Unless You're at the Ballet, Go Ahead and Take Your Pants Off (Best Of Episode)

This "best of" aired on September 7th, 2025.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
No, here's Doug Fike. All right, Sunday edition of the
program starts right now. Good hunting pants don't need babysitting,
They don't need to be pampered, and you certainly wouldn't
want to send them on. I can I can spot
somebody that kind of maybe maybe you'll fit in with

(00:20):
the group, maybe won't if they if they walk into
dove hunting camp and they have creases in their pants,
that's that's somebody who's who's not washing his own pants
for starters and maybe even sending them to the dry cleaners.
I just I can't see any rhyme or reason for
doing that. Back when I was guiding six seven days

(00:43):
a week, I had I think three pairs of pants
in rotation for normal conditions, and then you had your
super cold day pants, which sometimes did or sometimes did
not go along with with long underwear. Underneath that, you
had shirts that you had to wear. And all of

(01:05):
us were smart enough after doing it as long as
we did to dress in layers. I'll tell you, with
them just thinking of it very quickly, the biggest game
changer as a waterfowl guide and waterfowl hunter back when
I was doing it, was the introduction of gortex, that
amazing fabric that would breathe. It would let the hot

(01:28):
air out and away from your body, but it would
keep you warm and keep you dry up. Until then,
it was wool and flannel and plastic coats that we
wore to keep the rain off of us. It was
either kind of an all or nothing thing, and that's

(01:49):
something I don't hear brought up very often when we
talk about innovations in the outdoors. But gortex, just that
breathable fabric that was also water repellent, water resistant, that
was a big deal. It really was. I sat out
I don't know how many years I sat there in
one of those plastic butcher's coats. I don't even know

(02:10):
if those were for butchery. The cloth ones were more
for the butchers. We had a lot of those too,
and after one hunt they would never be white again.
I don't care how much bleach you put on them,
I don't care what you did to them. You couldn't
clean them up. The blood stains, the mud stains, all
of that just ruined those. The plastic ones were okay.

(02:33):
You could take them home and hose them off, which
is what we had to do. After pretty much any
rainy day or wet field day hunt, these guys would
just throw those things in the back of your pickup truck, like, hey,
we're in a rent car. We don't care about anything.
We're in a rent car. We came down here from
Indiana and we goose hunted for three days, and all

(02:54):
this trash is yours. See you later. It was fun.
I did enjoy guiding. Met a lot of people from
around the world, literally, and most of them were very
We're very excited to be where we were because we
were in We were at the epicenter of waterfowl hunting
as far as I'm concerned anyway. And I don't know
anybody who'd tell me wrong tell me I was wrong.

(03:16):
I don't know how I got to this. I wasn't
even going to talk about duck and goose hunting. But
there I am doing it again. Dove season brought me there.
By the way, I've got to go get one of
those Camo rocking chairs at John Aikman from Country Boys
Roofing told me about I did I had. I had
not seen those, and I don't know why. I guess
it was just I was so focused on trying to

(03:38):
find something just in a hurry, if I was in
an out of town store, or just maybe to go
with the color scheme of my son's team. If I
was here in town on a casual trip. But it
didn't even dawn on me to take one of those
things into the field. And I would have if if
they didn't make one in Camo, I would have been

(03:59):
perfectly willing you just buy some Camo blind netting and
drape it over there, just sitting there like a guy
in a rocking Gillie suit. That wouldn't have been too bad.
Let's go talk to Rick there, we go, look at
this stand by Rick, Bie, what's going on? My friend?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I've got a fishing lure question? All right, now, I
can I can figure this out with a sledgehammer and
maybe a vice by it. But I was about three
hundred miles from the near salt Water in an old
barn on the state seal, and I found a tackle box,
had a bunch of mirror lures.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
I saw that those pictures you sent me.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, yeah, okay, wouldn't go through. Oh no, I got
it anyway.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yeah I got them.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
I had a catch. I had a catch. Two thousand,
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Had one in my hand, and I had on a
pair of brush pants, them real heavy pants. It's got
that that duchy cactus you don't want. Somebody won't go through.
And of course I'm sitting there playing around with them,
and I can get a hook of treble hooking that stuff, okay, okay,

(05:16):
and it ain't coming out. I thought, okay, I've got
a fair of little side cutters, and I couldn't cut
the hook and it's too small, so I thought, okay,
I'll roll it. I'll roll it through on through. It's
like Doug Wood mask the ball about and I'd roll
it right back out, which it worked perfect. Yeah. There

(05:38):
you had me worried there for a while. I thought
I was gonna have have me about the saddle left
went the next thing I do. I gotta get in
the truck, and it's gonna get tongue in my car seat.
And now I'm gonna be dumbing duck anyway.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Where wherever you're standing, if that ever happens again, wherever
you're standing, unless you're in you know, unless you're at
the ballet or something, take your pants off so you
can work with the front end of that hook without
having to try to rip up your pants on. Just
tear that thing off. So go ahead, sorry, any that's
all right.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well, but my question is this, And like I say,
I can put one in a vice and crushing in
front of that. All right. Those lures are made out
of some kind of hard plastic or some hard.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Material all day hard plastic, and.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
They've got these hooks on them. And that traveler hook
can catch a trout, it can catch a fifty pound
red fish, it can catch all kinds. It's get sharp whatever. Okay,
what holds that hook in there?

