The Doug Pike Show 8-25-2024

In this show Doug reminds us of hunting season and shares tips on hunting teal & dove birds. What are some of the things your most likely to forget when hunting? Doug, gives you a check list that you will gratetful for. Have you noticed the pattern, that everytime hunting season starts, it rains the day before? Doug and callers share their stories about this phenomenon. Texas license, fishing limits, croaker fish, tarpon fish, and bait selection, plus a interview with Capt. Scott Null on everythings fishing. Doug covers it all be sure to tune in and get updated on all of the scope outdoors related.

Episode Transcript

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. All right, here we go. Sunday
edition of the program starts right now.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
For the next probably five ten minutes, I don't know
an hour, I'm going to be deleting new word documents
that showed up on my screen as I walked over here.
I had the laptop was folded up, I had the
keyboard on top of that, and for some reason wherever
the palm of my hand was hitting that keyboard, which,

(00:41):
if I'm.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Smart now, there's not even a way to turn this
thing off.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
I'm just gonna have to carry it over all by
itself henceforth throughout the land. Because what I have been
doing for the past ten minutes, when I wasn't actually
accidentally taking a big slug of what turned out to
be almost ice cold coffee out of yesterday's pot, I've
just been sitting here delete, don't save, delete, don't save, delete,

(01:07):
don't save, and every now and then it'll give me
a couple of them where I don't have to actually
push to op. Nope, there's another don't save. Let's don't
worry about that though. Six days now to opening day
of the twenty twenty four fall hunting season. If you
are not ready yet, there's a pretty good chance you
might forget something on the way out the door on

(01:29):
the first of September. Fair to good chance you could forget,
which wouldn't bode well for you, no matter what it
is you forget, And there are all kinds of things
you can forget going hunting. First of all, by now
you should have not only cleaned your guns, because they
have been sitting up in the safe or wherever else

(01:52):
you keep them, under the bed at the front door.
I don't know where you keep your guns, but if
they've just been sitting there that whole time. And by
the way, it's worth noting that none of our guns
have committed a crime since last year. The guns don't

(02:12):
do that, and a lot of people don't understand that,
but that is the truth. The guns don't do it.
So your gun's been sitting up just mining its own business,
not hurting anybody, not doing anything, not knocking down deer accidentally, nothing,
just been sitting there and they need to be dusted off.
Wiped down, cleaned out, and made made effective and efficient

(02:37):
again and brought back to life. And you also need
to go shoot them if you haven't done that yet.
And I'm guilty of not getting out to the range
as much as I would love to. It's really something
that is on my mind more than it should be,
because I should be doing more shooting than I am.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
But I'm getting there.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
I'm getting there, and I'm trying to trying to pull
in the reins on my son a little bit so
that he and I can go to the range together.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
He's starting to make plans.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
He's at the age now where he wants to make
plans to go shoot with his buddies. And I don't
distrust any of them. I feel like they're all capable
of going to the range, having a good time and
then coming home safely. But I'd still like to shoot
with him a little bit more off, kind of like
playing golf.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
He's got his buddy Hugh.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
He went and played golf yesterday way up on the
north side of town, way up on the north side,
and he went up and played because one of his
friend's dads had a certificate that he had earned it
or won at a golf tournament up at this particular place,
two free rounds within a year whatever, and it was

(03:47):
about to expire, So off they went to play golf
in the heat and the.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Big time afternoon.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
He actually played well too, by the way, I was
pleased to hear the score he shot. And he's way
past trying to lie to me about golf scores because
he knows I can figure it out. I can tell
by the way he talks whether he just when I
just ask him how he played. If he says he
played okay, that means it wasn't all that good.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
He said he.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Played pretty good, that means he shot a very good score.
He likes to kind of hold his cards close. That's
all right. Back to the hunting, the opening of hunting
seasons this weekend. By the way, this coming weekend, you're
gonna need to make a checklist, okay, And that's one
thing I am good about.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Days in advance.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
I start a checklist, and where I leave it is
on the ottoman in front of the big chair in
which I watch television. And when I'm plopped down there
watching an Astros game or whatever it might be, I'm
also thinking about opening day thinking about my next hunting
or fishing trip, whatever it is, and making notes and

(05:00):
written notes that I can refer to. Those of you
who are a bit younger, you can start a little
I don't know, however, wherever you want to put it
on your phone. I'm sure there's a notepad on my phone.
I wouldn't know where to find it on a bet
right now. That's why I have pens and paper around
the house, and I'll just start. Okay, gun shells, camo
insect repellent. If you forget insect repellent between now and December,

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you're going to be very very sorry you did. And
you're going to hang out with somebody who has a
little bit extra. And that goes doubly for the opening
of teal season when that comes down a couple of
weeks after dove season, same as it. I believe it's
the same if my memory serves as the opener of
South Zone doves, So there could be some combo hunts made.

(05:46):
Just be careful if you're going to do a combo
teal and dove hunt, be careful that you pack two
different shell bags, because if you got doveloads in your
teal bag, that could be troublesome for you.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
That could be troublesome. You can't shoot lead, shot it tail.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
One of the most often missed, most often forgotten items
that I've come across is something too something to protect
your head.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Just put a cap on.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
I've seen guys get all the way to the field
and then start rummaging through their truck.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
What'd you forget? Man? I forgot a cap? Really?

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (06:28):
You know, I don't wear them around the house or anything.
So I just jumped in my truck and got my gun,
got my shells, got my bag.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Oh that's not gonna be good.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
That's gonna hurt your head after about three or four
hours of sunshine on it. That in sunglasses, protective glasses,
wear shooting glasses. That's I I've just said, no, I'm
not gonna wear sunglasses that much anymore.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm gonna go ahead and wear real shooting glasses.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Wear a cap that keeps the sun out of my face,
so I don't have to worry too much about that
part of it.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
And the sunglasses.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
The shooting glasses, if you put the right lens in
on the right day, under the right conditions, will greatly
enhance your chances of hitting that bird, because it'll make
that bird stand out like a like an apple in
a snowfield. You got a chance to knock them down,
you better take every chance you can get. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety Email me, Doug

(07:22):
Pikey iHeartMedia dot Com.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Melvin.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
We've established your your fishing experience and we're gonna take
care of that. What though, is your hunting experience, if any.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
That would be zero zero. Yes.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Have you ever thought about it or ever considered doing it?
Or do you have an opinion on it one way
or the other?

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (07:44):
I I really wanted to go out with my grandfather, yeah,
to go hunt.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
But I was the cleaner.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh oh, well you were young then, weren't you.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
So when they went out and got the rabbits and uh,
squirrels and everything else that they went and hunt, I
was the cleaner.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I had to skin them. Uugh, do you got them?
They got to do the fun stuff.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
You know what though, that was? That was that was
the right job for you at the time. How young
were you then?

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Pretty young?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
I was about six or seven. Yeah, you didn't need
to be toting a gun through the woods. That's a
little early for just walking, especially rabbit and squirrel hunting,
you know, but there's some quick opportunities and at six
or seven, just sit back and just wait and watch
and let them have that fun and then get that
knife out.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Sharpen it up and get after it. Manute. Yeah, that
was my job.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
Make sure the knife was sharp, and don't cut yourself
whatever you do.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, you know, it's easier to cut yourself with a
dull knife than a sharp knife too.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Anybody who knows anything about knives will tell you about that.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Because the sharp knife is gonna without with very little pressure,
is gonna do the job it's intended to do. The
dull knife, you're gonna have to push a little harder maybe,
And once you do that, then things start going south.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
You ever cut yourself with a knife? Oh yes, a
million times. Yeah, you and me both. I thought I
was going to need a turnic it.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
One day I came home with when my son was
very young, and we had gone somewhere and caught rainbow
trout and he wanted to bring one home and eat it.
He really did, And like, okay, we'll bring one home
and eat it when we get home.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's almost dark, and he.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Goes walking into the house with that fish and he
shows it to my wife, and her reaction was typical
of a city girl. She said, take that out of
the house. Look, okay, first we're going to take it
out of the house. That's fine, we can do that.
The next thing we had to do was get it cleaned.
And I wasn't about to make him clean it because

(09:47):
I just didn't think that was a good idea. I
really didn't think that was a good idea. Oh, I've
got to get this screen fixed in here. I can't
mel but I can't move you out from in front
of the cawscreen, so I can't see who's there that
would uh te him up. Yeah, I can't see him.

