Measles and Mosquito Bites

Originally aired on August 23, 2025. On this episode, Doug speaks about digitally tagging deer, interviews David Pruett from Riceland Waterfowl Club, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, off we go. I've got to uh gotta
figure out one little glitch in here, and I'm not
sure why it's glitching it it is though, that's all right,
we got all our tech technology is well, like I
was gonna say, one hundred percent fixed, Frankie, but it
looks like it might be not that right, So yeah,

(00:22):
not quite. Oh and actually I can't hear you when
I'm sitting here, so this first segment's gonna be a
little wonky. Uh, I know that microphones. We're gonna tell
you what. I'm gonna move over this way and I'm
gonna move that over here. I'm gonna plug in right
where is it there it is, and I'll try to

(00:45):
work it from over on this side of the aisle.
I've got a lot too, Boy, we got a lot
to unpack today too. I hope I can get this
fixed so I don't have to move to the other
end of the of the console. Here we have what
is it, one, two, three? We have four microphones in here,
and so I can move around. I have the I
can move about the country. I guess is what is
that the old Southwest line? But boy, I want to

(01:08):
have I want to have full access to everything, and
I don't quite just now, but that's okay. The issue
in here is minor and it's not going to slow
us down one bit. At eight o'clock today, uh, I'm
gonna bring David Pruett back on. He's the guy from
Riceland Waterfowl Club, and he and I have talked this week.
He's got the birds are showing up. I mean, that's

(01:28):
that's not news to anybody who's into waterfowling. We all
know who else running around the hall. We all know
that teal are supposed to be here by now, and
they are. They're not all here, not nearly what We're
gonna get it at some point, but hey, it's good
to have some teal more than no teal at this point.

(01:51):
And I still have a really hard time understanding why
we have a nine day teal season and and the
same birds, once they get through here go down to Mexico,
where the limit is pretty much all you until you
run out of shells. It seems like sometimes I don't

(02:12):
know exactly what the limit is right now. I haven't
looked in a long time, but the last time I looked,
I want to say, it was like twenty or twenty
five ducks. Just just whack them. Just keep keep shooting, boys,
It's gonna be okay. And I I wish we could
come up with that, Maybe that could be put on
the radar of somebody somewhere in this great country of

(02:34):
ours to maybe curtail that just blatant abuse of that resource.
We are so careful to get them from Canada. I mean,
I'm talking about all the waterfowl from Canada, from the Dakota's,
all of that, all the way down the flyways, and

(02:55):
then once they cross the Texas border, it's kate bar
the door. That's a problem. It really is.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
I mean, I don't think I'm gonna bring that up
with David. What I want to do really is talk
to him and and let him tell you how how
kind of important it is. If you haven't made your
decision yet on where you're gonna hunt waterfowl this season,
it's about time because they're gonna run out of spaces,
they really are, and the good ones tend to fill

(03:25):
up pretty quickly. And I know David's when I did
the tour with him about oh what was it, Gosh,
it's been probably six weeks ago now, five or six
weeks ago at least, ran around out on that prairie
for about two hours looking at all the different places
he's gonna have set up and filled up and and
and full of birds before wintertime. And he was talking

(03:49):
about how for there's just there's just little signal, this
internal signal among waterfowl hunters, especially the ones who had
a bad experience last year. Kind I don't know if
I want to do this again. It just I paid
all that money and it didn't shoot a lot of ducks.
And David tells me most of his guys do come back.

(04:10):
Most of them have been with him for a long time.
And it's kind of a when when he does open
it up and start talking about the coming season there
there's really not a sense of urgency at first, like, ah, yeah,
we need to do that, but man, we're having so
much fun fishing right now. Can't even think about ducks,

(04:30):
can't even think about geese or deer doves or quail
any of that. We got to keep fishing. And then
it gets a little later into the summer and a
little later into the summer, and here we are, what
the twenty something of August and everything is lining up
the way it should. The bay, his bays have calmed

(04:52):
except when the storms are around. Of course, the fishing
has been really good. So everybody's kind of still thinking
about that. And there's gonna be some guys in this
audience probably who are gonna blink in about two or
three weeks and start making phone calls looking for someplace
they can get in. A lot of guys in this audience,
I guarantee you are excellent duck hunters. They're excellent duck hunters.

(05:16):
They're not professionals, they're not guides. They haven't been they
haven't been running around the same piece of prairie for
the last twenty thirty forty fifty years like David has.
David's got fifty years on the prairie. And if he
wanted to go back to guiding tomorrow, which is really
hard work. By the way I did it for fourteen
I think it was you have fourteen seasons, fourteen seasons

(05:37):
of getting up at three point thirty every morning, crawling
out of bed, going out there, meeting my people and
doing all that stuff. Well, his program's a little different.
He doesn't do any guided hunting on his stuff, and
He just make sure that everybody knows where they're supposed
to go the next morning, the night before, so that

(05:58):
there isn't that scramble to go meet. For if you
want to go have bacon and eggs, there's plenty of
places to do it all around the prairies on both
sides of town. There's all kinds of little places. You
can get an omelet, you can get biscuits and gravy,
you can get all those good things. But anyway, I'm
going to talk to David at eight o'clock. We'll do
that also in this show. More toward the nine o'clock hour, though,

(06:21):
I might take a peek at the leader board of
the Tour Championship, just to see who's doing what and
how they came out yesterday. There was a lot of
moving done yesterday, a lot of good, good play. I
watched a very little bit of it. I didn't have
time to get too much of it. I was working
on my own golf game for a little while, and
then I worked on my fishing game as well. I

(06:42):
won't bore you with all of that, but overall, overall,
the experience was pretty good. Although the first ball I hit,
the very first ball I hit, I flared it a
little bit and sent it a nice shiny new golf
ball to I hate that. I hate when I hit
a brand new ball into the water and it didn't

(07:03):
land in the water. It actually had to. We had
a very strong east wind yesterday when I teed off,
and I teed off on the tent, which always bothers me.
There's one there's one tree on the tenth hole at
black Hawk that's right there in your face on the
tea box. If you're a right hander and you like
to draw the ball, it's a problem. If you're a

(07:25):
left hander like me and you like to cut the
ball just a little bit, it's a problem. And with
that in my head, I had to make sure that
I missed the tree and instead of instead of dropping it,
actually I could have just dropped to a three iron
and gotten off the tee just fine. There it's not
that long a hole. But no, I got a hit
driver because I hit it well on the range. That's

(07:46):
the kiss of death. So I get up there, tee
it up and the wind catches it as it reaches
the apex of its arc and just starts pushing it.
And I know I didn't see it actually bounce where
it went because the area is a little bit hidden.
But I know that that area has been has been

(08:08):
kind to me in the past. It hasn't. It hasn't
dragged every golf ball I've hit over there into the water.
So I kind of figured, well, I'm first rattle out
of the box. I didn't hit it that hard. It's
surely it didn't make the water. And I got down
there and started driving around, and surely it did make
the water. So back to the out of doors. Uh,
the fishing has been good generally lately. There's been quite

(08:32):
a few tarpent up and down the beach front too.
I'm hearing from from all the way from Port O'Connor
back up here over to Sabine. People are finding tarpating
catching them and it's a great time of year for that,
if you can stand the heat, because it does calm
down pretty much. I looked at the saltwater recon cameras
a little while ago, right as there was enough light

(08:53):
to actually see the water and see what color it
was and whether it was choppy or not. Well, the
choppy park no, Now, maybe one of those pop ups
gets in there. Clothes somewhere, it might churn it up
for a few minutes, but overall, the surf both at
Galveston and down at Surfside, absolutely immaculate, absolutely beautiful, and

(09:17):
kind of wish I was there right now, I really do.
I would love to. Well, actually I would like to
have been in that water about a solid hour ago.
But nonetheless, there's going to be some fish caught today.
The thing that struck me most about the Saltwater recon view,
which was the first camera I brought up. In fact,
I haven't even brought up the the Jetty cam yet,

(09:40):
but the first camera view I bought or I brought
up was of the beach front there, and along that beachfront,
guess what, nobody, not one single person.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Now.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Granted there was a little bit of water dripping off
the in front of the lens. You could see it
wasn't rain drops. It's coming off of a roof apparently,
but that it wasn't enough rain. It didn't look like
that the rain that was falling or had fallen, wasn't
in view through that lens. It didn't seem like it

(10:14):
was raining. And why there was nobody in that water
is beyond me. It looked absolutely gorgeous. Maybe it was
a camera angle, maybe it was a lighting. I don't know,
but I've looked at those cameras for a lot of years,
and that water looked really really green. Same over at
Galveston two, at the ninety first Street pier. I looked

(10:36):
at that one, and now the sun angle was a
little bit different there, and I guess maybe they have
a different kind of camera there. I don't know, but
the bottom line was I couldn't tell as much. I wasn't.
I'm not one hundred percent accurate or one hundred percent
sure that the water was as pretty there as it
was at surfside, But either way, it was really really nice.

(11:00):
It was really really nice. Okay, let me hold on
one second. I don't want to go grab something. Tick
talk coming back. All right, let's get this first break
of the program started up and teeing it off. I'm
bringing back a new well, an old friend of the program,

(11:21):
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(11:44):
original Carter's Country location, and I mean they have everything
up there. They got sporting clays, traffics, keyed and rifle
and pistol, plenty of people up there to help you
learn how to shoot. Fantastic gunsmithing service up there at
that flagship store, and then two more locations in town
here to make sure everybody can get what they need
before hunting seasons actually do kick off. And if you

(12:06):
can't get to the store, go online there or in
the stores right now. You're gonna find lot, like hundreds
of red tags on all sorts of items, and if
you see one of those, you're gonna realize when you
look at the price that it's been marked way way down.
They're trying to make room for the new stuff that's coming.
And if you don't have shelf space, you don't have

(12:28):
shelf space. And the only way to get it is
to offer up incredible prices on fantastic hunting gear, which
is what Carter's Country has done forever. Carterscountry dot com.
They've got a big range day coming up in late September.
I'll be telling you more about that as we get
toward that goal. Right now, though, it's the red tags
on all that, and I'm talking about GUNSMO, anything and everything.

(12:52):
Every department's got red tags in there, trying to move
some inventory so they can make room for more. Carterscountry
dot com is that website, Carter's Country. All right, welcome back,
Thanks for listening. I've shifted from the where I'm in
this ability. Okay, I'm that's south. I've shifted from the
north side of the of the giant console in here.

(13:15):
First I tried to go west, and now I've come
back east. No, first I tried to go east. Now
I've come back west, and I think I'm kind of
halfway lined up where I can where I can do
my business over here seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot Com.
Going back, What do I want to talk about?

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Now?

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Let me go get this hold on. I gotta get
a piece of paper that's missing. It's m I A
as they say, and it is ot over there. Standby
now I've got it. Very frustrating. I'm gonna have to
have a talk with the A team. I think we're

(13:59):
gonn I have to lower their grade, Frankie, they would
have been no, it would have been post game in
here last right, probably post game? Yeah, yeah, probably sitting
in the same chair I was sitting in. But how
that happens, I don't know. I don't know why that thing.
And that's the second time, if you'll recall second time
on your watch, actually that that thing's gone kuputski on us?

(14:21):
Is that right? Do you recall that? I do not
have to say, Okay, maybe it's a blur, that's okay.
I have access. I can see this. I can see
the call screen, but I can't punch up calls from
over here. I don't believe. So can you do that
for me? Who is that? By the way, Oh you're
talking to them, aren't you? All right? You do that
and as soon as you can, let's let's tee that

(14:44):
one up and we'll have a conversation with somebody and
that might be kind of fun. Stand By, I gotta
run way down here and get these two mice, and
I might even be able to do what I'm gonna
have to do to help Frankie out, take care of
these calls. Are you ready for him? Oh yeah, I
put Dave on all right, if I can hear him,

(15:05):
hang on one second, stand by, Dave. I got back
in here. Three, two, one, Now I'm good, go man,
my chick. Lord, Oh yeah, you you've been in the business.
You know what it's like to have a headset or
a microphone that doesn't work. Oh my lord, so frustrated and.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
Pound on it a little bit. Five five, That was
what you would saying the number five to get the right.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Well, at least I wouldn't get If I say what
I'm thinking right now, I might get kicked off the air.
It's so frustrating. It's so frustrating.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
Until you're right before, right before you're playing in your
thing goes out board A nine one. Get somebody to
bring you one.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, that's about all you can do. I don't know one.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
Hey, man, oh man, I does know the bullet dude,
I think you know. Hey, I was over here, I
ton fishing over here, and you know, I caught it.
I got a few bikes and everything, and I caught
a turtle. But then it kind of started drizzling. I
started looking towards Huntsville, and I seen some lightning coming
and I'm like out there to get out of here.
So I go to the house. I go in, and

(16:18):
then I thought, well, before it starts raining again, I'm
gonna throw some fertilizer out there in the front yard.
And well maybe, But I'm glad I didn't get out
there all the way because as soon as I opened
the door, it was a sheer Michael burst when come
through the neighborhood, blew my one of my sides of
my double gate open.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Oh man, the seven by.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Seven chain link dog ship dog cage with the thing
on top went flying a half football field. Luckily you
didn't hit anybody or anything like it happened. Yeah, I know,
it happened like a tight man. And then I talked
to my I talked to my younger brother and he
said they had some boats tore up and we had

(17:03):
a lot of fences blowing down in the neighborhood. Yeah,
it was like what they I guess they called a
Michael birch or something whining hard sideways. I know then,
But if I would have been if I would have
went out there maybe three or four five minutes before
and would have been fertilizer right there that that might

(17:24):
have hit.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Good golly, holy cow man. I'm glad you're okay.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Wows fingers.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
Yeah, my dogs weren't in there.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
So, oh's your cat fishing going?

