Long Distance Casting for Olympics?

Originally aired on February 8, 2026. On this episode, Doug fields calls about golf, talks all things foggy mornings, and much more. Stay connected to the outdoor activities that you and your family love, on The Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Holy count, somebody's got this microphone turned way way way up.
It almost blew my head off. All right, let me
get my phone out of my pocket. Take a seat
behind the console. We're ready to go. Man. Sunday morning
starts right now. If you walked outside, if you haven't
walked outside yet, pretty much expect some fog. I had

(00:24):
significant fog up there or out there at my house
this morning, and only a few minutes ago I got
a text message from faux Pro to let me know
that he has fog up there around Lake Livingston. There,
that's a little better. I turned that down just a
little bit more, even good heavens. I don't know. I'm

(00:44):
not sure who was in here yesterday. There must have
been some pre football game coverage or something like that. Frankie,
do you know it all? It was uh rockets last night.
Oh that's right. Yeah, how they end up? I don't know.
I couldn't watch the end. Okay, that's a research assignment
right there. When I say how did it turn out?

(01:05):
I need to know, and I got to keep talking.
You check it out real quick and give me an update.
If you have a sound or where you can break in,
like a breaking news story. Never mind, it shouldn't even
take that long.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
What do you got, hey, I was one twelve to
one oh six. We won, Oh good, good good.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
They had fallen into a bit of a losing streak there,
I think two or three games, and at one point
I was watching some of the game last night, and
at one point I want to say we were down
by maybe I think it down by fifteen, because I
remember my son walked through the room and asked how
they were doing. I said, they're down twelve, and then

(01:44):
one of their guys drained a three pointer. I said, up,
make it fifteen. So they dug themselves out of that
hole through the rest of the game. I think that
was still in the first half. Even maybe they were
really they were just really not shooting well. But enough
of that. That's basketball, And this is the outdoors. Pretty
good foggy morning, in case you haven't peeked outside yet.

(02:05):
Like I just said, I can't look at fog. I
really can't without flashing back.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
I heard the dumbest joke the other day too, You ready, Frankie, Yeah,
what's up? I tried to punch fog, but I missed.
There you go about that there you go. We need
it like a little snare, drum, rim shot or something
you can have handy for. When I tell those hilarious,
absolutely hilarious jokes, I'm sure there's people just slamming on

(02:34):
their steering wheels, laughing so hard can't breathe after that one.
That's one of the worst ones actually, by the way,
that I'm actually told on the air, and I promise
I'll make this promise to you never again one that's
that bad. Okay, fair, Frankie, that's fair to me. And
if I do tell one that sounds worse than that one,
let me know and I'll arrange some atonement of some sort.

(02:58):
I don't know what it'll be. Back to the fog
ysh I look up and immediately I'm trying to analyze it,
to tell how high it is off the ground, how
thick it is, because that's what really mattered all of
those little factors. It wasn't just foggy mornings that made
some goose hunts better than almost all the others. It

(03:20):
was just how high was the fog, how thick was it,
how well could the birds see through it? Was there
a top on it or was it just ground fog
where it was fog up for about maybe fifty seventy
five one hundred yards, and then blue sky on top
of that. That's not what you're looking for. You're looking
for something that's foggy on the ground, and then just

(03:40):
keeps on going up to clouds, which the cloud on
the ground becomes a cloud in the sky and they
all meet. And so the birds really have to stay
kind of low to see where they're going and get
where they want to be to go eat in the morning.
And man, it was in a fairly thick fog. Sometimes

(04:03):
it got so thick on that prairie sometimes that you
literally could not see. I couldn't see from one side
to the other of the spread. And now granted our
spreads were pretty big, but they were also on the ground,
and we would be like kind of being in a
smoky room. If you get down low, you can see
and you can breathe, And that's the same way it

(04:24):
is with the fog. The lower you get, if you
can get right smacked down on the ground, you can
see a little bit farther. But there were some days
when when we couldn't see twenty five thirty yards, and
I remember one very distinctly where if some geese had
flown through the spread low and behind us at about
our four o'clock position on a clock face and we'd

(04:47):
a shot, we'd have blown the windows out of our cars.
After walking by the way about twenty minutes to get
where I thought we should be, because I'd scouted the
field yesterday, I'd just memorized the route on the little
rice levees. I walk them in big circle. It happens fog.
The thing that was really cool about hunting geese in
the fog, too, was you hear them murmuring up in

(05:09):
the clouds. You can hear their wings beating, you can
hear their They're just little, just noises they're making, just trying,
I guess, trying to stay in touch with each other
and so on the ground. To attract them, you use
the same kind of quiet murmur of a call, because
if you you let out a big, old full honk

(05:31):
like you would and a bluebird day goose that was
one hundred and fifty yards away, it just echoes off
that cloud that surrounds you like you're like you're in
an office building bathroom trying to talk on the phone.
You know that echo, you sound Frankie, that's what it. Yeah,
that's what it sounds like when you hit a duck

(05:51):
or goose call really hard in the fall in the fog.
Be fun on deer hunts too, if you can control
your imagination that when you're just sitting there all by
yourself in a box blind, or on a tripod, or
a tree stand, a tree stand somewhere, and it's really
really foggy, like ten yards foggy, all of your senses

(06:14):
are heightened. And it really is true that when one
of your senses is compromised, and in this case, the
fog compromises your eyesight, the others, in this case you're hearing,
are highly intensified. Now, I don't know that smells or
tastes are magnified in fog. I've never really thought about it.

(06:35):
I don't recall any of my little protein bars tasting
especially good on a foggy morning. But the bottom line is, man,
when you're in that deer stand, that big buck you
thought was walking around the feeder when the fog comes up,
Oh oh yeah, it was a squirrel. It was a squirrel.
It sounds like it sounds like an elephant is trampling

(06:57):
through a pile of potato chips, and in your head
you envision something that has to be just huge. And
then the fog lifts a little bit. Oh, he's cute.
Wonder what's he doing here? And then you watch the
little squirrel step on something and you hear that same
noise that you thought was that big buck but it wasn't.

(07:20):
Tell me a good fog story. Such really good times
being in the woods on the prairie. And as a bonus,
it's not nearly so dangerous, by the way as being
on fog in the water. That's when it gets a
little crazy. That's when it can be downright dangerous too,

(07:40):
because especially if you get out of the boat and
are in the water wade fishing and you hear an
outboard motor coming your ways, that's something you don't really
want to hear. It's really eerie too. It truly is fog.
I guess is I'm trying to think of what fog is.
Give me a second, Give me a second, fog, Let's

(08:03):
let's go this way. Fog is nature, Frankie, tell me
if I'm right or wrong. Fog is nature's negligee. Okay,
to find negligee, a thin veil that hides what's beyond it. Wow,
you want to see through it, you know you do,
but you have to wait. And then finally, when the
sun pops and everything heats up, the veil is lifted

(08:26):
to reveal a beautiful morning. That's what you were thinking, right,
something like that? Oh man, Oh, Mercy's sake. That took
a weird turn, didn't it. That's okay?

