Eight Days Away from Dove Season!

Originally aired on August 24th, 2025. On this episode, Doug talks about cormorants with callers, the TOUR Championship, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Sunday edition of the program starts right now.
You couldn't see it, but boy did I come flying
in sideways and just barely make it under the wire. Frankie,
that was probably the closest I've ever been to being late.
I've been late before. That was the closest I've ever
been to being late without being late. And that's okay
by me.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome to the Sunday edition of the program.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm just buttoning up a couple of things here on
the desk or on the console as they call it,
I guess, And once we get this done, I'll put
this over here, I'll put that right there, and I'll
settle back a little bit in case you missed it.
By the way, the golf, I've been watching the cameras
this morning since light came up, and the Golf of

(00:44):
Mexico has absolutely dropped dead gorgeous right now. I checked Surfside,
I checked Freeport or I checked Galveston, and every one
of the cameras and every one of the views is
just absolutely amazing right now. Would love to be down there,
I truly would. That would be that would not be
a bad place to be right now in the water.

(01:06):
I would like to have been there about an hour
and a half ago, muddling around what is at eight
o'clock now.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
So that would have been six thirty, yeah, six thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
It might've been a little bit of light cracking across
that Gulf of Mexico. I'm sure there was actually, and
I would have already been not far into the water,
if at all, even up here on this end of
the coast. I've preached for a long time that if
you're if you're capable of getting to the beach front
before daylight, then by all.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Means get there.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
I have to plug something, man get there and stand
on drice end, especially if there's an incoming tide and
it's kind of getting close to being high at all,
where you know there's a good bit of water in
that first gut. If you're not making casts into that
first gut before you go charging out there to the
second bar, you're you're walking through fish. They're almost no

(01:58):
doubt I would spend if if the time is right,
as the light is coming up, I would stay either
on or near dry sand, might walk through just to
get on that first sandbar, but I wouldn't go all
the way out beyond there until the sun was actually
over the whole sun's over the horizon. Because those fish

(02:21):
love to hunt shallow, especially big old trout. They loved
to hunt shallow. And I got the pictures from Cliff
to prove it. This week he and his buddies have
been very quietly unfortunately, or I guess good for them,
quietly working those fish over. And he called me this
week and said, man, if you're coming, come on, is
this right? And he sent a picture of the water

(02:43):
down there, and the water down there for Corpus Christy
it's just like megaflat They rarely rarely see conditions like
this except this time of year. And it was on
that was flat. Our area was flat. Let me check
and see. Hold on, I'm gonna look at one more.
I want to see one more thing and then I

(03:05):
can make it a full full assessment.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Where did that go? I need my wind? One? Two? Three?

Speaker 1 (03:16):
There we go. Now I've got it. Come on, win
tell me all about it. Let's take some numbers.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Here.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
There's a seven, there's a six, there's a three, another three,
a seven, a seven, a thirteen.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Where is that?

Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's Corpus Christie Naval Air Station, I can see that.
I can see that one everything else from there north
with the exclusion of one station, and that's at port O'Connor.
Port O'Connor is northwest at fourteen what I don't believe
that that's got to be an anomaly of some sort.
Everything else is single digits. It looks really, really good.

(03:53):
So if here's the deal, If you if you're near
the beach right now, and you go stand on the
sand and face the water and cut your hands behind
your ears, you're gonna be able to hear the sounds
of a few hundred boats racing to the horizon on
their way to an awesome day of offshore fishing. When

(04:14):
conditions are like this, I would never use the word
too calm, but it is nice to have a little
bit of chop on the water because it makes it
a little more difficult for fish to tell the difference
between the real thing and lures. But then again, if
you're using the real thing out there and throwing live baits,
which I always prefer over a dead squid, a dead sardine,

(04:38):
a dead chunk of mullet, a dead chunk of anything.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
If you have the time.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Or know some little kids who will catch piggy perch
for you before you go offshore, and you have a
live well that can keep them alive, You're gonna catch
a lot more and a lot bigger fish then. And
it's hard, I think for some people to believe you
could catch more than you can catch on square with
or on cut bait, cut men, Hayden, stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
But once you're out there, you're out there.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
And I've even boy, I've caught my share of fish,
big fish offshore on lures too. And Marlon, I prefer
to drag uh plugs. I really do drag jigs for
all day long and just keep the breeze blowing and
keep everything going. But man, if somebody offers me a
live black fin or a live benita, got one in

(05:29):
a tube, a nice little tucked in a little three
four or five pounder, yeah, I'll set that out there.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
I love being off shore. I do. And you know,
I've had an issue.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I've always I've always been susceptible, even when I was
fishing tournaments and stuff, to start feeling a little queasy
for a short period of time. And all I have
to do is just go lie down and for a
few minutes, and if if something came up, if we
got a big fish on or something like that, I'm
up and I'm doing my job and I forget all
about it. But the longer I've lived, the more weirded

(06:04):
out my equilibrium has gotten.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
It.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Maybe I've got a little touch of vertigo or something
like that. I don't know, but now I'll start feeling
queasy and I'll have to lie down, and I don't
care where it is when it is. Some days when
I was fishing tournaments, it'd be seven to nine foot season,
I'd be fine all day, from the day, from the
time we left the dock till the time we got back,
didn't matter.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I felt fine.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
And then there were some days when it was just
a little gentle two to three rollers, and I'd go, oh,
I got to go lie down. But I'm still going.
I still like to be out there. Now I can
pick and choose. It's not there's not an entire team
of people saying, hey, you got to do your job.
So I and most of my friends who fish offshore,

(06:46):
we're we're a little more washful over the conditions, and
that works out pretty well. Seven one three, two, one
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Speaker 2 (06:58):
Faux Pro has been talking. Hold on, let me see.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
I want to check one thing because there was an
email that I was waiting for. Let me see if
it's here. Not yet, Okay. You know somebody else was
gonna talk to about some dove stuff, and I'll get
into that in a little while.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
What was I going to talk about? Oh yeah, faux Pro.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Faux Pro and I talked twice yesterday about his plans.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
He wants to fish some saltwater stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
And it's kind of funny really because he's like a
little kid. He's a grown man, but he's so excited
about what the possibilities are in salt water. And he's
an expert in freshwater fishing, There's no question about it.
He could teach me a million things about freshwater fishing.
But I've got him on the salt water side. I've

(07:50):
got more experience on the salt water side. And I'm
helping him try to put together a little tackle box,
try to figure out what roden real to bring and
what lures and lines and all that stuff. And he's
he's focused on buying a kind of an intermediate spinning
rig that he can use for most whatever he can
do down there. And he only he probably only has

(08:12):
forty or fifty rods and reels at the house, and
I would bet that at least two dozen of those
are capable of surviving a saltwater fishing trip if he
just baby sits him a little bit once he finishes
the day.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
But I can.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
And maybe he'll call, maybe he won't, I don't know,
But we talked about that. We talked about lures yesterday.
He was in a he was in a store that
sells lures yesterday. That's up in the East Texas. It's
just been kind of it's farther north than it is
south from Houston, Okay. And I cautioned him about trying

(08:48):
to set up his his Galveston or Matta Gorda or
port O'Connor or Corpus Christie trip, and by the lures
he's gonna need in a store that is catering to
freshwater fishermen.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
It's a big chain store.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
You can probably figure it out, but the bottom line
is what they have on the shelves in one store
aren't the same as what they have on the shelves
in the other store. And what I advised him is
to do his research before he heads south, and then
when he gets down at least to Houston, and then
farther down as far as he can go, then go

(09:24):
into a tackle store. That's where he's gonna find what
he's looking for. He's not gonna find it up there
in the piney woods. You're not gonna find a whole
lot of mirror lures in the piney woods stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Anyway, we're working on it.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Maybe he and we may even try to rendezvous somewhere
if the water's still right. I wouldn't mind doing that,
and we'll see what we can do. Every little detail
of his equipment and whether or not he's gonna carry
a foot locker of lures. He's going for like maybe
two or three days, and he's talking about, man, I
gotta have this, I gotta have that.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
He's like I am.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
He's just he's a fisherman and he wants to get
it right. But he's setting his expectations and investing so
heavily that he's kind of he may be setting himself
up to be let down a little bit.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
And I don't want that to happen.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Every little detail doesn't have to be right when you're
getting into salt water fishing, or if you're a saltwater guy,
if you're a coastal guy and you're getting into bass fishing,
it doesn't all have to be perfect. It really doesn't.
Hardcore fisherman, this is exactly what all of us do
when we're thinking about going out of our comfort zone.
And what it does is just set your expectations really high.

