Scottie Scheffler is Human After All!

On this episode, Doug speaks about dealing with stingray stings,the importance of not overfishing to manage wildlife resources, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, somebody's got this up loud. All right, that's a
little better. Almost blew my head off with that thing.
Top of the morning to you the Frankie. How are
you doing, man? I'm good. How are you? I'm all right?
Any excitement? Yesterday? What did the well the Astros ended up?
They had to have ended up losing after they were
like down what nine to one something like that. I

(00:20):
didn't keep up with it, That's all right. I didn't either.
As long as they're on the West coast, it's very
difficult for me to stay up late enough. And I'm
not I'm no sissy, but I've just got early alarms
and and I'm not gonna stay up just to see
how one game turns out. It's one hundred and sixty
two game season, sure, and they're just gonna have to
win or lose without me every now and then. It's okay,

(00:42):
I'm I made it for the I missed the two
the ends of the two extra innings games this week,
but that turned out kind of not horrible. It could
have been worse. And this lad last night, the night
before last, total blowout on our end, and then last
night total blowout the wrong way, not the way we

(01:04):
wanted it to end. So you just have to take
the good with the bad and just keep watching games
and see what happens. The Astros, I think are going
to be fine if they could ever get anywhere near
even something that remotely looks like healthy. Half a pitching
staff is out or on. Alvarez is out kind he's
pulling kind of a Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
I don't know that we ever really knew exactly what
Tucker's issue was, but at least we know Alvarez has
a broken bone in his thumb and are somewhere around
there and whatever. I'm no doctor, but the long and
the short of it is he will be back, and
hopefully really soon. This is two years in a row
now where we've had somebody go out with something that

(01:48):
appeared to be very minor and had it turn into
a month's long vacation for the player. But then again,
we've got other things to talk about. Sunday. Sunday morning
opened up along the entire Texas coast with not horrible
wind registers on shore breeze ten to fifteen miles an hour,

(02:09):
mostly from the southeast, which is a nice onshore push
of good water. There was an anomalous eighteen at Port
Ransas and an equally anomalous three miles per hour at
Taramar Beach. Over on West Bay. That one. Somebody must
have put something in front of it to block the wind.

(02:29):
It's got to be blown a little bit harder than
that there, but by and large, not a terrible day
now that the beach front, as far as fishing goes.
If any of you even thought about going surf fishing
for some reason today, you might want to regroup and
try and figure out another spot to go, because the
first I look at two or three of the cameras
at Saltwater Recon and I couldn't find anywhere where there

(02:55):
was anything that even looked like green water close to
the beach, however, or on the beach, maybe a quarter
mile out, maybe a half mile out, I'm not sure,
some short distance relative to the size of the entire gulf.
Some short distance offshore, it looked pretty dog one good Now,

(03:15):
if you've got enough boat and you don't mind getting
bounced around, there are plenty of fish to catch out there,
But it's still I talked to Sharky's mom yesterday. I
made a phone call down to talk to them about something,
and they were talking about how difficult it's been to

(03:36):
get out and how Michael's only been out I think
two days, two days of snapper season and all that
started June one, So that tells you how rough it is.
And because they you know, they want to go. We
all want to go, but not when it's going to
beat you up. Actually pretty nice too along a good
stretch of the South Texas coast. I was kind of

(03:58):
surprised down there. Ten twelve mile an hour breeze that's
relative to that's about the same as dead calm up here.
If it's blowing twelve miles an hour or lighter onto
the Corpus Christie shoreline, that's a good day. It's one
of the windiest areas in the entire country. By the way, overall,

(04:21):
get it while you can, too, because the forecast up
here calls for it, calls for rain, then some more rain,
and then a little more rain on top of that
all the way through the week. Today and tomorrow. Maybe
just to just let you know, today and tomorrow probably
can squeeze in some golf and the actual rain amounts
that are supposed to come through aren't much they're a

(04:45):
tenth of an inch stuff like that, which I don't
think a tenth of an inch of rain with no
thunder and lightning would run me off of any golf course.
I have an umbrella, I have a rain suit, and
I'm not scared to use them. And usually when I
break out that rain suit, that's when the clouds go away,
just after I get all hot and sticky in there

(05:07):
because it's so humid. So it's a good rain suit.
I got it years ago and I haven't changed since.
It might be it's a little heavy for our climate. Honestly,
it's a little It could take me down to a
rainy day at sixty degrees, I would say, and I
would be comfortable. But when it's rainy and eighty rainy

(05:28):
and ninety, by the time I get that thing on,
there's already some moisture in my clothing. And then I
put that on there and I'm just it's like a
little sauna bath in there, kind of rough. Uh Oh,
This this what I found interesting, Frankie. You've never really
heard of or dealt with, the Texas temperature game, have you? No? No, Okay,

(05:50):
that's something we do mostly in the fall in the
winter when the temperature extremes in a state as tall
as Texas are are vast sometimes and really shocking, and
stick around and you'll get to play against some of
the listeners. And what you'll do is, I have a

(06:10):
site that I go to that gives me real time
temperatures all over Texas, and it also includes in a
little box up up to the top left corner where
there's room for it. It includes a box that shows
the current high temperature and the current low temperature in
the state. And you or the or the listener will

(06:31):
get to guests first on a high temperature at that
particular time, and then the low temperature at that particular time,
and whichever of you two have the lowest differential between
the actual numbers and your guesses, it becomes the winner.
And we play for golf. We play for I'll find
some more prices. We had some fantastic, fantastic jams and

(06:55):
jellies from a place down in Rosenberg. Oh gosh, wows
Brasis River. Brasis River Preserves. I believe. If I'm wrong,
I apologize. It's been a while. The owner had some
health problems and had to back back away from that
and back away from all of that. Unfortunately, I need

(07:17):
to call them. I need to see how he's doing.
I hope he's much better now. I believe I want
to believe he is. Anyway, So the bottom line is
I looked at it this morning just for giggles, and
we'll see what kind of potential you have to be
a contestant in this game because I count on I
lean on my producers to win more than we lose. Gotcha,

(07:39):
and you can't. There's no cheating allowed, none whatsoever. So
what do you think, just out of curiosity on this
June twenty second, of twenty twenty five, what do you
think at seven forty this morning, was the low temperature
in the state of Texas. Oh, let's see, it's a

(07:59):
big state. Yeah, low, the low. Uh, I'm gonna go
forty three? Oh lord no, And that's that's actually not
a bad guess. I think I would think that maybe
like out in the Big Bend, somewhere in the mountains,
or maybe up in far North Texas something like that
would have gone down. But forty three was only twenty

(08:22):
five degrees off. It's sixty eight, and that was in plainview.
Interestingly enough, Okay, just a little waste. It's up in
North Texas. Got the central north central Texas also sixty
eight though, and this really shocked me. Also sixty eight
at Port Isabelle, all the way down at the bottom

(08:42):
of the state. And the high temperature, this one also
got my attention. The high temperature at seven forty this morning.
I'll give you another chance, right, what do you think
that was the high where? Yeah, I'm not to tell
you where in the state of Texas. Okay, ninety seven.

(09:02):
You know that's ninety seven would be cooking. But you're closer,
way closer than you were in the in the low
ninety one degrees in Mesquite, that's just a few miles
east of Dallas. Ninety one. That's a tough way to
start your day, man, just walk outside to get the
paper and just get slapped in the face with all
that heat. And that's that's been something that I've noticed

(09:23):
in the last in the past maybe six, eight, ten,
fifteen years, somewhere in there, the Dallas tends to be
heating up and burning up in summertime and eclipsing our
temperatures even more days than not in summer. I don't
know why that is. Our city is certainly you can't

(09:45):
think about anything like the concrete that's on the ground,
because we got just as much as they do. It
would seem I don't know. Maybe you put two big
giant cities like Dallas and Fort Worth together and spread
them out as much as they are and have all
those roads and all that asphalt on the ground, maybe
it does get just a little bit hotter there, or

(10:05):
maybe it's something I don't know what it is. I
don't know what's causing it, but Dallas always seems to be,
especially for July and August, it'll three to five, maybe
six or seven degrees hotter than it is here. And
for that reason, that's just one of another one of
the litany of reasons I don't really want to live
in Dallas. My first reason. You've you've been producing this

(10:29):
show a while. What do you think my first reason
is my number one reason for not wanting to live
in Dallas and not wanting to live in many cities
in the United States. It's busy, it's not I'm not
very outdoorsy. I'm in Houston. Well, there's a lot of
outdoor activity up there. Here. It's too far from the beach,

(10:50):
that's fair, which it's ninety eight percent of this country
is too far from the beach for me to live there.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
It just gives me cold chills to think of being
a six hour drive from the coast, or even a
four hour drive from the coast. Some coast, some salt
water somewhere I need. All Right, we gotta take a
little break here on the way out. I'm gonna tell
you about Shooter's Corner. Let's see it up with them.
After all, we are only two months and a week

(11:21):
basically away from the opening of dove season. That's September first,
and we're almost to July. I don't know how we
got here, but we're here, and Shooter's Corner will be
happy to take care of you. Whether you need a
brand new shotgun, you want to look at some pre
owned shot guns. One of mine is down there, at
least one. I think I have two I dropped off there.

