Talking State Parks

Originally aired on October 18th, 2025. On this episode, Doug talks about catching redfish, the affordability of the outdoors for younger folks, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, let's try it now.
Frankie's at work. Say they're doing a dance. Oh man,
of all the days too. We've got a We got
to put thirty pounds of sugar into a twenty pounds
sacked this morning because of some college football game that's

(00:22):
gonna getting our way at nine o'clock. Actually, college football
doesn't get our wet nine. I give up the nine
to ten hour this morning so that my friend's over
at Sports Investors Daily can be on Chris Hodge and
his crew, and then we'll have football after that. Bring
that music down, Man is blowing my head off. You're

(00:42):
so excited to hear it running. You just let it go,
didn't you. Oh yeah, all right, so not a big deal.
This kind of stuff happens sometimes, and when it does,
everybody's running around here like a headless chicken. Has sept
me because I'm not allowed to touch anything that he
was working on. So I just sitting here and wait
for him to give me a thumbs up, and off

(01:03):
we go. We almost, by the way, we almost got
out a storm season with hait without having a blink.
You've watched it. I've watched it all summer long and
then on Conflinty over at Channel two. And I'm joking. Oh,
and if you happen to hear this or somebody plays
it for you later, but dog gone. If he didn't

(01:24):
actually come out this past week. I think it was
on Wednesday. Maybe I look at I'm looking for stuff
to use in fifty plus and I see him something
something about storm seasons over. And he's made this declaration
in front of the camera to everybody who sees it
that storm season is over and done with for everybody

(01:47):
in Houston. And I'm just just my skin crawled. Here
we go, here we go. And then sure enough, there
was nothing by the way on that day, not a
thing on the map at the National Hurricane Center Thursday morning,
two things on the map. One one was a little

(02:08):
bit of nothing out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,
headed east back toward Great Britain. So I didn't worry
about that one much. But then there was a bigger
one that had a better chance of development, although it
is still small down Low Low Low in the eastern
Caribbean and expected to head right through the Caribbean. And

(02:30):
the only good news for us is that it's also
supposed to as it gets nearer to the mainland, is
supposed to turn kind of south. Now it's still too
far out to know which way that thing's going to turn,
So I kind of wish he hadn't opened this big
old mouth. Jokingly, I will say, hey, Owen is a

(02:52):
news anchor, good guy, morning news. But man, leave the
forecasting to the forecasters, rightly, cow And again, I'm still joking,
but that's like saying that summer is over. We're never
going to have another hundred degree day in this year.
In the middle of August, we're still smack dab in

(03:13):
storm season. Feels better outside and the cooling temperatures are
going to do a great deal to help make it
stay that way at the hiccups on top of everything else, Frankie,
But the bottom line is, don't ever turn your back
or don't ever ring a bell and wave a flag
to say that hurricane season is over in Texas. That

(03:38):
just makes me cringed even think about it. So on
to more serious stuff. And by the way, there were
a lot of things I wanted to talk about this
morning when I thought I had three hours instead of two.
So something may fall onto the back burner. But that
is as they say, what it is. And by the way,
if you like big redfish, by all means, get yourself

(03:59):
to the coast. I know Foux Pro made a run
down there a while back. It was a little tiny
bit premature, maybe based on the weather, but not premature
based on when the bull reds actually start their spawning
process in the Gulf of Mexico. And it's going on

(04:20):
all the way around the Gulf coast right now, these big, big,
big spawning class redfish, the kind that used to be
brought up in purse says and dumped into fish holes
and turned into cat food before Paul Prudom discovered, well,
i'll wrap discovered in quotes, blackened redfish. He probably accidentally
spilled a whole bucket of seasoning onto a redfish filet

(04:44):
in the kitchen one day and then said, oh, what
the heck, and dusted it off a little bit and
through it in the oven. Let's see what this tastes like.
And lo and behold the bull redfish. The spawning class
redfish had a on their backs, every one of them.
That's been fixed, thankfully. And now it's your turn in

(05:07):
my turn in anybody else's turn. Who wants to try
faux pro he wants to get one of these things.
It's time to be on the beach front now. If
you've got if you've got a way to maybe a
drone or something to ferry your baits out from the
actual beach beach, you've got a good shot. If you

(05:27):
go do any of the little rock groins in Galveston,
believe it or not, you've got a good shot at
these fish. Certainly the surfside jetties, Certainly the Galveston Jetty.
If you don't mind walking a mile out jagged, bumpy,
slippery rocks, that's not a bad place to be either.
All kinds of places you can catch these things. What

(05:47):
they're doing is moving up and down the coast and
concurrently feeding and finding their way to inlets to sendless
pass to the jetties to roll over well, used to
be roll over past. Never mind, it's gone. Scratch that
one off the list. Down south, Get just the Freeport jetties,
the Brassest River, all of these places where water comes

(06:10):
out into the Gulf of Mexico and then with the
incoming tide goes back in. That's where they spawn. The
boys meet the girls and they get out there and
they do what they do to make little baby redfish.
And then on the on the incoming tide, and all
of those fertilized eggs get swept by the tide, deep deep,

(06:31):
deep into our base system where they end up kind
of hatching out and growing into fry, then fingerlings, and
between fry and fingerling stage. Probably most of those fertilized
eggs get eaten, either by birds or other fish or whatever,
but enough of them make it through to where twenty

(06:54):
thirty years from now, somebody, maybe a little baby kid
in your family, we'll be out there catching those saying fish,
big giants. They're fun, They're so fun. I've caught them
off pretty much every rock groining Galveston. I've caught them
all the places that I mentioned up to and including
the old San Louis Pass fishing pier where they were

(07:18):
that was a main, main breeding site for them, and
the schools would just kind of move back and forth
through their daytime, night time, anytime, and it was just
fantastically amazing at how many were caught. I found a
way to catch most of the guys down there catching
those fish were using we're using cut bait, but I

(07:42):
was using big jigs. And while they all had their
lines out waiting for fish to hit, I'd just be
kind of standing around and had the rod over my
shoulder or had it leaning against the rail, and when
more than one rod went off out there in the dark,
I would take that big jig of mine had three

(08:02):
quarter outs head, and I'd take that big jig and
sling it out there to where their lines were just
pinned to the bottom of little surf weights and whatnot
and catch as many on jigs as they were catching
on bait. It was so fun too. The hit, the
strike of a bull redfish in the dark is pretty spectacular.

(08:23):
All right. We let's go. Let's go get Dave, and
then we're going to get to a break and kind
of get some order around here.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Day.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
What's up, buddy?

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Oh? I hate when that happens. You sit up for
two and a half hours and blow a few Oh gosh, yeah,
I know, hey one, uh man?

Speaker 1 (08:38):
What was it?

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Day? Befool? Yesterday? Man, I'm out there and I heard
a coyote, So I only even got my gum. I mean,
you know, because I know we're in a little sub
division there. But right across there, there's a bunch of
woods there. But I could hear a coyote you have,
you know, I see postles and I see well Rick
rick Byas told me that, oh, they ain't gonna come

(08:59):
around you, but I don't know. You never know.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Leave your garbage out and see what happens.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
I know there was a sign there when we were
in porting Randas on one of the doors, diotas will
eat your pet, you know. And yeah, but I uh no, oh,
today I sent a picture over there American Legion Post
six eighteen. They're having a today's the final day of
the barbecue cook off. I'm gonna try to weasel.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
Over there and be one of the judges, okay, and
and uh anyway, it's for the underguards who you know,
they have to get polished up, and they got to
get their guns polished, all their blanks and you know,
to do the twenty one gun to loute. And I've
got to be good friends with a lot of those
honor guards. Man.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
You know, that's a high honor right there. And wow,
you know, uh, let's see the only oh, okay, okay,
I was backing in over there where my fishing place
is and they put those pylons there and I accidentally
bumped into one of the Now, Daves, yes, no, So anyway,
I'm sitting here thinking, well, I'll tell the why. Maybe

(10:05):
get happened to Kroger. And then I started feeling real gilty,
so I called her up. Just came fast, man, don't
be mad at me. I told her what happened. And
guess what when I took when I drove home and
then parked out in the south for a while, the
little den in the placid thing popped out.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
About that should have kept your mouth shutting. Now you know,
wait a week, see what happens. Hey man, I am
on a super tight schedule right now, Dave, I gotta
go get some stuff done good after all? Right, man,
it's good to hear from me. Audios, Holy cow, let's
take a break, shall we. Let me tell you about
Kobe Stevens Apparel. First, let me pull this chair back
over here, because I've got a lot of stuff I