(10:41):
And so instead I'm encouraging him to buy just maybe
a relative few lures, maybe root around in his own
garage in his bass boxes for things that are tried
or red might eat because they will, and then just
then just go fishing. And if you're if you're not
catching anything on the luy you've been throwing for ten,
fifteen to twenty minutes, then change lures. If you're not

(11:04):
catching anything after you change lures a couple of times,
change spots. You know, don't go to a brand new
place without knowing two or three places you can go
try if one of them's not working. That's a big
key too. You got to be in the right spot.
You have to be where the fish are. The recreational
level where most of us are. The skill required to

(11:25):
be successful to catch it. Just catch a couple of
fish and maybe maybe maybe not get one better than average.
That skill level isn't super high. If it were, beginners
would never get a bite. But they do, and sometimes
they catch really big fish, and it's just it's a miracle.
It's an accident. Who knows what it is. But the
bottom line is the lure was in the water. You

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got to be in the right spot at the right time,
throw a good lure, and then just keep throwing it.
And if you don't like that lure, change lures, but
keep something in the water. I used to be guilty, man.
I'd tie on five feet lead when we go on
some of these trips back when I was at the
paper on five feet a liter in the morning, and
by noon I'd had to be down to about a

(12:06):
foot because I'd changed lures so many times and tied
so many loop knots. I was just practically cross eyed
from tying loop knots. Just throw it out there, see
what happens. Trout, redfish, whatever's out there, they'll eat.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
It all right.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Speaking of eating delicious, tein it up first here with
Belleville meat market out there on Highway thirty six, about
fifteen minutes north of Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead,
and boy do they have it going on out there.
Every Monday through Sunday, that's all the days of the week,
from ten am to seven pm. You can get a

(12:41):
full blown, beautiful, delicious smoked barbecue meal with all the
size you can imagine. They've even for the kids or
for you, it doesn't matter, pull pork, homemade hot dogs.
But they also have the traditional two of the sausage,
the brisket, the chicken, all of that all day, every
day one not all day, ten am to seven pm,

(13:02):
every day of the week.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
And that's a great place to go.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
After you set onto the counter and said, hey, excuse me,
I have here's the thing my family, the list of
what my family and I want to take home with us,
We're gonna go over there and grab some lunch and
go sit on the patio and eat that while you
guys put these boxes together, and then we'll rendezvous in
a few minutes. And it works out every time you
get a nice full belly. And then when you go

(13:27):
over and say your name again, they'll hand you the
boxes that you're going to take home, check out, pay
them the money you home.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Which is pretty good.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Deals on all the things that they make and as
good as they are really and you can head home
and have what you need for a couple of weeks.
Homemade hot dogs, originals and with cheddar cheese, hamburger patties, stuff,
pork tenders, stuff, pepper, stuff, mushrooms. Belleville Meat Market your
backyard barbecue and block party headquarters. It really really is.
And they got these big chuck wagon patties now to

(13:56):
a half pound b patty, seasoned and loaded with cheddar cheese.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Of course, we're moving into wild game season now.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
They process wild game year round, but they shift gears
and dedicate an entire building just to that once we
really get into the hunting seasons. Great place, been there
forty something years, family owned and operated. Belleville MeetMarket dot
Com is website. If you can't get out there, just
get online. They'll ship whatever you want to your door.

(14:23):
Pretty much anything in the store short of a half
a cow or something. Belleville Meatmarket dot Com. Hey twenty
it is on Sports Talk seven ninety The Duchpike Show.
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Got an email
from Sloan. Oh, Sloan man, uh, it says Doug. Here's
a few picks from fridays Padre Island surf. A great

(14:47):
day of catching trout, redfish, a few jacks, saw numerous
turpin well offshore. I presume eating and free jumping and
just having a ball. Last pick is from Mansfield Jetty's
sixty two miles down the beach. When the surf is
that flat and that clear. What are your favorite tactics

(15:08):
for catching trout? Bring your leader size down, throw more
natural looking lures, and be patient.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Be patient, you're gonna get bit.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
You just uh, they're gonna see things that they don't
normally see, and that's tough.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Let's can you catch rick for me? There? Freggie? Sorry?
What was that?

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Doge?

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Can you get rick for me? All right, we'll get
that here. We go to you up the first one.
Then I'll get to Robbie Rick. What's up man?

Speaker 5 (15:42):
Good morning?

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Good morning, Doug, Yes, sir.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
Four years ago I helped design and dig a pond.
It's not real big, but it's a pond, okay. And
we built it where we built it. The coasters a
spring come on off the side of the hill and
it staste full and the water is clear.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Tapwork, Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Okay, I'm serious.

Speaker 5 (16:10):
It's not in limestone. It's in the ready place. Anyway.
I haven't spent a fortune, uh, I know, at least
two times, it's not three times stocking it with blue gills,
baby bass and minnows, and you know the cranes and
the egrets they stand on the bank and they lack

(16:32):
them pretty good. But then we've got those other friends
of our that, you know, them diving black things whatever,
and you know it, don't don't say it. Don't say
it them anyway. I just stopped it again.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
I just put four hundred blue gills in it. I
put eight hundred minnows in it. And I ran across
a landscape company that had a whole lot of burden it.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Oh okay, that was still kind of.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
Torn, you know, it's dragging, and I had one of
my guys take some these these swimming noodles, these.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Starphone noodles, yeah, pool noodles, sir.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
And put them in there to kind of make it
float a little bit, because all I want that net
in that lake bar. If anybody asks is to hold
my fish in.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
I didn't.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
I put it there in case something tries to dive
into my leg. You follow me. I don't want my
fish to get there. I just don't want anything diving
down into that net. I didn't put it there. Now
if that happens, well, I can't do nothing about it.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh my goodness, you need to hang up the phone, right.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
I mean, you know, that's how the Parks and Wildlife
Department keeps fish out or keeps birds out of their
growout tanks is with netting.

Speaker 5 (17:53):
In a lot of cases, exactly all those tanks down
in Corpus Christi area have to It's just like we've
talked about before. I've called game wardens and I said,
they're they're killing me. They're eating a lot of my fish.
I mean they are redicate from.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
I tripped yesterday and tripped over the video I took
about I don't know a year or so ago when
the last time we had a major shadthatch down there
or out there at the golf course. And there's like
a steady minute a video with corn ranches basically filling
the frame and flying past because they were all rushing

(18:32):
down to where their leaders had pushed all the bait fish,
every little fish in the lake up on the shoreline,
and they were just gorging themselves down there.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
I've said this before, I said again. I called a
game warden. I said, look, they're killing me over here
on my fish and are costing me a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
What can I do?

Speaker 5 (18:58):
I mean, can I legally dispatch them? I mean?

Speaker 3 (19:04):
What can I do?

Speaker 5 (19:05):
I think it's still llegal to kill them. You know
they're they're federally protected.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Well, there is a you you can get a permit.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Now you can't if they're costing you money, and you
can prove that. I believe that you can get a permit.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Look it up. Don't take my word for it and
go blast them, but look it up. I think you
can get it.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
I'm not gonna go blast them, per se. But I
asked him, I said, let me ask you something. If
this was your pond and you were having this problem,
what would you do? He said? Number six?

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, I understand, I understand.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
You follow me. I do.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Hey, I'm gonna go catch Robbie before this break.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Man.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Thank you, it's good to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Rick.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Good luck with your with your bird issue. I got
a fire sail on bird nets. Thanks a lot.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Man.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Let's get Robbie up here before we have to go
to break Robbie. What's up man?

Speaker 5 (20:00):
Anybody?

Speaker 7 (20:00):
How you doing?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
IM good? Fine?

Speaker 8 (20:01):
I just got off the Silver Bird yesterday from sat
down South. Great group of guys tuning up for Texas
de season down in Argentina, and yeah, man, it performed
as usual, it was. It was a great group of
guys and we had a fun time with those dove
and pigeons.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Are those pigeons do they do they issue them little
armor plates for their chest?

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Do they have issue them chest protectors or something? Because
that's the toughest shot.

Speaker 8 (20:30):
That is a tough bird, it really is. And it's
not a feral pigeon like a church pigeon or under
a bridge pigeon. There there's there's two of them, uh,
the larger being the Torcasa. They have, you know, twenty
two inch to twenty four inch wingspan on the really
big ones, and they they fly hard. They are tough

(20:51):
to bring down. You have to we hunt them like ducks.
I mean we build blinds, put decal bojetitate toys out and.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
I mean you at the high.

Speaker 8 (21:01):
They are very they're very wary, and uh, it's a
it's very sporting. It's a great it's a great shoot.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
I love it. It might be one of my favorites
down there.

Speaker 8 (21:10):
But uh had a great group. There was ten guys
who had never been before so us they were rather
amped up.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
They pulled the trigger a lot. They pulled the trigger
a lot. But uh, but things are going well. This
is our entering our thirty first year of operation down there,
So I guess we're doing something right.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, I guess so, Man. I had a great time
when I went down there with you. That was so
much fun.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Man.

Speaker 8 (21:32):
Yeah, and mixed bag just ended, uh, which you know,
mixed bag. We do the ducks pretty pigeons, so you
get four feathers on one trip. Uh, that just ended.
And getting into Burton, what.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
About my parent doesn't that doesn't that count? Parakeets?

Speaker 5 (21:49):
Don't we amore?

Speaker 3 (21:50):
You know?

Speaker 8 (21:51):
We had a couple of guys that were just they
were they wanted to go for parakeets, and we took
them for the parakeets. And these are not these are
not uh pet store, they're really they're really a parent.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
They they maul those crops down there and I'm you know,
if it's if the guy wants to shoot parakeets or
or parrots find by us, you know it's it's uh,
we don't really push that, but if someone to do.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
The first one I saw fly over when I was
down there, I'm watching all these doves, just poor and
poor and porn and then here come like six green
dovey looking things, but they're too small to be doves.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
What are the I'm hearing this pea?

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Oh my gosh, all right, it's fun and they and
they hang around the feed lots a lot wherever there's cat,
wherever there's cattle, there's gonna be feeding. Where they're feeding cattle,
there's gonna be parakeets. Of course, I hear the dove
or two and the pigeons.

