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September 28, 2024 • 110 mins
In this episode Doug talks about what he did on his vacation. He gives his opinion of fish mapping/Live scope fish finding devices. Did you know what the Texas state dog is? Doug talks about this with some of the callers. How do you feel about Bow hunting and hunting white tail deer with bows? One caller expresses his view on what he thinks should be done. See if you agree. Doug talks about a fish he thought he would never see. Doug shares his story on this fish. All I can say is that is very interesting.
Get you dove/teal season update and when will it end. Do you you have a scary story from being in the woods. The type of story that has you terrified and not knowing where to go. Yes, being lost in the woods and not know which direction to turn.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
American Shooting Centers Guns Shooting at Instruction since nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike. All right, I am back in town.
Finally I took a.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
It was relaxing in a sense, and then it was
hectic in another sense. The week I've been gone, and boy,
I did not let the grass grow under my feet.
I made it through most of Tech well, most of
East Texas anyway, in a big chunck of Satha Texas.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I did.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
In hindsight, I did a lot of driving, but every
bit of it I think was was every mile was
well turned because every time I left one place to
go to another, it was just because I was either
going to go fish or play golf some more. And
it was really I couldn't get my son out of school.
My wife needed to stay home with him, and she

(01:02):
just said, go just go have fun, just relax, go
somewhere and just relax. And so I went to about
I don't know, several somewheres over well in the past
since I guess since Sunday, no, since this past Friday,
a week ago Friday, I only slept at home one night.

(01:25):
That was it, well, not if you unless you count
last night. Finally made it in back in yesterday.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
So I left.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I left a town on Sunday a week ago Sunday,
and drove to Own, Alaska to hang out with faux Pro.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Faux Pro Forest.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Invited me to come up there and go fishing because
I told him I was going to be close anyway
to play golf on Monday. He said, well, heck, come
by here, and I said, where can I stay up there?
He can stapp my house And he hadn't even asked
his wife yet, but she said okay, So okay.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
We're doing that.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
And that first morning or that afternoon Sunday afternoon, man,
the days all just kind of ran together on me.
Sunday afternoon, we get in the boat a little well,
actually right on time. If we'd have if we'd have
just jumped in the boat the minute I got there,
I think we'd have been burned out when it really
got to be good fishing time, because it was hot

(02:21):
as blazes. It was absolutely steaming, smoking hot up there
on the little.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Creeks of Lake Livingston.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
I don't want to, I don't want to give away
his secret spot, but man. The first thing we did,
I said, I want to check out this live scope stuff.
I want to see what everybody's so excited about. And
I had.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Seen I had seen early, uh early versions.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Of it with Captain Scott, Scott and all down there
at Port O'Connor looking at tarping along the jetties one year.
And this was several years ago now, when the stuff
was brand new, and I was intrigued to see how
how far it had come and how much it had
evolved since then.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
And indeed, it was pretty impressive.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
I got to tell you, I'm not a fan of
it still, but I really was impressed by his ability
to tell not only hey there's some fish, but those
are white bass. That's a catfish, that's a crappie. And
it was impressive, it really was. There were a lot

(03:28):
of white bass in this creek we were fishing too,
a bunch. That's what we kind of stayed on and
hammered on first, just to see how it would go.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
And we.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
I wouldn't say we grew weary of catching white bass,
but we caught a bunch of them, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
It didn't keep any of them.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
We just catch them and throw them back, and I'm
sure they were just if we'd have been paying attention
to the screen at that point, you could have seen
them just skittering back to the school.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Well, we saw them.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
We saw a couple of big catfish, notably the catfish.
Bigger fish, bigger details. And you can actually see he said,
that's a catfish. You see how its tails waving. I said, yeah,
I see it now now that you mentioned it. And
so that was pretty interesting. And then you can just
watch the fish come up to your lure. Have you

(04:18):
ever seen that.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Melvin, No, I haven't seen anything like that.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Good to see you again, by the way, I feel
like it feel like it's been a month.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh wow, it's been a long time. It has been.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
I'm glad you took care of me last weekend. I
really I appreciate that. Course I gotta check out. I
don't know how Will Melbourne did with four of them
to do instead of just two, but I think he
was up to the task for fifty plus will fund.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Show for sure.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
So anyway, this technology I'm talking about is it's like
looking at a video screen. And you've heard me talking
about it. I'm not a big fan of it. Especially
for competitive fishing. I'm not a fan at all for
competitive fishing because it takes the It just takes the
skin bil out of doing anything other than staring at

(05:04):
a TV screen while you putter around the lake and
maybe trip over a big giant fish in the middle
of nowhere. Forrest told me about an episode of Major
League Fishing he'd watched on TV once recently, where one
of the this is a professional bass fisherman. This guy
makes his living catching bass, and he commented to somebody,

(05:28):
or maybe he just said it casually into the open
mics that they wear, but anyway, he had gone through
an entire period, and I think those periods are ninety
minutes if I'm not mistaken. He had gone through the
entire period of fishing and only made something like five
or six casts now until Livescope became a thing in

(05:51):
that same ninety minutes. If fishing was slow, that same
fisherman probably would have made ninety minutes, two hundred casts,
two hundred and instead he chose to watch TV basically,
and he never did see a giant fish to throw at,

(06:12):
so there was no reason to cast. Oh sorry, if
I messed up that camera in there, Melvine, there we go.
There's cameras all over the place in here now for
the big timers and all the TV guys, and I'm glad, man,
I'm glad they're getting their licks like that. That's good,
that's good. It brings more attention to what all of
us do down here. Maybe someday it'll be our turn, Melbourne.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
It should be. You know, people, you should ask them.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
I'm gonna have to start dressing up though, a little bit.
I'm gonna have to clean up my act a little bit.
Although I am sporting Kobe Stevens apparel this morning. In
case you didn't recognize.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
This looking nice, Yeah, thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
I had some on yesterday too, as a matter of fact,
when I played golf for the third time this week.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
That's that's new.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
I haven't able to do that in forever, and it's
the only way I can do it is to take
some vacation time.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
But it's fun.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
So back to lipscope, I'm still gonna I'm holding my
ground against it as a especially as a tournament tool,
because it, first of all, it's extremely expensive. The really
best stuff is gonna cost you north.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Of ten grand.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
North of ten grand, to get the right set up
and have it all over your boat, and if you're really,
if you're really dolling it out, you're looking at probably
twice that much because you're gonna have to have additional
screens here and there in your boat. And it just
it's it gives the person with the most money the

(07:47):
opportunity to gain a clear cut advantage. And I don't
think that's what it should be about. I don't think
that's it. It's it's definitely a faster way to find
fishing by blind casting, but it also it takes away
the intangibles of fishing.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
It takes away the mystique.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
It takes away wondering whether all your homework you did
to figure out which kind of log these fish are
laying next to, and how they're reacting to the sunlight
er in saltwater, how they're reacting to a title change.
All of that you have to figure out on your own,
or you just flip on the TV and see if
there's a fish under that dock or next to that tree,

(08:25):
and if there's not, you just move on go looking
for another one. Anyway, Faux Pro and I had a
good time up there. We really did I actually ended
up on later in that Sunday afternoon, I caught a
bass that he said probably would have made me several
hundred dollars in a tournament up there. The bass on

(08:46):
that lake aren't that terribly big. And I caught one
that well. He dang there, jumped in the water to
make sure that we got it into the boat so
we could take a picture, and like, okay, where if
it's a big one here, it's a big one. And
it was a decent fish. Don't get me wrong. It
wasn't a foot long. It was a decent fish, and
better than decent, actually, but it could have been bigger,

(09:11):
and I'm sure there have been bigger fish caught up there.
But it was fun and in the right contest, just
like you said, in the right tournament, things aren't going
all that great for everybody. That could have been a
seven eight hundred dollars fish. Like wow, we're just here
on the wrong day, that's all. I'd have split it
with you for riding me around. I'd have been happy
to do that. So anyway, he knows his stuff. He

(09:33):
welcomed me into his home. His wife cooked us crappie
for dinner.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Actually, it's absolutely delicious, absolutely delicious.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
So that's just Sunday. That's what we did Sunday, Monday morning,
I hop in the car and drive to Whispering Pines
Golf Club for an event that's is kind of an
appreciation day for the sponsors and for media in advance
of the Spirit International, which is held once every two

(10:03):
years up there what currently is the best golf course
in Texas and it's it's held that honor most of
the past I don't know, twelve to fifteen years, quite
a long time, absolutely beautiful facility in the middle of nowhere,
in the middle of nowhere, and every two years they

(10:23):
open their doors to a field of international teams of
two men and two women on each team, and they
go at it and determine the winner. They all the
all the players stay up there at a beautiful compound
that was built for them, specifically for the players, and

(10:45):
they get to know each other. They're from all around
the world. Literally, this has been brings a good two
dozen teams typically each year. Two dozen teams of four
players each and sometimes younger, sometimes a little older. It
doesn't matter as so long as they're amateurs. And there's
some really good competition. There's some really good players who've

(11:07):
been through there too. It's in November, easy enough to
drive up there too, if you want to go see
some of the best amateur golfers in the world while
they're still young.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Here's a little a short list, a very.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Short list of some of the alums who have come
through there as winners. Brant Snedeker, Martin Kaymer, Jordan Speith,
a guy you've probably heard of, Scottie Scheffler, Kelly he
was there in twenty thirteen. Kelly Kraft was there in
twenty eleven, and I remember that vividly because he and
my brother in law and I shared a house up

(11:42):
there the night before that event. Who if Paula Kramer
loreno Choa. The list just goes on and on. You
could look it up, and it really is worth it
to go up there and watch these kids play. It's
gonna be November, so it's not gonna be blazing hot.
There are gonna be some there'll be some walk involved,
no question about it, and a little bit of up

(12:03):
and down on hills too, So get yourself in shape
before you go up there to do that. Let's take
a little break, shall we, speak your rockets and astros
live here. We are Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
The conversation continues this as the Doug pipe shall.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, thank you. That's apropos. I would say, that's kind
of glad to be sitting here again. You know this
right here, Melvin, you can see it. They can.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
This is the first cup of coffee I've had in
nine days.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
What but let's still drink coffee when I'm not at
the office.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
I really don't. And it just never even dawned on
me to drink any when I was out there.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
So you should have detox by now.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
You would think, Yeah, my wife said, you start getting
headaches or anything.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
I said, no, not really. She said, well, you should
just quit coffee, and I said.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Well, if I didn't have to get in here and
get fired up and get ready to.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Go, I probably would. But I like being in here,
and the coffee is that's part of being here.

Speaker 6 (13:02):
It is.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
I don't think I can take that out. Let's go
talk to Rick, because I adn't talked to him in
a long time. Rick, Bis, what's up, man.

Speaker 7 (13:11):
I'm so glad you've got to get some time off
that Nobody there was anybody that deserves it. It was you
because you go from Son up to the way past sundown.
You are busy, man.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
What else would I do? Man? What I do?

Speaker 7 (13:25):
Well? I know you do. But you know it's uh.
I ask people all the time, does it on you?
Or do you own it? You know? Oh?

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Yeah, no, I understand it.

