The Doug Pike Show 10-5-24

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
All right here we'll go on a Saturday morning.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hold on it.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
I'm like coming it hot. I was over there working
on some other stuff in another part of the office here,
and time slipped away from me, ever so briefly, but
it slipped away nonetheless. I think I am prepared. Let
me have a seat here, Melvin. How was your How
was your week? It was pretty good. I stayed active

(00:37):
when you're busy, when you're gonna get us on TV, man,
you know what working on it.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
I've been thinking about that, and I've been talking to
my sources, have you, now, I sure have. I've been
dropping a lot of dimes on your ship, laid on
thick man, just trying to add it in to something
that folds, you know, into some dollars.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well, yeah, there's got to be something.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Some substance. But this is definitely a prior you on
my lists.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
You know, the sooner you and I get on TV,
the sooner we'll get those We'll get those cover offers
from GQ and and all those magazine Oh, no doubt,
I love it. I can't wait. You know, we are,
if nothing else, fashion icons in this office.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Oh yeah, you go a while back, and I go
a little while back.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Man, you've been around, right, So that's gonna intrigue a
lot of people.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
What I have fashion design?

Speaker 5 (01:27):
We could be trend setters. That's what we'll do.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh yeah, do we get a TikTok page and everything?

Speaker 6 (01:34):
TikTok?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Are you a TikTok guy? No? I'm not either. We
gotta do something now. Instagram, that's not that doesn't people
don't turn their noses that old people who use Instagram
do they?

Speaker 4 (01:46):
I have no idea. I just surf a little bit
on that. Yeah, just look up music and you know,
little things that interest me, and then get off of
there real quickly.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
For it sticks. Yeah, I want I don't want to
smell like it when you're done, right, teen a spirit?

Speaker 5 (02:08):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
All right, Well, off we go into Saturday. I had
a busy day yesterday, my one day off, and I
took full advantage. I had an invitation to go play
a very nice golf course, and I'll tell you more
about that later in the program. Uh, and I got
to even more important, well as important, I would say,
not more important, but uh, I got to drive the

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cart with a man who i've whose work I have
admired for a very long time in that in that game,
in the golf game. And I'll bundle all that up
in the nine o'clock hour, I think. Right now, we've
got to get from seven to nine. And on the
way there, we're gonna talk a lot about fishing, because
there has been some really, really good fishing going on

(02:52):
along the coast. I'm getting updates in Inland from my
buddy Forrest and from some other guys who are hoping
and praying for a little bit cooler weather to get
these fish, get the black bass anyway, get the large
mouth bass kind of off their behinds and get them
motivated to get a little bit more active. Been a

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little bit tough in some places, but not so tough
in others. Now that's a good point, because Forrest is
telling me there's one lake and I don't even know
if you with I don't know, I'm not going to
say the name of it, because that's kind of his
sweet spot now, his little honey hole. Now he's talking
about it a lot on Facebook, so if you see
him there you'll know where I'm talking about. But he

(03:35):
called me the other day after a trip with somebody
where they had caught I don't know, twenty thirty bass,
maybe more. And it's one of the situations that's going
on right now in a lot of lakes that have
everything that is needed for this to happen. Is these
big bass coming up and schooling and chasing shad to

(03:56):
the surface and then beating them up on the surface
where there's nowhere else for them to run. And it's easy.
There's two ways you can find them. One is there'll
be birds working over them. Some of these seagulls that
get blown in from hurricanes, they come in here and
they get far enough inland and don't feel like flying
all the way back to the coast, so they just

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hang out on these lakes. And if those shadow getting
pushed to the top, it's just like shrimp getting pushed
to the top in the Bay system. The birds will
be on them and you can find those bass that way.
But mostly most of the lakes are usually calm enough
this time of year, unless there's a big norther that
comes rolling through that you can.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
Just see them.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
You'll see the violence going on on top and if
you can get to them and get a lure into
them quickly enough, pretty much you're gonna get bit. It's
a fun top water bite because they're king on fish
on top of the water anyway, so it's not a
stretch to throw top waters in there. And every now
and then if you're throwing one that's got two trouble

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hooks on it every now and then, not regularly, but
you'll catch two and two on the same lure with
the same cast, and that's that's a lot of fun.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
It is.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
I'm the two biggest I have ever had on a
single lure myself, probably would have weighed maybe maybe five
pounds total, two and a half pounders, both almost twins. Actually.
I recall seeing them come up and just one looked
exactly like the other. But I know guys who have
caught even bigger ones. Pretty special deal.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Back to the.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Coast, though, the fishing has just been I think it's
the initiation of this three three fish limit on speckled trout.
Had a lot of people doing a lot of yapping
when it came out, but even the ones who desperately
didn't want it, didn't think we needed it, saw no
benefit in it whatsoever. Already I'm hearing from a couple

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of those people. Well, you know, they may have been
right about this, because boy, fishing sure is getting better,
and the more fish it just it's simple mathematics. Really,
you don't have to look very far to figure out
how this works. If everybody's allowed to take five fish,
they're going to end up taking more, given all the variables,

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every one of the things that could happen to make
one particular trip more or less productive than somebody else's.
When you factor in all of those things, even the
opportunity to only take three as opposed to potentially taking
five leaves more fish in the water. And the more
fish you leave in the water, the more fish there

(06:44):
are to catch. It's been kind of almost almost funny
really lately hearing people start to gripe about how many
redfish there are.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
Again.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
I can't imagine why. I just it's a head scratcher
for me why some people would want to complain about
having too many of one of the three most popular
inshore game fish in this state, redfish, trout and flounder.
Those are the top three, always will be probably. They're

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all excellent eating, and they're great fighters, and they're really fun.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
You can find a room.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Full of people who will put one over the others.
Among those three, you could there's always somebody who is
giddy over flounder and doesn't really care about trout or reds,
And that all the different variables of that little equation
are true. But all three of those fish deserve all

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the attention we can give them and all the protection
we can give them, so that they can maintain their
populations at worst and have their populations enhanced all the better.
And be fine by me, Be fine by me. There
and then and then there are the big fish. Then
there are the big fish. This past week produced early

(08:08):
in the past week, produced one heck of a run
of tarpin up and down this coast. I had. I
don't know how many people sent me pictures.

Speaker 7 (08:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't know how many times I saw it just
on Facebook, just random random post popping up, Hey we
got some tarpain today, Hey we got a lot of
tarpin today. And even I've heard from down south that boy,
that place I loved and went just on the wrong
days two weeks ago. I just missed it, that's all
I did. I just missed it by a few days.

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But there were tarpaing on the beach down there on
North Padre Island Seashore, tarping on the beach, and more
than one person I've talked to hooked one down that way.
It was good, it's fantastic. Actually, I didn't hear about
many snook, although when I was down there there was
a young woman diving well snorkeling along the rocks, much

(09:01):
to most of the fishermen's dismay that snorkelers along a
jetty tended when, especially when there's a lot of people
fishing that jetty just they seem out of place. They
seem an awkward inconvenience at best. But they're having the
time of their lives because there's all kinds of all
kinds of wildlife, all kinds of fish and other creatures

(09:24):
under there, under the sea, if you will, and that
water stays clean enough down there that it's really I'm
sure it's a lot of fun. I may try and
do that next time I'm down there, although I would wait, no,
it's impossible, there would. I don't think there would ever
be a clear, calm day when there weren't people fishing
on those rocks. So I guess you just have to

(09:44):
get in there and annoy all those other fishermen.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
And there it's something to see.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
And the point I'm trying to make here I'm slowly
getting to is that she came up one time and
was about I don't know, ten feet in front of me.
She said, there's a really good snook right down. She
pointed right down there, right in between a couple of rocks,
and she said, he he gets he's pretty calm, but
every time I look at him, he gets really anxious

(10:11):
and kind of backs up into the hole a little
bit bit more.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Maybe that fish was aware that something bigger than it
could certainly gobble it up if it stuck its little
nose out there, and it didn't. So there's all that
going on. There's gosh, I don't know. It's just a
good time to be in the outdoors. I haven't even
scratched the hunting card yet. I haven't looked to see
what's under that, and I well, I have some stuff here. Actually,

(10:38):
I'll hold off seven one three two one two five
seven ninety. I also have some golf news that I
will share in the nine o'clock hours. I mentioned before
someone three two one two five seven ninety email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm gonna have to go
through a bunch of emails again, Melvin. It's happened again.
I let him get away from you little bit, and

(11:01):
I went from like I got them down below a
thousand at one point, and I was very thrilled. I
was thrilled, like nine hundred something emails left, and that
wasn't that long ago. And now I look down today
because I took yesterday off and didn't look at emails
that much. I did kill a few of them yesterday,
but not that many. And now I have two thousand,

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seven hundred and seventy four. Yeah, I'm learning my lesson.
I'm learning my lesson.

Speaker 8 (11:30):
Man.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, But I needed them. I need them. I do.
I have another day. I'm gonna take off, coming up
to the twenty. I think it's a twenty eighth. I
got a little something cooking around here. It's gonna be
pretty fun, all right. Let's take a little break here.
Forest waghs in on these baths pretty cot. Why you know, yeah,
he says, I don't mind if you mention it. Good.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
It's Lake Certh. Everybody go to Lake Kerth.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
And when you see when you see forest boat out there,
be sure to do a couple of donuts around it
and wave when you go by. Go buy real fast.
His blood's about the boy. I can guarantee you, uh
don't mind if you mentioned it. They just need to
know that they have to go to the city of
Lufkin to get an annual or three day pass. That's

(12:15):
a good idea because you don't want to get busted
on Lake kerk annuals one twenty he say, plus or minus,
and that's all he buys now. And he can't remember
what it was when he bought his most recent one.
The three day boy. This is some vague information. Three
day used to be fifteen dollars. Has no idea what

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it is today. But nonetheless, if you want to make
a long weekend on a really really good bass fishing
lake right now, one of the hottest lakes in the state, curse.
So that's that's the one, all right. We got to
tell you a little break.

Speaker 9 (12:48):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety breaking sports news on
Facebook twenty four to seven.

Speaker 7 (12:54):
We'll get that information to them.

Speaker 9 (12:56):
This is the Dogpipe Show on.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Four o'clock seven ninety. I thought that was a NEMO
reference and I didn't know where. There's a lot going
on this time of year. It's so great to be
a Texan who likes the outdoors and who likes golf
because the options are just almost unlimited. Everything's blowing up.
Even the MLD permit guys are. They're often running on

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deer hunting. It's fantastic. I've had the opportunity to do
a lot of things in this state, and you know,
I would be so hard pressed to pick one that
I like over all the others. And going back to fishing,
I thought of a question I'd like to ask of
some of you, and feel free to just dive in

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or just sit back and listen. I don't know how
many people will come in on this, but if you
had to, if you had to forfeit, if someone discover
some crazy thing that was about to happen, wherein Hey,
can you can you grab Dave Er because I want

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to ask him a question, if if if somebody said
you have to give up one of the three speckle trout, redfish,
or flounder. There would be plentiful of whatever two you keep,
but there would never ever be another one of those things.
Which one would you want to do without? Which one

(14:30):
could you do without? I really I I wouldn't want
that to happen at all. But if it were hypothetically
just for fun, if you had to give up one,
and I'm not even gonna go to the salt water
fresh water things because we throw largemouth bass in there. Now,

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maybe we will speckle trout, flounder, redfish, or largemouth bass.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
Which one could you just do you.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Without for the rest of your life, and everybody would
have to do without them too. It's not like you
can leave some for your friends. I'm gonna go talk
to Dave, see what's up. What's up, Dave?

Speaker 10 (15:12):
Well, I'm in Vanderbilt, rocking on a rocking chair, resting,
getting all everything. Well, Hey, but no, no, I've been
working and packing everything up here, and then the movers
are coming and there we gotta go from. Yeah, then
then I ain't doing nothing. Then I'm gonna leave it
up to them, and then uh, we got three hours

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back to Willis, Texas. Over here, at Lake Conro and
they're gonna follow us over there, and then same thing.
I ain't doing nothing.

