The Doug Pike Show 10-13-2024

Today on the Doug Pike Show, Doug talks with the listeners about getting the kids into the outdoors, and why it is important in the long run. Other topics include people going overboard with gun ballistics in regard to hunting, bow hunting, and great places to catch trout and other fish in the Houston area 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
How many fish in our stringer, how many points on
our buck, how many feathers in our bag. That's how
we keep score around here. Sportsmen and women of all
skill levels, Let's disconnect from the day to day grind
and stay connected to the outdoor activities that you and

(00:21):
your family love.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
This is the.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Doug Pike Show, brought to you by American Shooting Centers,
the largest non military shooting facility in Texas, and by
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sixty years. Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
All right, Sunday ed issue of the show starts right now,
and I'm glad you are all here.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
I'm glad you. I gotta put my mouth closer to
this microphone.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
I'm leaning across the console trying to find something over
yonder here, and I've found it.

Speaker 6 (01:03):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
That's good.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Actually, I think that's an old piece. I'll take care
of that though. That's not a big deal.

Speaker 7 (01:07):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Happy, what's happy Sunday? If you're on your way to church,
hope you make it on time. I'm pretty sure you will.
There wasn't a whole lot of traffic this morning. If
you're on the way to a dove hunt, a casual
morning dove hunt. You're late as if you're going in
the morning and you've got plenty of time, if you're
going this afternoon, if you're going fishing anytime. I've had

(01:29):
so many people over the years ask me, when's the
best time to go fishing, Like when you can if
you can squeeze an hour into your day for fishing,
squeeze it in there, go fish for an hour. And
most of the places around the Greater Houston area, if
you really are interested, if you're as addicted and com

(01:51):
just I can't stop fishing the way I am, you
can find someplace to go wet a line for an hour,
half hour. You might catch a fish, you might not,
But it's the it's being out there fishing that should
solve whatever thing you're trying to solve by doing that.

(02:12):
If you're upset about something, go fishing for a little while.

Speaker 5 (02:16):
If you're worried.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
About something going on in your personal life where it
work or with your kids, or with your parents or whatever,
no fish for a little while. If you get into fishing,
it's it's a temporary a temporary pass from all that
crazy stuff in your life. You can you can forget
about it for a little while, and then as soon

(02:38):
as you quit fishing and hop back in the car,
you can start thinking about the ugly stuff again, or
or the good stuff, whatever it may be.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
All Right, I don't want to dwell on all that.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Trying to put a couple of things together over here,
and I'm missing a couple of pieces of paper, but
I think I've got them all mapped out. Now there's
the one I was looking for, all right, that'll get
us started. Oh my gosh, I've got a Manila folder
here that holds some of the paperwork that I used
during the show. And it looks like it was made

(03:10):
during the Civil War. It's just battered and torn up,
and it's it's rough around the edges, but it works
all right, So quick, look at the weather. The forecast
for today outstanding. It's gonna be warmer than we would
probably like in the middle of October. But hey, it's
not raining and it's not gonna rain. And now that's

(03:33):
not really great for our lawns. But our lawns aren't
growing as much right now as they were anyway, so
we're kind of tucking them in and they're gonna need
some fertilizer. By the way, you might want to check
in with guard Line to find out exactly what to
put on your yard.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
I know there are we can.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Start killing the weeds right now, putting those pre emergence
out and all that stuff. I don't know much about that,
and flip over and talk to Skip about that if
you need to. Bottom line is we're not supposed to
see rain around here at least until next Friday, Okay,
and that's only a ten percent chance.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
There's no rain in.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
The forecast through Thursday, ten percent chance on Friday, ten
percent chance on Saturday. In other words, make some outdoors
plans and you're probably gonna be.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
Able to pull them off.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
There's a dry cold front moving through here, I think
late Tuesday or maybe early Wednesday. The high Wednesday gonna
be seventy seven, the low Wednesday night sixty three. It's
the first time we're gonna see sixty three in a
long time, a very long time, So take advantage of it.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Get out there and go for a walk.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
I think I'll try to coordinate a good walk for
my wife and me that day. The air will be brisk,
and I certainly will welcome that. I'm tired of going
out and try hitting three golf balls and breaking a sweat.
That's that ninety degree stuff. I'm not near as tough
as I used to be.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
I made it through. I made it through the entire sea.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
He's of summer without having to stop playing golf, without
having to stop fishing, without having to stop doing anything
outdoors because it was just too hot.

Speaker 5 (05:11):
But I paid a price for it this year.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
This is the first year I've really started to feel
the impacts of heat. And like I've said before, years ago,
when I was young and tough and writing at the
paper and doing these shows and doing all the other
things I was loving doing, I used to welcome summertime
because that kept the old people off the golf course.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
Now the tides turned. Let's go talk to Brandon for
a little bit.

Speaker 8 (05:39):
Hey, Brandon, what's up man, Good morning, mister Pike, carry
this morning doing great now, I hear you. Yeah, I
just wanted to touch you all that. I want to
encourage everybody to try to take young adults, whether male, female,
or you know, just take them outdoors, let them enjoy things,
let her be, you know, plant that seed, and I

(06:01):
guarantee you it'll make a difference in their life. They
get hammered with too much stuff with social media and pressure,
and then I mean, just take them out there and
let them see the great outdoors.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
There was a really good study done.

Speaker 8 (06:17):
It'll make a difference in their life, no question.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
There was a really good study done years ago, and
I talked about it more than once back in that
ear back when that was going on, and I want
to say it was about ten fifteen years ago.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
A really good study done.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
On the on kids who grew up around the outdoors,
who were out there and really walking in the mud
and walking through the woods and play it, swimming in
the lake and all of that stuff outdoors, kids fishing, hunting,
all of it, versus kids who grew up in the
city and really weren't exposed to any of that. And

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the kids who were brought up in the out of doors,
for one thing, recognize that they were part of something
much bigger than themselves and had a very good viewpoint
of how the world worked around them. And they also
scored better in standardized tests than other kids. And that

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has nothing to do It had nothing to do with
socioeconomic anything except outdoors or no outdoors, and it really
kind of opened.

Speaker 8 (07:22):
My eyes, right, And I mean, I greatly appreciate it
because I remember, I mean, I was fishing and huntin
since I was seven years old, and it vastly changed
everything in my life. And I mean, and like I say,
whether you're single, whatever, I mean, be a step dad
or whatever, I mean, just take a kid in the

(07:44):
outdoors and I guarantee it will change their life forever.
They will remember that thought forever.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
It's interesting now at the age I am that I've
had people walk up to me who are thirty, forty
years old whatever they are now and say, I don't
know if you remember, but you took me fishing for
the very first time with my dad or something like that,
and it just makes me really feel good, he said.
You know, they'd say, I just want to thank you

(08:11):
for that because it meant a lot to me.

Speaker 8 (08:13):
Like holy cow, r exactly exactly. I'm fifty four, and
I must rather see a young male or female shoot
a deer, their first deer, whatever, catch their first fish.
That's where I'm at in life. I must rather plant
the seeds and I'm like, you know what you have
at it? You have a great time.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
Fifty four man, you may be one of the kids
I took fishing when I so young.

Speaker 8 (08:40):
Yeah, but I mean that's the thieves that I want
to plant, you know, And that's what I see. I
mean in the younger generation.

Speaker 9 (08:46):
You know.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
I encourage people to do that all day, every day,
and I talk about it.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
I haven't talked about it in months though.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
Usually it's around the first of the year when I
do this, and I will encourage everybody to set a
goal for themselves, whether it's one for the whole year,
one per quarter, one a month, something like that, but
set a goal to find some little kid who's dad
or mom or aunt or uncle, whatever you can convince

(09:14):
to let you and the adult because maybe they know you,
maybe they don't, maybe they don't want you just taking
their kid off to go fishing by yourself. Invite them
to come along, get everybody to come along, but get
that kid on his or her first fish, and then
just letting it snowball from there.

Speaker 8 (09:32):
Man, right, I hear you. And a kidfish is not
I mean, I like the kidfish thing, but that's not
the outdoors. Take them to the outdoors.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yeah, well, the kidfish thing is great, but it's not
or nearly as successful long term as a lot of
people might think it is. The problem is that these
kids hear about this fishing event that's coming to their
little local park pond or whatever, and the lake's going
to be stopped with catfish and and hopefully everybody's gonna

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catch some fish. And whether they do or not, the
problem isn't that the kids don't like fishing.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
The problem is that when they get.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Home, their parents go, yeah, we'll go again someday, Yeah,
we'll get around to it. Don't worry, and they don't.
The parents don't back it up. And that's the problem
right right.

Speaker 8 (10:21):
The great outdoors is the best place to be.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
O man, oh man, I can we gotta.

Speaker 8 (10:27):
Dump We gotta dump in into this next generation.

Speaker 6 (10:29):
That's what we gotta do.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
I had my son when he was about three.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
I had him out of a little place I had
access to down south of town out to eighty eight,
and he would he and I were walking around the
woods and just there was it had rained, and there
was a pretty good puddle on the trail up in
front of us, and he had little rubber boots on,
and uh, he walked ahead of me. And he got
to the edge of the water. I said, just walk

(10:53):
on through there, it's okay. And he got in the
middle and he stopped, and it was maybe two inches deep.
And I looked at him and I just saw that
look in his eyes, that little boy look. And I said,
you want to you want to splash around a little bit,
and he kind of smiled. I said, get after it.
And he started jumping up and down in that water.
And you would have thought I had given him the
keys to the castle.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
He was just having a glass man.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
He got muddy, he got wet, he fell down once,
got his blue jeans all wet, and and buddy and
I didn't even care.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
I didn't care at all. He was having the time
of his life. Man.

Speaker 8 (11:28):
It was so fun, right, I guarantee you later in
life he'll he'll bad. Memory will come up. Oh seat
is already done?

Speaker 10 (11:35):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (11:36):
Yeah, it was awesome. It was It was great. Hey, Brennan.
It's great to hear from you.

Speaker 8 (11:40):
Man, Yes, sir, thank you, thank you for your intellectual show.
I love listening to yells guys that come in.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
And I appreciate it, man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah, Yeah, that's that's something that's I think you can
tell all the way. I kind of perk up when
somebody starts talking about taking kids fishing.