Speaker 1 (06:43):
A metal frame from coming.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Well, the.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Some of the lures, the older lures, there's a there's
a little like a little cradle there, and they have
a screw, two screws, a front and back screw where
that hook can swing freely. Some of them put them
in there with just a grew eye into the plastic,
and unless you were to catch something really really big,
those screw eyes actually hold very well. And then other lures,

(07:10):
especially anything that's designed to be taken off shore, will
have inside that plastic which is basically just a two
piece a left side and the right side of the mold.
Inside there is a wire frame or a some sort
of metal frame to which all one, two or three
hooks are attached, so they're they're connected all the way

(07:31):
from the line eye to the rear end where the
little ring is that holds that tail hook, and they're
not going anywhere.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well, makes sense. Challenges on, Yeah, the challenge is on
when I get home to see them go out in
my shop, I'm gonna sacrifice one of them old and
I'm gonna quote it in a bas and I'm gonna
crush it. I'm on'll find I'm gonna see it.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
You don't, you don't, really you can. I'm looking at
the pictures of a couple of lures you have on here,
and if you'll just take those hooks and twist them
righty tidy, lefty lucy, just twist them left, that little
ring in that they're attached to will start unscrewing for you,
and you can. And it's it's about a it's about

(08:19):
an honest quarter of an inch long screw that's buried
up in that plastic and it's it's got a surprisingly
good bite in there. It really doesn't.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
It must it must have, because I'm sitting there and
looking at thinking, and that thing can't be it. It's
a screw. It can't be more than a quarter in long.
And if something's pulling on that, something would have to
crack or give.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
You can lift a cinder block.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, I'm thinking to probably right, because I felt like
I had one on there my finger.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
I'll bet yeah, I bet man.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, that's interesting to let you know how much I'm
gonna crush.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, put it in there, you know. I want the
top in one ear on that thing and the bottom
in the other ear, and just crush it from top
to bottom and it'll split wide open.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
I'm gonna turn it, just little small turns until something
goes down, and then I'm gonna see what happened.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Safety goggles, Safety.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Goggles, all right, man, yoh, gotta wear my safety goggles.
And I really pass something more productive than do I
just don't.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Have it, Okay, yes, man, good luck? Oh thank you,
mister wizard. Yeah, he's a tinker. Rick Biss is a tinkerer,
and by any and every definition, he likes to find
out how stuff works. That's how most kids in our generation.

(09:41):
He's close to my age, and most of us grew
up that way. My grandfather, who was an engineer for
AT and T and involved in some major major projects
when the first telephone lines were going up along the
east coast, New York to Miami lines being laid, and
he was part of that program. And he actually down

(10:02):
at his house after he retired. They were in southeast Florida,
and I was down there fishing all the time. But
one day he brought me out in the garage and
he showed me this old transistor radio and he said,
this thing's really not working right. And I'm sure it was.
It was fine, or maybe he tinkered with something to
make it not work right. He said, do you think
you could get inside it and just kind of see

(10:23):
what's going on for me? And I've got to go
work on my boat engine or something like that. He
built racing boats. And so I'm like maybe eight nine
years old, and he's got a bunch of tools laid
out on that bench and that radio is just sitting there.
And I stood there and I figured out which screwdriver,

(10:44):
figured out which tiny little wrench or whatever, and I
broke that radio down to about thirty forty pieces. And
he came back over there a little later, and I
got it all taken apart. I didn't have any problem
taking things apart. That was easy. Find the screw heads,
you unscrew them, and then you keep unscrewing screws until

(11:04):
something pops off. I was pretty good at that. And
he came over and he said, you know, look you there, Doug,
there's what's causing the problem. And he soldered something. I
don't know what it was, but he did something to
it and said, good, it'll be light new as soon
as you put it back together. And I just went pale, granddaddy,

(11:25):
you think you could help me do that? Well, you
got it apart. Didn't you pay attention to how you
were taking it apart? And this light bulb went off
in my head, like they kind of duck my head, noser,
Not really. There's screws all over the all over the bench.
There are all kinds of springs and wires and whatever
else was in a transistor battery or a transistor radio.

(11:49):
And he very patiently showed me one time how to
put that back together, and then sat there with me
and showed me how he would have taken apart taking
it apart it had it been his call. And I
learned a lot that day from my grandfather, who was
a brilliant man, absolutely brilliant. We gotta take a break.

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All right, welcome back, Doug Pike Show, Sports Talk seven ninety.
I'm gonna get quickly to Michael Marquez aka Sharky. What's
going on? Sharky? Uh oh? We got that whole fan

(12:52):
of the phone thing again, hit it, hit it. There
we go. Now you're here. I'm trying to get in
the boat and I fell into water, so we're good. Hey, yeah,
we're good now, man. I appreciate your time. I know
you got to get to church, So don't worry about

(13:12):
me holding on.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
To you to deal.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Man.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
So if if you're if you're getting a phone call
and the guy who's paying for the trip is, here's
what I kind of want to do. If the guy
who's paying for the trip says, I want to catch
up whatever it is, what I want to know is
how you're rigging up what rod you're carrying? And maybe
I think to make it easy, let's just start from
the bottom and work our way up. Okay, So the

(13:36):
guy says, Man, I'd really like to catch a bunch
of red snapper for my family. So what what rods
you loading up for those?

