm sorry. Two eight one five O seven one
nine three three. Captain Mike Cassiati on the internet. Just
Mike Cassiati two eight one five O seven one nine
three three. Hey, Doug, we'll get together. I'll hoart at
you later, sir, Thank.

Speaker 5 (01:52:53):
You, hodos you bet.

Speaker 1 (01:52:55):
Yeah, he's a good dude.

Speaker 3 (01:52:56):
He really is.

Speaker 1 (01:52:57):
And if you're brand new to saltwater fishing, don't don't fudge. Okay,
don't do that. But if you actually are new to
it and you really want to try it out. He
offers a generous discount off his trip rate for anybody
who's brand new to it. This is like, look like
a drug dealer.

Speaker 8 (01:53:15):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (01:53:15):
Once you get out there and start catching saltwater fish,
you gonna want to keep going. I don't know. I
don't know hardly any people who have ever fished once
or twice and then never gone back. And none of
those people, I'm thinking there's only a few I know.
Not one of those people has bailed after going saltwater fishing.

(01:53:38):
The pools different. Everything out there is either gonna be
is either gonna eat or be eaten. So they're strong,
they're mean, they're tough, they're aggressive. Sometimes they're a little finicky.
But yeah, you never know what you're gonna catch in saltwater.
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(01:54:25):
I'm laughing, Frankie, because I realized that where this is
gonna be another kind of a short segment, isn't it?
Mostly because I went pretty long on the last one.

Speaker 8 (01:54:33):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (01:54:35):
Maybe maybe, just maybe you're being very kind.

Speaker 12 (01:54:39):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:54:40):
Sometimes I just kind of get on a there's something
I want to talk about, and I appreciate you letting
me talk about it rather than doing what some producers
would do and just get in my ear and bug
me about it. We'll make it up, we'll figure it out.
It's okay. As I mentioned earlier, I don't want to
dwell too much on golf, but I did get out
a played.

Speaker 5 (01:55:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:55:01):
I think my buddy Daniel and I played six or
seven holes yesterday. We stopped to fish and then we
played a little bit more, and then we'd fish a
little bit more and play a little bit more and neither.
Neither activity went as planned. We didn't get a single
bite yesterday. It's just a it's a head scratcher. These

(01:55:21):
fish don't have that far to go. There's almost no
place in this body of water where I can't cast
a lure and I can't find the fish. The last
one I caught was a catfish. I mentioned that earlier,
and it was out in the middle of nowhere long cast,
just random shot with a rattle trap out in the

(01:55:43):
middle of the middle of nowhere water. Nothing on the
bottom out there but dirt, and I caught a catfish
and that was it. And don't think I didn't make
a few more casts out there either. That's enough of
all of that we've got. We're almost finished with June,
which is hard to believe. Enough then July August and bam,
dear season or excuse me, dub season, not dear season,

(01:56:06):
so be ready for that too. Somebody I can't remember that,
I apologize, but I can't remember who it was who
called to say they were headed to American Shooting Centers
this morning to do a little shooting. And more power
to them going in test firing if you will. A
pre owned eleven hundred, a twenty gage eleven hundred. I

(01:56:27):
owned one of those for a while. I much prefer
as far as that end of the gun goes a
pump gun, and I don't mind pump guns. I may
have a twenty gauge eleven hundred at the house, I
think it. I don't know. I don't remember if I
held onto that one or not. I may have thrown
that one into the into the pile that went over.