Speaker 7 (13:36):
And I was telling me about two things. One on
on deer and the other one's on on boat hunting.
Real qu right, boy, deer. I've got a place over here.
I don't hunt the deer. I feel I'm gonna watch them. Okay,
I'm here every morning if I'm in town, my office here,
which is nothing but a shop building, sure, and but

(13:58):
it's where I start my day anyway. I come in
the other morning it was foggy, I don't know, Monday
or Tuesday. And I've seen this deer before when he
was younger, maybe two years ago, and I think it's him,
and I threw I threw my light on him, and
it fogged, and I thought, dang, that's that's an axis buck.

(14:22):
That's a Federal acxis buck. I don't want him out here,
you know, And you know he's you know, he he
got out of somebody's you know out here, but not many,
and uh that to look at it, I thought, that
is not an access, that is a white tail. So anyway,

(14:44):
later that day, I took some fluorescent tape, put it
on my feeder box and I put a couple of
different places because I wanted to see. My objective was
to see how long his name beings were approximate the
monthly Sure, so I put the tape on there and
I got to watch him for about thirty minutes on Wednesday.

(15:07):
And I'm going to come up with this. This is
my story. I'm gonna stick to it. I think he's
two main beings, very symmetrical or twenty eight inches long,
which is good. That's big for this county. He's at
a point, but he's not legal to.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Shoot, okay straight.

Speaker 7 (15:35):
Out not thirteen inches yeah, got thirteen inches wide. And
my niece is a professional photographer, outdoor photographer, and I
told her, I said, hey, I want you to come
up here. And I'm afraid any day, any day, because
the rud is real early in this county. Any day
he's going to disappear because they all do, and then

(15:57):
some others will show up and chase the girls over
here now on the bowl hunting. I'm going to make
every bowl hunter listening right now, I want to shoot
me with a boat for what I'm about to say.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, that's Carrie.

Speaker 7 (16:15):
If I was king of the land, I would allow
cross bows compound bowl hunting for game animals in Texas
except for a white tail deer.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Good heavens, why would you do that?

Speaker 7 (16:33):
They because there's too many deer that are wounded and
never found.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
What do you base that on? Because they're not as
many never found?

Speaker 7 (16:44):
Man, let me tell you wouldn't believe how many deer
in my life people are shot with the bow and
leave looked for hours and never found them. You saw
that little dog, a little black of what now? I
sent you a picture of it at that red of
that comporty a bit. Yeah, Well he's being trained right
now for a deer dog. Because I bow hunting is
not allowed on any property to own or I manage.

(17:07):
I got anything to do with it. The ain't no
bow hunting that. It goes through my boys and they're
bow hunters.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
How many do they? How many do they lose?

Speaker 7 (17:17):
They've lost some? It ain't nothing makes me what mattered?
And somebody lose it there. I mean, I'm just people.
They can hit a box, they can split arrows in
their backyard all day long. They get up, you know,
twenty five foot in a tree. They're twisted, they're turned,
they're shooting down, left, right, up, whatever, and they aiming

(17:38):
for the kill zone. And they hit them in the butt.
And that deer can run five miles and he will,
especially if you get after him. And that's why these
deer dogs have become so popular. And I'm investing in
two and uh as a prophet seeking just because I
know bow hunting ain't gonna go away. And these little

(18:02):
terrier dogs they're they're good at it, and but I
just there's no telling them how many thousands I'm probably
I'm gonna go a forward say thousands, maybe more than
thousands of deer that are wounded and never found at all,

(18:25):
or when you finally found on the coats and the
hogs and the habilia's have already got a hold of them,
pull them up.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Do you do you think that if that were the case,
And I'm not saying it is or it is it,
but if you think that's the case, wouldn't the parks
and Walife department have done anything about it, because there's
the law against wasting game.

Speaker 7 (18:50):
I know, and I've had that discussion with them. And
I find a lot of deer carcass, you know. And
you'd be surprised in my lifetime walking through the woods
for forty five years, just in my business, how many
broadheads I have found stuck in stuff. Now I have

(19:11):
to confess, I got really into it one time, and
I thought I was a good I was a good
boat hunter. I never killed a deer, and thank god
I never hit one, because only thing I could ever
hit what was was the leg of my feeder. Ye, well,
that I could go shoot the I could go blow

(19:31):
the bull's eye out of the out of a target.
In practicing in the in the fastire in my yard,
I put I put it in the case, called the
guy that moads. Those are guy, and I said, give
this to your son. He liked it. He's old enough,
you know, with your blessing, he can have it. I
forgot a tho eight in here. I can reach out

(19:52):
and touch them. And I moved my stands back, moved
my feeders over and changed my game. I thought, this
is REDICU just because everybody. And I'm not based on
that one experience. I have been all over the state
for forty four years in the farming ranch broker's business, leasing, buying,
selling land, and I get all these calls, well, those

(20:15):
got a deer, he shot one, this goring and looking
for him. Okay, stay with me on it. Bow hunting
or was you achieveing the rifle because you were the bowl.
I'm thinking he will never find it. He ran more
than forty yars deer.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
I didn't.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
But there's going to be a lot of argument from
your listeners on that, and I apologize, guys, but I
just hate to waste it and see it and you're aiming,
you know, aiming for a long shot, and you hit
them behind the eye.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
You know I didn't.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
I didn't shoot hundreds of deer through my bowhunting, having
bow hunting in a while, but I didn't shoot hundreds.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
But I shot my shirt. I never lost one rick,
not one.

Speaker 7 (20:56):
Now. Well, I'm proud of you because you were patient,
and I'll let's leave. You were tuned in. But I
have seen very ex what I would call them assume
experience bow hunters, very accomplished bow hunters, but ask them
how many they are they really really never found compared

(21:18):
to the ones that's singing on their wall. And if
they're honest, I'm gonna say that it's gonna be a
real close match of fifty to fifty. That's somebody that's
really good. That's just my opinion. Hit me over the head.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
You want to think somebody really good is not gonna
be fifty to fifty because if they're really good, they're
not gonna make that many bad shots. They're not even
gonna take bad shots. That's one of the.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Things you you were correct and saying that I was
patient is I wouldn't take a shot that was outside
what I considered slam dunk range, and I wouldn't get
out of the stand for a good forty five minutes.
I just sit there and let nature take its course.

(22:06):
And so I didn't. So I wasn't gonna walk up
on one and push it, because just like you said,
if you get on a deer before it's completely down,
that adrenaline rush will run them farther than you and
your little dog will ever get them.

Speaker 7 (22:21):
So what I would do, in my recommendation, being that
I'm not going to change no law I would guarantee
you if I could, I would, but I know that's
not gonna happen. But I would recommend even the rifle
hunters because this is becoming a really big deal. Rifle hunters,
boat hunters, far deer or whatever game you're chasing. You

(22:45):
want that bad. There are guys with dogs in your area.
You can look them up Google on Facebook. The area
called the local.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Game word lacy dogs.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
Man, those dogs. My nephew's got a docs and dog.
He he'll chase that deer and he won't. When he
finds it. They put a track and collar on. That's
how you find a dog. And you know he ain't
gonna give up the dog. You got to stop up
out of him just to get him off because that's
his deer and not cures. But the point is, if

(23:19):
you shoot, you're in East Texas and you shoot a
nice buck, bottle, rifle, whatever, go ahead and have a
guy's phone number because they love doing it. Sure, some
of them are gonna charge you for it, but hey,
nothing's free. Really. You know, have somebody you know in
your in your wilet, your license, say hey, I'm gonna

(23:41):
call this guy and we're gonna find this deer. Well,
dog on that trail. If you do blood on that
deer and you put that dog on that trail, I'm
just gonna say that that dog gonna find it deer.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
All right, Thanks, Triggy, I got a break, man, Tell
you good talking to you videos.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
All right, all right, I'm gonna I got something else
I want to talk about with the dog tracking that'll
maybe solve some of Rick's woes over lost deer.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
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Speaker 6 (24:18):
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Speaker 3 (24:23):
All right, Welcome back, Doug Plakeshaw on Sports Talk seven
NINEY Glad to be back in the saddle around here.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
It was was.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
It was refreshing and rejuvenating in my voice. Stopped being
scratchy and uncomfortable about two days into the deal because
I wasn't having to talk and talk and talk and
talking talking talk.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Although I I did.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
I talked a lot folk pro and I shared a
lot of stories out there on that lake. That was
a lot of fun. And then I did a bunch
of stuff elsewhere. I'll get to that a little bit.
That's some Let's go check in with old friends here.
What's up, Dave?

Speaker 8 (25:02):
Well, back in the saddle again. That was good song,
you know what I said? Hey, And being in around
radio and TV as much as I have in my lifetime.
You know, on radio, i'd go up there decked out,
you know, cowboy hat down to my shining boots and everything.
You walking here and there on there in T shirts

(25:23):
and shorts and flip flops.

Speaker 7 (25:26):
You know what.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
You know what I'm talking I do.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
You know what. I don't know exactly what you're talking about.

Speaker 7 (25:31):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (25:32):
Then down there in Vanderbilt last weekend, Uh my gal, friends,
she's gonna be moving officially on the fifth over here,
right down the street from my brother's house. So man,
that's gonna be so cool. It's only thirty five minutes
away from where I have to be here anyway, that's
gonna be a lot of fun. Yeah, that's gonna be
a lot of fun. And oh my new uh Babybill

(25:56):
When I got that one and she's driving, man, I
can't even believe it. For cy Oner it gets up
and go. But on when we were over there around
Victorian Vanderbilt, and I did see I don't want to
miss nobody's breakfast up But uh, raccoons, possums and oh
I did see uh oh my mama with her dough

(26:21):
sitting on the side of the road. But they were
they weren't hurt or nothing, but they were just sitting there.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah, just watching the car.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Again that that little phone was getting a lesson that
dough every time a car go by.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Don't run in front of us.

Speaker 8 (26:33):
Don't do that, don't do that. And then oh, oh
my gosh, Okay, I got the bad news. I dummied
up last week and I reached down to pick up
a crab without my glove on. He got me on
my left middle finger.

Speaker 6 (26:51):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 8 (26:53):
All all the way down to the bone, and I
ended up. I ended up going and that's where we
talked about. I put hydroperoxide, I put alcohol on there
and wiped it off. Now then I called, you know,
make a long story short. I ended up going to
the urgent there and they gave me some antibiotics. That's

(27:14):
what I'm taking right now. And it's doing better and
the swelling's going down. But don't try to don't try
to grab a crab with your bare hand.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
It's like drawing to grab a sting ray by the tail. Dave.
Come on, man, you know well, I.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
Know, but I didn't.

Speaker 8 (27:28):
I forgot how much they could turn them falls around
them mit your belly.

Speaker 6 (27:33):
But I'll tell you what.

Speaker 8 (27:35):
I had some good crab gumbo.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Of course they can turn their cloth like that. How
do you think they scratch where it itches?

Speaker 6 (27:41):
Man?

Speaker 8 (27:43):
He well, I made him in about four or five
of his buddies and some shrimp made some good gumbo.

Speaker 7 (27:49):
Man.

Speaker 8 (27:50):
So I mean that was I was.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
I was.

Speaker 8 (27:55):
Laughing every time I took a bike. Let me tell
you that he did.

Speaker 7 (28:00):
But I mean safety. Safety.

Speaker 8 (28:02):
Safety mean, like we've talked about, if you get hit
by steing graveres, hit by hardhead or anything like that,
always you know, first thing, you know, clean it out,
really do and do what you gotta do. But watch
for your watch for bred veins rolling up for you.
You got it.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Hey, I gotta run. I gotta check in with Brandon.

