The Doug Pike Show 9-29-24

Do you know the best place to catch catfish in houston? Well, let Doug tell you where to go. What's the deal with speckled trout? Are they getting bigger? Here Doug prediction for the future of theses fish, you'll be surprised. Bow Hunting vs Rifle hunting. The great debate when it comes to hunting any deer. Nonstop opinions from the callers on this topic. Try not to take it personal Ok? Low budget fishing tips from Guitar Dave. Plus, Do you remember the Popeil Fishing Rod & Reel?
Doug sure does here what he says about this old school fishing rod. Don't forget your golf updates, more hunting and fishing tips all in this episode.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now Here's Doug Pike. Oh, never know a moment. I'm
running a little bit tardy into here. I may have
a seat, if I may put this over here, put
this over here, turn on that but there, and have
a seat. Welcome, Welcome to Sunday. Glad y'all could make it.

(00:34):
Thank you very much for listening. I had a big day.
I had a big week. Holy Cow. I talked about
it a little bit yesterday. And I had this whole
week of running around half of East Texas and Southeast
Texas and doing all the things that I love to do.

(00:55):
And then lo and behold, here we are on Sunday morning,
the day before I have to end my vacation and
go back to work. The real part of the work
around here anyway, the Monday through Friday park This I
consider fun. The day to day getting ready for it.

(01:16):
I do it because it's in anticipation of being in
here and being able to have conversations with all of you.
And I had finally gotten my voice all the way
back to where it was just normal, and it didn't
get tired easily from doing as much as I do
behind a microphone. And then last night I ended up
at my well, let's just call it a significant high

(01:40):
school reunion. Take a guess how far back Melbourne? How
many years was it for last night's reunion? And we
had a big crowd too, Okay, let me see carried
to one, divide by two. Let's say thirty nine. Get it? No,

(02:04):
you're way out at fifty, dude, this was our fiftieth
high school reunion. Get out of here, yes, her, and
the sad part is over. Against the wall, there was
the in memoriam list of people we lost from that
class of about six hundred and twenty six forty something
like that. I don't remember how many exactly we graduated

(02:25):
that year, and there were far too many names I
recognized on that list. Unfortunately, they're just far it. Probably
we probably lost. I want to say there were probably
seventy five eighty maybe yeah, somewhere in there on that list.
It was a lot of people. It may have been fewer,
it may have been a few more. I'm not sure.
I didn't stop and count. That would have seemed somewhat

(02:48):
macab but yeah, it was. It was that was the
unfun part. But I don't know that there was anybody
in the room that didn't go by there and take
a look. There was also a list of teachers that
from that year who had passed since then too, and
I honestly I expected that list to be a little
bit longer, because they had to have been at least

(03:11):
what in their late twenties early thirties to be teaching then,
and to tack fifty onto that, that's that's a pretty
good a pretty good run. In any event, it was
a lot of fun. I'll may talk about that a
little bit later. I, like I said, it was, this
was the final day. This is the final day of

(03:31):
my week long vacation. And thus far I talked about
this a little bit. Yesterday. I had gotten in three
rounds of golf, five half days of fishing the way
I'm counting them, and half day a couple of times
was a little bit shorter than I would have liked,
but it was only because the fishing wasn't as good
as I wanted it to be, and so I wasn't

(03:53):
going to just stand there and throw into empty water
either way. All of this stuff that I did this
week was memorable in some way, shape or form, whether
it was the golf part, whether it was some of
the fishing stuff. Running at that reunion last night was
a lot of fun. I'll probably end up talking about
that more a little bit. And that's the first week

(04:14):
that I have taken, the first week of vacation I've
taken in a long time that didn't include a baseball
tournament or something relative to a major holiday. And I
mass squeezed a lot of sugar into that sack Man
who I had a good time, Von Melvin, I'll tell
you that good time that you did, man, you know, yeah,

(04:34):
And it's bittersweet that it's over. And I pulled the
audience last night. I talked to a lot of people
at that reunion, and one of the questions that came
up often is, because we're right in that sixty five
sixty eight seventy area, a lot of people are are
you retired? And I was surprised at how many of

(04:58):
my class are still working in some way, shape or form.
But then then there were the ones who were retired,
and most of them the pattern developed very quickly. Most
of them haven't been retired for more than a few years,
so it's right. It's right in line with our age group.

(05:19):
And more power to them. If if I didn't like
what I did up here, i'd probably retire a little
bit sooner than I'm going to, uh, if I ever
get to Who knows that kid of mine? I tell
you he's not cheap? Holy cow? Yeah, you know what
I'm talking about. And your son is? How old he's
twelve years old? Oh, they don't get cheaper. That's a

(05:41):
little pro tip for you. They don't get cheaper, man.
Just the shoes alone. It's costing. Oh oh, I remember that.
I remember those days. Go buy the kid a brand
new pair of shoes, like three weeks later, Dad, there's
something wrong with my shoes. Well, no, there's nothing wrong
with your shoes, son, there's something wrong with your feet.
They won't stop rowing exactly. You know, Holy cal What

(06:02):
size is he in now? He's in a twelve? Oh
my god? And he's I'm sorry, how old he's twelve? Twelve? Well,
I don't know what you're gonna do when he's twenty four.
I don't know, man, he'll be sitting front road in
the NBA games. Huh you Seeyboddy, that big and that
tall already is yeah, oh yeah, he might be a

(06:23):
basketball player. He just might be who knows. Who knows? Man.
So I'm finally back in the saddle around here. I've
come up to speed on how great catfishing is gonna be.
I've had three people call me this week asking about
catfishing on some of the lakes, and it it has
stayed so steady at some legs, it fluctuates up and down.

(06:45):
All of these fishing populations are cyclical, and you never
know where there's gonna be a lot of fish and
where not. But one that's held up forever is Conroe.
Uh well, Livia's is not bad, but Conroe's been one
of the best catfish lakes in this state for I
don't know how many years. I just don't And almost
every time I talk to somebody who's been up there

(07:07):
lately and who knows what they're doing, they've caught a
lot of catfish. I remember years ago I had to
write a piece for Field and Stream. The assignment came
down back when I was on their masthead. I did
that for about I don't know twenty something years, and
we got to make some really fun trips, by the way,
for these annual trips we were making for everybody on

(07:28):
the masthead to go kind of sit around and have
a big powwow on the direction of the magazine for
the next year, and we would get to go fishing somewhere,
which wasn't bad, all the way from New York down
to god I don't remember where we went. That was
where I caught my first brook trout, by the way,
And there's a story behind that. I won't bother you

(07:48):
with it now, but the long and the short of
it was, the assignment comes down. We need some short
stories on places that families could go and have relatively
good fishing and access to big city amusement type things.

