The Doug Pike Show 9-15-24

In this episode Doug talks about fog. What is fog good for? How will it affect your hunting this season on teal and dove? Once you reach you limits on teal what should you do? Doug will let you know. Can you say, practice. Coastal fishing is the trout population getting better?  Doug talks about how big the trout should become over time. Listen to see if you agree. The question is: If you could only hunt in one region of Texas where would it be? Callers chime in and analyze the best places all over the state of Texas. 

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Ah right here we go Sunday edit year. The program
starts right now.

Speaker 4 (00:15):
Thank you all for joining us, whether you are on
your way to or from the teal blind, on your
way to church, on your way to breakfast. If you could, Melvin,
if you could leave here right now and you had
a pocket full of money and could go eat breakfast
anywhere you wanted and order anything you wanted.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Where would you go big breakfast, big breakfast?

Speaker 4 (00:43):
I would definitely try to find when you're overthinking this are.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah I am?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
I am?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
You know why because you said anywhere anyplace?

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Well, I'm looking for an old school Shawnees shonies. Yeah, okay, yeah,
Oh a breakfast buffet. Yeah I could. If I started
doing breakfast buffets and I had the time, I'd probably
double my weight in about a year. Because I can

(01:13):
do that. I can sit down. I could sit down
to an omelet, and that omlet is gonna be flanked. Well,
it's gonna be a plate by itself, because it's gonna
be pretty big, and I'm gonna have to go back
for a second plate, might get like one pancake because I.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Know they just fill you up.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Yeah, and you know there's not that much reward from
a pancake.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
God ex Benedict. Yeah you like that? Oh yeah, that's
good stuff, Camellias Grill. Yeah, you know who.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Early when my son was very young, he took cooking
classes every summer and would make for my wife and
me some amazing things. And I'm talking about seven, eight, nine, ten,
eleven years old. And one day he's he asked if
he could make dinner and I and I said, yeah,
you bet, And he said what do you want?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
And I said, I don't know. What do you got?

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Man? He said, I could make you eggs, Benedict, I said,
really nice? Really, he said, I said, what do you need.
I'll be right back. I'm the head of the grocery store.
And he actually ended he makes his own holiday sauce
in the whole bet Man, Yeah, it was that was
a pretty good one right there. Nice pancakes are easy,
no brainer for him. We could still cook. He doesn't

(02:30):
as much as he used to. We have it's a
complicated thing. But anyway, he's he's quite the cook, and
I'm sure he'll make somebody happy someday when they realize, Eh, way,
I don't have to do that.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
You'll do that great, I'll clean the dishes. It worked
just fun, all right.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Shall we get to the out of doors good heavens,
let's go, uh bit of an eyeball start the teal season.
The last two days we had a few straight dry
days around here, which hasn't if that had been extended.
If it had gone back for a week and a
half or two weeks of dry, it may have been
an issue.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
But we got enough water.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Around here generally in the last week or well in
the last three weeks to get us off to the
good start we wanted to get going with.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
That was a clumsy sentence there. I apologize.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
We had enough water basically to hold the birds, and
there were plenty of tear deal here even as early
as what three weeks ago. Quite a few birds and
a lot of it have gone south, but there are
more right behind them, and by and large, everything I've
heard is that there are plenty of birds around here.
It's just hard to see them through the ground fog.

(03:40):
That a lot of guys have had to deal with places,
and actually the low ground has been a little cleaner.
The high ground's been a little foggier. For some twisted,
weird reason. We've had moisture coming in from all directions,
even from the west, which is very unusual. And wherever
you get moisture meeting weird air temperatures, you have a

(04:05):
tendency for clouds to sit on the ground.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
And when they sit on the ground, and we call
that fog.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
And any waterfowl hunter knows that a ground fog now
a good thick, heavy cover of fog that goes way
away up, fantastic for goose hunting, not so great for
duck hunting, and certainly not so great for teal hunting
in any event. But ground fogs just kind of the worst.
The birds don't want to get up and move around,

(04:33):
especially teal. They tend to fly fairly low over their
feeding areas, and if they can't see where they're going,
that could be a problem. I could see slowing down
in the fog myself do it every time there is
any All in all, though, it's been a very good
opener to the teal season. The only issue is having
to wait a little longer for the birds to fly,

(04:55):
and kind of like we talked about yesterday, I don't know,
I don't know why it is. There's this there's this
thing when we were talking to Mitchell Holder from Waterfowl
Specialties about teal season, there's this thing among teal hunters
where you're expected to have gotten a limit of birds.
That's a given almost in teal season, unless you're just

(05:16):
a horrible shooter, or you ended up on the wrong pond,
on the wrong property or whatever, some horrible thing has
befallen you and your buddies, or you got a limit,
and then the next question is how long did it take?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
How long did it take you to get your limit?

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Man, we were out of there in eighteen minutes, We
were out of there in twenty three minutes.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
We got our birds. It took us almost an hour.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
And these guys will sound disappointed because five of them
were out there and it took them almost an hour
to limit out on teal. Maybe I few were better shots,
Maybe you'd get out of there sooner. Maybe if you
just not keep worrying about how long it took you
to get your limit, as though being out in the
field with your friends on an early morning during teal

(06:09):
season was a bad thing to be That's okay, it's
a good thing to be out there. It's fun to
be out there. I used to get try to. I
would encourage my teal hunters when I was guiding. Most
of the people I had out were decent shots, and
during teal season, because you get so many opportunities, usually
on a good spot, it doesn't take very little time

(06:32):
to fill out that limit. But after that I would
encourage them to just hang around and just watch the
spectacle because without the pressure of thinking, oh my gosh,
I hope I don't miss again, Oh my gosh, I
wonder if I could get two with one shot, all
these things are racing through these guys heads, and during

(06:52):
teal season that happens a lot. When they bought the
big water birds will come through the decoys and just
as you raise up, as soon as they movement among hunters,
they kind of ball up and turn and change a
different direction. And if you make the right shot at
the right time, and I saw it happen more than once,
it's quite possible with one shot to knock down three

(07:14):
or four teal and it would drive you crazy because
all of a sudden, you got one guy who shot
all the ducks.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
He can shoot in the day either way.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
If you just stay out there, just unload your guns,
sit back, practice your calling, practice you're hiding, do all
these things.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
See what it is.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Just see what you can get away with without scaring birds.
That's something else that's kind of fun to do, is
see I see if they really do flare when you
just turn your head a little bit and expose some
skin to bright sunshine. When you move an arm, when
you wave a barrel a little bit, See if it
moves those birds, if it really does, or if it's
just if it takes more, you find out what you

(07:58):
can get away with.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Learn something. For haven's sakes.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
You're you're right there in the classroom and the teachers
coming through the room every five minutes, and you're not
asking questions because you want to get back to the
bus and go home.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
That just makes no sense. It's fun to be outdoors it.
Embrace that.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
And if you so, what if you're the first one
back to the little cafe to get eggs, and well,
you're not going to get eggs. Benedict at a little
cafe in the country, I think that's probably a safe bet,
you think, Yeah, I don't know if they do that
at Denny's. Do they do ex benedicta Denny's. It seems
somewhat oxymoronic. No, I haven't seen that on the me

(08:40):
and you.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
They should.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
They should try it. It's not that hard to make.
I'm sure you can buy Hollandais sauce by the by
the tub. Yeah, you can go to probably go to
Costco and get a five gallon bucket of Hollandais sauce
for a nickel. Oh man. Yeah, So being out there
is fun. Bring some snacks.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
We used to.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
We used to throw empty holes at at teal every
now and then if they were buzzing the decoys close enough.
Nobody ever hit one, and I don't think anybody ever
expected to. But that's a totally different, totally different exercise
in futility. Mostly seven one three two one two five

(09:23):
seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Ground fall.
It's just the worst. And during the regular waterfowl season.
It's not the end of the world. During the early
teal season here, because that stuff will burn off, and
when it does, the birds will move unless You're just
in a horrible place. Unless you're in a in a

(09:47):
Denny's parking lot set up, you're probably gonna see some
peal if you're out on that prairie or down along
the coast somewhere. Not bad, not bad at all. Little
breeze wouldn't have hurt either. The wind this morning. Hold on,
let me look real quick, let me get back to
a current. I'm gonna hit the little refresh button to
make sure. I don't think I've ever seen as many