(10:45):
need in that chair. Kobe Kobe Gllic is a man's
name who owns the company, and there was a there
was a partner a while back. But the bottom line
is the name stuck Kobe Stevens okay, and Kobe was
in the office yesterday, as a matter of fact, shook
his hands, said hello, trying to get with him to
do some business, and I don't know when or who
knows we're trying. He is the guy who makes all

(11:08):
these very cool golf shirts, the ones that we use
almost we've had for several years now with the Saint
Jude Golf tournament. He does that for us at a
very amazing with a very amazing arrangement that makes it
easier for us to send more money to Saint Jude,
and I greatly appreciate him for that. He is constantly

(11:28):
at tournaments all over town, helping people raise money for
good causes, and at great sacrifice to himself. I can
assure you he's got golf apparel in kid sizes, in
women's fashion. I guess you could call it in men's
golf fashion, although to look at a lot of guys
on golf courses these days, there's not a lot of

(11:49):
fashion involved unless they're expanding. Belt lines are fashionable. You're
gonna look better than you play. That's the kind of
way I feel when I put on some of his attire.
I feel like I'm I belong. I feel like a golfer,
and I don't know that maybe it's just me, but
I also I see a lot of people out there
who had just kind of just kind of raggedy andy

(12:11):
through something on in the morning, and they're out there
teeing it up, and it just doesn't it doesn't fit
the mood I want to be in when I'm on
a golf course. And that's why I reach for Kobe
Stephens stuff as often as I do. He's got some
great fishing stuff too. Take a look at that when
you're at the website or at the store. There's a
store up on the north side. You can find the
address on the website. Kobe Stevens dot com is a website.

(12:36):
Go there, take a look around. Big sizes, small sizes,
little kids up to four X. And the women they've got,
the women taking very good care of at Kobe Stevens.
Kobe Stevens dot com, co, B Y S, T E
V E N S dot com. Carter's Country. Anytime you're ready,
here come hunting seasons early twelve days left, twelve or thirteen,

(12:58):
depending on how many days there are oc cover only
twelve or thirteen or eleven days left, but not two
weeks anymore till hunting season starts. We are right on
the verge of tea ended up for deer season, duck season,
goose season, quail season, everything's cha cha locka season. I
wouldn't know one if it walked through the door right now. Honestly,

(13:19):
I've never hunted them, but it sounds like fun guns,
AMMO and hunting stuff. For more than sixty years around Houston,
Carter's Country has a very well known name amongst folks
closer to my age than the age of a lot
of this audience. But if you're a young person, if
you've never been, if you love the shooting sports and
you've never been to a Carter's Country store, you need

(13:41):
to go any one of the three stores around town.
Amazing selection of new and pre owned guns, of all
the amo, you can imagine, all the hunting apparel, you
can imagine optics, everything, It's all there and has been
since the nineteen sixties. Okay, family run corporation, a big

(14:03):
name for a long time. They will take care of you.
They will find if they somehow happen not to have
what you're looking for, they'll get it for you. Carter's
Country's got a great reputation built by one man, Bill
Carter and his family has carried his legacy right into
the twenty first century. Fantastic place. The red tag sale

(14:25):
that's going on this time of year every year gives
you an opportunity to go get stuff that you might
have walked in there and seen a few times. Yeah,
I just can't pull the trigger on that right now
when red tag sale probably make it very affordable and
it's still something you want, so go get it at.
Carter's Country website is a great place to do your

(14:45):
shopping as well. Carterscuntry dot com. That's where you go there,
Carterscountry dot com seven point thirty on the nose on
the way to nine o'clock. Because we have to make
room for taking or sports investors daily and then we
in turn are going to make room for what what
game is it today?

Speaker 5 (15:05):
You know?

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Oh? Not off hand? Well, I'll just look it up
while I'm talking to faux Pro about that. We'll figure
it out. We'll figure out who's bossing their way in here.
Faux Pro. What's up my friend?

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Oh man, just sitting here and make sure these Chachalaka
decoys are put out properly.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Gosh, have you ever seen chacha laka?

Speaker 2 (15:27):
And I don't know that's shine over them? Man, it
looks like a woodcock or something like that.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking it's got to be some
sort of upland dish kind of bird. I've seen pictures
of them. I do this every year. I just kind
of joke about them because I still have never gone
hunting for him. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I'd be kind
of thinking I'd have to go a little south or
maybe west, because I know there's nothing in Houston other
than that. I'm not really sure. And it's just I

(15:54):
have I'm too old to worry about trying to go
check that Chacha laka off my buck list.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
I'm good you and me both talking about talking about
getting old. You know, it's still stick out these ninety
degree heats. And I went up to Houston County yesterday.
I sent you a couple of pictures and I went
up there. I was talking to and she's Thursday night
and she says, where are you going this Friday? I said, Well,
this Friday, I'm going to Houston County I've been going
all these other places catching numbers, you know, making good

(16:22):
three four pound fish, I said, I said, I'm doing
on a head hunt. So I want to go catch
a seven plus and best lake I know to do
that on the Houston County. I've been fishing it since
the nineties and it's a place to go if you
want to catch a five plus. I've cast one hundreds
of five to sixes out of this lake. So I
so I get out there and one boat at the

(16:42):
boat rap old way. Well, I love Fridays, and I
get out there. I start out conventional fishing, and I'm
sure you've done this, saltwater or fresh water. You start out,
you have a mindset, you start out fishing, and a
five casts into it, I'm thinking, this ain't the deal's
too quiet, the water's too quiet. I'm just in the wrong.
I make five casts and a car audible. So I

(17:03):
started out traditional fishing early that I'm going to use
the cheater box of forward faces ownar later. And so
I go catch a couple, a couple traditional fishing, and
then I go to cross this one this one day
to get to another shoreline, and I turn on my
forward facing sonar, and I might hearing about ten foot
of water. I see it's one big tree, and this
fish up against this tree like a cat about three

(17:25):
foot deep. I don't know if it's a bass as
the crop if the catfish were, but it looked too
big to be. It had to be a big bass
or big catfish. So I throw my little men out
there and I let it sink by that tree, and
it sinks by that fish, and that fish darts out
and I see the silhouette and it's good fishing. I
set to hook this thing come up. I thought it
was a ten at first. It ended up being a
seven seven, which my personal my personal best at Houston County,

(17:49):
and it's also my personal best on forward faces so far.
That was, and I had it on the spinning rod
of ten pound tests, so that was always. I made
it a Chinese fire grill around the boat for a
little while.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yes, sir, Holy gop, good for you.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
If you're talking about wood ducks on that lake, there
were wood ducks. I wish if you could shoot six
wood ducks instead of just a few, I would just
wood duck hunt. Yeah, they're so far here, and I
love I love seep wood ducks, and they're.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Good eating too.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Every now and then I'll be out there on the
golf course late and I'll hear them screeching through the
trees up and down Oyster Creek. I think it's Oyster Creek. No,
it's some another little creek that runs through the backside
of that golf course. And just look up and see
them right at the tree tops man just dodging and weaving.
Really cool.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Well, I'm just waiting for a four tide Friday, and
now I keep getting these two tide Fridays. And like
I said, last time I went down and I got
blowed off the jetties, I couldn't get down to the
inn where you recommend it. So but but I do
find out that they like that lake livers and sad
a lot before. So I just have to find a
four tide Friday or something up and go down over
Saturday and Sunday and get down there when you say

(19:00):
the best time to get I mean, you know me,
I enjoy going down there and catching lady fish. But
if I can get down there where it's right and
really do some I think I really enjoyed that a
lot more. You just wanted to be cool red this year,
I'd be happy.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
So I'm pretty sure for the next two or three
weeks that's gonna be your time to be down there
doing that. It really is, man, it really is. You'll
be good.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
We'll just get you get them Monday.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Man, get ready.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Man, he's a bash about to go crazy on on
on gated Lake up here. So we're ready. I'll take
the day off. We can, all right, man, thanks for
broop computers work the rest of the best.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Don't say that later. I'm hoping get him off the air.
Hope it works. There is another jinks. It's like poor
yeah our ohen talking about storm season being over. I
looked again this morning. Now, I did check my my
super deluxe most reliable site for tropical weather. As far