Speaker 4 (13:43):
Yeah? Absolutely, man, So we really like, you know, depending
on what the what the angler preference is. If it's
a spinning combo set up, we're using like a pin
slammer sixty five hundred sixty five pound braid with like
a like a forty to sixty pound pin carnage rod

(14:04):
or like six and a half seven foot boat boat rods,
and that that that set up. What's great about that?
And also the uh the open face that that we use,
which would be like a pin fathom forty l D
compared with a pin carnage rod, sixty pound braid. I
mean they're so interchangeable. So yeah, we really like to

(14:25):
use snap swivels you know. That way we have some
pre made leaders and if something something else swims up
to the boat that's not a snapper, you know, you
can just interchange that out super quickly. But that's kind
of the combos that we use. We you control with them,
you can drop them to the bottom, you could slow
pitch jigam.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, those those.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
Uh, we're we love the pin uh pen fathoms for
the for the open face and the spin fisher slammers
for the spinning riels are are hard to be We
even take them out there in tunea fish with them.
Those uh those pin slammers. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
It sounds to me like and I'm glad to hear it.
There are rods and real the combinations that you can
put together that really will serve more than one or
two purposes. Because man, twenty five thirty years ago, if
you were going to catch this, you had to have
these rods, and if you were going to catch that,
you had to bring thirty rods on board, you know, right,
we did. I don't know if we needed them, but

(15:22):
we had them. You know, let's go you mentioned pre
made leaders. How many leaders when you leave the doc,
how many snapper leaders, how many king macro leaders? Whatever?
Are are tied up and total stowed away somewhere.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yeah, if I got you know, the idea is that
we make we try to at least make pretty quick.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Work out of the snapper.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
And so you know, you might get broke off by
a shark eating a snapper or an amber jack hitting it. Sure,
you know, while you're reeling in something small. So I
like to have a backup. So if I got six guys,
I'm bringing you know, ten twelve leaders, and that the
idea is that that should be more than enough to
to get our limit and uh and rock and roll

(16:08):
onto something else. And so you know, typically that's the
that's the idea, and the premise is, you know, if
we're on a ten hour or twelve hour trip, these
guys they're they're excited to catch the red snapper. But
typically we catch the biggest ones we can and then
we move on and we have the rest of the
day to kind of play around out there, you know,

(16:29):
looking for weed lines or targeting different you know, whatever's
priority on their species list of cat.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Back to the bottom shark you for just a second,
I don't mean I don't want to get too far ahead.
So if the guys is I want to catch, I
don't care if I catch, if anybody else on the
whole boat catches a snapper. I want to see the
biggest snapper on the bottom where we stop. How are
you going to bait for that?

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Yeah, So I mean the ultimate ultimate would be some
live bait, like stopping, uh, you know, bringing some piggy
perch or throwing a piggy trap in.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
Those those live baits work really well. But I'll tell
you another trick. Is we use like giant, giant palm
sized men Haden. Yeah, and those men Hayden, you can
literally like lay out in your palm and they're hanging
over You're hanging over both sides of your hand and
saying and what they're big. And what I tell my

(17:25):
people is, look, we're gonna drop this thing down over
this reef or over this structure, and you're gonna get
a lot of little nibbles. And my thoughts are is
that there's a lot of little snappers that are coming
up and kind of pecking at it. And uh, I
tell my folks, especially my my bass guys or my
fresh water guys, said, it's gonna take everything in you
not to set that hook. But you do not set
that hook and wait.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
For that rod to double over.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
And that's that big mama bear snapper coming in, pushing
the little guys out of the way, grabbing the bait
and driving straight straight down with it. And so it'll
go from those machine gun hits to all of a
sudden that rod doubles over, and so big min Hayden
and you know what we will use like super fresh there,
like Elix squid, they're super you know, there's so many

(18:10):
different types of squids, but the really big, the big squid,
whole squid, we're never cutting them in chunks unless we're
you know, bottom fishing for over millions or different smaller
snapper species, but just big baits. You know, the fish
are there a lot of times those big fish are there.
There might be you know, two hundred small snapper and

(18:31):
five big one, right, so you just putting the big
enough bait down there to be there long enough so
that big snapper can find it out. You know, can
can can sniff it out. And so that's been a
key for us this season and pulling big snapper, just
throwing big big baits down there, ignoring the nibbles and
waiting for that months so to come up and smack it.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
You know, what do you what do you shift? What
gear do you shift into? If the guy says, okay,
we got our snapper, I want to catch a big amberage,
do you first ask him if he's a sound mind
and body.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
Typically the first question. You know, Uh, we had somebody
that wanted to catch an a j and so, you know,
dropping a typically way you're snapper fishing, you can look
out and there's typically I mean if you're over a
reef or over a rig or something in their snapper there,
there's typically baked fish there. You know, that's why the

(19:26):
snapper are there, right, So, uh, tying on a subekie rig,
casting it out and reeling in some blue runners, I
mean that would.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Be the most efficient way catch you some.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Some live little blue runners or or grunt fish or
whatever else. You know, anything that's twelve inches or under,
they're gonna they're gonna eat that. And uh, dropping that
sucker about halfway down in the water column and for that.
You know, sometimes we do catch the big emmerjeck on
our on our snapper rods, and it's just this crazy
fight and they'll lead our you know, bit dig man Hagen.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
You know, I was I was gonna ask you about
sabeki rigging whether you still drag them out there, and
for that very purpose, And I'm glad you brought it
up and before I even talked about it, because that
was that's a game changer out there. It's not that
hard to catch life if you've got those with you,
is it.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
Yeah, it's not. And a little tip is we really
like to use the uh when you're buying a sabeiki rigs,
you know from Academy or whatever, order one online. We
really like the thirty pound or even the best is
like the forty pounds.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah, mono.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
You know, you're just not gonna have as many breakoffs
because you'll be realing fish in and they'll get they'll
get eight and then you know, you drop ten hooks
down and you got three left to drop with. So
that forty pound is a little bit more durable when
you're dropping it down to the bottom and trying to
I don't think it.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
I don't think it costs you any bytes on those
things either, really. I mean they're they're little time any
dressed hooks and little tiny fish are coming up and
eating them, and they're not. I don't think they're spooking
off that line at all. Almost.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah, I don't think so either. That forty pound is
my favorite, you know, and sometimes are real long. There's
like fourteen hooks on there, and yeah, yeah, I got
nothing down, you know, cut halfway down it and I
just need six or seven hooks dropping into the bottom
with a little tear drop style weight.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
And you know, the first introduction I ever got to
anything like that was when I was a little kid
fishing on the Deerfield Beach Fishing Pier in Florida at
my grandparents close to my grandparents' house, and this guy
was there were big schools of pilchers moving up and
down the beach and whatnot.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
Oh yeah, and this.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Guy all he had was a little dropper rig that
he'd made at home. There were no subeakie rigs back
a million years ago, and just little little gold short
shank like salmon egg hooks and then drop, yeah, six
of those and that's all it took man, just that
little sparkle in the water and they ate it up. Buddy,
that's crazy. All right, let's come up top a little bit.
Let's let's go king fishing. Now, what are we gonna change?