(10:09):
zeros on the board, by the way as there were
about thirty minutes ago or an hour ago.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Still a bunch.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
I'm looking for double digit wind, and I don't think
I'm gonna find it anywhere in this region. I'll scroll
down a little farther to South Texas, all the way
to the bottom. Oh man, there it is, right there,
the outlier Laguna Madre South. And I'm talking about so
far south you can throw a rock into Mexico.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
That's eleven miles an hour.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Everything else I can see along the entire coast.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Let me get over to Louisiana.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Okay, there past the Sabine River, and I'm gonna go inland.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
It doesn't matter. It just keeps getting calm or going inland.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yeah, it's all single digits, and I honestly have never
seen as many zeros.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
So it's calm outside.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
If you're going to a place that's got a lot
of mosquita's, just dip yourself before you get out of
the car.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Beautiful day though for.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Fishing, Oh my gosh, I wouldn't mind being on the
bay on day like today, although it is going to
be kind of warm southwest wind up here, it's got
as much west in it as it does south in
the Galveston Bay area. You farther down the coast you go,
it actually turns to due south, and then down around
Corpus somewhere it starts to get a little east back

(11:25):
in it. So clearly there's circulation out there, not storm circulation,
but just circulation of air in a very deliberate pattern.
I don't know how long that's going to hold up,
but it looks pretty dog on good for today, looks
pretty dog on good. Coastal fishing, by the way, continues
to get better and better. Even as early as we

(11:48):
are into this three fish limit against that tighter slot
two fifteen twenty, it seems like most fishermen already are
they're either seeing really or wanting to see or thinking
they see improvement in the trout population.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
I think it is improved. I think it is.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
There are clearly gonna be more fish in the water
today than there would have been if we had not
changed the limit, because in most cases, anybody who was
able to catch three probably could have kept.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Going and caught five. It's not that hard to do.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
If you're on fish and you can knock out three
of them in a reasonable amount of time, you can
probably get the other two to make five. Well, if
you're leaving those forty percent of that five fish limit
back in the water, they're gonna be there. They're gonna
get to go make babies, they're gonna get to get bigger,
all of those things we wanted to do.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
And it looks like it's working.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
And the best part, from what I'm hearing up and
down from guide friends and from people who were kind
of had hands on and getting this thing, getting this
thing passed, the best news is that a lot more
fishermen seem to be coming on board with the eye
idea of three fish at fifteen twenty because they realize

(13:05):
they're already beginning to realize the benefits of that middle
coast showing a lot of like three to five pound
fish up here. There's just a lot of speckled trout. Now,
not everybody's catching them, because not everybody knows what everybody
else knows. But there are plenty of fish to catch
all the way up and down the coast, and it's

(13:25):
only gonna get better.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
And I can't wait.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
I can't wait this winter, you mark my words.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
This winter from about Matta Gorder down, we're gonna see
already see an increased number of big trout. And by
big trout, i'm talking about twenty eight plus, not talking
about twenty threes and twenty fours. We'll see some twenty
eight's more probably than we saw this past few winners
and then two winners from now, barring any catastrophe, we're

(13:55):
gonna see lots of fish that big, lots more thirties,
one thirty two's. It's gonna be a fun time to
be a fisherman around here. Also a good time to
be a hunter. Hunting seasons opening right and left.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
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Speaker 3 (14:14):
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Speaker 2 (14:16):
This is the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
Hey twenty one on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Why did the name Peeblebruston come into my head? Then?
Who is that?

Speaker 4 (14:24):
That's not Peeble Bruston? Is George Benson? George Benson? Oh man,
I had like every album that guy ever did. I
love that music. He was good, really good, good composer
and a good musician. Obviously, let me go to get
to our day because he's been holding a long as Rick.
Hang on, you'll be right behind Dave. Oh, it's not working. Okay,

(14:48):
let me put him back on hole. You did something else.
I don't know what you did, Melvin.

Speaker 6 (14:54):
I heard you.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
We go now? Yeah, I got you?

Speaker 7 (14:57):
What's oh?

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (14:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (14:58):
Yeah, yeah, I heard the Dean.

Speaker 10 (15:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (15:00):
I'm sitting here on the Levaca River right now. There's
a bridge over here, so here's something banging. That's probably
the cars coming. But I've been listening to hunters hunting
all around here. Now there's a railroad track to my right,
and there's a big bridge to my left. And then
a gentleman he just came up here. He's chunking an

(15:20):
artificial I can't see exactly what it is, but he
says he catches red fish, ears, pick tad, all kinds
of stuff. Where are you, uh, Leva River?

Speaker 11 (15:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, buddy, but I think
it goes into Levoca Bay or whatever, you know, right yeah,
on one side fresh the other side of salt, you know.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Oh yeah, he says.

Speaker 9 (15:41):
There's a lot of crabs here. So that's what I'm
gonna be doing. I'm just gonna piddle around and I'm
looking at a turtle head up here in front of me.

Speaker 6 (15:47):
Right.

Speaker 9 (15:48):
Oh, something just hit the water over there. Something just
jumped out of the water. Hey, and it it slicked.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
His glass wind in the whole state of Texas.

Speaker 9 (15:58):
Hey, if I if I had that glass drum with
that one fifteen on it going down here, I'm telling
you what, you better slow it down because it's like
a mosquito on top of her. You know, I'm not kidding,
but no, uh no, everything's going good. Uh. We're getting
a lot of stuff packed up for her move. That'll
be on the fifth of October. Yeah, so I get
I'm gonna be that back down here next week and

(16:19):
now next weekend, I'm gonna bring my ride and reel in,
uh you know, and fishing. I got about five boats,
five six boats and traders.

Speaker 6 (16:28):
Here.

Speaker 9 (16:28):
We've got another boat and trailer pulling up right now
fishing the launch. And it's that shallow boat too, you
know what I'm saying. Here, and got real high sides.
I mean it's like a step in one. It'll step
in uh showers, you know. No, wow, yeah, you know,
it ain't that high. It's about four or five inches
on each side. And it's real little profile.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
But those are fun boats to fish, they really are.
But not if you're crossing an open bay. You gotta
hug the shore lines with those things. Man, They're like
little potato chips.

Speaker 9 (17:00):
Yeah. And I'm looking around the front. On the front
of this one, it's got these a little bit them
handrails on it, I guess, so you can hang on,
you know, hang on to on those boats. Yeah. No,
but it's beautiful out here. Now. I hadn't seen any
I haven't seen any birds right now. But like I said,
I've been seeing oh wait a minute, I saw two seagulls.

(17:22):
But uh, you know, other than that, I've been hearing
the guns going off again, you know, since I since
I pulled in here. But man, it is beautiful.

Speaker 12 (17:30):
Oh.

Speaker 9 (17:30):
I've been seeing a lot of Yeah, I've been seeing
a lot of I don't know, Chad or whatever. I've
been seeing a lot of bait fish at the top,
you know.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
And so it's a good day to be a big
fish and a bad day to be a little fish.

Speaker 9 (17:47):
Around here, there's a bunch there's a whole bunch of
cotton balls laying around me over here. I guess it
five flies off them trucks because there's time fields all
around here.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, I wonder how much of it.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
I wonder how much it actually makes it to the
to the to the spinning wheel, you know, you see
it all down the highway going to South texass like that.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah, that's that's where you are.

Speaker 9 (18:11):
Man, Hey, Well and here I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
I've been along day len to stop and you know
at one of the cotton deals over there, and I
was gonna get you know, just see, give me like
just a handful of them, because whenever she gets moved
in over there, I'd like to uh plant something, because
I feel the season here right now, you know what.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Yeah, that wouldn't be a bad idea.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Plant your own cotton, you make your own socks.

Speaker 9 (18:37):
Dave, No, I just I wash it real good and
use it for putting on alcohol, would cut or something
that'd be good.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Run man, catch before we get to the bottom.

Speaker 9 (18:49):
Get on with it. And I've got a lot of
friends that are girls, but only got one girlfriend. Okay,
all right, I wanted to clarify that.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
Man, audios. I got a lot of friends who are girls,
but I only have one girlfriend. She's probably tapping him
on the shoulder. Hey, yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Where did Rick go? Rick bailed on me?

