Hunting Pranks and Hijinks (Best Of Episode)

This "best of" aired on December 20, 2025.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug Fike.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Oh man, how did it get so late in the
year already?

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Feeling my arms shortened up about three inches? Frankie, Oh no,
I think that's what happened is somebody moved this monitor
way back away from me.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Hands on a second. Ah.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh, that's much better now if it actually does something,
I can see what happens.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
All right, seated and ready to go.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I've had plenty of time to get my fixed for
the outdoors. I've had two or three lifetimes of outdoors,
and I'm very blessed in that regard. I got all
kinds of stories I can tell about what happened, what
didn't happen, how it happened, why it happened, where it happened,
some of which are some of where which are banned

(00:48):
from retelling by the people who were participants in those
hunts and had silly things go on.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
You know, I'm trying to think of.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
I wanted to come up with something differ it to
talk about, and that's pranks that you can play on
other hunters. And I know that I'm not going to
even go into some of mine that I've either seen
or had had put on to me because I don't
want to.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
This isn't about me.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
I'm looking for something fresh and new, something that the
younger hunters, the technology UH generation does to each other
just for fun.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'm not talking about anything.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
That could get anybody hurt or anything that would really.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Well in a in a hunting camp.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
If you're thin skinned and you can't take a joke
on yourself, you may not you may not like hunting
camp so much because that's kind of where guys let
loose and and find ways to to single out something
different about somebody else, and it's all in good fun.
And the best thing you can do if you find

(01:56):
yourself in that situation is realize that if they're not
messing with you, if they're not having fun and not
joking with you and about you and not then in
turn taking whatever lumps you throw their way, they don't
care if you're there or not. But if they do care,
they're gonna if especially if you're new, like Frank, have

(02:17):
you ever been in a hunting camp.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
For say three or four days? I can't say I have.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh your camera's frozen in here by the way, Oh
there you go, now you're moving.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
So if you were to go.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
If you were to get invited and you accepted the invitation,
just know that no going through the gate, that somebody's
gonna mess with you a little bit because they like you.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
That's why they're gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
They If they don't mess with you, if they don't
poke fun at you a little bit for being new,
then they don't care if you're there. And I suspect
knowing you, that everybody would be picking and poking for
a little while. You're a good guy, and I feel
like you could you can take a joke, you know, boy.

(03:01):
I've had mine my hat handed to me more than once. Fishing, hunting,
all kinds of things. When I was growing up, as
I would immerse myself in anything and everything, and then
my my green my inexperience in some of those things
would come shining through to anyone in the group who
had been there a long time and been doing the

(03:23):
same thing a long time. I'd do something only a
greenhorn would do and get duly chastised for it. Seven
one three two seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
What are you going to do this week? You wanna hunt?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
You go on fishing, playing golf, watching football, all of
the above. Uh, well, we'll get to that a little bit.
Let me go talk to Mike here, see what's up
with him.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
What's up, Mike?

Speaker 4 (03:48):
I got a couple of pranks I'd like to tell
you around though. Let's go beyond the normal short sheeting
and and the drip mugs in the morning.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
You know, I decide to go electronic last year with
the group of old hunters. We've got at a cabin
and this cabin has laid out so that there are
six single beds laid out in a big room for
you know, sleeping.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
So when we all finally you know, hit the rack
about thirty forty minutes after the last guy got in
his bunk, I turned my phone onto a couple of
recordings that I had made, and it got everybody's attention
pretty quick. I rattlesnaked them. Oh Now, I never saw

(04:39):
so many old men get up and run around and
turn on lights and look under beds and unlad under
their mattress. And after that, I went into the cricket
mode and turned it on real loud, and the cricket
was so loud it was bouncing off the walls, and

(05:00):
then the old guys started saying, man, if I hear
another town, I'm leaving. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, you know, that reminds me real quickly, My family
and I went down My wife and my son and
I went downstate in Lake Jackson. Golfers were down there
to do some golf and fishing and stuff like that.
One weekend, many many years ago, when he was very young,
and there were so many tree frogs outside of our
room that.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
We could not sleep.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
It was just that noise, and all night long it
was just, oh, it's unmerciful.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Thanks Mike Audio.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
All right, let me go see what's up with RJ RJ.
What's going on?

Speaker 5 (05:41):
Man, good morning, Sir.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
Threw a funny story twenty twenty. I sold my house
and Kobe hit, of course, and we've been living in
an apartment. And then fast forward, my sense says we
need to get a house, and I said, yeah, fine
one and we'll move in it.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
We get to your new house the other day and.

Speaker 6 (06:02):
I'm looking and we go to.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
The backyard and I said, where is the yard?

Speaker 6 (06:06):
And he goes, no, that's a golf course.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Oh wow, I don't care.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
I have nothing to I don't know nothing.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Off.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
You got a five gallon bucket full of golf balls
in your garage.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Though, don't you.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
I was like, of all faces, Okay, here, here we are.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Wow, that's funny, man.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
I guess I'm gonna have to take up golf now.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
You know you're you're standing right at the doorstep. Why not?
Why not? Yeah, that's a good game. Or J, it's
a good game.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Don't if you do decide to take it up, don't
take it too seriously, nobody. Uh, I'm I'm really competitive,
and even now as I've gotten a little older, I've
realized that nobody cares what score I shoot but me,
and nobody's gonna care. As long as you're not slowing
everybody down, you'll be just fine. Everybody get along with.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
You, just fine.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
And I told him, I said, you could have found
a house on the baby that would have been perfect.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah, couldn't find anything on the water. Huh. Okay, I'll
take this golf course, hey r J.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, Happy Thanksgiving man, audios.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Well, good for them.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
They're back in the house and it's on a golf
course that's plus two right there. That's a really good
way to go into the holiday season, I would think,
I don't know that I would want to live right
on the golf course because it would be too tempting
to just go out there and play almost every day.
I don't think I'd get much done, especially if I

(07:31):
could walk and maybe play two or three holes and
then come on to a nice little pond full of bass.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
That would be the icing on the cake.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
And there are plenty of those opportunities around Houston golf
courses that have lakes on them and whatnot, And I've fished.
I've probably fished as many or more different golf course
lakes as anybody in town. I think I can say
that with confidence, and it's it's always been with permission,

(08:02):
well except back when I was in high school and
my buddy Jimmy and I were slithering under the fence
and fishing Bravern Country Clubs ponds and learned later on
that the guy who was being told by members to
go run us off was an avid fisherman, and he
would drive that cart as slowly as he could right
down the middle of a fairway so we could see

(08:24):
him coming, and we literally had enough time to make
two or three more casts. And if we hook something,
catch it, release it, and then run away. And we
were pretty quick back then, much quicker than I am now.
I'd get caught in a heartbeat. Now, it wouldn't take much.
You could You could put the cart in reverse. Everybody

(08:45):
knows what reverse golf court speed, golf cart speed is,
and if it's more than one hundred yards, I'd probably
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Speaker 3 (10:04):
I hate my laptop.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't know why it wants to do what it's Oh,
here we go, Yes, thank you laptop, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Oh yeah man.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Steve Wade in Best Day the subject line best Day.
Let me pop this out and see if I've got time.
Oh yeah, just sweet. One of the best days of
my life. Comma, writes Steve Comma was laying in a
rice field, or it says in a.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Field in Garwood, doesn't say rice? Maybe not in.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Gardwood, Texas, on a foggy morning with a bunch of
my buddies, duck and goose hunting.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
I have.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
I was given the privilege.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
I had the privilege over fourteen years of guiding in
about another six or eight years before that, of hunting
on the prairie west the town to have so many
foggy morning experiences. If it was foggy when I was
in my twenties, thirties, and well into my forties, I

(11:11):
was going to be on that prairie somewhere. I was
gonna be there somewhere with a bunch of my buddies
hunting ducks and geese. Some of the best memories of
my life, some of the best, no question about it. Oh,
I almost tripped over my own feet walking down, just

