📵 Phones Are Down!

Originally aired on July 12, 2026. On this episode, Doug talks with guests via email! He also speaks to producer Frankie about his recent outing to the Houston Arboretum. All of this and so much more, on The Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now now get more Doug. Poor Frankie all worried, no fanfare,
no fancy intro. This morning, we've got some kind of
a glitch again. The it's a very temperamental system he's
working with in there is they're like like Braddy little
kids and they've they've found the keys to the car

(00:22):
and they've jumped in the front seat and they're wanting
to drive, and he's in there telling them, no, they
can't drive, and they're laughing and they've locked the doors.
But we're here and we're going with or without the
little fancy intro that makes it makes no difference to me.
I'm okay either way. So welcome to the Doug Pike Show.

(00:44):
Thank you for listening on this Sunday morning, on which
we have about a sixty chance of afternoon showers today,
and who knows, maybe some morning showers somewhere, maybe some
afternoon sprinkles maybe whatever. They really don't know. Oh, they
know it's going to cloud up later on, because it

(01:04):
always does this time of year. But if you're trying
to figure out whether or not to cancel any plans,
just don't cancel any plans until two minutes before you're
supposed to go somewhere or be somewhere and then check
the conditions. Then who knows what it'll do this afternoon.
It is supposed to rain a sixty percent chance of

(01:26):
afternoon showers here there, but probably not everywhere. I got
a pretty good rain at my house yesterday. I'm about
I don't know, maybe fifteen miles from probably not even
that as the crow flies, maybe twelve miles as the
crow flies from Blackhawk, where I play most of my golf.

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And I called out there because I wanted to go
work on my game, because I always want to work
on my game. Called out there, and I asked the
woman in the pro shop how rainy it had been,
because if the club had gotten this just as much
rain as I got at my house, it probably would
have been pretty soggy. So I called and she said, actually, no,

(02:07):
we're under a weather warning right now. The siren went
off a few minutes ago, but I'm looking at the
computer and it's supposed to go back off in about
another minute or two, maybe three. And all as far
as rain goes, all we've had is a few light sprinkles.
That's it. So guess who jumped in the car and

(02:28):
took off. That would be me. I got a chance
to work a little bit on my game, and then
I met up with a friend of mine, Daniel Cook,
who loves to fish almost as much as I do,
and we set about trying to catch a few bass
on that overcast afternoon. I set him up with one
of the one thing. It's something I had on one

(02:49):
of my rods, too Ada snake, and it's a very
simple lure and it comes coiled out of the mold.
It's coiled and it's got a kind of a diamond
shaped thicker head on it. And bassts love these things,
they really do. They eat them up dark blue. This

(03:11):
one was dark blue. They come in a bunch of colors,
and they're at a solid foot long. They might be
a little bit longer even than a foot I'm not sure,
but anyway, the first fish he caught on that thing
was at least six and maybe tickling seven pounds. That's
a bait that gets overlooked a lot of times by
bass fishermen because a lot of those fishermen think just

(03:32):
because it's a foot long or more that the bass
won't eat it's just too big. They're not going to
eat that, or if they do, they're gonna bite it
in the middle and never get a hook in them.
You just rig it like a rubber worm instead of
having four inches of worm behind your two inch hook
or whatever that is. Let's call it a one in

(03:52):
three quarter inch hook to two inches I don't know.
I think the hooks I'm using are probably closer to
two inches long. I like a pretty big hook for
a bass. In any event, they're targeting the head of
that thing. They're not going to try to bite or
try to eat it, bite it in the middle and
then have to deal with all that flipping and flopping around.

(04:12):
They're eating the head because when they eat the head,
the rest of the snake dies. So in any event,
bass do eat a lot of water snakes and pluting
some a lot longer than a foot too. And another
plus for those snakes as lures is that the bass
don't see something like that. They don't see They see

(04:34):
snakes and they eat them, but they rarely see a
snake that fights back. And that was the advantage we
had yesterday. They don't see fake snakes in that lake
unless it was on the end of my line. Very
natural food for them. It works in the water like
a real snake too. It's really a good bait. A
lot of what Mark Nichols has done with doa lures

(04:56):
on the fresh water and saltwater sides kind of goes
again against tradition. But Mark was never one to play
follow the leader. He is an innovator and still is.
He's still trying to design new stuff almost every day.
And these snakes that i'd patting him on the back

(05:18):
because I know they work, I haven't gotten anything from him,
and probably I bet ten years it's been since he
sent me anything. Sit here, try these, but I have some.
I still had some out in the garage and I
still have some in a couple of tackle boxes. And
I looked at him the other day and I thought,
you know what, I haven't thrown one of these in

(05:39):
a very, very long time. I got bit on that
same bait or before Daniel caught his big fish. I
got a bite, and I never really got a good
look at that fish, but based on the way it
was fighting and what it did when it ate, I
saw a swirl and a mouth and that's about all
I saw. And I'm getting in somewhere between five and

(06:01):
seven and leaning towards the seven side. This fish hit
very close to the shoreline, some shoreline cover that I
tossed it close to, and immediately streaked a good and
honest ten or twelve yards against a pretty heavy drag,
mind you. And I got to wondering last night why

(06:23):
it would do that, because I actually had a second fish,
a smaller one, eat and then streak across the lake
the same way. And that's a fairly unusual behavior for
the bass in these lakes, and in most lakes, they
eat and then you tighten up on them, and it's
a matter of just kind of back and forth. They

(06:43):
might swim a little left or a little right, maybe
go down a little bit. But these fish at warp speed.
From where I was fishing, I was standing on a
bridge and throwing to the left against the shoreline, and
they streaked right literally ten or twelve yards in a
second and a half two seconds. I hadn't seen him

(07:03):
do that before. And the only thing, the only explanation
I've come up with so far, is that maybe that bass,
after eating enough of these snakes and having this this
issue come up, maybe that bass is trying to drown
that that snake just trying to drown it, because that's
that if it's dead, it's not gonna bite the bass.

(07:26):
It's not gonna maybe get ahead out of the out
of the mouth and bite it on the eyeball or whatever.
I don't know, but that would make it a little
bit of sense to me. Daniel actually ended up catching
another one too. He ended up going two for about
I think two for two on bites, and I missed
that first one. I wish I hadn't. So guess who's

(07:48):
gonna be throwing little rubber snakes for the next two
three weeks. I told myself a long time ago when
that lake was incredible, absolutely incredible as far as numbers
of quality fish went. No, I'm not gonna throw worms
in here. That's just like cheating. I'm not throwing soft plastics.
It's cheating. It's boring, it takes too long. I don't

(08:10):
have the patience for that. So I would throw spinner
baits and crank baits and buzz baits and chatter baits
and top waters and all kinds of stuff. But I
wouldn't throw worms. And then when the lake had its
for a number of reasons, I've talked about them a
million times. I don't want to bore you with them.
But when the lake's population went way down, way fast,

(08:31):
it became a matter of well, I can either stubbornly
keep throwing the same things that were great when the
fishery was extremely good, just extraordinary, or I can adapt
like a good fisherman would if he still wants to
get bites and try to throw something, they'll eat and
go into worms worked, going to worms worked, And I'm

(08:54):
not going to argue with it. I'm still when I
hop in and go out there to fish, I've still
got at least one rod with a crank bait on it,
and maybe another one with a spinner bait or a
chatter bait. But I still I'm taking a worm rod
from now on, maybe three in the cart. That's that's
a little bit heavy for just casual fishing. In the

(09:18):
tackle i'm carrying, I need to purge that bag of
tackle I'm carrying too. I'm becoming my fresh water counterpart
to my saltwater counterpart in salt water. When I go
to the beach, I'm loaded for bear. I have a
small tackle store of stuff in the pack that I carry,
the backpack that I carry and I never needed more

(09:40):
than about maybe four or five more lures, maybe a
little bit of leader material, just the bare minimums, a
backup pair of pliers just in case, and that's about it.
That's all I really need. What I'm carrying is at
least three in sometimes four significantly sized boxes of lures.

