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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Now here's Doug Pike.
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All right. Saturday edition of the program starts right now.
We're twenty four hours basically from dove season. We are officially,
I guess into the holiday weekend. We are here, there
and everywhere. I've got so much stuff on my desk
in here, on the console in here. This is not
my desk, my console somewhere else. I do want to
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talk a lot about dove season this morning. I want
to talk a lot about there's boy everybody in this
state who is a die hard fisherman and doesn't really
care about hunting is smiling this morning. It will be
even more broadly tomorrow. Most of the hunters, most of
the dove hunters are going to give up today. They're
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probably not going to fish today. And I'm not talking
about some of you who are just die hard avid
go get them every day, guys. I'm talking about the
average hunter, fishermen or combination person. They'll give up today
so that they can be bright and fresh and good
to go tomorrow when they pull on their rubber boots
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and walk across that muddy field. It wouldn't be dove season.
It really wouldn't. I spent a good amount of time
yesterday down at Shooter's Corner. I was picking up a license.
I had to get shells, I had to get a
lot of stuff, and I ended up visiting with a man,
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and I wish I could recall his name. I apologize
if you're listening this morning, But we sat there and
talked about growing up around here and how much different
it is now than it was then. But there are
a whole lot of things that are just the same.
The anticipation of opening day is the same, the thrill
of fish and only who can't wait until hunting season
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starts because they know that's going to reduce the traffic
on the water by at least forty or fifty percent
at least that So it's it's all going on right now,
and everything is actually in good shape except for the
muddy ground that a whole lot of dove hunters are
going to be on around here when everything kicks off tomorrow.
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I've got And by the way, if you're wondering when
a particular season is, I went ahead and plucked out
the Texas Parks and Wildlife departments official hunting season dates.
There's four or five pages of me hear me rattling them.
So bottom line is that most of everybody knows. And
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if it comes as a surprise to you that dove
season opens tomorrow, then you're not a real dove hunter
if it caught you unaware, if you're oh my gosh,
is that tomorrow? Yeah, we've been talking about it. Everybody
who likes dove hunting has been talking about it for
I don't know, eleven months somewhere in there. It'll be
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September again soon enough. We used to say it hadn't
been eleven months. Probably been a long time. In any event,
it's all coming at us, and I'm just giddy with
excitement to start that on top of what's actually been
a pretty pretty good fishing year seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
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dot com. I do want to get into some things,
and these are all. This is the Parks and Wildlife
Department putting out a good and necessary document, one that
most of us in this audience probably could have written
for them if we'd been asked. Just the headline says
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Texas game Wardens offer tips for a safe, enjoyable dove hunt.
And I can't ignore something like that. I don't want
anybody in my audience hurt. I don't want anybody in
my audience to be involved in some sort of a
hunting accident that ends up in the news somewhere. And
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it's so easy to avoid having an issue like that
if you just you just do what you're supposed to
do now, first and foremost on the Parks and Waldlife
departments list, and I'm going to go through some of
these and we'll get around everything else. We'll get around
to the astros win last night, which I didn't think
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was going to happen, frankly, but it did. And we'll
do that much later. Pardon me, I got the hiccups.
They start right out number one, and each of these
topics is there's about eight or nine of them, I think,
and each of them is highlighted in bold. FASTE have
valid hunting licenses, stamps, and permits. I picked up my
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license yesterday. I double checked it after I bought it,
I signed it. You have to sign that thing. And
I feel very comfortable I've got my migratory bird stamp
between that thing's gone up to thirty I think it's
thirty one dollars for a federal migratory bird stamp, when
the originals, if I'm not mistaken, were a dollar. And
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they they just keep wanting more, and I guess there's
more to more to invest in. I just want to
make sure at some point I'm gonna make a phone
call or send an email and make sure that every
time we spend on migratory bird stamps goes to something
involved with migratory birds. Hopefully, what you also need, you're
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also gonna make. You have to make sure that you
have that Harvest Information program box checked on your license.
You have to have that to hunt doves and ducks
and gee and sandhill cranes, all of that. You also
are going to need to make sure that well, just
make sure you've got all of that everything. And here's
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the example I give every year. I talk about this
friend of mine who used to work here, came to
me and said, Hey, Doug, I'm taking my sons. He's
got two sons. I've been invited on a really cool
duck hunt down along the Middle coast, Big lodge, big
beautiful place, and I really want to make sure I
do it right. So what licensing do I need? And
I told him and he listened, and I said, just
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be sure to make sure you've got your hip certification,
make sure you've got your migratory bird stamp, and get
just by a super combo license, so you know you're
you're pretty much good to go. And so he went
to a store in town and all over town really
and somebody helped him get his license. And he went
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in there and he told the guy, please, I'm going
duck hunting in a week. I need everything I need
to go duck hunting lawfully. And he didn't go item
by item the way I had explained it to him.
And fast forward to the day. He's out there hunting
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and he's got his license in his pocket. He knows
he's good. He's not worried if a game warden shows
up and there blind, well, here comes the game warden
to their blind. I've got a guide in there, one
or two other adult hunters, his two sons, and they're
having a good time. And this game warden comes in
and says, okay, show me your license. And he very
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proudly just whips it right out of his wallet. Here
you go, here you go. Oh, you're missing I don't
remember whether it was hip certification or it was probably that.
He said, sorry, sir, you're missing this. I'm going to
have to write you up. And he did. He wrote
the man a ticket for a clerical error made by
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the person who sold the license and wouldn't back off
of it. And just like Jerry TK and I talked
about yesterday, you and I and anybody else who's out
there with that license in our pockets or on our
phones or however you've got it, we are responsible ultimately
for what's on that license and whether it does or
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does not cover what we're doing at the time. That's
a fact. So if you're out there and you don't
have hip certification checked on your license, you might get
a ticket. I don't know that. I can't say that
most game wardens would write you a ticket for that,
especially in front of your kids, but at least one will.
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We established that about six or eight years ago or
more so. Anyway, be very very careful when you get
your paperwork, and be prepared when if you get a
paper license for it to be it'll look like you've
been doing some shopping at CVS. And if you've done
shopping at CBS and gotten printed receipts, you know what
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I'm talking about. There's the receipt for the item or
items you bought, and that takes up about an inch,
and then there's the date, and there's the store and
all of this information. So a decent receipt might need
to be four or five inches long. But by the
time they add all the coupons and discounts and I
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don't know what birthday invitations, I don't know. Usually the
typical CBS receipt is about a foot and a half long.
That's what your license is going to look like now,
because they had to add that trout stamp, the SPECKL
trout stamp, So at some point in this year you
can keep one fish longer than twenty eight and it
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leaves a record book open, which I think is great,
But I don't think that they had to make the
license the same length as a state record SPECKL trout,
which is about what it looks like. There's got have
been a better way this thing, and now it's it's
so bulky it won't fit comfortably in your wallet. You
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it's got a license. Do what I guess who's got
a fishing license? No way, let me get him on
the phone. No, no, no, right here, right here. Oh you
holy cow went to academy a sign seal and delivered. Baby,
it is right. It's like a scarf. Oh yeah, yeah,
unfurl that thing. Here you go. Let's see. I'm watching
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Melovin one, two, three, four folds. Keep going. There's more
than that. That is is fivefold. That's all you've got. Yeah,
I got fivefold? Oh dude, you got cheated.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Really?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, I left it at home. I left it at
home because I'm gonna need to put it in a
suitcase mine with all the hunting stuff. You got deer
tags and all that for mine. No, I just got
the fishing. Yeah, you just got fishing. That's about half
as long as mine got you. That's about the link
that used to be when well in all years past,
since they've been putting that together. Oh, that's that's half
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a license. I'll try to bring mine in here tomorrow.
Oh boy, Oh I'm gonna, yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna
get a courier to bring it down. That's like the
red carpet. Oh my god. Yeah, that's a good way
to look at it. It's it's red carpet entry to
a state full of wonderful hunting and fishing opportunities. We'll
sell that into Parks and Wilife Department. What's up, Dave?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
Hey? How much is the total hunt.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
And fishing license?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
You know, like if you get everything together? What's that package?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
The senior super combo? I want to say, was about
sixty three bucks for me, But that's for the senior one.
Now that you, you young people, are gonna have to
pay more considerable.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
How much is how much? How much is it? What
do they call a senior?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I think it's sixty five? Oh lord, why are you
about sixty four?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
No, I'm gonna sixty three.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Oh you got a ways to go. Yeah, you need
to start throwing some nickels in the jar man something. Yeah,
they're still gonna stick. You pretty got.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
How much is how much is a lifetime deal? Man?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
No, my buddy Philip Mountain years ago, I wrote a
story about lifetimes. I'm not sure how much they are now.
I'll look it up during the break. But he went
ahead and bought one. He said, that story I wrote
convinced him that that was a good way to go.
And he is absolutely thrilled that he did that because
now all he's got to do is go buy his
waterfowl stamp every year or whatever stamps are on the
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life and like the speckled trout stamp. I think he's
going to have to still buy and all that. But yeah,
the bulk of the money is tucked away forever.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
He Well, my buddy son Dan said, you know Roy
had Son.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah he was.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
He was on a Facebook page and he's over there like, uh,
and he's a good friend. But he was phoning at
the mouth about deer season, you know, deer sausage, and
I send him you know, I'm catching my message back.
Or you'll go to Bellville. Yeah, that's about the best
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way you do.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
And then start driving a Bellville Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Hey in uh go astros. I got to put that
in there and then uh and then gar me last
night though could gone. No. I was listening on Rady.
I was listening with my flashlight under the covers, like
when I was a kid.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Really, that's the only way he can do it these days.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
That's classic. That No, not not this weekend but next weekend, yeah,
I'm going to be back down there on that south
end of Lake Conrod, hanging out over there, and now
probably I'll probably be uh calling in and doing a
little bit of good reports over from there. So yeah,
I love sitting over there and looking out watching the
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water and just looking at the people. It's cool.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I know you do. All right? All right, Dave, hear
from you.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
But how ya appreciate y'all?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Thanks out boy, scout. We'll see audios.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
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Speaker 2 (14:06):
Now more Doug Fight.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
All right, welcome back. What's the first time I think
we played this song? I like it though, I do.
I like that song. It's been around forever. Man, Jim
Dandy to the rescue. Let's speaking of Let's go talk
to Rick base hold on. Oh this mouth there it is.
What's up Rick?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Well, I've got my back Winshield now basing north and
I have about five to seven mile and hour nice
cool and off breeze going right through my truck.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Oh how nice is that?
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
If you if you drive a truck long enough, or
drive any vehicle long enough, you figure out exactly how
to position it to get a cool breeze suit there
in the summertime.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Don't you every day I'm with you, man, every day.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I's gonna give you a little bit of report over
here where I'm at No Matter ranch, im getting ready
to put on the market, and I'm waiting on my drone.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Guys, we're gonna shoot it today with drones.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
All right.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
But I drove around pretty big place, great dove hunting
place normally, and I think I made about a two
and a half mile loop. I haven't seen birth bird.