Speaker 11 (15:40):
I wasn't gonna get out and go rest.

Speaker 7 (15:42):
And let HI you all the work.

Speaker 10 (15:44):
Yes, sir, oh go, that's gonna be good. But no,
when you were talking about the bass vision, yeah, you know,
one of the things that people forget about is when
you're like, let's say you on Lake Cono over there
around where Stubbs fill no some and field boat launches.
That's way on the south side, and stuffing Phil Lake

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is way on the north side, Okay, where the public
most launch is right there. If you put out in
there and just troll around in those areas where you used.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
To have a lot of high driller there.

Speaker 10 (16:16):
But then again, don't ignore a little stick up out
of the ground. You yeah, yeah, if you see something
coming up, chunk over there, and remember, like I said,
I like to hit it with the top order first.
If you get a pop, then get your worm and
then chunk it down there and then be eating with it,
and then.

Speaker 11 (16:36):
There you go. You got your bass.

Speaker 10 (16:37):
That's that's how I called My biggest pass I recall
was four and a quarter pounds. I've caught a lot
of them.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
You make it sound so easy, David.

Speaker 10 (16:46):
Well, just read on the boxes when you buy a
lure or something.

Speaker 11 (16:49):
Just read on the back of the box.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
And I don't know, Dave, men don't read instructions that that.

Speaker 10 (16:58):
Well.

Speaker 11 (16:58):
I was a kid then, you know, so yeah, you know.

Speaker 10 (17:01):
But yeah, I was learning how to use like a
hula popper or something like that, you know, and then
the pop pop, let it sit and then pop, paul,
or as soon as you hit the top water over there, wait,
let us sit there, let all the rings of the
water go away, and then just hit it one time.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
That's something a lot of people do, and I find
myself guilty of that sometimes too. Throw that thing out there,
let it hit, and then let all the rings go
away before you even twitch it.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
And the first time you move it, move it half
an inch.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Just give them something to give them a reason to
strike it, and then work it out.

Speaker 10 (17:38):
And sometimes you make them so mad and if they're
going to come up just to get it, you know,
and you know, just aggivate them and and you know,
but then like in the wintertime, you know, I would
use like a crank bait like down there on the
bottom and get real low and go real slow and

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just kind of keep twitching and then boom, you know,
then you'll hit it. I didn't. I never had much
luck with the jigs with the furry stuff on them.

Speaker 5 (18:10):
Yeah, sure, skirts, you.

Speaker 10 (18:12):
Know, skirts, Yeah, with all that stuff. I never had
much luck on that. But you know, other than that
on the bottom with the rattle traps and stuff like that, yeah,
you know, but just you got to in the winter
time for members, you got to kind of work it
a little bit slow and get way down to the
bottom because that's probably where they're gonna be. Sound all right, Hey,

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well yeah, we're gonna be getting out of here, and
let me see, I'm gonna turn this up for a
little bit right here.

Speaker 6 (18:37):
This is off of.

Speaker 10 (18:40):
That's one of our sessions we dead back in ninety six. Lord, yeah, yeah,
ninety six. That's my cousin Robert on fiddle, of me
on guitar, Anthony's brother on guitar, and Johnny Crisp on guitar,
and I got an award for that. Yeah for you man, Hey,
listen to this. We are tard and then we lost it.

(19:01):
We lost the tape for like ten years or whatever,
and then we found the tape and I took it
and got it mastered and put it on the CD.
I've seen it in. And then we got a well
don't never give up. And then next thing you know,
I got an honorible mention the almost best of Guitar Day.
Thank you. I appreciate Its good to hear from while

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I'm packing.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
All right, man, audios, Holy cow, that's a busy man.

Speaker 5 (19:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Yeah, Rick Bis drives a lot more, but not a
lot a lot more than Dave. Dave sounds like he's
got something going every weekend Rick wade in he was
first in on my my little pondering there about what
fish you could you could live without and make everybody
else live without as well? One word answer from Rick flounder, and.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
I would.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
I would have to agree. And I know, oh a
lot of people who love flounderfish, and who love the
way flounder tastes. So do I so do I. But
if I had to give up one, that might be it.
It's difficult. Just you wake up the next morning. There
are bookoo of three of those four, but none ever

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again of that one. That's tough. Oh, let's see Travis.
First off, those on the East Coast took a world.
Oh yeah, see those folks pulled together. Yeah, this is
I'll stop and talk about this for a second. Travis
is talking about the people who lived through that storm
over there on the East Coast and just got absolutely hammered,

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just absolutely hammered over there.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
And it'll be it'll be year.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
This microphone is not cooperating. It literally will be years
before some of those areas can it can even be
anywhere near healed from this. It's that's some of the
worst devastation I've seen, all that water moving, all those things.
I saw videos. I was trying to explain it to
one of the young women who works here on Thursday,

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I think it was. I was looking at a couple
of videos very early from over there, and there are
just entire houses that have been lifted off, presuming I'm
presuming they were on blocks. They were built on blocks,
peering beamstuff. I don't know what the construction method is called,
but you've got very heavy lumber on the bottom sitting

(21:33):
on concrete blocks, all leveled off and smooth and nice
and comfortable inside when you get in there. But it's
just essentially a box. It's a wooden box sitting on
concrete blocks and when that much water comes through there.
There was plenty of video. It wouldn't just it wasn't
just one of these that had happened to But entire

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houses are floating down river, still intact, until they hit
a bridge, or until they hit another house, or they.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
Fall upon some other problem.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
But the bottom line is there are miles of waterways
choked with debris that was destroyed by that storm, not
just wind damage, water damage, and that's that's part of
what raises the death toll so high in one of those.
So just whatever you're doing outside today, whatever fund you

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plan on having, just take a second and reflect it
and be really, really glad it didn't happen to us,
and be sorry for the people who are still just
absolutely in shock, absolutely in shock at where they used
to live, just looking like the planet Mars. There's just

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there's nothing left for them. They'll be they'll be real rebuilding, though,
you mark my words. I wish the federal government would
get off it's duff and quit sending billions. I saw
this yesterday and it irked me, and I'll move on
from it really quickly. Federal government offered up to the

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victims of Helene seven hundred and fifty dollars the same
week that they sent another don't five or six billion
dollars to Ukraine? Yeah, yeah, I would agree. All right,
enough of that. Someone three two one two five seven
ninety email me dougpick at iHeartMedia dot com dot com.

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Oh forced oh oh, faux pro. Okay, you're gonna start
a war. You know what fish? He wants to get
rid of redfish. I had to come out with that one.
You you better hope I don't put your address on
them or even your phone number on the redfish. No,

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we'll never get rid of rid of red fish. I
won't let that happen. I will not let that happen.
All right, all the way out.

Speaker 9 (24:06):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston, Sports Online at
sports seven ninety dot com. Back to the Doug Bike Show.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Seven thirty eight on Sport o'clock seven ninety The Doug
Bike Show. Thanks for listening. Fox Pro Man. He's lucky
he's not in a in a tavern on the coast
because he's gonna let redfish go. He's gonna no more redfish.
And then he rubbed salt in the wound by saying,

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bass are my jam.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Trout are more fun and challenging.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Flounder tastes too good to give up, so he'll just
throw just kick redfish to the curb. No, no, oh,
absolutely not. Now I'm gonna have to rethink everything, everything
good I thought about you folk, bro, I'm gonna have
to change. I don't know, and I'm not changing my
mind just yet. But man, redfish gotta go. No, you

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know where they go. They go into the lakes. They
can survive in fresh water. And if they dump ten
big red fish into your favorite lake, there wouldn't be
many bass left. I wrote one hundred years ago for
the paper. I wrote about the power of some of
these fish we catch, and I said, if you tied

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a ten pound red fish and a ten pound bass
tail to tail and put them in the water, in
about three seconds, that that large mouthed bass's gills would
be wrapped over its eyes. He'd be turned inside out.
Let's go talk to Rick bis. I'm getting all worked up,
faux pro. Nah, I don't know what's up, Rick.

Speaker 11 (25:51):
Yeah, redfish would be a little tough that that would be.
You walk into your favorite tackles stuff you'd see a
loaned dit or a life found him with him.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, if somebody, if whoever did that, but there would
be public as who who took them out?

Speaker 5 (26:13):
Boy, that'd be roughers. We're all laughing about it.

Speaker 11 (26:20):
Yes, No, I'm uh you know anyways, No, nothing, just
doing some sunrise stuff. But I can't do my sunrising
for East because I hadn't. I didn't tell you. I've
told you before. I never got out of my truck
with that misnake boots on.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
Oh and here we go.

Speaker 11 (26:39):
And about three months ago, I now, I might get
in my truck with my tennis shoes, but when I
get out, I'm putting them on, and anyway, I cut
them on. Story short, I did that. I made that mistake.
I got out on my tennis shoes and I walked
about twenty foot and I don't run this great big

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thorn right through the bottom of my foot.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
Oh no, at least it wasn't a snake.

Speaker 11 (27:06):
And it broke off. Oh man, and it's still in there.
Well why and I'm gonna let it work its way out.
I got my veting there and to shoot me some
antibiotic up in there, so I'm not worried about infection.
But anyways, Uh, it's just the walking parts tough on

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the bottom of my foot.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
You know, it's kind of an important part of walking.

Speaker 11 (27:37):
I'm sending you a few little pictures. I wish I
had a better camera and I could walk a little
further because many people don't realize how fast the sun
comes up in two minutes. That sun can move so fast.
And anyway, I'd like to be where I could move
a little faster. Yeah, but anyway, Oh nay, one last

(28:00):
thing real quick. My son is in Asheville, North Carolina,
work and he worked for a global catastrophic company. We've
been all over earthquakes, new two samies or whatever, and uh,
he said it's ugly. He said, it's really ugly. He
said they need help, and uh, you've probably seen him

(28:23):
pack horses and pack mules. Wow, some of them just to.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Get stuff in that's the only way they can get
stuff in there. And the roads left.

Speaker 11 (28:31):
Well that's well that's what his brother doesn't a living.
But he's not there. But he did a zoom video
with local people that had the horses and mules and
they had obtained some those special racks you just put
on pack mules. But you have to weigh everything. You
can't put two hundred pounds on this side and a

(28:52):
hundred on that's what you'll cripple the mule. Anyways, Uh,
there's a lot of effort, a lot of things going on,
and uh he said, this is always on the front
end of these things. You look at them and go,
it'll never get fixed. Wow, never, But he said, eventually
it will. He said, the problem they got is the

(29:13):
people up on what they called that are not in
They don't call we call them valleys, they call them hollows.
All the towns are in the hollers. They can't build
a town on the mountain. But there's lots of people
in the mountains. He said, a lot of those people
they don't have no insurance to start with, and all

(29:34):
their stuff is coming down the mountain from the heavy
rain the river. It's building up with everything else. It's
getting wipped out. And he said, there's just there is
no wind damna.

Speaker 12 (29:45):
To speak of.

Speaker 11 (29:47):
He said, it's just mess. But anyway, we keep all
the people in our prayers.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yeah, man, that's all you can do, all right, But yeah,
good luck with that. Okay, send me a picture I'm
a little bit weird that way, audios man, Let's see, Oh,
my goodness, stepped on a thorn straight through the boot.

Speaker 6 (30:11):
You know.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
That's I've been a little lackadaisical about that lately and
just been kind of cavalier and just marching through the
bushes looking for golf balls and working my way to
the edges of water. I'm gonna step back and pay
a little more attention. I think I told you a
few weeks ago, I came within a foot, a literal

(30:34):
foot of stepping on a cotton mouth. And if it
hadn't been for me freezing and it wanting to just
get away from me, thank goodness, instead of it was
on if it's flight or fight, that one was on
flight mood, and he didn't run, he didn't take off,
but he just chose to slither away and live to

(30:57):
fight another day. And I'm really glad that snake made
that decision.