(10:04):
One's got mostly top waters, one's got mostly soft plastics,
one's got mostly mid range stuff, middle of the water
column stuff. And then there are all the accessories that
go along with all of that stuff. Back up sunglasses.
You don't want to be out there at the end
of the jetty with no sunglasses on a bright sunny

(10:24):
day seven one three two seven ninety. Email me Doug
Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. We've got a lot of
ground to cover today in two hours, and I'm glad
you stopped in. I hope you can stick around. American
Shooting Centers out there on West Timer Parkway between Katie
and Highway six, very simple to find. Is the largest

(10:44):
non military shooting facility in the entire country. Let me well,
let me take that back. I'll walk that back in
the state that is not military entirely biggest in the
state of Texas big state. We got a lot of
big shoesoting facility. I've shot at some big places up
toward Dallas. I've shot at the Texas Gut. What is

(11:06):
it the one in San Antonio. I can't remember the
name of it offhand, but that's another big facility, but
not as big as American shooting centers. Three complete sporting
clays courses, ten trap in skiet fields, five stands setups
all over the property, a beginner's wing shooting area, shooting
the rifle and pistol. You get to start at five yards.

(11:29):
They can't take a rifle over there, that makes no sense.
But you start at five yards for home defense type shooting.
Then you go out gradually all the way to six
hundred yards. And that six hundred yard range is really
phenomenal and interesting to look at. That makes a refrigerator
look like a postage stamp. I mean, the targets are

(11:49):
way out there, and it's fun to go out there
and either try it yourself. You have to qualify, by
the way, I think you have to qualify at four
or maybe three hundred to go down there and shoot
on the six hundred. It's not just for funning games.
This is for serious shooters, really working on their long
range shooting in any event. Nestled in between the one

(12:10):
hundred two hundred, and then I think we'll about right there.
It shifts over to a little pop up silhouette range
that's been redone now and it's really a lot of fun.
Take your rim fire rifles over there. Let the kids
shoot up twenty two m all day long. Not cost
you a ton of money, got great instructors and all
the shooting disciplines. All you have to do is get there.

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American Shootingcenters dot Com is the website American Shootingcenters dot com.
A twenty three on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show,
Frankie Googly Elmo Marconi must be rolling over in his grave.
We have all this amazing equipment, and it's awesome right
up until it's not. The phones aren't available right now.

(12:51):
We're working on that. I'll get them. We'll get them soon.
We have the right people working on it, and hopefully
we'll tune them up and get them opened up here
as fast as we can. In the meantime, it's gonna
be me and Frankie and I've got a lot of
things I want to talk about anyway, And so if you'll,
if you'll pardon just me yapping for a little while,
I'll try to get get us through all this stuff.

(13:13):
Let me get past that. I'll get past that. A
quick flip, God Doug, A quick flip to the weather forecast,
because it's kind of slightly changing. It's been the same
really for the last what two three weeks. If you
if you throw out a couple of anomalous days where
it would really rained a lot, or it was supposed

(13:34):
to rain a lot and didn't supposed to be a
better chance of rain tomorrow than today, and then tomorrow
well tomorrow and Tuesday, and then ultimately tapering off to
partly cloudy and sunny on Friday and Saturday. Today. It's
just like I said at the very beginning, it's one
of those ones where they're saying, yeah, there's probably gonna

(13:55):
be some pop up showers, maybe here, maybe there, maybe nowhere,
or maybe everywhere. They just don't know, because these things
are so the air is so warm and moving constantly, obviously,
and sometimes it pops up, sometimes it doesn't. I took
a look at the beach cams this morning over at

(14:16):
Saltwater recon and it was still when I looked, it
was still early enough that I couldn't tell color, and
I haven't looked since, to be perfectly honest, so I'm
not really sure whether the water is as clean as
I would like it to be or not. I can
tell you that Galveston looks a little calmer than surfside,

(14:39):
but neither neither of those beach systems is rolling big
enough to push a surfboard, at least not for a
grown man. I would venture to guess that if you
weigh eighty pounds or less, and you have a surfboard
that's at least eight feet long and a about two

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and a half or three inches thick and significantly wider
than most, and you could probably catch some waves today,
you could probably have some fun, but for the rest
of us, a much better day to be fishing or
maybe who knows, while just sitting on the beach, I
guess is better than sitting in an office somewhere. I

(15:23):
could promise you that I don't mind. Here's something that
I've seen lately on social media. By the way, and Frankie,
you're you're gonna be my only feedback on this. If
you had the time and the wherewithal and lived next
to a very popular touristy beach, would you buy a

(15:46):
metal detector? Frankie, uh oh, he may have stepped out.
He might have gone to get some stuff off the printer.
I guess I'm on my own. I'm not quite old
enough to go full metal detector full time. But every
time I watch these things, and of course they never
they never show all the times that they went out
and walked that beach for hours and didn't find anything

(16:08):
but a pop top and a whatever. But they do
find stuff. They do find stuff buried in the sand
where people have uh the rings fall off when their
fingers get wet, especially in colder water environments, I would
imagine on the West Coast, just because the water temperature

(16:30):
is so much cooler, Yet people still do walk into
the water to do whatever they want to do. Right
at the water's edge, get in waste deep. Nobody knows
what you're doing. And if your fingers shrink just a
tenius bit and then you're just kind of waving your
fingers in that water waste deep, oops, your ring falls
off and you never find it. And then a low

(16:52):
tide comes along, and here comes Gramps with his metal
detector and start scraping the scraping the sand and up
a bunch of sand and swinging that thing back and forth.
I've seen so many videos of them finding so many things.
There's one really cool one it. I'll share this story
real quickly because I think it's just nice that this

(17:13):
guy does this, he said. He explains early in the
video that he does this almost every day. This is
just his passion. He loves doing it, and he said
almost all the time, at least a couple of times
a week, somebody will come running over to him and say, hey,
my wife just lost her wedding ring or my son

(17:34):
just lost his class ring or whatever, and will you
find it for us. We'll pay you handsomely. And he says, yeah,
I'll try to help you find it, but I won't
charge you anything. I don't want to take your money.
I'm just helping you find what you lost. And darned
if the one that I was watching recently didn't show

(17:55):
him actually end up finding that. They this woman had
indeed lost her wedding ring and she was trying to
find it in the sand, and they finally they saw
him and went over and got him, and you know,
they made the arrangements. He's going to take care of him.
And he comes over and just methodically starts searching the
area where she is confident that that ring must have

(18:17):
fallen off for some reason. Maybe she took it off
to put sunscreen on and a gust of wind came
up and blew it off the towel, you know, flipped
the towel over and the ring went somewhere. But whatever
it was, he starts swinging this thing back and forth,
back and forth and nothing. Nothing. Nothing. He stops, comes back, nothing, nothing,

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and he starts digging there. He's got this little tool
that he digs with, and that it's kind of a
mesh structure, if you will. That like you're pulling, pulling
something toward you and it fills up with the sand
and then you just shake it all, shake it all,
shake it all, and all the sand falls through that
fine mesh and whatever else is in there, hopefully that

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ring is there. First time he tried it didn't happen.
Second time he tried it, he ran the metal detector,
the little face of it down there at the bottom
over the bucket of sand. Basically that he had picked
up with his scoop, and boy, it just goes off
like a siren all of a sudden. It's good, a high,

(19:24):
high reading. There's something in here worth finding, and darned
if it wasn't that ring. And they were so grateful,
and of course he just kept his word. They tried
to tried hard to pay him money. Please let us
give you something. He said, no, I'm glad to help you,
and he just walked off into the sunset. That makes

(19:45):
me want to get one of those things. It really does,
because I think if if you were to find and personally,
I mean, if you find a ring on the beach
all by yourself, you'd I guess it's yours, finder's keepers.
I believe that would be how it would be handled.
Unless somebody came running up and said, hey, that's my
ring and it's got these initials engraved in it, and

(20:06):
sure enough those those initials are in it. I'd give
it to them for sure. But more than that, I
think you would find necklaces and who knows what else.
Who knows what else gets lost in the surf seven
on three two one two five seven ninety Email me
dougpocketiheartmedia dot Com. Let's just go with the email me part,
because right now it does not appear that we have

(20:27):
our phones back yet. They are being worked on, and
I do want to hear from all of you, believe me,
I really do, and we're working on that as fast
as our little fingers can do whatever they do over
there to fix technically broken things. I'll tell you about
air Ride Bikes. That's what I'm gonna do. Air Ride
Bikes is owned by a guy named Wayne Errington. Very cool,

(20:48):
very easy to talk to, guy who genuinely loves e
bikes and loves selling them. He knows more than anybody
I know about e bikes this point, and that's a lot.
And he explained a ton of stuff to me the
first couple of times I talked to him, and it
was just fascinating to me, and I said, man, I

(21:08):
got to get a chance to ride one of these things,
but I'm a long way from Tomball. And it turned
out that he was in He was signed up to
be in the Senior Expo where I've been broadcasting live
from for the past year, year and a half something
like that, and he after the show was over, he
let me go out and ride one of those e
bikes in the big giant parking lot at Stafford Center