Speaker 9 (28:23):
Man.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
That's great to hear from you.

Speaker 7 (28:25):
Hey, yes, sir, Hey, everybody's good.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Glad to be back. Thanks. Man.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
When he said he had something new, I didn't realize
it was a truck. I thought he was talking about
a girlfriend. I don't know, I'm just speaking out of school.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
A little bit. I guess, Hey, Brandon, what's up man?

Speaker 7 (28:40):
Good?

Speaker 6 (28:40):
Marne Doug, are you you know?

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I'm good. I'm glad to be back in here. I
really am. I kind of missed it, kind of missed it.

Speaker 6 (28:48):
What about the lass right?

Speaker 2 (28:50):
You know I didn't. I didn't get to the end
of it. How did it finish?

Speaker 6 (28:57):
Good? Bronco?

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Oh good, I'm glad to hear it. Yeah, I'd like
to see him out starting a few games. They're gonna
have to start him in the playoffs, I think, and
he certainly can handle it.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
You have no problem with that, not at all.

Speaker 6 (29:13):
We just moved, did you yep?

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Where to what part of town?

Speaker 8 (29:19):
Conra?

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Wow, okay, that's farther away from hurricanes. There's nothing wrong
with that.

Speaker 7 (29:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
I got some friends I got to check on over
in Florida this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
As a matter of fact, I'm gonna make a couple
of phone calls.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
See what's up over this afternoon?

Speaker 8 (29:40):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Good for you, Good for you. What's the occasion?

Speaker 8 (29:45):
Were impacking?

Speaker 6 (29:48):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah, yeah, but get all you can. Huh, get everybody
over there? Good for you, Yes, sir, put them to work,
Melvin says, you bet, man.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Now, he's doing all right.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
He's got a baseball tournament today all the way up
and Willis, believe it or not. And the just man
you got their.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
Car or words their game at just.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Somewhere up there. It's probably at a high school up
there in Willis. I'm not sure exactly where the game
is even I'm gonna try to find out. I might
drive up there after work just to go see it.
I'm halfway there anyway, I might as well go check
it out.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yeah, well, I gotta go take my break now. It's glad.
I'm glad to hear your voice again.

Speaker 8 (30:32):
I mean, no games, Your games are for me.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Okay, all right, man, thank you, Brandon. Good to hear
from you body. All right, audios, all right, let's take
a little break, shall we.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the go with
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Speaker 5 (30:52):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Pipe Show.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
By Welcome back Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Thanks for listening. They do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
I want to bring up something with Rick bringing up
the tracking dogs and whatnot. I saw something very interesting
and I was going to talk about it anyway, but
this makes it a lot easier to segue into it.
If you're going to even consider getting a dog out
to look for a deer that you've knocked down somewhere
and you don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Where it is.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
You took a little bit of a walk up into
the woods, you lost the blood trail, you're not really
sure whatever. If you're going to call a dog, then
call in the dog, But don't before you do that,
before you call that dog, don't get everybody on the
ranch out looking for that deer. Don't do a big

(31:44):
grid search and just painstakingly walk it back and forth,
back and forth, left and right, left and right. Don't
make don't turn two football fields of that ranch into
a checkerboard where you and your buddies are walking through
every square inch it. And here's why the explanation online
was that there's two ways that the dog can track

(32:07):
a deer.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
One is blood.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Obviously, if there's a blood trail, that makes it pretty simple.
And maybe even you and even I can go out
there and follow the blood trail if it's big enough
and we're patient enough and we really know what we're
looking for, because.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Eventually the thing's going to thin out a little bit.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
The other thing that those dogs trail is a scent
that's excreted by little glands that are down near the
hoofs of that animal, either near or in the hoofs
of that animal. I can't remember exactly how it was worded,
but that stuff's completely invisible. It's on the ground, and
it's kind of a sticky little substance. It's on the ground,

(32:45):
but you can't see it. I can't see it, nobody
can see it. The dog can't see it, but the
dog can smell it. And if only the deer has
run through that area and out of that area, pretty
easy for the dog to track it. But if you
and your cousin and your uncle and your neighbor and

(33:09):
fifteen other people from around the county have come out
and walked all through that property doing that grid search,
there's a good chance about half of them might have
walked over or through a little bit of blood that
you couldn't see, or a lot of that invisible stuff
that's on the ground, on the foliage, on the dry leaves,

(33:30):
on the grass, whatever, And you pick it up on
the bottom of your boot and you go marching it
off in the wrong direction. Better to let the dog
walk into a clean area. Why do you think if
you watch cops? Okay, you ever watch cops, Melvin, of course, Okay,
And when they bring it bringing a canine. We got

(33:53):
two suspects took off running into the woods. What's the
first thing they do? Nobody going would yet wait till
the dog gets here? That's right, because if you go
trapsing through there and you brush up against something where
that bad guy left his scent, and he and you
go walking off in the wrong direction, dog's gonna walk

(34:14):
off in the wrong direction.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
It's gonna come right back to you. Yeah, Like, so
leave it alone. Just leave it alone. If you're gonna
call a dog, then call a dog.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
But once you get about twenty thirty forty yards away
and you can't figure out where that deer is or
where the trail ends, then just backtrack your way straight
back to where you started.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Don't don't create fresh scent.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Because you just marched through all the stuff that was
on the ground for the dog to find. That made
That's the first time I'd seen it explain that way,
and that the visual in that in that little snapshot
at Facebook was of a clean trail up on top
and there was. There were green marks and red marks.

(34:57):
The red marks were blood scent, the green for that
invisible stuff it and they used the tracking dog to
know kind of where all that stuff was on a
nice clean trail. The one on the bottom was the
one where you know, they had a family reunion called
impromptu to go trace that dog or trase that deer.

(35:20):
And there were green and red dots everywhere everywhere and
there it makes it almost impossible for and then you're
gonna blame the dog. I had dogs, no good, he
couldn't find a deer. Well, he found your uncle, Billy,
and you hadn't seen him in two years.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
It's just amazing.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
It's amazing how simple it is and how important it is.
I've got a friend here, Rob Logan. His uncle owns
Lacy dogs, and I'm gonna get that man on the
phone because he and his dogs had found thousands of deer.
I'm sure over the years that he's been raising them.
So I'm gonna find out exactly what's up with all
of that. I'm deciding whether to even wait, Melvin, I'll

(36:03):
wait till we come back from the break. I don't
know what happened to Aaron I wish I got, but
I do have a story for him. Maybe tell you
what one might be able to be. Maybe we can
try to get him on if he's still listening for
the first segment after the end of.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
One o'clock or go Lee, wake up, Doug Man. My
tongue's on vacation. Still Relax, Relax. I know, I'm my
brain's here, but my tongue's on vacation. It's just spitting
out words that I don't mean to say.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
When we get back in the eight o'clock hour, the
second hour, not even the first.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
I don't know where that one came from. I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Bottom line is when we come back, though, I'm going
to tell you about something I saw that I have
never seen in my life. And I'm an old guy
and I've been around the block once or twice. But
I saw it, and I confirmed it by asking someone
who was standing very close to me to walk in
a little farther and let's take a look at this
to make sure that we're seeing what we think we're seeing.

(37:02):
And we both got close enough. He was a younger
man too, had no bad vision with this kid. He
was a sharp eyed dude. I knew, he knew how
to fish. That's a little hint at what I saw.
It wasn't a deer hit by a bad arrow either,
I guarantee you.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
All right, let's go.

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Speaker 3 (37:38):
I can't wait to tell the coastal fisherman in the
audience this story.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
I have no explanation for it. I know what I saw.
I didn't see a ghost. Where are my glasses here?

Speaker 7 (37:52):
There are?

Speaker 3 (37:53):
I didn't see a ghost. I didn't see anything that crazy.
But when you hear about this, you'll I realized that
it was a pretty significant sighting. So Wednesday morning, it's
blowing light to see wake Tuesday, Monday came home, Tuesday
went down. Tuesday, I went down. I went down to

(38:15):
I keep saying down to. It was Corpus Christie where
I went. I had to go down there and try
to fish with Cliff a little bit. And so I
get down there, and Wednesday comes and goes. Tuesday evening
fish didn't do very well. Wednesday comes and goes with
golf in the middle. Believe it or not, I get
up and I fish at the crack of dawn. I

(38:35):
had forgotten how far how much farther west, well, I
hadn't forgotten really about I didn't pay attention to it,
how much farther west Corpuses than Houston and Galveston. And
so I'm out there on that beach and they are
like two cars and not.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
A sliver of light on the horizon.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
I was way early, way before sunrise, and basically just
kind of lost, and I wanted to fish the beach,
but I couldn't really see well enough, so I had
to wait. The bottom line is that day comes and goes,
and I'll get back to what I did in the
middle of that day in a little while. At some

(39:17):
point in this show, i'll tell you. Bottom line is,
so I get out there on Thursday morning. I'm going
to fast forward because this is something we're talking about.
On Thursday morning, it's blowing like crazy. That norther's blown
through there. There's a north wind just ripping right down
the beach almost and it's just rough as a cop.

(39:40):
It's rough against that packery channel Jetty, the North Jetty.
But I'm fishing it, and I'm out there with I
don't know, fifteen to twenty other people, and some of
them are catching some fish on live bait, some or not,
and I tend to gravitate towards the guys throwing lures.
And that's just how it works down there. It's fine,

(40:01):
there's room for everybody, and it never gets really really crowded.
I'm sure it does on weekends when the weather's nice
and the fishing's good, but it wasn't that particularly good today,
but I wasn't gonna pass up the opportunity. So I'm
standing there, casting into the wind and just really not
at that point, not catching a lot. There were a

(40:23):
bunch of skip jacks in the surf, not any of
the really big ones that I've been hearing about, these
two footers, but out there along the rocks they're more
like a foot long. And I'll bet you between Saturday
after a nut Saturday, between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning together,
I probably caught well. I actually shook off, mostly because

(40:46):
I used barblous hooks and those fish are crazy. They
just go nuts when they get hooked, so i'd have
them for two or three turns on the reel and
they get off. But I count that because I could
have reeled them in but instead opted to give them
a little slack and they get off. I bet I
caught fifty or sixty feet of skipjacks and didn't have

(41:06):
to handle any of them. One guy made the mistake.
He caught one and he pressed it up against his
beautiful new fishing shirt to get it unhooked.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
And if you've ever had a skipjack.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
In your hands, or in your boat or anywhere else,
you know what they do when they're scared. They do
what a lot of animals do when they're scared. And
this guy paid the price. So anyway, I'm standing there
and I'm just watching the surf roll in, sitting on
the dock of the bet Well, sitting on Packory channel,
standing on Packory Channel, watching the tide rolling in, and

(41:42):
it's rough, and I'm I'm standing between guts you can
kind of tell, and so I'm trying to throw into
this little bit of deeper water and on the bar
that's about maybe thirty yards in from where I am.
I'm probably one hundred and twenty one hundred and fifty
yards off the actual tideline, and at about fifty or

(42:08):
so yards fifty or seventy five yards off the tideline,
out of my left eye, I catch movement that's not water,
not a breaking wave, and I look and there's something.
It's clearly big. I don't know what it is, but
it's clearly big. I'm thinking, hey, is that a piece
of driftwood? Is that some half of a rotten top

(42:30):
of a palm tree that fell off somewhere in the water.
Couldn't quite figure out what it was, and I kept looking,
and I kept looking, and I finally I had a
really good idea.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
What it was.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
But I turned to this guy who was on the
rocks next to me, and he and i'd been standing
there kind of fishing together for quite some time. I
knew he knew his stuff. He was half my age
at most, and he had the right gear. He was
he was a good fisherman. I'd actually seen him the
day before, as a matter of fact. So we're standing
there talking and I said, hey, man, look at that.