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What else do they have in there? All the ammo
you can imagine, even the boutique calibers. If it's if
it's a gun you bought here in the last fifty years,
pretty good chance. Jerry and Jay TK they're the owners
a father and son team have AMMO for that gun.
They've got reloading supplies, they've got Camo, they've got optics,
they've got everything to help you enjoy the shooting sports

(12:02):
a little bit better today than you did yesterday. Great
people coming and going through there too, Always stories being told,
Always people plopping down in one of the chairs and
shooting the breeze with whoever else is in there. A
lot of law enforcement in there too. And why, very
simple reason. Jerry TK a long time ago. He's been
there for forty something years, probably from day one. I

(12:24):
would have bet he gives a discount to anybody who
wears a badge for a living. It's as simple as that.
If that's what you do, if that's what you do
for a living, you get a discount at Shooter's Corner.
And that's on pretty much anything you buy in there.
Plenty of guns, plenty of Ammo. Two of the best
gunsmiths I've ever known. Jerry makes an incredible custom rifle.

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Whatever you want, he'll put it on there. He'll build
it up for you and be absolutely certain you're thrilled
with it for the rest of your life. The Shooters
Corner TX dot Com Palmer Highway at twenty ninth Street,
Texas City, the Shooters Corner, TX. So far, so good
this summer on you know what season, the one we're

(13:05):
in right now, the one that scares a lot of people,
especially if they're new to this area. And the one
thing that you got to worry about, well, one of
the things, not the one thing, one of the things
you have to worry about during storm season is your trees.
Those trees, those big, tall, beautiful trees in your yard.
If they are not sound and healthy and strong just

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as much below the ground as they are above the ground,
one of them might come tumbling down, maybe fall on
your car, or your garage, or your house, or a
neighbor's house, whatever it is. You don't want that to happen,
and Champions Tree Preservation will come out and make sure
it's not going to happen for you. They'll send it
Arbius to your house. That arborus will assess every tree

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in your yard and let you know just how healthy
or unhealthy they might be. Sometimes it's just a good feeding,
it's all they need. They just need to get stronger,
healthier roots down below that ground. Hold on, keep them
tied down. When the wind blows, sometimes it needs pruning
to let some of that wind blow through there without
pushing that tree around. And every now and then they

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got to take one out. The tree's diseased, it's got
problems whatever. Even if it looks healthy above the ground,
it may not be overall healthy and it may not
last through a storm. And that's where they can help you.
Everything they need to do to that tree can be
done by their own staff with their own equipment. Champion
Tree Preservation owns everything they need to take care of

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any tree issue there is, up to an including replacing
a tree. They own a tree farm, for Heaven's sakes,
and they'll bring a brand new tree out to replace
that one that grew and grew and then gave you
so much shade in the summertime and all of that
good stuff that a tree does for you. Well, if
it had to go, it had to go. But now
it's time to put in a new one. Champion, we'll

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do that too. Two one three two zero eighty two
O one eight one ree to zero eighty two zero one.
Give them a call, get somebody out there to look
at your trees. You can go to the website too,
and check them out. They got a great website. They're
good people. Championstree dot com. Champions with an S Championstree

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dot com, Ay twenty one on Sports Talk seven to
ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. I
certainly do appreciate it. I'm gonna hit one quick note
right quick. Well, that's somewhat redundant. Sorry about that. That's done.
Philip wade In by email, and thanks for doing that, Philip,
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Philip wade In on the

(15:38):
reason that Dallas is hotter than Houston, and it was
right before my very eyes, and it just I overlooked
the entire golf. The golf does, as Philip pointed out
in his email, kind of keeps us warmer in the
winter and cooler in the summer. And the other thing

(15:58):
that he pointed out a little a little bit more
specific point was that the higher humidity that we have
here kind of encourages us to cut back on outdoor
exertion before heat strokes happened, which happened statistically, what Phillip's
telling me, Statistically, higher incidents of heat strokes and whatnot

(16:22):
up in the Dallas area than here. Either way, both
cities are super hot. San Antonio is no slouch either.
They get plenty of heat as well, and they're a
little closer to the Gulf than Dallas, but I don't
know that they get much benefit from it being as
far inland as San Antonio is. But yeah, that makes

(16:42):
sense for Houston, even up to the woodlands. I would
suspect that there's some at least some coastal influence. Then
they've got all the trees and whatnot as well. Yeah,
one thing that really did impress me about Dallas is
how many trees they have along their major freeway. And
we too have those, but it just seemed like more

(17:06):
of the time that we spent driving around Dallas, we
were at full freeway speeds. Not on surface roads, but
once you're on the main thoroughfares through and around Dallas,
there's a lot of trees, just a ton of trees,
big beautiful trees, been there for many, many years. I'm
sure some of them you can tell, we're planted more recently,

(17:28):
but there's significant effort been made in the Dallas area
to put up a lot more trees, or to leave
a lot more trees where they were already growing than
around here. Down here, they were replaced with billboards, mostly
from PI attorneys, And that's just that's something that Houston

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let happen a long time ago, decades ago. And now
you can't hardly throw a rock without hitting a billboard
along any freeway in Houston. And it's not pretty. It's
really not. When you go to other cities that have
ordinances against that, you see it's not what it used

(18:12):
to be. It's not what the city used to be.
But you see nature, and as an outdoors person, I
much prefer that to buildings and billboards. But I live
here and I'm closer to the Gulf than they are,
so I'm pretty happy to be where I am. Thank
you Phil for that. I appreciate it. Man, Moving forward

(18:32):
onto my list, I want I kind of wanted to
bring up again if you didn't listen yesterday, or even
if you did, I talked about the possibility and it's
just this whimsical, fantastical dream that you or I or
anybody else in the audience could take a trip at
a time machine and go back to any place in history,

(18:57):
anywhere on the planet, and experience something relative to the outdoors,
whether it's a hike up a mountain, whether it's a
hunting trip, a fishing trip, any kind of activity h
so long as it is relative and occurs in the outdoors,

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something that you will you'll never have a chance to
see again because its time has passed. And the most
obvious example for me anyway, is the Katie Prairie and
how it was during the height of its waterfowl hunting
supremacy on the planet. We had guys literally flying in
from all around the world to hunt waterfowl here. It

(19:41):
was that good. It was world class Katie Tech, Little
o Katie, Texas. It was much smaller than than it
is now. Little Katie, Texas was an international hub for
waterfowl hunting. I had a guy from Italy once that
was pretty special, and I've told the story many times,
so I won't bother you with it. Maybe I'll tell
Frankie after we finish up the show or something today.

(20:03):
But it's a pretty interesting how this guy and yeh,
when I think back on it, it makes perfect sense
that this guy had enough resources to hunt the way
he hunted and where he hunted, and he talked about
some of the places he did other places he'd been
around the world, and he spoke very highly, by the way,

(20:24):
for somebody who traveled the world hunting, spoke very highly
of what he found when he was here. I think
he stayed three or four days something like that, maybe five,
I don't remember. Interesting guy had his man servant with him,
and that poor guy it was cold and wet. Well,
i'll very quickly, I'll tell you the story of Frankly.
This guy shows up in the restaurant and I'm counting heads,

(20:44):
and I've got four guys and it's four different just
guy random single guys who we piled into a group.
They're gonna go hunt with me. Nobody knows each other,
and so we we have breakfast and I make sure
they've got their licenses. I give him the safety speed
follow me, and we all jump in our cars and
we go out to Seily, somewhere north south of Sily.

