No Bananas on the Boat!

Originally aired on February 7, 2026. On this episode, Doug covers the latest fishing reports, looks at California handling Catalina Island's mule deer population, and explores how Lindsey Vonn's ACL injury will impact her performance in the Winter Olympics. All of these and more, on The Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, I'm here. I'm walking in a little bit,
A little bit. Well, I wasn't tardy, technically, was I rank?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I made it.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
I walked, I.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Walked and checked in a second ago to see where
we were because I wanted to go grab a cup
of coffee, and I even found time to do that.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
So off we go. Let me catch my breath.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I've been running, literally running around here for about the
last I don't know, five minutes or.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
So, racing the clock.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
I got a hunch that on a day like this,
after a week like this one was a lot of
you probably are still on the way to the water,
or maybe just got there and are looking forward to
a nice day of fishing.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I don't blame you.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I wish i'd gotten the opportunity to do that this
morning too.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I think it would have been pretty good.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I would man probably wishing you'd have been there, what
thirty forty five minutes ago, a little earlier, and for
most of us. I was thinking about this when I
got into the offices this morning, after I dealt with
the fact that it didn't seem like the elevators were
working for me. But as it turns out, they're painting

(01:13):
are they painting the elevator doors, Frankie, is that what
they're doing.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
I'm not sure if it's the doors, but I saw
a lot of you know, the floor.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, there's cardboard on the floor, there's masking and plastic
on everything, but the elevator doors. And why I didn't
even really think that stainless steel elevator doors needed to
be painted at all. And my thought is that if
they paint those things, which is what it looks like,
welcome to the Home Improvement Show of the office building

(01:42):
Improvement Show, what I think is gonna end up happening
because those doors already kind of squeak and squawk you
when they open, and there's something that's probably gonna be
scratching whatever paint they put on those doors shortly after
they put it on. Speaking of boy, speaking of elevators,
then I promise we'll go to the outdoors. So yesterday

(02:04):
I'm leaving the office and I'm in a bit of
a hurry, and I've got several things under each arm,
and i've got my keys in my left hand, but
not firmly gripped.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
They're just kind of there.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
And just as I went to step into the elevator, Frankie,
I dropped my keys, okay, And you know that little
space between the elevator door and the actual building, Yeah,
it's wide enough that it would have happily received all
of my keys.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
And my key fob and all of that.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
And I mean, as gravity was pulling those keys down,
I was going down right behind him and stretched my
arm out and grabbed those keys right before they hit
that gap and holding the keys, looking there and realizing
that if I hadn't grabbed them, I'd probably still be
here in the basement. If there is one rooting around

(02:59):
in the elevator shaft trying to find my keys. I
was just, oh man, my heart almost stopped. It was
just like, no, it's all slow motion in my head.
I could see it going down, and I could just
as soon as I looked down because I dropped my keys.
That's when I realized how big that gap is between
the door and the floor, And yeah, that would have

(03:20):
been sporty. That's the last thing I would have needed.
I got a lot of keys on that ring too.
There's one on there that I don't know what it
goes to, and it's been on there so long I
probably should throw it away. But just as sure as
I do, I'm gonna reach go somewhere and gonna see
that little padlock hanging there. Anyway, back to getting on
the water early, which is I think what a lot

(03:41):
of people, most of us try to do, especially when
we're younger and we have all that energy. You can
go on three or four hours of sleep, like I
used to do years ago. I spent some time tending
bar in this town before I got into newspaper and
radio and had a blast because I absolutely loved getting

(04:02):
off of work. That the clubs close it to takes
about an hour to get out of there, takes about
another hour hour and a half to gather up everybody
who's gonna go and figure out where we're gonna meet
and where we're gonna fish, and do this, that and
the other, and then race down there and be in
the water, be in the surf in the spring to
in summertime, be on the jetty or wherever we were

(04:22):
going at least thirty minutes before sunrise. It's like we're
going duck hunting, and we got to get there at
least that early to get out our two hundred decoys. Well,
we wanted to be in the water that early because
we'd convinced ourselves. And to a good extent, it's true
that early early, early morning, even right before dawn, is

(04:43):
really good because you have to remember the fish are
in the water, and the water is darker than the sky.
If there's a little bit of sunlight, if there are
bright stars out on a clear night, if you die,
go die and literally put on a mask and snorkel

(05:03):
or put on scuba gear or whatever and go underwater
and look up.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
At night.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
There's more light up than down, and so we want
to be there then. But it's man, it's you know,
And that's when the fish are hungry too. They've been
kind of hanging out and doing little or nothing all night,
especially on a dark night. They don't do a lot
of feeding on a dark night, but they'll feeding on
a full moon. I did know years ago, lots of guys,
and I did it myself a few times, but I

(05:31):
always felt a little uneasy. And that's waiting at dark,
in the dark, waiting at night, going out on a
on a full moon, and just waiting around as though
it's broad daylight, which it feels like once your eyes
are just your pupils can open to I think it's
about six millimeters and and that's that lets in a
lot of light. And if there's any moon at all,

(05:53):
you boy, now I'm gonna get back to a waterfowl reference.
You don't need flashlights to go waterfowl hunting, except maybe
on the darkest of darkest days, when it's a heavy,
heavy overcast and there's mist in the air whatever, and
there's just no light penetrating that cover, then maybe I
was okay with my hunters bringing flashlights out there to

(06:14):
get ready. Otherwise, if you can see the stars, then
you can see if you'll just give your eyes a
few minutes to adjust.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
But if you get out of the out.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Of the truck or mini van or whatever you rented
at the airport when you came down here to hunt,
flashing back to the good old days, you don't need
to bring out your pocket cubeam and blind everybody else
you're talking to. The headlamps are kind of the worst
for that stuff, too, because you've got these guys who
will wear these headlamps that are pointed straight ahead and

(06:45):
a little down, and if you call their name and
they're anywhere near you, and they turn they blind you
when they acknowledge that you want to have a conversation
with them.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm going down a lot of.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Roads seven one, three, two, five, seven ninety Email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Being there early is an
advantage in a way, I think it is anyway I
still do It's it's a it's a lot easier to
get up it and be on the water thirty or
forty minutes before sunrise when you're in your twenties and
thirties and forties, and even in your fifties than it

(07:20):
is when you're my age. But it's still not a
bad idea if you can handle it. And pretty much
any anybody who's fished long enough knows that sometimes though
the bite's better at any time of day, anytime of day,
those fish decide they want to eat, that's when you
need to be there, Which is why when we tell
people we're going to be back, we're just going to

(07:41):
fish for a few hours, Well usually that ends up
redefining what few typically means. I don't want to man
if fish are biting, I'm staying. If fish are not biting,
I'm waiting for them to start biting. I just I
have a hard time finding reasons to leave once I'm
on the water. Once I'm on the water, I want

(08:04):
to stay there any other time of day, morning, noon, nighttime.
I challenge myself. A lot of people say, yeah, I
was fish boil and that sun's way up bright and
water's kind of clear.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
That that hurts their eyes. They don't want to bite it.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
They're gonna go really deep and they may not even
eat till late late in the afternoon. Well that's I
just consider that a challenge. I'm gonna find I'm gonna
find one, and I'm gonna force feed it. I'm gonna
find something. It will it will just either get tired
of seeing it or it will want to eat it.
And either way they're gonna bite it. They're gonna bite it.
Uh where I'm trying to think there was a oh yeah,

(08:40):
there was one time I I was trying to get
to I was trying to meet some guys to go
fish to coast and David Branch is a guy's name,
great guy. Our son's played baseball on the same team.
I think they may still be. I think both of
them are still on the same team. I'm not one
hundred percent sure they've just been practicing lately and not playing.
But the long and the short of it is, they

(09:02):
were coming from one direction and I was coming for
another from another to meet at Galveston, down there around
sixty first Street, that little ramp there, And for some reason,
I get out of bed and I think, you know, today,
I don't want to see Beltway eight. I don't want
to see I forty five. I'm gonna take some back roads.
I started off on Highway six, and I veered off

(09:25):
at one point and went a little bit of a
different way. I just wanted to see some different scenery.
And we weren't planning on meeting an hour before daylight.
We're gonna meet right at kind of dawn, so there's
gray light, a little bit of the Sun's gonna come
up in probably thirty forty minutes. And I'm about twenty
minutes out. Pretty good timing. And then I come to
some railroad tracks.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Ding ding ding ding ding ding.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh, really a train And sure enough I could see
them way ahead. I can see the red flashing lights,
so I know there's a train coming or on the
tracks or whatever. And when I finally get up there, indeed,
there is a train on the tracks.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
And it's not moving.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
It's just sitting there, and so I figure, okay, well,
maybe he's kind of unhooking something. Couldn't take too long
to unhook something and get on out of there. And
then the train starts moving, like two minutes after I
get there. Oh this is great. This isn't gonna affect anything.
I don't even need to call them. Five minutes later,
the train's still moving at a pace where me with

(10:29):
a limp could have outrun it and jumped on board
if I had a limp.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
And then it stops.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Said, oh, okay, good, now they've completed whatever operation they
were trying to do. And it starts backing up, and
it backs up just about as far as it had
gone forward, and then it stops again. And I'm thinking, okay,
I can turn around and do an alternate route, or
I can just sit here, and surely the thing's going
to move soon. So I kept playing that game in

(11:01):
my head, do I stay or do I go? It's
a song lyric, isn't it, Should I stay or should
I go?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (11:09):
I couldn't make up my mind, but I stuck it out.
I'll just stay here. It can't be that much longer,
and it would, after all, it would take me twenty
twenty five minutes to go.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Around, and I don't want to be that late.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Why ended up sitting in that same spot for like
almost thirty minutes before that train left, almost thirty minutes,
And of course I'm late, and I'm calling these guys saying,
look y'all going out, just going out. Man, when I
get there, i'll call you and if you're still closed,
I'll come back. But to their credit, they waited for
me for some unknown reason, as if I were gonna

(11:40):
make them catch more fish somehow.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
And we had a good day.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
We did, which goes again to the point that, hey,
you don't have to You don't have to be there
at the crack of dawn to catch fish. You just
have to be on the water when the fish bite,
and that means staying longer. I'm trying to give you
all good excuses, just on the water longer and be
able to fish more. And somehow rationalize it with people

(12:04):
who said, but yeah, you told us you were just
going to go for a couple of hours, and then
you end up being gone till dark. You left in
the dark, you come home in the dark. I've done
that a lot of times. I used it was very
simple to fish twelve thirteen hours in a day. Get
there a four o'clock in the morning, and start fishing
in the dark. Walk in the coat, walking the beach front,

(12:26):
throwing top waters in that first cut. Oh man, you'd
be surprised how many fish are in there. You really
would if you would get there that or maybe not
four o'clock, but an hour before daylight, an hour before
sun rise at least, and just walk the beach. You
don't even have to hardly get your shins wet, but
just walk that beach and throw forty five degree angle

(12:48):
top water casts and see what happens. You're gonna have
to wait until next spring, of course, but even up
here on this end of the coast, you can get
some really good action that way. Alrighty, let's take a break.
Houston Gold Exchange. I got a text from Brad Schwiss
just about ten minutes ago. I have fifteen minutes ago, now,
I guess, said let him know I'm up and listening.

(13:11):
Why is he up and listening because he wants you
to bring some scrap gold to him and sell it.
That gold is at historic prices. I mean it's just
through the roof. Compared to what it was even a
couple of years ago, it's almost doubled in about I
would think of about two years, price of gold's doubled.

(13:31):
And if you're thinking about getting some new gear for spring,
if you're thinking about well, heck, if you have a
reasonable amount of scrap gold around the house at prices
they are now, you can go to that boat show
or the fishing show in a week and a half
and you probably get a kayak with what you can
get for just a little a mere palm full of

(13:53):
little gold things that you've had around the house for
a long time, haven't worn in twenty thirty years, not
since the disco maybe maybe who knows what it is,
but whatever it is, if it's got solid gold, good gold,
not solid, but good gold content in it, you're talking
a lot of money. Brad said, be sure to let

(14:14):
him know. Even if it's a small amount of gold,
that's fine. I'll give you fair market value for that.
If it's a really substantial chunk of gold that you
want to bring in there, or silver, that's fine. He'll
take care of that as well. Up to pretty much,
however much you got. He's been in business forty something years.
He can accept whatever you want to sell and pay

(14:38):
you for it right there on the spot. Pay it
for you, right there on the spot. He also said,
by the way, give on my cell phone number. It
tests me and tell me if this is not Brad's number.
Just give him a call and say, hey, I got
a little scrap gold I'd like to sell. When can
I come by and see you, he said, Darry Ashford
and Dry, Ashford and West Timer by the way out

(14:59):
on the west side of town. Very easy to get to,
just a humble looking little store there, but when you
go in you'll see that he knows what he's doing
and he's got some really beautiful stuff in there. Call
his cell phone right now two eight one eight five
one three nine five five. He's not fishing this morning,
so you don't have to worry about that. He's sitting
there with his phone in his hand waiting for it
to ring. Two eight one eight five to one three

(15:22):
nine five five. AHI, welcome back, thanks for listening. I'm
certainly do appreciate it. Doug Pike Show seven one three
two one two five seven ninety email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. That's something wrong with my email.
It's it's not showing me. Oh, I know what I
need to do. I'll take that out and that'll split
it up there. That's much better, making sure I haven't

(15:44):
missed anything yet. Damn weighs in. That happens in Paarland
quite often, says says Dan Broadway at Maine.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
I don't know what it is with these trains. They
just they roll up across the tracks. I guess they're
maybe pulling longer train than they did in the past.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I don't know. I don't know much about railroading.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
I really don't, but I know that as a little kid,
trains are always cool because they're really big and loud.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
And that's about the extent of my knowledge.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
I can recognize the acronyms and the names of some
of the railroad companies on those cars. And it's fascinating,
really how much stuff moves around the country by train.
Probably not a lot of fresh fish, I would think,
not if they're going to stop them. I don't think
they have. Frankie, do you know or not know whether

(16:39):
they have refrigerated rail cars.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
I don't know, would you guess? I would say I
could see that, I could see that.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
I think that would be I think it would be
far more efficient and more reliable to put the stuff
that has to be refrigerated in trucks. That's I think so,
because even if a truck, the trucks don't have to
you'd have to get generator power into each of those

(17:13):
refrigerating cars individually. I would imagine there's no way they
could just hook them all up to one big, one
big line. And because they have to take cars out
and put cars, Yeah, I think it's maybe Dan knows.
Dan was in trucking for a while, and he might
know whether trains carry refrigerated stuff or not. I would
bet though, that it's it's far more truck than train.