Speaker 9 (31:01):
All the way up business, we are Sports Talk seven ninety.
Listen online at sports seven ninety dot com. Now more
Doug Fike.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
I don't recognize that Carolina. It's called by Carol. Okay,
I'll take that. Yeah, I just said because of a
hurricane to Carolina. Yeah, no doubt. I got an email
from Travis, by the way, Travis who is alignment, one

(31:33):
of the people who works really really hard when the
electricity goes out, and he sent me a picture of
his dog and unfortunately, his dog got his leg broke,
and Travis Travis takes responsibility because he was back in
his truck out and didn't know that the dog had
gotten under the truck and it was just a horrible accident.

(31:57):
But the point he made was he aware of his
circumstances and surroundings at all times. And the poor old
dog had to miss opening dead teal sit well, it
had missed the whole teal season actually, unfortunately, so be
careful all the time when you're out there. God, that
must have felt horrible to hear that dog yelp. But

(32:17):
the dog's gonna be okay. And Travis actually came up
with a pretty unique way to the vet told him
to keep that wound dry, and he came up with
a really unique way to do it.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
So hats off to you.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
That's the ingenuity that these these linemen have when they
get all the way to the top of the pole
and realize that maybe something has to has to be done.
I don't know if they do stuff a little off
the books or whatever to get the electricity flowing back
through there. But it took took a lot of ingenuity
to make that look like it looks and make it

(32:51):
work like it works, and it's working great, and the
dog's gonna be okay. All's well, that ends well, pay
attention next time. Huh what's that Brandon?

Speaker 13 (33:00):
Your morning dig?

Speaker 14 (33:01):
Are you you know?

Speaker 5 (33:02):
I'm okay, man.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
I had a fun day yesterday and got some more fun,
played some golf. I'm gonna talk about it in a
nine o'clock hour. Uh, too many more than I wanted.
It wasn't bad. I played pretty well. What can I
do for you?

Speaker 13 (33:23):
Well, assys kind of trying to win their game and.

Speaker 5 (33:31):
Didn't work out.

Speaker 13 (33:32):
Did it didn't work out?

Speaker 1 (33:33):
No?

Speaker 3 (33:34):
And that's okay, you know there. They had a rough year,
they really did. They had so many people out and
so many just so many things go wrong. I was
I was pretty surprised actually that they won the division.
Now that they they got ahead and they hang hung
on to the lead for a very long time. The
fact that they turned around that deficit that they the

(33:55):
hole they dug for themselves early on was marak us,
to say the least.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
It really was.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
They just they had all the cards stacked against them,
but they found a way to get out of that,
and then they ran into just kind of the hottest
team in baseball.

Speaker 5 (34:11):
And two days later we were done.

Speaker 13 (34:14):
Yep, we're doing We're playing the Mets nets year.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yeah, we'll get We'll get even with anybody that roughed
us up this year.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
Don't you worry. They'll be away.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Try to get these people back up to speed, keep
as many of them around as we can.

Speaker 6 (34:31):
And just go on.

Speaker 13 (34:32):
But Heyward will do good, and I like him.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Yeah, I hope they keep him. I really do.

Speaker 13 (34:38):
We're not going to keep bad as he's he's probably
thinking getting traded.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Oh well, you know, easy, come, easy go. Man. These
guys they go chasing money all over and I don't
blame them.

Speaker 5 (34:56):
Somebody offered me twice.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
As much money as I'm making, would be it would
be difficult. I have a really this is a good
culture around this office here, and I like being here.
I really do. And not speaking for myself, but just
I think for anybody. If somebody offers you a boat
load more of money. I wouldn't jump for a dime,

(35:18):
but you know, everybody has their price these days, and
that's that's I don't know if that's good or bad
or not.

Speaker 11 (35:25):
What else can I do for you?

Speaker 3 (35:26):
I want to get one more before I have to
go to break.

Speaker 13 (35:29):
How's your sign? And how's his game?

Speaker 3 (35:32):
This game is not bad? This game is not bad.
Mostly his games baseball right now. But I suspect if
he got on a golf course and pry and warmed
up for ten minutes, he'd be okay, he can he
can still go. Let me let me go catch Steve
O before the break here, Brandon. Okay, yea, all right, buddy,
great to hear from you. Man, Yes, sir, thank you,

(35:53):
all right, Let me go get Steve O. What's up, buddy?

Speaker 7 (35:56):
Good morning, miss I'm good, wonderful man. So I live
right herds Lane, sixty first street, right there in Galasty. Yeah,
and we have a horrible coyote problem, Like we see
him really early in the morning.

Speaker 15 (36:09):
But the other like two days ago, I was walking
my dog Vader, and he always gets underneath this church,
like maybe chasing Katch or something.

Speaker 7 (36:18):
Like that got him on the leash. But he always
tried to go under there.

Speaker 15 (36:20):
Sure, well he came out and his lip was bleeding,
and I got away, you know, And then I actually
looked down there and it was a freaking coyote underneath
this church. Oh man, I'm sure he got like a
little snip or something. But man, I don't even know
what I could do, any of the truths, because the
animal control exactly, and my cousin used to be on

(36:40):
the animal control and there's like not much that a
person can do with a six inch cross space to
go get a coyote, obviously, But sure, it's just madness
because we see them all over and I just want
everybody to know, like they are thick as thieves.

Speaker 7 (36:54):
In Galveston, like big time. They live all over the place.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
I saw one just right smack in the middle of
middle of civilization down where I live. Once it it
just ran this is the middle of the day. But
this thing, you could tell it knew it was exposed.
It knew that that exposure left it vulnerable.

Speaker 5 (37:16):
This thing was at a dead run. It ran through
a school.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Property, across a four lane major road, and disappeared behind
a strip shopping center. All in the matter for about
three seconds. Man, it was amazing that dog would pumping it. Buddy.

Speaker 7 (37:33):
It's pretty cool to see him. And honestly, it's it's
really nice to know that.

Speaker 15 (37:37):
They're not probably gonna attack you, like you can.

Speaker 7 (37:38):
Probably beat up a coyote, you know what I mean.

Speaker 15 (37:40):
But I mean, it's just crazy because my son goes
to school or goes to the bus like before daybreak.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Yeah, that's god.

Speaker 7 (37:46):
You see them.

Speaker 15 (37:48):
And he's kind of not the best eyesight person, you
know what I mean. She thought it was a cat
one time from like a block away and he said
it stood up.

Speaker 7 (37:56):
And he was like, oh no, he just walked away.

Speaker 6 (37:58):
Nothing wrong.

Speaker 7 (37:58):
They're not gonna chase you or anything.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Well that's good.

Speaker 7 (38:00):
Yeah, they eat your cat. They'll eat your cat.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Will holy cow? Well do Steve oh Man.

Speaker 7 (38:07):
Definitely, definitely, I all have a great day.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
I definitely one more question. How's that beach water look?
Is it still clean?

Speaker 15 (38:14):
It is beauty, man, I'm talking flat.

Speaker 7 (38:18):
I love friends with boats. I don't really like boats.

Speaker 15 (38:22):
Personally, but I love friends with boats and I can't
wait for one to call and say let's.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Go alright man, Thanks day too, Steve O, thank you, audios.
Oh Urban wildlife man. How many stories did I write
about that while I was at the paper? A bunch,
I can tell you a bunch. There are coyotes and
even deer in places around Greater Houston and play Galveston Island.

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I don't know about the deer on Galveston Island, but
I guarantee you, just like Stebo said, the coyotes are
there and they always will be. They ap so well,
they adapt so well to human presence that with any
kind of cover and under that church apparently is where
these coyotes have sought shelter. And I guarantee if you

(39:13):
put a little turnstile right there where that dog went in,
it would get clicked a dozen times overnight, probably by
coyotes going in and out. Yeah, that's something interesting. Buffalo Bio.
Buffalo Bio has all sorts of wildlife running up and
down it, not up to and including wild pigs. I

(39:36):
haven't heard any stories about pigs lately, but I know
that that arboretum over there at Memorial and six y
ten actually had professional trappers come in there that they
had so many pigs in there at one point that
they had to have them trapped out the next wild
pig I see that's been struck by a car on

(39:56):
Memorial Drive between six ' ten and down Town. Will
not be the first I've seen that happen before. I
didn't watch it happen, but it was an overnight thing,
I'm sure. But nonetheless, there's all kinds of pigs there are.
I've heard plenty of coyotes stories. I've heard a couple
of Bobcats stories along Buffalo Bio, all from people who

(40:19):
are very legitimate witnesses.

Speaker 5 (40:21):
All right, we got to take a break. Holy cow,
it's late.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
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Speaker 2 (40:34):
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Speaker 3 (40:36):
Welcome back. Second hour starts now, actually started five minutes ago. Technically,
I guess, buddy, buddy, what is it the atomic clock
or something like that Melvin had? How close are we
to actual real time?

Speaker 6 (40:49):
Now?

Speaker 3 (40:49):
It's the GPS clock GPN. No, it shouldn't be the
atomic clock. I'm sticking with atomic clock because of that
GPS go Well, I guess if the GPS goes out,
you know that the.

Speaker 5 (41:02):
World is changing. It's always changed.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
It will always change, and I find it highly arrogant
of people to think that we can there's much of
anything we can do to change the planet. It's it's
it's cute and all, but it really is egotistical to
think that humans, which aren't even the most we're not

(41:27):
the most common species on the world. We're not the
most dominant species on the world. There's far more insects
than there are people.

Speaker 6 (41:35):
Though.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Yeah, we gotta out. We're gonna have to fight the
cockroaches for for dominance of the world at some point
in time. I'm sure I agree, and guess what's gonna win.
I don't know. We're soft as cheese right now, at
least here we are. God agree, you know, Rudy sent
me something. We're on urban wildlife, but I'm gonna stay

(41:59):
there for a minute because there are all kinds of
things around that are nuisances, and certainly the wild hogs
have been problematic in neighborhoods, mostly outside of ninety nine,
I would say, but occasionally you'll hear about them finding
their way in, especially up around Katie.

Speaker 5 (42:21):
They've had some hog problems before.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
And then the farther out you go, the more the
more it becomes a problem. They've torn up. I don't
know how many dozens of golf courses around here in
the night. Every course that's out in the country, when
it starts in Texas is gonna have a pig problem
sooner or later, to some extent. It might be two pigs,

(42:44):
it might be two hundred pigs, but they'll have them.
And then I got this from Rudy. Let me see
if there's more text involved here. Nope, just a subject line.
We have feral peacocks. They are loud and they're nasty birds.
I would agree on both counts. I fortunately live in
a neighborhood that doesn't have an invasion of wild peacocks.

(43:08):
But if you do, you probably are nodding your head
in agreement with Rudy. Right now. I don't know where
he is, but if you'll tell me, I promise not
to buy a house over there because they are loud.
They are loud, and they are a pain in the behind.
You can't it's hard to get rid of them. And
there's always somebody who thinks they're the most beautiful bird
in the world. That's part of the problem a little

(43:30):
bit with the urban wild ie. There are a lot
of people who who don't want to address the situation,
even even when it comes down to public health or
the risk of being bitten by these animals.