(10:09):
We'll get that during the break. Rick by Hey, Rick,
what's up?

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Man?

Speaker 7 (10:14):
It's a dumb season.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Buck almost almost.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
I saw your email yesterday where you kind of gave
me an update where yeah, there actually are some showing up,
so that's good.

Speaker 7 (10:26):
Well, yeah, I guess if that's the way you interpret it,
i'll take you. But I'm out here right now watching
my guy when he's we're knocking down my What is
this guy doing?

Speaker 8 (10:45):
What's he knocking down our goat weedt oh Okay, he's
knocking down my.

Speaker 7 (10:48):
Goat weed on my honey hope. I got a thirty
two acre patch I've had for years. I've dugle me
a duck flat so we duck on on it. But
it's also water and it is just solid.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Croating.

Speaker 7 (11:02):
I mean, it just really is. But but I am
gonna make I am gonna go ahead and explain it.
I have not seen a bird oh wow yet.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (11:13):
Keep in mind in my travels, and you know who
I am, militariz, I ain't seeing nothing. But anyway, uh,
that where you're remember you got to remember on your checklist.
I'm all with you, man, I'll check that list off
for six weeks. And I'm not I don't. I don't

(11:36):
dislike the does no more. Everybody's gonna give me theirs
when they clean them anyway, probably and or give them
to me to clean and not keep them. I don't
clean them unless I keep them. But the thing is,
you know, we're gonna get about three or four inches
of rain a day or two or three before deer season,

(11:58):
I mean four season. That's just that's just tradition.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
In his tradition.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
That's the word I was thinking of, Exactly, something's going
to happen, something in the weather's gonna go squirrely moving
around a little bit.

Speaker 7 (12:09):
Well, I got I'll close with some good news.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Okay, I could use some good news.

Speaker 7 (12:15):
Is I'm looking at a temp I'm not that far
from you. Okay, I can't give away where I'm at, Okay,
stop secret, But I'm looking at a temperature of seventy
one three.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, I noticed that when I walked out of the
house this morning, Rick. It was not it was not
stifling hot. It really wasn't. Now I'm with you. Yeah,
it wasn't seventy one, but I bet it was maybe
like eighty eighty one if that. And it was a
it was a welcome relief from what it's.

Speaker 7 (12:44):
Been when the sun burly just I mean, you could
just barely see the top of crest of the sun
this morning. It was seventy and right now I'm looking
at me, won but I know here shortly it's gonna
be a little.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Give it a minute.

Speaker 7 (13:07):
My whole point is, hey, you know, the the uh,
the fall feeling is starting to kind of move up
on us, mate, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, of course it is. It's that time of year.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
We can't we can't help but get fall here at
some point.

Speaker 7 (13:23):
Well, okay, man, have a good one and I'll talk
to you later.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, yeah, thanks Rick.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
You know, he and I are on the same page
on all this weather stuff. Everybody bemoans the heat of summer,
and then we'll blink and it'll be there'll be something
else floating around out in the tropics. And then we'll
blink again and it'll be Halloween, and it'll be hot
or cold on Halloween. We don't know. Well, it won't
be cold here. It might be cool, but it won't

(13:50):
be cold. That's that's for Minnesota halloweeners. They might get
a snowstorm on Halloween.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Who knows.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, if that, if that, God, Lee, You're you're an optimist.
I just I just at some point I wouldn't mind
having to thinking twice about going ahead and putting on
long sleeves, you know, or wearing long pants.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
You know.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
I have a I have a pea coat, yeah, and
I have a trench coat ever since I've been here.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
You're an optimist.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
Well, I've been living down south all my life. Yeah, okay,
but the most I've ever had to wear was a sweater. Yeah,
it's about it.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
Now.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
There have been times you follow me around when I
was back in back in the day, when I was
guiding out on that prairie. That was some of the
most miserable cold because it was a it was a
damp cold. You're always around rice fields and muddy this
and swampy that, and man, when that cold wind starts
blowing over that water, holy cow, it can It could

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be miserable out there, and or it'd be a really
cold day and you didn't want to wear waiters because
they get so hot, so you just wear hip boots
and you make sure you're in just the right spot
where you're not gonna get wet when you're moving around
out there doing the guide thing, and then you roll
over real quick because you hear some birds coming up
behind you or whatever, and your whole hip from the

(15:13):
from the kneecap up to the up to your belt
line just gets soaked and the wind's blowing on it,
and it's forty degrees thirty eight whatever.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
It was just miserable. By way, I fixed this screen
in here.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
I'm a big boy now, Melvin, I'm I'm going to
be a tech guru here in the next couple of years.
I got an email this morning from a fellaw who
was listening to fifty plus Day Boy. I guess Friday probably,
or maybe or Saturday someday, either Thursday or Friday. I
think Will ran the same segment about it for seniors,

(15:49):
and he said, look.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
I'm fifty something. I think he's fifty something right.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Now, and he's been in it for years, and he
left his last job and he can't find another job
in it.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Just he knows it. You know it. I know it.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Just because he's too old, we won't hire him. But
he knows more than half the people in the offices.
I would I would believe if he told me that,
he's probably wiser and more experienced in it than some
of the people who are thinking about hiring him.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
And he can't find it.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
So I'm gonna I'm gonna work on that for fifty
plus seven on three two one two five seven ninety.
I'm running late right now. I didn't realize. It's sorry, Melbourne.
We're gonna take a little break here. When we get back, Roy,
you're up, I fix the screen in here, Melbourn. How
about that you'll be up first when we get back.
I know, man, Holy cow.

Speaker 8 (16:39):
Shoot, this is Sports Talk seven ninety, Breaking sports news
on Facebook twenty four to seven.

Speaker 6 (16:46):
We'll get that information to them.

Speaker 9 (16:48):
This is the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Hey twenty two on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Get up some cheap sun blasses.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Oh that's that's cool for driving around, but don't do
it for hunting. Okay, no cheap sunglasses out there hunting.
You're just asking for a problem. Let me go get
Roy kicked up here.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
What's up?

Speaker 7 (17:10):
Roy?

Speaker 6 (17:11):
Good morning? How you guys doing.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
I'm doing great?

Speaker 7 (17:14):
Thank you man out standing?

Speaker 10 (17:16):
Kay didn't talk about dove season coming up, and everything's
changing for the year. Of course, our hunting and Fision
license about to expire. And you know, always fancy myself
a somebody that keeps up with regulations because I fish
a lot. Get out there. It's no defense when you
come up with a game board. And I love what
they've done with trout with three trout and limit because
I think that's plenty and one thing. And I got

(17:39):
completely caught off guard yesterday. I went and got my
new license and they issued it and came out about
a foot and a half longer this time because it
has with trout tag.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, I don't know why they felt like they had
to make that speckled trout pard the same length as
the trout you're trying to catch.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, ok, yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. And I was caught off.

Speaker 10 (17:59):
Guard by so I think, go back home and research it,
you know currently right now, so you keep a drive
to day over thirty inches if you're just, if you're
just unlike me, I've been fished my whole life, and
I've never caught the thirty inch trout. Even if I did,
I would take a picture of it weighing on my
buger gripped amount, and I have a I have a replicabate.
I would turn it loose. But I was curious what

(18:20):
your thoughts were on by limiting that, and hopefully not
too many people who use tags on fish that big
that you know, for instance, like when we go out
redfish and we've been at three fish for a long
time now that it's and it's so common now to
catch a red fish between twenty eight thirty.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
I don't catch one.

Speaker 10 (18:37):
Every single trip, but you know, I catch one every two,
three or four trips, you know, turn it loose or
having a measure, and you know, make sure I'm not uh,
you know, taking one without putting a tag on it.
But you just wonder what your thoughts were about what
that's going to do to the trophy trout population over
a period of time. Do you see it having the

(18:58):
same impact as it's done on read is because they've
just absolutely flourished.