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Come back, Rick, I am trying to I'm trying to
get something sent over to faux Pro. Faux Pro and
I are are plotting a fishing trip. I don't want
to say when, but in the near future we're plotting
a fishing trip and hopefully we can pull it off.
I'll tell you what else I'm looking forward to trying

(19:31):
to do is meeting Aaron down there in South Texas.
He and I we look like it looks like we're
gonna just beat like ships that pass in the night,
trying to meet up down on that North Padre Island seashore,
and I would. I would love to do it, but
I think he's going to be coming back about the
same day I'm planning to go down there, So maybe

(19:52):
we can just honk at each other on the on
fifty nine or seventy one or whatever. Seven one three, two,
one two five ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia
dot com. Don't forget dove seasons also open. We haven't
said a word about doves. And this isn't really bad
bad weather, certainly not whether there's no bad weather for
doves unless it's pouring down rain or any kind of hunting.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Really lightning.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Lightning, I think is the ultimate get out of the
field quick card right there. I don't mind. I don't
mind a little breeze. I don't mind a little water
falling on me. I dealt with enough waterfowl hunts getting
rained on to last a lifetime.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
And it's not so bad when it's not super cold.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
But on days when it's thirty five and starts raining,
that's no fun. I can remember some of those. That's
that's one of the reasons I did like teal season
so much. There was it was guaranteed you weren't gonna
be cold. You might be a little chilly. If it
was really really breezy and you opted to hunt in
a T shirt that morning, which a lot of guys

(20:56):
did back then, it wouldn't It wasn't bad at all.
You're out there hunting, just like I was talking about earlier.
You're out there in the field. Embrace that. Make sure
you're prepared to do that. Make sure you're prepared to
stay out there a little bit of time. Don't just
go out there thinking, Okay, I'm just gonna be out here,
get my limited heal before I can finish a cup

(21:16):
of coffee, and then it's back to the car and
back to town and back to Wait a minute, what
am I racing back to again? That's better than being
out outdoors with my friends in the field. No, they's
nothing better than that. Bring a bumper, let your dog
do a little work, and get a little seasoning on
that dog before it gets before it gets straight up

(21:39):
waterfowl season when they've got to start chasing ducks and
geese one hundred, two hundred, three hundred yards away. All
kinds of things you can do to enjoy the outdoors,
but first and foremost, you got to be there can't
enjoy the outdoors from the couch. There's no football. I've
never watched a football game from the outdoors, Melvin of you, Uh,
that was a really yeah. I'm not talking about being

(22:02):
in the stadium. I'm talking about like being on a
fishing or hunting trip and then saying, you know, I'm
gonna put my rod down so i can watch the Texans.
Oh no, no, no, thank you very much. That's what
I'm talking about. All right, man, Well.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Let's take this break.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Get to get Steve to hang on through the break,
and he'll be first up when we get back ninety.

Speaker 5 (22:20):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety Houston, Sports online at
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Speaker 2 (22:27):
Back to the Doug Fike Show.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
All right, here we go, hey thirty four on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
We are what half an hour?

Speaker 10 (22:35):
Then?

Speaker 4 (22:35):
Well we're twenty five percent. We've rounded first base. That's
all we've done. And I'm gonna get back to these
phones too. Let's see if this is gonna work forcey time. No,
it's not lit up down there, Melvine. You're gonna have
to click steam through. I don't know what causes this.
I really don't, Hey, Steve, what's.

Speaker 8 (22:50):
Up man, Hey, buddy, I have It's been a long
time since I've been able to call in, but I
still listen every weekend.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (23:00):
Look, I don't know, I don't know if you know
this or not.

Speaker 8 (23:03):
I had to really search, but uh, Cookie Pepper died
last year.

Speaker 12 (23:07):
Yeah, you know, I grew up fishing with Kerr Lloyd
all my life, basically on the West End.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
But I'm going to bring up a really sad top.
They get your take on it, then a native Fustonian
and learning and reading.

Speaker 9 (23:26):
You know, when Bristol was.

Speaker 8 (23:27):
Writing and Shannon was writing, were writing, and I could
pick up the Chronicle every day, go the back page
for the Outdoors Report and look at Wins Todd schedule,
here table all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, it's gone.

Speaker 8 (23:44):
And I just think it's a travesty. It's big of
an industry that's here in Southeast ext but they can't
put that in the damn paper.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
That is that's very deliberate on their parts, and they
just they don't think anybody can really. Yeah, if they
thought they could make money off of it, they'd still
have somebody writing outdoors full time.

Speaker 6 (24:05):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
And at one point there were four of us writing
full time outdoors and.

Speaker 7 (24:09):
Filling up who was who was the fore point?

Speaker 8 (24:13):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (24:14):
It was Joe Doggett.

Speaker 12 (24:16):
That's it.

Speaker 8 (24:18):
That's right, that's yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
I'll let him know.

Speaker 8 (24:21):
You never wrote for the Post, did you?

Speaker 9 (24:23):
No?

Speaker 4 (24:23):
No, no, not one, not one word and nothing against them.
You know, we knew those guys, who knew them well.

Speaker 8 (24:30):
Well back in the day. They're there, they're sports Rider
better than the Chronicle. Okay, I mean you had Skowitch Yeah,
th Bucks Again, I thought they're they're writers were better,
but that was way back on the sixty right, Yeah,
so yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
I wish we had that.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
I do, man, I did those fishing fishing reports for
a very long time.

Speaker 8 (24:53):
And you can go online on your phone and get
somewhere here and get.

Speaker 9 (24:59):
Some but it's not one location.

Speaker 8 (25:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
Well, one of the biggest problems with trying to support
that for newspaper now, in fairness to the papers, is
digital online stuff. But they should have more outdoor stuff
online than they do. That wouldn't be hard to fill.
That would not be hard space to fill. They could
fill it with decent writers if they'd pay them, and

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they could have a little bit of an outdoors presence.
But they've just chosen to go a different way.

Speaker 8 (25:28):
You're doing your piece for the Saltwater Sportsman.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
Yeah, I finished the one I just was working on,
and now I'm gonna pitch them another story I got
in mind them.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
See what happens.

Speaker 8 (25:38):
Oh, I'll have to Ben, I'll have to resubscribe. I'll
let it last, but I'll always enjoy the last page.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Well you know what, Well they gave that up. Actually
they they dissolved the humor column. Oh wow, I appreciate
your kind words. Yeah, it was a shame for you.

Speaker 8 (26:00):
Talking to your trying to be a little old rager
and call it.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
There, your buddy. All right, let's get Rick on the phone.
Click Rick, what's up?

Speaker 7 (26:15):
Good morning.

Speaker 9 (26:16):
Well, I've already uh kind of worked with Major Melvin
on my crows. See if you was gonna be able
to hear my crows out there, he said he couldn't
hear them. So I'm trying to tune up. But because
it's not time yet, because it's too green. It's on

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one thing you can never do.

Speaker 6 (26:39):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (26:40):
Maybe there was accession here or there, but need I
need a hard frost so I can get I used
decoys and and I need some leaves to be falling. Yeah,
but anyway, I was just tuning up with the cause. Uh,
I found them with no control. Then I lost. Yesterday
I found in that and saw the picture I sent you.

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I sent you a lot of pictures of my group.

Speaker 9 (27:04):
Yesterday.

Speaker 7 (27:05):
He saw Travis's ducks. By the way, I just got
a text from him. He said they already had about
thirty five this morning. I texted him back, I said,
I hope you got a lot of hunters with you,
and he just sent me a smiling face. Now I
know he's not he's gonna be legal. It's it's your
company ranch and it's customers. But evidently he's just he

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built he built that duck sanctuary for his company that
he works for.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 7 (27:33):
And yeah, yeah it is. And uh, the only one
he saw my brother's fish.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Ye fish.

Speaker 7 (27:42):
Yeah, and he realized the only one was doing any
work was late.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, everybody else of his labor.

Speaker 9 (27:57):
Yeah, that's that.

Speaker 7 (27:58):
It was kind of funny. We've had have a fun time.
It's a family joking about that. But anyways, I've set
by one last thing. Last night, I set by fire
on a uh a ranch that I used to own.
I've sold it and then I've resold it and they're

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all hunting. And so anyway, they've invited me and my
wife to come. Last night, my wife couldn't come, and
so I go just for a little bit and was
set by the fire. And these are all guys that
are they're great, they're I mean, they're great outdoors. Then
they're they wear suits and ties during the week, sure,
but they are great outdoors, very very yeah. The question,

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oh yeah, I mean the world's love of the question
come up. If you could live and and and hunt
anywhere in the state of Texas, what region or what
geographical landmark.