Speaker 8 (43:45):
Here.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Oh here's a Is that a video? I think it
might be I'll see video of coyotes. Oh yeah, there
they are right in the backyard. Holy macra one two three.
Just in that little video clip from Kevin. These came
from my beach house cam at Indian Beach in Galveson.
Looks like mama and adolescent and a pup. You can

(44:08):
see they're a large in stature with that red tent
to them. That's a they're everywhere. They really are. Coyoser
are really smart animals. I got scared. I got really
truly concerned a little bit once. And that actually was
down at the Sambarto, the Carter family place down there

(44:30):
at Laredo. I was going to my deer stand early
early in the morning, well before daylight. It was actually
a ground blind that I had put together and ended
up shooting the best deer I ever got off that
ranch from that place too, by the way, and I.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
Parked a little jeep I had driven back in there.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
It was about a twenty minute drive to get back
into that certain part of the place I got in,
I got out of the jeep. I'm walking jeep or
a bronco. I think I might have taken a bronco.
And I started walking to where the stand was, and
it was pitch dark. I was still a good forty
five minutes from even a little bit of light. I

(45:08):
had a pretty good walk ahead of me, and I
didn't want to get in a rush. I didn't want
to make a bunch of noise. And anyway, I'm probably
fifteen minutes from the vehicle, and I heard a pack
of coyoats go off really really loudly right in front
of me, like maybe within seventy five hundred yards somewhere
in there. I couldn't tell exactly because they are loud,

(45:30):
and the closer they get, the louder they seem, obviously.
And then I heard another bunch go off about forty
or fifty yards behind me. I'm thinking, Okay, what are
they plotting? What do they have in mind? Because I'm
out there, I've got scent, my own scent being wafted
across the landscape, and I honestly I wasn't sure I

(45:56):
knew there were a bunch of them in front of me.
I knew there were a bunch of them back off
my left shoulder. I didn't know how far they were.
I didn't know what direction they were traveling, and in hindsight,
pretty sure they were just communicating with each other, may
or may not have even known I was there. It
wasn't a terribly windy morning. But being surrounded by coyotes.

(46:21):
You know, we were talking a little while ago about
Stebo said, you you probably take a coyote. Yeah, I
could even still probably take a coyote, but eight ten
of them be kind of tough. Flashing over to Africa
where you see all the hyenas going after trying to
take something away from a lion, some fresh kill, take

(46:43):
it away from a lion because there's a dozen of
them and there's only one lion that's there trying to
protect that kill, and a lot of times the hyenas
get it. I didn't want to be gotten. I had
no intention of being gotten. Let me go talk to David. David.
What's up man?

Speaker 16 (47:00):
Yeah, Doug, real quickly, thanks, QUI comment and I'll hey
to hang up and listen you come out Herban Wildlife
I'll give you a topic to run with, and that
is invasive species, especially you can pick any state, why can't.
I just got back from Wyoming, Montana. Every state has
some type of invasive species, typically fish that they want

(47:21):
to get rid of. And I'll let you comment how
these things end depth in the lakes and streams and
always enjoy your showy.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Yeah, thank you, I appreciate that, David. Yeah, you know what,
I'll tackle that in the next segment. I'll tease you
a little bit and probably seventy five eighty nine, especially
of the fish that end up in our waterways and
that and also all kinds of speed like the zebra muscles,
things like that. A lot of these things find their

(47:50):
way here through the pet trade.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
People go into pet stores.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
They buy these cool looking fish, armored catfish another example.
They buy these cool looking fish, and then they get
bigger and they get to be more of a responsibility
trying to take care of them and feed them. It's
a costly thing when some of these fish that eat
little fish get bigger and you have to go to
the have to go to the pet store every couple

(48:17):
of days and buy a few goldfish.

Speaker 5 (48:20):
It's a problem. And so what do they do.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
They put them in a bucket, They put them in
the car, They take them down to the closest bayou
or creek or whatever ditch that's around, and they dump
them in there. And if fate falls kindly on those fish,
one person dumps the male, one person dumps a female,
and it starts from there. They find each other and

(48:44):
it's a problem. And there are so many different and
not just not just fish, not just animals, but also
plant species. I got to do a ride along. Well,
I'll talk to you when we get back. I'll tell
you more about it when we get back.

Speaker 5 (48:57):
Let's let's get a breakout on time.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Kind of your rockets and astros live here. We are
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 9 (49:07):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
Hey nineteen on Sports Talk seven ninety, The Doug Fike Show.
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it, and welcome back.
A little bit of urban wildlife dancing around here. I've
got a couple of emails I want to look at
real quick before we get to call. Oh wow, sitting
on the back porch listening to the show Doug Pike Show,

(49:34):
It says here, and this guy showed up.

Speaker 5 (49:36):
Oh wow, he got himself.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
A nice little hawk in the backyard, a little bit
fuzzy picture. I'm not a show. I don't want to.
I don't want to guess wrong. That's a good looking
bird of prey, for sure. That's a beautiful bird.

Speaker 12 (49:49):
Man.

Speaker 3 (49:49):
I love those things, I really do. That's urban wildlife
that I like. Let me get the forest and see
what the heck's on his mind, and then we'll move
on back into the what we're.

Speaker 5 (50:01):
Doing ful problem?

Speaker 3 (50:02):
You got any you got any ugly mail in your mailbox?

Speaker 8 (50:07):
Yet?

Speaker 5 (50:07):
From what you just said about red fish.

Speaker 6 (50:09):
I'm afraid of checking it out with my joke box
or somebody. So I went to my sta box.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
Oh you boy, you raised the hackles of a couple
of people, I'm sure this morning.

Speaker 5 (50:20):
Like what is this guy thinking? Man, well, what do
you have with this redfish?

Speaker 6 (50:25):
Well you made me fix see, I guess.

Speaker 17 (50:28):
As far as table fare, yeah, I'm not a big
red fish guy, but I'd rather catch speckled trout. And
then I got to eat my flounder. I love my flounders,
one of my favorite in short salt water. Of course,
I'm never gonna give up a bash right, Well, yeah,
I just kind of a process of elimination as a
bass guy.

Speaker 6 (50:44):
It's on this thing I could eliminate, you know.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
I think what we'll all do is go back and
revote and while throw grinnel in there, and then we'll
all have some ditch exactly exactly and hard heads grilling.
Hard heads. We could do without those.

Speaker 18 (50:57):
I believe hardhead yah airs like they've already had, they'll
lay so do ling man. Oh yeah, snipped the fins
off hardhead and throw it from a link to what happens.

Speaker 6 (51:08):
Oh yeah, I got no use of them things. But yeah, man.

Speaker 17 (51:12):
I finally finally put the boat in the garage for
a while. Had me a full week. Started out last Friday.
Went to do some river fisher with a buddy of
mine called twenty one, and I felt like, based on
the way we were fishing, I felt like, man, we
can do better. So I had some stuff I had
to do with the baked a few days and a Tuesday,
it took my nephew back to the same river and we.

Speaker 6 (51:33):
Caught sixty eight.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Yeah, Lee, that's a.

Speaker 6 (51:36):
Lot I learned the first trip. Yeah, so a lot
of spotted.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
Bass by catfish.

Speaker 6 (51:44):
Oh no, these are bass. We're all spotted a large mouth.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (51:49):
So did that?

Speaker 6 (51:49):
Tuesday?

Speaker 17 (51:50):
Wednesday? I took o'lane ricks out white bass fish. You know,
we complained about catching forty seven to one. But you
know when you and it was he you know, Lane
likes to use the term. This is because I said,
you just drop over the side of the boat.

Speaker 6 (52:02):
It don't matter.

Speaker 17 (52:03):
Just drop over so you don't have to don't waste
the energy cast and just drop off the side of
the boat.

Speaker 5 (52:07):
You know, just for giggles.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
What you ought to do at some point is put
two cane poles or use your croppie poles, and I
mean just let out one rod length of line and
then just use them like cane poles and see how
many you can catch.

Speaker 18 (52:21):
We could have done that, I'm sure could.

Speaker 17 (52:25):
Then Thursday we went. I took a buddy of mine.
That's where I talked to you. It took a buddy
of mine to curves. We ended up with sixty plus
by the end of the day. So you like to
do fifty plus, I like to do sixty plus. But
he had what about eight towns on his arra spook.
He could get bloated over into the grass. This lake's
you have the most beautiful hydriller, but it's it's twenty

(52:45):
feet you out there, twenty four feet of watered hy
driller comes up to twenty That's how furdle this lake is.
And it's tap water clear, you know. Then yesterday we
went back to the river look my nephew, and uh
it was a slow day.

Speaker 6 (52:58):
We only caught forty five, so you know, we pulled
off on a little bit.

Speaker 17 (53:02):
So but I am tired and ready to do do
like guitar day and just sit back here and get
some relax.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
You gotta relax. At some point, Holy cow.

Speaker 6 (53:15):
I was wondering would they let you guys? Do you know?

Speaker 17 (53:17):
He talked about TV and I'm watching, you know, I'm
watching the eight Sports.

Speaker 6 (53:22):
City Channel right now. Of course they get all their
morning fishing shows on. I doubt they're gonna let y'all
pre in that.

Speaker 17 (53:26):
But what they let y'all do a Facebook live broadcast
their y'all's broadcast.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
I don't know that Melvin is the one who knows
all about that stuff. He's the one who's gonna he's
working on our behalf.

Speaker 6 (53:38):
Yeah, I've see some guys do that on the radio.

Speaker 17 (53:39):
They'll do a Facebook live broadcast on their own on
their own Facebook page, and then then people could tune
in because you got plenty of Facebook friends. That might
be a good weapon. Would initial get the initial thing
out there?

Speaker 3 (53:50):
Yeah, knock it out and I'd have to start drink
cleaning up a little bit. I'm decked out pretty good though.
I got Kobe Stevens on, I got I got a
new gall Off hat on. So yeah, I'm looking pretty
stylish this morning. I would say Stevens have.

Speaker 6 (54:05):
Made sponsor it. That'd be a cool, a cool faux
pro golf.

Speaker 5 (54:10):
I take it, man.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
Yeah, those guys take care of me. I take care
of them. They're good people. That guy that company probably
supports more causes than any that I know of right now.
It's just every time I turn around at a golf tournament,
they're they're there and they've they've donated a bunch of stuff.
They're good people. They got good, good gear. I like them.

Speaker 7 (54:32):
What do you what do you get their gear at?

Speaker 17 (54:33):
I want to try the other stuff you had on
the other day at the athlet Pretty pretty sweet.

Speaker 5 (54:37):
Yeah, Well, there's an they're online.

Speaker 6 (54:39):
C O. B.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Y Kobe Stevens dot com Steven's with a V C
O B Y S T E V E n s
dot com. And they've got a store up on the
north side of town. I think in spring somewhere. I'm
not sure. It's it's far enough from sugar Land that
I haven't been there yet, But I just go to
the website when I want to look around. And they
got some fishing stuff out. Now, they've got some who
they ran out of them almost as soon as they

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put them out. They ran out of them. But they'll
there'll be something you want to look at for sure.

Speaker 6 (55:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (55:07):
I definitely like the hoodies up there, and the heat
will get that. So I don't like sunscreens. I don't
want to get it on my lures. Oh yeah, that's
good point. Come in good question real quick.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
So, speaking of getting stuff on your lures, I heard
and I never did it, but I heard for a
long time that putting w D forty on your worms
would work.

Speaker 5 (55:27):
Did you ever do that?

Speaker 17 (55:29):
Yep, my buddy, there's two things we did back in
the day. W D forty on a plastic worm works great.
They seemed to like it. And uh, for some reason,
he is to prove the theory too. A beach nut
chew of tobacca. He'd spit on his lures, oh lord,
and he would catch just me as I don't recommend that.

Speaker 11 (55:46):
No.

Speaker 6 (55:47):
WD forty is a deal plusre hooks wall brush.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
So yeah, that's a very good point. Yeah, the chewing
tobacca the thing. I just wouldn't want that in the
carpet of a boat. You're not going to hit the
lure full blow. Every time there's gonna be there's going
to be spillage. Man, exactly.

Speaker 6 (56:03):
I'm a firm believer in sense.

Speaker 17 (56:05):
I mean, even you know, to people that people that
don't like senants, even if you're doing nothing but covering
up your scent and doing something.

Speaker 6 (56:13):
So that's it. That's my philosophy.

Speaker 5 (56:16):
All right, partner, good to hear from you.

Speaker 6 (56:17):
Man, All right, back to.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
Work, Yeah, oh boy, lucky you. All right, let me
click that. Let me go over to these notes here
real quick before we get to the bottom.