Speaker 5 (11:55):
Or hunting or whatever, and it's not something you can
push on him.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
If you if you force them to go, they're not
gonna want to go again, probably even if you do
catch a couple of fish, if they're not ready, if
that's not their thing.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
Even you got to remember.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
There's a lot of kids who just aren't gonna it's
not in their DNA. Okay, it's deep in their DNA,
but it's not near the surface, and.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
It may take them a while.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
It may they may never get excited about going fishing.
But if you ask a kid if they want to
go and they say yes, you better be able to
back it up. And I can assure you that if
you're looking around the greater Houston area, so long as
you're outside let's say, so long as you're outside Beltway eight,

(12:39):
you won't have to go far to find some place
that you can lawfully, legally, merrily go with a cane
pole and a bunch of cut up pieces of blowney
or bacon or whatever, Howard dough balls, whatever you want
to use. A cane pole, a cork, a hook, and

(12:59):
some and you can catch some fish. You may not
catch a state record largemouth bass, you might not catch
a giant trout, but you'll catch some fish and that's
all they're looking for. And you don't have to stay
out there long. It doesn't need to be an all
day affair. It shouldn't be because you'll lose their attention
very quickly. I talked about it just last week. I

(13:20):
believe it was ten minutes per out per year of age.
That's how much time you have to keep their attention.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
You've got a four year old, you got about thirty
forty minutes before they're gonna get distracted. They're gonna want
to go do something else.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
And that's why when I took my son and his
friends on cane pole trips, I always always always had
a baseball and a couple of gloves, a football, a
soccer ball, whatever it was seasonally that they might want
to play with between looking at a cork and hoping
it goes down. Now, the place I was going was
kind of loaded it It was a stack deck, and

(13:56):
I caught lots of fish there. I've told everybody in
this life, some million times our record, and we just
stopped when we hit it, my son and me, in
about an hour and a half or so.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
I don't know what.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
It didn't take long, but we stopped at one hundred.
That's how good that place was. Oh Mercy, Bob and Aaron.
I need you guys to hang on through the break.
I gotta go to this break. I don't want to
miss it. And then when we get back, I'll go
straight to you guys, But I don't want to get
too far off off kilter. Here right out front, Belleville
Meat Market is happy to have you come out there.

(14:30):
They are wide open, full blowing go on wild game
processing now that the deer season's opened up for bow hunters.
They have thirty two dozen plus. I know that at
least that many flavors of premium Pecan Smoke sausage and
wink wink, nod nod. There's a brand new flavor coming out.
It's available out there at the meat market to sample.

(14:52):
And if you're processing a deer, you're gonna be able
to off or you're gonna be able to option in
some of that flavor of sausage. And from what I've heard,
I haven't tasted it yet, but from people who have
I've heard it's pretty spectacular.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
All that going on.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
There's always barbecue, lunch, and dinner available. That's ten am
to seven pm every single day. Oh so much out there.
The oh by the way, the big Tomaly's, those are
out there. I'm looking real quickly for a message from
a guy I wanted to talk to or I wanted
to have help me out with this. There it is
right there. That's what I'm looking for. Gonna be able

(15:31):
to get that. We're gonna get that.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:35):
Mostly they're teasing that new flavor.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
There's something else coming up to that I can't talk
about yet, but everything at Bellville meat Market just you
know it's gonna be something spectacular when they put it
out there. And I think that new flavor of sausage
is gonna be just that. Bellville meat Market there about
fifteen minutes north to Seily, fifteen minutes south of Hempstead
on Highway thirty six. Really nice, pleasant drive. Load up

(15:58):
the family and on the way out there, make a
list of all the things you want to bring home
and eat over the next couple of weeks. Do that,
and then when you get there, hand off the list,
order some lunch, sit out on the patio.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
It's going to be a beautiful couple of weeks. Here's weatherwise.

Speaker 4 (16:14):
To sit out there and enjoy a nice lunch, and
then when you're finished, go back inside, gather up that
big box of stuff you're taking home, and enjoy it
for the next couple of weeks. If you can't get there,
I understand if you live in Pasadena, Belleville's a long drive.
You'd have to make a heck of a commitment for that.
But you can also just stay at the house, sit
on the couch and order everything online.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
Have you shipped right to your door. They'll do that
for you too.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
Belleville MeetMarket dot Com is a website, Belleville MeetMarket dot com.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
Oh, my goodness, of paperwork everywhere in here. Uh longest
hold that belongs to Aaron.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
I'm gonna go to him first then and then I'll
catch up all the way through.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
Aaron. What's up, man, Hey, good morning dog.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
How you doing this morning?

Speaker 5 (16:54):
I'm good.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
I'm trying to figure out where I can find a
hot cup of coffee in here. The first cup I
had it was the kind I kind of like, and
it was yesterday's pot. And then the other stuff is
this Guatemala battery acid stuff.

Speaker 5 (17:09):
I don't know what that is. Oh man, Yeah, you
dissolve a spoon in it. You see an interesting fact
before we get to whatever you want to talk about.
If you replace your morning coffee with green tea, you
can lose up to I think it's eighty seven percent
of whatever little joy you have left. Well as much

(17:31):
as I drive, I know, man, I can't have that.
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 11 (17:35):
Just crossed over the I just crossed over the Colorado
and saw what I thought was a huge buzzard flapping
really hard.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
I was gonna say it. They're probably not a buzzer
working that hard. Yeah, that's cool sighting.

Speaker 11 (17:49):
Yeah, get back to what Brandon was talking about getting
kids out doors and stuff.

Speaker 5 (17:55):
It's kind of ironic to send.

Speaker 12 (17:57):
You a little quote by Robert Rurke.

Speaker 11 (18:00):
About, uh, you know, being an example while you're out
there with those kids too. You know you're taking a
bad trip. You know, a good leader if that could
take a bad trip and make it make it a
great time. You know, absolutely, in a time where everything
is edited on TV and you're supposed to go get
your limited how fast. Did you get your limit?

Speaker 13 (18:19):
All?

Speaker 11 (18:19):
It'stuff to talk about, you know, slow down, be a
leader to show show kids cut the firewood, do everything
you know, make it, make it to where they want
to be like that one.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
Well, you're you're exactly right.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
And we're raising a generation of people who want instant gratification.
And on top of that, they really don't want and
don't know how, and aren't really interested in learning how
all that happens, how the firewood gets cut.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
They just expect to see cut firewood.

Speaker 11 (18:49):
My dad said, if you can't make a fire, they're
ratting out in the woods.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
Have no business being out in the woods. That's a
very good point. That one is eliminate a lot of
the crowding on a whole lot of trails.

Speaker 6 (18:59):
Too.

Speaker 11 (19:00):
Well, let me rod back to the cabinet and get
to get a lighter dad, get back to that that roork. Well, yeah,
my dad used to take us to a place called
a bookstore.

Speaker 12 (19:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
Generation, but uh about eight or nine.

Speaker 11 (19:16):
Uh, the gentleman insisted to take home. In this book
by Robert Rurke called The Old Man of the Boy,
it's a bunch of short stories. Man, I'd highly recommend
that it would be a great gift for each kid
for Christmas.

Speaker 5 (19:29):
Really get them into it.

Speaker 11 (19:30):
The Manageable Little Short Stories Man, that that was a
great book. It really kind of kind of changed my
life as a kid.

Speaker 13 (19:37):
My outlook on the outdoors.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
I'm sure.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Yeah, there's so much mis information and that's a buzzword
right now, and I hate to even use it, but
there's just false stuff being being put out there about
the outdoors, about consumptive outdoors, and it just it's it's
never there's never been a better time to to fight
back on that too. We've got all kinds of things

(20:01):
going on in this country that are distracting us from
the outdoors. But a good walk in the woods probably
wouldn't hurt a whole lot of these people who are
screaming at each other.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
Even if you're just go platform shoes. All right, man,
all right, later, all right, Oh snapping at me from yesterday,
that's kind of funny. All right, brand In your next, buddy,
here we go, Brandon, your next. What's up, man, dog?

Speaker 3 (20:29):
How are you good?

Speaker 5 (20:30):
I'm doing great. I got a couple of minutes for you.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Then I'm gonna catch Rick and guitar Dave all in
this segment, So what you got?

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Did you watch the Cleveland and Detroit Tuggers game?

Speaker 5 (20:40):
I did not. I was I was out working on
my golf game.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
I've got a tournament tomorrow and there's a there's a
new part of my swing that I'm trying to dial
in before I have to count on it to tear
it to help other people in my group.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Did you hear Guardians was ahead seven in this free No?

Speaker 5 (21:02):
I did not. Did they end up winning?

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (21:05):
Oh good?

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Okay? Yankees?

Speaker 5 (21:09):
Oh boy, that's gonna be not an easy task. It
never is.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
It just seems weird without the astros, doesn't it. I know,
it's horrible. We'll get through it.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
We're gonna play.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
We're gonna do it in that share.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
So I think.

Speaker 6 (21:25):
So.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
All right, all right, well, thank you, Brandon. I appreciate
the call.

Speaker 13 (21:28):
Man.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Have a good week and be safe.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
Yeah, thank you. Go Texans too.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Huh Hey they are playing today.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Let's go to Houston, yes, sir? All right?

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Audios, all right, let me get to Rick. I'll get
to Rick here then I'll try to grab day. What's
up Rick?

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Hi?

Speaker 6 (21:51):
Good morning? I want to go back to the original Brandon.
I mean, I love you, and I have talked about
this for many years, even though I don't I've only
met you one time. You I think you have a
pretty good grip on my son's sure, and obviously I'm
pretty proud of them. When they were small kids, they

(22:16):
couldn't have computers. They didn't get a phone until they
went to high school. They didn't even they were driving.

Speaker 7 (22:23):
Them before they had a phone.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
Sure, wow.

Speaker 6 (22:25):
And they couldn't watch TV until me or Mom were there.
And their toy was a fourteen yard load dirt from
a fourteen yard dump truck load of dirty backyard.

Speaker 7 (22:39):
There's your toy.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
Go go play like that.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Man.

Speaker 7 (22:43):
They had more fun, more fun.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
And their kids would brothers come to our another. Boys
would rather come to our house than playing in.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
Kendo, No doubt I could see that. Anyways.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
You know, you stay outside, you want.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
To drink the water, You're hot the water, you know,
like that's I think it paid off. Of course, you know,
we're a hunting, fishing family anyway, So you know, it
just goes back to what he said.

Speaker 7 (23:13):
You've got to.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
Get them out of the house, and you got to
get you just got to get to, you know, all
the electronic stuff I don't know anything about. Away from
them and make them go outside.

Speaker 7 (23:25):
Even if they don't want to go, make them go, well,
take them.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
There's wagging the tail here.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
Well I understand, I don't.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
You force them, but I think you get them out
there at some point and something else.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
It's important to remember as you don't. You don't keep
them out there too long either, because you got to
leave them wanting more. You know, when the when the.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Fish are biting, the fisher biting, I would I would say, oh, well,
looks like we're out of time.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
Oh God, when can we come back? And boom? You
got them then.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
But if you keep them out there till the crickets
are chirping, you know, it's like whatever, we we're bored,
we want to go home.

Speaker 7 (24:01):
Let me respond and then I'll let you go to
that statement. Uh, if they don't like it and they
don't want to go outside, but you make them, I'm
gonna go back to that. You make them, but you
don't have to do nothing. You don't want to do
nothing in the.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
Middle of I do agree with that. Yeah, I do
get them out there and make sure they understand the
outside is okay.

Speaker 7 (24:22):
Boys especially boys will find something to do.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
Even if they don't want to, even if it's dangerous.

Speaker 6 (24:31):
Hey, you know Wild at Heart. That's the man read
Wild at Heart.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
I had more knees and elbows than most. I can
assure you.

Speaker 7 (24:41):
I recommend the book and he gotta got young guys,
pray your best to get them.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
To read that book Heart. And the other one is
read the Millionaire next door?

Speaker 5 (24:54):
Got it?