(17:36):
If there's any trains, If there are any trains with
refrigerated stuff.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
We went from the what was the other desk I
was on earlier that I shouldn't have been on.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
I was talking about something the elevators.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Oh yeah, well elevators, Yeah, And there was even something
else that was off topic.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Let's get back to fishing, for gosh sakes.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Now there's a different kind of fishing that goes on,
by the way than traditional Texas fishing, and that is
the stuff.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
And now, well I say that, and then.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
I'll have to correct myself because it's becoming more and
more a part of Texas fishing as more and more
people get introduced to it. And that's site fishing for redfish.
It was really not that many years ago. And this
is gonna sound if you've seen the CCA commercial that
aired during the astro season. It aired during a couple

(18:30):
of bowl games during college football season.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
If you've seen the CCA commercial.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
That I voiced, you'll know where this line comes from.
It wasn't that many years ago that there just weren't
hardly any redfish left in Texas. They weren't there anymore.
They were just they were netted and netted and commercially
fished and commercially fished, hook and line, net whatever, and

(18:59):
darn near wiped out, mostly because of big boats off
the beach fronts in the fall dropping half mile mile long.
Perse says, around giant schools of redfish, and those are
the spawners. The ones in the fall are the spawners.
They come around, and the boats will come around. They'll

(19:21):
use airplanes to spot. They'll have high powers on boats
to spot, and they see one of these big schools
of spawning sized red fishes are twenty thirty year old fish,
and they just drop that net and in a little
boat they start running away from the mothership, pulling that
net out and encircle the school and just catch thousands,

(19:44):
thousands of spawning class redfish, each of which, given the chance,
would have dropped out millions of eggs. Well maybe not
millions for each redfish, but the bottom line is it
was lots that were lost to the those pers things,
and CCA went to bad form. Then GCCA and then

(20:05):
other conservation organizations had come along, but none had put
in the work yet that CCA did. They started back
in the late seventies, I think it was early eighties maybe,
And thank goodness too, because now there's a lot of
people complaining, both in Texas and Louisiana that we just
have too many redfish.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Oh, there's just so many.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
They're eating up all the little crabs, they're eating up
all the baitfish, they're eating up the baby speckled trout.
That's a good problem to have if you're if one
of your two primary saltwater game fish has a population
that's so great that you're scared they're going to eat

(20:48):
up the other population, which is not going to happen.
By the way, that's a good problem to have, and
we have it here in Texas.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
We have it. And I don't know.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
I think every time I start talking bragging about Texas fishing,
I checked myself in my head say, now, wait a minute,
what about this state?

Speaker 2 (21:09):
What about that state?

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Because I've fished in like thirty something states, and not
a one of them. If you look at just overall
fishing opportunity, some come close, granted, but none I don't
think could compare overall, could compare overall. And one of

(21:30):
the reasons I say that is because when you stop
and think about it, I would love it if we
had if we could catch some warm weather for a
long period of time and maybe get snook a little
farther up the coast. I'd love it if it would
cool off some and maybe give us a chance to

(21:52):
reintroduce because it's been tried and didn't work, really reintroduce
small mouth pass into reservoirs a little farther down in
the state. But the problem, and here's another good problem
to have, is that we have so big. Our state
is so big. Eight hundred miles top to bottom, eight
and change whatever it is, eight hundred change left to right,

(22:15):
right to left, seven hundred something miles of coastline. There's
a lot of room for a lot of opportunity in
all that ground and all that water, and we take
advantage of it very well, we really do. Florida's got
more snook, granted, but we got better fishing, better fresh

(22:37):
water fishing overall. They don't have the reservoir systems like
we have now. They do have canal systems, and especially
down in South Florida, they got us on one. That's
the peacock bas and the clown knife fish. That's something
that's on my bucket list. I'm gonna have to go
catch one of those before I die. I want to
see them. And I talked to Mark Nichols. I've talked

(22:58):
about this on the show before, and I'm gonna talk
to him again if he's coming, if he's coming over
for the Fishing Show again, I want to go down
there and catch one. The last time I talked to
him about him, I said, when do I need to
get down there to go catch a clown knife fish?
When can you be there anytime we want to go?
We can go catch one. And that's a guy if

(23:18):
you ask him if you can catch a fish in
forty eight hours and he says, yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Just pack your stuff and go because yeah, you'll get them.
You'll get them.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
So we don't have clown knife fish, We don't have
as many snook. We have way better bass fishing overall
than Florida does. I don't care what anybody tells you.
We have better bass fishing than most states. Just because
of the sheer size of our state.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
We essentially are.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
We occupy as much ground as Oh, good heavens. Let
me go get David online. Hey day, what's up man?

Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yeah, Doug, I know you're going to break.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Now take your time because that's on me. Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
No.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
Three quick topics Number one for you to run with.
How in the world can Lindsey Vugh skate downhill without
an HCl? I sent you an art. I sent you
an article a time that want to see a bunch
of golfers cry about an event up at East Sex
as that happened last night. And then finally, with the
weather being so beautiful, what are you gonna do besides

(24:20):
watch the Super Bowl. I'm gonna be outside doing something.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
I'm not going to be inside. It's too beautiful. So
take those and run with them.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Okay, you got it, Thanks David. I appreciate it, mate.
All Right, Yeah I can do that that. Yeah, I
can definitely do that. Let's do the break and when
we get back, I'll I'll play doctor and talk about
Lindsay Vaughan's ACL because my son had an ACL injury,
and it so did a good friend of mine, and

(24:49):
it was it was surprising to see what happened in
the aftermath of all that.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
And I don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
I'm gonna have to do some digging on on her injury,
when it occurred, how long willgo it occurred, and what's
been done so far? If anything, then I would know
a little bit more. And my only comparison will be
to the handful of people I know who've had him
and whose recovery took certain amounts of time.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Kobe Stevens Golf Apparel.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Kobe Stevens's been around a good time a good amount
of time now and continues to gain traction with anybody
and everybody who really truly loves to play golf and
look good while you're doing it, and that's part of it.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Really.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
When you're playing golf, you want to look like a golfer.
You don't want to look like you just just finished
break in the yard and grabbed your bag of clubs
and went on up to the golf course. Feel good,
look good. You're gonna play better, you really are. It
works with me when I put that stuff on.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Okay, I have to. I have to live up to
the reputation of.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
This brand of clothing I'm wearing, cause it's it's top
notch stuff, and I feel almost like I'm doing the
Kobe Stevens brand of disservice if I double bogie a hole,
which happens sometimes.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Sorry Kobe.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
In any event, men's, women's and kids sizes. The men's
sizes go all the way up to four X. They
have got in addition to the golf apparel, there are
some cool fishing shirts that he's brought out now, and
there is also the pants, the shorts, the caps, quarter zips,
all with that good solid Kobe Stevens brand behind them,

(26:27):
so you know you're getting quality stuff. Great server of
the community as well. Kobe is it's amazing to me.
Every time I call him, it seems like he's got
some charity event. He's going to go work and make
sure that they raise a lot of money for their
costs his own personal cause. This past year at the
golf tournament was Mosaics place up in Montgomery County, and

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they work with people who have addictions, people who have
mental health issues and do a fine job.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
And I was happy to help him with that tournament
last year. Kobe Stevens dot com that's the website. Co
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Speaker 1 (27:05):
By the way, there is a store he's opened up
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Speaker 2 (27:35):
If you're not really that good at it.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
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Speaker 2 (28:25):
Welcome back Doug Pike Show on Sports.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Talk seven to ninety. Thanks for listening, certain to appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
I tried.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
I had an issue with my laptop and couldn't get
my little Google page up for some reason to where
I could go dig into this. Lindsey Vaughn issue, but
I am I'm staring at it right now. There's a
window apparently of time, and she's consulted all her doctors,
and I think that if they braced that knee correctly.

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And this is me trying to read and talk at
the same time, let me tell you. Let me just
take this off of here and I'll go back to
it later. I don't want to be distracted by what
I'm reading. But there's a doctor in this one particular
piece I was trying to get through saying that if
she braces it correctly, if it's not bothering her, that

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she can compete and probably not do any more damage
to that knee, so long as things go well. Now,
of course, I'm sure she's going to be a little hesitant,
at least for the first few practice runs that she
makes to do anything brave or I don't know, somebody

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like Lindsey Vaughn who's got the credential she has and
has the she wants to prove to the world that
she's still got what it takes even with a torn
acl and if she ends up even on the podium
at all, and I, frankly for her, I just hope
she may makes it all the way down, makes it

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all the way down in the and has a great run.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
I don't know if she's going to do that.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
And they, every one of them who anybody who skis
downhill in the Olympics is just has got to be
half crazy anyway, So.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
I guess in her mind it's look, it's a torn ACL.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
I'm going to have to have it repaired anyway, after
the surgery and getting back to my only experience with
that stuff, my son had that issue years ago, and
once he got over the initial injury. Between that time
and the time that we ended up going and getting
the surgery done on it, he was able to kind

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of function. He couldn't he wasn't allowed to go play baseball,
he wasn't allowed to do anything athletic, but he could
walk around. And same with a friend of mine who
ended up tearing his ACL because he was in the
backyard trying to play soccer with his daughter who was
a better soccer player than he, and he somehow tripped
over the ball and came down and tore his ACL.

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But he ended up he when he told me he
did it, I said, oh man, you're not gonna be
able to play golf next week? Are you?

Speaker 2 (31:14):
He goes, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be there.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
And the only adjustment he had to make was to
finish a little bit a little bit short of completely,
and he found it perfectly comfortable, perfectly okay to play
on it. So I've never torn an acl and I
don't know how crazy she is for doing this, but
she's probably this is probably was and is going to

(31:38):
be her last Olympics, and that's not the way she
wanted to go out, and I don't blame her. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety email on
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Uh, Sunday tomorrow,
I may watch the Super Bowl, but then again, I'll
be kind of tapping my foot and thinking about how

(31:58):
few people are going to be on the golf. Of course,
I've got no I don't gamble on sports. I don't
know anything about that. I wouldn't and I don't care now.
I don't even think we had a Super Bowl squares
game this year here.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
At the office.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
We usually used to, but the woman who used to
front it for us was is no longer here, so
I don't think anybody took the reins and went after that.
So really, it just it doesn't matter that much to me.
I'm curious, I'm interested, but I'm not gonna If somebody
called and said, hey, let's go play golf instead, I'd

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probably go do that. I probably would. All right, let's
take a little break pause, welcome to which What hours
have these been, Frankie, It's been the the downhill skiing hour,
the stuck behind a train hour. But that was a
fishing related story. What was it I went off on
the tangent on earlier? Well, I mean on the train thing.

(32:58):
You talked about refrigeration in the oh yeah, yeah, the elevators,
Continental transportation of goods hour or the minutes anyway, keep
track of every time I go off the grid, and
let me see how many times I do it, and
maybe I'll try to work harder tomorrow. And hey, if
you want to call here, even though the Texans aren't
anywhere near a super Bowl yet, sadly, yeah, if you

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want to talk about that game, i'll I honestly can't
tell you who I want to win, because I don't
have any ties whatsoever to either one of those teams.
Let's move on, shall Bellville meat Market. Let's move out
there about that. Roll out the Highway thirty six, either
on I ten or two ninety, and either then go
north or south, respectively, about fifteen minutes. Either way, you're

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gonna wind up in the middle of a little town
of Belleville. And if you still can't see the big
old signs and see a place that looks like a
meat market, just roll down your window and when you
smell delicious barbecue, turn up wind whichever way that makes
you go, and soon you will see it and park
your car, go inside, drop off the order that you

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and your family made while you were rolling out there
in the mini van all the way to Bellville. It's
not that far, really, it's only about maybe from from
inside the loop an hour maybe. And the reward is
that you get all those delicious meat products. You get
all those two dozen plus flavors of premium pecan smoked sausage,
You get the stuffed pork tenders, you get gosh where

(34:31):
it goes on, stuffed pork chops, pan sausage, labuchery, stuffed chickens.
The list just goes on and on and oh, by
the way, while you're there, anytime anytime between ten am
and seven pm, seven days a week, you can get
yourself a full barbecue lunch with all the trimmings, all
the sides, and even if you got the kids with you.