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And we get there and we're standing there talking and
walking in getting ready to grab decoy bags and go
out and do all that. And I just do a
quick headcount one two, three, four five. I've got four
hunters one two, three, four five people in front of me.
The fifth guy is his personal assistant. The fifth guy

(21:29):
is carrying his two shot guns in their cases, carrying
his gear bag, carrying his everything. And this guy never
lifts a finger, not a finger. And we get out
there and we start hunting. It starts to rain, and
it's about forty five degrees and the the guy who's

(21:52):
paying for all this just kind of motions to this
poor guy he's got working for him. And that guy
takes off his jacket and gives it to the rich guy.
And I said, hey, man, you got another jacket over there?
Uh no, no, I don't. And I said, I'll be

(22:12):
right back, and I just went to my I went
to my truck and got him at least as good
a jacket as as the fancy pants guy had. He
was a decent guy. He was a nice enough guy.
But it was just it was so off putting to
see somebody take a jacket off somebody's back when it's
raining on a cold morning. That just that he lost

(22:32):
me when he did that. That was he could have
easily said to me, hey, do you have another jacket
in your car or in your truck? And I said, yeah,
two or three of them, go get one, And it
would have been solved that way. Yeah, this poor guy,
I don't know what he's doing right now, but I
hope he won the lottery in Italy or wherever he
wound up the guy who had to take his jacket

(22:54):
off or his boss in the rain in the cold.
So anyway, that's how that went. Uh where else? How
about maybe back to the back to white wing hunting
down in Mexico from about forty or fifty years ago
that was pretty wild and crazy. Or maybe maybe a

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couple of billfish trips back in the in the days
of Hemingway the rot with that equip that equipment, those boats,
because it wasn't nearly as comfortable, it wasn't nearly as
reliable as far as the equipment goes. There were equipment
malfunctions all the time on super big fish. We just
didn't know how to We didn't have anything that would

(23:38):
handle those things. They're just beasts, is what they are.
There are elephants with fins, now, that's that's an insult
to the to the marlin because there's so much faster.
They're more athletic than an elephant. I wouldn't want an
elephant to step on me, and I know they can
run pretty fast for as big as they are. But
the power pound for pound, I think is much better
or much greater in than in an elephant, And that

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would be an interesting thing to study. If anybody's studied
anything like that and has an idea which could win
a tug of war. I know, I think the elephant's
gonna win the tug of war and the marlin's gonna
win the race. But between there, there's gotta be a
lot of interesting discussion. Belleville Meat Market there's a good
place to go meet and chat about it. Sit out

(24:23):
on the patio, have yourself a little lunch with your
family or your friends. Take the whole family out there.
It's a trip. I recommend all the time. Take the
whole family. Pardon me, and designate someone as the person
who's gonna jot down, either electronically or with pen and paper,
everything you want for the next two weeks to eat
that's gonna come out of Bellville Meat Market. When you're

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at the house, print out a little list of all
the thing what's gonna be a pretty good list of
all the things they offer there, and then on the
way decide who wants what and how much of it.
And when you get there, hand that list to somebody
behind the counter, and then go over and get in line.
It's probably gonna be a line for breakfast, or not
for breakfast, but lunch and dinner at Belleville, which is

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served ten to seven daily. And then go out and
eat that lunch you're gonna have on the patio, and
when you're done, your stuff's gonna be ready to take home,
and you can you can just repeat every couple of
weeks or every three weeks, or however often it is.
You need to get back out there big time, going
with all these different little things that they have that

(25:27):
are so good. The stuff mushrooms are great, the peppers,
stuffed peppers, stuffed pork tenders, oh god, those are so good.
Hamburger patties. They've got these chuck Wagon patties now that
are a half pounds apiece, and stuff with delicious ground
beef and seasoning and a bunch of cheddar cheese. Good
place to take your wild game year round, as most

(25:47):
of you already know. And all you gotta do is
either drive about fifteen minutes north of Ciy or fifteen
minutes south of Hempstead on Highway thirty six and you'll
be there. Bellville Meet Markets right in the middle of Bellville.
Just get in town, roll down your windows, and when
you smell barbecue, just follow your nose. Belleville Meatmarket dot
Com is a website, very easy to find. They'll send

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almost anything in the store right to your door. Bellville
MeetMarket dot Com. Make thirty five on Sports Talk seven
ninety The Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly, do
appreciate it so much going on in this state this
time of year. It's so fun, so fun to be
a Texan. It really is.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
I have.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
I've lived in this state the overwhelming majority of my life,
and I've visited about three dozen states. Boots on the ground,
walking around any outdoors, and there's not a better one
as far as variety goes. Now, granted, we don't have

(26:48):
we don't have big time elk hunting, we don't have
trying to think, really, we don't have salmon fishing. I
can live without that. Salmon fishing is for people who
live where salmon can be fished, and it's great. I
watched a lot of these TV shows, especially from Great
Lakes Fishing, and I'm not knocking them because they're they're

(27:11):
making hay while the sun shines. They're they're taking advantage
of what they have. But it just doesn't look exciting.
It doesn't look as fun as wading across a bay
flat or nudging a boat up into the lily pads
on a big bass lake, or any of that stuff.

(27:32):
There's so much that we have that they don't, and
I'll I'll take my chances. In Texas as an outdoorsman,
deer hunting unsurpassed. We have between on average, three and
a half and five million deer any day of the week,
any week of the year in this state. And we

(27:52):
the reason our hunting seasons are so generous on deer
is because we have so many and we have to
take out We have to thin that herd every year
lest we face starvation or disease within him, and we
don't want any of that. Steve Weigh's in by email.
Let's see what he's got here, went on a fishing
trip to Ooh yeah, I bet he would like to.

(28:14):
Oh this is the time machine went on a bass
fishing trip to Lake Guerrero in Mexico in nineteen eighty five.
Oh my gosh, yeah, he's got stats here for you.
This is what Guerrero used to be like in nineteen
eighty five. I don't know how it is now, Steve continues,

(28:34):
but my buddy and I boted one hundred and forty
eight baths in three days. Largest was eleven pounds one
hundred and forty eight bass. That's almost fifty a day,
and in beautiful scenery. I made several trips down there

(28:55):
at officials Mexican lakes back in their heyday, and oh
my gosh, they really did have tremendous fisheries. And then
and then there's always a and then with something in
a something that good a resource, it's that plentiful in

(29:16):
an area where other food sources aren't so plentiful. Then
all of a sudden there were trotlines being set for bass,
and those trotlines and juglines, and who knows, they probably
cast netted them and guildnet there were actually there was
a lot of guild netting going on. These people would

(29:36):
move they would kind of herd bass with noise and
whatnot and motor vibration and all that. They'd move these
these fish that were up in shallow and just push
them farther and farther until they ran into gillnets. And
some of the pictures that came out of there back
when a lot of that was going on were just
gut wrenching. You see hundreds of bass in in a gillnet,

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or you'd see them on trot lines being hauled into
the boats. Yeah, it wasn't good. And now Mexico has
lost not only that that bragging right to having some
of the best lakes in the in the world, but
just also those fisheries. The money that came into the

(30:21):
into Mexico from bass fishermen like Steve and me and
everybody else who was going down there. That much, the
money that came into the country from there was worth
far more than a couple of dead fish on the dock.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Those there were tourists were supporting. And this again, this
is kind of like the Prairie was. People were coming
there from all over the world to fish there and crickets.
Now there there aren't any fish left to catch. SAME's
happened off the coast down there, off the Gulf coast
of Mexico, they just wiped out most of the fish.

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And that's one of the reasons there are so many
ponga's being found up here in the Gulf of Mexico
off our coast, illegally fishing. They run in under cover
of darkness, they get in quick, they throw a big
gillnet out, they run it a little while later, and
then high tail it out of there, get right back

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into Mexican water. And it happens almost every day. The
Coast Guard and the game wardens in South Texas run
into those boats constantly, and every time they take one away,
it seems like two more show up. They're just stealing
our fish, sadly, very sadly, and there's not a lot

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we can do about it. We're trying, we've got good resources,
we've got good enforcement once we can catch them. But
when you've got people in that country who are desperate
for any kind of income, they're perfectly willing to take
that risk, perfectly willing. And if if their boat gets

(32:00):
confiscated and they can somehow find their way back home
across the border, which probably going to happen, then there's
just another guy with another boat waiting for those same
people to get on it and try to go do
it again. Yeah, it's frustrating too. We have such plentiful
resources because we manage them pretty well. We don't overfish.

