The Harvest of Cormorants

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Sunday edition of the program starts right now.
Who we was cold in here yesterday?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (00:06):
That's right? Holy cow? He turns this up high. It
is my ears. I think might be bleeding. I'm not
really sure when it first popped up, Holy cow, Sunday
it is. February's done, but we will march on. I'm
telling that horrible joke. Yeah, where's my drum roll? Where's

(00:28):
my where's my rim shot? When I need it? That's okay,
it's coming up. Okay, that's fine. Well, better late than never,
I suppose. And I'm telling the joke early. It is
a silly joke. I saw it just a little while ago.
It popped up on my laptop because that's the kind
of stuff that the internet thinks I want to see.
But in any event, yeah, you can use it later on. Now,

(00:52):
maybe somebody you know who doesn't usually tee it up
and listen to the show in the very first minutes.
You have the advantage over that person that you've already
heard that fantastic, fantastic first of March joke. Here we go,
somewhat Annie clembactic, I must say, Frankie, But that's okay.

(01:14):
It's the it's the effort that I applaud. It is
the effort. It's true.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
A couple of bass stories I want to lead with
this morning because I saw both of them this morning.
One is and bear in mind. Bear in mind, You're
welcome to ask me anything about anything or share a
good outdoors story at any point in this show. It
seems lately like I'm the I'm the only guy around

(01:44):
here doing a live show these days that wants to
hear from the people who listen to those shows. And
I'm pretty proud of that, I really am. I do
get an occasional and I think, Frank, you'll back me
up on this. Every now and then we get in
an occasional tinfoil hat guy or maybe somebody who strays
off topic a little bit, but of course we do.

(02:05):
That's no different than think of it. When you're hanging
around the cleaning table cleaning your fish, or you're sitting
around the campfire in the evening at deer camp. Most
of the stories are going to be outdoors related. But
every now and then somebody in the circle has just
got a vent or maybe get something off their chest,
and that's okay. Everybody just sits and listens, and then

(02:27):
we go back to the outdoor stuff. I'm not a therapist,
by the way, but I am pretty good listener. So
as long as as your non outdoor story doesn't drag,
it'll be okay. Frankie, Maybe we should get a bell
sound or something like that to let people know they've
strayed for too long from the outdoors and need to
button up their story about Aunt Martha's peach cobbler or

(02:49):
whatever it is. Would that be rude or would it
help us keep on track? What do you think? It's
like a gentle little reminder. Yeah, it's not a foghorn,
but just a little ing. They go, TK, time's up,
bring it back, bring it back. And you know, I
gotta be careful too, because if if there is a
bell for straying too far away from the outdoors, then

(03:12):
I'm I can't stop you from ringing it on me either,
So I don't know how that's gonna work out. We'll
see how that works. We'll see whether I or callers
get dinged most often, and then if it's me, we
may just ditch the bell. Fair enough, Frankie, sounds good
to be I think you're looking for a bell sound.

(03:33):
I can see you in there. I can, and I
can just hear the gears grinding in your head trying
to find that bell. Before I stop talking about this,
all right, I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna get back to
the outdoors. I mentioned a couple of bass stories I
want to get to and I'm bye, gosh, gonna get
to them. Potential new Kentucky state record largemouth bass. Saw

(03:54):
that this morning on Facebook. Old record was an eight
to four. If that tells you where in the continent
and what sort of a growing season Kentucky's bass have
had for a very very, very long time. If this
new fish is certified at the fifteen point seventy five

(04:15):
pounds it weighs, and by the way, it's not a
native Kentucky bass, it's a Florida strained large mouth that's
been growing up, probably maybe even in some sort of
state run hatchery to get them bigger and bigger and
bigger before they cut them loose. But one way or
the other, the guy catches the thing, and more power

(04:37):
to him, doesn't make the by the way, he every
I gotta go back and look this guy's name up.
I got so upset by the way he was holding
these fish. I didn't grab his name, and I'll get
it for you in a minute. But anyway, every time
I see a picture of him and that fish, he's
holding it at arm's length, straight out in front of him, which,

(04:57):
in case you don't realize that, a lot of people
still do that because they think it's it's kind of
cool and it makes a fish look big, and it does.
It does make the fish look bigger, but it doesn't
make it way more. And what it does reveal is
the angler's insecurities of some sort. I don't know why
you have to take something little and try to make
it look bigger. And the ignorance in this case is

(05:18):
of holding a fifteen pound plus bass by the lip
and letting all her internal all her internal organs just
crush each other with all that weight. That's it's supposed
to be horizontal. It's not supposed to be that way.
It'd be like somebody catching one of us and holding

(05:39):
us up by the feet and just letting all our
organs come up and choke us. And this guy every
picture I see it's like that. By the way, there
was something I've noticed at one picture, one of the
pictures I saw of this guy in his best he's standing.
If that actually has two pictures, I think with this
other guy, I don't know who. Maybe it's the guy
who owns the boat, he was in whatever, but he's

(06:02):
a smaller man, and then the guy who caught the
fish is a pretty big man relative. And I'm I'm
wondering if their weights in proportion would be about the
same as the old record bass and the new record bass.
Because that's the kind of things I think about. Let
me go get Rick Bis on the phone. Rick, what's

(06:22):
up man? Good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
I have an outdoors related subject, okay for you, doesn't
have anything to do with hunting or fishing. I sent
you a text about it earlier.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
I did.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Go ahead, What what does a good geographically for we're locay.
What does a good southwest uh non swing in the
southwest wind for two or three days, cool nights, cool
crystal clear nights. What outdoor activity is that best for?

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Holy ked? Just about any of them? I think, hold on,
let me go back and look at your text. I
want to I want to get.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
The full I thought, that's cheating, that's cheating. Well, well,
I get there.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Oh, okay, you're you're you're focused on the clear sky,
right I am, Yeah, and stargazing and I didn't look
at your email. Yeah. Absolutely, And of the people who
live inside the Loop, probably maybe not ninety nine percent,
but I bet you seventy percent of the people inside

(07:35):
the Loop, or at least inside even inside belt Wagh
eight have never really seen a truly dark sky and
how lit up it gets with stars. I think that's
about right.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
Well, I mentioned to you, you're right. Well, you know
the family, this was a big week for the ranch, sure,
and the only two three bices that wasn't there was,
of course Clayton, he's in Jackson Hoe and me and
my other son because my granddaughter had her first tea

(08:07):
ball game and I was nothing going to make me
miss that because I knew I couldn't outrun a bullet.
So I went to the t ball game.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
At the ranch.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
I had a lot of nephews and nieces and great
nephews and nieces that had never been out of the city.
They had never shot a gun, they had never fished,
et cetera, et cetera. And I'm getting all this messages
from my brothers but those kids, some are in their thirties,
all the way down into Keen, they were in total

(08:44):
shock and all at the stars. They could not believe
how many shooting stars and how frequently they saw them
yet happened. I mean, like you know, rapid fire, okay,
and my brothers they actually h sauts that they could
spot satellites.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Just oh yeah, yeah. If you if you look up there, yeah,
you see something going just all by itself, and those
are satellites. And I'd say ninety percent of people haven't
really recognized that they're looking at a satellite in a
dark night sky.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
If you can get if you can lay on the
ground or on the code or on the on the
tailgate of your truck and get you a piece of
plastic or something to make up too, just about the
big around as your face go out about six inches
to keep anybody from flashing the flash ladder or whatever. Sure, uh,
you'd be shocked what you'd see through that, dude.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Oh you can get beautiful. You get a really good look.
Even at the Milky Way. Just there's there's bajillions of
stars up there, and nobody knows they're there unless they
get out of the city.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Well, it literally people don't understand. You really feel like
you can reach up and touch them, feel like you
could touch the store. My my encouragement is for those
that are going on, where are they talking about? What's
Doug and Rick on?

Speaker 3 (10:09):
It?

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Take them about an hour and a half two from
the centers Houston, take at least a two hour drive somewhere.
Find you a park or a roadside park or somewhere
off road, somewhere away from any light solution, and just
get out, let your eyes adjust to the darkness and
be shot. A cool evening. A cool evening helps get

(10:33):
rid of any kind of heat waves that's coming from
from the hot surface of the ground, right and the
wind if you're at if they're wondering about the wind.
It just kind of cleanses the era. It does, and
it just makes for perfect night. You know you obviously
you want to bluest you know.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah you have that dark moon, ye dark moon.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
Anyway, it's just something that makes a great outing. Uh,
have a lot of fun, take your picnic, lunch, make
a day of it, and you be shot. Back when
I take your camera, because you're not gonna get a
picture or other.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah, back when I was guiding waterfowl hunts out there.
I can't tell you how many times when I finally
got to where we were gonna hunt, and I had
three car loads of guys behind me, they would get
out and go, Holy cow. I can't believe how many
stars there are. I can't believe how many shooting stars
we saw on the way out here. They're just mesmerized
by it, but because they've never seen it, and it
is something that I see.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
You know, people here occasionally and say, you.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Know, I saw a shooting star last night.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Okay, cool, go out there somewhere and get out a
little bit and you'll see three a minute.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Oh yeah, dozens of them.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
And I'm not exaggerating now, I know you're not.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
I've been there.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Know what people know that.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
They're missing it. Know that that's true. I spent I
spent my outdoor subject.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah it's good. I spent four nights once on a
camping trip in New Mexico White Mountains. We were way
up there and a million miles from nowhere, man, I
mean nowhere. And even as much as i'd been doing
all my guiding, as much as I'd been in places
that didn't have a whole lot of light when that played.
When the sun went down there, buddy, it was just

(12:14):
nothing but stars and it was just incredible, just incredible. Yeah,
I highly recommend that. Thank you, Rick, You teed it
up really well this morning.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
Hey, let's sell you one on a quick thing.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
All right.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
We kind of went all out for these kids.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
We hired a helicopter, okay, oh yeah, And a lot
of them had never shot a gun. And first the
first home, the animal they ever shot in their life
was with in a helicopter with a shotgun.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
What could possibly go wrong there?