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yesterday, Mark from Georgia emails me. We're talking about big
Mass and how tough it's been for Texas to get
off the eighteen eighteen Berry Saint Clair Fish. It's been
there since Moses part of the Red Sea? Or yeah,
did Moses do that?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
That's right, right, Frankie, Well, yeah, technically he was there, Okay,
but yeah, yeah, since the parting of the Red Sea.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
I misspoke and I'm not going to go backward. We
just need to move forward. In any event, we were
talking about these big bass and why Texas's record is
just so old, and Mark sent an email that was very,
very compelling and very you know, just it really made
sense or didn't It made us scratch our heads. This

(09:27):
was about twenty minutes before the end of the show,
I think, and he said, by the way, I've done
the research, and guess what, the top bass in all
the states have all been caught twenty twenty five years ago.
And I okay. That makes me scratch my head and
wonder why there hasn't been a bigger fish caught in

(09:47):
so many years. And then, to his credit, about ten
minutes after the show, I get another email from Mark
over in Georgia said, hey, I got a little ahead
of myself. I can I'll read it verbatim for you, said,
my bad. The numbers I sent you concerned the top
states records backing up from number one Georgia the twenty
two to twenty five to number ten South Carolina. Other

(10:10):
states have had more recent records, but those records are
far from the twenty pound type records. And he gives
an example like South Dakota. The state record bass in
South Dakota is nine to five nine and a half
pounds nine point five, set in twenty twenty one. So
that's like big deal. So what the bottom line is
the top ten bass in the country all were caught

(10:34):
between twenty and twenty five years ago. Now I got
when we were talking about that even before the mistake
was noticed and rectified, we never got rectified on the air.
And that's why I'm doing it now, so if anybody
calls later, I can say we already talked about it.
But the long and the short of it is to
think that so many, just those top ten even bass

(10:58):
have held their spaces for two decades or more. A
couple of people I talked to yesterday afternoon about it
and said, you know, I wonder if there's something terribly
wrong with the bass, something terribly wrong with the water,
something terribly wrong with what's in the water, terribly wrong
with food supplies. And the more I thought about it,

(11:20):
the more I came up with, Nope, nothing's wrong at all,
nothing's wrong at all. That it's the same there's I
don't think it means there's something wrong. It's actually pretty
easy to explain. That's just as big as they get.
Same reason. There's no ten pound crappie said, there's no
five hundred pound white tails. There are no crows with

(11:43):
six foot wingspans. Every species on the planet's got a cap,
a size cap. There's no three foot long horseflies, although
one that was biting me on the top of my
foot in the Bahamas when I was trying to get
a cast off to a giant bonefish, felt like I
get weighed that much. And when I looked down, it
had already drawn blood from the top of my foot.

(12:05):
And I had to do what I had to do.
And that wasn't suck it up and make that cast.
That was take my cap off and splatter that horse
fly across the top of my entire foot. And he'd
already ingested pretty good. Bit. It hurts so bad I
wanted to cast to that fish. And it was just close,

(12:26):
and my guide's going to take the shot. Man take
the shot. And I felt this searing pain in the
top of my foot and look down and there's a
horse fly, not a giant one, just just a common
horse fly. But he had made uncommon, an uncommon affront
to the top of my foot, and there was blood

(12:46):
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Real quick, Back to the fog. If you've got a
good fog story, I'm always up for those because they
get me excited. They really do. I had so many
good experiences hunting in the fog, fishing in the fog again.

(17:31):
That trip I made with Cliff back in January of
the Turn of the century, or actually was even earlier
than that. It's been so long now, but that was
one of the foggiest days I've ever been on the water,
and fortunately we were so far away from anywhere everybody
else might have tried to even get on a day
like that. It was in the very early days of

(17:52):
navigation systems, and Cliff had already kind of mapped out
the route to get where we were going over the
last couple of weeks before I went down there, and
so we made it and we fished, and it was
so foggy that some of the cast we made you
could hear the just these explosive strikes from these giant

(18:13):
speckle trout. You could hear the strike but not see it.
And then about a second second and a half later,
the line came tight. It was, it was that dense,
and we were we were slinging big top waters. After
you throw those things a mile, threw them out beyond sight,
literally in the fog. It was fun, It really was fun.

(18:34):
And don't get me started on goose hunts in the fog.
Holy Cow. One of the one of the ones that
I flashed back to every time was when another guide
and I were trying to work a There was a
one field out there that was a square mile. It
was a I mean a ninety degree turns four times
square mile, one section of land, one big big beanfield

(18:56):
that year. And he was gonna hunt the the north
end of it. I was gonna hunt the south end
of it. And the birds were going to be coming
from the east out of a really big roost there,
so they were gonna be spreading out and holding the
ground just as best they could to get out where
they wanted to be. And we were both out there,
couldn't see each other at all. We had I had

(19:19):
my group up toward say, maybe a quarter mile in
from the north. He had gone around the back and
come in and had his guys setting up about a
quarter mile from the from the south fence. And darned
if we didn't hear while we're all spreading out decoys
and putting out rags and whatnot, two dogs fighting, his

(19:40):
and mine, and we didn't know where that well, we
could hear where they were, but we couldn't see him,
and both of us, it turned out, just started running
as soon as we heard it. Because these were two
big male labs and they weren't expecting to see other
male labs out there. If we both if we'd all
driven in together and all hunted together, they they would
have gotten along fine they had in the past, but

(20:02):
just stumbling upon each other in the heavy fog and
not knowing who's where and who's what, they just started
going at it. Neither one of them really got into
it bad enough to hurt each other, but they were
just kind of flexing their muscles. I like, you see
these guys they before a street fight. In some of
these videos you see online, they start flexing and puffing

(20:23):
up and dancing around like their Muhammad Ali and then
ended up getting punched out by the little guy. It's
usually the little guy that takes care of the big guy.
I watched one of those the other night, and I thought,
I know what's coming, but I can't turn it off.
I know exactly what's gonna happen. This little guy who
is being very patient with the big guy, who's all

(20:45):
puffed up and flexing and kind of flinching at the guy,
and he's just standing there waiting for an opportunity, and
the big guy pushed him and then started to swing
at him, and the little guy who clearly had some
golden glows experience, knocked the one punch that was coming
at him out of the way and tap that dude

(21:07):
right onto jaw and put him on the ground. I'm
too old for all that, I really am. I hope
I don't have to get in a fist fight again
ever in my life. Nothing looks sadder either than those
videos of old people fighting. That's just that, just yeah,
they just end up falling on the ground. We talked
yesterday a little bit about potential Olympic Games sports that

(21:31):
could be more related than just the little shooting events,
and I say little in the they're a major component
of both, like the biathlon, and I think there's the pentathlon.
I think also may have some in the winter. Olympics
have shooting involved. I don't remember the exact events, but
then there's certainly trapping skeet in the summer that's represented.