(21:32):
Giant parking lot, And I was all over that parking
lot on speed level two by the way, two of five,
because he said, if I crank this thing up all
the way and you hit the gas basically not gas
because it's electric, but if you hit the pedals just right,
that thing will pin your ears back. So no, I
didn't want that. I took the entry level tour on

(21:54):
the parking lot and fell in love with e bikes,
I really did. And the only kind he sell at
air ride bikes are the good kind, the kind that
don't have problems with their batteries like you might have
seen on social media years ago, the kind that just
whatever it is, they're they're the best. They're the best.
Everything he's got in there is the best of the best,

(22:15):
including that little wind one RM seven eight dirt bike
he's been he's been bragging about lately. It's it's really
a fun, a fun introduction to dirt bike riding without
the noise and the and the fumes and all of
gas powered dirt bikes like I used to ride. They're fast,
they're powerful. They'll go up to thirty seven miles an
hour depending on what model you get. And he also

(22:37):
has intro level bikes for youngsters. Everybody wears a helmet, please.
I don't want anybody cracking their head off from falling
off an e bike. He has entry level bikes. He
has very powerful bikes for climbing up mountains if you
want to do that. He's got three wheel bikes. If
your balance isn't what it quite used to be, and

(22:58):
just do you name it, he's got them, and he'll
make sure you know exactly how to operate that thing,
exactly how to maintain that thing before you ever leave
the store. You go up to that three corner shopping
center and Tom Ball where he is in this store,
and he'll let you get a test ride up there
in a helmet. He is a big helmet guy, believe me.
Also about to open a new store in the Woodlands.

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As soon as I know where, I'll tell you where
it is. And you can have two options for getting
yourself a shiny new e bike from air Ride Bikes
a r Ide air Ridebikes dot Com air ride Bikes
dot Com. I don't know what the weather's going to
be this afternoon. I don't care. But if I was
down on the South Side and I had the day

(23:40):
off and I love golf, I might just call over
to timber Creek and set myself a tea time and
go make three new friends. I love going to places
like timber Creek and just showing up by myself. Hey,
squeeze me in with three other people, and I knock
on wood. I don't think I've ever played with three
random strangers that were a total disappointment. Everybody I've ended

(24:05):
up being paired with have been pretty good people. Sometimes
I have to say, fellas, I can't play from the
same tea box as you're playing from because y'all are
all in your twenties and you're back at the tips,
and if I play from the tips, we're gonna be
here a while. So they let me move up and
they tease me about it, and I take the ribbon
as I should from three guys who can hit it

(24:27):
three hundred, but I'll probably hit it straighter than them,
and that's okay too. Timber Creek has been around a
very long time. At thirty yeah, no, twenty seven holes.
I'm sorry, twenty seven holes. That's my mistake. But the
twenty seven holes enables them to get more people out
than a traditional eighteen hole course. You got people starting

(24:47):
on two tea boxes and then as they turn to
number one tea boxes, and as they turn they never
bump into each other, so they can get lots of
people out playing. In case of rain come this afternoon,
everybody will get their round finished and you're not going
to find a more relax It's a relaxing golf course.
That's the word I've been looking for for a very

(25:09):
long time. It's a relax It doesn't it doesn't punish you.
It doesn't make you angry unless you get angry really easily.
Because while there are some water hazards, there are some bunkers,
there aren't enough to just be in your face every
time you swing a club. Just be patient, take a
deep breath, hit the ball, find it, go hit it

(25:31):
again until it falls in the hole, and then do
it again eighteen or twenty seven times if you've got
enough time in the day and it doesn't start raining
on us. Excellent food in their grill, by the way,
and a fantastic teaching staff in the jj Woods. Teaching
Academy at timber Creek. Whether you're trying to put on
a big tournament, you got three friends already and you
want to go play golf today right now, they could

(25:53):
probably get you out, or whether you're trying to run
a big, giant tournament. Whatever you're trying to do, timber
Creek can do it for timber Creek Golf Club dot
Com is a website. You're about maybe three miles west
of the Golf Freeway on FM twenty three fifty one.
Really easy to find timber Creek Golf Club dot com.
Hey forty on Sports Talk seven to ninety The Dougpike Show,

(26:13):
Thank you for listening. Apologies if you've tried to make
a phone call in here and haven't been able to
get through and you missed me explaining that there's something
wonky in the phone. It's just this. It's very temperamental equipment,
and it's it's the best in the country, the best
in the country when it's when it's running at full speed.
And we've got a guy coming in right now who's

(26:34):
gonna hopefully get these phones fixed for us before we
get to nine o'clock. That would be a miracle, though,
right Frankie, it would be Yeah, we just need some
We just we don't need a miracle. I'm not asking
for that. I'm just asking to be able to talk
to some of you before we get off the air
at ten o'clock. Going back to my look at the
beach this morning, I don't have the where is that

(26:57):
saltwater recon? I want to I want to get saltwater
recon up real quick and take a look at surfside. TikTok, TikTok.
Come on, Well, there's galves, and there's the ferris wheel
and the roller coaster and all of that. Whoopie doo.
Dead flat. Well, I can't, I can't say it's dead flat.
There is a little bit of ruffle, a little bit
of lace right at the hem line. That's That's a

(27:20):
different analogy than I've ever used to describe what I'm
looking at. The Gulf of Mexico itself has no chop
on it, no visible chop uh until it gets to
about well at the end of the little jetties, those
are maybe what one hundred yards one hundred and twenty
five yards uh, And right there, as it really comes
up shallow, there is a riffle of whitewater in there.

(27:43):
It looks like lace at the bottom of a skirt.
That's a good, that's a I'm gonna use that again, Frankie.
I may write that into a story somewhere. That's that's different.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
The hemline stuff.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, the hem line, yeah, in reference to where the
whitewater is, right, Yeah, Because if it's really if it's
really just cranking and popping, there's white water all the
way to the horizon in a storm or whatever. But
in this case, the swell is not big enough to
break farther out than about seventy five or one hundred yards,
and so it just looks like the little lacy hemline

(28:18):
of a lady's dress. Perhaps that's all I got on that.
I'm gonna bail out of that real quick. I am ready.
The reason I'm looking at this is trying to see
color in the water, and I still can't yet. I
may move over to the surf side cameras when we
go into break here next time and just see what's
going on there. There were quite a few people on

(28:40):
the surf side Jetty, notably this morning, and I couldn't
quite tell the water color, but it looked like it
might be at least a little bit better than yesterday.
But the problem that we've had for quite some time now,
and it's gonna persist still a little longer, is that
the morning tide it starts an all day out going
tip and it's driving me crazy because there's just not

(29:03):
much happening in the surf when the water's falling out
from before sunrise practically the sunset. Once that water's coming
up instead of falling down, we ought to get a
really nice few days of fishing, at least a few
days of good fishing. The fish. I'm sure they want
to be in the surf. I'm sure they would like
to be out there hunting and killing and eating, But

(29:25):
right now it's just when the water's falling out, it's
just not good conditions for them to go feed. And
that's not to say you can't catch trout in the
surf on a falling tide. I just I like my
chances better when the tide's coming in strongly as the
sun comes up. I love being out there on a
day where you know the water's clean because you watched

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it all the way until dark the night before on
the cameras, and you've got friends down there, who tell you, yeah,
it's and then you can see your feet and four
feet of water. Okay, I'm gonna be there in the morning,
and if it's a low tide, it may be let's say,
I don't know, three four in the morning. Then that
gives the water time to start in and be pushing

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really hard. At the actual low tide, there's a period
a little before and a little after, maybe an hour
on each side, where the water has to just kind
of slowly. It's kind of like stopping a train. It's
not like stopping a car. Think of it that way,
and then restarting. So if you want to stop a car,
you just put on the brakes and the car stops
pretty quickly, even if you're moving fairly fast. And then

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to accelerate again, you've got much quicker acceleration than the
tidal motion range of motion, which is more like a train.
That train takes a couple of miles to stop, take
probably ten fifteen minutes to stop a train, a big
long freight train, and then to so that's the falling

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out tide, and it takes a long time. And right
at that hour or so hour and a half before
dead low water's barely moving, and then as it stops
and then pauses and then starts back in, you're looking
at another period of time. And then once that water
gets moving in pretty well, that's usually when, at least

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it's been my experience, there's stuff happening, there's stuff dying
out there. Little fish are getting eaten by bigger fish,
and it's a really magical time to be in the water.
When there's a really strong bite on a hard incoming tide.
I want to catch that down at South Padre. At
North Padre, actually we go down there and see if
I can't talk Cliff into walking that beach with me

(31:40):
one more time before we both crow. Our wheels are
falling off. Man, he's got a shoulder issue he's having
to deal with. I've got stuff i'm trying to deal
with now that doesn't keep me off the golf course
or off the water, but it's becoming a nuisance that
I'm gonna have to have addressed. And I don't even
know what it'll entail. But I'm kind of like Cliff.