Oh yeah, well, let me take that back. I'm sitting
here right now looking.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
At about it.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I'm looking out over about.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
One hundred acres of goat wee that was mowed on Tuesday,
and there's about two hundred cowbirds out there.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Those don't count. You can't shoot the dust.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
There's some There must be some bugs out there, some
grasshoppers or something.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, every time they churn that stuff up,
the bugs go crazy. I've watched those catle egrets follow rice,
follow everything that plows anything on the KD Prairie, and
they're just right behind it. It's right behind it because
all the bugs are coming up. Yeah, there's duve. You know,
I don't doubt for one minute that the population of
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doves that's out there in the state of Texas right
now is exactly what the Parks and Wallet Department said,
which is nearly a record. It's thirty something million. I
don't remember exactly what it is, and maybe more might
be double at I'll look around. I've got it in
here somewhere. But the bottom line is they're not in
every field. And that's what everybody who dub hunts knows.
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And that's why some big operations have canceled their dove season,
and some are wishing they could put two hundred people
on a place they can only put one hundred because
they know everybody's gonna limit out, even the bad shots
are gonna limit out. So once once the season starts,
they'll scatter around a little bit. They'll get tired of
the pressure real quick in place this is where they're
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getting hunted hard, and it'll be it'll level the field
a little bit, if if that makes sense.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
I spent some time this week, quite a bit of
time on the on the road driving and I entertained myself.
I call them other real estate brokers around the state
of Texas. Sure, And in the conversation I would I
would just say, hey, by the way, you know, what's
your what your does hunting look like? When they tell me.
But it's it's very obvious by that survey.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
That I did that you know they're not. That's the
scientific about it.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
The birds are south am out then in their south
and west of thirty five in South Texas.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Well, that's mostly an accounting of the white wings, that's
what that is, because the white wings are kind up,
they're coming up, and they over.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Where the morning dub are at too.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
But well, yeah, a lot of them too, But don't.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Used to hunt every year in the hill country at
one particular ranch every year. And I talked to him
when I told him Thursday, and he said, there's not
a bird there. He's there the weekend waiting on everybody
to spending the weekends.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
They don't have a bird. They'll find him anyway. I
don't know what's going on with that's where the rat got.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah kidding, that's all you can do. And be sure
to wear your rubber boots because after all, it was
a week before season. So it's been raining for three
days and got two or three more coming. Unfortunately.
Speaker 6 (18:26):
I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
All right, parn Thank you Rick. Let's see you, buddy.
Let him go check in with Brandon real quick before
we got to go to the break. What's up, Brandon?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Good dog? Are you?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I'm good? How are you?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I'm a lot better since the Astros finally took care
of business last night. Holy cow, hey singing up Astros.
Did you see free home ones?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Uh for? On Wednesday? No?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I did not. All I did was hear about it
and nobody, nobody would quit talking about it. On Monday
it drove me. Or the next day it drove me crazy.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Thursdy I missed him.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
We sht the Failies. Yes, we did well, kind kind of.
We lose two out of three to them, but we
still are okay. Yeah, I think they've kind of righted
the ship. And one thing that all of us have
to understand is that until we get this team the
way it was cranking when it raised a ten game deficit,
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we got to get the right personnel back on the field.
We got to get the real Astros on the field,
and I'm glad for the talent we've got out there
now filling in the gaps. But they're not. You know,
this guy we brought in is not Kyle Tucker and
no it's not.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
No, it's not. It's like.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Jason Ayward. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah, he's a great player. I've watched him. I've watched him.
I like the way he plays. He's very he's a
ball hunter. No, I didn't watch much the Dodgers. I
don't bother with that. Did you see him he hit on one?
Oh yeah, well I did see that. Yeah, but you
would expect a big league player at some point in
two or three months to hit one. So yeah, I
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saw that. But he's still that's not the same player
we've got out there. Does your sign to have baseball?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
No, oh no, they've got nothing today. They take the
weekends off, holiday weekends. The coaches, the organizations, all of
them know that most of these kids are going to
be somewhere else, so they just punt on these weekends.
For the most part. They should anyway. If they don't,
I have no idea. That's so far away, so far away.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
We're playing assets today.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, I know. I'm looking forward to it. It gets
started early enough that I don't have to worry about
staying up too late unless they go to extra innings,
which I thought they were going to end up doing
last night. Drove me crazy. Yeah, Jose out Yeah. And
and with with Myers on the base pass. Once he
got started, he wasn't gonna stop. I saw him. He
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was burning turn man. Hey, I got a punt. I
gotta go, Brandon, I do. I got one more thing
I gotta talk about before I go to the break.
So I gotta let you go, buddy before. Oh, it
sounds terrible.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We lost him all right, Well, anyway, before we before
we get to the break, uh, to address what Rick
was saying about how many doves there were, and and
the bottom line is Parks and Wildlife Department is estimating
and that's all they can do. Every year. We don't
go out and count doves one by one. We don't
put a little put a little red dot on their
heads every time we count them. At thirty four point
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three million mourning doves, thirty four point three million, that
was in the spring survey, and since then we've had
a couple of three hatches out of these birds. And
then on the white wing side, an estimated new record
high of twelve point eight And if you do that
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math real quick in your head, you come up with
forty six forty seven point one million birds. They can't
all be in one field, and neither can they be
scattered evenly amongst all fields. So wherever they're not right
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now doesn't mean that the Parks and Wildlife Department is wrong.
It just means they're not in that field right now,
or not even in that county. I guarantee you there're
a bunch of counties in Texas right now where people
who were thinking about dove hunting and looking forward to
dove hunting and a lot of times see some pretty
good numbers of doves in those counties. They're not there,
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but they're somewhere else in Texas. They're not going to leave,
not right now. Certainly, what we're gonna end up with
is more birds as they begin to migrate southward from
up north where there's very little hunting pressure. By the
way Texas takes out. And it's no it's no big
secret as to why we just have that many dove
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hunters and that many doves. But Texas bags more doves
every year than any other state and probably will for
as long as there's dove hunting seven one, three, two five,
seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Rudy sent me a note bemoaning the fact that the
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Parks and Wildlife Department doesn't print that rules guide the
Parks and Wildlife's regulations hunting and fishing regulations guide. The
way we used to get it all the time when
you bought your license, said hand you one of those,
and if you ask for a second one, they give
it to you. Thumb through the pages when you've got
nothing else to do. You're in the reading room and
you just want to learn about the hunting seasons. No more,
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you gotta get it on your phone. You gotta get
it on your laptop or your pad or whatever. Talk
about that when we get back.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
This is Sportstock seven ninety, Facebook dot com, Slash sports
Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Back to the Doug Pike Show. Where are you digging
these up? Melvin? These are great old songs. I should
have known. Yeah, these are all kookie, weird, wild songs
from a long, long time ago. Thanks. I believe it.
I believe it one hundred percent. All right, Welcome back,
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Dogpike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. There's a reason.
There's a couple of things I wanted to talk about, uh,
the the disappearance of the former booklet, the little pamphlet
we got on all the rules and regulations the Parks
and Wildlife Department had put in place for that year.
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It was for the longest time, funded I want say,
by Toyota. And when it disappeared, I made a couple
of phone calls up to Austin said, oh man, what's
the deal. Why can't we get these things back? I
would love to have them. I would love to have
them in every store that sells licenses so that people
who want to read up about the rules can read
about the rules. And they said, yeah, that we'd love
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to have it too. However, guess what the sponsorship agreement
ran out? And whoever it was that I do I
do believe it was Toyota, And I'm not faulting them
at all, because it was far more expensive than I
realized to print those things. As it turned out, if
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my memory serves me correctly, the cost to produce all
of those little booklets each year was about three hundred grand.
And the guy I talked to it at Parks and Walla.
I've kind of joked with me and said, you want
to put it up, we'll print them out. That won't
be a problem. Why is Rick byss calling me on
myself while I'm oh, my word, I'm so tempted. No,
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I'm not gonna do it. Uh No, I can't he know.
He knows, he knows what I'm doing. He knows what
I'm doing right now anyway. So it's just a cost thing.
It's just the cost of the license or of the booklet.
And after printing Tide magazine, I should have known how
much it costs to print those things. And I certainly
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could have made a phone call and ask, but I
would have guessed. My hunch would have been, uh, I
don't know, you know, maybe one hundred grand. But when
it turned out to be three hundred that was significant.
That was significant. David. By the way, speaking of licenses,
David sent me a little point to ponder on the
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super Combo. At least I don't know if it's on
Melvin's fishing only license, but on the super Combo there
is a space on that license. If you look at
I think if you look at last year's you'd probably
see it too, where The Parks and Wildlife Department is
promoting its online app where you can go look at
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all the rules. That same space David wrote is about
the size of that trout stamp that they had to
put a whole new section onto the license for. Yeah,
I think if they were going to go as long
as they did on this thing, what they should have done.
What they should have done is just made it thirty
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inches long or twenty eight inches long. Just run the
paper out, run it to twenty eight so you can
use it to measure your potential trophy trout before you
cut the tag out of there. It's that one. They're
gonna have some splaining to do, as who was it?
Ricky Ricardo would ask Lucy Ricardo in the old I
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Love Lucy show. You're gonna have some splaining to do,
he would say, and usually resulted in some form of
hilarity one or another. You ever do you ever watch
that show Melman I Love Lucy? Does that ring a bell?
Speaker 7 (28:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Of course, I think that's one of my things. Sure, Yeah,
that was that was pretty good. She was she in
that show? She portrayed a character. It was kind of
goofy and weird and whatnot. But before that she was.
She was one of Hollywood's hotties. She really was. She
If you go back and look at photographs of her,
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not in character, not in costume or anything, she was
she was striking. She really was. Seven one three two
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Speaker 5 (28:43):
Rick.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Now I get a text. Sorry, I didn't mean to
call you. Okay, So I got it, No problem. I
wasn't gonna be upset with you at all. It's just
it's a simple, easy error and anybody could have made it.
It's not a big deal. Back to the rules and
regulations way back so when we started the show on
what you're going to be doing in the field while
you hunt this year, this also says have hunter education certification.
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If you were born after nineteen and seventy one, I'm
exempt by a long shut, but if you were born
after that, you're required to have proof that you have
completed the hunter Education course Parks and Wildlife course. It's
valid for life. I actually had to take one many
many years ago, prior to a hunt up in Colorado.
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I think it was, or maybe it was for Utah.
I can't remember what The bottom line is I had
to go get it, and I've got it, and it's
on file somewhere up there. Now here's the only asterisk
by that. If you are up to I believe it's
sixteen years old, you can still go hunting so long
as you are within I don't remember what the word
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is that they use. See if I can find it here. No,
I don't see it here, but I've read about it
last night again and there's a specific word they use.