(21:56):
But maybe something from the fishing side in the The
one that kept coming up the most is even possibly
in there someday. And looking at what's in the Olympics now,
almost anything. I think you could get Tillywinks into the
Olympics if you pushed it enough and created a professional

(22:16):
tillywinks league or association, But the one that kept coming
up was long distance casting, which would be fun and
interesting because there is a great following for that, and
not just in this country but around the world. It
is pretty technical and I think it uh like a

(22:38):
one in one hundred chance, but it might have a
one in one hundred chance or better if anybody started
talking about it. I don't foresee it ever happening. It's
just something to think about. There was one guy wrote
in yesterday. I can't remember who it was, and I'll
go check my emails and figure that out and give
credit where it's due. But he said he used to
really make some long cast off the piers.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
He was a sixty first Street guy. I was the
ninetieth Street guy, and we were both building our own
rods back in the day, both slinging out big baits
and catching giant fish. And he had one guy at
the end of the pier one time ask him if
he had a Mexican fishing license and he's standing on
the sixty first Street pier goes no, why would I
need that? He said? He said, I've watched you. You're

(23:22):
casting into Mexican National waters he was casting that far.
The guy made that joke. I thought that was pretty good.
Seven three two one two five seven ninety email met
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. You know, I wasn't
gonna say something about this, but I think I might.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Speaking of the Olympics, I heard yesterday and read this
morning that some of our athletes over there are are
bad mouthing our country while representing our country, and I'm
not really sure I'm on board with that. I think
that they need to leave their their political opinions. They

(24:01):
need they needed to check those when they flew out
of here wearing our colors and representing our country. Just
go over there, do what you're do. What you've been
given a free trip halfway around the world to do
what you love best. Go do that, okay, and keep
your mouth shut. I don't. I'm not really a fan
of what they're doing over there. I'm really really not if. Yeah,

(24:27):
if they don't like it, then why did they accept
the imitation to compete beneath that flag of ours. Okay,
that's enough of that.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
I don't want to get into it because if I do,
I may not get out of it. I'll save some
of that for fifty plus. Listen on Tuesday. I'm pretty
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A thirty seven on Sports Talk seven ninety Doug Pike Show.
I was going through emails during the break and nothing
makes me think that something's not really really really really
really important more than seeing one of these neighborhood app
things and in all caps urgent message and then two four, six,
eight ten I think it is exclamation points, then be

(27:29):
aware and then a follow up exclamation point. Uh yeah,
I don't know. I mean this is now, this is
looking at the subject line instead of just the head. Yeah,
that's it's a good public service for this notification to

(27:50):
be made. But I tend to as a as an
old magazine editor and writer of I don't know, like
four and a half meion published words, whatever, I tend
to shy away from use of the exclamation point because
it's it's kind of like the way people people who

(28:13):
are upset these days throw expletives out every other word
out of their mouth, and they they just vulgar language,
thinking that's somehow going to make them better heard or
let us know, in spite of the screaming being a
pretty good indicator that they're really upset. The calmer you are,

(28:35):
the more people are gonna listen to your message. And
ten exclamation points and then seven two four six seven
letters later, another one, nah, nah, that's messed up. Seven
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(28:56):
up to to Mojo trying to find out if there
is fall in Montgomery County. I don't know if it
stretches that far west, but there's fog in there's fog
at Lake Livingston, and there's fog in sugar Land. Therefore,
my gut tells me there's gonna be some fog in
Montgomery County. And I'll wait till I hear back to

(29:17):
break that. We need a breaking news sounder, Frankie, and
not the one that kt R h uses. No, we
need our own and I don't care if it's a
kazoo or whatever, because after a certain amount of time,
even if it's something silly like a circus calliope, the

(29:40):
listeners will come to recognize that as hey, I need
to listen up because something good's coming right away. That
makes sense, That makes sense to me. Tinker around in there,
see what you can find that would that would truly
let people know that it's news, and you can't. You
know the FCC rule, you can't use anything that's any
kind of an emergency because there's no emergency. It'll just

(30:02):
be it'll just be outdoors related news. And I don't
think anything would qualify for that that treatment seven one three.
I already told you that. Hopefully you guys have that
number in your phones and you have the email address
somewhere where you can access it easily, because you know,

(30:22):
if you've listened to this program long enough that at
some point, and it usually doesn't take long, I'll say
something that either makes you think he's crazy or it
makes you think I'd like to respond to that, or
I'd like to agree with that. You can, and then
you could feel free to disagree with me too. I'm
not scared of somebody calling in and saying, hey, I

(30:43):
think you're wrong on this. As long as you don't
say bad words, as long as you are respectful as
I will be to you, then we're in good shape.
And I honestly I've talked to Frankie about this before.
I can I can count on both not on one
hand anymore after twenty five and a half years, but

(31:04):
I can count on both hands the number of times
I've had to just politely shut off a call where
somebody got so wrapped up and so excited and so
just went off the rails and was just flat being

(31:24):
rude that I had to cut them off. Otherwise I'll listen.
I'll politely listen to your side and you lightly listen
to mine. Oh now see, we don't have a breaking
news thing. And I just found out my listeners, except
for one of them, will be the first to know this. Yes,
it's foggy up in Montgomery County at Mojo's house. So

(31:46):
there you go, and we had nothing. Frankie, isn't it
disappointing to you? It is? At least yes, see, that
was our first shot. That was our first shot at
a news sounder. You work on that in your spare time,
because I know you've got lots of it. While you're
in there, you just sit around it. These producers, they
just sit there and do nothing except keep us. You

(32:07):
know that that might not be bad. That might not
be bad. Okay, So I'll say, heads up, we have
breaking news, and then we'll hear, and then I'll tell
you that it's foggy and Montgomery County or something equally
as compelling and equally necessary to know. Oh my gosh,

(32:33):
this this could make for a fun spring and summer.
Keep that sound handy bookmarket or whatever you do in there,
with all those buttons and knobs and stuff. I don't
know where you put them. You put them in your lunchbox.
I see your little lunch box in there.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
What's for lunch, Frankie, Oh man, we got a turkey sandwich,
Not two turkey sandwiches.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Just one. Yeah, I get it. And drinking unsweet tea
right now? Okay, all right, I'm gonna have chunky soup.
I don't know what flavor or what you know. I
guess it's a flavor or whatever it is. I just bought.
There were buy three get one free, so I bought
four and got the one free, and I'll eat the

(33:13):
free one today. I don't know which one it was,
but whichever one I pick up, that's going to be
the free one. I want to tell you about Houston
Gold Exchange. That's where my buddy Brad Shwiss has dealt
in precious metals and coins and bouyon for forty plus years.
And with gold at these super high prices that it's

(33:34):
at right now, this is historic levels. No better time
to sell whatever gold you've got around the house and
turn it into cash and maybe take it to the
boat show, maybe take it to whatever story you want
to go to to get some stuff that you want
and rather than just hold on to those those pieces

(33:55):
of metal that have been sitting idle for so long.
I've got some silver coins I need to take up
to him, I really do. Silver's also at a very
very high price right now. If you want to talk
about this with Brad, he has and he can handle he.
Oh he loves rolex watches too. He's got a lot
of those in there. He buys and sells Rolexes and

(34:19):
other fine pieces. And he would love nothing more than
to have you call him on his cell phone right now.
Because I bet he's listening again. He was listening yesterday.
I hope somebody called him and just talk about it,
talk about what this stuff is worth, and I think
you'll be pleasantly surprised and looking forward to the spring
fishing season and the fishing show coming up. I think
he might want to consider that he's not gonna pull

(34:41):
your legs. He promised he wasn't going fishing this weekend.
I hope he kept his promise. Although today looks like
a pretty good day to play hooky. The phone still works.
Though the phone still works, you can call him right
now on his cell phone. The stores at West Timer
and Darry Ashford. I don't think they're open on Sunday.
Maybe he'll open again tomorrow. But here's the deal two

(35:02):
eight one eight five one three nine five five. He's
probably just sitting there thinking, I don't know if anybody's
gonna call today. I hope they do, because he know
it's gonna make you one heck of a deal selling
you that are selling him your gold right now while
the price is super crazy high eight one eight five
one three nine five to five Kobe Stevens golf Apparel.