(19:59):
as I'm concerned, there's a bunch of them that are
could I know that. But the one I like to
watch isn't really paying much attention to that thing right
now and is forecasting it to kind of. It's got
a thirty percent chance within the next week of becoming something,
and by the time it gets where it's going to
be in in six or seven days, hopefully it will

(20:21):
be pushed by this same little frontal system is high
pressure system that's coming down our way. Hopefully that thing
will be strong enough to push the storm storm system
out of our minds. You know what, We're just gonna
I'm gonna hit another break here just because I know
we're running late and we've got a lot of ground
to cover today. And on the way out, I'll tell
you about Timber Creek Golf Club. I don't know if

(20:43):
timber Creek got any of that little drizzle that we
had recently, but hey, if they did, I'm sure they're
in good shape. They've been in shape, good shape all
year long. FM twenty three fifty one, a few miles
west of the golf Freeway, twenty seven holes, all of
which are very playable. They're not easy, there's no such
is an easy golf course, but they're very playable for

(21:04):
anybody with any handicap at any level of golf. Make
sure you're playing from the correct tea box. Don't go
all the way back to the tips if you're my
age and have half my swing speed. But if you're
on the right tea box and you just take a
look at the teep from standing on number one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
Three times, you'll see exactly where you need to hit

(21:26):
the ball to have a good chance at a second shot,
and exactly where you need to put the ball on
the green to get yourself a birdie putt, and get
yourself a few of those and knock them in and
have some fun. If you're not doing any of that
on the golf course and you're still very frustrated with
your game, check in with JJ Woods and his staff
over there at the teaching facility there right next to

(21:47):
the driving range, very easy to you'll see the ten
building to the right side of the driving range. Walk
over there, swallow your pride, say hey, I suck at golf.
Fix me, and they will. It might take some time,
but it'll be well worth the investment. You'll save that
and lost balls and sucker bests that your friends make
with you to get in your pocket. Timber Creek Golf

(22:08):
Club dot com is a website Timbercreek Golf Club dot com.
If you've got somebody in your family or maybe a
friend or whoever, who really appreciates a good knife, maybe
likes hunting, maybe likes fishing, maybe just likes to cut
a steak with a beautiful knife. Go out to Phoenix
Knives in Belleville. They're right there on Main Street. You
can't miss them, nice, big new place that's got more

(22:31):
room to show off. They typically have about one thousand
plus knives on display and for sale in the shop,
so it's not a little bitty place and the selection
is pretty broad. But go in there, just tell them
what you're looking for, tell them who you're looking for,
and let them kind of guide you to something that

(22:53):
that person will really really enjoy coming into the holidays
like this. Now, if you would like something specifically built
by one of the craftsmen in there, something truly custom
up to and including something from the hands of cowboys
Zemanski himself, he's the owner of the store, and a
custom knife from him is going to take a while.

(23:14):
I'm just telling you a call out there and schedule
an appointment to go in and talk about exactly what
you want in that knife, who it's for, what their
personality is, what they're going to use it for, all
of that, and he will build something that will last
a couple of generations in that family of yours a
beautiful knife or some stuff, like I said, for your

(23:35):
kitchen or pretty much any bladed thing. Yeah, they can
make it for you a Phoenix Knives. And if you
want to take the family out there for an adventure,
something very few other people around here actually take advantage of,
go out there and ask them to show you how
to build a knife, and they will take you back
into the manufacturing area where the hot steel gets poured

(23:58):
and you can learn how to make your own knife,
even take it.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Home with you.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Phoenix Knives dot com is the website p H E
n i X Phoenix knives dot com. Now, well, welcome back.
Dougpikeshaw on Sports Talk seven ninety Holy cow, the fourth hour.
That excuse me, I'm looking at two fours on this step,
staring at seven forty four, and I just couldn't help

(24:25):
but say the word for in any event, it's seven
forty four and this being the fourth quarter of the
first of only two hours this morning, since college football
is gonna shove us off the air at nine to
make room for sports Investors Daily, and then the football
pregame comes on, and then sometime probably about dark, the

(24:46):
football game will finally start, right right, Frankie, Oh yeah, golly,
it's okay. I don't mind doing this, and it actually
gives me a chance to get some other stuff done
over at my desk. By the way, if you have
a child, and i'm talking K through twelve, really, if
you have a child who is into the STEM education

(25:09):
that is science technology, Gosh, where did it go? Help
me out, Frankie, I know you know the force math
is the last one. What's what's the middle one? Engineering?

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Maybe?

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Yeah? Probably? Okay, it says it in this piece of
literature I have here somewhere. I'm so embarrassed. I used
to know it. I don't needmore because I'm not studying
it anymore. In any event, there's a a an event
well called the pretty much the Future of Energy work Well,
this Future of Energy Workforce has the STEM Festival today.

(25:45):
Let me just spit out the details and quit trying
to add lib today Sam Houston Park, downtown Houston from eleven,
I want to say it is to about two or three,
middle of the day, lunchtime, go down, I want to
that's I'm on the wrong side of the page. That's it.
It's this thing printed on both sides, and I'm looking
at the B page instead of the A page. Oh,

(26:07):
I've got it all here now, science technology, engineering, and math.
If only I had flipped the page Energy Day STEM
Festival that's today eleven to three. I got that right
at Sam Houston Park downtown. There's all kinds of interactive
events and whatnot and demonstrations and giveaways and activities, and

(26:27):
it would be a really really fun thing for you
and your family to do if you're into that, or
if you want to encourage your children to be into that.
Engineering I learned the other day is I think one
of the top three or top four degrees that you
can come out of school with if you can get
one that actually pay strong dividends. I can't remember what

(26:49):
the other two or three on the top were, but
ironically doctor was not one of them, so because a
lot of telemedicine's coming and that's going to change that field,
I think. But science technology, all of that and hands
on stuff using AI to kind of boost your productivity

(27:11):
in those fields all pretty good things to do. Helps
you afford a big, nice bass boat, helps you afford
a nice deer lease, maybe a ranch someday. That's the
way I look at and I've talked to my son
about this. He loves the outdoors. He said, Look, you've
got to be able to afford the outdoors too. It's
not easy and it's not cheap. Boats aren't getting any

(27:33):
cheaper rifles, aren't getting any cheaper shotguns, golf clubs, all
of that stuff, access to all of that stuff. You
talking to the kids in the audience. You need to
start with a good educational foundation, and whether that's in
going to college, maybe going into one of the trades.

(27:53):
There's significant money to be made there too, so you
can afford to enjoy your time off from work doing
what you love to do, whether that's fishing or hunting
or golf or anything. You've got to have a little bank,
got to put that money away. I'm trying to teach
my son to save too, and that's going fairly well.

(28:17):
Let's hit one more before the top of the hour. Here, Frankie.
On the way out, I'll go to Belleville Meat Market.
I wish I could go all the way out there
in the break, it'd be I have to teleport, but
we can't do that. What they've got going on now
is your chance to order for the holidays one of
their pecan smoke turkeys. Get ahead reserve your holiday bird today.

(28:40):
They're eleven to thirteen pounds on average, and that generously
will feed about I mean, these are big fat turkeys,
they really are. I feed ten or twelve people easily,
I think with all the stuff in the sides you're
going to have on the table with it. They also
have homemade stuffed pork tenderloins and either jalapeno cream cheese,

(29:01):
sweet of potly cream cheese that sounds good, dirty rice
bootnd stuff pork chops, pan sausage, laboucherie stuffed chickens if
you want one of those. And then of course all
deer season along, which started with October in the bowseason,
all the way through deer season into the next year. Literally,

(29:21):
they've got wild game processing going on in the building
across the street where you just you drive up and
somebody's gonna come running out there with a big old
cart to haul all that meat inside for you. Then
you follow that person inside and you'll be handed a
menu that looks like something out of cheesecake factory. You
think about all these all these options on how to
have that deer meat or elk meat or whatever. Psychic

(29:45):
deer axis, deer any kind of wild game you can
bring in there, four legged wild game. If you're gonna
bring in something else you think you are, call them first,
Call them first. If it doesn't have four legs, probably
not gonna look for that to be processed. Belleville Meat
Market is on Highway thirty six by, fifteen minutes north
of Sealy, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead. Very easy to find.