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Rick? Oh my lord, you wish there?

Speaker 4 (12:52):
All right?

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Man, audios went from beautiful the stars and all that
stuff to kids shooting pigs out of helicopters, perfectly legal
in Texas. By the way, we got way too many
pigs and not enough people trying to help us get
rid of them, which we never will do. We won't
ever be rid of wild hogs, I don't think. Well,

(13:13):
that would be a lot to ask of nature. But yet,
at least we can keep the numbers down so they
don't do. Wait, a lot of billions of dollars in
damage every year, just a few billion, that's all all right,
speaking of something, you could make sausage out of Belleville
Meat Market. How's that for a segue, Frankie, I had
to stretch for that one man. Belleville Meat Markets out
there in Belleville, as you might imagine, right on Main Street,

(13:37):
right there in the middle of town. Man, all you
got to do is, if you can't see it, well,
if you have no GPS system, just find your way
to Belleville. Use your old map, unfold your paper map.
Go to Belleville. They are about fifteen minutes north of Sealy,
fifteen minutes south of Hempstead on Highway thirty six. Get
in the middle of town, roll your windows down, and
when you smell barbecue, drive up wind in there. That's

(13:58):
how you'll get to Belleville. Once you get there, you
can go inside and drop off the order that you
and your family were making in the minivan on the
way out there to Belleville and pass that off and
then take a few steps to your left and you'll
be in line. Because there's always a line people waiting
to get their brunt lunch or dinner or whatever you
want to call it. Ten am to seven pm, every

(14:19):
single day of the week, all seven including today, They've
got a delicious full lineup of barbecue and all the
sides that go with it. Plus for the kids, maybe
a little pool park, maybe some homemade hot dogs, about
two dozen plus flavors of premium pecan smoked sausage. They've
got homemade stuff, pork tenders, pans, sausage stuff, pork chops,

(14:40):
labuchery stuff, chickens, all kinds of good stuff and wild
game processing of course, all year round, and all the
grab and go snacks. You can imagine, the jerkys, the
dry stick everything that'll go well in your tackle box
or your hunting bag. Later on this year. Belleville Meat
Market the only, the only meat marketing processor indoors. Great people.

(15:04):
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them for what they do. Belleville MeetMarket dot Com. Go
check them out. Belleville Meatmarket dot Com. A twenty on
Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show, Thank you for listening.
I certainly do appreciate it. On the heels of that
fifteen pounder coming out of Kentucky, Florida strain bass and

(15:26):
I can't blame Kentucky. I'm not faulting the state of
Kentucky for bringing in imported bass that grow roughly double
the size of their native bass. Why wouldn't you do that.
That's the only way they're going to get anything in
double digits. And it's not their fault, it's just where
they live. It's kind of like the discussion we've had before.

(15:49):
Maybe that's just maybe eighteen eighteen is just as big
as Texas bass can get, even with genetics from Florida,
even with this, that and the other. Maybe it's just
that's the top end. Eighteen eighteen. Barry Saint Clair caught
that fish from Lake Fork a million years ago, a
million years ago, and it's still the record today in Texas,

(16:11):
and nothing's really even. There have been a couple of sixteens,
I want to say, maybe a seventeen or maybe even
two that crept up that high. I can't recall off hand,
but nobody's broken his record. And that's what's remarkable to me.
And I'm having to just kind of step back away

(16:34):
from beating that tambourine on. We got to do better.
We ought to be able to grow a twenty pounder
and say, you know what, maybe that's it for us.
Maybe that's it, and I don't think there's anything else
we could do genetically with these large mouths to let
them get bigger, to help them get bigger, because we've
got the share lunker program that's been going on forever,

(16:56):
which mates up the biggest female bass you've got with
suitable suitors if you will, and they just can't seem
to get over the top. I bet a lot of
the bass in our major reservoirs, the ones that have
been stocked most heavily with Florida bass offspring from sheer

(17:17):
lunker entries, I bet their genetics are more Florida then
they are native Texas. Now, Florida bass are smart too.
Texas bass. I hate to tell you, but the bass
that are genetically all Texas will eat a lure. You
unhook them, you throw them back, and you can throw

(17:38):
them the same lure and they're likely to eat it
because they're still hungry because they didn't get anything the
first time, or maybe they just think the hook fell out.
I don't know what motivates them to come back for more.
Excuse me, sir, can I have another one of those things?

Speaker 3 (17:57):
But they do.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Florida bass, on the other hand, fool of once they learn,
they learn, and it becomes more and more difficult to
catch them. Now there's I'm gonna put an asterisk by
that though, And I want maybe a faux pros listening.
Maybe he can call, and I'm gonna bring his name
up later too when we when I put on my
safety cap again. But I wonder with those Florida bass

(18:25):
just how how smart they really are. I don't know.
I'm gonna come back to you on that because there
was something I wanted to talk about. Meanwhile, it's Sam
Rayburn staying on large mouth bass for a little while.
Here's a here's a head scratcher. When I get to
the end of this, Okay, I'm gonna tell you about
a tournament that went down this past week. Winnsboro guy

(18:46):
named Pake South won the turtle Box bass Master Open
there with a three day sack that weighed ninety six
pounds and fifteen ounces. Okay, heaviest ever in a bass
Master open. Made the man with the best electronics win.
I suppose because if those Florida bass are so smart,

(19:09):
I'll tie this back to what I was just talking about.
If those Florida bass are so smart and they get
that big. Wouldn't they be more suspicious than they tend
to be when somebody just drops something straight down in
front of their faces. Wouldn't they realize that something that
really looks like something they eat should be smarter than

(19:33):
to just bounce around in front of their mouth. Wouldn't
you think that if a chicken ran in front of
a fox, it would run away instead of just sitting
there and bouncing around. Maybe those Florida bass aren't as
smart as we thought, but they are. I'll still contend
smarter than Texas baths. There's a lot of evidence that

(19:55):
proves that, a lot of science that went on years
and years and years ago. Anyway, think about this old school,
old school fishing. You and I, well, not you and
I the older guys in the audience, my fifty plus audience, Okay,
and I the fishermen among all of us. We went
fishing to get away from anything that reminded us of work.

(20:18):
That was our distraction from work. Go out there. Nobody's
on the phone with you. We didn't have cell phones,
we didn't have screens to look at to show us
where the fish were, didn't have any of that. We
just fished, and we enjoyed each other's company A lot
of times. A lot of guys like to have a
couple of beers while they're out there. Now though, after

(20:40):
staring at a computer screen most of the day, these
guys jumping their boats and ride around lake looking at
a computer screen and calling that fishing. And you know,
if that's what floats your boat, I don't have a
problem with it. That's just you be you. That's fine.
And it's mostly younger guys. I think outside of competition,

(21:01):
it's mostly younger guys using the technology because the technology
is it's everyday life for them. They grew up with
cell phones, they grew up with laptops, they grew up
with all of that technology and are just seeing this
as an extension of it. Oh, guys, I don't know,
it's different. And here's a question that I haven't heard

(21:21):
anybody ask yet. Riddle me this, batman. If it's illegal
to locate big deer or scan shorelines for redfish using
cameras on drones, why is it legal to use a
camera underwater to find bass, big giant bass. What's the difference.

(21:47):
What's the difference?

Speaker 3 (21:48):
What makes it.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Okay to use a camera to locate wildlife underwater, but
not use a camera to low kate wildlife above water.
What's the difference? What's the difference? Because it's a big deal.
I talked to the guy from Oh what is I

(22:10):
can't remember the name of the product, but it's a
really handy little tool this guy makes that cuts braid,
it cuts mono, it cuts all that stuff, and something
you can either wear around your neck or keep in
your pocket. And I wish I could remember the name
of it offhand. He's a super cool guy and he
built a giant shark wagon if you will, that he
takes up and down the beaches. He launched this thing

(22:33):
all wrap quotes around launched, but he launched it several
months ago down at surfside. I wanted to get down
there that weekend, but I couldn't. I had another obligation.
But he showed me pictures of it, and it's an
amazing thing. And he tends to take like veterans and
other people first responders to go down there and catch
a fish off or catch a shark off the beach front.

(22:55):
And he was using the drones when he could. And
now he said, it's it's it's a little different now.
But the bottom line is, I'm wondering just exactly what
the difference is. Why there's a total lack of concern
over using forward facing sonar to find fish and specifically

(23:18):
target a specific fish. But it's not okay to use
a drone to carry a shark bait out into the
open Gulf of Mexico somewhere and just drop it in
the water. Nobody's seen a fish, nobody saw a fin
come up. There's no advantage whatsoever using a drone to

(23:38):
drop a bait. But that's illegal. But it's not illegal
to ride around looking for the biggest fish in the
lake and then just park over it and keep dropping
a lure down there till the thing just gets really
frustrated and lashes out at it. Help me figure that out.
Will let's go ahead and take a break here on

(23:58):
the way out, I will trying to sort my paperwork here.
We've got a golf tournament going on that had to
They had to shut it down early yesterday actually over
in the Palm Beaches area at PGA National because of
afternoon thunderstorms, which are if you've ever lived there or
even vacations there in the summer and spring. You know

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that at about three o'clock you're going to get a thunderstorm.
So what they did is they they hustled everybody out
on two t's yesterday, they front and you know, one
and ten, they got the whole tournament finished, and then
about five minutes after the last guys wrapped it up,
Oh here came the weather. All right, let's take a
break here. Black Horse Golf Club two ninety to Fry Road.