Speaker 8 (22:48):
I mean they're gonna come to see, they're gonna come
to seed.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
But uh, anyway, I just got back and these guys
were all they're all lamped up now they're ready to
go chase some Texas dove. And so I'm I'll.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Bet you, I bet you are.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Don't don't set your expectations quite so high though, for Texas.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Even though we have a bumper croft this year.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, it's just a different deal. I mean it's not
and you can't come, you can't compare the two. I mean,
I get I get as excited about a limited dove
in Texas as I do about you know, what you
can do in Argentina. It's just a different deal.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Well, that's because you still appreciate just being outdoors, you know,
I was thinking about I'll talk about that some this morning,
probably because that that's what we're all out there for.
We're not out there to break. None of us is
going to starve to death if we don't bring home anything,
which is hard to explain sometimes to a spouse maybe,
but that's that's not really why we're out there fishing,

(23:41):
hunting any of it.

Speaker 8 (23:42):
Man, and and we we try to we try to
push the culture at our lodge in the in the countryside,
and you know, it's it's your hunt, so to speak.
I mean, we have guys that will shoot, you know,
five or six boxes in a day, and if you
want to stand out there and shoot forty or fifty boxes,
that's it's your deal. You can do whatever you want.
You know, it's not all of it. It's not about

(24:02):
stacking them up it's really about the memories of the
lodge and the staff and all that, and that's that's
really true.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, most of the pictures I've seen from some of
the trips you've made and whatnot, and other people who've
gone down there who don't know you from anybody, they're
not pictures of piles of dead doves. They are pictures
of the lodges or pictures of the people, pictures of
the culture. Maybe a few pictures from ba if they
stayed overnight or whatever. But it's not like some of
the fishing and hunting pictures up here where it's just

(24:29):
a bunch of dead stuff laying there.

Speaker 8 (24:31):
Well, and that's very important, you know, to the industry.
We have have to be sensible about things. I mean,
you know, the first time someone comes, they're coming for
the bird.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (24:41):
I can talk about the lodge and the food and
all that. They're not even listening when they come back.
When they come back, they're coming back to the lodge
and the people and the staff because they know the
birds are there. And I don't believe it's a good
idea for our industry to put a.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Pollen dead birds, you know, you know, it's just it's
there because people who are looking.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
At that don't understand maybe where it's coming from, and
they're going, what in the world was this all about?

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (25:08):
I got you, all right, buddy.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, I got a hit out.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Make a little break, I will. I guess I'll see
you soon. Huh Yeah, hurry up, safe travels and get
back home. I man, all right, we got to take
you a little break here. He's back from Argentina. He's
just not back from another trip he had to make.
That guy travels. He travels as much as some airline pilots.
Probably one more time for Carter's Country. Back on track

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with these guys.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
I've known that family for more than fifty years now,
probably no, no, no, forty years.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Forty years for sure. I've known the Carter's Country family,
starting with Bill. That's who I was introduced to a long,
long time ago. He has been his family now. He
passed several years ago, but his family has carried on
his tradition of offering up guns, amo and hunting stuff.
That's what it says on the signs all over all
over town. They got three locations. The north location that

(26:06):
tresh Wig is where they have a full service range,
every shooting discipline you can think of. They have excellent
gunsmithing up there. That's Billy Carter, the son of Bill,
and Billy knows any gun. You can bring him inside
out and if it's got a problem, he can fix it.
Best of all, with Carter's Country, they don't sell footballs,
they don't sell snorkels, they don't sell sneakers.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
They just sell stuff you need to.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Enjoy hunting and the shooting sports and the great outdoors, hunting,
shooting sports, great outdoors. They've been doing it for sixty
something years right now. By the way, this is the
time of year when it's red tag clearance sale time,
and that means hundreds of things in the stores and
online you can find that are marked way way, way

(26:50):
way down. And if you're well, I was gonna say,
if there's stuff you need, don't worry about that.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Just go look for stuff you want.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
And you're gonna find some things in Carter's Country that
you want before dub season starts. You want before duck
season or deer season or any of it starts. You
need that, you know you do. Carterscuntry dot com. Go there,
take a look at the website first, if you can
get to one of the stores, go to one of
the stores carterscountry dot com about I don't know how

(27:19):
long was it to go nineteen years. In two thousand
and six, Manny Lopez and his dad came over here
from Cuba. They'd been working in cigar factories all their
lives and that's what they know best, and that's what
they knew best, and so they started over here. El
Cubano Cigars one of only about four dozen actual cigar

(27:39):
manufacturing places in the entire country, not in Texas. In
the entire country, it's only about four dozen, and we've
got one right here in Texas City where you can
choose from more than one hundred and fifty different cigars
that they make, all from wonderful tobaccos grown in Central America.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Most of it is cubanc tobacco. You know, that's the
good stuff.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
And you can actually watch them roll cigars at Texas
City or if you have a special event where you
want to watch cigars get rolled specifically for your guests,
just ask Manny. He'll bring a little pop up canopy
out there, put a six foot table and a couple
of folding chairs, down and start rolling cigars for your
guests at the event. It's great for golf tournaments, that's

(28:24):
great for weddings, wedding receptions anyway. I don't think you'd
want to do that at the wedding, but pretty much
any special occasion, maybe your company's got a big announcement
to make do it with custom banded, custom boxed cigars
from El Kubano. There's a second smoking lounge by the
way over in League City, about fifteen minutes from the

(28:44):
first one in Texas City, where the factory is actually,
and it's not a giant factory. It's not something with
a bunch of smoke stacks and stuff. It's just a
few Cuban immigrants who came over here long time ago
and decided to work with Manny. And there they'll be
sitting maybe three or four people. That's all you'll see.
May you might be able to talk him into a

(29:05):
little back behind the scenes tour or two.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
It's fascinating how all that tobacco comes here and then
it gets processed and aged, and once it gets here,
it's still got a long ways to go to become
a cigar. But once it does it'll be one of
the best cigars you ever had. And by the way,
if you can't get to Texas City for some reason,
not a problem. He'll ship them right to your door.
Go to the website, pick what you want, let Mattie

(29:28):
know when you need them, and they will be there
right at your front door. Elcoubanocigars dot com, lcubanocigars dot
com eight thirty eight on Sports Talk seven to ninety
The Dougpike Show, Thanks for listening. Speaking of faux Pro,
I got an email or a text message from him
a minute ago. It says I saw a meeting in

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twenty twenty two to reinstate it, but nothing yet on
TPWD website. This is from all the way back on
November thirty of twenty sixteen, it says, in a move
that is sure to hurt a lot of US pond owners,
parks and widlife has suspended until further notice, issue once
of nuisance, permits for cormorant.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Control, on and on and on. I don't know that
that's accurate.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Now, that's a long nine years is a long time ago,
and I haven't had a chance to look it up myself.
If one of you who has a minute and can
kind of dig around, can find a more current stance
on cormorants, referently getting them out of here somehow.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Boy, I watch that video yesterday. It just came up
and my.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Phone, it's going, hey, look what's on your pictures from
a year ago, two years ago, five years ago? And
one of them is a video that I shot, the
one I was just talking about a minute ago, where
quite literally a minimum of three to four hundred cormorants
passes like a Thanksgiving Day Macy's parade in front of me,

(31:01):
about a foot off the water, heading down to where
all their buddies are gathering up to just gorge themselves
not only on the shad that would feed all the
bass and the sunfish in that lake, but also on
the bass and the sunfish.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
I was convinsed. I had convinced myself.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
A long time ago that that cormorants wouldn't eat a
bass more than about six or seven inches long, because
after all their neckers, they're not any bigger around than
a little like a paper towel roll, not even that
big a round. Everybody bigger around is a big hot dog,
that's it. And then I saw video that showed how

(31:40):
why that neck can stretch when it's gobbling down about
a twelve or fourteen inch bass. And that's when I
really got concerned. Let's get David on the phone. Frankie,
what's up, David.

Speaker 9 (31:54):
Yeah, let's talk about something a little more encouraging.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
That will be easy to do.

Speaker 5 (32:03):
I wanted to.

Speaker 9 (32:04):
Comment something I've seen that is encouraging in the hunter
education classes. Good is a definite, a definite increase in
the numbers of women, girls and other uh and different
ethnic people of different definent backgrounds that are getting into
hunting now.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
A lot of people you are, and I have.

Speaker 9 (32:25):
To think it's because parents are getting sick and tired
of watching your kids sit around at home all day
playing video games. They're trying to get them outside.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Well, that the parents also are coming out David and
uh that this started a generation ago. I started hearing
from the people who are putting on these little kid
tournaments and whatnot, which drive me crazy because they they
they get these all these kids out for first time
fishing experiences, and then the parents tell them, no, we can't,
we can't do that anymore.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
And so I don't like them for that reason. But
it's still better than nothing.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Absolutely, And we had a generation, the one that's taking
their kids outside more now. They grew up with more
technology than any other generation has, and they already know
how much they've missed out on, because I do believe
that deep in our genes there is something that says
get outside, go hunt, go gather, go do all these

(33:22):
things in the outdoors, just like humans have been doing
for a million year, not that long, but a very
long time. And they're coming back to it, they really are.
I'm glad you're seeing it too. I'm impressed. I like
what i'm seeing.

