Hooks That Are Barbless, and Snakes That Are Harmless

Originally aired on September 20th, 2025. On this episode, Doug talks about teal season starting today, and interviews David Pruett from Riceland Waterfowl Club, Tommy O'Brien who was just named as one of the best golf teachers in Texas by Golf Digest, and Chris Hodge from Sports Investors Daily. Doug also discusses bass fishing, coastal fishing, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, off we go. Thank you all as always
for joining me on a Saturday morning, as you so
often and always do. I greatly appreciate that you know that,
bring some friends next time. Admissions always free, you know that,
And I would be glad to welcome anybody and everybody
in here who loves the outdoors as much as I

(00:22):
and who can enjoy what we talk about here and
try and help each other out. A lot of what
I've learned over the years. I've been doing this show
twenty five years, and I've learned so much from all
of you and from the people I've interviewed, and just
the list goes on and on. It's a mutual exchange

(00:42):
of information, a mutual exchange of fun talking about the
good stuff and occasionally having to deal with stuff otherwise.
When I get up on my safety sam platform and
there is something I'm going to talk about safety related,
Thank you Frankie. Mercy Sakes, poor Frankie had to run

(01:03):
an errand for me. Good heavens, I got all the
way over here. I was so proud.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
It is.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
First I'm breaking in my new laptop. It kind of
got a test run last week, but I'm on full
there are no more training wheels. The old laptop is
not over at that desk anymore. It's gone. It's been
shipped back to corporate.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Why.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I don't know. They're not gonna They're not gonna like
getting it back. It's just it's kind of a boring thing,
and it's it's I think it was about four years
out of warranty as we as we speak. Somewhere in there.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
It was.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I know that almost a year ago now. One of
the tech guys I talked to once told me, by
the way, next time anybody's around who can help you
with it, tell them you need a new laptop because
yours is three years out of warranty and change now.
And apparently that's that's a big deal, no wonder. The
thing ran so slow it was like trying to do

(02:02):
math on an abacus. Actually, an abacus would have been
faster than that machine. Seven one three two point two
five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot
com if you're like me and not Teal hunting this morning,
Sorry about that, and if it's any content this is
opening day, by the way, if you didn't know, and

(02:22):
if it's any consolation whatsoever. At least you're not out
there swatting mosquites or or trying to hurt a cotton
mouth out of a blind And that said, number one,
I have gladly done both over the years, and number two,
I'd be doing it this morning if I could. Same
time i'd swatting mosquito is in moving a snake. I've

(02:44):
done that more than once. Most of the snakes out
there on the prairie are not cotton mouse, by the way,
most of the snakes anywhere you encounter them. I didn't
even plan on talking about snakes this morning, but I will. Uh,
they're not venomous. There's only a handful of venomous snakes
in the entire state of Texas. And if you learn
which ones those are, you will be so much more

(03:06):
comfortable walking around in the woods because you'll realize that
you're far less likely to encounter a venomous snake than
you are. Well, a lot of things either out in
the wild, in the country or in the big city
that can hurt you. It's just it rarely happens. It

(03:29):
really truly rarely happens out In fact, there's a great
sight I stumbled upon. I'm gonna go ahead and pop
into this for a minute. It's a snake identification app
or page. No, it's a page. It's Facebook page, and
there are a couple of them, actually, and if I
think about it, but during the break here coming up,

(03:49):
I'll go ahead and find mine and see what it's called.
I don't have to scroll far usually when I open
up Facebook to see somebody asking for identification of a
snake that's in their yard in Dallas, in Houston, in Rosenberg,
in El Paso, in Kansas, in Florida. Snakes from all

(04:10):
over the country photographed. They throw them up on that
site or that page and say, hey, what is this?
And real live snake experts herpetologists respond mostly, and some
of them are just amates. But if the amateurs respond
in correctly, the pros will get in there and change

(04:33):
and make the change and make sure everybody knows what
that snake really is. It's fascinating to me, and I've
learned a lot about some of the snakes I've seen
over the years that I thought might have been cotton mouse.
That's the ones that I have a little bit of
trouble with sometimes. But now that I recognize the face pattern,
which is a big that's the dead giveaway for them,

(04:55):
between them and the water snakes, which are totally harmless.
They might at you, but all you'll get is a
little like a paper cut. Basically, they're not gonna send
you to the er. But once I've conquered all that,
I should be pretty comfortable. I can spot timber rattlers,
I can spot diamondback rattle snakes. Cotton mouse or I mean,

(05:18):
copperheads are pretty easy. Coral snakes are easier. That's that
one's got that mnemonic with it read on black, friend
of jack, red on yellow, kill a fellow, and it
holds true all the way through the breeds. There are
some snakes that are very similar in coloration to coral snakes,

(05:40):
the milk snakes, for example.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
And.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
The unknowing would think immediately, oh, that one's gonna kill me.
I better put a shovel to it. There have been
a lot of snakes killed unnecessarily in this world just
because people didn't take five minutes to understand them and
learn them. And at least, like I said, just learn
all the venomous snakes learn their learn their coloration from

(06:08):
head to toe. And at that point you'll realize that
you start seeing a bunch of snakes, especially around water,
because there are a bunch of different water snakes, and
a lot of them mimic the coloration and they'll even
flatten their heads if they're scared to look dangerous, that
to look bigger, and it's it's something you got to

(06:29):
get used to and something you got to learn so
that you don't kill off the animal that's eating all
the little mice that are running into your backyard because
you live out next to some open country, simple thing.
If they're not being fed, they're not going to hang
around either. If you're worried about a snake that you
see in your yard, unless you unless you are a
mouse farmer mouse rancher, you probably don't have to worry

(06:53):
too much. Or you got a bunch of toads back
there that could be an issue. They'll come sniffing around
for a little Houston toad if you still got some
good Heavens, how did I get on this on the
opening day of teal season, I did this. So here's
the deal. If you're in a blind somewhere, you're in
a blind somewhere and you've got an earbudd in one ear,
and you're you're listening for wind over wings with the other.

(07:16):
Give me a call. I want to hear from you
in the blind. I have no problem with that whatsoever.
I'm actually waiting to hear from David Pruet. We're gonna
call him at what time did I get?

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Eight thirty. We'll call him at eight thirty and see
how the big blind hunt. When this went this morning,
he'd been out there. I don't know how long that
tradition's been up, but I think it's a lot of
the like the older members, the longer term members, whatever
it is. But because teal season is kind of like

(07:47):
it's kind of like duve season, and that it's as
much social as it is about the hunting, and for
people who have been hunting teal for twenty thirty forty
fifty years like I have, it's it should be more
fun than work. It should be more fun than educational.
There's not a whole lot you have to know about

(08:07):
teal hunting to be successful. You don't have to put
out three hundred decoys. You don't have to put out
two dozen of anything. Well, well, two dozen decoys might
be just about right for a lot of these little
stock tanks I used to hunt. You don't want to
overwhelm the ducks. You don't have to have a bushel
basketfull of mojos out there. All of those things are great,

(08:29):
but if the tealers there, if the tealer in that
area and they've been feeding anywhere near that area you are,
you'll probably see all you need to see to shoot
your six apiece. I'll get into some of that in
a little while too. It's mostly blue wings this time
of year, mostly blue wings. They're the least tolerant of

(08:51):
the teal there's a little educational fun facts to know
and teil thing. If it gets slow in the blind
you could talk about this. They're the sissies of the
duck world. They can't take the cold. So as soon
as they get a little, a little nip, a little shiver,
up they go. They they launch themselves southward and don't
slow down until they hit warmth and sunshine. They get

(09:14):
out of dodge quick. They get out of the nesting
grounds first. They're the ones, mature drakes first, actually, among
all the blue wings, and then the young bucks and
the hens once the once the little ones of the
year are ready to make the trip. Green wings leave
a lot later, by the way, you'll see the bulk
of them during the during the regular hunting season.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
And if you didn't know final destination for till it's
interesting these little tiny birds, little tiny birds just down
farther and farther and farther. Now some of them are
going to hang around around here almost all winter, but
their distribution until spring reaches all the way down into
South America. That's a that's a lot of wing beats

(09:56):
for those little birds. Nature just fascinates me sometimes, it
really does. It really does, if you're in the right spot.
By the way, the daily bag limit is six, and
don't go beyond that. There's no reason to The possession limit,
by the way, is actually eighteen. Now, you can't go
out this morning and shoot six and then go out

(10:16):
at lunchtime and shoot six, and then go out this
afternoon towards sunset and shoot six. That's against the rules.
Every duck hunter has been hunting for two or three
seasons knows that. Lettis reports, by the way, have been
really good. These coal snaps, these little bitty coal snaps.
We had pushed a lot of blue wings our way
might be where you are, they might not. Overall, though,

(10:39):
I think the reports from this morning are going to
be pretty good. Legal shooting hours, by the way, thirty
minutes before sunrise to sunset, that's most of the bird
hunting we do. That that's enough of that, and that's
enough time. You don't have to nobody's going to be
out there a terribly long time. If you're teal hunting,

(11:05):
pasted about eight thirty, you and your crew, you're probably
not going to have a whole lot more birds come
nine or nine thirty.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Now.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
I've seen days when it's a little bit better, a
little bit later in the morning, but usually usually teal
hunters tend to get in and get out of the
field as quickly as they can, and if you're in
a really good spot, you can get out of there
really quickly. I've heard what I've been involved with too,

(11:34):
shoots with pretty big numbers of guys. There was one
field that we hunted out in Katie when I was
shooting with Larry Gore back at Eagle Lake and carry
Katy Prairie Outfitters bunch. Back then, there was a field
that wasn't too far It's kind of between Katie and
Brookshire up north off of twenty and fifty five, and

(11:57):
that one big reservoir would handle a lot of hunters
around the edge, and it was loaded with teal. We
would have on some mornings thirty forty fifty guns around
that thing, and everybody's shooting all morning long, and then
all of a sudden it would just stop because everybody

(12:18):
was maxed out. All right, let's take this first break
to the program. On the way out, I'll tell you
about Bellville Meat Market as I have for so very,
very long. All the favorite things you could possibly want
to tuck into a hunting bag to keep your belly
satisfied while you're out there duck hunting or deer hunting
or whatever you're doing. Beef, chicken, and pork cut the
way you want. There's always if the lights are on,

(12:40):
there's a license butcher on hand who can actually do
that cutting for you, exactly what you want, how you
want it. They have dinner and lunch served every day,
seven days a week, ten am to seven pm of
traditional barbecue. They have all the sides to go with it.
You don't have to worry about that. You're not just
going to be handed out a handful of ribs and

(13:02):
told bonappetite, you've got the full barbecue meal, and it's
absolutely delicious, and the portions are quite generous. I can
assure you they've got those new chuck Wagon patties out there.
Those are half pound beef patties that are seasoned up
and loaded with cheddar cheese. They've got gosh everything, stuffed pork,
tender stuff, peppers, stuffed mushrooms. All the stuff you're gonna

(13:25):
bring home is gonna make you feel stuffed after every
meal you eat. Belleville Meat Market been in the same
place for forty years, on forty something years. I think
it is on Highway thirty six, about fifteen minutes north
to Sea Lee, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead. If you
can't get out there, that's okay. You can get online
and have just about anything in the store shift right

(13:46):
to your door. Belleville Meatmarket dot com. That's Belleville Meatmarket
dot Com. On Sports Talk seven to ninety The Dugpike Show,
thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. On opening
day of teal season, we got through the dove opener. Okay,
we got the white wing opener. The everything opener, the

(14:08):
whole state opener, and now we're at teal season, and
before we can blink, I would think it's gonna be
bow season. It's gonna be deer season, and regular deer
season anyway, and then we'll start talking about ducks and
geese and cranes and quail and all the wonderful things

(14:30):
we can hunt in this state of Texas, this state has.
If it had elk, and if it had more snook,
I don't know that I'd ever find a reason to leave.
At some point, at a few points in my life,
I fancied the idea of a big bear hunt. As
a hunter through my years, I wanted to go do

(14:54):
a lot of things that just haven't had a chance
to do for whatever reasons. But the opportunities that are
available to us as Texans, I think are probably as
good or better than those available to anybody in any
other state. We have great inshore fishing along the coast.

(15:15):
We have great offshore fishing off the coast. We have
short range bill fishing down south in South Texas. We
don't have to run super far.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Now.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
It's not it's not Hawaii or Cabo or pretty much
any oceanic coast where the continental shelf drops off and
you've got big monster fish right there, practically off the beach.
I experienced that on a trip to Hawaii many years ago.
My wife and I were down there, and during the

(15:51):
time we were down there, well actually for the about
two or three weeks before we could before we got
down there, there had been some significantly long blue marland
being caught off the coast of the Big Island and
off uh and we were there during that time. I said,

(16:11):
how far are we going to have to run to get,
you know, before we can drop baits And he said
a little bit after we clear the jetties.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Like wow.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
And if you look at the charts, you'll see that
the Hawaiian Islands are just mountaintops, basically mountaintops with sheer faces,
with gradual faces, and all of that structure that comes
all the way to and beyond the surface of the
water is just like a giant beacon in the night.

(16:41):
To all the fish that swim around the Pacific Ocean
out there, it's fascinating. Once again, I've used that word
several times this morning, but I really find nature just
almost overwhelming it. Sometimes there's so much to learn about it,
and it fascinates me. Also, I'll use it again to
understand how these fish move around and how they've if

(17:05):
we were if we were set out in the ocean,
for example, with nothing but our own resources, no compass,
no and presuming presuming good weather the whole time, no compass,
know nothing, just a sailboat. You just get plopped out
there in the middle of the ocean in the sailboat

(17:27):
and told, okay, you need to go from you need
to go from Western Africa to the coast of North America.
We'd just be sailing around in circles. Sailing around in circles.
Our generations would be because we've become so dependent on electronics.