(30:09):
If you're struggling when you get into Belleville, just roll
down your windows, drive around for a minute, and when
you smell smoke, turn up wind. That's gonna be Belleville
Meat Market. I can guarantee you. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com
is the website. Go there. If you can't get all
the way out there. I understand that it's pretty good drive,
but it's worth every mile of the drive. Take the

(30:29):
whole family out there, eat some lunch. They serve that
ten to seven every day. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com. Belleville
MeetMarket dot com. Sound like me A step on a
nail seven fifty three on Sports Sox seven to ninety
The Doug Pike Show. Thanks for listening, certainly do appreciate it.

(30:49):
Let me turn this volume down just a deasy bit
in my ear. Going back to fishing before we even
get near the second hour, Uh foulk pro talking about
all the Bassi's catching. Now, there's still some really good
stuff going on the coast in addition to the red fish.
The water is still, it's right, and it's pretty, it
looks it looks good overall, and there's still some trout

(31:14):
being caught along the rocks. I think that's gonna that's
gonna fade once that first really good cold snap comes in,
maybe until we get to winter. And then I know,
during winter, the sunny side of those jetties can hold
all kinds of fish because the warmth of the sun
hitting the rocks raises that water temperature a degree or two,

(31:36):
and that's all it really takes for them to feel
pretty comfortable. So who knows what it's all there? Even
the flounder starting to move a little bit, mostly males still,
but every now and then you might catch one of
the bigger females on their way out to their spawning
grounds in as much as one hundred feet of water
out there in the middle of the golf of exit,

(31:57):
well not the middle, but they'll go see significantly far Uh,
you have to off the Upper Texas coast here to
find one hundred feet of water, and that's where they
go hang out, and that's where they do their spawn
is way offshore. Flounder a very interesting species if you
really start deep diving into them, the way they spawn,

(32:17):
the way they the way they move, why they move
when they move. There's a lot more to There's a
lot more to fish than just fishing. And I've gotten
the opportunity and really gotten to be in front of
and sit down and listen to some of the brightest
minds in that world. And there's just so much more
to know. If you care about more than just what

(32:41):
lure to throw or what bait to throw. It's it's
really the more you dig into it, the more you'll
want to learn. And the more you learn about these fish,
the better your chances of catching them. Imagine that seven
one three two seven ninety email on me Dougpike at
iHeartMedia dot com. We've got that flounder closure coming up

(33:04):
by the well November first, don't forget about that. It
runs into the middle of December, six weeks where you
can't keep a flounder, So get your licks in while
you can, even if it's not primetime, even if it's
not super chill yet, we're supposed I think I was
looking at a long term forecast. It looks like we're
gonna get a nice little cool snap, which, by the way,

(33:25):
will help Owen's prediction of being out of storm season,
because that cool snap, if and when we get it
it's actually cool, will help to force that little system
in the Caribbean to stay south of us, and the
farther south the better. As far as I'm concerned, it's
been a very no I don't even want to talk

(33:47):
about it. I'm just gonna leave it alone. We'll get
those flounder in here. That cool stuff is gonna make
them move. It's just all of this stuff. It's just
another turn on the circle of life along the Texas coast,
and what a ride that is for those of you
who have been doing it for a long time. Anybody
who's fished, I would say, you have to have And

(34:07):
I'm not trying to pick on younger people at all.
It just it's not your fault. You were born when
you were born. But if you're more than fifty years old,
you've probably seen some stuff that the younger generation hasn't
seen yet, but I'm confident it's gonna come back based

(34:28):
on what I'm seeing in the way we're dealing with
the limits on how many fish we can keep, based
on what we're doing to help clean up the water
and make sure it doesn't get gunky again. There's a
lot of places where the grass is growing back. I
wish it would grow back on the east coast of Florida,
down between maybe I don't know, West Palm and Canaveral,

(34:51):
because I used to catch a lot of fish down
that way when i'd go down there with friends, and
sadly that's been messed up for a while. They still
got good fishing. But I would say that our trout
fishing is probably better than theirs. There's snook fishing is
light years ahead of ours, just because of the climate
zone therein if we had man if we had more

(35:11):
snook up here, I would I don't know that I'd
ever leave Southeast Texas. There's no shortage of bass fishing.
There's no shortage of hunting opportunity. There's no shortage of
offshore fishing. Inshore fishing. Now the offshore rides a little
bit longer. But the payoff if you do make that
longer ride than it has to be on some coast,

(35:33):
the payoff is that there's not a whole lot of
pressure on our fish offshore, and we even billfish. We've
got as good a chance of getting a bite off
the Texas coast as they have off most oceanic coasts.
So not they're wrong with Texas all the way out
to the top of the air. Here real quick Shooter's
corner palmerharw W at twenty Night Street down there in
Texas City. That's where Jerry and j TK, the father

(35:56):
and son team. I've known for probably the better part
of twenty years now. I don't know how old Jay
was the first time I met him, but my gut
says that he was just a little kid hanging out
in the store sometime when I went down to see
Jerry a long time ago. I've known Jerry TK for
probably thirty years, a long long time. And every time

(36:16):
I sit around and listen to him talk about guns
or talk about hunting, I just mostly keep my mouth
shut unless he pauses and lets me ask another question.
It's amazing how much people in that business, people like
Jerry and j know about guns. I've set so many people,
so many listeners down there to their shop when they

(36:37):
couldn't get a gun fixed by other gunsmith's in town.
They've been turned away kind of. And somebody tell him
it's going to cost three, four or five six hundred
dollars to fix a rifle, and they take it down
to Jerry and Jay and they get it done at
a very fair price and in some cases much less
than what they were told it was going to cost

(36:57):
to fix their guns. Jerry and j aren't down there
to make a lot of money off hunters. They're down
there to make sure hunters get a great experience, to
make sure target shooters, competitive shooters, home self defense. Whatever
it is that you feel like you need a gun
to take care of in your life. They've got the
gun you need, and they've got them you need, and

(37:19):
they've got the experience you need to get the help
you want. Brand new to shooting. Great, Shooter's Corner, take
care of you been shooting all your life? Great, They'll
have what you need. They can answer any question you've got.
And not just Jerry and Jay, even the people who
work in the store. When they're out hunting big game
around the country, brown the continent, really ja Goo's all

(37:42):
the way up to Alaska, hunting big old bears and stuff.
Shooter's Corner. I get so excited talking about these guys.
They're true friends, and they're true experts in their field.
Family owned and operated forty years. If you wear a
badge for a living, you get a discount at Shooter's Corner,
which is why almost every time I've been in there,
sooner or later somebody from law enforcement comes in and

(38:03):
just we talk about the shooting sports. That's it, the
Shooters Corner TX dot com, the Shooters cornertx dot com. No,
here's Doug Fike. All right, welcome back. Second and final
hour today starts now. We are making room after well
at nine o'clock, making room to make sure that Sports

(38:25):
Investors Daily gets on and running its entirety from eight
to nine or from nine to ten, and then from
ten o'clock forward we are gonna be going into some
pregame for a big old football game. Do you ever
find out who's playing today?

Speaker 6 (38:40):
Not yet?

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Just off a memory. I think it's LSU. Oh that
makes sense since half the half of our staff is
from LSU. That'd be a pretty good bet, Frankie. And
even if it's wrong, if Eddie or Paul or anybody
else is listening, they'll be glad that you mentioned their
alma mater. So here's what's going on. I'm gonna have

(39:01):
to put up Frankie. You're gonna have to help me too.
We're gonna have to put up barbed wire around the
coffee maker in the kitchen, okay, because we got poachers.
I made a pot of coffee this morning when I
got here, very bright and early, you know, get here,
and I realized that we've had a staffing change, and
so nobody cleaned out all the coffee pots yesterday at

(39:23):
the end of the day. So I grabbed one of them,
cleaned it out, put it under the filter and all that,
put some coffee in the filter, turned it on, made
a nice fresh pot of coffee, and moved it back
over into the rack where it had been, where it
had been when I found it, exactly where it was.
It in two still dirty pots. So I leave it there,

(39:47):
I get one cup, come into the studio, I told
Frankie during the break at the top there, I'm going
back to grab some coffee. I go back in there,
and the wrong pot is where the pot that I
made was, and hmm, and I just rattled the other
two and now all three of the two of those

(40:08):
pots are empty. And the one on the end that
that I thought might have been the one I made. No, no, no,
it's yesterday's coffee. It's lukewarm at best. So somebody has
pulled the old switcher roo, Frankie the switcher Roo on
me and thought they'd get away with it. So first