Speaker 9 (29:00):
Would it be?

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Wow?

Speaker 7 (29:02):
Now here was the thing that jumped out at me.
They all, all of these guys, there's about eight of
them there. They all own homes on the coast, right.
They're big fishermen.

Speaker 12 (29:19):
Take sure.

Speaker 7 (29:22):
Not one of them said they lived on the coast.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (29:28):
That caught me off guard. They asked meybe, they said, Rick,
wherever was you go? I said, well, all of my
most of my adult life, I love I am literally
in love with that Avasota River Valley. It's got anything
and everything you ever wanted. And I've owned four or
five ranches either touched that river or it was so

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close I could hit a golf ball to it. But
if I had one place and I had to go
get stuck there for a while, I would move west. Uh,
you know, And they kept painting me down tight, and
I'm like, well, I said, man, I'm just I don't
know what it is. I know there's water problems in

(30:11):
some cases. They sure like that lamb pass this country anyway.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah, that's yeah. I don't mean to cut your short, great.

Speaker 7 (30:17):
Conversation to talk about.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
I want to bring it back up when we get back. Okay,
stand by, Yeah, thanks man, Thanks Rick, all right, let
me get Alan before Gosh, poor Alan, Poor Allan.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
He was there. I had him, I had him, and
then he had to bail Alan. Call back.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
I'll get you on first, first rack, first rattle out.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Of the box. When we get back. I promise we are.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Sports Talk seven ninety. Listen online. That's Sports seven ninety
dot com.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Now more Doug fights Virgil Ward. How old is he
may not even be around anymore? So that faux pro
thought that would fool me or trick me or what. Yeah,
that was faux pros that I'm too young. I'm too
young to remember that he might be old enough for it. Yeah,
that was so what what was that exactly? From? I

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can't It was a fishing show? Yeah, yeah, virgil Ward
outdoor fish and tails, fishing tails, yes, and shooting a plank.
Oh okay, okay, I'm in I'm just not that old forest.
I'm sorry. The world of Virgil Ward. Yeah, Virgil Ward
of the name I do remember, all right. I promised

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Alan when we would get to him first, Alan, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 8 (31:37):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (31:37):
I can't get him up there? You got to do it, Melvin.
There we go finally, only cow man, what's up?

Speaker 8 (31:46):
Now? You know?

Speaker 12 (31:46):
I do remember Virgil Ward. That was probably one of
the first fishing shows I ever watched, was Virgil Warden.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
I'll tell you a very a very short story about
fishing shows and whatnot, and it ties back into what
we were talking about a minute ago with outdoor writing
around here and whatnot. Many many years ago, but long
before I even started at the paper, Bob Brister had
an opportunity to do some outdoor segments for I think
it was Channel thirteen, and he got it and he
was doing all his own filming and whatnot. And one time,

(32:15):
because he thought it would be a better vertical shot
than a horizontal shot. He's out there with the camera
and he turns the camera ninety degrees and shoots his
whole episode like that, and he thought it was going
to be awesome. And when he got back the TV
people said, well, no, we can't turn that. So he
ended up doing like almost a disclaimer before the show
that said, Okay, get comfortable. You might want to lie

(32:38):
down on the couch with your head sideways to watch
this episode, because that was the only way they could
err it.

Speaker 6 (32:47):
It was.

Speaker 12 (32:49):
Stay your TV up, Yeah, oh yeah, turn your TV over?

Speaker 3 (32:54):
What's up?

Speaker 9 (32:54):
Hey?

Speaker 12 (32:55):
So I just wondered if anybody out there, maybe because
because you know, I've spent most of my life in
the hillcutry hunting and now I'm in East Texas, which
is a hold and holding another different animal.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 12 (33:10):
I'm just wondering if anybody's if anybody's seen any You
haven't seen any acorns on the ground or anywhere, maybe, man,
if anybody out there it's noticed that there's any acorns.
Because I really hadn't seen a lot of deer, and
I realized I hadn't been really cold and I'm just
curious if they're in the in the in the hardwoods
eating acorns or what's up with that.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
You know, it's interesting that you ask about acorns because
I have four big oak trees in my front yard,
and my trees, for some reason, tend to produce about
five times more acorns than anybody else's oak trees around me.
I don't know why that is. But I don't have
acorns on the ground right now either. Yeah, I mean,
I didn't think about it, but yeah, there's nothing, absolutely

(33:53):
nothing that's interesting.

Speaker 12 (33:55):
I'm just like I said, I'm just wondering because I
was reading some East Texas forums and a lot of
people are talking about the deer and the hardwoods eating acorns,
and I'm thinking, well, I haven't seen the acorns on
the ground.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
I guess they ate them all where you are, huh,
I mean, like whatever, So that's more unusual. Yeah, that's
that's the kind of thing that I drive up and
down that driveway every single day, and last year and
the year before that, I think both those years I couldn't.
I had to get them pressure washed. I had to
get the driveway pressure washed to get all the stains
off of them. And this year there's nothing but concrete there,

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little sticks that wind blows out of the trees.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
Mr.

Speaker 12 (34:34):
Yah, you know, I'm thinking it hadn't really rained. No,
so they're not going to start rotting like they normally would.
But all right, so I'm just wondering.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
Well, that's a very good question. We'll see if we
can get an answer before.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
It's all over.

Speaker 8 (34:47):
Sounds good.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Thanks, thanks, thanks for hanging around, man. I appreciate it.
All right, let me get that clicked out of there.
Oh yeah, you got to do that moment.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
Seven one three two, one two five seven ninety two
questions Now, where have all the acorns gone?

Speaker 8 (35:00):
Or?

Speaker 3 (35:01):
Well, we know the deer didn't need them all. That's
almost impossible.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
I could almost if my trees get any older and
more mature and keep producing, I could almost open an
acorn farm in the fall and sell to deer hunters
who want to haul them out to their deer leases.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
There's just that many of them falling in my yard.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
Rick's question is if you could only hunt one region
of Texas, where would it be?

Speaker 3 (35:30):
I would the.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Die hard water fowler in me says coastal Prairie. I
just have this deep rooted affection for the coastal prairie.
But then I would feel like I was cheating on
South Texas, maybe cheating on North Texas. I don't know
if you've ever deer hunted North Texas, but it's pretty good,

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and it would be a toss up between South Texas
because of the quality of the deer hunting and because
of the history in South Texas where on some places
still you can't hardly take five steps without tripping over
an arrowhead or a scraper or something like that. I'm
fascinated by the history of South Texas. But then again, man,

(36:16):
those pintails whistling through the decoys and or over ragspreads
like I got to experience last year down at Waterfowl
Specialties with Mitchell on that Duck's Unlimited hunt. Holy cow,
that the duck season was closed when we were down
there shooting geese, and of course because it was closed,
the pintails both days that we hunted just put on

(36:38):
spectacular shows coming through the decoys.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
It was amazing, just amazing.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
And that's that's one of my favorite hunts of all times,
is pintail hunting over ragspreads. Boy, they they meant it
was one percent really cool. Then seven seven ninety email
me Dug Pike at I heart meat.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
I don't think the hill country would be my one
and only choice if I had to make a one
and only choice. I do like big deer, and I
mean big bodied deer.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
I do like.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
I do like coastal fishing, so I'd be just too
far away from that.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
I don't know. I don't know. I do know. We
have to take a break, though.

Speaker 4 (37:26):
Let's do that. We'll take a little break here. I'm
gonna go through a couple of these emails. I'm looking
at alan ways in your oak trees are probably in
the sewage lines. No, that's not why I have more acorns. No,
that's disgusting. Something even the deer wouldn't need acorns drop.

(37:46):
This is this is rick. Acorns drop when the tree
is stressed from drought and wanting to reproduce Mother Nature's
Mother nature is amazing. We've had a wet year, so
maybe they're not going to produce as many acorns. I
really don't know. That's pretty good, ah, Dennis, Yeah, I
didn't think about this. Transpacos mule deer whitetail blue quailing ducks.