(08:08):
I'm thinking, Holy cow, there's Lake Conroe. There's NASA, there's Houston.
For heaven's sakes, there's all of all of the things
that come with being the fourth largest city. I don't
know if we were fourth or fifth or six back then,
but we were still big. We were top ten, and
so I think that, man, this is going to be
an easy rite. I know this is back when I

(08:31):
was fishing Lake Conroe probably twice a month while I
was at the paper and whatnot, and all of a
sudden the actual assignment comes down. And what we found
out is we had one hundred words to address a
national audience and convince them that the place about which

(08:51):
we were writing was the place to bring their family
that summer for vacation. And so I picked Conro Catfish
and they they decided that was one they wanted to use.
And I thought, Okay, I can do this. One hundred words.
That's it's not many, but I can do it. And
I knocked out a first draft and it was, I
want to say, three hundred, three hundred and eighty words long,

(09:14):
so I missed it by I don't know a mile,
and then I started whittling out the unnecessary words and
whittling and whittling and whittling until I finally got it
down to exactly. I think it was like ninety nine
that I turned in and it was very well received.
But that was that actually was one of the hardest
writing assignments I've ever had, because in many cases, magazines,

(09:37):
especially back at when magazine printed magazines were a big.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Deal stuff like that. And he said, they make probably
more money the state does off a boat hunters than
rival hunters.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
There's no way.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
And geographically, he said, I questioned him on that there's
about ten to one their shooting. Well, I'm not going
to disagree with you, but in his opinion that more
illegal deer were sharp shot with a mow where the

(10:14):
shooter was comped and it might have been an inside,
it might be the thirteen inch rule, it may have
been whatever rule. But he said, David, now that Yeah, Hey.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
I got a run, I got a full deck here.
I got to get to but I'll bring some more
of this up when we get back. All right there, Yeah,
thanks Rick, audios? Ah boy, he picked U cab hunh.
All right, Dave, Jeff and Brandon. I'm trying to get
to all three of you. What's up? Hold on, what's up? Dave?

Speaker 4 (10:47):
Hey, I got five more years on my fift years.
It's i'd graduated seventy nine. Well anyway, no, but I
mean what's cool is you go there and you see
all these people that we played for their weddings and
then their kids are there.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Oh yeah, I'll bet for you. That's really cool.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Now. Uh, you know what I wanted to talk about
was if you're on the beginning of just you're going
to start fishing, Yeah, and gold low only budget. I'd
get me a I'd get me a zip Co thirty
three in a zip COO four O four. You may
want to change the string out.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Still to make the four four.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I hadn't seen it any long time.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
I think that's as big as that of your line.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
I think there was there was a the two O
two was the standard, that was every kid's first riding reel,
and then you upgraded to the four oh four, and
I think there was even a six o six that
was like the size of a grapefruit. Man, it was huge,
awling ball.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yeah, you know, I have to spend a million dollars
on that now, little selection, okay, uh eight and eight
black and yellow spooner bait, purple the red tailed worm
in a Cocoaha strawberry with the white tail. Yeah, and
then then the old hula popper like a prog. And

(12:12):
then make sure you got some small pea weights and
stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Shop.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Are you shopping in an antique store, Dave?

Speaker 4 (12:20):
No, this is no just.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, well you know what you're I mean you are
you're pointing out some pretty good lures. The hula popper. Man,
I haven't thrown one of those in a long long time.
And the funny part about that, and I'm not picking
on you, because the funny part about that is if
if you go back into somebody's old, old, old tackle
box and find a lure that still looks good and
the hooks look good, it'll still catch fish. Fish aren't

(12:46):
that smart. They haven't evolved to where they won't eat
the lures that are thirty and forty years old. But
the problem is that the lure maker's got to keep
throwing out new stuff so they can convince you to
go buy it and put it on top of their
old stuff that you bought last year. And it's yeah,
I love fishing with old tackle. That's kind of cool.

Speaker 6 (13:06):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (13:06):
The other thing is you need a gold and then
you need to get a silver spoon. Now, when you
walk through the park linder, you go in and get
your soda or something, and you get a white straw
with the red smiles on there, cut that off, then
cut it like a hula skirt on there, and then

(13:28):
fur it on your hook and you got your.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Trailer on the good to go. Hey, I got to
catch one more, Dave, thanks for the call, buddy, Thank you, sir, Yes, sir, Audios.
We're going hula poppers. Holy cow. Jeff, what's up, Brandon?
Hang on man, I may have to get you after
the break, Brandon. But Jeff, what's up? Buddy?

Speaker 7 (13:47):
Hey Doug, my granddaughter, My granddaughter told me she wanted
to go fishing. Well, that's all I needed to hear. Yeah,
So she's four years old, and I've done where over
on the east side, and there's several little pines out
where you can get to easy access, and I've done.
I've done all my fish and I'm done with it.
I've Trandy Bay, I've done all that, and uh, but

(14:09):
she's four and I was just wondering, shed I'd just
get one of those little all in one wrapped in
the heavy plastic with the real marod, the little little
mermaid fishing pole.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
I would step over little mermaids and ponies and cartoon characters.
I'd step over every one of those and and do
that whatever it takes to find a cane pole. A
two piece cane pole is fine, a one piece cane
pole is fine, maybe eight nine feet long something like that,
and just don't make her do anything mechanical. And if

(14:44):
you you go chum up a little spot along the
shoreline somewhere with some you can use oatmeal, you can
use corn flakes, whatever you want, and just crush it up,
make it a little bitty stuff and throw it out there,
like if there's some brush along the shoreliner something, it
will attract every little panfish within a quarter mile. And

(15:05):
then you just go ahead.

Speaker 8 (15:07):
What size hook?

Speaker 7 (15:07):
Just is it like a tin or either?

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah about it. When I was teaching my son how
to fish, I had cane poles. I had little floats
about the size of a dime, just the smallest thing
you can get that'll float. And I was using a
long shank number ten hook and absolutely positively, Jeff, mash
the barbs down on those hooks. Some of the persons
you are going to flip off. Some aren't. But if

(15:31):
they get if that hook finds its way into a
foot or a leg or an arm or a whatever,
instead of having to rush to the emergency room, you
just back it out of the area, put a little
put a little w D forty on it, and get
use neosporn. Please don't use w D forty. But you
know what I mean about what about bait? What about Okay,

(15:52):
I'm gonna give you a little secret on bait. You
can either you can either become a surgeon, a cold
cut surgeon and cut a thick piece of bologney into
about four hundred quarter inch little pieces or and you
can do that and that'll work. But the problem is
that those fish are very skilled, even though they're little,
they're skilled. That's sucking that stuff off the hook without

(16:14):
touching the hook. I would go and get there's a
box of little miniature the small night crawlers, and I
think it's Berkeley gulp or one of those artificial baits,
and it's a little bit nightcrawler. They're a little bit
thicker than the lead of a pencil. And you just
cut it for that number ten long shank hook. You

(16:36):
cut a piece off about a half inch long, You
thread half of it down to the bottom of the hook,
and then you go ahead and let the hook go
on through that bait and just lift it up a
little higher onto that hookshank and you can catch ten
of them on that one piece of bait.

Speaker 7 (16:51):
Does it just have like a little split pail on.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
The edd Now it doesn't have anything it's just a
little squirrel of whatever. You cut off about maybe three
quarters of an inch, thread it onto the hook, don't
use the whole thing. They'll they'll never they'll sit down there.
They'd have to sit down with a knife and fork,
deet that, you know. But just no, no mermaid stickers, Melbourne.