(35:25):
I'll be I'll be strutting around in that stuff tomorrow
morning as my boys and it up at nine thirty.
First group goes out at well, our first group goes
out at nine thirty. There'll be plenty people on the
golf course tomorrow. It's gonna be a pretty day for golf.
And no better thing to do than look good while
you're even if you're playing bad. And I haven't played
well lately, but I still I still put myself in

(35:47):
the mood by putting on the good stuff and going
out there and trying to represent Kobe Stevens as best
I can. I'm not as good as some of the
guys who wear this stuff, but I'm trying and I'm
gonna keep trying. You might want to take a look
if you appreciate quality golf gear that is also not
crazy through the roof expensive. I would highly recommend at

(36:10):
least going to the website, if not to the store
up there on the north side in Spring. It's got everything.
You can go ahead and put hands on. You can
try on stuff. If you are a kid, they got
sizes for you. If you're a woman, they have sizes
and different stuff for you, obviously, and if you're a
grown man. They've got sizes up to four X that'll

(36:32):
cover just about most of us. I would think you're
gonna look good, you're gonna feel good, you're gonna play better.
You're just gonna have a much better time, and people
are gonna look at you and go wow, I bet
that guy's a player. And just so just don't don't
pull out a club, don't make a swing, just stand
there and go yeah, I'm a little bit and then
just walk off. Kobe Stevens dot com is the website. Uh,

(36:53):
you have a hard time catching him if you try
to get him on the phone up at the store,
or maybe try to reach him some other way, because
he is constantly at events taking care of people and
their causes and helping people raise money all throughout the
communities he serves. With these these shirts and pants and
quarter zips and everything else he's got. There's even some
outdoor apparel there too. Go take a look at that.

(37:15):
Kobe Stevens dot com co O B Y S T
E V E N S. Kobe Stevens dot Com eight
fifty two on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening This morning. Turns out we do
have some breaking news.

Speaker 6 (37:31):
And.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Okay, you got to work on that. Frank, your timing
was just terrible, but we'll get to it. Steve Ways
in Foggy in Seabrook, Foggy in Seabrook. That concludes your
special message from the Doug Pike Show Weather desk. Oh bookends. Huh,

(37:57):
well that made it all better. Faux pro's opinion on that,
faux Pro, what do you think of that?

Speaker 4 (38:05):
I kind of like it.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
I kind of like it.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Okay, we may go with that. We may go with that.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
I told him I got breaking I got breaking news too.
I'm about to I'm getting ribs out to put on
the telet grill later.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Holy cow, Yeah there.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
You go, merc.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
What kind of ribs you're putting on there?

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Just the uhttle pork baby backs?

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Oh sweet, you open it?

Speaker 4 (38:38):
Oh no, I will open it up my belly.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
But give me a report from up the head. How
much how foggy is it really up there? I mean,
is it like dense stuff or just just enough to
make you consider not going?

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Uh? Looking at it now?

Speaker 4 (38:57):
I probably I had a deer walk out of one
hundre yards. I can kind of shoot him if he
is one hundred and twenty, I'd.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Have to think about it.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
Yeah, I have to make sure i'm too Now if
I was down and I'm pretty well above the water,
when I look down the hill left in my house,
it's probably maybe thirty yards yeah there, so I would
the lake wide open this morning.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Where I live is not a low spot, but Oyster
Oyster Creek kind of meanders through the area, and I
it's very clear when I leave the house that the
fag gets lighter as I drive north. You know it,
It's just that's been forever. It's always been that way
because I'm kind of right down in that little creek bed.

(39:42):
Although it's total development all around it for miles in
any direction, but the creek still runs through. And thank
goodness they didn't dam it up and try to make
a lake out there, although that would have been nice.
It would have been nice to have a lake just
right up where there's a park. Now, you know what,
I might just tell the might just tell the city,
you know what, you got the park over here, and
granted there's a lot of people in it all the time,

(40:04):
but it sure would look good as a bass lake.
How far you think I'll get with that.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
They can have too many bass lakes, no kidding.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
And well, one thing I think now, you live up
out in the country where bass lakes are farm pond,
stock ponds, the couple of the major living stones right
in your backyard basically. But down here these are I'm
I'm stalking neighborhood lakes. I'm stalking golf course lakes when
I can get permission to fish them. I'm all these

(40:38):
little bodies of water that don't look like they have
fish in them but actually do. And when you start
talking to the people who you know, you bump into
somebody else who's fishing one of them, and if they
know what they're doing, and you get into a conversation
where you you know that sharing with that person is
not going to change anything about what you're doing, and
you're not going to change his fishing to if he

(40:59):
tells you you some of these little lakes in the
neighborhoods have really big bass in them. They really do.
Man like six eight had guys tell me, yeah, we
caught an eight pounder out of that little mud hole
over there, and we caught three five pounders out of
that one, and the fish are there. You just gotta
you gotta be a little bit patient and uh no

(41:21):
better place to learn patients and on big reservoirs because
you just don't get that many bites.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
Do you exactly? I think you had you had a
you know, ten percent of your bash or ninety percent
of the water, where if you're in a pond, it
don't take long to cover ninety percent of the water.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
So yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
I'd rather grab fish and pod. I'd rather do that,
I say. And I ain't never jumped Bob war Late
that hate field.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Car to go by, but I've never done that.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
If I could get but talking about a a fog story,
we'd have a little fog story me and a Buddy
Mane several years ago, you know, you know, to have
been there, pintail and wige and okay, stop this was
like we got that earlier though, and uh after day

(42:08):
before kind of looked around the picture out of the area.
Uh well this is what Well the next day it's
forty three and peace suit. Oh spots, but how shallow
is it here? It's like me deep up the sand.
Let's just park by a tree, set up a boat,
blind and then we'll have just we'll put out about
fifteen decoys. We'll have just get staylight, we'll move to

(42:30):
our spot. Yeah, well get shooting time. We both get
up blo boo boom, and had about don't kill which
and come in. So we get out and this is
back in the day when you had the shell belts
and all this kind of yeah on your on your
So we get out in the in the decoys, picking
up our dusk and while we stood out there, we

(42:53):
shot our limits. So weish it in ptail. So we
had our lifting.

Speaker 6 (42:57):
Oh wow, that's all man, We've had it on the
X today.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
We did that for three days in the road during
Chris Christmas Christmas Sweet several years ago. Never saw another hunter,
never saw another fisherman, had the entire RESU market.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
That's awesome, that's all. Hey, I'm gonna give you credit
for being first on this show to be doing what
you're doing. Swinging on the front porch, aren't you You.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
Know you hear you hear the wind chimes?

Speaker 1 (43:26):
Oh is that the wind chimes? I thought you were
I thought you were in a swing out there. Oh no,
the yeah, Oh good golf, and you.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
Like wind chimes? And I bought her one of these
big cathedral wind chimes that are like four long.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Lord, man, no wonder I can hear all. I got
a bounce, man, this is the top of the hour.
You know what that means?

Speaker 4 (43:53):
There? Go get it.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Always a pleasure, folk, bro. Thanks for the story, buddy,
All right, yeah, we'll see man. Oh wow, I thought
that was him on a porch swing. I don't know
that they have one or not. I can't remember, now
I get it. I do remember seeing the wind chimes
out there, and they're as big as he's not fooling
around that main one looks like a Major League Baseball bat.