(11:31):
skipping down memory lane. Yeah, that's a lot of fun.
If you've never done it. It's very hard to predict fog,
even forty eight hours out, very hard to predict it.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
It's a lucky thing. It's kind of the luck of
the draw. You set your date for your hunt.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
And by the way, I had not as many great
hunts in bluebird weather, but I had my share of
great hunts in bluebird weather.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
So don't think that.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Just because you you wake up on the day you
booked your guided goose hunter the first day you were
going to go out on your new lease that you
got or whatever. Don't think that just because it's bluebird
that you can't shoot birds. You put out a quality spread.
You tell anybody and everybody you've invited to hunt with
you to stay still when the birds are coming. You

(12:23):
use your call sparingly, sparingly. That's one of the things
I don't know why it is that almost every person
who posts videos of duck and goose hunting on Facebook
can't put their call down. They have to have somebody
else video for them because they got a call in

(12:44):
each hand and they're blowing them both at the same time,
and it's just a hot mess of noise when birds
are coming to write at them, when the best thing
they could do is just shut up. And I'm you know,
if you're if you're the kind of guy who likes
to call all the time, more power to you, More
power to you. But just every now and then, just

(13:05):
try it. If a bird, if you're looking at the
north end of a bird and it's coming toward you
and it looks pretty chill and not accelerating into the stratosphere,
just pump the brakes and put that call back in
your top pocket for just a minute.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
See what happens if the bird turns away.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
If you can see the south end, see the back
to see the tail feathers of that bird. Give it
a couple of quacks, give it a couple of hanks.
See if it won't turn around and come back. Because
most of the time when geese and ducks are on
the ground feeding, and they do feed, ducks, all ducks
feed like crazy and bone dry fields up north. We

(13:43):
don't see it much down here, but that's if you
go up north of about I don't know, Iowa, and
all the way up through Canada, you're gonna see lots
of ducks feeding on bear dry grunt, well not bear,
but close cut crops on dry ground.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
They don't mind walking around in that stuff.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
They're not all divers, they're not all aquatic vegetation eaters.
They're not all snail eaters. Boy, that's a tasty treat,
isn't it. A spoon bill that's been on the coast
for about three four weeks and then comes back up
here on a south wind. Mm hmmmmy, it's not worth
cleaning and eating.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Seven one three seven nine.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Email me Doug Pack at iHeartMedia dot com. Frankie, do
I sound Do I sound really really southern? In my
normal talking?

Speaker 3 (14:34):
I can locate that it's a southern one.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah, you know, I'm from here, but I'm not like
out in the sticks.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
I'm I'm I'm suburban southern. Right Is that fair?

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:48):
That's fair.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, suburb I'm gonna coin that term right now, write
it down. We're suburban Southern. Now, are you city southern
or suburban southern?

Speaker 3 (14:56):
City or city? Yeah? I think so.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
I don't hear it as much in your voice as
I do mine, and I don't hear it when I
speak as much.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
And when I'm when I'm doing when I'm.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Doing commercials for people in other parts of the country
and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
I can lose that, I really can. I can.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
I can do dialects uh and and fairly accurately. But
when I'm just shooting the breeze with you. Now, if
we're sitting on a tailgate out in the middle of
the prairie and watching birds fly over and shooting the
breeze about the hunt we had that morning, I'm gonna
get a little more country southern, just a little bit more,

(15:35):
because I feel like it's it's only appropriate. You shouldn't
be out there speaking the King's English in the middle
of a rice field.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
You got to immerse yourself.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Although I did have a guy all the way from
Italy who came in and hunted once. We literally did
have people come in from all around the world back
during the heyday of that prairie, and it was phenomenal,
and they, every one of them, I'm left with an
understanding of what they'd experienced and that it was unique
to the whole world.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
It was just that good. It was just that good.
We'd have people.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Come in and stay from all over our country too,
from almost every state in our entire country, and would
come in and stay for three four days, and over
the course of three or four days, you were going
to have at least one or two probably really good hunts.
The first day. Sorry, I'm going a little little secret

(16:30):
out of the bag. If you're coming in for three
or four days of straight hunting the first day, you're
not going to the best spot on the prairie. Now,
you might trip over it, and the birds might change
their minds from yesterday where they ended up and come
right to where you're going, but chances are it's kind
of that first day is kind of a break in
hunt to see what kind of hunters you are, you

(16:52):
and your group, and to see just how well you
shoot all that kind of stuff, because there's a lot
of factors going to where you're gonna be hunting. And
to their credit, most of the outfitters I've ever talked to,
I've ever worked with, really do try to get everybody
on good hunts every day.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
It's impossible because a bird pick up and fly the
other way.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
If they've been flying from south to north for six
days in a row out of the same roost, going
to the same feeding field, and you go in there
on the seventh, that well that's a little late.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Let's let's call it.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
They've been doing it for two days and a bunch
of the roost got bigger, and you just know they're
gonna go in your direction the next morning, and you're
you're sitting down wind of them and you can hear them,
and oh man, they're gonna come to right where we are. Guys,
you just get ready, and then you hear three coyotes
up toward the roost, just rip it and yipping and

(17:47):
splashing in those shallow waters. They run through it, and
you see on the just the faint glimmer of light
on the horizon, you see every bird on that roost
that can flap its wings, lift off and go the
other way. And if you don't have a bunch of
good jokes in your pocket at that point, it's gonna
be a long warning. You'll still shoot some birds. Oh

(18:11):
so many cool things happened on that prairie. It's like
it's the fishing guides have the same stories. Being on
the water, being in a field every day. As a
professional guide, you see things, you learn things that the
average person might take fifteen twenty years to figure out.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
And it's a blessing, it really is.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Now it's become easier with the advent of social media,
where you get all these videos of people telling you
how they do it and how their way is the
best way, and this is how you should set your decoys,
this is how you should call your shots, this is
how often and whatever having to do with fishing or hunting.

(18:52):
There are a million people out there who fancy themselves
experts and are going to tell you how to do it.
Your job is the person who's going to actually be
out there in that weather on that day is to
try to figure out as fast as you can which
of those thousand people who are putting up these videos
really know what they're doing and them which of them

(19:13):
are just full of smoke that it's just hot smoke
and nothing loud, nothing else, all hat no cattle. As
we say here in Texas. You ever heard that, Frankie?
Oh yeah, yeah, man, yeah, you hear a lot more
around the rodeo. People like to fancy themselves cowboys during
the rodeo. They get their shiny boots and their tight
jeans and starched white shirt and get after it. That's

(19:37):
a fun time of year.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
Man.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
That rodeo changes a lot of people for about two months,
doesn't it.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
Mm hm.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
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Speaker 2 (20:17):
You read all my Food Sports Talk seven ninety the
Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
I got a tickle when I came in here this morning.
I'm trying to get a cup of coffee, and the
only cups in the kitchen are They're the same shape
styrofoam cups that we always use, the same ones everybody
uses for little coffee cups in the office, only they

(20:38):
were smaller.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
There were these little miniature things.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
It's like getting a standard poodle or getting a toy poodle,
and these are toy poodle cups. They hold maybe I
don't know, four or five maybe four or five ounces
of coffee and that's about it. And I thought, now
I know how Kevin Durant and Shaquille O'Neil and all
these big job ants of humans feel when they pick

(21:02):
up a coke can or something like that, it just disappears,
just disappears in their hand. That's what that little teeny
tiny coffee cup was doing. And the only place I
could think to look where they probably still had some
big ones from stashing them away a while back.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
It's in the KTRCH newsroom. And guess what, Frankie, there
were cups in the KTRCH newsroom.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Got them the big ones. Check it out there, I could.
I could put this in front of the camera and
just block myself out. You can't even see me that
little one I could have put up there. You could
probace probably see my hairlining around it. That would be
kind of weird.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Erck Bice, what's up.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
This morning? I thought, Well, over here where I'm at
on the high bank of the Rases, I got two
deer feeders and I watch them almost every morning before
I'm leaving figure out where I'm going. I can get
here three or four and I can. They're like pets.
I can put my headlights on them and watch them,

(22:02):
you know, and they're not scared of me. But here,
in the last two weeks a buck is shown up
and he's he's not a he'd be a trophy for
lots of people, sure, and interesting he's he's maybe a
little i'd say three and a half, but uh, he's