Speaker 8 (17:12):
Nor thank you, good luck.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
I want to see pictures, man. That'll be fun, all right,
all right, let me see there, okay, Brandon, I'll get
to you when we come back from the break. I
am thrilled when somebody's wanted to take the granddaughter fishing,
and he's already got a place to go. He just
needs to stay away from that mechanical stuff because little
kids trying to wind in things, it just gets it's

(17:40):
too much work for them. They just and as long
as she's sitting there looking at that cork, she'll listen
to anything you say, Grandpa. So now's your chance to
teach her everything you can teach her. Take her fishing,
have her sitting there staring at that cork. Every now
and then you're gonna have to take a fish off.
But you and your granddaughter are gonna have a great time.
I promise you that fuls our sports Doock seven nineties,

(18:04):
Houston Sports. Where you go with iHeartRadio Now now get
more Doug, indeed, Melvin indeed, all right, welcome back Doug
Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thanks for listening.
I certainly do appreciate it. As promised. I will go
straight to Brandon because he hang on and he's hanging
on through the break. Brandon, what's up my friend?

Speaker 9 (18:25):
Good morning, Doug, Good morning man?

Speaker 2 (18:27):
How are you?

Speaker 9 (18:28):
I'm all right?

Speaker 2 (18:29):
So you got some astro stuff? You need to tell
me because I hadn't watched or looked in a day
or two.

Speaker 8 (18:35):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 9 (18:36):
Okay, do you number? What do you won yesterday?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yes? That's good.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
We won.

Speaker 9 (18:54):
I think it was. I'll tell you water. Yeah, why won?

Speaker 2 (19:03):
That's that's fantastic. Now we just got to coach into
the into the playoffs and and bring our a game
for every one of those games and just keep working
our way forward. How do you think our chances are?

Speaker 9 (19:14):
We're gonna We're gonna go in the postseason, but for
we're going to the wild card? Probably were playing Cleve
when they're that's what thinking. That's what you think.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
I think it's gonna be a great series. I think
it's gonna be a great run through the playoffs no
matter what. For these guys, they they've got the firepower.
How is how is Alvarez?

Speaker 9 (19:42):
He's so hurt.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
I don't like to hear that.

Speaker 9 (19:45):
He's still got the bright son. Okay and one of
the he's doing good. But he's still doing gonna be
doing baseball?

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, well, he doesn't have to do much. We're just
standing swing the bat. That's all I want him to do,
and jog around a basis when he's done done swinging.
What about jose L twob what's going on there?

Speaker 9 (20:08):
He had yesterday?

Speaker 8 (20:10):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Okay, is it just a scheduled day off?

Speaker 9 (20:14):
No, he's in today.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Okay, good, good, good good? What time do they go to?

Speaker 3 (20:19):
You know?

Speaker 9 (20:21):
I think it starts at free.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Three o'clock's perfect. I'll be over my nap by then, probably,
I hope, or at least home by then.

Speaker 9 (20:29):
How about your son? The game went?

Speaker 2 (20:32):
They didn't play that well yesterday. They ran into a
couple of buzzsaws and got beat. But I think they'll
bounce back today. They may be on the field now.
I'll have to do a double check when I get
back through a break and here in a minute. Well,
it's good to hear from you, my friend.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
Yep, alrighty okay, boy, games that.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
You go take care of those astros for me, all right, he.

Speaker 9 (20:58):
Sing their wits. I'm wedinning right now.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Oh good, okay, all right, I'll see you man. I
gotta go audio. All right, I got some I got
some news. And when I was kind of snickering about
those stickers, Melbourne didn't even dawn on me. And then
Mojo jumps in. Because Mojo's a genius, she can stick
some of the stickers on the cane pole to make

(21:22):
it hers. Yeah, that's why did you. I didn't even
that's what you were talking about. That's what I was
talking about. You gotta get those stickers kids. I did
not know about. Well, yeah, my son loves stickers too.
I don't.

Speaker 10 (21:33):
Man.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Here's the deal. When my son was little, he was
a handful okay. He was like the ever ready bunny,
just all over the house, getting into stuff, doing stuff.
And I would come home and it was always a surprise.
And one of the surprises I got was when I
looked up and came in and there was a whole
box of band aids. An entire box of band aids

(21:58):
had been stuck on the fireplace tiles, and this just
came in and said, what's that? Uh he got bored.
My wife let her let him put an entire box
of band aids. And you know what, if that's what
it takes, that's that's cheaper than a babysitter, that that

(22:18):
one box of band aids. I got no problem with that.
In hindsight. I was a little bit miffed that day,
although Boil those band aids aren't free, but then again,
neither his childcare. So it worked out pretty well. Let
me go talk to John here if I can figure
out how where did this mouse go? Oh? There it is,
Hey John, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Man?

Speaker 6 (22:37):
Well, I didn't hear it completely, but what was the
effectiveness being cited by your one of your prior callers
on bow hunting?

Speaker 4 (22:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Ricka it he doesn't like it.

Speaker 8 (22:49):
I know.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
Yeah, yeah, Those that don't like it are going to
cite a really bad number. Those that love it are
going to cite better than it is.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Probably that's my research turned up.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
What about you, Well, I didn't hear what he suggested
was the number.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
Oh he thinks it's just astronomical. More than half of
them get lost. And and what I read I did.
I did some reading yesterday and it's it's closer to
that number than I suspected. But it's still it's it's
a user malfunction. It's not the equipment. You can't blame bows.
You have to you have to point a finger at
somebody who thinks, yeah, I can make that sixty yard

(23:28):
shot and a thirty mile an hour crosswind.

Speaker 6 (23:33):
I think he has to point the finger at the animal.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
I don't.

Speaker 11 (23:36):
No, No, seriously, deer are in incredibly fast to react
jumping this string.

Speaker 6 (23:48):
They're just dropping when they when they hear a sound,
they're going to drop and load up those muscles. So
that's why so many shots are spines, because they're aiming
for a double lung. They drop six and use turn them.
Makes for for short recovery.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
But so what.

Speaker 6 (24:04):
People aren't accounted for. You know, most people with their equipment.
The equipment's great. They're a great shot. They can hit
the bottom of a paper cup at sixty yards. Yeah,
the problem was at sixty yards that arrow, even with
a three hundred foot per second, that arrow's in flight
for half a second. Yeah, half a second is a
quarter of a step for Banby, and that turns a

(24:26):
perfect double lung into a gut shot.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah, that's time for them to have sandwich.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
That's That's that. So it's not that they can't make
the sixty yard shot, they just shouldn't take it against
the deer. It's my opinion.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
You know, I don't know what it is. And I'll
go to the very first deer that I ever shot at, John,
and I've talked about it before, and if you've heard it, yep,
I know your story.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
Go ahead, go ahead for like one of the others.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Twelve yards from this deer, Max, And I'm young, and
it's young. It's just the first set of little antlers
this thing's ever had. Hell, oh man, this is easy,
Holy cow. I just gotta be real slow to draw
this bow and then just pulling the string bag and
I'm getting out. I get it all the way to
full draw, and that deer's just right in my ring

(25:13):
my head lights. There he is right there. I'm standing
there and he's ten twelve yards away. And I put
it right in the middle of his body and right
up in the front, and I let go and that
deer dropped like it had been yanked down on cables
or something, and the bow the arrow went right. Gravity yeah,

(25:33):
well yeah, yeah, yeah, gravity it is.

Speaker 6 (25:36):
They can't they can't pull themselves down there literally just
collapse their their fore knees. Yeah, will yeah, and gravity
does it for you faster than that arrow gets there.