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The snook fishing in Mexico was staggeringly good around like
in the eighties through maybe twenty ten, twenty fifteen, just
incredibly good. Not so much anymore because they've all been well.
Not all of them have been caught, but most of them,
all the places I fish down there, I got no
reason to go. All right, we need to take another

(32:47):
little break. Holy cow, yes we do real quickly. On
the way out. CCA Star Tournament ongoing. There are winners
in both the Red tag and the Blue Tag divisions,
one of which gets you a boat motor truck trailer package,
one of which gets you a boat trailer motor package.

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Two certified winners already. Steve Ibick's got the blue tagfish
he's gonna get a nice transport boat. And Gary Merchin
got that red tag. He's already had his polygraph just
like ISAACS has. All they're waiting for now is to
get the keys in an official ceremony of transferring the prize.
You too could do that. If you're a member of CCA,

(33:31):
and if you are signed up for the tournament, you
can do it all. You can get both of those
tasks accomplished at Star Tournament dot org and then give
yourself an excuse to fish all summer long because they
also have scholarships for kids up to thirty thousand dollars.
Oh yeah, we we'd love to stay and work it
around the house here today, but you know, those kids

(33:53):
are going to be in college before you know it,
and I sure would be nice have a nice scholarship.
You got to work at work it why you can
all summer long. You have an excuse to go fishing,
an excuse to take the kids, excuse to take everybody.
Come on, we're going fishing again because I want you
to win that prize so I don't have to work
so hard to send you to school. I'm just fantasizing.

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CCA has been around for fifty sixty fifty years now,
right around there. I was around when they were born,
and I met and knew well a lot of the
people who who formed that organization. I reported on them
for the paper for twenty years and change, and even

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edited Tide magazine. That was I really enjoyed editing Tide
Magazine for Star or for CCA for ten long, good years.
And they are truly great stewards of all of our
coastal resources here and around the country. Right now, they
chapters have grown all the way around. But Star Tournament

(34:58):
in Texas was the original one, and it's the best one.
And they got a ton of sponsors, great sponsors. I'll
tell you a little bit more about them later in
the show. I'll list them for you. I don't have
time now. Go to Star tournament dot org, get yourself registered,
get yourself on the water, and win yourself a big prize.
Star tournament dot Org. Looking at the forecast for next

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week today looked really really good to squeeze in around
of golf if you can do it, and down there
on the south side, a good place to do it
would be Timber Creek Golf Club FM twenty three fifty
one in friends would twenty seven holes. I've played all
twenty seven of them a bunch of times. I don't
know how many times it's been. I've been going down
there for a very long time. I don't get down

(35:42):
there as often as I would like, but I get
down there as often as I can because I know
I'm gonna have a good experience down there. If your
game's a little rusty, just check in with JJ Woods
and his staff right next to the driving range. If
your stomach's a little empty, go into the grill, get
yourself something, or maybe grab something at that little turnhouse.
They've got a lot of stuff out there. Right before

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you tee off. You can load the buggy, load that
cart with anything and everything you need to keep you happy.
And even if that's not enough, there's gonna be somebody
driving around to got portable food and beverage. You know
how cart girls are. Cart attendants are not going to
be derogatory. Timber Creek's been around so long and I've

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played a lot of tournaments down there. I've played on
my own ball down there a lot. It's a fantastic
place to grab some buddies. Go get in around to
golf today before the weather starts getting wonky. Timber Creek
Golf Club dot com is the website. Everybody down there
wants you to have a good time. That's why they're there.
Timber Creek Golf Club dot com pay fifty on Sports

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Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. Certainly do appreciate it. By the way,
when we get into the Golf Hour. I'm gonna talk
a little bit about what happened to Jordan Spieth, who
punched out he he withdrew from the Travelers on Thursday.

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I don't remember how many holes in he was, but
I watched the video of him making a couple of
swings and it was clear that he was in serious pain.
We'll go into that and maybe a little bit about
conditioning for golf and making sure that you can still
keep playing even at our our humble levels of ability
and uh, shooting the higher scores than they shoot. But

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you got to take care of yourself. That's pretty important.
Same with same with any outdoors trip. Really, if you're
if you do a lot of wade fishing, you know,
you have to have a little bit of conditioning to
be out just standing for that long. Just all kinds
of things that we do in the outdoors, and as
young men and women take for granted because we're young,

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and we're flexible, and we're resilient, and we just and
we'd like to think we're bulletproof, but it takes a
lot to do anything in the outdoors repeatedly, just over
and over. There's a lot of repetitive motion injuries even
in golf too. It's kind of like tennis elbow. There's

(38:16):
some things that you can have happen to your body.
Maybe we'll get into a little bit of that.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
I need.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
What I need to do is get Pam Owens on.
She's a good friend and has been a personal trainer
for the better part of thirty years now, I would think,
and she knows all about this. I think I'll try
to get in touch with her. I haven't talked to
her in a long time. I've had her on the
show several times in the past, and I think it's
about time that we revisit some of that. I know

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guys who do a lot of it. I'll tell you
two really good examples. Jerry and JTK from down there
Shooter's Corner. Jerry and Jay both have made trips around
the world, and when they're making big, important one show
trips to do a hunt up in the mountain somewhere,

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the preparation for that trip involves a whole lot more
than just packing a suitcase. They do months of work,
conditioning work to get their bodies ready. And Jerry not
so much anymore, but Jay's still young enough and tough
enough that if he puts his mind to go in
anywhere on the planet to hunt anything that's huntable anywhere

(39:26):
on the planet, he'll get there and he'll have a
good time. He won't have to stop and rest halfway
up the mountain or halfway down the mountain. I've made
I haven't made a lot of mountain hunts. I've done
a lot of just activity snowboarding, specifically at high elevation.
And that whole elevation thing is the real deal. It'll

(39:48):
let you know really quickly whether you're in shape or not.
And most of the times I've been okay, But every
now and then I've had to just pause at the
top of the mountain and sit there trying to get
into and get up on that snowboard. And man, I've
wished more than once that I had actually done some preparation.

(40:12):
True confessions here, I'll just let it fall out. I basically,
I just get on the airplane and I packed my clothes.
I get on the airplane and just see how it
works out, and convince myself all the way there that
that won't be so bad. But when you're huffing and
puffing halfway down the mountain and it's so fun that

(40:32):
you want to keep going, but you're just exhausted because
you can't get enough oxygen and you're not conditioned for it.
It's an eye opening and a kind of a humbling experience.
You've got to accept wherever you are and know that
you can be better at the same time, and I'm
inspiring myself, I think, Frankie to do a little bit better. Yeah,

(40:55):
I'm trying. I'm trying.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
You know.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
The downside for me is that I've been very fortunate
physically to not have any major issues I've got. I've
got a back issue I deal with every time I
play golf. I know it's gonna be there. I know
what it's gonna do to my game every single time,
so and it's not gonna stop me from playing. It's

(41:20):
not gonna be a Jordan's speed thing where I just
can't go on. It's gonna it's something that I can
I knock on wood. I've always just marched through and
worked through it as I played around. But I'm gonna
have to address it and have to start conditioning myself
a little bit better to keep enjoying the outdoors. I'll
tell you something else that nobody really thinks about as

(41:42):
being taxing physically, as being offshore on a boat, or
even being on the bay on a rocking boat. Your
your muscles, and your brain and your head are constantly
moving in different directions. It's a lot for your mind
to handle, and it's a lot physically to handle, pressing
and releasing and pressing and releasing muscles that you haven't

(42:04):
used in a long time. Rocking around on that boat
will wear you out. You'll sleep well, and if you
catch a lot of fish, you'll have happy dreams, but
you're still going to be taxed physically. Offshore fishing will
beat you up. Man that the number of billfish tournaments
I fished years ago, and in pretty rough seas. Sometimes

(42:28):
that's definitely a young man's game. It really is either
young or somebody who's been doing it for so long
that it just rolls off their backs. They don't think
about it the first couple of times you go offshore
in a fairly fairly small not a tiny little boat.
When I was younger, my friends and I would go,
we'd go twenty five thirty miles off shore in a

(42:48):
seventeen foot boat and not think anything of it. That
will be fine. And this was way before GPS too.
This was all compass navigation. Compass kind of eyeball where
you're going, think about the current and where it's going
to push you to, and just hope that if you
keep going on the path you're on because you're watching