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Hang us south if you don't have a compass, take
a left. Okay, from town, go out to Fry Road,
take a left, drop down south about three miles or so,
and you'll start seeing golf course on your right. And
then when you see golf course on your left, put
on your west blinker. That'll be your right blinker at

(25:08):
that point, and turn into the driveway black Horse. Black
Horse Golf Club has been around there since late nineties.
I think it was been out there at least that long,
and have I don't know how many times I've played
out there, some big, big tournaments for great causes I've played.
I've just gone out there just random guys showing up
to play on my own ball and making three new friends.

(25:30):
The last three times now that I've done that. By
the way, I've ended up playing with people who were
playing from the green teas, and I don't hit it
as far as I used to. I'm kind of bowed
up when I get on the green teas. But what
it'll show you if you ever do it yourself, is
that the golf course is different and it doesn't necessarily
play a whole lot easier. Black Horse has two courses, actually,
the North which is still daily fee and always has been,

(25:53):
in the South, which was converted to a private opportunity
that happened early last year, about a year ago now
actually as a matter of fact, and that's turned out
to be a very good move. And there are membership
options to the South course that get you not only
access to both courses at black Horse, but also both
courses at Golf Club of Houston and Blackhawk Country Club

(26:15):
out in Richmond. It's a wonderful opportunity. There are lots
of ways you can enjoy golf at black Horse. Get online,
go to the website, check them out there if you
want to, or you can just drop by if you're
out that way and go in and ask somebody to
explain all those options to you, great instruction, great food.
Just a great place run by an outdoorsman. Speaking of

(26:37):
Craig Hicks, he's the general manager out there and has
been for a while. Black Horse Golf Club dot com
is a website. Set yourself a tea time on that
north course right now. Black Horse goolf Club dot com
pay thirty five on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dugpike Show.
Thank you for listening. Let me go back. I had
an email. I wanted to take a look at here.
Stand by, I've got the wrong mouse in my hands.
No wonder, it's not keying up. Let's go here, Let's

(26:59):
go there, and let's go to Stephen didn't. Yeah, Steve
Dean wade in and I couldn't agree with him more.
I've done what he's talking about here. Most stars I
ever saw was fishing trips to Lake Guerrero in Mexico.
Not a lot of night light around Guerrero or most
any of those other big fishing lakes that used to

(27:20):
be so really, really good, and a lot of people,
a lot of Americans, were going down there and not
going down there now for more than one reason. Number one,
the locals fished them out a lot of those things.
These were incredible fisheries, incredible fisheries that I got to
take advantage of in the say nineties and early two thousands,

(27:41):
somewhere in there eighties, late eighties, early nineties, mid nineties,
and then up to probably around two thousand and two
or three or four. Go down there and catch a
bajillion bass on pretty much whatever you could hit the
water with, and just a fantastic fishery. A lot of
really big bass too. And the last trip I made
down there, it was slow, and I asked the guy why.

(28:04):
He said, well, the locals they need to eat some fish,
so they catch them. I said, how did they catch them?
And they catch those bass by setting long lines like
offshore fishermen do, commercial fishermen do. They're not as big,
but he showed us several lines that were maybe one

(28:25):
hundred yards long and had a hook with a live
bait every three feet. When they just they anchor them
at one end, they anchor them at the other end,
they go through, they bait all the hooks with live
shad or live minnows or whatever, and then come back
that night and out of one hundred hooks, they probably
take forty to fifty bass off there every day, one

(28:48):
hundred or so people doing it. Doesn't take long to
wipe out a lake that might be worse than cormorants
might be. I'm not sure, but actually the long lines
at least are the ones, if you want to call them,
that aren't taking the bait fish. But they got to
catch those baitfish somehow anyway. Yeah, that's what ruined that
fishing down there. Hey David, what's up?

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Man? Hey Doug.

Speaker 6 (29:12):
I wanted to respond real quickly to your question. You
ask every day do you ever buy anything for hunting
or fishing and never use it?

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (29:19):
Man?

Speaker 6 (29:19):
Yeah, I am the worst I had put the Doug.
I had put up deer stands and blinds and never
hunted them. Always go back to, always go back to
the same stand. Uh. I have bought fishing lures that
I've never used.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Steal in the box today, aren't they?

Speaker 7 (29:35):
Yep?

Speaker 6 (29:36):
I have got a About a month or two ago,
I bought a tripod to hang a light on for
cleaning deer. I can't find it. I don't know where
I put it.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Don't say that, man, I'm laughing with you. Not ask
you by the hoy you know that because my wife,
she'll tell me, you need to clean out that that
one cabinet out there or whatever in the garage. What's
in it anyway? And I have to just be honest,
I'm not really sure.

Speaker 6 (30:02):
Well, and the thing about deer stands, it kind of
flies in the face of what I believe. And they
say the best time to hunt a deer stand is
the first time you put it up, and then you never.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Go back and hunt it.

Speaker 6 (30:14):
Yeah, I'm sure it's a common purse that many of
us men suffer from, especially as we get older. Yes,
we pick it up when it's on sale, and we
put it somewhere and we can't go back to it.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
You put it somewhere and you can't go back to it, Davy,
because you don't remember where it is.

Speaker 7 (30:32):
Well, it's worse, you don't even remember you bought it.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Oh, that's why you keep your receipts, all right. Yeah,
a holy cow, let's go talk to Martin. Hey Martin,
what's up man?

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Hey Doug. I was wanting to know something that's probably
a stupid question, as any piranha a United States of America.
I'm talking. I'm talking about really, the meanest mother is
like in the Amazon River. Those you hear those stories
about them.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
I don't believe we have piranhas in North America, but
that if they're anywhere, I would imagine they would be
in Florida And I'll do a little research during the
break and see what I come up with. But I
don't think so.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
That would be a lot of fun, you know, to
to genetically engineer those things and increase the population, and
we let them loosen lakes and rivers here to us
and make fishing a lot more fun.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
You know.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
I'll tell you now that I have heard. I do
recall hearing about it, and I haven't looked it up yet,
but I do recall hearing of occasional catches of piranhas,
but those are all attributed to people buying them for
their fish tanks, and then they get too big and
they have to eat too much, and all the people
just go, Okay, we're gonna throw these We're gonna throw

(31:58):
these three in Buffalo by what could they hurt? And
that's how that happens.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
I just wondered. I just wondered about it.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Thanks, hold on, I got to ask you something, What
makes you think that would increase fishing or are you
just being kind of with a wink and a nod.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Well, I just wondered if it was if it would
be such a thing of trying to bring over some
of those things from the Amazon and try to breed
them here in the US, and it just increased the
population in whatever water that they live in. You know,
I don't know, I'm just wondering.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, we got enough. We have enough native species to
last us many lifetimes, so long as we don't keep
bringing in through the pet trade and whatever, so long
as we don't being in invasive species, because if they
got in here, they would have to eat things that
our native species are eating now, and it just creates

(32:57):
more demand for the food supply and that doesn't ever
work out.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Well.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Thank you, fair enough, Yeah, thanks ma'am. It's not a
bad idea. There's never a bad question, Martin. If it's
about fishing or hunting or the outdoors or golf or whatever.
Bring it on, buddy, I'm I'm and if I don't know,
I'll tell you. I'll go find out an answer for you.
Thank you, Yeah, thank you man, by bye bye, okay, Rack,
you let them know to turn the radios off. When

(33:22):
they're when they when I pick them up. That was
two in a row. David did it too. I could
hear myself in the background. I hate my voice on
the radio. I don't hate it, but it's just just like, what,
who is that guy? It's not exactly like I'm Denzel
Washington or something doing a Super Bowl commercial? Was it
he who did the super super Bowl commercial? I do

(33:43):
not recall. Oh, you're frozen now again. Well, it looks
like you're just staring into space when your camera freezes,
you look like you're contemplating something very important. I can't
tell what you're doing. I have no idea. All right,
we do need to take a break. We'll do that
right now. On the way out, I'm gonna tell you
about Treaty Oak And it's new to Element up about
ten miles west of cold Spring. And actually there are

(34:03):
some other lakes up in that region of Texas that
are starting to cough up big, big bass. And so
that might be a time to buy yourself a lot
at Whitetail Ranch. It's the only gated acreage community I
know of offers home site from one and a half
to more than four acres. Concrete roads which you're not

(34:23):
going to get in a lot of places. No mud taxes,
beautiful amenities, and a very thoughtfully planned and mapped out
Texas Hunting ranch theme. You're not a hunter, just called
it a Texas ranch theme. Same thing, Beautiful amenities, all
kinds of Just the whole landscape in that part of
Texas is just so beautiful. You'll you'll see it and

(34:45):
you'll believe it, and you'll know what I'm talking about.
Early discounts are available, and right now you can get
twenty thousand dollars off, twenty thousand dollars off any lot
and no closing costs. Twenty thousand off any lot and
no closing costs. That'll give you a nice big jumpstart

(35:06):
on having a place where you can just buy it
as an investment and hold on to it forever and ever.
Amen Or you can buy it and then find yourself
a contractor to go up there and build you a beautiful,
big giant house. Or maybe you want something just a
little more subtle. It's your land. You can do what
you want with it. Privacy, elbow room, all of that