Speaker 6 (24:55):
Got it mandatory?

Speaker 5 (24:56):
See you all right, buddy, audios.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Yeah, this is I've touched a nerve here, and I'm
glad too because there's so many little kids who don't
get that opportunity.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Dave, what's up?

Speaker 7 (25:09):
Well, real quick?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
On the take the dun smoke deal. Dennis Weaver played Chester.

Speaker 7 (25:15):
Remember he had a stiff leg.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
I know, and I got that from somebody.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yet I want to give credit where it's due, because
somebody sent me that yesterday and I had it highlighted.
I think here to talk about it and give credit.
But now that you've let the cat out of the bag,
I'll find it and I'll acknowledge at some point.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Then, all right, cool, Now, now what you're hitting big
nerves here. You know, I just started thinking my mom
and dad and Santa Claus was very very wonderful. Yeah,
and uh you know, uh I remember when at the
time that we were having the the on that two
acres that we had. Now it's just down to eighteen,
but there was the bulldozers were digging, the digging the pond.

(25:57):
But then we were watching bulldozers digging like Conrad. Well,
we got a whole plethora of talking toys.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
Man.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
So we went back there and we had shovels and
we started studying how they were making the pond. And
we made about a six foot round pond with a
dam on there, with a spillway and everything.

Speaker 7 (26:16):
Yeah that it was deep.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
It wasn't deep, sure, but it was cool to get
in there and do it. And then I remember, you
get in a bunch of sand, like my uncle Sonny's
out there and off a gosslel road and we build
sand castles over there and all that kind of stuff,
you know, and and just being being in the outdoors
and okay, real quick on the fishing park, you know, uh,

(26:45):
you get it. You know, we'd be in a boat
and we were we were like in fifth sixth grade
something like that. And like my dad or my uncle Lewis,
we'd be on the run of the trot line. And
so you got one guy on the front of the boat,
one guy on the back of the boat. Make sure
you got all your tags and all that. But anyway,
and my uncle Lewis he goes. You feel it jac

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in other words, you feel something pulling, and then all
of a sudden you feel something pulling. Don't pick it up.
Don't pick it, don't get it out of the water
until you get there with the net, because when you
pick it up a lot.

Speaker 7 (27:17):
Of times they'll just flop right off.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
I found who I found out who it was from
yesterday and it had Chester played by Dennis Weaver. That
would be Dennis, not Weaver though that's not his last name,
but yeah, another Dennis.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
All right, cool, hey, But I'll tell you what. You know,
what the what the the best thing about fishing is
the surprise. Sure, you know, trout line or whatever. What
what's coming up? Like that time I told you I
thought I had like a sixteen pound bass or on
Lake Conrod and it was a grass car.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
I saw Rod really the water.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
I saw a guy on Facebook the other day make
a big hook set.

Speaker 5 (27:57):
Oh my god, it's a big one.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Is this is the one? This is the one. And
he's reeling for everything. He's got to get this thing
out of the weeds and whatnot. And it was a stick.
It was hilario, just a big old branch that was
kind of banging through stuff coming out and whatnot.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
And he had snagged a stick. Man. But hey, we
were fishing.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
With texts one time, just doing a straight drop down
and my buddy Mary and seagull he and I started
filming him because he said, man, I got something on
here and he starts picking it up and I'll be durned.
Just sixteen feet of water. He hooked the cores.

Speaker 7 (28:36):
Beer can, Oh my god, and pulled it up out
of there. I no, that's true story.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
I believe you. I didn't believe you. I said, I
got a run. Okay, hooked a beer can.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
All I got.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
There's a beer can story I can tell when we
come back. It's not fishing related, but it's pretty interesting.
It made me scratch my head about three times. A
man shooting centers open this morning. You want to go
out there and burn a little powder, get ready for
deer season. If you haven't already. America Shooting centers would
have loved to have you out there. It's one of
the safest places to shoot in anywhere. Ever since especially

(29:13):
since ed or Riggi took it over, he made sure
there are eyes on everybody who is on that property
all the time.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
So don't pick your nose.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
Get out there, enjoy the shooting sports as they are
meant to be enjoyed safely. And however you want to shoot.
If you want to shoot from five yards and work
on your self defense stuff, go ahead. You want to
stretch it out to two hundred, three hundred, six hundred yards,
go ahead. You can do that as well. Fifteen one
hundred yards too. They've got three sporting place courses. They've

(29:44):
got it's either I think it's ten trapping skip fields,
a couple of five stands setups.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
They've got a beginner's wing shooting area.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
They've got a pop up silhouette range for rim fire shooters.
It's a very fun, very safe place to enjoy the
shoothooting sports. If you're not breaking enough targets, if you're
not hitting enough bullseyes, just walk into the office there
on the top of the hill and say Hey, I
need an instructor out there with me to help me
become a better shooter.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
They'll help you with your safety stuff too.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
If you're kind of new to shooting, don't be embarrassed
to say so. Have somebody help you and explain to
you what you should and shouldn't do on a shooting range.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
That's what those range officers are there for.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
American Shooting Centers is on West Timber Parkway between Katie
and Highway six. Very simple to find. I promise you
can't miss it. You'll know it when you see it.
American Shooting Centers dot com is the website.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
You can go there and take a look at what
they've got.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
They're the largest non military shooting facility in the entire state.
American Shooting Centers dot com. This Sunday morning is a
beautiful Sunday morning. Grab the kids, take them outside. Go
find a cane pole somewhere. Go out in the country
and you'll probably find a bunch of stands of cane
unless the duck hunters have already gotten to it for
duck blines. And you can cut your own cane pole,

(31:02):
strip the leaves off of it, take it home, dry
it out, real good, and by gosh, make your own
cane pole. It's really not that hard. I used to
do that when I was a kid. There was a
place that we could go get some cane over in
Louisiana around Mettery, and we did that just to see
what we could do. And there were some big pieces
of it too. You had to dry it out real good,

(31:23):
and then just we just had to tie the line
on the cane poles you buy now, it usually come
in two or three pieces with metal ferrols in the
middle like a fly rod, and then they'll have just
a little wire loop wrapped onto the end of it
that you can tie your line to. You don't have
to use That doesn't really make any difference either, But
cane poles are great entry level stuff for kids. I

(31:47):
don't want to I don't want to spend the whole
two hours on taking kids fishing, But if anybody else
has any questions about how to do it and what
to take along with you to make sure that they
all have a good time and want to come back.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
I'd be happy to talk about that.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
These shorter days we're having now and milder temperatures have
a big impact on wildlife, and I wanted to kind
of look at that as well. Today the big masks
are gonna start fattening up in advance of the spawn.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
They recognize that.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
We'll start seeing baked fish in the bays kind of
balling up and circling the wagons because there are bigger
fish coming around to chop them up and eat them. Well,
they don't chop them up. They just eat them first
and swallow them a whole. For the most part. That's
all those the teeth and a speckled trout's mouth that
it just it's pretty obvious. They're not for cutting like

(32:36):
a shark's teeth are. They're just for grabbing. They swim
up behind something, they grab it, hopefully by the head,
and then spin it around in their mouths and down
the hatchet goes. And it's actually interesting if you've got
the stomach for it. No pun intended to examine the
stomach contents of the fish you catch.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
A lot of people don't want to do that. They
don't care. They think it's gross.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
They just get their filets and toss everything else over
the side of the boat or over the side of
the cleaning table.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
But it really is interesting. And it'll teach you a lot.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
And that's something else I talked yesterday about kind of
keeping records of where you fish and what you catch
and the conditions surrounding every one of those trips. And
that's something else that really can develop patterns for you
to follow from year to year.

Speaker 5 (33:28):
In season to season. Let me go get David on
the funnel, see what's up. What's up? David?

Speaker 14 (33:34):
Yeah, Doug real quickly. I wanted to talk about a
topic I thought might make a good something for you
to write about, and that's how the sport has evolved
and what I'm hunting that is. But I got to thinking,
you know, there's a lot of emphasis on these days
on calibers and the latest. You know, you got to
get these latest caliber and sure, I think the six

(33:55):
point five Creeve Moore is probably a good example of that.
But I thought back to when we were kids, warning
to you could probably count on one hand the number
of calibers that people took to the woods to hunt deer.
You know, thirty thirty two, seventy thirty six.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Period period right there, that's about it.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
You know that those were the three and it was
probably in order just say for Texas, I would think
probably two seventy thirty out six thirty thirty because not
too many people carried thirty thirties in open parts of
the state, and other than the piney woods, most of
the states kind of open, so you're gonna shoot a
little farther. But yeah, there weren't many. There really weren't.

(34:36):
I agree with you.

Speaker 14 (34:37):
And we didn't care anything about ballistic coefficient. We didn't
care anything about group size. It was can you can
you hit the deer and bring it down and do it?
You know, season in, season out well, and a lot.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Of Texas hunting evolved or it's centered around can you
hit the deer at one hundred yards because that's where
the most states don't allow feeding deer and you got
to go hunt them down. In states where you have
to do that, those people develop skills that a lot
of Texans don't have because all we've got to do
is sit in a box and stare down the cindero

(35:14):
one hundred yards and just wait to hear.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
That and then oh, here they come. It is easy here.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
But we need that and I'm not knocking it, because
we need that to be able to take the number
of deer that we have to take out of our
herd to match it up to the carrying capacity of
what we got for land.

Speaker 14 (35:33):
Well, that really kind of brings me to the point
that I was kind of thinking about because it's gotten
so much easier. You know, the male ego has to
be you know, strokes or whatever, and people guys are
looking for the challenge and if they can't get the
challenge in the woods, then they try to get it,
you know, at the range where they're ragging about.

Speaker 6 (35:56):
And I shot a sub in Oway.

Speaker 14 (35:58):
I mean, I didn't know what in way was when
I was first, and I think that's kind of replaced
the challenge of the of the hunt is the challenge
of trying to have groups that will touch yeah, and
that that kind of thing. But again it's something maybe

(36:18):
think about, uh right about, but uh yeah, I mean
the guys have to have something to brag about. If
they can't brag about, you know, killing this deer that
they've been after for two or three years, then they're
going to brag about having the latest caliber that will
shoot sub m a at you know whatever.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
Anybody you can make a very good David, Thank you, buddy.

Speaker 14 (36:45):
Always enjoy your show.

Speaker 5 (36:46):
Thank you all right, man, thank you. Oh he got
a couple of people riled up.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
I guarantee you. Why Why isn't that okay, it's not.
It's perfectly fine if that's if that's the world you're
in and you're you're chasing new calibers and new rifles
and expanding your armory at home, I have absolutely no
problem with that. There are no such thing as too
many guns, because everybody I'm talking to, I'm very confident,

(37:16):
has purchased those guns, either to see how accurate they
can be, or to hunt a specific animal they're gonna
go hunt, or to try long rain shooting, or to
try sporting clays or whatever it is. Maybe home defense.
You may or may not have more than one home

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defense weapon, and a lot.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
Of people do, and a lot of people don't.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
They buy one gun and decide that they'll be able
to get to it no matter what happens that makes
them need that thing, And I don't know, you have
to be careful about that. But the bottom line is
David makes a pretty good point about how there's got
it there. Everybody. A lot of the people, not everybody.