(43:08):
that compass, that in a minute or two you're going
to see the top of that platform come over the
horizon and you're going to know you're headed to one
of the oil rigs out there. That they're all numbered
and marked, And a lot of times we would get
to one and it wouldn't be the one we thought
we were going to, and that really turns you around
a little bit. It was difficult sometimes getting back. Then

(43:31):
came Lranz. See that was somewhat helpful. But GPS has
probably saved a lot of lives because there are a
lot of crazy people running around in boats probably shouldn't
be offshore. I saw a flat bottom boat out there
once about I don't know about sixteen eighteen miles somewhere.
This guy had he was by himself. It's just bad

(43:51):
idea number one offshore and he had gas cans lining
the bottom of that boat. He was not going to
run out of gas. There's no uh. But he also
shouldn't have been where he was in about I think
it was about a maybe it's probably an eighteen foot
flat bottom boat. And more power to him, hope he
made it back. Seven one three two one two five

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seven ninety Email me dougpikeing at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's
go ahead and take this last break of the hour,
and when we get back, we'll tee it up at
the Travelers and see what's going on there, and see
what's going on with the LPGA. They got the Women's
PGA Championship going on round three, popping up around four today. Actually,
I guess yeah. I'm looking at an old and old

(44:35):
prompt on the screen in here. I'll check on that
one as well. El Cubano Cigars, that's something you ought
to check on if you like a good cigar manufactured
right here, manufactured right here in Texas City, in one
of only about four dozen actual cigar manufacturing facilities in
the entire country. Manny Lopez owns the place. He has

(44:59):
since it opened up its doors a long long time ago.
Founded by him and his father two thousand and six,
they used the finest Cuban seed tobacco, most of which
has grown in Central America. It gets shipped up here,
it gets cured for several weeks. I'm not sure exactly
how long he told me when I was doing my
tour down there, but I've forgotten the exact number. But

(45:20):
it just it just sits there and waits till it's
it's his turn dispatch of tobacco. We're going to bring
that out in a little while, and once it's out,
and once it's rolled, you're gonna find that they've turned
it into one of well, it's one of about one
hundred and fifty different actual specific tobacco recipes, if you will.

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For their cigars down there, absolutely beautiful work too. Some
of them. They take advantage of the different colors in
the tobaccos to make them really pretty and wonderful smelling
and tasting cigars. They've been down there, I don't know
how many years.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
The thing that matters most to me is the things
that they can do with those cigars to help you
and your business, you and your family, you and your friends, whatever.
If you have a big event going on and you
want to really kind of wow the people there, Get
Mandy to come out. He'll put one of those little
awnings up and he'll sit behind the table and roll
cigars for your guests. If you've got clients you want

(46:24):
to kind of wow with something special around gift giving
season or for a special occasion, get him to make
some cigars for you and then put that company's or
your company's logo on the bands of those cigars. Really
make them personalized. He did that for us here at
iHeart and those things were well received, I can assure
you by the people who got them. El Cubanos Cigars

(46:48):
dot com. Special occasions, you're just everyday enjoyment. He ships
them out all over the country every day of the week.
Elcubano Cigars dot com. When you talk to man and
you should tell him, I said hello, Elcubanosigars dot Com.
All right, second hour of the program starts right now.
Bo Pro sent me a video. I don't have time

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to watch the whole thing right now, but I'm just
kind of taking a quick look at it. From some
hunting operation duck hunting operation speaking of Priceland Waterfowl Club
in New Zealand. That's a long ways to go, especially
when you got that Eagle Lake prairie out there on
the west side that I'd rather make twenty trips out

(47:32):
there than one trip to New Zealand for duck hunting.
I got an opportunity once to go hunt red stag
in just shortly after my son was born, to go
hunt red stag in New Zealand, and I didn't get
to make it because I wanted to be a good dad,
and so that's what I chose. And I'm pretty glad
I chose that. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety email on me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Steve Wade back in on his bass fishing trip down

(47:55):
to Guerrero and and shared, as almost every one of
us who went down there from here in in New
Mexico to go bass fishing. When you fished with a guide,
they couldn't understand why you were throwing those fish back.
Every fish they catch down there they take home to eat,
and that's part of the reason they had. They they've

(48:18):
suffered a lot of they've dried up their tourist business
in a in a lot of ways. Uh, let's go
catch up with let me move this. Hang on one second,
I gotta move and move you off of that screen.
Put you over here, Frank you wearing? See you better?
Now I can go talk to Kevin. Hey, Kevin, what's up? Man?

Speaker 3 (48:36):
Hey Doug?

Speaker 1 (48:37):
What's you up to this morning?

Speaker 4 (48:38):
Buddy?

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Just I'm looking at New Zealand duck hunting. It looks
a whole lot like Katie Prairie duck hunting. It does.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
I'm I'm riding down the road right now and I've
got a box in the seat beside me that's got a.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Barred out in it. Get out of here. Where are
you headed?

Speaker 3 (48:54):
I was coming from one of my parts, Buffalo camp
and yeah, going down, going down the road, and there
was a lady out in the road and this owl
was just sitting there in the middle of the road.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
And we ended up getting a box and I put
on some leather gloves and picked it up and gently
set it.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
In a box.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
And right now I'm on my way over to Golf
Coast Wildlife Rehab. Good for you cooperative to deliver? Yes, yeah,
I tell you that. That, Alan says, Okay, Man, just
get me somewhere.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
Yeah it's been it's pretty calm. Well, yeah, that's good.
Then I wonder did it make any attempt to fly
or anything or just standing there? Not at not at all.
He's hurt bad, just sat there. Yeah, I hope they
can take care of him. Yes, sir, Well good for you. Well,
good for you doing that. Where is that Golf Coast
rehab place.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
It's here, just off of Business to eighty eight between
rich Wood and Angleton.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Oh okay, so it wouldn't be hard to find. That's
you know, that's a phone number. I'm not I'm not
advocating that anybody and everybody who sees a little animal
on the side of the road scoop it up and
put it in box. I know you know what you're doing,
but it's a it's good to have that phone number
of a wildlife rehab center and just call them and
get them involved and they can take it from there

(50:11):
kind of yes, sir. Yeah, good for you.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
You're an owl saber, Yes, sir, especially when I can
to take care of our wildlife.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Well and kids. I know that as well. You've got
any events coming.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Out, sir, the just the Texas King Fish Championship that
raises money for for the Christmas presents for the kids
for the Freeport Port o'cott toy run.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Just that you said. Yeah, that's a pretty darn good thing. Well,
stay in touch with me and let me know what
I can help you. Okay, all right, buddy Kevin, thanks man,
take care both, Dave. What's up man?

Speaker 4 (50:51):
Hey, yeah, I own that along those lines. Uh remember
when I told you about that time behind Stowfield Lake
on that hot asphalt road. I'm luckily and I got
that falling off.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
Yeah, but you don't. Yeah, and my dad taught it.
You know, you don't want to get no rabbits or
anything like that and get your sin on there because
it's not good. The mama ain't you want to take
care of it. But uh, okay, and this is coming
towards your fifty plus. I had that steroid deal in
the back of my neck and then my doctor gave
me some kind of other medicine and so yess why

(51:25):
I didn't call in yesterday. I've been in La La Land.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Man.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
Now I'm all good. I'm very serious, man, I thought
I was.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
I was like, what the nick?

Speaker 4 (51:36):
You know? And now you know I'm not hurting. But
before that, I was kind of like, people know where
I was, you know, but I'm the wife's driving right
now and on kind of us a little bit of
a sad note, but happy to whether her daughter passed away.
She would have been forty years old ors she passed
away from the breast cancer. And we're heading out for
Edneon right now, and we're gonna do a balloon release.

(51:59):
I'm gonna play for songs around the grades sight there
and then a big celebration of life. We got about
twenty five people coming and you know it's it's uh,
she'll be happy, you know.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
That's good. Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
Yeah, that's good things to do, you know. And and
uh and oh and and let's see we we are
going to sign on the house on the seventh.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
So that's congratulations.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Man.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Yeah, that's a great that's a great thing for you guys.
I'm happy, you know what.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Let me tell you what.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
It's a miracle.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
So yeah, you know, well he man, let me let
you get on that. And we're on the road.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
All right again, we're on the road. I'll see audios,
all right, let me go check a couple of email. Yeah,
Rudy waded in Scott. He is human, after all, he
shot us seventy two. Yesterday I got news for you.
Seventy two. That's still that's still above human, that's still outstands.