(35:27):
comes standard at Whitetail Ranch. Whitetail Ranch tx dot Com
is the website. Go check it out. Whitetail Ranch TX
dot com. Palmer Highway, twenty ninth Street. What's there pop quiz?
That would be Shooters Corner, Jerry and Jtk's place, father
and son team, been there forever and ever forty years,

(35:47):
some forty some odd years, maybe forty five by now,
I don't know, maybe more. It's an old school gun store,
that's all it is. There's no tennis rackets, there's no socks,
there's nothing like that. Guns, AMMO, reloading, supplies, optics, a
lot of good conversations about guns and m O and
the hunting, shooting sports. It's a really good place for

(36:10):
any kind of gunsmith and work you want to. Jerry
and Jerry as good as they get. They build amazing
custom rifles, and they have helped so many of my
listeners over the years, so many of them. I get
calls fairly regularly, not a ton, but I get calls
from people who say, man, I've taken my gun to
two gunsmiths, and they all told me. Both of them
told me it's gonna cost me hundreds of dollars to

(36:32):
fix my rifle. Take it to Jerry and Jay. They
take it down there, and a week or so later
I hear back and every time so far not a problem.
One time there was a guy who I think the
number was like three or four hundred dollars to get
something done on his gun. And I called Jerry a
couple of weeks later to ask him a question about

(36:52):
something else. And then that came up and I said,
by the way, were you able to help that guy?
He said, yeah, I got it back in the shop
and I opened it up and it was just a
little burr in there. I buffed it out and gave
him his rifle back. I said what did that cost him?
He said nothing, It just it didn't take five minutes.
I couldn't charge the man. That's the kind of people
you're dealing with at Shooter's Corner. The shooters cornertx dot

(37:15):
com is the website. If you wear a badge for
a living, you get a discount there, which I think
is very cool. The Shooters cornertx dot com. Hey forty
nine on Sports Talk seven ninety the Dugpike sholl thank
you for listening.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
What is that?

Speaker 1 (37:27):
What song is that? Runaway? Oh? Okay, yeah yeah, Now
again I didn't remember the intro to it. For some reason,
it was escaping me. As they say that happens at
my age. I was listening to the spot block, as
we call the advertisements that air on the program, and
I heard a guy use a term that I'd never

(37:48):
heard anybody use a term in marketing, and that was yolo.
Have you ever heard that in another spot Frankie, No, No,
you only live once. That's a very that's a very
young person thing, right. It's been out of fashion for
like fifteen years. I'd guess half my fifty plus audience
would even know what it means. And I'm not knocking

(38:11):
him for it. We didn't grow up with that stuff,
and young people for deliberately come up with terms what
was it the six seven and all of that stuff.
They come up with terms that we don't understand. And
for a while I was getting Adam, the producer here,

(38:31):
to send me terms every now and then that I
could drop in on my son when he was about twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
and it drove him crazy. Where did you hear that?

Speaker 7 (38:39):
Dad?

Speaker 1 (38:41):
How do you know about that? Dad? And it's just innocuous,
goofy stuff that they say. But I was having a
lot of fun with that I really was, Uh where
am I? Holy cow, there's so much going on here.
I want to get to faux Pro's tumble and it
looks like he's dialing in. There may be one person
in front of him. Maybe, you know, let me get

(39:02):
Mike first and then we'll see if we can get
to faux Pro before the break or after. Hey Mike,
what's up?

Speaker 8 (39:06):
Man?

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Hey Doug?

Speaker 6 (39:08):
How are you doing.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
I'm doing really well. How about you?

Speaker 3 (39:13):
I'm doing great? Hey, I went fishing yesterday at Similey passed.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Oh you go, hold on? Are you going to brag?

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Well, not really, I just want to tell a story
about about I'm sorted. It is to share things with
other people. Well, I have good day. I always have
a good day. No, I don't always. But I'm a
very good fisherman.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
And I was.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
I was out fishing. If you've ever fished that, they're
waiting back. There's like a uh D theory. You walk
out to it's about three hundred yards and you fish
that or fish beyond it. And there were all the
people lined up and everything and and and not a
lot of people were catching any fish. And we were
into the sheep's head. They were just there they come
over praying, I guess, yeah, and just slaying us. And

(39:54):
there was they taste really good. They're painting a butt
to clean. Oh yeah, So anyway, we slay, then we
isolate him. My friend caught two. I caught five six
my lemons. Anyway, it was great bite in the morning.
And then the afternoon we went back out and everybody
was gone and we uh. A guy came by who
had been fishing near us, and he came back. He goes, man,
he don't really catching a lot of fish, and we

(40:16):
were catching everything that they were just warned keepers. I
caught one seventeen inch flounder, which was nice.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
That's nice. What were you throwing? Were you saying, live bait?

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah, of course, yeah, no, of course I throw well,
I throw doubles, I throw the free shrimping with a
six inch leader. And then in online uh, he comes up.
He goes, now, what we are dealing you? And he
had a little artificial gulf on there.

Speaker 7 (40:37):
Now.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
I said, well, you know, I'll tell you a little
secret that's always worked well for me. And I told
him about the leader. I said, that's really really important. Anyway,
he said, well, thank you. A lot of appreciation studdy
he left. So then I thought about it. I thought,
you know, fishing, over time, it's you you realize a
lot about it, the water levels, like are they hidding

(40:58):
on the bottom or they had middle level or hitting
on a popping cork on the top, whatever, And and
you learn the different bikes back that she said when
they hit it, they kind of hit it really quick.
You gotta set the hook. You don't let them grab it.
I never let it grab it. And then with flounder,
you gotta let them go, you know. Yeah, and then
you just gotta feel that seal. And then of course

(41:20):
trout just get it. Red fish you gotta let them
go to they take it and they go and I
you give them all they can and then you rip it.
And I just started thinking about that, and I thought,
you know, people that go out and fish and don't
catch anything and give up don't realize it takes some
time to get that feel.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah, it does.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
And it's important to check all levels, you know, in
that important.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Very important. Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Where they are in the water column can make all
the difference in the world. If you're if you're standing
somewhere throwing top waters and they're hugging the bottom for
whatever reason. It might be temperature, it might be daylight,
and you know, light or whatever, you're not going to
get them. You're just not going to get them.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
Exactly, yeah, exactly. And so I just had a great day.
It was just pleasant.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
It was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Yeah, man, just Magne. You know, fishing is there. It's
I think everybody should teach your kids fish. They don't
like it. You get into it.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
Where are you parking to fish? Behind the pass?

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Now, okay, you go across from Freeport, and then right
as you get past it, you get to make it
right on the get on the beach. You go down
and go underneath. Just go underneath and walk and drive through.
Their a couple of armies to get you.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Zoo.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
This park right out there.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
The houses are on your right and you're on your left,
and and that trough goes all the way around. It does.
And I always have really good success there.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
Yeah. I haven't been down there in a while, but
I have really good memories from down there. I caught
a lot of good fish down there. Man.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
It's an easy fish, so easy to walk out and
get that time.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
The boat gotta be careful though, I just want to
tell you that, yes, sir, yeah you did. Thanks a bunch,
all right, Mike. Yeah, he's talking about a place I
used to go down to a whole lot when I
was much younger, and uh, and just kind of just
drifted away from it, so to speak. And it's still

(43:18):
a wonderful place to fish. The fish didn't quit going there.
It was just me that fires me up. I've got
so many places I got to get back to and
just let the memories flood in while I'm hooking another
big trout or redfish or something. I didn't throw live
bait down there. I threw lures, and most of the
time my buddies and I did very well. We we

(43:42):
had to time our outings down there to coincide with
the tide, with the water conditions and whatnot. And that's
not always being there at the crack of dawn either.
If you've got little or no tide movement early and
the water is one way or the other, dead low

(44:05):
or dead high at daylight at first light, maybe wait
a little bit and give it, give it a couple
of hours. You can sleep in a little bit and
drive down there when that water is really rushing through
now what I was saying to Mike, and I know
he knows it. But if you're going to go down
there for the first time, be extremely careful. It's kind

(44:26):
of going into what Foukpro and I are going to
talk about in this next hour. At some point, be really,
really careful. That SAand Luis Pass takes a lot of
lives every year, even though there are signs under the
bridges down there and all around warning people how dangerous
that place is because the tide, if you get anywhere

(44:46):
near a channel, you'll and the tides ripping, you'll feel
the sand disappearing from beneath your feet. And if you
don't react immediately to that and back up toward the shoreline,
you could get in trouble very fast. And if you
do ever find yourself in trouble there, if you do
ever find yourself in over your head, don't try to

(45:08):
fight your way back to where you fell in. That's
another thing that costs people lives. Sometimes you're not gonna
win a battle against moving water. You're just not. It's
best to just let that water carry you out and
then it will carry you around the corner. Just be
a popping cork. Just be a popping cork in the water.

(45:28):
And then once you get out of that main flow
and you can kind of swim parallel to the beach
and just slowly get closer and closer, that's when you
need to make your move. That's when you need to
make your move, not not while that water is really
rushing and carrying you at a If you can really
feel yourself moving in the water, don't swim against it.