(22:23):
a pretty little deer. And I'm thinking there's enough hunting
pressure in this part of this country. I thought, somebody's
gonna kill him. Yeah, okay, and uh, I've been thinking
about it for a while, so I thought this morning, heck,
it's cool enough. Uh, he's gonna be right up here
by one of his barns, and by see him, I
shoot him. I figured I would. So the same three

(22:46):
or four my pet there come out. Six of them
actually doze in yours. So they went to the first theater.
I heard it go off, and I was at the
other one. I'm I'm not in a mind. And here
they come, just like they always do, the two those
in the two years, and they Peter went off and

(23:09):
they ate around, and then they heard the other one
go off where I was at for this one. And
so here they come. And I mean it's like clockwork.
Sure and sure, enofe, here comes here comes this duck.
And I'm looking at him, and through my super high
powered the monoctors, I can see him really before sun

(23:30):
comes up. Okay, I mean I can make him out.
You know, we're talking forty to fifty yards. I mean
his feeders are. I'm right on top of him and
across the street from me. Eleven hundred and something makers
and I have never seen a human being over there.
And this morning when I was turning in and gate,
I saw headlights over there, oh, right in front of

(23:53):
my right from the front of the gate, and I thought, well,
that's got to be a hunter, and that's the right
where my deer is gonna go when they leave. And
and so I did. I cut the little story shark.
I didn't shoot the butt, okay, And I let him
go on and I'm sitting there in about ten minutes later.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
I just I'm just knowing my gut that they shot that.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, you may not see that buck again.

Speaker 5 (24:22):
That's too bad, man, I'll find out in the morning
because he's gonna come anyway, all right. That's uh, that
sounds of that shot across the fence when you just
walked watched him walk across. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
I've experienced that myself, and it just I still feel
for me. It's okay.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
You know, if I let one go and somebody else
gets it and they're thrilled to have it, then okay,
let him have it.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
I'm good with that.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
Well, my first thought was was durn And my second
thought was, you know what, did I really want to
go drag him up.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah, clean him.

Speaker 5 (24:56):
I could have shot him. My second thought was summed
it up. I had my shot.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
That's true. All right, it's great to hear from you, man. Yeah,
I'll be back here tomorrow. We can tune it up officially.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Then, all right, man, I'll see what happens. Okay.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
I'll drink more water than probably anybody on the planet
except my wife.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
That's all she drinks is water, Frankie. She won't drink
anything else but water, pure, pure water. That's it.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
And we've got the small mountain of bottles to prove it.
Almost every time I go to the grocery store, there'll
be this list, she'll send me.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
She'll text me a list.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
I'll be on the way home from work, or from
the golf course or whatever, from fishing, hunting, and oh,
by the way, I need you to run by the
grocery store.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Here's my list.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
And no matter what else is first, second, third, fourth,
this sixth, twenty ninth at the very end water And
like I know, you don't have to put water on
the list anymore. Every time I go I bring back
a case of water, sometimes two, sometimes no, never more
than two.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
I'm not a hoarder.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
I've lived in this state, in Houston long enough to
know that even when a even when a hurricane comes
through here within a few days, there's gonna be water
available somewhere, probably at my grocery store. They have generators,

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because after all, if they can't open the doors, they
can make money at a time when they can make
as much money as they want. Now, they don't price
gouge where I go, which is honorable and also illegal
if they did it, and I'm grateful for that because
back when I was younger, a lot of places very

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proudly would say, yeah, we got water for sale here,
or we've got gas or whatever. And that case of
water that back then might have been a dollar fifty
cents in the grocery store with nine dollars, you take
it or leave it. It's gonna be nine dollars for
that two dollars case of water, and you kind of.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Had to take or you had to go perched.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Like my little throat feels right now, so sad for
me seven one three two one two five seven nine
Email on me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm just
sitting here looking at Steve's email going back to being
in Garwood on a foggy morning with a bunch of
my buddies. How cool would that be? How absolutely positively

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cool would that be? Oh, there's the person I'm when
I say this, the person who will there's only one
person who will truly understand. There's this one email that
I need to respond to, and I haven't yet, but
I will as soon as we go to the next break.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's the deal I'm gonna make.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Other than that, just a bunch of nine nothing, nothing
really important in my in my inbox so far this morning. Uh,
if you've got ducks flying by and nothing else in
the sky, they because their wings are beating so fast,
they look like they're really humping it through the sky.
And then when geese come by, the cadence of the

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wings is not nearly so.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Fast, so they look a little slower.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
And it's only when you finally get to see ducks
and usually pintails flying right in and amongst a bunch
of geese that are moving, it's, oh, what do you know?
They're both flying about the same speed. Now, that's not
their take off when they see hunters in a blind speed,
that's just their cruising speeds, and their cruising.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Speeds are about the same.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
They've got they've got cruise control in their wings, I guess,
and both both birds, the ducks and the geese, uh
set it at the pretty much the same speed limit.
They don't want to be pumping out all the energy
they've got to just casually move from the east prairie.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
To the west prairie or vice versa.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
They reserve that for when they see shiny barrels and
shiny faces and non stop calling. They hear, up, up, up,
we know better than this. Let's high tail it out.
That's another that's a rural Southern expression.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Let's high tail it out of here.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Okay, let me go get faux pro on the line here,
food pro.

Speaker 7 (29:23):
What's up, man, I'm already tired, boss from what a
fifty eight year old man pushing a twenty foot skeeter
off a trailer with no rubbers on it.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
It was.

Speaker 8 (29:35):
It was a maximum effort today. But I'm out here.
I'm out here doing what I love.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
Man.

Speaker 8 (29:39):
I got me a big half ound spinner bat on
thrower fees laid downs at a foot of water. I've
already got a couple of decent fish on so nice
and still would say everybody happy, happy, half the silk.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
How big a spinner bat are you throwing.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
This time of year?

Speaker 8 (29:53):
Out throw a white half ounce. It's got big red
Colorado blades on it. And I wake it Jimmy Houston. Yeah, yeah,
see come back. That's one of my favorite. Right, and
big laid down that tucker come out of there and
torpedo it.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Mmm see that big old wake pushing out in front
of his nose.

Speaker 8 (30:10):
Yeah, oh man, it's like watching a watching a red
fish come out coming something with shallow.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Water from the right. Good stuff.

Speaker 8 (30:17):
I've heard, Uh, I've heard four shots this morning from
local Arry here. I know that they duck hut in
and I'm pretty sure there are wood ducks. But I
could tell you probably could do the same thing.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
I could tell.

Speaker 8 (30:30):
There's four shots that I could tell by the spacing
in my mind exactly what happened. Yeah, first shot he missed. Yeah,
second shot he crippled it. Then there was a pause,
then you hear boom, so he missed it on the water,
and then boom boom he finally got it on the water.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, that's about right.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
That's what I gonna get you on a goose hunt.
How many times have you hunted geese?

Speaker 8 (30:54):
H When I was younger, quite a bit, but that's
back in my teen's early twenties in the night. Yeah,
somewhere like that.

Speaker 9 (31:03):
I think they had cars back then.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Hitch up the wagon and head on down to the field.

Speaker 8 (31:10):
Let's say this. I was hunting at Waller, yeah, man,
I saw concrete and strip centers now, so.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah, I know most of the places I hunted as
a as a young man a young adult are totally developed.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Now there's just no there's nothing.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
But you'd have to put a diaper down in somebody's
garden and call it a rags bread and that'd be it.