Speaker 4 (22:09):
Yeah, kingfishing. You know a couple of different methods and
ways to do it. I'm a real big fan of
slow trolling, so I'll use the Rapolla divers. Yeah, and
I'll do I'll do me like eighty six. I think
it's I think it comes in about eighty six or
somewhere around that eighty pound eighty three. It's it's just

(22:30):
a wire and we're using haywire. Twist yep. If you're
rocking with whether it's the spinning reel we talked about,
or the or the bait cast or reel man, you snap,
slibblet you catch a snapper. Guess what, you've got a
two foot leater with uh? With your eighty pound you know, hey,
wire twist onto one of those ripola divers. Yeah, you

(22:53):
start trolling that thing around the reef and over the
top of the reef or you know, whether it's behind
trump boats or over a re system. And the great
thing is you can mark those kingfish. So say that
I'm pulling up to a new spot and I've never
fished it before, and I want to see if there's
any any structure down there or snapper or bottom fishing.

(23:16):
I love to put out those divers, you know, quarter
mile away from it and just troll up and around
and over it while I'm running my DownScan and then bang,
I see my snapper down there. I hit the mark
button on my GPS. Maybe we catch some kingfish, maybe
we hooked into something crazy, but at least I'm kind
of I'm kind of multitasking. And then once we do that,

(23:39):
I can always come back around and drop on that structure.
And you know, and that with the currents and everything too.
You know, if you've got a strong current, those fish
are typically off the back end of that refrastructure, you know,
on the down current side. And what you'll notice a

(24:00):
lot of times is if you pull up to a
small spot, whether it's a pipeline crossing or or say
just a well head or something that's small, you'll notice
that those fish can be can be you know, one
hundred yards off of it sometimes. Yeah, easy, And so yeah,
you want to troll, You want to troll around it,
or at least you know. I always tell my my
guys in my seminars and stuff. If I do a seminar,

(24:22):
I say, look, when you're trying to catch those a
big snapper, A lot of times we're dropping on the
main area or what you think is the main area,
and we're drifting way off of it. At least give
it one good drift. You might catch, you know, one
hundred yards off of that thing. You might catch a monster.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
No, kidd because that monster is not going to hang
out with the little kids.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, a lot of the times they don't.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
This is grandpa on the couch you're looking for. Man,
let's take can you hang on through a quick break?

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Sah?

Speaker 1 (24:50):
Okay, good, I got more questions. If anybody else has
got a question you want me to ask Sarky, shoot
me an email or a text or whatever, and I'll
try to work it in if you want to. You
take a couple of call Sharky. Maybe yeah, there somebody
panicking and trying. Man, I got a chance to talk
to this guy about offshore. I love it. We'll see
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(26:14):
Got Sharky Marquez on the phone. List to him back
up there we go, Hey, Sharky, thanks for hanging around, man, buddy.
I got a question, you know, Guitar Dave. Guitar Dave.
He wants to know about catching dorado, okay, And I
want to know because he asked me to ask you

(26:36):
if they have become if they've become smart enough in
their evolution over the last one hundred million years. If
you catch me, if you got one on the hook
and you leave him in the water, do they all
still hang around? Are they that dumb still?

Speaker 2 (26:51):
You know?

Speaker 4 (26:52):
I would say a lot of the times, the smaller
ones are ye, you know. And I've been off shore
fishing now, I've been fishing for you know, professionally for
twelve years that I've been offshore only for about five
I think this is my fifth or fifth year. Maybe
it's call it fifth or sixth years, and crazy it
used to be like that. What I have noticed is

(27:14):
I've also changed my fishing method for them. So, you know,
back in the day, when I would i'd say back
in the day, say last summer, as early as last summer,
I'd see a weed line out there. We would pull up,
we would chum the weed line, and then we would
have a bunch.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Of mahi swim out.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
You know, we'd find the biggest chunk of weed we
could or whatever's floating, and we'd have a bunch of
mahi swim out and we'd start throwing you know, free floating,
no way, just circle hooks, some floor carbon, forty pounds leter,
little circle hook and we'd catch them. But what I've
done and transitioned into is if I've got a nice

(27:52):
stretch and a nice weed line or a rip current,
I've transitioned into trolley. Yeah, you know us your feather jigs,
bigger fish, bigger fish. And it was great. We made
a lot of memories. We caught a ton of mahi
doing the uh the pitch lining. But but man, this summer, yeah,
I said, I got I'm gonna try to I'm gonna
try to transition into chicken dolphins. From chicken dolphins to

(28:14):
some bulls and and bigger fish. And man, it's worked
like a charm. And so yeah, to answer your question,
there's still there's still a little silly out there. I
feel like they've gotten a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
You know.