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(44:41):
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(45:02):
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(45:23):
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Nine oh three on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show,
Thank you for listening. Second hour of the program starts
right now. Sundays we get two hours. Saturday's we get
three hours. I'll no, we can make it work. We

(45:46):
can make it work. Whatever you want. We'll get more
if we can.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
I'm sending a picture back to Mojo. Mojo sent a
picture of the front yard and it's just this beautiful
wooded scene. Sit back. It looks like a scene out
of Bambi, only without the talking animals. Yeah, that's a
that's a pretty looker. It's just it's it's kind of
medium fog. I think through the trees, I'm able to

(46:11):
see down low, probably a good hundred and fifty yards
just based on what the sizes of the trees are
in the foreground and the ones in the background at
least one hundred yards. So it's trying to lift up there.
As of what time nine o three am. Hopefully it
will to reveal a sunny day. That's what we're looking

(46:32):
for today, some clouds and then a little bit more
of the same tomorrow. Wouldn't be a bad morning actually,
with it as calm as it is to go out
and shoot long range stuff at a place like American
Shooting Centers out there West Timer Parkway and between Katie
and Highway six on West Timer Parkway. They shoot out

(46:54):
to six hundred yards out there. I may at some point,
maybe when we get a little bit back closer to
hunting season again at toward the end of this year,
I may get at Aigie on the phone, or maybe
even before that, just to ask him or find some
long range shooter who knows how much impact how much
effect moisture has on long range shooting, because if you're

(47:18):
trying to shoot bullets six hundred eight hundred, one thousand yards,
all of that moisture is something they've got to push through.
And I don't know because I don't understand ballistics that well.
I bet Jerry t. K could tell me about it too.
One of those two guys certainly could just how far
or just how much impact how much you have to

(47:39):
change maybe your aim point to push a bullet through
six hundred yards of fog. And that's boy, that's got
to be a tough thing to figure out too, because
there's so many differences in just how thick or thin
that fog is. I don't know if there's anybody out
there who does, and I bet there's somebody in this

(48:00):
audience who knows. I'd love to have that conversation. American
Shooting said, I you know it would be fun. Is
if there was some way to imitate fog in some
way to imitate a rice field levee on which to
roll over and try to shoot high clay targets in

(48:21):
limited visibility. That's sure would to help bunch of my
hunters back when we were hunting in the fog. There's
just no It's very difficult to hunt waterfowl that way
because there are no reference points around you for distance,
especially if the birds are flying a little low. You
can't see the ground, you can't see the sky, you
can't see the fence line behind wherever the birds are,

(48:44):
whatever it is. And if that could be done at
a place like American that'd be great. Maybe maybe there
could be an impromptu scheduling of the next foggy morning,
we're gonna have a clay shoot, and whether you can
see the targets or not, we're throwing them. That might
be kind of fun too. They've got three sporting place
courses out there, got five stand all that. I like

(49:07):
that little pop up silhouette range too, for the twenty
twos for the kids. If you got kids who love
to shoot, and they love to shoot your big ammo,
maybe get them excited somehow about hitting these little pop
up silhouette metal silhouettes out too. I think they go
out to two hundred and fifty yards and at two
hundred and fifty yards shooting little twenty two even twenty

(49:27):
two long rifles, you know you can pull the trigger
then go make a sandwich and eat it and then
listen for the think way out there. It's a lot
of fun, easy to get to in a very safe
place to shoot, a very user friendly safe place to
shoot as well. Just go to the website American Shooting

(49:47):
Centers dot com. American Shooting Centers dot com. All right,
back to it. I got to go to the golf
side for just a minute because there is a lot
going on. I'm gonna have to bring this up. It
didn't want to come up ear earlier on my Outlook page,
or not Outlook but Google page. But I can get it.
I've got it bookmarked and it won't take a second.

(50:08):
I want to see just exactly where the world's number one,
Scotty Scheffler ended up, because he finished yesterday, I believe
at eight under par I'm gonna well, if I can
get this leaderboard to rack up, I'll be okay. They're
out there in Scottsdale. There's gonna be no fog out
there today. I'd be willing to bet everything I have

(50:30):
eight under Scotty Scheffler. Yes, indeed that's where he finished.
There are as was pointed out earlier today on the
PGA Tour network. When I was driving in, there are
something like twenty guys within five shots of the lead,
which includes the eights. Yeah, they're nineteen guys within five
shots of the lead. And honestly, I don't see any

(50:53):
reason whatsoever for somebody as far back as Scheffler being
Scotty Scheffler to pop up onto the really high on
the leader board if he can get a decent front
nine the courses is not giving up a lot sixty
eight sixty four yester or so far for Matsuyama, Nikolai

(51:17):
Hooigard sixty six seventy or check that we've got three
scores sixty six seventy sixty five for him, or Matsuyama's
third round yesterday sixty eight, So a pair of those
and a sixty four to get him where he is.
Seewuk him after shooting seventy three on Thursday, shot sixty
two and sixty six to get where he is. Tied

(51:40):
for second with four guys Nikolai Hoygard, Maverick Mcneelie, Seewoo
Kim and Rio Hisatsuni, all of those guys at twelve
under par scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, I'm looking for ok Shabatia,
that young lefty. I like the way he plays Golff.
He's at eleven. He's certainly in the mix. Victor Hobland

(52:04):
certainly in the mix. Anytime he plays Chris Gottterup he's
at nine. He's certainly not. You can't count him out
when the leaders all by himself, and then you've got
those what's five guys at twelve. It's gonna be fun.
It's gonna be a good tournament. There was something to
wear my notes, had a couple of notes I wanted
to talk about. Oh, by the way, I saw something

(52:26):
very interesting. A lot of people think that golf is
losing its luster and there are not many people, not
as many people playing anymore. But I saw something from
the USGA yesterday, a story about how many rounds were
played in America by people who actually have USGA handicaps,

(52:49):
which I don't think is the majority of golfers in
this country. The majority of the people who play occasionally
don't worry about a handicap. They don't don't worry about
any of that. They just worry about getting out there
with their friends, having a couple of beers or whatever.
Listening to a little bit of music that sometimes played
a little louder than I would prefer. But the long

(53:11):
and the short of it is just among golfers with
USA USGA handicaps. Hey, Frankie, pop quiz You ready? Yeah,
what's up? How many rounds of golf were played domestically
and right here in our country by golfers with USGA
handicaps in twenty twenty five? Is it zero? Well? No, no,

(53:36):
it's not not anywhere near zero. We play a lot
of golf in this country. Okay, I'll give it to you.
It's not fair. You don't really understand it, and you
don't know that much about golf. So I'll give it
to you. Eighty two million plus, Oh wow, eighty two
million plus rounds played by the guys who have handicaps.

(53:57):
And I would bet that there are two for at
least two for every one and maybe three for everyone
officially handicapped golfer that just go out there to play
for fun and you. They may not play as many
rounds as the guys who keep handicaps. They may play more.
I don't know, but I would be willing to bet
you that the actual number is closer to one hundred

(54:19):
and twenty million rounds played domestically among all golfers here,
at least at least double the eighty two maybe I
don't know, one hundred and fifty sixty, maybe more. It's
a lot of golf, I know that, and especially down
here where we get to play year round, that's such
a benefit, such a benefit I saw. I see a
lot of release news releases about golf, and there's we're

(54:44):
finally getting back onto the golf course up here in
tim Buck two, wherever tim Buck two is. We sure
enjoyed our three or four month playing season last year,
and hope it gets a little bit longer this year.
We just wait for the next eighty gree day. We're
so spoiled down here when it comes to golf. We
have so many options, for one thing, because it's a

(55:06):
lot easier to maintain and finance a golf course that
has to be taken care of year round, whether they're
playing on it or not. And we just wait till
the sun comes out and go play. And I think
my tolerance level is probably it used to be forty degrees.
I'd go out there if it didn't have a frost

(55:28):
delay let's go play where Bring some gloves, Bring a
couple of handwarmers. Stick your hands in your pockets and
keep your hands warm. That's where I keep my extra
golf ball too, the ball. I carry two balls in
one in play and one in my pocket in case
I have to go march over the woods somewhere and
can't find one, can't find my ball, and so I
keep hand warmers in there. When it's really cold, and

(55:51):
it's a very slight margin of how far the ball
flies when it's cold. It doesn't take off a full club,
I don't think, But whatever it is, my golf balls
are usually at about seventy five degrees, nice and toasty,
and so they fly a little bit farther. It's a
shame you can't use temperature to make them fly straighter.
All right, we got to take a break. Houston Gold Exchange.