Speaker 8 (31:30):
All right, Bud with a quote tombstone, they win, all right,
foe bro h oh go get him all right, all buddy.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
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Shoot all right, welcome back Sports Talk seven ninety to
Pike Shore.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Thank you very much for listening.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Soon as we got passed, what was it basically Labor Day,
probably out came the Christmas decorations and all the hardware stores,
and they started introducing it and here, there and everywhere,
and it.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Was just I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
I was joking with somebody the other day about how
at some point we're going to go from there's gonna
be two holiday decoration times, and that's gonna be fourth
of July and Christmas, and on the fifth of July
you're gonna see Santa in the hardware stores.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
It's just I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
That seems a little bit awkward and odd for me,
but retailers retail, and that's how they want to do it.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Good Heavens.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Rick By sent me a picture of a feeder that
has enough there's enough deer around that feed er to
feed a whole lot of people.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Texas has millions of deer.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Some states only have a couple hundred thousand, maybe in
their whole state. I've been on ranches that it seemed
like had six or eight thousand deer on them. Pretty
big places and well managed, mind you, but it just
they've got lots of deer. And as a state, we
have lots of deer, and many of them need to
be taken annually lest we wind up if there's a

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severe freeze or some sort of outbreak of disease.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Nature only has two tools, and I feel like a
broken record, but I'm gonna say it. The only two
tools in nature's box to counter a sudden population overload
too many deer for the amount of food that the
land can produce, or disease or starvation. One of the

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two is going to take out a bunch of deer.
And it's not pretty to see either. I've seen the
results of both. I've seen deer that are malnourished, and
I've seen deer that have chronic wasting disease. And none
of that's pretty, none at all. Seven one three two
seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia. Ever since Harvey,

(35:02):
Ever since Harvey, every time I drive into a neighborhood,
I watch very closely for the rises and falls in elevation,
even subtle ones. Is the end of the street higher
or lower than where I am now, And it's really
a fascinating thing to watch and to take into account

(35:23):
when you're driving around town. If you look closely enough,
you'll see which house is going to be the first
one that gets water up to the doorstep. If the
water truly does rise, you can tell. And that's not
a bad thing to look for. If you're trying to
move into a new house or something. If you put

(35:43):
a marble on the ground at the top of the
block and it rolls and stops in front of the
house you're thinking about buying, you might want to keep looking.
I don't think that's a very scientific test, and there's
ways to do it much better than that.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
This time of year, I.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Have got because I play some golf, I do some fishing.
I don't have I don't carry hunting gear because I
couldn't call it hunting gear if I did not have
a firearm in the car, if I didn't have a
rifle or a shotgun. And I'm not just gonna Willy
Nelly carry carry my guns around in the car for
no reason.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
I don't want them getting stolen.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
For well, that's that's the very most primary Well that
is the the primary reason. You can't have a most
primary reason. That's somewhat oxymoronic. In any event, no guns
in the car, No hunting guns in the car, for sure,
until I'm actually going hunting, but fishing, rogie, I think

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they're four now, usually three or four, rarely fewer than three,
and rarely but sometimes more than four. Maybe if I'm
going fishing with somebody else.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
I actually did a cat fishing.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Trip with my Dennis and we didn't catch a single
dog on catfish either. By the way, I owe him
another trip. I'm gonna bake that place so heavily that
every catfish in what's probably about twenty or twenty five
acres of water is gonna be right under that pier
by mid afternoon, and we're gonna catch some catfish, by gosh,

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hopefully a couple of big ones.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
I'm pretty sure this lake has some big ones in it.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let me see
what else I've got on this agenda here today. There
was that, there was that I talked about that. Oh,
by the way, I wondered about something, and I'm looking
for specifics, but without an official name attached to this.

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When when you and your buddies are going hunting on
a really really cold morning, or fishing for that matter,
there's you.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
If there are four.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Of you, there's usually one guy who's always the first
one to kind of cave and either cuddle up under
the console or maybe walk back to the truck to
warm up and I could usually pick them. When I
was guiding, I'd have four, maybe five, sometimes six guys
going with me to wherever we were going, And even

(38:19):
just sitting there eating breakfast, I could just feel the
tension on the just emanating from the guy who was
going to be the first one to get up, say
I gotta go warm up. We all knew it was
going to be cold, we all knew how to dress
for it. And this is this takes all the way
back to pre gortex days, where if it was going
to be drizzling and cold, you were just gonna be

(38:41):
wet and colder, and there wasn't much you could do
about it. We had those white parkas, the white plastic
parkas that were great on wet days but would burn
you up on more mild days because you were like
you just had yourself inside a little easy bake oven base,
ended up sweating yourself wet. And the butcher's coats, the

(39:06):
white cotton jack or not jackets, but knee lenked coats
we wore under warmer circumstances. If any moisture got to them,
then you're just wallowing around in a in a wet
shirt basically, or a wet coat, and that was uncomfortable
as could be. So without naming names, if you can

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describe that, or if you're if you're not scared, just
ring me up and tell me who it was. Who
in your group was the biggest sissy and and it's
it's really not a big deal. Let me go ahead
and grab him, Frankie, I can do this, I think
you think.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Maybe. Yes, No, I'll leave it up to you. Yeah,
here we go. All right, Hey Brandon, what's up, buddy.

Speaker 10 (39:54):
Hey mister piker, I'm very very well, thank you.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Oh good.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
I'm going to tell you one thing.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 10 (40:02):
I watched a commercial fishermen and they were fishing in
the locks at matter order, and this guy could bounce it.
It had a barrel weight and he could bounce it
off the uh, the locks and let it sit right there.
And you want to talk about catch some saddle blankets,

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Oh my gosh, and that it was an art. I
sat there and watched that guy and I was like,
and he did every time he bounced it off one
deal and let it sit, and all of a sudden, yeah, wow,
good deal.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (40:39):
It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
It was a lot of It.

Speaker 5 (40:42):
Was a lot of fun to watch, it really was.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
And I think they can do that and more.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
But yeah, those those days. Hopefully we're going.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
We got to get that flounder population back up to
where it belongs.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
There have been some.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Very good fishing spats, but we still got a long
waist to go. And they're hard to raise. They they're
very sensitive to where where they came from. It's hard
to grow them in captivity.

Speaker 10 (41:09):
All right, man, you got any plans, No, sir, I
sure don't kick. I like to say to me, I
take the I like to take the holidays and just
like to sit and watch here.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
You know, that's a great year, truly.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
All right, Well watch something for me, will you?

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (41:34):
I sure will.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
All right. He always a pleasure, my friend. All right, yes, sir,
thank you, Yes, sir, thank you. Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
All right, welcome back. So back where I was. I
got a story from Rudy a minute ago. Rudy finds
some some really unique stories that I tend to miss.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
I guess he's got some Well this is not a
secret source. I actually know of this source. I do,
but I haven't looked at it and long. It's just
a New York post, that's all.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
It is.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
The headline, Grizzly bear attacks students and hero teachers who
tried to fight it off, leaving eleven people injured.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
So here's the scoop from the post.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Grizzly bear attacked a group of Native American school children
and their teachers, injuring eleven, some critically, including a heroic
school teacher who tried to fight off the aggressive predator. Boy,
that's you talk about going above and beyond your pay
grade as a teacher. That's somebody who genuinely cared. It
was a group of fourth and fifth graders. Oh my god,

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how terrifying walking a trail in Bellicula, British Columbia, about
four hundred and thirty miles northwest of Vancouver. There's got
to have been something wrong with that bear. Oh man,
that's so see injured, including he wrote, teachers who tried
to fight off the bear to protect the kids in

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their care. A mother of one of the students was
also out there, and of course that one unidentified male
teacher who got the whole brunt of it and was
among those airlifted to a nearby hospital. That's what that's
according to one of the moms, Good heavens. Wow, this

(43:27):
man's and this woman's ten year old son was so
close to this grizzly bear during all of that that
he even felt its fur.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
That's a direct quote from her.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
That's way too close to a grizzly bear that's gone berserk.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
Now, we don't.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Have grizzly bears here, but we got mountain lions, we
got coyotes.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
And if you're out.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
There walking around in the woods all by yourself, just
be aware. We got snakes. There's all kinds of things
anywhere in the wild. There are predators, There are apex predators.
There are things that aren't really predators but will bite
or sting you if they're pushed into a corner, and
you just have to be aware of them, and you
have to be respectful. And man, thank god for that

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one teacher who went in and and just tried to
fight a grizzly bear. That's wow, that's a hard one
to take. I got a hunch I know what's coming here.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
What's up, John?