Speaker 10 (01:56:50):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:56:50):
A couple of guns I dropped off at Shooter's Corner
a while back on consignment. Hopefully one of them will
move soon. I would I wouldn't mind having the store
crew or maybe a little cash in my pocket. They
do that, by the way, at Shooter's Corner. Really good people,
really good people. If you've got a gun that you
want to sell, they'll buy it from you. Or you

(01:57:11):
can maybe make a little bit of more money on
it if you can just leave it in there long
enough for somebody to come in and buy it at
a better price. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me Doug Picke at iHeartMedia dot com.
I I'm gonna put all my safety sam hat for
a minute, real quick, uh, something I saw this week

(01:57:31):
about yet another boat crash. I think it was up
in the Midwest. Just slow down, will you make sure
the driver of the boat is sober, and watch for
people who don't care about you or anybody else on
your boat nearly so much as they care about themselves
and getting where they want to be because they think
they own the lake or the bay or whatever. It's

(01:57:52):
some there's just no excuse for accidents like that, the
same as there's no excuse for hunting accidents, except in
rare occasions of gross mechanical failure. Most every boating accident,
most every hunting accident is attributable in some way, shape
or form to human error, preventable human error, and that's

(01:58:16):
what we got to keep working on forever. I do
want to live long enough to go through an entire
hunting season with no fatalities. I've given up on going
through with no accidents. I almost have, not entirely, but
I just want to get through one with zero fatalities,
and that would make me very happy. I'm debating whether
or not to go to my son's baseball game. It's

(01:58:37):
a little later in the afternoon, and it's also in
Willis I think, yeah, I think it's in Willis. That's
where they played yesterday too. These kids, Holy cow, it's
just amazing how much how many miles they put on
their cars. I need to go talk to Rick Bison.
I'm gonna do that right there, right now. What's up, Rick?

Speaker 3 (01:58:56):
Hey, Doug. I'm gonna try to stay somewhat on topic here,
but I just want to share an observation today. I'm
over here in Levoka County. Uh I, you know what
I do for a living. So I got the buyer
and the seller there.

Speaker 1 (01:59:10):
Good, that sounds like a transaction about to happen to me.

Speaker 3 (01:59:14):
It's happened. Good, it's past the key day.

Speaker 1 (01:59:17):
Oh good, good, good.

Speaker 3 (01:59:19):
Now this property I had him converted to wildlife exemption
because it was not a cattle place anymore, but it
had a good wildlife element to it. So he did,
and I begged him and begged him. I said, if
you'll just put for if you put some really nice

(01:59:42):
deer stands out here, so when we show the property,
you know they can visualize it, because a lot of
people can't. So we finally put some out there, spent
a bunch of money and raising price on the property.
A little bit, and I sold it in less than
thirty days. Wait, so now he agreed to put of
feeders on it if he could have them when the

(02:00:02):
property sold, So that was in the deal. So we're
up there and load that up and a few other things. Now,
you know, I collect a lot of things in them, okay,
and I have passion for certain things, and in this
in this place, there's there's a big stack of things

(02:00:23):
which you don't see many of in a stack that
I have an absolute passion for from my personal collection.
So they're given away. Everything else, I thought, well, I'm
gonna either they're gonna give them to me or I'm
gonna pay for on them and buy them all right,
fast forward, here's my observation. And this ain't the first

(02:00:43):
time grandma and grandpa lived on this ranch. I think
they moved there in fifty seven, the year I was
born and raised their family. The kids are all grown,
they're successful, they don't want the ranch, and uh, it
just never sees this was amazing. Now these people moved
out of that house. They it was twenty ten or eleven.

Speaker 1 (02:01:05):
Okay, So it's been empty for well, not empty, but
it's been quiet for fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (02:01:10):
Well, this house was built in the early twenties.

Speaker 2 (02:01:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:01:13):
Wow, okay, and.

Speaker 3 (02:01:14):
I'll tell you how early you walk in. First of all,
you walk in that house, it was like Grandma and
Grandpa went to the store from the grocery shop on
a Saturday and they'd be back any many.

Speaker 10 (02:01:24):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (02:01:24):
Wow, still on the sink on the pedalstal on the porch, Wow,
on the back porch. You know why the sink is
on the back porch?

Speaker 1 (02:01:38):
Now, I give up.

Speaker 3 (02:01:40):
They didn't have they had a masketbe they didn't have
plumbing when that house.

Speaker 1 (02:01:47):
Was That's a very good point. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:01:49):
Yeah, they had a big old back porch and they
just put them out there.