Speaker 6 (19:02):
Yeah, I think I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Okay, all right, thank you, Roy, I appreciate it. It's
a great question, first of all, on that on that
license deal, Holy cow man, from what I've heard, and
I'm gonna go buy mine, I think today. I haven't
done it yet. I just keep putting it off. Uh,
but I'm gonna go do that today. And from what
I hear, it looks like a receipt from CBS. The

(19:26):
next thing, you know, there'll be ads on the back
of it, or there'll be coupons for something else, and
it I don't I don't think that was necessary.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
I don't know how the printing process works for those,
but it sure seems like a waste of paper to
have a tag for one fish take up all that room.
But that's that's what they're doing now, and that's fine.
That's not my problem as far as how it'll work
for for the fish. I just finished a piece and
send it off yesterday to Saltwater Sportsman. Uh but the

(19:57):
focus in that piece was on croker fishing. But it
brings up a good point with the limit down to
three now, and to summarize about an eight hundred word piece,
I think what the Parks of Wileyfe has done with
going to three at fifteen to twenty with one tag
for a fish that you probably won't ever catch because

(20:19):
at thirty inch trout are.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Still pretty rare.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Maybe you won't catch one in the next two or
three years, but after two years, I would say, with
as many fish twenty one, twenty three, twenty five, six, seven, eight,
as many of those as are going to be released
by people who follow the law in the next couple
of years, it's not going to take long before we

(20:43):
see a significant number of really big trout in this fishery,
provided we dodge you know what's in winter.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
I'm not even going to say the word.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
As long as the weather cooperates, as long as there's
no catastrophic statewide spill of some chemical that kills fish.
We're looking at a pretty good trout fishery for many,
many years to come because we're protecting a whole lot
of really prolific spawners, and we're given every one of

(21:14):
those fish that spawned at least one chance to do
it again as they grow up. And then the record
book stays open by allowing us to keep one fish
longer than thirty inches, and that's.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
You're going to have to use that tag. And when
it's done, it's done.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
So unless it's a state record, do what you're going
to do, Ellen, and take a picture of the thing
and throw it back. For heaven's sakes, just toss it back.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
I think what what parks.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Whiley finally did with three fish statewide is just determined
they were going to go full in on proactive rather
than reactive to spills, because for a lot of years
they just kind of hum along. At ten fish or
even back when I started fishing for speckl trwel, you
could just load a chest with them, you could load

(22:04):
the boat with him if you wanted to. And then
limits came around, and then they got stricter and stricter,
but usually in reaction to something more than in proaction
toward towards staving off some sort of a problem. The
freezes of eighty three and eighty nine, there have been
several of them, none of which has done this fishery,

(22:26):
and he favors some more devastating than others.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
But anything that.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Kills those fish leaves us in catch up mode up
until the limit was put at three, and I think
the limit at three it allows for expansion of the fishery.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
It allows for.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
People to take some feet some fish home to eat
if they want to. And I really do feel like
suddenly we're letting twenty one twenty three fish. They have
to be put back in the water, and that gives
them a way better chance, say, get into twenty six
or twenty seven, than it did to make them part
of a bag limit. So I'm thrilled with it, I

(23:07):
really am. I think it's going to be wonderful for
our trout fishery. We are so far ahead of the
curve now now that this is being done, and that
the best news I think is that the boots on
the ground numbers and fishery.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
The trout population now.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
According to most of the guides I talked to, anyway,
you know, like dog gone. We actually I think we
had more than they counted. That's what I'm hearing. I
think we came out of this last little freeze deal
with more fish than maybe even the parks and Wilafe
people thought they had and thought we had because they're
our fish, all of ours. So when you combine that

(23:50):
with stricter limits that keep us from taking too many
fish out. Because there are some people who are really good,
especially with the croakers, that's kind of how this came up.
There are still some guides on the Texas coast who
are booking two trips, and I've heard that there are
some who even book three and guarantee limits because they
know where those fish are going to be in the summertime.

(24:12):
This is a summertime deal. It's not year round that
this happens. When in the summer they know where those
fish are gonna be, and they know that they're gonna
eat those live crokers, and so they guarantee a limit.
You're gonna stay till you get your limit, and it
usually only takes an hour and a half two hours,
take them in, drop them off, pick some more guys up,
go out and do it. Again, and I would really

(24:34):
rather that not go on, But I don't know that
it would be I don't know. I'd have a tough
time telling somebody they can't make a living and they
don't get the opportunity to make a better living. But somehow,
some way, I do think this is going to be.
This is going to be a long term limit. And

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the one thing that we've got to be thankful for
three fish or no. Three one of the things that
Parks and Wallafe Department continues to avoid as best it can.
Now they had to do a little, a very brief closure.
I think it's six weeks with flounder. But they've never
shut down speckled trout for any period of time, not
during the spawn, not so they can go on vacation somewhere, whatever,

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They just we are allowed to go catch those fish
year round. And that's something fishermen in a lot of
good states with a lot of good fish don't get.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yes, the limit on the fish is that just for
red fish, trout, the three So they all have different limits, Okay,
all have different Yeah, some fish.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
You can keep one, some you can keep three, Some
you can keep a bucket full. Yeah, they're all different
based on how the species is doing at the time.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Got you some fish you can keep two dozen of?

Speaker 6 (25:52):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, Well they're also very prolific fish. So they keep
they keep showing up, and we keep catching them. Back
when when I was at the paper kind of early,
and I know we're late for a break, but I'll
just let you know this, there was a time when
there was no limit on white bass in the lakes
of Texas, and especially around Lake Livingston, which is a
tremendous white bass lake.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
There were people who routinely would go.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Out there and get snockered and come back to the
cleaning table, come back to the dock with two three
hundred white bass, and after they'd been in the sun
all day, and after they were really kind of tired
out and just, oh my god, who's going to clean
all these fish? And they'd look at each other, crack

(26:37):
another beer and say not us, and they'd throw them
in a dumpster. And what a waste? You know, Well, yeah, yeah,
what a waste? Yeah, it really is. And so that's
been remedied some with some regulation on them, and anybody
who gets caught throwing away any perfectly good resource in
Texas is subject to fines and civil restitution and all

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kinds of wonderful things like that to discourage that activity.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Good heavens, let's get to this break, shall we? We
want come back.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
By the way, I'm gonna let you know what's going
on with the Women's Open over at the Old Course
at Saint Andrews. It's a pretty good race going on
right now. Pretty good race. We'll talk about that when
we get back. Briefly.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
I'm watching it on TV.

Speaker 8 (27:22):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston, Sports online at
Sports seven ninety dot com.

Speaker 9 (27:29):
Back to the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh you didn't hear us? Never mind? All right? Yeah,
I just told Melvin coming back into this. I could
listen to this the whole song. I like that song.
It's a great one.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Hey thirty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug
Pike Show. Thank you for listening. Certainly, do appreciate it.
Over in England or in Great Britain anyway, Over in
Great Britain at the Old Course at Saint Andrew's in Scotland,
the Women's Open Championship underway. Ay Shen at seven under par.

(28:02):
She has played one hole today. Hold on, I gotta
get this on my This is drives me crazy. Well,
it just says VU. It doesn't have a first or
last name. Of course, it doesn't have Nelly Corda's first
name either, so VU and dang it. I have this
on my laptop. Hold on, let me get to the
leaderboard that has both names. Yeah, Lilya Vu, thank you

(28:26):
very much, and I've got to go back to the Okay, Yes,
she's at six hunder par, behind Jaya Shen who's at seven.
Jenny Shen and Nellie Korda are at five. Oh yes,
both of these are syncd up. That's good lydia Co's
at four. Esther Hen's light at three, along with Ruyong
Yen and Jen he M and Alexa Pano, and then

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it goes down from there in this final round of
the Women's Champagne Ship.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
A little I did a little research.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
This morning, and for those of you who are only
casual fans of the game, I wondered about the history
of that bridge, the famous bridge at Saint Andrew's that
everybody's seen in pictures. Anybody who's who's got any interesting
golf at all knows the bridge I'm talking about. It's
called the Swilken Bridge at the Old Course at Saint

(29:21):
Andrew's in Fife, Scotland and Melbourne.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Are you familiar with that bridge at all? No, not
at all. Okay, it's just a little it's a.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Little, tiny little bridge that goes over a tiny little
creek that runs through there, and it is believed, because
there's no straight up documentation, but it's believed to have
been built more than seven hundred years ago, wow, seven
hundred years originally built there to help shepherds get their

(29:53):
animals across the the Swilkin Burn, which is a creek
runs through the first and eighteen holes of what's now
the golf course. Some say the bridge may have been
designed as a pack horse bridge. I found this at
I think it was Wikipedia or something as a pack
horse bridge with the low paar of it's the low

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sides on it. It's a stone bridge, completely stone, and
they wouldn't have wanted any kind of wagon wheels to
fall off, and they wouldn't have wanted anybody to bump
into anything. But the sides are very low and they
believe that was to accommodate the side bags on pack horses,
because if there had been any higher it might have
disrupted the horses from walking across the bridge. And then

(30:37):
there are the diehards among golfens who it just are
practically insistent that it was built solely for golfers and
I don't know, years ago, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah, golfers around. I'm sure it was. I just love
the logical engineering behind the bridge. Yeah, yeah, it's such
simple stuff.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
But I think if they had had the tools that
we have, clearly they would have built bridges like we built.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
But with the tools they had, which was rocks. They
had just rocks.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
And this is this beautiful arching bridge that goes over there,
and the engineering behind that type of structure where they
use that curve so that all the rocks take the
pressure evenly. You can't just put a bunch of boards
across there and put rocks on it, because the boards
will rot and the rocks will fall through.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
But when they build one of those.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Arched bridges like that with stone, it holds itself up, basically,
it holds it as a suspension bridge made of nothing
but rocks. It's pretty cool, pretty cool. I'm no engineer,
but even I can appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
Holy cown, don't look it up.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah, look that up you could see that little bridge
Swilkin Bridge, sw or just look up bridge at Saint
Andrew's and it'll it'll pop right onto your screen. You'll
see what I'm talking about. It's not a large body
of water that flows through there either. It's just a
little little, wimpy little creek.