(38:10):
That's not a bad that's not a bad for yeah,
cap'n Scott. Coastal live oaks are full of acorns, just
starting to drop with that big win last week.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
I'll get back to these in a minute.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
We got to get out to this break properly before
Melman has to do something crazy.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
At the top of the hour.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
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Speaker 2 (38:39):
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Speaker 3 (38:41):
Right, second hour the program starts right now.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
Is going through some more of these emails in here,
cap'n Scott, as I mentioned going out, said, my coastal
live oaks are full of acorns and just starting to
drop with that big win last week. My old house
in Paarland had two live oaks that produced the way
you're do. I used to sweep and rake them into
five gallon buckets and take them to the deer stand.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
He said it worked pretty well. I bet it did.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
I feel like I had a couple of years during
the lives of these trees. Are thirty one, thirty two
years old, thirty one years old?

Speaker 3 (39:16):
Maybe right?

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Now, and there have been years when I swear I
could have filled a dumpster with acorns and then had
that dumpster emptied and filled it again. It just every
time I turned around and I'd use a blower on
them and get him out and get them out of
my sidewalk and back into the yard whatever.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
And yeah, it was tough. Dennis waded in.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
Earlier in the program when we're talking a little bit
about goose hunting and how sometimes that can be very uncomfortable,
and I couldn't agree more. Picking up frozen rags and
if you don't know what that means, you didn't goose
hunt enough to learn, and be glad you missed it,
because frozen rags were hard to pick up. You knew

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you were just dropping as much water as you were
ragweight into that bag. The bags of old plastic rags
that we used to use a history lesson for those
of you who are using fancy full body decoys and
all that stuff. Now, we would take a roll of
banquet cloth and cut it, and there were many ways
to cut it, but this stuff is three feet wide.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
And if what we would do is take an.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
Eighteen inch wide piece of plywood that was about three
feet wide, and put sticks on either end and create
handles on either side of that thing, and then roll
out that one hundred yard roll of banquet cloth onto
that form that piece of wood, and then just make
one slice just all the way to the middle, and

(40:53):
what would fall to either side would be thirty six
inch square rags which were perfect size to sit up
on rice stubble. And so you would you would get
out there and drape these things over the rice stubble
or bean stubble. And we had some really good hunts
over just that simplest setup back when there were a

(41:14):
million waterfowl just on the Katy prairie and we'd we'd
just knock it out of the park a sack of
dry rag. The big decoy bags held about two hundred
to two hundred and fifty dry rags that until they
got wet, only weighed maybe I don't know, maybe twelve
to fifteen pounds tops. They were very light loads, very comfortable.

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You could actually you could when you got where you
were walking, if you were tired, you could just lean
back and it was almost like leaning into a bean
bag chair. The minute those things got wet, though, whether
it was dew on the ground, fog in the air,
sudden downpour, whatever it was. You start packing those wet
rags back in there, and for every every one rag

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that you put in wet weighed about the same as
ten dry ones, maybe more. And that same bag that
weighed twelve fourteen to fifteen pounds maybe on the way out,
now it's at about forty pounds. And it was almost
impossible to get that stuff out of the field, Oh
my gosh. And when they were cold and wet, it

(42:20):
was even worse, especially if you were one of the
hunters like I had a lot of who didn't bring
any gloves into the field. By the time you got
about half a bag of rags stacked up, your fingertips
were numb and you were wishing you'd done something different
that day.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
Oh man, wet, cold.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
Some of the things we exposed ourselves to out there.
In hindsight, it wouldn't be it wouldn't be on a
top ten list of things that'll keep you healthier. But
it didn't kill us, so it just made us stronger.
Someone three two one two five seven ninety email on
me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. Alan going back to
his amphis on the Yeah, okay, I know where fertilizer

(43:02):
comes from. I do, Okay, Yeah, I know, I knew,
everybody knew. But it's breakfast time, allan, So we're gonna
skip over all that and go to golf. The Solheim
Cup ongoing currently on the golf course out there at

(43:23):
the Robert Trent Jones Course.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Wait a minute, let me get to mine and where
are my notes? Here?

Speaker 6 (43:28):
There?

Speaker 4 (43:28):
It is Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Georgia.
Twelve points up for grabs today currently the United as
well as of yesterday evening.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
None of the matches has finished yet, but we.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
Are up ten to six on our way to hopefully
fourteen and a half points at least. That's that's the threshold.
The first team to fourteen and a half wins. Oh man,
we've got haul for the europe I'm looking at her
take a little.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Swing going into I don't know what hole they're on.
You're not telling me.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
The bottom line is the US currently leads two matches,
the Europeans lead three matches, and two more matches also
on the golf course still or now are tied. So
that's seven of the twelve matches that will go out
today and we lead in only two of them. Now

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that's plenty early. It's plenty early, and the Europeans have
the taller of the two hills to climb to try
to win this thing.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
But it's gonna be worth watching.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
I think it will be more interesting at least than
the Pro Corps Championship out in NAPA. That's where Pat
and Kaziar's up by four going into this final day.
It's his tournament to win or lose really on the
They're playing at the North Course, on the North.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Course at Silverado Resort out there.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
Kaziar's at eighteen, David Lipski at fourteen, then Hughes, Sig Connors,
and Fishburne all at thirteen, with I suppose a legitimate shot,
and then a bunch of guys trying to just boost
their checks but probably without much shot at winning the event.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
So that's what's going on in.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
The world of golf in current events, at least we
can call it that. Boy, Yeah, Nelly Corda down one
to It's not Catherine Hall. That's who I played golf
with at the Women's US, which was one of the
championships held at Blackhawk. I got to play in the

(45:27):
pro am that day. Many this is many years ago,
probably at least fifteen eighteen year No, it have to
be about twenty years ago, because I know my son
wasn't born then. I and Rob Logan went out there
with one more. I can't remember who else joined us
that day, but we had a blast playing alongside her
and now her sister the other hole, and I can't

(45:48):
remember her first name. I apologize anyway. That's who is
who is one up on Nelly Corda right now. I
have no doubt that Nelly Korda can write that ship
and win that point for us.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
Given the little bit of time that she's going to
need to do that.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
I want to go back to what Rick was saying
he had been asked, and I'm going to ask you
guys to kind of keep throwing in some ideas for me.
I've had several good options put forth. The latest one
was the trans Pacos. I think I mentioned that just
before we went out here. Mule deer, white tails, blue quail,
and ducks. That's that's everything but saltwater fishing, which which

(46:23):
I really like a lot. And gee said, not a
whole lot of geese in the Transpacus, but nonetheless, the
options given for their make a strong case for it.
So what geographic region, what region of Texas would you
like to hunt? And we're not talking about fishing here.

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We'll leave the salt water out of it, because that's
a big draw for me. It's like a huge magnet
pulling me toward the coast no matter where I am,
but just for hunting purposes, and you can hunt everything
that's available in that region. Which region would you choose
to do the rest of your hunting for the rest
of your life in in Texas? Seven one three two,

(47:06):
one two five seven ninety email on me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's go ahead and take this
break early. I'm gonna go get a fresh cup of coffee. Uh,
hopefully somebody's made a pot. Did you make a pop
Melvin or No? No, I didn't make a piet. But
did you take the pot the cup that you got
and take it to the kitchen and warm it up?
I sure did. I had to put it in a
microwave for about a day. That might have been from

(47:28):
last night. I don't know, man, I don't know your.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Rockets and Astros live here we are Sports Talk seven ninety.
The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
Welcome Back Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. All that,
and I was just so busy looking at emails. I
forgot to go get that cup of coffee.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
What a dope. Oh well, I'll do it on the
next break.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
I have a couple more coming up here seven one three,
two one two five seven ninety. Email on me Doug
Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let's go ahead and get
Brandon on the phone. He's been paid aatiently waiting. Hey Brandon,
what's up man?

Speaker 10 (48:03):
Good morning, mister Pran carry you this mark good.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
I'm thrilled. I'm a little tired.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
I stayed up for the entire Astros game and playing
out there on the West Coast, it just it just
knocks me sideways. I have to stay up till after eleven.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
But they did win. In case you missed it.

Speaker 10 (48:20):
I did miss it, so at least they not. At
least they knocked in sideways.

Speaker 4 (48:25):
Yeah yeah, and well the Mariners won too, all the
more important we had to We needed to win that
one to maintain our lead over them. And for more
good news, Kyle Tucker finally got he got his first
home runs. It's June one when he got hurt. That's
just the weirdest thing. And now he's still only playing
every other day.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
We'll see.