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Well, I've heard you talking a few times mentioning a
late migration of waterfowl and some not hard data. But
I've got a place out in Levaka County. I'm outside
a lot, and I always notice the the sanjel is
going over in the fall, and this year I think,

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you know, and it's not like Wenesday Tuesday. There's a
lot to go by all throughout usually October, and this
year the first group I saw go over like last
week on one of these fronts. And I don't know
if that supports your great migration of other waterfowl. It's
what do you call analytical, not analytics whatever, empirical just no, no,

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just the opposite of IMPERI starts with an.

Speaker 5 (45:18):
Un anecdotal data.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Just you know, it supports your observations or what you're
hearing from folks. I don't know if anybody else. But anyway,
what I really wanted to comment on was a few
weeks ago. It's been it's been eating at me. We've
talked I'm a bow hunter all all through the season,
and you mentioned about how that little rain we had
one time, said that'll be good for you sneaking in

(45:44):
and quice you're crunching.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
On the leaves.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Well, I'm I'm a I'm an offer a differing opinion
that's fine. My opinion is there's no sneaking in, especially
to a bow stand. If they're there in the area,
there's no no sneaking in. You just got to get
there early because because hey, the movement, they're gonna pick
up the movement. You can't walk into anywhere and not

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have all the deer in that zip code know about it.
So I prefer no rain. I love a dry fall
because once you're in your stand, that crunch crunch crunch
of a deer walking in lets you know way before
you normally would hear it if it's wet ground, and
get you a more chance to get ready. Well, there's that,

(46:32):
and after a while I'm gonna I'm gonna offer as well,
you can tell the difference between a deer walking in
and a squirrel or an armadillo wrestling around. That first
sound of a squirrel, you know, get your your attention.
Then you go, oh, that's just a squirrel mess around,
or that's an armadill wrestling around. I agree, because there's
that it's so distinct. Crunch crunch, crunch, pause, crunch crunch crunch.

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You know it's a deer. The only thing that will
throw you on that is a turkey walking in Okay,
just like it. I I had a heart attack one
time where with a turkey coming up straight behind me,
I can turn around. You need beer, turn This big
old dobbler walks by. Well, it fooled me, so anyway,

(47:19):
a dryfall I like. Okay, just just a different opinion.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
Now, there's nothing wrong with that opinion at all. I
do agree with you that if you, if you've done
it enough times, you can tell the difference between the
deer and this quarrel.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
There's no questions. Yeah, I agree, But for early.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
My big differ was whether or not you're gonna sneak
into a some habitat, whether there's no sneaking in. They've
they've done that. They've done this for enough millennia that
that and the reason they're still alive is because you
can't sneak up on them.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
You may or may not have heard me tell the
story about hunting down in Corrizo Springs once on a
big high fence ranch where I was putting the ground
blind and I'm sitting there and I just the first
time I'd ever sat in a stand on this ranch.
And they said, yeah, we got some pretty good deer
out there. If you see a nice one, you know,
this is what we want to take out of here.
And I'm sitting there and it's getting later, and I

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hear something walking up behind me, and it's getting closer,
and it's closer and it's closer, and.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Now I can hear it breathing behind me, and I.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Need to take a look at what the heck this
deer looks like so it doesn't just come in here
and stomp me.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
And so helped me. John.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
I turned around and was almost nose to nose with
a bull elk that I didn't know was even on
the ranch, and.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
I almost just lost it, man, just like, oh my god.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
I kept my cool, and you know, he just kind
of okay, yeah, I've seen you out here before.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
I've seen something like you out here before. And he
just turned and walked off.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
But you talk about you know, hey, I could have
used that information beforehand, before I gotten this ground stand.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
I look around.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
There's something seven feet tall behind me, like, holy cow,
that's fun.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
When you said you heard her breathe, and I go, okay,
it's not going to be a deer unless they're running
a buck running and a dough you're not going to
hear it breathing you do, They'll they'll pant. I know
you're going to say, bull anger.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
No, I'm looking right up the nostrils. His nostrils were
biggest silver dollars. Man, And he just like, hey, man,
get away.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
From me, all right, pardon Wow. Oh it's a pleasure,
all right, hey, John. Yeah. He makes a good point.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
If you're a bow hunter and you've been a bow
hunter for a long time, you kind of figure it out.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
And the fog is when it's really fun.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
The leaves are damp, so it doesn't make as much crunching,
but in the fog, anything you hear gets multiplied, like
I was talking about before, because you can't see. Even
if you turn around, you can't see what's making that noise.
It's just so fun to be outdoors.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
Period. In the story, Hey Mike, what's up? Man?

Speaker 9 (49:54):
Hey, how you doing, Doug? I'm good, good, Hey, I
just want to tell you a quick while out story.
Round's kid. I graduated from Lamar in seventy six. That
gives you an idea how old I am. Used to
hunt out at Bear Creek. We had some friends who
had some property. Wow, and it was during the split
season where you could go dove hunting and duck hunting. Okay,

(50:15):
and my brother and I went out to Bear Creek.
It was before there was anything left to Bear Creek
on the road. There was the golf course on the
road and nothing on the left, and so we drove
out and went out. We were going to go to
the dove hunting. But you know, we see these geese
off to the right and to the left, just you know,
right out of range.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
Oh boy, thousands of them, right, oh boy.

Speaker 9 (50:36):
And it was a blue sky day and there's no
where we could get And this was when I don't
know if you remember, maybe before your time, but there
were a couple of kids people that were killed out
there because home the landowners didn't like people on their property.
They were and they shut two people.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
No I don't remember that. I'm kind of glad I don't.

Speaker 9 (50:55):
This was this was way back when, and that's what
they used to do, they because they killed their live stock.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
And wow, they get here anyway.

Speaker 9 (51:05):
So we're sitting there and my brother who always.

Speaker 5 (51:07):
Thought, oh you know you're talking about he's an older brother,
you know.

Speaker 9 (51:10):
And uh, we were stopped there. We go man, I
wish we could.

Speaker 5 (51:13):
We could.

Speaker 9 (51:13):
We could probably crawl out because there was high grass
right by the fence on out to him, crawl out
on our bellies and and and there was a barn there,
and so you know, there's nobody out there. And my
mother goes, let's ask this guy coming up. There was
a guy in the truck coming up, and I go,
n gonna he on this property. Sure enough, he pulls him.

Speaker 5 (51:37):
Mother.

Speaker 9 (51:37):
He goes, hey, uh, do you do you own this property?
And the guy goes, no, I don't own the property,
but I do own the barn, and uh, he goes.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
I go.

Speaker 9 (51:45):
My brother says, well, we would just like to crawl
out there and see if we shoot those teeth. Can
you think we do that? He goes, oh, yeah, go ahead.
My brother goes, yeah, we can do it.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
I go, you're kidding.

Speaker 9 (51:55):
So we crawl on our bellies four foot high grass,
and you know, the Dutch the geese were coming in
over us, and as we got closer, there were talking
more and more and more, and the wind was to
our back and we could tell they're getting ready to
get up, and so we look and they start getting up,
and we stand up and there's this wet this wall
of geese that gets up and it's pulling away, and

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we just got up and you just shot into it.
We got like nine geese and uh, you know, it
was just it was it was unbelievable, unforgettable. People out
there would talk to a guy who would let it come.
That's good geese, and then we had to clean them.