(43:08):
And I didn't lead the witness at all. I just
wanted to know what he thought it was. And his
first reaction was, is that what I think it is,
And I said, I think it is.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Let's go in there and take a look.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
So we set our rods down, we walked in to
as close as we could get to this thing. It
was about probably seventy five yards or so off the
rocks and not even one hundred yards off the beach,
and it was a big, probably thirty thirty five pound grouper,

(43:41):
which should not have been in less than three feet
of water, but that's where it was. And he and
I both thought, well, man, is this thing sick?

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Is it injured? Is it something? Something beat it up?

Speaker 3 (43:56):
But the whole time it was in there, it was
no ose down and nose facing into the surf or
facing back offshore. In other words, that's that's a pretty
healthy position for that fish, because all the turbulence of
the waves roll right over it. Okay, it's it's doing
something in there. And if it were sick, it would

(44:18):
have been kind of getting knocked over and wopped around
and really beat up if it were weak in any way,
shape or form. And every now and then, that big
old tail tells darn as big as a broom. It
would just come up and kind of flop and you
could see his fins. You could see see the dorsal fins,
see the peck fins every now and then, depending on
how the wave broke. But that fish was visible to

(44:41):
us for probably I don't know, a minute, minute and
a half, and then just disappeared. It didn't go rolling
up onto the beach, it didn't. Nobody ever saw the
belly of that thing.

Speaker 6 (44:54):
It was.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
It was it was.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
Doing something deliberate up in that super shell water. That
thing probably lives on those rocks, and it just eased
out to see if he could find something to eat,
maybe find an old crab or something.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
I don't know. Well, whatever whatever brought it there, I
saw it.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
It was witnessed by what several other people saw it
when we I think one of us pointed at it.
But this guy, I know, knew what he was looking
at too. I said, what is that and he said
it's a grouper? In questioning like, is it a grouper? Well, yeah,
it was a grouper. I'd never seen one that close.
I told Cliff about it. I called him and told
him and he said, no, I've never seen that up

(45:35):
there either, But I know what I was looking at.
I've certainly seen enough of them. It was crazy, man,
It really was seven one three two one two five
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I've seen a lot of things out of place before,
like that. We had a brant goose come rolling through
the ragspread one time when there were four or five

(45:56):
of us out guiding.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Uh, four or five guys. It's just on a.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
Fun hunt one morning out on the Katie Prairie and
that poor bird stuck out like a sore thumb, is
flying around with a bunch of little cannadas. And that
was his last flight. It was last time he came
to Texas. It was a cool looking bird. I can't
remember who actually took it and got it mounted, but
somebody took it out of a group and got it mounted.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
What have you seen that didn't belong? That just totally
didn't belong where it was.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
And I'm gonna use my group or that's gonna be
my fallback story forever and ever. Man, that's the most
unusual out of place thing I've ever seen is a
group or that big easy thirty pounds, easy thirty pounds,
maybe a little bit more, and in three feet of
water or less, just barely, just bumping his belly and

(46:47):
exposing his back. Almost he'd flipped that big tail up
there and kick it a few times and nudge back
on down. I don't know what he was looking for.
I hope he found it, though he was working hard.
I know that he's working harder than any deep water
grouper ever did. Seven one three, seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
You know what I haven't.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
I got to go back and get to the I
gotta get to my emails here. I've neglected to look
at them this morning, and I apologize for that. And
I know at least one I'm presuming that I need
to take care of. I'll tell you what, Let's let
him know that he'll be first when we get back.
Whoever that is who just called in, will he'll be

(47:26):
first when we get back. I'm going to take a
break here so that i'll have a little bit more
time when we get back, and I will go check
on those emails.

Speaker 5 (47:35):
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Speaker 6 (47:41):
Now more Doug Fighte.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Bye, Welcome back Dougpike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Thanks
for all the emails. There were a bunch of them
in here. I responded to quite a few. I haven't
quite gotten to Allen's yet. It's golf related. I'll have
to check that out. Apparently some of he and some
of his hockey buddies. You don't hear that said a
lot down here. But anyway, they're they're going to play

(48:05):
golf somewhere. And I'm not sure whether he had a
good outing or a bad I'll get to it.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Let's go talk to Mike. See what's up. What's up?

Speaker 7 (48:14):
Mike?

Speaker 10 (48:16):
Hey, can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Of course? Okay, I'm I'm at my truck. Oh, you're good.

Speaker 10 (48:21):
Commenting on your group, Yeah, commenting on your group or
uh back back when out as a young child back
in the seventies, we hunted with a bunch of guys
that are from the Roisoria County area down there, and
they used to catch Goliath grouper on the JEDD's down there.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Yeah that was that was a long time ago though, Mike.
That's oh yeah, oh I know it.

Speaker 10 (48:41):
And if you watch all the videos in Florida, they're
catching giant ones and I'm supposing they could be making
a comeback here. I don't know if anybody that's ever
caught one.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
But well, this was down here. This was a corpus
at at Packery channel.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
And I've got a hunch that that's not the only
group that lives all the end of those rocks. And
I think that's probably where that fish started, was somewhere
all along that little short jetty.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
And it's a very short jetty.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
It's probably not two hundred yards down end to end
from the from the tideline. Uh, But I got to
hunch you just came out to do a little feeding
and looking around and see make sure the neighborhood was okay,
and probably went right back up into those rocks later
on in the day. But it was it was something
to see. I'd never seen one up in that shallow
of water before.

Speaker 10 (49:30):
Well, yeah, like I said, unless it was a glass groper,
you know, it could be a jubid album.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Yeah, you could have very well could have been juvenile.
I'm guessing not, I'm guessing gag. But still, nonetheless, it
was a group of some sort and it's fair that
was cool, man.

Speaker 10 (49:47):
Yeahg gags are relatively shallow water fish. We catch them
down out of poor Manfield and uh on some of
the shallow rocks they got the turtle hole, which'd.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Like, yeah, that's true, yep, you know the that one.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
They just they might hang, you know, they might ease
around there when it's much calmer and never even be seen.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
That's a good point, right, a good point.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
There are a lot of grouper, a lot more grouper
I think than there were. I think they're coming back.
And the golias down in Florida good habits.

Speaker 9 (50:17):
Man.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
You can't hardly, can't hardly drop a fifteen pound jack
graval over the side of a bridge without hooking one
of those things.

Speaker 10 (50:25):
Those are pretty good size.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Oh my word.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Yeah, I'm not tough enough to fight one of them anymore,
especially standing on a bridge.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
You're standing in a marina somewhere.

Speaker 7 (50:36):
You know.

Speaker 10 (50:36):
One other fish we never catch any more out of
four Mansfield as a Coubert snapper.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Yeah, yeah, those are awesome too, got.

Speaker 10 (50:43):
Some really goodness. I mean when I was a kid,
we caught him as big as seventy and you know,
from twenty up to fifteen was not a common back
in the seventies.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
But yeah, I haven't caught one in thirty years. Holy cow, Yeah,
that is a long time.

Speaker 10 (50:59):
I mean they've got a kind of gone away on
those rocks around Mansfield as far as I know.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
You know, do you think you sell like a guy
who's been out there once or twice? Do you think
that the reduction in Couberra snapper is tied at all
to the reduction in the limits on a red snapper?

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Man?

Speaker 7 (51:17):
I can.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
I don't have an understandswer for that.

Speaker 10 (51:20):
I just know the you know over there sat, the
snapper size down there is has gotten really larger. You know, yeah,
a lot more people are a lot more people are fishing.
I'm sure we're out of Mansfield than ever in my lifetime. Now.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Well, you know the reason I think they're the size
of the snapper being brought in now. For one reason,
you can't bring in a whole boatlood of him anymore.
And I think instead of doing like four drop leaders
with a piece of squid on each hook, they're they're
dropping one hook with something the size of a softball

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on it to make sure that that one fish they
get forth bringing up.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
You know, yeah, yeah, everybody.

Speaker 10 (52:03):
You kind of quit doing all the multiple rocks.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Oh yeah, long time yeah, all right, man.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
That that really that shines a lot of light on it. Yeah,
thank you, Mike. I appreciate buddy. All right, all right,
my way, here's a guy who knows what he's talking
about right there.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
I love that. I love it.

Speaker 7 (52:20):
Aaron.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Here's another one, Aaron, what's up?

Speaker 7 (52:22):
Man?

Speaker 9 (52:24):
Hey, good morning.

Speaker 7 (52:25):
I was.

Speaker 9 (52:27):
I gotta say you looked like you were your thirties
and that in those pictures with folk pro.

Speaker 11 (52:33):
Get up there?

Speaker 3 (52:34):
My third something in the water, I guess I don't know.

Speaker 9 (52:38):
Speaking of that? Did that? Does that grouper have a
silver hooking in smouth? By any chance?

Speaker 2 (52:44):
I didn't quite get that close? Do you lose one?

Speaker 9 (52:47):
I was fishing. I was fishing right riding about the
same spot you were, uh you know, maybe about two
thirds down.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
On the huddle left. Yeah, and something something stripped.

Speaker 9 (52:58):
By four thousand reel that I had twenty poundto on
it and have a little three or four inch mold
on there. Yeah, you were talking about a helpless feeling.
Does a watch your line disappear and snap off y
into oblivion? I mean, there's nothing I could do. I
thought the thing was gonna start spoken and catch on fire,
and it took off like that.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
But edded my day, you know, it's amazing probably how
many fish are running around out there with a two
hundred foot tail behind him, you know, or a two
hundred yard tail behind them until they finally rust that
hook out or shake it out or something.

Speaker 7 (53:34):
Man.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Yeah, I was a little kid.

Speaker 9 (53:37):
I remember thinking if we can only see what was
underneath these piers. And now you see all these videos
with you know, oh, sure, it's amazing what's down there.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
It really is, it really is.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
I would love to see somebody, and I'm sure they've
done it before, but take a take a camera and
put it on a big under a big float, and
just flip it off the end of those jetties and
just look around, you know. Just oh man, Yeah, that
water cleans up plenty. You got plenty of visibility down
there on a calm summer day.

Speaker 9 (54:09):
And I've seen people down there spearfishing.

Speaker 4 (54:11):
Mm hm.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
There was one guy trying to spearfish. All he got
was a bunch of steak or jellyfish things. And then
there was a young woman, well yeah, there was a
young woman snorkeling along the rocks and she came up
and said, man, there's a little snook up in the
rocks right over there, and every time I go near him,
he kind of backs up in there a little bit more.

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It was kind of shy, but nonetheless she could see
things that we certainly couldn't see.

Speaker 9 (54:41):
Did you make it down to Pens at all? Or No?

Speaker 2 (54:43):
I didn't go that way.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
We Cliff and I met up that early that afternoon
and we actually went the or actually early that morning.
After I got off the rocks, I ran down the
beach a little ways, going back north, and then came
back and he said, no, let's go back up there.
And we went all all the way up to that
walking beach, and he likes, go there's a spot just
on the other side of that walking beach, the ballard's

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there that's got it just a pretty good sized wash out,
And there's a place down there when the tide's a
little bit low that still has almost it's more than
waste deep water that you can cast into without even.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Get your feet wet hardly.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
So we worked in there and and just we didn't
do much. It was it was just a wrong day,
darn it.