Speaker 10 (25:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
And then the reverse happened just as fast too. That
deer disappeared so fast like oh he learned something. I
learned something that same day.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
No, I I film on my hunt. I only bow
hunt year lung and I have have a camera going.
You wouldn't believe.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
What they do, what they.

Speaker 6 (26:07):
Can do in that And I take nothing past twenty
five yards.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, I was. I was never thirty was my That
was like the Hail Mary shot. If it was the
best year I've ever seen, and it was standing still
and I felt I could make shot.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
You know, well, I was with you know, honestly, if
it's the best year I've ever seen, that's when I
really won't take a thirty yard shots.

Speaker 8 (26:26):
I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
That's a good point.

Speaker 6 (26:28):
Yeah, you know, I mean to split hairs with you, but.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (26:33):
Sure, But what I do, what I would encourage bow
hunters to do is aim for the bottom of the
skin line above below the double lung. Okay, I like that,
because what happens if if if it just stands and
lets the aerofly no harm, no foul. If it drops,

(26:54):
you got a perfect double lung, and you'll probably hear
it crash and you'll just walk out. You don't have
to blow trail. You just walk up there because you
know where it's laying. Yeah, like you, like you mentioned
today's equipment and those those extendable broadheads they're they're they
are killing machines. Okay, I am, I'm color bind. I
can't see red on green, so I can't blood trail.

(27:15):
But I've never had to. Okay, I have lost eight deer.
But though you just while, you just sit there and
you listen and they you hear them crash because they
run into the nearest cover and stand there and all
of a sudden they're flailing, and you literally just walk up.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, if if they.

Speaker 6 (27:31):
Don't take a shot, that they shouldn't and not that
they're not capable of them making the shot.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
It's a very good point.

Speaker 6 (27:38):
Bambi is better than we are.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
You know, you make a very good point, because I
do know a lot of guys who can hit the
who get a bottle cap at forty yards, you know,
and that that's easy. Yeah, but that's that's not deer hunting.
That's target shooting.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
Totally lose those shots for pigs.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, no kidding, man, Thank you, Ny.

Speaker 6 (27:59):
That's that's my two cents. But all right, I would
say reality is probably around seventy percent success successful recovery.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Interesting.

Speaker 6 (28:08):
Yeah, and a lot of the and a lot of
those thirty percent are still alive. Deer are so incredibly resilient.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
That's a good point.

Speaker 8 (28:16):
Time.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
You don't have time, but I got some incredible stories
from that standpoint.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
But yeah, we'll catch it again. Yeah, i'd like to. Yeah,
all right, man, all right, take care you bet see you?
All right, we got to take a little break here.
Holy cow, Melvin, you let us go along, didn't you.
We had interesting conversation. It was interesting, wasn't it. Yeah?

Speaker 1 (28:34):
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Speaker 12 (28:40):
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Speaker 2 (28:41):
Conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show Welcome Back
Dog Bike Show on Sports Talk STUF now Memory Lane
just stopping Stovin. Melvin, good, heavens man. Let's go in order,
and we're gonna start with Brandon if I can ever
get this mouth so, good morning, Welcome to the Doug
Bikes Show. How you doing?

Speaker 6 (28:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (28:59):
You talking to me? Melvin? What are you doing? I
was online?

Speaker 10 (29:04):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Were you sorry about that? Y'all? It's all right? What's up? Brandon?
Are you there? I want to put him back on hold.
I want to move over to Steve. O. See what
he's doing. Steve? Are you there?

Speaker 13 (29:15):
What's up?

Speaker 5 (29:15):
Man?

Speaker 3 (29:16):
How you doing?

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Both?

Speaker 2 (29:17):
I'm good, I'm good man, wonderful. I got a couple
things the questions to ask man.

Speaker 13 (29:21):
We were actually I live obviously in Galveston, but we
lived close to Herd's Lane right there between sixty first,
you know, over to the west side, and there's a
little kind of like an RV park thing, and there's
a nice little body of water there.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
My kids go fishing pretty.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
Much every day week, right, yeah, yeah, And they were
over there just throwing some lures and they called me
over and there had to have been one hundred sheep's
head in a school and then you.

Speaker 13 (29:49):
Look around the corner there were one hundred juvenile rat
reds in the school.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
I mulled everywhere.

Speaker 12 (29:55):
I'm talking.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
It was like a breeding ground, man.

Speaker 13 (29:58):
And I don't know, I've never seen it, you know,
I never really seen him gather up like that.

Speaker 12 (30:02):
We didn't have any like any bait, like shrimp or.

Speaker 6 (30:06):
Anything like that.

Speaker 12 (30:08):
If we did, I think we could have caught some.
But we were just hanging out.

Speaker 8 (30:11):
It was pretty epic.

Speaker 6 (30:12):
I'm not even gonna lie.

Speaker 13 (30:13):
Never seen that many fish congregated in one spot.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
That's pretty cool. Man. Who knows what? Right?

Speaker 13 (30:20):
We're also we're headed to the Texans game right now.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Excellent. What's what's the story of the Texas? Are they
going to get the ship righted this week?

Speaker 13 (30:28):
You think hopefully that punch to the jaw last week
set them straight, You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
It's kind of a wake up call. You know, you
go to and zher and you feel you start feeling
your oats a little bit and feel indestructible, and all
of a sudden somebody comes in and gut punches you.
It has a wake up call. Yeah, it's a reality
check exactly right man.

Speaker 13 (30:47):
Well man, when you have you have a wonderful day,
and let's go to Texas.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah, man, I'll see audios all right. I don't know
where Brandon went. He must have had something more import
and come up. I understand that mark way in from
all the way over in Georgia. When I showed my
dad that I was ready to move up from my
cane pole, he got me this and there's a picture here,
because he was a little worried about me messing with

(31:14):
his rods and reels what his dad bought him. And
Melvin and I were kind of laughing about it a
minute ago. Po' Peel's pocket fishermen. You have to be
a little older than some of this audience may be
to know what that is. Even there was a guy
named Ron po' peel, and he eat allegedly invented. He

(31:36):
was not so much a good inventor as he was
a great marketer, and he bought up as much TV
time as he could because he knew that if he
ran that stuff late enough at night, half the people
watching would be two or three fingers of scotch into
their evening cocktail, and the other half wouldn't know a
good rod and reel if it slapped him in the face.

(31:58):
So he sold these pocket fisherman. Melbourne said, it looks
like a little hand sewing machine. And that's a pretty
good description of it. If you've never seen one, look
it up in the ad that Mark sent only nineteen
ninety five. Melvin looked them up online. You can still
buy one, but it's gonna cost you about fifty bucks.

(32:20):
And anybody in this audience who pays fifty dollars for
a po peel pocket fisherman is no longer allowed to
listen to this show. I'm just gonna have to cut
you loose. I'm sorry, man, I'll help you out. For
fifty bucks, I can put you in a legitimate rod
and reel. I'm telling you the rod on this thing.

(32:42):
You know what it looks like, Melbourn. It looks like
some kind of a bird's beak, doesn't it. It looks
like a two can beak. And yeah, just don't buy
a pocket fisherman. That's just too funny, man. I don't
know that I've ever even held one my hands. It
probably feels kind of awkward. Yeah, and how do you

(33:05):
cast it?

Speaker 5 (33:05):
What?