(34:51):
They got homemade hot dogs out there, they've got pulled
pork sandwiches out there, or not well at there.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
It's a wonderful place to go.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
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this is the place for you. And of course wild
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Speaker 2 (35:47):
Let me tell you.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Again about El Cubanos Cigars, quite possibly because they are
the only cigar manufacturing place in the entire city. In fact,
I'd say almost certainly really the only place to get
the freshest cigars in town. You don't have to worry
about them sitting around for a long time in a
warehouse because they got shipped here from somewhere else. There's

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only about four dozen cigar manufacturing places in the entire country,
and many of them, if not most, are down in
South Florida. And then, of course the one right here,
El Cubano's Cigars, running operated by Manny Lopez, one of
the coolest, most upbeat guys I've ever been around. El
Cubano makes more than one hundred and fifty different varieties

(36:33):
of cigars. They keep them right there on site at
Texas City until they're either moved over to the League
City Smoking Lounge, which is a totally different theme than
the Texas City manufacturing facility and lounge, but they're both
great places to just go have a nice relaxing smoke
with your friends, or certainly to go and pick up

(36:55):
your next month's worth of cigars, however many that might
be if you don't want to drive all the way
down to Texas City and see Texas City's main street.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
It's really kind of a cool old town feel.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
It really is. It's a wonderful little place. It's a
great experience. But if you can't get there, get online
or get in touch with Manny, call him, send an
order in online, whatever you need to do to get
some of the most fresh, robust to mild, whichever you
want cigars you'll ever find. And by the way, in
addition to them being fresher than most, they're also gonna

(37:28):
be a little bit less expensive because there's nobody in
between you and the people who roll those cigars. Nobody
else has a hand in the till it's just you
and Manny making your deal. If you need specially banded cigars,
he'll do those for an event that you're hosting. It
maybe a wedding reception, maybe a charity golf tournament, or
a sporting plays shoot. He'll come out and roll cigars

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right there for people, one at a time.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
He'll do that too. He sent me in.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
There was a Facebook post yesterday they were at some
place where they're there was an antique car show rolling cigars.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
That's the kind of guy he is.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
He wants to make whatever experience you're looking for fantastic,
whether it's just grabbing a box of cigars for the
next month or so, or having him come out and
roll for your friends. Elcoubano Cigars dot com. That's the website,
Elcoubano Cigars dot com. Seven fifty one almost seven fifty two.
My ow mind in the big old city of Houston

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and outlying areas, and I guess all the way to
Florida and Georgia from Mark and everybody else out that way.
There was somewhere else that we had a call from
where I had an email from that I had an
email from a while back. Can't remember what state it was,
But thank you wherever you guys are, and however you're listening,
I certainly do appreciate it. The show's available no matter
where you are. Really on iHeartRadio, David send me an email.

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There were I jotted down East Texas, but between all
the things that happened between then and now, I can't
remember what specifically you wanted me to say about South
or East Texas. And so if you'll send me an email.
I'll get to it, I promise. I my my short
term memory sometimes.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
And now, if if you wait till ten oh one
when I go off the air, I can tell you
exactly what it was, but I would prefer to do
it while I'm still on the air. So sorry about that,
and thank you in advance. Maybe one of you who
is younger and has a sharper memory than mine, I
could do that for me.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
There's that. There's that.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
I'm looking at my emails right now. Here's one of
oh man.

Speaker 6 (39:39):
Oh gosh, okay, I'll I'll get to that in a
minute seven one three, two seven nine email email me,
Doug Picket, I Hurtmetia dot com.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Mike wad In on we're going back to the Olympics here.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Mike waid In on Lindsey Vaughn at her age forty one,
it's incredible for her to come back and compete on
the downhill seventy five miles an hour or better to
the finish line. I've skied and I've snowboarded, and I've
never gone even fifty seven miles an hour. I might
have I might have made about forty miles an hour

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and in the day. But yeah, she he notes here
that she started competing at seventeen and hopes that she
can earn a metal So do I Those are really
feel good stories. They really are. They really are. Oh wow,
damn wade in. I blew my mcl and was on
crushes for two months for the first time.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Oh gosh, that sounds ominous.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, the the injury itself wouldn't After surgery, my son
was laid up. He couldn't hardly do anything for a
few weeks, and had this motion machine that we had
to rent that kept that knee moving back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth so that no scar

(41:06):
tissue would form and keep it from its appointed duty,
if you will.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Don't know about I don't know why it seems so
unusual that an athlete of her caliber would want to compete.
I'm I'm nowhere in nowhere near her league as an
athlete at this point in my life. I mean, nothing
even close. But I understand it. I understand it. I

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was that way when I was younger. I was that competitive,
I was that driven. I'd play hurt in almost any
game I ever played in my life.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Now I didn't tear anything.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
I broke a bone in my foot once, well, I
didn't break the guy who kicked my foot actually broke
a bone in the top of my foot years ago.
I had stitches a bunch of times I've had. I
did have a knee issue of moniscus issue a long
time ago, but I didn't do anything about it. Same
when I broke my arm throwing a softball. That's not

(42:15):
easy to do, but I could throw a little bit
back in the day. And when I let go of
that ball, it overtorqued the bone that runs from my
shoulder to my elbow and just went off like a
rifle shot.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
But those days are all behind me. I have regrets
about not getting that one fixed. I didn't think that
my wife and I would have children, so I didn't
I'm not gonna play any baseball anymore. I'm not gonna
worry about that. I'll just go back to fishing and
playing golf and having fun that way. And then here
comes our son, and he loves baseball, and I'm trying

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to help him and coach him, and up until he
was about twelve, it wasn't really an issue. But then
and I knew I couldn't throw anymore. I really did.
I just knew it hurts. There's a there's a line
that I can't cross when I'm throwing, and it's it's
because I never really stretched it out. I never really
rehabbed it. I didn't use that arm to throw things anymore.

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I'm not a protester, so I just had to. I
just had to grin and bear it and do the
best I could for those kids. And I think they,
I hope they learned a little bit of something from me.
When I was coaching, lost a good coach yesterday or
not yesterday, but a few days ago too, and I
wasn't able to attend the funeral because of what I
was having to do here. But my son went actually

(43:38):
because she was coached by the guy too. This will
Wait was his last name, and he was great guy.
And I just I don't Yeah, I wish I could
have gone. I wish I could have seven on three
two one two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia. I'd come Mojoe ways in. I'll check into
that a little bit. Let's go back to my cheat

(43:58):
sheet here of things I wanted to talk about Yeah,
getting back to the getting on the water early thing.
One of the things I liked when I was at
the paper going to the Caribbean and going bone fishing
is that you don't really get up very early because
bone fishing, much like the style of red fishing we're

(44:21):
doing here increasingly, is sight fishing, and you can't see
fish in the dark. You have to wait till the
sun gets up. Pretty good. I can remember most of
the trips in the Bahamas and.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Everywhere.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Practically every little island down there at some point I've
touched them.

Speaker 7 (44:39):
But the.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Yeah, a lot of the Caymans down there for some
of that. And you don't even leave the dock until
eight maybe nine o'clock. And these guides will take you
from flat to flat where the tide is right, not
where the light is right, not where the wind is right,
but where the tide is right for the fish to

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be up in very shallow water.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
And it's exhilarating.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
It's it's fly fishing, and that's what we were doing
almost exclusively. With fly fishing, and that and bow hunting
kind of run parallel. You're stalking your prey and or
you can just you know, if the boat's staked out.
It's like being in a tree stand. You're just waiting
for fish to come by if you're in the right spot,

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and it's just that's one of the greater thrills I've
had fishing with bone fishing for trying. First you're just
trying to catch one, and then once you catch one,
then you start looking to catch bigger ones and more
of them, and then you go, oh, let's go chase
permit for a while, and then you realize how few
and far between they are relative to the to the bonefish.

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It's a fantastic, fantastic place the Caribbean. I really enjoyed
going down there every time. Ah, speaking of fishing, the
fifty first Annual Fishing Show here in Houston is up
and coming, going to be back in the GRB the
George R.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Brown Convention Center.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
That's February eighteenth, not that far away now to the
twenty second. Hundreds of products, dozens of guides from just
about anywhere worth fishing.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Really. There's going to be factory reps there.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
There's gonna be seminars on everything you can imagine, anything
you want to learn about fishing. They're going to have
that there rods, reels, lures, lines, kayaks, boats, and tons
of those factory reps who can help explain to you
why they made a certain product the way they did,
how they intend for it to be used, and it

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just you can really learn. If you don't if you
don't make notes while you're at the fishing show with
the pin about what the people are telling you that
you're asking questions, you're leaving half of the value of
that ticket just on the floor. There's great value in
the knowledge you can get from all the guides there,
from all the seminars, and all the manufacturer's reps, and

(47:08):
you need to be there. I'm gonna be there at
least twice, maybe more, all at the fifty first Fishing Show,
Houston Fishing Show, we'll call it that, February twenty eighteen
to twenty two in the GRB. Go to Houston Fishingshow
dot com. They've got the whole schedule there, the seminar schedule,
the special stuff that's going on, everything related to that

(47:29):
show is at that site, Houston Fishingshow dot com. All right,
rise and shine, second out of the program starts right now,
and certainly do appreciate you coming along for the ride
I was asking earlier about. Frankie and I were talking
about whether or not they have refrigerated cars.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Gosh, darn it, there's that thing doing that again. Get
that off of there. Refrigerated cars on trains.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
And Dan, who would know, wrote back and said, bananas
come in refrigerated containers. And some of those refrigerated containers
are on flat or loaded on flat racks, which is
some kind of a train car. I suppose. I don't
know what they are.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
But yeah, that makes sense. How can this is just
boggles my mind. Frankie.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
So these these bananas mostly are coming from Central America, okay,
and they're shipping them up here in refrigerated containers. They
have to spray those things with an aging chemical on
the peel that makes them ripen faster. Once they get there,
those things are cut, just green as grass.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
If you didn't did you know that? I did not
know that.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Yeah, they're cut. When they're cut, they are green and
hard as rocks. And they get them up here at
some point, maybe before maybe after, they leave Central America,
and they get sprayed with something that makes them age faster,
Which is why if you've got nothing but time on
your hands. This is gonna be the banana segment if
you got nothing but time on your hands. If you

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I've read this on the internet several times now, so
it must be true. If you wipe down your bananas
when you get them home, they will stay fresh longer
because you're wiping off that agent. You got to wipe
them off with a damp cloth and get that stuff
off of them, and then cut that big old knob
off the top too, or cover it. I think they
said to cover it with tinfoil or something like that.

(49:25):
I don't know what that does. But if you wipe
that aging stuff off, then they don't they don't ripen
so fast. And now you know the rest of the story.
I know one thing about bananas. Nobody likes them in
their boats, and that was that was that's been around.
That superstition has been around for probably the at least

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forty or fifty years, because it was almost that long
ago when I started offshore fishing, and it was just
a dead, straight up rule. No bananas on my boat,
no bananas on your boat, no bananas on.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Any body's boat.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
And now there are a lot of guys who bring
them just to prove a point. As though somebody really
had to prove that a superstition wasn't real. You know
what I'm talking about, Frankie. It's like trying to prove
that unicorns aren't real. Yeah, we all know that already.