(32:00):
If I don't have to have surgery, I'm not gonna
have to have I'm not gonna have it. And if
I can. If I can rehab my way through this,
I will. I will do whatever they tell me to do.
I got to start by doing for myself too. It's
embarrassing to say, but I just haven't been doing all
that I should do. Am I late, Frankie, Yeah, oh, Mercy,

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I'm sorry. I just looked up and saw the time. Okay,
I'm gonna shift gears and pause here and head out,
and then when I get back, I'm gonna kind of
go back into this title thing a little bit. Midway
meet Market is what I want to tell you about now,
out there on old Highway ninety and Katie very easy
to find and you can't hardly overshoot it because going

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through what's there of Katie on ninety, it doesn't take long.
You're gonna be You're gonna come into town and then
you're gonna get out of town within a span of
about maybe three four miles. That's it. So once you
get into town, there's gonna be a first light, then
a second light, and that second light is where you're

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gonna find Midway meat Market at the end of the
strip shopping center. There. Inside Midway meat Market, what you're
gonna find is delicious beef, chicken, and pork that can
be cut however you want by a professional butcher. You're
gonna find twenty five flavors of great sausage that they've
been making forever and ever fifty seven years, if that's
ever and ever, that store has been there that long,

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and it's it's maintained, it's country charm, it's maintained. It's
it's commitment, and I mean a true commitment to customer service.
First thing you're gonna hear when you walk in the
door is HI, Welcome to Midway, and they mean it.
They're happy to be at work. These people, a lot
of the people who work at Midway have been there
for fifteen twenty years, almost as long as I've been

(33:48):
sitting in this chair, and they do it because they
love it, same as me. What you're gonna find otherwise
in there is the grab and ghost snacks you'd need
if you're gonna you've got a road trip going out
to San Antonio and you don't want to have to
stop three times for meals. Grab some of those, Grab
some dry stick, Grab some sausage, grab some jerky. Take

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that with you if you're really hungry when you get there,
they've got a lunch counter where you walk over there
and order yourself a delicious barbecue meal, all the traditional
barbecue meals you can order, or just a plain old
fashioned cheeseburger, and well better than any plain old fashioned cheeseburger.
The Midway meat Market cheeseburger is one of my favorites

(34:32):
all time. Midway Meatmarket dot Com is the website. They're
open from eight am to seven pm every single day
of the week. Midway meat Market dot Com. Kobe Steven's
Golf Apparel and outdoors Apparel Now he started up nice
line of shirts and such for the outdoorsmen among us,
especially the fishermen. The golf apparel is what I love

(34:54):
the most though, and I've been wearing it now for
two or three years. It's absolutely fantastic. Comes in men's
is all the way up to four x women's stizes
and styles too, and kids. Don't forget the kids and
what you're gonna feel when you wear this stuff. You
can feel like you really belong on the golf course,
show really good player. It'll make you, it'll bring up
your game. Kobe Stevens dot Com is a website. Be

(35:19):
sure to check out the store too if you want
to go hands on, but you can see everything they've
got at the website Kobe Stevens Co. B y st
e V E n S dot com oright, Welcome back
to the Spit It Out Doug The Doug Pike Show.
I almost forgot my name. Actually, what I almost said
was fifty plus because I say welcome back to fifty
plus on every segment, and I try to do that
here as well. Of course, welcome you all back and

(35:40):
thank you for sticking around through the breaks. I'm really
really about ready to have these phones back for Franky too. Ma'am.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Hey, I know, email us, email us.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
I know, yeah, you know what. Let me check to
see if I've got any over the break. Oh, there's
a couple here in metal detection Philip ways In. Let's
see what he says here. My late father and his
friend used to head to the beach on Mondays after
busy weekends to do some metal detecting. However, I believe
it is not legal to do so anymore. You know.

(36:12):
That was as I was talking about that, Philip was
that was kind of coming up in my brain too, said,
I know it's against the law to do it in
our parks in Houston, and I thought it's against the
law against it in state parks. Also, that's something we
may have to research here, Frankie, to see if it's lawful.
I don't know why the Parks and Wildlife Department would

(36:37):
make it illegal to run metal detectors over a public beach.
It's not like somebody's using them to steal. Although no,
I just, I just I don't think that should be illegal.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
So in the state of Texas, we're looking to see
if they're legal.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, let's just start there. Yeah, it'd be a state wise.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Thing, basic AI stuff.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
Here.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
I'm seeing no specific or clear laws addressing this hobby
in a direct way. However, the Antiquities Code of Texas
does aim to protect what metal detectors detect.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
So that's kind of interesting.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Actually, oh, you know, that's what they don't want people.
I think it's kind of like a lot of what
goes on over in Great Britain, where the history is
so much richer and farther back. Somebody tripping over, let's say,
somebody on the beach turns up a bunch of Spanish
coins gold, Spanish coins from four hundred years ago, they

(37:38):
don't want that person to take possession of vose. What
they want is to put them in the use the
Antiquities Act to take that for the as property of
the state because it was on state property, it's public property,
though the beach is public property. So yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
One article I'm seeing here is the code protects archaeological
sites in historical buildings, right, So that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
I'm all for that. That's okay. But if I turn
over just a contemporary gold coin that somebody dropped, right,
that's on them, that's not on me, and that's not
an antiquity, it's just a gold coin. Yeah, that makes sense.
That does.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Another thing here I'm seeing is that with this kind
of carte blanche or maybe just wide swath approach, law
states agency a person cannot disturb at least five thousand
cubic yards of soil before notifying Texas Historical Commission. So
so yeah, how that's pretty deep.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Right, Yeah, I'm not disturbing five thousand cubic yards.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
That's like digging up a t rex, right, Well, even
how far is that?

Speaker 1 (38:52):
I don't know? Five thousand Go buy a cubic yard
of mulsh and have it delivered on your driveway and
take a look at what you've got. You're gonna have
a giant pile, a giant pile of mulch.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
It's like a dump truck. For Okay, I got you,
dumb truck. Dan help us out.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Yeah, he was a banana guy. When he was driving
the highway. He took bananas all over the place. Man, Wow,
if you ate bananas when you were a little kid,
Dan probably dropped him off at the grocery store somewhere.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
I learned a lot about bananas from him. They actually,
when they when they're picked, they are hard as rocks, sure,
absolutely hard as rocks. And then they have these ripening
agents that are applied to them. And if you actually,
if you personally wipe down all your bananas, make your
own joke. They don't ripen as fast. That's something else

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I learned. There's all kinds of tricks in the trade,
you know. All right, let's take this break and get
out of here on time for the first hour's passage.
And with that, I will tell you about Shooter's Corner
down there at Palmer Highway and nine Street in Texas City.
Owner is Jerry tk. He and his son actually co
owned the store, now, I believe is how it goes.
And they are two good friends of mine. I've hunted

(40:11):
with Jerry, but I haven't hunted with Jay, and I
would love to do that someday. Two of the best
gunsmiths I've ever known, and they're really, really customer focused,
and they just want to make sure you get your
gun back and it's working right. And I have sent
so many people to them, literally so many people over
the years who've told me that they've already been to

(40:31):
one or two gunsmiths and been told a story that
they either can't afford or don't want to throw the
money at for that particular gun, and I tell them
to take it down there to Shooter's Corner, Farmer Highway
twenty nine Street, Texas City. And so far, after years
of doing this, not one single person that I've sent
there has come away disappointed. Whether you're brand new to

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shooting or you've been punching bull's eyes and hunting and
breaking clay targets and and bird hunting and doing all
these fun shooting sports things all your life, you're gonna
find exactly what you need, exactly what you're looking for
at Shooters Corner, there are gonna be stories being told,
probably when you walk in the door. There's gonna be
a couple of places where you can sit down to

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listen if they're not already occupied, or you can just
stand there and listen, and then when that person's finished,
you can tell your own story. One really cool thing
about Shooters Corner two is that if you wear a
badge for a living, you get a discount in there,
which I think is pretty noble of them, and I
wish more companies would do that. Honestly, family owned and
operated for forty plus years, the Shooters Corner TX dot com,