But you have to sense be within earshot. And I'm
not talking about megaphone screaming at the top of your
lungs ear shot. In other words, you've got to be
kind of joined at the hip to someone who is
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a licensed hunter in this state older than eighteen. I
think it is. Maybe you should check the rules if
you're a teenager wanting to go hunt with some of
your buddies. Better yet, just go hunt with some adults
and hang close to one of them. Don't wander off
in the middle of the field, because if you do,
if you said, if you just decide you're going to
go down to the end of the fence line down
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there two hundred and three hundred yards away, you have
just committed a violation and that could get you and
possibly an adult in the group in trouble. I don't
know how well, I don't know whether it carries over
to the adults that might be on the hunt. But
you just don't want to do that. Really, Uh, this
is something else. I mean, this is all Most of
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these are from the desk of Captain Obvious. Know your
firearm and handle it safely? Well, yeah, I intend to
do that. The safest practice when handling firearms of any
kind is to treat them like they're loaded. This is
This is like an Eddie Eagle kids introduction to firearm
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stuff here, and it it concerns me that the Texas
Parks and walleyfe Department feels compelled to take this to
such an elementary level. I would think that if you
intend to buy a hunting license, I'm almost tempted to
say everybody, everybody ought to have to re certify every
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year that you're smart enough to go hunting and carry
you going. Let me think about that during the break.
The more I read this, the more Yeah, back to
Captain Obvious.
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Speaker 3 (31:57):
That contact back to the Doug Fight show. Who's whose
idea was that one?
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Was that? Rick?
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Rick, Okay, now I know what he's listening to in
that truck as he drives along, putting about five hundred
miles a day on that thing. Right, there's a lot
of windshield time, as they call it. I didn't even
know it was called that until I talked to somebody. Well,
Rick and Aaron both they they spend hours and hours
and hours. And then there's there's a uh, somebody else
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I know makes routine trips to out West to West
Texas and knows what windshield time is about. I don't mind.
My rual thumb is if I'm going someplace for outdoors activity.
If if the round trip of driving is less than
the takes less than the amount of time that I
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will be on the ground there and doing what I
really want to go do there, then I can justify it.
For example, I'm about an hour and ten minutes from
the surf Side Jetty. If I want to go fish
down there, as I used to do all the time
before it got ridiculously crowded. If I wanted to go
fish down there, as long as I had about three hours,
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two and a half or three hours that I could
be down there fishing before I had to turn around
and drive home. I would go. Same with dove hunting,
same with duck hunting, deer hunting. If I'm going deer
hunting someplace, if it takes six hours to get there,
I want to be there for more than one day.
I need to spend a couple of nights there so
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I can really first of all get the field for
the place and really have a good time there and
understand it and do whatever we're going to do there.
But yeah, that was my rule. And that's even for
little shorty fishing trips around here. If I don't have
an hour and a half to fish, I'm not going
to drive thirty minutes to a little stock tank or something.
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And I always make time. There's always exceptions to the rule,
of course. You know, if I really feel like I
need to go fishing somewhere, I'm going, And even if
I've only got a little bit of time. Let's get
back to these basics. Oh my god, they're just so fundamental.
And I know that every day there's somebody new that says, hey,
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you know, I've never shot a gun or I've never
been hunting and I'd like to try it, and I
welcome every one of you. I'm not at all picking
on people who haven't done a lot of hunting in
their lives, because that's the majority of people. We're not
the majority hunters, die hard, go get them hunters or
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not the majority. We're a small group. We're a small group.
We're not as noisy as some small groups these days.
But we're out there and we welcome anybody who wants
to come in and play by the rules, which means
no drinking while you're handling guns. I'm a I'm really
serious about that part of it. And like I've said before,
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I had to give up hunting with a guy I
thought would be a really good friend and had a
nice place to go hunt. But not when everybody's drinking
before they go out in the afternoon with their guns.
So anyway, back to this document, here says here hunt
with a legal firearm. Well, that's a good idea. And
in case you don't know, I'll read directly from this.
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You know, I'm not meaning to laugh, but it is.
It's just so how can anybody not know? This says
a shotgun is the only legal firearm for hunting migratory
game birds. It also must not be larger than ten gauge,
and if applicable, must be plugged. That's something that's very
important for newcomers. You borrow a gun from somebody, you
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better make sure that it can if it's a if
it's an auto loader, or if it's a pump gun
and has an extended magazine underneath the barrel, you've got
to make sure that that magazine cannot accept more than
two shells, because you only get three shots max. One
of them is gonna be in the chamber, and then
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there are two allowed to be in that magazine. And
if you think you're gonna hit a whole lot of
birds on your third shot, you're just wasting amo and money.
And by the time you get off to you if
you hadn't hit at least one bird by the time
you've shot twice, then don't waste your time with a
third shot. And even if you do knock that one down,
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don't try to knock down another one till you go
find the first one. That's a recipe for losing birds
and wasting birds. Not going after him just because there's
a lot of birds flying around, and oh, that one
over there is gonna be hard to find. Not gonna
worry about him. No, that's not how it works. If
you are being watched by game wardens, they will if
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you don't ever make an effort to go find a
particular bird, and they saw you watch it go down somewhere,
then yeah, you got problems. This is a really important part,
especially in Duvefield's. Know your target and what's behind it.
Stay in your lane of fire so you aren't shooting
toward anyone else. Don't shoot toward people or homes or
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or And it says here, know how far your shot
can travel. Shotgun pellets don't travel a mile, okay they don't,
but they will travel well in excess of one hundred yards.
And if you end up getting hit by a few
of them anywhere closer than that, you'll know that it's uncomfortable.
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And the problem is not that a stray seven and
a half pellet out of a doveload is gonna penetrate
your clothing and knock you down. The problem comes when
that little tiny pellet hits somebody in an eye or
or worse, and it just well, that's about as bad
as it can get with a little shotgun pellet. But
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just imagine the change that happens to that day where
everybody's out there having fun, and everybody's enjoying themselves, and
the birds are flying, and you're knocking a couple down
every now and then, and somebody's got their dog out
there working, but made sure to bring some cool drinks
for it and somewhere for it to keep it in
the shade. All of these wonderful things are happening, and
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then one person messes up one time, takes a shot
at a low flying bird that's kind of swinging through
the field, and they don't pay attention to where everybody is,
and somebody shoots, and somebody hears that shot and turns
to see where it was, and a pellet hits that
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person in the eye. Now, if you're wearing safety glasses,
at least the whole day isn't shot, but it sure
scares the pants off anybody who's involved. If you're not
wearing safety glasses, then that day's over. The joy that
everybody was having out there just goes away instantly. Somebody's
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got to call an ambulance, somebody's got to rush, somebody
to the hospital and it's just not worth it. It's just
not worth it. I don't mean to go all Sammy
safety on you, but I do that because and the
reason I'm not laughing about it just because it's no
laughing matter. Yeah, it really is. It's gun safety and
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boating safety. And boy, don't think for a minute that
I'm not going to talk about boating safety before we
get out of this, because all these people that are
so thrilled that the hunters aren't going to be on
the water. Well, fortunately it's going to be kind of
a messy weekend. But on any time you're out on
the water, you got to be just as safe as
if you're in a field with guns. That brought everybody down.
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I'll try to bring it back up a little bit
when we come back. Maybe I'll take these in small is,
maybe like one every half hour or something like that,
so we don't waste well, it's not a waste of time,
but we don't exhaust our time focused on that. Because
the majority of this audience I know understands all this
and nodding your heads. I hope, I really hope, especially
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the part about drinking while you got guns around. It's
just a refresher yeah, at least a refresher course. My guys,
My guys know. But like I said, you know, it's
just kind of like if you hand me a gun
and you just showed me that it's unloaded, I'm gonna
check it myself. It's just double checking. We need to
double check ourselves when we're in the field.
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I had to send a text or an email to Rudy,
a golf text, golf related text. Anyway, it's done. We're good.
Let me put that push that little button there and
that should do it for now. Melvin and I were
looking at a map and Texas has just so many
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subtle nuances to everything. Everything about our state is big
and bold, and then you find these little tiny things
and say, how did I not know that? How did
I never see that? So I get an email from Travis,
who works for Center Point. He's a lineman too. You
don't have to go boo. He's one of the hooray guys.
The guys who come out and put your power back on.
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He's not sitting in some air conditioned office. Okay, he's
on a truck. He's working his butt off. He's one
of the good guys. And he talked about how he
had to make a run out to Orchard yesterday I
think it was yesterday, maybe the day before. Orchard, which
is kind of west of Rosenberg on the way to Wallace. Anyway,
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the long and the short of it is, white wings
were so thick at this particular place that they had
managed to short out a line some They crossed lines somehow,
and I bet you there were some toasty ones on
the ground under where that happened. But the bottom line
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is they had caused an electrical problem and he was
sent out there to fix it, and that's what he determined.
It was, so end of that story. And thank you,
by the way, Travis for making that trip for those
people and getting their power back on. I'm looking at
a map of Orchard and I realized that Orchard. There's
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a highway that runs right kind of through the southern
quarter of Orchard. If Orchard were only were only just
kind of a block, like you would think a big
chunk of property with a clear outline, and that's great.
But then underneath that, moving south, there's a little bit
more of that bulk of Orchard, and then there is
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a vertical tale that I'm guessing is only about maybe.
I bet it's not a mile wide, Melboyn. I'll bet
I don't know what the scale is on that map exactly,
but I'll bet that things that's somebody's property that runs.
If it's a mile wide, it's twenty miles long due
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north to do south, and then it's at the bottom
of it. It's got like a horse's hoof, is the
best way I can describe that shape? Am I right?
Like that? Am I right? Yes? And how that got
incorporated into the little town of Orchard. There's a good
story behind that somewhere somehow, little bitty city in western
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Fort ben County. I'd probably probably aren't a thousand people
living in Orchard, but for some reason, Yeah, that's worth
looking up. If you're just sitting around at home listening
this morning and you've got access to the inner just
do a search for Orchard, Texas, and then pop that
map up and tell me it doesn't look like a
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horse's hoof. At the bottom of that unless that, you know,
the only thing that might be well, no, we still
don't need I was gonna say it might be an
airstrip or something, but you don't need an airstrip that long.
It looks like a like I said earlier, an eight
bit space invader, yeah, character or something, or a frog leaping,
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a leaping frog, or a very long, long legged ballerina
who's got our other leg up twisting around and eyed
men the mine plays weird tricks. Yeah, that's seven two
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I'm I'm gonna step away from dub safety. I'm gonna
go to boating safety now that this weekend.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Unfortunately, if you operate a bait can or a fuel
stop on the way to the beach or the baya,
the weather is going to be just horrible. So it's
it's gonna be there's gonna be light traffic on the
water anyway. But even then, it's still a really good
idea to kind of go over rehash. Like Melbourne was
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talking about the rules of the of the water, because
when you're dealing with boats, you're dealing with vehicles that
have no breaks, and there are no lane designations except
perhaps no wake zones and places like that. But on
the open water, you can go where you want to go.