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It's only I think, like one in I don't know
what the percentages are of golfers who can break par
or even shoot even par. And Scotti Scheffler is one
of those guys who expects to do better. It was
kind of there was a quote from him the other
day he's well, not the other day, the other month.
It's been a couple of months now. I think when

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he was talking about one of his friends playing golf
with one of his friends, maybe in a maybe in
a pro am, maybe somewhere else. I don't know what.
But anyway, he was asked if his friend was a
good golfer, and he said, now, he's really not that good.
I think he's about a ten. And to the world

(53:45):
of golfers, a ten handicap is pretty respectable. It really is.
It's it's better, way better than most, way better than most.
H Frankie Wade in are you are you Brad's translator
that what's going on?

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (54:06):
Oh, okay, have we got an email for him? Maybe
I wonder or something. Yeah, I don't know offhand what
I can do for him, but he's looking for decent
guides down that way, and I could probably help Brad.
But if you would please just shoot me an email
and let me know kind of what you're looking for
and when, because there are lots of good guides in

(54:29):
this base system, and it just depends on where you
want to start from, what you want to catch, how
you want to catch them, And there's a lot of
questions I would need to ask before i'd recommend to anybody.
I know a lot of guides down there, but I
don't know what you're looking for. So shoot me an
email and we'll go over it and I'll find somebody

(54:50):
who can help you out. Seven one three, two one
two five seven nine Email me dougpick at iHeartMedia dot com.
Now now I think I can get to the tournament
leader board from pardon me, I got that taken care of.
We're going to the Travelers. I want to view the
leader board up there in Cromwell. Let's go, come on leaderboard.

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There we go TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut, USA. It
says here as if we wouldn't know, Tommy Fleetwood distanced
himself yesterday from the field by shooting a sixty three.
Russell Henley tried to keep pace. He shot sixty one
yesterday but didn't start where Tommy did. So Fleetwood's at sixteen,

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Russell Henry and Keegan Bradley, who also shot sixty three yesterday,
both of them at thirteen under par a sleeve back
as they start today's play. Jason Days at eleven, Brian
Harmon's at eight, Wyndham Clark and Harris English also at eight.
I'll read the sevens and then we'll run out of time.
Lucas Glover, Roy McElroy, Patrick Cantley, Nick Taylor, Ni McCarthy

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and Scottie Scheffler, who went backwards yesterday. He's two over
yesterday unfortunately. So this is I hope Tommy Fleetwood's day.
He's been wanting to earn himself a PGA Tour win
for a very long time. He's a very good player
and he's got three shots that he can hang on

(56:24):
to to make it. Uh, let me go, hold on,
let me go talk to Aaron here real quick before
we have to go to break Aaron, are you asking
for for real? Because you're a hit?

Speaker 2 (56:37):
No, not not a third time I'm trying to forget.
I'm sorry. I didn't want to derail you from from
the golf thing.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
That's okay, well, but Frankie put up here, Aaron needs
a good solution for sting ray hits, and like, oh.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
No, it's not.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
From last year. It is just barely barely heal my gosh.
You know, I was just wondering if you or any
of your followers there have come across in one of
the shows a sensible good stingray boot, because you know,
the waiting boots that I wore last year, he got
me a half inch above it. I just really don't

(57:19):
want to go through it again, and you do anything.
I want to focus on fishing, you know. Yeah, yeah,
I'm guilty of not shuffling my feet. I don't know,
but you know, you hit one of those little holes
or you get caught up and you're sidecasting and you
just don't want to be thinking about it. So I'm
wondering if if somebody out there has come across a

(57:42):
product or something, you know, ideally almost you know, maybe
midcalf or lower ca.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
Yeah, there are there are reliable boots out there, but
depending on the size of the staying ray and where
you step on it and all that. They can get
you pretty high up your legs, so you're almost gonna
have to go just below the knee to feel really comfortable.

(58:07):
Other than that, it goes back to shuffle your dog
on feet. Man, you gotta shuffle your feet. And what's
amazing to me is how few surfers get hit running
just running into the surf and splashing their way all
the way out to the first bar before they jump
on their or the second bar before they jump on
their surfboard. It's amazing that not more of them get hit.

(58:31):
But yeah, you it's either stay out of the water
or pay attention or get taller boots. And they get
heavy too. You got to be aware of that.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, you know, you don't want to look
like a like a uh.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
I wonder if Cliff Web's ever been hit. You know,
I think if I had that you you know, you've
never been hit.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
No I haven't. Don't say that knocking on wood right now.
Oh man, No, I haven't, but I've been around people
who have, and it's it's a very miserable experience, as
you know. Yeah, it's you know, we'll throw it out
there and see if any anybody has an opinion that's
that's favorable for a particular product. I'd love to hear it.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Yeah, well, while we're on the subject, if it does
ever happen to any of your listeners. It is almost magical.
When you put it in a bucket of hot water,
it's got to be close to one hundred and ten
degrees that. You know. Those nurses at the er said
it's gonna make it feel better. I said, no, you
dig deep into that, into that medicine cabinet, and they
said no, you know they did, but it didn't compare

(59:38):
to that hot water. It is magic.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
It just breaks down that that toxin is what it does.
The heat breaks it down and it just it can't
bother you anymore. And it takes a while. It's not
gonna go away overnight, is it.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
Uh? Well, actually it did go away after about five
or six hours. Oh okay, to where at least sleep.
But you're gonna get a tennis shot. I mean you're
gonna have to go to to you know, one of
those little excuse the term of quack, quack in a
box or whatever. But they're gonna they're gonna give you
a tennis shot.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
He's the guy who's got the tennis shot. You better
not talk bad about him or her, you know. Yeah,
Oh no, are you the guy who called us the
quack of the box? Yeah, we're a tennis shot.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Sorry, yeah, but you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Yeah I do.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
Yeah, you know yeah, yeah. Most people have you know,
not most, but a lot of people who are fishing
bathy and they've got a bucket on them or ready
or something just to get you to that place. But yeah, man,
let me tell you, it is a pain that you
do not want to experience.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
I'm so sorry you've had to do it twice.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
H Well, it's not not enough to keep me out
of that first gutt and try some top waters.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Didn't learn your lesson the first time or second?

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
Yeah, that's a good point, you know, honestly, God very quickly,
because I'm running late now. But there was a morning
when Cliff Webb told my son and me years ago,
said be careful in the surf early because there's a
bunch of little stingrays in it, and don't don't you know,
watch where you're stepping. And we were in like shin
deep water and a little light waves lapping up. Beautiful

(01:01:21):
morning to fish the surf down there, and I'm not
seeing anything, and the light's still down way low, but
I'm not seeing anything. And all of a sudden, the
sun got to a certain angle like there it is,
and you look down and honest to god, it was
like a checkerboard, and every other red space was a
sting ray like a Holy cow. They were everywhere, and
we just managed somehow to not step on them. But

(01:01:44):
I just backed up a little bit. Yeah, they do.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Thanks again for anything. Du we talk to?

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Oh yeah, man, let's talk again. You got it anytime?

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Holy cow, I'm running the late, running late as usual.
It's a good guy that I wanted to see. What
I thought. I'll thought for sure he had been hit again.
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(01:03:25):
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(01:04:10):
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nine to Doug Pike Show, I'll lean back into something

(01:06:24):
an interesting story that was shared me earlier about golf
and breathing from Mark over in Georgia. But then Mark
sent me a second after talking to Aaron, Mark sent
me something. I hope you're still listening. Aaron. Mark's all
the way over in Georgia, but he's from here, so
he knows what he's talking about. Storm Castle gators g

(01:06:46):
Ai t e er that kind of gator. They go
over your boots, whatever your waiting boots are. So if
you've got a waiting boot that will protect the top
of your foot, These little bullet proof gators appear to
be pretty lightweight and would go all the way up
to your at least to your knee. I don't think

(01:07:08):
that they're not gonna cover your kne It's not gonna
be like wearing hip boots. But they're gonna get up
high enough that I think you'd be protected from anything
other than a other than a car hood sized stingray.
They look they look pretty good. Gonna cost you according
to where at the site I'm at right now that
he sent one hundred and twenty five dollars, but between

(01:07:32):
if the option is that or another stingray hit, I
think I'd be rooting around for a C note and
a twenty and a five and shipping it off as
fast as I could. Yeah, they look. They look pretty good.
Storm Castle Gators, thank you for that, mark. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
So these protect your lea heat Mark wrote these protect
your leg and won't filled with water or change your
gate walking. That's a big part of it is if
you're wearing big, tall boots and you're out there waiting
thigh deep and they fill with water, they get heavy,
they get cumbersome. They can actually kind of knock you
off your balance a little bit, kind of like a weeble.