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It's okay. You don't have to bring a banana on
your boat just to just to prove that they're not
bad luck.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
You can still catch fish either way. It's your choice.
If you like bananas, throw one in there. I still
don't do it, just because it's a habit now. I
don't bring bananas on boats. I might eat one before
we go, but I won't throw the peel on there.
Seven one three two five seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
Email me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
I want to go to here.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
I want to go to there by the way, flashing
back to the flats of the Caribbee and some of
the best times Joe Dogg at Night went down there
a couple of times together on trips and especially to Walkers.
The airport at Walker's Key is it's just a little thing,

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and there's a cove right next to it that's probably
I say a cove. It's a big piece of water,
but it's just a little it's a flat that's right
adjacent to the airstrip, and when we as early risers,
everybody else in camp does this every day, so they
don't get up until about seven thirty eight o'clock in
the morning. Joe and I are down there from Houston,

(51:35):
Texas and can't wait to fish. So we would get
out of bed early, right before dawn and walk down
to the air strip and throw big top water plugs
out there and catch some really good barracudas.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
It was awesome. That was fun stuff.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
And yeah that and then we'd go back and have
breakfast and go bonefish day. You got to make the
most of what you got when you're in places like that,
even if it means like it happened to me.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
One time in the Caymans, I had to go into town.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
The first was the first trip I ever made down there,
in fact, and I didn't even think about fishing down there.
I was pretty young and this was a business trip
and blah blah blah. But there was a kid outside
and forgive me if you've heard the story before, but
there was a kid outside my room. It was that
the Cayman Sands, That's what it was. Called, and they
were just individual bungalows. There were about a dozen of
them between the road and the beach. No air conditioning,

(52:34):
just just screens on everything, and whatever the temperature was outside,
that's what it was going to be inside. The breeze
blew through there, and it was in the eighties, I guess,
but staggered. It just amazingly comfortable once you acclimated to
it for twelve eighteen hours somewhere in there, just sleep
through the night and realize that you didn't get all

(52:55):
sweaty because it wasn't that hot and it wasn't that humid.
But anyway, the long in the short of it is,
I wake up and there's this kid sitting on the
bank of a little lagoon that's next to the next
to my bungalow, and he's catching little fish and I
can't tell. He's far enough away that I can't really
tell what he's catching, but I can tell what he's
catching him on, and it's just a little spinning rig

(53:18):
and what he's doing is wadding up pieces of bread
and tossing him out in the water, and these fisher
coming up and popping those dough balls, Like, man, what's
he catching out there. It's kind of cool, fisher jumping
around and whatnot. I walk out there, he's catching a
little tarping from maybe eighteen inches to twenty four inches

(53:40):
long on dough balls. And I thought in the moment, like,
how many times have I gone fishing for tarping and
never thought to throw him a dough ball? How many
times have I just sat on the bank anywhere and
actually been able to catch any tarpin?

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Never?

Speaker 1 (53:57):
So it was really fascinating, And of course I'm standing
there with no fishing tackle. I ended up going into
town and the only store open on Sunday was the
drug store. But they happened to have a little blister
pack zeb Coo, Rod and reel, and I paid a
premium for it. As you might imagine, being the only

(54:18):
store open and me opening my mouth and saying, yeah,
there's a kid catching fish right next to where I'm
staying and I want to catch them.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Do you have any fishing tackle?

Speaker 1 (54:27):
And in hindsight, I would be willing to bet you
that guy put his thumb over the real price tag
and charged me a little extra. Ari am a tourist
just telling you how much I want desperately to have
that rod and reel, and I got it, and I
went back and I sat down with that kid and
fished for about an hour and had the time of

(54:47):
my life, catching like one and a half pound tarping.
It was awesome, absolutely awesome. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety email on me, Doug Pike? Could
I hurt media dot Com? I've heard people. I had
people ask me many many times whether tarpain are good
to eat, and the answer is no, not really. Are
there places where tarpin are eating? Absolutely there are the

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south of the border in Mexico. The lot of those
families down there don't get a lot of meat of
any kind to put on the table.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
And when they can catch.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Tarpa and they'll carve it open and get the meat
out of it and eat it. I've never eaten it,
so I can't say for certain how good or bad
it is, but because I haven't eaten it, and I've
been to a lot of places where we caught a
lot of tarpain and nobody ever even thought about saying, hey,
you want to carve this one up and put it
on the table. It tells me all I need to

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know about eating tarpin. Same with barracuda's I think maybe not.
In fact, there's an issue. There's some sort of a
toxic issue with barracuda's. I can't remember exactly what it
is and what part of the fish it's in. But
for that reason, I don't really want to eat that snook.
I'll next time you have a snook you're about ready
to throw away, he just call me.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
I'll come get it.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
That's that's one of the best eating fish I've ever had.
I was talking to somebody about that, probably three four
days ago. We were debating which fish were the best
to eat. Tile fish is really good. You can get
that close to fresh in a lot of grocery stores
and fish markets and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
That's a very deep water fish.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
Though on the inshore side I would rate and even
I'm gonna although I've caught red snapper off the pier
in Florida, it's a long story. It's a night time
fishing activity that really really worked. But I'm gonna leave
them off the off the table because they're an offshore fish.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Here. Snook probably my favorite.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Speckle trout done right fresh and all of this is fresh.
Speckl trout done right absolutely up there, really with the snook. Yes,
and that's a nod to faux pro. When I went
up and stayed at his house one night, his wife,
Angie cooked some delicious, delicious crappie. Oh my gosh, that

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was unforgettable. I was up there to play golf at
Whispering Pines for kind of a media day ahead of
the Spirit International Tournament up there, amateur tournament that brings
in golfers from around the world, and he let me stay.
They were kind enough to let me stay in their home.
And yeah, that was what was for dinner. That a

(57:36):
little seafood salad that so good. Good heavens, Frankie, I'm
running lace. Yes, you started talking about food. That's where
I get off the rails for sure. And that was
all about fish. So we can count that as an
outdoor segment. It wasn't the whatever hour air Rod Bikes.
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they continue to offer up the finest and best. I
interviewed Wayne Errington just this past weekend as a matter
of fact, to talk about how okay it is to
run these e bikes up and down the beaches. If
you're in a coastal environment, maybe you keep one at

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the beach house for the kids to run down to
the convenience store, to the bait shop or whatever. And
you have one, all you got to do is maintain
it properly and it won't be a problem at all.
And that was something I had emails about from a
couple of people saying, man, I bet those things aren't
really holding up in saltwater. Huh, Well, yeah they will,
as long as you don't go snorkeling on one of them.

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I think it'll be just fun. Most of those bikes
are used for other things, like even just running around
the neighborhood, getting the kids to and from someplace to go,
pick up something from a neighbor, whatever. But then the
more powerful bikes also are plenty capable of hauling you
and your big old buck into and out of the woods,

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the buck hopefully just out of the woods, and you
don't need to be carrying one in that makes no sense.
He also has for those of us who are a
little advanced in age and maybe our balance isn't all
that good anymore. Well, he also has three wheeled e
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Speaker 1 (59:38):
Air Ride Bikes dot Com eight nineteen on Sports Talk
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Speaker 2 (59:43):
Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
I'm looking through some written fishing reports here, and there's
a lot of good and better and the only place, well,
there's one slow place that I'm looking at here. Let's
see if they call any others. Yeah, everything's either good, great,
and with good reason, especially on a day like today

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and on a day like tomorrow when the temperatures have
come back up that brings water. You have bright sky
and warming air, that water temperature goes up significantly, and
once that happens, those fish start eating again.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Let's get Faux Pro on see what's going on with him?
Faux Pro? What's up?

Speaker 7 (01:00:26):
Man? I'm just sitting here with my coffee watching uh,
watching bass master lead on lake gutters though the ice
is melted. But these these guys are catching them.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
I'm looking at the same thing you're looking at their kitchen.
Is a pretty good fish too, aren't they.

Speaker 7 (01:00:40):
Oh that's one of them lakes on my bucket list.
They ain't real high, but it's cruised through Alabama and
they got a boat behind me out back in the
check it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Out back when I was going to back when I
was going to school in Mobile. One of the guys,
a local kid, I say, an Alabama kid anyway, said
he had a place where could go bass fishing. Pardon me,
that was you know, it wasn't a big place. It
was maybe in hindsight, probably fifteen twenty acres of water,
but it was it was fishy, and he'd caught some
fish there before, and he had access to a little

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John boat with a troller motor, and that's all I
needed to hear, and off we went one afternoon and
we did pretty well. And to tell you how good
the fishing was in that lake, we're headed back in
and it's almost dark.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
You could still see enough to fish.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
So I'm he's running the troll of motor and I'm
standing there in the front flipping probably a spinner bater
or whatever, top water along the edges on either side
of this little kind of entry way we were in,
and about a three and a half pounder literally just.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Jumps out of the water and into the boat.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
Just I'd never had that happen before, and haven't had
that happen since. I'm sure it's happened to you, but
it just this good fish just hopped into the boat,
said hey, man, give me a ride. We threw him back.
It was laughed about it a lot.

Speaker 7 (01:01:59):
Just as I can carp it go fly through there.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Oh yeah, I don't want any part of that, man,
I don't. Even every time I see that going on,
I want to go to that place and do it.
And then as soon as one of them gets hit
in the face with that fish when you're riding along
at fifteen twenty miles an hour, No.

Speaker 7 (01:02:18):
That's not me, No, for sure on me. So you're
talking earlier about, you know, getting that thirly and going fishing, Yeah,
you know, I will at certain times. This time of
Year's two things that I personally go by. And I
don't know how many people use apps, but I have
an app that I swear by for my fishing, and

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it'll show, don't I don't use this so much for
what lures to throw all reference sometimes make sure I'm
on the same age, but it does show the minor
and major times. Yeah, and yesterday, yesterday, the minor time
was nine thirty, the major three fifteen to five fifteen. Okay,

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And so I try to go out to make sure
I could stay out long enough to fish the major
wherever that major's at. Yah, And yesterday I probably called
I'm probably caught twelve bass, I guess yesterday, okay, and
I probably caught seventy five percent of them between three
fifteen and fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:03:22):
But it's always trying to be on my best spot
when that major's happened.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
I've tried to not rely on stuff like that because
I don't want to get into a I don't want
to get I don't want to ever get to a
point where I look at the chart and it says, well,
there's a minor at noon and there's nothing else all day,
I'm not going fishing.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
I don't ever want that to happen to me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
I'll go, but I am seeing and hearing from more
and more people who say, you know, those things are
pretty accurate.

Speaker 7 (01:03:55):
Yeah, like you said, I'm going to go regardless. Yeah,
like the Major's world. Hey, I'm going to try to
because I'm at that age now. I can't get up
to daylight fish dark like I used to. Man by
the time that major out here, had I been on
the lake daylight, Man, I don't know if I anging
oo the two hours, but kind of the same, kind
of the same thing today, that major day not till
four to six. So I'm going to watch some of

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this Elite series and get out there, get a good breakfast,
and get out there about nine ten o'clock and when
I have the jacket anyway, so I'll get out there
and join the rest of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
What kind of temperatures you got up there on Lake Livingston.

Speaker 7 (01:04:31):
Well, right now you're talking about air chimpuut, what's the airtimp.
But the air chimp ture up now is as like
fifty one degrees right now.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Okay, it's a little cooler than I thought.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
Yeah, that'd be nice.

Speaker 7 (01:04:47):
Well, I'll catch the water tempature was forty seven. Wow,
yesterday the tured that up to fifty seven, So ten
degree spike of the water. I was catching bass. I
was catching bass six foot early. By the end of
the day, I was catching Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
That's what I was.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
They're moving up for sure. If it gets that warm,
that's what that's why they're going up there. There's food
there and it's warmer.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Why not.

Speaker 7 (01:05:08):
Yep, Yeah, for sure, for sure. On the last note,
I've been looking. I don't know if you're interested in this,
but I've been doing some research on places like Canada
North Lodge and they'll do some pike fishing the summer. Yeah,
making the trip on me. But I've been trying to
find something that's gonna be good. That's something that I
thought I was gonna fit into my budget because I

(01:05:30):
don't need no five star you know, lost I just need.
I just need some chicken fried steak and you know
they do some grouse for dinner or something like.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
That, tacos. That'd be fun. Bring some of those crappi there.

Speaker 7 (01:05:46):
Shoot, yeah, bring your old fish be.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Hm hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
That would be bad, be bad for business.

Speaker 7 (01:05:54):
We can talk about it later.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
That would be the second place I would ever catch
a pike, the only place I've evert him in My
whole life was all the way over in Sweden.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Believe it or not. And wow, yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Met there was a guy in the in the building
here who was from Norway, and I ran into him
in the cafe we have here. He's the nephew I
think of the woman who runs the place. And I said,
I've been close, and you know, I said, I've been
to Sweden and he's like, yeah, well whatever, dude, that's
not Norway. I don't know how the relationship is between

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Swedes and the Norwegians.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
But yeah, he wasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
He didn't give a rat's petut about me ever being
to Sweden, Like, why didn't you go to Norway?

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:06:40):
We had a nod Hosbow pond in Cleveland years ago
when I was a kid. We would catch I guess,
I guess it's the town. I figure out they were
called grass pipe, but we called these native grass.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
Were they pickerel.

Speaker 7 (01:06:54):
At a little chain pickel?

Speaker 3 (01:06:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:07:00):
But the first time I was like.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
I know that happens every now and then, and you
would think that by the time you reach even your age,
let alone mind, you've already caught at least one of
all the stuff that's out there, But every now and
then you just get a what hole?

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Wait, what is that? You don't know?

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
It's fun?

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Yeah, that's why I want to go back down to I
still haven't caught a peacock mass.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
I want that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
I want that clown knife fish I was talking about earlier.
I do want to go up and catch small mouse
in a place where there are enough small mouths to
make it really fun when it's the right season to
go catch them. And I've already I've forgotten what the
season is for them to be the best. But I'm
gonna find someplace and go catch them. They're they're really
good fish. I want some of that.

Speaker 7 (01:07:48):
That's the one going to the Amazon to catch some
big peacocks.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Yeah, that's that's all myst.

Speaker 7 (01:07:58):
I was gonna say, time for min the weirdest place
I'll call a peacock bass and a small mouth bass
in the same day. Uh give you two seconds against
the state.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
God had to be Florida. A wahoop oh cheater.