(38:02):
A lot of people I know are chasing. They're chasing something,
and I'm not sure what they're chasing by making the
buys they do, but I'm never gonna discourage that. When
it comes to enjoying the outdoor sports, it's kind of
like trying to tell somebody what lure they have to
use in fishing. It's a pretty good analogy. They want

(38:25):
the latest and greatest rods and reels, and again I
go back to golf clubs, fishing equipment, hunting equipment. If
you can tell me what advantage you will gain by
buying that particular thing, even if it's just something personal,
like I really want this gun in this caliber because

(38:47):
I think it will be fun to shoot.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
That's good enough for me. That's all you have to say.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
You don't have to explain it, you don't have to
justify it at all to me. Go buy your guns,
Go buy your fishing rods, Go buy your golf club
but make sure that you're buying them because you're genuinely
gonna get something out of it. And the golf clubs
are the hardest thing to get out of anything, because
they don't miss, they don't listen, they don't mind. You
can't adjust the club well You can adjust the club somewhat,

(39:15):
but you gotta be able to swing it. It's a
whole lot easier to aim a rifle or cast a
bait caster than it is to swing a golf golf club.
I promise you that, because I've done all three and
I'm a pretty good shot, and I'm a pretty good caster.
But man, oh man, that golf is an elusive thing.
We gotta take a break, don't we. Evan sorry about that.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
I'm a little late.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
I climb up on these soap boxes and I get
my head gets a little light airs a little thin
way up there.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
Black Horse Golf Club.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
Speaking of two ninety at Fry Road, you take two
ninety at Fry Road, hang a south, then go two
and a half three miles down. You'll see golf course
on both sides of the road. When you see golf
course on both sides, put on your right blinker and
slow down because the gate into black Horse on that
west side is going to come up on you pretty quick.
Once you're in there, you'll see beautiful golf holes on

(40:08):
both sides of the road. Then you'll get to the clubhouse,
a beautiful clubhouse. You go in there, the people inside
are going to want to help you, whether that's getting
you out on time for your tea time or getting
you fed before you go out in the cafe.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
If your game stinks, you can go to the other
end of the range, which is huge by the way.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
They have two golf courses there, and so to accommodate
all the golfers who might be warming up for a
giant tournament taking two courses, they built a huge practice facility.
You can line up probably fifty people at a time
along that tea line, every one of them hit balls
randomly in all directions, and get them all out there
to raise a bunch of money in one day for

(40:48):
a huge good cause. The whole facility is set up
to be very accommodating. The golf courses are different in personality,
but both eminently playable. Just pause and take a look around,
and tee it up and hit it. There's no secrets
out there, there's no hidden things, there's no.

Speaker 5 (41:09):
Blind shots.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
The golf courses writing both of them are just right
in front of you, and as long as you're inging
it around.

Speaker 5 (41:16):
Pretty well, you're gonna have a great time.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
If you're not having a great time, like I said,
go get some lessons at the far end of the range.
They have a membership option too. It's a daily fee facility,
but they have a membership option. Gets you discounts in
the pro shop, nice gets you preferred tea times, which
means you get access to those tea times a little
earlier than everybody else. And my favorite part, like I
always talk about, unlimited range use. You get to go

(41:40):
out there and hit golf balls until you can't hit
another one daylight to dark. If you're tough enough work
on your game. Go ahead, work on your game as
much as you want at black Horse Golf Club. When
you pick up that membership, it's a great option, it
really is. Black Horsegolf Club dot com is a website.
Black Horse Golf Club dot com seven ninety. Thanks for
listening to good shit, as I mentioned earlier, and we

(42:04):
go off on other topics, and that's fine.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
I don't mind at all. I enjoy listening to what
you guys want to talk about as well, as long
as it kind of stays on point with the out
of doors. Anyway, the long and the short of it
is this air getting cooler, the days getting shorter. It
impacts deer and ducks and geese as much as it
does the fish that we were talking about earlier.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
And what this front that's coming at us pretty quickly
is going to do is dump a bunch more water
fowl down here. Now, we could certainly use more water,
and we're not going to get it before that front,
but for the next couple of months, they are going
to be birds flying down here and taking advantage of
this north wind.

Speaker 5 (42:47):
I think there's enough.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
Water on the prairie right now to hold some smaller
bunches and some pretty good concentrations here and there, but
we could certainly use a little more in Let me go,
talked Doc hold On.

Speaker 5 (43:02):
What's up? Doc?

Speaker 13 (43:05):
Good morning, Good morning, sir. So when I was growing
up in Wyoming, there was a thirty thirty thirty eight
six I was about it, and then I think maybe
seven millar came seven millimeter came along, and then the
thirty hundred magnets.

Speaker 5 (43:19):
Oh yeah, the mad everybody, big deal.

Speaker 13 (43:21):
Everybody had to have one well, you know, and then
I don't know, about fifteen twenty years ago ago, the
Hornedy engineers behind mister Hornety's back developed that six and
a half freedomore, oh yeah, which is a really nice round,
but not quite good enough. So now they got the
six and a half PRC and the sixth prcs and

(43:43):
ah yeah, and it's kind of like pet foods. You know,
a science diet in the early eighties had a dog
chowl and a puppy chowl and a cat food that
was set to both kittens and adult cat. You get
twenty five different big dog, little dog, sensitive skin, sense

(44:04):
of stomach. So after a while it gets kind of busy.
But Ryan Kleckner is retired ranger as a Second Amendment
lawyer and does distant shooting tronment and he says something
that I agree with, accurate enough. Yeah, you just won't

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be accurate enough.

Speaker 6 (44:25):
And so.

Speaker 13 (44:27):
You know, sooner or later you start dividing these advancements
to where they're so incrementalis that you you wonder if
they really matter. But there is a hybrid between shooting
and golf. Okay, when I was playing golf, and I
only played golf, so I would have reason not to
go to school, Uh, you'd get a particularly rough lie.
And the guy played golf says, you're going to need

(44:49):
a golf gun to get out of there.

Speaker 5 (44:51):
Oh wow, I like that. I'm gonna use that.

Speaker 13 (44:55):
Enjoy the show.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Thank you, Doc, I appreciate it. That's my Yeah, there
we go. That's my veterinarian buddy, doctor George. And yeah,
that's you're gonna need a golf gun.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
I like that. I've been in lies like that too.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
Out where I play at black Hawk, Holy Cow, the
rough was so high for so long that literally we
would be looking for someone's ball that didn't get off
the fairway far but just got off a drive that
got off the fairway maybe four steps, three four steps
somewhere in there, maybe five. And as we would be
looking as a foursome trying to help somebody find a ball,

(45:34):
we would find one or two more that had been
lost abandoned by someone ahead of us, either that day
or the day before, maybe a little bit earlier.

Speaker 5 (45:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
There was one ball that I chased that I was
out there playing by myself late one afternoon.

Speaker 5 (45:50):
And hit a ball that went over a hilltop.

Speaker 4 (45:53):
But there wasn't anything over that hilltop, really, but some
pretty tall rough and a gentle slope to where that
ball probably should have stopped on the hill. I was
one hundred percent sure it stopped on the hill. I
went right to where it went over the hill, right
to where it crested it. I walked around because it
was very late and there was nobody behind me. I

(46:15):
deliberately stood there and walked in circles, concentric circles until
I just gave up for the better part of fifteen minutes.

Speaker 5 (46:23):
That ball just disappeared. It just disappeared. Oh well, that's
enough of that.

Speaker 4 (46:28):
So back to where we were talking about deer and
other animals responding to the weather.

Speaker 5 (46:35):
With bow season open now and a lot of.

Speaker 4 (46:37):
People spending a lot of time in stands where it's
ninety degrees, sitting up in a tree and it's ninety
degrees and you're deer hunting and wondering why you're doing
it because you're just dropping sweatballs onto the ground below you.
But you do it because it's deer hunting and it's
legal to be out there. And that's all it takes

(46:58):
to convince a whole lot of my friends, me and
anybody else who enjoys it that they need to be
out there as well.

Speaker 5 (47:04):
The season's open, we got to go, So we go.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
The deer are going to respond to the cooling temperatures
by eating more. They know winter's coming as well. They
know they have to prepare for winter by stocking up
on as much protein and fat as they can put on,
and the ruts on there. It's well in parts of
the state. Many parts of the state, the ruts already concluded.
The Gulf Coast Prairie is the earliest rut in the state,

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and that goes off like in August and early September.
There might be a little secondary push of that, but
otherwise those bucks are done. Those bucks are done chasing,
so they'll just be fattening up to get through winter
and hopefully we won't have a terribly bad winter. I
saw something else I wanted to ask, and I remember
from when I bought my license, all the way back

(47:51):
when I got this license, my new hunting and fishing license,
I got asked the questions about whether you hunted ducks
or geese the hip certification okay, and one of the
us or two of the.

Speaker 5 (48:04):
Questions they add.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
Two of the species they ask you about are chachilaca
and gallinules, and I.

Speaker 5 (48:14):
Have never hunted either of those birds.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
And I'm just wondering if there's anybody in this audience
who has. They're a pretty it's a pretty odd ball
thing to go chase and hunt, and honestly, I wouldn't.
I don't even know anybody. I don't think who's hunted them,
but there's gotta be somebody. This is a pretty good
audience of pretty enthusiastic hunters, and they're gonna be far

(48:40):
fewer people hunting them than even are hunting Nil Guy,
for example, or aw Dad the Chacha Laka and Galinule.
Hunters are gonna be few and far between, I think,
But I'm just curious to find out. Tell you, well, well,
we'll examine that if it comes up in the next
segment of the show afternine o'clock. I'm gonna go ahead

(49:01):
and get to this break so we can get moving forward.
On the way out, I'll tell you about Shooter's Corner
down there at Palmer Highway and twenty ninth Street in
Texas City, been there forever forty something years now. And
that's Jerry and JTK, the father and son I've spoken
so highly of for so many years. I met Jerry
TK down on the Soam Burrito in Laredo many many
years ago, on a hunt with Bill Carter and Jerry

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and his son both are and have been for many
years guides all over North America. Jay does a lot
of hunts all the way up into Alaska for Grizzly Bears,
for example. Two of the best gunsmiths I know, two
of the nicest people I know. They serve that community
down there in Texas City very well and support a

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lot of good gun related and outdoors related causes. And
that alone is a good reason to go by there
and visit with somebody in that store and just get
to know them if you haven't yet. Shooter's Corner's got
plenty of guns. They've got guns, They've got plenty of
AMMO right now, I'm happy to say, they have optics,

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they have shooting supplies, reloading supplies, a little bit of camo.