Speaker 14 (56:30):
Of the hour.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
Alan waded in. Oh man, he's a hockey player. Like
him and like four other people in in Southeast Texas.

Speaker 5 (56:40):
I think I'm joking. Don't get mad at me, Allan.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
But they were going to go play golf, and apparently
they did and they ended up at They ended up
with Cypress Wood.

Speaker 5 (56:50):
Oh no, it was after built it. Yeah, they went
to Cypress Wood.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
I'm glad. It sounds like they had a good time too.
Sounds like, well, now, wait, are they doing it and
already they played?

Speaker 5 (57:02):
No, they haven't.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
They're aiming for November two. I don't know why. No
matter how late you wait, Alan, there's gonna be no ice.
You can't skate your way around a golf course in
Southeast Texas. You're gonna have to put on golf shoes.
That's all you got, man.

Speaker 5 (57:21):
Irvin Walleye also from Alan.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
My daughter and I were fishing a retention pond ten
years ago on Little York and saw a bald eagle.
Actually I kind of think I know where you may
have been. And yeah, they're huge, Yes they are. They're big,
big birds, and if you've never been up close to one,
you can't really appreciate it. Even if you see one

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just flying around, you won't realize how big it is
until it stops and stands, it lands somewhere and stands
next to something, you know how big it is. They're big,
they're tall and just absolutely amazing, amazing birds. He had
a bunch of raccoons turn around follow him too, five

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of them. Holy cow. That would that would get my attention.
If I was being followed by five raccoons, it would
bother me just a little bit more than a little,
I promise you, Stephen Dean, Oh yeah, uh who showed up?
Hold on? Something showed up on Steven's back porch. Let's see.
Oh that's that hawk. Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, I

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did look at that already. We run down here. Oh yeah,
there's some he's down in Seabrook, he said. We have
lots of coyotes around here. They're everywhere. They truly are.
They're everywhere. Coyotes and pigs, I think, are the two
most adaptable animals on the planet. They just no matter

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what we do to try to get rid of them,
they're still going to be around. They're still gonna be around.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com, mojo weight in. You
used to have a whole flock of peacocks roam in
the neighborhood.

Speaker 5 (59:05):
Oh oh wow. The neighbors poisoned them.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
I don't know. I do don't know. If we do that,
why can't you trap them? They have to be easy
to trap.

Speaker 4 (59:14):
Yes, the call that wants to know, how would you
classify the birds that you would do away with?

Speaker 19 (59:24):
Hmm?

Speaker 5 (59:24):
How would I classify them?

Speaker 3 (59:26):
Right? Okay? Number one cormorant? Classify the birds that you
will to do with? I classify them as a nuisance.
That's how classify them. And what are those birds that
would be? The cormorant? He's on top of the list
every list I ever make of birds I hate, that's
the cormorant.

Speaker 5 (59:42):
Because they eat.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
They eat pounds of fish every day, and they are
capable of eating and I've watched it on a video.
They're capable of eating a bass more than a foot long.
So even a bass going into its second year isn't
quite safe yet from these nasty birds. And on top
of eating sportfish, they'll eat up the entire population of

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shad in a lake so that the sportfish that remain
don't have enough to eat.

Speaker 5 (01:00:13):
I've witnessed this.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
I've watched it happen over the past five or six
years at that little golf course lake I fish and
every time we get a good shad hatch, the resident
population of cormorants goes from about half a dozen or
so when there's not a shad hatch, to when those
shed get to be about two two and a half
inches long. Suddenly there are hundreds of them there. And

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I still have a video somewhere on my phone that
shows it shows it very clearly what those things can do.
So no, they're nasty. All the other birds get a pass.
I don't have a problem with any other birds like them,
all except the fish and even the other fish eating birds.
The turns of the world and such. What is he

(01:00:58):
doing calling me on on my cell phone? He knows
I'm on the air. I can't take that call. He
knows better. He's gonna have to call me during the break.
I gotta take a break speaking up. I just look down.
Holy cow.

Speaker 9 (01:01:13):
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Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
Doug Hey thirty six on Sports Talk seven ninety The
Doug Pike Show. I promise I'll get to these invasive species,
and I found a great source for them, and I'll
get to him in a minute. But I want to
go talk to Joe brisco Here, let me push this button.
Joe Briscoe, what's up?

Speaker 12 (01:01:37):
Man?

Speaker 8 (01:01:39):
They are horribly invasive.

Speaker 12 (01:01:41):
I went to who are.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
Oh yeah, thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:01:47):
Cormorants.

Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
Yeah they're nasty.

Speaker 8 (01:01:49):
No, yeah, there's other invasive things at the moment. Yes,
we went on. It was we were shooting crumarans and
hook bills. They got in this cruti spawn and almost
just basically ate him out.

Speaker 14 (01:02:08):
Wow it was.

Speaker 7 (01:02:11):
And my dog.

Speaker 8 (01:02:12):
I said, well it'd.

Speaker 14 (01:02:13):
Be good work. I'll take my dog.

Speaker 8 (01:02:15):
He got about three foot from that crumbar and said.

Speaker 20 (01:02:17):
Uh uh.

Speaker 14 (01:02:22):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 8 (01:02:26):
How you been doing, pile, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
Doing all right, man, how duck season? Go for til season?
Go for you? Well get out?

Speaker 8 (01:02:34):
No I was supposed to.

Speaker 6 (01:02:37):
No.

Speaker 8 (01:02:37):
Well I wish it. I wish I would have been
doing that.

Speaker 7 (01:02:41):
I ended up with pneumonia.

Speaker 5 (01:02:43):
Oh no, yuck.

Speaker 8 (01:02:45):
Yeah. So I was in the hospital for a week,
and you know, doc said, hey, good, it's going to
take you about a month to get your mojo back.
So we're just about there.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
Okay, okay, well good close.

Speaker 8 (01:03:00):
Yeah, it's uh and I mean we had a hunt
set up.

Speaker 20 (01:03:05):
It was it was, uh, you know, all the normals
Jane and and uh Campbell and yeah, gink, I'm sorry
Jeane Campbell, Ramsey Russell who comes in.

Speaker 8 (01:03:23):
From Mississippi and makes a makes a run through here
and then and that's when we do the podcast. So
and Rob Sawyer. Rob would have been on that hunt.
So I didn't get I didn't get to shoot, not

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OneD up, and it was pretty tough from what I
was hearing from everybody. And then those last three or
four days just you know, we we got a flight.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
Yeah, good, good, good.

Speaker 8 (01:04:02):
That it does. If I just wish they would consider,
you know, getting the moon out of the out of
the whole factor of figuring what date you want.

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
You know, Yeah, but that'd be tough, it really would.
Then you'd have to either start really early or really late,
and both things are not conducive to rolling out the
seasons kind of how they traditionally have been rolled out.

Speaker 14 (01:04:31):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:04:33):
It's just, you know, there's a week there that being
forget about. I mean, three days before the moon three
days after. I don't get in a rush, you know,
I mean, if you want to hunt that week, hunt
in the afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
That's not a bad idea, but a lot most places
don't allow that though, see that's the problem.

Speaker 11 (01:04:56):
Yeah, I did well.

Speaker 8 (01:04:58):
I went to a place in which they said, look,
we don't they were feeding off of a block of ice.
It was the Feds did a count on it because
they just would drive by it and go, man, we
need to know how many are in there. And it
was eight hundred thousand peeps.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
Good lord.

Speaker 5 (01:05:19):
Yeah, that's a pretty good bad.

Speaker 6 (01:05:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:05:22):
I mean we went in at two thirty and we
were north of this block of ice and we were
out there at four five limits. You know, the rumblings
are still happening about the nine day season. It's not

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been made official, but you know, I'm not so sure
that's going to fix the issue. And you know, they're
down twelve percent. That was there hat that was last
year's hatch.

Speaker 6 (01:06:02):
Was twelve percent.

Speaker 8 (01:06:04):
So by the time you get around the season, the
number is.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
Two years old.

Speaker 8 (01:06:09):
Good point point, Saskatchewan is up forty five percent. Some
of those hens had two clutches.

Speaker 12 (01:06:17):
Wow, So.

Speaker 8 (01:06:22):
You know what you're you're only going by the Alberta
numbers and that that just nah, I got you.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Hey, I got to run. I don't can do it
to you, Joe, but I got to run, man, because
I want to. I want to touch a species stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:06:38):
I heard about the camarands And whenever you want to
go have a shoot, I'm in.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
I got to find somebody who's got a permit and
then we're we're all over it, all right, buddy, Thank you, Josie, Hey,
you have a good day. Yes, sir, you too, Audios.
That's Joe Briscoe in case you don't know. He builds
some of the best waterfowl and bird calls generally on
the planet. And I've gotten to blow a lot of

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his calls and they're a one, super duper all right.
I went looking for invasive species in Texas and I
found a source. It wasn't hard, really, and I'll tell
you about it and some of the names that are
on here, and you will have heard of many of them.
And this is boy, this is a place where you'll
go and it'll be like a little rabbit hole. So, yeah,

(01:07:28):
that'll be a cute site. I'll go check that out.
And then as you start reading, and if it happens
like to you like it's happened to me, you keep
going farther and farther down the well and finding out
more and more about some of the stuff that's around here.

Speaker 5 (01:07:41):
We'll take a little break on the way out.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the go with
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Speaker 7 (01:07:50):
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Speaker 9 (01:07:51):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Pipe Show.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
Forty nine on Sports Talk seven nine of The Doug
Pike Show. Yeah, the invasive species have found a way
to stay alive around here.

Speaker 5 (01:08:02):
Well played, Melvin Well played.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Just I did just a search, just a simple search
for Texas invasive species, and where I was taken was
a website called Texasinvasives dot org. And all of a sudden,
now I just want to go back to my desk
and read and read and read on. And you can

(01:08:27):
search by invasive plants, invasive animals, invasive insects, invasive pathogens, invaders, observations,
and just in map invasives, county comparisons, all these different
things on page one of ten, oh no pages, let's see.

(01:08:48):
This is records one to ten of twenty four. These
are some of the animal species we've got in this
great state of ours now thanks to invasion. Be it
from the plant community, be it from overseas shipping, with
everything being flown in and not necessarily shipped in these days.
Something that hitchhike is hitchhikes from a country halfway around

(01:09:11):
the world and gets flown here, doesn't have time to
die of anything on its way here, and when it
gets here, if it gets loose in the United States.
Like I said earlier about the fish, two of them,
one two male female, boom, you got a bunch of
them just on page one. We have jumping worms. I

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didn't even know if you ever heard of jumping worms.

Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
They must have breeded with a grasshoppers because I've never heard,
so we got.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
Yeah, that's kind of weird though, jumping worms, the European eel,
hammerhead flatworms. I've heard about them, and I've seen enough
of them. They're nasty and they just regenerate themselves. Brown
tree snakes are from somewhere else. Northern snake head. That's
a fish, a very very bad fish. That's like the cormorant,

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a cormorant with gills. The Asian clam, the grasscarp we
all know about them from Lake Conro's debacle with them.
Zebra muscles, Mediatorian slow down dug Mediterranean house geckos, those
little lizards that suddenly showed up everywhere out of nowhere,

(01:10:25):
the Silver carp that's just page one, that's just the
first ten of twenty four and I don't want to
read them all. The point I'm making is that we've
got a lot of things in this state of ours
that don't belong here. And the problem with it's not

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come one, come all with these animals, because what happens
when these animals get here is most often what they
end up doing is displacing native species. Hogs are the biggest,
the biggest, boldest example of that. These these hogs come in,

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they jump off of ships over somewhere around the Gulf Coast,
depending on what story you're looking at, somewhere between New
Orleans and Mobile, Alabama.