Speaker 4 (28:27):
We were Yeah, you would think we did our sword fishing.
Uh days ago. We were out there hooked up on
a sword fish.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
It was great, it was great.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
We were there. We were on it for about three hours.
After three hours, there was schooling mahi around the boat
while we were fighting this fish. And I guess we
were the structure. You know, three hours of drifting over.
They were swimming around. And I tell you what, Doug,
you couldn't. You couldn't. Uh, you couldn't catch one with
a cast net if you wanted to. I mean, those

(29:01):
things were so picky. We threw the kitchen sink at them.
We threw Gotcha lures, we threw everything we chummed. They
weren't eating the chum and they were just swimming around
the boat.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah, this sounds about like they were almost in fight
or flight. They were in fight mode or flight mode.
Scared whatever ran them up under your boat. They were Yeah,
they weren't hungry. They were scared of man.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
They weren't hungry man. But then you know, we moved. Uh,
we we lost the fish after about a three hour
fight which was heartbreaking. We moved in about ten miles.
We found a bowie and they were all over it
and they were super hungry. But I think it's circumstantial,
you know, as far as as the dorado. But man,
trolling feather jiebs has been huge. I actually caught the

(29:46):
biggest mahi of my life on a ropola diver trolling
a diver down a weed line.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
And then we stuck about a twenty five pounder earlier
this this summer, which was a big, big text for us.
And he ate a rig balley who with an islander skirt,
and uh, you know, I mean that's I love. I
love trolling lures or using things that give us the
opportunity and potential to catch like more crazier fish. So

(30:17):
that's kind of what I transitioned into. Instead of pulling
up and sitecasting the small dolphin, it's like, man, let's
let's troll the ballet who down here, and if there's
a sailfish, we might call a selfish.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, it's honestly, it's so it's amazing to me that
and I'm glad you're having this experience because I started
doing this like fifty years ago and just crazy. You'd
never truly know what's gonna hit what rod whenever. If
you're dropping for swordfish, that's a different game. But if
you're trolling that no idea, what's gonna come up and

(30:50):
eat that bait man.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
That's exactly right. They're just swimming making stuff out there.
That anything wilite, Yeah, I mean anything from a sailfish
to a wall aho. If you're sixty line, you know,
wahoo anything.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Hey, before we get to before, I got a couple
more minutes to hang on to you, and then I
know you got to go. Let's go back to terminal
tackle for a minute. You very casually mentioned haywire twist.
And there's a right way and the wrong way to
finish a haywire, whether you either get a nice clean
break or that that you can run your fingers up
and down, or you got that little quarter inch needle
sticking out that you just cut off, and yeah, it'll

(31:29):
eats you up. And I know we can't describe how
to do it right on the radio, there's not a chance.
But people need to look that up, don't they to
make it just a lot easier to fish and a
lot safer.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
Yeah, absolutely, Uh, I love the safety aspect of it,
because man, that little quarter inch deal sticking out will
slice your hands. I know it's happened to you. It's
happened to me before we started doing it the right way.
But you know, just you know, to simply try to
explain it, you leave yourself enough tag in to be
able to take a pair of flyers and grab that

(32:05):
haywire or your actual twist, and then you basically just
take that tag in and bend it all the way
one way all the way the other way, and you're
sitting up that wire so that it cleanly breaks right
there at the end of that twist. And then just
like you know you're saying you can, you can grab it.
You can slide it out of your hand. You don't
have to worry about you know, it beating you up

(32:27):
too bad. So you got any favor, I use a
I'm pretty standard guy, use a Uni nod or a
fisherman's nod. I call it a fisherman's knot. It's a
cinch knot, and I use that for my braid to
uh floor carbing connection. And you know, uh, I didn't

(32:47):
talk about weight or anything on the snapper deal, but
real briefly. You know, it's kind of the same thing
as when we're when we're trout fishing or jetty fishing.
You know, my rule of thumb is used as light
of weight as you can it away with with the current.
And some days that's three ounces on an egg. Thinker,
we're using like one hundred and fifty pound one hundred

(33:09):
and fifty pounds liter when we're dropping down to the
bottom for our snapper. It's excessive, but you never know,
you might catch amber jack, you might catch something crazy.
So we like to yeah, grouper right, So your fishing structure,
so we use about three foot of one hundred and
fifty pounds. I use a size nine you know, not
circle hooks, big enough to catch just about anything down

(33:31):
there really and and you know, like I said, there's
days where the current is super slow and you're you
don't need a.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Troll of motor.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
You're sitting on the spot and you got thirty minutes
to fish it before you even drift off of it.
In those days, you know, drop down two ounces, three ounces,
Oh that's the lightning.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
But you get a big blast, did you whoa? Oh boy, Okay,
I'm gonna let you get to church man, where you
work it. Maybe maybe that's sign that it's time for
us to give it up.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
I know if you heard that, but.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
I didn't hear it. But I'm glad you're saying. Thanks
for all your help, man, I really appreciate it. We
may do this again, all right, sharky Mark, Yeah, outcasts
Fishing Charters dot Com.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
No g on the fishing. We got that right, right,
good sir? Sure, I thank thank you so much man,
great Sunday. You'll be safe, you bet you too.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Audios. All right, there you go. We gotta take another break,
I man, I I could sit and talk with him
for a long long time about terminal stuff. And it's
interesting about those dorato. It really is, because we used
to find it and we were doing the same thing
he was doing before he decided to upgrade, just like
we did. It's exactly the same transformation. You look at

(34:47):
the bottom of the boat and there's twenty five of
these little foot and a half long foot long dorotto
and they're just basically blue marlin potato chips. And you
realize that there are some fifteen and twenty pound out there,
and you get just where you don't care about those
little guys anymore. So you do exactly what he did.
You troll those weed lines very patiently because there are

(35:09):
bigger fish underneath them. Every now and then the little
ones will come running out and looking at your lure
and playing with it and asking if it wants to
play with them, and they're not really trying to eat that.
But then that big one comes out and all the
little ones go away, and I've got to I'll tell
you what. I've got a red snapper trick that it
was talked to me. If you listen long enough, you've
probably heard it. But I'm going to share it with

(35:31):
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(35:54):
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American Shooting Centers dot com. Welcome back Sports Talk seven
to ninety. I'm gonna get the calls, and that's gonna
probably fill up this last little segment of this hour.
Let's start with the longest on hold. That'd be Rick
and Kevin. Just hang on, man, Rick, what's wait a minute?
Let me put him back on hold heity, Yo, what's up?