Speaker 9 (33:38):
And one thing too, dog before I'll let you go.
I've noticed as to the women and girls, because they
are not so competitive as boys and men, they seem
to enjoy it more because it's not just about getting
the biggest butt. It's just about getting out there and
having fun and enjoying yourself. And I have to plaud
them for that.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Well, I'll tell you something else about women that the
people who are instructors and all this, like, women will
listen to instruction. Men won't. Boy little boys will because
they're still in school and they're still yes, teacher.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
You know, more than me.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
But grown men are the hardest people to teach fly casting,
to teach shooting, to teach anything in fishing.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
The women are women and girls are. They just lap
it up.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
They lap up the instruction and do exactly what the
instructor says, and a lot of times they advance faster
than the guys do.

Speaker 5 (34:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (34:28):
It's an interesting point, Doug, because there's an instructor here
in the north eastern area of the Government County. She's
having tremendous success. She has been teaching classes tailored to
women and girls. Yeah, and she's having very good to
turn out for those. But anyway, I just wanted to
throw that.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
In their duck.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Give her my name, tell her I'd love to interview
her for real. I will, Yeah, send me her contact info. Yeah, absolutely, David,
Thank you man. Uh huh, all right, bye, Holy cow,
it's already already time for another break.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
They come at us this one after another.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
We will get to talking about the final round of
the PGA Tour Championship two in the nine o'clock hour.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
On the way out here, champions Tree Preservation.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
If you've lived here more than a hot minute, you
probably have experienced at least a tropical storm and maybe
a hurricane. And if you have any old hurricane, even
a minor, a minor one like Barrel was last year,
come rolling through here. You start driving around the neighborhood
and you'll see trees down, whole big giant tree down.

(35:35):
And the reason they went down and all the other
ones stayed up is because the ones that went down
weren't healthy when the storm hit. Get Champions Tree Preservation
to send one of their arboris to your house and
diagnose your trees to make sure that they're ready for
something like that.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
It doesn't take a whole lot.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
Maybe they just need some pruning to thin them out
and let the wind blow through them a little better.
Maybe they need some feed, some food to get the
those roots a little stronger, give them a little protein
to pump them up. I don't know what it's really
called for trees, or maybe you got one that's just
you know, it's time. It's time to go. It's too
sick to be saved. Which they hate because after all,

(36:12):
their name is Champion Tree Preservation. They hate to take
one out. But if they do, they have a tree
farm where they grow native Texas trees and they can
pluck one of those out of the ground and bring
it and put it back in where you had to
take one out. Get a consultation with them, get them
out there to make that diagnosis for you. Two eight
one three two oh eighty two o one Championstree dot com.

(36:37):
Championstree dot com two eight one three two zero eighty
two zero one. Black Horse Golf Club is off two
ninety and Fry Road. It's on Fry Road about two
miles three miles south of two ninety. I can't remember
exactly how far it is, but it's not terribly far.
And once you get there, what you'll find when you

(36:58):
go in, if you haven't been in a while, if
you've never, you'll find a facility that has two golf courses,
one of which the North Course, is the more open
and friendly to those of us who don't hit it
perfectly every time.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
It's still daily fee.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
You can set up a tournament, you can set up
foursome for your friends, and you you can go over
there by yourself, whatever it takes for you to have
a good time on the golf course. They took the
South course private this year because they were getting a
lot of requests for that, and a lot of people
on that side of town wanted that more private golf experience.
They did that, and one of the options in membership

(37:36):
there for that. South Course also gives you access not
only to both courses at black Horse, but also to
black Golf and Country Club where I play a lot,
and to both courses at Golf Club of Houston. It's
five for one if you like to mix it up.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
When you're playing your golf week to week, month to month,
whatever you get to play, take a look at that.
You'll be glad you did.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
There's a lot that comes with that, and there's also
some some other options, little shorter options than that that
have everything you're gonna need to enjoy your golf. It
doesn't matter. I've been out there a million times. I
have great instruction at the far end of the range.
They can handle if you need to. If you need it,
huge tournaments they can. You can fill up, fill up
both courses depending on which day you want to use.

(38:23):
They have a great grill where you can go before
or after your round and all the people in the
pro shop are just standing around waiting to make you happy.
Black Horse Golf Club dot Com is a website make
yourself a tea time right now black Horse Golf Club
dot com. Fifty one is on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Thank you for listening. I greatly do appreciate it. Well,

(38:45):
that's a tea up, Dave.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
See what's going on up on Lake Conrad? What's up?
Guitar Dave.

Speaker 7 (38:51):
Hey, that's the first song we ever learned. We didn't
even have no guitars. We had sticks with tidestreen on
a shoe box.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Man, come on wrong like that? No, yeah, that's there.

Speaker 7 (39:05):
Yeah, we went We did it by mouth, and then
we learned it. Hey, but hey, no, you were talking
about going. Yeah, when you first get in the water,
especially if you're in salt water, everybody wants to go
all the way out to the end of the period. No, man,
when you see water, start fishing, go ahead, No you don't. Yeah, no,

(39:30):
I'll tell my best fish. Remember I told you about
that full black drum or whatever thing hap it, you know,
and it was right there, the first part that you
know when you get on. But those guts, you know
when you are talking about the guts, Yeah, when you
get out there waiting, you know, the first gut, second, good,

(39:51):
third gut, you know, you better have your life jacket on,
you know.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Yeah, but it gets deep, It does get over your
head if you don't pay attention.

Speaker 5 (40:02):
I know.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (40:03):
There was actually over at Texas City, Dyke. When you
get on that Mosquito Island over there, get on the
left hand side there, it's not that deep, and then
all of a sudden you can drop off in the hole.
The right hand side is pretty much where you can
walk it.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Now.

Speaker 7 (40:21):
I hadn't done it in a long time, but I'm
just thinking, Okay, let's go. I got the time the
Courier of Montgomery County over they started in eighteen ninety two.
Newspaper you was in newspapers, yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Back in eighteen ninety five. That's when I started.

Speaker 5 (40:43):
Really.

Speaker 7 (40:44):
Oh minute, Hey, well hey, we got a Lion's cub
prepares for kids on the lake fishing event. It's gonna
be yeah, it's gonna be September the thirteenth if I'm right. Yeah,
but I'm gonna take a picture of this article and
I'm gonna send Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Perfect, That's what I was just thinking. Just send it
to me, will you.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (41:04):
Hey, and listen, did you get the pictures of them?
Everybody lined up with ten roden reels.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Good God, yes, only I know.

Speaker 7 (41:15):
And then right now there ain't a soul over here
fishing off other than me. Hey, so I'm gonna put
my throat line out. I got my fish tank, uh,
and I got it set up, and then I got
me some goldfish and uh, per per, I mean a menace. Yeah,
and uh, I'm gonna put do a throw line out
here on the corner and my little bato and then

(41:37):
you know, I'm gonna put my name on there. What
your yeah, not driver license, your fishing licens number and everything.
Oh and then we got our fishing line. When do
we get up? When do we need to get our
fishing hunt licenes?

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Again?

Speaker 2 (41:50):
And sot?

Speaker 1 (41:50):
The The usual cycle ends August thirty first, and the
new one kicks in and at September first.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
But they're on sale now. You can go get one
right now and take you through. Don't be late, don't.

Speaker 7 (42:06):
Be load, don't late. Oh hey, but no anyway, no
right now, let me give you. Oh man, it's just
got a kind of a firing ripple over there, and
I got I actually got a little keep sprinkles on
my windshield over here. Oh wow, man, we got to

(42:27):
breathe here. But no, no, it's clear right now. We've
got the sun coming up behind me.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
O weird man.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
It's looking the same way down at the surfside.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Now.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
I just popped up that saltwater recon camera. I guarantee
you the Gulf of Mexico is everybody is calm and clear,
or it's at least as calm as Lake Conrad.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Right now. That's just incredible looking.

Speaker 7 (42:49):
Wait, wait a minute, it's coming out of the West's
coming out of.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
The west, all right.

Speaker 7 (42:54):
But I see a boat over here on the corner.
Over here, they're fishing, and you know, points and and
and that's what I was telling them, young men, and
and they're dead their points and and that that guy,
I guess there was that was there guy. He was
laughingcause I I appreciate absolutely.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
It's great. Great to hear from you.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
I'll see Dave Audios. That's a good guy right there.
He is living a dream man. He's got himself a
house up there at somebody somebody emailed me yesterday they
tell Dave to pump the brakes on talking about how
great it is up here.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
It's been kind of quiet.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
I responded that when I moved to when I moved
to sugar Land very long time ago, at the same way,
it was very small, very quiet, and it's grown. It's
grown exponentially, it seems since we moved in there quite
some time ago. But we're still there because yeah, just

(43:57):
because we're still there. Every closet in the house is full,
I can guarantee you that, and not all with fishing gear.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
There's there are other.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
People who contribute to the stuff we don't really really
need but can't part with somehow. Most of mine that
qualifies for that. It's in the garage and that's probably
where it belongs. Although if I if I won the
lottery tomorrow, I would have a tackle room inside to
keep everything climate controlled and and give me a place

(44:27):
to go. There would be a TV and the tackle
room would have a TV. It would have a workbench,
and it would have probably just a linoleum floor. So
when I dropped little bitty pieces of shotguns or rifles
or fishing reels or anything else that I was working with,

(44:49):
I could find them. I could find them. U no
carpet don't even want would because they just get banged up.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety on
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com, speakings of guns and
ammo and stuff.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Speaking of guns and ammo and stuff. America Shooting centers
out there on West Timber Parkway. Mostly they're the place
that you want to go shoot.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Now.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
They do carry a line of higher end, finer shotguns
and rifles for those of you who are interested.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
And I think that's that's part of eda.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Riggy's the guy who owns the place, his feeling for
the place. He wants it to feel good. He wants
it to feel like the place for you to go
out there and shoot your guns. Whatever they are, it
doesn't matter. He's got a place to shoot anything you
can bring out there that's lawful. You know how that goes.