Speaker 3 (01:08:15):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
Yeah, they do have small mouse over there, don't they.

Speaker 7 (01:08:18):
Wilson Lake Uh has peacock bash. And I found a
little streams and the rivers coming out of the mountains north,
there's native small mouth bass and these streams. Wow, what
are they doing out in the moon in.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
The middle of the Pacific Ocean? Yeah, holy cow, you
never know, you never know. Yeah, I was thinking Florida
and as soon as I said it, and it's just
too warm for for small mouth though. So okay, you
got me on that one man. All right, I'm gonna
go pop this break. Oh bro, Yeah, it's good to
hear from you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
You bet.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
Audios one three two one two seven ninety Email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot Com. I'm gonna head into
this break here, and then when we get back from
this break, I am going to I'm going to get
back into fishing. I'm going to try to focus a
little bit more. I've been dragged into different tangents. It's
my own fault. I let myself get caught up and

(01:09:12):
something jogs a memory. And I like to share all
these crazy outdoor stories that I've had in places I've
been and things I've seen, because it's been a really
good ride for me. I got to tell you, I've
not been cheated as far as being given the opportunities
to enjoy the outdoors, to the nth degree in my lifetime,

(01:09:34):
and I'm loving every minute of it. I still am.
That's my only regret now is I'm getting a little
bit older. I'm getting I'm not scared to go try
anything just yet. At least nobody's asked me to go
try something that I wouldn't do. I've seen a few
things online as far as scary, risk taking things that

(01:09:56):
I might have to think about twice now that I've
got a wife and a son depend on me like
they do.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
But it'll work. I'm still gonna get in my licks.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
I got a long wais to got a lot more
fish to catch, a lot more birds, a lot more
deer to deal with. I'm still I'm gonna go whenever
I can. Berry Hill at someplace. I'm gonna go when
I can. Maybe, yeah, maybe tonight. Actually they're closed on Sunday,
but six days of the week you can get into
Berry Hills and get yourself some of the best authentic

(01:10:27):
Texmex food you've ever had. The two primary cooks in
the kitchen have been in there more than ten years each.
They have taken traditional Tex Mex food and added little twists,
little subtle spice twists or cooking twists or whatever different ingredient,
maybe in something than you'd find elsewhere, and made it

(01:10:49):
their own. They really have, and it's outstanding food. Been
there thirty something years, family owned and operated. There's family dining,
boosting tables, there's a sports bar area in there, and
then there's out door dining, which I would suspect was
probably full last night. It was so comfortable outside. They'll
they'll cater if you want to. If you've got a
big event and you need somebody to come over and

(01:11:10):
handle ten twenty thirty fifty one hundred people for you,
they can bring all of that food, have it all
ready to present to your guests, and then they'll clean
it up. When you're done, come back and get all
that stuff out of there for you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Some of the best. They do that for us over here.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
I know it works because every time they bring lunch
over here, pretty much the only things left after they
do their thing and we do our thing here. There
might be a couple of those little plastic wrapped knives
and forks and napkins, and there might be some empty
foil containers, but other than that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
It's all gone. Because it's all good.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Burryhillsugar Land dot com is a website Berryhillsugarland dot com.
All right, welcome back, Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk
seven to ninety. We rounded second base maybe to an
hour and a half. I'm gonna make it through some
more too. I was going through the I mentioned it
briefly before we went to a break a little while ago.

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I was going through all the fishing reports that I
and one that I'm a glance at, the one that
the the Parks and Wildlife Department produces, because it has
to be so broad and it has to be put
together so quickly that it's kind of hard.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
To be super super accurate.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
And there's a lot of general information, for example, but
not a ton of specific information. And there's nothing wrong
with general information when you're talking about fishing and the
to summarize everything I'm looking at along the along the coast,
it's either good or the only slow place that's listed here,

(01:12:55):
and this is okay, I'm gonna go real quick. I'm
gonna check these, Paige, real quick to make sure I'm
telling you the right stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
Yeah, it's good, good, good good.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
There's a couple of fars Freeport in East Matagorda in
West Mattagorda Bay's fair. The only slow place, it says,
is Redfish Bay. Cooler weather and low tides have the
fish stacked on top of each other.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
But that's over.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
So that's something else you got to take into account
when you're looking at a weekly fishing report of this magnitude.
I don't know how many people they have contributing and
who's putting them together, and what the deadline is and
so forth, But a fishing report that's more than about
two days old, honestly, I think, is kind of like, Okay,

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that was great two days ago, but now what. And
when I was at the paper, one of the things
that I emphasized to these guys who were communicating with me,
so that I could put in really timely accurate reports
of what was going on two things. Number one, it
has to be a recent trip that you made your
basing your report on, or recent information you got from

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your guide buddies or whatever. And number two, it's got
to be true. It's got to be true. The number
of times that I ended up having to it wasn't
many guides that I had to just say, you know,
I'm just not going to be able to call you
anymore because I can't rely on your information. And it

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was a hard call to make because these guys, they're
trying to make a living and they don't want to
give up their best spots, and they don't, especially the
younger guys, don't really have that many options if Plan
A and Plan B turned sour, so they would revert
to just telling me stuff that either they got second

(01:14:46):
hand or they made up, or they would tell me
they were in Galveston Bay when actually they were in
West Bay, and somebody else who I knew and trusted
would call me and say, hey, I saw your report
from so and so in such and such a bay yesterday.
I saw him in this other bay and he was
there all day. He never left. So that's when i'd

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have to make one of those phone calls the apps
that are out there, like Folkpro was talking about, I
probably if I were, if I were fishing more often
than I am now, which.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
It's man.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
I've got a trip coming up, speaking of, I'm going
fishing on President's Day with my boss here and his
teenage son.

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
My son can't go.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
He's eighteen now, and he's got a trip all the
way up into Arkansas planned, believe it or not, to
go look at that university. And he's riding with or
driving with a friend of his whose girlfriend is up there,
So that's his motivation. Maybe she's got a roommate. Maybe
that's my son's motivation.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
That's that's going to be entirely up to him. He
makes good decisions, and I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Proud of him for that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
But he opted off of a fishing trip to make sure,
he said, when I asked him if he could go,
he said, don't you remember that, I'm going up to
the University of Arkansas that weekend with I can't remember
the kid's name who's going with him. It's one of
his old friends, though, and they hang out together a lot.
And so that's the first time since he and I

(01:16:21):
have started fishing together that he opted out of a
fishing trip for something else. Of a trip of this magnitude,
it's gonna be a good one. I'm working on a
story for Saltwater Sportsman about a specific bait that's being
used to catch sheepshead now and it hasn't really gotten
around that much. So I'm hoping I can go get

(01:16:43):
some good pictures and catch one or two of them
on this particular bait, and then we'll maybe shift over
to shrimp or something like that, and or lures. Hopefully
we can get a good bite on soft plastics. Fishing
with might catch eautie. I know we're going to catch
something that's I mean, he specializes in catch what's biting,
and he's been doing it for I think he's been

(01:17:03):
guiding I bet forty years.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
Maybe a little bit more than that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
And one of the things I like about him is
the patience he has with kids and new fishermen. I
don't know what caliber of fishermen my my boss and
his son are. They they've done some fishing, I know that,
but I don't know whether they've got a lot of
experience or a little. And it doesn't matter really, We're
gonna go out there and have fun either way. I've

(01:17:30):
got to get pictures of those sheep's head and in
the in the bait. The bait shots will be easy,
but I got to get pictures of those things, and
hopefully we'll catch two or three and get a good
solid representation of the black and white, black and silver
striped white stripe, whichever you want.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
To call them. They're also pretty good to eat.

Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
That's that's one fish that kind of gets overlooked because
it's difficult to clean. The bones are very sturdy. It's
a it's a solid fish. It really is a very
strong bone structure. Unlike those the backbone and ribs of
a trout. They're pretty feeble and weak compared to a

(01:18:14):
sheep's head. So if you've got to you better have
a sharp knife, preferably an electric knife, and you might
want to think about planning on sharpening those blades. Pretty often.
I go off on another tangent. It's all right, it's
all fishing though, and it's all good. We've got we've actually,
toward the end of the show, I'm gonna probably go
back and shift and do some mule deer news, believe

(01:18:35):
it or not not from Texas. It's an interesting story
and it'll be worth listening to if you can hang
around that long. I'll figure out when I'm going to
do it, probably about ten seconds before I start into it.
All right, I'm gonna remind you again about Houston Gold
Exchange and Brad Schwiss. He's listening to the show this
morning because he loves to Fish. He former actually a

(01:18:56):
former board member of CCA and raised a ton of
money for them, then lifetime member CCA. Really a good
outdoors guy who happens to have a business that buys
and sells gold and silver and any other precious metal.
And right now it's it selling time. If you've got
any scrap gold around the house. I've been emphasizing that

(01:19:17):
now for a bit. And it's because gold is at
an historically high price. It's you literally could go ahead
and get yourself. You could get yourself a little bit
of scrap gold you can find around the house, whatever
it is, maybe something you don't wear anymore, maybe something
your wife doesn't wear anymore, or your spouse, whichever. I

(01:19:40):
got a lot of women in this audience of mind.
I'm not going to neglect them at all. But if
you've got gold that you can spare, gold you don't
want or need anymore, and you could turn that very easily,
I'm not kidding, very easily into a kayak at the
Houston Fishing Show next weekend or two weekends from now.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
I think it is all you.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
Gotta do is get over to Gold Gold eh Houston
Gold Exchange West Timer at Darry Ashford. Uh, bring it
with you. Make an appointment first, go ahead and call Brad.
I'm gonna give you his cell over cell phone number
in just a second. He's not gonna pull your leg.
He's not gonna hard sell you. He's just gonna tell
you exactly what you got and exactly what it's worth,
and then he's gonna give you that amount based on

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market price that day West Timer at Darry Ashford.

Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
Here's his cell phone number.

Speaker 1 (01:20:29):
If you don't think it's right, or if you just
have some questions about buying or selling any of this stuff,
call him. Call him now. He'll take your call. He's
not fishing today. He promised me that. Two eight one
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for listening, certainly to appreciate it. Let's go to the phone,
shall we seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
What's up?

Speaker 8 (01:21:00):
Buck?

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
Well, good morning, Doug.

Speaker 8 (01:21:02):
I wanted to call and let you know about something
that's happened and what people are doing, and hopefully maybe
somebody who has heard something can say something.

Speaker 3 (01:21:11):
My brother has a ranch in Washington County.

Speaker 8 (01:21:14):
And he's recently had two pure bred Herford bulls shot
right in ahead from a dead end road, right in
front of his gate.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
Good heavens, is that happening on more than one ranch?

Speaker 8 (01:21:26):
I'm presuming, I'm sorry, is that happening on more than
just his ranch or well? As a matter of fact,
yesterday we had the Southwest Cattleman's Association ranger come out there.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
Yeah, and apparently they.

Speaker 8 (01:21:40):
Don't know who the other one is, but there's another
bull that had been killed in the past two weeks,
you know, in the almost same timeframe, in that county,
somewhere like that of interest. The first bull that was shot,
my brother, you know, found the bull laying dead and
he saw, well, you know, maybe we've had some sort
of disease or whatever, and to his discredit, he just

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drug on it, you know, drug it down to his
burn pits, so to speak, just pushed it off in there.

Speaker 3 (01:22:07):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:22:07):
He went back the next day and here was another
herd bull standing there. His head was down and he
was and he was walking like he was stumbling. And
my brother said kind, so he called the cowboy and
they walked the bull. It was a mile from his
front fence to his ketchpence, and they put the bull
in there and gave him some antibiotics, thinking maybe he

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was sick.

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
Well, they didn't pay. They didn't pay attention to this
until two days later. My brother was telling me. I said, brother,
you better get a veterinarian out there. Look at that bull.
The veterinarian put him.

Speaker 8 (01:22:38):
In the squeeze shoot and called my brother and said
you need to come here and look at this.

Speaker 3 (01:22:42):
And right between his eyes is a bullet hole and
you can tell it's a large bore.

Speaker 8 (01:22:48):
And the veterinarian had put his finger through that hole
all the way to touch his brain.

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
The bull is still alive.

Speaker 2 (01:22:56):
Wow, that's a tough bullard.

Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
That's what is amazing.

Speaker 8 (01:22:59):
And of course, of course the ranger said, you know,
we just the problem is we found no shell casings,
and so now we're we're putting up game cams to
see if you can catch it. Of course I can't
imagine coming back. But my purpose of this call is
that if if anybody hears of anything that's going on
like that, please call the Sheriff's department in Washington or
Brazas County.

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
But apparently that's what some idiot.

Speaker 8 (01:23:23):
People are doing. You know, even at night, you can't
mistake a white face Herford bull for a hog.

Speaker 1 (01:23:29):
No, no, no, somebody's doing that on purpose, and that
person needs to be stopped.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
I'm one hundred percent with you on that, Holy cap.

Speaker 1 (01:23:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no mistaken identity here. This person
knows exactly what they're doing. I don't know what the
sure I was going to say, I don't know what
beef they have with those ranchers, but that would be
too horrible a punt. Yeah, well, it's not even the same,
you know, having into more than one rancher, you know,
so I.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Don't know what that crazy part.