(41:42):
the Shooters cornertx dot com. All right, second hour starts now,
Thank you all for listening. I really do appreciate that.
A couple of things I want to get to before
I get to the Scottish Open, which is darn near. Yeah,
it's coming close to closure. I haven't looked at the
leaderboard in quite some time. Let me take a quick
look and just kind of see how where they are
for the Genesis Scottish Open being played way over Yonder

(42:04):
one week in advance of the Open Championship. The Genesis
as that is at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick
and currently let's see. Oh, actually the leaders have just
gotten onto the golf course, only played one hole so far.
I think they're what six hours ahead of us something
like that. I'm not sure, maybe six, maybe seven, depending

(42:25):
on the East Coast or Central. In any event, Tom
Kim is leading. I'll go through these leaders at twelve
under par. Wow, it's a very interesting load of folks here.
Tom Kim, Chris got her up, Robert McIntyre, Min woe Lee,
and Matt Fitzpatrick all all five of these guys at

(42:47):
twelve under par. McIntyre, menwoo Lee, and Fitzpatrick still not
on the golf course yet, but will be very shortly.
I think Rory McElroy to Knakajima and Michael thorpe Jornson
all at eleven under par, just one shot off the
lead and two shots off Victor Perez, Kevin Roy and

(43:08):
Johnny Keefer. That's pretty impressive bunch of guys up there.
I don't know that the winner will come from any
farther down than that, although there are some birdies being made.
McElroy's played eight holes and he's five under. He's played
eight holes and he's five hunder par on his round.
He I'd be watching him. And if you're one of

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those people who likes those instant better things, I don't
know how those work, the ones that are out there
now that aren't just traditional stuff. You might want to
throw a buck on McElroy to see if he can
win that thing. I wouldn't be surprised from twedd Uh. Well,
as we speak, McIntyre just went to thirteen. He got
on the golf course and birdied number one, So good

(43:52):
for him. He is all by himself. Suddenly, I'm gonna
take that down. I'm just gonna become enthralled with it
and not want to get off of it. What before
I go back to talking a little bit about the
tides and how to watch the surf and fish the surf,
I want to go to something that David sent me
during the break. Pardon me and I'll read it. Just

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says there have been at least four major high profile
boating and watercraft incidents reported on Lake Conro so far
this year. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and local
agencies do not release live running counts of every minor collision,
meaning the exact official number of minor property damage instance
is still pending end of year finalization. However, looking at

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the most severe incidents logged by marine patrols so far,
here we go see early summer twenty six. There's no
date on this one. Reported. At least one prior fatality
involving a boating accident on the lake listed as the
fifth drowning water rated lake fatality or on Lake Conrod

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for the year. June seventeen, seventeen year old girl miraculously
survived after her personal watercraft suddenly exploded while she was
attempting to start at near Highway one oh five. Oh
my god, I'd forgotten about that. One July fourth, we

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have a pair for July fourth. Head on collision between
two pontoon boats sent multiple victims into the water, resulting
in one person being pulled out with CPR in progress
and the other one. From the fourth of July, two
adults critically injured when their boat struck a bulkhead their
queued cemetery road and they were ejected onto the shore.

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That's something else about boats. And it's a good thing
that nobody is required to wear a seat belt in
a boat for obvious reasons. But when The bad thing
is when a boat does come to a sudden stop,
anything that's loose inside it, including the passengers, is going forward.
I witnessed an wreck up on Fayette County Reservoir years

(46:10):
ago a guy who wasn't familiar with that lake. I
was fishing. I think it was with Gene Ballery. It
might have been Rick Rule, I can't remember which, but
I was up there having a blast. We're catching a
lot of fish, and I want to say it was
Gene and he said, Man, that guy's coming around that
corner way too fast. I don't think he knows what

(46:30):
he's doing. There are a ton of stumps in there.
And sure enough he was going along up on plate
pardon me on plane, and within a span of about
four feet, because that's what the length of the gash
in the bottom of his boat was. It went from

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a good thirty thirty five miles an hour to dead
stop in four feet. And one guy got thrown into
the water, another guy got tumbled around inside the boat,
and the guy who was driving the boat who hit
that stump was he smashed his face into the steering wheel.

(47:13):
He lost a few teeth. I think his was cut
over his eye maybe, but we raced over there real quick.
We got there was an older man in the water.
He was the son of the younger man, who, as
luck would have it, was actually a stunt man from
Hollywood who was on a guided trip on the lake
with his dad, And so he jumped in and got

(47:36):
helped get his dad out of the water. That guy
probably didn't feel a thing. He'd been falling professionally for years.
The guy driving the boat was bleeding, and what we
determined was that once we got the other guys into
our boat, that guy took off riding that bast boat

(47:57):
and keeping it afloat and keeping it moving till we
can get back to the shore and get the trailer
into the water. And he ended up driving it up
onto the trailer and they all took off for various places.
Neither the man, the stuntman, or his dad were seriously injured,
but that guy probably got a couple of new chicklets

(48:17):
up front and a good scar across his brow to
start conversations for the rest of his life. That was
so scary to see that, just like holy cow, And
I'm so glad we were there too, because it could
have ended up a whole lot differently. If we were
a couple of only very few boats on the water

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that morning and this guy just didn't know the lake
and I guess it was down a little, who knows,
but he went around that corner at a pretty good
speed and that boat went from not all she had,
fortunately it wasn't doing sixty or seventy, but it was
planed out pretty good and just hit a stump right
up right under the water it had to been, and

(48:59):
it just gouged that. When he got it up on
the water or up on the trailer, that's when we
could see the damage. And holy mackrel, I'm really stunned
that the thing didn't sink. But he was able to
keep most of that gouge out of the water by
just kind of just plowing back to the ramp, and
just by the grace of God, he got the boat

(49:19):
out and nobody got seriously injured. But that was pretty
dog on scary, I can assure you of that. All right,
Good Heavens, I've already yapped for the whole segment here.
First off, we're still not back with phones yet, but
I think there's the help is on the way. I
know that, and once he gets here, I feel like
it will be taken care of pretty quickly, So fingers
crossed for us all. I would love to hear from

(49:41):
a lot of you this morning. When we get back,
I'm going to talk a little bit more about reading
the surf because I got distracted by the boating accidents.
I didn't get to that, and I'll do that when
we come back. In the meantime, I'm going to tell
you about Berry Hill, the delicious restaurant that serves up
Text mex Food and has been for thirty plus years now,
thirty thirty five. I don't know. I know I've been

(50:03):
going there for twenty something years. I say that with
hesitation too, because I've lived in sugar Land for thirty
two years, and I know that my wife and I
found bury Hill fairly quickly after we moved in, so
I maybe have been eating there for the better part
of thirty I don't know. In any event, Outstanding food,
outstanding staff. They're family owned and operated. They like I said,

(50:27):
they've been there and all. A lot of the customers
are locals, and if you're new to Sugarland or just
Southwest Houston in general, go in there sometime order your
food when you walk in, and just raise your hand
and kind of address the people in the sports bar
side of the room, say, Hey, I'm brand new here.
I don't know where to go to have fun. I

(50:48):
don't know what to do to have fun around here.
Can somebody give me a few pointers? And I would
be willing to bet that somebody on that side is
going to welcome you to their table and just make
a new friend, make a new friend, celebrate over something
delicious from Berry Hill. Now, pardon me, but they're not close,

(51:08):
they're not open on Sundays. You're gonna have to wait
until tomorrow to test that out. But if you wait
till tomorrow, what you're gonna be getting when you get
there is, like I said, delicious food for the last
forty years, thirty years anyway, thirty something years. And maybe
make a new friend who knows family and family style
dining on the left. That's tables and boosts in that

(51:29):
sports bar in the middle, and then there's outdoor dining
as well, if it's cool enough and not so humid,
maybe one evening that you can enjoy a meal outside
Berryhillsugarland dot com is the website there at the Sugar
Creek Boulevard exit coming or going, and they also do
catering all over town. They come down and feed us
every now and then too, And man, they're not a

(51:49):
whole lot left when they leave Berryhillsugarland dot Com. Nine
eighteen on Sports Talk seven to ninety The Dugpike Show.
Thank you for listening, Frankie. Now we're just somehow, some
way we got around to him telling me that he
went and walked around the Houston Arboretum a while back
when there was something some reason to pause around here.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Yesterday.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Oh it was yesterday when they had that hour long deal. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
I was running astros later that evening and so I
said time to kill. So I went there to just
get my mind off things and get my energy up.
And uh, that was actually I was telling you, Doug.
That was where for Scouts. I did a project there
where I cleared out some invasive species for them. They're
always uh looking for volunteers to clear stuff like that.