(56:13):
I'm going to tell you one more time. My friend
Brad Schwise here, he's probably sitting by his phone right now,
waiting to buy from you whatever gold and silver you have,
whether it's coins or pieces of jewelry or boo yawn
or whatever it is. He will buy them from you.
And he will buy in quantities of as little as

(56:34):
a little tiny bunch of gold that fits in the
palm of your hand, up to half a million dollars worth.
He doesn't have a problem at all taking care of
large and small transactions from his store. He's been there
forty something years. I think it is at the corner
of West Timer and Darry Ashford, in a little, little,
tiny strip shopping center there and only a couple of

(56:55):
things in that particular building. It's free standing in front
of a bigger one, is what it is. You'll find
it when you get over there. It's very easy to find.
It's in the southeast corner of that intersection West Timer
and darry Ashford, where Brad is right now, is sitting
by his phone. He told me you wasn't going to
go fishing this weekend, and he told me to give
you his cell number so that you and he can

(57:17):
get together and turn your gold into cash, because the
price is ridiculously high right now. Turn your gold into cash,
and who knows, if you've got more than fits in
a fimble, you probably get enough money to buy yourself
a kayak or two. Give him a call on his
cell phone. The website is Houston Gooldexchange dot com if

(57:38):
you want to go that route his cell number, and
I promise you this is it. Two eight one eight
five one three nine five five two eight one eight
five one three nine five five. If you have a hankering,
as we say down here in the South, for great
traditional Mexican food, and you can wait a day because

(57:58):
Barry Hill's closed on, always has been, always will be.
Berry Hill Sugarland is the place to go get that.
I have been eating there for the better part of
my wife and I have for the better part of
thirty years. I go up there regularly and grab stuff
to bring home. And if you start going in there,
you will keep going in there. It's a very casual,

(58:20):
very family friendly dining atmosphere. There are tables and boosts
to the left, the sports bar to the right, which
I bet will be pretty busy this evening. And then
there's outdoor dining, which I'm sure is well though they
won't be this evening, will they, because it's not going
to be open. That's okay, outdoor dining as well, for
these evenings that have gotten so pleasant lately. You could

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start tomorrow, start tomorrow going to Berry Hill. If you've
never been. If you're new to Sugarland too, by the way,
just go in there and sheepishly or boldly just let
them know. Let some of those people in the sports
bar area know that you're new to the area and
you'd like to learn a little bit more about it,
and you'll probably make a friend or two before you
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welcome back nine to twenty two on Sports Talk seven
ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly
to appreciate it. I gotta get Dave, Gotta get Martin.
Dave's first. He's been on hold the longest, so he's
up first. Martin. Hang on, Dave, what's up, hey man?

Speaker 7 (59:42):
You talk about followed on the water I sent you
a picture on the Facebook page. Man, Yeah, I tell
you what, you can't even see. I can't see right
here to the to the first curve right here on
this canal. Man, it goes back in here. Yes, it's
pretty bad. I sent you a picture. There's that was
standing up here fishing on the dock. You got there.

(01:00:03):
But what I would like to say is, you know,
be careful because remember when they put all the pilines.
I don't know if you saw that deal that I
tagged you on on my Facebook page. They crashed you
Michelinda's deal through one of them wooden pilelines and went
all the way into the dock back here in the backyard,
you know, yeah, riding through that because here's the travel

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gravel down there. When you get off that asphalt come
down here, and then in that slope here, you know,
you got to be careful, you know. And then the
accidents around boat docks is uh yeah, that's a pretty
big deal. But other than that, we've been they've been
catching quite a few fish over here, you know, and
uh here and there, you know. And now I think,

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in my opinion, now that the front has kind of
got out of here, now that it's warming up. It
should be getting a whole lot better.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
You would think, you know, yeah, of course it will.

Speaker 7 (01:00:56):
Yeah, yeah, on and then uh yeah, and then hearing
you talk about, oh, here comes the ducks here. Now
did you quacking in the background? They see me part here,
But anyway, oh and then on the big game today,
you know we got yeah because you know, uh playing

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ball back in the day in the seventies, little Gary
and his son, uh client at Kubiak. He's offensive coordinator
for the Seahawks. And then because see his mom is
my second cousin, so I got a third cousin, and yeah,
and then I think yeah, and then I think he's
going to be the Raiders head coaching next year. So yeah,

(01:01:38):
I got a little bit of something to cheer about. You,
I know, you got something to go on, but a
safety in this fog and keep your uh keep your
low beings on man.

Speaker 6 (01:01:48):
Yeah, yeah, I see.

Speaker 7 (01:01:49):
And right now I'm looking at the boat over there,
and he don't even have a lot. If I had
a boat sitting over there in that fall right here
from where I'm looking at him, I'd have the biggest
light over there that I could hear receipt.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Yeah, in a marching band too on the front deck.

Speaker 7 (01:02:03):
Yeah, no kid or like some of these young guys
that out here that got the speakers blaring and everything,
you know, Uh yeah, at least something that you could
hear that there's something out there. But man, you I
can't even see to the other bank. And if you
go on your Facebook page you can, you'll tell I
go check it out. Hey, happy happy, oh.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
God, see man, audios. Let's go talk to Martin for
a minute. Martin, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 8 (01:02:29):
Hey, mister Doug. I'm the one who called about three
weeks ago about what happened to Columbia Lakes Resort gun
Course out out in the West Columbia. I was wondering
if you were able to talk to anybody over this
time period and or find out anything about wine. It's
apparently all closed.

Speaker 6 (01:02:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
I think the actual the resort area there is done.
The neighborhoods around it, there's all kinds of houses for
sale back there. They developed the whole the whole property,
but they developed most of it, and I think either
made enough money on that or just weren't making enough
money on trying to keep that resort and country club open,

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and it if it was gonna stay alive, it needed
a lot of work and it would have cost a
lot of money. And that's all I can figure out.
I haven't talked to anybody really about it, but I
did a little bit of snooping on the internet, and
when you punch in that name, you find all kinds
of real estate agents down there to sell you a

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house down there, But you can't find anything about the club.
It just it's missing. It's mia. I couldn't find it anyway,
So I think it's run its course. I don't know
why they would be just sitting on it and leaving
it there, I guess until they till some other developer
comes along and wants to give them enough money to
sell the rest of that land. Yeah. I don't know

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much other than what we knew back then, to be
honest with you. So even like the golf course is
open or no, none of that club facility is opened,
probably i'd be willing to bet on that. No, they
just they just locked the doors and walked away from
all that. And it doesn't take long. That happened in
Quayl Valley up here with the with one of the

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golf one of the two golf courses there. It just
they let it go back to seed for years, and
finally the city of Missouri City came in and said,
you know what, we're taking that and we're refurbishing it
and we're gonna we're gonna make it a beautiful place again.
And they did. And maybe somebody will come by and
do that down there, but it just I don't know,
it had the feel that it was trying to be

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a little bit more than it could be. I don't
know that there's the support in in Lake Jackson too
to keep to prop up a really truly high level
golf course and country club.