Speaker 4 (17:39):
Well? I got a couple of good ones here and there,
But right now I come up here to fish, and
but there's a guy that's got from one fence and
then the boat, double boat, losing that all the way
to the other fans. He has like ten or twelve
rodden reels stuck in rod holders. Nobody else fish. Yeah, yeah,
that's kind of right.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
It's like the jetty's. I don't like that. That's just
let's just look at me. I'm I can take up
all the space I want. I'm important, and you guys
just go somewhere else. That's just it's crude and rude
and socially unacceptable. Take a picture of him, not with
his face showing, but take a picture of his setup
and send it to me.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
And I might just I'm taking on one side, and
I'll take a picture on the other side cause I
have to go to the other side and take the
other side.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Oh my lord, So he got he's got that many
rods and reels all set up. Every one of them's
got a baited line cast out in front of him.
So and he's sitting right in the middle like the
king of.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
On the other side. Good lord, Hey, uh, well, this morning,
we're gonna kind of have it as a wife treat.
We're gonna go eat it. But I said, a restaurant
and then come back home. And then I got a
bunch of stuff I'm gonna do in my band room.
And then oh, then we're gonna go get a fish

(18:54):
tank fadeer, and so I could put mins in it
and stuff and yeah, and uh and some other things,
you know, And so I can buy some minutes and
then all I got to do is get some water,
put it in my minute bucket and then go, you know.
And then we're gonna go this evening to a restaurant
on the lake over there. They got a band that

(19:15):
was seen over there before, so that's gonna be cool.
And so we got a pretty good day plan.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
You know.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
She wanted to go somewhere far away, and I'm like, now, listen,
we got plenty of stuff we can do around here.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, sure you do. That's you know, it's funny. You
live someplace and if you drive like fifteen to twenty
minutes away to a place, or thirty minutes away to
a place, you feel like you just, man, we're gonna
go way over there tonight. It's gonna be so much fun.
And then you meet somebody who lives way over there
by that place, and they're trying to get back to
the places right down the street from you. It's human nature,

(19:52):
you know, grass is always greener on the other side.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
Hey, I don't remember if I told you. I did.
Get to go up there to to this place all
the way, and they had these two members of the
Montgomery County Line Band and they they knew me, and
I knew then oh wow, uh yeah. And the bass
player and the guitar player and he played a laptop
steel kind of sworder anyway, So this other young man

(20:18):
come up there and he's kim foked to some kind
of famous artist or something, and he man, they were good.
So then they called me up there, and I asked
that young man, hey, you know how to kick off milkkalboo,
and then that they was on that slide guitar and
tarn then and then then I got up there. Well,
I woke up this morning and hey, the people when

(20:40):
we got through, they didn't realize that I've been singing
since I was born for a much, you know. And
and uh and then I just did that one song
and walked up and manute's so many people. They were
so happy, and and uh, the bar maide lady bought
me a beer.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah that's all. Yeah, there's a reward for it right there. Man,
good for you, I know.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
But all the friends that I made there, you know,
And that's what I'm saying. I'm making so many friends
out of here. Uh, that's what I was kind of
scared of me. And I missed my ones there in Houston.
But I don't miss my bad boys over there, you know.
But anyway, well that's all bad boys, bad.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
Boys over Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
But what you're gonna do.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Oh all right, Well, I'm gonna let you go, let me,
let me get home, get cleaned up, and then we're
going to head on out and start having a good day.

Speaker 7 (21:28):
You know.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
I watch out for microburst man, old kid.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
Hey, I tell you, hey, if I had hair on
top of my head, it would have stood up. That's
what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
All right, thanks man, Yeah, you too. I'll see you audios.
Holy cow, that's a busy guy, he is. He's a
mile a minute guy. I don't know how often he
really just sits down and takes a break, but he's
always got something on his mind. Good guy, and saw
this good stuff too. I enjoy talking to him. Timber

(21:59):
Creek Golf that enjoy having you down there today. I
think Timber Creek's going to be okay the rest of
the day. I don't know if they got any rain
overnight or this morning early, but best I could tell
a little while ago, all of the stuff that's kind
of hanging out there over the Gulf of Mexico and
had been for quite some time, is generally moving kind

(22:21):
of an east southeast. That's not going straight away from us,
but neither is it coming toward us. It's just kind
of easing off more over the central Gulf of Mexico,
and it should by around close to noonsh eleven or
noon somewhere in there is when you won't have to
worry about it, at least inshore anymore. If you're going

(22:43):
way way out in the middle of the Gulf of
Mexico somewhere, you might want to bring a rain suit.
But other than that, we should have a pretty good
afternoon until maybe we get to those pop ups.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Again.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
We don't want those, but if they come along, they
come along. That's part and parcel to August fishing along
the Texas coast. There's not a whole lot we can
do about it. Let's let's take this second break of
the program and I'm going to try to make I'm
going to try to make a house a home down
here at the far end of the console and move
some stuff out of the way so that I can

(23:14):
get back to taking care of business more comfortably. Man,
that shouldn't be too terribly hard. Timber Creek Golf Club
FM twenty three to fifty one down there in Friends
will just a few miles west of the golf Freeway,
very easy to find. Twenty seven holes, not just eighteen,
twenty seven holes of really enjoyable golf. I can't emphasize

(23:35):
strongly enough how playable Timber Creek is now. Is it easy? No,
it's not an easy golf course, but from the right
tea boxes for your level of ability and strength, it's
gonna be a fun golf course. Because if you'll get
rewarded when you hit your good shots. That's pretty much
what it comes down to. We all hit bad shots

(23:56):
and we all get penalized for them. But when you
hit a good shot here at and you'll be able
to see where you where the architect wants you to
hit it. When you stand on the tea box, you'll
you'll know where your second shot needs to go, and
that's gonna set up your third shot, which is gonna
just trickle up there right onto the green and just
roll to a stop two inches from a hole so
you can go tap in your birdie and move on

(24:16):
to the next box. If that's not happening, maybe slide
over to JJ Wood's teaching Academy that's in that ten
building next to the range. You can help you with
that too. Everybody there wants you to have a good time.
They got great food in the grill, they got great
people in the pro shop. As I mentioned, JJ's staff
over there to teach you how to play better golf.
It's just a great fun place to go. Tee it

(24:37):
up on the south side. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com.
That's the website. Go check it out and make your
own tea time. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com, Kobe
Stevens Golf Apparel and outdoors Apparel, and that that's gonna
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Speaker 2 (24:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Kobe and I are gonna have a meeting here at
sooner sooner than later. I hope we have some grand
plans that when if they come to Fruition, I will
be the first to let you guys know about this.
It's gonna be a lot of fun. I've been wearing
Kobe's golf shirts for a long long time and absolutely
love them. There are some of the best looking, some

(25:14):
of the most comfortable golf stuff I've ever worn, and
I would highly recommend it. I can't help but do that.
I mean, I just really Number one, I like the brand,
I like the look. And number two, I like what
Kobe Stevens Golf Apparel stands for, and that is community
that is helping out wherever they need, Wherever somebody needs help,

(25:37):
whether that's raising money for a charity event, whether that's
doing something for the community. Kobe Stevens is all about that.
They've got a store up on the North Side. You
could go check out and you can go in there
and put hands on all this good looking gear and
realize that whatever size you are, whatever age you are,
they've got stuff for kids. They've got stuff where we'll

(25:59):
call it bigger tall, and they got stuff for women.
They've got everybody covered, everybody who wants to look good
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(26:19):
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Kobe Stevens dot com. All right, Welcome back, Doug Pike Show,
seven thirty five. It is on Sports Talk seven ninety.
I'm moving chairs and shifting gears and trying to get
myself settled at the far end of the console. I've
moved from Wexler territory to Clanton territory. I'll get this

(26:45):
thing settled out here. Just one second. That's gotta go away.
That's okay, there, where's that piece of paper here? It
is right here.

Speaker 8 (26:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
I'm gonna go check that weather channel thing again because
I want to make sure just like that. I make
sure that what I told you a little while ago
is still holding up, and that would be are you kidding?
Where's that little thing there? It is? Okay, I gotta
go there, gotta go here. We're gonna get that radar up.
Gotta beach Bruck looks so pretty. Oh my goodness. Had

(27:15):
the ninety first street pier camera on, and yeah, it
looks really really good. Okay, I'm gonna move this because
I don't care what's going on in Houston. I want
to see the beach front. And right now, yeah, it's general.
The rain is generally lightning like, not thunder and lightning,
but lightening and moving away from us, and by by

(27:41):
about Newdish, there'd be nothing to see really from the beach.
I don't think you could even see far enough offshore
to see where there's gonna be some stuff. But for now,
But for now, it's still a pretty sloppy mess up
our way, and even worse as you go down the coast,
down toward Port Lavaca and even down all the way

(28:04):
to Corpus. Let's see if there's anything south of there.
Oh yeah, there, it's just what it looks like. And
this will be easy enough for most of this audience
to understand. What it looks like is that the gulf
of the western Gulf of Mexico has the measles, that
makes sense, and the measles and a bunch of mosquito
bites and some green slime all over the place. There

(28:29):
are all these little micro showers that are actually kind
of joined up down there off Corpus Christi and all
the way back up toward Matagorda. You would not want
to be off shore today in any of that slop.
I guarantee you. Now, once again, I'm letting it run
down on the south, down farther south than us, and

(28:54):
again by about noon or so, the closest thing we'll
have is some stuff that's off Lake Jackson. And this
is all again, this is all everything here is hypothetical.
Let's tee Brian Treubway. I didn't see him over there, Brian,
what's up?

Speaker 4 (29:10):
Man?

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Well, you're right about that. I'm I'm down past Batic
Order and the boy got they got dark and cloudy.
I took my fung glasses off and I'm just I'm
driving south of the coast is where I'm.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
At hanging there. Well, you'll bust out of it right
along the coast where you're going to be driving. It
should it should be done in about an hour, maybe
an hour and a half.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, I'm brushing blinds and in a pond all day
to day, and it's like, now I'm gonna well, at
least the sunsht out at least not one hundred degrees.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Right, Yeah, there's that.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
These next thirty days are really going to be busy,
and I just wanted to tell the listeners. You know,
we have dove opener here at the first of the
month for North and Central. Then for me, Alligator season
opens on the tenth, fifteenth, phone peal season on the twentieth. Man, ma'am,
that's all. That's all the next thirty days. I know.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
It is amazing and we finally made it. We've finally
made it. Well not yet, we're close, We're dog close.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
We're close. It's it's interesting as you get a little
further down to the middle coast. You know, I didn't
I didn't realize how much cotton was still being harvested,
or actually I always thought it was a little too early,
but man, bells of cotton are everywhere. Most of the
corn has been cut, which is great for the dove
hunters down there, you know, and if there's still remaining,
some of the geese will get in there later in season.

(30:34):
Who knows what they'll do with the fields. But yeah,
I mean it's here, it's happening now, so it's pretty
pretty interesting stuff. I just go go to pick up
my dog from the trainer and we're we're gonna be
good to go. I think she's going to be a
busy puff this uh this come September, so definitely good one.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Yeah, female, Do you get a female?

Speaker 2 (30:53):
This time?

Speaker 5 (30:55):
A dog?

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah? Actually I went with a spaniel called.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
A Yeah, okay sure.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
And those that don't know, it's actually the state dog
in North Carolina. And she's she's about thirty pounds and
so it makes it a little easier to work with
her in a Boat's not so over oversize. Yeah, hunt
and retrieve, and I mean she's the sweetest thing ever.
I mean, you know, the listeners haven't seen a boy

(31:23):
can standiel. They're pretty cool looking dogs. But you get
the right wall with the right breeder, it's you can
get a hunting dog. And she thinks she's a lab.
She just runs around with labs all day. But you
know whatever, it's thirty pound dogs kind of nice versus
a seventy pound lab that knocks you over.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
So oh, I had I had a guy. We were
we were trying to get a couple of people to
a duck b line, like in a little pierro almost
just a very small boat, and he said, can I
bring my dog? And yeah, sure? He hauls out this
Chesapeake that outweighed most of us. And this dog almost
drowned us like nine times just trying to get out
to a duck line.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
That's actually the reason the boy Can spaniel exist, just
because I'm in Carolina. They needed smaller dogs in the
smaller boats in the early in their early years. So
the lads are just too big. They had lab jeans
in them.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
And that's but.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
I'm going through. I'm driving one of these back roads
and if you saw the amount of dove that I
just drove through, it's actually very It was a mix
of white wing and morning dev and they all broke
off the road and I guess they're they're getting a
little early morning water off of it. This is wow,
this is pretty impressive. I've probably seen fifty doves if
I've had you on the pune.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Man, that is impressive. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
counter any of that.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
You know.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's funny you say that, because I don't know if
you heard me. The last time I was talking to
David Pruitt down there in Eagle Lake. We're out there
on the same prairie that everybody else is on, and
I asked him, and he and I are going to
have a conversation at eight, But I asked him if
I asked him if he had pretty good dove hunting
down there, and he said, no, don't you get down

(33:00):
to here, meaning that Eagle Lake prairie. He said, you
you couldn't scratch up a limited doves if you sat
in this place all day. And it just made no
sense to me. But it's we rode around for two hours, Brian,
and I'm telling you I didn't. The reason I asked
him is because I saw like two doves in a row,
and then all of a sudden, when he told me

(33:22):
that didn't see another one for like forty five minutes.
It just they're nowhere. I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
I don't know. You tell me it's food plots. I
think is if they have to, they're gonna stand in
the area. Yeah, closer you get to the coast, you're
not gonna have the corn fields, and you might get
the rice fields. The dove aren't in the rice fields.
We'll get there, but yeah, but you know, you know,
coming south off the fifty nine from I mean, I
guess from Mail Campo all the way down to you know,

(33:50):
through Canada, you've got tons of touch of corn and
still have other stuff in there as well, but more
than agriculture fields. But I mean, if you just sound
like crazy cow pastures, I mean you'll get some. I
know South Texas more so. But down South Texas they're
looking for water. And if you've got water, you'll have
birds just struggling to feil down there, you know, Corcus

(34:10):
Christie South Uh, you know, from a dove perspective, But
if you have water, you're gonna get birds.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
Coming to it.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
And so that's gonna be good. You know, most people are.
I don't know if you've talked about this, the shortened
heel season.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
This year, that's it.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
It's you know, I mean, you get six birds. But
when I saw it, I was just like, come on,
you know, it's just like it was heartbreaking. And they
said because of the droughts up north, they didn't get
all the rain up there in the roosting areas for
less match. But I mean the d down here right
now there, they're supposed to have a banner year when

(34:46):
it comes to Dove hopefully.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah, they're they're parcel Waldlife Department laid there, laid their
stuff on the line about the doves. This the season
is supposed to be just incredible. So I hope it
is where I'm hunting.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Uh no, kidding that to my just not too hot.
I don't want to wear the dog out too much.
But no, she wants to do it, so let's make
it happen. So well, listen, I'll try to stay right today.
You'll get accurate, all.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Right, man, you got it? Yeah, thanks Brian. Be safe
out there. I'll see your audios. Oh man. Yeah, we
got to take a little break here. That's good timing.
On the way out, let me tell you about Belleville
Meat Market. Bellville's been around, you know, it's been around
a very long time, forty plus years. Out there, about
fifteen minutes north of Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead,
on Highway thirty six, very easy to find, and there

(35:32):
you will find a full menu of pecan smoke barbecue
serve Monday through Sunday ten to seven. You will find
fresh ground beef and pecan smoke sausage, all with bulk
pricing available if you really want to throw a big
shin dig and have that for everybody. They got homemade
hot dogs, they got Hamburger patties, the big chuck wagon patties.