(52:35):
So they got me in there and we got all
that sorted out for them. That was probably about an
acre or so. I forget exactly what the species was called.
It was was that aquatic or no, No, no, No, it
was all all land, all land.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Uh but uh it was. I want to say it
was from China.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
It was an invasive species plant that areates from there.
I forget exactly what it was called, but yeah, yeah,
it was about an acre long. We had fifteen twenty
guys a couple of days out of the weekend and
cleared out all that land for them.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
So basically, you got a merit badge for pulling weeds.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
You know, a little more summery, a little more than that.
But i'll take that. I'll take that. I'll take that.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
No, that's cool. I'm glad you did that. It helped
them out a lot. That's a really amazing place. I
had no idea how big it is. When I went
over there. I got like a full grand tour with
the woman who's the I guess the executive director of it.
And I was hoping that I could get them to
do some marketing through me, because I would love to
speak for something like that, but they just don't have

(53:40):
the budget. So less somebody in this audience wants to
front them some money so that I can sing their
praises every week. Unfortunately, I can't do a whole lot
about it. Sure, But what amazed me, Frankie, and I
want to know if you experienced the same thing on
that little walk yesterday when we got walking back up
into the the land that's there, that there's that they own,

(54:05):
I realized that at one point that I really couldn't
even hear the traffic on six ten.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
Yeah, it was so quiet. Yeah, I that's a great point.
I mean barely. Yeah, that's a good point. I mean
to your point, that's so many acres that I guess
it gives you that buffer, right.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Yeah, and then so many trees and leaves and all
of that buffers a little bit of sound. I mean
the whole of six ten when when you walk out
into our parking lot from this building, and instantly as
soon as you walk out the door, on whatever level
you're on, it's noisy. It is a really loud noise
six y ten, especially when the cars are moving very fast,

(54:47):
and then all of a sudden over there, it's just
it's just nothing. It sounds. It sounds more like it's
somebody in the next room is taking a shower. That's
about it. Just that little s that's six to ten
traffic from the middle of the Arboreta. It's what two
or three hundred acres over there.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
I don't have that offhand, but yeah, it's it's pretty big.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
I wonder how many times that the city or whoever
I guess it might be the county that owns that,
I'm not sure, but whoever owns it, I wonder how
many times real estate developers have knocked on the door.
He just give me ten acres. Just let me buy
ten acres of that place and turn it all into
condos and build a big junt parking garage. And just no,
I'm seeing acre one hundred and fifty five. That's a

(55:31):
lot to be right in the middle of our city
like that. That's a lot of open ground. Plus on
top of that, you've got Memorial Park across the street.
You've got the golf course and all of that. That's
so awesome. So it's a I bet the whole complex
over there is four or five hundred acres. Well, I
bet it's five or six hundred acres at least that's
just dedicated to park space or golf course. But that arboretum,

(55:53):
it's really special.

Speaker 2 (55:54):
It is. It is pretty cool, man.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
Yeah, I know, so, like I said, took some time
and did that, and it's nice to get out there.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
So yeah, it was. It was nice. It was nice,
no doubt.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
Seven.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Well, yeah, we can know we can't do phones yet.
Do me an email, shoot me an email. Whatever you
got I would love to hear from y'all. Here's Camille.
What do you got here, Camille? Camille No just sent
me an email. Camille Nol does so much work for veterans,
so much work. She knows a ton about kayaks if
you ever have a question. She just popped in some

(56:31):
some trivia stuff about berry Hill opened its first restaurant
in nineteen ninety three. Okay, so I've got the thirty
years part right, Tracey's xus. Wow, that's very cool. The
berry Hill location in sugar Land opened in two thousand
and two. That's right about the time. No, I was

(56:55):
already in sugar Land by then. I thought that thing
was open when I got there. I guess it wasn't.
M Yeah, I'll be darned. I'll be darned. Thank you, Camille.
I just learned something. I'm gonna have to talk to
Wendy and tell her what I learned. Wendy Brooks is
a woman who owns the place. If you go in there,
ask for her and tell her I said hello. By

(57:17):
all means, please anybody who goes in there, and if
I'm there, I'll come over and hang out with you
for a minute and shake your hand and see what
brought you there, hopefully me. I've actually had that happen
several times when I've come in there and to pick
up stuff to take back to the house or just
to grab something for myself to eat real quick, and
people will either walk over and I've had a couple

(57:39):
of people recognize my voice, a couple of people recognize
my face. Whatever. But I always enjoy talking to you
guys when I'm out. I really do. I have one
person say I didn't want to come over and say
anything because I didn't know if you wanted to be disturbed.
That stuff disturbing me. It's flattering to me, and I
take that very serious. I mean that it really makes

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me feel good that what I'm doing is working not
only to help my client, but to confirm for my
listeners that I walk the walk. You know, I don't
just talk about places. I really if I tell you
I'm eating somewhere, I'm eating somewhere I'm eating at that place.

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I've been doing this for twenty six years, and I
make sure that the people I talk about I know
a lot about them, and I know that they can
be trusted with you and your money and your family.
And so that's kind of what I do around here.
Let's get back to the serf, shall we. I want
to talk about that a little bit. I have learned
so much getting to the age i'm at and doing

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a lot of surfishing, especially when I was younger. I
haven't been waiting the surf as much as I would
like to, but mostly that's because of my work schedule.
But I'm about to start taking some days off as
soon as that surf cleans up. I want to get
back in that world. I want to go back down
there and catch a bunch of trout in the surf.
There's a lot of things. There are a lot of
things I've done in fishing, but that's one of the

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most fun and I don't really care what they're eating.
I love catching them on spoons in the surf, and
the spoon is the ultimate surf weapon as far as
lures go, because no matter what the wind, you can
cast them a mile. You can work them fast. If
the fish are up high, you can work them slow
and bounce them off the bottom. Even I've fished with spoons. Actually,

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the best day I can remember doing this was off
the surf side jetty and I was maybe third fourth
gut off the beach, and I'm standing on that jetty
throwing that spoon out there as far as I could
throw it, and then just free spooling it and letting
it actually fall to the bottom all on its own,
straight down, and then working it just a little faster,

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just a little faster than a worm, than a plastic worm.
I wasn't just it wasn't just sitting there, but what
it was doing, because it was a fairly heavy spoon,
was kind of kicking up little toughs of sand and
making a little noise down there, and the water was beautiful,
so they were getting the flash off the spoon itself

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and then getting that little vibration from from the kicking
up of the sand, and I don't know what they
thought that was, but they wanted to eat it. And
I was absolutely ripping them. When the guy's throwing jigs
and top waters and everything else weren't doing very well,
they really weren't. That's something quick sidebar. If somebody next

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to you is catching fish on a particular lure and
you're not, check your tackle box and try to find
what he's throwing. And if you can't, walk over to
him and ask him if he's got a second one.
And if you come up to me and ask me
if I've got a second one because I'm catching fish
and you're not, I might just cut my line and
let you have the lure I'm throwing. I've done that

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gosh over the years on the surf side Jetty alone,
probably one hundred times, and I've never regretted once losing
whatever lure I handed off because I knew that that
was gonna help that guy catch fish. And if I
didn't catch another fish that day, that's okay, that's fine.
I'll keep throwing lures until I find one that they want.

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If I'm confident the fish are there. That's something. You
have to really be too confident that you're in a
place with fish, or you're not going to put as
much effort into it. Meanwhile, back at the surf I
was going to try and explain about I got a
couple of minutes. I'll stay on this What I wanted
to talk about was it Ah, where did it go?

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
Here?