(45:51):
That's the best I can do. All right, good Heavens. First,
I'm gonna tell you about Berry Hill, and then a
little bit later here I want to tell you about
another spot that I want you another place I want
you to know about, especially now right now berry Hill.
I got to eat some fish tacos on what was
it Friday, Yes, two days ago. I got to eat
fish tacos here that somebody had brought from Berry Hill,

(46:13):
and they were as good as they always are. I
don't know how long it took them to get them here,
but they were still warm when I ate them, too,
And that was impressive. Thirty plus years down there in
sugar Land at the Sugar Creek Boulevard exit serving up
some of the most delicious textmex food and one of
the most friendly environments you'll ever see. It's very family oriented.
You don't have to get dressed up. There's no tablecloths,

(46:33):
there's nothing fancy about the place. It's just good, great food,
traditional text mechs with tweaks and adjustments to the recipes
to make them their own. And they'll even cater anywhere
you want. If you don't want to go to sugar
Land and you've got a big bunch of people you
need to feed, get catering from berry Hill Berryhill, sugar

(46:54):
Land dot com. Great people, great family owns the place,
and man, I love them to death. They're good people.
Berryhillsugarland dot com. I've been having some conversations on text
messaging with Brad Schweiss from Houston Gold Exchange, reminding me
to remind you that he has first of all, he
wanted me to do neglected to mention it yesterday. He's

(47:17):
got a triple A rating whatever the highest rating is
with the Better Business Bureau. That's what he's got. A
plus rating, I think is what they call it. And
he also is an outdoorsman, and he also if you
happen to have any gold laying around, would be happy
to buy it from you at fair market price, which
is north the last time I looked, is north of

(47:38):
five thousand dollars an ounce. He was laughing with me
the other day about me talking about how if you
go in with a little palm full of gold, you
can probably get enough money to buy maybe a little
kayak or a trolley motor to go with it, even
and he said, no, trust me on this. It doesn't
take that much gold to bring in here. Whether it's bullyon,

(47:59):
whether it's coins, whether it's scrap gold, whatever it is,
you can buy a whole boat with it. You can
buy a real fishing boat with a real outboard motor
and a trailer to put it on. Gold is very
high right now, historic prices. Same with silver's up too.
Silver's coming up. Everything's coming up. And he's happy to
work with you on any of that, from a few

(48:19):
bucks to a half million dollars. He's been in business
forty something years, and he is emphasizing that he really
will answer his cell phone, and that I really am
giving you his cell phone number. Have a conversation about
what whatever it is you have might be worth, and
he'll tell you straight up. He knows his stuff. He's
very good at what he does, been doing it for

(48:39):
forty years two eight one eight five, one thirty nine
fifty five two eight, one eight five, one thirty nine
fifty five. LLI, welcome back, Thanks for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
Let me.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
I got to type in one letter there and I'm
gonna send this. Okay, there I go seven seven ninety
email me Dug pick at iHeartMedia dot com. I'll go
to Kevin first and I'll catch up with faux pro
and then I'm gonna tell you some stuff about waterfowl.
How's that? Hey, Kevin? What's up?

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Man?

Speaker 8 (49:12):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Doug doing all right?

Speaker 8 (49:14):
Yeah, you were talking about the piranhas earlier. There was
a kid a couple of years ago that actually caught
one fishing in the Brises River.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
I remember that.

Speaker 7 (49:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
It was down kind of down y'all's way, wasn't it. Yeah?

Speaker 8 (49:27):
It was matter of fact. I knew the kid that
caught it. He uh unfortunately and with this anymore.

Speaker 5 (49:32):
But he was a good guy.

Speaker 8 (49:34):
Fished a lot right right along the banks there along
the Brises around the Freeport area.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
Yeah, that's crazy. How big was it? I?

Speaker 8 (49:42):
Remember I want to say it was around eight nine
inches long. It was pretty good size. Oh well, yeah,
that red coloration on the yeah, the red coloration on
the throat of it. Definitely it was a piranha. It
was I mean not something you see caught all the time.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
It had to have been.

Speaker 8 (50:01):
Well, like you said, somebody released it. It was a
pet got the dig.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
And people don't realize that that changes that whole ecosystem.
If somehow a male and a female get released and
they find each other, now we got real providence.

Speaker 8 (50:17):
Well think about the brasses. As long as the brasses is.
It could have been released up in which tall falls point.
But yeah, other than that, I soct cowboys. Simanski Phoenix
knives on the Texas bus this show yesterday Evening's Joyce
seeing that it was cool.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
He's a great guy. He is a great guy.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Man.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Yep, anything else going on down there now?

Speaker 8 (50:44):
Man, I'm just out running around beautiful, beautiful sunshiny day,
dealing with that fog. The last couple of mornings been
pretty tough. Was this morning morning, But it wasn't nothing
this morning, but a couple of mornings ago. Driving to work,
I go up to eighty eight where the old statue
of Stephen F.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
Austin is. Sure where the.

Speaker 8 (51:04):
BUCkies at thirty five and eight is. It was so
foggy you couldn't see the statue or the beaver on
the Bucky side.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's pretty Fay Highway. All right, Well,
great as always to hear from you, Kevin. You know that, man?
Thank you, yes, sir, all right, pleasure to audios. All right,
let's go tee up faux pro. Hey man, you still
you recovered? Or is that is that a certh cough
right there?

Speaker 7 (51:29):
Yeah, that is a definitely perth cough. I guess it's
my daily intake of lake water. I see my daily
minimum allowance.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
Yeah, you know what, you probably just like you said,
you probably weren't far from your maximum allowance. Man, I'm
glad you got out of that water.

Speaker 7 (51:46):
Yeah. I was talking to a buddy about earlier. He
had another pro tip for me. You know, if I
didn't want to wear that vest all day because it
can't get even though it's light, it does kind of
get a cuff on the heat of the summer. But
he wears a flotation belt that when you fall in
it's just got a little pool cord. You can pull
it just whip fits around your waist and it's not
cumbersome at all.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
So yeah, let's let's talk about that, okay, because if
you did hit your head over up with that belt, yeah,
you're going bellied down, you know.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
Yep, I don't.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
I don't like a belt for that. I really don't
be careful. Think twice about that though.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
Bro.

Speaker 7 (52:25):
Oh well, I'll probably just be wearing my vest anytime
I'm in water. Say that's over my head. I know
I'm hard headed. I probably won't wear it fishing the
dirt up here like Houston County or Livingston. But uh,
but if I'm my buddy mentioned yesterday on Facebook that is,
you got to watch out too because you fall into
some of them shallow lakes and that mother might be
waist deep. Yep, there's that or you know what that's

(52:47):
like too.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Let me just remind you, because you're not thinking of
it right now talking about being as long as you're
in water over your head, people drown in baptubs. Man.
You don't have to be in deep water on You
just have to have your head in the water, face
down and you're done. You can't get that head out
of the water. Yeah, I don't. I don't like that

(53:08):
belt thing.

Speaker 7 (53:08):
Don't do that, man, Okay, I won't do that.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
You're my friend. I'm trying to.

Speaker 7 (53:15):
I appreciate it. But speaking about us staying alive. I
had a buddy of mine, old fishing buddy of mine,
called me yesterday. He's actually a chandler, Phillip's dad. He
called me yesterday. He goes, man, he goes, he goes.
Let's be something in the in the air, because a
few days ago we had a fisherman died till the bens.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
Yeah, I think it was.

Speaker 7 (53:32):
And then uh, the way he described it to me,
and I'll probably mess it up. His wife's sisters, brother
in law, three year old gentlemen. They've been trying. They've
been getting on him for going fishing alone. Don't go
fishing a loan. I want to say. Uh, I want
to say, yesterday he went fishing a loader at Rayburn,
fell into the water, and there was some people close

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enough to him that what over there recovering and put
him in his boat, took him to the bank, and uh,
he died at the bank. I don't know the details
that they think it was a hard to take eighty
three years old. Yeah, so it's you know, it happens
in threes, as they say a lot of times. So
I'm closer to two other gentlemen. And this is somebody
I knew that called me Maddy, because that's weird because

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I getting folks die today.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
You know, you just can't be too.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
And the older we get and the more we fished
and the more time we've had on the water, the
more kind of lack of days ago we get about
the safety stuff that we ought to We we think
we have it, but you don't know if you have
it or not until you need it. And that's too
late to figure it out if it's south, you know.

Speaker 7 (54:41):
That's that's why I set up post to uh. I
set up post a Skeeter yesterday basically taking this for
my life and said, had I bought that boat from
the dealer without that ladder, like I said yesterday, I
probably wouldn't have added the ladder. We thought about it.
I said, Man, I'm invincible on the water. Ain't not
gonna happen to me, man, But don't I found out
real quick. It don't take for about two three minutes
and that's it. You're done.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
That would have been a rough thing to find out. Man,
I wouldn't wanted to hear that. I'm glad you made
it out of there.

Speaker 7 (55:10):
Oh yes, sir. It's been in lighter news though.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Yeah, you're talking about that way.

Speaker 7 (55:16):
You're talking about Florida baths versus Texas backs now in
Houston County particular. And I know they have Florida bass
in there, and I know they got stuff like that.
But in Houston County, I have, you know, mister fish
on a bed and stayed there and caught that fish
on the same lure in dirty water. Now yesterday, perfect
example at Kerth. I don't know if this is post

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drowning or pre droughting. I forgot what part of the
day this is it. It's all blurred too, But I
had a fish. I was actually went up in a
pocket and on the way back out, I saw a
buck bass on a bed. So I throw a little
little two inch rage crawl, white rage crawls.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Jet.

Speaker 7 (55:51):
I throw white just so I can see it. I
noticed that the hook. So I bring this white rage
crawl to his fish, and he kind of knows this
down and down, noses down and then about forecast later,
I actually hang a piece of a lily pad and
actually have that bait suspended off the bottom, and I'm
jiggling and I hooked a fish. Briefly, I set the hook.