(35:54):
Those are half pound beef patties, seasoned and loaded with
cheddar cheese. They got stuffed pork tenders. They got stuff peppers,
stuff mushrooms. You go through that lunchtime and sit out
there on a patio and eat a full portion that
they're gonna serve you, you'll be stuffed too. While game
processing year round, they're about to ramp up for deer season.

(36:14):
Be sure to remember Belleville Meat Market when you're wondering
where you're gonna go process that big old deer ears.
You get this year, beef jerky, turkey jerky, all the
cool grab and go snacks you can imagine at Belleville
Meat Market. If you can't get there, if it's just
too far, you just can't make it out there, not
a problem. Go online. They'll ship almost anything in the

(36:35):
store pretty much, I guess, short of about a half
a cow, but anything else in the store the they
can stuff in a few boxes, they'll send right to
your door. Bellville Meatmarket dot Com is a website Belleville
Meatmarket dot Com. Hunting season is not that far away.
Brian and I just talked about it, and if you
haven't shot your guns yet, you might want to think

(36:56):
about heading out. If you're especially on the west side
of town there or the south side of town, roll out,
get on ninety nine and go all the way out
ninety nine out to West tim Or Parkway, and then
hang a west and then between there and Katie, you're
going to see American Shooting Centers. America Shooting Center's got
three complete sporting plays courses. It's got ten trap and

(37:18):
skeet fields. It's got rifle and pistol from five yards
out to six hundred yards. There's just really no way
that you can go to that place and not enjoy
whatever sport you like. As far as shooting goes, they
have instructors who can help you with hitting more bulls
eyes and breaking more targets. They have got plenty of

(37:39):
people out there, like the range officers. They're walking up
and down that range, that rifle and pistol range, constantly
making sure everybody's safe and having a good time. There's
even a beginner's wing shooting area makes those little clay
targets a little easier to hit when they're flying slower.
And there's also a pop up silhouette range where you
can take the kids and let them plink with their
twenty twos all day long and not spend an arm

(38:01):
on a leg. And AMMO American Shootingcenters dot Com is
the website. Guy named Edarigi owns it. Fantastic guy. Just
don't ever bet against him in sporting place American Shooting
Centers dot Com. All right, welcome back Doug Pike Show
on Sports Talk seven. Kind of waiting. I've got to
during the next break, I'm gonna try and see if

(38:22):
I can't tee up the Tour Championship on this TV
in here. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be able to
get it. And by the way, after this segment and
coming up, uh, we're gonna talk to David Prewitt out there,
and I know what happened to his He's he's texted me.
He said, I can't find your phone number in my phone,
and I think what happened is I I don't know.
I may I have so many spam calls come in

(38:43):
that I might have accidentally blocked pru it. Now I'm
gonna fix that, believe me. Don't worry. We'll have him
on the phone in a little while. It's not gonna
be a problem. Let's go talk to David though. Let
me see if I can get I can't quite get
over there. Thank you, David. What's up?

Speaker 7 (38:59):
Man?

Speaker 9 (39:00):
Yeah, Doug, let's talk about your favorite subject, digital hunting
and fishing licenses.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
You know, I'm almost converted, now, how are you going
to bring me around?

Speaker 9 (39:11):
Well, I'm not converted yet. I'll still use a license,
but for right in the thick of a hunter education.
And it's something that we really have to clarify with
people who are new to it because there's several pitfalls
where you can end up getting a ticket when you
thought you did the right thing. For example, there's a

(39:33):
case I saw it heard if the case got recently
tagged a deer, he didn't have service, and that's where
it comes into plate because you don't have service or worse,
your batteries go dead. You know, when you think about it,
the most important thing you have to do. After you,
you know, catch fish or take down a deer, you're

(39:53):
supposed to tag it immediately. And that does not change
if you use a digit license, It doesn't It does
not change if you don't have service. Oh you know,
now if you don't have a battery, your sl which
is why I don't carry a paper license.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Well, yeah, you know, there are a lot of places
you bring that. It makes sense because there's a lot
of places in the great state of Texas where there
is no coverage, there's no service. And if the game
warden came up to you at that point, what would
what would you tell them?

Speaker 9 (40:29):
Yeah, well, uh it would be the game board is
going to say, you haven't tagged your deer yet. Because
this is how this is what people don't understand the app.
Just like when you buy a license, you get a
set of tags when you get it, when you get
a digital license, you get a set of tags that
is basically saved in your phone. Okay, so let's turn

(40:54):
the middle of You're out in West Texas. There's no service.
You shoot a deer, okay, you open the app even
though you don't have service. You open the app and
you go through the process of submitting or reporting your harvest.
It will generate a number okay without service, because the
numbers already in there, remember it came in when you

(41:16):
got when.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
You downloaded your right.

Speaker 9 (41:19):
It will give you a tag number, and that is
the tag number, and it will date stamp it too.
It will date stamp it, and you write that number
on your piece of tape or whatever it is, okay,
and put it on the deer, and you're good. And
then once you're it could be three days later, Doug,
when you get service, your phone is going to transmit.

(41:42):
It's going to sync up with the system online system,
and it's going to say, okay, David harvested this deer,
and it will be timestamped based on when he I
went into the app, went through the pro and that
way the game board knows that exactly when I took
down that deer and when I.

Speaker 7 (42:03):
Tagged it, just as if it were a paper license.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
So now so now I have to go to tech
school before I can go deer, Honey, you got to.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
Make sure you get battery. You got to make if
you don't have a good battery, you can't tag it.

Speaker 9 (42:17):
Wow, because because you got to have the Apple running.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is a little bit of a hiccup.

Speaker 9 (42:27):
And I I can see excuse me, but I can
see Hunter saying, well, the hundreds of the gave one
check you, but did you tag it?

Speaker 4 (42:35):
Well? I couldn't fell cell phone.

Speaker 9 (42:37):
Well you're you're well, I don't know if they may
still write your ticket because you haven't tagged the deer yet.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Technically they could. Hopefully they wouldn't. Hopefully they would help
try to help you get that deer tagged by taking
your phone from you and showing you how to do it.
But you know, some some game war than at some point,
the way things have been going in the last ten
or fifteen years is going to just wake up on
the wrong side of the bed and just not be

(43:04):
so accommodating.

Speaker 9 (43:06):
Well, and this is another this is a report I
got from the game boards who got me up to speed.
Here's another mistake people make. They go through the process
and they hit submit okay, and then they well, I
don't have service, and they go and they do it again.
When they have service, they just burn another tag. Yeah,

(43:28):
because the system is set up the only just like
a paper tag, it is set up to only provide
you with a given number of tags.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (43:36):
And if you used to have been a tag twice
because the second time, because you did have service when
you did the first time, you just burned another tag.
And his Toby as he the officer told me, you
can't get that tag back.

Speaker 10 (43:47):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Man, Hey, I hate to do it to you, David,
but I got to catch Rick before we go to
break because I got David prud coming up at eight.
That's great. Yeah, I want to continue this at some
point though that there's a lot more to unpack.

Speaker 10 (43:59):
I know.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Thank you, all right, I see man, all right, let's
go get Rick. Rick hung up? What happened now? I
lost David and I lost Rick at the same time.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Rick callback no, Well is that him? Yeah? There we go, Rick,
Bis what's up?

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Man?

Speaker 1 (44:15):
I got a couple of minutes for you.

Speaker 5 (44:18):
That'll work.

Speaker 7 (44:19):
Hey, I like that conversation you just said. I'm not
going to spend all my time and my money preparing
for the hunt that I've been waiting to go on
and all on my phone. If a game more than
walks up, I'll say, if anybody can before the time
to go to a Walmart or two academy and get
a real hunt licensed spot your pocket, maybe you shouldn't go.

(44:42):
That's my opinion. Other thing that I want to come
in on this time of year is we've had a
lot of morester. You there, Yeah, I had a lot
of marster. And I'm up earlier than probably most of
your listeners. I'm just been a lot cooler in the mornings.

(45:03):
And my point saying all that is the chiggers and
the red bugs are absolutely horrendous. If they bother you,
don't wait till they bite you, and then frankaus that
they ain't gonna do any good. When you get out
and stand on your running board, try to stay off
the ground. You need to spray your boots, your socks,

(45:25):
your pants, everything, because if you if they bite you
and they like you like they do me, they will
run a trip.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
They'll burrow into your skin.

Speaker 7 (45:37):
This is about the worst year I've seen in my life.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
If my friend Philip has listening this morning, he just
he's scared to death. He's pulled the covers up up
to his eyeballs, man, because that guy. You two are
the two biggest chigger magnets I know. And I used
to joke with Philip, I said, you go down the
trail first, because I know that if there's a tigger
within ten feet of the trail, it's gonna jump on
you and I'll be fine.

Speaker 7 (46:02):
And he just metabolous and changed with your age or
something because used to they never bothered me, but now
they just they wreak me habit.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
There's a place on the golf course where there are
a few and I've started avoiding that area because of that.
I just get home and you see those little red
dots around your belt line, you just like, oh no, man,
they've crawled.

Speaker 5 (46:25):
Up on me again.

Speaker 7 (46:26):
For me, well, for me, it's just a case of
I mean, I really prep up. Yeah, I really haven't
found anything when you're really in grass that will stop them.
You're not slowing down. Johnson grass is the worst. And
there's some other stuff. I don't even know what the
name of it is. But man, I don't even like

(46:49):
looking at that stuff anyway. All right, but run just
tip of the day for me, You got it?

Speaker 1 (46:55):
Thanks, Rick, I see man audios? All right? We gotta
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(47:16):
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(47:58):
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Speaker 6 (48:02):
All Right.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
Second hour of the program starts right now. We're getting
David on the phone, and as soon as he's on
the phone, I'm gonna start talking to the guy. It's
not gonna take long either. Frankie's dialing him up there,
getting him tuned in. You got nim Freggie three two
There he is. Bam, David, what's going on? Rise and shine?

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Man?

Speaker 1 (48:22):
You've probably been up two hours, haven't you.

Speaker 8 (48:25):
I've already been up, Yes, sir. We don't get time
to sleep around here. We've got work to do.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Tal seasons on the way. I know, Holy cow, I
didn't think we'd ever get here back in about February, March, April, May,
all of that, and then all of a sudden, you
blink and it's it's time to load him up. Man.
Let's still get you excited.

Speaker 8 (48:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, we're Yeah, we're seeing a few till
around further south from where we are in north of
Eagle Lake, but they start a few showing up, but
I think the big group's gonna be later.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (48:55):
Why do you think that? Is it just weather patterns? Yeah, yeah,
we'll we've got a few fronts coming in. But we're
looking at the weather patterns and you're always looking for
the full moon. We always have calendar what we call
calendar birds. They just show up every year at the
same time, but your mass majority of them don't come
down until later when the drakes come first.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
And then you got your hens bringing the young. After that,
fifty years in the business, you know what you're talking about.
I'm one hundred percent sure. I'm not going to challenge
anything you just said. It just never gets old though,
either does it. No, it doesn't. It's always exciting. I mean,
I got it sided.

Speaker 8 (49:29):
The other day, we've seen a bunch of the baby
of black blood whistling ducks. There's twelve of them out
on one of our spots, and just to see it
every day and going, man, they're growing fast on knowing
the other ducks are growing just as fast.

Speaker 5 (49:42):
You know.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
I'm at that golf course playing bass fishermen half the time,
almost as much or more than I do golf, and
I see those same paired paired up, you know, little
whistling ducks like that, And the first time I see them,
they might have twelve fourteen little bit maybe swimming behind
a pair of them, and then the next time there's ten,

(50:03):
and then the next time there's six. It's like, uh,
we got a couple of alligators, we got some big
snapping turtles, and sadly that's just that's just nature, though
I guess it is.

Speaker 8 (50:14):
It's part of life and uh not. I don't always
like things I see, but sometimes that's.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Your yeah goes, yeah, yeah it is, that's okay. Uh So,
back when I did that du TV thing up in
ol Campo a couple of years ago, seeing geese in
the air was just as special to me as it
was my first morning on that whole prairie. And and
then as soon as they came off the roosts, it
just got bigger and bigger. And then same with the
pent tails. Man, when those pintails started buzzing us, that

(50:41):
really kind of made me feel like just like I
was at home. That's that penttales might be my favorite waterfowl.
What's yours? What's your favorite bird to hunt on that prairie?
Snow geese? Yeah, I gotta be with you.