Speaker 1 (01:23:57):
You know, if it were if it were only happening
on one ranch, then it would be some sort of
a personal vendetta. But the fact that there's more than one,
uh yeah, that's messed up.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
That's so messed up.

Speaker 8 (01:24:09):
Well, and those investigators, I'm impressed with them. They're pretty
diligent in terms of trying to find out and of
course in this case, like he said, boy we have
no evidence. Yeah, I guess we would have to. My
brother said, he just doesn't have the heart to kill
that bull because you know, if he's withstanding, he he'll
lay down and get up and he'll lay down, and
he'll get up and eat some cubes and then lay

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back down. So you know, he just doesn't have the
heart to kill him. But but you know he may
never return.

Speaker 3 (01:24:35):
To a service. But nevertheless, really heartless things that people do,
you know.

Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
Yeah, it's a sad, sad state of affairs we're in
right now. But but we'll find we'll figure this out.
If you if you hear more, I'd really like to
know about it. And I'll keep sharing the news as
long as we until we figure out who's doing that
and get them off the get them off the back
roads of Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
All right.

Speaker 8 (01:24:57):
Well, like they say, if you see something, say something,
so I appreciate it, Yes, sir, thank.

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
You appreciate bucks. You man, by way, holy cow, that's
another pun. Stop it, Doug. I honestly, I'm just left
at a loss for words that there's still people out
there doing stuff like that, and and that's a person
who what I mean, what what issue would somebody have

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with a rancher that would and with more than one
that's this is with ranchers ranching somebody's got an issue
with ranching that compels them to go out and kill
bulls for no good reason, and that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:44):
There's there's a lot. I have a lot of problems
with that, I really do. I have a lot of
problems with that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:49):
Just like Buck said, if you see something, say something
Washington County, Brazoria County they said, brass County, Brasouri County,
can't remember which one. I'm sorry, anywhere out that way,
anywhere anywhere in Texas. Really, if you see something suspicious,
let somebody know.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
We got to catch somebody like that. That's that's so
messed up.

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
Man, Holy cow, let's get let's get that phone taken
care of it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
I'll get us to the top.

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
I'm pretty sure when we get back from there, I'll
dabble for a few minutes. I'll give you what's going
on out at the Waste Management open. Uh the originator
that tournament where the original hoot and holler hole was
put together and it still is. It's they've had to
rain those people in just a little bit. They got

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too rowdy a couple of seasons and threw so much stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:26:45):
Onto the green.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
That at the par three hole where the it's like
a stadium hole if you will, Okay, let me go
here be Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
Troy, what's up man?

Speaker 7 (01:26:59):
Troy?

Speaker 5 (01:27:02):
Oh is that you Doug?

Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
That's me, Man, Hey, what's up?

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
Man?

Speaker 7 (01:27:06):
I'm sorry I was years on that, but that's I'll
call you once in a while.

Speaker 3 (01:27:16):
What's that special?

Speaker 7 (01:27:18):
Sorry?

Speaker 1 (01:27:18):
Oh, the special bank. Then I'm gonna do the story. Yeah,
I'll tell you what. I don't even I don't even
want to talk about it just yet. So what I'm
gonna do. I'll put you on hold, and you got
an email I can send it to or can I
text it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
To your number?

Speaker 3 (01:27:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:27:32):
I know, I'll text it to my numbers.

Speaker 3 (01:27:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27:34):
And if you don't, if you get a chance to
go test these out, I'd love to hear from you. Okay,
So I'm gonna put you on hold, and we're gonna
pretend like we didn't talk, and then when when Frankie
gets back on, give him a cell number or something
that I can text to, and I'll I'll let you know.

Speaker 7 (01:27:50):
All right, buddy, Thanks man, you bet.

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
Yeah, it's such an awful wall thing that I don't
want to just throw it out there now until I'm
not going to do the story until I can prove
that it works. But when when it all comes together,
it's it's pretty. It makes I can make.

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
It make sense.

Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
If that's if that makes any sense at all to you,
I can make it make sense. Oh my goodness, somebody,
somehow my my laptop has gotten on, Like if it
goes to sleep after about one minute or two minutes,
and I'm gonna find something in my settings, Frankie'll know

(01:28:31):
where it is. That's he's my tech guy here at home.
It's my son here, it's Frankie, and he'll be able
to help me with that in just a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
He can tell me where to go.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
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Speaker 7 (01:28:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:28:44):
As I mentioned, I'm gonna get to the waste management
open here pretty quickly. And in my own golfing travails,
I can tell you that I hit I from Teita
Green on Monday playing with the Geezers. I was as
good as I've been in a long time. He had
a lot of greens. How many puts did I make
longer than four feet all day? Zero zero? Didn't make

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a one? A couple of them were pulled. A couple
of them were too short, a couple of them ran
by the hole.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
But it was as though.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
I was on day one of a million day quest
to become a better putter.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
I couldn't make anything.

Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
And I got on a practice screen yesterday and was
just just dumping them, just dropping like stones, every one
of them.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
I changed my grip just a little bit. Way too
much information. Huh. We're gonna take a little break at the.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
Top of the hour, and on the way out, I
will tell you about Shooter's Corner.

Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
This is my buddy, Jerry TK.

Speaker 1 (01:29:43):
He and his son Jay have owned and operated that
store together for probably, I don't know, thirty something years,
and Jerry himself started Shooter's Corner more than forty years.
I bet it's forty five years now that he's owned
and operated Shooter's Corner down there. When he and his
son are off guiding big game hunts across North America,

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he has staff in there that can take care of
you just like they do and make sure you get
the right gun, the rightmo, the right targets, the right
shooting supplies, Camo reloading supplies, anything and everything to do
with the shooting sports is available at Shooter's Corner, including
some of the best gunsmithing anywhere in the country. Jerry

(01:30:26):
and Jay both Jerry taught Jay and the two of
them in tandem can solve any problem you'll ever have
with a gun. And in many cases they've taken on challenges.
I suppose when people have called me and said, hey,
I took this gun of mine. It's got a problem.
I took it to the gunsmith that I go to.

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He said he can't fix it for less than five
hundred dollars, or he said he can't fix it at all.
And the bottom line is, I always tell these guys
take it to Jerry and Jay and see what they
can do for you. And to this day, after I've
been doing this for probably ten or fifteen years, nobody
has ever called me back and said they just said
they couldn't take care of it. I haven't had that

(01:31:10):
happen yet. It won't happen to you. I'm pretty confident
in that. D Shooters Corner, TX dot com is the website.
They're at Palmer Highway in twenty ninth Street in right
right there, just a few miles off the Golf Freeway.
Palmer Highway twenty ninth Street at the corner of a
shopping center in there. If you wear a badge for
a living, you get a discount, which I think is

(01:31:31):
very very cool. The Shooters Cornertx dot com nine o
three on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank
you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it, Troy. I'm
gonna email you or text you in just a few minutes.
I gotta send that text. Put my phone back where
it was so I can see if anybody else comes

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up that way.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
Boy, it just got busy all of a sudden.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
I started talking about a secret sheep's head bait.

Speaker 2 (01:31:59):
And I've really I'm interested.

Speaker 8 (01:32:02):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:32:02):
I'm gonna have four or five people testing these things
next time they go, and if it works, I'm gonna
feel really good about it. And if they come back
and say we never got a bite, but we got
them on a piece of hot dog, then I'll be
terribly disappointed. But I think it's I do believe it's

(01:32:23):
gonna work, and I have a theory as to why
it's gonna work. But I'm gonna sit on it until
until something goes on. Be very interesting. Yeah, Ed Ed
you'll be next as soon as I go to the
break here after this segment, I'll send you the secret
magic sheep said bait, Oh mercy, this is gonna be
kind of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
Where did I?

Speaker 3 (01:32:43):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:32:43):
Yeah, I promised I would go to the waste management
open and take a look at the leader board. I
gotta put this down for a second and go back
to here and hope it opens up properly. Yes, it
did amazing, and I'm gonna go.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
To gosh, where did it go? I pull but the
PGA tour website right in the front of what I
wanted to go to. When we got to.

Speaker 1 (01:33:05):
Hear this little screen on my laptop, I'm so glad
I had those big screens. When we first got those
many years ago, I didn't think i'd like them. I
didn't think it was a big deal. But all of
a sudden, it's a huge deal. Okay. And I got
to open this thing all the way up so I
can get the leaderboard to load. There's something wrong with
the with the way this thing's formatted right now. I

(01:33:28):
don't really know what it is, but it's kind of
scrunching everything down. I'm gonna have it here now, finally
Waste Management Phoenix Open out in Scottsdale on the Stadium
course at the TPC Scottsdale. Rio Hisatsuni is leading the
tournament by a grand total of a one shot. He's

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at eleven shot sixty eight sixty three to get there
Thursday and Friday, respectively, sixty eight sixty four, trailing by
one at ten underpar.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
Is Hideki Matsuyama.

Speaker 1 (01:34:00):
Pearson Cooty is at eight under par, along with Chris
Gottter up Aksha Batilla ak Shabatia, the young lefty at
seven under. He's gonna do some things this year. I
just feel like he's gonna kind of get out and run.
See Woo Kim at seven, John Perry, Saheith Tagala, Matt
Fitzpatrick all at seven as well. I'm gonna have time

(01:34:23):
to read the sixes. I'll run through them very quickly,
and you'll notice some names are missing. They're a little
farther down the line. Probably the six is Sam Stevens,
Stephen Yaeger, Min wou Lee, Maverick McNeely, Zach bachaw Kevin Roy,
Nikolai Holguard, Michael Kim, and Jake Knapp. All of those
guys at six under par, well off the lead, but

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still a lot of room for any and everybody else
in this field to make a move and be somebody.
Scotty Scheffler. Maybe he's working on a swing change, who knows,
but he's only at four under par. A disappointing. I'm
sure seventy on opening day, but he followed it with
a sixty five. I would not be surprised to see

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him shoot another sixty five today and find himself back
up at least with his name in the on the
first page of the leaderboard. That's a fun tournament to watch.
It's beautiful in Arizona, as you might imagine this time
of year.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
So there you have it. The weather. Let's see what
it says here. I gotta give this sing a minute move.

Speaker 1 (01:35:26):
Yeah, fifty five degrees with a northwest wind at three.
So a little chili just started off on this Saturday
morning out there. It's still well, it's only what's seven
o'clock in Scottsdale. I'm pretty sure they're out in the
in the or Western Pacific time zone. I'm pretty sure,
not one hundred percent sure either way, it's either eight

(01:35:47):
o'clock or seven o'clock and on a Saturday or Sunday,
those guys got time to wait.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
For it to warm up a little bit before they
go back.

Speaker 1 (01:35:55):
To where was I gonna go back to Detroit? No,
I don't have to do that, man. I've got all
kinds of stuff I can talk about. Now I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna take take it to this California story that
I was telling you was coming, or the mule deer
story which comes out of California, and I find it
very interesting on a couple of levels. Sorry for that squeak.

(01:36:16):
This thing needs a little oil. That's terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:36:21):
While life officials out there are trying, they intend their
plan is to remove the entire mule deer population from
Catalina Island. Mule deer are not native to Catalina Island
and California's wildlife people, I wonder if they're like half

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the rest of the state, or probably three quarters of
what's left in the state now and just so far
left they can't stand up straight anyway. Those deer were
introduced there as far back as one hundred years ago
and kept being introduced for a few years afterward, and
now there's a pretty substantial population of them, and they're
kind of eating up the food that the California Wildlife

(01:37:07):
people say ought to go to the native animals on
Catalina Island. I'm not sure what's on Catalina Island that
eats the same stuff the deer do. But they're saying, look,
it's an invasive species. We got to get rid of it.
One side wants all the deer gone. There are a
handful of people who kind of acknowledging that the deer

(01:37:28):
become part of a problem, say, yeah, we can. We
can get rid of a lot of them, but let's
just try to reach a compromise and have a manageable
herd so that people who go hiking and whatnot over
there maybe can see some mule deer. We don't have
to wipe them out. Let's just see what we can
do and determine the number, kind of like Texas has

(01:37:51):
number of white tails we have in our state. Get
managed so that that herd doesn't have any problems. Well,
here's the deal, though, when they talked about shooting them
from helicopters, Oh no, nobody's gonna let that happen, because
they just basically didn't understand how it works, and how
actually efficient that would be as a means of getting

(01:38:14):
rid of those mule deer. Then came the funniest line
that I saw in the entire story, and I saw
it twice, opposition to a plan that would have And
this tells me that the person who wrote this story
didn't think about what he was writing, and he misinterpreted
what the people who told him this were saying. He

(01:38:38):
said that there was opposition to a plan that would
have marksmen on the ground and potentially.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
Quote shooting through moving cars.