(17:48):
The earliest navigation, of course, by starlight, and that was
pretty rough because on a cloudy night, you didn't know
where you were going, you didn't know which way you
were headed. It's amazing that the the milestones that have
been reached and pushed through over a few hundred years,

(18:09):
which in historic perspective, is not that lunch, just a
blink of an eye. I'm in the weeds, and I apologize.
I just get fascinated by that stuff. I really do.
I really do. So let's go here there. Let's jump
over to fish for a minute. I caught a couple

(18:29):
of bash yesterday, and I'm bringing it up for a reason,
so just forgive me. I'm not trying to brag or anything.
But I did catch some fish. I got a friend
I've been trying to get out there for a while,
and I'm waiting because it had been just so bad.
It had been just so bad out there for the
last week or two that I didn't want to bother

(18:50):
him by taking him over there, so we could just
go stand there and throw lures in the water and
bring him back for an hour and not have anything
to show for it. But I did catch some fish.
I feel like I'm I'm getting them patterned again, and
I know I can confidently go back into one place
and maybe catch a few. And then a place that
had been just lights out about a month ago for

(19:13):
two or three weeks, it's dead. The vegetation has changed
significantly significantly there and made it not near as good
as it was so yesterday for the first time in
at least as long as I can remember. Well, I
do remember the first time it happened, and this is

(19:33):
only the second, I'm out there taking advantage of my
own advice about flattening the barbs of my hooks. I
had a two pounder, got a two pounder out about
twenty feet in front of me. I'm reeling in, keeping
the tight line, and this little so and so comes
hopping out of the water. He's shaking around in the

(19:54):
air and the hook pulls. It's a little lipless crank bait,
an academy knockoff of a rattle trap, okay, kind of
a shad colored looking thing. And this lure is flying
not at my head but at me and I'm I'm
pretty sure I'm gonna get impact. But I've been hit

(20:16):
by lures a thousand times. I didn't think it was
gonna be a big deal. This thing caught me just
between in the kind of soft, mushy tissue that's left
where muscle used to be between my left bicep and
left tricep. I'm left handed, so I'm holding the rod
in my left hand and I'm kind of holding it
up like I was waving at somebody, and this lure

(20:40):
hits me right there bam, And I thought, man, and
in the it didn't bounce off, and that got my surprise,
got my attention because they've always bounced off. This one
didn't bounce off, and I'd felt something kind of hit
that arm pretty hard. I looked down and one of
the front hook, that the treble hook, one of the

(21:03):
points on the front hook, is buried. It's in there
to the bend of the hook, clearly passed where that
barb used to be. I thought, okay, this is it.
This is my chance to prove that it'll keep you
from having to go home. Laure's just hanging there like
an ornament on a Christmas tree and a little bit

(21:26):
of blood, and it's okay. I've not a big deal.
I've seen that before, so I pinch it. I'm thinking, okay, Doug,
you got to put your money where your mouth is now.
You've told everybody that if this happens, you could just
back that hook out of there, no pain, no nothing,
if you've really mashed the barb truly flat. They get okay, fine,

(21:48):
here we go, and I reached down. I pinched that
hook is far right down to the edge of it,
and gently pushed backward, and it slid out there like
a like it was a hot knife in butter. There
was zero pain, there was zero resistance, and like, huh,

(22:10):
it worked. All these years I've been preaching to do
this and it worked. I've had people tell me it
had before for them too, But I never had to
really test it on myself. And I wasn't gonna do
it deliberately ever that that just makes no sense to me.
Why would you deliberately do that? But yesterday was the
day that my theory was proven true. That number one,

(22:34):
you can catch fish on barbleous hooks. The barbers were
put on hooks to keep the bait on. That's why
barbs were put on hooks. It wasn't to hold the
fish on the line. That's what tight line does. And
lo and behold it slid out just smooth as silk.
So mash your barbs. Nobody in this crew is gonna

(22:55):
lose anything. Nobody's gonna starve if a fish slips off
the hook, which they rarely do, by the way, if
you keep that line tight. The lesson I reminded myself
of was to resist holding the rod directly up in
front of your face, tilt it to ten o'clock or
two o'clock, kind of like the old school where you

(23:18):
put your hands on the steering wheel that way, if
that lure comes out, it's liable to fly past you
to the left or fly past you to the right.
I was trying to kind of lift this fish and
get him up and get him close and get him
off the hook, and I forgot that one little important
point and had that rod just straight out in front
of me, and spraying up comes that little lipless crankbait,

(23:43):
and all's well, that ends well right, mash those barbs.
If I hadn't done that, would I would have had
to stop fishing. I would have had to cut that
lure off and just leave it hanging in my arm
while I drove the golf cart all the way back
to the parking lot, got in my car, drove to
some emergency center somewhere, and handed them a couple one

(24:04):
hundred dollars bills and said thank you very much for
something that I was able to do in two minutes,
and then make another cast seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. I'll check email while we're out.
We'll talk about the tropics when we get back. A
little bit uh on the way out, Black Horse Golf
Club two ninety to Fry road Fry Roads south about

(24:26):
three miles maybe that's about all it is really, maybe
three and a half. You'll see golf course on the right,
then you'll see golf course on the right and the left.
When you do, turn on your west blinker and pull
into the gate there at black Horse and you will
get to the clubhouse where you will be greeted just
happy people, happy to see you. People in the grill,

(24:49):
happy to see you. Chuck Hicks or Craig Hicks runs
that course up there, runs both courses. Actually, the South
course has been taken private and its experience is gaining
traction every day. And also there's a membership option there
that gets you access also to Blackhawk Country Club and
to Golf Club of Houston's two courses. So it's kind

(25:11):
of a five for one really when you get up
to it. The South course great, the North course still
daily fee. You can go up there and swat balls
all over the place up there if you want to.
It's a pretty open layout as opposed to some around town.
A very forgiving layout for those of us who tend
to spray drives in weird directions. Great place to hold

(25:32):
a big tournament too, because They've got a huge practice
facility where everybody can get ready at once, and at
the far end of that range, farther than you or
me or anybody else is going to hit it. The
far end is where the instructions go on most of
them anyway. That's where the real teaching facility is is
at the far end of the black Horse range. Blackhorse
Golf Club dot Com is the website you can go

(25:53):
set your own tea time right now. Black Horse Golf
Club dot Com as a blessing and a curse. It's
so many emails and the ones I get from you guys,
the ones I get for work or great. But because
my name is out there so in so many places

(26:15):
and it's been sold to so many lists, I spend
a significant amount of time unsubscribing from stuff every week.
I told Frankie during the break, bought a mattress about
almost a year ago. Now almost a year ago, and
ever since have just been inundated with ads and emails

(26:37):
for mattresses. I don't need another one. I'm not going
to stockpile them. If they offered a free for one
mattress sale, would you buy three mattresses? Probably? Not? Not
The easiest thing in the world to store, so in
any event, it's just life in the fast Land. I

(26:58):
suppose by the way, I mentioned bass fishing a little bit,
but coastal fishing has also been pretty good. And this
is just that time of year when conditions finally kind
of sort of usually get good and stay good for
a while. I am looking at the wind values now.

(27:19):
This new laptop has about a little bit, not a lot,
but a little bit smaller screen than the old one,
and it makes it difficult to see two things at
once any way you want to try to cut it.
I'm looking at all these values. Though. From Galveston Bay,
I can see all the way down to Bird Island
without having to move the screen, and along the immediate

(27:43):
coast there is no wind right now, because afternoon's changed.
Sometimes the highest is seven miles an hour at Rollover
Pass or what used to be Rollover Pass and is
no more. Let me sneak down the coast a little
farther and see if we can gain some momentum for

(28:04):
this big blow. No, not at all, all the way,
God Lee, it's it's calm. I'd love to be at
South Padre right now. Zero dead calm, at South Padre,
Laguna Madre two miles an hour, Laguna Madre North three
miles an hour. I'll just catch the Zeros Corpus call

(28:28):
Lee Corpus, Christy Naval air Station zero miles an hour,
Aransas Airport zero miles an hour, moving up our way?
Where is that? Oh at Bay City zero dead calm,
and this one a little bit of a surprise to
Taramar Beach zero So all the way around, if you

(28:52):
can get to the coast, it's probably gonna look pretty good.
I may have to take a look at the tide
tables for today and possibly make a little afternoon of
it down south. I wouldn't mind being on that jetty. Now,
I learned something a couple of weeks ago, and I've
already talked about it, so I won't dwell. But I
learned a tactic that this one guy at least is using,

(29:17):
and it's it's been good for him, and that that
comes not only from him, but from a friend of
his who was out that same day. And I bumped
into the friend number two, and he introduced me to
friend number one, and so now they're both. If I
see him down there again, i'll recognize him for sure,

(29:37):
one by just by just him and the other by
the way that guy fishes. He's got a pretty pretty
good strategy for walking those rocks, and it's legitimate, and
it's probably doable even when the jetty gets a little crowded,
and that's one of the things I kind of like

(29:58):
about it. When I one thing I would have to
do if I wanted to do that specifically is shed
some of the weight out of my backpack. I don't
know why, but the last time I packed that thing
it was well, I do know why, because it was
for a trip to Corpus and I was either going
to be on the beach where I didn't really have
to carry it it could be left in the vehicle,

(30:20):
or I was going to be on the little packery
channel jetty, which is not that long and it's not
a big deal to carry something pretty heavy out there.
But if I was going to do that on the
surf side, Jetti, I would. I'm just going to take
everything out, but maybe one two boxes, two little boxes actually,
one with a few top waters in it and maybe

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a couple of little swim baits and then the other
with soft plastics and then maybe some leader material and
that really in a spool of braid, just in case
I carried two rods. But yeah, you can never be
over prepared unless you're having to walk the length of

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the jetty two or three times. And that's what this
could possibly get into the way this guy fishes, I'm
not gonna lug fifteen eighteen pounds on my back for that.
It's a fishing trip, not a not a seven day
hike into the wilderness. Numb one three two one two
five seven ninety email on me, dougpick At iHeartMedia dot com.
I've seen a couple of emails this morning. No audio

(31:25):
from Blinds unfortunately yet, but I am suspecting that things
will be slowing down and probably done when David and
I talked David Prutt and I talk at eight thirty.
But that's okay. Let them have their fun. There are
a lot of teal on the coast right now, a
lot of teal on the prairies right now, and this,
this might, this will certainly be a better opener than

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I remember from last year. I remember it being a
little bit shaky last year. And that's one thing that
most duck hunters realize is that a shaky open or
does not a bad season make Sometimes the birds just
don't want to be where you are. Sometimes you've got
too much going on. Sometimes you've got too little going

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on with your decoys or your mojos or whatever. You're
using the one thing that gets overused more than anything else,
And I'm gonna I'm gonna preach this until everybody gets it.
There's a duck call. Duck calls are great. They are
a great tool to try to turn back ducks that
are leaving and flying away from you once those ducks

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get close. If you're blowing loud noises and you don't
know exactly what you're doing and when to blow it
and when not to blow it, you're gonna blow it,
meaning that you're gonna mess up the opportunity. I've seen
that with a lot of young guides. They practice and

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practice and practice they're calling, and think that just because
they practice they're calling a lot, they are somehow required
to blow that duck call just twenty four to seven
when they're out in a duck blind somewhere. It drives
me nuts. If ducks are circling pintails, especially, you don't
have to call pintails much at all, you really don't.

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If they like what they see, they'll come on down
and they'll take a really hard look. And you're far
better served to just get everybody to turn their heads
down and be really still and really quiet and really
covered up with all the brush and whatever you have
on top of your blind just duck in there and hide.

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I would far I rely far more heavily on concealment
with pintails than I do with blowing a call. The
only duck I'm blowing at is the one that I've
talked about this before too, is the one that's leading
the way. I don't care if there's five pintails in
the group, if there's three, if there's three hundred, the

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one that matters is the one that's leading the group.
And if you can keep that one interested, and it
changes every time they go around, a different duck kind
of takes the lead. So you've got to be paying attention.
You as the person who's blowing the calls, you got
to be paying attention. But there's no reason at all
to call it a duck that's coming to you. So
even if the ones toward the end of the big

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swirl that's started over, you are kind of going away.
If the one way over there has turned and is
already coming back, then just shut up, because the rest
of them are going to follow it. The rest of
them are going to follow that duck until somebody messes
it up and their sunglasses flash the birds, or their

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bare hands on a bright day, or their faces flash
the birds. The dog jumps up and splashes into whatever
it is. Something that bothers them will take them out
of there much faster than just sitting there and being quiet.
Most ducks are that way. If you give them half
a chance, if they want to come in, they will.

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If they're leaving, blow the call. You got nothing to lose.
Blow it all you want, blow it however you want,
But until you know they're really leaving, then just give
them a chance. Even if they get out a couple
of hundred yards, then hit them with a little comeback
call and then just see what happens, and if they're
still trying to get away, hit them harder one more time.

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But then let it happen, Just let them go, wait
for the next ones. American shooting centers, they don't really
care how much you blow a call out there. If
you want to simulate some of your duck hunting while
you're shooting sporting clays or trap or skied or something
like that. Five stand five stands good for dove hunters.
You get all kinds of looks, you get all kinds
of target looks with five stan and the same with

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sporting clays. That's actually more sporting clay. Yeah, they're both
great for tune ups before hunting season. And really, if
you haven't shot in a long time, go ahead and
stand there over on a skip field for a little
while and just get comfortable raising the gun, get comfortable
show holdering the gun so that your brain can shift

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do is stay safe and do what the range officers
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(37:08):
dot com. Seven fifty two, Holy cow, this one's gonna
be kind of quick. Seven fifty two on Sports Talk
seven to ninety. Headed for the eight, then the nine,
and then ten when I will eject and you'll get
to hear taking Vegas with my buddy Chris Hodge. Let's
go to the phone, shall we. David's been there forever,

(37:29):
faux pro. Hang on, David, what's up?