Speaker 8 (50:58):
There's nothing like watching, you know, fifty to several thousand
snowgies coming in at one time. I'll honk in here
and on and getting them to come in and range
to me. It's a lot harder to do than you know,
a duck. But that those days of the heydays are over,
but there's still a few around.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
There are enough around that if you if you really
want to go goose hunt, and you can time it
right and you can get in the right field, you
can have a very productive hunt. We kind of proved
that on that du thing, and I'm glad to hear
that that's still available because you're kind of right. When
when I was a guide, we as the guys who

(51:35):
really targeted geese, kind of snickered a little bit at
the duck guys. It was a friendly rival result, it was.
But we used to tell them they had to shoot
seven ducks to equal one goose. About that, yeah, yep.
So big question here for you is you get in
some free water to trap from these afternoon storms a

(51:56):
little bit.

Speaker 8 (51:56):
It's just it's most of it soaks right in unless
you've already got water stacked it pretty well stoked soaks in.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (52:04):
We've got some places that's stacking up some water a
little bit.

Speaker 5 (52:07):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (52:07):
It helps when we're plumping water in the rice field
for the teal, It does help there. But when we're
drained water to cut the rice. It's not helping you.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Yeah, and just letting it fall out.

Speaker 8 (52:18):
Yeah, you get the pros and the cons of rain.
I mean, we're trying to disc up some spots. Well
we can't disc because it's too wet now. So it's
just back and forth, you know. And that's it's spent
fifty years. It's been the same, hadn't it. That's never
changed every year. It never changes. Just it's always a
challenge because you're fighting nature.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
When you want water, you're breathing dust, and when you
don't want water, you're up to your neck in water.
That's crazy exactly. So based on your plan for this season,
with your fingers crossed, how many acres of water are
you gonna have on the ground when the regular season
opener kicks off?

Speaker 8 (52:53):
When the regular season opens up, we're pushing somewhere around
I'm hoping over two thousand.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
That's a lot of water, man, that's a lot of water,
and it's all little pieces of water. That's what's beauty.
You don't want a two thousand acre lake. You want
ten twenty two hundred acre places or well you got
more than that. I know how many actual spots do
you have.

Speaker 8 (53:18):
We're blinds this year, we're going to be pushing somewhere
around fifty some odd winds. We backed up a little
bit the number of people were taken, but we're doing
We changed some things up and our blinds to have
two blinds on a one water hole. Our goal is
four hundred and forty yards apart. That's a quarter of
a mile more than safe enough. And you're not the
same birds as the other guys.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
Yeah, you can still work your birds and they can
still work theirs. On the business side, Since we're getting there,
I guess you're kind of getting pretty tight on being
able to take on new groups, right.

Speaker 8 (53:50):
Oh, yes, sir, Yeah, we're getting real close. We've got
just a few spots left. You know, a few single
guns we can take and put in with the other
single gun groups, and then a few couple groups and
we're done.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
That's single that's a single gun thing is kind of
I don't know a lot. There's a lot of guys
who probably be interested, but don't have five friends they
like enough to sit in a duck blind with them
all morning, so you're you're able to patch them up
with other guys who actually appreciate the waterfowl hunting as
much as they do.

Speaker 8 (54:18):
Oh, yes, sir, we do that. And what we do is, uh,
it's just a group leader from each group. Yeah, he's
just he's just a guy that liaison when they do
the blind picks that they want. And uh, but we
have the fairs system we've got anywhere. You know, out
of their group, there's thrill only three year hunting. Out
of the six man group, they can bring their three

(54:38):
guests in their place, no charge.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
Yeah, that's pre cool.

Speaker 8 (54:42):
Yeah, if the only guy hunting that day that could
have brought five, you know, that's wow.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
No one does that, you know, And it's I'll tell
you what. It's not easy sometimes to spend four or
five hours in a duck blind with some people, even
if they're old friends or work friends, or your kids
are on the same baseball team or whatever for me,
and that and that goes double for people who can't
look at a picture of Donald Duck without blowing a
hell call, you know what I mean?

Speaker 8 (55:05):
Yeah, exactly, exactly put it down, man, just put it down.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
You don't realize how many ducks you're scaring away with
that thing.

Speaker 8 (55:15):
Most people scare more ducks.

Speaker 10 (55:17):
Right.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Do you remember David low Price, the guy who was
game warning out that way. David and I sat one
morning up on five twenty nine at Katie Hockey cut off.
I didn't have a group that morning. I saw his
truck parked over there, and I just went and hopped
in and we were had the windows down and listening
to all the duck calling that was going on across
prairie around us. And I mean every bucket of water

(55:40):
had six guys on it that morning, and it was
just like a symphony of duck calls. And he turned
to me at one point and he goes, you know what, Doug,
I'm convinced now that the duck call is the single
greatest duck conservation tool ever invented.

Speaker 8 (55:56):
And he was right, man, he was right exactly exactly
if people just put their calls in the pocket, just
let the decoys work. I know, people set in duck
lines if they've been a duck hunt along, if they
have sitting a duck by them and looked at each
other and kind of whispering talking, and all of a
sudden they hear splashed actually.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
Looking up the ducks from the decoys. Yeah, eating a
sandwich and ducks come running. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
is as good as a duck call if you know
how to use it right exactly. So do you do
you have any time left this time of year, David
to do tours?

Speaker 4 (56:27):
Yeah, we do.

Speaker 8 (56:28):
Yeah, we'll show the guy the group the other day
that we wanted to come in and he said, I've
never I've been on some other clubs everywhere, he said,
I've never seen nothing like this.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
We're in check right there.

Speaker 5 (56:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Good, I don't blame Tell you if anybody ever comes
to you and says, you know, I'm still kind of
on the fence, tell them to call me and I'll
have a little chat with them. I really will. I mean,
that's what the way you explained your operation to me
when we made that big old tour, us and Jeff
and driving around that whole prairie for as long as
we did. I'll help you out. If they need a reference,

(56:59):
just tell them to me. Not a problem. Okay. Oh
what is by the way, if you don't mind sharing it?
What is the ticket? What's the price to get in
to all you got?

Speaker 8 (57:10):
Well, a single gun is thirty one fifty Okay, they
can hunt every day of the season.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Yeah, we've got plenty of places.

Speaker 8 (57:17):
We do shut some down, like we hunt some weekends
and Wednesdays, some weekends and Thursdays. But there's at least
twenty some odd lines open any day during the week,
and we'll never have that many groups going anyway. Right,
everybody's got to work, so sure, there's more than enough
that if we need to, we can open up something
else if we get you know, behind her and he
little bit fierce the spots.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (57:37):
But that way, we were still resting birds. We're still
shooting birds. You're not competing with any guides because we
do not run guided hunts on this club. It's members only.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Yeah, that's that's one of the things I like about it.
And I'm saying that's fourteen years as a guy. Believe me,
I'm not opposed to guide at hunting, but it's different.
What you what you offer is just different from that.
And I like that aspect of it now as a
as a regular old duck, I kind of like the
idea of that because I know how all of that works,
and it's tough sometimes if you're in a group setting

(58:07):
and you also have guides, jockeying for positions. It's just tough.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
You go it is, and go ahead.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
I was gonna say, you got it figured out forty five,
forty eight years ago.

Speaker 8 (58:18):
Huh, yes, sir. And what it helps is it's the
thrill of being able to do it yourself and also
with us. You can say, you know what, I can
take off tomorrow and I can go on this club,
I can hunt tomorrow. But you can't always find a
guide instantly for the day you want to go. They're
full or something. Yeah, that's a good point of this.

(58:38):
I mean, it makes it real simple. You can bring
a buddy out all of a sudden, no one else
is going, Hey, you call your buddy up or in
laws that just come in for some holidays or something,
take them out hunting, and it doesn't cost you nothing extra.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
Yeah, that's a very good point. And I don't know
a lot of places that do that either. David. Thanks man.
I'm glad you got birds coming in. I hope your
little squealers make it all through.

Speaker 5 (58:59):
Well.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
We used to see them back when they were really,
really dumb and they weren't getting hunted in any of that.
I'd man, I'd see they'd get squashed in the road
out there on those old back roads, man. And now
they're they're thriving again. But they know better to walk
across the street with all their babies.

Speaker 8 (59:14):
You know, No, kidd, holy kid, we don't have alligators
to get our so here they couldn't. You don't have
any alligators?

Speaker 9 (59:21):
Oh man.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
We've got a little bitty one out there at black
Hawk right now. He's only about two and a half
feet long, maybe three uh, and then we also have
about a ten footer, so I'm not so sure how
long that three foot is gonna last. We got plenty
of turtles for him, though, right David Pruett, Riceland Waterfowl
Club nine three six eight two seven two four one three,

(59:44):
give him a call, go to the website. Check it out.
I think you'll be glad you did, Thanks David.

Speaker 8 (59:50):
All Right, y'all have a good appening, yes, sir, all right?

Speaker 1 (59:53):
Moving forward a little bit late. Sorry about that fricky
black Horse Golf Club up there on the north it's
west side of town. If you are even thinking about
playing golf today, which is not a bad idea, it's
going to be a pretty nice day. Black Horse could
probably get you out. They got two golf courses up there.
The North Course remained after the South course went private

(01:00:14):
this year. The North Course still daily fees, still a
fun track, and there's a little bit of room if
you tend to spray your drives. That North course is
the one you want to play. South course a little tighter.
It's still very playable. It's not like it's bowling alley stuff,
but it's just a little more challenging. And that's why
they took that one private, because they wanted these the

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golfers who want the experience to have the experience of
a premium course with all kinds of amenities that are
being added as time goes on. I'm not sure how
far along they are. I need to get Craig Hicks
on the GM and just kind of see where they
are with all those plans. Black Horse is a great place.
I've been playing out there since they opened up twenty

(01:00:55):
eight thirty years ago, whatever it was, and I've always
enjoyed it. Big tournament by myself, it doesn't matter. Once
I get in the gate there, I'm in pretty good shape.
Two ninety to Fry Road. Fry Road South about three
miles then look on your left for golf course and
on your right for golf course. And when you see

(01:01:15):
it on both sides of the road, put your blinker
on hangar right and you'll be on the property. And
from that point forward, it's all up to you. Great
instruction at the far end of the range, great food
and the grill, great people in the pro shop. Everything
you could ask from a premium golf course experience. By
the way, that South Course membership there's an option that
gets you access also because they're all part of the

(01:01:37):
same family, not only just to the north and south there,
but also to both courses at Golf Club of Houston
and where I play black Hawk Golf Course, black Hawk
Golf and Country Club. That is the official name, and
it's a first class facility as well. Black Horse Goolf
Club dot com. That's what you're looking for, black Horse

(01:01:58):
Goolf Club dot com. All right, welcome back, goug Flike
Shaw on Sports Talk seven ninety, let me take care
of a couple of things here. I need to go
check email real quick too. I apologize if you've sent
me something quite a while ago and I haven't responded yet.
It's because I'm trying to get uncluttered in here and
get back to where I need to be. That doesn't

(01:02:20):
need to be here, This doesn't need to be here,
and this is gonna take me where I want to be.
And we're in good shape so far. I got a
couple I need to take care of.

Speaker 10 (01:02:31):
That.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
That that's from Frankie. Thank you, Frankie. And oh yeah,
jtk wad in from Shooter's Corner kind of on the
digital licenses and tagging thing. Let me see if he
highlighted anything in here, because the conversation I was having
with David earlier was about how there's an issue with

(01:02:56):
the availability of network service when you're posed to connect
and tag a deer immediately after it is down and
you found it, and download the Texas hunt Fish mobile app,
Tap view my licenses, tap this, tap that, do all

(01:03:17):
of that general tagging. I'm trying to see if there's
any special accommodation for places where there's no signal and
I don't want to use up. I don't want to
use up this whole segment just chitty chatting and try
to search for stuff digital tagging and physical documentation. Here's
something interesting. Oh if data service isn't available here, we go,

(01:03:42):
Here we go, I found it. The harvest report will
be saved by you. See. If data service is available,
Texas Hunt and Fish app will provide a confirmation number
upon submission of the harvest report. This confirmation number must
be written on a durable material, attached to the harvest
and maintain in legible condition. And there's a photograph they

(01:04:02):
show of just a picture of duct tape with a
sharpy written number, a five digit number on it. So
that's what you're gonna have to affix to your animal, says.
If data service is not available, the harvest report that
you just filed in the app will be saved. This

(01:04:22):
is just what David was saying in an unsubmitted status.
You must then write the following information on a durable material,
attach it, and ensure it has maintained in legible condition.
First and last name of the person who harvested. Oh,
this is the difference. Instead of just writing that six
five digit number that showed up when you had service,

(01:04:46):
you're gonna have to basically tell the game ward that
the game warden shows up, where to find your number,
and it's going to be first and last of the
person who harvested the deer or Turkey hunting licensed customer
number it's in your app and the date and time
of the harvest. Then as soon as data is available,

(01:05:09):
you've got to complete and submit the harvest report in
Texas Hunting Fish, which means you've got to remember when
you get back to camp or when you get back
to the lodge or the hotel or whatever. You can't
just go off and get dinner and do whatever you
want to do. You've got to do this when service
is available, and that pretty much means when you get

(01:05:31):
back to town or you can see a cell tower
outside your truck window, confirmation number will be provided. Here
we go right back to it. Keep your duct tape
in your sharpie handy. Confirmation number will be provided, which
must be written on a durable material attached to the
harvest and maintained in legible condition, so on and so forth.