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Most regions well north of US have a true summer, winter,
spring fall.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
There are seasons where.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
You can just carve them off of the calendar, say okay,
it's gonna be nice here. It's gonna be hot here,
it's gonna be nice again, then it's gonna.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
Be cold and nice.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
We don't get that these things come at us in
little chunks of about four or five days. Would you agree, Frankie,
Oh yeah, we have probably six weeks of fall, but
they might come in. Who knows. It might start in August.
It might get a little baby cold front through here.
It drops it down to about eighty five in the

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daytime instead of one hundred, and then we might get
a hot day. I can remember as a little kid
actually going out and playing on Christmas Day and shorts
and a T shirt, which is not traditionally winter apparel
in many areas north of about I don't know, maybe Mobile, Alabama.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Uh, maybe north of Miami. Let's call it.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
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Speaker 3 (54:27):
Got that.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Yeah, By the way we we are, I think we're
gonna end up having a very good deer season overall,
despite all this warm weather on the front end, which
really it's not a whole lot of fun sitting in
a box blind that's got sun baking on it, and
your your temperatures inside are probably it's eighty five degrees

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outside and you're probably at ninety two inside that thing,
even with the windows open and the little hot breeze.
It's kind of like being in a in an air frar.
But you still go because it's deer season and you
gotta go. But the animals aren't moving much, and it's
it's not what you wanted, but it's what you get,
so you go.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
I'm a fan of golf.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
I might even watch them this afternoon to put me
to sleep, give me a little nap golf. As much
as I like watching now, I wouldn't fall asleep and
have it. I don't believe during a major, when I'm
watching a major like the Masters, or the Open Championship, whatever,
US Open, PGA Championship, any any big.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
Event like that, I can.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
I can stay awake unless somebody's running away with it,
and then it's kind of like, Okay, I don't really
care who finishes second. I just want to see I
want to see good golf, and I want to see
uh six holes to play with four guys within one
shot of the lead.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
That's what I want to see.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
And really watch these guys sweat and think and and
second guests themselves and and just and then just commit
to a swing and make it and see who makes
the best one.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
If you have plans to fish, plans to hunt, and
you think.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
They're a little bit out of the norm, and you
want to either brag or just say, Okay, yeah, this
is what we're gonna do. Or if you've been if
you've been told that there will be no hunting, then
you've just said okay, then we can all mourn for you.
If you want to just call up and confess that
sad little piece of your calendar. I've talked about this

(56:31):
before too, and I would hope that all of you
practice this. If you and someone else are handling a
firearm and there's going to be an exchange of that firearm,
and let's say it's Frankie and me, and Frankie opens
the gun up and shows me that it's unloaded, and
I say, yeah, that's cool. Frankie, can I hold it?
And he says sure, and he hands it to me.

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I hope he's not offended, but I'm gonna check it again.
I'm gonna check it myself on top of what he
just showed it to me. We're standing two feet apart.
He just showed it to me, and it's open and
it's it's unloaded. Great, that's cute, But I want to
know for myself, and I'm gonna check it the way
I check it, and that way we've got back up
and assurance that that gun is safe to handle and

(57:15):
not still not gonna point it at anything. You're still
not gonna point it at anybody. But it's just that
one extra level of protection.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
And it only.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Takes what five, six, eight, ten seconds to see if
any firearm is loaded, and so take that time. I
am gonna take a couple of days off coming up
through this week to just recharge and get out in
the wild somewhere and ride around and maybe see some deer,
maybe see some ducks or geese or whatever. But I'm

(57:44):
gonna and maybe go fishing too. I need to squeeze in.
I need to squeeze about from now through next weekend.
I need to squeeze a whole lot.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
Into that sack.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
I got to put about thirty pounds of outdoors into
a ten pound sack, and I'm not sure exactly how
I'm gonna to do it, but I'm pretty sure I'm
gonna do it and feel better for we're not working
a couple of rounds of golf too. I got one
guy I want to call and play golf with who
I haven't played with in forever.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
Actually i've never played golf.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
With him, I don't believe, and i've heard him talking
about it recently.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
I'm gonna see if I can see him up see
what we can do.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
As a former guide, I'm not guiding any more waterfowl hunts.
I'll sit in the blind and blow duck calls for
you if you want to, and probably do okay. Still,
I'm a little bit rusty, but I suspect that knowing
when not to call might give me an edge over
a lot of people I've hunted with over the past
few years. That's one of the things that everybody who

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who does this professionally, I think would agree on, is
that overcalling is way more damaging to your success than undercalling.
And anybody who is as a guide sat around on
an afternoon next to a big, giant flat somewhere with

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a thousand or more ducks on it knows that you
have to really sit there a while to hear much,
if any calling. If they're in a good, comfortable field
place where they're happy, they're not making a whole lot
of noise.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
They're eating, and even.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Ducks know not to talk with their mouthsful, So once
they start quacking and making a bunch of noise, there's
a good chance they're about the bolt out of there,
And the faster duck hunters learn that, the faster they're
going to start seeing more ducks and getting more ducks
to come close. The simplest rule, and I've said it

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a million times, and I'm sure if you've duck hunted
long enough, you've heard it almost as many from other people.
As long as the ducks are coming at you, there's
no reason to call at all unless you are just
one hundred percent confident in a little feed chuckle or
something like that. But to start just yapping away at
them like you're screaming at them, like a Karen coming

(59:58):
up the sidewalk to tell you she doesn't like your
mailbox or something like that. Just keep your mouth shut,
Just keep that call in your pocket. That's where it
that's where it belongs most of the time.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Man I haven't. Hmmm, here's a question. After all that
went on.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
In Central Texas, that horrific flood we had a while back,
it's almost certain that a lot of a lot of
exotic game found its way out of a lot of
or at least some exotic game found its way out
of some high fenced ranches. That's how most of the

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exotics that people see on their property and never put
one on there, but dog one, there's an axis deer,
there's a psychadeer, there's there's something a black buck. Whatever.
Where'd that come from? Well, it came from probably upstream
and uh of at least enough flood water. Who have
lifted that animal either over the fence at a low

(01:01:04):
crossing point, or maybe it washed out a place under
the fence for the animal to get through. But either way,
that animals on their property. And I'm kind of curious
to know if anybody who hunts that area, that region
of Texas has either heard or seen anything that would
lead them to believe that some of that wildlife goten

(01:01:25):
mixed and moved and moved around to the advantage of
other people.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Certainly, Forrest sent me a picture.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Faux Pro sent me a picture just a second ago
of a croppie. Now, if you'll recall when he called
in earlier, he was throwing a half ounce spinner bait
with the big old red willow leaf blades and dog
gone if he's not got a picture of this thing,

(01:01:53):
and it's big, and it is hanging out of the
mouth of a croppie that his little line put underneath
the picture says, Wow, I didn't expect a crappie to
eat a big spinner bait.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
Well, I just sent back, big crappie it is.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
It had no I don't think it had any hesitation
at all to grab whatever that was and just eat
whatever he could and then maybe come back later to
finish it off. It is a big crappie, though, and
that is a big spinner bait of.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
One or the other.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
It's either a little spinner bait and a little crappie
or knowing that it's a half out spinner bait, that's
a very big crappy.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
So hats off to him.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
That guy seems to always be in the right place
at the right time for that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
I guess it's experience. Uh, that's what it takes to fish.
Pretty much anywhere in Texas. The good news is we
have so many good places where you and I and
anybody else can go to hone our skills. And I
had the advantage many years ago of being invited to
jump in boats with some of the best fishermen in

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the state of Texas, especially coastal fishermen, a lot of
the good lake guides as well. Though I fish, I
can't even say most of the lakes in Texas because
we have so many good lakes. But I fished Lake
Fork a few times. I fished where I just here,
there and everywhere. So I covered East Texas very well,

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and I covered Central Texas pretty well.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
I didn't get down south much or farther out west.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
There wasn't really much to draw me much farther west
than the places I went. But everywhere I went, and
everybody I fished with when I was really doing a
lot of that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
I learned something from them.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
And if you ever go fishing with somebody, especially with
a guide or somebody who's even a very experienced amateur angler.

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
You should learn something.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
If you don't, you weren't paying attention, because no matter
how good you are, you can learn something from everybody
you fish with. I learned that fishing with people on
the East Coast and up through the Midwest and East
Coast all the way up to Maine. Every time I'd
go on one of those trips up that way to
do something, I went in with these preconceived notions, a

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little bit about how they did things, or an idea
of how I would fish if I were fishing there,
as if I had any idea really, and mostly I
just kept my eyes open and my ears open and
listened and talked to them, and they were turns out,
most of them are doing the same thing with me,
and we end up exchanging ideas and information that was

(01:04:36):
absolutely one hundred percent beneficial to both of us. I'll
never forget being told that, oh, no, those big stripe bass,
they won't eat top waters, No they won't. We were
in ten feet of water in Chesapeake Bay and catching
these things on jig heads with big like ten inch
sand deal ten and twelve inch sand deals on them,

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and it was fun and we were getting them. I
also kept seeing these fish blow up on top every
now and then, and I asked, I said, will these
fish eat top waters?