You can drive as fast as you want to drive,
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and unfortunately, the mistakes you might make don't just impact you,
they impact anybody and everybody who's out there alongside you.
And and this especially boating. There's probably more alcohol consumption
during boating than, in fact, I'm certain of it, than
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during hunting, because people are out there, I want to
have a good time. Let's just bring a few beers
a piece, maybe I don't know, a six apiece. Is
that what we're gonna need. We're gonna be out there
all day. We can go through that, and all of
a sudden you look up and there's there's nobody on
the boat who is really sober enough to drive lawfully.
There are rules just like there are on the road
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about consuming alcohol while you're operating a boat, and if
you ignore those rules and you get caught, you will
be treated just like someone who was driving on the road.
And I honestly I wouldn't hurt my feelings if the
penalties were a little higher for water, because again, there's
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no lanes. You're not trying to stay within the lanes.
On the water. You can go wherever you want and
nobody can tell you not to until you run into somebody.
So be careful. Have somebody who's willing to stay sober
all day, and not just kind of sober, I mean
the whole thing. So have somebody who's willing to do that,
and when it becomes time, didn't have them take the wheel.
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Just know your limits, and know when you feel like
you've got a little bit of a buzz, that's probably
because you're lawfully intoxicated. I don't want anybody off in
this audience getting arrested on the road, on the water.
I don't want anybody messing up with their hunting license.
I don't want anybody messing up and causing an accident
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or getting somebody hurt, getting themselves hurt. Life's hard enough.
It's hard enough to drive on the freeway sober. Oh
my god. Every time I turn around, and this was
the weirdest morning, Melvin, This was the weirdest morning of
all ninety nine times out of one hundred, and this
was that one ninety nine times out of one hundred
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everybody's just zooming on the freeway. There's always somebody doing
one hundred hundred ten whatever they go flying by you,
weaving in and out of traffic. This morning, it was
like the whole world was in slow motion. Everybody that
they were doing fifty fifty five, maybe sixty, but that
was it, and it was the most bizarre, weird drive in.
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I had rain for about thirty seconds and then it
just disappeared, a little sprinkle thirty seconds of sprinkle. Wipers
came on, did their duty, and then before I'd traveled
a mile, no more rain all the way here. Now
that's gonna change all day long, So just be where
go ahead and have a backup plan something that you
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can do inside today if you were planning on being outside,
because it may not turn out kind of like you
liked it. Going back to coastal fishing, at least if
there are if you're down there and there are windows
where you can get out, it wouldn't hurt to get out,
because there are good fish to be caught throughout the
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bay system, have been for quite some time now, and
especially the farther south you go, the more fish there
are being caught.
Speaker 7 (49:12):
And I.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
Wouldn't say I'm giddy with excitement, but I'm more than
just a little optimistic about this trout population of ours
over the next two or three years, and how it's
going to just boom, provided we don't get any weather anomalies,
especially the winter kind. We're gonna be just staring right down,
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right down at some of the best trout fishing. Most
of the people in this audience could possibly remember. People
who are my age and ten years on either side
of it, we remember some exceptional fishing back when limits
were far more generous and you could still go out
and if you were in the right spot with the
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right people, and everybody could fish, and you could stack
up a bunch of four to seven or eight pound fish.
And I'm talking about from Sabine all the way to
the Rio Grande. Didn't matter where you were, there was
some place in that area where there were big schools
of giant trout. And there's an opportunity we have now
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based on what I'm hearing about the amount of bait
fish in the surf and in the bays, what I'm
hearing about the shrimp population, all of the things that
are required to grow those fish bigger now that we're
leaving them alone. As soon as they hit twenty inches,
we're poised to see a return to a time that
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most of us didn't think. Whatever happened again. And I'm
not trying to jinx it by saying here it comes,
but there's certainly an opportunity for us to to witness
and experience not that long from now. Really, based on
the size of the fish that are being caught, it's gonna
be some good stuff. Oh I got I'm gonna get
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off my little overly optimistic soapbox here. I really am excited,
and I boy, I gotta live at least five more
years now to just see how many thirty inch fish
this based system of ours can produce. Because there's gonna
be a bunch. If everything goes the way it's supposed
to go, there's gonna be some. It's gonna be like
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fifty b in the new forty, it's gonna be thirty.
Is gonna be the new twenty eight. So it's gonna
be some nice fish to catch.
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We'll get that information to them. This is the Doug
Pipe Show Now that's a song things kind of chill.
I love this song. Yeah, this makes you want to
tap your foot a little bit, a little bit. You're
not stomping your heel in the ground on this one.
You just tapping your foot and just real leaning back
a little bit. Yeah, you gotta lean back a little.
I don't know. It may it might require two fingers
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of bourbon to drink to just enjoy that song more.
I don't know. Maybe not. I don't hardly ever drink.
It could count on one hand the drinks I've had
probably in the last two years, five years. It just
just doesn't It's not part of my everyday life. I
don't care. I don't care what anybody else does. That's
fine with me as long as they're not gonna get
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me hurt or in trouble. But yeah, it's just that's
just not me. Seven one three two one two five
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Come oh man, we've gone over. I think I've played
safety sam enough for boating and for hunting now to
kind of move forward, and I'm getting more and more
information about hunting season. This is quite interesting. David found
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this according to the Parks and Wildlife Department. When you
when you're asked your hunter information stuff, your hip stuff,
they ask you how many doves you show, how many ducks,
how many geese, rails and gallinules and pterodactyls and whatever.
The average number of doves that hunters report getting per
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season is nineteen. That means they're going at least twice
if they're not breaking the law. The average doves per
day is about five, which means, yeah, they're probably going
more than twice. They're probably going four or five, maybe
even six times to get all those birds, and some
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days they do better than others. I truly do enjoy
dove hunting. It's not something that you have to get
up super early for. Like a waterfowl hunt. There are
very few places that allow waterfowl hunting afternoons unless it's
your own private property, and they do that. Because I
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was explaining this to somebody the other day, why do
we hunt doves in the morning and the afternoon but
not ducks and geese, Because if you go to a
roost pond, for well, if you go anywhere really that
ducks and geese are feeding in the afternoon, and you
go in there and hunt them. They're probably not coming
back the next day. And if you're short terming it,
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if that's the only day you've got to hunt, or
it's the last day of hunting season, a lot of
people throw the rules out the window on the last
day of hunting season about where they want to hunt.
But most of the season, it's far more advantageous over
the course of that long season to go find those
birds in the afternoon, stay well away from them, not
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bother them at all, and then let them fly back
to the roost at night. And then haha, you're gonna
be there in the morning waiting for them to come back,
and they will most times doves. If you hunt a
roost of doves morning or afternoon, there's a good chance
they'll bust out of there, unless it's a nesting area.
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If it's just where a bunch of grown ups are sleeping,
they're kind of just hanging out like a big hotel
somewhere of doves. They're not going to stick around. They're
absolutely not gonna stick around. And I watched that happen
a lot of times. In Katie. There were some really
big roosts kind of close to town, but still in areas
where it was okay to hunt them. A lot of
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these doves at the parks and Wildlife Department counts. I
guarantee you they're living in small town backyards. They're living
in little enclaves, tiny little parcels of woods and stuff,
even well up into towns in the parks and around
walking trails and stuff like that where there's a lot
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of human activity. But they don't get bothered there and
they know that. And then they go out into the
fields in the mornings to go feed, and then they'll
feed in water a couple of times a day and
then go back to that roost. Well, if you go
in there and shoot him out of that roost, you've
made a big mistake, whether it's duck, goose, dove, anything.
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So I don't know. Let me go get to I'm
getting off in the weeds and I want to go
talk to Bob anyway. What's up, Bob?
Speaker 5 (56:16):
How you doing that?
Speaker 1 (56:17):
Man?
Speaker 3 (56:18):
I'm good? Thank you.
Speaker 1 (56:20):
Hey.
Speaker 8 (56:21):
I was fishing. I haven't fished for a month or so.
I had a little heart surgery.
Speaker 3 (56:25):
But I was a whoa, whoa, whoa. Back up, There's
no such thing as a little heart surgery. Are you okay?
Getting better?
Speaker 8 (56:34):
Okay, but just your fun. I was over pocket and Doug.
I never cut so many trout all my life. When
was this not one in Bottlevar?
Speaker 5 (56:47):
Pocket?
Speaker 3 (56:47):
When?
Speaker 7 (56:48):
Though?
Speaker 3 (56:48):
When?
Speaker 5 (56:48):
When?
Speaker 3 (56:48):
When?
Speaker 5 (56:49):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (56:50):
First of July, awesome man.
Speaker 8 (56:52):
But not one trout over fourteen inch?
Speaker 5 (56:56):
No?
Speaker 8 (56:58):
And I made everybody was to them. But oh, next
year it's.
Speaker 5 (57:03):
Going to be great. But it I don't know.
Speaker 8 (57:05):
Maybe it's a porpoise. There was a whole bunch of
porpoise out there.
Speaker 3 (57:08):
Well, yeah, I guess what they were eating.
Speaker 8 (57:11):
Oh, I know it there.
Speaker 3 (57:12):
That's like cheetos for for bottlenosed dolphin man fourteen speckled trout.
Holy cow.
Speaker 8 (57:20):
But you know it's it's amazing. How you say next year,
next year, next year? How long does it take a
trout bad size to grow an inch?
Speaker 3 (57:29):
Not very long. When they're young like that, that'll they'll be.
They'll all be keepers next year, they'll all be if
they're around.
Speaker 8 (57:37):
Ye like every year, every year, it seems like I
catch a bunch of fourteen fourteen and a half inches.
Speaker 7 (57:43):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (57:44):
Well, you you got to start fishing at Perry's and
get out of chuck e cheese man. I know you
know you're fishing where the kids are.
Speaker 8 (57:55):
Well, that's all. I've been iron fished for a while
because of my condition. But I can remember you talking
about years ago, and I'm one of those. I'm several
years older than yell. But I was at Annawhak one
time around the side there and it was I caught
ten trout and it was seventy point seven pounds.
Speaker 3 (58:17):
Oh my god, I understand. Wow I caught.
Speaker 8 (58:21):
I had one that my line broke and I was.
Speaker 6 (58:24):
Hand pulling.
Speaker 3 (58:27):
Only cat.
Speaker 5 (58:28):
It was.
Speaker 8 (58:29):
That was the best day I can remember. Of course
I don't. I wish I hadn't kept you know, back then,
I kept my limit.
Speaker 3 (58:39):
Probably do that anymore, No, I never do that anymore.
That's all right. And look, let me let me tell
you something about being over there at Bolivar and catching
all those fourteens. I don't care who you are, if
you're a die hard fisherman, and that's just kind of
all there are right there. But they're biting almost every cast.