(01:05:53):
That number can simply be added to the existing documentation
previously attached to the animal and must be maintained same
way all the way through. So there you have it.
That's what the Parks and Walleife Department says, which is
exactly what David said basically, and Jay just confirmed it
for me. And sent the actual uh, the actual passage

(01:06:15):
from the Parks and Wiliffe Department's website. So it is complicated,
but not overly. So if you don't have service and
you just you should know your own name, you ought
to have that uh well actually the well, no, if
you don't have service, you can't get the app uh

(01:06:36):
somewhere in your wallet. There needs to be a little
post it note that has your hunting license number on it.
So you don't need to worry about that because there's
no service. If your phone's totally dead, you can't get
on it to find that hunting license number if you
don't have it somewhere else. So I would keep that
in mind and maybe write it on the back of

(01:06:57):
one of your business cards and staple it to the
inside of your shell bag or something like that. Or
if you have a trusty, favorite old rifle that already
looks a little bit a little bit beat up, maybe
just find a quiet place on that gun to write
your hunting license number, or actually do that temporarily somehow,
because your number is going to change the next year

(01:07:19):
seven one three, two one two five seven ninety Email
and me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let me go
take a quick peek at email and then I'll move on. TikTok, TikTok.
Steve Dean, Ah, yeah, Steve Dean old school kind of
like me. I'll just keep buying paper tags.

Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
Lol.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
You know that they're still available for a reason, and
that's because there's a lot of people who don't trust
the technology, don't like the technology, don't want to have
to deal with the technology. Let's see. Gosh, what's wrong
with this thing? The talk a klan say, won't move
in any event? Uh, it's duck place. Just curious. How

(01:08:01):
do these freelance paid hunters get to the blind? Can
you walk? Bring an ATV? Is waiting required? Actually, almost
every one of the blinds that I saw Rick were
easily walk up accessible. Some of them you might have
to walk a little bit farther than others, but I'm
not We're not even talking one hundred yards. He's thought

(01:08:24):
this out for fifty years. You can walk to most
of them. There are several of them we went to that.
You can drive your truck right up to get out,
let everybody out, pile all your stuff on the levee
or road. Actually, and then just hop in and know,
I don't think you would have to have an ATV.

(01:08:46):
And I think I'm gonna speak for David here and
say that if your group doesn't own an ATV in
any way, shape or form, and you just need walk
up stuff, if you let him know that, gonna you're
gonna get makes You could just choose blinds that are
walk up accessible. That's easy enough, and choose to hunt
in those places and you don't have to worry about it.

(01:09:07):
He really does run a pretty slick operation. He's been
doing this for five zero years, so he kind of knows.

Speaker 5 (01:09:15):
What to do.

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
Yeah, that's good stuff. Okay, TikTok, TikTok. That's that. That's that.
That's okay, and holy cass, break time again. Let's do that.
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Phoenix knives dot com. All right, welcome back, eight thirty
four on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two
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want to talk about and it's in law, as it's
related to the outdoors, maybe to the Astros, even just

(01:11:46):
a teeny weenie bit. Huh, Holy macaroni, Holy macaroni. They
finally got turned around a little bit. I don't want
to jinx some going into today's game, but dang, it
was good to see them. I'm racking up runs the
last two days. They they finally looked like the Astros again,

(01:12:07):
even though you don't recognize half the names on the jerseys.
That happened sometimes. Let's see here. Billy Wade in with
a question morning, Doug Gabe. I was curious what you'd
recommend when it comes to telescopic rods, I kind of
wouldn't really and small rod and real combos U. I

(01:12:32):
think you spoke about those years ago. Uh, telescopic rods,
I'm not so sure I would trust for anything bigger
than a croppie that when you get out to the
in sections of those, it's kind of it's kind of
wonky a little bit. Now, I have wanted to challenge
myself to go out to Blackhawk and catch some bass

(01:12:54):
on a telescopic. Well, I've got two croppy rods a
little like I think they stretch out to twelve or
four thirteen feet. They're pretty big, and if I can
put a little bit heavier line on them, I have
a place that I am ninety nine to one hundred
percent sure I can actually get the bite. The problem
is going to be getting those fish out of the
weeds because they have They're so limp and so loose

(01:13:19):
that I don't know if I can muscle those fish
away from the vegetation they're in before they can get
in there and just hopelessly tangle me up. They when
they eat and they turn, if they can get a
foot up into that stuff and then just do a
couple of circles. I'll never get them out of there
with that little flimsy pole. What the fish don't know, though,

(01:13:41):
is that I'm going to rig that thing, not with
about eight or ten pound tests, but about probably twenty
maybe thirty pounds braid, because I know I can get
the bite. They're in the dark, almost in the dark,
but when they hear that or feel that little soft
plastic bouncing around, at least for the last two weeks

(01:14:01):
in this spot, there's gonna be a bite so game
on little fish. As far as portable rods, I would
prefer to maybe look at something just two pieces. I
wouldn't want to unless it's a fly rod. I wouldn't
want anything that breaks down into more than two pieces.

(01:14:22):
And take two three and a half foot pieces of
rod and a three and a half plus an inch
case and you'll be fine in most places. I would
if you can get the chance to maybe try somebody's
two piece rods, you'll avoid the experience I had. And
bear in mind this was This was thirty years ago,

(01:14:44):
probably at least. Joe Doggett and I made a trip
down to the Bahamas the Walkers for bone fishing, and
early early in the mornings, even before we left to
go bone fishing, there were a couple of about an
hour and a half maybe two hours of daylight, and
during those two hours of daylight, he and I would
walk down to the airstrip. This was that I can't

(01:15:06):
remember the name of the resort, and anyway, it's it's
on Walkers and it's it's the only airstrip there, and
the only bay next to the airstrip this little cove
actually not a bay, just a cove, but it was
full of pretty big barracudas and we would go down
there and throw top waters at them. And I had
gotten a top water rod for from a two piece

(01:15:27):
rod to take down there. I'd fly rods and that
one and that was the only casting rod I took.
And that thing, for some reason, the way they had
engineered its backbone and it's its action and all of that,
even with a full sized topwater on there, I could
not throw that thing more than about twenty five yards.

(01:15:49):
And I had the real backed off all the way
whatever the technology was at the time, and other rods,
other rods that we were using, we could throw. The
dog brought a couple and I finally had to steal
one of his from me. But with those same lure,
same reel, you throw forty forty five yards, just sing

(01:16:11):
them out there. And with that one particular rod, it
what it did was as the rod unloaded coming across
the top, it threw down instead of just stopping it
forward to let the line all just stretch out of
there straight, and it created drag when it went on

(01:16:31):
past its straight apex. And I don't know, it's kind
of hard to talk about it and figure it out
on the radio, but the bottom line was it was
a piece of junk. And I let them know that
when we got back, and they quit making that rod
pretty quick for good reasons, for very good reasons. So
try to stay away from two pieces. I'm wondering what

(01:16:51):
your reasoning is behind wanting rods that break down and
the little, the smaller ultra light rigs. I'm not a
big fan of those really either, unless you're gonna be
catching six inch brook trout or you're going on a
piggy perch safari something like that, because not being able

(01:17:12):
to cast and you won't be able to cast very far,
and you'll just have all kinds of issues that will
come up. I bought years ago. I bought a like
a little micro spinning rod to chase the rainbow trout
that are released every year by the state. And I
learned very quickly that with that little micro spinning rod,

(01:17:34):
you just you had no control over anything. Really it
was it was cute when a fish finally ate your
little What were those spoons we threw called the ones
that looked like a they're a U an extended U shape.
I can't remember the name of them offhand, but they
were great little trout trout lures, and it just didn't work.

(01:17:58):
It just didn't work. I would focus on getting maybe
a two piece fraud. Contemporary technology should eliminate that issue
I had a long time ago. Uh but if given
the choice of one of those, even a crummy one,
or an ultra light featherweight, a little real that'll fit
in the palm of your hand kind of thing, Nah,

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that's not for me. Seven one three two seven ninety
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com, Travis one hundred
in Marvel, Arkansas, two years ago back with an outfitter,
and while we did well to this day, we still
talk and send videos on group texts about the headache
we got. Oh boy, here it comes. Headache we got.

(01:18:45):
I haven't even looked yet. Uh from listening and got
we got and still do from listening to our guide
calling ducks. Really young kid, but man, oh man, we
fought to set on the on the sit on the
other end of the from him. Yeah, enthusiasm is not
necessarily your friend when it comes to duck calling. You

(01:19:07):
can know the thing you need to learn. Like I
had a good exchange with I think it was back
when when David and I first talked about which duck
I'm looking at when those big rafts of pintails start working,
and really, when any group of ducks is working over
a spread of mind, there's only one duck that I'm
really looking at, and only one duck that I'm really

(01:19:29):
calling to, and that's the one leading the pack.

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
The leader changes up sometimes, especially in those big groups
of pintails when they go out and they all kind
of shuffle and reconfigure their places in the air, but
there's always one lead duck. And if you're talking to
that duck and you can convince it to come back,
then they're all coming with it. And I just I've

(01:19:54):
watched that a thousand times. I'm one hundred percent sure
of what I'm talking about. And even when there are
other ducks over the spread but just too high to
shoot at and too far to mess with, if that
lead duck is way out there and you can just
give a little just a quick three or four note hello,

(01:20:18):
and not super loud. It doesn't have to be much.
If they were within one hundred and fifty yards or so,
they can hear. Just ease and back around. Let that
catch that one duck and turn it, and all the
others will go out in succession behind that lead duck
and make that big wide turn and then start coming back.
And here's another really simple rule to follow. If ducks

(01:20:40):
are coming at you, shut up. If they're flying toward
your decoys and you're not one hundred percent sure you
can blow the perfect little feed chuckle or the perfect
little quack. Shut up. Here's and one third tip, really
quickly before I get way too late. Three quacks in

(01:21:00):
a row, three bold quacks in a row. Just guess
what that is. That's a scared call. That's a panic button.
So if you're doing those three bolt quacks and you're
probably not doing yourself any favors. Uh j TK Yeah,
I didn't think about that. Said here we have Yeah, okay,

(01:21:21):
all right, I got that taken care of someone three
two two five seven ninety email on me, Doug pick At,
iHeartMedia dot Com. On the way out, I'm gonna remind
you about Kobe Stevens and all of the good things
Kobe Stevens does for you, me and anybody else who
loves to play golf and increasingly who loves the outdoors.
The golf line's been around for years. I've been wearing

(01:21:43):
it since it came out. I've been loving it since
it came out. In fact, I need to call Kobe.
I need a couple of new shirts. Man. I'm wearing
them out. I'm their practically threadbear. I'll wear them so often.

Speaker 6 (01:21:53):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
He's also got an outdoors line that's that's growing and
growing quickly because it's top quality stuff. It really is.
That's one of the reasons I'm talking to Kobe about
doing something new and unique that I think will will
serve us all very well in the outdoors. If you're
wearing his golf gear, man, it's from the moment you

(01:22:16):
get out of your car in the parking lot. People
are looking at you, going is that guy pro is
he Is he on the tour or something? Is he
just he didn't I guess he didn't make it over
to East Lake this week? Yeah, okay, no, it's it's
just me. And so long as I don't swing a
golf club, they still believe that you're gonna look good
and looking good as half a golf Let's face it,

(01:22:38):
if you look good, you can you can play like
a chump and still feel good about your golf game
because you look so good and everybody's looking at you.
Kobe Stevens Communities. This guy, Kobe Galick's the guy who
Kobe and a guy named Stevens Stevens started this thing.
And Kobe Gallic, I guarantee, is one of the nicest,

(01:23:00):
most generous people I've ever met. He's always every time
I turn around, Can you play golf this week? Kobe? No,
I gotta go do a tournament, And by do a tournament,
he means he's made a big donation. He's gonna have
a table out there and try to move some of
his stuff, and he's happy to be there, more happy
than going to play golf with me, which probably doesn't
take much for him. Kobe Stevens dot com. That's the website,

(01:23:23):
Kobe Stevens dot com. All these pop up storms are
a reminder that we're smacking the middle of August, smacking
the middle hurricane season. There's all kinds of stuff going
on in the ocean, none of which is gonna affect
us anytime soon. But there's still a lot of season
left to get through, and now would be a good
time to get the arborists from Champions Tree Preservation out

(01:23:47):
there at your house to make sure your trees can
handle this. Think about every hurricane you've ever been through
down here, and if you've never been through any, hopefully
you never do have to go through one. But if
you do, the first thing you'll notice when you come
out your house and look around the neighborhood, there's gonna
be some trees down. And trees that go down are
trees that weren't tough enough, weren't healthy enough to withstand

(01:24:09):
the blow. There's a reason that most of the trees
make it through, and that's because they're healthy, and that's
what Champions Tree Preservation wants for your trees. Get that
arburist out there for a good diagnosis and then a
recommendation of treatment if needed. They have all the equipment,
all the crews who can do that do that for you.
All you have to do is just say yes, which

(01:24:30):
is a good idea because they're very fair with their
price pricing and very excellent work you're gonna get out
of those crews. They've been doing this for a long time.
If they do have to take a tree out by
the way, they own a tree farm where they grow
native Texas trees that they can put back into that
space in your yard to make sure you got a nice,
beautiful yard again and all the shade you could ever

(01:24:51):
want from that new tree. Championstree dot Com is the
website two eight one three two oh eighty two oh
one on one three two zero eighty two zero one
eight fifty two on Sports Talk at seven to ninety
The Duck Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Before I
click up the guy who's calling now, let me say

(01:25:15):
without any hesitation that I am not trying to put
him out of business by what I just said about
five minutes ago. What's up, Joe Briscoe?

Speaker 5 (01:25:25):
About who I missed that I just got home.

Speaker 7 (01:25:27):
I just got on the radio, I was talking.

Speaker 1 (01:25:30):
I was laughing with with David Pruitt from out at
Riceland Waterfowl Club earlier and then a couple of times
more about how it drives us crazy when people blow
their calls too much.

Speaker 5 (01:25:43):
Oh, there's no doubt about it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Thank you. I am glad you agree. And with that,
I will introduce you as a guy who had been
making Duck calls for one hundred thousand years and makes
problemly best just twenty okay, Well, yeah, and they're very
good duck. Or you don't have to blow that. You
don't have to blow a JB custom call every time

(01:26:06):
you see Donald Duck on TV.

Speaker 5 (01:26:10):
Yeah, and you don't have to blow it hard either.

Speaker 6 (01:26:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
I like that too. Man, I'm I'm too I'm too
weak to blow some of those calls from twenty thirty
years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:26:19):
Please, Yeah, the keyhole O will We'll make you go
to an oxygen tank real quick.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Oh lord, what's going on with you?