Speaker 6 (32:05):
Now.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Now, I'm sure back when that bridge was built it
might have had some times when it was a little
bit deeper and a little bit faster, but that's it.

Speaker 7 (32:13):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, i'd see kind of cool. Very uh.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
Old ye, there's really no other way to describe it
at all. Wow, that doesn't look like what we crossed
Bray's bio on and going to Fondren Middle School right
right only cow.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, that was a big deal when they.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Built a little walking bridge across the bio there to
get some of the kids across the school a little
faster in the mornings. That was done forty yeah, probably
forty years ago now, maybe thirty five.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Long time, way back in the twentieth century, way back there,
back when dinosaurs roam the earth and my friends and
I go to Jack in the Boxer McDonald's or something
and just get stuffed on about four dollars, and there
was a bridge. No, I was the bridge preceded or
came after me. I preceded the bridge. I was too old.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
I was not in middle school anymore when that bridge
was built.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
May have been out of high school even I've got
a significant high school.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Reunion this year. Holy cow. Doesn't matter which one.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
But it's a some milestone. I guess you could call it,
and I intend to go. I keep putting off.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I can't.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
I've got to go ahead and just write the check
and send it to this person who's collecting all the
money for everything.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Need to get that done.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety email
on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com boy Once.
Once dove season starts, it's Katie bar the door.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
They keep coming.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Like I mentioned yesterday, Texas probably the only state that
actually has pieces of deer season that touched six calendar months.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
September. I think there's like the end of September starts.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
It's either a youth only day or it may start
the archery season dates, but whatever it is is September, October, November, December, January,
and February like one or two days of February also
are in and that does not even include doesn't come
close to including the MLD permit stuff, which is going

(34:24):
to go even later than that big state. It is
big fun state to be an outdoorsman. If you like
to hunt, you like to fish. I'm surprised, frankly, we
don't have more people moving here, because I know there's
some die hard fishermen and hunters around this country who,
if they only knew what we had to offer them,
would probably move here as fast as they can find
a U haul truck.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
But let's don't tell them. We've got a lot of
people here.

Speaker 6 (34:49):
Right now.

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Speaker 2 (35:01):
It is on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening, certainly good, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
The heck was that I saw something on the It
was something on my mouse over here, and I don't
know what it was. I just I just gave it
a good middle finger flick and sent it sailing across
the room.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
As is amazing.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
The big strong pops slammed it against the wall whatever
it was.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
What's up, Dave?

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Oh lord, I'm sitting here in the driveway and I'm
looking old here by the h where the sewers stuff
was going on, and I just saw a rat crawl out, like, yeah,
well they're everywhere. You can't get rid of them.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Hey, you in DC?

Speaker 4 (35:46):
Okay? Anyway, meanweill back of the ranch.

Speaker 7 (35:51):
You know you were talking about bridges and stuff.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
I remember I told you. Let's see when I was
twenty six and they sent me to Washington and then
we went to Ocean City, Maryland, and that uh, that
uh Chessapeake Bay Bridge.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Man, that is the longest bay and I mean bridge.
Did you ever know then when you come back to it.
Then when you come back to it over it, it says,
I think that's high ten. I think what the highway is.
But anyway, it says it's so many thousand miles from
that ocean to the other ocean in California if you
stay on that road.

Speaker 7 (36:26):
Yeah man, yeah, I'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
The bridge is one over Lake Ponta train in New Orleans.
That's twenty something miles.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (36:37):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (36:38):
And then now when you go out of New Waverley
and you go back down there over one fifty and
you turned down hawke On Road and you start heading
back to Huntsville. It's a peat gravel road and now
you're traveling through like the National Forest. And then you
got wooden.

Speaker 7 (36:54):
Bridges, you know, flat wooden bridge.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
Yeah, that they're creaking.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
And everything was right there when you go by Bella
Cool the gymnas teacher dude, he had you had giraffs
over there in all exotic animals, you know, to the
left there when you were going through.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Oh, hey, David, when what you got, man? Because I
got Captain Scott waiting on the other line.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Hey, on on the on the archway stuff. My dad
taught us how to blow up a balloon and then
you take Elmer's glue and a bunch of rocks and
we made a cave for our caveman, caveman, and then
you topped the balloon and then it was all there.
And that's how you had the arch on the top,
because that balloon was holding all the rocks up.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Pretty good, pretty good stuff, man, All right, thank you,
thanks by Oh mercy, what's up, captain?

Speaker 6 (37:46):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (37:47):
I'm good man.

Speaker 6 (37:50):
We're up and moving today. So that's all good, you.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Know, fishing today, You taking a day off finally.

Speaker 6 (37:56):
Yeah, I've had a couple of days off this week.

Speaker 11 (37:58):
I had like and I ran one stretch of like
fourteen days, another stretch five six days.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Oh god, that reminds me of goose hunting. You know,
you just you just you get in like a robot.
You just get up and go.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
Yeah. Yeah, it gets to that point. Sure, it's got
a fuddy.

Speaker 11 (38:14):
The dogs even get into my routine and they start
waking up at the same time every day. Oh boyday
I woke up at the exact same time as my
alarm would go off if I was going to fish.

Speaker 6 (38:24):
I know that.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Feeling so well, I really do.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Any any day I have off, Amy Algy, She'll just
say to me, yea, yeahy don't you just sleep in
tomorrow morning. If only I could, If only I could,
so tell me what's going on with these tarping down there?

Speaker 6 (38:38):
Man, it's been really good.

Speaker 11 (38:42):
It's not even so much about the tarping that you know,
the numbers were fine last year. Everything's been fine for
three years. We just didn't have the weather last year. Yeah, yeah,
we had a southwest.

Speaker 6 (38:52):
When day after day after day, and you know what
that does I do?

Speaker 11 (38:55):
I remember, so for probably four or five hundred yards
out the beach, it was it was dirty, and there's
there's harping further out than that, and we catch them.
But the deep water fish are a lot harder to
catch than the shallow water fish, no doubt, just harder
to locate sure, and particularly the way I do it
with lures and flies. So this year it's been we

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had a three week run of less than ten miles
an hour every day.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
Sweet and it was awesome.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
It was hot, you know, it would have been that
with calm wind fly cap.

Speaker 6 (39:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (39:32):
I had a couple of guys I had to take
back to the dock, you know, just watching them, keep
an eye on them. Yeah, and they get quiet, you
know it's coming, you know they're they're just not feeling right.

Speaker 6 (39:43):
And it wasn't sea sickness. It was just heat sickness.
And so I keep I keep her close to the
eye on the guys and we'll pour some water on
them a little bit and see if they can sure
muster up.

Speaker 11 (39:54):
But once that, once that sets in, there's really not
a whole lot you can do other than go back
get them instair condition.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Now before we get too tied up in tarp, and
let's talk a little bit because you sent me an
email yesterday, and let's let's talk about croakers and what
their impact has been on our fishery and whether you
think going to three fish in that tiny little slot.
I think three fish in the slot that they put
together is gonna do what we need to do for

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a lot of years to come.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Where are you on that?

Speaker 6 (40:25):
I believe it will. Yeah, we're protecting that twenty inch
plus fish.