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Now we don't even throw top waters up here. They
won't eat them. And I asked him if he minded
if I tried, no, go ahead, knock yourself out. And
it took a bit, but I was really stubborn back then,
and I didn't want to throw anything butt top waters,
big grimes. And I had a lot of trips on
Matagorda Bay where the other couple of people in the

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boat were throwing jigs and he and I were throwing
top waters all day long.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Didn't matter. And I took that attitude.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
To Chesapeake Bay and ended up catching two or three
really significant fish on top waters right out from under
the noses of a guy who'd been guiding up there
for twelve or fifteen years, and said, just absolutely not. Now,
we don't even carry top waters. They won't eat them.
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All right, Welcome back Sports Talk seven ninety to Doug
Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
I got a.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
Cool email that I want to share from Travis about
a prank that was played on one of the hunters
in this guy's group. And this is bear in mind,
this is a bunch of guys who get together. They're
twenty five years old. It's back in nineteen eighty five.
And to quote the email, as they were after dinner

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and they're about to go hit the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
Bunks and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
Quote there was a lot of spirits getting spirited. So
just take that to mean whatever you think it means.
I have a hunt.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
There were.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
The guns were all put away, and maybe they had
some adult beverages to help them unwind from a busy,
busy day in deer camp. In any event, this one
guy in the group up in Colorado somewhere. One of
the guys in the group took a kind of just
a snapshot at a mountain lion, he says, and wasn't

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able to recover it, wasn't sure whether he'd even hit it.
Probably well, his buddies found it the next day.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
He had indeed hit it and killed it. And that night,
just as this guy was.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Kind of getting ready to go hit the bunk, they
slipped in there and they put some garbage bags down
because they're not heathens, and then they put that animal
head on his bunk with the teeth bared and the
ears pinned back somehow, and just, I mean, this thing

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just looked mean as could be, just mad as a
wet hen. And then just sat and waited, and this
poor guy brushed your teeth. He put his glasses on
the night Stan sat down and realized there was something,
what was what's going on here? And he flipped those
covers back and saw that mountain lion's head and he

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Travis claims they all laugh for years about it and
still do.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
I'm sure there's one person.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
In that group is not laughing as loud as the
rest of them. And to Travis's credit, he says, I
skinned it out for him and had it to get
it ready to mount, and actually cooked some.

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
Steaks off of it, he says, nineteen and eighty five.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
I wrote back to him to paraphrases.

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
I don't remember exactly how I said. It said.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
I'm not really sure that men's brains ever fully mature,
and certainly at twenty five, I don't think they're all
the way downe because a bunch of twenty five year
olds who've had a drink or two might think that
it's just super funny, But at my age, somebody could
have slipped and broke a hip seeing that thing. We

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don't need that in dear camp, no way. It is
kind of funny, though, I could see myself at twenty
five doing something like that. I've seen all kinds of
not to that extreme, but fairly similar boo things, the
things that kind of make you have to look twice
and then realize there there's four guys behind the door
laughing at you. Yeah, I wouldn't want to roll back

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the covers and see a mountain lion's snarling face.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
Oh what fun?

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
Am I running late here? Or am I good? I
can't remember where I am.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
I think you're good. Yeah, we're good for five or
six more minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
That's fantastic, fantastic, let's go back to trout fishing for
a little bit. And I heard a very good point
made this morning down the dial listening to my buddies.
We've got this slot limit now where we're taking out
the mid sized trout, leaving the little ones in the
big ones. And interestingly, and there's got to be a
reason for it, because I'm sure this is not the

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only time it's come up. But this is pretty much
the opposite of how freshwater bass.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
Fishing goes on some of the lakes that needed help.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
When they institute bass fishing slots, they usually allow you
to keep a few fish under a certain link limit
and maybe one over, maybe one over to keep the
lake record book open, something like that. But it's just
the opposite with the trout. And it's a very good

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point that I haven't even hadn't even thought about.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
I recognize that that bass.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
Fishing has has elevated the status of a large mouth
bass tremendously to where at a lot of lakes and
you bring one to the cleaning table, they'll run you
out of town.

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
But I also know well one of a quick sidebar.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
The more I watch these bass fishing tournaments on TV,
the less impressed I am with the way that these
younger professional anglers handle those fish.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
It's like they just don't care at all.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Most of them, and a couple of the organizations have
even set new rules on exactly how you can and
cannot handle bass. And that's with good reason, because it
just it gets kind of crazy. Sometimes they'll pin these
fish up against their chest with one hand with a
jacket on it, and reach into that fish's mouth with

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their fingers and wrestle hooks out of there.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
It's just not.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
Conducive to good handling a fish.

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
But back to the slot limit.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
I think that's one of the reasons we've got some
big fish in most of our lakes right now is
because of that way of managing this lot under and over.

Speaker 3 (01:12:08):
And it seems to me, and it seemed.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
To the guys who I was listening to this morning
on the way into work, that we're kind of doing
the opposite with speckled trout. And again, there's got to
be a reason. I may have to call somebody at
Parks and Waters Apartment and kind of ask just why why,
what's good for the goose it and good for the gander.
There's got to be something there, and I'm really not
sure what it's going to be. I'm thinking there's gonna
be a I'm thinking there's gonna be an answer, and

(01:12:32):
it's probably gonna make sense, but I still want to
hear it before I go too much deeper. Oh Lord,
what's John got on his mind? Let's go see John?

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
What's up? Man?

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
Well? I usually listen to your podcast as I drive
back and forth with Okahry, I have now to my
property okay, and I've accumulation list of things I want
to throw at you. But since you just brought up
the Mountain Lion item, I'm wondering if you're still holding
out that that the Mountain Lion video that came up

(01:13:05):
and stole the mule deer off the guy's back of
his truck or whatever is legit.

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
No, it's not. No.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
You know when I found out, when I found out
what the no Questions asked lockdown AI thing was, which
is the antlers, I went back and looked at it
again and just kind of wiped all the bright eyed
enthusiasm off my face and going, no, Okay, I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
So yeah, I'm well, I didn't even have to I
didn't have to look at that, I said, Okay, who's
videoing this so calmly and not screaming?

Speaker 5 (01:13:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
No kid, Well that's a very good point as well.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
Yeah that's okay. Yes it looks very realistic, but I
don't think anybody who's sitting there holding the camera was
not even moving it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
Not even Jimmy, Jimmy look out.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
They got me on that one for a little while.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
And so now now, of course I'm skeptical of everything.
I am skeptical of everything. So yeah, it's it's so unfortunate.
Once again, technology, no matter what we invent, uh, some
people will use it for good and some people will
use it for bad.

Speaker 3 (01:14:18):
And I hate that part of it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
Okay, well you want to you want to roll the
dice and and and choose another topic that I'll throw
at you. Yeah, come on, Well you got fire ants,
rain on the leaves that you brought the other day
after we had a little rain, corner hopping and the
e bike?

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
What about the boy.

Speaker 9 (01:14:39):
Which you want to do?

Speaker 1 (01:14:41):
The e bike?

Speaker 9 (01:14:41):
Okay, let me.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
I'll take you off speaker because they had to look
at my list, so I'm not sure how it came
up but you were talking about these, Well, I bought
I'm a bow hunter and I bow hunt all season all,
you know, throughout the whole thing. And what I found
out or I saw a video of it, I bought one.
I bought a pretty good one, big fat tires, lots

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of lots of power, got some raccent, strap my bow
to it, strap my pack to it, and I can
get all around my property as quiet as a mouse.
It's it's amazing. And the biggest thing is you don't
leave a cent trail.

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
That's a good point too. I thought about that.

Speaker 8 (01:15:21):
That's that's.

Speaker 5 (01:15:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:15:24):
The only thing on the ground is.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
Rub exactly, and which you know in bow hunting you
sort of have to wear rubber, rubber boots or something
rubber or not. Can't be empties of leather because it
leaves the cent trailer. Amazing what they pick up. I mean,
if you walk in without clean shoes, you can watch
them deer go walking by and just hit on the brake,

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hit the brakes hard and just put their nose down
and turn around because they found where you walked across
the trailer.