Speaker 10 (48:43):
He's a good hearted players are good hearted people. That's
the way that Texas people are.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Sure, well, what's on your mind?

Speaker 10 (48:52):
No, I was gonna you said, what what are the
two or what is your favorite spot in Texas? And
I want to pick two out. Had a privilege. I
was born and raised, as you well know, in South Texas.
I've been on a number of different ranches. And everybody thinks, well,
South Texas, a big Buck's going to walk out from
every behind every tree. No, that's not the case. I

(49:16):
mean when right right, but when one steps out, I mean,
whether you shoot it or not, you always have that
picture in your mind. And the other one I would
say is the hill country because you're not going to
have the big bucks. I mean, yeah, I mean things
have changed, but I mean it's the scenic stuff. It's

(49:37):
the fitting by river or wherever you're at, Turkeys and all.
It's just a it's a variation. Texans a very diverse
I mean, it's it's a great it's a great deal.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
Because it's as big as five or six states.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
You could you could carve this into carve this state
into five or six smaller ones that would still have
significant size, and they're all own their own ecological region,
their own The hill country would have the relief. You've
got the ups and downs, and there's some beautiful, beautiful
views in the hill country. Just over every hilltop there's

(50:13):
another beautiful view. South Texas scruffy stuff. Well, you gotta
be tough whatever that. It's true that whatever, everything down
there will either sticky or bite you, and so you
got to be on your toes. But the reward for
going down there is just like you said, you may
end up seeing a really really big buck, and whether
you shoot it or not, you have that memory and

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nobody else is going to get that memory. It's yeah,
I don't know the piney Woods. There's nothing wrong with
the piney Woods. A deer hunted up there too, And
it's just different from South Texas.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
It's different from West Texas.

Speaker 4 (50:49):
I think West Texas really is the most unique of
them all because there's just about nothing out there. When
you stop and think about it. But then if you
if you go out there and actually get out of
the car and start walking across a two mile pasture,
you're going to see things that you had no idea
were there when you were just shooting through there on

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iten wondering if you'd ever get to New Mexico.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
That makes sense exactly.

Speaker 10 (51:15):
Yeah, yes, sir, that's what I say. That's what I
like about Texas. It's very diverse. If you're an outdoor person,
you can go anywhere and just pull off the side
of the road and just I mean, there's no telling
them what you may see and may not see.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
That is so true of Texas.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
And it's so big that you might see anything from
a lizard to a mountain lion if you sit there,
or even to a bear. We've got more bears in
Texas than we have had in probably the last hundred
years now, and that's something.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
I don't think.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
I'm scared of running into a bear in Texas, but
I think if I saw one, I wouldn't really be surprised.

Speaker 10 (51:57):
Correct, Correct, Man, I've got one other question.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
I've got a man.

Speaker 10 (52:02):
I've got I've got a man that I go to
church with.

Speaker 7 (52:05):
He wants to.

Speaker 10 (52:06):
He wants to take his grandson out and here as
far I mean here in Wharton County, as far as
where I'm at in the East Bernard location, I cannot
We don't have a whole lot of dub But he
wants to take his grandson out to a hunt. So,
if there's any God or anybody that's listening, he wants
to go to the El Campo area or any area really,

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I mean, if somebody wants to chime in. And hopefully
Gary is listening to this, because he does listen. Uh So,
if somebody wants to chime in and where I mean,
he just wants to spend time with his grand.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
Sure you got access to a pen right now?

Speaker 10 (52:47):
No, sir?

Speaker 6 (52:49):
Sir?

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Well yeah, how's your memory?

Speaker 10 (52:52):
I got yes, sir, how's I've got it?

Speaker 9 (52:55):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (52:55):
You got it?

Speaker 4 (52:55):
Okay, here we go, Yes, sir. Two eight one seven
four one eight eight eight.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
You got it?

Speaker 4 (53:06):
Okay, I've got it seven four eighteen eighty eighty at
seven four four eighteen eighty eight. That's Mitchell Holder. That's
the guy I talked to just yesterday. He is an
outfitter out of El Campo. He's got plenty of and
I bet he can take care of your guy.

Speaker 10 (53:20):
Okay, that's all I'm worried. I mean, he just wants
to take his grandson. That's what gets me the most,
you know.

Speaker 4 (53:27):
Yeah, gotta find a place for them. I'll do anything
to help grandsons and grandfathers.

Speaker 10 (53:32):
So that was two eight one seven four four eighteen
eighty eight. Yeah, all right, thank you, mister.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
You bet, thank you, see you all right?

Speaker 8 (53:42):
Man?

Speaker 4 (53:43):
Moving on seven one three, two one two five seven
ninety you mail me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
There are, boy, when.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
You think about it, the state is divided into ecological regions.
You got the trans Vegas, you got the piney Woods,
coastal Prairie, hill Country, all of them and they are
each legitimately unique enough that if you go to them,
if you drive through them, you'll see why they've got

(54:11):
the names. They've got the coastal Prairie. Boy, that was
a good shot right there. Holy cow, these women can
flat play golf. These are the best, the best that
Europe has and the best that the United States has.
But I saw them making putts yesterday that were just
lights out. That that was one of the drags on

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women's golf that I saw over many years was their putting,
and that was what I believe, and I didn't look
it up statistically, but I felt like the women's putting
was holding them back from shooting better scores. And the
more I watch in the more recent years, and say

(54:53):
in the past six or eight years, the more puts
they're making from even from long distance. I saw some
twenty and thirty footers dropping in yesterday. Of course I
was watching highlights, but nonetheless, the skill levels are ramping
up right in parallel with everything else that's going on.

(55:13):
The equipment's better, the instructions better, and why wouldn't they
be better, and they are. They're clearly better. It's a
much better product to watch because of that too. I
like seeing people make putts. I like seeing people jar
approach shots. I like seeing people hit long drives. The
women don't drive it as far as the men, but
they're not far behind, and especially the biggest hitters on

(55:36):
the women's tour are right up there with some of
the shorter hitting players on the PGA Tour. Someday there's
gonna be some fun, fun competitions between the two, and
I hope that we don't have to deal with some
of the stuff that's going on in other sports. With
golf much it's already happening, but I'm not a big

(56:01):
fan of that. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Rick sent me an email with a video. I gotta
see this. Let me see what it is. See if
I can open it. Oh, it may be a photo. No,
it's a photograph, I think. And it's a photograph, It's
gonna be a bunch of teal.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
I just know it.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
TikTok, open up.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Come on.

Speaker 4 (56:23):
My laptop is on its last legs. I'm gonna have
to trade it in and get a new one. I
just it doesn't want to open up. It's a video extension.
I can't do it right now. I'll have to do
it back at my desk later on and send a
and send out a report I suppose to somebody about something.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
I want to go back.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
I want to go back to fishing along the coast again,
and emphasize the importance of what the decision to go
from five fish to three statewide at fifteen to twenty
and you can only catch one big one that it
is already having an impact. It already is in the
in the minds at least of fishermen. Most fishermen, there's

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always going to be the outlier who says, I'm gonna
do this for the rest of my life and I
don't care what they tell me to do. I think
they're wrong, and i think I'm right, and I'm not
going to listen to them, and they'll they'll never agree
with anything that the Parks and Walleife Department wants to
do if it means they can't take home a fish,

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and those guys are just out there and there's nothing
we can do about them.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
And so long as somebody is, so long as somebody's.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
Buying a license and playing by the rules, I don't
have a problem with what they use for bait. I
don't have a problem with win or where they fish. Again,
it's all got to be legal. But if the Parks
and Wallefe Department clears it, then I'm okay with it.
And that's that's that's part of the croker deal. We
talked about that some yesterday as well. Crokers for bait.

(57:55):
I'm not a fan. I haven't put a croker on
a hook in a very, very, very long time. It's
probably been maybe fifteen twenty years. I'm using my son
as the barometer because I remember things I've done with
him and things I did before he was born, and
I don't he's never thrown well, he may have thrown

(58:15):
crokers for bait with some of his friends, but he's
not thrown them with me.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
And so it's been at least sixteen years then.