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Man?

Speaker 6 (37:32):
Hey man, I'm sitting out here on the water. No,
everybody's doing good. Uh yeah, how are you talking about
your new laptop? Remember taking an instrument calculator? Oho?

Speaker 1 (37:43):
You know, my parents bought me a calculator for my
senior year in high school. Four function calculator, forty nine
dollars they give them. They throw those things out windows today.
It's just it's it's amazing how far technology on for
five dollars.

Speaker 7 (38:02):
You know.

Speaker 6 (38:04):
No, I got a oh yesterday and I called about
a twenty four inch channel cab man. Then my wife, Yeah,
I got it at the house. Still I down real good,
but uh I got a uh my wife surprised me
and got me a brand new electric fil an. It's

(38:25):
got a blade on there for brisket. Yeah, yes, back
flips it good. Uh yeah, I'm doing real good there.
And then uh, you know on the dogs, uh, man,
you know my dogs, they've.

Speaker 7 (38:39):
Been doing very very well.

Speaker 6 (38:42):
I think you know, on training dogs you got to
be very kind of patient and stern and then uh,
you know, feed them a lot of treats.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
I guess you know you got a brible got a
brible man. Yeah, it's not so much a bribe day.
It's not so much a bribe as a as a reward. Okay,
you don't they get it when they do it right,
it's so such a reward, not a problem.

Speaker 6 (39:05):
Hey and you know what when I tell you get
up on that you know behind that new gate then
we put up or the old wood game we put
there on the side there. It's all they're all doing good.
But hey, no, then my wife, even though you know
when she you know, no, we're gonna probably go pretty
quicker to Belleville because we're gonna be getting another new

(39:27):
little freezer. So I'm gonna go over there and you know,
stock up on some of that some of that good
stuff that they got over there. And you know, I
mean I tell you every time, like you say on
the advertising stuff, you know that's not really an advertisment.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
I tell you what.

Speaker 6 (39:43):
When you do go, you can be down the street
over there when you come in the railroad track. But man,
you know right now, it's pretty calm out here. You
got a lot of boats here. Man, there's probably fifty
boats traders around here. I barely got into my little father.

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You know, I don't know what's going on, but everybody doesn't.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Well they should be happy. They're out by the lake,
out by the lake catching fish. You eat that fish tonight.

Speaker 6 (40:14):
I hope, yeah, we're gonna, yeah, I'm gonna I'm probably
gonna bake it. Okay, Yeah, I'm probably gonna bake it.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
What are you gonna put on it?

Speaker 5 (40:24):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (40:24):
Garlic buttered?

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yeah, just the simple stuff. It's so good. There's no
reason to maybe.

Speaker 6 (40:30):
A little a little bit of sleeves and all, you know, tad, Yeah, yeah,
just to tear you know. But I mean, I don't.
I'm trying to get away from a lot of fried stuff.
But I can't help fried gizzards.

Speaker 7 (40:41):
Oh, I gotta have some fun.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
No, I don't. I very rarely eat fried food anymore.
And when I do, I have to, I have to
not eat as much as I used to, that's for sure.
One of the.

Speaker 6 (40:55):
Fish, I've been eating a lot of tuna fish I've
been eating, you know.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
And so, yeah, you didn't catch those up at Lake Conrade.
I know that.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Oh I know.

Speaker 6 (41:04):
No, we taught them at HG b or Closure. Really
it's beautiful. The sun's coming up, man, I tell you.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (41:15):
And there is a res boar over here that I
looked on my map. I was looking on my map
because I can see the steam coming up out of there.
I don't know exactly what they do over.

Speaker 7 (41:26):
There, but yeah, they it's some kind of plant that's
over there.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
There's some sort of cooling pond or something like that.
Maybe I don't know.

Speaker 6 (41:34):
Yeah, it's a it's a redvoir.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Today.

Speaker 6 (41:36):
When I call tomorrow, look on my map and I'll
give you the name of it. Yeah, I found it,
but then I can't find it. You know, it's off
of eight thirty over here, all right, man, it's off
of ten ninety seven. Ten ninety seven, Okay, I know
where that is, then for sure.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
All right, be careful, man, go catch another big catfish.

Speaker 6 (41:54):
Oh and I always got my gun over here in
case there's a snake. That one guy said there was
a water box and over.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Well, be sure. I talked about snakes right when I
came on. And just tell these people who are scared
of every snake that slithers to just learn which ones
are venomous in Texas. There's only about a handful of them.
And then once you learn those, you don't have to
worry about the rest of them. And there's hundreds of
different snakes in Texas, and they're all pretty beneficial except
for well, they're all beneficial until one of the venomous

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ones bite you. Then that's a problem.

Speaker 6 (42:28):
What about a water markers.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
If you just be chilled, they won't. I know, they
can be aggressive, I get it, but mostly if they're
not threatened, they won't be aggressive.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
You just don't.

Speaker 6 (42:43):
Just stay calm and drink a cup of coffee and
don't get excited.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Yeah, just chill, man. I had one crawl within two
or three feet of me once, not a mox And.

Speaker 6 (42:54):
Though, if you stay and steel though too. And if
a dog's coming at you, stand still and put your
hand out, you know, and don't turn around and run.

Speaker 7 (43:03):
That's the worst thing to do.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, that's for sure for dogs. All right, buddy, catch
a fish. Let's see Dave. Audience, all right, let's take
a break, shall we. On the way out, I'm gonna
tell you about American shooting centers. I already did that.
I'm gonna tell you about Phoenix knives. Phoenix knives. I
don't even need this piece of paper. I have these
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(43:29):
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which enables him to have more opportunity to show people
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(44:11):
you take the whole family out there, and it's kind
of a first come, first served deal when they have
a little downtime and somebody in there who makes knives
for a living will take you in the back and
you can make your own little knife. That's pretty cool.
There's not a whole lot of places that will give
you that kind of experience. There's even an opportunity if
you want it now. There's some money involved if you

(44:34):
want to follow a cowboy around and learn the real
ins and outs, the nitty gritty of custom knife making.
But it's doable, and they have about a thousand knives
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a holiday gift of a custom knife for somebody, you
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(45:22):
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They'll take care of that for you. Phoenix Knives dot
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Phoenix knives dot com. Now here's Doug Pike. All right,
here we go. Second hour of the program starts right now.
Feel free to join in seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
You've been dub hunting, if you've been teal hunting, if
you've already made your teal hunting. You're on your way back.

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I definitely want to hear about that because I know
it's going to be a good story. Uh, speaking of
a guy full of good stories. Let's go talk to
folk bro. What's up forrest?

Speaker 5 (46:15):
Hey? Good stories? You might want to go to the
next collar shoot.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Come on you you're living the dream, you know you are.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
I'll tell you what I think. I got my limit
this morning pretty quick. But it was a limit of Tamali's.
So I kind of tells you how my hunting went.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
But I was kind of I was kind of laughing
about how good it is that teal hunts go so fast,
because a lot of times you end up in a
blind with five or six guys who ate burritos for breakfast,
and it can get pretty rough.

Speaker 5 (46:45):
Oh yeah, it definitely. It definitely DeFi get rough between
swamp that and swat and sweating mosquitoes after my public land,
i'll tell you yesterday and uh on the way and
I stayed probably a little bit longer than I should have.
I cried at ten o'clock before I left, and there
was another hunter on this four hundred acre property. Oh okay,

(47:06):
and uh, could have. I could have left my gun
decoys and couldn't stayed in bed for what I saw.
Did see one nice buck, that's about it. But uh
but it was a thing of what we're getting old though,
because on the way back, this is about a one
crowding three hundred yards three hundred and fifty yards walk
to where I parked because you can't drive on these properties.

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So I'm walking back about two thirds away, and I
paused for a second. I said, so, lord, this is
the where it is. Uh so, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
What happened? He just got winded or what?

Speaker 5 (47:40):
Yes, she got wedded? It was so hot and I
left my cooler with water at the truck, big, big
dumb mistake, number one mistake.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
And uh yeah, but yeah it.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
Was tough and I got back to the truck man
I was it was so hot and wedded. And so
I spent the rest of the day scouting. Didn't see
another dove on the line between the west of Brenham
and Alaska. Didn't see it does on our primary property.
Then yes, Steve and I go to scout hero O
Levison for till I'll go down to two of the

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boat ramps so I could actually see the tail hounting
area I want to hunt. I blew up about fifty
doves at both boat ramps. That's about typical. I drove
four hours and here they are five minutes from now.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Oh my gosh. One of the greatest concentrations of mourning
doves I've ever seen was for some reason years ago,
like probably you twenty five years ago, somewhere in there.
I had to go over to the University of Houston
campus to pick up something or pick up somebody or whatever.
And I had this was like in late August, right

(48:40):
before dove season started, and I'm just driving through this
campus and I could have gotten out and just thrown
a rock and probably hit a dove. They were just
that many. There were thousands of doves on the U
of h campus. It was amazing.

Speaker 5 (48:54):
Oh money bird feed I got. I'm tried to save
money and I bought birds seeding. My birds don't like.
But it's full of milo.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:00):
So so the doves and the deer will go straight
to my bird feeder and then they'll go to the court. Okay,
that's not what I put it out there for.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
But all right, but I.

Speaker 5 (49:09):
Stayed in this morning. I did go down to the
boat ramp at shooting time. Yeah, and I didn't hear
anybody fire shot. I was lasting around the bird flying
and based on yesterday, was so hot and calm and sweaty.
I said, you know what's going to be exactly the
same tomorrow. And I'm just not that mad at him anymore.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Does Yeah, no, I understand that I do. There was
a time when it nothing would have kept me out
of the field, but now I'm a little more jain Fleet.

Speaker 5 (49:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, like a post I thought it would
have been good out of it out there, of course.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
I mean, yeah, but you know what, but you know
what if if you'd have called me, or I'd have
called you and we lived closer together, we I don't
care what age we are, We're still going you know.
Oh if you're missing out.

Speaker 5 (49:51):
Exactly. It's like I invited you yesterday. I know you
couldn't call it. But you know, even though we would
have the hunting would have been terrible, it would have
still would have been nice. We could have been out
there and shot the breeze about all.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
The It would have been just great. But I'm man,
I just this job doesn't work. I can't just call
it sick every now and then. I know, right, m mmmmm,
I do like that. You go ahead. I was gonna say,
I'm still fascinated. God, I've used that word like twenty
times said I got to back off of it and
find something else. But I'm still interested because you have

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you have taken a shine to this public hunting stuff,
and you're going and scouting these places, and I'm just
kind of curious trying to keep some kind of little
written record of how many places you've checked out, how
many of them really look like they had potential, and
then how many of them paid off if you went back.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
Oh yeah, because the app that they the app that
you download for the stuff, it'll it'll keep digital record.
You could you could basically clock in and clock out,
so you can clock in when you go there, even
if you're scouting. Then you can report on what you saw,
what you shot, what you the reason you were there.
It's really detailed. Wow, So I could just go back
and look at my app and say, okay, on this day,

(50:59):
this of weather, they were here, yes, yesterday, three weeks ago.
It was loaded, So it's good. It's a good digital records.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
It will become the more information you feed it, the
more valuable it's going to become to you. You know.
And what did that what did that permit? Costs next
to nothing?

Speaker 5 (51:15):
Right, well, forty eight bucks for the whole year. You
got access over a million.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Acres Holy mackerel. And it's just all electronic. Now you
just kind of pull up to the gate and punch
in and start walking.

Speaker 5 (51:27):
Yeah, pull it to the gate, punch in and you
could even Uh, there's a little button on there that
tells you exactly where you are, so you can see
at real time where you're walking. And the property lines
are there, so there's no danger if you have a
mold that you won't be breaking the lag getting on
property and pretty much it's all marked by it'll say, uh,
it'll stay some kind of they got some kind of

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orange steinin area property barrier, property bound property boundaries is
what it is.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
So what we're gonna do if we go to one
of these places, we're going to carry in fishing tackle,
we're going to carry in phones, and we're going to
carry in portable chargers, right, portable power and that's all
you in water, We're not going to forget our water,
trust me.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
Yeah, I was sitting there yesterday. You know something. I
was sudden by a pond, of course, because you want
the water source. And I'm watching these blue hairs and
white eagres lock up on the pond. I'm thinking I
should have brought my little study right.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Why did you leave without it?

Speaker 4 (52:22):
Man?

Speaker 5 (52:22):
Well, what I had to toe it in for three
hundred yards was the mojo, tree, decoys, guns, gun box.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Oh lord, one.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
More thing on me. I wouldn't have made it.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
You know what you need. What you need is a.

Speaker 5 (52:32):
Place to go with the buddy.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
You need one of those beach wagon buggy things that
fishermen used that have real big balloon tires, and we'll
just yeah, that would all like silk over anything, man,
be a good thing to have around. Why don't you
have one of those? Why don't you have two of
those in your garage?

Speaker 5 (52:52):
I'll be on Amazon it right after this call. Well,
I'm glad we and you wants to walk today, So
we're going to Katie Mills. Long I stayed bass Pro
Shops for three hours.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
You're going all the way to Katie Mills from where
you live.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
That's not bad. If I hit ninety nine, it's not
She WANs to walk, and I can't think of nowhere
I want to walk in ain't air conditioned, So that's
a mile walk around the mall.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
So walk walk into bass Pro shops until you'll see
her in a little whall.