Speaker 1 (01:38:50):
Think about the implication there, Oh, yeah, these marksmen are
so good They're gonna shoot these deer through moving cars.
Now I understand clearly what the person who said that
was trying to say, and that meant moving or taking

(01:39:10):
a shot, maybe from a slightly elevated position at least
I would hope, across roadways. But they wouldn't be shooting
if there was one car on the road. I'm pretty
sure nobody is is a good enough shot that they
can go ahead and take out a mule deer across
the street through a moving car. I almost had to

(01:39:33):
laugh out loud. This guy had just had no idea.
They're talking about shooting across roadways. But yeah, you make
sure the windows are down if you're going to do that,
and just make sure you shoot through the back window
and there's not anybody in the back seat. That was
one of the dumbest things I've ever read in any
kind of an outdoors report. Almost as dumb as as

(01:39:58):
wiping out those those And it wouldn't be hard to
catch them. You just put up pins kind of like
we put up for hogs here, only they would have
have to have higher fences and hire perimeters. Put up
a pen like that, a drop pen, a big circle
of stuff, pile up one hundred pounds of corn in
the middle of it, wait till the mule deer walk in,

(01:40:18):
then pull the plug and let the whole thing fall
on them. Put a little netting on the top that
would take care of it. Then go get them out
of there. I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (01:40:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
I have a hard time.

Speaker 1 (01:40:30):
I don't have a hard time getting rid of pigs
here because they do so much damage. But a handful
of white tailed deer, if they get to a herd
number they can manage, wouldn't be a big problem. That's
just and that's just scratching the tip of the iceberg
in California was what's wrong with that state?

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
They're not going to be anybody left there to hunt them.

Speaker 1 (01:40:48):
They're not gonna be anybody left there to And man,
don't let me ever find out that they took those
mule deer out of there and didn't donate.

Speaker 2 (01:40:57):
The meat to hungry people.

Speaker 1 (01:40:59):
That would really they irk me if they just take
that stuff down to the burn pit, like our rancher
buddy was talking about Old Buck. No, but I wouldn't
put it past California for any of that stuff. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Email me
Doug Pike atiheartmedia dot com. We'll take another little break
here and I will tell you about timber Creek Golf Club. Well,

(01:41:21):
it's about three four miles west of the Golf Freeway
on FM twenty three fifty one in Friendswood. Twenty seven
holes and each of them very fun to play. They're
golf's never easy, but timber Creek is a place where
you can really manage your way around the course, usually
without any just horrific blow up holes. Excellent food in

(01:41:45):
the grill, excellent instruction available from JJ Woods and his
staff at the Timber Creek Golf Club Academy.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
There and just a fun place to go.

Speaker 1 (01:41:53):
Whether it's you by yourself wanting to take advantage of
the weather we've got today, or maybe you've got one
hundred and fifty two hundred people you need to put
on that golf course to make sure that you can
raise a bunch of money for a good cost.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
They'll take care of you.

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Faux Pro sent me a picture of the peacock baths
he caught down there in Hawaii. Said they use live

(01:42:30):
goldfish for bait. Yeah, I can say, i'd is. That's
your little brother, faux Pro. You look so young in
that picture. I had been a hot minute since he
was down there catching those peacock baths.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
They're a tough fish. That's on my bucket list.

Speaker 1 (01:42:46):
I had an opportunity to go down to the Amazon
and catch them one year, but that was when there
were three or either maybe three or maybe all four
of us were writing outdoors for the paper back then
and really filling up a lot of space and having
a lot of fun doing it. And that same year
Shannon ended up going down there close to the same

(01:43:06):
time that I'd been invited, and at that point I thought,
I'll just catch that on another on another year or
something like that, but it just didn't come up again,
and I was, in fairness to the peacock bass down there,
I still would prefer bonefish and tarping and snook to

(01:43:26):
to peacock bass. Someone three two one two five seven
ninety email on me, Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
I ended up.

Speaker 1 (01:43:34):
Sending three more emails slash texts to people who are
curious about this super secret sheep's head bait. And it's
not gonna be a secret for very long, I guess.
But I'll get that story written and we'll we'll share
it with the country hopefully unless somebody jumps me on it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
It'll be fun either way.

Speaker 1 (01:43:55):
I'm I'm test firing it next Monday, as I mentioned
earlier in the show, with my Caciotti and taking my
boss and his son, his teenage son down there to
the coast, and Mike assures me he's got a spot
where it's you can't throw a rock without hitting a
sheep's head. Not using rocks for bait. Boy, wouldn't that

(01:44:16):
be convenient if it was going back to this, this
big elaborate fishing report that covers the whole state. It
also showed that it showed Port O'Connor as being slow,
but as a hint to when it came out, said,
but it should improve for the weekend. Well we're here

(01:44:37):
for the weekend and I'm reading more. Here's a little
good news. Well, no, it's not good news.

Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
Never mind. It says slow again, says.

Speaker 1 (01:44:48):
Trouter slow at both jetties, oversized and slot redfish slow,
on and on and on with the slow, slow, slow.
And if you live in Port O'Connor, or you have
a house down there, and you're an avid fisherman, I
bet you would consider that, like I would, a challenge
and go out there and fish anyway I would. This

(01:45:09):
is the same time of year, actually it's a little later,
two weeks ago from today. Is the same time a
year that when Cliff Webb and I made that trip
we made to baff And Bay and absolutely smoked the
giant trout. The report in the newspaper down there, and
it's no knock on the guy who wrote it. I
know who wrote it, and he's a good guy. He's

(01:45:30):
a good outdoor writer. But the report that week was
that there were a few drum in the ship channel
or the intracoastal, but that was about all that was
going on. Otherwise, it was really slow, and that was
a persistent thing through that week. The word on the
street was fishing with slow. And that's why when Cliff

(01:45:52):
called me to tell me to just drop everything and
get down there, he wasn't fooling around. He knew that
that wasn't gonna last. Somebody was gonna find him at
some point. But we managed to get in one more
day down there, and it worked out real well. Joe
Dogget and I went back the very next week, the
very next week, and it was kind of over. We

(01:46:16):
caught a few good fish, but nothing, nothing like what
Cliff and I had experienced, and it was just that
was something else. So fishing reports, you know, I'm honestly
leaning at this point, especially with written reports that they
have to be hand typed and all of that stuff.
I'm almost leaning toward the apps now. I may have

(01:46:38):
to load one of those things and just try on
more time, kind of like what faux Pro was talking
about earlier. What I'm gonna try is to get out
and fish during the peak periods of activity, whatever they
may be for the body of water. I'm going to
and that might mean crawling out of bed a little
bit earlier. It might be staying out there till right

(01:47:00):
at dark, which I don't mind doing either way, as
long as I don't have to work that day. Where
I would want to go test the local bass fishing
is away from coming to the office. Here, there's one
spot I could go. Maybe it doesn't have to be
great fishing either. I'm way past worrying about great fishing.

(01:47:22):
Every time I walk out the door. I just want
to catch a few, and I'm struggling to do that
on my little bass or a golf course lake bass.
They between the cormorants and that fishkill. It's been tough.
It really has been tough. And I took a friend
of mine out there a couple of days ago and
we fished for about maybe thirty forty five minutes and

(01:47:44):
three different spots I think it was, and neither of
us got an actual bite, not one bite, So I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
Know where they are. I'm presuming they're deeper.

Speaker 1 (01:47:52):
Maybe I can get faux Pro to come down here
and walk around that lake sometime.

Speaker 2 (01:47:56):
That would be good. Yeah. Yeah, that's he's right. I
know that, I know it. I know he's right, Frankie.

Speaker 1 (01:48:07):
Uh. And that's that's where this originated. That's that's where
my interest in this bait originated. And so I'm gonna
have to try to get this out in front of
them as fast as I can. It'll be fun either way.
And once it's out, it's out. I'm I'm not worried
about that. Somebody's liable to find it. They'll go looking

(01:48:27):
and they'll find it, and that's okay. I'll still write
the story because a lot of people won't know. But man,
if it works, oh, if it works like he says
it was, like he says it will, it's gonna be
really really good. Uh, Mike Wade in going fishing before
daylight often gives you a bonus sunrise and then thump

(01:48:49):
your first bite from a nice trout.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
I couldn't agree more. That's the reward. I mean, fishing
in and.

Speaker 1 (01:48:56):
Of itself is is good, and it's therapeutic and it
relaxing in most cases. And I'm still, like I said,
I'm super super competitive. So if somebody else on the
boat's caught three fish and I haven't caught one yet,
I'm not going to be so relaxed as I was
when I got on the boat.

Speaker 2 (01:49:12):
But I'll work my way through it.

Speaker 1 (01:49:14):
And I'm not going to get all upset either if
I don't catch a fish that day.

Speaker 2 (01:49:19):
It's been a long time since I went on a.

Speaker 1 (01:49:21):
On a and I'll wrap quotes around real fishing trip
on which I didn't catch a fish. It's been a
very long time. We usually the people I fish with
are good. I'm not bad at it, and so we
usually get something to show for our efforts, not that
we bring them home or anything. I just still I
can't remember the last I can't remember the last beckel

(01:49:42):
trout I brought home. I really can't, and I'm comfortable
with that. I've eaten a lot of them, I've cleaned
a lot of them, I've caught a lot of them,
and I'm okay with that I'm at that point in
my life where I want to see other people catch
fish more than I want to catch them myself.

Speaker 2 (01:49:57):
And it's a very it's a very.

Speaker 1 (01:50:01):
Soothing position to be in because I know that I'm
not trying to prove anything to anybody. I've caught everything
from tiny little fish that live under oysters.

Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
I don't even know the names of these little fish.

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
They live under oyster shells along the canals of southeast Florida,
and I would lie on the sea wall as a
seven eight nine year old kid with a little piece
of line in a number fourteen or sixteen hook and
half a shrimp leg for bait. That's all I would

(01:50:36):
put on that hook, and these little fish were under
there and you could just dangle that line. You could
see their little headsticking out. Sometimes that was a bonus.
Does that meant it was a big one? But they'd
dart out and eat that little piece of shrimp, and
I'd pull on that line and bring them up and
let them go and go right back at it. I've
caught everything from that to some pretty significant blue marlin.

(01:50:59):
I haven't caught a bunch of blue marl and I
attended after the first tour three, I tended not to
just race to the rod when it went down. Let
somebody else sit in that chair for two or three
hours and work their arms into it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:13):
Just spaghetti.

Speaker 1 (01:51:15):
That was the first experience I had was I knew
right then and there that I wasn't gonna do this
every day.

Speaker 2 (01:51:22):
But when I have my shot now over off the Kozamel.

Speaker 1 (01:51:26):
The sailfish there, as far as billfish go, they're smaller fish.
All the Atlantic sailfish are much smaller than everything that's
in the Pacific, And generally, i'd say you could catch
them on a heavy bass rod. A heavy bass rod
with a little more line than you'd need for bass fishing,
but that would be ample rod to turn. Most of

(01:51:48):
the sailfish in the Atlantic Ocean Pacific not so much.
You're gonna need a little bit heavier tackle. And if
you're going over there and you're on a tourist boat,
you're gonna have even heavier tackle still, because they want
to make sure you get that fish to the boat
and get the pictures so they get the big tip.
Whereas if you're a really good fisherman, maybe find a
boat where you could fight them on a little bit

(01:52:09):
lighter tackle, and you can still get them in pretty reasonably.
Strike Marlin are probably the best compromise pound for pound
for a big fight, a big fish, but not something
that's going to keep you in the chair for hours.
That's a fifteen minute fight. Fifteen maybe twenty five or
thirty if you've got a really good one on man,

(01:52:32):
I'm flashing back to all those trips down to Mexico
and how much fun we had the sailfish off Kozamel,
the stripe's off up.

Speaker 2 (01:52:40):
And down the whole coast.

Speaker 1 (01:52:41):
I don't know a fish for them out of probably
eight or ten different places, and had a bunch of
fun doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:48):
I can assure you. Let's take a break, shall we.

Speaker 1 (01:52:52):
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more people to come in and work under him, to

(01:53:13):
learn how he makes knives and how he makes some
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families or all by themselves even and learn to make
a knife, learn how to hammer hot steel into a blade,
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a handle on it and let you walk you right

(01:53:34):
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They'll just have somebody as soon as they can take
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from Cowboy himself, it's going to take months. So if
you've got a date in mind when you need that

(01:53:54):
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Speaker 2 (01:53:59):
All of his journeyman in there, though.

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Speaker 2 (01:54:34):
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(01:54:59):
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(01:55:19):
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(01:55:40):
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(01:56:03):
Talk seven ninety The Dug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:56:05):
Thank you for listening.

Speaker 1 (01:56:06):
I got to thinking with the Olympics teed up over
there in Milan and all the talk that's going on
around them, I wonder, and Frankie and I were talking
a little bit over the break about sports we don't
want to see in the in the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (01:56:23):
He didn't have one. I have one, for sure, I said.
The day I stop watching the.

Speaker 1 (01:56:28):
Olympics will be the day that they put corn hole
in it. That is the dumbest game. I'm sorry. And
if you're a professional cornhole player, more power to you.
If somebody wants to pay you to throw a bean
bag through a hole, good on you.

Speaker 2 (01:56:45):
And make as much as you can.