Speaker 4 (58:27):
But yeah, all of that stuff, as long as it's legal,
I don't have a problem with it. Now that it's
not legal to keep more than three speckled trout, now
that it's not legal to keep one over twenty inches
unless you want to use that tag on a twenty
eight plus watch, and see, just give it two good years.
If we can get through two good years with no

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hiccups in the weather, that upper end of trout fishing
is going to be phenomenal. We're going to go back
to see in schools of big fish in Galaston Bay,
in Trinity Bay and East Bay and West Bay, there
were times when it was legitimate to the legitimate plan

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to leave the dock in the morning in the wintertime
in West Bay and say I'm gonna try and go
out there and catch an eight or nine pounder. Didn't
happen often, not nearly so often as in Baffin Bay,
But it happened same with East Bay. Asked Jimmy West,
how many times he stood in one spot all day

(59:30):
about waste deep in water, throwing the same mirror or
back and forth, back and forth, just fanned it out
there every hand of the clock, all around him, standing
there for hours to get one or two bites. But
those one or two bites were from monsters. Happened up here.
It happened all the way down the coast to the
Rio Grande River and beyond. If you wanted to go

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fish Mexico, we're gonna.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
We've got a chance.

Speaker 4 (59:56):
We've got a chance for the people in this era
to experience, at least to some degree, what I and
Cliff Webb and Mickey and Blaine, James and Darryl and
all those guys. I take too long to name all
the guys I was blessed to fish with back when

(01:00:16):
I was at the paper, when they were all young.
I was young, they were young, and we were just
absolutely ate up with trout fishing, ate up with it
because there were so many big Trout in the Bay System.
We're leaning in that direction again, and I'm glad to
see it. All Right, we gotta take a little break.

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
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Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
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Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
All right, welcome back with Doug Blike show on Sports
Talk seven ninety. Who is that Melvin?

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
That is Bob James.

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
Bob James. I'm not familiar with Bob James. We're gonna
have to look him up Chester Lake. Okay, I'll have
to look that up after the show. Let me get
back to these phones and go ahead and click Phil
in here.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
I messed up. I put him on. There we go,
Hey Phil, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Phil?

Speaker 6 (01:01:12):
This is This is Todd Miller. Can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
Oh, Todd, I can hear you.

Speaker 6 (01:01:17):
I don't know where Phil came from. I called in yesterday.

Speaker 13 (01:01:21):
I was calling, uh martel Hunt got we got got
half limited peace soup fog out in Garwood.

Speaker 6 (01:01:28):
At my place.

Speaker 13 (01:01:29):
Oh my word, but I wanted to carry out and
two more quick things and I'll let you fill it in.
What I miss Texas Texas Parks and Wildlife.

Speaker 6 (01:01:40):
You gotta gotta watch those guys.

Speaker 13 (01:01:42):
I mean, they need some boots on the ground for
enforcement and all that.

Speaker 6 (01:01:45):
I get that. I'm all for that, you know.

Speaker 13 (01:01:48):
Forcement at the dog enforcement at back in the marsh's
hunting in, et cetera. Yeah, but but you know, why
would you open up dub season south some season the
same day as you would teal season other than the
limit honting. You know guys that get too opening weekends
out of I have to pick one or the other, for example,

(01:02:10):
this weekend right.

Speaker 4 (01:02:12):
Well, part of the federal part of the dove thing
is well, I guess the teal would be two. They
would be uh, they would have to fall within federal guidelines.

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
And I don't I don't think the.

Speaker 4 (01:02:24):
Parting Wallete Department would would restrict anyone intentionally.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
I really don't. I don't see that. What would their
motivation be for.

Speaker 13 (01:02:31):
I don't know how that could happen, you know, never,
I don't remember it ever being like that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
Before, well I do, I mean I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
I don't remember a special salt or a special white
wing season going three days then two days, then one day,
or two days in three days in one day.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
Either. That's just kind of the way the calendar fell. Yeah,
I don't know. I don't know, Todd.

Speaker 6 (01:02:54):
I think they're getting a little bit big.

Speaker 13 (01:02:56):
You know, their organization of my house is in Rockport,
I say, a mile or two away. There's a big
game warden station. I buy cast in the street. All
I'm like, what are they doing with all this stuff?
What are they doing with all these surveys and gil
and you want to get me going? When they go
out there and do a gill in that survey, what
are they doing with that data? You know, nature is
gonna take care of his course. I get the limits.

(01:03:17):
I hear what you're saying, and it's maybe it terms
of corner. I hope so. But that's that just kind
of got me fired in the teal. This and carrying
on on a conversation. You were saying yesterday about some
fancy pants and goosety coys and a thousand bucks these days.
I can remember back at El Poe and elp Po

(01:03:38):
in the day we thought of our rag sticks were
on dal pins.

Speaker 6 (01:03:42):
We were the man.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was big time when
you had your own dows for every rag man.

Speaker 6 (01:03:50):
Yeah oh yeah. I have to cram them all in.
But anyway, I just thought i'd shout out there.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
All right, that's all.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
That's good to hear from you. It's good to hear
from you. I appreciate it. Man, all right, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
Well, now now who who's on that line?

Speaker 6 (01:04:07):
Then?

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
Yeah, punch Phil up? That would be Phil. Okay, Yeah,
I got confused. We had we had them backwards. I
couldn't figure it out. Now we got Phil. What's up Phil?

Speaker 7 (01:04:17):
Hey man?

Speaker 14 (01:04:17):
How you doing.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
I'm good.

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
I'm less confused now than I was thirty seconds ago.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
What's going on?

Speaker 10 (01:04:22):
Well?

Speaker 14 (01:04:22):
And honestly, when it went completely I heard the bell
and it went blank on me for like two two
or three minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
But what we got there?

Speaker 6 (01:04:29):
All right? Anyway?

Speaker 9 (01:04:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:04:32):
No, So I was just.

Speaker 14 (01:04:32):
Calling in about the what location you choose in Texas hunt?
So I was thinking kind of like the real South,
kind of real South section, like getting like fairly fairly
close to like kind of Mexican border, but.

Speaker 9 (01:04:46):
Still kind of on that coachline.

Speaker 14 (01:04:47):
I feel like it's the biggest like bang for your
buck as far as what different species you can hunt deer,
even a couple of ranches if you can get access
to him with Neil guy.

Speaker 4 (01:04:58):
Yeah, I was just thinking that when you said it,
man only go that's a good guy.

Speaker 14 (01:05:02):
Honest, I'm still I'm still dying to go try that
wild game restaurant uh in Austin from Jesse Griffiths. I
think that was a famous wild game hunter or famous
in the chef anyway, and then obviously hogs and anyway,
if that's what I pick. And plus I know that's
not what you're talking about, but it's not that far
from the coastline.

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
I know that's always going to be on the back
of my mind no matter where I'm talking about how far?

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
How long is it gonna take me to get to
the beach?

Speaker 9 (01:05:29):
Right? And then I thought you saw it interesting.

Speaker 14 (01:05:31):
It was kind funny're talking about all the hunting stuff.
And did you see a post on Instagram? I saw it,
I think yesterday, and supposedly it was in this guy's
backyard just not far outside of San Antonio and he
had a full, like decent good buck dead in his pool.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
Word yeah, and he shows.

Speaker 14 (01:05:53):
Kind of and he showed kind of a video clip
of kind of you know, like you typically have like
the stone walkways and stuff between the house and the pool,
and there's like a.

Speaker 8 (01:06:03):
Blood bath like a murder scene.

Speaker 4 (01:06:04):
Oh my gosh, I wonder what gut de well have no,
have no idea.

Speaker 14 (01:06:10):
There's some marks and stuff. They're assuming a mountain lion,
but you know, they don't really know for sure. They
don't think they had cameras or anything.

Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
Oh well, yeah, it almost It does sound like a
mountain lion, you know, it really does.

Speaker 14 (01:06:23):
It just was crazy. I'm the deer must have just
gotten away because other than a couple of puncture holes
and some scratches, the thing was completely whole. It wasn't
eating at all, okay, because I guess it jumped in
the pool and the cat was just like, I'm.

Speaker 7 (01:06:35):
Not going for that for one reason.

Speaker 14 (01:06:36):
Yeah, anyway, I thought that was interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Boy it is.

Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
Yeah, I'm I'm climbing on climbing on X right now
trying to figure out where that is.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
I want to see that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
Holy yeah, of.