It's hard to walk away, it is. I don't blame you.
Speaker 8 (59:01):
No, no kidding this. And you know what I found out.
I was fishing with the morning glory. I was bouncing
and bouncing it nothing and I fell cans out there.
I started reeling in past and it just blowed the
top and they started hitting it.
Speaker 3 (59:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (59:14):
So I was stowing, you know, top water and everything else,
and it was just tearing them up.
Speaker 3 (59:20):
Yeah, that's a that's a really great thing. That's a
really aggressive feed, and it's it's really when they're on
like that where you can just rip it and they'll
catch up to it and hit it. I guarantee you
for every fish it hits that lure, there were three
more chasing it.
Speaker 8 (59:33):
I know they were right by me.
Speaker 3 (59:35):
Yeah, well, that's so cool.
Speaker 8 (59:37):
It was fun. I bet it's always been a good spot.
Speaker 3 (59:40):
It's always been a good spot.
Speaker 8 (59:41):
My biggest red fish was fifty two inches years ago.
I was waiting fishing, hooking just about dark on little fishes.
I'm sure you know what, yeah, I do, sure, double
double tandem. Yeah, it was around nine o'clock. Of course,
naturally we let it go, but you about fun.
Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Fifty two inches fifty two inches.
Speaker 8 (01:00:05):
It laid across the back of my pickup truck tailgate.
Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
I'm sure, and we measured that.
Speaker 8 (01:00:11):
We didn't weren't able to weigh it. But back then
they were catching.
Speaker 5 (01:00:14):
A lot of them.
Speaker 8 (01:00:16):
I'm sure you're familiar with Ohio Island.
Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:00:21):
And the old and the old Duty Beach to the
left down there, and they were catching some big, big
reds back there.
Speaker 5 (01:00:29):
Man.
Speaker 7 (01:00:30):
Yeah, that.
Speaker 8 (01:00:33):
I'll let you go.
Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
But all right, buddy, Yeah, I'm glad you're out there fishing,
Bob hanging there, man.
Speaker 8 (01:00:40):
I'm going to it. I'm looking to do a little
dove one. That's something years ago. I've got about one
hundred acres where I live. Yeah, and eight years ago
I had dub everywhere. I haven't seen a dove in
two years.
Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
You know that. They just they're kind of like that.
They move, man, they got wings and they find just
kind of like fish. They'll swim away from you for
a while, but they'll be back and you if there's
something for him to eat, they'll find it. Let's just
go there.
Speaker 6 (01:01:03):
We got yeah, we got a good.
Speaker 8 (01:01:08):
Little pond and all that. But yeah, you're talking about
just going out there in the evening. I don't care
whether I see it or not, but just sitting there, yeah,
just enjoying the evening.
Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
Yep, that's yeah. You and I have have evolved into
appreciation of the experience. It doesn't matter how many put
in the sack. It really doesn't. When push comes to shove,
nobody's gonna start to death that they don't hit a dove.
So yeah, yeah, all right, Bob. It's great to hear
from you, man. Yep, you have a good yes, sir,
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limits thanks man, I'll see you audios. All right, we're
running a little bit late, but that's okay. I always
enjoy talking to you guys, I really do. And it's
good to hear from Bob. I'm glad. That's a hard
thing to walk away from, especially if you're wade fishing
and at Bolivar you're probably gonna be about two hundred
yards off the beach. It's a long ways to go
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back and move down the beach three miles to see
if you can find a keeper trout. Just go ahead
and keep catching those little ones, but take care of them,
don't don't mess them up.
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Back to The Doug Pike Show, eight thirty nine on
Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thanks for
listening this morning. Let me see what, let me see
what Sloan's got to say here loves the show. Thank you, Sloan,
I appreciate that. Fish to Padre Island Pence. Last three
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weekends in the surf can confirm the abundance of baitfish
noticeably larger than past several years. Mullet and chovies and chobies.
There's a lot of stuff in that surf right now,
big and small. And I've heard that from more than
a few people, including my buddy Cliff Webb. I just
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know that if I go down there, if I pull
the trigger and take a few days off and go
down there, I'm gonna shut down the bike. At you,
I've got to be more optimistic. I'm gonna go down there.
I'm gonna claber some fish as long as we can
keep all this weather from going haywire on us. Oh what,
let me go to the phones here, Hold on, stand by.
Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
David.
Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
Yeah? Real quick?
Speaker 9 (01:03:33):
Kind of a challenging for your challenge for your audience.
Dove recipes. I am not a good cook, but I
would be interested in hearing some Dove recipes. And I've
never heard one that did not include bacon.
Speaker 5 (01:03:46):
Am I right.
Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
You know, there are a lot of good ways to
cook doves, And rather than trying to have everybody tell
you how to do it on the radio, I would
encourage you to get on the get on the internet
and just tackle a recipe at a time. Take a
half a dozen doves and cook them a certain way.
And I've had them this way, that way, bacon wrap,
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not bacon wrap, jalapeno up stuffed in there. Years ago,
many years ago, I had to cook for a bunch
of people on a Thanksgiving deal and I told them
there was going to be doves instead of turkey. And
I actually painstakingly took a bunch of doves from a
bunch of people who were all going to be eating them,
and slice the all of the breast meat off of
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them and just let you just had meat, no bones,
no bodies, no nothing. And that was an interesting way
to eat doves where you didn't have to worry about
biting around the breastbone or any of that, or trying
to pick little tiny bits of meat off the legs.
I like them just about any way they can put
them on a plate.
Speaker 9 (01:04:53):
Honestly, is there a particular type of wood or smoking
or something that works best.
Speaker 3 (01:04:59):
You're above my pay grade on barbecue, and I'm gonna
take you straight up. I'm gonna take you straight up.
You're above my pay grade on which would man, you
let me get some. I guarantee if somebody's out there
going come on, Doug, you know this, but I don't.
I don't cook that much outside, man. So if my
buddy Andre was listening, he could tell us. But he's not,
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so we'll find somebody. Yeah, I will make sure that
you get your answers. If you just hang on a
little bit, I guarantee you all right, appreciate it, you bet?
Speaker 7 (01:05:29):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
All right? I need some help from you. Barbecue aficionados.
David Cook Doves Yeah, yeah, well yeah, just what are
the tricks. I've had them, like I said, I've had
them wrapped in bacon. I've had holopenos with him. I've
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had them mixed into other dishes. The in the akom
do you well? Yeah, put them on an open fire, okay,
put them on an open you can bake them. You
can bake them, you can boil it. I don't care
how you do them. They're going to be pretty tasty.
They are pretty dark meat and what a lot of
people don't realize. And one of the reasons I did
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that for that Thanksgiving meal is because if you actually
cut all that meat away, there's a little portion of
lighter meat in there, and then that bigger that real
big thick breast muscle that allows them to fly so
far so fast, is really dark, dark red, more like
duck meat. And if you cut them all up, you'll
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see all that in there. But it's a painstaking process.
I wouldn't do that again because I did that for
like fifty or sixty doves, I think, for that meal,
and it was that was the most of the work,
was just dissecting those things. Like I was in biology class, boy,
I felt like a poacher. I know, I've got to
go to a break. I'll do that. We'll talk about that.
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When I went to powder my nose during that last break,
there's guys working in the men's room and the guy goes, no, no,
go in the ladies room. And I'm thinking, oh my god, no,
I can't do that. That's against the rules, that's against
the law. And I'd like, yeah, I just said, he
goes no, No, you got to go in there. It's like, okay,
and the whole time there's not no there are no
women working on this floor today and maybe maybe one
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security guard downstairs, and that'd be about it, right, Melvin,
Probably that's about right. But I was so scared somebody
was gonna walk it. And he's standing outside there anyway,
he would have said, they don't go in there right now.
But I just felt nervous the whole time I was
in there. I don't know why. You knew it wasn't right.
It wasn't right. You're exactly right. I just knew it.
It would be like drinking and going hunting. I knew
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it wasn't right, and I didn't want to be there.
And I wouldn't be there with the drinking and going
hunting thing, that's for sure. We are Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Doug Fike, eight fifty on Sports Talk seven ninety. That's
a that's a cool old song. I hadn't heard it
in a long time. It doesn't get almost ever anymore. Yeah,
but this is just a good fun song. That's a
toe tapper. I would say, Okay, I got all kinds
of dove stuff. We're gonna just dive right in. Let
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me see what I can find from the emails I've
gotten so far. Welcome to the cooking segment. Let's go,
uh Rick Rick Sin's only sins. This is all he
sent dove prep. I'm your guy, so I need details.
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I need details. Dennis jumps in and he says, two
of the best ways I've cooked and was fried like
chicken and cooked in a pot of homemade homemade beans. Wait,
homemade bean? How you make your own beans at home?
Are you a farmer? Dennis? Maybe I get it, though,
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I'm just joking with you. He says. I smoke them
with hickory or pecan. Yeah, that's just what I was thinking,
you know, I for some reason. Hickory for sure, pecan
for sure. I don't know. I don't know enough about
smoke to know the true difference between those two and oak.
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When you got a piece of delicious meat sitting over it.
But I know what I like when I eat it,
and that's that's where I excel is at the table
after it's cooked. I'm pretty proficient in eating doves. Any
way you want to cook them. I've seen them wrapped,
like I said, with bacon, and with a little jlapeno
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wrapped up in there too to get some a little
bit of tang in them. There's all kinds of a
barbecued that's not a bad tasting thing at all. There's
all kinds of ways to do doves, and so far,
so good. I like the fried chicken app specs. You
can bread them up and start picking that meat off
there with your teeth to get those top teeth out
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and the bottom teeth out, and just pick those little
pieces of meat off that breastbone. That's good stuff, man.
And there depending on who you ask there, either is
there isn't enough meat on a dove leg to really
go after him. I'm all about eating whatever's there, so
I don't have a problem peeling that stuff off. It
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just makes you feel it's all the more reward too,
because you've had to do a little work to get
that bite. That's some good stuff, man. Seven one three
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tell me you sent a picture. Ah ah, that's okay.
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Oh yeah, he's talking about that Padre Island National Seashore
down where, well, actually where Cliff does a lot. He
does a lot of fishing down there. He's on the
beach this morning. I might call him. He might be
wrapping up, or might be just back at the truck
having a cup of coffee or something about this time
of day. I may give them a call during this break.
We've got coming up. More on that said, dusky anchovies.
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They're smaller in size and form into bait balls typically
in the first gut, easy pickings for skip jacks and trout. Yes,
indeed they are. And the conversation this year this summer
about those skip jacks down there is that there are
unusually large ones roam in that surf, and they will
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get close enough to where you can you can entice
them without ever getting your feet wet. That's one of
the things I really like about fishing down there on
the beach. It's it's so different than up here where
you've got to if you're if you're on the beach
in Galveston or surf Side, or even east down up
down East Beach Way, well all the way over to
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Hyghe Island, even all the way back to the Sabine River.