Speaker 7 (55:30):
You know.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
I missed him by a couple of days. So that happened,
it was still fun.

Speaker 9 (55:35):
Oh yeah, I got to that factory of a few
weeks ago, and people are giving away redfish. They are
catching somebody else.

Speaker 6 (55:42):
Oh man.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
Yeah, there were a few caught while I was there,
but nothing. You know, I didn't catch one, certainly not.
There are lures that I had in my bag that
I could have used to go out there to the
end and kind of get in amongst all the bait fishermen.
But with the tide moving like it does down there,
and and sometimes these guys base go rolling around, and
I don't want to be the guy who brings in

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four lines even though I'm casting straight out and trying
to real straight back, you know.

Speaker 7 (56:09):
Yeah, well, yeah, there were a lot.

Speaker 9 (56:13):
I've never seen this trees right there at the peak
all I mean, all the way down.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
From my mark twenty oh wow, as.

Speaker 9 (56:20):
Far as I went, huge trees. So yeah, that was
a little bit tricky to nap around.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
I'll bet I probably wouldn't have been able to get
in there. You got that beast of a truck of
years you just march right over, man, choose him up
and sawdust in your wake.

Speaker 9 (56:40):
I'm driving, driving through a hurricanting in the Midwest need
to get out of it going to Florida.

Speaker 7 (56:45):
So I guess that's the only.

Speaker 9 (56:46):
Way to get out of hurricanes. Get out of Florida.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Oh my gosh, man, go yeah when you get down there,
just to kind of give me an idea. I've been
through there where they've had hurricanes before, but this one
sounds pretty nasty.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Man.

Speaker 6 (56:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (56:58):
My sister and my brother in law station down there.
So she said, uh, she said, you know, obviously the
the tide coming in was a big problem.

Speaker 3 (57:07):
Yeah. Are they at Pensacola Okay, yeah.

Speaker 6 (57:12):
Paul Beach?

Speaker 9 (57:13):
Yeah, you know so, Uh, I'm curious to see what
what ten is going to be like there at Tallahassee.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Well, good luck she got out there, all right, I did,
thanks Aaron. See man.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
Yeah, he and I tried to coordinate. He was down
there three times while I was just sitting up here
tapping my foot waiting to get started, and it didn't
work out.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Where we could meet up down there. That would have
been a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
He would like to have I guarantee you he'd like
to have met Cliff next time he goes down there.
I'll try to get Cliff to ease over to the
beach and tell him hello and point out a couple
of things. That guy knows more about that beach than
anybody I know. And the good news for me is
when I got down there, I used what I remembered
from his last we had fished down there and a

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couple of times before that. I've stacked all this stuff
up in my brain, and I at least I remembered
what to look for and a couple of places to
go up.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
And down that beach.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
And when he got there, when we finally bumped into
each other on the beach down at Packory, I said, okay,
here's where.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
He said, where have you been?

Speaker 3 (58:22):
And I told him where I'd been, and he said, well, yeah,
you're You're in the right spots there. They just weren't eating, unfortunately,
And I'm afraid I got down there a little too late.
That's all right, there's always next year, you know. And
it was fun being down there. My Wednesday. Well, i'll
tell you what I did Wednesday to make it just
the longest day ever. And I'll just say it wasn't

(58:44):
hard to fall asleep when I get When I finally
put my head on the pillow Wednesday night, it was
not hard to just anyway.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
I'll give you a breakdown when we get back.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
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Speaker 2 (58:59):
Oh way out.

Speaker 5 (59:02):
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Speaker 6 (59:08):
Back to the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
Welcome back to Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Thanks for listening to this Saturday morning, first day back
in the saddle, and said.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
It just seemed like so much so way back there.
You know, I was only gone a week, but the
way my schedule works out, it it got me, bought
me an extra day or two. It was so fun.
It really was.

Speaker 3 (59:29):
That Wednesday was the Wednesday was the marathon day. Because
I was up, Like I said, I had no time,
no idea what time the sun was gonna come up.
I just kind of guessed based on Houston time and
didn't didn't bother to take thirty seconds to check sunrise
Corpus CHRISTI on the internet, and so I was on

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that beach fed watered, ready to go about probably thirty
four thirty or forty minutes before duck season shooting time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
He couldn't see a thing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
For the first forty five minutes I was on that beach,
it was pitch black, just pitch black. But I had
a good time. So I got out there and I fished,
and I caught a little of this and a little
of that, not in the surf. I ended up having
to go back to the rocks to catch the fish.
I just couldn't get a bite in the surf, and
so I get in. I get tired of fishing, which

(01:00:28):
is not easy for me to do. Believe me, it
takes a lot for me to just throw in the towel.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
But I was tired.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
I was I'd been driving a lot, after all. It
did start the weekend in own Alaska, you gotta remember that.
And now I'm at Packery Channel. I go back in,
prop my feet up for a few minutes, and I
called Brent Blackburn, who is the head of golf. He's
the man at Corpus Christy Country Club, and he had

(01:00:54):
sent me an email a long time ago that said, hey, man,
if you're ever down here, let me know. I'll get
you out. I'd love for you to see the new
redesign of the course. So I called him and I
told him, I said, remember that time you told me
that I told you to be careful what you asked for?
He said, no, no, no, come on over, man, if
you're tough enough to get out there after fishing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Come on over.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
I said, is the course crowded, Not at all. It's
a Wednesday afternoon, for heaven's sakes, or Wednesday. At about eleven,
I called him twelve o'clock, teed it up and ended
up playing all eighteen holes in two hours and eighteen minutes,
and actually played very well and didn't cheat, didn't need to.

(01:01:38):
I was hitting the ball well and it was fun,
and I finished with the highlight reel. There were a
couple of pretty good highlight shots. But the finally the
eighteenth toll I've got about, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
It was a lot of yardage.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
I don't like to talk about yardages with clubs because
for you young guys, you'd say, oh, man, that I
would have hit two less clubs than that, And for
people my age, they will say, no, you can't hit
it that far with that club.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
But I still have a little little speed in the bat.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
So the bottom line is hit a big, big, sweeping,
little fade I'm left handed, so I got right to
left fade, working to the hole and on eighteen and
it was It was not a short.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Iron, I'll just tell you that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
And thanks to thanks to Tommy O'Brien out at Blackhawk,
I've got a swing change that I made off you
know what, I'm going to note that because I want
to talk about when we get I want to talk
about that when we get into the nine o'clock hour.
So anyway, I used the instruction that he gave me
right before I left for this trip and hit probably

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one of the best ones of those. It was a
five iron, okay, and it was it was deep, and
it just did exactly what it was supposed to do.
It landed ten feet from the hole, it stopped ten
feet from the hole, and I made the putt for
the only birdie I had all day.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
But I'd also I had.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
Very few bogies and no doubles or triples or some
of that stuff that you get every now and then
when you're playing horribly. And ended up shooting one of
the better scores I've shot. I broke eighty. I shot
seventy eight, okay, and that was the best score I've
had in quite some time.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Very pleased, very pleased. Beautiful golf course too.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
By the way, the redo, I believe it was Chut
Williams who did it. The redo took out some of
the bunkers of the original layout, but left just a handful. Really,
you're not going to see a lot of bunkers on
that course, but boy, where they are, they're like ball magnets.
I ended up in a couple. I ended up in

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one that was just just brutal. It reminded me something
out like something out of the British Open. I have
a greenside bunker there where you have to just hit
it straight up to get it anywhere. And I managed
to get around there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety email
me dugpick At, iHeartMedia dot com. So then I finished around.
I finished around the golf. Now it's only two thirty,
so I go back. I brought my feet up for
about an hour, and I'm and I'm replenishing fluids the
whole way. I think I went through about ten bottles
of water in those two and a half hours, not

(01:04:21):
even two and a half hours, just just pour and
sweat out you would think I'd have lost weight on
this trip, but oh no, I managed not to do that.
For some reason, I've cured the problem I had as
a young athlete, not being able to gain weight.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
I'm over that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
Don't worry if I Yeah, I wished.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
My wife even said, you look like you lost a
little weight.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
So I got all fired up and went and put
the bathroom scale down on the floor and stood proudly
on it and watched the numbers go around and round
and round and run and around it exact same as
when I left. Oh great, that's comforting, I could. Yeah,
I'm gonna I've got my annual physical coming up in November,

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and I'm gonna try to at least lose about five
or six pounds be between now and then. Somehow part
of it, most of it will come from eating, making
better eating choices.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Let's just leave it at that. Let's just leave it
at that, shall we? Good?

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Heavens, Melman? What did I miss? What was what went
on around here? Anything exciting? And I bear in mind
I know about the astros because I was paying attention
to them while I was down there.

Speaker 12 (01:05:37):
You know, dunk Pike is the excitement here. You got
a birthday coming up or something. No, nothing but just
the same old, same old. I guess you miss some
some free lunches and oh well, some varieties of coffee and.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Other coffee, isn't you okay? I could? Yeah, And some
new employees.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
We got some I saw, Yeah, I saw at least
one indication of that. And there was one guy who
came in right before I went out. You know, the
embarrassment of all. And well, I'll tell you about it
when we get back.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
I had to.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
I had to get on on the phone with the
with the tech people yesterday afternoon. And I'll tell you
why when we get back on the way out down.

Speaker 5 (01:06:23):
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Speaker 6 (01:06:29):
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Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
Sports Talk seven to ninety The Doug Pike Shows. Thanks
for listening. I really do appreciate it. I really do
appreciate it. I've got to take care of something real quick.
Here stand by one second, let me push send and done.
It was a very very brief message I had to
send to somebody I kind of kind of oh a

(01:06:56):
little bit. Yeah, Well it was Captain Scott guy said, man,
you couldn't come by port O'Connor. I don't like to
invite myself places, and like I just explained to him
in an email, I didn't even realize that I was
going to be taking the week off until Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
It was just kind of an impromptu thing.

Speaker 9 (01:07:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
I just said, hey, man, I was going to take
off just Monday and drive up and play in that
golf tournament at Whispering Pines and drive back. And then
faux pro jumps in and says, hey, why don't you
come by here and fish? Like okay, and then Cliff.
I talked to Cliff and he said, yeah, come on
down here. I can't take you out in the boat
because I'm real busy, and I kind of figured everybody

(01:07:36):
else would be busy too, said, I don't like to
just I don't like to nudge my way into someplace
without invitation. All I asked Cliff for was some tips
on fish in the surf and packery this time of year.
And then Aaron has to call and remind me that
it was what two weeks ago. He said, Well, you
couldn't throw a rock without hitting a red fish out there,

(01:07:57):
added a little bit late this year, that's all. And
it is in fairness to the fish. It is the middle. Well,
it was the end of September for heaven. It still
is the end of September, isn't it. I've lost track
of time, boy. I Just like I told Scott in
that email too, I had a plan that I was
going to go down there, and every moment that I
wasn't driving or fishing or swinging a golf club, I

(01:08:18):
was going to sleep.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
Oh I'm going to catch up on sleep. Man, I'm
going to catch up on so much sleep.