Speaker 11 (40:31):
And you get a lot of kickback on it, but overall,
the acceptance of it and the support for it was
over eighty percent. Yeah, it should have been the ones
who are complaining about it. It's a very small percentage
and they're just real vocal.

Speaker 6 (40:48):
I think.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Yeah, there's a lot of that going on in the country.

Speaker 11 (40:52):
Yeah, all over about everything. I can tell you that
trout will will get people riled up pretty quick.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 11 (41:03):
I haven't been super popular among that group for going
up there and testifying, but I feel like it did
the right thing. I think we did the right thing
for the trout. When did the right thing for the fishery?
And I think in the long run, everybody'd be pretty
happy with it when they see the results.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
You know, nobody, nobody took away their bait. And that's
what that's what everybody needs to remember. You and I
get the same number of fish as the guy who
throws Krogers. And if they get there faster, more power
to them. But I'm just yeah, and I'm not gonna
I don't want to take somebody's bait away, and I.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Don't want closed seasons.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
And the only other solution is restriction on that limit somehow,
some way, size or numbers, whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
And I think I think they hit the nail on
the head this time. I really do.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Well.

Speaker 11 (41:49):
One of the things I keep hearing, and I hear
it a lot from the people that don't.

Speaker 6 (41:53):
Live along the coast, Well, you know, I go down there,
it's not worth it. So I'm just not going anymore.
It's not worth going for free trout.

Speaker 11 (42:00):
Okay, all right, whatever, But you were going to go
for five trout, yeah, but you're not gonna go for three.

Speaker 6 (42:07):
So that magic number was four? I don't know, no.

Speaker 11 (42:12):
But the other thing is, okay, let's let's look at
the croker thing. You and I caught croker as a
kid's that was that was our gateway fish.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
That was absolutely and that was the fish for people
who couldn't quite dial in the speckled trout exactly.

Speaker 11 (42:28):
And there was plenty of them, and they were big
enough to eat croker all the time.

Speaker 6 (42:32):
They were really good. So if we put a minimum size.

Speaker 11 (42:37):
Limit on croker, let's say ten or twelve inches or
whatever it needs to be, not make them a game fish.
You know, that's hard to do, you know, as witnessed
by the trout fish, all the problems you.

Speaker 6 (42:49):
Had to get back. But drum, how mullet have a
size limit? Has a size limit if you look it up.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Yeah, I had no idea what mull Well, mulletson reverse.

Speaker 11 (43:02):
There's a certain time of year you can't keep one
over twelve inches. Okay, yes, sure, but it's a spawning season.
Yeah okay, but I mean we got we got limits
on Drum, Yep, there we got. So if we had
limits on Croker, didn't, that would mean we would get
more big croker, which we don't ever see anymore.

Speaker 6 (43:21):
Now the guts are complaining they can't bring anything home
to eat.

Speaker 11 (43:24):
Catch your three trout on some shrimp or throwing soft
plastics and now go kids from croker.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Holy cow, hey, Scott, can you can you hang on
the trip?

Speaker 6 (43:34):
Can you hang on?

Speaker 2 (43:35):
We're at the top of the hour, man, and I
got to go to the shirt.

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Speaker 2 (43:50):
All right, second hour starts right now. Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (43:54):
You know that.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Let me get my mouse in hand. Go back to
Captain Scott.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
So yes, sir, we were talking about those good sized croakers, man,
and that's something that you and I both grew up on.
And when I was doing the research for that little
piece I did for Saltwater Sportsman, I looked up the
state record and the state record was caught right around
the time when crokers were really coming in. It was
two thousand and seven, and the current this thing is

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held up twenty nine inches long and five point four
seven pounds. And since then, I don't think I've seen
a croker that weighed two pounds.

Speaker 6 (44:28):
No, I haven't either.

Speaker 11 (44:30):
It's amazing think back man, we used to catch Kroker
on gold spoons, just like we did Bridge.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, hit like a freight train too,
And we.

Speaker 6 (44:39):
Talked two and three pound croker. Yeah, no doubt. You
realize that.

Speaker 11 (44:42):
I talked to young guys these days and they're like,
Croker got that big? Yeah, they have no idea. But
one of the things that you said that stroked me
while he said you didn't want to restrict people's baits, right,
you know what they can use?

Speaker 6 (44:55):
Well, the best big trout bait.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Oh I know, don't even I know it. Holy cow,
that's what.

Speaker 6 (45:03):
We can't use little trout for me, So we've already done.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
That's a good point.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Yeah, that's a good point because, in fact, Pat Murray
sent me a text a while back or an email
about a week ago that Hey, I'm working on something.
What are your three go to If you could only
carry three trout lerds for the rest of your life,
and one of them was a baby trout color top.

Speaker 6 (45:27):
Water Yep, Yeah, that's why it's so popular.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 6 (45:32):
Baby redfish color is also pretty good. Yeah, and we
can't use red fish for bait.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
That's a good point as well. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
So, yeah, we've already crossed that bridge at least once
so or twice. So yeah, I'd be okay with that.
I really would, I really would.

Speaker 11 (45:49):
I guess one of the one of the excuses I
keep hearing out out of the guides as you know, well,
I got customers that can't catch trout any other way
than if I throw a cirkle. We talk plenty of
trout on on shrimp, and you know, growing up, that's
how I caught my troutrimp. So you know that's there's
ways around it, there's ways of doing it. And you

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had asked yesterday what you know, what everybody thought was
the downfall of the trout and what started it?

Speaker 6 (46:19):
Something all those life how you phrased it.

Speaker 11 (46:21):
But I think the Croker things hit at the same
time social media hit.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Yeah, there's social media is a big problem.

Speaker 11 (46:31):
And I think that it became so easy to catch
a big limit of big trout on Croker and then
get all the likes and all the stuff.

Speaker 6 (46:39):
Sure, and then guides caught onto it, and guides.

Speaker 11 (46:42):
Were like, man, if I can catch a bunch of
fish on Croker, then I'll get more trips.

Speaker 6 (46:47):
And I think that that one just sped off the
other and down the road we went.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
Yeah, that's a very good point because either one by
itself probably wouldn't have had such great impact, but together
they kind of teamed up and bullied the trout into submission,
and the trout just didn't have a chance. One of
the reasons I think, Scott, that they don't catch as
many trout on shrimp these days. A lot of these
guys who are throwing crokers because there's not a shrimp

(47:15):
on the boat when they leave the dog. Right, it's
pretty simple if only the only bait you have on
board is crokers. Of course you're going to catch all
your trout on crokers. But I'd love to do a
side by side day one time.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
See what happens.

Speaker 6 (47:30):
Oh yeah, I think it'd be pretty equal.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
I do too.

Speaker 11 (47:35):
A guy pulled up to me the other day, or
pulled up to the dock while I was getting my
people on the boat. Yeah, and he was making his
guys that were getting on his boat they bought his
They bought their own.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Croker, Absolutely they did.

Speaker 6 (47:47):
Yeah, he has them buying their own crow. Sure well.
They asked him how many do we need?

Speaker 11 (47:52):
There was five guys okay, and he said, well, I've
got I think I got probably five.

Speaker 6 (47:59):
Dozen left in from yesterday, so go ahead, just get
ten dozen.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Oh my god, holy cow, we're leaving.

Speaker 6 (48:08):
The doc with fifteen dozen. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
Well, you know, and you know who's gonna use the
rest of those crokers the second trip, the next trip.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Yeah, the guys, the guys that picks up at noon.

Speaker 6 (48:19):
Oh my, everybody comes back and that it's time for
the next guys. He's gonna say, oh, well, I got
the bait covered this time. Just pay me for the bait.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Yeah, yeah, it's exactly Holy cow, man, that's so wrong.
Oh god, yeah, a.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Little bit, all right, partner, I need to get down there. Man,
I hadn't seen you in so long. I feel terrible.

Speaker 6 (48:39):
Yeah, get down here.

Speaker 11 (48:42):
The the other thing I noted while you were talking, Yeah, earlier,
you keep you keep saying thirty inches on the tag.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, twenty eight. Yeah, you're right. I forgot
about that.

Speaker 6 (48:51):
They changed it at the last minute.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
I remember, Yeah, I remember.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
Now, well, far as I'm concerned, it might might as
well be three feet because I'm not killing it.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna keep one.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
No, I don't.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
No, it's just it's not worth it to take that
fish out of the system.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Now if I if I catch one, or you catch
one and we release it and it gets caught again
and some guy takes it home and and cuts it
up and eats it, that that's okay.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
He got his chance to and if he los, he.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Puts his tag on it, and he's legal. I'm not
going to have a problem with somebody doing something legal.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
I can't.