Speaker 5 (53:22):
That's exactly you start. Hear a bass pro rusts. When
you get back to bass Pro shops.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Give me a call. It works out good for me,
you know what, And you'll probably have spent more money
and she spends.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
Ain't no danger at this time of years, no danger
that at all. But one tip I did have before
a go Okay, the people that are out there teal hunting,
I suggest what I bought. I bought two boxes of
steel seven's just in tow. That buzz is your til decoys.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Lord man, Well you just shoot them with a normal
teal load. It won't rip them up too bad unless
they're just point.

Speaker 5 (53:58):
By shoot fours or tilled. But I know what they
would do to I don't know if I could hit
or dub with. I'm not that cracking job I used
to be.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
You know, it's just being out there that matters.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
You know that.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
I talked about it a little while ago. Whether you're
going fishing or hunting. Nobody who is who who can
do that? Nobody who can license themselves and have the
equipment to go do all that. These days, nobody's gonna
starve to death if they don't bring anything home. Just
enjoy the experience, and I know you do. You're passionate
about it, like it's just being out there. Anything you

(54:32):
bring home as a bonus man.

Speaker 5 (54:35):
Oh, yes, it's it's fun. It's like going after I
go out there and catch twenty five croppy every day.
But I go out there if I want to eat
croppy that day, I'll bring seven or eight home with
my not I'll hold back. Catch you next time. Yep,
I finally to keep everything you catch.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
I don't know if you heard me this morning, but
I got to test my theory about Barble's hooks yesterday. Yeah.
It was the real deal, man, because I mean that
thing was buried, okay, it was down to the bottom
of the bend, and I just had had to just
ask myself if I was right or wrong. And I'm
not kidding. That thing slid out of there like like

(55:11):
a veteran nurse just removing a needle from an injection
or something. It just there was no pain. It just
slid right out. So what I'm gonna have to do
now is go back and make sure the barbs are
that flat on every one of my hooks, because some
of them, you know, I'll rub them. Yeah, that's almost done.
And if it's in my arm again, I don't want

(55:33):
it almost flat. It's got that.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Man.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
I got work to do, all.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
Right, fauk pro great, Oh yeah, go ahead, but yeah,
I'll say you almost got me into that barble this thing.
I have the perfect lake up there and left going
to practice it on.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
So Lord, why are you not doing it? You need
to do it. Whatever you're throwing, just take one minute
and use your needle loas flyers. Just squish them down,
squish down, squish them down, and check them with your finger.
Just roll that finger along there and if it needs
another squish, give it because someday that's gonna keep you

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from having to leave the lake and go get a
hook pulled out of you somewhere.

Speaker 5 (56:15):
Promise I'm gonna dedicate tomorrow to you that I'm going
to curse in the morning and a big, super clear,
super spook and I'm gonna have everything cramped down. I'm
gonna taking a picture.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Totally mash it down. Yeah, just totally mash them all down.
And I promise you won't lose. You're gonna lose a
couple because bass jumping up on top waters sometimes they're
gonna come unpinned. But as long as you keep your
line tight and don't I don't know if you heard me. Also,
keep that keep that rod tip away from the dead
end line where the lure comes flying straight back at you.

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And you do that. Okay, you know better? All right, men, Okay, yes,
sir audios. Holy cow, we went through that whole segment.
That was fast.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
All right.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
We're gonna do another segment when we get back from
this break, and then after that one, we're gonna be
talking to David Pruett to see how what he calls
the Big Blind Hunt. I don't even know really exactly
what that is, but I suspect as many teal as
there are on the prairies right now, there's a lot
fewer now than there were about an hour and a
half ago. But yeah, there's gonna be a good story

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coming out of Eagle Lake. On the way out, I'll
tell you about El Kubano's cigars. It might be a
great time to celebrate a big teal hunt. Come back,
get back to the trucks. Everybody's kind of winding down.
Pop out a box of cigars and have hand one
to all the people that are out there with you,
especially if you were entertaining really close friends or maybe
clients of some sort, corporate outing of some sort, maybe

(57:41):
a golf tournament, whatever it is. El Cubano Cigars can
take care of you, and they will actually make bands
that show your ranch name or may just be great
for some of the deer lodges a big, big hunting places.
Cigars that have the ranch name on it. The box
can have the ranch name branded into it wherever you want.
And they make one hundred and fifty different kinds of cigars,

(58:03):
so you could either have kind of a mixed bag
within that box, or you could have a full box
of the exact same cigars with the exact same bands,
and that looks really really cool. Makes a great gift
for anybody who truly likes him. If you're the cigar
smoker in the bunch, buy some for yourself. You can
either go down to Texas City where they are manufactured

(58:26):
as one of only about four dozen cigar manufacturing facilities
in the whole country. Or you can just get online
or give many a call, give Manny Lopez a call.
Look up El cubanos Cigars dot com. There's gonna be
a phone number there, and when you get it, call
and ask for Manny. He's probably gonna answer the phone. Actually,

(58:46):
and if he does, he'll take that order for you.
He'll explain how it all works. You'll realize what a
good deal you're getting because there's no middleman in here
trying to get a little piece off every cigar. Elcubano
Cigars dot Com find in his Cuban seed tobacco grown
in Central America, where tobacco grows really, really well. It

(59:07):
comes up here, it gets seasoned, it gets aged, and
then it gets rolled, gets rolled in to find cigars
Elcubano Cigars dot com. Hey twenty two on Sports Talk
seven ninety The Dug Pike Show, Thank you for listening,
certainly to appreciate it. Great morning, Dove Hunting Open, Teal
season Open. I don't know who's got the most mosquitoes,

(59:30):
but I guess the teal hunters are going to win
that one every time. However, I got my buddy Dirk here.
He's got his daughter Dakota out there hunting. What are
y'all hunting? Dove dirt? Yes, sir, yes, Oh that's you, Dakota.
How are you doing good?

Speaker 7 (59:47):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (59:48):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (59:48):
So, how many birds you got so far?

Speaker 4 (59:54):
All of us?

Speaker 1 (59:55):
You've got over forty?

Speaker 7 (59:56):
Holy cow?

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
You just had to drop that in, didn't you. And
I bet you have more than two.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Don't you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
How do you have?

Speaker 5 (01:00:07):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
We share them? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
Okay, well that's good. I'm glad.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
I've wanted a tree that I'm looking at right now.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Oh, stize them up. Huh, that's good. How long you
been hunting, Dakota?

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Three years?

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Outstanding? Are you a pretty good shot?

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
You think?

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
Pretty pretty good?

Speaker 7 (01:00:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
Well you know, and yeah you're you're young enough that
you still got time to get a lot better, don't
you worry? And I know your dad's going to help
you with that. How's the weather down there? How the
mosquito is?

Speaker 8 (01:00:38):
No mosquitos?

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Oh? My goodness? Where are you hunting in the middle
of a desert somewhere? Or do you are you all?
Do you have mosquito repelling all?

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
Are you nope? No? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
Wow? Yeah, you're in a really good spot.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
Then it's really humid here.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're young, get what as you get older?
It doesn't get less humid here. It's gonna be the
same for your whole life. That's just part of living
around here. But at least it sounds like you're in
a really good field. What kind of food are those
doves eating?

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
Uh? What?

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Milo?

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Oh that's a good field to be in for sure. Yeah, buddy,
I was just talking to one of my friends that
he's got a bird seed that he puts in his
feeders that's got a bunch of milo in it, and
all the little songbirds don't really like it. But the
doves come to his feeders in his backyard, but he
doesn't shoot him out of there. So you guys are
are you? Are you close to home? Did you have

(01:01:40):
to drive far to get where you're going? Oh? No,
well that's nice. Are you in the backyard? Did anybody
get one?

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Then?

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
I heard the shots? Anybody knock one down? Well that's good?
So they're still flying pretty good?

Speaker 7 (01:01:59):
Yes there?

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
Oh, good heavens, And you're kind of wasting your time.
You need to be shooting Dakota. You get back to
your shooting. Tell your dad, I'll talk to you next week,
and thank you for the call. You're welcome down all right,
we'll see Dirk audios. Wow, they are hot on them
down there, Absolutely, they're hot on them. He told me
he was going, and I said, give me a call,

(01:02:24):
give me a call from the field, let me know
how they're doing, how y'all are doing. I didn't realize
he was going to someplace that doesn't have mosquitoes and
has doves. I'm not sure how you do that around here,
but they found a way. He lives kind of out
in the country, and so I think Dakota is exactly
right saying that they didn't have to drive very far.

(01:02:44):
It might have just been down to the end of
the street or something like that. And he's been talking
about how they had pretty good numbers of doves out
there where he is, so good for him. He's kind
of southwest of Houston, a little waist. Good for him,
Good for Dakota. I love hearing stories like that. If
you're out in the teal blind somewhere, Like I said earlier,
you got one earbud in listening to the show, thank

(01:03:05):
you very much, and the other listening for wings, and
you've got your kids with you. I don't mind talking
to kids at all, not at all. Sometimes they get
a little shy, but I can work them through it,
and I have again, if you've got your child out
there with you in the outdoors, you're you're already high

(01:03:26):
on my list. Those kids need that, they need to
get away from the electronics. They need to get away
from the craziness sometimes of just what school is for them,
and and what some of the things that life throws
at them can be. And being out in the field,
in the dove bline, in the duck blind, in the

(01:03:46):
boat on the bank, wherever you are fishing or hunting,
or doing just hiking through the woods, you're far better
off than sitting around the house watching TV and looking
at social media. Seven one three two one two five.
Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Thought this
was kind of funny, Frankie. I think there was a

(01:04:07):
story like this a few years ago, and I don't
know whether this one just some regurgitation of that old
one or this one's fresh. Either way, it's it's interesting,
It's not that interesting, but I found it kind of humorous.
A cow that escaped a slaughter house in Arizona. It says,

(01:04:28):
here is going to get to live the rest of
her life on a farm. She was. She was just
one more gate from the from the acts or I
don't know how they do that these days. She was
just one step from death's door and becoming a hamburger,
uh for well, maybe for a fast food place, maybe not.

(01:04:49):
I'm not sure sure how much beef goes into all
those I read a story the other day, by the way,
that the average hamburger one of these places. I'm not
sure which one of the burger barns there it was,
but the average actual patty of beef in there contains
little bits of beef from something like forty or fifty cows.

(01:05:12):
That's how much meat they're they're churning around and and
hammering into patties. It's just it's it's a much bigger
operation than any of us could imagine. I'm thinking, Okay,
the half a dozen cows go to the slaughterhouse, they
get put down and butchered, and they get sent to

(01:05:37):
the big burger giant factory where they chop them down
and grind them up, and then they keep doing that
over and over with these little small lots of meat,
small lots of lettuce and pickles and cheese and whatever.
But no, it's they buy him bulk. They're the Sam's

(01:06:00):
Club of the meat world. All of those places are
seen all kinds of interesting things about some hamburgers from
some places. I'm not gonna get into it now, but yeah,
it's I've I've stopped eating fast food hamburgers. I really have.
I have. I've had one maybe two all year, and

(01:06:22):
those were both eating in moments of weakness on my part.
I knew better. I knew they weren't going to help me,
they weren't gonna be beneficial in any way. But I
ate them anyway. So congratulations to that cow that got
out of the slaughterhouse in Arizona. I don't know where
the farm is, but I sure hope it's I sure
hope it's a nice place, and that that little cow

(01:06:43):
likes it. More power to her. Seven one three seven
ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's take
a break, shall well. I'll tell you about Shooter's corner
Palmer Highway at twenty nine Street down in Texas City.
This is an old school gun store. And if you're
too young to know what an old school gun store

(01:07:04):
is supposed to smell like. It doesn't smell like tennis shoes,
It doesn't smell like tennis rackets, It doesn't smell like
any of that stuff. It smells like guns. It smells
like ammo, It smells like powder, it spells, it smells
like solvents and lubricants and all of the things that
are necessary in a gun store. To make sure that

(01:07:27):
number one, they can sell a nice inventory of new
and pre owned firearms like Shooters Corner does. They'll have
plenty of inventory of Ammo like Shooter's Corner does, and
they'll have all the supplies necessary back on a workbench
somewhere or too. To make sure that anybody who brings
in a gun that's having problems can fix that, they

(01:07:50):
can fix that that gun. Jerry and JTK have been
doing this alongside. I was gonna say, with my help,
they don't need my help. But what I do is
send listeners who need my help to them when they've
got a problem with a gun. They got to make
sure that gun works for them come hunting season. And
by the way, if you haven't had your guns cleaned,

(01:08:12):
and you need them clean professionally. If you haven't had
an old problem fixed before too long, it's gonna be
hard to get that gun back before hunting season starts.
Take in whatever problem you've got to Jerry and JTK
down there are anybody in the store, really and they'll
they'll hand it up the ladder to Jerry or Jay
if it becomes necessary, but they'll fix that gun.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
I had.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
I tell this story pretty often, and I'll tell it
one more time as quickly as I can. Listener calls me.
He says, hey man, somebody's told me two gunsmiths have
told me. If I'm going to get this gun fixed
it's a rifle. If I'm gonna get it fixed, it's
gonna cost me anywhere from two to five hundred dollars.
Nice gun had a problem. I said, take it down
to Shooter's corner. They'll help you out. That's the one

(01:08:56):
where when I called Jerry back about two weeks ago
or two weeks age later to see what happened, he said, oh, yeah,
I remember him. Yeah. He said a lot of people
had told him this and that and the other. I
got in there and there was just a little burr
in there somewhere. I don't remember where it was or
what it was on, but he said, I just I
got that buffed out of there, and his rifle's fine.

(01:09:17):
There's nothing wrong with it at all. So what's you charging?