(40:28):
the first round out of the boxes. Turn around, walk
back to the newsroom, back to the k t ARCH newsroom,
and John Wesley's town. He's blessed his heart. He's standing
back there working on his podcast for his movie podcast.
He does a show about movies that airs on KPRC.
I can't remember what time. I'm so sorry, John, if
you're well. He's not listening to me, he's working in
any event, He looks at me, and I look at him,

(40:51):
because my coffee pot now is in the KTRH newsroom,
all proudly displayed. Yeah we got coffee, We got hot
coffee back here, and John looks at me and goes,
you know, I didn't do it. I don't drink coffee.
I know it's not you, and that that narrows it
down to one and maybe two other people. So anyway,
I'm gonna I don't know. I might put up I

(41:14):
might electrify the pot. Just hook it up to a
nine volt battery and let them just grab it and
see what happens. Go find him in a puddle on
the floor. M yeah, coffee poachers, that's okay. Seven three
two one two five seven nine. Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com in case you're not aware. With
PGA tours on hiatus right now, they're taking a little

(41:36):
break from everything. I'm sure those guys could find a
game if they're just desperate to do that, but most
of them take advantage of about now through the end
of the year before everything ramps back up to just
just reset. It's the professional golf. It's it's very glamorous
at the top because you're making boatloads of money just

(41:59):
for waking up every all your endorsement deals and your
sponsor deals and all of that stuff. But it's a
grind whether you're at the top, whether you're the guy
who barely keeps his card every year, or you're one
of the top ten or twenty players. The only difference
is how much money you're making. You're making a boatload

(42:19):
of money. It's the only difference is how much how
big a boat. And so for those guys, and for
anybody who plays the game professionally, they deserve time off.
They need that time off to reset their heads, to
reset their bodies, and just take a break and be
the family people that most of them want to be.

(42:42):
More than you think of, these players have families who
end up being at home more than they're traveling, especially
if they've got young children. The children have to stay
in school, the children have to do all of those
things and can't just be bailing out every weekend to
go fly around and follow dad around. And I truly

(43:03):
admire the dance that they have to do and that
they do. Most of those guys do so successfully and
to maintain long term relationships under those circumstances. I've known
a lot of PGA tour players, and just in conversations
over a beer sometimes they talk about how hard it

(43:23):
is sometimes and how difficult to keep everybody happy. You've
got to keep your family happy first, and then most
of those guys have two or three people who work
for them, a caddy, maybe a head coach, some of
these people to make sure that their heads are on
straight and they're able to do all that stuff without

(43:45):
going bonkers, which I think would drive a lot of
us that way, and so more power to them. One
thing I did want to talk about this morning, and
since we're so close now to the onset of deer
and waterfowl seasons, Uh, let me go talk to David first.
This is going to be a good one. I know

(44:07):
it is. He's always good, David. What's up? Man?

Speaker 3 (44:10):
Hey, Doug, thank you for taking I call him.

Speaker 5 (44:12):
Good morning to you. I want to give a shout
out to the state of Tennessee, and I'll tell you why.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Here we go.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
The wife and I were up there.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
We went to a.

Speaker 5 (44:21):
Beautiful state park with river and waterfalls and could not
find a place to pay. A park ranger happened by
and I asked him, is there like a you know,
play a lot of times I'll have like a little
box of sure your money in He said, all state
parks in Tennessee are free.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Wow. Wow? Yeah? Did you just fall over?

Speaker 5 (44:49):
And then see light? Texas. Tennessee is a state that
has no state income tax. Yeah, so that just goes
to show me. I don't know there's goodding the bad
for that, but I was impressed. I was impressed.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yeah, what about the waterfall? Tell me about the waterfall?
How majestic was it?

Speaker 5 (45:13):
I can send you some pictures.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
I'll have to ask the life.

Speaker 5 (45:19):
I think it was Burgess Falls and we were on
our way to Pigeon Towards and anyway, I digress, but
I'll send you some pictures.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
It was really pretty.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
Leaves are starting to turn there too.

Speaker 6 (45:34):
Well.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
I don't know what it would take. I don't know
how much money it would take to open up all
of our state parks to free admission to anybody and everybody,
but it would be an interesting thing to bring up
because our state is doing well economically, and it would
be an interesting thought to bring up at some point.

(45:54):
If you want to drive to Austin and sit around
and wait till it's your turn to have two minutes, you.

Speaker 7 (46:00):
Know, well, I think we do have a special day
or two of the year where the parks are free, right, Yeah, yeah,
you're right lord.

Speaker 5 (46:10):
When he said all state parks in Tennessee are free.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Wow, Yeah, that's news. To me, I had no idea.
I just presumed. And you know, this is something that Texans.
We have so much in the outdoors. We presume that
all the other states kind of do things the way
we do them because we do them so well with
the outdoors. And that's true. I don't if anybody wants

(46:33):
to argue with me about how our Parks and Wildlife
Department operates, I'll be happy to have a discussion with you.
But after working in the newspaper business for so long
and writing about the outdoors, and having to compare Texas
to other states at every level of outdoor recreation, and
talking to people from all those other states and their

(46:54):
equivalents of our Parks and Waldlife Department every time, David,
every time I talk to them, say how my names
Doug Pike. I'm writing a newspaper piece, and and I
need to talk to you about such and such. Oh
you're from Texas, that Parks and Walleife Department. Yeahky, we
wish we had your resources. Every one of them. They
love Texas.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
Man.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
They think they look at us as like the benchmark.
And that's that was true twenty years ago. I don't
know if it still is but I would suspect it
is our man. The biggest states we have and all
the resources we have, it takes. That's a machine, man,
it really is. And I have a great respect for
anybody who anybody who works in that department. There's some

(47:36):
there's some room for improvement in some areas, and maybe
I'll talk about them one morning. That's a good idea.
I might do that tomorrow. I'll make a note during
the break. Thank you for that call, man. I want
to see those pictures, I really do.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
I'll email them to you now, Thanks you, sir.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Thanks David, See you, buddy. I'm all fired up now.
I got something to talk about for sure, State parks, okay,
and that'll trigger my memory. I know exactly what I
want to talk about. I might, I might not, and
I have my reasons that if I ever do, you'll
understand why. Here's the deal. I got to go to

(48:12):
break all the way out. I to tell you about
Manny Lopez. And if you listen to me long enough,
you know who Manny Lopez is. You know what he does.
He is a cigar manufacturer whose facility Comma, one of
only four dozen in the entire country. Comma is in
Texas City. If you take the time to run down

(48:33):
to Texas City, get on Main Street and go find
El Cubano Cigars. What you'll walk into is a smoking
lounge in the front where there might be some guys
hanging out watching a ballgame, might be some guys talking business,
might be some people men and women by the way
in there card game. Next one that breaks out in

(48:56):
there won't be the first, I'm sure. And then behind
the all of that, and there's a giant humid door
with probably a thousand cigars that I have no idea
how many are in that humid door. But behind all
of that, at the very back of the building is
where the manufacturing takes place. And there's only a handful
of people who are in there at any given time,
rolling cigars that are going to be sent out by mail,

(49:20):
sold at the store, sold right there in the smoking lounge,
or in his other smoking lounge over in League City,
which is not far and only about twenty minutes apart.
And that was more Havana style, a big roll up doors.
So let the breeze blow through there, winter, spring, summer,
and fall, whatever the weather is, you're gonna get a
taste of it inside there, you just won't get rained on.