Speaker 5 (01:11:16):
One hundred and something years ago, long long time ago.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
And then two become four, and four become eight, and
eight become sixteen, and a million become two million, and
suddenly you've got wild hogs, not just in Texas, not
just around the Golf Coast, but pretty much all over
this nation of ours. They'll find their way to Alaska,
sooner or later. They've already got them up in Canada

(01:11:41):
in some places. And they adapt as well as any
animal on the planet to whatever climate they're in, whatever
food sources are available. They'll eat darn near anything but
a rock, and so they they are kind of the
standard bear among invasives. They're the ones that teach other

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invasives how to survive. Some of them less problematic than others,
but none of them belong here. And in fact, I'll
tell you a good example of how different things are
in different parts of the world. As much as faux
pro and I and most of you enjoy catching a
large mouth bass, what I read many years ago, and

(01:12:24):
I don't know if it's the same now, but I
bet it is. Largemouth bass is an invasive species in Japan.
And if you catch a large mouth bass, according to
some rules from many years ago, if I recall correctly,
you are to do with it the same thing as
you're supposed to do with a tilapia or with a
grasscarp in Texas, and that's kill it, get it out

(01:12:47):
of the water. So they don't care much about largemouth
bass halfway around the world anymore than we care about
having their fish here. There's some beautiful fish all around
the world. Something I would love to have in Texas waters.
I'd love to have in in anywhere around the Gulf coast,
so I could go chase them somewhere.

Speaker 19 (01:13:09):
But.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
Not at the expense of native species, not at the
expense of populations that have endured here for thousands of years,
probably at least hundreds of years. I want I want
our native game taken care of. I want our native
white tails able to find the food they need and
not get run out of a place where there's food

(01:13:31):
by a bunch of pigs. There's just I don't even
I don't even want to look at pages two and
three and whatever. I'm kind of curious, but I'll do
it maybe during a break or something like that. There's
just when you start reading about how many things are here,
and especially if you get into the plants and the insects,
there are a lot of them here that just flat

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don't belong and are gonna and have the potential if
not corrected, if that's possible at all, But if we
don't do things to kind of keep at least keep
these populations in check, then we run the risk of
having entire ecosystems destroyed by animals that shouldn't even be here.

Speaker 14 (01:14:12):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:14:12):
Yeah, I'll take a break Rick.

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
When we come back, I'll start with you and then
I'll talk about golf a little bit. And I'm doing that.

Speaker 5 (01:14:20):
It's not my fault. It's all Melbourne's fault.

Speaker 7 (01:14:23):
Rick.

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
You think about that all the way through the break.

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Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
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Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
Here we go. Third and final out of the program
starts right now. Before I get into golf, I'm going
to take care of Rick and Dave, who have been
holding on a respective amounts of time.

Speaker 5 (01:14:51):
Start with Rick, go today, Rick, what's up buddy?

Speaker 9 (01:14:54):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:14:54):
Not much? How you doing?

Speaker 8 (01:14:56):
Im good?

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
Thank you?

Speaker 12 (01:14:58):
Yeah? I go by run a lot aronto Rick. But
we give me that monker when I used to call
it very good story behind it? Anyway? Do you forget
about our lovable fire ants?

Speaker 7 (01:15:12):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
I love fire ants, don't you.

Speaker 5 (01:15:14):
They're just.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
Right next to I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:15:18):
They came in from South America. That's the crate.

Speaker 5 (01:15:22):
Absolutely so.

Speaker 12 (01:15:24):
The I used to raise bees, I had about twenty
hives and I got wiped out by the hive beetle.
Oh God keep it under control. No matter how kept
that clean, I kept my my yard and the whole
the whole process. They still they'd get in there and
they running. Then they could smell like oranges, but you

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can't eat it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
I'm looking at the list of of invasive insects, and
in addition to the red imported fire ant, there are
rover ants.

Speaker 5 (01:15:57):
There are pharaoh ants.

Speaker 11 (01:15:59):
There are ghost dance and a strawberry ants.

Speaker 12 (01:16:03):
They didn't down there by Inia County.

Speaker 3 (01:16:06):
Man oh Man. A lot of things on this list
got the.

Speaker 12 (01:16:09):
Name from what I think his name is, Earl Strawberry,
but he's ex dominated and they were they were well
known before he named him. That was an eraser one. Yeah,
I guess I didn't know the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
It's just it's remarkable as the more I dig around
in here, the more the more things I'm seeing, you know,
and it's just incredible how many of these things we've
got out there. You go to the and I'll tell
you where. The list is really long. And this is
what I was talking about earlier, is invasive plants. That
list goes on for for days.

Speaker 5 (01:16:44):
There may be a.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
Hundred of them on here. And these are all things
that were imported, brought in, stuck to something brought in
illegally as something to sell, and now it's being grown.

Speaker 5 (01:16:59):
Oh yeah, all kinds of different, right, mm hmmm.

Speaker 12 (01:17:03):
You know, can I tell you something to live here?
You know, we were talking earlier about the fish take
one off, right, If I would, as much as I
love redfish, I would give a redfish for croker if
we could get the population of croker back.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
You know, honestly that that if you could get the
numbers right, if you can go just as many four
and five pound croaker out there as we Yeah, yeah,
because there's some recred eating fish.

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
They're so easy to catch.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
Might be funny.

Speaker 14 (01:17:39):
I don't know how.

Speaker 12 (01:17:40):
And the girlf crown, I don't know what happened to
Gulf crown.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
Yeah, well they I don't either, But the bottom line
is you don't hardly ever catch one anymore.

Speaker 12 (01:17:49):
Now I had the sand you know, the sand trout
are so small. I hadn't seen the sand trout over
twelve inches in over twenty years.

Speaker 6 (01:17:57):
Yeah, And the sand.

Speaker 3 (01:17:58):
Trout and the and the croakers both great little sport fish.
Pound for pound, they're tough. They really are like a
freight train. And you got a big spectal for out
and it's got no spots.

Speaker 12 (01:18:12):
As long as you're using croker as bait, I don't
think we're gonna get the populations up. And I have
hunds and talk about them making croker a sport fish.

Speaker 5 (01:18:21):
I don't think that's gonna happen. I don't see that happening.

Speaker 8 (01:18:23):
I know.

Speaker 12 (01:18:24):
I've said a lot of people who find the croker
an easy way to catch fish, But you can't keep
those large amounts of trap it anymore. And then I
don't know, maybe gas copied them, but.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
It would be easy enough. Yeah, there are other baits
you can use besides live crokers to catch three tracks.

Speaker 12 (01:18:43):
Absolutely, I know artificials that people will learn how to
use the artificial baits. I can't go fish. I can't
see anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:18:51):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:18:51):
One of the problems, one of the problems, though, Rick,
is the instant gratification age in which we live. They
don't want to stay out there and throw lures for
five hours to catch three fish. They want to go
out there and throw three krogers, catch their three.

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
Fish and go home.

Speaker 12 (01:19:07):
Yeah, well the three trout, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, using
croak or you catch the three trout and go home
and yeah, you people don't want to learn how to
catch fish.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
To feed them. That's okay.

Speaker 12 (01:19:21):
You have to do that to use you have with
floors any anytime you're fishing, you got to be fishing
with where's the fish saw?

Speaker 5 (01:19:30):
Well, that's that's a big part of it right there.

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
That's why the average fisherman still only catches one speckled
trout when they go chase him.

Speaker 5 (01:19:36):
Hey, I got to catch Dave. I want to get
with them as well.

Speaker 12 (01:19:39):
Thank you so much. It's been a while since a call.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
I welcome your call again anytime. Rick, Thank you man
than you bet. All right, let me go get Dave
up here. What's up, Dave?

Speaker 14 (01:19:53):
Good morning. This is Dave Williams. I'm re SIET Consulting.
We spoke about a year ago about flight of the
commercial shrimp industry. I want to give you an update
of what we've been doing to try helping. Most of
the problem why people are not getting the prices they

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need for the products to stay in business is associated
with people implying they're selling golf shrimp when they're not.
So we actually did a little bit of an expose
over the September beginning of September and we went to
the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in Morgan City, Louisiana, and

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we actually used our rapid genetic test, the right test
to find out what was actually being served at the
Shrimp and Petroleum Festival.

Speaker 5 (01:20:50):
Interesting, what'd you find?

Speaker 14 (01:20:51):
Only one in five vendors were actually serving golf shrimp.
The rest were selling imported shrimp.

Speaker 11 (01:20:58):
And this is eate.

Speaker 14 (01:21:00):
I think it's the eighty ninth celebration of the Shrimp
and Petroleum Fest. So I want to warn everybody out
there that if you think that you're eating golf shrimp
through everything that's displayed within the restaurant pretty much, you're
most probably not doing it.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
And explain explain why that's important, would you?

Speaker 14 (01:21:24):
It's very simple. Ten percent of the shrimps sold in
the United States is golf shrimp and is imports, so
it should be relatively easy to sell golf shrimp. Unfortunately,
what's happened is because golf shrimp gets caught during the
season and you have to build up inventry and stuff

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to sell it year round, restaurants and distributes don't really
want to handle it. So basically that the imported product
has gradually replaced the golf shrimp in the areas where
they would sold, and that was where we were getting
our premium for the product. It's interesting and now, like

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I say, if you go to Galveston or Keema, just
about most places and you sit overlooking the harbor and
you eat shrimp, you're almost certainly not getting there.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
Is there a similar issue with with grocery stores or no.

Speaker 14 (01:22:26):
Grocery stores have quite a lot stricter labeling. Restaurants through
use implication to sell the products. So if you have
if you have pictures of fishing boats and nets and
you're overlooking the harbor, you almost naturally assume you're getting.

Speaker 3 (01:22:48):
I can see their issue the restaurants. I can see
an issue, especially in the off season where they don't
want to have to have big freezers to hold on
to for law periods of time frozen shrimp that were
caught three months ago. That's that's a lot of expense
for them. It's much easier.

Speaker 14 (01:23:08):
But usually, yeah, it's easier to use. Imported golf shrimp
are a difficult product to produce and to sell, but
you know, if people want it, people the wholesalers and
the distributors will actually buy during the season, I'll hold
it for their customers. That was a traditional business model.

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So I can understand restaurants going for the easy option,
but I really want the coastal communities to survive. And
if you go to like Louisiana to do that, it
looks like a third world country because there's no window.
You know, we Seed Consulting, and if you go on

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to a website Seed Consulting, you can look at it.
But we've had national press now on the festival and
the we believe that we need to, you know, make
restaurants do the right thing. So if they are observing,
at least don't imply you are, you.

Speaker 5 (01:24:10):
Know, fair enough, I think so spell your spell. The
website for me.

Speaker 14 (01:24:15):
It's Seed Sea d Consulting, Okay, And we've been on news,
national news for the last week on this story, and
there's a full press release.

Speaker 6 (01:24:27):
If you want to read it, sure, I'll do that.

Speaker 14 (01:24:30):
I will once you you know, just just understand that
this is you know, there's nothing better than a commercial
fishing community to bring health and vitality to the coast.

Speaker 3 (01:24:45):
The next the next Gulf shrimp I eat will not
be my first Dave, I can guarantee.

Speaker 12 (01:24:50):
You that.

Speaker 14 (01:24:52):
You're you're you're one of You're one of the few.
I can tell you that. I would say I'm probably
fifty sixty percent of the people beliefs they've eaten golf
shrimp in the United States have never eaten.

Speaker 3 (01:25:04):
It's a very good point. I made the mistake one time,
one hundred years ago. I was in Cedar Rapids. Ioway,
it doesn't matter why, and I ordered a shrimp cocktail.
And this was before all this stuff was being flown.
I think they took it up there on by horse
and buggy. I don't know, but it was the toughest, nastiest,

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most rubbery thing I had ever eaten in my life.
It was horrible.

Speaker 5 (01:25:30):
And they were just so proud to bring this thing
to the table.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
And just as soon as I saw it and said, oh,
this isn't gonna be good, I'm not in Kansas anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:25:41):
Toto, Oh, it was horrible.

Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
Man.