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Well, there's that little bit of flexibility in there, and
the way with the two little arms like a top
beak and a bottom beak if you will, they flex, okay,
And so you couldn't You couldn't use it for real fish.
And by real fish, I mean you might as well
just take up pickleball or something. Man, this is you're

(33:30):
not a fisherman. I did get something I got from
Mark that I really like seeing here Polk County, low
Fence killed yesterday by young girl. The biggest buck that
he'd heard of in a long time, and the biggest
buck I've heard of in a long time for around
here anywhere. That deer, that deer now just clicked on it. Now,
I got to go back to it. Two hundred and

(33:51):
sixty nine pounds. Two hundred and sixty nine pounds could
easily play left guard for the tech. Since that's a
that's a heck of a deer. Man, that is one
heck of a deer. Let me see if there's any
indication of how young that girl was during the first
week of O season, East Texas Houstonian. Oh no, that's

(34:14):
that's from nineteen ninety five. Oh wow, that's part of
my hunting report from back then. Holy cow, where did
you find that little clip? That's amazing? Wow? He still
got that during the first week of deer season. Let
me make sure I wrote this correctly. Steve Sims shot
an eight point buck one ninety one, yeah, one ninety three,

(34:35):
oh nineteen and three eights inside spread five inch bases.
That's the way they they put it in the newspaper.
The editors tried to fix that for me and messed
it up anyway. That weighed two hundred and forty five
pounds on the hoof. That was from nineteen ninety five.
This girl shot that deer yesterday that weighed two sixty nine.

(34:57):
Thanks for sharing all of that, Mark, I really do
appreciate dad man Steve Wading. When we were talking about
lures and how many they have to make so that
they can stay in business, he said, the old saying
new lures catch more fishermen than they do fish is
very true. Every lure still works if you throw it,
but if you won't throw it, it can't catch anything.

(35:19):
It's hard to catch a fish from inside a tackle box.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
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Speaker 2 (35:38):
What time is it? Nine o seven already? Holy cow?
Holy cow?

Speaker 13 (35:43):
Man?

Speaker 2 (35:46):
What did I want to do? I wanted that before
I get to the President's Cup, which it's a horse
race today. We go in with an eleven to seven
lead and twelve matches getting out and getting running. I
haven't looked even yet this morning because I've been busy
with a lot of other stuff, A lot of other stuff.

(36:09):
What's this cut? I'll look at that later.

Speaker 10 (36:13):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Teal season wraps up today. If you haven't shot your
teal yet, if you haven't gotten into that much fun, uh,
so far, this is it. You got gott until sunset today.
I believe that's correct. Dub season plods forward, as it
always does the teal season. It really overall, I think
it was pretty good. It kicked off well and held

(36:37):
up for the most part. I heard a few heard
about a few tougher hunts in the last several days,
But overall, I think it'll be remembered as a pretty
good run. Teal hunters, I think, sometimes get kind of
spoiled by how quickly they can get their limits. There's
a presumption almost always that limits were taken when there
are two different groups of hunters talking back and forth.

(36:59):
So the measure we've come to use to keep competition alive,
because after all, we're dudes and we're competitive, is how
long it too it. Well, yeah, we got a limit too,
but how long did it take you to get your limit?
That's not what that's about. That's a little silly, honestly,
when much of any outdoors trip ought to be just

(37:20):
appreciating whatever nature throws your way to enjoying the time
in the field or on the water, in the woods, whatever,
with people we like, hanging out with, doing stuff we
all like to do. That's why we're out there. It's
not a race. A teal hunt's not a race. And
I don't know any teal hunters whose families are going
to go hungry that night if there aren't six teal

(37:43):
on the grill at dusk, that's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. Be
sure to just check yourself anytime you're thinking about, well, gosh,
it sure is taken a long time to get our limit.
We're having to call through all these undersized fish to
get our limit of keeper fish. That's not a horrible thing.
If you don't like the size of the fish you're

(38:04):
catching in that spot. Move, that's very simple. Just move,
move into you can find bigger fish. Oh, it gets
frustrating when people tell me they're upset because they caught
one hundred fish but only three of them were keepers. Well,
if you're catching a little bitty fish, there's a good

(38:25):
chance every cast, there's a good chance your next cast
is going to be another little bitty fish. Little pro tip. Move?
What's up, Jeff?

Speaker 5 (38:34):
Wondering to I wanted to thank you again for this
week in military history, and I won't drawn drawn, I
won't drone on and on. Excuse me about the ranger
in particular? Well else did you find out about her?
I'm glad she did well. She wasn't suitable in the
Pacific against those steable little Japanese guys, so it looks
like they put her to.

Speaker 8 (38:54):
Work in the Atlantic.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
What else did you find out about that operation or
that instance or whatever it was when she was thinking
the bad guys?

Speaker 8 (39:03):
You know?

Speaker 2 (39:03):
My actually, my my recollection is going to be kind
of poor because I put that one together a couple
of weeks ago before I went on vacation, and I
can't remember the darn details. I'm so sorry, that's okay.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
Well, I'm gonna look it up myself.

Speaker 8 (39:16):
That's my job.

Speaker 5 (39:17):
But I I nobody's talking about this for probably most
of the country. I appreciate it. I can't stop saying
that you get so much done in just a couple
of minutes, maybe if that long.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
I've got forty seconds on those things to dish out
everything I'm dishing out. And boy, if you can find
somebody else who wants to sponsor these things, there's room
for them on every station in America as far as
I'm concerned, and I can. I can handle that anywhere
I can. I can write, I can put that into
any station that we own in this country.

Speaker 5 (39:50):
So I don't want to get into anybody's financial business
or they being reliable and taking care of things or.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Yeah, so far. Yeah, I got rafter V and I've
got Phoenix Knives both doing at least one at least one,
and I think rafter V does some streaming editions of
that as well. So yeah, the more the merrier, man,
because I love putting them together, I love doing them.
I've learned a ton myself from doing these things. It's fascinating.

Speaker 5 (40:17):
This is as important as ever probably more than ever
that I educate us all on this stuff and how
great we used to do the job out there.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
We need to be a reminder, we truly do. Otherwise
somebody else is going to come in here and remind
us how much we've we've forgotten about how to very costly.

Speaker 5 (40:35):
These young sons and daughters over there are going to
pay heavily if we don't know what I'm doing. You
know what we're doing over in the Far East.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
You are correct, sir, You are correct, Thank you, Thank you, yes, sir,
my pleasure bay. Yeah, that feature that this week in
US military history is something that I've always enjoyed doing. Yeah,
it's it's a very It's just a snapshot. It's a
snapshot each week of two or three things that happened
that week that were relevant to military history. And then

(41:07):
to cap that, I also mentioned the names of, depending
on how much time I have left, two or three
people who earned this nation's medal of honor that week,
especially me. You like that, you like it. I'm glad.
I appreciate it, man, I do. And like I said,
if if anybody's interested in having that feature air more

(41:28):
often on more stations. No, fooling. If somebody rolled up
here with a wheelbarrow full of gold bars, I could
have it running all over the entire country ten times
a day, just as soon as we could get it
set up. Seven one three two one two five seven
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Speaker 14 (41:50):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
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Speaker 2 (41:55):
Now more, Doug fight took me a long time. I
learned this song, Mellan, how you like? I'm my rendition
excellent finger technique. Yeah, thank you very much, appreciate that,
Thank you very much. Chickkorea, Chick Caress cood Man. I
used to listen to that dude a lot. I listened