Speaker 8 (01:04:51):
I don't know if it's there in West West Columbia.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
Yeah, I know where it is. I've been there. I've
stayed there.

Speaker 8 (01:04:58):
Yeah yeah, you know, just just okay, thanks thanks mister Doug.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
Yeah, thank you, Martin, appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (01:05:06):
Bye bye.

Speaker 6 (01:05:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
I know I may be misspoke about where it is,
but where it where it actually is physically. I don't
think that the the membership. I don't think there's sufficient
people who would want membership in a in a high
end club, and that's probably why it wasn't able to
make it, which is a shame. I don't like to
see golf courses go down uh permanently. But the only

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thing worse than that is a golf course that stays
open but doesn't take care of itself, and can't take
care of itself or won't uh. There are some golf
course owners and managers who would would forego their own
paychecks to make sure that the greens were in good shape.
There's others where, hey, if you can if you can

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hit a ball down the fairway and it doesn't get
lost in weeds, that's good enough. And so you have
extremes to which the people who own and operate these
golf courses will go. And it does take a lot
of money. It takes a ton of money to keep
a golf course going. And there's always something else that's
gonna break just about the time it seems like things

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are humming along and the course is in good shape,
and all your equipment works, and all your guys are
showing up every morning the mowing and the blowing and
whatever they have to do around the place to make
it look nice. All of a sudden a tractor goes down,
or we catch a drought, or we get a sudden

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freeze that when the temperature drops down five more degrees
and you thought it was gonna do overnight and you
lose a bunch of turf. There's all kinds of problems,
some weed outbreak, whatever it is, and that just man.
I know a couple of guys who own golf courses
and they just scratch their heads every day, just cross
their fingers when they drive up into the parking lot.

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I hope nothing goes wrong today, and something usually does.
Sometimes it just costs more than other days. Good people,
though most of them that I know good people. There's
a few. There's a few who who aren't as Some
aren't as user friendly as others, and I wish them
well and I wish they would take better care of
their courses. But their business model is just different from

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the others. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Email on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
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people in this audience driving down to Belleville, but out
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make that drive all the time. It's because, first of all,
when you get there, you've got the opportunity between ten
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They've got stuff pork chops, They've got labuchery stuffed chickens.

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They do wild game processing year round. Two it's only
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(01:09:09):
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to ninety Dug Pike Show, I want to get moving
pretty quick gear because I want to go catch all

(01:09:55):
these calls. I'm gonna start with Alan and go to
Rick and go to Mark. Here we go, Alan, what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
Tell you more to do? How you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
I'm good? Thank you?

Speaker 6 (01:10:03):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
Upcoming fishing show at the George R.

Speaker 6 (01:10:06):
Brown.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
Do you know are there gonna be any other outfitters there?
There gonna be a bunch of Hounting outfitters by chants.

Speaker 6 (01:10:13):
What kind hone?

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
Oh honey, yeah, probably a few. Yeah, I'm almost.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
Certain they'll be thinking that, but I'm for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
Yeah, yeah, it's not it's not an exclusive club. There
won't be many, but there will be a few, I
would imagine.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Yeah, I was, I was, well, you know, well I
should say no, excuse me not, honey. I mean, I
was thinking, there's gonna be some Alaskan guys. Oh yeah,
I'm going back to Alaska in September twenty seventh, So
I was thinking, yeah, I want to go ahead and
boath the trip.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
Now, yeah, there won't dance. There'll definitely be two or
three of those guys out there, no question about it.
I didn't have to look at the list. Yeah, they'll
be there.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Yeah, what I kind of Uh, you don't have any
tickets you want to give away to you?

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
Yeah, I can do that for you. Give I'm gonna
put you back on hold and get Frankie to get
your information, and I leave four of them at the
door for you. Okay, here, not not down there.

Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
But here. Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:04):
Yeah, if you can get by here and pick them up,
they'll have your name on them.

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
I can do that, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
I'm gonna put your on hold. Stand by. There we go. Okay, Ricky, Ricky, Ricky,
you're up man. What's going on?

Speaker 7 (01:11:17):
Doug?

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
I wanted to chime in on the golf course.

Speaker 5 (01:11:19):
Yeah, Plumbia Lakes Okay, okay, I played that course back
in probably.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Late eighties, early nineties. Sure it was, it was you
know anyway, what happens to these golf courses? Now, keep
in mind, just think back. You got Columbia Lakes closed,
what was it? The Congrove Con Lakes down in Richmond closed.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
The con Grove is still going.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
What are the con lakes down there?

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Maybe yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:11:49):
One older summer. Yeah, we got Cypress Lakes just off
the top of my heads, off two nanny So they
just recently closed down for a year or two.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Here's here's the deal. It's it's to supply demand and
in the highest and best used thing. When the golf
course is uh, when the the the land is more
valuable to be developed of, you can kiss the golf
course good buy.

Speaker 5 (01:12:15):
For example, for example, I saw a land.

Speaker 3 (01:12:18):
Plan here what here recently it's going to be proposed
in the it In corridor and it's a major residential development.
And they're also doing a twenty seven oh golf course.
But in their land plan, and I've been in these
meetings because I'm involved in part of.

Speaker 5 (01:12:36):
The settlements, is their land plan is they're gonna build
about six hundred homes. Okay, the golf course would lean
itself towards another two or three hundred, but the market
would and support those houses. Right now that now, it's.

Speaker 6 (01:12:53):
Not the time.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
The value ain't there. Sure, So when the value of
the land becomes more useful and makes more sense to
develop it.

Speaker 5 (01:13:02):
You can kiss the golf course good back.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
You know, that's exactly That's exactly what. Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
Let me just make one more statement. Yeah you probably
know and I know what percentage out of one hundred
golf courses, how many are truly profitable.

Speaker 1 (01:13:19):
It's not a it's not a super high percentage. It
takes really careful management. And yeah it's a low number.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
Yeah about ten percent.

Speaker 5 (01:13:30):
Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
Well, what I was going to say is there's no
better example that I can think of than Old Orchard,
which was twenty seven holes one.

Speaker 5 (01:13:39):
That's the one that like mount in a Richmond Rosen Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Yeah, yeah, it's just right down the street from where
I'm playing now at Blackhawk.

Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
And the one I was thinking.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
I knew the guy. The guys who owned that were
all golf industry related. There were a couple of old
pros who who owned pieces of it, and some other
guys in the business. Fact, I just talked to one
of the guys, uh, one of the prior owner's sons,
to Let, who called to let me know that his
dad had passed away. But they when they opened that
place up, they had a wheelbarrow back there behind the

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counter and as soon as the right person came by
and filled it full of the right amount of money,
they sold it. And that's exactly what you're talking about.
And that's that's a shame. But it's when it's time,
it's time.

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
Do you remember, Uh, well, look at look at Houston
Oaks today, the bat man over there, that's all multi
million dollars. Absolutely, golf there and and think about you're
you're my age. You remember on nar.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
Sat off of spring Cypress, remember the old golf course
tree line vaguely?