If you're on that beach right before daylight, like twenty
thirty minutes before daylight, and can fish right up against
the beach. If there's a good incoming tide, there's a
good chance you will get bit by a big trout.
Maybe maybe a red fish, but mostly it's going to
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be trout up in there. Occasional skippies we don't our
skipjacks don't get as big, and nobody wants to catch
them anyway. But the bottom line is that's okay. You
can do that up here, and I would recommend doing
that rather than walking straight out to the second bar,
because you're probably walking through fish down south because that
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first bar or the first gut is so deep when
the tide's coming in and it's gotten close to high.
At least you don't have to go wading out there
waste even fact, you'll wade pass waste deep in that
first gut trying to get onto that bar. And there's
no reason to go out there unless you just feel
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like gung ho and you don't mind having to jump
over stingrays. Well, don't do don't jump, but just kind
of dance around stingrays and wonder whether, in the gray
light of dawn, your leg looks like something tasty to
a shark that might be rolling through there. There's sharks
all over our Gulf coast, all over the Gulf coast,
and closer to the beach than you might imagine in
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many cases. But most of the time they don't want
anything to do with us to about the same degree
that we don't want anything to do with them. Unprovoked
attacks are extremely rare, and even I don't know really
what they would call provocation with a shark bite, but
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still not enough to that it should scare you out
of the water. Go enjoy yourself on the beach is
wherever you are. There are a handful of places around
the world where I would be hesitant, especially in certain seasons.
I wouldn't. I wouldn't put on a wet suit in
California and go swimming around with the seals when when
there's great whites moving up and down there. And there
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are a few of the other places in the world.
Some South African beaches are pretty rough. Florida, Florida's had
some inci more than a few nips and bites this year,
some of which were more serious than others, but by
and large of the trillion or so exposures to salt
water and splashing around and surfing and scuba diving and
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swimming and running out waist deep to go to the bathroom.
All of that. Oh, I know, I know, Melvin. I'll
climb down for my little shark safety soapbox.
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Here we go, nine oh one. I've been waiting for
this time because one of my listeners, one of my
and I'm not gonna name him, I'm not gonna rat
him out, okay, because he made a very honest mistake.
And he realized that shortly after he sent me the
email earlier that said, Wow, Scottie Scheffler at the Tour Championship, Wow,
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sixteen under after the first round. That has to be
some kind of record, and he snapped himself back into reality.
I just I ignored it mostly. But what happened was
that Scheffler because he was the points leader and he's
just gonna walk away with this thing. Honestly, he's got to.
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I don't know how he couldn't take care of business
at the tour championship. Let me get the website up
so I can give you a full leaderboard of what's
going on over at East Lake in Atlanta. Yeah, there
we go. So Scottie Scheffler, because he was the FedEx
Cup Points leader going in, started the day when he
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walked on to the first tee. And I'm not really
a big fan of this, and I don't think Scheffler
is either. From what I've read, A lot of these
guys aren't. I think you might maybe some tiny little advantage.
But Scotty Scheffler walked onto the first tee at ten
under par I think it was Shaffley who was eight. So,
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and it's a progressive little scale going backward that gives essentially,
if you're the leader, you're given the opportunity you get
a head start. It'd be like holding one hundred yard
dash and Scheffler gets to start from ninety yards and
Showfley starts at ninety one yards, and it goes on
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down the list from where they're starting points for about
the first I think the first ten or twelve players
maybe get strokes. I don't remember how many it is,
but I would rather see them just get in there
and mix it up and at least have a snowballs
chance of turning it around for somebody a little farther
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down the list, because the guys, I mean, granted there's
only three dozen of them, are a little less than
that even over there playing. But nonetheless, the guy who
doesn't have any strokes doesn't have a chance, and they
know it. They don't have a chance to come back
and win that thing. They might trip over the guy
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who started with one or two strokes, but Scheffler and
more Cow and Shawfley, they're not They're not going anywhere,
Scotty Scheffler after two rounds now they start on Friday
and go through Monday. On this tournament, Scheffler shot six
under his first day, five under his second day, and
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now all of a sudden, after two rounds he's twenty
one under par with his with his cushion Colin Mori
Cow chasing desperately and doing a pretty good job of it.
He shot eight under par yesterday to finish at seventeen under.
With his two good round he shot sixty six, sixty
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sixty three, sixty three yesterday was just crazy on that
golf course. I don't care how soft the pins are.
Sixty three on any golf course, that's chewing up half
the holes in birdie and not making any bogies. It's
just insane. So he's at seventeen. Xander Shawfley shot sixty four.
He shot seventy on Friday. That's what kind of slowed
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him down. Shot sixty four yesterday. No small hill to
climb there, and he did it. He's at sixteen, and
then from there, so you've got twenty one, seventeen, sixteen,
and then from there it's so heth Thigala at twelve
nap time, Wyndham Clark at twelve, Adam Scott at twelve.
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To think that any of those three players, even and
they're the closest right now, To think that any of
those three will he clips all three of the guys
who are ahead of them, that's kind of a pipe dream.
I'd throw my money on those three and let you
have the rest of the field and even give you
a shot. I'll give you two shots and you can
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have the rest of that field. Because the guys are
down toward the bottom of this these top thirty guys
who made it into this tournament, Chris Kirk knows his place.
He's too over for the tournament, but he's guaranteed money
for being there, so he'll be all right. Billy Horsel's
at one, Christian Bazous bezieden Hoot at two, and it
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kind of goes from there. That's the bottom of the list.
There are only how many people in double digits? There
are only seven players in double digits below par, and
all of them are trying desperate. That can't be right. No,
let me look at this again. That's totally incorrect. Seven
players better than ten under par. Yeah, that's more like it,
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because it's almost it's it's twenty nine under par. I'm sorry,
I misspoke. Billy Horsseell's bringing up the rear at one
under par, and then Chris Kirk just can't wait to
get home. Seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I don't want to.
I don't want to linger on the race to the
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Tour Championship, in the FedEx Cup and all of that stuff,
because it's pretty well decided. I think anybody who knows golf,
anybody who knows the top three guys on that leader
board by name understands that when they're firing on all
cylinders like they are, they're they're not gonna let anybody
step over. Let's go back to these hunting tips. Shall
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wait tips for a safe, enjoyable dove hunt. It says
here from the Parks and wallap Department, And I I
accurately said earlier that most of this stuff should be
taken as coming from the desk of Captain obvious. Well,
and then here's another one. Follow state and federal regulations,
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including daily bag and possession limits. Well, that's kind of
like having your license. Okay, that's kind of like anything else.
That's just common sense stuff says, be aware of what
zone you're hunting in and what the daily bag and
possession limits are, which is a poorly constructed sentence, but
you know what. It says. Hunters must also keep their
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birds separate and identifiable from other hunters birds. This is
important if you are sitting on a fence line somewhere
and you can't really converse with your buddy to the
left or your buddy to the right, and all of
a sudden, all three of you are just kind of
sitting there together. On your stools and you're shooting birds
and you're doing pretty good, and you're tossing them in
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a pile in front of you. That is not lawful.
That is not legal. You have to keep your own birds.
It's the same way that that the but with different
ramifications that waterfowl hunters had to start doing that back
when I was guiding. When I first started out there
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on that Katie Prairie as a guide, you were back
in the back and your dog was bringing the birds
to you, and you just stacked them up, and you
kept the dark birds separate from the white birds because
there were lower limits on the dark birds, and you
just wanted to make sure you didn't go over as
a group. And then the law, well, the law didn't
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really change so much as it got recognized for enforcement
a little bit more, especially among the federal game wardens,
and they'd come out and say, whose birds are these?
There'd be a big old pile of snogie sitting there.
Whose birds are these? Well, they're hours, and the game
wardens would have to explain to everybody, no, they're not.
Everybody's responsible for their own birds. So as a guide,
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at that point we had to start throwing. If there
were four guys in front of us, we kept four
piles of birds, actually a fifth because we were also
allowed to take our own, but we had separate piles
for everybody. And that, in hindsight, that's probably as it
should have been, because that's the best way to manage
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that resource so that everybody gets to enjoy it. Because
if you've got let's say, for and I know some
people who did this, especially on duck hunts, because they
loved the taste of ducks. They would go out and
they'd bring five or six little kids with them. Everybody's
got their license, or everybody's got whatever they're supposed to
have to be a lawful hunter. But half of those
people in the blind don't know how to don't even
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know what end of a shotgun to hold, but they
got a license. So their ducks are coming home with
everybody too. And that was clearly taking advantage of the rule.
And so that rule, all of that's been put aside.
And believe me, when game wardens are out there watching,
if there's there's any reason for them to suspect you,
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and they know where you are hunting, they'll sit there
with binoculars long enough that you'll eventually, if you're gonna
do something stupid, you'll eventually do it within their line
of sight, and then they'll come walking in to say, hey,
how's everybody doing. I'm really I'm kind of a stickler
on all that stuff. I really am. If I can't
hit my birds and I'm not bringing them home, and
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if you can, and you say, hey, you want me
to get yours? No, now, I'll just go home and
practice some more and become a better shot. That's all
it takes. And that's just another good excuse to go
shoot your guns. I can't encourage enough to get kids
out there too. This is on their list, and anytime
I see get kids outdoors, I'm all in one hundred percent.
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Their way of saying it says, bring the kids. Involving
children and hunting is vital to continuing the hunting heritage
of Texas. Warden's recommended eye and ear and hearing protection
for children and adults, which is great idea. Even though
the kid's not hunting. If they're a round shotguns, especially
on a dove hunt, put them in some shooting glasses
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so that if a stray pellet does get them, they
don't end up going through life with the loss of
vision in an eye, speaking of kids and going in
the outdoors. I got a great email that I want
to share, and I've got just about enough time to
do it. Let me get back to it.
Speaker 6 (01:25:26):
Is this it?
Speaker 3 (01:25:27):
That is not it? Let me go check this one
over here stand by. Oh, I think it's this one
all the way out at the end very quickly. From
Kevin Hey Doug. Just thinking about my grandparents who taught
me the love of trout fishing and redfish bay. Back
in the mid sixties. My brother and I would spend
a week or two with them every summer after my
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parents took us on the long drive from Beville, or
a couple of years later when my dad got a
promotion to the little bit bigger small town Kingsville to
my grands home in Corpus Christi. My grandparents were my
age now I'm sixty six, and I marvel at how
they took us fishing every day that we were there
with them, up at five in the morning. Some days
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we're running the nineteen fifty five thirty five horse Johnson
seahorse in the fifty five gallon barrel to flush the
salt water out at ten pm next day, they did
it again. My grandfather, I like this description, A barrel
chested badass who started that motor, pull started that motor
until he was almost seventy. I inherited that motor, still
(01:26:35):
have it, and I couldn't do that when I was fifty. Unfortunately,
his mahogany sixteen foot boat that we loved so much
as long ago falling victim to the weather. I will
never forget those days or the love of my grandparents,
and I hope other kids growing up today had the
experiences that I had. What a great story. Elvin Man,
(01:26:57):
that cool? Oh my god. I guarantee you if you
if you got Kevin sitting in this room, he could
recall some of the most minute details, little things his
experience like that. He'll never forget that. Yes, you reading it,
I was there. It's cool and it Yeah, it really
is cool.