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Rick?

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Hey, listen. I've really enjoyed Sharky's interview. I have never
met him in person, but very familiar with and some
other some other ways. And I mean we've talked also,
but I mean I don't know, I've never met him. Anyway.
If I was going to go off shore of fishing,

(37:23):
there is no doubt in my mind that that would
be the guy I would go with.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
You'd have a good time, no doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
You have a good time. He's a he's a good guy,
and he has got the best equipment, and he's gonna,
like he said, let's go make some dreams, and he
would do it. The problem is this, I can't go
with him out there because I can go to a
resort with a lazy river and get sea sick. You

(37:54):
can tell me out. But what I had originally called
you about earlier to day this morning you were talking
about gun safety, brought up Bill Carter's big big jar
of on fired cartridges. I've seen that many times. I
love going the Carters in spring. That's you know, I

(38:17):
mean that that was the place. Oh yeah, no doubt,
And so quickly lead to my story since you brought
all of that up of loaded guns. I have a
guy down the street from where I'm sitting right now,
and he has an AK forty seven and he has

(38:38):
an a R ten really good for him. And he
calls me and he says, hey, man or we're talking.
He said, man, I got a real armor dell of
problem over here. He says, I'm looking for you know,
twenty two or four ten. I said, well, I've got
my four ten. You know, it stays in my truck.
Twenty four to seven. Yeah, you know, three sixty five.

(39:02):
It's up. Some guys are gonna drool when I tell
them what it is. But it's a burretta double burrow
from the fifties.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Anyway, stocks broke it got yellow wood blue all over,
frecked up. Take but a little double burrow and uh. Anyway,
I went over there. I handed the tuning unloaded and
I said, Jimmy, here's two shells. I said, that should

(39:30):
be more than enough. If you need more than that
for this Armadila, we've got a problem. And so kind
of kind of a joke, you know, su So anyway,
he calls me, he text me said, man, I got
the armadalo this morning, real early. I said, good, I said,
you know how to get in this electric gate? Go
put it on my swing at the shop. And I said,

(39:51):
I got and just leave the gate open. And I
got some workers coming in there, so and I'll be
there a little bit anyway, by an hour or two later,
I'd get up here and I'm I first thing I
want him was to go get that gun.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Okay, let's get out.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
I gotta get to count.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
I'm just gonna make it real quick. Uncocked that gun
and uh one an empty barrel and one with the sheiling.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Oh my lord. So he just yeah, he couldn't take
it out and put it on the swing next to
the gun.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
So, uh, I don't care what he did. He brought
me back a loaded gun.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
No kidding. So here's the question, and I already know
the answer. You're ever gonna load him a gun again?

Speaker 2 (40:36):
No? I told you that.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Good for you. Yeah, you can play around.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
No, I mean this guy's walking around with an AK
forty seven and the New York in Yeah, shooting pigs
out of the off of this front board. And all right,
it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
That was Yeah, that was worth it, Rick, because that's
that's an important safety story. Thank you for sharing that one. Man,
that's a good one. Bye, welcome back, Thanks for listen.
I'm not gonna waste any time. I got all kinds
of stuff going on here, juggling a lot, and I'm
going to start it off with Robbie, who's been on
the phone for a little bit a while. Robbie was up, man, Oh, not.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
Much you mentioned earlier, improvising at the last minute when
you forgot or didn't have what you wanted or needed
in the field. I remember, Oh gosh, it was so
long ago, hunting down around Victoria on a place that
didn't have geese. We showed up and suddenly there were
geese all over this place. Of course, we had no

(41:32):
doing a duck called goose call in sight.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Of course, but I did have some.

Speaker 5 (41:36):
But I did have a couple of turkey reads in
my backpack that I used, and I started playing around.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
With that thing, and.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
My friends were like, Hey, that looks pretty good.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Let's try it out.

Speaker 5 (41:48):
And we went out and did my best to mimic
the rows and the spects that were out there. For
heard anything quite like that before, and they just wanted
to investigate but anyway, it worked, and you know, and
after that I used him, I kept using them.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
It was.

Speaker 5 (42:06):
It worked, and if you threw a little small tube
in front of it, it worked pretty well. Fantastic, have
a good.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
One, all right, Yeah, thank you, Robbie audios. All right,
by the way, Kevin Scott. Also, let's see he jumps
in on the the outdoor improvisation. So I had Carrie
Marcus on the skiff for the Gordian Sons fly fishing tournament.