Speaker 10 (01:26:29):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:26:31):
Oh man, I'm headed. I've got to run some material
over the Baton rouge. We've got a job going back.
So they asked me to run this over this morning.
And I was a small hind and talked to Doug
in a while.

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
It's been a while. How's the duck call business?

Speaker 5 (01:26:51):
It's picking up? Uh, you know, deal season around the corner.
They're starting to kind of leave the shop looking for
new homes.

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
Well good, So where where where's the best place to
get your calls? Just from you?

Speaker 5 (01:27:08):
Yeah? Okay, God, I like controlling that dog. That's why
it stays a custom business. When you call me, I
don't I don't keep a lot of I keep a
lot of parts in inventory, but I don't keep a
lot of uh pre made calls.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
And for that and for the record, you know the
difference between a Mallard call and a pent tail call,
and a gadwall call and deal call and a crane
call and a goose call. You're not gonna just send
over one same barrel, different reads or something, are you.

Speaker 5 (01:27:41):
Oh no, oh no, no, no, My my Mallard call
is a different shape than my dad wall call, which
is a different shape than my teil call. Uh. I
just came out and I've got to send you one.
I just came out with a pintail whistle, a four
and one. Yeah, you can get a witch and out

(01:28:02):
of it too. Yeah, all over the whitler.

Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
Uh huh, we need a squealer call man.

Speaker 5 (01:28:14):
You know, I'm gonna tell you what. Uh Haydel's got
the market kind of corner on that. Okay, really good?

Speaker 1 (01:28:24):
They can have it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:27):
Yeah, I mean I can doddle. I could fiddle around
because I'll see, I don't know, between five and seven
hundred and the evening, if I just sit out in
my driveway they roost.

Speaker 8 (01:28:39):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
Can.

Speaker 1 (01:28:41):
I call them at the golf course. They're still not
super smart. They're smarter than back when they used to
just walk across the street and uh country highways and
whatnot and get whacked. But they're not super smart yet.

Speaker 5 (01:28:53):
No, not quite. But they know when chill season gets here.

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
Yeah, I'll bet I'll bet they do that. That's when
they just hear fireworks. You know, it's a dead giveaway.
Holy cow, man, it's so good to hear from you.
It really is, no fooling man.

Speaker 5 (01:29:12):
Yeah, it's been a while. You know, I had my
hands full of my dad, uh, just kind of along
the planet there was well he was pro already one,
and sure as he should make him a year ago
and just finally get.

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
I do understand that, man, I lost my dad just
suddenly in the middle of the night many years ago now,
and yeah, it was just like, holy cow, it things
change in a heartbeat, and you you know, you regret
things you never got to say and never got to do,
and it's tough to get through that. Man, I'm sorry
you're having to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:29:54):
Well. Good thing is Ramsey Russell who owns get So.
He's got a podcast and he drug it out of
me one day and I call I take him.

Speaker 4 (01:30:08):
Afterwards, Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:30:10):
I really needed that. Yeah, yeah, build some funny stories
and and uh, you know I needed to get by
that out good so.

Speaker 1 (01:30:22):
And yeah, and that's it's it's not the end. It's
just another step on the journey of getting through that.
That's all it is.

Speaker 5 (01:30:29):
It's just like it's just like, uh, you know, the
heart of the part about it was I buried you
on my birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
Oh man.

Speaker 5 (01:30:41):
Yeah, maybe it's tough, but it is what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
Yeah, you know, in time that will be more bearable.
It will never it'll never be easy, but it'll get
more bearable over time. That's and that's the only thing
I can really tell you that I know everybody's journey
is going to be different. But man, it sounds like
you're handling it okay. And if ever you're not, call
me and we'll talk about it.

Speaker 5 (01:31:07):
Yeah, I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
We'll swap funny stories about our dads.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
I gotta miss I got couple myself.

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
I gotta couple myself, all right, pardon, Well, look, you
drive safely today and stay in touch. Joe Briscoe and
heard from you in a long time. Jay and B
Custom Calls.

Speaker 5 (01:31:27):
Right, jab Custom Calls. You can find me on Instagram
at calls JB.

Speaker 1 (01:31:36):
Jackson Bradley. That's not your name, Joe brisco I'm gonna
come up with I'm gonna come up with something. Yeah,
you too, man, drive safely, get get those hands on
the wheel. I'll see you, buddy, I'll see you all right, man, Audios.
What a great guy, What a great guy. JB Customcalls

(01:31:56):
dot Com. He's on Instagram too. I think he's got
his website still up. I don't know, but I can
guarantee you one thing, the facts. I've got one on
my desk. I brought it in here a couple of
weeks ago to show it to a guy. And yeah,
Jbcustom calls dot Com. He pretty much anything unless you
want to call parakeets and cardinals. Uh, he's got you
covered seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety

(01:32:18):
on the way out to the top of the hour.
El Cubano Cigars, This is my buddy, Manny Lopez. He
knows nothing about calling ducks. I don't think he might.
I'll have to ask him. But what he does know
about is how to roll cigars. He and his dad
came over, both of them working in Cuban cigar factories,
both of them coming over here in the gosh, when

(01:32:39):
was it two thousand and six, and started El Cubano
Cigars down there in Texas City. To this day, it
is one of only about four dozen cigar manufacturing companies
in the entire United States. That's a big deal. They
use only finest seed Cuban seed tobaccos. They most of

(01:33:01):
it grown in Central America. That's how they can bring
this over it. But it's all Cuban seed tobacco, and
every leaf gets aged for a long time. I saw
a big stack of bundles of tobacco on their front
porch the other day. Many put a picture online and
I thought, say, okay, there's the starting point. Once that
tobacco gets here, it's aged for quite a long time,

(01:33:22):
and then they bring out the leaves and they do
whatever it is whether they do with them. You can
actually watch them roll cigars over at the League City
or at the Texas City Lounge, or you can just
enjoy a smoke and maybe watch a game or get
a card game going or something. At the League City Lounge.
It's kind of a little more Cuban feel in that
it's open air and whatever the weather is. The weather is.

(01:33:44):
They do custom orders too, even branded bands and boxes
for special occasions. They'll come right to your event, even
Manny Will and put up a little pop up canopy
and roll cigars for your guests. El kubanos Cigars dot
com go check them out there. Truly are a unique
thing to this area, this region. Elkubonocigars dot Com. All right,

(01:34:10):
nine o'clock hour starts now. Thank you all for joining us.
Certainly do appreciate it. Trying to get some coverage of
the Tour Championship on television, however, Comma that Tour Championship
is proving somewhat elusive at least right now. Yeah, oh now, boy,

(01:34:31):
I'm messed up now. I can't even find any see.
Oh well, here we go. No, it's still this PGA
Tour Network and they don't have anything on yet. I
guess it's a little bit early to be I don't
know when they do it for the Masters, they do
it for the US Open. I don't know why they're

(01:34:51):
not doing it for the Tour Championship and just showing
us everything. The guys out there practicing this morning and
getting on the golf course where over there in Atlanta,
Tommy Fleetwood and Russell Henley are tied at thirteen under
par through the first two rounds of the tournament. Cam

(01:35:11):
Young is alone in third at eleven. Robert McIntyre and
Patrick Cantley are at ten under par and five shots back.
There's a guy who halts. The five guys ahead are
looking at this guy, Scotty Scheffler. He's got thirty six

(01:35:33):
holes to make up five shots. Anybody who would bet
against him, I think you could get some really good
odds for somebody else to win. But it's becoming increasingly
difficult to bet against Scotty Scheffler unless he sprains an

(01:35:54):
ankle or something, or unless he eats a Bad Taco
eight under Paul are five shots through two rounds. He's
got two guys to catch who are at thirteen. The
odds the tour after just following and talking about this
on the radio for twenty five years, the odds are

(01:36:15):
that one of those two guys is going to go
backward a little bit or at least not keep pace
with the other, and the other guy might run out
a little bit, but probably will leave himself within range
of what Scotty does today, which historically will be make
a charge. Who knows, maybe all these other guys will

(01:36:41):
have a chance. I don't think that anybody south of
Scotty Scheffler right now is necessarily in a good position.
The sevens, and boy, there are a lot of them.
I'll give you those because there's not a chance that
Keegan Bradley and his bunch who are at six are
even more of those than who are at seven. I

(01:37:03):
think it looks like about the same size group. But
I don't think from six to thirteen plus, whatever these
guys can do is gonna get there. Scotty maybe, but
the rest of these guys at seven under par that
would be Shane Lowry, Chris got her up, Sam Burns,
Rory McElroy, if anybody could, he could, Ben Griffin, Ackha Battilla.

(01:37:25):
I'm not as happy with him lately as I have
been over the summer. Justin Thomas also at seven under par,
and those guys are gonna have to get on a
horse and kick it on both sides, get it moving
if they have any intention of being anywhere in the

(01:37:46):
conversation tomorrow. It's a lot of golf yet to be played,
thirty six holes, they're only halfway through the tournament. But
I feel like the way it's going now. I think
Fleetwood I still like him to finally do something and
he's out there in the lead again in a big
event him maybe can't lay, maybe can't lay at ten,

(01:38:10):
and then after that Scotti Scheffler. I don't think this
is cam Young's week. I don't know why. There's just
this gut feeling of mine or Henley, even Henley tied
tied with Fleetwood at thirteen. We'll just have to see
how it goes. It is fun to watch these guys play, though,
and if you try to put yourself in a position

(01:38:32):
of if you're ever out there on the golf course
and thinking Okay, I've got this putt for to win
the Masters. If I make this eight foot side, he'll putt.
I'll win the Masters. I know you won't You know
that you're playing a two dollars nassaw with your buddies,
and the only thing you might get out of that
is a skin. If you make a birdie and you

(01:38:53):
get a stroke on that hole, so you get a
net eagle, that's your only pressure win five dollars. These
guys are playing for their livelihoods. And I actually did
a little look the other day at the salaries of
the top five hundred athletes in a lot of different

(01:39:14):
sports and golf. Now bear in mind these guys. These
guys make a lot of sponsorship money, just like players
in every sport do, but not as much even as
the other sport players because they are the other sports Baseball, football, basketball,

(01:39:35):
and what else did I look at? I don't think
I looked at soccer. I looked at the NFL, MLB
and NBA and the NBA players the top one hundred.
I want to say it was twenty five thirty million
dollars a year for the top one hundred players. I
want to say that the NFL was actually right up

(01:40:00):
in that at about thirty something, but almost every one
of those guys were quarterbacks. There was one guy, I
think one, maybe two interior linemen who were making that
kind of money and that that guy, whoever he is,
has got to be really, really special. And then Major
League Baseball was the lowest. Actually among the top hundred guys,

(01:40:25):
the average was only like, I don't know, five, six,
seven million dollars. There's a few guys making a boatload
of money in that game, some of the really heavy
chunking relievers, some of the biggest bats, some of the
biggest defensive players, but they're not making NFL money and

(01:40:46):
they're not making basketball money. And golfers were down at
the bottom. The average among the top and this is
just prize money, but the average among the top one
hundred is like one point four one point five million dollars.
There's a lot there are a lot of guys making
more than a million dollars in professional golf, but there

(01:41:10):
aren't any. Aren't many who are even with their endorsements
running north of twenty And that's the salary for average quarterback.
If you can throw football and make a lot of
money if you can hit a baseball, you can throw
a baseball a lot of money. If you can throw
a ball, a big ball into a little bit bigger
hoop from distance, you can make a lot of money too.

(01:41:35):
Golf is hard too. And the thing that a lot
of people don't realize when they're comparing salaries and comparing
money with golf in any other sport, is in any
other professional sport, any of the team sports, okay, any
other team sport, the travel that you do is all
paid for. Your food is all paid for, Your accommodations

(01:41:55):
are paid for, everything is paid for. All you have
to do is the only time you have to get
out your wallet is when it's something personal. Otherwise it's
all covered. That's not the case in golf. That's not
the case in golf now. I do know, or at
least it was the rule years ago that when golfers flew,

(01:42:17):
when PGA Tour players flew, they got half price fares
something in that neighborhood, which is generous of the airlines.
They don't have to do that, but I guess it
helps them maybe in some sponsorship the official airline of
the PGA Tour, whatever it may be. If there is one.
But other than that, and on top of that, they
have to pay a staff. They've got people to keep

(01:42:40):
their heads on straight. They've got people they're paying to
watch their full swing. People they're paying to watch their putting.
People they're paying to follow them around and make sure
they get where they need to be. And all of
that has to be paid for out of that lowest
of the top one hundreds. It's an interesting, uh interesting lifestyle.

(01:43:04):
It looks it looks a lot of fun, but there's
also a lot of work involved. And I've known enough
of those guys and had sit down over a beer
conversations with enough of them to realize just how taxing
it is and how what a toll it takes on
those guys. And one of the that's one of the
reasons the tour champions is there, is because this is

(01:43:27):
their lives. They don't know anything else, really, and they
love the game so much that if they were to
quit playing tournaments, they'd still be playing for fun with
their buddies. They'd go at it with a whole different attitude,
but they'd still play golf because they love it that much. Uh,
Holy Cam, I'm running a little bit late. Already, Frankie,

(01:43:47):
Sorry about that. I got wrapped up in in the
money in sports, and there's lots of it out there now.
There are some there are some middle school athletes I've
heard that are getting nil deals now, which I think
is absolutely insane. If some fourteen or fifteen year old,
or even a high school kid who is trying to
tell me what car to buy, or what restaurant to

(01:44:08):
eat at, or anything, I'm gonna pass. You don't know,
you have no idea what you're talking about. I'm gonna pass.
Champions Tree Preservation. This is a great bunch of people,
Irwin and Robin Castellanos. They are a father and son team,
kind of like Jerry and Jay down at Shooter's Corner, Okay,

(01:44:29):
and they've been in business together a very long time.
They are arborius. They will come to your house, they
will diagnose your trees, and they will let you know
whether they're good to go or need some help to
get through a bad storm. Hopefully won't get one, but
if a bad storm comes, your trees need to make

(01:44:50):
it through. They don't need to wind up on a car,
or on your house, or on the fence or wherever
in the street. That happens when hurricanes come. The weak
trees get weed it out. Survival of the fittest, the
arborous at Champions Tree Preservation will make your trees fit
to survive. Something like that. Maybe it's just feeding like

(01:45:10):
my trees needed. Maybe it's some pruning, Maybe it's taking
the whole thing out because it's just unsavable. The name
tells you that they're trying to keep your trees healthy.
Champions Tree Preservation the name tells you they want to
get that tree right. But if it has to get
work done to it, they've got the crews. They've got
all the equipment to take out any tree, large or small,

(01:45:33):
anywhere in your yard. Get them out there. If they
do have to take a tree, they own a tree
farm that grows Texas native trees. Great for your yard.
They can just plug something back into whatever had to
come out, and before you know it, you'll have some
more shade, maybe enough to put up a tire swing
someday for the kids. Championstree dot Com is the website.