Speaker 12 (02:01:53):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (02:01:55):
So what did you buy a stack of?

Speaker 1 (02:01:57):
That's what I want to know.

Speaker 3 (02:02:00):
Man. I am a I'm a rabbit collector, have been
for a long time. Uh. And you're gonna like go,
what the heck, I'm a rabbit collector. Ifebody's listening. You
can help me out. I'm not hard to find. Contact duggars.

Speaker 1 (02:02:17):
Oh that's a good one. That's a really good I.

Speaker 3 (02:02:21):
Have them all the way back to the eighteen forties.

Speaker 6 (02:02:23):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:02:24):
Man, wow, And I'm not exactly in cattle branding country.
Now when I get out in the hill country in
West Texas where there's more open range, there's a lot
more branding going on. Yeah, that's that's what happened, is
well in the in the business of branding. Over the years,
they've gone to an electric brand, and they've gone to

(02:02:46):
a freeze brand. Okay, and some still use the you
know the John Wayne Brandon there.

Speaker 2 (02:02:57):
I call it anyway.

Speaker 3 (02:02:59):
Now that's that's stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:03:00):
No, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (02:03:02):
It's like Christmas Day for.

Speaker 1 (02:03:03):
Me to Yeah, those correct me if I'm wrong, But
those things can be traced back to courthouses to know
whose cattle they were.

Speaker 3 (02:03:10):
Right, absolutely, But now that don't mean it's come from
that county. Here's your here's let me sum it up
for her time. Say what I like about them. They're
intriguing they I know they could talk. They had a story.
And if I find one, you know, out in uh

(02:03:31):
Pakas County or something, I'm going to the courthouse. Because
back in the day you had to rest fore your brand.

Speaker 1 (02:03:42):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (02:03:42):
Now, if you can build a little history and you'll
make contact with an air to wherever or whoever and
get them to document it, it makes them worth a
lot of money, incause in some cases you know they said.

Speaker 1 (02:03:57):
Well they even if even if they're not with a
lot of money, Rick, they come to life for you.
And that's as a history buff. I kind of like that.

Speaker 3 (02:04:07):
I don't sell. I'm a buyer. Y I'm not. I'm
not a seller. But the think the thing is to
to authenticate a branding iron. You've got about one thousands
of one that, to be honest.

Speaker 5 (02:04:26):
But I like the hunt.

Speaker 1 (02:04:29):
Oh yeah, I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (02:04:29):
And you know, you learn a lot of other history
and stuff, you know what I mean. It's kind of interesting. Okay,
that's all I.

Speaker 1 (02:04:38):
That's a good contribution. I really appreciate that, Rick.

Speaker 3 (02:04:42):
It all reminds you one more time. If you got
any branding irons and stuck back in your rig somewhere
that you don't want, you need to call me.

Speaker 1 (02:04:50):
As you're addicted to branding irons.

Speaker 3 (02:04:54):
Man, I'll drive. I'll drive from from from the Marca
to the UH to sugar Land today.

Speaker 1 (02:05:01):
Oh go checking the garage. See how many branding irons
I got. I got a wood birder, I got a
wood burning kit. Does that count?

Speaker 12 (02:05:10):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:05:10):
Look at the attic.

Speaker 1 (02:05:12):
How about a soldering iron. They're written, my house isn't
old enough to have a branding iron in the attic.

Speaker 3 (02:05:21):
Hey, you never know what grandma and grandpa gave somebody
and they wanted it until now they got an olt wanning.

Speaker 1 (02:05:27):
I'm the original owner of that house that I can
assure you there is no branding iron in the attic.

Speaker 3 (02:05:34):
It's just a classic example of one man's junk is treasure.

Speaker 1 (02:05:39):
Isn't that the truth? That's so true? And I couldn't
agree with you more. Yeah, there's things that are I
have a lot of stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:05:45):
I have a lot of stuff to me that's jump.
But man, people see it and they go, man, that's
what I've been looking for all my life.

Speaker 2 (02:05:53):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:05:54):
And I go, Wow, you're gonna mindn't research this a
little more.