Speaker 14 (01:25:44):
To me, the most important thing is consum must have
to be able to choose what they want to eat.
There was nothing wrong with the flavor and texture of
impulte trimp true. Yes, done so as golf shrimp.

Speaker 5 (01:25:57):
That's fair enough, fair.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Enough, thank you, Dave. Good point, good point across the board.
Know what you're buying, know what you're eating, and make it.
And as he pointed out very correctly, the taste is
still good. All of that surrounding the import shrimp is
still good. But goal shrimp or goal shrimp, and imports

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are imports. And there we could we could do days
on on the shrimp industry. Honestly, there's there's so much
behind the curtain of all that. But I'm glad he
brought that up, and go take a look at what
they do and and what's going on with all of that,
and it'll help invasive species. Import of shrimp are not
an invasive species. They're not bring being brought in here live.

(01:26:44):
But nonetheless they're they're different. All right, we gotta take
a little break here. I'll do that. Let's go ahead
and get this break out of the way, and then
I will get to the golf news that I have.

Speaker 9 (01:26:54):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at sports seven
ninety dot com. Now more Doug Bite.

Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
I let it go for just a second, nice little intro.
I was, what's the title this song? I can't remember that.
I couldn't get up.

Speaker 5 (01:27:29):
I'm winning yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah yeah, not me
at least with the lottery.

Speaker 3 (01:27:35):
Not yet. You know, I think I think it's safe
to say that the audience will know if either of
us ever wins the lottery, because within two weeks, I
wouldn't say right away, but within two weeks, one of
us wouldn't be here. Yeah, you had to be the
guy who won the lottery. That's about right, that's you know,
I'm so close to retirement. Well I've already passed retirement age.

(01:27:55):
But but I like what I do, so I don't
mind being here. I love the conversation, and I don't know,
I think I would miss it. I know I would
miss it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:03):
That's why. That's why I'm still here.

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
All right, Let's talk about golf for a little bit
very quickly. At Sanderson Farms over there at Jackson, the
Country Club of Jackson in Mississippi, there is a PGA
Tour kind of a fall series event going on, and
there's just so much there's not a whole lot of
household names over there, to be honest, there just aren't

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and you wouldn't expect it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:28):
You're not going to see Roy McElroy. You're not going
to see Scotty Scheffler.

Speaker 3 (01:28:31):
They are all all buttoned up for next year, and
they're making their schedules and having fun with their families
all the way through Christmas time probably, But these guys
are playing for their livelihoods. There is more pressure on
the field that's in that tournament than in any other

(01:28:51):
PGA Tour event. It especially the ones in which these
guys even get to play. Some of them don't get
to play in a lot of the bigger events during
the year because they're not up there. They're trying to
get their cards. They're trying they're playing for sponsorships and
exemptions and all sorts of things that in the long
run are really almost as important as winning this tournament specifically,

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or at least finish in top ten or twenty.

Speaker 5 (01:29:19):
And they're really very good at what they do.

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
Case in point, David Skins, because this is a guy
from Great Britain. I want to say he's close to
forty years old. He shot sixty on Thursday, par seventy two.
He shoots twelve under par okay, and he is currently
tied for third with two other guys. Because Bo Hostler

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went sixty five sixty four, and Daniel Berger went sixty
five sixty five and kind of just boosted the guy
who shot sixty on Thursday, like, what have you done
for me lately? Well, unfortunately for Skins lately. On Friday
was a seventy one. So they've got a lot of

(01:30:06):
catching up to do down there. They've got a lot
of golf still to play, and hopefully they'll get it
all done. Thirty six more holes, thirty six thirty six
more holes, he said, without slobbering all over himself, and
not a whole lot of weirdness in the weather expected
over there, So they'll they'll get it done, and I

(01:30:27):
would love to see Skins win it. I really would
that guy. He works, he works hard, and he's he
is not exactly a young pup on that tour. And
he's also when you turn around the flip side, he's
got a long ways to go before he can ever
jump over to the to the senior side of it.
More power to him. I won't read any more names
from there because I want to talk about Holy cow.

(01:30:49):
It's a good thing too, because there's about a dozen
guys that seems like at twelve under par man oh man,
all right, So moving on, I am I'm very happy
to say tomorrow morning. Actually, I'm gonna go I'm gonna
skip to tomorrow and then we'll come back and you'll
understand why. Tomorrow morning, at nine about this same time,
well thirty minutes before now, twenty three hours and thirty

(01:31:11):
minutes from now, I'm gonna interview Billy Brown. He's the
guy who owns and operates a big easy ranch out there,
just a little ways north of Columbus, just a short
hop north of Columbus and a couple of miles back
east of there. And he bought the place originally as
a big game hunting ranch on which he was entertaining

(01:31:32):
clients in the business he was in.

Speaker 5 (01:31:35):
And then that has morphed into.

Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
A property on which there is one of the best
golf courses in Texas. And there's a couple of them
around here. I think, yeah, you're gonna be hearing more
from me about this too. But anyway, I got an
imitation to go play up there yesterday on the Covey
is the name the name of the eighteen hole course there.
And there were only eight of us involved in this,

(01:32:01):
and two of them were employees. Well, the owner Billy
and his pro Casey had pro casey and there were well,
like I said, two foursomes of us. I had the
opportunity to drive the cart and play alongside Chet Williams,
the man who actually designed that course, and I picked
his brain a little bit, and I'm gonna I'm gonna

(01:32:23):
wait until I can gather up a specific list of
questions I want to ask him about some of the
courses he's put together, because he's put together some of
the best in Texas, some of the in fact in
some of the best.

Speaker 5 (01:32:36):
In the hole on the planet.

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
Really. Chet Williams also did Whispering Pines, which you've I'm
sure heard about, Dallas Athletic Club, Royal Oaks Country Club
up there in Dallas, not the one here, Traditions Club
at Texas, A and M, and just a whole lot
more amazing pieces of golf architecture. And it's really interesting

(01:32:57):
to drive around and ride around with the guy who
put the course. He's actually a pretty good.

Speaker 5 (01:33:02):
Player too, by the way.

Speaker 3 (01:33:03):
Don't don't let him fool you for a minute into
thinking that he's just so busy designing golf courses that
he doesn't know how to play him, and that I
think even qualifies him more so. And I did ask
him straight up, I said, what's the deal with all
these humps and weird bumps and all these greens, man,
because they're hard to read? And he said, well, I said,
do you go in there when you're building a hole?

(01:33:26):
Do you go in with any preconceived notion about how
the green is going to be created and what it's
going to look like? He said, no, not really. I
just I just kind of go with the flow as
as the whole comes together, and just put it together,
put the green complex together.

Speaker 5 (01:33:43):
Just however I feel like it. And what a what
a wonderful opportunity.

Speaker 3 (01:33:48):
If it were me building a course for myself, every
green would be would be pretty big, but not too big.
It'd be flat as a pain. It'd be like a
pool table, every one of them. So I could make
some putts. The thing that strikes me about big easy.
And it's the first real test I've had this way.
And I think I got another one coming up a
little later in the month. But this one has always

(01:34:11):
been a test for me to either decide to believe
or not believe in gravity, because if you take flatland,
flat land, typical golf course around Houston. Mindset into a
place where there are rolling hills everywhere. You will swear

(01:34:33):
at least fifteen times during that round that your putt
broke uphill. It didn't, but you won't believe it didn't.
You'll believe it broke straight uphill. That happened to me
a couple of times yesterday, and took it took me
a good twelve or thirteen holes to kind of halfway
figure out how to read these greens and how to

(01:34:55):
trust the way the slopes work. Anyway, it was a
fantastic day.

Speaker 5 (01:35:00):
Was Art Strickland was there, Mike Bailey was there.

Speaker 8 (01:35:04):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
They were just really good group. We had a really
good group, and it was it was an honor for me.
I think, I don't know why Billy let me drive
him around, drive chat around, but I was. I felt
like I had royalty, Like I was driving around the
King of golf design. He certainly would be in the

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top ten that I can think of, based on the
courses he's put together.

Speaker 5 (01:35:28):
And I just sat and listened a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:35:31):
I sat and listened, and I asked a few questions,
and I'm gonna get chat on the air here again.

Speaker 5 (01:35:36):
I've had him on once.

Speaker 3 (01:35:38):
I'll get him on again pretty soon and then dig
into the mind of a golf course designer and see
maybe what's coming next in golf course design. It's gonna be.

Speaker 5 (01:35:49):
We had a great time yesterday. I did try to fish.

Speaker 3 (01:35:52):
I tried. I fished both before and after the round.
Uh both times a little later in the day in
the morning, a little earlier in the day in the evening.
Then I probably should have been on this lake. And
I tried to force feed them some lures that they
really didn't want. And so far I am like the
double bogeie king of fishing at Big Easy Ranch. I

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know there are fish in there, I've seen pictures, I've
heard stories, but I can't make them bite yet. And
hopefully Billy'll and bite me up there some other time.
I may have to ask. I'll ask him point blank tomorrow.
I won't even bring golf clubs. I won't even I
won't mess up your golf course at all. I just
want to catch one of your fish. I'll come in,
I'll catch one fish, and I'll leave if I have

(01:36:36):
to beautiful play though, and we'll talk more about that
He's just finished something called the Eagles Nest, which is
I believe unique really to golf course architecture around around anywhere,
and it is a beautiful addition to the facility. It's
a turnhouse, but that turnhouse is totally unique. I'll talk

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more about it. I'm gonna put a picture up at
Facebook actually after the show, and you'll get an idea
of the view from up there.

Speaker 5 (01:37:07):
And it is one heck of a view.

Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
It's on the tallest piece of property or tallest piece
of that property, and in one direction you can see
twelve miles something like that. It's just it's beautiful. It
overlooks a lot of the golf course, it overlooks a
lot of the ranch, and then you can see for
miles beyond that. It's up there, high enough there it is.

(01:37:29):
All right, we got to take a break.

Speaker 9 (01:37:33):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, facefoom dot com, slash
sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:37:39):
Back to the Doug Pike Show. All right, welcome back,
thanks for listening Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
I got a couple of emails. I'll go through here
real quick. Waco, Oh wow, yeah, uh Alan Wade in
when I used to teach at Ridgewood Country Club in Waco.
Our greens broke to Lake Waco, uphill side hill, et cetera. Yeah,

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it gets really really wonky if you grow up at sea.

Speaker 5 (01:38:08):
Level like I did.

Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
And even the little undulations in greens can they're easy
enough to read if you if you're on flat ground,
it's easy enough to read the greens because the slopes
are are true. But when you're on hilly ground already,
you have to And we had a we had a
fore Caddy with us yesterday at Big Easy on the

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on the Coby, and you have to just.

Speaker 5 (01:38:36):
Be reminded all the way around. And he did a
good job of it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:39):
Matt did, uh that everything is going to want to
go the way the land is sloping, even if it
doesn't look like that's the way it's going. That's the
weird creepy part because you you look at a putt
and you think, okay, this has to break left to right,
But then Matt would say, no, no, no, look at

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the way the land's going going right to left. The
way the land goes the overall tilt one side of
the hole is going to be way higher than the
other side. Not way higher, but higher under these situations,
and ninety nine times out of one hundred that putt
is going to respect that overall break, and it'll just

(01:39:20):
drive you nuts until you figure it out.

Speaker 5 (01:39:22):
It'll just drive you nuts.

Speaker 3 (01:39:25):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety email
on me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah a lot.

Speaker 19 (01:39:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:39:34):
He was talking about going down and playing Mad Creek.
I haven't played there in years, but I loved it.
I used to go out there fairly regularly. Or really did,
I really did. That's a beautiful track. Who else did
I want to talk about? That's good, that's good. We're
okay there. Yeah, I can kind of lean back into this.

(01:39:54):
I've been wanting to play the Texas Temperature game. Don't
think I've forgotten about it, and I do have some
nice prizes to get boy, But I'm waiting, I told
Melvin during the break, I'm waiting until there are some
some legitimate surprises, maybe in the weather forecast and in
the weather pattern.