Speaker 1 (01:14:41):
Yeah, I played it like two times. Yeah yeah, Freeland.

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
Now now there's I'm sure there's a house setting on
every tea box.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Absolutely, yep, that's it. You're right, man. I got to
catch one more money. Yep, I gotta catch one more Rick,
Thank you, buddy, Audios all right, Mark, Mark, you're up man.
I'm gonna give you a couple of minutes here. What
you got?

Speaker 6 (01:15:04):
Thank you, Doug. How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
I'm well? Thank you?

Speaker 6 (01:15:07):
Good listen. Are you a member of gym Handicap?

Speaker 1 (01:15:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:15:15):
How do you like it?

Speaker 6 (01:15:16):
Oh? Ball?

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
Well, I don't mean it serves my purpose. I'm I'm
not a big I can't play very many tournaments, big
tournaments or USGA tournaments anything like that, because I'm working
on the weekends. And yeah, but I keep it just
because the guys that I play with during during the
week every now and then we have a little game

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that goes on and so everybody's got to keep an
honest handicap and it works out fine. But that's all
I'm using it for. Really.

Speaker 6 (01:15:46):
Well, I'm a member in Columbus Okay Road and I
play with the seniors. I play. I'm pretty semi retired
at this point, but I'll play two or three times
a week if the weather's good.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
Good for you, And.

Speaker 6 (01:16:00):
I just put my gin score in my phone and
yeah at the end of the round, and it's been
trickling down, but uh, I like it overall. I ready
did it because we had a guy. We had a
guy that was volunteering. He's Marshall out there and he
and another fellow wanted to run that bay and check

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in with his elephant.

Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
Yeah, it has been I'm glad to hear from you, Mark,
glad to hear you're still getting out there. How's your game.

Speaker 6 (01:16:31):
It's good, it's uh, you know, I'm shooting long nineties
high eighties right now. But I'm hoping to get down
a little bit once, just a little warmer. But it's
a great game. I love it, man. You know, you know,
you play so much, you can get lucky, you can

(01:16:51):
get unlucky. And when you get these greens out here
at Columbus or just I've heard guys say, man, I
can't huddles, kid, it's just so undulating, and they if
they run off the other side. If you can play there,
I think you can play this boy.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Isn't that the truth? Yeah, there's a lot of golf
courses like that. Well, it's great to hear from you, man,
don't be a stranger, thank you, Yes, sir audios. Yeah,
that handicap system is a really fair and equitable way
for the handicap system over wall is fair and equitable

(01:17:29):
so long as the scores are being posted, and so
long as everybody's being honest. What happens is some people
will only post their worst scores so that their handicaps
go up. And then there's a few people, a couple
of them, even I know, who will post their best
scores and so they can say, if somebody asks them
at a cocktail party, what's your handicap. They oh yeah,

(01:17:51):
I'm a six, when in reality they're shooting eighty two
every day, eighty four, eighty five. Whatever. It's all about
the honor system, really, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:18:02):
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com ninety two on Sports Talk seven ninety The Duckpike Show.
Thanks for listening for I don't know what segment. This
is the millionth segment. I think somehow we're gonna wrap
her up here in a few minutes, so I might
have time for one quick call if somebody had one
quick thing they wanted to say. Otherwise, Uh, Frankie's going
to be able to frank you'll make that call. I

(01:20:31):
want to touch on something that I haven't touched on yet.
In case you are familiar with Crown Colony golf Course
up there in Lufkin. I got to play there shortly
after they had done a pretty major renovation of the
golf course. I have to go up there with a
few other golf communicators, if you will, golf media people

(01:20:52):
back in the spring, I think it was, and I
heard yesterday that sometime in the last forty eight hours
their cart barn had a major fire that pretty much
took out just wiped out the cart barn and everything
that was in it. Nobody hurt, but that's a significant
loss financially. We were talking earlier about how much money

(01:21:14):
it takes to run a golf course, how much money
it takes to keep one open, and that one being
being a community type golf course. I think, well, they'll
come back, and probably the city of Luf it'll help
them do a little bit better and get that thing rebuilt.
I'm sure there's some insurance money that'll get doled out.

(01:21:36):
I did a little research yesterday and the average cost
of one golf cart, and I would bet that even
that course, with as little play as it gets now,
it gets really busy on the weekends, I was told
when I was up there, but the weekdays sometimes a
little bit slower. Nonetheless, you would have to have if
you're going to have tournaments and stuff up there, you
would have to have at least I would say forty

(01:21:58):
or fifty carts available at any given time, and maybe
sixty or seventy five. I don't really know how many
we have out where I play or at any other
golf courses. I'd be kind of curious to find that out.
But anyway, those things average in cost brand new now
from about seven up to maybe fourteen fifteen thousand dollars

(01:22:18):
depending on what bells and whistles you put on them,
good ones on average eight nine grand somewhere in there.
It's a great golf course. Really, it's a little tight
for my play anyway. I still hit it far enough,
and when I miss it it goes far enough left
or far enough right to be an issue. Not that
many misses lately, thank goodness, but yeah, it would. It

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would be a difficult track to walk. I hope the members.
A lot of those members up there have their own carts.
They It's kind of like Quill Valley where the players
who are who spend the most time on the course
live right there in the neighborhood. They have their own carts.
They just drive up there and start driving around the
golf course. The other thing that we talked a lot
about was why there are no more. There haven't been

(01:23:02):
any twenty pound bass caught in years, and I'm I'm
not convinced anymore that there were a couple of people
trying to figure out what's wrong with Texas, what's wrong
with the rest of the country, because, as Mark pointed out,
the top ten bass in the country from the top
ten states that have big that well, they all keep
track of their biggest bass, but the top ten states

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with top ten bass, those records have stood for like
two decades or more. And I feel like it's a
pretty simple solution. It's just that that's as big as
bats will get, that's as big as largemouth bass will get.
And that may have been if I go back and look,
it might have been around the time early in the
introduction of the Florida Bass jeans to the Texas Bass

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here thinking just for Texas alone. But as I said
earlier in the program, there's really nothing, nothing that amazing
about it, because that's the same reason that there are
no There are no five hundred pound white tails, there's
no fifteen pound crappie, there's no forty pound geese. They

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just hit a natural maximum size, even under ideal conditions,
and then they die. The organs fail their bodies. I'd
look at myself in the mirror. I don't look like
I did when I was thirty. I'm pretty well capped
out myself. Frankie's got a long ways to go. Then

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he cherish every minute, Frankie of waving from almost to
the other side. Take advantage of your time, whatever time
you have, Frankie, Oh my goodness, this is gonna be
a good weekend, by the way. The rest of it. Anyway,
if you're not going to watch the big game tonight,
it starts, well, it starts after dark or right at dark.

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So yeah, I might be able to go out and
work on my golf game and watch the football game.
I don't I honestly don't care who wins. What I
like is for it to be in the last quarter
two maybe a minute and a half, two minutes left
for the other team to score a touchdown and win.

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That's what I'm looking for, is a good game. If
it gets out of control quick, I'll go watch reruns
of Family Feud or something like that. See what witty
thing that. What's that man's name, Steve Harvey? Yeah, see
what Steve can say. That's it for now. Stay safe,
get outside, have a lot of fune with your families,
jumping into that vitamin D stuff we got with the sunshine,

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and be happy for these good days. And that's it.
I'll see you Tuesday. On fifty plus Saturday again right here,
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