(42:16):
to a lot of jazz when I was younger, I
really did. I don't know what drew me there. My
parents didn't listen to jazz. They were products of the
forties and fifties. But yeah, for some reason, it just
I liked it, and I was into music. I had
a really good stereo system, had excellent speakers. I learned

(42:39):
a long time ago that if you're trying to put
together a good sound system, you probably want to spend
at least about fifty or sixty percent of your money
just on the speakers. And that was back when I
had turntables to deal with and all that too, So yeah,
it was I really enjoyed it, and I could really
enjoy the listening experience on quality equipment. It's amazing how

(43:03):
good the equipment is today. Just the earbuds that you
can get, the tone quality that can be pushed through
something you just got stuck in your ear doesn't even
have wires on it. Just a yeah, it's amazing, it
really is. Good. Speakers are a dime a dozen now,
they really are. And the quality of sound you can

(43:24):
get out of a phone with earbuds is probably close
to what I was listening to in my little one
bedroom loft apartment whatever it was over there off guesser
in a part of town that's a little different now
than it was in seven one three, two, one two
five seven ninety. Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot Com.

(43:47):
I don't even know where to go from here. Oh
you know what we do need to do. I'm gonna
I'm gonna step away from step away from the out
of doors right now. Well, no, I'm not stepping away
from you out of doors. Technically, what I'm doing and
is going to the President's Cup to see how we're doing.
I should have had you put that on the on
the TV in here, Melvin, and I forgot to ask,

(44:09):
is it?

Speaker 5 (44:11):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (44:11):
All I see is some guys. Oh no, just a
bunch of people marching around world leaders doing something. No,
there was a golf ball, so who knows what this is?
I don't know what that. Yeah, if you get a minute,
there's no rush, round five, round five, Off we go
Sunday singles. Let me view all the matches and see

(44:33):
what we've got, because a lot of them, or a
couple of them at least have finished by now. I
know that to be a fan. Okay, we're it's still
at eleven seven though, so hmm, no, there are some finals. Yeah,
it's eleven seven. That doesn't make sense. Oh yeah, these
are Saturday stuff. That's what it is. That's what I'm

(44:54):
looking for. I'm looking for Sunday. Where are Sunday's leaderboard?
Where is Sunday's leaderboard? It's there's nothing here yet. I
wonder if they're in another delay. I haven't seen, and
I'm straight up, I really I'm not sure why in
any event. Okay, let's just jump off of that run
grab that. That's Forrest calling in. We need to talk

(45:16):
to him straight up. Forrest, faux Pro Forest, my new
white bass fishing buddy with the He sent me a picture,
by the way, and we'll talk about it. If that's him.
If it's another guy named Forest, that would be highly coincidental.
Is it the same Forest? Plug him up? Tiktoktoktalk there

(45:38):
you are? What's up, faux Pro?

Speaker 12 (45:40):
What is going on? Mister duck?

Speaker 2 (45:43):
You know, I'm looking for current news out of the
President's cup and it's not coming up.

Speaker 12 (45:49):
See what that happens?

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 12 (45:53):
Want a vision of it? You talk about stereos and
stuff like that. I drew a vision. I mean you
sit there at our first with a two thousand dollars
sand Sue stereo system and a school for a nighting tables.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, cinder block in a two by twelve
you know.

Speaker 12 (46:11):
Oh man, that ain't no life.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Yeah, but we had some sound systems back in. Buddy, Hey,
I want to I'm glad you called because I was
gonna had in my notes here to talk about this morning.
That picture you sent me from some college bass tournament
on TV, some big tournament, and just a single frame
of what was I'm sure the same thing going on,
some boring clip of a guy standing on the bow

(46:32):
of his boat, staring at livescote with a spinning rod
in his end and doing nothing, probably for half the morning.
I hope that at some point every governing body in
fishing sobers up and just says, no more, this is
not fishing.

Speaker 12 (46:49):
Are you with Yeah, the Big exactly one of the
Big Bash tours already banned it for next year.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah, didn't didn't major league do something? Major league fishing.

Speaker 12 (46:58):
They're only allowed to use it for one of the
three periods.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Why why you wouldn't do it at all?

Speaker 12 (47:05):
I guess they can't take it. It's a money thing,
you know, you got to there's so many millions of
dollars in sponsorship. Yeah, it's all it's all about money.
It's all money.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
And that's a that's a reasonable compromise, I guess, exactly. Yeah,
you can use it a little bit, but it's still
what I The problem that you and I talked about
when I was up there hanging out with you is
that for a lot of people, that a lot of
people don't have fifteen twenty thirty thousand dollars to throw
into their boat just so they can use that technology.

Speaker 12 (47:34):
And that's exactly I mean. I got mind the way
Johnny cash it. I bought it one piece at a time.
You know, I couldn't buy.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
It all, you know, man, isn't that the truth?

Speaker 12 (47:45):
But ironically I called to talk about golf, brother, but
or not, you kind of got me into that again.
I don't know if that's good or bad.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Huh, I'm a little scared. What do you want to know? Man?

Speaker 12 (47:56):
Well, you know I was watching golf the other day
and I was watching the women's side, just curiosicuse I've
been washing it in years. I used to be a
big auditor Sawrems stand fan.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
I had a big crushing Well you should have told
me that because I got to sit down and interview
her for about thirty minutes when I was on a
trip down to Florida once, just me and her sitting
out there. It was cool.

Speaker 12 (48:15):
I love to hear talk. But uh yeah, So that's
the era that I washed it back in the tiger woods,
out of the sourstad Are. That's what I got in.
But what I noticed now and I looked her up
in the rankings. She's ranked thirty four on what ranking
log with Michelle Wee. Yeah, but you know when she
came up. But now I noticed in the top forty.
It's probably it's dominated by Asian women, it is. Was

(48:38):
it Michelle Wie that brought that over here?

Speaker 2 (48:40):
No, it wasn't Michelle Wie. There were plenty before her,
but there just just an overwhelming number of women. And
I think it's because they start them very young. Well
we start them young here too as well. But the
emphasis on golf is much like their emphasis on academics.
If you're gonna do it, you're gonna do it one

(49:01):
hundred percent, and they I think they put in more time. Now,
there are great don't misunderstand me. There are a lot
of really great women golfers out there, but they are
from from this country and from other countries. But the
Asian women tend to have, for some reason, have stepped

(49:24):
ahead somehow, and whatever they're doing and however they're doing it,
it's working because they they are really a dominant force.
And a lot of the women with the Asian names
they are also American, they're from other countries. Besides just
either here or they're somewhere in Asia, but they just
carry Asian surnames, and that's that's something else that can

(49:45):
be a little bit confusing. But whatever it is, whatever
whatever's in the water they're drinking, it's working because they
can flat they can hit it. They can they can
they have good finesse around the greens, and overall, the
women's game I think has gotten a lot lot better
in putting than it was even ten years ago, and
certainly fifteen years ago. There's been a lot of extra

(50:07):
effort put into putting for the women and it's paying off.
They're great, man, they're playing really well.

Speaker 12 (50:13):
And I see a similar I see a similar transition
in bats fishing with the Japanese fishermen do too. The
spotlighting livescope era. I mean, these guys are coming over
from Japan with their little little, weird looking Japanese base
that nobody's ever seen before, catching all these bassila lives coping.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
They've seen them before either.