(49:42):
And that's another good place to just kind of hang
out and talk business. The last time I was over there,
it's been a while. I gotta go back down there,
But the last time I was there, there were probably
six guys in there just shooting the breeze, having a delicious,
wonderful cigar from El Kubano. Many will mail cigar to
you anywhere in the country. Every day of the week

(50:03):
he's mailing them out, and every day of the week
there's people in there rolling cigars at the Texas City location,
and they make about one hundred and fifty different varieties,
some very robust, some very mild, but all absolutely great
cigars made from mostly Cuban seed tobacco grom down in
Central America. It comes up here, it gets cured for

(50:24):
I think weeks, maybe a month or two, I don't
know how long it is. It's a long time though,
and then those leaves get unfurled and rolled just the
same way he'll do it. If it comes to one
of your special events, if you want some really fancy
stuff for your guests at a special event, whether that's
a fundraiser, a wedding reception, a business celebration, whatever. He'll

(50:46):
put your company logo or your your charity logo or
whatever on the bands of all of those cigars, or
he'll even come out there and actually roll cigars one
at a time for your guests. It's fantastic setup he's got,
and he can do a lot with cigars. I had
no idea how how complex the cigar business could be,

(51:09):
but many runs it just smooth as silk. It's amazing.
He sends up literally hundreds and sometimes thousands of cigars
every week all over the country. Because people find him,
they realize they're not having to pay middlemen for their cigars.
They get a better deal and a fresher cigar almost
every time. Elcubano Cigars dot com, elcubinocigars dot com. All right,

(51:35):
welcome back, thanks for listening. Doug Pike Show on Sports
Talk seven ninety. We're on a short string today, as
I've mentioned a couple of times, just to let you
guys know, so listen fast. We're gonna try and cram
as much as we can into these two hours instead
of three on this Saturday morning. So we talked about
with David talked about state parks. He sent me the
pictures from Burgess Falls State Park in Tennessee, and they

(51:57):
are that's a beautiful place, Holy caut It's just remarkable
that you can just just drive in, drive around, hang out,
take a hike, go see the waterfall, all of that
and not pay a dime. That's just it's just different
than here, clearly different. Uh Dan Wade in, unless things

(52:18):
have changed, they're free in Missouri too. Hercules Glades was
always a favorite of mine. Kevin ways in, I personally
don't think it has anything to do with the maintenance
and upkeep cost. I think it's purely has to do
with keeping the riff raft out. Ah riff rafts everywhere.

(52:39):
I think there could be rules against that, and then
I'm sure there are. There are rules in state parks.
It's not like it's just a free for all just
because there's free admission. Free admission means you can come in,
but it doesn't mean you don't have to play by
the rules. And he writes, he continues, as Kevin, as

(53:00):
as much as we don't need a deterrent, a small
one may help in some cases. You know, sometimes people
who pay to get into some place think that entitles
them to act like a fool. So that logic is valid, Kevin,

(53:20):
But I think it can go both ways. It can
work against you as well. How many times are we
going to have to look at at videos of people
going in and tearing up fast food restaurants just because
they spent two dollars and fifty cents on an order
of small fries and didn't get them and they were
a little bit cold or something, Mercy says. Looking back

(53:42):
all the way to careers, when we were talking about
all the money making, Dan believes and I would have
to agree that heavy equipment operator ought to be high
on the list. Those guys. Those guys do all right.
It's not everybody who can operate one of those cranes
that are needed to put a building up, or operate
a dozer without driving it off in a ditch. Lots

(54:05):
of stuff. Lots oh man, Alan calls or emails to
brag he's playing playing golf with buddies. Mmm mmm mmm okay,
and I'm not gonna get to do that today, but
that's okay. Seven one three two one five seven ninety
Email on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com I
thank you all for listening this morning. I man, I'm

(54:26):
having a blast. Let me go over here to my
other page that I wanted to that I talked a
little bit about guns when I was telling you about
uh Shooter's Corner and Carter's Country early early in the program,
and I'm gonna go back to him because right now,
if you haven't if you haven't been to the range

(54:47):
yet to check out your shotguns, to make sure your
rifles are functioning, property, you're very fast approaching the time
when you're gonna get to the range and you're gonna
realize something's wrong, and then you're gonna go in either
there or depending on where you are, you might have
to take your gun somewhere else to find a real gunsmith.

(55:08):
But the bottom line is they're gonna say, yeah, we
can get it to you December fourteenth, But that's six
weeks into the deer season. Yeah, but people started bringing
us guns about two months ago because they were the
early birds who knew that a whole lot of guns
get taken to Hey, man, I know tomorrow is opening day,

(55:30):
or I know they'll bring a gun in on a
Monday or a Tuesday and say yeah, I know Saturday's
opening day, man, but I really need my rifle back
before then. Well so does everybody else who brought their
gun in in the past month and they're stacked up
back in the back to get work done on them.
Unless you're your own gunsmith, or unless you can hire

(55:53):
somebody on the side who works in a gun store
and knows them, you better get after it. You better
get after it fast. Get yourself out to American Shooting centers.
If you're on the North side, go over to Carter's
Country and get those guns out. Get them out, man.
There's nothing else, nothing else you can do but go

(56:14):
test them out. Now. Most of the time, when you
go to shoot your rifles before the season, when you
go to shoot a round of sporting clays or trapper
skied or something like that, before duck and dove and
quail seasons and goose season, most of the time, nothing's
gonna go wrong, except maybe you just can't shoot as
well as you did last year. I was really nervous
when I went and did that sporting clay shoot with

(56:37):
Jim Level. Jim Levell invited me to be on his team.
He wasn't shooting, He's got a shoulder issue, so I
was basically taking his place, and I was kind of
nervous because I hadn't shot in a while, and certainly
hadn't shot competitively in a long time. But I held
my own the first couple of first couple of stations,
I was a little bit shaky and trying to remember

(56:58):
everything that I'd forgotten, and once I got into rhythm,
I held my own. I'm not a great shooter right
now because I don't do it consistently, but I canna.
It's not gonna take me a box of shells to
shoot a limit of doves. Let's put it that way.
I'm gonna pick my shots too. My friends and I
used to just just randomly try really difficult shots deliberately

(57:24):
to see just how far we could push shot shells
and their effectiveness. And you would be very surprised, I think,
to know that lucky shots can be made pretty far
out there, especially with lead on doves, because the momentum
and the energy is carried pretty far out. But one

(57:47):
lucky pellet is not gonna be that's not gonna be
the norm. You're gonna miss a whole by the time
that shot string gets out I don't know, forty yards
or so, maybe fifty, depending on what you're shooting and
how you're shooting it, what chokes you're shooting it on.
There's going to be holes in that pattern that are
as big as the bird you're shooting at. And if

(58:07):
the bird happens to be in that hole or bigger
than the bird you're shooting at, you made a perfect shot.
You had the thirty inch circle in the birds right
in the middle of it. But if there's no pellets
in the middle of it, then the bird doesn't fall.
And I would much rather not take a shot. Now
I've learned over the years. I just don't take the
shot if it's out past where I'm comfortable with the

(58:28):
choke I'm using. And that saves you a lot of powder,
it saves you a lot of anguish, and it saves
the birds a lot of birds from being boogered up
but not dropped cleanly. And that's the last thing anybody
who calls himself a bird hunter should want is to
have to leave something hobbled up on the ground just
because you thought you could shoot farther than you can.

(58:51):
All these guys who tell me there's a good test
for anybody who tells you that they can knock down
geese at fifty or sixty yards to go to the
balloon store, the party store somewhere by yourself a little
bitty canister of helium and fill up a balloon to
about the size of a goose's body. And that's a

(59:15):
pretty big target. And then put go to a field
somewhere and bring your little golf range finder or your
bow hunting rangefinder or whatever, and let and tie a
string to the balloon on a nice calm day and
let somebody walk off fifty yards of string, and then

(59:37):
let the balloon go and let it float straight up
fifty yards and look at how far that is, and
then try to hit it. That balloon's gonna look like
a golf ball up there, and it's really not as easy.
And then imagine that being a moving target instead of

(59:58):
one that's just kind of wafting on the breeze, and
it's not a thing that you that's not a shot
you want to take. I've done it. I've hit some shots.
One of my best friends years ago, a guy named
Jack Horseman. He passed away a while back, and I
miss him every day. He was one of the best
outdoors guys. I knew him and his brother Mark, and

(01:00:23):
I made a shot with with Jack and a blind
one day that even he and I both thought, kind
of wow, how'd you do that? It was a very
long shot, a legitimate beyond fifty maybe sixty sixty five,
And for some reason, two or three pellets stayed in

(01:00:44):
a straight line that long. And I was on that
bird hard and it's a big old goose, and it
just folded up like a sack of rocks and came
straight down like holy cow. But I knew better than
to think that, oh we well great. I didn't realize
I could knock him down so well that far out.
And I don't take those shots anymore. There's just no reason,

(01:01:06):
in any event, we have to take a very holy cowed.
Went a little long here, Frankie, you could have gotten
in my ear, But thank you, thank you for letting
me yap away. Berry Hill, sugar Land. This is the
restaurant that my wife and I have been going to
for thirty years, and they've been there right about that long,
about the same time, same time we moved into sugar Land,
Berry Hills set up and continuously from that time has