Speaker 5 (50:10):
Just an old school gun store, that's all they are.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
It's an old school gun store and you'll smell it
when you walk in there. If you were to close
your eyes and walk into four or five of the
little stores along that strip center therein when you walk
through the door to Shooter's Corner, you'd say, Oh, here,
now I'm home. This is where I want to be.
I don't want to be in the clothing store. I
don't want to be in the shoe store. I don't

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want to be whatever else they have down there. I
don't even know Shooters Corners on the corner, and that's
that's where I just drive up and park. And there's
usually somebody from law enforcement in there too, Because if
you wear a badge for a living, you get a
discount at Shooter's Corner, which you should. You're gonna find that,
and you're also going to find plenty of people willing
to hear your outdoor story, so long as you're willing

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to hear their outdoor story. The last time I was
in there, I went, I was gonna be there twenty minutes, thought,
and I was there for about an hour. Just struck
up a conversation with a guy I never met before,
and we all of a sudden, well we're talking about this,
and then that leads to that, and it's all shooting related,
all hunting related.

Speaker 5 (51:11):
Great people, great store.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
Shooters Corner forty years, family owned and operated. If you
wear a badge for a living, like I said, you
get a discount, which is pretty cool. The Shooters cornertx
dot com. You can see the website right there. Jay's
done a great job on that. D Shooters cornertx dot com.

Speaker 5 (51:28):
Shit, this is.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
The Doug Pike Show, brought to you by American Shooting Centers,
the largest non military shooting facility in Texas, and by
Carter's Country, Guns, Ammo and hunting stuff for more than
sixty years. Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 5 (51:47):
All right, welcome back.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
Third and final or no third, second and final hour
for Sunday starts right now, and thanks for listening.

Speaker 5 (51:54):
I certain to do appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
Well, I've proved what my theory that there are no
I gotcha, laca or gallinule hunters in this audience, and
rightfully so.

Speaker 5 (52:05):
I don't even know.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
I don't know a whole lot about either of those things,
and I'm guessing that a lot of us don't.

Speaker 5 (52:14):
And that's okay.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
There are plenty of quail and doves and ducks and
geese and pheasants to go around, and actually Texas has
a fair a fair population of pheasants up north where
you would think they would be, and they're certainly worth
going up in hunting. But if you're going to go
that far, you might as well just go to Kansas

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or Iowa or Nebraska, and I think I've hunted in
all three of those states. I'm pretty sure one of
them was mostly ducks, but we also did a pheasant
hunt on that trip. But yeah, every pheasant hunt I've
had up where pheasant hunting is a big deal has
been just spectacular and so much fun. I would strongly
encourage any of you who've never done it to put

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it on your bucket list. All right, So, the third
round out at the Black Desert Championship in Utah is
in the books, and the fourth round is underway, and
in only his second PGA Tour event, a guy named
Matt McCarty is at nineteen under par, leading by two

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shots over Joe high Smith, Kevin Streilman, Harrisling English and
Steven Jaeger. McCarty's hit seventy nine point six percent of
his greens in regulation. His driving average is three hundred
and twenty seven yards. That's probably five yards farther than
I hit it, he said, with a wink. Not a chance,

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that's way that's way out past me. I'm just telling
you he's among the longest drivers in the whole tournament,
and so far he's made get this in fifty four holes.

Speaker 5 (53:52):
He's made twenty nine pars.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
He's made nineteen birdies and two eagles against just bogies,
and he's ranked number one in shots gained overall. McCarty
might be somebody to keep an eye on long term
short term. He's just twenty six, he's born in Scottsdale,
went to Santa Clair University.

Speaker 5 (54:13):
He hits it long, he hits it straight. He hit
most of his fairways too.

Speaker 4 (54:16):
I want to say it was I don't know, like
seventy percent of his fairways I think so far, which
is outrageous when you're starting to think about hitting at
three hundred twenty seven yards. I won't be surprised if
he wins by six, and frankly, I wouldn't be surprised
if if somebody chased him down and passed him. He's
in uncharted territory for a guy of his age and

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of his experience level in professional golf, especially at the
tour level, and it's just so hard, so hard to
win a PGA Tour event, no matter who's in the field.
It really is, so hats off to him, good luck.
I kind of do hope the guy wins. I really
do I'd like to see how that changes him, whether
he comes back next week and lights it up again,

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or whether he's got kind of a rebound, oh or
something like that. And we'll probably know by about the
around the turn today whether he's gonna run away with
it or whether he's gonna be just fighting tooth and
nail against one of those four other guys I mentioned
high Smith, Streelman, English and Jaeger there. You can bet

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every one of them is gonna go out and chase
birdies from from from jump. And I'm not sure who's
in the next to last round or next to last
tea time. He's got four guys, so it's gonna be
you know, there's gonna be three times, three tea times
involving the people chasing him, and somebody's gonna go out
and get hot and put a little heat on him.

Speaker 5 (55:43):
If you had a four shot lead, I wouldn't be
worried about him at all.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
But with only two shots, that's that's one hiccup for
him and one good putt for another guy on the
same hole.

Speaker 5 (55:53):
All of a sudden they're tied. We'll see.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
I know he'll I know. I know one thing I
can tell you this, I guarantee it. He's a way
better player than.

Speaker 5 (56:01):
Most of us.

Speaker 4 (56:03):
And I would say all of us like I said yesterday,
but I know a couple of guys who who actually
played on tour. I know a couple of major winners
who occasionally listened to the show, and so I'm not
gonna say everybody in this audience can't beat them, but
most of us would have a hard time seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Email on me,

(56:23):
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'd be glad to
have you aboard and see what you're thinking about Back
to the deer too. By the way, I've already seen
and heard some pretty good stories from bow season as
it unfolds. And as long as everybody's playing by the rules, man,
I don't care what you're what weapon you use. As

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long as and you're playing by the rules and you
have the skills to make clean shots with that bow
of yours, that's really important to me. I have experienced
the firsthand on a friend's ranch many years ago down
in Corrizo Springs. There was a hunt that I was

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gonna make with the guy whose family owned that place.

Speaker 5 (57:09):
I and a couple of.

Speaker 4 (57:10):
Other guys who had hunted down there several times before.
And concurrently there was a party, like a Christmas party
or something like that going on, and a couple of
the people who had been invited to the party got
win that there was deer hunting at this place and
kind of invited themselves to go bow hunting. And I

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will never forget driving up with the man whose family
owned the ranch, driving up on a guy who walked
out of the woods with his bow and no arrows left,
and he said, man, yeah, I missed it several times,
but I finally got a buck. He just kept coming
back to the corn and like, you got a buck? Really, Okay,

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where is it? Oh, it's over here somewhere. I think
it's I think it's down And like he had no idea,
he had no idea what he had done. And when
we got to the animal, it was just this little
nub of antlers out of this very young, like barely
able to walk young buck. This this deer in its

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very first and last season. This guy had shot it
and he picked it up by his back legs and
held it up.

Speaker 5 (58:24):
It was that small. It was that small on.

Speaker 4 (58:26):
A ranch that had been carefully managed to grow really
big bucks if they had a chance.

Speaker 5 (58:32):
And it's easy to figure out. He never got invited back.

Speaker 4 (58:36):
And the guy who owned the place was polite under
the under the in real time with that guy. But
I talked to him later about it, and he said, yeah,
I had to. I had to explain to him in
no uncertain terms that he would never come back on
my ranch again, and with good reason. If you don't
know any more than that, to shoot a little button

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buck and and then just and shoot up all your
arrows and keep missing it and it keeps running back
into the feed. You you got to figure something's wrong.
That's not how it's supposed to work.

Speaker 5 (59:09):
Alan, what's up?

Speaker 7 (59:10):
Man?

Speaker 2 (59:11):
Thank you?

Speaker 6 (59:12):
More?

Speaker 7 (59:12):
Hey, I have a couple of questions for you.

Speaker 12 (59:17):
You know, you're a radio guy, so you don't know
this answer. And I'm just curious when I'm listening to like, well,
I haven't been up.

Speaker 6 (59:25):
Like just take for.

Speaker 12 (59:26):
Instance, last night the Texas OU game. Why couldn't I
get that on this radio station? Understand?

Speaker 5 (59:34):
Yeah, what what network was that on? My producer might know,
should but kPr as well, Yeah it may have been
on kPr C. Because we have to sometimes we have
to move.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
We we cover football for several different teams, several different
college teams, and sometimes we have to shuffle games between stations,
and that may have been it. Did you check any
of our other stations, you know what?

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Well?

Speaker 12 (01:00:07):
Matter of fact, I went to the Bruno station and
they usually carried Texas games, and they had they couldn't
carry it. They didn't have it on either.

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
Wow.

Speaker 12 (01:00:16):
That and I was like, what's up with that?

Speaker 5 (01:00:18):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
That reminds me of what happens with a few Astros
games on television during the season where we couldn't get here.

Speaker 5 (01:00:26):
It drove me nuts. I hated that. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:00:29):
I'm not I'm not a Yankees fan, but sometimes I
like hearing them guys. Like when we were playing they
were playing the Astros, I wanted to hear the Yankees
commentator and the game was lay up there and I
couldn't even pick it up on there. There was blocked
out on there on the radio station. I'm thinking, I

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don't understand how that works. You would think they would
want everybody to hear the game.

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
You would think you and I would agree with you
one hundred percent. You would think they would want as
many ears on those games as possible.

Speaker 5 (01:01:01):
And I yeah, I wish I had a good I
wish I had.

Speaker 12 (01:01:03):
To get for advertisement reasons and nothing else.

Speaker 5 (01:01:07):
Yeah, yeah, right.

Speaker 12 (01:01:09):
You know, I know one more questions. Do you know
of any you know back in the day? And I
can say that because I'm back in the day gap
you know, we had both shops around everywhere, archery shops?
And now do you know of any of the tom
Ball Magnolia Woodlands area?

Speaker 5 (01:01:28):
Do I know a little bit about tom Ball in
the Woodlands?

Speaker 12 (01:01:31):
I mean, do you know of any archery shops around here?

Speaker 6 (01:01:33):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:01:34):
I haven't been up that way looking for an archery
shop in a whole long time.

Speaker 12 (01:01:39):
Well, I'm sure, yeah, I didn't know. If you might
have heard somebody or something whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
I bet we can find somebody. You need some work
done on your boat?

Speaker 12 (01:01:47):
I need some yeah, exactly, Okay, Yeah, nobody that knows
what they're doing, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
Yeah, I'll throw it out there if they're how far
are you willing to drive? Oh, I don't care, ten minutes,
I'll out Well, yeah, there you go.

Speaker 12 (01:02:01):
You know, I don't want to drive two hours, but
I'm with you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:04):
Yeah, if you.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
But if you need work done on your bow and
you need it done fast, you want to find somebody
will do it right.

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
Yeah, ask for you.

Speaker 12 (01:02:09):
Yeah, yeah, because I had I haven't had time unfortunately
that I hear you get things done. So I'm running behind.

Speaker 5 (01:02:15):
Well, let me I'll throw it out to my audience
and see what they got.

Speaker 12 (01:02:19):
I mean, I know the new Bash Flash, the new
Bass Flos shops open in spring. Yeah, but I just
don't know what they got over there.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
I hear you, well, let me see you, thank you, well,
see buddy Bobby. All right, So if anybody's got a
boat hunting shop an archery shop up there around Tomball
in the Woodlands, and you know that they're they're good
people and they take good care of your equipment, you'll
take good care of allance.

Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
Let me know and I'll pass that on. I have
got a bunch.