Speaker 6 (49:24):
So yeah, if they if they do it legally.

Speaker 7 (49:27):
Sure.

Speaker 11 (49:28):
What I've told some folks that you know, kind of
hit me back with that was how big a thrill
was it for you to catch that thirty inch trout?

Speaker 6 (49:35):
Oh? Man, it was the thrill of a life.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Awesome.

Speaker 6 (49:37):
I said, why wouldn't you want to let somebody else
do the same thing.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (49:40):
Yeah, double dip man, and let somebody else enjoy that
same fish.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Kind of like a Texas large mouth. You just turn
them loose and five minutes later they eat the same
lure and the same spot. Yeah, they're not the brightest
fish in the in the pond, has all the research shows. Unfortunately,
that's the one thing we got to work on. We
got to send our large mouse back to this.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Cool Kevin.

Speaker 6 (50:03):
All right, I need to call you back. We need
to talk tarp You got it? How tarper being handled?
Right now?

Speaker 7 (50:10):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (50:11):
Boy?

Speaker 9 (50:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (50:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (50:14):
You and I let's do that next weekend. Let's just
plan on that because I couldn't agree with you more.
And I apologize for forgetting to bring it up.

Speaker 6 (50:20):
Ye, problem, all right? But are you short on time?

Speaker 2 (50:23):
All right, Kevin, let's see it's good.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Yeah, thanks man, all right, it's keptn scotten.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
No, and uh yeah, we are going to talk about tarping.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
He and I agree wholeheartedly that dragging a tarp and
gaffing it in the lip and dragging it up on
the side of the boat and bending it over the
side of the boat not the best way to handle
such a magnificent fish.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Hey, Forrest, what you got buddy?

Speaker 7 (50:46):
What's going hold?

Speaker 6 (50:47):
Douglas?

Speaker 7 (50:47):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Sorry about that, man, I had some stuff I had
to go over with Scott for sure.

Speaker 12 (50:52):
I'm out here with the long time fishing buddy of mine.
Were those first time he's actually listened to your show.
We were reminiss about sitting there with the dad and
Grandpaul listening to Bob Stevenson back in the day.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Oh yeah, many many years ago.

Speaker 6 (51:06):
Man. Oh yeah, that's how we are.

Speaker 12 (51:08):
So and we did pretty good last week on the
black Bass and we're out here. I'm having to throw
a wacky worm today. If that tells you how the
production is today. Lord did teach him help melving a
new word today, though, taught him what a green fish was.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Oh okay, he knows what a green fish is. That's good.
That's good.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
Man.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
We're bringing him in just one, one cast at a time.

Speaker 6 (51:31):
I got it.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
I'm gonna take him in the sun to a little
lake out by where we live fairly close to each other,
and there is a lake down there that the Parks
and Waldlife department stocks with catfish. And well, at some point,
at some point, my phone's gonna ring and he's gonna say, okay,
I can do it today, and awful will go?

Speaker 12 (51:46):
Man, Yeah, I need to get him up on a
little white bash trips like I did lame this spring.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Oh man, Yeah, that'd be awesome, that'd be awesome.

Speaker 12 (51:53):
I thought that time. Yeah, I thought I'd share my
my dove hunting uh pro tip fux pro tip story,
give me pro tip uh dove hontings. So we went
to a place and refuge with the with the church
group here a few years ago.

Speaker 6 (52:08):
You know, refer over free Jil. I don't know you.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Are in it, but that's how it sounds. It's from
the beginning.

Speaker 12 (52:16):
So we went down there and everybody else is you know,
it's good Baptists, good Baptist Settle Settlement.

Speaker 6 (52:21):
So everybody's drinking. So we decided to go scout.

Speaker 12 (52:24):
And we found one hole of water on this on
this on this ranch that was full of blueing teal
on one side of the pond.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
So we went to town and bought some.

Speaker 6 (52:33):
We found some steel sixes the way we could do
dove and teal.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Okay, okay, So we go after.

Speaker 12 (52:39):
This pond the next day and uh look and and
the older didn't tell us this, but we dropped two
or three teal on that pond at daylight and here
comes this cayman alligator out there, ate every.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Till we brow a word.

Speaker 4 (52:52):
Later.

Speaker 12 (52:52):
That found out later that day, Oh, I got a
little cayman out there in that pad and you'll see it.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
I said, yeah.

Speaker 6 (52:56):
We fed about four or five TiAl today.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
We couldn't get to Oh that's pretty funny, man. All right,
faux Pro. You all tear it up up there, man.

Speaker 6 (53:07):
We're gonna try it.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Man, Okay, buddy, it's great to hear from you.

Speaker 11 (53:09):
You know that.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Thanks, Thanks you for ideas. Good guy. Faux pro. Mm hmmm.
I don't know how I came up with that name
for him, but he likes it, and it's stuck.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
And he's even got a he's even got a new
I think it's a Facebook page, faux Pro Fisherman or
something like that he's got. He's gonna call back and
tell me what the page is. Every time he tells
me that, I forget and then I say it wrong
and he calls back.

Speaker 8 (53:34):
Your Rockets and Astros live here. We are Sports Talk
seven ninety. The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Well, I sure hope we could count on young Americans
to get it right. In November.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
Other was.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
It's remarkable.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
There are gonna be people who would would follow anybody anywhere.
But I just hope at least enough of the young
people are smart enough to really do their own research
and not just count on believe in everything they hear.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
That's enough of that.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
So back to I talked early in the program seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I talked earlier in the
program about stuff that you don't want to forget on
opening day of any hunting season, and you don't. And
the same goes for when you leave where you've hunted
for a couple of hours. If you're sitting out in

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a dub field and you've been shooting for a couple
hours and you've got held shellcasings around you holes, pick
them up. Take a little garbage bag with you, take
a big garbage if you're a bad shot, take a
kitchen garbage bag with you, and drop those empties in
there as you go. It's a lot easier to clean

(54:54):
up after yourself on the fly than it is to
have to stop when you're when it it's time to
leave and start walking all over the place. You look
at you picked up six of them to the left,
and then you think you've got them all, and you
look again and there's two more over here, and then
there's one over there. Just pick them up as you go.
It's not a big deal. Go pick up your dove.

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When you knock a dove down, go straight to it,
pick it up. I talked about that yesterday. There's an
art to finding doves on open ground, even even in
plowed fields. A dove that falls just the right way
and all that turned up dirt and whatever's left of
what was the crop, it could be almost impossible to

(55:37):
find them if you don't go straight to them and
don't take your eyes off of them, if you glance
up and think about shooting other birds, or you twist
your head, or you turn around one time. If you
don't have a dead solid landmark on the horizon that
you're walking straight toward, and you don't have a good
idea of where that bird is in that line.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
There's a good chance you may lose it. So just
go ahead and take care of that business.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
Then when you get back to your chair or your
or your bucket or whatever you're sitting on, pick the
holes up.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Hull. Let's just go with optimism and say, pick up
the hole that you use to shoot that bird.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
I don't want anybody taking three four shots that it
does when they well, first of all, you can't take
a four shot.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
You are allowed.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
Make sure that shot that's something else that you better
be sure of. If you're gonna shoot the same gun
that you shoot at ducks at doves, you better make
sure that plug's still in there. And if you're shooting
your quail gun at doves, you better make sure you
put a plug in there before you go out there
and shoot. That won't go over well with the wardens.
And uh, they've heard every excuse. You're not gonna you're

(56:45):
gonna make something up that they probably haven't heard yet.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Well, go ahead and get it right. That way, you
don't have to worry about it.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Going back to golf
for a minute, there is also the BMW Championship on
going up there at Castle Pines, and that one going
into round four, that one is wow Keithing.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Bradley held onto the lead yesterday.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Okay, he was falling apart toward the end, but the
good news for him was that Adam Scott fell apart
even more so. Bradley's at twelve now I think yesterday
was at fifteen.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
Maybe not no, because he's okay, he shoots he but yeah,
never mind.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
Anyway, the bottom line he's at twelve Adam Scott's at eleven,
lud big Oldberg at ten, and all four of these
guys and Alex Norin also at ten with Oberg. All
four of those guys shot seventy or more yesterday and
still managed to hang around. Xander Shoffley did himself some
favors and shot sixty seven yesterday to at least put

(57:54):
himself in the conversation. He's five off the lead going
into this final round, but he's also coming off that
sixty seven, whereas those other guys are kind of scratching
their heads wondering what happened to him yesterday. They'll all
do well today, I'm sure. Wyndham Clark at seven, seawoo,
Kim Taylor, Pendrith at six.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Too many fives to read them all before we go
off the air. Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
There was a boatload of guys at five underd par two,
four six, eight of them, nine of them at five
under par. I don't think any of them has any
kind of a chance to win the tournament, but they
could make themselves a little bit more, well a lot
more money if they can just bump themselves up the
ladder one or two wrongs. Oh mercy, I have. I

(58:41):
didn't get to go anywhere outside yesterday. We had some
work being done at the house and I wanted to
be there to just kind of hang out. I know
the guy who's doing the work, so I wanted to
be able to visit with him a little bit.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
And everything went well.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
So today I'm gonna get back outside and I'm glad.
I'm hoping that it's gonna be proportionately cooler today in
this afternoon, like it was yesterday, or like it was
this morning when I walked out the house. I haven't
even looked at a forecast yet. I'm gonna go in
ahead and do that really quickly, and then there's something
else I wanted to do.