(01:01:31):
served delicious Tex Mex Food, a good consistent product coming
out of the kitchen, partly because the same two main
Maine cooks in that kitchen have been there more than
ten years apiece. That's what they've done. And they have
put their little touches on all of the recipe items,

(01:01:52):
all the menu items, their little touches to make it
Berry Hills instead of just like everybody else's the food
you're gonna get it, Barry Hill is unlike what you're
gonna get in other places. Starting with their fish tacos,
which are some of the best in the world. Those
things go on sale every Friday, as you might imagine,
and them the seafood inch a lot is that's one

(01:02:13):
of my favorites. My wife loves their chicken tacos outstanding.
And then there's just a complete list of other stuff
for anybody and everybody in the family. You walk in,
there's family dining. Come to the left tables and booths,
and then to the right is more of a sports bar.
It doesn't get too rowdy. It gets a little louder
than the other side, but it's not rowdy. And then

(01:02:33):
coming up fantastically there is the outdoor dining and the
nights for that, the evenings for that are gonna be
fantastic for the next two or three months. So plan
a trip to sugar Land. Plan a trip to Berry Hill.
If you're brand new to sugar Land, you don't know
anybody down there, and you want to get to know somebody,
just walk in and kind of make an announcement in

(01:02:53):
the bar. Hay, I'm brand new. Anybody got room at
your table, like to make a new friend, and it'll work.
I've seen it work. I've seen it work. One time.
I actually watched some guy come come in there and
do that. Now I'm new around here, and two or
three people kind of turn and said, well, come on
over here. Very welcoming place. They'll cater all over town too.
We get Berryhill catering for our staff here at iHeart

(01:03:18):
pretty regularly actually, and I absolutely love it. Berryhillsugarland dot
com is the website Berryhillsugarland dot com. If you've ever
wondered about how you could get to your deer stand
more quietly, how you could get around the lease more quietly,
how you could maybe move up and down the beach
when you're trying to serve fish for trout down south

(01:03:39):
somewhere where the fish are really close to the beach.
Think about an e bike, electric bike, air ride bikes
up in Tomball. This is Wayne Errington's baby, and he's
got every imaginable size and style of bike, even some
three wheelers for people who need just that mobility and
that balance. But he's got one bike now that he sells.

(01:04:03):
A lot of them are for just kind of casual
riding around. Okay, But this Rambo e bike, this Rambo
hell Cap, that's kind of the flagship of that fleet.
That thing has two thousand watt motors, okay, one for
each wheel where you can you can put it in
all wheel drive and have no problem getting around on

(01:04:26):
the beach comfortably, have no problem getting through the woods comfortably.
As Wayne likes to say, if it could get traction,
it could climb a wall, and it's strong enough to
pull you and maybe one of your buddies if somebody
got hurt out of the woods and for a very
long distance quietly doesn't make any noise. You're just kind

(01:04:48):
of crunching. Well, you don't crunch it if you're going
over a nice little trail or a road in the woods,
whereas if you're driving a truck through there, there's the
engine noise of the truck. There's just all this other
calamity and and chaos. But the deer aren't going to
hear you coming from very far. If you're on that
e bike. Now, if you want just a bike for

(01:05:09):
riding around, he's got those two, but that one. I'm
telling you, I feel like e bikes are kind of
the future of getting around that Bicycles have been used
for a long time, but they were limited by how
hard it is to pedal uphill, how hard it is
to maybe do anything more than just get you in
and out of the woods. And now all of a sudden,

(01:05:29):
there's this bike with a trailer attachment where you can
go in there, you can do your hunt, you can
dress your deer, throw it on that little trailer behind you,
and get you and all your stuff back to camp. Silently,
think about the advantage that gives you over the other
people bouncing around in the woods and making a bunch
of noise. A ride bikes. They're up in Tomball, very

(01:05:51):
easy to find, local personal service. You get to test
them up there and they'll put them together for you.
So they're done right Delwayne Errington, I said, Hello a
ride Bikes a r r id e a r r
idair ride Bikes dot com. Ali, welcome by Doug Bike

(01:06:17):
Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thank you for listening
this morning. I certainly do appreciate it. Let me make
sure I got no extra emails that I've missed. I
don't like to miss emails. That's that. That's that all
that's cool. I got David's pictures. Those are very cool
from Burgess State Park. What a neat looking place, man,

(01:06:38):
I mean really, I wish there were I wish every
state could do that, Hey State Park free, but there is.
There is cost associated with the maintenance of parks in Texas,
and I don't know where else we would get the money.
We're already horribly underfunded with our parks and Walleife Department,

(01:06:59):
and still they do uh banner job of taking care
of our resources and wouldn't hurt me if we had
wouldn't hurt my feelings at all. If we had two
or maybe two and a half times as many game
wardens as we have. Some of those guys, especially out
in West Texas where the areas are so big, the
counties are so big. Some of those guys. If you

(01:07:21):
call a game warden and you tell them you need
them right away, that's yeah. I'll be there in two hours.
They may be that far away, maybe one hundred and
something miles away. It's gonna take them a hot minute
to get there. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot Come.
I wanted to get into discussion discussion today, but I'll

(01:07:43):
probably hold off on it till tomorrow unless somebody wants
to just jump in with a quick one I want
to talk about since we're coming up on opening days
of the big seasons. Hold on, let me talk to
Mike first. Callers far more important might gap and what's up, Mike?

Speaker 6 (01:08:00):
Did you get your tire pressure sensor replaced?

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
You know, I got the tire pressure sensor, the other
three tire pressure sensors, and the tires all replaced in
record time. I got to brag a little bit about
the guys over at Discount Tire because they told me
when I finally set up the deal. First of all,
I got a good deal on my tires. I felt
really comfortable about that. I also got the sensors for

(01:08:24):
half of the price that another place wanted to charge
me per censor half, which was impressive. And then on
top of that, they said, yeah, come on out here.
If you've come out now, it's like two thirty on
Thursday afternoon, come out here and we'll get it done.
There's almost nobody here right now. So I go racing
out there and I sat down. The guy said, yeah,

(01:08:47):
probably be about an hour and fifteen minutes, hour and
a half tops. Thirty minutes later, I get a text. Hey,
this is a I'm sitting in the showroom, but that's
how they do it. I get this text. It says, hey,
your car's ready. And I looked at it was still
in the bay. I'm just staring right outside, and so
I walked over to the counter. I said, hey, I
just got this text. Is there a mistake or something.
He goes, no, it's ready. They just got to pull

(01:09:08):
it out and thirty minutes thirty five minutes, I said,
you guys need to work for NASCAR.

Speaker 4 (01:09:13):
Man.

Speaker 6 (01:09:14):
Yeah, I've had real good experience with those folks too.

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
Good people. Yeah, good people.

Speaker 6 (01:09:18):
I wanted to tell you about an old fishing trick.
I tried at a new place to fish. I went
out to a friend's place that's got a ten acre
private lake, no boats on it, just bank fishing.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:09:33):
I didn't know where the fish were, so you know,
I'm throwing my lure out and I catch a little bass, okay,
And I reach in my pocket and I pulled out
a cheap penny balloon and blowed up about the size
of my hand and tie it off about twelve feet
from the fish. You go back in the water, and

(01:09:55):
the fish swims all the way across this little lake
to a cove and I reeled with fishback in. Let
the fish go walk around the lake. And I spent
the next two and a half hours just catching fish.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
Oh my.

Speaker 6 (01:10:13):
He showed me where the whole bunch was, and man,
I had the best time in my life. Oh my.
I cheated a little, but it was fun doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:22):
You know, years ago I never experienced this. But years
ago I knew some guys and there was more than
one on the bay. And when they would catch a
little trout, they would put a popping cork about six
eight feet above it and then cut that line and
throw the fish back. And all they do is follow

(01:10:43):
that fish all day long because that fish was staying
with the school, and so they just catch trout after
trout after trout. That was very unfair. But you just
had a nice variation on the theme. I didn't thought
about doing it with fresh water. But it worked, didn't it?

Speaker 6 (01:10:58):
More on runway to skin a cat? Brother. Oh all right,
that's plenty.

Speaker 1 (01:11:04):
Of Mike, Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, there's all
kinds of ways to find fish, you just have to
find that first one. I guess if you want to
take advantage of some of that. I don't know what
the law is about, you know, he never technically well, yeah,
he did blow up the balloon, come on some way
in some way, shape or form that may be. That

(01:11:25):
may be un disallowed. I was gonna say unallowed, but
that's too. I don't know what this whole trend is
with when someone passes. Now, the term is unalive. Oh
he was unalived, No, he was killed, whatever that he
or it is. I have a hard time with that term.