(45:41):
There are rifle and pistol areas from five yards out
to six hundred yards, and at twenty five yards there's
a place you can hang up a bunch of butcher
paper and pattern your shotgun, which is a pretty good idea.
Right about what eight days ahead of dev season. You
also have three sporting courses, ten trappings, keep fields, and

(46:03):
a beginner's wing shooting area. And then somewhere I think
it's between. I want to say it's between two hundred
and three maybe or whatever it is. On the rifle range,
there's a pop up silhouette rim fire range where you
and the kids who are learning to shoot can go
over there with your little rim fire twenty two's and just.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Plink, plink, plink plink.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Do all of that all you want for about what
ten percent of the price of real rifle AMMO. It's
a lot cheaper than anything else you can do out there.
I guarantee you, because if you're shooting grown up guns,
you know, MO costs a lot of money. If you're
not hitting the targets you want, if you're not knocking
down enough birds when you go hunting, by all means,

(46:48):
please do yourself a favor and get some lessons out there.
They offer instruction in all the shooting disciplines, and that's
something that you'll be glad if you ever do it.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
You'll be really glad you did.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
American Shooting se dot com West Timer Parkway between Katie
and Highway six. Give him a call out there, go
sign up, get registered, and then start shooting right now.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Hunting season is right around the corner.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
There's no more time to wait American Shooting Centers dot Com.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
All right, second hour starts now.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
We got some phone calls to take care of. Aaron's
gonna tee up first. Forrest will be right behind him.
Go ahead and hit aeron up there, Aaron, what's up?

Speaker 5 (47:25):
Man?

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Hey, good morning, Good morning. I was divvy amount of
thirty six to get ready for the for the Yelks season. Yeah,
I might have to pick up fishing poles the head
down south.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
I'm not kidding you, man. Every everything I'm looking at
from from hitherto Yon is flat, calm, and now now
the pictures of fish are starting to come in, you know, like, yeah,
we're gonna have to Frankie and I talked about getting
a bragging alarm to sound off when people call that.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Hey, man, I had this question for you. You know,
I was.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Catching these nine pound trout this morning and some popped
up like, oh, yeah, that's when we would hit the.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Alarm for sure.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
Yeah. Well, I've been all excited about getting up to
Salt Lake and then Montana, and yeah, he's now more
excited about getting down south.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Gosh, I got my eyes and Cliff called me this week,
and that's all I need to tell me.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
It's right, you know.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Uh yeah, that phone rings, and I know exactly what
he's going to say.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
Yeah, that's how it works, growing up a steak from
our from my father's eightieth birthday, and uh, he said,
you know, I just saw a squirrel out here with
the delean nova. I said, what are you talking about?
He spent more than a third time out in the
outdoors and it turned out was a rock squirrel. He
never seen a rock squirrel.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Oh wow. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Yeah, I'd see a few of when I was up
at Saint Houston up in Huntsville. But yeah, they're starting
to starting to make a little uh presence down here
in San Antonio.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
A couple of car I haven't. I haven't.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
I've seen him in pictures, but I you know, and
I don't pay that close to attention to squirrels.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
I'm usually looking at other stuff. Yeah, I'll tell you what.
I'll give you a quick squirrel squirrel story. It'll take
ten seconds. Really.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
So I carry that they have little carrot sticks available
at the golf course.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
It's we're real up at you that way.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
And so I got this little plastic bag of carrot
sticks and I'm munching on a couple of them dipping
them in some peanut butter and whatnot. And I see
this squirrel standing really close to the cart, and I
think I bet he'd appreciated carrot.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
So help me, Aaron. I throw the carrot over to him.
He doesn't move.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
It's it's right like within three inches of this squirrel,
and he goes over to it and he sniffs it,
and he looks back at me, and then he just.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Walked off, like, what's the deal here, man?

Speaker 3 (49:49):
Butter?

Speaker 2 (49:50):
That could be you know, maybe some tight wade doug.
He didn't give me a peanut butter on a carrot.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Well, hey, we are you ready to get that garage
with the with the worst station and the t and
all that kind of stuff. You know, I know who
I do know?

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Call man, thank you, and it's always playing together, Yes, sir,
all right, okay, I'll see you. Let's go get foax
pro up here. Foak pro you back, man?

Speaker 2 (50:14):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (50:16):
Yes, sir, I'm went here putting new bullets in my weed.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Either I'm gonna go buy about twenty or thirty tackle
boxes so you can get into salt water fishing.

Speaker 7 (50:24):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
At least twenty. I mean, I heard the limits at
least too. But now you know, and I think you
and I are assember this back, and it's not so
much I'm excited about going to do the salt water,
you know, being up here, you know, fresh water stuff
and the live scopes and all that. There's something about
uh being out there on the beach with the sunrise,

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chucking the top water with with zero clue what's gonna
happen on that plug out there. I can see what's coming,
and just just doing that, to me is a little
worth to drive, even if I don't get astracted.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
You know.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Yeah, And that's that's the way you got to look
at something like that when you go in to it.
Just get the experience, because even if you don't catch
a fish, you you're a fisherman long enough and smart
enough to know that that's going to teach you something.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
You know. I was down there with you, you know,
but I think I look forward to it. But if
I don't get back, I mean, I feel like I
only know there's always the expectation, you know, you get
you get to the right part of the places. You
and I have talked about. Yeah, yeah, put yourself in
a place to succeed and give yourself a chance.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
Yeah, I wish. I'd love to bend on those rocks.
I was telling you about this morning, Holy cow.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
That.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
My buddy's been down there. And I don't know if
you saw that one a story I sent you down there?
Just look at it. Yet with the d there was
out the way though the second sandbar. The dude just
popped up out of the water, like where'd you come
from to read that one? Yet?

Speaker 8 (51:54):
You know?

Speaker 3 (51:55):
But basically where after a kayaker fell out of his kayak?
It almost I was after swimming. Yeah, sherif's come out
there everything, but huge it out there on the second
party look back and do pop up like where's Utah from?

Speaker 2 (52:06):
A word? Wow? Man, that is kind of creepy. That
scared me.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
Yeah, OK, but yeah I look forward to it, man,
And I did look hard. I did did do a
deep dive on the text Parks Whilife website. It looked
like they had a big palo about it in twenty
twenty two to reinstate that permit. But I couldn't find
anything on any of their permits that actually purchased one,
So I guess it's you know, people. You know, tree

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huggers hate to save up. The tree huggers, you know,
like a little bird huggers too. They're bird you.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Live, well, they're a bird, but they're they're uh destructive bird.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
You know if birds they come up there to living
cit and see honkers and acres of timber and highlands
they've destroyed up here.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
And I mean if people would put it in perspective
and say, okay, what if what if a bunch of
vultures came into your neighborhood and started roosting on top
of your car and scratching it up and messing it up?
Would you still be the bird lover? You wouldn't want
those vultures tearing your car up. So yeah, it's it's

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easy when it's not affecting you. It's easy to get
behind a movement when it's not impacting you at all.
And it sounds like the right thing to talk about.
But when you're talking about people investing thousands of dollars
in their ponds just to get a little fish population
established so their kids and grandkids can come up on

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the weekends and maybe catch some bluegills and maybe catch
a bass or two and then these birds show up
and in three days pretty much wipe out anything smaller
than sixteen inch bass.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
That's messed up, that's not right.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
Well, yeah, for sure. I almost spend the rest of
my day getting my finding my mojo tree and my
dove mojo's and my dove decoys, and getting my shot
done the stuff. And see how much shells I got
left over some last year. I should have all need
to fifteen shells. So long as I got fifteen shells.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Where's that bragging siren? Where's that?

Speaker 3 (54:11):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (54:12):
My god?

Speaker 3 (54:14):
I thought I told my nephew the other death man
I'm looking at into my feeter, I believe i'd get
half of in at one shot. You know.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Yeah, really there's some places where you probably could. Man,
I'll tell you what I need to do.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Here's here what we're gonna do.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
As soon as they make as soon as they bring
back that cormorant permit if it's not available yet. Uh,
what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna get you to
paint some of your dove mojos like cormorant mojos, and
we're gonna go get them.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Oh yeah, they'd come to it.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
I guarantee you it's make a big long neck on it.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
Just use a couple of paper towel rolls and make
a big long spray, paint them black and put a
big long beak on there.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
I don't know what we could use for that. We'll
figure it out. We're gonna make it up.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
They got plenty of I got plenty of rooster up here.
We can say it with a fully automatic eleven hundred
and just could you couldn't you could? You couldn't bring
enough shells?

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Oh my word, don't get me started.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Man.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
When I looked at that, when I looked at that
video yesterday, it just came up in this little hey,
look at what you've been doing lately, and I just
I just I just slumped over in my chair.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
That's the last thing I needed to see.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
You know.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
The Astros had.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Won three in a row at that point, and and
things were looking really good, and then this.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Had to come up. I needed I need to delete
that video. I think she.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
Had a loss last night too. So such a good deal.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
That's a really good deal. What's the lead right now?
To you know? Offhand?