Speaker 5 (01:27:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
I wish I'd written that. Huh by Doug Pike. Just
thinking about my grandparents. Now, I wouldn't do that. That's
too good a story. I'd never take credit for that one.
I did have wonderful grandparents, and my only regret with
my grandfather growing up down there and spending summers in
Pompino Beach, Florida. Was that I didn't pay attention. I
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was always fishing, and he loved it. He had always
helped me find what I was looking for in his
tackle box or take me to the tackle shop or whatever.
But he was a brilliant man mechanically, and he was
an engineer for AT and T and help create some
of the first trench just continent trans in little power
lines that went from New York to Miami. The phone lines,
(01:28:03):
not power lines, but phone lines. And that's what he
did for a living his whole career and then retired
down there in Florida because when he got from a
little farther north down there, he figured that was a
better place. And he built racing engines, He built his
own boats from scratch, hydroplane racing hydroplanes. And I spent
(01:28:25):
more time fishing than learning from him, And that that's
that's a regret, because I would have known so much
more than I do now about how things work and
why things work and why they don't work, and some
of it rubbed off. I would I would always go
out in the garage and just see what he was
doing and try to learn, but he was I was
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really too young to get in there and understand what
he was doing, like trying to rebuild an engine out
of an old junk car that some cool engine he'd found.
He'd just take the whole thing apart and clean it up,
all up, and put it all back together and replace
what was broken and turn that into a little hydroplane
racing engine. And one he had stacks of trophies. I
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still got one at my house, one of his first
place trophies from a long time ago. And I know
I'm late, and I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Melvin all
the way out. We are Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (01:29:21):
The conversation continues this as The Doug Pike Show nine two.
Speaker 3 (01:29:26):
It is on this Saturday morning, one day that's less
than a day now from the launch of a probably
pretty muddy depending on where you're going, dove dove season.
It's it's normal. If you don't have rubber boots, you
can't call yourself a dove hunter in Texas. Pat what's up, buddy?
Speaker 10 (01:29:46):
Oh how you doing, Duddy?
Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
I'm good man.
Speaker 10 (01:29:50):
So my dad calls me the other day and he
hasn't He used to be big and trap and skeet
and uh sure he hadn't shot in a few years.
He's getting up there and he's like, uh, do you
want my burretta over and under? And I'm like, yeah,
I do. And so here's my question to you. I'm
gonna haven't shot clays in twenty years. I'm gonna go out.
I listen to you, I'm gonna go out to America
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and get some lessons.
Speaker 3 (01:30:11):
Good.
Speaker 10 (01:30:14):
So, besides some glasses and a shell pouch, is there
any other accessories I might need?
Speaker 3 (01:30:20):
Get something for your ears. Don't let your ears get
grown up? Okay? And there are some really good, relatively inexpensive,
battery powered earphones like the ones I wear were like
seventy bucks or something, maybe eighty, I don't know. But
they allow you to hear everything. You can hear a
(01:30:41):
a gnat passing gas on the next field, but you
also cannot be hurt by the sound of the shotgun. Okay.
So you gotta have hearing protection, even if it's just
little phone plugs. If you don't want to, if you're
not gonna be doing it much and whatever, but it's
good to go ahead and invest in that, or your
ears will end up like mine and you don't want that.
Speaker 5 (01:31:01):
Yeah, I've got some. I mean, I've got some.
Speaker 10 (01:31:03):
But the electronic ones though, that's I think I might
just step up.
Speaker 3 (01:31:08):
Well, even if they're not elect even if they're not
electronic ear muffs that those are better than the phone
plugs and you just can't you know, you might have
to say I'm sorry, what'd you say? Once or twice?
But that's it, So don't Okay, you don't have to
get that. I would definitely get that shell bag to
just and just get something entry level for right now.
You don't know how long you're gonna stay with it,
(01:31:29):
and if you go spend it too much on it,
you'll you'll regret it maybe later.
Speaker 10 (01:31:35):
Yeah, No, I got I mean I saw the the
shell bag of thirty bucks.
Speaker 5 (01:31:38):
So that's my big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
No, not when you're getting the gun for free. Pat
holy cow, good for that.
Speaker 10 (01:31:43):
Yeah that's a beautiful gun, I'm sure modified and yeah
the uh that's the one he used for the last years. Okay, great,
Well that's.
Speaker 3 (01:31:50):
Got choke tubes, got everything you need.
Speaker 10 (01:31:52):
Oh yeah, it's got one of those fully adjustable stocks
on it home and everything that.
Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
Is you about that because if that gun doesn't fit you.
You can take all the lessons in the world and
all it's gonna do is either either just bite your
cheek every time you pull the trigger, like the gun
I shot in Argentina did. Or it's you know, it's
just if it doesn't fit, it's not fun because you can't. Really,
It's kind of like golf clubs. If your golf clubs
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don't fit you, you're not gonna have fun playing golf.
You'll be fine, though. It sounds like if you can
adjust that stock especially and get the instruction, that's gonna
expedite your your proficiency tremendously. It really will.
Speaker 10 (01:32:32):
Yeah, I know, like I said, I'm gonna look. The
gun is gonna make me look like I know what
I'm doing, so i'd like to, you know, go ahead
and try to.
Speaker 3 (01:32:41):
That's like Kobe Stevens golf shirts. Man. When I walk
on the golf course, everybody goes, God, I bet that
guy can play, and then I just kind of hang
around and make sure nobody's looking when I swing.
Speaker 10 (01:32:52):
Hey, golf has a dress, sharp play sharp.
Speaker 5 (01:32:57):
Dog.
Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
When you get out to America and ask to say
hi to Ed ORIGI that's the guy who owns a
place and just tell her what I said. Hello, way
you all right?
Speaker 10 (01:33:04):
Thanks many many.
Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
Yeah, it's a good guy, he really is. He took
that place. It was good before, and then when he
bought it several years ago. Now he kind of made
up his mind he was gonna make it even better.
And he's just done nothing but that since he took over.
He added sporting clays courses, he added just more of everything,
basically more of everything. And now it's the second or
(01:33:30):
it's the largest non military shooting facility in the entire
state of Texas. Great people out there too, great instruction,
great safety. All of that matters. If you ever get
told by the way at any gun range to stop
doing something, rather than even think about challenging the range officer,
just say yes, thank you for pointing that out. I'll
(01:33:52):
never do it again, because their job is to keep
everybody safe, not just babysit you. Okay, you need to
be You need to know the rules before you even
walk onto the line about when you can uncase your gun,
when you can when you can move around holding your gun,
because there's a reason for all those rules, and if
(01:34:13):
you ignore any of them, you could end up hurting
somebody or yourself and you don't want.
Speaker 6 (01:34:19):
To do that.
Speaker 3 (01:34:20):
Ah, I let me go back to these rules here.
I talked about the limits. I've already talked about this,
but since it's on on this sheet, well, this is
a good This is a good point as well, and
it really won't apply so much now that we've had
all these clouds and rain, but nonetheless, at some point
during dove season in the next two weeks, it's going
to be hot as blazes out there. And this one,
(01:34:42):
the bold type header says be weather aware. And I'm
gonna probably add something to this. Elevated temperatures will likely
continue through the first part of dove season. Well, it's
not going to be blistering hunt, but it'll be it'll
still be warm. Being aware of temperature, staying hydrated, and
taking proper precautions is vital. Yes it is. If you
(01:35:03):
feel dizzy or begin to exhibit signs of heat exhaustion,
holy cow, And they don't have that written here, but
let someone know and find a spot to cool off.
First of all, you should never let yourself get to
that position. You need to be hydrated the day before,
you need to be hydrating today. If you're gonna hunt
doves tomorrow, okay, you need to be hydrating tomorrow. If
(01:35:26):
you're gonna hunt doves on Monday, be a day ahead.
Same with golf. If it's super hot, your tank needs
to be full the night, the night before you go.
And if that means you got to get up a
couple of times in the night, well you're an old
man like me and you just have to do that.
But be very careful about that. And watch also for
(01:35:47):
especially with the situation we've got around here weatherwise right now,
with this big chance of rain coming for the next
couple of days, just watch for thunderstorms and don't find
yourself three four hundred yards from your truck when all
of a sudd sudden, some just ink blue cloud comes
rolling your way and you're lightning bolts or cracking all
around you. Just go ahead and ease on back to
(01:36:10):
the truck and chill out until that passes. Says, don't
forget about your fore legged friends either. They're talking about
your dogs, and I don't know why they anyway, make
sure you bring plenty of water for them and monitor
them for heat stress as well.
Speaker 2 (01:36:26):
You gotta have.
Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
It's not a bad idea if you can, if you
can rig it up just right to bring like a
big golf umbrella even or something like that. You could
find one in Camo if you got online. You couldn't
get it by tomorrow, but you could get one and
have that so the dog can find some shade and
establish that shade when you get there, so that the
ground has a chance to cool off two or three
(01:36:48):
degrees as you get started. There's all kinds of ways
to keep that dog safe. But if you make a
mistake and mess up and lose your dog, like a
couple of friends of mine have over the years, to heat,
that's that's just inexcusable almost, And I feel sorry for
people that happens to, especially for the dog. But if
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they had, if they had paid attention earlier and taken
measures earlier, that would never happen. It's kind of like
a gun gun malfunction, they're extremely rare and it doesn't
take much to do all that you can do to
keep it from happening. I would say probably ninety six
(01:37:33):
ninety eight percent of gun malfunctions are because of user error.
They forgot to put the safety on, they forgot to
they didn't clean the gun. They didn't didn't realize they
had tried to run a twenty gauge shell up into
a twelve gauge barrel and gotten it stuck up in there,
(01:37:53):
and then they pack a twelve gage shell behind it,
and bad things happen. Same with rifles. You got to
make sure you got the right ammo, especially if you
own a lot of rifles. The more rifles you own,
probably the less likely you are to make a mistake,
I think, because you're aware that each of them takes
the a certain ammo. But either way, whether you own
(01:38:16):
two rifles or twenty rifles, you got to make sure
that what you're feeding into that gun is exactly what
it takes and nothing different, because if even the slightest
intolerance in a cartridge going into a chamber can cause
the whole thing to blow up in your face, quite literally.
(01:38:37):
Very few. There are some handgun rounds that can be mixed,
and I don't even want to go into them right
now because I don't want anybody to say, well, he
said this when I said that, So just yeah, if
it's going to say on the barrel of the gun,
what the caliber is the rifle or the shotgun and
that's all you want to put in there. That's it.