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He kind of comes up there as one little shake
and he gets off, and when I'm rerigging, I'm watching
it goes right back to the bed. So I flipped
that white rage bugg in there again. This is all
floor of the bass, and and uh and that bass
immediately went up and nosed to it, saw it and
did and just backed up in reverse, like I remember that?

Speaker 1 (56:30):
How about that?

Speaker 7 (56:30):
I think like that little crawl fish, like you jerked
me out of my bed.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
He's a little bit strong.

Speaker 7 (56:37):
Be strong, you know.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Hey, I want to I want to We've got a
couple of minutes here, and I want to ask you
what I was talking about something I don't know if
you heard me or not, talking about forward facing sonar
and drones, because here here's my thought. If it's illegal
to find big deer with a drone or skin shorelines
for redfish with a drone, it's a camera on a drone.

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Why is it illegal to just put that or why
is it legal? To just put that camera under water
to find big bask You're you're you're searching for wildlife,
which is supposed to be illegal.

Speaker 7 (57:14):
Yep. That's why one of the pro fishmen that hates
it calls us spotlighting, calls forward faces sonar spotlight because
you are and uh it may I guess that's why.
You know, you see that the bass master circuit has
gotten new where you do three three without are forward
faces solar and three with and they and they've limited
them to which I think is creazy. They limit them

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to fifty five total inches of screens on their boats
to pack you have any combinations, so you can have
one fifty five inch screen on the front of your
boat and that's all you can have, So they limited
to that, you know. And then of course mlf is
you know, they got three hour and a half or
two hour periods and they you can only use it
for one period. So they're starting to see in the
tournaments this year, if you looked at them, there's some

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that are dominated by forward face and sodar and the
ones without forward facing sonar. You're seeing the names you
and I know you see the leaderboard flipped upside down
when they got to go out there and actually know
how to fish. You see the guys we know, but
when you don't know how to when you all you
got to do is watch TV. You see these you know,
college aged kids. You know, that's all they do. They

(58:18):
were born and raised on forward faces so on, So
they don't know how to look at the weather, determine
the patterns, and and know the type of bottom you
need to look on to find these spawning fish. You
just can't go find spawning fish anywhere you got at
the right bottom of consistency and all that. They have
no clue how to do that.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
There has to be some conversation at some point about
whether or not there's a difference. And I want to
know from somebody who's in law enforcement exactly what the
difference is between using a drone and a camera to
find deer or redfish and using forward facing ZNAR to
find bass. Why is one legal and one not? Is?

Speaker 7 (58:52):
It just makes no sense to I'm retired guy I
got you in contact with. He'd be a great guy.
You'd ground him, get him on there. He retired, he'd
be a great guy to have on there.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
But yeah, I'll get to him. I will I'm making
it to myself right now.

Speaker 7 (59:07):
One other thing he touched on and like you talk
about these floorida bass biticky, why would they hit this
mento in front of their face? But these guys have
got so good and putting. It's just like cropping fishing.
You got to put the You got to present the
meadow to them naturally. And and now that the baits
does look so real, it's like the bass ain't smart

(59:31):
enough to determine now this is stupid mento. He's about
to get eight. He just don't know it, you know, yeah, yeah,
but it's so lifelike, and it's all about presentation. You
got to come at them, you know, you can't come
to their tail like anything else. Somebody seeks up behind
and you're gonna get spooked. But if you see him
walking right to you, try to think, I'm I'm gonna
slap this guy. I'm gonna let him walk by. What
am I gonna do?

Speaker 1 (59:50):
I got a question for you the same way as
I got to go real quick because we're running late.
But uh, with the vertical fishing that's being done for
these big bass in a little bit deeper water, as
in anybody going to lures like they use over ice
holes for ice fishing, with the eye of the lure
where you tie your lines just right in the middle
of the baits so it so it stays horizontal in

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the water.

Speaker 7 (01:00:12):
I have seen a little bit of that, But what
they've come up with now is what they call a
hover rig, okay, And it's a way to rig up
a sinko where the where the lead is inside the
middle of the sinko or the or the yeah, the
I and the eye comes up about an inch behind
the head and it stays vertical. So they kind of
come up with a modified ice fishing ice fishing bait.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
Good lord, okay, thanks fo pro Hey, I'm glad you
made it yesterday or Friday, whatever it was. Just stay
on the stay above the water, will you. Thanks for
all right, I'll see audios. All right, we gotta take
a little break here on the way out. I'm want
to tell you about eld Cobontle cigars and rolled in

(01:00:58):
Texas City by Manypez and a few more people. It's
not a big giant place, but it's only one of
four dozen or so manufacturing facilities in the entire United States,
which means we you, me, anybody else who wants to
go down there to Texas City can buy from the
manufacturer and not be paying a premium because one or

(01:01:20):
two middlemen have to get their little piece of the pie.
Elkubano makes more than one hundred and fifty different cigars,
everything from very robust to quite mild. You can go
to either one of their lounges, one in Texas City
alongside the manufacturing part, and then another in League City
that's kind of more havana style. It's got big roll

(01:01:41):
up doors on one side and the other so that
whatever air conditioning you're going to get is going to
be the breeze and how open the doors are. It's
a fantastic place to just go chill out and maybe
watch a game or something with your buddies, have a cigar,
enjoy that. Or if you're doing let's say you have
a special event coming a wedding, some sort of big

(01:02:01):
company function, maybe a charity tournament of some sort. They
will they I say they many Lopez will do custom
banding and custom boxes for your cigars for that occasion,
and if you want, they'll even come out and set
up a table and a little canopy and roll cigars
fresh for your guests. He's a great guy. I've known

(01:02:22):
him a long time now. I really admire and respect
this man, Manny Lopez from El Cubano Cigars Lcoubanocigars dot
Com is the website. Go check them out. Elcubanosigars dot Com.
American Shooting Centers is out there on West Timer Parkway
between Katie and Highway six. Has been for about almost
thirty years now. Amazing place. The number one largest non

(01:02:44):
military shooting facility in the entire state. And when you
get out there you'll see what I'm talking about. Ten
trap and skeet fields, three sporting plays courses, five five
stand setups here and there, rifle and pistol all the
way out from five yards to six hundred yards. They've
got a wing shoot, a beginner's wing shooting area. They've

(01:03:06):
got a little pop up silhouette range for rimfire shooters
that you can take the kids to and shoot half
a day and not burn up too much money and
AMMO and plenty of instruction to teach you and your
family how to be safe and enjoy the shooting sports
better than you're enjoying them now. Good instruction is worth
its weight in gold. It really is. Not only will

(01:03:26):
it save you, ammo, It'll just make shooting more enjoyable,
flat out. That's it. American Shooting Centers on West tim
Or Parkway between Katie and Highway six. Go check them out.
The website is American Shooting Centers dot com. American Shooting
Centers dot com. Nine twenty four on Sports Talk seven
to ninety The Dugpike Show, Thank you for listening. I
promise I'll get to the golf tournament later, but right

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now I'm gonna go talk to Dave.

Speaker 7 (01:03:52):
Dave.

Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
What's up?

Speaker 7 (01:03:53):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
Hey Dan, I'll sent you a picture. And I just
saw the sun painting his dad the live check here
on the pier, and the sun is driving the jet
ski and they they got their fishing poles on the
back and everything, and then the other brothers on the
other jet ski and there they go. They're off in
the wild blue yonder for the man. Good for them,

(01:04:16):
I know, man, And then you know and and and
and but what impressed me right here, right while while
I was waiting online to get on you, the sun
throws his dad's live jacket up on the pier here,
So his dad could put his life jacket on for
he could get in.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
Oh yeah, so that's good.

Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
And if we get off a subject.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
Here, here we go.

Speaker 7 (01:04:38):
There's a bell. What is that?

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
It's not a bell?

Speaker 5 (01:04:43):
Yeah, that's the okay, like when you when you when
you play on stage. Yeah yeah, drum said, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
They have those in Every elementary school band in the
country has a cow bell.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
Yes, sir, I really okay.

Speaker 5 (01:05:00):
A lot of pontoon boats going out today and a
lot of families and that's what I was going to
say again, but please don't fish in your pajamas and
and anyway, at least everybody is putting.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
On their live jackets.

Speaker 5 (01:05:15):
Everybody's doing safe.

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
And that goes back to Miss Tropo. Man.

Speaker 5 (01:05:20):
God Dan, I mean, excuse me, lord, you know, I
mean god ye. You know, whenever you're in distress sometimes
it's not fun.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
That's never fun to be in distress and fall in
the water like that, and it's uh, it's a real
eye opener when you every now and then, back when
I was surfing as a as a teenager, before leashes
were on surfboards, every now and then we'd be out
on a big day and take you forever to paddle
out through that stuff, and you'd lose your board and

(01:05:50):
there was no swimming back to it. Those boards were
very light and very brilliant, and there we were just
swimming around like wet frogs or something, and you'd watch
your board just disappear going back toward the beach, and
we'd be two hundred yards out in really rough water,
maybe three hundred yards out. Sometimes we'd jump out. We'd

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walk out to the end of the jet not quite
to the end of the surf side jetty, that would
be a way out there. But we'd walk way out
the jetty a couple of hundred yards three hundred yards,
and then jump in the water there and do our
surfing out where the waves were the biggest. And if
you lost that thing, you were going to end up
finding it somewhere down around Beach Road if you finally,
If and when you finally made it back to the

(01:06:31):
beach yourself, I mean, the water beat us up man.
Lucky to be alive. Probably myself.