(01:45:55):
Go there, take a look at what they do and
how they do it, and find some reviews. You'll find
great reviews for Championstree dot com two eight one three
two zero eighty two zero one two eight one three
two zero eighty two zero one Shooters Corner down there
at Palmerhoway and twenty nine Street in Texas City. That
is Jerry TK and his son Jay, who's been emailing

(01:46:18):
me and letting me know a little extra information about
that digital license, which you can buy anywhere you want.
But if you're like me and like an old school
paper license, do what I did last year and hi
tail it down to Shooter's Corner and buy it right there.
You will know that you're gonna get the right license.
By the way, and just a quick aside, you got

(01:46:39):
to get that hip certification. If you're gonna hunt birds
this year, you you better get that hip certification. And
in some places that sell licenses, the person who's doing
it might forget. Not gonna happen at Shooter's Corner, where
you will find the two best gunsmiths I know, that's
Jerry and Jay. You'll find amazing custom rifles. You'll find

(01:46:59):
just an old school gun store. It's guns, it's Ammo,
it's Camo, it's optics, it's reloading supplies. Anything you need,
whether you're a serious shooter or brand new to guns.
Shooters Corner's gonna have it used in brand new firearms,
all at great prices too. They can compete with anybody.

(01:47:19):
Palmer Highway twenty ninth Street, family owned and operated for
forty plus years. And by the way, if you wear
a badge for a living, you get a discount at
Shooter's Corner, which I think is pretty cool. D Shooters
Corner TX dot com. D Shooters Corner TX dot com.
All right, welcome back the Doug Pike Show on Sports
Talk seven ninety nine twenty one. It is I'm looking

(01:47:43):
at a story from a site called SoCal Golfer and
the headline caught my attention. I haven't read it yet,
but I'll read it probably a little bit later and
then maybe talk about it tomorrow. But at it's the
headline is Phil Mickelson rips PGA tour blankety blank. That

(01:48:04):
made him dread golf kind of curious to see what
that is. And I'll figure it out and get to
it also for tomorrow, because I haven't had the opportunity
to really work it in and get into details. I'm
gonna sit on it right now and tomorrow, We're going

(01:48:25):
to talk about binoculars and about glassing, and about which
are the best hunting binoculars based on a ton of
criteria set out by a couple of sites, and we'll
just go through them one by one and which ones
are best, which ones are most affordable, which ones are
best in low light, which ones are best this, that

(01:48:48):
and the other, because there's just so many different brands
out there, and the range of pricing for those binoculars
is just ridiculous. And I promise you, with glass scopes
and binoculars and spotting scopes, you're gonna get what you

(01:49:08):
pay for. If I saw online this morning a pair
of big binocular like I mean big binoculars for like
sixty five dollars or something like that, and I can
assure you. And then I also saw some little ones,
some very compact pocket binoculars made by reputable companies that

(01:49:31):
are a couple one hundred dollars. So the the discussion
is gonna be. What I'll do is use their criteria.
This the headline on what I'm looking at across over
there where I was sitting until that whole thing fell apart. Uh,
the best binocular and this is for hunting the best

(01:49:52):
binoculars for less than five hundred bucks. And five hundred bucks,
I know is a lot of money, but in the
binocular world it's kind of not professional binoculars that the
really top of the line stuff doesn't cost hundreds of
dollars at all. It costs thousands. And I saw one
pair this morning when I was just doing a little

(01:50:14):
scrolling that I want to say was about forty eight
hundred dollars. And if anybody who knows binoculars could guess
what brand they are, and if you can't, maybe rethink
everything you know about binoculars, because I'll give them credit.
The glass they make is exceptional, but I don't know
if I want to invest five thousand dollars in binoculars.

(01:50:36):
The one thing I'll talk about before we get to
tomorrow and really dive into binoculars is the relationship that
has to exist between your binoculars and your scope. Yes,
you do need good quality binoculars, but if you invest
heavily in the binoculars to the point that you can't

(01:50:57):
invest equally in your scope, then you're gonna run into
a problem I had when I was much younger, and
that when I'm glassing and looking up into the trees,
like Bill Carter talked to me, taught me how to
do long long ago. He said, when you're glassing against
a row of trees, wanting to see what's over there,

(01:51:19):
and there's a couple of doughs standing out there, and
maybe a young buck bouncing around and going and bothering
the doze and all, and you want to look over
at the edge of those trees to see if there's
a big buck standing there. What you need to do
first is set your focus on a tree that you
can see clearly, a trunk that's about eight or ten

(01:51:42):
yards up in those woods, because that big old buck
isn't gonna stick his nose in his antlers out there
where you can see him clearly. He's gonna hang back
in the shadows. And as long as he's up in
there and you're focused on the edge, you can't see anything,
you're not gonna see him, certainly you won't recognize him
as a deer. So from that lesson, great man and

(01:52:06):
I started seeing more deer. I learned what to look
for as far as shapes and pieces of deer, and
this that and the other, and man, it just opened
my mind. But it's a lot more deer in the
woods than I thought there were. But then you see, okay, aha,
there's that big buck right there. Let me get my rifle.
There's still enough light left to take a shot. See
that deer clearly through my binoculars. And you put your

(01:52:27):
scope up and it's dark. It's dark in the woods already,
And that's because you don't have enough light getting through
that scope and back to your eye. And that's a
mistake a lot of people make, a lot of people make.
You've got to you got to be able to see
through the rifle to make the shot. It doesn't matter
what you can see with the binoculars unless you want

(01:52:48):
to duct take them to the top of your rifle
and hope for the best. Yeah, you got to have
good glass on both ends, and without it, you're potentially
missing the chance of a lifetime. Or you can just
go hunt with the guide and let them. If you ever,
if you're ever in the company of a professional deer

(01:53:09):
hunting guide, somebody may be hunting at the Somber Rito
or whatever big private trophy ranch you want to go to,
ask them to share their binoculars for five minutes, especially
at the first crack of light and at the last
crack of light, and see what they see, and then
pull your binoculars up and see if you can see

(01:53:31):
the same thing. And if you can't, you might need
some new binoculars if you really want to take deer
hunting seriously. I learned that lesson a long time ago.
I can't afford five thousand dollars binoculars, so I'm not
going to invest that much in them. And thank goodness
I was a waterfowl guide. I didn't have to have binoculars.
I could see everything I needed to see with my
naked eyes. But man, if you're in those deer woods

(01:53:52):
and you're sitting in that stand, or you're in a
box blind somewhere, or a ground stand, or wherever you
are tripod, wherever you are, those those things need that's
that's your number one tool, as your binoculars, because without
being able to see a big buck, you're not going
to get a shot at the big bug. Second, I think, honestly,
is the scope on your rifle. And third probably is

(01:54:15):
the rifle because even even in some very affordable rifles
these days, the level of accuracy right out of the
box is just amazing. Those things are tuned up and
dialed in and they are almost ready to go. You'd
never want to just buy a rifle, take it out
of the box and shoot it hunting anyway. Um uh oh, yeah,

(01:54:40):
that's what I was looking at. Jay Jay sent me
an email he knew where I was. I guarantee I'll
just share with you what he wrote. Come on, get
up here, email, give you up email? Where are you? Okay?
There's that. There's that if money is not an option?
Sworowsky Swarovsky, that's the way you pronounce that. Almost just

(01:55:04):
choked on it, Swarovsky L range or E said E
one or l E one yes, Swarovsky E one range.
Those are probably the ones that cost about five grand
and maybe more depending on the magnification. If those things
are bigger than what I was looking at, then they're
gonna cost you more. Oh, here we go the loaners

(01:55:27):
at Sombrita or E one range. Wow, that's nice. That's
nice to have. What that's And the reason those are
the loaners at the somb Burrito or because they want
the hunters to be able to see what the guides
are seeing. If the hunter shows up with forty nine
dollars binoculars from from some whatever store. They're not gonna

(01:55:50):
be able to see what they're trying to shoot at.
So yeah, that makes perfect sense to have the best
anywhether any conditions, and very durable, writes j TK. And
Jay would know. I got a hunch. He hangs those
around his neck too. Now I gotta go look those
up to see how much they cost, don't I okay,
don't tell me, Jay, I'm gonna look it up. We're

(01:56:12):
gonna take a little break here on the way out.
Let me tell you about berry Hill. Berry Hill, Sugarland.
I've been going there for thirty years, probably maybe a
couple more since i've lived in whenever it was that
my wife and I first found berry Hill, That's how
long we've been going back. And I was just in
there was it last night, no night before last again

(01:56:33):
twice this week we've eaten at berry Hill because it's
just that good. It's traditional tex mex food. And the
two main cooks in the kitchen have been the main
cooks in that kitchen each for decades apiece, more than
ten years a piece for these people, and they are
they make some of the best tasting food ever. I'm

(01:56:55):
still I can't. I can't place an order without asking
for at least one on seafood Enchilada outstanding, absolutely delicious.
There's a seafood burrito, but unless you are a big
person with a big appetite, and you may not be
able to finish it. I'm just telling you it's that
big and that good. They also do tremendous fish tacos.

(01:57:19):
They have chicken tacos. They have just any traditional Mexican dissue,
all of it outstanding, absolutely outstanding. And there it's family
stuff on the left when you walk in, kind of
a sports bar on the right. And then as you're
walking into the store into the restaurant, you will see
the outdoor dining area, which in a couple more weeks

(01:57:40):
hopefully will get some nice, cool evenings to where you
could really enjoy being out there. It's not bad, not
bad as as is. Last night, right toward dark, it
was nice outside. Berryhillsugarland dot Com is a website. They
also do catering. This family owned and operated place has
been since they opened, and they'll just about anywhere in

(01:58:01):
town and there. Actually, I'm working on a big deal
with them. Right now to do something in March. Barry
Hillsugarland dot com. Go check him out. Riceland Water Club, Sorry,
Waterfowl Club. Sorry, I'm a little late. I'm looking at binoculars. Riceland.
We talked to David Prewett early in the show in
the eight o'clock hour, and he pretty much said it all.

(01:58:21):
I've talked about him a little bit more getting through
this show, and I'm going to tell you one more
time that he is fast approaching the time when he's
gonna shut off membership for this year. He's got just
about as many folks as he wants. But if you
want to get in on some of the best duck
hunting you've ever had and fared a good chance at
seeing some geese in the same days and a lot

(01:58:42):
of places, get in touch with David Prewitt. Riceland's owned
by him, has been since it started fifty years ago,
and he does everything in his power to make sure
all his members have quality duck hunting all through the season.
Tons of water blinds at least a quarter mile apart,
no guided hunting on clubland at all, and the only

(01:59:03):
people really have access are his club members and their guests.
There are six man groups, and if there's only one
guy in your group who wants to hunt that morning,
a particular morning, he can bring five friends if he
wants no extra charge. You can load up six people
every morning if you want to. If you're hunting wasn't
great this past season, you'd check out Riceland Waterfowl Club
dot com. I promise you, by the way, if you're

(01:59:26):
just a single guy, one person wanting to go out
there and get in on some hunting, he can match
you up with some guys who have a little shorter
group and make it work for everybody. Wrought spit it out,
Doug Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com, Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com.
Check them out. Nine thirty seven on Sports Talk seven

(01:59:47):
to ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thanks for listening, certainly
do appreciate it. Let's let's see up Mike, and then
I'll get back to some other stuff. You got him, Freggie,
There we go, Mike. What's up?

Speaker 6 (01:59:57):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:59:59):
Hey there?

Speaker 10 (02:00:00):
How you doing?

Speaker 5 (02:00:00):
I'm good.

Speaker 10 (02:00:03):
Hey, I just got back from a Nirvana trip for Fisherman.
I've been able to do it once or twice before.
I have a good friend and he he.

Speaker 1 (02:00:13):
Blesses me with this trip.

Speaker 10 (02:00:16):
He pays for it and takes me to Alaska and
I go, yeah, yeah, and now I mean everything, the flight,
the fishing, it's all first class. And you go for
seven days, uh down south of anchorage about two hours.
It's a flint flight, and you go to this resort.
I won't say the name because I shouldn't do that,

(02:00:37):
I guess, but anyway, uh, my good friend, I can't
can I mentioned my good friend's name at least? Okay,
here's John Ravenberg and constant fisherman ultimate.

Speaker 2 (02:00:48):
So anyway, we go there. They pick you up at
the airport and you go and you you're immediately on
the river fishing for world class. I mean, I'm not kidding, Doug.
If I describe this to you wouldn't believe me. And
he actually went, you're literally catching these massive silvers. Have
you ever fished for silvers?

Speaker 5 (02:01:07):
I have not.

Speaker 10 (02:01:07):
The acrobatic trip, the acrobatic salmon. So they're out of
water and they're twenty pound fishes wearing you out and
you're catching them sometimes on every cast, and you're catching
them every morning. You go out and you tell your
guy it's one guy to two people. What do you
want to do.

Speaker 2 (02:01:21):
Well, I like to go for silvers first morning, and
then I want.