Speaker 12 (50:32):
Yeah, and there's one particular guy whose name evaded me,
But you talked about the price of this stuff when
they did. They did an interview with one of the
pros with through all the boats at the tournament before
the tournament started, and this one Japanese guy has fifty
thousand dollars worth of electronics on his boat.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Good grief, good grief, Yeah, fifty grand I know I
can't do that. I wouldn't do that. Once again, it's
not fishing anymore, it's just watching TV.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
You know.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
If you can, if you can open the bail on
a spinning reel, then you too can be a world
class bass fisherman. And that's same.

Speaker 12 (51:10):
I got to cast a little bit accurately.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
That's it.

Speaker 12 (51:12):
You know, cast at the fish, and once you figure
out how to cast into that cone, you look at that. Mmm,
that is easy, you know how.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
That's all I had. I thought you wanted to talk
about your own golf game. Are you going to play.

Speaker 8 (51:27):
Well?

Speaker 12 (51:27):
I gotta I gotta have a golf game to start
to talk about.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
Yeah, we talked about clubs and we'll talk about clubs,
and we talked about the guy you need to get
you need to get tighter with and make sure he
brings you some clubs and he.

Speaker 12 (51:40):
Gives you exactly. We're gonna do some bartering out there fishing.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
That's lene rich. We're talking about from out it Meadow
Farm and that guy. He and Faux Pro have become
come buds up there. Lane's got a house up close,
and they fished a few times already.

Speaker 8 (51:58):
Is is he?

Speaker 2 (51:59):
Is he any good at he's not listening?

Speaker 8 (52:02):
Not bad.

Speaker 12 (52:02):
He's good on He's good on that cigar. But he's
not bad. I never see anybody could could lift a
fish and smoke a cigar and take him off the
hook and cast off the same time. He's got some
pretty good skills there.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
So yeah, well that comes from smoking cigars while he's
playing golf. Probably. I got a guy there, We got
a guy in our group who he can he can
he can swing a golf club with a cigar in
his fingers.

Speaker 12 (52:27):
Yeah, that's pretty impressive.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Yeah it is. Sometimes it gets a little crazy. It's funny,
all right, man, it's good to hear from you.

Speaker 12 (52:35):
You too bad. I say, you're welcome any time I
look forward. Dudn't get it's not you know, it's not off.
And you make you know, you make good friends at
this this stage of your life. You know, for me,
it was a it was a pretty cool deal, you know,
having a personal you know, local celebrity of mine. The
way I look at you. You know, you want to be
a personal local celebrity. But but for that to become
a friendship se would have been even a great deal
for me.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Yeah, that's a big deal for me too, for us.
I appreciate your hospitality up there. You and Ael, He tells,
all right, Man, yeah I heard about that. Yeah, if
you get invited to Faulx Pros house and he pulls
out the white bass, you don't want to be a
better friend. Exactly what I saw audios good heavens. Yeah,

(53:18):
that was kind of funny. He keeps, Boy, he keeps
fishing the freezer, that's for sure. Man and and his
wife cooked us up some crappie filets that night. Oh
that was so good, laying on a better rice Man,
and had a delicious salad to go with it, little
seafood salad. That was. That was surfing turf and well,

(53:38):
no turf, just all surf, man, and it was delicious.
I know, I'm late, I know, I know. I said, yes,
why you're jumping in.

Speaker 14 (53:47):
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Speaker 2 (53:53):
Back to the dug Bike Show, of course, I remember
that song, man, of course I do, Melvin. That's that's
from my time. That's from my time, man seven seven ninety.
Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia Dot.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
Come.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Let's go to Brandon out in East Bernard. What's up Brandon.

Speaker 8 (54:13):
Good morning, mister Pike boy. I tell you what fall
is in the air, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
It's so nice, so nice.

Speaker 8 (54:20):
Oh it's beautiful. What a day to play golf or
go to the outdoors, play tennis or golf or whatever.
I mean, does fish hunt, do whatever you got to do.
Just enjoy the enjoy the weather.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, man, what's on your mind?

Speaker 8 (54:37):
No, I just wanted to touch base with you. I
was listening to you earlier about taking kids in the outdoors,
su and uh, those those feads that you plant, they well,
I mean, I guarantee when they get older they will
remember it, no doubt they will remember it and teaches

(55:00):
them and teaches them morals and good standards. And you
get to talk to them, you know. I remember my
daughter she said, Dad, can we go fishing? And I said, well, yeah.

Speaker 6 (55:13):
I know.

Speaker 8 (55:13):
We just we went to a pond there that just
and they liked to catch. It didn't matter cat's perch,
that's and we did a court thing, and you know,
once they feel that tug. I mean, it's all those memories.
You can't She used to just take the poles and
throw them in the back of the truck and say, okay,
let's go. So uh yeah, you. I mean, whether it's

(55:36):
an uncle or grandpa, or a dad or a mom,
you just do what you gotta do, because it teaches
them if something about the outdoors, it just they get
to see something.

Speaker 12 (55:48):
Well.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Yeah, in mind, to this day, I'm the more I
think about it, I'm convinced that my dad every now
and then would kind of slip an unbaited hook out
there under that cork if he had something really important
to tell me, because if I got a bite, and
he set me up in places where we would catch
quite a few little fish. So that court was doing
a lot of dancing all the time. But every now

(56:10):
and then it would just seem like kind of lee,
the fish just quit biting. Dad, I don't know what's
going on. He said, well, yeah, let me talk about this.
Let's just leave it out there. They'll come around. And
then after he finished his story, he said let's check
that bait and there'd be nothing on the hook. And
I think he knew that the whole time. He just
had something important he wanted to tell me, so he
didn't want me to distract it. And then we put

(56:31):
bait on it and we'd go back to fishing.

Speaker 8 (56:33):
It was kind of fun, right, I agree.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Well, that's great.

Speaker 8 (56:37):
Red bred wigglers are the best bait of all.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
You bet.

Speaker 8 (56:41):
Man. If they can cat shade a perch that's only
six inches long, that's all they care about. Oh yeah,
you know, be the bait man and be the take
the fish off the hook and just enjoy it and mash.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
The barbs flat. I can't yes that enough. Man saves
my bacon old time. Thanks Brandon, it's great to hear
from you man. All right, thank you you bet audios.
All right, let me catch Bob real quick before we
got to go to this last break. What's up, Bob?

Speaker 10 (57:14):
How you doing dog?

Speaker 2 (57:15):
I'm good man, Thank you real quick.

Speaker 10 (57:18):
I heard a guy talking about bow hunting this morning.

Speaker 6 (57:21):
And twenty and thirty yards.

Speaker 10 (57:24):
Yeah, due to my age, I started you it across
bow years ago.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
That's a good call.

Speaker 10 (57:28):
Idious they will they will reach out there. You know,
they're very, very accurate, and I think they're more fun.
Of course compound, I can't pull back anymore.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Yeah, that makes a big difference when you get a
little older, doesn't it.

Speaker 12 (57:44):
Yes, it does.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Well, you're so much younger than man. No, No, I
don't think so. Not a lot can't be a lot.

Speaker 10 (57:52):
But also on the White Bath, Yeah, we finished like Houston.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
It's crazy.