Speaker 5 (01:06:37):
Hey, my dad taught us like and you just made
me reminded me we'd go down to Corpus Christie because
some of my aunts and uncles live down there. Sure,
and we'd go down there and he would take us
out in the water, and we'd just get in the
waves and start jumping up, jumping up and down, and
all of a sudden, you're a mile down from where

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we went into the water. Yeah, you know, so then
we then my dad would get us, you know, crawl
out of there and get out, and then we'd have
to walk all the way back to where my mom was.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
That current is very strong out there, and it will
it will mess you up and it will take you out.

Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
Another thing I'd like to remind everybody overhand fishing, I
mean swimming. No, turn on your back, get your face
up out of the water and start doing the back
pedal slowly and that's slowly, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
And breathe, yeah, breathe. And the less the less energy
you expend, the longer you're going to be able to
do whatever it issh you have to do to get
back to the beach. If you just panic and start
sprinting like Michael Phelps back to the beach, you're not
going to make it back to the beach.

Speaker 5 (01:07:45):
Okay, all right, Well they're loading boats into the water
right now, and man, it's pretty cool out of it.
I hadn't seen no mishaps shit, so.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
Well knock on wood, wait, wait till this afternoon, when
they've been in the ice chest a couple of times, you'll.

Speaker 5 (01:07:58):
See, okay, all right down here, all right, God.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Bless by audios. All right, click aty click. Let's oh yeah,
let's go ahead and get on this break a little
bit early so we don't get behind as I tend
to do sometimes. Timber Creek Golf Club, down the golf
freeway to FM twenty three point fifty one. You're gonna
want to go east a few miles, which would be
a right turn on the way down toward the beach.

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Get off at twenty three fifty one, and there you
will find the entrance a few miles down at a
stoplight by the way that there's no real road going
to the right, but the entrance to the golf course
is on the right at the little light by the
convenience store with a high school caddy cornered across from there.
You know what I'm talking about. Twenty seven holes is
what you're going to find on the inside of the
gay that in a very generous practice range, a fantastic

(01:08:48):
instructional facility run by a guy named JJ Woods. He
and his staff can knock the rust off any old
swing you bring over there, and twenty seven holes makes
it easier to get out to You get two tea
times going off all morning long, and everybody gets around
the course and everybody has a good time. And if
you're not having a great time, either take advantage of
that beverage cart when it comes around and get yourself

(01:09:10):
a little swing fluid, or maybe go get some lessons
from JJ and his crew. Excellent food too. You can
drown your sorrows in a fine lunch or dinner after
you finish playing out there as well. Timber Creek Golf
Club dot com is website. You can make your own
tea time right there, right now, timber Creek goolf Club
dot com. If you are looking for a little elbowroom,

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a little space to move around, and you want a
place in the hill country, which is kind of that's
the boy. That's the way to go in Texas, isn't it.
I like the coast, I like the hill country, I
like the pine. I like them all. But man if
I could, I'd build myself a place right there in
the middle of Texas. That's kind of where. Whitetail Ranch
is about ten minutes west of Cold Spring, ten miles

(01:09:53):
west of Coal Spring, so if you dress sixty miles
an hour, that's where you'll find it. A beautiful place,
kind of a tech what's this ranch theme? If you
know what that is? And most of us who've been
here more than an hour and a half know all
about the Texas ranch theme. If you don't really understand it,
go to the rodeo and see what's going on out there.
That's a bunch of Texas Ranch stuff, and then make

(01:10:14):
your move to Whitetail Ranch. Go take a look at
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Go check it out. Whitetail Ranch, TX dot com nine
thirty four on Sports Talk seven to ninety Golly, I
pulled my email up here, and all of a sudden,
there's all this stuff, all this brand new stuff. From
very very early, and I'm missing I'm missing an important

(01:10:57):
email from my inbox that I had in there just
a minute ago. That's kind of weird, it really is.
There was one from from Mark over in Georgia, and
all of this stuff is okay, it's caught up. Uh,
I'm not seeing his that's so bizarre. I know I
didn't delete it. There's no way I would not have

(01:11:18):
done that at all. I'm gonna hold on. I'm gonna
try and get my deleted items up. Let's see if
it somehow managed to go that way. No, no, no, no,
it's just vanished. Let me go back and reopen. There's that,
there's that. Ah, this is so bizarre. It came in
at eight thirty six. Uh, Mark from over in Georgia.

(01:11:41):
I want to shut shump, shuffle the deck a little
bit and go to waterfowl for a second. The Mark Wrights.
Here are four things for you about the waterfowl migratory
species issues that also include your cormorants. They're not my cormorants.
Oh my god, gosh, what have you done? Erica is.

Speaker 4 (01:12:05):
So so thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:08):
Something delicious, something else delicious to eat. That woman knows
how to make something out of little things that looks
really really good. I can't eat it right now, but
I will trust me as soon as I quit talking
at some point. So Number one, he says, the cormorant
and ducks, and I knew this are protected by the
same USA Canada Treaty to Protect Migrating Species signed in

(01:12:31):
nineteen eighteen. Maybe time for a fresh look, huh, nineteen
eighteen to protect the migratory corridors from Canada to the USA.
Kennedy cites the treaty as it states that the migratory
corridors are to remain safe and protected for the migration,
which I don't think they're doing right now the way

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they've got it messed up in the Midwest. He continues.
You need to get in touch with Kennedy because if
they have to change the treaty, he possibly could get
it changed to allow the killing of cormorants. Wouldn't that
be nice. I'm gonna have to drive to Louisiana and
go knock on his door. So yes, he continues, this

(01:13:12):
is an important issue for you, as the cormorant problem
and the lack of waterfowl are both protected by this treaty.
I'm gonna I'm gonna have to reach out and see
if I can get a minute with that guy and
there at least send him something rational and calm, kind
of pleading the case for anybody and everybody who likes

(01:13:34):
to fish stock ponds, who likes to fish the bays,
the beach front, big lakes in Texas and Louisiana and
anywhere else on the continent, that those nasty things are
if we could get, if we're gonna get, the Migratory
Bird Treaty Act of nineteen eighteen changed the word cormorant
has to be in there, somewhere right next to You

(01:13:58):
can use harvest if you want to. That's fine, open
the harvest of cormorants. I don't know that they're going
to taste any good. I'm not so sure they're going
to be edible, but at least if we can knock
a few down, maybe some of those good Cajun cooks
over there in Louisiana can come up with a recipe
for them. If they could come up for with recipes

(01:14:18):
for for neutrient, which they did. There was an actual
competition in Louisiana for that years ago, when when nutrients
pretty much threatened every levee in the state. There were
so many of them. It was actually a competition that
was organized by the state to find the best recipe
for nutrient which is a giant rat. And I almost

(01:14:41):
bet that the same same recipe might work for a cormorant.
Who knows seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'll go
to the tournament for briefly, I want to make sure
everybody knows who's winning who's losing. Over there in the
Palm Beaches at the Cognizant cl see if I can

(01:15:01):
get that leader board to come up. I've got a boy.
They just make it impossible, all right, So Shane Lowry
and I can't remember his first name. I got to
get to the full leader board to be able to
get first names of everybody. Some of these names aren't
exactly household, many are many or not. Oh yeah, it's
Austin Smotherman. That's his name. Shane Lowry and Austin Smotherman

(01:15:22):
at thirteen under par I'm sure they will go out.
It's ten forty over there. Shortly, probably they might have
some more afternoon thunderstorms which are almost daily at this
time of year and all through summer. Nico Ichivaria and
Taylor Moore at twelve, Jimmy Stranger or Stringer, Ricky Castillo

(01:15:47):
and aj Ewart at ten nine all by himself in
eighth place, Joel Domon, and then at eight under par
Bo Hostler, Keith Mitchell and Paton Kazaire. Of these guys
are just playing to try to bump their check up
a little bit. I think the winner's going to come
from one of those top five guys, the two at thirteen,

(01:16:08):
the two at twelve, and then Jimmy Stringer. So good
luck over there on that golf course. I played that
golf course once a million years ago when I was
writing for the paper, and it was over there on
a media trip in which we played. I want to say,
we played two courses there. We stayed there, we played
two courses there, and then to a day on two

(01:16:32):
other days, you know, so we ended up playing six
golf courses in all in about an hour and a half.
It seems like when you get through those things. There
was one we did farther farther south from the Palm
Beaches down toward I think it was a trip that
we made down closer to Miami. It might have been
the trip we played durral on, but in any case,
there was a guy from Chicago there and it was

(01:16:54):
midsummer in Florida, which means the humidity's one hundred percent
all day long. You get that ship to make sure
the humidity stays one hundred percent at about three o'clock
and we were playing two courses a day, and after
the first day he just punted. He flew back to Illinois.
He just was not accustomed to that climate in any way,

(01:17:17):
shape or for me. He looked bad after the first round,
and about right after we finished off the second round,
I think it was when we got back on the
bus and he just said, no, Boss. He threw in
the towel, threw in the Yeah, he just couldn't handle it.
That's okay, More power to him for being down there.
At least he tried, and I'm sure he got a
good story out of it. I got a lot of

(01:17:39):
good stories out of those trips. It was so fun
going to those places. Played a lot of courses in Florida,
played a lot of them in Mississippi, a lot of
them in Alabama and elsewhere. I didn't go west. I've
never been to the West Coast. I haven't played at
all out on the West Coast. I played. The farthest
west I've gone is Salt Lake City. Played golf there
one time on a golf trip, combo golf and fishing trip. Actually,