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
Nothing, It only took me about five minutes. It wasn't
that big a deal. That's the kind of guy you
want working on your guns. That's the kind of guy
like working on my car, working on anything. Somebody I
can trust, somebody who's not going to take advantage of
a situation, and that's Jerry and JTK. They're going to
take care of you. Make sure you get what you want,
what you need at a very fair priced Shooters Corner

(01:09:42):
TX dot com Palmer Highway at twenty ninth Street in
Texas City. If you wear a badge for a living,
you get a discount. D Shooters Corner, TX dot com.
Hey thirty six on Sports Talk seven to ninety The
Doug Pike Show. Thanks for listening. As promised, I'm gonna
tee up David Pruett right now now from out there
at Eagle Lake and Riceland Waterfowl Club is a shooting

(01:10:04):
already done.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
David no no, we've just seen a big group just
go over a while ago. About told about a minute ago.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
Are you you got the what exactly is the big
blind thing? It sounds like something out of a poker.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
Game, just about it. Every year we started this about
fifteen years ago. A bunch of members just want to
hunt together for and we put yeah, there could be
fifteen of them whatever our best was. We hunted it
five days straight and we shot four hundred and seventy
one teal five days.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
Holy cow, when was that? How many years ago?

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
That was the you before last? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:10:40):
Wow, Yeah, that's a lot of shooting. Teal hunting can
be like that. I was talking about a place back
when I was on the KDI Prairie. We had a
big reservoir and we would for opening to a TL
season and for some of the TL season quite like
you're talking about several days in a row for the
right place, and man, we just loaded up and there
would be shoot going on all morning long. Some of

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those poor birds would get in there and just fly
around in a big circle looking for a safe place
to land, and not many of them made it out.

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
David, I understand that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
How were the conditions this morning. Was it Mosquitoe? Was
it humid?

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
Hot?

Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
Windy? They would I know it wasn't wendy.

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
No, no, I wish it would have been, but I know,
not wendy and foggy. The fog on the looks about
minutes ago.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
Oh wow, Yeah, that does kind of slow those teal down. Man.
They don't like to fly around blind. That's as quick.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
As they were sitting at the We were sitting at
the blind. I could hear all the other I could
hear other blind shootings. I mean a mile and a half,
two miles away that we I mean going around us,
so I know where which direction which blinder shooting And
even one of the new water holes was surprising. They
were just lighting them up, and I went, okay, so
that made me feel good.

Speaker 1 (01:11:52):
Yeah, you know, you never know. You really don't know
what it's going to be like until until the bell rings,
you know, and everybody can start shooting. And it's frustrating.
I've been I've been there, done that, when you're sitting
in fog and you can't hardly see a hand in
front of your face and you're here and shooting all
over the place, and you know, dog on will their
FOG's not as stick as your fog, Like, come on,

(01:12:12):
get this cloud off my head.

Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
Exactly, yeah, exactly. But everybody doesn't seem like they're doing
pretty good shooting, uh, I know, goodwill. One guy text
and said they only shot at one dough. They've shot
at least a box and a half the shells over
there for two or three people, so been just shooting
the dough. Some people don't want to tell you what

(01:12:38):
they're doing because they want to say, I want to
come back over here.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
In the morning.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
Well, yeah, yeah, we didn't do any good there this morning,
but we'll go back tomorrow just to see if it changes. Yeah,
we dealt with those same, This is the same. Nothing's
changed in waterfowl hunting, really, has it? Oh no, sandbaggers. Yeah,
that was kind of like I told you when we
were driving around the prairie about how my a couple

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of buddies of mine and I who were guiding together,
we're making that run all the way out past Sealy
and almost to Eagle Lake because there were just so
many ducks and so many geese down there, and most
of our other GUIDs didn't want to make that long drive,
which wasn't really that long for for the reward, and
we would we would tell our hunters very quietly when

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we got there. Look, we're gonna stay out here pretty
late because I don't want to go back into Katie
with all these birds and let everybody else see what
we're doing down here. We'll just keep this one under
our hat, you know. Yeah, yeah, we'll drive to Selly.
That's okay, I guess. I know it's a long drive,
but I think my hunters will go with me. And
they're all just salivating over there. We gotta go, we

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gotta go set up. That's so fun, man, I'm excited
that waterfowl hunting seasons back. You should get a little
smell of gunpowder in your in your nose this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:13:57):
Oh sure, that's the first thing is opening day. Very
smell Teal cup in and all of a sudden, you can't,
like you said, you don't see them, and here there
all the foggy is here. And also, oh good lord,
look right here now.

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
Yeah, and if you don't shoot now, they're going to
be gone, Teal are So they're just so quick and fun.
Have you seen any big ducks mixed in with them?

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
Not today? Okay, we've we have been seeing them even
like last night, we watched them before. We're hunting right
now that we probably had twenty twenty five hundred in
here just Teal alone, not counting the big ducks. And
they've been here for two weeks going out, just staying
there all day and the way it goes. And we

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didn't put out a huge spread, but we got out
about at least two hundred plus till decoys and twenty
some mojos. Anything that comes by, it's got to come
to visit.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
Well, yeah, they're gonna come see that. They are absolutely
How much water are you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:58):
On this one spot right here? Probably about for fifty
acres of water?

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
Have you got all your water in now? You're looking
to get.

Speaker 3 (01:15:07):
Oh no, we're well, oh no, we're gonna put We're
going to add more water. In Big Duck season we
had for our club, we have more than enough blinds.
I think we had like seventy eight more blinds left
over and Big Duck season we're probably going to be
adding another fifteen to twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
Holy cow. Okay, keep going, Sreep. I know you're grinding
out there. You can't do something for fifty years in
a row without doing it right, David, I appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (01:15:29):
Man, Well we're trying.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
You never know. It's a but a duck's just like
a He's the one that can fly and go where
he wants to. It's sound like a beer at the
stage within a mile of his he's born.

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
Isn't that the truth? I'm just amazed at how far
those little o tell will fly. Some of those teal
you're looking at this morning, if they make it through
the gauntlet, they'll end up down there close to South
America and then just the first ones out of the north,
first last ones back coming back. Man, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
I told the guy this morning. One duck comes through
and all y'all, miss, we'll leave it. Boy, you can
have a bunch of you can have a bunch of
guns and still come in and only twenty five group,
twenty five to thirty come in, only four to five fall. Really, guys, come.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
On, you know I experienced that for fourteen straight years
and just scratching my head. How can so many guns
go off and nothing cut a feather, just nothing, just air? What?

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:16:30):
Yeah, well, I got all kinds of things I'm gonna
be asking you during regular hunting season two to help
people get a little bit better at what they're doing?
What do you think would be a minimum number? And
I got to go, and I know you do too,
but what do you think is a minimum number of
decoys to you?

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
On fifty acres? I like what you put out there,
but somebody hunting a stock tank maybe two three acres
of water at best. I tend to go a little
bit minimalist on something like that. You agree, Yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
I would go, you know, a dozen, a dozen, maybe
one mojo.

Speaker 5 (01:17:00):
You know, something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
Real simple. You don't want to overdo it. But where
you've got big numbers, it's been here day after day
after day. They're expecting to see big numbers.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
It's it's like, what are you opening. Are you opening
a big nightclub or are you open a little corner pub?

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
Exactly, don't make some big nightclub in a small club area.

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
It's no room for more ducks exactly. All right, partner,
we'll get back after it. I'll keep up with you
and I'll push them your way. You got room for
a few more members this year?

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
Oh yes, sir. We had guys trying to sign up
last night. At five o'clock, a group of two, group
of three at five thirty. I went, okay, look, we
can do this, but there's no way I can get
you situated, get you maps and know what's going on
by in the morning. Oh my gosh, Sunday morning. We
got you. We can't cover you, but not right now.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
You give them that one day discount of nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
Yeah, I'm well, we're out chicking whales and making sure
everything's good. I'll go back and do anything.

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
I understand, I really do.

Speaker 5 (01:18:01):
David.

Speaker 1 (01:18:02):
Hey, it's great talking to you, man. Keep them out there,
keep cutting feathers.

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
We'll see you all right, y'all have a good money
yeah audio later.

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
Yeah, there you go off to a good start. Still
shooting out there. They got a big old bunch in there.
It'll take them a while. Six times fifteen, that's ninety
birds they're looking for, and those if a big teal
hunt like that is a lot of fun if you've
got teal flying around. But it also even if you

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don't have that many birds flying around the way that
one's set up where all these guys know each other.
They're longtime members of the club and whatnot, and they
want to hunt together because they probably hardly ever get
to do that during the regular season. Everybody's schedules go crazy.
That'll be good, that'll be good. All right, we gotta
take a little break here on the way. I'm gonna
tell you about Barry Hill. I was just in there
two nights ago. Again, it's at least once a week

(01:18:52):
now for my wife and me. This time we split
a combo of chicken tacos. And I learned also by
the way, that there's a special on Thursday nights that
I wanted to tell you about where you can get
four of their great chicken tacos, four on either corner flour,

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whichever you want, for of those and two sides for
just fifteen bucks. That is, that's the normal price for
just a two taco combo plate. That's right right in
the same wheelhouse as that, but you just get more.
And then Friday night, you just missed it last night
if you haven't been there, Friday night's fish tacos, and

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those are absolutely delicious. I was talking to Wendy when
I was in there. Wendy Brooks, the owner of the restaurant,
she and her two sons run it. Talking to her
about what we've ordered for our it's kind of a secret.
I hope the guy who's being honored isn't listening. But anyway,
we've got a catering event coming up here, and I
was talking with her about what the menu is, and

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I'm gonna make sure i'm in the office that day.
Whatever it takes, I'm gonna be here for that lunch
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fifty one on Sports Talk seven nine at the Dugpike Show.
Thanks for listening, certainly, do appreciate it. Seven on three

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two one two five seven ninety. Let me take a
quick peek here before I go back to the phones.
I want to double check on something. Um uh, that's okay,
that's okay, it's okay, all right, let's go. Let's go
talk to Michael. See what's up, Michael? What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:21:29):
Just picking up mojo's and doves and after an unfruitful morning.

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
I understand your your kin to somebody. I know you
not not wanting to claim take claim for him.

Speaker 4 (01:21:41):
Oh no, I'll claim for it, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
Folk Pro's nephew, right, yep. So what's your story here?
You got a good story?

Speaker 5 (01:21:50):
Oh man.

Speaker 4 (01:21:50):
I was listening to you all this morning, and it's
so funny to listen to Forrests moan and groan about
getting older, especially when he's when he's packing things three
hundred yards and dying in the truck and uh, but
you know, it's like what Forrest used to do when
he was twenty years younger. Is he would he would
walk eighteen miles to shoot Lord.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
No, I.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
Mean he was.

Speaker 4 (01:22:16):
He was dedicated. But it's kind of funny because he
is getting older and maybe a little out of shape.
But uh, no, I was.

Speaker 5 (01:22:24):
You were talking about those barbarous hooks.

Speaker 1 (01:22:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:22:27):
And so me and Forrest were on the Angelina River
and we used bandits craig baits. It took us forever
to figure out the right color. And so those baths
they're like hyped up. They've got so much oxygen. They
are just completely hyped up. Well, I called one. It
was under a pound, and I went to grab it. Well,

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one of the trouble hooks got into my pointer finger
on my left hand. So then I put it on
the seat of the boat. Well, then another hook got
stuck in the So then I put my right hand
on the bath and another hook got into my right hand.

Speaker 1 (01:23:06):
Oh, your pin you are totally pinned.

Speaker 4 (01:23:09):
I'm pined. So one of the hooks ripped out of
my right hand. And I'll tell this to everybody that
owns a boat. I don't care if it's a john boat,
to a you know offshore boat have a pair of
good sidecutters. Oh yeah, buddy, because it's not if it's wins.

Speaker 1 (01:23:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:23:30):
So, I mean the fishing was so good that I
just took the sidecutters and got out of the seat
and then just broke, you know, cut the hook off.
And I wasn't going to go back to the boat
ramp or go to the hospital. So I just kind
of kept kept it going and just you know, ran
it through my finger and kept on fishing.

Speaker 1 (01:23:49):
You gotta do what you gotta do.

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. But you know,
if it wouldn't have the barbs on it, it would have
made life a lot easier.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
I promise you it will. Michael Young, Young, Michael, you
got to learn the lesson in the hard way.

Speaker 7 (01:24:02):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
I'm telling you, just think about it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
Go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:24:07):
Oh absolutely Well, And like on the dub report, is
you know because I know Forrest that he went to
the public lands on Friday and Thursday. I was at
my house hunting and there was doves everywhere. I mean
there was fifty sixty seventy doves everywhere, and so I

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didn't quite get my limit. I got ten, Okay, so
I was like, I'll go the next day. And the
next day, well Friday they were gone. There was there
was no dove. So just like what Forrest reported, they
were here one day and gone the next.

Speaker 1 (01:24:42):
Yeah, that they do that. All these birds will do
that on you. Something triggers a move. Who knows what
it's going to be. It's either going to be a
lack of food, or it's going to be harassment, I
getting hunted, but or even just a wind change or
a temperature change that tells them it's time to go
somewhere else. They're going. Man, there's nothing to do to

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stop them.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:25:04):
So I mean that's what I recommend is man, when
you when you feel like you can go hunting and
you've got time, you're off of work for just a
couple of hours, and you see does Yeah, well even
if you don't shoot them, just go.

Speaker 3 (01:25:14):
Just go.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
I'm gonna tell you, Michael Hundre percent.

Speaker 4 (01:25:18):
Just just go because I mean, it's not it's not
we're not out here just to you know, kill birds.
You know, fill the strap up, you know, put it
on the calendar. We got fifteen or something.

Speaker 3 (01:25:27):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:25:27):
You just you just enjoy being out in nature.

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
Thank you. Yeah, you get it. I figured you would,
so you get it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:35):
You know, I guess you know. It takes a little
bit longer, you get a little bit older and you
figure that out.