(01:11:50):
I'll just stick with mine, and you stick with yours.
And some of the young people, some of these young
people got all kinds of crazy words for stuff. I
found out one thing, one acronym, and I if I
could remember it exactly, I would tell you what it is.
But anyway, there's there's the kids version where when they're
talking to each other it means that somebody is just

(01:12:12):
really they don't like them, they don't want to be
around them, they're horrible. But if someone who is not
in their group asks, like a parent asked, what that
acronym stands for, it's something very flattering. Like I know,
I could Mark wade in Mark from Georgia ways all

(01:12:33):
the way in Fall Creek Falls State Park and Golden
Road Golf Course in Tennessee at that, Yeah falls at
Tennessee State Park. Wow, Fall Creek Falls. That sounds like
a good place. And if it's got a golf course
right next to it, even better place. Golden Road Golf
Course sounds fantastic. What could go wrong at a Golden

(01:12:57):
Road golf course? Thank you, Mark, appreciate you listening all
way over there in Georgia still too's that means a
lot to me. It really does man feel free. Next
time you get back to Houston, let me know, I'll
buy you lunch or something. I don't know how often
you get back, but yeah, i'd probably pull that off.
We'll cater something. We'll get something catered for us. Seven

(01:13:17):
one three two seven ninety Email me Doug pick at
iHeartMedia dot com. I gotta squeeze in one more little
break here before the end of the show. And we're
getting closed because we got to make room for a
bunch of football and then first actually at nine o'clock
it's going to be UH Sports Investors Daily and then
football after that. And Frankie's pretty sure it's LSU, and
I'm not gonna change that because half the people here

(01:13:38):
work or went to LSU, and so to mention any
other team but LSU more times than LSU would be wrong, right, Frankie. Yeah.
American Shooting Centers out there on West Timber Parkway between
Katie and Highway six, fantastic place to get those rifles
and shotguns tuned up before the hunting season. If you
got problems with you, you might still be able to

(01:13:58):
get them fixed. Probably need to ask in any event, though,
if the problem is with the operator of that firearm,
you can get professional instruction in any shooting discipline out there.
Got rifle and pistol from five yards to six hundred
yards there's a pop up silhouette range for remfire shooting
with the kids so they don't cost you an arm

(01:14:19):
and a leg in ammo. There are five stand setups
set up five stand setups all over the property. There
are three sporting plays courses. There are ten trapid skeet fields,
and everywhere you go there are always safety officers around
making sure that everybody's having a good, safe, fun experience

(01:14:40):
with the shooting sports at American Shooting Centers. Nice little
selection of higher end guns, shotguns and rifles in the
pro shop, Plenty of AMMO in whatever caliber you want
to shoot, and just an all around wonderful place to
enjoy the shooting sports. American Shooting Centers dot Com is
a website American Shooting Centers dot com. Northwest side of town.

(01:15:02):
Probably not gonna get any rain today. All of that's
kind of down toward the coast. There was a little
moisture at my house this morning, but that's Sugarland. If
you're a golfer, and if you want to stay dry today,
black Horse probably be a good option for you. Two
courses up there. They're off Fry Road in two ninety
about two three miles south of two ninety on Fry Road,
and there you will find the North Course which is

(01:15:24):
still daily fee and your buddies can make a tea
time right now, go up there and play. They're gonna
be able to get you out, I'm pretty sure. And
then there's also the South Course which was taken private,
and the membership options there go up to and include membership. Also,
in addition to getting the two courses at black Horse,
you can also get both courses at Golf Club of

(01:15:46):
Houston and Blackhawk Country Club out in Richmond, where I
play a lot. There's all a fantastic opportunity because they're
all owned by the same corporation to get five for
one basically with that membership. Blackhorse Golf Club dot com
great place for a tournament because they've got a huge

(01:16:07):
practice facility and they've got a nice teaching facility at
the far end of the range as well, where you
can knock the rust off an old, nasty old swing.
Black Horse Golf Club dot com is a website, black
Horse Golf Club dot com. Hi, welcome back, Wrap it up,
final segment. Believe it att this morning. If if you

(01:16:29):
just tuned in and thinking, oh good, I got another hour. Well,
I know you don't sorry about that. We've got to
make room for sports investors daily at nine o'clock so
that they can make room for LSU at ten o'clock.
That'll be LSU pre game. I think the game must
start at eleven, Is that correct, Frankie?

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
Or do you know?

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
Yeah, the pregame at ten probably about an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Yeah. G e a u X.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Tigers, that's what they say, Go Tigers. I'm half Cajun.
My dad born and raised in New Orleans on Plumb
Street many many, many many years ago. His birth year
was nineteen and twenty seven, believe it or not, so
he would have been ninety eight this year. Just remarkable.

(01:17:13):
Maybe time for that one really quick, Frankie or no,
we about at the end. We might have time. Let's
try it. Okay, squeeze him in, Let's see what's up.
Let me go, Hey, Mark, what's up? Man? I got
a couple of minutes, it's all.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
Oh he's not on, Frankie. Oh yeah, it may not work.
We're just so close to out of time. By the way,
when I need you, I'll call back tomorrow Mark, when
we've got more time. I don't want to just rush
you through whatever you wanted to talk about. Frankie, by
the way, I'm I'm gonna probably resurrect the Texas temperature game.

(01:17:49):
Have you ever been involved with that yet?

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Or no?

Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
Yah?

Speaker 1 (01:17:51):
Yeah, okay, good. And just for giggles, you want to
you want to practice round so you'll be ready when
we finally kick it off. Let's do it, okay, So
you don't have to play the music or anything. I
just want to let me get to that and that. Now,
this was snapshotted earlier today, and so at about seven

(01:18:12):
o'clock this morning, what do you think the low temperature
in the state was. Let's see how good you are?
Sixty seven? Oh god, forty six oh forty Panhandle. You
got to remember, Texas is way up there, halfway up
the country. Basically, it's like northern Oklahoma or northern New Mexico,

(01:18:34):
whichever way you're looking forty six at. Let me see
where this one is. That would be forty Kyle Lea,
this thing won't come. That's so messed up. Shame on it,
Dalhart forty six at Hemp Hill. Both of those, Okay,
so you kind of shot yourself in the foot on
that one. Let's try to redeem yourself with the seven

(01:18:56):
am high temperature. Well set them with like a seventy
seventy three eighty one, it's eighty one in Galveston. Galveston
continues to have some pretty dog on high temperatures and

(01:19:18):
has been hitting the top one. And that's that on
shore flow of wind which brings that warmer Gulf water
temperature onto land. Here it's it's only seventy the low
seventies right just in Houston. Low seventies in Houston, seventy
two even at Bay City, but eighty one at Galveston.

(01:19:41):
That's kind of unusual. All right, we'll catch Mark tomorrow,
I hope. And we're just about to wrap her up,
aren't we. I'm waiting for the music. Surely it's going
to start any time now.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
No good.

Speaker 1 (01:19:54):
What I want to talk about tomorrow when we get
back is going to be things that people for or get,
Things that people forget to pack for opening day and
then all through the season, whether you hunt every day
or only a few days, but stuff that you leave
behind that you probably should have brought. And one thing

(01:20:14):
that a lot of people don't even carry all the
way to the blind with them, which I think it
can be a really big mistakes at least some sort
of not maybe not a complete, but at least some
little entry level first aid kit. If you crawl up
in that blind, for example, if you crawl up a
ladder and into a box blind to go deer hunting,

(01:20:37):
and there's an exposed nail or screw or something like
that in there, and you just scrape your arm along it,
or maybe the side of your face whatever, and you
cut yourself open a little bit. You're gonna be darn
glad you've got a band aid. You're gonna be darn
glad you've got something that will help you stop that
bleeding and disinfect that wound. It doesn't have to be

(01:21:00):
you don't have to have an EMS kit, but just
a little something to take the edge off until you
can get back to camp. That looking at well. Flash
lights and by the way, I don't like using a
flashlight to get through the woods. That just scares animals.
That's a big old hot mess. Am I gonna get
an outro or man? We're just right there. Oh just

(01:21:23):
go oh okay, I'm gonna say bye bye. There's apparently
more technical stuff. It's the top of the hour. I'll
see it tomorrow at eight o'clock. Thanks for listening. Audios