(42:37):
He's just name dropping now, Carrie's pretty good, pretty good
dog on good stick. As a geared to gord up
the motor, I noticed a large stream of water coming out.
These new motors have an inlet port for the water
hose instead of having to use the old muffs for flushing.
I'd failed to replace the plug. Left carry with the boat,

(43:01):
ran up the road to a mom and pop store
that has plumbing supplies, grabbed a piece of PVC all
thread and threaded cap. All good, Well done, captain, Well done,
said Apparently I left it sitting on the deck and
it has disappeared. So the white PVC cap is still

(43:23):
in place. Hey, you do what you gotta do with
what you got. I've seen so many things. I wish
I could remember more of them right now. I really do.
I wish I could remember more of them right now,
the things that I've seen done. And I'll ponder that
over the afternoon until I take my nap and then
maybe come up with a couple more. Tomorrow We'll see

(43:45):
seven one three two one two seven ninety. Email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia Dot.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Come.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
I don't know about you, but there's always something in
my golf game that bothers me that I'm not doing well.
And for years it was getting off the tee and
I used to just cringe. Everybody would say, yeah, you
drive for show, but you put for Doe because I
didn't want to show anybody my drivers. They were going
all over the place. Well, I got some help from

(44:12):
a lot of people along the line. Most recently, the
guy who's probably helped me the most in the last
several years is Tommy O'Brien out there at Blackhawk. He
and I have discussed how I swing, what I can
do with what I've got left at my age, and
I'm pretty happy with it. Actually, I'm still playing from
the Blue Tea's I haven't moved up from there except

(44:34):
on rare occasion when everybody else in the group is
going to play forward to that. I don't want to
be the lone. Oh wait, we have to wait for
Doug to go back there and hit where he's hitting from.
I'll just kind of go along to get along. But
I'm still comfortable from back there, and that makes me
feel good about where I am right now. My achilles
heel of late has been chipping and pitching, and I

(44:58):
saw something this morning online. It's amazing how much information
there is online and how many little tips there are.
And I don't take any of them as gospel, because
I know that not all of those tips are gonna
apply to everybody, and everybody's the way they swing. But

(45:19):
if it looks like something that I could try and
probably help my game by doing, I'm gonna try it.
And I've got one now for that little chip shot
around the green, I'm I'm scared to death. I'm mortified
because what I tend to do is let my hands
get a little bit in front of that club on
the way down, and that immediately throws the leading edge

(45:42):
of the club into the ground first, and not the
bounce on those, like on my sandwich, and so I
end up chunking, I end up blading, I end up
doing all those bad, bad things. I think if you
could shank a chip shots, I'd probably be doing that
as well. And I was almost there. This is so,

(46:04):
this is why I love golf so much and hated
At the same time. I was almost there, I was
chipping better, I was starting to get some confidence. And then,
for whatever reason, I can't even remember what it was,
I didn't get to practice for about three days, four days,
maybe it was four days, probably maybe even five, I
don't know. But for whatever reasons, I was away from
there for five oh I know what it was. There

(46:26):
was a whole week where there was some major renovation
going on at the golf course and I and it
was also hot as blazes, so I just didn't do it.
I didn't touch a club for about four days, and
when I went back I came I found out that
that my short game had moved out, moved out of

(46:48):
the bag. I don't know where it went. I don't
know whose bag it's in now, but it's not in
mind anymore. I've always thought that it wouldn't be a
horrible idea, and I don't know what the rules say
about it, but as high and the rough is getting
where these guys are playing a lot of their tournaments now,
especially the pros, I don't know why one of them doesn't,

(47:08):
and I'm sure they have. I mean, great minds think alike,
and even my feeble mind, as golf goes, is probably
being imitated by some better players than myself and contemplating
the idea of sharpening, not rounding, but sharpening the leading
edge of a wedge so that that wedge could slice

(47:32):
through all that thick, wet rough and make some better
contact with more speed retained with the golf ball. I
don't know if there's a rule against it or not.
Maybe one of my pro buddies can tell me. But man,
if I was gonna start playing tournaments a lot and
as old as I am, and as much swing speed

(47:54):
as I've lost, as much strength as I've lost, where
I can't just run a seven or eight iron through
thick rough without it just bogging down might get the
old I get the old file out. I'd use my
use my wedge in the morning to shave and then
during the round to hit out of heavy rough makes

(48:15):
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Thanks for listening. I certainly to appreciate it. Rick Biss.

(49:21):
Rick Biss is stepping out of his comfort zone, it
seems here. Can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (49:26):
Rick?

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Hold on?

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Let me put him back on? Hold, get him freak.
There we go. I got you. Now we're tag teaming.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Come come in.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
You got me man, Let's go.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Hey. I was gonna call you early this morning, but
I was hunting for another day. I'm a little frustrated now,
all right? Uh you talking about golf and wages and
and viiling all that? Yeah, all right, My boys played
junior golf from the time Maker Walker.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Sure, yeah, mine too, and at.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Pretty high left p K junior A J A R J.
Whatever it is all over yep. And my oldest son,
I'll be the first to admit I was guilty of
filing clubs. And I'll tell you why. All right. They

(50:24):
started coming out with these clubs and a lot of
bounce to them. Yeah, yeah, now you can't.

Speaker 4 (50:29):
You couldn't.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
I couldn't talk to him while he was in play, okay,
and his club selections, even though he was good, he
struggled a little bit by a club selection, and I
would sit there and watch him for a few years
with a mouncer which I called him a mouncer, and

(50:50):
I would say to myself, this shot right here is
gonna win or lose him the tournament or keep him
from getting in the top ten because he's on hard
time and he's got a bounce club. I took it
away from him, fee him all away from him. I
even filed eight uh five fres you know, depending on

(51:15):
the course we were playing, Hey, high up, you know,
and so I took it away from him, and hey,
it hurt him in some cases. On the sand, you know,
you want to bounce. I just thought him, hey, man,
just learn how to you know, we always want to.
I wanted to pinch the ball anyway. I want to

(51:36):
do it in front of the ball and on the
sand I want I want you. I constantly told him
what I want you to do is I want you
to open your stanps. I want you hit about four
inches behind the ball and try to kill it. But
just do me a favor, whether you try to kill
it or not follow through with the swing. Yeahstand became