Speaker 6 (01:08:23):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
No, I did fall asleep a little easier though, at
the end of those days. I gotta tell you, if
it wasn't driving, it was staying out in the sun
and it was hot that whole time. And then last
morning I was down there at Packery that north wind
which just blowing straight into my eyes, and like a
doof I left my sunglasses in the car because it

(01:08:45):
was totally cloudy, totally cloudy, and I didn't even think
about needing them for that wind. But when I got
out on those rocks and turned and faced into the wind,
it was some. Yeah, it was pretty rough, pretty rough
on the old eyeballs. Rough on the casting reels too,
and nine that's I think that's where the spinning reel

(01:09:06):
stuff starts.

Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
I don't know that I saw.

Speaker 3 (01:09:10):
Well, they're probably four to one spinning reels to casting
reels on that jetty and then no big deal either way.
I don't care if it catches a fish. It catches
a fish. You do do you do you and I'll
do me. But I do, like I do, prefer casting
reels unless it's absolutely necessary to throw a spinning reel.

(01:09:30):
And I've got a new spinning reel. Actually I need
to load up and test fire. But I didn't want
to do it down there for fear of getting I
don't know, it would have just would have just been
cumbersome to be testing a new reel in a without
knowing that I was going to catch some fish on it.
And that's what I want to do with that thing.

(01:09:51):
I'm gonna take it to a bass lake first and
then I'm gonna take it to the bay and hopefully
I may call see it. I'm gonna get see if
Captain Scott can put me on a pretty good fish
with that reel. I think it could handle most anything
that would be around those little jetties of his down
there or.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
Up in the bay.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
He's got new boat actually that I'd love to step
into as a matter of fact. Seven one three two
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Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
This day's moving right along, isn't it? Oh? The it call,
the help desk call, I guess you could call it.
So I'm sitting around the house yesterday evening.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
I thought, you know what, I'll just start doing a
little prep work for tomorrow's show. And I opened my
laptop and boy, true confession, old man confession. Opened my
laptop right before I left for vacation, Melvin, maybe four
days before that, I'd I'd been getting for about a

(01:10:50):
week the notification that you had to change your password.
You got to change your password, you got to change
your password. So I changed my password proudly and had
dialed in. And if i'd have had a few more
days to get the muscle memory going, I probably could
have remembered what it was.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
And I had a little cheat sheet.

Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
I had a little note right there on my monitors
at my desk here, but I didn't have it anywhere
on my laptop. And when I opened that laptop, and
I was. I remembered enough to know that it wasn't
the old password, but I didn't remember the new password.

(01:11:33):
So I had to make the call of shame. Hey
I've forgot ah, this is Jacob. What can I do
for you? I asked Doug Pike down in Houston. I
had to change my password. And the long and the
short of it is, I don't remember it. It oh,
and I'm kind of like now I got to make
a reason for it. I said, Look, I've been on

(01:11:55):
vacation for a whole week. I kind of checked out.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
I really did. I needed that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Feel a lot better now, but I can't get into
my laptop and I gotta do some prep work. And
I think it was about between the time it takes
my laptop to load now because it's getting tired and
old and full kind of like me. Between that time
and the time we finally hung up the phone was
about thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
We had a lot to do. He kept finding stuff.
He said, I want to update this for you. I
want to tinker with that, and like, okay, whatever you
want to do, just do it, man, and get it
over with because I got stuff to do.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
So now I can get into my laptop.

Speaker 3 (01:12:36):
I'm in it and I'm getting my prep work done,
and I felt, actually I felt pretty good about it
coming in this morning. But it still takes a little
extra time to load, so I think it's time for
a new one. I was told by somebody about two
weeks ago, probably when I was doing that original change
of password, that my laptop is old enough, as are

(01:13:01):
the entire company's versions of this particular laptop.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
It's old enough now that it's.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
Its brain is just full and tired and old and
slowing down and once again kind of like me a
little bit. So it may be time for a new one.
And I hope, I wish I could get another one
of these. I actually liked this particular laptop quite a bit,
I really do, and I'm very accustomed to it. But
I've grown accustomed to a lot of them over the years,

(01:13:30):
so I'll get reused to the next one as well.
Brian Shredway emailed a little while ago to let me
know that teal hunting down around Polashus and Vanderbilt was
really good this morning. He said, the birds were kind
of let's see, well, hold on, let me see if
I can find it. Where did it go?

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
There? It is right there. Flights were early and fast.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Some birds moved out with the recent front, still managed
two man limit, lots of shooting from Pelashes to Vanderbilt.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
Well, it's kept the groups moving.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
And then he reminds, of course, that tomorrow is the
last day of all this chaos of teal season until
November the second, when the regular duck season opens up.
They're coming at us. Is it's hunting season. There's no
question about it. You got dove hunting to do. You
got one more day a d well a day in
an afternoon of teal hunting to do, and you just

(01:14:25):
got to keep rolling yourself out of bed and get
get into that groove, get into that mindset.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
And just every.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
Time a hunter leaves, hunter leaves the water and goes
to goes to the field instead of to the bay,
some other bay fisherman gets his wings.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
I think it's how it goes. I'll check emails on
the way.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Good heavens, I don't want to be late for a break,
not on the first day I'm back in a whole vacation. Yeah,
you're feeling right at home now that I'm late for
a commercial yeah, probably thought some impostor was in here
when I hit the other brakes on time.

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Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
Nine o'clock hour. Let me go take hold on. I
gotta send something here real quick.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
I gotta do that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:24):
Click this button right here, and now I am going
to move on to the President's Cup if I can
get back to it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
See if I can.

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
Get a scoreboard update. Let's take a look at all
the matches and see if they're oh good. They're in progress.
Earlier this morning, right when I was in here doing
all my prep work, the play had been suspended. I'm
not gonna look. It's all the way up in Quebec.
It's not going to bother us whatever it is. But
they're in Montreal and tied up, just knotted up. The

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first match out is Scheffler and Morikawa against Adam Scott
and Taylor Pendrith. They are tied through five holes. Tony
fen Now and Xanders Shoffley against Corey Connors and Mackenzie Hughes,
also tied Ooh, the bad guys. Well, they're not bad guys.

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The other guys are two up Seewoo Kim and Tom Kim,
two up on Keegan Bradley and Wyndham Clark through two holes.

Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
That doesn't look all that good.

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
And Patrick Cantley and Sam Burns tied with Matsuyama and Im.
So that's what's out there and we'll see how it goes.
Keep an eye on it, boy. The international team absolutely
righted the ship. They came out Thursday and lost all
five matches. Yesterday they won all five matches. They're well, yes, well,

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and bottom line is we're not enough at five and
five and it takes fifteen and a half points to win.
So we'll see. We'll see what it does. There's long
ways to go, awful long ways to go with this thing.
A lot of matches yet to play. Seven on three,
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at iHeartMedia dot com. The one thing I wanted to
talk about what Tommy O'Brien did for me the other
day that really really kind of got my attention and
and made me realize that, first of all, you can
teach an old dog new tricks, and it actually wasn't
an old trick. It was just a reminder of an

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old trick. It wasn't a it wasn't a new trick.
It was an old trick that I had to reacquaint
myself with. I had gotten my iron game had gone south.
Let's just it just wasn't what it should have been.
And I kept thinking that the problem was X and
about I don't know this. Right before I left town,

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Right before I left town, I was out at the
range trying to work on things, and Tommy was a
little ways down toward the end and giving a young
probably about a thirteen fourteen year old a lesson. Dad
there watching closely and probably trying to learn something himself,

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and Tommy looks down to me, and he was trying
to make a point to the kid, and he saw
this orange whip trainer thing that I have in my bag.
It's just something to help you loosen up, and he said,
can I borrow that for a minute? I said sure,
but it'll cost you five minutes when you're done, because
I'm getting frustrated. I can't fix this whatever it is.
And I knew Tommy would if he would look, and

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you know if I could get him to stand there
with me for five minutes, he'd see what was wrong.
So he borrows the orange whip, he brings it back
and he finishes up later with the kid and he
walks down. He goes, Okay, what's going on on DP?
And I said, well, here's what it is. I'm doing
this and i'm doing that, and my orange irons are
doing this and they're not doing that, and I can't

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figure it out. But here's what I'm trying to do
to fix it, because I think this is what's wrong.
And he watches me make three or four swings and
he goes, what you're doing is going to make it worse,
not better.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
I thought, oh great, that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:26):
Explains a lot of why I'm not getting any results
out of what I'm doing. He goes, instead of doing that,
do this, and so I did that, a smaller version
of what he was trying to get me to do.
First couple of swings, he goes, Okay, you got to
go back farther first. You got to take it back farther.

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And I'm thinking I already take it back pretty far, Tommy,
I don't know. He goes, no, you're irons specifically, you're irons.
You need a longer swing. You've got to get that
club up over you more. And I thought it was
back farther than it will apparently, So I did that
once and it got a little better.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
And then he said, okay, and now I want you
to do this. And he just showed me this simple move.

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
And I don't want to tell you guys what it is,
because then you might try it yourself and it may
be wrong for you.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
And I'm not going to make anybody's game worse.

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
But when I did what he said to do and
he had me swing at six iron, when I did
what he said to do, and when I actually did
it all from start to finish in a full swing,
I don't think I've hit the ball higher or straighter
or farther in the past two years with that club.

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And I looked at him and he looked at me.
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:42):
That's all you have to do.

Speaker 3 (01:20:44):
And now the problem is making that swing every time
instead of the swings that I've been just beating into
my own brain for the past two years, thinking I
was fixing it, when all the while I was making
it worse, or at least a harder fix. So now
my practice has been devoted to making that fuller swing

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and doing what he said to do with the rest
of it, making a full back turn, taking it back
all way back to where to boldly go where it's
never gone before. And it's working. But I'm not quite
hitting it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
As straight as I like that shot I made it
at Corpus Christie Country Club thanks to Brent Blackburn down there.
What a great guy. By the way.

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
That shot I made down there was probably the best
five iron I've hit in a very long time, and
it was almost straight. It had just a little bit
of a cut into it, which is exactly what I
was trying to put in it. And so I know
that Tommy's right, and that's encouraging. Now I know what
was wrong, I have a solution to fix it, and

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now I've just got to make about three thousand swings
to groove it and then maybe I'll be somebody seven
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important and how if you're really serious about your game,
if you're just out to go play in a couple
of scrambles now and then then don't worry about it.

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But if you really want to be better and shoot
lower scores, take a lesson, invest in a lesson. You
don't have to go out and buy two thousand dollars clubs.
You don't have to go out and do anything mechanically
or with the tools of the trade. It's it's the

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mechanics of it, not the tool. Necessarily it's going to
bring your scores down. There's a It's been said that
Tiger Woods could probably shoot below par with a hockey stick,
and he probably could at in his prime, he probably
could have done something like that, or he could have
done an entire round with a putter and beat a

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lot of people. But you and I can't do that,
and you and I need to be out there making
better swings with the clubs we've got. It's very similar
to fishing rods, it's very similar to rifles or shotguns.
You can spend as much money as you want on
any of this stuff that we love to play with.

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But if you can if you can't tell somebody what
benefit you're getting from investing more money in more expensive gear,
then you're probably not going to get benefit from it,
and the first thing you need to do is develop
a better swing. Now, if you get immersed in lessons

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with somebody and they say, you know, really, you might
want to think about changing the lie of your clubs.
You might want to think about changing the shafts and
your clubs. The shaft is the engine of that club.
And that's one thing that a pro can help you
with very quickly actually, and just make a world of difference.