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:25:39):
It's the it's the memories. But you know, you think
about all the times. I think about all the times,
you know, hunting and fishing with forests, and you know,
you've got a lot of good memories. But you've got
to make more. You've got to make yourself get out
of the house, get up early, get your stuff. Because
everybody's got the stuff. We've got our decoys, we've got
the guns, we've got ourselves. Got to make time and

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get out into the field and do it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:26:03):
I don't know anybody who's ever had a hundred duck
decoys in a garage and just went and put a
lawn chair in the garage and sat over those hundred
duck decoys in the garage and got a single shot.
Never got into the garage.

Speaker 4 (01:26:18):
It's hard to limit out on the couch though, you know,
it feels on what you're hunting. That's true, that's true,
all right, it's getting out of It's.

Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
A pleasure to talk to you, young man. Yeah, So
how often do you do you guys live close together?

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
No, me and Forger we're three.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
Oh wow, Shoot, that's just a war drive around the
block for him sometimes the way he talks, he's driving
all over the state getting to see places. Do you
do any public land hunting at all?

Speaker 4 (01:26:52):
I mean I went and scouted with him, But I
mean we've got we've got two places that I normally
you know, hont At, Yeah, and been fortun enough to
you know, be able to duck and deer hunt, you know,
in our places. But you know, with with Forrest, we've
been looking at that public land and I mean it
is you have to scout, especially with the dove, because

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they went to a couple of places and it's all
coastal patches. There's nothing for the dove to eat it.
It's too maintained. And you know, but then that one
place where he went, you know, there was a bunch
of dove weed. It was you know, it was more wild.
Yeah okay, but you know, for whatever reason, the doves
just weren't cooperating.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
Yeah, you go shoot a lot of doves in a
hay field, No.

Speaker 3 (01:27:37):
You're not.

Speaker 4 (01:27:37):
And you've got to go scout that's the main thing.
You got to put the work in.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
Did you did you get to go to the places
where there were little bas ponds and stuff?

Speaker 3 (01:27:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:27:45):
Okay, yeah, so that's at least you go ahead now.

Speaker 4 (01:27:50):
I think I caught more bass than he did.

Speaker 3 (01:27:52):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:27:54):
It every time?

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
Yeah, that's okay. I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it.
I fished with him. I know what you mean. I'll
see you, man, I gotta run. We're gonna get in. Yeah,
thank you, Michael. It's good to hear from me. Call anytime, man.

Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
Audios.

Speaker 1 (01:28:10):
All right, all the way out Carter's Country. If you
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gonna just fall like dominoes getting all these seasons open.
And if you don't have everything you need right now,
if you don't have everything you want right now, you
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guns ammo and hunting stuff all over Houston. Nothing else
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of business from Carter's Country. They've also got the hunting

(01:28:55):
ranches too, They've got big The Samburrito down there near
you know, is one of the most outstanding places I've
ever been on. And their claim to fame is that
all of that, every one of those deer in there
are all Texas genetics. These are all Texas deer. They
don't import stuff from anywhere. These deer have been been

(01:29:18):
monitored and managed for the better part of thirty five
forty years, maybe more, I'm not sure. And they have
some of the most amazing hunts available that you'll ever find.
The stores are where you can find anything and everything
you'd need to go hunt one of those deer or

(01:29:38):
hunt anything else you want to hunt around the state
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at the Treshwek store up on the north side. The
other two stores are just guns Ammo and hunting stuff
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(01:29:58):
out in the field have a good time. Carterscountry dot
Com is the website red tag sales right now on
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(01:30:20):
at the website. Just go to the website and look around.
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here's Dougpike. Hi, here we are, welcome back. Nine o'clock
hour starts now the Dougpike Show on Sports Talk seven
ninety And I am quite fortunate to have on the
phone right now a guy I've known for probably longer
than either one of us would want to admit, he's
a lot younger than I am. He'd probably talk about it.
That would be Tommy O'Brien. And I'll tell you why

(01:31:05):
I've got him on the phone. It's because I just
found out this week that Golf Digests is named Tommy
one of the top instructors in the entire state of Texas.
How's that sound, Tommy?

Speaker 8 (01:31:20):
Uh, pretty pretty surreal, actually do It's pretty cool to
be recognize in that respect because I believe my peers
actually vote on that, and when your peers vote on
something to that effect, Ye, it's it's really humbling, Yeah,
very humbling.

Speaker 1 (01:31:36):
Yeah, because I don't know, you could probably you could
probably name off or at least recognize the names of
a thousand instructors in Texas and all but a handful
of them aren't even on the list right.

Speaker 3 (01:31:51):
Well, they are.

Speaker 8 (01:31:53):
I believe the best in the state is the is
the like the minor.

Speaker 7 (01:31:55):
Leagues, if you will, of the top sifty that they
have right there. But I will, I'll take it. I'm
happy to be.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
In the game.

Speaker 7 (01:32:02):
But yeah, you've got the.

Speaker 8 (01:32:04):
Jim Murphy's, the Jim Hardy's, so many, so many amazing.

Speaker 7 (01:32:09):
Instructors that they're PACs intact. Chuck Cook, I mean, my goodness,
Chuck Cook. He's just good years old and.

Speaker 8 (01:32:15):
Still killing it, yes, and and very willing to share
and to help.

Speaker 7 (01:32:20):
Which is so impressive.

Speaker 8 (01:32:21):
About all those gentlemen. Is that they're they're never too
big to answer the phone to let you come out
and watch and and talk golf, which is which is
really cool. That's how I pray I will be for
the rest of my life. If someone calls and wants
to want to help, that's a that's a huge piece of.

Speaker 1 (01:32:36):
What we do. I'll remember that next time I'm dolling
your number. Tell me about speaking of mentors. Okay, tell
me about starting with Jim Murphy, because I know that's
where you did start, right I did.

Speaker 7 (01:32:54):
I was very blessed.

Speaker 8 (01:32:55):
My parents were inaugural members at Sweetwater Country Club in
nineteen eighty three and one.

Speaker 7 (01:33:01):
Hank Haney was the golf pro there after, I think
he was the.

Speaker 8 (01:33:05):
Second golf pro there, and he brought his good friend
Jim Murphy down from Chicago.

Speaker 7 (01:33:10):
Jim Liveley finished school, got in.

Speaker 8 (01:33:13):
His car and drove down and at any rate, Jim
didn't even Jim thought he had.

Speaker 7 (01:33:18):
An assistant position.

Speaker 8 (01:33:19):
Jim alaugh about this, and he hears this, and it
turns out the guy that he was replacing hadn't been
fired yet, and that was kind of Hank.

Speaker 7 (01:33:28):
And so he was the starter for a few weeks.
So Jim's the starter.

Speaker 8 (01:33:32):
He just got been playing golf at the pool and
all of a sudden, yeah, I'm a starter.

Speaker 7 (01:33:37):
I'm not a golf pro here.

Speaker 5 (01:33:39):
So it had been probably two weeks.

Speaker 7 (01:33:41):
To a month and Jim's like, okay, Hank him, what's
going on here? I'm either out or in. What's going on?

Speaker 8 (01:33:46):
Anyway, they got him to be the assistant golf pro,
and Jim was able to benefit because Hank at that
time was really getting into the teaching. And I think
that Hank saw probably over two hundred tripros as Sweatwaughter
when he first started going. And and any rate, Jim
was just sitting there like a like a fly on

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the wall watching all of that. And uh, at any rate,
his benefit later on would be would be my benefit.
I mean Sweetwater. Back in the day, it was a
back of teaching. They would go to the back of
that range Doug on Saturday afternoons.

Speaker 7 (01:34:20):
And it would be Yeah, it'd be a Hank Haney.

Speaker 8 (01:34:22):
It'd be Jim Hardy, be Carol Man, and be Murph
so many others that would just come out and they
just would hit balls and talk golf.

Speaker 7 (01:34:30):
And that's just.

Speaker 8 (01:34:32):
What an amazing situation for someone who's teaching to to
be in right there.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:34:37):
And he also got to spend a lot of time
with a gentleman named John Jacobs. And John Jacobs is
the a British instructor that was just the king of diagnosis.
And that's yes, that's a huge piece of teaching is
to understand what's really wrong with the person's.

Speaker 7 (01:34:55):
Golf swing when when they come.

Speaker 8 (01:34:56):
To you, if you you know, if you're the doctor
and I've got a bus to right me and you
keep looking at my left elbow, that.

Speaker 7 (01:35:03):
That's not going to help me so at any rate.

Speaker 8 (01:35:05):
That's the beauty of John is that John really helped
Jim Hardy and Jim Murphy to really understand the dynamics
of diagnosis and teaching and from their their own theories
and thoughts about the golf swing.

Speaker 1 (01:35:19):
Okay, all of this brings me back to you. We're
talking about you, Tommy O'Brien, dog gone at your name's
on that list. Okay, how many places have you taught?
This is to give an idea of how how tall
amountain you've climbed.

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
I have.

Speaker 7 (01:35:34):
I've been teaching since nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 8 (01:35:36):
I started off at Jim Murphy's place, the training station,
which we both know.

Speaker 1 (01:35:40):
Very very well, where we went Alligator House.

Speaker 8 (01:35:43):
Yeah, we went alligating and we still do that at
black HAWFAE and.

Speaker 7 (01:35:49):
We we still do that.

Speaker 8 (01:35:50):
But but it was blessed to teach there for a
number of years and get to be under Jim's guidance
at that point, and then Bravern Country Club, bent Water,
Sugar Creek.

Speaker 7 (01:36:02):
Most recently it was at Memorial Park, and then I've
been here at black Hawk for the last last four years.
It's been It's been amazing, what.

Speaker 8 (01:36:09):
A great place to teach, and it was built for
the tour, so the short game area is amazing, the
size of the range is amazing, and the golf course
is tour quality. So I'm just very blessed to uh
to have been here. I'm really, really, really cool.

Speaker 7 (01:36:23):
Gil.

Speaker 1 (01:36:24):
I'm sure that there's no way you would have ended
up on this list if all you had done is
just regurgitated what other teachers have told you over the years.
You've what I'm guessing you've done, and you might be
too humble to say it is take everything they taught
you and then put your own touch on it to
make sure that it works for even more golfers than

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what they had to offer. Ken is that about right?

Speaker 7 (01:36:50):
Maybe maybe a little bit.

Speaker 8 (01:36:51):
I will admit Doug here on live radio that I
had pretty much stolen everything I've gotten.

Speaker 7 (01:36:56):
I've looked for the UH. I've looked for the best
in the industry, which I think anyone, as any profession
does you look for the best. And I have been
so blessed by by.

Speaker 8 (01:37:07):
Our Lord to to to meet and get to hang
out with guys that are literally on the World Golf
Hall of Fame teaching whether you know, golf top one,
hundreds and and and so on, and so I've listened
intently to them. I've applied it to my own game,
but a lot of the SELFISHESS has been wanting to
improve myself and UH and to and play better myself,

(01:37:29):
and then to help my kids. You know, I've got
my daughters that play as well, and and then like
I said, passing it on to the to the great
membership here at.

Speaker 7 (01:37:37):
UH at black Hawk. But yes, I have absolutely looked
for the best and listened to the best.

Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
UH.

Speaker 8 (01:37:43):
I've taken what's worked and applied it, and if it
doesn't work, I I set it aside for maybe something
or someone else, because there's always a piece of information
that will help someone. And my goal is to help
uh everyone that I that I can see, and I
didn't want to be one. I didn't A lot of
guys will just focus on just full swing, just short game,
just whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:38:04):
I wanted to be able to help anything in any one.
So my focus has been all assets of.

Speaker 8 (01:38:09):
The game, even including golf course strategy, just a huge
piece of it right there, and how to get your
kids to college golf.

Speaker 7 (01:38:16):
That personally experience. And it's been so cool to help
other kids do that as well, because what a help
to a family. You can help them with a scholarship
of some.

Speaker 8 (01:38:25):
Sort, because I'm seeing the prices of college today, and
you know the prices of college today, and it's like,
oh my lord, this is ridiculous, but they're charging so
at any rate, if we can help them get that
for a little bit less or for free, Like my
daughter Advogail, I'm blessed to have a full ride right
now the HCU playing some golf. What a help on

(01:38:46):
a family's budget. And if I can help in that respect,
it actually goels.

Speaker 7 (01:38:50):
Like it's more than just a golf lesson.

Speaker 1 (01:38:52):
Will you ricocheted off something a minute ago that I
wanted to ask you about, talking about how some things
work for some people in some don't. How you have
to be able to communicate not only the lesson, but
you have to communicate it to every different player because
swings are is different as fingerprints, and you have to

(01:39:12):
find ways to reach that person to get him or
her to do the same thing that you might be
trying to get me to do and the same thing
you might be trying to get another guy to do.
But you have to say it a million different ways,
don't you to get the message across.

Speaker 7 (01:39:27):
I have to know about nine languages, Doug.

Speaker 8 (01:39:29):
It's, you know, trying to say the same thing to someone,
and you know, luckily with experience you learn a number
of ways to say the same thing. Typically the diagnosis
and this is just such things to the Jim Murphys
and Jim Harties of the world.

Speaker 7 (01:39:44):
Usually I get that pretty spawn on.

Speaker 8 (01:39:46):
But then, like I said, you've got to figure out,
you know, how to convey that to the person. And
so at any rate, You're right, you have to be
able to say it about nine different ways, so that
you know all of a sudden it's easy for them to.

Speaker 7 (01:40:00):
To get uh. You've got to be able to assess
the person as well.

Speaker 8 (01:40:02):
It's like, Okay, this person capable of doing what I
just told them to do.

Speaker 7 (01:40:06):
You know, you kind of get a feel for that.

Speaker 8 (01:40:08):
You get you get a feel for that by kind
of watching them and listening to them and.