(01:08:14):
But this I like the idea of the gator. Now
you're gonna have to deal with that top of your
foot from about the arch forward to your toes being
exposed with whatever boots you have on.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
But if you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
Combine a lower a lower rise stingray boot with those,
you should be should be pretty bulletproof. I'm not guaranteeing anything,
but it should be. Okay. Mojo weighed in on the
balloons and and I'm I'm sharing this because it's a
good idea. The balloon releases that they do land somewhere,

(01:08:53):
and this is Mojo weighing in, Farm farm person. That
Mojo is they do land somewhere and become death sentences
for livestock and wildlife. Send up songs, not plastics. Please,
that's a reasonable request. Just think about that. Just think
about that. I've seen a lot of that on television

(01:09:15):
on some of the shows I watch, where families get
together and release a lot of balloons, and nobody's arguing
with the sentiment. Nobody's arguing with the gesture and the
healing properties it may have. But just remember, and I've
seen them out in the woods in the middle of nowhere.
Just be walking through the wits wood somewhere on a

(01:09:36):
deer hunt or whatever, and all of a sudden there's
a balloon on the ground, and that balloon the same
with when they land in the water. Something's gonna try
to eat them. Plastic bags in the water. Turtles try
to eat them, thinking they're jellyfish. Ziplock bag in the water,

(01:09:59):
it looks exactly like a jellyfish. Turtle snaps it up,
swallows it down, and then it gets it impacted. So
just think about what's going up in the air, what's
going in the water. And again, nobody's trying to rain
on the parade, and nobody's trying to take anything away
from the grief that's that's caused this gathering or the

(01:10:21):
healing power that it has. But just think it over
seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Good heavens, we're
already at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
This one's just zipping by, absolutely zipping. The Black Horse
Golf Club two ninety to Fry Road, hang a south,
go down about two and a half three miles, I
think it is. You'll see golf course on your right.
Then when you see golf course. On both sides of
the road hang a west. Once you get in that gate,

(01:10:52):
you have entered black Horse Golf Club, and there you
will find two great golf courses, one of which is private.
That'd be the South Course. The North course still daily
feel like it has been since they opened up twenty
twenty five years ago. I played both courses I don't
know how many times a lot, and loved every minute
I've spent up there, except the time that I hit

(01:11:12):
a woman with a seven iron shot into a five
par I made one of the drives of my life.
And they had already walked off the green and were
on the cart path, and I dead pulled my seven
iron that I saw I had left was a good,
strong seven iron, and I pulled it and it hit her,

(01:11:33):
and I felt pretty badly about that, but she was okay.
She laughed it off. I laughed it off, thank goodness,
and we all got better for it. That doesn't happen often.
But I digressed because black Horse. What I should have
done is gone over to jaj urd to to the
end of the range down there and gotten somebody to
fix that seven iron swing of mine, and I wouldn't

(01:11:55):
hit anybody every well, I haven't hit anybody again yet,
so that's more marks in my favorite. Black Horse has
got a tremendous staff of people. They've got a great
grill that serves up delicious food before or after your
round whenever you show up. Got great clubhouse and pro
shop staff that are going to be around. The general
manager's guy named Craig Hicks. Great guy, loves the outdoors,

(01:12:19):
loves the game of golf, loves his facility, and with
good reason. He is doing a lot of improvements up
there this year, and I'm pretty sure you'll start to
notice them every time you go up For the next
year or so. They've got long term plans to better
both of those golf courses up there. As if it's
not going to be easy, they're great facilities already. Golf

(01:12:42):
Club dot com is a website. Whether it's you and
a buddy or you got two hundred people you want
to tee it up with and raise money, black Horse
can help you. Black Horse Golf Club dot Com. If
you are interested in seeing some of the best sporting
clay shooters in the country, go at it. American Shooting
Centers hosting an event today that will do just that

(01:13:03):
for you. You can go out and watch these guys shoot.
It's amazing, absolutely amazing how good they are at breaking
clay targets. That it's golf for the shotgun, as it's
been described since sporting plays started. Edarigi, I was gonna
try and get him on the phone this weekend to
kind of give a pre Dove season talk about getting

(01:13:24):
ready and shooting clays and whatnot, but he said, I'm
tied up with this shoot. He's got a monthly shoot
out there that brings in some really heavyweight shooters and
they're all out there today knocking them around and busting targets.
If your sporting clay's game isn't as good as you'd
like it to be, America Shooting Centers has instruction out
there in every shooting discipline really, anything from rifle and

(01:13:47):
pistol to shotguns. They've got ample. They're more than two
hundred shooting stations on that property. That's a lot of
places you could be standing taking shots at targets, whether
it's five yards with your handgun six hundred yards with
your rifle. There's a little pop up silhouette range for
remfire shooting. There's a beginner's wing shooting area out there,

(01:14:08):
ten sporting clay or three sporting plays courses, ten trap
and skeep fields, five stands, setups all over the property
and people watching everything that goes on out there to
make sure everybody has a safe and enjoyable shooting experience.
Pro shops got a nice selection of higher end guns,
rifles and shotguns. They've got plenty of AMMO and pretty

(01:14:31):
much every imaginable calendar or caliber and just can't wait
to have you out there. They're on West Timber Parkway
between Katie and Highway six. Been there for a couple
of decades and change.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
I was out there for the groundbreaking. That's how old
I am. American Shootingcenters dot com. That's the website. Learn
more about it there American Shootingcenters dot Com. Nine on
Sports Talk seven to ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you
for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I'm wrestling with yet again,
wrestling with the KPMG Women's PGA Championship Scoreboard. Why why

(01:15:12):
they don't put first names and last names in these
I don't know. It's very frustrating because the names are important.
They really are and to just list a first initial
and a last name in an event, in any event, really,
I think is an oversight on somebody's part, and yet

(01:15:33):
they still they still don't want to change it. I
don't know whether it's stubborn, whether it's insensitive, whether it's uncaring,
whatever it is, but it's it's a mistake and somebody
needs to let them know that Fields Ranch East is
where this competition is going on. This I think it's
the I don't remember exactly which playing of the LPGA

(01:15:55):
Women's Championship.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
This is.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
In the lead at six under par. This is kind
of a It's very similar in many ways, obviously through
or to the US or the Yeah, the Open last
week where at Oakmont, where the scores were just so
brutally high six under par for m Lee and apologies,

(01:16:22):
once again, I don't have first names, uh and that.
And it also doesn't gosh, what a this is a
bad scoreboard. It doesn't show previous round scores either. It's
just round four E for almost every contestant until you
get well, actually, yeah, it's they haven't even started play
up there. Maybe there's a problem. This is it's a

(01:16:45):
very poorly done website. But I'll tell you where they
are at present. So M Lee is at six finical,
I know that name two under par, and then it
goes over par. Yamashida plus one h J Choi. I
wonder if that's a relative of kJ Choy. I doubt

(01:17:05):
it plus one as well as is Lexi Thompson. So
now the leaders at six. Usually when somebody's out by
more than ahead by more than four, they're gonna come
back to the field a little bit. It just is
that's kind of what happens in golf. McGuire and Nellie
Corda and e y and No at plus two, Kim

(01:17:30):
wanna say Lee and another Kim and a Yen at
three over par, and I don't think the winner's gonna
come from any farther down than that. Yeah, I'm disappointed
in this scoreboard, and I think if I clicked on
another one earlier, it did the same thing I remember
in a previous a recent LPGA. I think it was

(01:17:54):
for the Chevron. Actually I found a full name leaderboard
and I didn't have a chance to take a look
for that. But there you are. If you're watching great
and the women play a game that's very relatable We
talked about this when I was when the Chevron was
going on, the first major of the year. For the women,
they play a game that's much more relatable to the

(01:18:17):
average guy. They hit the ball plenty far. They don't
hit it PGA Tour far, but they hit it country
club and daily fee course far. The good players at clubs,
the good players at daily fee courses, the guys who
win the club championship, and they play similar games to