Speaker 1 (01:56:47):
Save a lot of it too, because when you retire
from corn hole, I don't know what else you'll be
qualified to do. That's one of those that's one of
those games. It's not a sport. It's a game that
really it's probably played more often not sober than sober,
would you agree, franky by adults. The kids play it

(01:57:09):
and they don't drink. But among adults there's one hand
holding the bean bag and there's one hand holding the can.

Speaker 2 (01:57:17):
Am I right?

Speaker 4 (01:57:19):
I mean I've played it. I've played it plenty times sober,
and that other hand's nice for the balance, I will say.

Speaker 2 (01:57:26):
For balance. Yeah, what is it a bean bag gonna
throw you off?

Speaker 4 (01:57:30):
Well? I mean, you know, it's a little bit of
the wrist, but you know it's you kind of go
down with it and then you go up.

Speaker 2 (01:57:36):
It's sort of it's a it's a way you're walking
yourself into a corner.

Speaker 4 (01:57:42):
No, not necessarily, just I'm way off the corner.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:57:46):
I love it. I love that game.

Speaker 1 (01:57:49):
So if we bring one up here, if we bring
what corn hole up here you're gonna play?

Speaker 2 (01:57:55):
I would absolutely play it. Oh man, I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:58:00):
You know. I tried it once or twice, I think,
and it just I don't know, it just doesn't draw
me it doesn't draw me, and I get it. I've
watched some of it on television and it's it's amazing.
What I want to know, let's just here, we are
off topic again. So what I want to know is
how and when and where we could get some outdoor
sports represented in the Olympics. And I, for one think

(01:58:25):
that I think trying to have fishing in the Olympics
would be too difficult to make it a level playing
field because you can't control the fish. But what could
be in the Olympics maybe would be casting accuracy, casting distance,
kind of like some of the shooting events. Because there

(01:58:48):
are all kinds of guys on the internet now who
are there. They're not professional casters, obviously, there's no such thing.
I don't believe, but what they do they do kind
of trick casting, where their first cast will will land
on a paper plate, and then the next one lands
on a saucer, and the next one lands in a

(01:59:08):
tea cup, and it just goes on and on and
on with them making some pretty impressive casts. I don't
know how many people would watch that, but I bet
at least as many, if not more, than cornhole. And
there's some other sport by the way, that doesn't belong
in the Olympics. I one would if I get a vote.
There's no way. I saw this on TV once and

(01:59:29):
I just I was mesmerized at the idiocy of this
whole game and how it worked. They play it up
north when there's snow and ice on the ground, or
when it's just cold and they have nothing better to
do and they're all liquored up they have to be,
and they toss. This is a televised sporting event with

(01:59:50):
an official in a striped shirt, two judges and scorekeepers
under a little canopy at a six foot folding table,
and there are players on opposite teams, and they throw
a football onto the roof.

Speaker 2 (02:00:09):
If you throw it over the top of the roof.

Speaker 1 (02:00:11):
You'd lose points or you get get your hand cut
off or something. I don't know, but they throw the
football on the roof and that it has to gain
the most points. It has to then come down between
the chimney and another part of the roof. If it
goes to the other side and comes down that way

(02:00:32):
and you don't catch, you also have to catch it
before it hits the ground. And these guys are they're
diving on the driveway. They're diving in the mud where
it rained a couple of days earlier, or the snow
melted or something, and they're making messes of themselves. Throwing
a football on a roof. Now, we used to play
that game we as little kids. We'd throw the ball

(02:00:52):
on the roof and try to catch it. But that's
somehow become I think, honestly, I think, honestly. Goodness said
it was a professional sport. And I don't even remember
the name of the game. I don't want to know
the name of the game. I don't want to be
that that up to speed on something that makes absolutely
no sense. And all the families were out that well,

(02:01:14):
here's what a big game it was. Okay, this was
like the World Championships of this game. So apparently there'd
been tournaments all over the country, so they say, and
they were down to the this was the it was
the super Bowl of this sport.

Speaker 2 (02:01:29):
Okay, it was it was.

Speaker 3 (02:01:31):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (02:01:32):
And there were like there were the judges, the scorekeeper,
the referee whatever in case of fight broke out, I guess,
and then like eight or nine people standing around. That
was it for the world championship. So No, that doesn't
belong there either. Let's take this last break of the
program and I'll get back on topic. But I do

(02:01:54):
want to know what could we have from the outdoors
that we could get eventually put into the Olympics. I'm
talking about hunting and fishing, straight up hiking you can't do.
That's just a long walk for no good reason. Yeah,
I don't know what it would be, but I'd love
to hear your ideas.

Speaker 2 (02:02:14):
All right, all the way out. Let me tell you
one more time about Houston Gold Exchange.

Speaker 1 (02:02:19):
I had a good exchange with Brad a minute ago
when I was talking about how hit number one. He's
by the phone waiting for somebody to call him and
cut a deal, and wanting to move some gold right
now because it is up so crazy high price. Quite literally,
a couple of ounces of gold by yourself. Three ounces
of gold if you can scrape him up, will probably
get you a decent flat bottom and a nice side

(02:02:41):
console flat bottom or something like that, center console flat
bottom with an outboard with a trailer.

Speaker 2 (02:02:47):
All you got to do is go in there. Well,
first call him and tell him what you got.

Speaker 1 (02:02:50):
And he told me a little while ago that he
is more than capable of dealing with not just scrap gold,
not just a few sous over coins, but gold coins.
He'll buy them from you. Boo yon, he'll buy that
from you. I actually have a one ounce bar of
silver at the house. I don't know where I got it.

(02:03:11):
I don't know when I got it. I don't know
where it came from. But I've got a one ounce
bar of silver. I might go sell him. And I
think that's like at one hundred bucks something like that. Now,
the gold price is crazy. If you've got gold that
you can move, Brad will buy it from you anywhere
from a couple of dollars up to a half a
million dollars. He is perfectly capable of doing that and

(02:03:34):
would love to talk to you. If you want to
turn some of that stuff into cash. Call him. He's
sitting by his cell phone. No fooling right now, give
him a call. Two eight one eight five one three
nine five five. He promised me he wouldn't go fishing today.
He said, if they call me, I will pick up.
I'm gonna be listening. So he's made it through almost
three hours. I've made it through almost three hours, and

(02:03:56):
however long you've been here. If you're thinking about getting
yourself some money for some gold, you've got give him
a call. Two eight one eight five one three nine
five five. All right, welcome back Doug Pike Show on
Sports Talk seven ninety. Got to run over here to
my my, Oh boy, almost dropped the giant qule of papers.
That would have been terrible. I gotta run over here

(02:04:18):
and take a look for Steve. He's asking me what
the fishing report is on Lake Summerville, and I can
get it by going. I think it's on this I
only printed out one though it may not qualify. It
might have qualified for like, No, it's a Central Texas.
I'll have to go check that out and get it
back to you.

Speaker 2 (02:04:35):
Steve.

Speaker 1 (02:04:36):
Put this away. What a big fat mess this is
for some reason, for no reason. I'll put that over here.
The other five hundred pieces of paper I got home mine.
I'm starting to get more emails. Holy cal let's see. Yeah,
I'm gonna take care of that for you.

Speaker 2 (02:04:50):
Bobby.

Speaker 1 (02:04:50):
I don't know if you're listening to this show this morning,
but Bobby was asking me to do something for fifty
plus a topic that he wanted covered for a reason.
For a family reason, and I'm going to look into
that and I'll get that schedule for you. I'll make
that same offer to anybody who listens to this show.
If there's a topic you want to hear about and
you want me to go hunting down expert to talk

(02:05:12):
about it, I'll be happy to do that. For the
longest time, I've done very well not knowing everything about everything,
but knowing who to call. That's what matters most, is
knowing who to call to get the information that you
or anybody else wants to know about a particular topic
in the outdoors. And I've done the same thing with

(02:05:33):
fifty plus for it's more than ten years.

Speaker 2 (02:05:36):
Now. We are rapidly approaching.

Speaker 1 (02:05:38):
I don't know where we are, Frankie on how many
episodes of this show I've got tucked away in the archives,
But I do know that fifty plus is creeping up on.
I think it'll happen probably in April sometime. Maybe that
will roll past a thousand a lot, And that's a
lot of yapping. Holy cow, are you gonna throw me
a party something?

Speaker 2 (02:06:02):
Oh wow?

Speaker 1 (02:06:03):
Okay, Yeah, that's not bad for a show that only
airs twice a week.

Speaker 4 (02:06:07):
Yeah, eight hundred and sixty two episodes of Dupe Bike Show.

Speaker 1 (02:06:10):
Holy cow, man, I'm so old, Frankie. I just can't
do that in an hour and a half. You know,
let's see Mark Wade in. Ah, he's going, you know,
I just made a note, no fooling, just made a
note about twenty pound basket because we talked about it
this past week. And Mark Wade in from Georgia. He

(02:06:31):
listens over there. Let me see if I can m
I'm having really problems with this thing. Every state record,
this is interesting. He did research more than I did.
He sent me a list of the top fifty state records,
and looking at those weights, I thought, well, that's interesting,
that's boring, that's interesting. But I didn't go to the

(02:06:53):
other column where it showed the date on which all
of those state records were caught.

Speaker 2 (02:07:00):
This is from Mark.

Speaker 1 (02:07:01):
He says, every state record is at least, if not
more than, fifteen to twenty five years ago. This isn't
just Texas, it's all the states. They haven't caught any
more big bass either. Now that changes the I don't
know how, but that changes everything because I would have

(02:07:23):
suspected that somebody somewhere look at all these bass tournaments
that go on, look at all the live scope that's
been used in the past eight or ten years, all
of these ways that we have better access to those fish.
But the state records have held up that long. That's
that really, that's kind of remarkable. I'm gonna go back

(02:07:45):
and look at that list myself and trying to boy, now,
we got to think of what else could be causing that.
If it's if it's not exclusive to Texas, if we're
not the only state that can't catch a bigger bath,
what's with that? It may have the only change, I think,

(02:08:08):
and that would be just pervasive throughout up and down
the whole list is more people fishing for bass. And
with all the televised bass fishing, with all the glamour
that surrounds professional bass fishing.

Speaker 2 (02:08:23):
It's it's not you know, it's not movie star stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:08:28):
But to other bass fishermen, these people are their their celebrities.
They're big time celebrities. And I just can't help but
think that all the attention that's being focused on bass
now might be educating those fish a little earlier in
their lifetimes, might be not stunting their growth necessarily, and

(02:08:49):
those fish may still be around, and bigger ones than
on each of the fifty states still may be around.
But I wonder if those fish are just learning how
to better detect between a lure and a live, free
swimming fish, or might realize that that little hum from

(02:09:12):
the trolling motor is a danger signal. That's a red flag.
They got to get out of there. Now we've got
a whole different set of conditions we need to think
about that may be impacting why we are not catching
bigger state records. Oh now, I got to go sit
at my desk and do research. Oh I love doing that.

(02:09:32):
Though I'm gonna look around. I'm kind of curious, and
I may I'll tell you what I might do. I
might wait until next week because I want to get
a chance to call some of these different state agencies
and ask them why they think they don't have a
bigger bath in the last fifteen or twenty years. That
changes everything. Man, Thank you, Mark, you really got me.

(02:09:52):
You got me thinking now, and that's a dangerous thing. U. Yes, Steve,
I can't help you with Summerville yet. I do know
that Summerville was a really good white bass lake years
and years and years ago, many years ago, back when
I was running up there and doing camping trips with
some friends of mine. We'd go camping. One of the

(02:10:12):
guys had a ski boat, so we'd hauled his ski
boat up there and we'd ski and then when everybody
else got sick and tired of skin, he and I,
because we liked the fish, would take the boat out
and go catch a bunch of white bass without even
trying really hard. We didn't know what we were doing
at all. We didn't have fancy electronics, we didn't have
super cool gear. We just had little spoons and rods

(02:10:34):
and reels, and we'd just go park out somewhere in
the middle of the lake over something and then just
start digging those spoons and whacking the white bass.

Speaker 2 (02:10:43):
That was kind of fun, I must admit.

Speaker 1 (02:10:45):
I really I talked with Frankie a little bit about
my grand plan to talk about some sort of outdoors
sporting competitions they could have in the Olympics. They already
have the shooting sports covered in summer and winter winter
with the the biathlon and whatever the other athlons are
that include stopping and dropping and taking some shots, and

(02:11:08):
then summer's trap and skeet.

Speaker 2 (02:11:09):
That's all taken care of.

Speaker 1 (02:11:11):
And we're not gonna be able to introduce animals because
there would be protesters at every Olympics here hereafter. So
I'm really not sure what it would be, but if
somebody can come up with a legitimate one, I'll be
I'll write the letter to the Olympic Committee and say hey,
how about this. Then I'm gonna tell them who said
I'm saying this other guy wanted me to ask you.
If you do that, it's got to make sure it's decent.

(02:11:33):
All right, it's a beautiful day. Get outside, have some
fun with your family. Please, please take advantage. Get some
vitamin D, go catch a fish, Go hit a golf ball,
go shoot some trap and skeet, whatever you want to do.

Speaker 2 (02:11:44):
Just get outside and have some fun. See you tomorrow
at eight. Ideos