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I'm wondering now, I'm going to try to get fitted
again pretty soon, especially for my irons.

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
I love my driver.

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
Right now, it and I are getting along very well,
and it's been a long time coming too. We had
a very rocky relationship for the first couple of years
I had that driver, and then all of a sudden,
the light came on. And it turns out, actually that
what I did to fix that driver. I don't even
know why I started doing this, but whatever it is,

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when I started doing that, the driver started working. And
what Tommy told me to do was the same thing
I did with the driver.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
And I imagine that make.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
The same move with with both clubs, the irons and
the driver, and they're all working now. Kind of someone
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Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
I'll check email during the break on the way out.

Speaker 5 (01:25:00):
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This is the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
All right, welcome back nine nineteen on Sports Talk seven
ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thanks for listening. I certainly
do appreciate it. Let's go talk to Lewis and see
what's on his mind. Lewis, what's up?

Speaker 7 (01:25:21):
Man?

Speaker 4 (01:25:23):
All right, we're gonna go shoot some dove cheffing.

Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
You want to go hunt today?

Speaker 5 (01:25:29):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
Do you care? Where?

Speaker 7 (01:25:33):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
Not not too far? How about El Campo? Could you
go to El Campo?

Speaker 6 (01:25:39):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (01:25:40):
Sir?

Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
Okay, Well, I'm gonna give you a phone number.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
Then call Mitchell Holder and ask him if he's got
room for one more.

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
I kind of bet he, does you ready?

Speaker 1 (01:25:49):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:25:49):
Sir?

Speaker 2 (01:25:50):
Two eight one seven four four one eight eight eight?

Speaker 7 (01:25:57):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
You want to go today?

Speaker 7 (01:26:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
All right, pardon you bet? Let's see.

Speaker 3 (01:26:09):
Well that was easy, huh okay, Yeah, that's that's as
good a guy as I can think of. Right off
hand satisfaction guarantee, tee it up, Let's go, Let's go
dovating man, I might joining down there. I get nothing
like driving a hundred miles more. Captain Scott ways In

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had a similar phone call with it kid a while back.
I haven't read this yet, so I don't know what
he was showing his frustration with heavy sighs and not
much empathy for this old dude struggling to figure out
the issue, making zero effort to hide his disdain. Oh
my gosh, he said. I was pretty frustrated with both

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the issue and his attitude. So after one particularly loud sigh,
I had had enough. The kid caught both barrels as
I explained to him that he had a job that
never existed when I was his age, and then his
job was to help people.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
Scott goes on and on and on and on. Yeah,
I don't blame him. Oh his uh.

Speaker 3 (01:27:21):
At the end it says his attitude changed and he
fixed my computer problem with a whole lot of yes,
sir thrown in. Yeah, sometimes you gotta rattle him a
little bit, Scott. You gotta make sure, yeah, you have
to fix the fixer before you could get to the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
What a yeah? Some of these kids are good about it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
That The advantage I had with my conversation yesterday with
it was that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
That same that person works for the company I work for, so.

Speaker 3 (01:27:53):
We were we were on a level playing field, and
they know that I'm also gonna get a survey after
my conversation with him to let them know how he did.
It's kind of like calling some of these other places
where they want to take a minute of your time
afterward for a brief survey.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
We get them by email.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
And the kid I had on the phone yesterday was
really patient, and I asked him to, you know, when
we finally got the whole password thing done and he
had been able to get in and clean up some
other stuff that was on my machine, I asked him,
I said, can you just let me just stop this
thing and restart it just to make sure that this

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new password actually works And he said, sure, no problem,
I'll sit here. So we sat there another five minutes
while it tried to reload. And the downside for him,
I guess the only real downside for him is he
wasn't able when he's sharing my screen, he can't see
my background photograph, which is of a really beautiful sun

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raw or sunset actually down there at Mitchell ho Older's
place down there in El Campo Waterfowl Specialties. It's yeah,
it's one of my favorite shots I've taken in a
long time. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety email on me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I
had an email earlier after I was talking about seeing

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that group or in the surf, asking me, and I
don't know how the two are tied together, but asking
me if I had ever been really scared by something
in the outdoors daylight, dark, whenever, and I don't know
if I felt scared.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
And the reason this came up was because.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
He at near dark one night was I believe, deer hunting,
if I remember the email correctly. And he was also
very close to a wood duck roost and he'd never
heard wood ducks before. And for those of you who have,
you know how screechy and weird their sound is. They
don't quite quack quack, They go off like some kind

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of like the Wizard of Oz monkeys, and they're messed up.
They make all kinds of screechy, weird noises. And this
poor fellow was just scared to death, had no idea
what was running through the woods and flying around him.
Once you hear it and you know that the sound's
coming from a duck, it's not so scary.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
You could take a duck.

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
But the first time you hear the sounds of wood ducks,
especially if it's dark and you're sitting in a deer
stand somewhere. First time you hear that, it's gonna get
your attention. It's gonna raise a hair on the back
of your neck. Then you'll be all right. You realize
it's a duck. It's a duck. You can take a duck.
If it was some hybrid cobra, bobcat, mountain lion, grizzly

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bear making that same noise, it'd be a different story,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
You ready for that?

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
Yeah, I don't know what that would be called. I
don't want that. I don't want those two to get
together and make a baby. That would be pretty scary.
Some one three, two, one, two, five seven ninety So
have you been scared by something? The closest I came
was walking around the som Burrito, probably thirty years ago now.

Speaker 10 (01:31:11):
And.

Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
I saw a long tailed cat in the brush I think, Wow,
that's pretty cool. And then the tail went down. The
grass was as high as an elephant's eye. That year,
it was really high, and all I saw was the tail,
and it was kind of walking along. And then I
didn't see the tail anymore. And I'm out there walking
around in the middle of the day, just shooting pictures,

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don't have The biggest weapon I had on me was
a leather man tool and just on my belt, didn't
have a gun, didn't have anything, not even a decent knife,
except for that leather man blade. And I lost sight
of this thing. I didn't know where it had gone.
I see this striped back, or not striped but spotted

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back in a long tail. I'm like, okay, I don't
know what this is. I don't want any part of
it out here.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
And I kind of walked on down the road.

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
I stayed right in the middle of road, crunching collechi
and making as much noise as I could to make
sure that this thing knew I was there and didn't
want to.

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
Mess with me. And I didn't see it. I didn't
see it, and I turned around.

Speaker 3 (01:32:15):
And darned if the thing wasn't behind me now, and Likeugh,
this isn't cool, and kind of moving my way. And
for the next ten or so minutes, I was singing
songs and I was throwing rocks and just making sure
that that animal knew what I was and that it
boy didn't want to mess with me. I would not

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I would not have wanted to fight whatever cat. That
what I for to this day thinks a jagger Undy
and Bill Bill Carter kind of agreed with me that
it probably was. Joe Doggett tells me it was probably
just a bobcat, which is a lie because it had
a long tail. And that's the same though that he
told he swears he was he was stabbed by a

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stingray in the surf when he was walking out to
go surfing one time.

Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
I told him he probably just stepped on a hardhead.

Speaker 13 (01:33:04):
What's up, David, Yeah, real quickly, dug Man, you had
a good nerve there talking about being scared, scared the
most scared, and this is true for adult kids.

Speaker 11 (01:33:14):
A light h it will get you scared in the
broad daylight. Happened to me and a friend when we
were in high school. And that is getting lost. Oh yeah,
it can be like the person who is drowning. I
mean that terrifying and uh really quick story that was
told to me by someone who attended by education class

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and said, he came across a guy in the national
forest who had been lost all day. And if you've
ever been lost, your mind will is your worst enemy.
And when we got lost as kids, I had no watch,
we lost track of time. But anyway, go back to
the story. He said, you came across this guy in

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the National Force had been lost all day and was
able to, you know, get him out of the woods,
hit the road, drove him back to his truck. And
I don't I believe this because I know how getting
scared to make people get terrified. He noticed the guy
was leaving his rifle behind. Wow, And he said, hey, guy,

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you know, don't forget your rifle. And the guy turned
around and looked at him and said, I don't need
it anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (01:34:26):
He had gotten that scared in the woods all day
lost that.

Speaker 11 (01:34:30):
He had no intentions of ever going back. Oh ed
over top. That may have changed, sure time, but getting
lost will terrify you.

Speaker 8 (01:34:39):
Yeah're not prepared.

Speaker 11 (01:34:41):
You're not prepared. I'll shut up and listen.

Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
No, that really got my attention because I have been
kind of lost, but not for more than maybe ten
or fifteen minutes, and then I kind of got my
bearings back and saw something familiar and knew which way
to go from there. But especially like if I go
into hilly country, I get a little antsy. If you're

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on flat ground, there's no excuse for getting lost, really.
And now in the woods, granted, you can still kind
of slip off of the wrong direction, but if there's
sunshine and not too many little hills, you can get
over and kind of get turned around.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
It should be okay.

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
And this goes back all the way to carrying a
dog on compass. You got to figure out which way
you're walking into the woods and figure out where the.

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
Fence line is.

Speaker 3 (01:35:37):
In Texas, it's not hard to find a fence usually,
And if you know where you are and what direction
you've been walking for the last thirty minutes, you should
be able to turn around and go back those thirty
minutes and get kind of back to where you were.
If you don't have a compass and your phone goes dead,
and that's everybody relies on this battery power with those phones.

Speaker 2 (01:35:59):
They're not they're not impervious to damage.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
If you trip and fall while you're lost and your
phone hits a rock and goes dead, then you're stuck
unless you have a compass. It's not it's a ten
dollars item if that for even a just something that works.

Speaker 2 (01:36:21):
Like a compass that might just save your life. And
it's easy to pack.

Speaker 3 (01:36:24):
It's not not like you're carrying a shoe box full
of stuff in there to get yourself out.

Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
Just a handheld compass. Which way is north? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
Oh man, Yeah, when the clouds come, When the clouds come,
maybe starts a little rainy stuff. It just nothing looks
the same, Nothing looks the same. Ah yeah, that gets
me scared. Good heavens, that gets me scared. Seven one three,
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dot com. Scare were late for this break?

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This is Sports Talks Houston sports Online at sports seven
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Speaker 6 (01:37:04):
Back back to the Doug Bike Show.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
You've done nine thirty seven on Sports SOX seven ninety.
That's us like a seventies song.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
Isn't it? Yes, song, I'm figured as much.

Speaker 3 (01:37:14):
Shorty long, shorty, shorty long that's probably his birth certificate name. No,
I'm sure I don't think. So let's go to the
phone shower where we'll go talk to Wayne.

Speaker 2 (01:37:25):
What's up Wayne?

Speaker 14 (01:37:27):
Uh, you were speaking of using a compass. I'd highly
recommend that. But you talking about sam Houston National Force. Yeah,
this uh goes to Texas Parks and Wildlife. When you
buy your annual permit, you don't get the booklet for
that until after you parts or said and they put.

Speaker 7 (01:37:46):
It in the mail.

Speaker 14 (01:37:47):
And something of a little bit of a surprise this
year is there a new EOSR regulations where every time
you go hunting. Every time you go, whether you're hunting rabbit, squirrel, whatever,
you have to go to a mobile app or their
website and log in and then when you leave, you
log out and you record your harvest. Now, a couple

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of things.