Speaker 5 (59:14):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
This is the one that I always go to. This
is the one that I believe in the most.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
Today's high only only ninety five tomorrow's high if they're correct,
and actually all the way through the week really the
very low nineties. There's a ninety three I think it
was on Tuesday, and then just ninety ones and ninety
twos and then right back to ninety next Saturday. So sweaters, boy, yeah,

(59:41):
birr man be hard to be hard to get outside.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Gonna have to get some handwarmers. Holy cal I'll tell
you what.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
Those big handwarmer packets come in handy for a lot
of different things, and not just for warm in your hands,
and the little ones. I learned several freezes ago, if
your outside spigots happened to freeze up somehow because you
didn't wrap enough newspaper on them, or you didn't spring

(01:00:10):
for the little foam covers. And by the way, there's
ways to make them more efficient than they than they
are right out of the hardware store when you can
find them.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
But that little handwarmer packet worked out real well.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
I had two spigots on my house that froze years
ago during one of the little freezes we had, and
I don't even remember why. I'm sure they were covered somehow,
but clearly not enough. And one of them on the
on the north side of or on the south side
of the house, or north side of the house, excuse me,
took that north wind all night long and it froze up,

(01:00:45):
and I tried to open it. I couldn't even open
it to see if I could get water to flow out.
If a boy, I'm gonna have a big old busted
pipe here and then I thought about it, and I
took one of those little handwarmer packets. I shook it
up real good, waiting for it to get warm, and
then took a rubber band and rubber banded it to
the pipe right behind where the handle is, and then

(01:01:06):
wrap that with a washcloth, just to kind of keep
that warmth right there. Wrap that with a washcloth, walked
away and went back to it about five ten minutes later.
Whatever it was, turn the spigot or turn the handle handle,
turn just fine, water flowing like normal. Never cracked a pipe,

(01:01:27):
I tell you what. It saved me from probably busting
something up. And I've done that a couple of times.
And I've told a lot of neighbors about it too,
And now I hope I just told a bunch of
people about it save a couple of hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
And man, if you bust a pipe up in your house,
you got walls to deal with, you got floors to
deal with, you got the pipes to deal with.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
And that is no fun. That's not including the labor
or those little bitty ham warmer package man boom. They'll
just warm it right up, and it does it slowly too.
It's not like some some shock to the to the pipe.
It just warms it.

Speaker 6 (01:02:00):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
Come on, come on, let's go get that water flowing
back through here.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
So whatever ice is in there holding it up, melt slowly,
and if you can get the handle to turn. It's
kind of fun. Because one time the handle would turn,
but I couldn't get water.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
To come out. Boy, it's frozen up in there.

Speaker 7 (01:02:16):
Good.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
I'll never get it going. And I'm in the house
and all of a sudden I hear this.

Speaker 6 (01:02:22):
Can.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
I go outside and there's water that blazing out of
that thing. Man, felt pretty good about that. Why I'm
talking about that when the highs are going to be
in the nineties today, I'm really not sure, Melboyne. I
don't know how I got there, man, Just preparation. There's
all kinds of life hacks, and they pop up on
my feet on Facebook a lot, and I'm a sucker
for them. I'll look at all of them, and I

(01:02:44):
wish I could remember the good ones. There's so many
good things in there that can help it. And outdoors too.
I don't know how I got on the feed for
or the list for fishing knots, but almost every day
when I open up Facebook and start scrolling, and I'm
gonna hit at least one new fishing knot and a
couple of them I'm intrigued by.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
I really am.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
I'm gonna start. I'm starting to try tying them because
they're a little simpler and faster, But it's gonna be
really hard to give up the knots. I can tie
pretty much with my eyes closed after tying them for
thirty plus years. So one, three, two, seven ninety email
me DOUGPIKEE at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm gonna close that.

(01:03:27):
I'm gonna go look at emails in just a second
and apologize to anybody and everybody who's sent one. Oh yeah,
I got a few of my need to deal with.
I'll do that during the break. We'll be right back
in a little bit on the way up.

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Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate Doug Pike show here.

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
On Sunday morning, the Women's Open Championship on going at
Saint Andrew's the BMW going on to get a little
closer to the anointing of a g I can't imagine
who for the FedEx cup and all kinds of good
stuff going on in my inbox here, ah, where do

(01:04:11):
I gosh? There's a couple of them. I wanted to
hit very quickly.

Speaker 7 (01:04:16):
This is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Rick Bise.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
It just updated me with an email at his goat
weed pasture that's getting chewed up and plowed up right
now where there are no doves. You shit, said, A
great fox just ran right in front of me. There's
a zillion cotton tails in here. Oh man, I've only
seen in an area where I usually saw one or
two and occasionally as many as five rabbits while my

(01:04:41):
neighborhood developed. I hadn't seen one for almost a year
until about three weeks ago when I had one sighting.
And this place where they are is an excellent hiding
place for cotton tails. There's a lot of brush that
they can get into that other things couldn't follow them into.

(01:05:04):
But somehow I think it's the hawks that kept picking
them off with when they would come out early and late.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
To graze on the grass.

Speaker 3 (01:05:13):
But anyway, I did see one, and so hope springs
eternal that I'll see more I'm not sure I'll see more.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
But hope springs eternal.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
Anyway, David Wade is that it wouldn't be hunting season,
it wouldn't be time to go enjoy the outdoors if
we don't go buy a gadget for ourselves, something to
take with us, and one of them.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
I'm as soon as I read it, I kind of
I got a little cringe to you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
It's hunting season, okay, and you're gonna go in the
You're gonna go into the field in September, and it's
gonna be hot.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
I get that. But he's talking about carrying a cordless
fan with you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
And they come, and I would agree, they come in
all shapes, all sizes can make a huge difference in
overall comfort. I agree with you one hundred percent. But man,
I don't want want to. I don't want to succumb.
I don't want to give in. As even as senior
as I am becoming, I don't want to concede that

(01:06:09):
I can't handle the outdoors anymore without a fan.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
And I understand, I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
If you want to, if you want to take a
fan with you, take one. That's kind of like get
baseball games. If you want to see what the gadgets
are to beat the heat, just go to one of
these travel baseball games Select baseball. If there's any kind
of a battery powered fan on the planet, every one
of them is going to be at one of these games.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Very interesting. This is crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Mixed up little air conditioners people make with with ice
chests and fans and duct work and all kinds of
crazy inventions. They all work, But I still just want
to be the kid in me. The inner kid in
me still lives on. And that means, as a kid,

(01:07:01):
if it's hot outside, you just go outside and play
in the heat. If it's cold outside, you put on
a sweater like Melvin and you go play in the
in the cold, but you don't give in. That's the
same reason I'm not gonna wear a battery powered jacket
to keep me warm. And here's the reason, because if
those batteries give out, I'm immediately gonna start feeling cold

(01:07:26):
because my brain tells me that without that help from
the batteries, I can't keep myself warm, which is a
load of hooeye. If you dress properly, you can take
care of pretty much any weather conditions. Now if it's
one hundred and fifteen and the humidity is ninety eight percent,
I might think twice at my age and my situation.