Speaker 10 (57:57):
Some mornings we'll go out there, just one right after another.

Speaker 6 (58:01):
We don't keep them.

Speaker 10 (58:02):
Sure, we catch a bunch of them, and then the
next day the same time you can.

Speaker 6 (58:08):
Go and there's nothing.

Speaker 10 (58:09):
But if you wait three or four hours, they start
biting again.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
It's weird.

Speaker 12 (58:13):
They're fish.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
They are. They move, They move a lot, and when
they did. Now, if you can find them in a
place where they're where they got some food hanging out
and they're they're going at it, you're in gray shape.
But if they decide to move, buddy, there's nothing you
can do to stop them.

Speaker 6 (58:31):
You're right there.

Speaker 10 (58:32):
But I just wanted to mention, you know, guys are
getting older. Try across fun and they've got some good
ones a real good price.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
That's a good call.

Speaker 6 (58:41):
Don't have to spend thousands of dollars.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
That's a good call, man. All Right, I got it
onund I got to catch this last break. It's great
to hear from you both. All right, man, let's see
you audios. All right, last break of the program. On
the way out, boy, but timely, all the hunting talk
we've had this morning. Time to go to.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety say Houston sports Fan
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Speaker 2 (59:07):
Back to the Doug Fike Show. Right, yeah, I'll tell
you more about that letter, Melvin. All right, fine, old boy.
The last five or six minutes is all we've got left. Huh.
Holy cow, this this weekend is gone by so fast.
I'm so glad to be back in town, back where
I feel most. This is kind of like a second
home for me. I'm in here six days a week

(59:28):
in one of these studios or another, and I truly
do enjoy it. I really do. I truly do enjoy
being here. So glad that you all could join us.
I do appreciate that. Like I said, I've had a
very long week, and I'm I wish I could have
I wish I could say that I'd really caught up
on my sleep. But there was no way, I was

(59:51):
going to just sleep away the opportunity to go fish
with Faux Pro, to play Whispering Pines, which is a
number one golf course in the state, and that place,
by the way, I think I mentioned it yesterday hosts
the Spirit International, which is a they'll probably be at
least two dozen countries represented up there. They send two

(01:00:14):
men to women and usually younger players, but really some
of the best in the world. Jordan Spieth, Scottie Scheffler,
they all, Rant Snedeker, they all came through that Spirit
at one time in their lives. It was years ago,
but nonetheless there they were. And so if you're thinking
about doing anything come November and you want to, it's

(01:00:36):
a solid day trip. It's going to occupy pretty good
chunk of time to get there. It's up in East Texas,
probably from downtown Houston, probably an hour and half hour
and forty minutes. Maybe it's right at two hours from
Sugarland where I start. But definitely worth it. Definitely worth it.
You can do it in a day. You don't have
to spend the night up there anywhere. You can do

(01:00:58):
it in today and you will see some of the
most amazing young golfers you've ever seen, and you'll also
be treated to seeing one of the most beautiful golf
courses you'll ever see. Fantastic opportunity. Then I went to Corpus.
I came home Monday afternoon, went to Corpus and spent
three days down there fishing and goofing off, and got
to play golf at Corpus Christie Country Club and enjoyed

(01:01:21):
that immensely. That was the first time I'd seen the
redo that I think it was Chet Williams did that.
That redo down there actually took out some of the
bunkering on that course and the bunkers that Chet left, Like, man,
why'd you have to do that? Why did you put
it right there? I ended up in two bunkers that

(01:01:42):
I should never have gotten myself into. Those were mentalaries,
they weren't they weren't physical errors. They were mentalaries for
even thinking about putting the ball where I tried to
put it. And I'm just not that good. But I
had a good time. I caught fish. I caught four
or five different species of fish, and like I mentioned yesterday,
I actually saw something on this little vacation week that

(01:02:04):
I had never seen before in the outdoors. And that's
saying something because I've been outdoors a lot in my
life and seeing a lot of things. But I saw
a big grouper in the surf, and I'm talking about
in two two and a half feet of water, probably
a twenty five to thirty pound grouper that I'm sure
had just idled away from the packery channel just to

(01:02:24):
go see what's out there. Those big grouper are very
structure oriented, but this one was. He was seventy five
yards off the jetty and maybe one hundred yards off
the beach, kind of at a low tide, and just
right up on top of a sandbar, water rough as
a cob with all that north wind blowing down. But

(01:02:46):
it was a grouper alright. So I checked that box.
Find something new, check that box with a grouper in
knee deep water. That was pretty amazing. Did I miss
anything around here, Melvin? No, you I think you covered everything.
Pretty quiet, Yeah, yeah, pretty quiet around here. Nothing new,
just like I said, just new employees. Oh that's right. Yeah,

(01:03:08):
there's a couple of new folks that came in this week.
As a matter of fact, there was we got one
new guy, a couple of weeks ago. He seems to
fit in well. And the thing that he's got going
against him is when we look at everybody who's been
here a long time. There was a guy named Dan
Indom who once was I believe number two here and
for the longest time, and now he's over in the
Carolina's running several markets over there. For iHeart. But this

(01:03:33):
guy's a spitting image of Dan Indhom. So we all
want to look at him and call him Dan. Yeah,
you know, the poor guy. He said. I've gotten to
a point where I'll just answered whichever.

Speaker 5 (01:03:45):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
You can call me my name, you can call me Dan,
it doesn't matter. So he's a good sport. I think
he's gonna stick. He's he's yeah, And I can tell
usually within a few weeks. I've been around here a
long time, and especially when my produced speaking of you,
I can tell within a couple of weeks the ones
that are gonna stick and the ones that aren't. And

(01:04:07):
I You're welcome here as long as you'll have me. Man,
this has been good. And I like your music selections,
I like your your sense of humor, and yeah, I'm
gonna thank you, thank you. My pleasure around. Yeah, stick around, man,
it's fun. You'll do like the rest of the good
ones did. You'll you'll get a better gig someday and
just leave me here in the dark to see you.

(01:04:31):
Oh yeah, I didn't tell you this is my last day, Saya.
Don't do that to me. Man, give me a little warning,
got you. We'll a little party for you. Yeah, I'll
buy you something. I don't know. I'll find something to
kick you off in the right way, like thanks for
the thanks for Nothing card, thanks for abandoning me, Like
holy cow man. All right, and we still owe your

(01:04:53):
son a fishing trip. You know that, right, Yes, we
got that that. I got the spot. I got a
can of corn. My wife went through the pantry a
while back and throughout all the can goods that stayed
in there during the aftermath of the hurricane with no power,
because she thought that all gone bad. But she left
the corn, she said, because that's just for the fish.

(01:05:13):
They don't care. All right, I'm so glad. In case
you can't tell, I'm tickle pink to be back in here.
I'll be back at this microphone next Saturday at seven am.
I will be on the KPRC microphone at noon tomorrow
to get a fresh week of fifty plus kicked off.
And I've got some good interviews lined up for this week,

(01:05:34):
so stick around and listen to that if you can.
As well. To everybody I saw at the reunion last night,
thank you all for sharing parts of your lives with me.
The conversations were great. It brought back a lot of
really really good memories, and I was glad I made it,
and I'm glad you did too. That's it for now.
Stay safe, get outside, have some phone with your family's audios.