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
Of emails to go through during this break, and I
apologize for not getting to them earlier.

Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
I really do.

Speaker 4 (01:02:54):
Yeah, I've missed a few, and I'm gonna I'm gonna
rectify that during the break. On the way out, I'll
tell you about Timber Creek Golf Club down there on
FM twenty three fifty one in friends would been there
for god the better part of I bet close to
thirty years now, and I've been playing down there since
it opened up, and I have always liked that place.

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Twenty seven holes, so there's extra tea times to go
around in the mornings to get everybody going. And once
you get going on that golf course, those three nines,
whichever too you're playing, you're gonna have a great time
going around. It's a very playable course. I like that
about Timber Creek, I really do. There are places where
you're gonna you're gonna be tested, but you're not gonna

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be frustrated. Even if you do spray it a little bit,
you'll be able to find your ball. You'll be able
to get it back in play and then move it
on around if you really are frustrated at the end
of your round.

Speaker 5 (01:03:46):
JYJ.

Speaker 4 (01:03:46):
Woods has got his golf academy right next door to
the driving range. He's been in there down for several months,
all got all unpacked and opened up and is at
full speed helping people fix their golf swings. And he
and his staff are very good at doing that. Great food,
great teachers, to have big practice area. Get a lot
of people out there warming up and fixing their games.

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Timber Creek's a great place, a lot of fun. Timber
Creek Golf Club dot com is a website. You can
set your own tea time there right now, Timbercreekgolf Club
dot com.

Speaker 5 (01:04:17):
I remember that song that's so sad. We got plenty
of crates back here. Oh my god, that's hilarious.

Speaker 12 (01:04:25):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
Had you ever heard of that song until you just
played it? I actually did hear of Williams before, but
not too much this song.

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
Alright, alright seven one three two one two five seven
ninety email me, Doug pick At.

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
iHeartMedia. I'd come Alan Wade in Alan. Alan has sent me.

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
More pictures of guns he's bought in the last few
years than I.

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
Have guns, and that's saying something.

Speaker 7 (01:04:53):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
And he he's got some cool ones, he really really does.

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
And more power to him. More to him, man, I know,
he says. I get a little weak in the knees
and brain when something really cool pops up and I
want it. I need to control myself better. No you don't, No,
you don't. It's okay, Alan. You just keep as long
as you're as long as you're a responsible, law abiding

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gun on or I have no problem with that. By
the way, I who was it sent me this hang on?
It was Alan also, he said, I keep hearing the
ten million hunters are not registered to vote. Man, if
that's the case, and if you're a hunter and you're
not registered to vote, I'm gonna tell you straight up

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go well, I don't even think you can register still
in Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
Maybe you can. I'm sure a lot of people are
gonna do it. Anyway. The long and the short of
it is you you better make your voice heard. I'm
not gonna I don't even need to tell you which
way to vote if you want to hang onto your guns,
if you want to be able to enjoy the shooting
sports and not have have to worry about somebody taking
your gun away.

Speaker 4 (01:06:04):
And one of the things that that does scare me
about guns is these red flag laws where somebody can
just go make an accusation against you, and in some
jurisdictions that's gonna be enough, just the accusation for them
to come in and take away your firearms, at least temporarily,
and probably longer than temporarily. Based up because you're gonna

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you're gonna be presumed guilty and until you can prove
your innocent in in some of those cases, and that
opens the door for some some really shady reasons to
to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:06:44):
Uh, do your own research.

Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
I'm not gonna tell you which side to fall on,
but I'm just gonna tell you to do your own research,
and then get yourself registered and get getting that voting
booth before it's too late.

Speaker 5 (01:06:56):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
Mark over in Georgia, Well, I went to clear Water
Flow the last weekend and oh, yeah, God, his dad
out before Milton hit God. His dad had said, thanks
for your thank you for your show to drive with
on the way down and back. I'm glad you made
it man, And I'm glad you got him out of there.
I hope there wasn't a whole lot of damage where
he was. I don't know. I don't know how bad

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his neighborhood hit it. That's one of the things about
national coverage of storms. They don't they don't show you
all the places that weren't greatly affected. They show you
the worst damage because sensationalism sells.

Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
It just does. And I've heard from some friends.

Speaker 4 (01:07:39):
Over there who they're they're wiping their brow, going who
we got lucky. We got lucky. A lot of our
friends did not. And that's the same way Beryl was.
It's the same way all these hurricanes were. There were
people during Beryl who never lost power.

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
Yeah. I don't know where they were, but they weren't
in my neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
I was without it for a week. So storms come
and go, all elections come and go. All of this
stuff is gonna continue to happen in our lives, and
it's up to us and make sure we take care
of ourselves and take care of our friends and neighbors
the best we can. That's That's something that's really important too,

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is to get to know your neighbors if you don't already,
and make sure that everybody's on the same page and
everybody's trying to get along some one three, two, one two,
five seven nine. Email on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot Com. Am I running late for a break?

Speaker 5 (01:08:30):
Or am I early? I can't remember? We're early?

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
Okay, so I've got another like five or six minutes. Yeah, Yeah,
that's awesome, That's absolutely great. I'm gonna go back into
what do I want to talk about a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
Oh, I tell you what.

Speaker 4 (01:08:45):
I do want to talk about this because some of
the deer pictures I've seen already from bow hunters, some
of them came from high fence places. Some of them
came from low fence places. And there are plenty of
both in this big, giant state of Texas we live in.

Speaker 5 (01:09:00):
There are plenty of both, and I'm curious to see.

Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
I'm just kind of taking a poll, and I do
this every year, and it's it's very informal and unscientific,
to say the least, But I'm wondering how many of
you are all four high fence ranches, no matter what
their size, or all against high fence ranches, no matter
what their size.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
I don't have a problem.

Speaker 4 (01:09:27):
I'm not in favor of putting a high fence around
fifty acres and throwing three big bucks and two antelope.

Speaker 5 (01:09:36):
And a gazelle in there or whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
I think that if you're going to enclose these animals,
they need to have they need to have elbow room,
and they need to be able to run around on
that ranch for almost forever and maybe not even bump
into one.

Speaker 5 (01:09:55):
Of the high fences.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
Maybe just there's got to be room for them to
act naturally in that habitat for me to feel comfortable with.

Speaker 5 (01:10:06):
The size of the place.

Speaker 4 (01:10:07):
And if you've got a smaller place and you've got
it fenced off, you be you. I don't I'm I'm
not gonna complain. I'm not gonna argue with you. Not
everybody can afford ten thousand acres, okay, not everybody can
afford a thousand acres or five hundred or two acres.
But if you have a place and you want to
put a fence around it and you're taking care of

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those animals, you're making sure that the cap carrying capacity
of that land is and the feed is sufficient to
keep them healthy, then that's fine.

Speaker 5 (01:10:36):
I'm not gonna argue with you. I'm not gonna tell
you you're wrong, because you're doing what you can with what
you've got. I do think that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
I don't know how many acres I want to put
on the smallest place that I would consider okay for
hunting behind a high fence, because I don't want to.
I don't want to offend anybody if their place falls
inside the number, and I don't want anybody who has
a giant place to snicker and think, oh, he has
no idea. I've hunted on high fence places that were

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just my experience. I hunted on one place that was
three hundred acres, and I've hunted on a place that's
about fourteen thousand acres and another place that's about ten
thousand behind a fence.

Speaker 5 (01:11:22):
And first of all, that's one heck of a big fence.

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
I can tell you that it takes a while to
put up a fence around ten thousand acres of land,
It really does, but it gets done in this country,
and there are some amazing hunting opportunities behind those fences.
And like I said, that one about fourteen thousand acre place,
they're dear born and raised on that place, that live

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out their entire lives and never bump into one of
those perimeter fences. There's just that much room to run around,
and deer they'll run. They'll run a long ways during
the rut. High fence, low fence, whatever, doing what they do.
But I I don't think that they're they're inhibited in

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any way from going where they want to go and
achieving what they want to achieve, as deer finding food,
finding deer to procreate with during the rut and all
of that stuff goes on, and like I said, they
just they may never run into a fence.

Speaker 5 (01:12:26):
Some people like them, some people don't. I like the idea, honestly.

Speaker 4 (01:12:30):
I do like low fence hunting too, because you truly
don't know what's gonna.

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
Walk by you.

Speaker 4 (01:12:37):
Truly, there's no way to know what hopped over the
fence yesterday and is walking your way this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:12:42):
And I like that idea.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
But I'm also comfortable on a on a high fence
ranch if somebody says, hey, we need to get some
some certain bucks out of here, or we need some
dose taken out of here, or you're gonna get a
chance to go shoot a trophy buck if you want to,
so long as you don't shoot something young. And I've
had all of those opportunities, and I've enjoyed the hunting

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experience on every one of them. Some people like it,
some people don't. I'm kind of curious to see if
anybody will email me or call and say, no, I
hate high offenses. I don't think they should be out
there and try to justify that for me, and I'll listen.
I'm not going to tell you you're wrong. That's one
of the beautiful things about this country so far. You
can have your opinion and I can have mine, and

(01:13:24):
even if we disagree a little bit, we can still
be friends.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
I have no problem with that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:29):
Go say on the hunting side, as long as you
have a license and you're doing things legally according to
the state of Texas, which I think has one of
the probably has the best parks and Wildlife department or
equivalent thereof in the entire country. Like I said, when
I was at the paper, I probably worked with people
from TP and wd's similar arms in thirty something states.

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I think it was at one point close to that many.
And I had no problem them for telling me when
I called them and said, Hey, I'm with this. I'm
with the newspaper down here in Houston, and I'm calling
from the state of Texas to ask you about some
of the stuff that you do in your state with
this animal or that fish or whatever. And as soon

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as I say the word Texas, they would always say, oh, man,
I wish we had the resources you guys had. We
could do so much more for our fish and game
if we only had what you have in Texas. Between
the resources you have, and the manpower you have, and
the equipment you have. We're kind of the envy of
the country, or at least we're then. I don't know
if we still are, but our parks and wildlife people

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do one hell of a job with the with whatever
they've got left. And I know they need more. I
absolutely know that we need more boots on the ground.
We need more trucks. When some of these trucks that
some of the guys right around it not the wardens,
they have to have updated equipment, but in some of
the state park and whatnot, the officers and people who

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work there riding around the trucks that have a half
a million miles on them, and there's no excuse for that.

Speaker 5 (01:15:08):
Not in this state.

Speaker 4 (01:15:10):
Those people ought to be treated a lot better than that,
and they ought to have better equipment than that. I've
said for a long time that if we want to
get more people in the outdoors, we should turn to
some of the people who don't have the resources right
now to buy fishing licenses save for their whole family,
and say, okay, you can't afford a fishing license for

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your whole family, but how's this You come over here
and do some mechanical work on these trucks of ours,
or sling some paint on the official greeting center for
the state park, or get on a tractor and mow
a pasture, do something, and use those work credits based
on what they're worth to the State of Texas if

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they had to hire somebody to do it. Use those
work credits, and we will give you hunting and fear
fishing licenses for your family so that you can go
out and enjoy the outdoors legally. I think that would
be a great idea. I really man, I haven't talked
about that in a long time, but just a work
program in exchange for licenses to enjoy the outdoors in

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the state of Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:16:15):
And I guarantee you if they ever do that, they'll.