Speaker 7 (01:40:12):
So on and so forth.

Speaker 8 (01:40:13):
So there's there's a lot more to it than just
knowing stuff about the golf swing. You've got to really
read the person, read their physical ability, read their ability
to to take in the matter you're talking about. If
you want to be successful in a thirty minute time
span or a one hour time span, I mean, I
MURVH taught me years ago. You're done teaching after about

(01:40:35):
the first five to ten minutes of a lesson. The
rest of it should be raw ran, just reinforcement. If
you're still if you're still.

Speaker 7 (01:40:42):
Teaching a minute twenty nine of a thirty minute lesson,
you are in trouble. You're in trouble.

Speaker 1 (01:40:48):
All you have to do is related either to fishing
or to baseball. For me, don't get analytical for just
tell me why it's different than a baseball swing, and
how I can relate it to fishing somehow.

Speaker 8 (01:41:00):
It's it's funny you say that, because that'll be one
of the questions I'll.

Speaker 7 (01:41:04):
Ask someone when I first started giving them lessons, is
what other sports that you played? Yeah, for that exact reason,
so that you can relate to.

Speaker 8 (01:41:10):
Them and that in that sense, so that all of
a sudden, you know, it's not so foreign when you
talk to them about singing, a different direction or a
different sensation, whatever it is, that that that may be.

Speaker 1 (01:41:20):
Sounds good to me. Tommy O'Brien on the Top Teachers
in Texas list thanks to Golf Digest. I'm so happy
for you, man. You know, I've known you forever, all
the way since back at the training station man in. Yeah,
You're a good dude. Just well deserved Tommy. It really is.
You've worked hard. I know you have, and your daughter's

(01:41:41):
are proof of that. They are fine young women and
great golfers, and that's testimony to you and your wife's work.
I'm sure I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (01:41:50):
Well.

Speaker 8 (01:41:50):
It's been You've been a great support and everyone I've
interacted with.

Speaker 7 (01:41:55):
That's what's so cool about our sports.

Speaker 8 (01:41:56):
There's just so many good people that are in that
are pulling for you know, even the membership here at
the club have been just in probably supportive.

Speaker 7 (01:42:04):
And when you have that, uh, it just it's a
game changer. It really really is to uh to keep
going and uh just so blessed to have the support
that I've I've gotten over these last few years, because
there's there's been some tough times, you know and whatnot.

Speaker 8 (01:42:18):
But uh, it's uh, it's really cool to to see
things kind of starting to come to fruition a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:42:24):
So, so my guys know, you can teach people other
than members at Blackhawk, right, I can.

Speaker 8 (01:42:32):
Yeah, as long as you follow the dress code. We've
got a minor one here Carlod shirt and no don
we're good to go. But yes, would be happy to
help anyone that would like some help with their game
and any any.

Speaker 7 (01:42:43):
Facet of the game.

Speaker 1 (01:42:44):
And where do they find you.

Speaker 8 (01:42:46):
Uh, Tommy O Golf is my website and my actual
phone number is on there, and it's as easy as.

Speaker 7 (01:42:53):
Just shooting a text. They can shoot a text.

Speaker 8 (01:42:55):
And tell me what's troubling them and we'll figure out
a date and we'll we'll, we'll, we'll we'll help where
I'm going.

Speaker 1 (01:43:01):
All true confession. Sometimes when you're out there teaching, I
try to stay away from me because I don't want to.
I don't want you to think I'm trying to eavesdrop.
But then again, sometimes if it's something that I think
is if I overhear something that I think is part
of my game, I might move one little bay down
closer just to hear it.

Speaker 7 (01:43:19):
That's actually the best. That used to happen a lot
when I was at Memorial Park. Right you give a
guy a lesson, You're so you're so packed in.

Speaker 8 (01:43:25):
Right there, and the guy next to you, here's what
you're talking about.

Speaker 7 (01:43:29):
That's why like a Blackhawks, I don't like teaching in
the hitting day. I like being on the main driving.
I'm old school, and you know that's kind of way
I've been brought up with Jim Murphy, and yeah, I
want people to see.

Speaker 8 (01:43:41):
Me teaching, hear me teaching and all that, so they
if they hear something, they get excited and they do
want to do that.

Speaker 6 (01:43:45):
So I please.

Speaker 7 (01:43:47):
I have I have two eyes, so you know, I
can be looking for the lesson and looking at you
at the same time. It's amazing.

Speaker 8 (01:43:52):
I got good at that with my kids because they
all wanted me to look at them at the same time.

Speaker 7 (01:43:56):
Son, I got five of them.

Speaker 2 (01:43:57):
So at any rate.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
Uh, have you ever looked at me and just mumbled
the word in your head hopeless?

Speaker 3 (01:44:03):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:44:04):
Actually I have not.

Speaker 2 (01:44:05):
The thing.

Speaker 7 (01:44:06):
The thing I keep mumbling.

Speaker 8 (01:44:07):
Is stay back, don't get ahead, don't get habits.

Speaker 1 (01:44:12):
Hard Tommy, Tommy O'Brien, thank you so very much, man,
Tommy o golf dot com.

Speaker 7 (01:44:17):
Is that right or Tommy?

Speaker 3 (01:44:22):
You got it?

Speaker 2 (01:44:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:44:23):
Thank you so much, my pleasure, congratulations, Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:44:29):
What a great guy he really is, man, and he
he has worked as hard or harder than anybody I
know in that business. Like you said, he's been. He's
been at a lot of places, and I've seen him
at all those places. When I was running all over town,
all of a sudden, there's Tommy right there. I'll be
dog gone. I didn't know he'd come over here. And
there he is again over there, and he's he's landed

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where he is now out there at black Hawk. He's
very comfortable there. He can give you a lesson anybody
else you want, uh, or anybody else who wants one,
and prist see me out there. I'm out there hitting balls,
just flailing away and trying to remember everything that Tommy's
told me over the years, and some of it gets away.

(01:45:10):
That little stay back thing, though, is implanted in my
brain and that's my go to. That's my first remedy
usually for what's ailing me. And had a man. They
had a great nine holes two days ago. Yesterday, quit
playing golf after three holes because I was so frustrated.
That's golf. Riceland water Club, water Fowl Club missed a

(01:45:33):
syllable there. Riceland Waterfowl Club down there and Eagle Lake.
We just talked to David Prude about that a little
while ago. He's out there with the big blind fun
thing for a lot of longtime members. They like to
get together on opening day of teel season. Riceland's owned
by David and well he's the only owner and he's
the only guy who's been out there running the show
for fifty years. Fifty years. He's been able to keep

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these hunters happy, make sure everybody's got water to hunt,
make sure everybody's got a good blind to crawl in to.
All of them are about a quarter mile apart. Like
you said, he's got plenty of water right now for
Teal hunting, and then he's gonna be pumping or gathering
rain or whatever he can get before the regular season
opener to make sure everybody has plenty of room. Then

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lots of ducks last year, lots of ducks every year
because he takes care of those properties and make sure
that they provide everything those birds want. And he doesn't
over hunt his fields, and he doesn't run any guided
hunts on his fields either. The only people who hunt
on these properties are members of Riceland Waterfowl Club and
their guests. You got a six man group, you got

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six spots. If one of you wants to hunt and
the other five guys are staying home, you can bring
five guests and it doesn't cost you any more money.
If you're hunting wasn't great this past season, there's still
a little bit of time to shift gears and go
check out Riceland Waterfowl Club. Get him to take you
on a quick tour if he's got time, of some

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of the places and some of the blinds, and you'll
see how much attentions put into all that stuff. Ricelandwaterfowl
Club dot com is website. Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com.
Nine four on Sports Talk seven ninety. While I was
talking to Tommy, I was thinking about maybe some similarities

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because or between golf and fishing and hunting and casting,
all of these things, fly fishing, and the one thing
that is recurring in all of those sports is is
well it's It's true in so many facets of life,

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practice makes permanent. Practice doesn't make perfect, which is an
adage that's been around forever. That's quite untrue. Actually, practice
just makes you really good at doing whatever it is
you're doing. You learn to repeat things, and if you've
learned a golf tip or a shooting tip or anything

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from somebody who's not very good at it, what they've
taught you to do is be not very good at it.
And I've seen I've witnessed some of that overhearing instructors.
Elsewhere there was Where was I? Where was I? I
can't remember exactly where. It's been fairly recent. It was

(01:48:28):
this year, about maybe three months ago. I was on
a driving range. I do remember where, but I'm not
gonna tell you. Doesn't matter. And I think the man
who was instructing a teenager teenage boy, and this guy,
I watched him make a few swings, and I wouldn't

(01:48:49):
even have wanted him to teach me how to tie
my shoes. He was that bad. And I was watching
him teach his student. It wasn't his son. There was
no way, because the kid had gotten gotten there early.
He'd already warmed up, and he'd hit probably fifty balls
before this guy showed up. He brought his old bag

(01:49:10):
up there. He set up and started talking to the kid,
and what have you been working on? So I know
this is a lesson going on. And I watched him
teach this kid, and heard him teach this kid things
that the words that would have never fallen out of
Tommy O'Brien's mouth, falling out of Jim Murphy's mouth, Jim

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Hardy's mouth. Any good instructor, by the way, that list
that's in Golf Digest, the list on who on which
Tommy's name appears, it's got about maybe thirty I don't
know thirty thirty five people top instructors in Texas, and
I know ten of them. I could call probably eight

(01:49:54):
of them just sitting here right now. I feel I'm
so blessed to have had all this opportunity in my career,
and I don't take it for granted, it was really
interesting when I started looking at that list, like I
know that guy. I know that guy. I know that guy.
I might just try to have some or all of
them jump on for calls over the next six or

(01:50:15):
eight weeks. That'd be kind of fun. Got the Ryder
Cup coming up next week. Back to where I was, sorry,
I just I have such a short attention span. So
the repetition thing is true throughout sport. You don't get
good at something by doing it once or twice. You
get good at something by doing it a thousand times

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and a thousand times more than everybody else does it,
and doing it right because you've had good instruction. And
for some reason another adage that's quite true is use
it or lose it. And sometimes it just I don't
know for what reason, it just flew out of my head.
Yesterday I was so pumped up. I played so well.

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I played nine holes. Actually I played seven holes, and
honest to god, finished one under for seven holes. And
the only reason I finished or one under instead of
two because it was because I bogied nine. I was
so disappointed with myself. I boged nine. How could I
do that? But I did in any event. The repetition thing,

(01:51:22):
the use it or lose it thing is all there,
and sometimes if you're making mistakes, it's not gonna it's
not a permanent mistake. That's one of the things I've
had to learn in golf too. Just because I played
well two days ago, it didn't mean I was gonna
play well yesterday. And just because I literally stunk it
up yesterday doesn't mean I would play badly if I

(01:51:42):
went out there and played again. You just got to
keep going, which is not hard for somebody who likes
the outdoors as much as I do. If I don't
catch a fish today, I might catch one tomorrow. If
I don't shoot a dove the next time I go
into a dove field, I might limit out in five minutes.
In the Nati, it's it's the anticipation, it's the hope

(01:52:04):
of the outdoors. I think that really makes it so
much fun. There's always a shot you can't win if
you don't play. There's another adage, and by the way,
it's it's not an old adage. An adage is an
old expression, and that's probably one of my favorites. You
can't win if you don't play a lot of people
justify buying lottery tickets doing that, and they're right, of course,

(01:52:28):
But if you add up all the money you spend
on lottery tickets unless you do hit it, you might
want to look back and reconsider next time you go
to buy them. Every now and then, I'll get suckered
in at that one point four billion. I'll admit I
jumped in. I bought two tickets, I had two shots
and scored nothing out of it. Oh my gosh, we

(01:52:49):
got to get going. We got to call Chris Hodge here.
We're going to talk to him for a few minutes
about about sports handicapping. And because he's got a show
that comes on after mine every Saturday, it's called Sports
Investors Daily, that's what it's called, we'll have him next.
I'm going to take a break. On the way out,
I'll tell you about timber Creek Golf Club. Timber Creek

(01:53:10):
is on FM twenty three fifty one in Friendswood, twenty
seven holes, open and wooded and just really fun, really
fun golf. It's challenging, but not so much that you're
going to break into a cold sweat every time you
step up to a tea box. It's fun and if
you are worried about your golf game you want to
get better. Got a great teaching staff with the JJ

(01:53:30):
Woods Golf Academy at timber Creek. Great golf Course, twenty
seven holes. Great people in the grill that have good
food in that grill too, by the way, great just
all the way around. Good place for a tournament too.
If you want to raise a bunch of money for charity,
make a tea time right now, go ahead. It's going
to be a beautiful day for golf. Timbercreek goolf Club
dot Com is a website Timbercreekgolf Club dot com. Nine

(01:53:56):
six on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thanks for listening. What a text message from Glenn Childressover
at Memorial He said, Hey, good friend of mine place
in Friday Rax at Royal Oaks in Dallas. Scheffer shot
sixty yesterday with a bogie. Oh my lord, that guy's

(01:54:16):
on another planet. Those ryder Cup people better get out
of his way.

Speaker 5 (01:54:20):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:54:21):
All right, let me get to this click of a
button and magically will appear mister Chris Hodge from taking
Sports Investors Daily. How you doing, man?

Speaker 2 (01:54:30):
I mean he could shoot his sixty in a practice round.
But we got the ryde A Cup coming up. Man,
make sure he shoots it then when it matters what
you're doing a practice round, he just wasted Alan, I
was in practice. We're talking about practice.

Speaker 1 (01:54:45):
They do it, by the way, send it like a
basketball player.

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
Now, the Ryder Cup is literally thirty seconds from my house.

Speaker 1 (01:54:53):
Oh my gosh, can you can you sneak in? Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:54:58):
To want to?