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
It is just learning to read the surf, learning to
read where the guts are, and more importantly even learning
it's easy kind of to tell where the guts are
because if the waves are breaking, they're coming up onto
a sandbar and that energy all gets pushed up and
it gets higher than it can stand up and it
rolls over on itself. That's why wave breaks it comes

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into shallower water. But what you want to look for,
and not when the waves are really big, because it's
hard to see, but when there are some waves but
they're just not super big. What you're looking for is
a stretch very It can be might be ten yards wide,
it might be thirty yards wide, whatever, but there's a

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gut that for some reason, the tide has cut in
a sandbar where that water below it is deeper than
on top of the sandbar. And that's kind of one
of those little cuts between within a bar that become
ambush points for predators. Those the bait fish get kind
of discombobulated going through there. The predators can hide a

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little deeper and be watching up over their heads for
whatever's coming, and that's a place you really want to
try to put some effort into. If you're walking up
and down the beach, just methodically moving from side to side,
i'd watch in the direction you're walking, watch for places
where those waves aren't breaking like they are everywhere else

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that you're looking. And any place there's that there's a
little bit deeper water, and that's going to be a
place you want to look. I'm just about to it.
Let's get to the bottom of the hour break here,
and I'm gonna tell you about CCA. They're in their
forty ninth year, forty nine years of protecting our coastal resources,
and I'm hoping they want to do a big celebration

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of fifty next year, because I want to be a
big part of that. They were started in nineteen seventy
seven as the Gulf Coast Conservation Association by some men
that I knew very well and really and got to
know even better as time went on. Change the name
in ninety seven as more states came on board on
both coasts the both oceanic coasts. Eighteen states now involved

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sixty eight thousand members. In Texas, sixty one local chapters
in this state and I'm sure it's it's the biggest.
I don't know any other state that would have more
than that. And all the money that's raised in Texas
very importantly here stays in Texas to support marine conservation habitat.
CCA's partnered in three saltwater fish hatcheries. They've released over

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a billion fingerlings of red drum and speckled trout and flounder,
eight hundred and sixty four million redfish, eight hundred and
sixty four million redfish, one hundred and sixty eight million
speckled trout, and it would probably be twice or three
times that number if the darn things weren't so cannibalistic
when they're really little one point three million flounder two

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and they're kind of hard, hard to get to the
to the open water again once they start up in
the tank. Seventeen million dollars worth of habitat projects along
the Texas coast since two thousand and nine, marsh restoration
just on oyster reefs, on and on and on, nine
million bucks worth of oyster reef restoration. It's just incredible

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what what CCA has done and continues to do. And
in the meantime, every summer, they host a summer long
tournament where you can win. You can win scholarships for
your kids. You can win a truck, you can win
a boat, a motor, or trailer, all four of those things.
If you catch the right redfish or if you catch
the biggest fish in certain categories, you can win all

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kinds of other prizes. More than forty five thousand people
enter that tournament every year, and they want to give
away the prizes. The prices are all paid for. There's
no benefit to CCA if nobody wins the prizes. It's
just it's the largest salt water tournament in the state,
and it's called the State of Texas Anglers Rodeo, giving

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away nine million dollars in kids scholarships since it started
back in nineteen ninety five, thirty million in prizes for trucks, boats, motors,
and trailers. Thirty nine million dollars in all, all going
back to everybody who wants a good excuse to go
fishing every single day all summer long. Honey, I got

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to take the kids fishing. Really, I want to do this.
I want them to earn a scholarship by winning, by
catching one of these fish. You finish in the top
tive top five in any of the kids categories, there's
at least a little money. The first prize in some
of those scholarship categories is thirty thousand dollars to tuck
away while they're little kids still so that when they

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become big kids, there's gonna be money for college. CCA
Texas does a lot of good things. Cca Texas dot
org is the website. You can learn all about them
there if you don't already know Cca Texas dot org.
Midway meet Margaret. You heard me talk about them before,
You're gonna hear me talking about him again. Until every
one of you has been out there at least wants

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to experience for yourself what I've been experiencing for the
better part of fifty years. Started a long time ago,
back in the eighties, going out there myself for lunch
after taking guys from all over the country goose hunting
on the wintertime Katie Prairie that was full of waterfowl.
By the way, that's another story for another time. Midway
survived that the waterfowl hunting out there didn't really, but

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Midway certainly did, and it's still retained that old country
store are that it's had since it opened its doors
so far back. Maybe I don't know what it is
about the cheeseburgers out there, but they seem to taste
better now too than when I was eating them a
long time ago. Maybe they're adding a dash of nostalgia.
I don't know whatever it is, though, it's a fantastic

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place to get all your meat products, fantastic place to
pick up sausages to twenty five different flavors of delicious
smoked sausage. They have grabbing ghost snacks. They have specials
that are available early in the month every month. Go
to the website and learn about them. I'll tell you
where that is in just a second. That lunch counter

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of theirs, by the way the story is open eight
am to seven pm. I don't know what time they
fire up that lunch counter to get one of those cheese.
But if you're hungry when you get there, there is
absolutely no reason for you for you to be hungry
when you leave. Midway Meat Market has been very quietly.
If you will, they don't. They don't splash. They're not big,

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splashy people. They're just country folks who absolutely love taking
care of their customers, and that's why everybody who goes
there keeps going. There only a few minutes west of
ninety nine off I ten on Old Highway ninety I
just punch it into your GPS. You won't have any
trouble finding it. And like I said, open eight am
to seven pm every single day of the week. Midway

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Meatmarket dot Com is the website. Some of the nicest
people you'll ever meet work at Midway, and who knows,
you might make a friend to some of them. Midway
meet Market dot Com nine hold on one second, three
two one, nine thirty nine. It is on Sports Talk
seven to ninety. Thank you for hanging around and listening
to the show this morning. I really do appreciate that.

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I was looking at the Scottish Open Day and after
it finished in the middle of the afternoon. It was
out of curiosity. I was scrolling through channels and seeing
what was on and I saw one that just had
this just generic golf and I wasn't sure what it was,
but it turned out to be one of those celebrity
pro whoever wherever fun tournaments. I think maybe out in

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I'm not sure it's somewhere out west, but anyway, I
watched as much of it as I could, and that
wasn't a whole lot, but the name on the top
of the leader board did catch my attention because I
know that person. It's not like it's my best friend,
but I know her and you'll recognize the name Anica,

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and Anica Sorenstein dogg on leading that tournament. Good for her,
even so long, long long after she really quit playing
competitive golf. But it just goes to show you that
when someone is world class, even in c they can
still knock it out there. They can steal chip, they

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can still sink putts, and I was thrilled to see
her name at the top of that leader board. A
quick sidebar if you haven't heard me talk about it before.
I was doing a live broadcast from a golf course
down in Florida one year one Saturday and Sunday morning,
and on Saturday I found out that Anica Soormstem Sorenstam

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was going to be there for the weekend and coming
in that day. I'm over there at seven eight o'clock
in the morning and I found out that she was
coming in and I told I can't remember who was
producing for me, then it might have been now far,
but it might have been Michael Connor. I'm not sure.
One of those two though, probably, And I said, just
see if you can find out if she might come

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over and sit down with me for a few minutes
and talk about golf and talk about her career and whatnot.
And I kind of let it go. I didn't think
she would have that kind of time. She was there
for a purpose, and I'm sure her schedule was very tight.
And so the next morning, I'm sitting out in front
of the pro shop behind my little table that was
set up there for me, and we had our little

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table skirt around there and had all the equipment on
the on the table and I'm sitting there and it's
I don't know, the middle of the show. Still hadn't
seen anything, heard anything. My producer said, yeah, I talk
to them, but they just said they'd see what they
could do. Long story short, she shows up about I
don't know five minutes later. I can see her getting
out of the car in the parking lot and she

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walked straight over to that table, sat down and just
said Hi, I'm Anica and stuck her hand out like,
oh okay. I really would like to have known just
a little bit early. I had prepped some before she
sat down, but she really took me by surprise in
one of the best ways I can imagine, and it
was just it was such a a from that point forward.

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For about fifteen minutes. It was such a very easy,
casual conversation, and I wish there was still some audio
from that, I really do, because I was so thrilled
to have somebody of her caliber. She had not quite
finished playing competitive golf, but was somewhere close in that range.
I think it was probably I bet that was close

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to eighteen twenty years at least, No, it was at
least twenty twenty two years ago because my son wasn't
born then and he's only he's eighteen, so it was
at least probably twenty years ago. One of the most
fun interviews I've ever had, so just off the cuff,
really between two people who genuinely enjoyed golf but come

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at it from such very distinctly different angles. I was
thrilled to have her up there with me. It really
was kind of fun. Moving on, Captain Scott sent me
a picture of a little kid, and this kid's holding
a significant redfish, very significant. I think that might be

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a little too long to keep there actually. Anyway, the
bottom online is what he says in his in his
email to me before the picture pops in is and
I quote, this little dude chunked a bait caster all
day working paddle tales better than a lot of adults
I take out. I don't doubt that. I don't doubt that.