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that was that was one of my favorites. I gotta
tell you. It was in the fall, and yeah, it
was really really nice. So one, three, two, two, five
seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
I've got that taken care of. I've got that checked off.
Let's take this final break of the program. Then we'll
come back to wrapper up Houston Gold Exchange. Brad Schweiss

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owns the place. I've been talking about him now for
several weeks, and I can't encourage you enough to if you,
if you need a little pocket money, look around the house,
find something that has some gold content in it and
take it over to Brad. He'll put it on a scale.
He's got a special machine that figures out whether it's
fourteen carrot or ten carrot or twenty four carrod. If

(01:18:44):
you've got some bouyon laying around the house, maybe some coins.
Anything that has gold content is worth a whole lot
of money these days. It really is, It really truly is.
And all you have to do to get paid on
that is take it over to Brad at the store.
Meet him up there. Sometime. I'm looking for the price. Oh,

(01:19:05):
my goodness yet, gold price today five two hundred forty
seven dollars and ninety cents. Right now, it's up a
buck from yesterday. Yeah, that's that's pretty strong. Two hundred dollars.
I can't imagine that historic prices. That's how he describes them.
And the thing is, you don't know when it's going
to turn the other way. So right now, like he

(01:19:26):
told me, I think it was yesterday or day before
in an email, said, you talk about maybe somebody buying
a kayak with the little scrap gold they've got around
the house, or some old gold coins or whatever, and
bring me a little more than a handful and they
can probably go out and buy a whole new boat
with it. It's really amazing where these prices are now.

(01:19:47):
He buys gold, he buys silver, he sells all that
stuff too. If you think this, when it's time to
buy it, you need to remember his name as well.
Go over there and make your investment like that. He
also likes Rolex watches too, He'll buy those from you.
He's got a beautiful selection of things in his store
if you need to need a little something to get
out of the doghouse too. Houston Gold Exchange West tim

(01:20:09):
or at Darry Ashford. Houston gold Exchange dot Com is
the website his cell number. By the way, he's a
plus rated with the Better Business Bureau in case you're wondering,
and that's that's an important thing, especially in a business
like that. Here's his cell number two eight one eight
five one three nine five five two eight one eight
five one thirty nine fifty five. If you haven't tried

(01:20:31):
e bikes, but you've thought about him a little bit,
maybe some of your friends have them. Maybe some of
your hunting buddies have them for the deerlies. Maybe some
of your friends who have beach houses have them for
riding up and down the beach, whether you're looking for shells,
or maybe you're looking for fish breaking in the surf
come springtime. Whatever it is, wherever you want to ride
one of these things, maybe it's just riding around the neighborhood.

(01:20:53):
Maybe it's just hopping on your e bike instead of
driving your car to the grocery store, up to the
drug store to pick up a prescription. Any kind of
e bike you might need, maybe something for the kids,
any kind of e bike you need. Wayne Errington at
air Ride Bikes up in four Corner shopping Center, and
Tom Ball has got them. He's got them. Even I

(01:21:14):
didn't even know they made three wheel e bikes, makes sense.
I didn't know they made them. But he brought one
to the Senior Expo in Stafford last October and I
got to see them. I got to see the really
big hunting models that'll carry several hundred pounds up and
down mountains. All you got to do is go see him,
Let him explain which ones are most appropriate for whatever

(01:21:36):
you want to use it for. Make sure you buy
a helmet. I don't think he'll let you out of
there without a helmet. He shouldn't, anyway, I know he won't.
He will help you get that thing put together. He'll
make you a great price on it. He'll explain all
the maintenance that goes with these things, and he'll explain
why his bikes are the safest and best you can get.
Air ride Bikes dot Com is the website adair ride

(01:22:02):
Bikes dot Com. Nine fifty gollly, that comes blazing through
my head here, how did that happen? I'll turn it
down a little bit. Here we go nine to fifty
on Sports Talk seven ninety to Duckpike Show. Thank you
for listening this morning. We've covered a lot of ground,
and I I'm kind of kind of recap here and
then I'll give you well, I'll do this first, a

(01:22:23):
pop quiz. We've had big bass, We've had the share
Lunker program going now for many years, Toyota Share Lunker program.
Toyot is throwing a lot of money at that thing.
I can't ignore them, and I greatly appreciate their continued
participation in this program because it does help us grow bigger,
better bass and plenty of them too. And so anyway,

(01:22:44):
this week, just a few days ago, let me see
when it was. That might have been a week ago
now somewhere in there. Yeah, well, I actually it's been
a couple of weeks. Anyway, Hordes Creek Reservoir, which most
of you probably haven't heard of. It's west of Coleman
by the way, was it's marked kind of a milestone

(01:23:06):
for producing its legacy class share lunker. Yeah, two and
a half weeks ago February eleven, followed by JB. Thomas
with its first legacy class bass of the twenty twenty
six collection season. Now I'm reading from the Parks and
Walleac Department Toyota Share Local program eightieth water body, Hordes

(01:23:32):
Creek Reservoir just west of Coleman. It's out there, Okay,
eightieth water body in Texas to produce a legacy class
fish that's thirteen pounds or better. So I don't know
what state if you throw out the twenty pounders and
don't look at just the biggest one freak bass of

(01:23:55):
that state is, that would put California and Florida and
Joe Org ahead of us. Maybe Alabama. I think they
might have one other than that. I don't know of
any city or any state in the country that's got
eighty bodies of water that can produce thirteen pound bass.
That is testimony to in testament to how good our

(01:24:19):
bass fishery is. And there's absolutely no doubt about that.
It doesn't hurt that our city is or our state
is the size of New England. Plus it doesn't hurt
that our state is the size of three or four
Midwestern states. We do get an advantage there, granted, But nonetheless,

(01:24:42):
for that many lakes to have that many giant fish
in them, it's pretty impressive. It's pretty impressive. There are
a lot of states in this country that I bet
haven't produced a ten pound bash yet, and it's not
their fault. I've talked about it. That's just what their
fish can grow to during a much shortened growing season.

(01:25:04):
The growing season for bass in Minnesota probably about an
hour and a half. They don't have much spring and
summer up there. They get a really hard winter, and
those fish just aren't going to grow. They're just trying
to survive through winter up there. Peeking up and just
seeing that big old foot and a half two feet
of ice with f two fifty pickups on it and

(01:25:26):
dragging their ice houses out there. I don't know what
they do with ice fishing, really. I was invited to
go once, many many years ago by a guy named
Gary King. He worked for Pradco, which was a major
major lure manufacturer back in the day, plastic research and
development company, and I passed on that trip, but I

(01:25:47):
did make a trip with him and three or four
other guys from Pradco and three or four other media
members over to Sweden. That was a fun trip, I
gotta say, it really was. We didn't catch that many fish, honestly,
but just to be over there and see I'm a
kind of a history nut in case you haven't realized
that yet, and just to see I stood in a

(01:26:10):
thatch roofed barn that was built I want to say,
in the late seventeenth century somewhere in there, maybe early
eighteenth century, way way way back in time, and it
was still standing there. And instead of barbed wire fences
which separate property ownership in Texas in so many places,

(01:26:34):
instead of that, they they were just rock walls that
I guess were high enough to keep the sheep from
jumping over them. And I can't imagine how long it
took to hitch a horse to a wagon and then
go gather up all those rocks and then turn them
into four foot high fences to keep their animals in

(01:26:55):
their own pastures. It's just amazing to me, it really is.
We had a good We caught some fish, we didn't
catch any salmon, which kind of was disappointing, but that
sweeten and kind of some fords off the sea out
there off the Baltic is the only place on the
planet so far that I've caught northern pike, and that

(01:27:16):
was kind of somewhat cool and ironic and weird and whatever.
But those fish are they fight like a like a
bull coming out of the chute, but they got about
eight seconds in them and then they kind of get soft.
It's kind of like it's like something like large mouth pass,
only on much larger scale. These fish are two and

(01:27:38):
a half three feet long and a little bit more
in some cases. And they were when they decide to eat, buddy,
they eat, and they're big, and they want to go
the other way, and they sprint for about from here
to the door in this studio and then they just
kind of you got me, and they get a little
feisty again right at the boat. But yeah, they don't

(01:28:00):
fight like anything in salt water that we know, that's
for sure. I'm still I'm a saltwater guy.

Speaker 7 (01:28:06):
I am.

Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
I'm a saltwater guy. I'm always going to be a
salt water guy. But if somebody says, hey, let's go
bass fishing. I know where we might catch one. I'm in.
I'm going. It's not like I'm going to ever quit
fishing for anything that might bite the lure that I throw.
I'll never do that. Absolutely never do that. Oh my,
what a fun weekend. It's been kind of crazy things

(01:28:28):
going on around the world. I'm kind of glad we've
got places to go fish and chill and forget about
all that stuff. Turn the TV off, grab a rod
and reel. Drive to someplace where you think even that
there might be some fish. See if you can't catch one,
you and your family. This afternoon, I gotta go answer
an email for a friend of mine. It'll be a good,
good email because he's wanting to take a little kid

(01:28:50):
fishing for the very first time, and he's asking me
what to get that kid started with. I can't wait
to jump in on that. Thank you all for listening.
I'll be back Tuesday on fifty plus to talk about
what's going on around the world for seniors, and then
I'll be back here God willing on Saturday morning, seven o'clock.
We'll see you then. Thank you all for listening. I
truly appreciate it. Bring a friend Next Time ideos,

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