Speaker 4 (01:16:18):
Be a line down the street and around the corner
of people who want to participate in that program. Because
money's not easy to come by, and a hunting and
fishing license.

Speaker 5 (01:16:29):
As good a deal as it still is and always will.

Speaker 4 (01:16:32):
Be, that's something maybe a lot of people might have
to reconsider when they're deciding whether to buy that or
groceries for a month or a week even, all Right,
So you're driving along, driving along, minding your own business,
like Mark was when he had to go down to Florida,
like anybody else was, Like my buddy Brad Schweiss from
Houston Gold Exchange was just this week and you hear

(01:16:54):
that dog on that nasty noise, A rock hit your
windshield and you look up and there's a big old
crack there, or maybe just one of those little starburst chips.

Speaker 5 (01:17:05):
Oh, that's the good news.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
That's the best news from one of those, other than
no damage at all.

Speaker 5 (01:17:11):
I've experienced both in my family.

Speaker 4 (01:17:14):
Actually is back in early or well late spring, really
May and April, well April and May in order. Anyway,
the bottom line is I had to get a whole
windshield replaced. My son had to get a chip fixed.
And both times Vip Auto Glass came to write where
we were, took care of the work very quickly and
very professionally, and we didn't have to do anything but

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go back and get the.

Speaker 5 (01:17:37):
Keys from them. That was it.

Speaker 4 (01:17:40):
They come to you, you don't have to. You can
drive to them. They're on the far northwest side out
there on Hempstead Highway. You can go out there to
where they start. Every morning but what they do is
send technicians all over town to do the work right
wherever you are, and they make sure that you get
especially with these new windshields that have computer stuff involved

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in the windshield and how it has to be set
up just so precisely for some of your safety features
in your car to work.

Speaker 5 (01:18:07):
They make sure that that's done.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
They recalibrate everything before they leave, and you know your
your car is going to be just like new. A
lot of glass places don't do that. That's what Lisa
Hill told me. And sometimes it's just not fixed right,
and it has to be fixed right or you're gonna
lose that safety stuff. Vip autoglass tx dot com is
a website. I would highly encourage you to put this

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number in your phone. If Brad had done that, he
wouldn't have had to text me to find out Lisa's
number at vip autoglass two eight one eight zero seven
one four eight eight. Plug it into your phone and
when you hear that nasty noise, just reach down and
look up vip Auto Glass and Stepping instead of having
to email me or text me and ask me like

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Brad did. Two eight one eight zero seven one four
eight eighty.

Speaker 5 (01:18:59):
Seven on Sports Talk seven to ninety the Dougpike Hill.
Thanks for listening, Harley, call back.

Speaker 4 (01:19:04):
Haven't had to run out for a second and he
missed your call. But if you call back, he's sitting
there now, so jump in.

Speaker 7 (01:19:11):
I want.

Speaker 5 (01:19:11):
I want to know what you want to talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
I really do seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me Dougpike and iHeartMedia dot com. Sometimes
we have calls drop off this time of day because
people are walking into church and if you're if you're
in that situation, by all means, that's a much higher
power than me. We can talk about the outdoors anytime.
If you're stepping into church, go ahead. If you've got

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to help people find their way to their seats or
pass out flyers or whatever you're doing, uh, or just going,
then more power to you. That's something I kind of
miss doing these Sunday shows. But I want to be
here for you guys, and I wish I had time
to get to a service.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:19:53):
That's It's an important part of my life, it really is.
So anyway, so back to who I think, I don't
know where I want to go right now. I'll lean
back on fishing. I want to go back to bayfishing
specifically because there has been a lot of talk and
kind of banter, if you will, on YouTube and on

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Facebook about where in Texas to go to catch big troutrout,
speckled trout is that's the holy grail for most bay fishermen.

Speaker 5 (01:20:28):
That's what they're trying to catch when they go.

Speaker 4 (01:20:30):
Almost everybody who goes bayfishing wants to catch at least
want speckel trout. There are I would say, a small
handful of people who are thrilled to death if they
only catch redfish all day long.

Speaker 5 (01:20:43):
And I'd be fine with that, but I'd still be thinking, Man,
if only I could just get one big trout to
go with these big old redfish I'm catching, because I
know they hang out together. But yeah, I'd still be
wanting a trout. I'd be satisfied with a bunch of
big old redfish. That's fun, but I'd still be hoping
that one of those things would have more than one
or two spots. And no, I don't mean I've seen

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the almost bizarre like big cat looking redfish with lots
of black spots. They're beautiful fish, no question about it.

Speaker 4 (01:21:17):
And I don't know if it's true or not, but
the explanation for that, from years ago at least was
that those multiple, multiple spotted, just uber spotted redfish are
some of the products of hashery rearing. I don't know
how that would be a factor, and I think it's
just plain old genetics. Some have more spots than others.

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But the long and the short of it is they're
all good fish. Flounders are good fish. They're all good fish.
But back to the big trout deal. Clearly, I don't
think anybody in their right mind would argue that there's
a better place to catch big trout in the state
of Texas and Baffin Bay. There's something about those fish,
and Cliff Web showed it to me probably thirty years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:22:03):
Now, holy cow, it's been a while.

Speaker 4 (01:22:05):
Well, I actually I can tell you it's about yeah,
right at that, almost right at that twenty four plus, Yeah,
it's about that, about thirty years ago almost when he
and I made that trip. That changed a lot, certainly
changed his life, and it changed mine as well, and
we became very good friends. And that's the greatest thing

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that came out of that, I think for me.

Speaker 5 (01:22:27):
Anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:22:27):
I don't know if he would say the same. But
the long and the short of it is, that's a
friendship that's lasted thirty plus years, and every time I
get a chance, I go fishing with him and the
fish down there for some reason, perhaps it's because they
have enough to eat. Perhaps it's because there's something in
the water. Perhaps it's because they have some subtle genetic

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difference between themselves and other troutl on the Texas coastline.
Whatever it is, they grow big in baff and band
they grow fast, and which is one of the reasons
I think that this year, even even though it's only
less than a year into the three trout limit, I
think you're going to see more bigger fish taking this

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winter than we're taking last winter if if the weather
stays about the same, and I won't be surprised if
there are more fish, I'll be I won't be surprised
at all if we see a lot more fish in
the say twenty five to twenty eight inch class. And
I won't be surprised too much if there are more

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fish in the thirty inch class. And that's that's the
rare air, that's the holy grail. For most trout fishermen,
I've been blessed. And that that trip that Christian Cliff
and I had, we had three fish better than thirty
in the last fish that that I caught and let
go the one that he told me had.

Speaker 5 (01:23:52):
He said, if we got to get out of here,
we're gonna get fogged in for the night.

Speaker 4 (01:23:55):
This is the very infancy of GPS navigation, and he
didn't trust it at all. And the one that we
let go last, I think was thirty two and a
quarter or something like that.

Speaker 5 (01:24:07):
It was a monster. Oh you'll talk to Mike here.
What's up Mike?

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
Hey, how you doing, Doug?

Speaker 5 (01:24:13):
I'm good? What's up?

Speaker 6 (01:24:14):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (01:24:15):
I went fishing yes to day. I got a funny
story to tell you. All Right, you only go when
it's perfect because they don't have a boat. So the
wind was perfect, the tide was perfect, the water was perfect.
Went down the freeport, right, and I have this place
where go fish because the guts are a little deeper
than other places. Okay, And so we went there and
it looked good, it didn't look that big. We put
on our waiters, went out and it was just it

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was just the ways were slamming us, and I need
to go to the first cut, but I got soaked,
and so we're fishing for about no trout, you know,
right at sunrise.

Speaker 7 (01:24:45):
Okay, so there's no trout.

Speaker 10 (01:24:46):
There's no trouts.

Speaker 6 (01:24:47):
We packed up.

Speaker 10 (01:24:48):
We go to San Luis Pass and we fish on
the on the bay side and there's a gut. I
don't know if you've ever fished that area.

Speaker 7 (01:24:54):
Yeah, there's a trough.

Speaker 10 (01:24:55):
There's a ya froth that goes well. So we're out
there fishing, and uh, I always when I get there,
I fish with these other two guys and I always
catch the first red and they don't usually catch reds.
And the one guy gets so frustrated he goes, you
always do that, And then I caught a trout. But
there was these needlefish, oh yeah, everywhere. And there were
three of us sitting beside each other and the one

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guy to the right, all he was catching was needlefish.

Speaker 6 (01:25:19):
I mean I could get so then he moved over
to the left.

Speaker 10 (01:25:24):
Side, and then all those needlefish started coming and we
didn't catch anything after that. They were just eating our shrip.
But it was a great it was a great trip.
But we from then on out, we told them, hey, man,
you're really going to catch the needlefish. He goes, You
know what, he goes. I was catching those needlefish as
a decoy so y'all could catch some some good game fish.

Speaker 4 (01:25:43):
Keeping the needlefish busy so you guys could catch the
good stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:25:46):
Huh.

Speaker 8 (01:25:48):
But it was gorgeous.

Speaker 10 (01:25:49):
It was beautiful. You know, you meet fishermen out there.
There were some guys that came down from Dallas. They
were Hispanic and they made you know, we eat peanut
butter sandwiches and stuff. They bring down savici.

Speaker 12 (01:26:01):
Man, oh god.

Speaker 10 (01:26:03):
I went over to start talking to him, and man,
they invited me to eat some savichi.

Speaker 5 (01:26:07):
It was so nice. It was good for sounds like it.
That's awesome. Yeah, thanks for body. Take audios.

Speaker 4 (01:26:16):
Holy cow, catch your red catch a trout, Get to
eat a little savici.

Speaker 5 (01:26:20):
That's not a bad day at all. Water was pretty
I was a little just sturt.

Speaker 4 (01:26:24):
I thought about going down there, and actually that might
not be a bad place to go. I was going
to go today because the water still looks pretty good
on the cameras.

Speaker 5 (01:26:31):
But it's an outgoing tide all day. But at Sanlo's Pass,
that out going tide is good. That's a good thing.
You got water moving through there.

Speaker 4 (01:26:40):
That little gut that he's talking about on the bay
side is very fishable, very reachable with a little bit
of waiting and some very smart waiting. That that tied
rips through there pretty good. And if you make a
bad step, you could get hurt or worse. So be
careful if you go fish that area. And man, I
may have to regroup my plans for today. I think

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someone three two, one, two, five seven ninety. We'll finish
up with this break, come back to wrap it up,
and when we get back, I'll check the email see
if I got to go over something there. If not,
I'm gonna go kind of circle back to getting kids
in the outdoors. I want to do it before the
end of the year this year, instead of waiting till
the new year to set a new goal, I'm gonna
set a fourth quarter goal for getting a couple of

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kids out to go fishing.

Speaker 5 (01:27:26):
Christmas is almost well, it's it's on the horizon.