(01:38:59):
Don't try to feed at something else. It'll throw up
on you. Oh boy, okay, And that's a good way
to think about it. And when a gun throws up,
it's gonna leave a mark. I'm slash credit card.
Speaker 1 (01:39:12):
We are Sportstock seven ninetyes Houston Sports. Where you go
with iHeartRadio Now now get more Doug Hi, Welcome back
Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3 (01:39:25):
Man. I don't I don't know how to tell you,
but and this is good news. I'm looking at the
Weather Channel's projections for today on where this rain that
was supposed to generate sixty seventy to fifty eighty percent
whatever chance now tomorrow is supposed to be a little
bit worse. But what it is is we've got this
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little thing that caused the formation of a yellow x
on the National Hurricane Centers map just pretty much right
off of Matta Gorda. It's not not supposed to really
develop into anything tropical, but it's gonna be a rain maker.
It's gonna be a steady rain maker for the next
few days still. But knock on wood right now, all
(01:40:13):
the way to three pm. It shows us, and by us,
I mean from Beaumont to Austin, to San Antonio to
Corpus Christy to Galveston, sitting in a hole that doesn't
have any showers in it, and major showers anyway. Everything
that looks ugly and nasty is east of Beaumont and
(01:40:37):
trending in that direction. Though I'm not promising it won't rain.
I'm not promising you a worry free round of golf
today or a drive to the beach. But knock on wood,
at least for now, it doesn't look horrible. It doesn't
look horrible, So go look for yourself, make your own decisions,
(01:41:01):
and don't blame me if it rains on you. It
don't Kyle Lee. Uh And again, this stuff really only
shows kind of the the big, bigger stuff, the heavier stuff.
But man, I'm just showing relatively little or nothing after
about eleven o'clock four and up until three o'clock, and
(01:41:23):
they're really behind it, kind of trying to do my
own projections of weather. It doesn't look so bad, doesn't
look so bad. Now I've got to change my plans again, Malvin,
I don't know what I'm gonna do. I was all
dialed in for this uh big grudget, well known. Never mind.
You know I told you where I was headed today
and it doesn't matter, doesn't matter where It'll be fun.
(01:41:47):
I know it will be seven seven ninety email me,
dug packet, iHeartMedia dot Com. Let's go see what's in
the mailbox? Shall we? And uh Rick uh uh yeah,
that's very true. Rick weis weighed in on golf, which
is a little bit unusual, but his son Clayton plays
(01:42:07):
a lot and his goal as his mind, as is
that of many golfers, especially amateurs, is just not hit
two bad shots in a row. If you hit a
bad shot, throw it over your shoulder and walk away
from it, forget about it. That's really good advice. That's
something that professionals do better than most is their ability
(01:42:31):
to forget. Short memory is of tremendous value, tremendous value
in golf. Wanted see what faux pro sent me here?
And my daughter now crowding thirty years old, loved going
fishing and hunting, even when she was too young to hunt.
She enjoyed putting out, putting out and picking up decoys.
(01:42:53):
Where was she when I needed her, nothing like free
labor in the duck marsh? Lee, How hard did she work?
That little girl, bess? Pic was her first bass. Let's
take a look at that. Where'd it go?
Speaker 5 (01:43:05):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:43:05):
I bet this is it right here? Come on, picture,
come up? I want to see it. I'll have to
look at that later. Oh no, there it is a bit.
There comes a picture of something. Don't you just love
it when computers are slow? I don't not at all.
Oh wow, that is a little baby girl sitting there
with a bunch of dead ducks. Holy cow. She yeah,
(01:43:28):
Now she didn't go on that duck hunt. She's dressing
her pajamas and sitting there with a with a table
full of dead ducks in front of her, and got
the biggest smile on her face. But then she wake
up that early in you know they just did They
didn't dress her, just take her straight to the blind. Yeah,
just come on, we're going we're running a little bit late.
(01:43:50):
Be sure to put on your your heavy little socks
because you're going to be out there in that marsh
throwing out those decoys. Oh my word, Forest, Oh you's
got a nice fish too. Is that if that's her
first bass? She caught a bigger bass for her first
than most grown men do. Good for her, Good for her.
(01:44:10):
You got a good one there, for sure, and she
got a good dad who was willing to invest the time.
Because I know what it's like to take kids in
the outdoors. It's not you have to. And this is
something I tell a lot of people. What happened to
my clock, It just would berserk. The main thing you
have to do is realize that it's not about you,
it's about them. And when when friends of mine say, yeah,
(01:44:34):
I'm gonna take my son fishing, and I tell them,
then then leave your fishing rod at home. Oh no, no, no,
we're gonna fish together. Dude, your son's eight years old.
You're not gonna fish together. Either he's gonna fish and
learn how a little bit from you helping him the
whole day, or he's gonna be disappointed because you're gonna
(01:44:55):
get wrapped up in fishing like I know you're about
to do. And I've talked a lot of grown men
into just you just gotta swallow hard and say, Okay,
this is for the kids, this is this is my legacy.
I'm gonna I'm gonna make my son a better fisherman,
and Lee either leave your fishing rod in the rod
holder for most of the time until they take a
snack break or something. Then it's your turn. But until then,
(01:45:19):
teach them how to fish. That's your responsibility as a
good outdoorsman. That's the way I looked at it with
my son, and he's he's not bad at it. He's
not bad at it. All right, we gotta take a
little break here on the way out.
Speaker 1 (01:45:31):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the go with
iHeartRadio Friends. You've got to try the conversation continues this
as the Doug Pipe Show.
Speaker 3 (01:45:41):
All right, welcome back, Doug Pike Show. The fourth and
final segment of the third and final hour starts right now,
and we're gonna start it off with Brandon. If I
can get myself over here real quick, let's go, clickity clack,
there we go. What's up, Brandon?
Speaker 7 (01:45:55):
Good morning, mister pie carry all this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:45:58):
I'm good man, good hey.
Speaker 7 (01:46:01):
I'm gonna tell you something. When it comes to kids
and taking them in the outdoors. You think you're not
planting seeds, But I got memories from my grandpa, my uncle,
my dad. Oh yeah, And I mean you think you're
not making a difference, but you are absolutely and it's
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and it's called patience. You put yourself to the side
and invest time in the kid, and it makes a difference,
be male or female, whether it be male or female,
and they will they'll remember it, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:46:41):
No question. And you're right to call it an investment
because that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 7 (01:46:46):
And it is, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:46:47):
And if it if it turns out right in like
four and Faux Pro's example, for example, or Faux Pro's
daughter for example, she's gonna end up being the one
taking him fishing when he can't quite at the boat
on the trailer and can't quite do all that stuff.
They'll spend some time outdoors somehow, some way. Right, that's
what I'm banking on with mine.
Speaker 7 (01:47:09):
I understand, sure, man, it is, And I mean you
just got to put yourself to the side and teach him.
Speaker 5 (01:47:15):
And it's all.
Speaker 7 (01:47:16):
Called about how would you say it, manners? Or what's right?
And what's you know, what.
Speaker 3 (01:47:25):
It's right and wrong? It really is. There's so many
examples in the outdoors of doing the right thing, or
some people they'll see over there over their lives doing
the wrong thing. And if you've taught them the right way,
you don't really have to worry about him so much.
You really don't. That's the way I'm I worry all
the time about my son. He's our only child, and
(01:47:48):
he's out driving all over the place and just he
thinks he's about five years older than he is, and
you know, and it just scares me to death sometimes.
But I just have to think back and say, Okay,
you've taught him about this, you've told him about that,
and and I have confidence that he'll make the right
decisions and knock on, so far, so good. You know,
(01:48:09):
he's a good kid.
Speaker 7 (01:48:10):
He really well, that's I mean, that's a fantastic deal.
And if you hang around with people that are from
the outdoors, they have morals and they have standards, and
I mean, if they start hanging or hanging around that
kind of a crowd versus the wrong crowd, then that's
the best. That's the best thing that you could ever do.
Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
I'd rather have him, him and a buddy riding around
fishing buffalo bio or some little stock pond somewhere than
walking around the mall all day, for sure.
Speaker 7 (01:48:40):
Exactly. Yep, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
Thank you, Brendan, appreciate to call me in yes, sir,
all right by, Yeah, that's that's kind of a good
way I can. I can make it all the way
to the end talking about how important it is to
get out there and and help these children, young people
learn about the outdoors. And it's not This is something
that I've been talking about for a very long time,
(01:49:04):
and I'll never quit talking about it because it's not
something that you have to be the expert at. One
of the things. I used to get quite a few calls.
I haven't gotten one in a while, but if anybody's
listening and it's thinking that along this line, by all means,
please do call me. I used to get calls from
women who would say, you know, my husband and I
(01:49:26):
split up, that I've got custody of my children, or
I get them on the weekends or whatever, and they've
talked to me about going fishing, but I have no idea.
I've never been fishing. And that's actually every bit as
good an opportunity for a bonding experience, for a lesson
experience as if you were a professional fisherman, because as
(01:49:50):
someone else that's brand new, you can teach them. The
value of educating yourself, the value of investing research get
online is just tell that child, Okay, I'm taking you fishing,
and the child might respond with, well, you don't know anything.
(01:50:11):
You've never caught a fish. No, I haven't yet, but
neither have you, and we're going to learn together. And
then through that process, you spend some time together reading
about fishing on the internet. You spend some time together
walking through the fishing department at wherever you're going to
go buy your tackle. You send some emails to me
(01:50:32):
and I'll help you find a place where you can
go catch your first fish. There's all kinds of ways
you can make this a great bonding experience between a
parent and a child. If both parents are in the house,
all the better. Everybody goes fishing, let's all go, let's
all learn together, And what a fantastic way to tie
(01:50:55):
each other into something that you can continue doing for
the rest of your life. It's like golf, but you
don't have to deal with all the cursing that goes
on with golf when you hit a bad shot. You
don't have to worry about your language. You're not gonna
You're not gonna go into a tirade if you lose
a fish. I hope there's so many lessons that can
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be taught disappointment. How to handle disappointment. You got a
big fish on the line and it breaks off. How
do you handle that disappointment? Do you whine and moan
about it? Or do you just retie your line and
go try to catch another fish? All of that's easy
enough to do. You just have to you just have
to do it. Boy, My battery's running low. This thing
(01:51:39):
goes a little bit quiet right toward the end every time.
I'm gonna let it just rest a little bit. On
the way out of here. So dove season opens tomorrow.
Boating season is open all year round. Both of those
things require some paying attention to safety. I hate to
(01:52:00):
go back on my safety, Sam soapbox on the way out,
because all kinds of good stuff is boy, the dominoes
are about to fall. The fishing is gonna get better
because it's fall coming up. The hunting seasons are starting,
and it is a great time to be alive in
Texas as an outdoorsman. I will be back tomorrow. Dan
(01:52:22):
Matthews is up next Sports City Saturday, and we'll go
again tomorrow d eight o'clock. Thanks for listening. Audios