Speaker 7 (01:55:00):
You know how?

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
You know how I feel about human beings. I can't
stand them. I want to be around a million people.

Speaker 1 (01:55:04):
The good point there are going to be a few
people there.

Speaker 2 (01:55:06):
Huh oh, there's gonna be a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (01:55:09):
Does this just annoy the heck out of you that
all these people are converging on your little neighborhoods.

Speaker 2 (01:55:15):
I don't care about that, man. They got to go,
you know, watch the tournament, and it's good for the
town and make a lot of money. What I care
about is the people that block the roads off, that
don't realize that you live right up the block and
they won't let you go. And that's just annoying. Like
you've seen me now for two days, buddy, You know
I live up the block. What are you doing? But
you know that's the only thing that's annoying about it.

Speaker 1 (01:55:35):
Well, all right, so what's annoying to me is that
the Texans are two oh and two. What's going on
with my poor football team?

Speaker 2 (01:55:43):
You know, I think you guys are Okay, I really do.
I said this on the show last week. Look, the
Tampa Bay game was a tough loss. You guys pretty
much had that wrapped up. You get the late touchdown
by Chubb and then you know you had them at
fourth and ten. Yeah, and you guys called the grape
Blitz and I don't know who the rusher was that
came that looped around, but he completely whipped on Mayfield.
Mayfield made a play and they go down and win

(01:56:04):
the game. I mean, when that goes when it's all
said and done, that goes down as a tough loss.
But now it's make or break. Now you got to
go to Jacksonville. Like, you can't lose to Jacksonville this week.
Jacksonville just lost to a team that was playing without
their starting quarterback for three quarters. Lord, Okay, so you
have to go beat that football team. But for Houston,
I'm sure you guys have talked about this a lot.

(01:56:25):
You guys gotta figure out a way to run the ball.
Like the offensive line not doing a good job. Just
this poor kid Stroud is running for his life. Doesn't
have any holes to run through. So if you can
figure out a way to run the ball with that
defense that you have, you guys are gonna be Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:56:38):
Okay, here's a team we can both agree to. Not like.
I'm maybe you won't. You probably don't care. What's wrong
with Are the Cowboys ever gonna win anything? Again?

Speaker 2 (01:56:48):
No, man, it's not that I don't like the Cowboys.
I mean, it is boys, but that's well, you shouldn't
like them back based on where you are in the country,
I guess I should have liked them either from New York.
But you know, you have to start at some point.
You know, money buys people out of a lot of things,
and I think money has bought Jerry Jones out of

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a lot of criticism. I really believe that, because for
any team, forget that he's the owner, right, throw that
out the window. If you had a general manager of
a football team for thirty years now and they have
not gotten to an NFC Championship game, yeah. I don't
know how many gms survive that because he has the

(01:57:30):
money and he's the owner and he writes to check. Yeh,
he survives it. But hey, look, they were dead to
rights against the Giants team who is terrible, and the
Giants gave up a sixty yard field goal to lose
a game again, right, or that pushed the game into overtime.
But you know, Dallas is not you know, I don't
think they're going anywhere. Will they ever win again? Maybe
God smiles on him one of these days, but I
don't think they win it this year or next year.

Speaker 1 (01:57:52):
Okay, back to the Ryder Cup real quickly? Do you
do you guys do anything with golf or is that
just we do? Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:58:00):
And I actually I hate I hate what we're using.
I do because you know me for years, I take
my emotion out of it, and I take my rooting
interest out of it. I believe that the europe team
is simply better than the United States team. Now, the
United States team might have the best player, right, Sheffer
is the best player. That's it, right, He's the best player.

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But the best team. You know, if sheffid can line
up twelve of these gods and play them head to head. No,
we bet them right. They are all good. But to
get Europe right now at plus one point fifty, I
just think there's a better value there. And look, I
would like the Americans to win. I don't think they're
going to. So you know, money's money, So to play

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there one.

Speaker 1 (01:58:44):
More real quick and I'll let you go. I know
you're working hard this morning. Speaking of wish it worked
out a different way. The Astro is going to make.

Speaker 2 (01:58:53):
It or not, I hope not. I'm rooting against I
know that, but I'm rooting for the worst possible thing
to happen. Because I'll tell you why this is. This
is from a petty This is from a petty New
York Yankees fan. I'm being petty right now. I don't
want to see you guys in the playoffs. I'm sick
of losing to you. So if someone else can knock

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you out, because if the Astros play the Yankees in
the playoffs, somehow, some way, the Astros are going to
beat the Yankees. Who knows that aggravation right happens every year.
So I'm flat out. We're We're on Houston Radio, and
I know you guys are gonna hate me down here.
I am rooting for the Mariners in this series. I'm
glad they won last night. I hope they sweep you,
and I hope they get you the hell out of there,

(01:59:34):
because if they don't and you guys end up in
and somehow see the Yankees, I don't want to deal
with the nonsense, it's gonna happen again.

Speaker 1 (01:59:41):
You know that's fair. I've known you for so long.

Speaker 2 (01:59:45):
Is that honest?

Speaker 1 (01:59:47):
It is? That's about as honest as you could best.
Brutally honest, but it's it's legit, and it's passion, and
that's what sports is built on. You know, everybody's got
a beat.

Speaker 2 (01:59:56):
The Yankees are the only team that I root for,
and every year we see you, guys, we lose someone else. Okay,
so someone else gon take care of you. And nothing
against the Astros, great run organization. I always thought that
nonsense with the signs was ridiculous because the organization well run.

(02:00:18):
And I'm against you.

Speaker 7 (02:00:19):
I don't know how to say.

Speaker 1 (02:00:21):
I just can't wait to see the Yankees in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (02:00:23):
Now it looks like they play Boston first round, and
that's a whole other issue.

Speaker 1 (02:00:28):
Yeah, Yeah, they gotta get past all.

Speaker 2 (02:00:31):
The issues because you got to deal with those people.

Speaker 1 (02:00:33):
We gave We gave Boston a good third baseman, you did,
you know, But honestly, when we started the season, I
didn't see yeah, and people started getting hurt. The people
who were coming in were were legitimate, valid replacements. But
we're so thin now everybody's getting dinged up and knocked out.

(02:00:56):
I just don't know if we're gonna get past it.
I really don't, you know what.

Speaker 2 (02:01:00):
So, So baseball has become what a lot of other
other sports have become, and that's just get into the playoffs. Right.
It never was that way. Like usually the best team
in baseball, you know, was going to either play in
the LCS or at least make it to the World
Series and then you know, whatever happens happens. Right now,
baseball has gone. So you're going to see teams with

(02:01:21):
in the mid eighties with wins, low eighties with wins
get in and like, you take a team like the
New York Mets, and I hate the Mets, I cannot
stand them, But that team gets in the playoffs. Okay,
the pitching staff is struggling, but they have a great lineup,
and Soto was hot right now. So if that team
gets in, who the heck wants to deal with them?

(02:01:42):
And they're gonna get in with eighty four wins when
that would have never happened before. So right now baseball
is just get in the Astros. The Astros get in.
The Astros have as good a shot as anyone in
that American league. Come out, who's the favorite in the
American League? Toronto? Here's the hell, lord, No, Detroit can't

(02:02:03):
win a game right now. The Yankees can't beat the Astros,
forget the Red Sox. Who's the like you know it'll
scare you. I don't think Seattle scares you, guys, I mean,
who scares you?

Speaker 1 (02:02:13):
You're so right about that eighty game thing, because just
winning half your games would have never gotten you into
the playoffs. But it's because we were sending so many
teams to the playoffs. Now they don't have to they
can They can sandbag a little through the year and
just limp along and then about the last thirty forty games,

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really work it up and squeak in at the last,
you know, the last wildcard spot, and that team probably
got as good as shot as the rest of.

Speaker 2 (02:02:44):
Them good a shot as any, And personally, I don't
know where people fall with this. I don't personally like it.
I don't like the NFL went to seven games. I
understand why they did it because it keeps more fanbit
bases activated as the season go. Because if you're a
fan of since and there's not six teams that meet
the playoffs, you're out, so you're not watching the last

(02:03:04):
two or three weeks. So I get it from a
money standpoint, sure, but from a product standpoint, I always
want to see the best play the best. I don't
want to see some team with eighty two wins that
just gets hot for three weeks and there you're a champion,
or they knock someone out that has no business being
knocked out. I don't agree with that. But like we
said earlier with the europe Pick, money is money, so

(02:03:25):
they're gonna do it for money. I'm just what it is.

Speaker 1 (02:03:28):
People will watch a playoff game faster than they'll watch
the one hundred and sixty first game to get the
last walkard spot.

Speaker 2 (02:03:36):
That is one hundred percent correct, all.

Speaker 1 (02:03:38):
Right, Chris, thank you man. Always a pleasure, my friend.

Speaker 2 (02:03:42):
It's gonna be with you guys, Josh, have a great day.
Go go Marintors tonight. That's my that's my parting shot right.

Speaker 1 (02:03:46):
The go Mariners later. Holy cow. He's a businessman and
he doesn't like the ass tros because he's right. If
we see the Yanks, we'll beat him somehow. If that
ever changes, I will never hear the end of it either.
He and I talk pretty often, and I will never

(02:04:07):
hear the end of it. We gotta take a quick break,
Holy cow. We're almost at the end of the road here.
We'll go straight to it and we'll come back to
wrap it up. The Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk
seven ninety See nine fifty It is holy cow. We
got here quickly, didn't we Nine to fifty on Sports
Talk seven ninety. Lyle just waded in. Yeah, he's jogging

(02:04:31):
around Audubon Park over in New Orleans. Thanks for listening
over there, Lola. I'm glad to have you a board.
Hadn't heard from Mark over in Georgia in a while.
Maybe he's maybe he's listening this morning, maybe he's not.
I'll take a look at my emails and just a
little bit, uh, Alan, let me know, and I want
to tell you guys in the last few minutes, just

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so that you could, just so that you can put
it in your memory banks and be careful when you're
on the water over here. Even though this story comes
from Louisiana, where in the past, well this year so far,
let me get back to that other thing there it is, Oh,
where'd it go? Let me go back one more? No,

(02:05:13):
now I got to go forward. The bottom line is
Vibrio vulnificus has killed five people in Louisiana. Among I
want to say about two dozen cases that have been
diagnosed and confirmed over there this year. And there's there's

(02:05:35):
a great hang on. I've got to I've got to
re Yeah, I want to redo this and get to
the there's what I'm looking for.

Speaker 3 (02:05:42):
I think.

Speaker 1 (02:05:45):
Most of those cases I'm trying to find twenty five
Louisiana experience da da da dah. There was something I
had up just a minute ago that told me that
broke it down into the cases. Yet, Department of Health
in Louisiana confirmed twenty six cases so far as of
mid September, with all the patients requiring hospitalization. In contrast,

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the state only sees an average of about ten cases annually.
So far, there have been five deaths related to the
Fibrio vulnificus infections, and eighty five percent of those were
linked to open wounds being exposed to salt water. Now,

(02:06:30):
an open wound doesn't have to be a cut. It
can be a scrape, it can be anything that kind
of gives that tiny little Vibrio vulnificus an opportunity to
get into your system. And it's primarily found in brackish waters,
although over the course of time that I've been reading

(02:06:52):
about it and writing about it and studying it, it
can also be in beachfront water and clean it can
be pretty much anywhere in warm salt water around the world.
That stuff exists. It exists, and it's a potential problem

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most of the people. I want to I'm trying to
get right down to the back to the underlying reasons,
the severe chronic illnesses, maybe immune systems that are compromised.
He's here, well, who's at risk? It says, while anyone
can get a Bibrio infection, certain individuals are at much

(02:07:33):
higher risk for severe illness, hospitalization, or even death. Those
high risk groups include people with chronic liver disease we
can immune systems, diabetes or cancer. If you're swimming in
a bio and you have any of that and you
got to cut on you anywhere, you could potentially cost

(02:07:56):
yourself a lot. If if it's not here's something I
haven't seen anywhere in here, but I do know is
it appears with kind of flu like symptoms and then
at the sight of the infection itself there will be
redness and swelling, maybe some pain. And then if you
wait another day, you'll maybe start seeing some necrosis, some

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flesh turning black at that site. And if you suspect
it all that you have any sort of an infection
from Vibrio vulnificus, do some reading on it. I'm not
trying to scare anybody out of going to the beach
or out of going fishing. I'm not trying to scare
anybody out of anything. But knowledge is powerful with this stuff.

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Because if you do feel like you've been exposed, soap
and water, just common soap and water. What I explained,
what I suggest is taking a gallon of water and
either put it in your car if you're going to
be at the beach, put it in your boat. If
you're going out on a boat and duct tape a
pump bottle of soap to that juggle water and really

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really really soap down any kind of a scrape that
gets exposed to salt water. That'll help you front end.
The surgeon I talked to when I was really knee
deep in this and writing about it for the paper
and for magazines and whatnot, and talking about it on
the radio initially many years ago, when it really reared
its head, the surgeon I talked to said that if

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you think you've gotten exposed to vibrio and you feel horrible,
and you go to the hospital and you tell them
that you got this from exposure to salt water, he said,
if they don't immediately take you back into a room
and start pumping you full of iv antibiotics, get out

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of there and go somewhere else, that's your best chance.
So it's a serious thing if you get it. But again,
exposures around the world are just minutes compared to all
the fun things people do in salt water. Don't be scared,
just be aware. Okay, I want all of you back
next time. I gotta get out of here now. Sports

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Investors Daily is next with Chris Hodge and then I'll
be back in here again tomorrow morning at Day. Thank
you all for listening. I hope you enjoyed the phone calls.
I know I did this morning. Stay in touch. I
love hearing from every one of you. Stay safe, get outside,
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