Speaker 4 (01:27:30):
I think the hardware stores probably have the stuff out,
and that means that hunting seasons wide open, and that
means it's time to go to Carter's Country. They got
three stores around town. The North Side store has that
full service range, everything from sporting clays to rifle and pistol.
They got you name it. It's out there for you.
Trap and skeet and plenty of instruction if you need

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that as well. You can go right in the store,
buy yourself a new gun, get yourself some iro and
ear protection. You gotta have that to shoot out there.
Get a little box of AMMO and go out there
and just wear it out. See how many targets you
can break, See how many bulls eyes you can shoot.
And like I said, if you're having trouble, just grab
an instructor and get out there and take care of it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
With a little lesson or too.

Speaker 4 (01:28:11):
It doesn't take many shooting lessons to get the basics down.
Shooting is not nearly so complicated as golf. You can
get it in a few lessons, and once you get it,
you'll hang on to it. It's a really fun sport
that way. It's kind of like riding a bicycle. Once
you get back out there and start shooting again, even

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if you take a long layoff, the guys at Carter's
Country can get you right back up to speed, really
quick guns, AMMO and hunting stuff for more than sixty years.
If you're not familiar with the brand, maybe you're young,
maybe you just moved here. I encourage you to go
into one of those stores and get a look around at.

Speaker 5 (01:28:51):
All that they.

Speaker 4 (01:28:52):
Have it all, really, all of the accessories you can
imagine if you're a hunter, a target shooter, a competitive shooter,
everything you need to enjoy the shooting sports all the more.
Carterscountry dot Com is a website, Carterscountry dot com nine
fifty on Sports Talk seven nine at the Doug Pike Show.
Thanks for listening a little while ago.

Speaker 5 (01:29:12):
Dan weighed in.

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
Just a couple of minutes ago said, I gotta go,
mo I okay, I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (01:29:17):
Dan.

Speaker 4 (01:29:17):
If you've got a radio out there with you, thanks
for sending in the information. When we were talking to
Mike about I think it was Mike talking about the
Texas football game.

Speaker 5 (01:29:28):
Maybe was that him?

Speaker 4 (01:29:29):
I can't remember Evan anyway, Dan confirmed, yes, it was
on nine p fifty.

Speaker 5 (01:29:35):
That's where it was. So sometimes we have to move
them around. The three stations to check for college football
on Saturdays are gonna be KBM ME first, then probably
kPr C then k t r H. Let's go talk
to Coler Collins.

Speaker 13 (01:29:50):
He said he listened to the game on kb ME,
but like you say, kb ME KPRC for.

Speaker 4 (01:29:55):
Yeah, those two are gonna be the top two choices
on Saturday mornings forrest.

Speaker 5 (01:29:59):
What's up up man? You find the crappie man?

Speaker 9 (01:30:03):
I sent you one. I got out here and caught
one big one right off the bat I fish dark
tree around that one deal I showed you last last time.

Speaker 5 (01:30:09):
You was up here.

Speaker 6 (01:30:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:30:11):
Yeah, just a bunch of infants on that. So I
went to check with the cooler boardings. I went and
checked some stumps uping about six foot of water and
caught one about town and a half, I guess, and
but they seemed to be in that in that transition,
they're starting to.

Speaker 5 (01:30:24):
Move up a little bit. Shout, that's a good looking
fish right there, Holy cat, way do you go man?

Speaker 9 (01:30:30):
But I finally I finally picked up the spit and
rod with a little jig udots. He's white bash for
annoying me. I kept hearing an in the back of
my head back up. So so I'm messing with them
a little bit now that I I'll probably transition over
to the black bass later.

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
But he's whites out here.

Speaker 9 (01:30:43):
Doing stupid things like when you as I was out.

Speaker 5 (01:30:45):
Here, So wow, good for you man. How long does
that last up there.

Speaker 9 (01:30:53):
In this creek here?

Speaker 5 (01:30:54):
They stayed here all year.

Speaker 9 (01:30:55):
Yeah, so you can always come out here and catch
you know, ten or fifteen any any time of the year,
even in the dead three hundred degree summers. But but
if you come up here in uh, January, February, and March,
you know, like like the lane will tell you, it's
just it's just every calf, like you have different lure.

Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
I can throw this matter. It was shiny and they
could see it. It's every calf that's a good copawn.

Speaker 9 (01:31:17):
But yeah, I got a pretty stiff wind blowing up
the creek today.

Speaker 7 (01:31:20):
So it's slow.

Speaker 9 (01:31:21):
So I do what all fish would do when it's slow.

Speaker 5 (01:31:23):
I get in the shade. Sure, get comfortable.

Speaker 4 (01:31:26):
You'd be not catching fish in the sun, or not
catching fish in the shade, or not catching fish in
the wind.

Speaker 5 (01:31:31):
You pick.

Speaker 9 (01:31:32):
Yeah, if the lake the lakes, the lake's really getting low.
They they started the normally that seventeen hundred and fifty
every day because they have to.

Speaker 5 (01:31:39):
They forever reason.

Speaker 9 (01:31:41):
They wrapped it up to two thousand, and I can't
even launch a B sub division anymore. Here kick the creek.
I went down and looked on it for reason. I
came up here where I'm at. So do these boat
raps getting a little sketchy?

Speaker 5 (01:31:52):
So where would you say be safe?

Speaker 7 (01:31:56):
What's that?

Speaker 5 (01:31:56):
You fish all over the state?

Speaker 4 (01:31:58):
Okay? So where would you say? Are the top three
bass lakes right now?

Speaker 9 (01:32:04):
A top three bass lakes right now? No matter what
order you put it in, You got to put Raybird
in there. Sure, as far as far as public access
lakes not like you know, you got.

Speaker 5 (01:32:13):
To page Rayburd's really strong.

Speaker 9 (01:32:15):
Lake Mcinniche, yeah, up above Lake Macadosius is really strong.

Speaker 5 (01:32:20):
And uh, just loft r out the.

Speaker 9 (01:32:21):
Boat and uh man, who else would I say around here?

Speaker 5 (01:32:28):
If you want size?

Speaker 9 (01:32:29):
You know, it's kind of an unforgotten deal.

Speaker 5 (01:32:31):
Is Houston County? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:32:33):
Yeah, I go to Houston County every spring and it's
you know, you catch the twenty five pounds sack there?
People like, yes, that's nice.

Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
You know what has Where is Lake Fork in the
pecking order these days?

Speaker 9 (01:32:45):
Lake Fork? Yeah, I forgot about. Lake Fork is still
really strong, okay, And uh, a lot of the and
I think the bank beaters of you know, like you
and I are are going to start doing better at
Lake Fork, especially in the spring. Think live scope, off shore,
jerk baits. But but I watched the guy sight fish

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and two feet of water, uh eleven, a little over
eleven pounder. So so Lake fourth, Yeah, Lake Fork. I
probably have to put Lake Fork ahead of Houston, Canada.
But as far as this area.

Speaker 5 (01:33:16):
Though, it kind of speaks volumes, kind of speaks volume
that you'd forgotten about Lake four.

Speaker 4 (01:33:22):
What do you think that the the live scope is
going to do to big bass fishing in Texas?

Speaker 9 (01:33:29):
I mean, just look at ohivy Yeah, I mean, nobody
ever heard of o hiv that much. And all of
a sudden they're catching you know, at a at what
that one guy he caught.

Speaker 7 (01:33:37):
A h.

Speaker 9 (01:33:39):
It was right at forty eight pounds stringer five fish
life with a sixteen pound kicker. But I think, I think, yeah,
I think it's opened up, you know, fish fishing. Lot
of times when I see him, you know, I'll go
out there the live scope and fish off shore and
they look like they're just out there resting, like leave
me alone.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
Yeah, just out in the middle of nowhere did on
bare bottom.

Speaker 9 (01:34:01):
Yeah, that'd be like, say there's a there's a flat
out fish at kerth. It's twenty five feet deep, no grass,
not a stick out there, and there'll be two or
three five six pounders just suspend it out there ten.

Speaker 5 (01:34:10):
Feet deep their sleep. Yeah, you drop a drop shot.

Speaker 9 (01:34:14):
In front of them, they'll heat it. You know.

Speaker 5 (01:34:15):
Wow, that's crazy like the fish.

Speaker 9 (01:34:18):
To me, it's like I related to deer hunt is
the reason I don't like it for black mass fishing
that much. Deer need a place to bed down to
be unharrassed. I no longer have a bedding area.

Speaker 5 (01:34:28):
That's a good point.

Speaker 9 (01:34:29):
There's nowhere they can go and not be seeing.

Speaker 4 (01:34:30):
It'd be like using thermal thermal scopes and imaging to
find the deer.

Speaker 5 (01:34:36):
You just walk up. Yeah, Holy exactly.

Speaker 9 (01:34:39):
And I still don't know why people don't use that
to find down deer.

Speaker 4 (01:34:44):
There may be maybe a rule thing. I think it
may be if I'm remembering correctly. Yeah, you can't. I know,
you're not supposed to use drones. You're not supposed to
use I don't think you can use thermal stuff to
go find down deer. I really don't because and for
obvious reasons. It because people would take advantage. Oh yeah,
I'm looking for a down deer. Well yeah, it's not

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down yet, but it will be when I find it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:09):
One of those things, you know. All right, Oh pro
good to hear from you. Man.

Speaker 9 (01:35:14):
All right, man, we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 4 (01:35:16):
Yes, sir, Thanks, audios. All right, let me click kim okay,
very good. Uh, whatever time I got left, I'm gonna
I'm gonna remind you about what we talked about very
early in the program about taking kids fishing, Taking kids,
taking adults who've never caught a fish, get them out there.
First of all, manage your expectations first. Well, no, first
of all, you don't get to fish that day. You're

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out there to make sure that little kid catches a fish.

Speaker 5 (01:35:41):
You're not fishing alongside them.

Speaker 4 (01:35:43):
You're not in competition with them until they've had a
couple of trips under their belts where they're the ones
catching the fish and you are just there to bait
hooks and to get fish off the hooks. Make sure
you mash the barbs on those hooks too, for safety.

Speaker 5 (01:35:58):
Get a kid. I'm gonna challenge every one of you.

Speaker 4 (01:36:00):
It's October the thirteenth, Okay, before December thirty. First take
at least one kid fishing who's never caught a fish before.

Speaker 5 (01:36:10):
This is a perfect time of year to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:12):
The little fish are gonna be up there in that warm,
shallow water. You go in there and sprinkle some chum
out there, pieces of baloney, bacon, I don't care. Corn
soaked in vanilla is great for about ten different species
of fish. But get them out there, catch them my
first fish, and send me the pictures, and I'll sing
your praises as a hero for every kid you do

(01:36:33):
that for, I'm gonna do it myself.

Speaker 5 (01:36:35):
I promise you. We're gonna be back here.

Speaker 4 (01:36:37):
I'll be back on Tuesday for fifty plus Live. There's
a good show set up for tomorrow. I'm gonna be out.
I'll be back Tuesday on KPRC at noon for that.
I'll be back here Saturday morning once again we'll talk
about more of the great outdoors.

Speaker 5 (01:36:51):
Thank you for listening. I really do appreciate it. Idios
every time