Speaker 1 (02:05:58):
You're gonna need a bigger ball, all right, man, I
gotta run. Thank you. I appreciate you. Audios. All right,
we got to take a little break here. The last
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third headed home. We're not stealing home. We got now,
we got six seven minutes I guess to work with.
By the way, just a gentle reminder that, well, first
of all, I've had just this week, I had a
couple of calls and then two or three emails from
people who are asking me if I can recommend. One

(02:07:03):
of them wanted a plumber, two of them wanted ac
people that I trust, and then there was another guy.
I think he was talking about needing a roof after
some rain. And I don't have any of those in
my shows right now, not a one. So if you
know somebody, or if you own a company like that
and you want to reach this audience, or you or

(02:07:23):
they might want to reach these audiences as of mine,
And by the way, I don't. I really shy away
from deals that only put spots in my shows. But
I I assure you, if I'm endorsing somebody and you
hear it somewhere else on one of our stations, or
on these two stations that I am on KPRC and KBME,

(02:07:47):
it's because I know these people and I trust them,
and I'm I'm gonna make sure that they take care
of anybody I send to them. So if you want
your company to be a part of this, by all means,
all you got to do is email me and I'll
take it from there. You don't have to be handed
off to anybody else, which is something that a lot
of people have said. You know, I'd kind of like
to work with you, but I don't want to. I

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don't want to have to deal with somebody else to
get to you. I said, no, I'm it. I have
a unique ability here. I'm the only person in this
crew who is authorized to take care of his own people.
I don't have to hand you off to anybody else.
There's nobody's gonna stand in between us and say you

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can do this, but you can't do that. If you
need copy change real quick. I'll change it. If you
need to add something, to subtract something, I'll handle that
for you. It's a lot of work for me, Believe me.
I'm here six days a week. I know how much
work it is. But I would rather do that than
have people who trust me end up having to also

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trust somebody else that they don't know as well. I'll
handle it for you. I am looking for. I need
a good AC guide, a good plug, and maybe a
good roof for two. And they're all very valuable in
this climate of ours, as all of you know. And
the plumbing thing, the plumbing things universal, The AC thing
absolutely mandatory for about nine and a half months of

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the year around here. Same with the roof. Roof is
a twelve month deal. Their slower time is in the
fall and winter, just because it's not crazy. But man
oh man, this time of year, if you find a
little leak in your roof, you're gonna want to get
it fixed real quick before it becomes something and before

(02:09:34):
a bigger storm comes through. Anyway, let's step away from there, Frankie.
Let's go back to these summertime tips from the desk
of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department slash captain obvious.
You nailed number one, hydrate hydrate, hydrate. What do you
think Number two is? Let's see hmm, shade when you

(02:09:57):
need it. U No, not not yet. It's probably on
here somewhere. Don't forget your sunscreen. And I mentioned to
you this. I'm going to try and find this piece
that I read yesterday. I think it was about skin
cancer rates among people who have loyally and just entirely

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covered themselves in sunscreens all their lives, versus those who
have not and have kind of made a habit of
not using sunscreens. And I don't know. I think it
would A lot would depend on the severity of the exposures.
But nonetheless, if I find that, I'll share it. But
until then, keep putting on your sunscreens. Number three is

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what and it's not what you said before. Already I'll
rack them up. Three is dressed for success, light colored clothes,
for stay salty, keep your salt levels up because sweat
takes that out of you. Maybe we'll they get boring
from there, they honestly do. I'll take a look at
him for tomorrow. All right, I'm out of here for today.

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Thank you all so very much for listening, for calling,
keep me in mind for anything you need. I love
answering questions, and if I don't know the answer, I'll
tell you that and I'll find somebody who can. It's
that simple. Get outside, have some fun, stay safe, please,
no matter where you're going, what you're doing, so that
we can all talk again tomorrow. I'll be back tomorrow

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at eight o'clock in the morning. So well, Frankie, I hope,
and we'll see you then. Audios.