Speaker 3 (55:33):
It should be it should be three.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
If I'm not reaking I keep asking Alexa what the
standings are in the American League West, and Alexa keeps
telling me, and this has been going on for like
three weeks now that we have a seven game lead
over the Mariners. Every time seven games, Oh, wouldn't it again?
We had it? We did have that. It's stuck in

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about two months ago, whatever it was.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
I let you go, Well real quick, fy, let you go.
I'm gonna be doing the first in the Schuleberg area.
So I'm thinking about taking that whole week off and
having my salt water stuff in the trucks. That's I'm
already at Schulearburg. I can kind of diversify anywhere to
the coast from there pretty easy.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
It's a good point. Yeah, keep me posted on that plan.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
And let's take let's watch the weather because yeah, I'm
trying to coordinate some stuff with with a couple of guys,
and maybe we may just have a big old giant
pow wow on the beach.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
Somewhere and I'll bring I'll bring crappie.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
You don't have croppy, yeah, man, we're using for bait.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
I'd probably be good.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Yeah, well that yeah, I'm not wasting croppy. You know no,
we used some cut Cormoran at some point.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
All right, man, perfect, all right, buddy.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Great to hear from you folk.

Speaker 5 (56:45):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
As always, I'll see audios.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
All right, we're back at We're back at that time again,
back at that time. I'm gonnarind you, remind you again
too about champions tree preservation and the urgency.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
We're kind of we're getting to who.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
We've come a long way into the season, and I
hope nothing happens, but if it does, you've got to
make sure your trees are ready, because the last thing
you want is to have to call the insurance company
and get them involved in a tree that fell on
your house or fell on your car or whatever. I
had them out to my house. I was concerned about

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one tree. I wasn't really sure. And what I found
out was it's fine. They're all fine. They just need
a little food, that's all. They're hungry, that's all. What
else I found out that most people wouldn't know, but
an arborist does, is that it's quite easy and quite
common when he's driving through neighborhoods.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
This was Irwin Costellanos. When he's driving through neighborhoods, he
sees trees that show clear signs of being overwatered. All that.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
There's a lot of companies that will tell you that
they the work they do, they'll tell you, oh, you
need to be watered twice a day when it's hot
like this. Not if you want healthy trees, you don't. No,
that's not the good idea. And so I learned something
about overwatering. I learned something about not trimming all the
little sprouts that come off the tops of the major

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limbs in a big oak tree, because they protect that
bark from being overheated and getting too much direct sunlight.
It's the crazy stuff about trees that most of us
don't know. That's why you need them out there to
let you know what's going on with your trees. And
if they're healthy, they'll say, yeah, they're healthy. We'll see
in a year or two. If they're not, they'll recommend

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what needs to be done. They've got all the equipment, everything,
all the crews they need to take care of whatever
work needs to be done. And if they have to
take a tree out, they don't like to, but if
they have to, then what they'll do is go to
their tree farm where they grow native Texas trees and
make sure they bring something back that you can put
back in your yard and replace that tree you had

(58:53):
to take out. All you got to do is make
that phone call two eight one three to two zero
eighty two zero one. The website easy enough championstree dot com.
With the phone call will get you hooked up with
somebody to come out there in a day or so
and make sure your trees are ready. Two eight one
three to zero eighty two zero one nine nineteen on

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Sports Talk seven to ninety The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Let's
go take a look at the.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Leaderboard, shall we. When we left the Tour Championship yesterday,
it looked kind of like it looks now. But that's
Scottie Scheffer guy. He's man. These guys haven't gone out yet.
It's gonna be. There's only thirty of them playing today,
and so they all kind of got to sleep in
a little bit later.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
They all got to take it easy.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
There's nobody out there racing around the course to get
on a jet plane and go home. Although I bet
Sepstraka and Hideki Matsuyama won't take long to play there
round today, both of them they can barely eat and
c back to the top of the leaderboard from where

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they are now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
They among the four.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
Who are at even par or better, and by better
I mean higher, not lower. JJ spond sung Am Masiyama
Straka even plus two plus four plus six.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
But hey, guess what. They made it to.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
The PGA Tour Championship, which means a nice paycheck. It
means things that come their way. For hitting that milestone,
hitting that mark for the season and finishing last in
that is kind of like finishing last in the Olympics.
You were still in the Olympics. It's like losing the

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Super Bowl. You still played in the super Bowl. Nothing
wrong with that. But back up at the top of
the leader board where the action's gonna be this afternoon.
I got a hunch I'm gonna put two four six
guys in contention, and I think that's where it's gonna stop.
Patrick Cantley and Tommy Fleetwood both are at sixteen under

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par through three rounds.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Can Lay.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
Kind of ho humming along sixty four, sixty six, sixty
four to get the sixteen under par.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Tommy Fleetwood.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Kind of stepped back a little bit yesterday from what
he'd been doing. He goes sixty four, sixty three, sixty seven,
which is the highest score of all six of the
rounds that those two guys have played. And then you
got Russell Henley who opened on Thursday with a sixty
one and then kind of came back to earth sixty one,

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sixty six, sixty nine.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
The only guy in my way.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
I take that back. There's two guys in my group.
If I go through six places, who has a seventy
or worse on his card? That's Keegan Bradley. He opened
with seventy and then back that up with sixty four
sixty three. He's at thirteen under par. Henley, by the way,
at fourteen behind the two sixteenes at twelve under par.
That's Scotty Scheffler guy. No way, I'm counting him out.

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No way, I'm counting him out yet.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
He is just that's just who he is.

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
He shot sixty three on Thursday, and there were people
talking about, oh, yeah, he's gonna do it again, He's
just gonna run away with it. Well he hasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
He shot sixty nine on Friday, sixty six yesterday to
find himself four shots off the lead, so there's it's
not He may not even be in the conversation by
the end of the day, but I bet he will be.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Cam Young's the only other guy. He's at ten under
par all alone in six play sixty seven sixty two
oopsie seventy one, which will probably be my nine hole
score on that golf course right now. Some of those
holes are just brutal. I put up something yesterday. I
think it's the ninth over there at east Lake outside Atlanta.

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The ninth hole yesterday a par three playing two hundred
and sixty eight yards if memory serves. Two hundred and
sixty eight yards, as I put on Facebook. In my group,
my Geezer group that plays well, they play every Monday,

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Wednesday and Friday. I have Mondays off, so I play
as often as I can then, but not so many
morning rounds on Wednesday and Friday, because I'm working on
fifty plus over on KPRC.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
To sixty eight.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
That's not even a driveable par four in our group.
I think there may be no there's nothing out there
that plays any shorter than that as a five par
but still two hundred and sixty eight yards Scotty Shefferd.
I happened to tune in when Sheffard was playing nine.
He pulls three iron and hits it, go on to
the green and maybe, I don't know, maybe twenty twenty

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two feet short something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
The three iron two sixty eight. Who does that? And
hats off to him.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Yeah, I'm not jealous of anybody's golf swings.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
I swung hard. I swung really really hard. When I
was young, I had a horrible game. I didn't play
all that well. As I got a little older, I
became more concerned with hitting it straight than hitting it far,
and my scores came down. And then I got to
where I was not satisfied with the distance I was
getting out of my clubs, and so I started swinging

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harder again, and scores went the wrong way. And now
I'm kind of back in the real world, and with
some legitimate help from Tommy O'Brien out there at Blackhawk.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Good friend. I've known him.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
I've known him since he was very very young, just
a little a young assistant helper pro at a place
called the Training Station that Jim Murphy and Tom Byra
moaned a long time ago out south of great Wood.
That's where I met Tommy when he was an aspiring
golf instructor.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Now he's one of the best I.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
Know, and he's he's he's righted my ship, and for
that I'll be eternally grateful. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety email on me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com, trying to hear back.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Let me let me get to this email.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
It doesn't matter where it came from, but I don't
know the backstory because I didn't. I didn't watch as
much of the after tournament stuff yesterday as I probably
should have.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
Where'd it go from? John?

Speaker 3 (01:05:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
John wrote?

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
It doesn't matter which John needs Scottie Shecheffwood or Scheffler
needs to get some Fleetwood anymore. He's gonna lose some fans.
And I don't know the backstory behind that right now.
It's apparently he had an outburst or got mad at somebody,
maybe in a in an interview or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
And I hope he doesn't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
I hope somebody if he's doing that, if he's turning
different than the Scottie Scheffler, who's been pretty easy and
approachable and not ruffled feathers don't get ruffled easily. I
hope somebody can kind of straighten him out and settle
him down because he's a good guy. I believe, deep
in my heart, I believe he's a good guy, and

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I don't want him. I don't want him messing up
and getting influenced. And one thing you got to wonder
when some of that goes on, you have to remember
that these people have lives outside of golf.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
They have issues. They have issues with.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Everything you can imagine, even in their world at different
levels than you and I maybe are. They have issues
with money, they have issues with relationships, they have issues
with their teams, with the.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
People who are around them all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
Their schedules are horrible for anybody who's trying to be
a good family man. I've talked to a lot of
those guys, and that's one of the things as they
get a little older in golf and have been playing
professionally for fifteen twenty years, that's some of the things
that they've had to miss to be at tournaments, and
in hindsight, they kind of wish they'd found a way

(01:07:16):
to be there for those moments. But work is work.
And in their line of work, they're out of town.
If they're doing the full thing, they're out of town
for a Monday pro am, maybe a Tuesday pro am.
They can get out of the Wednesday pro am by
doing a little Q and a session for the memberships
at the clubs they use. I did find that out

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when I was doing those Q and as at Golf
Club of Houston during what was then the Shell Houston Open.
I think I did three years in a row of
that something like that, and it was really fun and
interesting to get to ask these guys questions that made
them think a little bit, not just say what's your
favorite golf course?