Speaker 10 (02:01:24):
To go catch world class rainbows. I mean I caught
a twenty five inch rainbow trout the massive.

Speaker 2 (02:01:31):
And then I caught Dolly's. I caught all five species
of salmon. Just I'm always worn out, literally worn.

Speaker 10 (02:01:39):
My hands were worn out from flights.

Speaker 1 (02:01:41):
I'm sure, and I just want to I don't feel
sorry that's what you're looking for. No, no, no, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (02:01:47):
I just want to tell you. You know, when you
go fishing and you have experience like that, especially with
your friend, it's the ultimate. Outdoors is the ultimate, especially
with your friends.

Speaker 1 (02:01:57):
I think what you're mind, what you're making me want
to say, is don't wait until it's too late and
you're too old to go on a trip like that.
Find a way, exactly, you have to start throwing nickels
in a jar every time you curt. Well, that would
get a lot of this audience pretty quick to a trip.
But yeah, find a way to make that trip. And

(02:02:17):
if you can't go all the way to Alaska, then
maybe just call a buddy and say, Okay, we can't
get to Alaska, but I've always wanted to make a
just a good, cool fishing trip with you because you
and I have been best friends forever. Let's go to corpus,
let's go to let's go to work, or something like that,
but just anywhere you go, get it done before one
of you tips over.

Speaker 10 (02:02:38):
You know exactly, Well, it was great and I just
really feel blessed to have great friends.

Speaker 1 (02:02:44):
And that's what you're about. And the outdoors.

Speaker 10 (02:02:47):
You can't think of anything better.

Speaker 1 (02:02:49):
Would you catch those big rainbows on?

Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
Okay, the big rainbows using a It's so it's almost
like your fishing.

Speaker 1 (02:02:56):
With a cane pole to easy perch.

Speaker 2 (02:02:59):
I'm not getting oat and down a river and you're
fishing with a number five fly ride. You've got a
little indicator on it, and you've got a little fleshy
flesh pattern, which is what the rainbows a eating. They're
eating after the salmon, their eggs and stuff, and they're
rotting flesh as they float down the river. So that's
what you're catching on. And just the indicator goes down

(02:03:19):
about five foot liter and you got some.

Speaker 5 (02:03:21):
Slip shuts on it.

Speaker 10 (02:03:22):
When it goes down, man, you hit it and then
you fight it though, But these fish are massive. I mean,
it's a twenty five training in and you got to
let it run when it runs.

Speaker 2 (02:03:32):
But the salmon you're fishing, uh, you're fishing klouser now
underneath the water. But my favorite is fishing the poppers
top water, top water in these massive salmon and you
watch the water boil up and they just pocket and
it's just it's unbelieva.

Speaker 6 (02:03:48):
You know how you know how top water there is
no greater thrill. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, life is great,
go fishing.

Speaker 1 (02:04:00):
Good day to be you. Oh, Mike, I'm gonna tell
Frankie so well, I'm gonna tell Frankie right now, Frankie,
we we need to have a brag and alarm that'll
go off. But midway it would have gone off about
midway through this story.

Speaker 2 (02:04:15):
Hey, you won't. You don't believe it. I'm literally every
cast I'm not cripples doubles. It's unbelievable. It's a world
class fishery. He goes there every year, has been going
for fifteen years. He fishes all over the world.

Speaker 1 (02:04:27):
That's why.

Speaker 2 (02:04:30):
Yeah, because of that. He loves that more than ethan,
because it's constant action and it's awesome. Can I send
you a couple of pictures?

Speaker 6 (02:04:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:04:36):
I wish you will. Yeah, no, it's fine. Yeah, please
do just to you that what I do either text
it will no, email them to me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com. Okay, we'll do it, all right, so much,
thanks man, see you all right? All right, holy cow,
all right, Frankie, Yeah, we got it.

Speaker 6 (02:04:53):
Man.

Speaker 1 (02:04:54):
I love his enthusiasm. First it was it was dogged
dogg Joe dogging Hiss has been and calling me when
he gets back from these halfway around the world trips
and forever. And I opted off of Alaska when we
were at the paper together because he and some buddies
went every year, and that was about all the Alaska

(02:05:15):
stuff we really needed for a Houston audience of outdoors
people who have so many options right here at home
and so many options going south. So we both spent
a lot of time in Mexico. He when we went
farther than that, went north, and I went down like
into Central America and the Caribbean more often, I think,

(02:05:39):
than he did back in those days. And we all
had great trips, every one of us. But the Alaska
thing really appealed to me. And I just once it
kind of got away from me. I never got it
back I had. I turned down several limitations. I wish
in hindsight, I maybe would have taken one. But that
would be fun to experience, no question, no question. I'd

(02:06:02):
like to see the bears too, I really would. Doggett
told me once about how the competition for the best
spots on the rivers had gotten so bad that a
lot of these outfitters were taking their groups and sleeping
in little individual tents out on these best stretches of
the rivers so that they could be by default the

(02:06:22):
first ones there as the sun came up. And one
morning his group had done that, and when they woke
up right at the crack of dawn and we're gonna
go fishing, they noticed that right through camp, kind of
wandering between their little tents, each of the little one
man tents were big old grizzly bear tracks. He said.

(02:06:46):
He said that changed his mind about sleeping out there
on the river. That grizzly bear had come through and
heard me snore, and he might have thought there was
another big old boar in that tent and ripped it
up to try to take me out it wouldn't have
taken much either. All Right, we got to take this
last little break of the program and on the way out,
what a fitting into talking about hunting and fishing all

(02:07:08):
over the place that we've talked about today. Carter's Country again.
I want to remind you I finally back on track
with these people. Sixty plus years of selling guns at
AMMO and hunting stuff all over Houston. No, you're not
gonna find any footballs. You're not gonna find golf balls.
You're not gonna find snorkels or sneakers or any of

(02:07:29):
that stuff. Just what you need to enjoy the honting
and shooting sports and the great outdoors. They got a
full service range and gunsmithing facility or service up there
at that flagship store on Treshwig. That was the original's
that's where Bill really started it all when he jumped
in both feet and got into the hunting world as

(02:07:53):
a retailer. And man did the family just take it
and run with it? And they're doing so well. They
got two more locations around town. You can pretty much
get anything you need before the hunting season starts. And
by the way, a lot of what you need right now,
I just got word from Celeste and from Travis Carter

(02:08:13):
himself that there are red tag sales all throughout the
stores and online where you're gonna find the lowest prices
they've ever offered on some of the stuff that you
probably want and need. Hey, you may not need it,
but you probably want it when you see the prices
on some of these guns and hunting supplies and shooting

(02:08:34):
supplies and everything. There's red tag sales on pretty much
every category in the stores. If you can't get there,
you can go online. The website has been done and
redone and tweaked so many times and now it's very
easy to navigate and you'll be able to see all
the good stuff at Carter's Country. Carterscountry dot com is

(02:08:55):
the website. Go there, check it out. Carterscountry dot Com.
On SPORTSAWX seven to ninety, Frankie out, We're just talking
about travel right before we came back with this, and
I asked him if that song selection was on purpose
or accidental, and it was just it was already preloaded.
Interesting seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

(02:09:18):
Email on me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. We've still
got about eight or ten minutes to discuss the world
and what's going on. And I am going to come
back tomorrow for sure to the to the binocular thing.
I've been doing a little bit more research and I
really want to get that. By the way, I got
some pictures from Cliff Webb, speaking of the ones that

(02:09:38):
Mike's gonna send me of his rainbow trout. I got
some pictures from Cliff this week of some speckled trout
that were caught in the dead calm surf at Corpus
Christi at North Padre Island, and I am so tempted
to just make one of those phone calls like I

(02:10:01):
don't feel so good and take off driving south because
I don't want to miss that. I've got some vacation coming,
but I don't know if the conditions are going to
be similar when that vacation gets here, and if I
miss it by two or three days, I'm gonna be crushed.
I'm very heavily leaning in that direction for a number

(02:10:22):
of reasons, and maybe I'll make it, maybe I won't.
But kind of like I was telling Frankie when when
Mike was talking about going to Alaska, I didn't make
it up there, but I don't feel I don't regret.
I kind of regret it a little bit, but it's
not like I was cheated. That's what I was explaining
to him, because whenever I had an opportunity to go north,

(02:10:46):
because dogged I knew had that covered, I just went south.
And you don't have to pack as much when you
go south. I didn't ever have to pack waiters to
go on a bone fishing trip. I didn't have to
pack heavy, heavy winter close to go chase snook in Florida,
or go down to Central America and chase permit. Whatever

(02:11:07):
I was doing, I had a pretty good time. I
really did. Uh going back, let me go check out.
There were a couple of emails that came in. I
want to make sure that I'm not going to miss
anything before we get out of here. Of importance. M
I think we're good. Actually, Travis, Oh, Travis had here. Yeah, Travis,
when he mentioned that that duck hunting trip he took,

(02:11:30):
where the young enthusiastic guide just was just practically blowing
his tongue through the reed of the or through the
barrel of the call and drove them all crazy. They
had an incident with some when some when some geese
came over, some specklebellies, and the guy didn't call them
because he thought they were too high, and Travis and

(02:11:52):
the boys said, no, we're from Texas, we got this,
and he they reached up and shot and knocked two
or three of them out of the air. And then
from that point forward there were some snows, kind of
like as typical in a day of hunting down here,
dark geese might move first and the snows start coming,
and they ended up having a pretty good goose hunt.
I had a very similar experience all the way up
in Canada when a guy told me with Canada geese

(02:12:15):
coming overhead at about twenty five yards. I'm literally twenty
five yards. These guys shoot him in the face. They
don't shoot them in the belly. They shoot him in
the face straight coming into these blinds. And I started
to lean my gun up and the guy tapped me
on the shoulder. He goes, no, no, they're too high,
and hey, I'm in Rome. I'm gonna do what the
Romans do. That's fine, And we had no trouble shooting

(02:12:37):
a lot of geese. It was for a TV show.
We were doing, And sorry if you've heard the story before,
but Travis just kind of reminded me of it. So
after the hunt there, we're picking up decoys and stuff,
and I was talking to that guy about that, and
I was still doing a little bit of guiding down
here and had been shooting geese a little higher and
a pair came over and he said, you like y'all

(02:12:59):
could hear them that high? Really? I said yeah, if
you don't mind, And the guy just hollered at everybody, Hey,
we're gonna shoot a shot here, And I just reached
up and pulled out in front of that bird and
absolutely folded like a limp dish rag. Well, let's go
get done on the phone here and give him the
last bit of time we got here. Don what's up man?

Speaker 5 (02:13:19):
Hello? I was just hoping to find out if you
knew any place.

Speaker 3 (02:13:24):
To get accurate water temperature information on the lakes in Texas. Yeah,
like the Basstrop last weekend it was eight degrees.

Speaker 1 (02:13:36):
Yeah, oh no, yeah, eighty three. I don't know how
deep they're taking that reading, but if you're in if
you're in shallow water, where they're taking those is not
where you're gonna wade in. I guarantee you or even
a surface temperature. I got a hunch they do take
those things a little deeper. God, I don't know offhand texts.

(02:13:57):
I'm gonna do a quick search and see if I
can trip over something. Temper toursell it'll know what I'm saying. Yeah,
let's still I'm gonna jump down below Texas parks and widlife.
There is a site called fish explorer dot com, and
the little subhead under that says Texas lake water temperatures,

(02:14:20):
so I would start there. It's called fish explorer dot com.
And then there's another one under that that's called water
Data for Texas that I think is gonna have similar information.
But just at first glance, I'm kind of liking fish Explorer.
I'm gonna open the site now it sounds like you're driving.

(02:14:41):
Let's see. Okay, I'm gonna pick a lake. I'm gonna
pick Belton and to see if it'll bring up some
information for me. Oh well, okay, right now, it's the
first thing that's wanting to do is get my contact information.
So when you get home, go to fish explore dot
and see if you're comfortable. I didn't see anything without

(02:15:03):
that happening. So well, all right, let's try that, all right,
and if you find something actually let me know, will you,
because that would be a value to me as well,
because I've kind of heard the same thing about the
Park and Wildlife Department site. All right, yeah, thank you,
don yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:15:20):
Go ahead and be all right, appreciate your show.

Speaker 1 (02:15:23):
All right, man, thank you.

Speaker 7 (02:15:25):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (02:15:25):
Yeah, let's see if we can get Mike back on
before we get out of here. We got a minute
or two, Mike, you got about two minutes. Man, what's up?

Speaker 8 (02:15:34):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:15:34):
I just needed your email again.

Speaker 10 (02:15:35):
I just need it.

Speaker 1 (02:15:37):
It's very so tell you one thing.

Speaker 5 (02:15:40):
I won't tell you one thing.

Speaker 2 (02:15:41):
I went on an ATM trip or a TV trip
when I went to Alaska fifty miles twenty and five
miles and twenty five miles out, went on some cam
m to see a glacier. Don't ever, don't ever go
that long with one of those table frotteles. It'll kill
your wrists. Others brittles that are better, that are much

(02:16:03):
easier on older men.

Speaker 1 (02:16:05):
All right, let me give you that real quick, because
the music means that we got to shut up. It's
Doug Pipe just my name at iHeartMedia dot com. All right, okay, thanks,
send those pictures, man, I'll see you on He was
trying to sneak in another bag. I think, Frankie, it's okay.

Speaker 6 (02:16:24):
I know.

Speaker 1 (02:16:24):
I want to see the big rainbows. I want to
see the big silvers. I want to see them all.
I will hopefully well, I'll wrap quotes around it metaphorically. Anyway,
see all of you again tomorrow morning. In the meantime,
get outside. The rain's kind of moving away for now.
Maybe some pop ups later. What's new in August? Right,
Get outside and have some fun with your family in
the out of doors. Stay safe so I can hear

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back from all of you tomorrow. Let me know what
you find out there too. I love hearing. I really
do enjoy hearing your stories. Keep them coming anytime. That's
it for today. We'll see you tomorrow morning. Today Audios