Speaker 5 (01:40:12):
Right now, it's pretty boring. I'll tell you right now.

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
The low I mean, I'll refresh it just to be
sure it's one hundred percent current it's just not Yeah,
the low's fifty nine and has been most of the morning,
and that's way up in the Panhandle. It's still fifty
nine degrees, which is cool but not cold. And then
down south, actually it's going to be up higher. I think,
where is it, Holy Cow? It's eighty two degrees right

(01:40:39):
now in at Faith Ranch wherever that is. I'm not sure.
Eighty one degrees at Catula. More people know where that
is than where Faith Faith Ranch is kind of over
almost to the Rio Grande, but well inland from the coast.
It's way up there down in like Port Isabel and
Harling and all that. Seventy five seventy seven, pretty dog

(01:41:01):
one nice morning to wake up down there in South Texas.
Sixties in the hill country, little seventies. Actually, that's kind
of where the cool and warm line goes. One side
of the line sixty four, the other side of the
line seventy nine, kind of right through the middle of
the hill country.

Speaker 5 (01:41:20):
A lot of stuff going on.

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
As soon as I get a good hard northern rolling
just barely into North Texas where I can catch something
maybe at freezing or below, to fool somebody. Hopefully we'll
go back to the Texas Temperature game. But I don't
want to make it boring. It's already a boring enough game.
One more quick note about golf too. I was thinking

(01:41:41):
about this yesterday. Golf has evolved on the drive home,
and golf is evolving. I was looking at the scores
also last night again to kind of confirm what I
was thinking about, the scores at Sanderson Farms and the
guys who are playing, and how close all these scores are.

(01:42:02):
It's because golf has really evolved into a game. You
used to have to play for years and years to
develop a real feel for how to swing your golf
clubs just so to make the ball do something just
the way you wanted it to do.

Speaker 5 (01:42:19):
And it took a lot of trial and error.

Speaker 3 (01:42:22):
We didn't have the technology, none of this technology that
we have now where you can instantly see your club
head path, where you can instantly see the speed of
your club head, the impacts of the ball speed coming
off the clubhead, you can see the ball flight. All
of this you can see at a glance within a

(01:42:43):
second or two after you make that swing. You don't
have to make a hundred swings to figure out which
one you like the best and try to remember which
one got you the best result. You just look at
all the technology and you find your disbursement pattern, and
you find you're all of these different things that can

(01:43:05):
make you better, so faster, so much faster. It skips.
What it does is it skips a few steps on
the way to being competitive for the people who want
to be truly competitive in golf. It's a little robotic, honestly,
and the swings on tour event driving ranges reflect that.

Speaker 19 (01:43:25):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:43:25):
It was said a long time ago that the best,
some of the best golfers and the best people who
covered golf could be one hundred could be at the
other end of the range, three hundred yards away and
look to the swings being made that far away and say, Okay,
that's that's Nicholas, that's Palmer, that's Trevino, that's whoever, any

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of the better players of those days. Without having to
really get down there and see their faces, you could
tell by the swings. Now, the swings are so so
really so similar that you really can't tell unless you
can see who it is a little bit robotic. Still.

(01:44:07):
It came of nerves too, and that's what's I think
that's the next thing that competitive golf is going to
have to kind of sort out, is how to keep people.
And that's why all these guys take not only swing coaches,
but just emotional coaches. They got to keep you grounded,
They got to keep you connected without losing your temper

(01:44:30):
or without being too calm, too antsy to anything too
anxious about your golf game, because nerves have kept a
lot of great players from winning even a single professional
event over the years. I think it's something like nine
thousand and something people have played I want to say

(01:44:51):
nine thousand and some odd people have played PGA Tour
golf over the years, and there's only a relative handful,
just like two or three hundred who have actually won
an event. So a lot of people go a long
time in professional golf even and never win, and can
make a good living at it and never win.

Speaker 5 (01:45:13):
But it's still it's becoming.

Speaker 3 (01:45:16):
A little bit easier to get good younger, and the
younger you get good, the younger you potentially can get
great at that game. I'm way too old to ever
get great at golf, but I still like playing. I
like it almost to a fault, and every chance I
get I know, Melvine, I see it.

Speaker 11 (01:45:38):
I see it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:38):
It's okay.

Speaker 5 (01:45:40):
Speaking of golf and fishing, two of my passions.

Speaker 9 (01:45:46):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety a Houston sports fan.
On air and on Facebook. They contact back to the
Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 5 (01:45:55):
Oh lord, I remember that song.

Speaker 3 (01:45:58):
They wouldn't stop playing it on the bloody radio for
about what ten years, seemed like. And now you have
to resurrect and dig it up right. Probably had that
one buried up man, pretty good, pretty deep. They used
to wear me out too with it. Oh and who
sung that thing? That's the Oakridge Boys. Oh yeah, yeah,
that's right. Yeah, No wonder it got played so much.

(01:46:21):
If it had been anybody else, they'd have probably just
thrown it off to the side. No, on and on
and on. By the way, before I get the mic
real quick, Chris waded in a good while back. It's
Sergeant Chris Now, I believe, maybe Lieutenant Chris by now,
I'm not sure. The bottom line is he reminded me earlier,
and I'll go back to it because it's so weird

(01:46:44):
and appropriate. The reason perhaps that there are so many
coyotes around now is because there are people in this
country who decided that they shouldn't be called coyotes anymore
because that's just too harsh and has a negative connotation.
Are you have you heard of what the the animal

(01:47:05):
rights people prefer that coyotes be called melbourne no, enlighten me?
Are you ready go for it? Song dogs, song dogs? Crickets?

Speaker 14 (01:47:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:47:21):
Yeah, no?

Speaker 5 (01:47:22):
Do they sing it all?

Speaker 6 (01:47:23):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:47:25):
All that okay, the yip it and the song, No,
it's coyote and it's yeah, it's kyo.

Speaker 3 (01:47:32):
Not really not really a happy thing to have around
a neighborhood full of little pets. Not a happy thing
if you have a good quail population on your place
and you'd like to keep it. There's a lot of
reasons not to have quail around. Let me go talk
to Mike though, before we run out of time. I
don't want to do that, Mike. What's up?

Speaker 8 (01:47:48):
Man?

Speaker 11 (01:47:50):
Hey there?

Speaker 19 (01:47:50):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (01:47:51):
I hear you?

Speaker 5 (01:47:51):
Great man?

Speaker 12 (01:47:53):
Great Hey?

Speaker 19 (01:47:53):
I went, does honey down there? McCaw And I go
once a year, Yeah, and I go three days and
I go down right on the border.

Speaker 12 (01:48:00):
Where the fence is.

Speaker 3 (01:48:02):
Wow.

Speaker 19 (01:48:02):
Normally I go to a place where you know, it's
fly by, there's no feed, but we still get our
limits every day, so many but you get a lot
of high flying white wings, you know, pep are shooting
left and right, and they're waiting too.

Speaker 3 (01:48:17):
Hot, you know.

Speaker 19 (01:48:17):
Yeah, so by the line, this time we go down
and this guy decided to let us hunt right next
to a milew field.

Speaker 3 (01:48:25):
Nobody are we going?

Speaker 19 (01:48:27):
My gosh, I've never been so discombobulated.

Speaker 10 (01:48:33):
Honey.

Speaker 19 (01:48:33):
I'm sitting there on one side where the trees are,
and they're coming over. And when they come over, they're
coming to groups of twenty thirty, forty.

Speaker 11 (01:48:41):
And coming right.

Speaker 19 (01:48:42):
I thought, with the trees are right, of course, And
I swear I'm okay control and.

Speaker 3 (01:48:51):
You're breaking up. Don't break up on me. Now you're
right in the middle of the best part. Stick your
head out the windows.

Speaker 11 (01:48:58):
You're behind them.

Speaker 19 (01:49:00):
You start shooting, and you're getting them and you're picking
up your first show. I want to lose them. And
you're getting feathers and blood all of your gun and
your bills. I swear, how was in a nirvana but
a nightmare?

Speaker 10 (01:49:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, it was just unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
It's really when when you finally get in a situation
like that, and I've been there before, you. You want
to keep going and you want to knock another one
down and another one down, and here comes another one
right at me.

Speaker 5 (01:49:26):
Holy cow?

Speaker 3 (01:49:26):
How can I not shoot that one right?

Speaker 11 (01:49:28):
Act you?

Speaker 5 (01:49:28):
But you gotta just one at a time, Go get.

Speaker 11 (01:49:31):
That one at a time.

Speaker 19 (01:49:32):
Yeah. Yeah, Because I was shooting with my safety on,
I was shooting with shelter in the girl that I
hadn't taken out.

Speaker 7 (01:49:40):
I've never done that.

Speaker 19 (01:49:42):
I thought, Man, you got put one shell in sho
don't even because I had lowdown.

Speaker 3 (01:49:47):
But it was great, really had a great It sounds
like holy cow, man, my my lows.

Speaker 5 (01:49:53):
That's boy, that's like crack cocaine.

Speaker 8 (01:49:55):
The doves it is, man, they.

Speaker 12 (01:49:57):
Were full of it.

Speaker 11 (01:49:58):
And I'm talking down since.

Speaker 3 (01:50:00):
We went it was just now you got my attention.
Also with those white wings up high, because there were
a lot of places around Katie that some friends and
I used to hunt that the birds were coming in,
oh well, higher than those big, big power line polls.

Speaker 5 (01:50:16):
If you know what I'm talking about, I'm sure you do.

Speaker 3 (01:50:19):
And we would just screw in a full choke and
lead them a little farther and we did very well.
Well you didn't, did you?

Speaker 12 (01:50:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:50:30):
Well, I didn't have to do. You're not this tower,
you kidding me?

Speaker 19 (01:50:34):
They're coming right in a head level. Sometimes sometimes they
would come in over the power lines coming back out
and they ship the power lines and die.

Speaker 5 (01:50:41):
Oh my god.

Speaker 12 (01:50:43):
Yeah, wow, it's amazing. It's just amazing.

Speaker 19 (01:50:48):
Well, good for you, mant I only get to go
once a year, but man, it.

Speaker 3 (01:50:52):
Was it was worth it. Thanks Mike, appreciate it, buddy.
All right, he needs to heat you just call back
and tell Melvin where he was hunting so that Melvin
and I can go down there and tip it off.
Holy cow, Yeah, there's been There have been many. There
were reports early in dove season places where it wasn't

(01:51:14):
any good and you boy, can't find a dove. We
don't know where they are, we don't know if they're
ever coming. But in the last couple of weeks, uh,
And I think a lot with that little northern that
we had through here not that long ago, it had
dumped some birds and then they're they're birds. Just wherever
there's food, they're gonna be doves. And I think the
doves have found the food and just like like Mike found, Uh,

(01:51:37):
if you're in the right place, it's it's frantic. You
have to be very careful for two reasons in a
situation like that. Number one, you don't want to lose birds.
But number two, you cannot afford to lose track of
where everybody is. Because when so many people are out
there shooting so many birds, and they're going to pick
up a bird, and they're they're leaning down and looking

(01:51:59):
in the brush, Hush, you can't take shots at low birds.
Keep it safe, have some fun. There's always gonna be
more dove hunts to come. But there you mess up once,
and it's a big mess. I'm not gonna go into
that's the end of the show. I want to make
sure everybody gets out of here on a good note.
It's beautiful weather outside, gonna be even better, starting to
starting to cool down a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:52:20):
Next week.

Speaker 3 (01:52:21):
I hope you can all get outside and have some
fun with your families. I'll be back here tomorrow morning.
At night, Melvin will too. I presume that's good and
we will see you. Then, get outside, have some fun
with your family. I don't care how you do it, fishing, golf, hunting, shooting, whatever,
just get outside and soak up a little sunshine.

Speaker 7 (01:52:40):
Sit for now.

Speaker 5 (01:52:41):
We'll see you tomorrow morning. Audios

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