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
Every interview I've ever done, one of.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
The things I like to do is find something in
that person's resume, something in that person's bio online somewhere,
or just talk to somebody who really does know them.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Say what do they do when they're not playing golf?

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
What do they like to talk about when it's not
work time. If you come up to me we're at
a party, say what's it like being on the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
I'm not offended at all. I understand the question.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
I do, but you know me, I'd rather talk about
catching fish and shooting doves and deer and ducks and whatever,
and that's my passion golf.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
I like to talk about all of that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
The beauty for me is that I get to talk
about it on the air, because I'm gonna be talking
about it anyway. I'm gonna be talking about it with
my friends, the guys I hang out with, I'm gonna
be talking about the same stuff. And I truly do
consider my audience to be my friends. And we may
not go to dinner, we may not go have a

(01:08:59):
beer later, whatever. But if you're calling into this show,
if you're emailing me on his show, and you're asking
questions or sending me stuff about cool things in the outdoors.
I got one from Larry just a minute ago. I
had never heard of this guy, but it's basically a
custom lure company, and I think he's probably starting with

(01:09:25):
lures he's he's bringing in from overseas and then doing
fancy paint jobs on them and custom paint jobs, a
lot of different styles of lures that might be knockoffs
of others. I don't know, but they're very reasonably priced
and I'm I'm gonna buy myself a handful and then
maybe I'll spill the beans once I get them and

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see the quality of them.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
But yeah, Larry, thanks for that, he.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
Said, Tell faux Pro to go check this out, like, Hey,
I'm gonna check it out too. Seven one three two
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Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
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Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
Who are.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
Who love the outdoors, who who like the way our
country's going, all of that kind of good stuff, and
I'll be happy to help you find your way in
here and happy to help you grow that business. All right,
speaking of growing businesses, let me tell you about Riceland
Waterfowl Club. Holy cow, I had that good conversation yesterday

(01:11:02):
with David Prutt from Riceland Waterfowl Club about how close
he's getting now to having to just shut off membership
because he doesn't want to overfill it. He absolutely doesn't
want to overfill the blinds that he's got. He doesn't
want to overhunt anything. He is very careful to make
sure that everything gets rested when it needs resting, and

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doesn't matter who you are, you're not going to go
to a place that's been shot up for too long
because he wants the birds to get back in there.
What you'll find when you get to talk to him
is that there are He has a system that enables
all the groups to get the same fair shot at
their favorite places all the way through the season. Toward

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the end of the season, you could look at the
selections and where everybody got to hunt, and they'd all
have about the same number of first choices, same number
of second choices, third choices. Whatever he's been doing this
fifty years, he knows exactly how to take of everybody.
It's a juggling act. I'm sure to have that many
people out there hunting. But he's got enough land, he's
got enough water, he's got enough blinds to accommodate all

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these groups. And one of the cool things about being
a member of Riceland Waterfowl Club you and your six
man group, let's say, for instance. And I talked to
him after the show and he emphasized this again, if
your group has six people, which is the maximum number,
that's the way the blinds are set up. Basically, you
got your six man group, and you and one other
guy I want to go tomorrow. All you got to

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do is send in your request for the spots, and
you and that other guy can each bring two more
people for no extra charge. As long as there's not
more than six people in the blind he doesn't care
who they are, as long as there's a member with them,
and that one member can bring five guests. If that's
the way it works out, it's really it's it's an
opportunity to to make new friends, to have all kinds

(01:12:54):
of wonderful waterfowling experience this year in a place where
there's a guy who really cares, and he's been caring
for fifty years about how you do on your duck hunts.
Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com is website. No guided hunting
on any of his properties, and just good old fashioned
duck hunters. Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com. If you need, well need,

(01:13:20):
want whatever, some new hunting gear, some new guns, Ammo,
Camo whatever, Carter's Country can help you out. Big store
up on the North Side, full service range, excellent gunsmithing.
Just a good place up there on close to the airport,
close to Intercontinental Airport. There's also a store down in

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Pasadena as well, and then one up on the Katie
Freeway where people have been going to buy their hunting
stuff for more than sixty years. I knew Bill Carter
for a long time before he passed, and I learned
a lot from him about the business he was in
in the business side of it, and his business model
enabled him to get better deals than most of even

(01:14:06):
the biggest stores, so that he could pass on that
stuff to all his customers and his family still still
driving the brand and still doing a good job of it.
His family continues to do exactly that so that everybody
who comes in there can get a good, solid, fair
price on anything they need to enjoy the shooting and

(01:14:29):
hunting sports. Big red tag sale going on now to
all sorts of like one hundreds of items in the
stores and online. You can find them there as well
if you can't get to one of the stores. But
he had, well he not hit them. They have now
all kinds of things that you might want or need
right ahead of hunting season to make your experience this

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year a little bit better.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Maybe a lot better. Who knows guns, ammo and hunting
stuff Since the nineteen sixties, I wasn't around buying guns z.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
But it wasn't long after that where I started going,
when I started going to Carter's Country. Carterscuntry dot com
is that website that's the best place you can go
if you can't get out right now. Carterscuntry dot Com
nine thirty nine on Sports Talk seven ninety Doug Pike Show,
Thanks for listening. I just said a little Oh, I
gotta ignore that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
Ignore it all the time, Just ignore it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
I got some that interesting little bit about Scottie Scheffer
getting a little overreactive to some stuff. I thought it
might have been something that was going on with the
public or with the media. But John Wade back In
said nothing like you were talking about. It was reactions
to bad shots and putts and stuff. That's just I
think that's just frustration. He sets a really high standard

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for himself and when things when things don't go his
way more than one or two at a time, I
think that stacks up on him a little bit. I
wouldn't worry about Scotti. He is a pretty good guy.
I as promised. I'm gonna go to John. Let me
see if I can see this mouse all the way
over there. Oh, I got it, I got it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
Frankie. Yay, Roy, what's up?

Speaker 5 (01:16:05):
Man? Hey, good morning, Doug.

Speaker 10 (01:16:07):
How you doing this morning?

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
All right?

Speaker 10 (01:16:11):
Hey, first thing, I want to give you a producer
some props. I mean, he's very polite. He said, you're
the next one in line, and there's a two minute weight.
That's what I call customer service.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
Thank you. Yeah, Frankie's Frankie is one of the good ones.
He'll stick.

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
He'll he'll be doing something in radio for a long
time if he wants to.

Speaker 10 (01:16:28):
Yeah, it's hard. It's hard to find people like that.

Speaker 6 (01:16:31):
It is, okay, question, I guess I want to put
you to work a little bit.

Speaker 10 (01:16:35):
Since you fished Rorda and have peers.

Speaker 6 (01:16:40):
The way the way Gallaston laid down.

Speaker 10 (01:16:43):
I was there yesterday fishing for for mackerel. What's what's
what's what's you go h leader for for front for
macrol fishing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
For Spanish mackerel.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
Yes, sir, I've been yeah, I've been talking about this
with faux pro Spanish mackerel. Go to a fly fishing
shop or go to a fly fishing website, and I
don't like plastic covered wire. I don't like a bunch
of hardware on both ends of the wire. I just
want enough to keep the fish's teeth off the line, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
And so what I'm buying is four inch.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Piano wire leader material that's bent at one end.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
And if you if you go to the right fly
fishing website, you can find one that's got a beautiful
little haywire twist with a loop at the other end
that you can just direct tie your line to, or
maybe put a split ring and a little swivel or
something out front.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
But it's just a short enough piece of wire or
long enough to keep the fish's teeth off the line,
but short enough that it's not gonna be glowing the dark.
Something that's gonna spook them off. And that's that's a
I think a way better way to do that. And
I was doing that for King mackerel when I was
throwing top waters at them off the jetties down in

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surfside years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
I did it over on the Gulf coast of Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
I use those little short leaders like that, and a
Spanish mackerel never gonna cut you off unless it eats
the front end.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
That's one of the reasons you if you're gonna use
a swivel at all, or any kind of hardware at
the front end of that wire, it better be small
because if they catch a glint of sunlight off of it,
they're gonna hit that and then it gets them onto
your leader. But if you just just tied directly to it,
or maybe just put a split ring out there to
kind of let it wobble.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
More, Uh, you'll be fine.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
I don't I don't see any reason to have more
than the most I would put with maybe six inches
of wire in case there's a few kings hanging around.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
That'd be about it.

Speaker 10 (01:18:43):
Oh no, no, everything, I said, So what are you
using for lures?

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
Oh? Easy, No, I don't mind at all.

Speaker 3 (01:18:51):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
I do like spoons. Spoons are probably the go to.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
UH if there are enough mackerel in there that everybody's
getting some bites on their spoons and what not. Tie
on the top water man, Tie on the cheapest top
water you can find, because when they come come up
from about four or five feet underneath, they'll even the
Spanish mack will sometimes will clear the water. And it's
it's fun, and they're they're not the most accurate things.
They're not gonna hit a bulls eye right in the

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middle of the lure every time, especially when you're dancing
it all over the place.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
There's a lure that I used to throw for tarp
and I can't remember the name of it, but it's
basically just a chunk of lead about three and a
half inches long.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
God, I wish I could remember the name of those
things now.

Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
And they also are really good, but it's just anything
flashy and shiny and that you can just rip through
the water. If you're gonna do the spoons, you gotta
have a you gotta have a barrel swivel out in
front of them, and make sure it's a good quality
one too, so you don't twist your line all up.

Speaker 10 (01:19:49):
Okay, No, I was I was that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
I love.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:19:55):
I was one of one of those spears and the
water was really nice, and these guys was using a
water bubbles. You familiar with the water bubbles yeah, yeah yeah.
And then they had a leader and then they had
a treble book with with like a plastic tube read
oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
Oh yeah yeah yeah, the little tubul ers. They're awesome,
They're good.

Speaker 10 (01:20:17):
Yeah, they were catching those things all right, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
I'm gonna try that tunnel thing.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
You'll almost you'll almost never see one of those tubes
over here. But man, they've been using those off those
piers for for mackerel for one hundred years or however
long those peers have been there. Or you're bringing back
some good memories, thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:20:34):
No, no, no, but take it out. Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:20:37):
That went on about one because they are a couple
of these bad Yeah. I brought one back and I
tried it.

Speaker 10 (01:20:47):
I don't but I put a fake shrimp.

Speaker 6 (01:20:52):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I ain't gonna catching three nice.

Speaker 10 (01:20:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
Yeah, those got really good.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
I'll see.

Speaker 10 (01:21:02):
That's kind of expensive because they tear they tear your
tail on.

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
Yeah, if you're gonna if you're gonna fish for Spanish
mackerel with soft plastics. Don't buy expensive ones because they'll
hit them, they'll knock the tar out of them. But
they'll also cost you a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
All right, that's great. Yeah, thanks my pleasure man, thank you. Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
Down there in Florida on those piers, holy cow. I
used to go down there when I was playing ball
over in Mobile. We go to Pensacola, and I think
there was a pier there and maybe a little farther
down that were better fishing than I don't know that
there was anything between there and Mobile, but anyway, the
first peer we could get to, and you just stand

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there and wait and watch for a school of king
mackerel to be coming up the beach. Everybody's got pretty
much got rought in hand and ready to cast, and
as soon as somebody spot at them, here they come
two o'clock or whatever, and it's just this launching of lures.
It reminds me of one of those old old time

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movies where the army is coming in to storm the
castle and they stop about one hundred yards out and
they all shoot their bows at the same time, and
all those arrows are going into the castle. Well that's
what it looked like when all those lures were being
fired out into the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America now,
and Holy cow, as soon as that stuff hits the

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water and in the school or in front of the school,
and everybody starts reeling and it's a man, it's a
train wreck of chaos and tight lines and lines going
over each other because those king mackerel are going wherever
they want to go for the first thirty seconds. And

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it was so much fun, man, to just watch those
fish come after your lure and fight over it. When
you're talking about schools of king usually down here there
might be one or two traveling together and you're probably
not gonna see them at all. But over there you
can see them, and they're is aggressive. When they're prowling

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that beach and feeding. They're as aggressive as anything. School
of trout, a school of reds. They're just they're schooling predators,
and every one of them wants to be first to
that lure because they think it's something to eat. Oh boy,
that was so fun. I gotta shut my mouth and
take a break. Holy Cow, on the way out here,

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I'm gonna tell you about Timber Creek Golf Club down
there in Friends with FM twenty three fifty one, just
a few miles off the Golf Freeway, very easy to
find on the west side by the way, and once
you get there, you're gonna find twenty seven really fun,
really playable golf holes. A great, great place to go
tee it up this afternoon if you want to.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
I think we're not gonna well, hopefully not get any
more rain. I don't think we're gonna get it this
afternoon if we don't. Great place to go tee it up.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
They got great food in their grill, got a great
teaching staff led by a guy named JJ Woods right
over there next to the driving range, and they have
a good pro shop staff to make sure you get
whatever it is you need to have a little more
fun out there. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com. I've
been playing down there since the turn of the century.
I think it was right around that time they opened

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that place up. And I love going back. Timber Creek
Golf Club dot com. Shooters corner Walmer Highway twenty nine
Street down in Texas City. Man, if you haven't gotten
your license let yet and you live down that way
south side of town.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
Go by Shooter's Corner. You can pick up that hunting
license and.

Speaker 1 (01:24:39):
Make sure that you get all of the stamps you need,
all of the endorsements you need, everything, the hip certification.
They'll take care of that for you, like they did
it for me last year. I may run down there
just to say hi and get a new license again,
just because I enjoyed going down there. It's an old
school gun store. You're gonna find new guns. You're gonna
find pre owned guns, a couple of them I think
are still in there of mine that are are for sale.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
You're gonna find plenty of Ammo, Camo optics, reloading supplies.
Whatever it is you need is right there in that
little store in the corner of that little strip center,
and it's been there for forty plus years. Jerry and JTK,
the father and son, and the staff they have working
in there. Don't think for a minute that if Jerry
and Jay aren't there, you can't get the help you need.

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Because everybody who they bring into that store as an
employee knows what they're talking about, knows what to do
to make sure you get exactly what you need. I've
sent countless well, I could probably count them if I
stopped and thought about it. But a lot of people
who have called me and has said, hey, I got
a problem with a gun. A couple of gunsmiths told
me I'm gonna be out two three, five hundred dollars

(01:25:45):
whatever to get it fixed. And I am not kidding you.
So far, so far, and nobody has ever called me
back to say they couldn't help me.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
Who can.

Speaker 1 (01:25:54):
The most enjoyable return I got on one of those
is when I asked Jerry a couple of weeks later
about a guide sent down there who was told he
needed to spend five hundred dollars on some part of
his rifle that was all messed up. And I asked
Jerry if he'd been able to take care of the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
He said, yeah, it was a little burr up there
in it. Somewhere in there.

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
He started talking gun dissection talk on me, and it
got a little over my head pretty quick. But he said,
I said, what'd you end up having to charge him?
He said, oh, it's nothing. It really took me a
couple of minutes. I would have felt wrong trying to
take money from him for that didn't take long. That's
the kind of people you're dealing with. Also, the kind
of people you're dealing with are the kind who give
anybody who wears a badge for a living a discount,

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which I think is pretty cool and is why almost
every time I've gone down there, by the time I leave,
which is always longer than I thought I was going
to stay, at least one member of law enforcement down
that way has been in that store.

Speaker 2 (01:26:49):
The Shooters Corner t X dot com. The Shooters Corner
TX dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
All right, welcome back. I kind of ran a little
bit long in that previous segment. We're only going to
have a couple of minutes here before Frankie tunes up
the band and starts playing our autro to UH to summarize,
I guess we're eight days away from dove season. Parks

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and Wildlife Department says they're doves everywhere. Rick By says, no,
there's not not where I'm driving around every day. Some
of the guys down south say we got Rick doves.
Some of the guys east to here we also have
Rick doves. So they're they're around the state. And I'm
not doubting Rick at all. He does a lot of

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driving in a lot of places, and I was actually
kind of surprised when I found out that as far
south and west as Eagle Lake, getting away from the coast, there.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
Just aren't hardly any doves.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
When I did that tour with with David from Riceland
Waterfowl Club, I just said, man, you're gonna do some
dove hunting come the first Nope. Well for starters, he's
south eided, so that was gonna be a problem. The
bottom line was, there's almost zero doves in that area,
and I didn't even think about that. I'd never really
looked at that area in that way. But if you've

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got them, you're gonna have a lot. If you've got
food plots wherever you're hunting your doves, you're probably gonna
have a lot. The way the weather's panned out so far,
well I don't want to mess that up, but so
far we're looking pretty good for decent weather coming into
the first part of dove season.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
That's gonna be fun. By the way, when you go.

Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
Buy your license, I would encourage you, even if you
only hunt, or even if you only fish, buy that
combo license if you don't mind, because What you're doing
is you're investing in the overall wildlife and fisheries resources.
You're investing in more game wardens. You're investing in more
equipment for them so that they can do their jobs.

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You're investing in the county biologists. You're well not them,
You're investing in the state biologists through the Parks and
Wildlife Department. You're investing in research. You're investing in all
the things they do to make sure we've still got
ducks and doves and bass and trout and redfish and
all of these animals we like to go chase.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Make sure we have those the people who are non.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Consumptive people that the hikers and the birders still haven't
been required to get a license. Shit, it's up to
us to kind of fund everything that needs to be
done so that all of us can enjoy that experience.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
And if you don't mind doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
Just to just advertise it over the year and look
at how little it's really costing you to have access
to one of the best best outdoor states in the
entire country. I've been to a lot of them. I've
talked to the people, their game wardens, their state people,
equivalents of our Parks and Waldlife Department, every one of
them jealous of our department because they have so much

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game to look after and such good tools to get it.
Next week, I'll do my very best to get to
the binoculars I promised I was gonna talk about today
when I finished up yesterday, and we never got to
them because other stuff. It's kind of like being out
there fishing in salt water. You never know what's gonna bite.
You never know who's gonna be on the line or

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what's gonna be on the line, and I like it
that way.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
I look forward to talking to you again Tuesday on
fifty plus.

Speaker 1 (01:30:20):
If you can join me there over on KPRC at
noon weekdays, I'll start Monday's my day off. I'll be
back there Tuesday through Friday at noon, and then right
back here at seven o'clock Saturday morning. God willing, Thanks,
Stay safe, get outside, have some fun with your family.

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
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