Speaker 14 (01:06:47):
Course, I unfortunate. I need to. I was trying to
save it and then you know, it refreshed and I
lost it and I was dan I know, but so
but yeah, I thought I was crazy, wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
Yeah? Thanks for sharing that though.

Speaker 4 (01:06:58):
That would gosh, that's the only explanation I can come
up with it. It tangled with something and and and
that cat got it where it was going to bleed
out and dove in, fell in, jumped in the pool whatever,
and that cat probably it may have even jumped in
there and tried to get that deer out of there
and realized it wasn't going to be able to pull
it out of the pool.

Speaker 14 (01:07:19):
And uh, holy cow, unless unless, uh unless we think
a bear mono would have gone. But it was a
pretty good size from the pictures, that looked like a
pretty good size buck. Like I said, so, I don't
know if I don't know if.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
A bear would mess with that, but no, probably not.

Speaker 4 (01:07:34):
I think a bear would pick a little bit lighter
target because that yeah, that's that's cat.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
It's got to be a cat. Cool stuff either way, though, Phil,
Holy cow man.

Speaker 9 (01:07:44):
Yeah yeah, anyway, all right, man, we'll have a good weekend.

Speaker 14 (01:07:46):
I'm hoping to finish my yard work so I can
watch all.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
The football and a sudden a little bit today.

Speaker 4 (01:07:51):
Thank you, Phil. Good to hear from you, man. Yeah,
that's good stuff right there. Golly, I wish I could
see that video though, kind of look, I'd like to
see what evidence is there of what it might have been,
and in somebody's backyard or the pool deck, you're not
gonna have a whole lot of footprints, I would imagine.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
Let's see what, Oh this is Rick weighing in again. Wow.
Normally Rick has an opportunity to go.

Speaker 4 (01:08:25):
On three different hunts up in the in North Texas,
a panhandled gopher hunt. Unfortunately it's been canceled because the
region was too wet and the grass is too high.
You can't see the little guys, not enough visibility. That's
something I never did, but I think would be fun

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and I think would be beneficial to whoever, you know,
whoever's lands got all those prairie dogs all over them
or gophers.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
But I just never got the opportunity to go do it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:01):
There were a couple of half baked plans to make
a trip like that, but there was always something closer
to home that was equally enticing as those times were
passing for me. And now I'm just I think that'd
be kind of cool, they said, He says, I was
going with the guys. I was going with shoot a

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thousand rounds in three hunts. That's a lot of gophers, man,
Even that or they're really bad shots.

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
One of the two.

Speaker 4 (01:09:30):
Yeah, it could be a little bit of both, you know,
it could be a little bit of both. And one
of the things though, that comes to mind, and I'm
really glad that it's not. It's not a factor as
much at all. In fact, it's almost a non factor
these days. Is alcohol on a hunt like that? Cause
I could pretty much bet you thirty forty years ago,
when people were making hunts like that, there would have

(01:09:52):
probably been some alcohol, maybe a couple of hard liquor
drinks floating around amongst the hunters. That's just not the
case anymore. I increasingly hear encouragingly that no, we just
don't do that where we hunt.

Speaker 8 (01:10:09):
Good.

Speaker 4 (01:10:09):
I'm glad, and then I'll come hunt with you, because well, yeah,
they are maturing, and they are required now to take
hunter safety in hunter education courses where they're at least
exposed to the notion of hunting sober, so nobody gets
hurt or killed.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
That's the one thing.

Speaker 4 (01:10:29):
Fishing, if but God wants to have a beer while
he's out on the boat, I don't mind that, so
long as somebody sobers available to drive the boat. But
even there there's possibility for a stupid mistake if somebody
overdoes it. What's that The explanation for that would be,

(01:10:50):
we are the generation of the mad. Indeed, that's true.
Mother against drunk driver, that's true, Dad against strung drive,
students against drunk driving. And I think it's it's working.
That's a good point. I've never I've never coupled the two.
That's a very good point. The message has been issued

(01:11:10):
loudly and clearly for enough years now that maybe it's
just sticking a little bit hard heads on those young
people and a lot of the older people too. And
sometimes back when I was waterfowl guiding and we'd be
doing dove season, it was some of the older guys
who would put Who'd raise a stink when you When
I'd say, hey, you can't if you're gonna be hunting,

(01:11:32):
you can't be drinking beer.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
Well I've been drinking beer for forty years when I
dove hunt.

Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
Yeah, not not anymore, not today, not in front of me.
And it was they just would dig their heels in.
What's a big deal just having a beer? Well, if
something does go wrong and the game wardens have to
be called and police have to be called because somebody
got shot. That's the first question they're going to ask.
Anybody been drinking around here? Anybody consumed any alcohol?

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
Why you were hunt?

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
And that is a game changer right there for whoever's involved.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
And it could. Yeah, it's not gonna work out in
your favor.

Speaker 4 (01:12:09):
Just wait, for Heaven's sake, Just wait an hour, Wait
till you finish, wait till you get your limit, and
you're back in the car. I know, I know, Melvin.
I'm just right there on top of my soapbox. I'll
clumb down.

Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the Goal with
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The conversation continues this as the Doug Pipe Show.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
Before on Sports Talk seven ninety Thyland artist Melvin, I'm
not I know it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
I think I think I know much. A little more
up tempo version of that, though, Is that m maybe possible?
Muddy Waters? Yeah, okay for Muddy Waters man. What a
cool name, What a cool name. I wonder how long.

Speaker 4 (01:12:56):
I wonder how many he threw out before somebody said that,
or he just came to his head and he goes,
this is it, man, I'm gonna be Muddy Waters. Cool
dude to good excellent musician. I was gonna say good,
but that wasn't gonna give him any justice.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
Good Heavens Melbourne. We're almost out of time, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
So to summarize what's going on around here, duve season
still open, Teal season open and goes for a couple
of weeks we have got and by the time those
couple of weeks are done, it'll be time to dust
off the bow and get into the bow stand. And
if you haven't done that yet, if you haven't practiced

(01:13:37):
with your bow, just wait till rifle season. Don't go
out there and make a bad shot on a deer
and lose it because you didn't take the time to practice.
That is one of the few things you need to
practice your shooting with your rifles and shotguns to be
a better hunter. But a near miss with a rifle

(01:13:59):
or shotgun is still probably going.

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
To do the job.

Speaker 4 (01:14:04):
If you miss a little bit with a bow, you
may you may send that animal off on a month
of misery before it finally dies or heals up one
or the other.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
And that's just not right.

Speaker 4 (01:14:17):
We've got to be we've got to be careful, We've
got to be ethical about what we're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
What we're doing is a needed it's a tool.

Speaker 4 (01:14:26):
It's a management tool when we take out ducks or
geese or well, the deer, especially our deer herd needs
to be managed by hunting to keep it in carrying
within the carrying capacity of the land. The waterfowl need
to be can be harvested. It's not a need necessarily,
but they can be harvested within the guidelines set forth

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by the people who set the limits, so that we
still have as many ducks or more next year as
we had this year. It's it's all a nice bits.
Same with the it's all a nice balance that allows
us the privilege.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
We don't have a right to be doing this.

Speaker 4 (01:15:08):
It's a privilege to be taking this wildlife, and you
got to treat it like that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
You got to treat it like that something that can
be taken away if you mess up.

Speaker 4 (01:15:17):
You go out and shoot twenty deer this year and
warden shows up and you got a freezer full of
carcasses with no tags, no records.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
You lose that privilege for a while.

Speaker 4 (01:15:28):
The game warden walks into your dove hunt and you've
got a five gallon bucket full of mourning doves and
a couple of killdeers and a woodpecker, and you're gonna
lose that privilege. Do it right and get out there
and enjoy it. It's supposed to be fun. Make it
that way for all of us, and keep it that way.
Don't be messing up. Have fun, stay safe please, at

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above all else, stay safe. Please get out there and
enjoy the outdoors. Have a little fun with your family.
And boy, September is halfway done. We're That means we're
just two weeks away from boat. Holy cow, it's almost
deer season and that just means the fish is going
to keep getting better too.

Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
Beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:16:08):
Time to be an outdoors person or a golfer. I'm
not excluding you guys either. Thanks for listening. I really
do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
I'll be back Monday.

Speaker 4 (01:16:16):
That's tomorrow on fifty plus at noon on KPRC. Back
at this desk a week from yesterday at seven am.

Speaker 3 (01:16:23):
Thanks for listening. Audios