(01:07:49):
But otherwise, let's just go. If we're gonna go play golf,
let's go. Bluetooth earbuds.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
I kind of like that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
Actually, with noise cancelation and sound amplification, that's not a
bad idea. You need air protection anyway, and rather than
just stick a couple of those foam plugs in your ears,
which are better than nothing, but not as good as
all of the other options you have, I would be

(01:08:16):
careful with bluetooth earbuds, though, on a dove hunt.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
It's one thing if you drop one of those in
the living room.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
It's another one if you drop one in a cotton field,
and you'll never see it again unless you Well, I
guess my son's got little he's got something on his phone, Melvin,
where he can he can figure out where his.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Earbud is on his phone. Have you heard of that?

Speaker 5 (01:08:38):
Yeah, sort of like find my earbud or find my phones.
I guess I guess it's gonna make a little deep
or'll tell you which way to walk.

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
I've seen him use it in the car before, because
when I was driving him to school years ago, he'd
have his earbuds in. He'd get to school and realize
he didn't have one, and he would just use that
to kind of and he twisted around and point, and
sure enough, there it is, right under the seat.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
Jack bite.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
Yeah, that's and it's good they put those on there too,
because it's what they call they ought to They ought
to come with a guy to just walk around behind
you and make sure you don't drop them.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Just fall it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Hi, I'm your earbud finder, so I'll be right behind
you every step of the way wherever you go.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
Is that How much does that cost?

Speaker 6 (01:09:25):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
No, it comes with the price of the earbuds. You're
paying for me for two years. Like, yeah, I believe it.
The back to the earbuds, he said. David writes amazing
technology that protects your hearing while also allowing you to
hear everything around you. Oh, well done, while listening to
iHeartRadio on the iHeartRadio app. Very well done, David, Thank

(01:09:47):
you very much. That's that's not the hearing protection. I
went to amplified hearing protection a long time ago, and
back when I was shooting competitively there were guys this
is how long go this was Melbourne, and how how
casual some of these guys were about protecting their ears.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
They would actually if they forgot their.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
Ear plugs and nobody had any of those poam plugs
lying around, they would look around on the ground and
pick up two cigarette butts and stick them in their
ears to use his hearing protection during competitive shoots.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Yeah, he really.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know how much protection
that really provided, but at least you look like an
idiot doing it, you know, like just a total idiot'reck
a little bit, Yeah, a little bit, a little bit
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Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
What did Mojo send me? Oh? Yeah, old school?

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
This is old school keeping cool and one of those
fans that you just fold out where you see it
a lot in old pictures of old church services. The
women were all had that fan going a little just
waving your wrists back and forth working that fan. Hers,
by the way, has a Texas flag on it, which

(01:11:15):
makes it tremendously cool, and she writes it goes to
games on flights. Any large gathering it's a good idea.
It's a good idea. No batteries required. And that's the
one thing. If you take one of those battery powered
fans into the field with you and you're gonna be
hunting for what three four hours, maybe you're probably gonna

(01:11:36):
need more than one battery. And those batteries aren't light.
Those big old weed whacker batteries and blower batteries all that. Man,
that's leaf blowers. Those things are heavy. Great, something else
to carry with us. S all right, I'm gonna keep going.
I'm gonna keep playing golf. The golf bag weighs so
much I think somebody's putting bricks in it. By the way,

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I'm gonna have to go empty it out.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
At some point.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Either I'm getting really weak or somebody's dropping dumbbells into
the bottom of my bag.

Speaker 8 (01:12:06):
Man, because it's we got to take a break. Last
one of the program, This is Sports Talk seven ninety
on the go with iHeartRadio friends. You've got to try
The conversation continues this as the Doug type show.

Speaker 3 (01:12:23):
Oh great, my laptop decides to go on the prints
right now and contacting the server for information. I know
you don't need to do that. Yeah, this is just
peachy when it does that. Oh well, never mind, it
doesn't matter a couple of things I wanted to get to.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
First of all, what the heck's going on with the astros.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
Another error that triggers movement around the bases and runs
being scored and we end up blowing a lead again
last night.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
I'm not gonna dwell on that because we don't have
much time left. But yeah, that was that was.

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
Disappointing to watch last night for sure. I left the
TV for a little while and came back and come
to find out, I think it was Singleton that made
an arrow over there at first base. Maybe that started
the merry go round. And that's what happens in baseball.
It can turn on a dime, all the momentums going

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in one direction, and then one mistake, and it's usually
a mistake that starts it all. It's probably more often
a mistake than just something heroic that went down. Normally,
somebody boots a ball, somebody makes a bad throw, and

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then you get three or four or five hits in
a row after that, and you either gain a lead
or lose a lead, whatever position.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
Wasn't yours.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
In the five minutes earlier, Steve sent me an email
I want to address about how cannibalistic trout are, And
he wonders in the email what kind of trout population
would have if they weren't that way.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
Well, we'll never know, or I could say, you know, well,
look at redfish. Look at redfish.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
They don't eat each other up when they get thrown
into grow out ponds. That's one of the reasons, probably
the primary reason that the Parks and Wildlife Department hasn't
hasn't really put tons of effort into trying to restock
speckled trout anywhere, because every time they gather the eggs,
they get the eggs fertilized, they raise them indoors to

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little bitty fry and then they throw them outside and
they grow out ponds, hoping to get them to fingerling
size so they can throw them out in the bay.
And they look up three four weeks later and there's
one big fat one swimming around, burfing and eating whatever's left.
They do, they cannibalize each other horribly. That's why that

(01:14:52):
go to bait I was talking about that baby trout
colored skinter walk has probably caught as many or more
trout for me than any other single a lure. Number one,
because I'll throw it a lot, because I know it's
going to be productive if there's decent sized trout around.
And number two, they flat don't like each other and
they will they will eat themselves up.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
So that is yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
I can't imagine how many speckled trout there'd be. They
would probably grown legs and started walking on land by now.
There'd be too many of them to stay in the water.
Probably big trout eat little trout. It's just forever and that.
And Captain Scott and I were talking about that earlier,
talking about trout baits and how that works so well,

(01:15:37):
and he pointed out when I said, I don't like
taking away somebody's bait that works for them. But boy,
it's against the law to use baby speckled trout. It's
against the law of use baby redfish. And I would
not be opposed at all to a minimum size limit
for crokers to let them be, just leave them alone,

(01:15:57):
leave them alone, and I do. I would love to
go out. I bet I could talk Captain Mike into it.
Captain might catch you Outie go out with shrimp, live
shrimp and live crokers, and just see if the crokers
really outperform the shrimp by significant margin. I don't think
they would. If you're dragging a live shrimp and a
live croker over the same bottom, just drifting across the

(01:16:21):
same flat, whatever it is. I don't think that a
whole lot of speckled trout would pass up that live
shrimp down there. I really don't. I do have an
idea what to do with that hunting license? Remember Melvine,
everybody's been talking about how long it is now with
that extra tag andhle. I know why the parking wilife
did it, Okay, because in wintertime, what does it get

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during hunting season?

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
It gets cold and you just might need a scarf.
You know, you can pull that thing out.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
It'll double as a scarf. Yes, mister game Warden, I
got my I got my license right here. Hold on,
I'll untie it and hand it to you.

Speaker 6 (01:16:58):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
That's great. It's a great idea. It's a genius idea. Man.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
They should I don't know. We get some little oh
for the tags. I guess we can turn the tags
into mittens and we'll be all set. So anything on
your mind outdoors wise, Melvin, do you get out inside much?

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
Cut the grass, okay, but basically lawn work.

Speaker 7 (01:17:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
One of my neighbors was out cutting on I think
he's the only guy left. And I love this guy.
He's a great guy.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
He and I get along well.

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
He's a deer hunter, he's the outdoors guy, and he
mows his own lawn and he may be the only
one in the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
Who still does. He was out yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
You know, it was relaxing to me until I got
to a certain age, and then when I realized I
had to take breaks just to mow a little bitty
lawn that I've got.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
Yeah, I pushed that thing to the curve man and
just feel you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
God, bless you. Thank you, Lawn Moore. You've been really cool.
All Right, I gotta get out of here. We will
be I'll be back Monday. I'll be back to fifty
plus over on KPRC at high noon. And I've actually
got a topic from a listener that I'm gonna try
to get somebody on to talk about early in the.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Week at least.

Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
Until then, get outside, have some phone in your family,
stay hydrated, do all that summertime stuff, but embrace these
little days of low nineties.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
It's kind of feel good.

Speaker 6 (01:18:21):
It really is.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
See you next week, Audios