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
It's huge for that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
Yeah, got to got to so it's really it's really
cool for this for the stealth, you're not making any
noise pulling in and you what you do is when
you set up your stands, brush up a big area
so you can drive all the way up to the
to the to the steps of your stand. Lay the
thing down. Because where I am the deer you would't

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believe how spooky they are. I mean they see anything
that's not right. I used to try to put a
little go pro camera on the ground. Yeah you know
the GoPros outside of a match bucket. Sure, but it's
a little bit shiny and man that I tried that
twice and they just blue at that thing and stomped
and went to the next zip code. That's that's how spook.
So so one time I didn't lay the bike down covered.

(01:16:40):
I thought, let's just black. I got all black one
laid it down in the brush, and of course they
picked there's something not right there. They picked it up
and blue and turned around.

Speaker 3 (01:16:49):
So it's like it's like up a big area.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
In duck hunting, these these drive in blinds where you
can pull your little john boat right up into a
cover and then hop into the blind. Yeah, you got
to cover the bike, don't you.

Speaker 5 (01:17:02):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
Oh yeah, well what I don't cover it, but I've
made a made a brush.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
Yeah, yeah, that's why I can't see.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
Yeah, so kind of like a duck blind. It's brushed
up exactly laid down in there and they don't see it.
But it's it's it's really slick for bow honey. Yeah,
because it does so many things.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
Yeah, I hadn't thought about the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
And talking to Wayne Errington, he and I had never
even said anything about take it eliminating that set trail.
But holy cow, that's that's a game changer. Man, I
didn't thought about that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
It is it is, Well, it does so many things.
You know, it's quiet. You know, you're not running a
four wheeler or a or a mule or whatever across
the property, right you know. Oh yeah, and so here
comes John.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
Yeah, it's a little late this morning. Must have eaten
some extra breakfast.

Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
Let me ask you a question.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Since you have one and you've you've taken it through
the paces, how do you think it would perform on
loose sand?

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
Does Well? I have a very sandy soil here. Now,
I wouldn't go down to try to ride the dunes
at the beach on it but I have very sandy
soil here, and when it's dried like it's been, it
does fine. And it takes a little while. You used
to ride it because with a little bit up and
it's like the cross between riding a mountain bike and
a dirt bike.

Speaker 3 (01:18:19):
Yeah yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
But and you want to get full suspension because otherwise
it's rough and banging around. So it's it's it's it's
you know, basically, entry for a decent one once you
rig it out is about two grand, so it's you know,

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but anyway, it's it's great, great item.

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:18:48):
I appreciate that, John, No problem. I'll work on the
rest of my list with you next week.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
Okay, I'll see audios.

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in Sports Talk seven ninety Good Heaven's how time flies?
Huh seven one three two two five seven ninety I've
got time for maybe one more call. I would be
happy to hear from you. Certainly, Good Heaven. That's this
thing went pretty fast, Frankie. It really did kind of
surprise kind of yes, kind of know. Every barbed hook
that gets up in a fish's mouth has potential to

(01:20:29):
tear it up pretty badly. It may catch a gill raker,
it may catch the throat, it may catch the jawbone.
And if you watch boy, I'm seeing more and more
people on television catching bass who are just grabbing a
pair of plyers and it's almost like they're trying to

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take the bass's tonsils out aggressively, and barbed hooks get stuck.
They do, But that barb is not what holds that
hook in the fish. Pressure is all if you keep
a tight line most of the time. And I've been
doing this for twenty five years now, maybe more. I

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don't fish with barbed hooks. I find no reason for it.
I'm not trying to. If I set a world if
I had a thirty pound bass, if I set the
hook and a thirty pound bash jumped in the air
in front of me in Texas where I know it's
going to be a record by twelve pounds, and my
barbed hook somehow came out of that fish's mouth like, oh, well,

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that's okay because I didn't hurt the fish. Conversely, if
I have barbs on my hooks. Every fish I set
the hook on has a chance it's gonna get torn
up so bad it's not gonna make it to tomorrow.
And that's the last thing I want. Every fish I
take off my hooks, I want to survive and let

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somebody else have the same thrill I got from them.

Speaker 3 (01:21:59):
And it's a shame that more people don't do this.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
It's a shame that the bass fishing community doesn't say, Hey,
you know what, this guy down in Texas has a
pretty good idea. It would make it a lot easier
and a lot faster and a lot better for the
fish if we fished with barbleous hooks, and the lure manufacturers,

(01:22:23):
if that were a rule on any of the circuits,
would gladly shift to barbarous hardware. And if you're actually
buying barblous hooks, there's going to be no damage to
their potential strength, there's going to be no damage to
the hooks themselves. They're just going to start out with
no barb and in a very hard mouth like a
bass has a barbed hook. Actually, if it's in the

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hard part of that mouth, the bony part, a barbed
hook doesn't penetrate as well as a barbarous hook. There's
a lot of tarpin fishermen will tell you about that,
especially fly fishermen, because they're having to try really hard
to get a hook set in a big, old, bony
tarpin's mouth, and a barblous hook will bury itself in
there deeper rather than get stopped by the barb from

(01:23:09):
going in. And you actually have a better chance with
a barbless hook than a barber hook in a lot
of cases, especially fly fishing with tarpin.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
Ah, so much to unpack. Just like I promised, there
was a lot to talk about. I covered.

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
I've covered safety as much as I want to cover
it today.

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
But yeah, David, Well, I'll.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
Let me go to David's email because this is so
it's it's simple, but it really would, as he writes,
eliminate the vast majority of circumstances that can lead to
an accidental discharge, and that is to just wait until
you are up in the stand before chambering around, and
then empty the empty the rifle before you climb down

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from a stand.

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
There's a lot of there's a lot of opportunity.

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
For problems that goes away once you follow that rule.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
Now, I know a lot of you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
Especially in the afternoon, you want to walk all the
way to your stand with that rifle loaded, just in
case moui grande steps out in front of you on
the trail.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
But how often has that happened?

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
And if it did, maybe just chalk it up to
that deer got the best of you that day and
get on into your stand and see if it'll come
back around. I just can't think of any circumstance that
warrants any chance of something going wrong going up into
a stand or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
And if you're still hunting and you're.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
Walking through the woods and you've got the rifle over
your shoulder, I get it. If you're actively hunting while
you're on the ground, that's one thing. But just if
you're hustling trying to get into that box at a
certain time, go ahead and leave it empty and take
away that potential for it. I still contend that it's

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probably and I haven't ever done any research on this,
but I would be willing to bet a dozen donuts
or something that the majority of hunting accidents happen with
people who haven't been hunting all their lives. But they've
been hunting just long enough to feel comfortable. I witnessed
that when I was a waterfowl guide. The brand new

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guy is scared to death to do anything, especially something wrong,
so they come to you for all the advice you
can give them, all the help and all the instruction
you can give them. And the person who's been doing
it all their lives and is very comfortable, is comfortable
with safe gun handling. The guy in the middle, the
guy who feels like he's kind of in the club

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but not quite completely to graduate level, is the guy
who and I think it's mostly men who would be
this way.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
They are they tended to be anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
When I was guiding, the ones who would make us
a minor mistake knock on wood. I never had any
mistakes in my spreads at all. No, there were a
couple of accidental discharges, but the guys knew to have
at least have their guns pointed out of spread, and
that was you know, you tell those guys you know,
don't look. I'll tell you when to shoot, and don't
take it off safety until I called the shot.

Speaker 3 (01:26:21):
And then on a calm day, as the geese.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Got closer, these people who weren't looking magically knew they
were getting closer, and you could hear the click click
of the of the safety is coming off. Useduld just
run cold chills up and down my spine. We got
through it all though, and we got through this show today.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
In the meantime, get outside.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
The rain's gonna stop here shortly, except along the coast
they'll have some a little later in the day. Get outside,
have some fun with your family. Thank you for listening.
I truly do appreciate it. That's it for now.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
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