Speaker 6 (01:38:15):
One is that.

Speaker 14 (01:38:16):
The deer herd in if that's what you always say,
population the sam Houston National Force has dropped off significantly,
and part of the reason may be that, first off,
it's a it's it's a pine tree farm. The second
off is they've changed the buck limit. So my issue

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is with having to be watched by the state. The
The good part about this might be, if there is
a good side to it, is that parts of Wildlife
manages public lands. In this case they're doing it for
the National Force Service. Up in till this registration type thing,

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they had no clue what was going on. It was
like they put a couple of tables out different parts
of the forest and the first weekend and you were
required to log in or stop by and let them
take a look at you here maybe some sample, something
like that. So my thought here is for those who
are going to hunt on annual or hunt with an

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annual permit on public land, they need to pay attention
to that because it's just another way to hand you
a ticket.

Speaker 2 (01:39:29):
Interesting. So interesting, Yeah, I hadn't heard of that.

Speaker 6 (01:39:32):
It's not interesting.

Speaker 14 (01:39:33):
I begged a difference. It is aggravating.

Speaker 10 (01:39:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:39:35):
I been talking to party.

Speaker 14 (01:39:37):
In the Wildlife. I said, so when we log into
this website, we're going to be tracked, our phone will
be tracked. And they said, no, that's not part of it. Well,
that's not part of it right now. And the person
I was talking to is that, you know, since you
are based in Austin, and the person fully understood that.

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My comment there there's two parts to this. One is
in take sparks and wildlife. There's a wildlife boys and
there's law enforcement boys. Law enforcement heavily lobbies for as
much information are did off of this new e O
s R website as they could get. And I think maybe,

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and I'm I don't want to sound like a nut here,
but maybe it's because they can roll up in the forest,
bring up a link and see by by your phone
where you are. Uh that I was told that's not
going to happen. But again, this agency is based in Austin,
So anyway, okay, just another way for everybody to be

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safe and not be handed a ticket they didn't deserve.

Speaker 2 (01:40:47):
All right, Well I appreciate that, Wayne, thank you man.

Speaker 14 (01:40:50):
You all take care.

Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
Oh yeah, it's interesting if if they are, if they're
tracking you that way and you haven't done anything wrong,
that would seem like that would have to be covered
somehow under unreasonable But then again, if.

Speaker 3 (01:41:08):
You've got lost, you'd probably be glad they knew where
you were. I don't know that that technology should be
employed unless somebody from your family reports you has lost. Yeah,
that's that's a tough one. I'm all for adherence to

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all the game loss, every single one of them. If
you've got a license and if you've got your taking
care of your business. I'm happy as a lark for
all that, Happy is a lark for all that. But
I don't think they need to know exactly where we
are and they can't see what you're doing. And I

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don't know that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
I don't know that game wardens have the time to
just randomly go sneak through the woods and try and
find you. I don't I.

Speaker 3 (01:42:02):
Don't think that's I hope that's not the intent for that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
Yeah, yeah, and there's uh yeah, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:42:16):
Hesitant to And I can understand feeling annoyed by that
because it does it does tend to infringe upon your
your prayer. You feel like when you're out in the
woods like that, especially hunting national forest and state forest
and stuff, you want to feel like you've gotten away
from everything. You want to feel like you've gotten away

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from everybody, and you're out there on your own trying
to make your way back and trying to get yourself
a deer, And you can't really do that if if
you feel like somebody's gonna sneak up.

Speaker 2 (01:42:49):
On you, I don't know. I'll have to think about
that one a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
Let's take a little break here, last one of the program,
Good Heavens, we've already made it through almost at ten o'clock,
Melvin Holy Cow.

Speaker 5 (01:43:02):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety. Listen online at Sports
seven ninety dot com. Now more Doug Fight.

Speaker 2 (01:43:11):
Nine fifty one on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dug
Flake Shows. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 4 (01:43:15):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
I'm glad to be back in the saddle, I really am.
I I'm enjoying the stories you guys are telling me.
I hope you've enjoyed the stories I've told us.

Speaker 9 (01:43:22):
Morning.

Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
Let's go talk to Lane. See what's up? What's up?

Speaker 10 (01:43:26):
Lane?

Speaker 4 (01:43:26):
Rix? Hey, buddy, how you doing.

Speaker 3 (01:43:29):
I'm great, man, I'm finally back in Houston. I've driven
the wheels off my car.

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
And I think you had a good week.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
I did.

Speaker 3 (01:43:39):
I did man three rounds of golf so far, Yeah,
fishing every time I wasn't golfing, So it was good.

Speaker 2 (01:43:49):
It was good man.

Speaker 4 (01:43:50):
He did I hear you play Corpus Christy country clothes?

Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
Is that right? I did? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:43:55):
Yeah? Did you see Brent down there?

Speaker 2 (01:43:57):
Absolutely? How do you think I got on?

Speaker 7 (01:44:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:44:02):
He's a good man. I've known that guy forever.

Speaker 7 (01:44:05):
Yeah, yeah, it really is.

Speaker 4 (01:44:08):
Forrest is supposed to take me fishing on Wednesday. We
got a trip plan for Wednesday morning.

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
Good for you.

Speaker 4 (01:44:15):
Yeah, I'm excited, man.

Speaker 7 (01:44:16):
I don't get to take much time.

Speaker 4 (01:44:18):
Off during the week, but I'm gonna sneak off up
to Livingston on Tuesday night and we're gonna fish first
thing Wednesday morning until you know, daylight to noon or something.
That dude is a fishing machine, man.

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
Yeah, he is. Holy cow, he knows his stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:44:34):
I'm telling you, though, that bass I called, I don't
It might have gone three and a half pounds and
you'd have thought it was a twenty pound or the
way he rent you just dough almost dove out of
the boat trying to get it in the boat get
a picture of it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
Was fun.

Speaker 4 (01:44:50):
There's not I haven't caught a lot of lord of
large amouths in Livingston. I've caught a ton of white
bass up there, but I haven't got on any Florida
large mouths of there. So I'd like to catch one
or two of those if they're somewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:45:03):
I think most of those fish are probably Native Texas bass.
I don't know how many Floridas have been stocked in there,
but that is it just isn't that good a bass lake.
It never has been Lane, It never has been since
I started writing in the paper one hundred years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:45:21):
But it's still it has some but not a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:45:24):
That's It's a great crappy lake, a tremendous white bass
lake for whatever reasons that the black bass population never
really got hold.

Speaker 4 (01:45:33):
Yeah, well I'll I'll send you some pictures, hopefully of
something on Wednesday. Look, I know we're gonna have a
good time. Looks like the weather's gonna be good.

Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
Yeah, that's the best part. It's not gonna be one
hundred like it was when I was there.

Speaker 4 (01:45:48):
Yeah. I was up there a couple of weeks ago
and played Whispering Pines and did a little fishing. I
didn't catch much, but I actually I played good, which helps.

Speaker 7 (01:45:59):
Not happened, and that hasn't happened a lot lately.

Speaker 4 (01:46:02):
I shot even par on the back at Whispering and
that's I was like doing, Buddy, I was doing cart Yeah,
I've doing cartwheels after that. You know, you know, I
got forty on the front. But I came back respectable
on the back.

Speaker 7 (01:46:18):
Gun Man.

Speaker 4 (01:46:20):
Well, I still hope me and you and Forrest can
get a uh you know, do it do a fishing
trip together sometime, you know, four or two line. I'd
love to be a bit be on the water with
you guys. I think it'd be a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
No, it wouldn't be fun at all.

Speaker 4 (01:46:36):
All right, well, let's let's get that trip. Let's we'll
get that trip going, hopefully here within the next few months.

Speaker 2 (01:46:41):
Let's do it. That sounds good to me. Lai, great
to hear from.

Speaker 4 (01:46:44):
You have a good You've been a good week man,
Keep playing, good seed.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
Doug Audios.

Speaker 3 (01:46:50):
Yeah, he just called a brag about shooting what bet
seventy six. Seventy six at Whispering Pines is staggeringly good.
That's that's a It's a very playable golf course so
long as you keep it in the fairways and if you, boy,
if you don't, you're not gonna shoot the scores he shot.
I doubt he hit many shots from the rough to

(01:47:11):
shoot what he shot up there. It's a fun beauty.
It's one of the most beautiful courses you'll ever see.
And he probably just Rode drove right out of there
without fishing. I'm not even going Maybe if he calls
me later, I'll tell him where to fish that thing. Uh,
there are fishing all the lakes up there, but there's
a couple of spots that. In fact, I fished one
of them on the way out on Monday. Guy, it's

(01:47:33):
been almost almost a week since that happened. It feels
like I've just been on a worldwide tour, just me
and my little car driving around. It's been a good,
good week, though.

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
I needed that to refresh and recharge my batteries, even
though I kept running him down to nearly zero. Boy,
burning the candle at both ends. That's what I'm the
way I've described it to a couple of people, and
that's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:47:58):
I got no problem with that. I had fun and
everything I did. I didn't mind losing a little sleep
for that. Alan waded in getting scared deer camp in
Sant Augustine two am. Walking back from the camp house
to the trailer, heard what sounded like a gorilla grunt
and utterances from the go Mercy scared him, scared him,

(01:48:19):
scared in big time. I grew up in cow country
and it wasn't a cow. I've heard big deer grunts
up close. It was not a deer.

Speaker 2 (01:48:29):
Never know what could pop out of the woods in
East Texas. Probably just somebody got a bad burrito. I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:48:36):
Sether one three two, one two five seven ninety email
on me, Doug Pike, Can I heart me to good heavens?

Speaker 2 (01:48:41):
We're already at the end of the whole world here.
It looks like we're just oh Dan wade in. We
used to have a game warden where I'm from, who
would sneak up on you while you were fishing back
in the early eighties. You know, a good game warden
sometimes has to do that. A good game warden sometimes
has to to kind of ease on in and kind

(01:49:02):
of do a little aahah on you. Uh oh herefo
faux pro sending me a picture of what about live
scope hold on COT show at seven thirty? Yeah, of
course I mentioned it. Of course I mentioned I mentioned
it right off the bat. You and your spotlighting haha, Yeah, thank.

Speaker 3 (01:49:23):
You for that, trip forest. I appreciate that. Oh, they
send me a picture of golf clubs?

Speaker 2 (01:49:28):
Are these? How ancient are these?

Speaker 7 (01:49:31):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:49:31):
My gosh, let me see This is a guy who's
got one hundred fishing rods. Oh lord, they may have
belonged to Abraham Lincoln. That's how old those golf clubs are. Hey,
you might want to call a museum forest. I'll look
at the rest of them in a little while, buddy,
stick to fishing. Stick to fishing, my friend. All right,

(01:49:55):
that's going to wrap it up for today. Thank you
all so very much for listening. Is Dan coming up next?

Speaker 2 (01:50:00):
Dan Matthews Good stick Around.

Speaker 3 (01:50:05):
Dan Matthews is next on Sports Talk seven ninety I'll
be back tomorrow morning.

Speaker 10 (01:50:08):
Today.

Speaker 2 (01:50:09):
Can't wait to get here either.

Speaker 3 (01:50:11):
Thanks to all of you for listening and welcoming me
back with your good stories.

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
I appreciate that. Every time we're on, get outside, have
some phone with your family in case you haven't been
outside yet. It's a gorgeous day. That's it for now, Audios.
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