(01:18:37):
those men, and so it's very relatable for us at
very shot values and what they can do now there.
And for many years I was not impressed with the
putting on the LPGA Tour, but in recent years I
don't know what changed, but they're starting to drain more

(01:18:57):
putts and there's no ex nation for it. Really, there's
no strength involved. There's no real special skill involved other
than starting a ball, reading the putt and knowing where
it's supposed to break and how much, and hitting at
the right speed on that line. That's all you have
to do to make every put you look at. It's

(01:19:18):
not as easy. It's a lot easier said than done.
I'm struggling with my putting right now. It's sad, it's
just so sad, and I'm I kind of came out
of it for a little while, and I think I've
figured out why too. I don't know if I mentioned
it yesterday or not, but I think the putter I
have right now is a little bit heavy because I'm
not as young as I was when I got it,
I'm not as strong as I was when I got it,

(01:19:40):
and I've always liked a heavier putter anyway, but this
one is especially heavy, and I wonder if that's causing
me to engage some of the teeny tiny muscles that
really I really don't want to engage when I'm taking
that thing back, because I have difficulty taking it back
on on a straight, consistent line. It'll wobble a little

(01:20:03):
bit sometimes, and Nora, usually I can straighten it out
on the way to the ball and still start the
ball on the line I wanted. But I think that
may be part of the problem. So now I got
to go find a new putter. It's like finding a
new child. It's not going to be easy. I'll find it, though,

(01:20:23):
I'll get it back. Let's take this final break of
the program now and wrap that part up. Then when
we come back, we will do a quick overview of
what's been discussed this weekend. It's been pretty good. I'm
really glad all of you participated. Had a lot of
interaction yesterday, all kinds of things going on. On the
way out, I'll tell you about Riceland Waterfowl Club. We

(01:20:44):
save the best for last. This is one of my
favorites because it has to do with waterfowl hunting. David Pruitt,
the man who owned this and operated this company, Riceland
Waterfowl Club for fifty years now, started when he was
just a young lad, a young enthusiastic thinking, Wow, this
will be so much fun. And then the more years

(01:21:05):
he got into it, I bet he realized how much
work it is. And thank goodness for all the members
of Riceland Waterfowl Club. David Pruett likes doing this work
all summer long. He and one or two other guys
who work with him are going to be on that
prairie making sure that everything that they need done before

(01:21:25):
hunting season gets done. Before hunting season. They're gonna start
making sure all the levees are secure. They're going to
start making sure all their water movement plans are in
place when they need to start pumping water. They will
hopefully not for a while because that water's expensive. David
Prut's been doing this for a long time. They've got

(01:21:46):
dozens of blinds, all of which are at least a
quarter mile apart, and nobody's taking guided hunts on any
of his properties. He's adding land and he's adding water
to I think he said he was adding about one
thousand acres of new water this year, just to make
sure that everybody keeps getting quality duck hunting, just like

(01:22:07):
he's done for the past fifty years. No guided hunting
going on, and the system he uses to determine which
groups get to hunt where from day to day is
a good, proven way to do this, so that nobody
really gets preferential treatment. Everybody had got the same shot

(01:22:28):
at the best spots every day. It's a really good
way to operate, and that means in the end, everybody's
going to be happy, and they were last year. If
you didn't have good hunting, good duck hunting last year,
raise your hand, and I bet you there's a lot
of hands in the air right now. If you didn't,
if you weren't happy, if you weren't excited to keep
going back to that same area that you hunted and

(01:22:51):
have the same opportunity you had. It wasn't working out,
Try rice Land this year. They could be very pleasantly
surprised with the results. He yet, with the people you're
gonna meet out there. Riceland Waterfowl Club dot Com is
the website Ricelandwaterfowl Club dot com nine two on Sports
Talk seven ninety Good Heavens. I saw this this week.

(01:23:14):
The National Weather Service put out an advisory warning people
in areas with extreme heat, and Frankie and I talked
a little bit about this. What was it That Number
one was hydration. This was something the Parks and Wildlife
Department put out. There was hydration, there was sunscreen, all
that stuff, But the National Weather Service warned us all

(01:23:36):
that in areas of extreme heat, we should avoid coffee, alcohol.
And here's the kicker. This is something I'm glad they
put this out there because nobody would have known to
not abandon their children and pets in hot cars.

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:23:53):
Really, we still have to tell people that, which is
something by the way, that happens a lot after alcohol
is involved. I would imagine there was some guy just
arrested his young son, an eighteen month old I think
it was eighteen month old baby died in a hot
car recently this past week because he left the baby

(01:24:13):
in the car to go drinking. How about. Oh, it's
just amazing how there ought to be some sort of
minimum requirements to become parents. There really should other than
what the minimum requirements are now, because I think we

(01:24:33):
know better and we know that some people just aren't
cut out to be good parents. It's very frustrating see
something like that happened. That child lost his life because
dad dad needed a drink. Okay, I'm gonna get off
of that. That's just terrible. I don't want to talk
about that. The good news is there is a stretch

(01:24:56):
of weather coming now up here. It's going to be
pretty wet for the entire week coming up, and then
it'll start to kind of settle out and be better.
And that's gonna happen more quickly down a little farther
south along the coast. So this is gonna be one
of those ones probably that come rumbling across the gut
of Texas, just right through the mid section from Houston

(01:25:19):
up through Dallas, and maybe not be so impactful down
along the lower coast where by the way, in the
past week or so, they got a boatload of rain.
They got a boatload of rain, gonna that's gonna make
a whole lot of things better in the long term.
They need that exchange of water in the bay system

(01:25:39):
to trigger certain things that happen when it's not hyper saline.
They need that water to cool things off. They needed
all every inch of water they got down there, they needed.
And I don't know anybody in South Texas whoever complains
about getting some rain. We talked about that, we talked
about I pulled out my safety sam hat. Yes, because

(01:26:00):
there was another another boating accident that cast somebody of
their life. I think up in the Midwest. I can't
remember exactly where it was. They happen all too frequently
these days. And the only thing different really from ten
twenty years ago is how fast boats can go now.
And they're just like cars. Just because a boat can

(01:26:22):
go ninety miles an hour, unless you just got to
call that your house is on fire, you probably don't
need to be running across the bay or the lake
at ninety miles an hour or one hundred. There is
just too little room for air margin for air too,
greater risk of just the least little thing causing a

(01:26:45):
tremendous accident. There's all kinds of things that can go
wrong at that speed, and the opportunity to correct them
is reduced to just nanoseconds. And that's depending on the
person who's driving the boats to even do that, to
even understand how to correct something that goes wrong at

(01:27:06):
ninety miles an hour or one hundred. I know a
lot of you guys are kind of cringing and going, Oh,
don't worry about it. We got this. We know how
to drive our boats. I know that, but pretty much
so did most of these people who have gotten in
these high speed accidents. They knew how to draw boats too.
They've been driving them all their lives, right up till

(01:27:28):
the point when something goes wrong. Be careful. I don't
want to lose any member of this audience because somebody
either somebody crashed into them, or they crashed into somebody
else or to something else. I'll get off of that.
So the good news is trout fishing. I can always
lean back on trout fishing because it is phenomenal and

(01:27:49):
it's just going to get better and better and better,
so long as winter doesn't deal with any nasty cards.
I want to take my time machine trip into the
future about five years and see where trout fishing is then,
because I've got a hunch that it's going to be
just absolutely spectacular and they're going to be at least

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as many, if not more, giant trout in the fishery
as there were when Cliff Webb and I had our
trip lifetime trip years ago. He's had a lot of
great trips, but I'll tell you what that one that
he and I were on that was one for the ages,
and I'll never forget it. It changed, he said, And
I've said it changed trout fishing in South Texas that

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one trip. I wrote a story about it, and that
story generated so much more interest in big trout fishing.
All right, that's going to wrap it up for today.
LPGA Championship's going on, the Travelers is going on. Jordan
SPIE's out because his back got torn up. First time
he's ever withdrawn from a PGA Tour event in his career,

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and he had to have felt really really bad for
that to happen, because you know, they go through or
some stuff, get outside for heaven's sakes, it's gonna be
rainy for the next several days. Get outside now while
the sunshine and have a little fun. Stay safe, please,
We'll talk on Tuesday on kPr C. Back here again
Saturday on kbm ME. Thanks for listening. Audios