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A lot of adults who end up on fishing guide's
boats don't do that much fishing. They rely on the
on the guide to help them out, and unfortunately for them,
don't learn necessarily the It's easy to learn the basics
of bait casting, it's easy to learn the basics of spinning,

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it's easy to learn the basics even of fly fishing.
But what separates the the better ones from the average
ones is repetition. You can't learn how to throw lures
on a bait caster into a wind of any significance
without doing it. People can tell you a thousand times

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how they do it, and if you ask, actually if
you ask probably five hundred people, you'll get at least
four hundred different answers on how to control that spool
while you're in a throwing straight into a win. I
throw a little bitty square bill crankbait a lot out
there at the golf course lake, and I don't even

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think about it. I can still just just snap off
a really solid cast dead into that wind without really
having to worry about it or think about it. I've
got all the brakes are off. I just know where
my thumb needs to be and how long it needs
to be there. But that's only from making probably millions
of casts over the years. And if you've not done that,

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you're not going to learn to do that. And for
this little kid, he doesn't look very old, he doesn't
look like I don't want to say his age, because
if he's listening and I say he's younger than he
really is, he's gonna be at me, and I don't
want that. But I can just tell you, in most
in most boats that he would ever get in to

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go fishing, he is. He's probably gonna be the youngest
guy in the boat, and he's gonna outfish a lot
of the older guys in the boat. Congratulations. I asked
Scott if he'd tell me the kid's name, let me
see if he's popped back in yet. No, he hasn't
and we got to be careful about that. Maybe who knows,
maybe he wasn't supposed to be fishing yesterday. Something tells

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me he was, by that big old grin on his face. Uh,
here's Dave. This is interesting. Dave Williams, the guy I
talked to yesterday. Oh, I'm gonna have to look at
this during the break. I'm late again. Huh Frankie, Dad, gumm.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
It all good man?

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Oh no, I'll take care of this. Black Horse Golf
Club is what I want to tell you about. Black
Horse Golf Club is up off two ninety and Fry Road.
Been there for a very long time. It's about three
miles south of two ninety on Fry Road. Take a
hang a south on Fry from two ninety go down
there in about three miles down. Like I said, you'll
see golf course on both sides. When you see that,

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put on your west blinker. That'll be your right blinker
if you're coming down south and drive into the place
where you're going to spend the next four or five
six hours having fun playing golf. North Course daily fee
always has been South Course taking private back in twenty five,
and that's a really good option if you are looking

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for that sort of experience on that side of town,
because in addition to having privileges to play at both
of those courses, you also have playing privileges at black
Horse or well that is black Horse excuse me, Golf
Club of Houston and Blackhawk Country Club. That's five golf
courses for the price of one and everybody. I've played

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all of those courses many many times, and it's all
very smooth and seamless transition from one course to the other.
You just let them know you're coming, give them your
member number, and they'll be waiting for you when you
get there. Black Horse has been around for a very
long time. I played. I bet you I've played seventy
five or eighty tournaments out there, I don't know, maybe more,

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and always had a good time, always had a good time.
All you got to do is get out there. Great
instruction at the far end of the range. Again. The
two courses, all both of which are are constantly being
improved as this transition continues, and they will be for
many years to come. Fantastic place. Black Horse Golf Club

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dot com is a website you can make you self
tea time right there, right now. Black Horsegolf Club dot
Com nine fifty one on Sports Talk seven to ninety.
Believe it or not, the phones are working nine minutes
before we have to get out of here, Bobby. Probably
more like six minutes before we have to get out
of here. But I'm glad they are. Let me. Let
me send this email to somebody real quick. I'll take
care of that. I'll take care of this, and we're
gonna test fire with a visit to if I can

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get this mouse to work. I haven't even used it
all morning. Hey Dan, what's up man?

Speaker 4 (01:17:59):
Yes, Sir Douglass, calm. I don't want a top no
radio time. I just want to find out what the
schedule is on that nine fifty oh, nine fifty.

Speaker 1 (01:18:07):
I'm on noon to one Monday through Friday with a
show called fifty plus where I do a little bit
more stuff for seniors only. Well it's not for seniors
only because a lot of younger people actually like a
thirty five plus crowd listening on. Behalf of their parents
with the good ones do Anyway, Oh yeah, that's where
it is.

Speaker 4 (01:18:28):
Okay, another think I'm throwing. I don't want to take
up much side there you talking about a couple weeks
ago about the old sealer attic pans.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:18:39):
Years ago. Guess what happened to them?

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:18:44):
When air conditions come in. They started dragging about of there.
They took them there all and people's shops and garages
and nice they dedans.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
Yeah that's what I get. Yeah, that may have been
the birth of the stand up fan. Really huh.

Speaker 4 (01:18:56):
Yeah, you'll have a good Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
Thank you, Dan, appreciate it. Yeah. That show fifty plus
has been on now for twelve years, believe it or not,
And I absolutely love doing that because I know that
a lot of people get help for stuff they're thinking
about looking for, whatever it is, whether it's medical, financial, travel, entertainment.

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I've covered pretty much everything. Every time I say I've
covered it all, I get a request for a topic
that I haven't covered yet, or I get word from
one of my sponsors that they want to talk about
something I haven't covered yet, and I get to all
of it as fast as I can. If there's something
you want to hear on fifty plus, kind of the
same way as with this show. If there's something outdoors

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related you want to hear, email me, let me know
about it, and I'll find somebody. If I don't know enough,
I'll find somebody who is an expert and we'll get
that topic covered. And it's the same with fifty plus.
In fact, there's one interview I've been needing to get
done and I can't find and the right source for.
But I think this might inspire me to go looking again.

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And I'm making a note right now. Interview. Okay, I'm
gonna circle that, so it's more important than everything else
I put on my list for things to do today.
By the way, if you're watching the World Cup and
fell asleep last night like I did, right before the
end of the Argentina Sweden game, and you haven't looked yet,

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Argentina came away in extra time three to one. Winter
they went went into overtime, well the extra time they
call it at a one to one tie, and there
you go. Ah, good Captain Scott waved back in. That
kid is nine years old, uh, and he was there
with his his name's Charlie, and he was there with

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his eleven year old brother Jensen. They are good friend's kids.
And the good friends said they started throwing let's see here,
they started throwing bake casters in April. Okay, wow, they
haven't been doing it that long. When they were first
planning the trip, they maybe had a half a dozen
minor overruns throughout the day with none being called what

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Captain Scott said he'd call a true backlash that. I
just got an email from I think it was from
Steve yesterday talking about a friend of his who early
on in the bait caster era, actually threw one on
an old ambassador reel that literally, he said, looked like
a bird nest. This was probably with old monofilament, because

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that stuff really stacked up big. And what this guy did,
it's a genius idea. Really, it might cost you a
little more now than it would then. But what this
guy did he left that bird's nest exactly as it was,
and he mounted the reel in a probably in a
shadow box or something like that, and just left it

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for eternity, just there to sit to remind him of
how of what it looked like. After he made his
worst cast ever, I think, oh, yeah, there's his little brother,
Charlie's little brother or big brother Jensen. I think, let
me see here, we've got a couple. Oh yeah, there's Jensen,
the older ones. They both caught a bunch of redfish,
and you could tell because they are smiling ear to ear.

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Good for them, Good for them chunking lures and catching
redfish and drum, there's a drum right there. What else
did they catch? Ah, speckled trout? Yeah, they loaded up,
got the triple crown yesterday. Good for them. Get these
kids out fishing. It's gonna make them such better people.
I can't remember too many people I've ever met who

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were legitimately really good, dedicated, passionate fishermen, who weren't good people.
Just everywhere I've gone, all the fishermen I've met was rare,
rare exception. There's been a couple of weirdos out there,
but they're all pretty good people, they really are. I

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love going down to the jetties too, and just meeting
people and talking to them and learning why, how long
you've been fishing? Where do you usually go? And I
get all kinds of answers, and it just it fascinates me,
it really does. Ah, there's that dog on music. We
got the phones back. Well, I told you, Frankie, at
like what eight fifteen this.

Speaker 2 (01:23:16):
Morning, you predicted nine fifty five.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
I did. You're right, I was pretty close and I was.
This is a good thing. We got dance called in anyway,
it helped me out for a little bit of fifty
plus stuff. So I'll be there Tuesday. Tuesday at noon,
I'll be over on AM nine fifty KPRC with fifty
plus and then well it's actually on tomorrow as well.
It's just a replay from last week. But what i'll
have then is we'll go through Tuesday through Friday, and

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then I'll be right back in this chair. God, will
it get outside, have some phone with your family, Stay safe, please,
will you talk again soon? Meanwhile, email me if you
need to. Thanks for listening. Audios