(52:00):
a really good uh junior golfer, and he played college
and now he's a grown man. And uh, anybody that's
listed bemoan him on their team.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
A good guy to have on a scramble team.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Huh no bouncing his back.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Yeah, the guy I want on my scramble teams these days.
He's just the guy who's got the biggest eracer in
his pocket. I swear, man, that drives me crazy.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Well, I broke up. I used to be a golf
coach for kids, for junior teams, golf teams, and that
first thing I've done. I gave him a club pencil,
no racer, and the ones that showed up with their
custom pins or their I plewd him away. If they
had a fence, a little start pistol with a racer,
I just bit it off. Yeah, And I said, don't

(52:44):
let me catch you with another one of those.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Yeah, you don't need an racer if you're playing by
the rule of man.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
No, But we were playing tournament golf, right, It wasn't.
There were no there were no gibbies. Anyway. I thought
that's a yeah, because I think that goes on a
little more than people.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
Think, probably, So Yeah, I've never pulled somebody's club out
of the bag to see if it was sharpened.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
You know. Anyways, for me, I must tell you about
what happened this morning another day.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
All right, Well, thank you, Rick, I appreciate it. Man,
great car, Yeah, thank you. Audios all right, Yeah, holy cow,
I didn't know it was that common, but I bet
it is. I the more I think about it, And
I'm not talking about bringing it down to a phoenix
knives edge, but just taking some of that dullness away

(53:39):
where you're not having to rip through golf blade but
you actually are kind of cutting through them a little
bit more. That's not if it's not against the rules,
I wouldn't I don't know. I might think about doing
that with a club or two in my bag. Yeah,
I'm not gonna worry about a four iron or a
five iron or even a six, seven, eight iron, but

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a nine iron sometimes, when you're in that really really
rough stuff and you just got to just gotta advance
the ball a little bit, you got to get it
out of there somehow. That wouldn't be a bad thing
to have. It's a great dream. But I probably gonna
if I get home, I'll probably just go take a nap.
I'm not gonna go out in the garage and put
my clubs and avice and get that big old grinder

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out and ye for thirty minutes. It is an interesting concept, though,
And if anybody else is willing to confess to having
done so, I won't even use your name if you
don't want me to, But just tell me you do it,
and tell me how it works, tell me if it works.
It in theory, it's it seems a very logical thing

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to do if you're trying to if you're trying to
cut down a crop of wheat, you don't want a
dull sickle in your hands. You spend hours honing and
sharpening that sickle so that you can get that wheat
harvested and tucked away for winter. Makes sense to me.

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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com kind of on
a good news story that I heard, and I this
is actually the second story I've seen like this, and
so I'm gonna mention it and maybe it'll inspire somebody
to do something similar.

Speaker 4 (55:20):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Down in Florida, there is a car wash that only
hires autistic people to work in its place. They have
opened their fourth location now and are giving these young
men and women or older. I don't know the age.
I don't know if they have any age limit. The
only the only true criteria that sets that's set forth.

(55:43):
The only criterion that is set forth is that some
degree of autism perfectly capable of doing the job that
they're asked to do. And they they seem to thrive
in that environment. And who knows, maybe somebody could do
that around here. I think that's pretty cool. Seven one
three two one two five seven to ninety. Email me
Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. There was something I

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was gonna mention when we got back by the way,
just as a quick aside. I was talking to Frankie
about this, and this is something to keep in mind
if you're ever in a situation maybe you've stepped on
a stingray, maybe you think you might have vibrio, maybe
you have some sort of medical issue and you're in

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a rural area. There is a trend. I saw this
in a story that I trust this week. A trend
in rural areas where emergency facilities not necessarily big hospitals
that wouldn't really apply. But some of these pop up

(56:44):
emergency locations don't even have a doctor, let alone any
kind of a specialist on staff. They just have nurses
and physicians assistants, which is better than better than nothing,
but not someone who is really qualified to assess and

(57:09):
treat a serious medical emergency. And my concern would be
that anybody in that situation where there really is a
serious issue, God forbids, something heart related, maybe something like that,
you would drive thirty minutes from the ranch, or thirty

(57:29):
minutes from the boat ramp or wherever to get to
this place, only to be told, yeah, we don't have
anybody here who knows anything about that. You're going to
have to drive on into town to the hospital, and
you've wasted all that time. So if there's a place
that you frequent as a fisherman or a hunter or whatever,

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find out this is something that I don't think we've
ever talked about on this show, but find out where
the nearest legitimate medical help is. I can remember one
time in surf sight, not a major emergency, but my
surfboard came up and slapped me right over the left eye.
I believe it was if I remember correctly, it might

(58:13):
have been right eye, think it was left eye, and
it opened up about an inch long gash that clearly
needed stitches, and my boys and I packed up. I
pressed a towel against my head and we ended up
having to walk into a convenience store and ask for

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directions to the hospital. Now I got there and we
got our stitched up and went on about our day.
But if the circumstances had been more dire and more serious,
it would have been hard. It's not hard to find
a hospital these days with GPS and navigation systems. That's

(58:58):
a big plus. And if again, if there's a place
where you hunt. Oh, by the way, I was reminded
by Brad Schwis from Houston Gold Exchange that Blaine's place
is in Hebronville. That's where the lodge is in Hebronville.
I think of Freer when I think of down there,
because I think he has some properties he hunts near
Frear that are a little ways from the lodge. But nonetheless,

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if you can find Blaine, he can tell you how
to get where he is. I don't know where the
nearest emergency room is, but it really struck me that
that's something that needs to be on your checklist is
punching in if you're going to a place to hunt,
for example, punching in the nearest hospital to that and
saving it into your GPS system, Because that way, no

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matter where you are, no matter where you jump in
the truck with somebody who's seriously hurt or seriously ill,
you can just click on hospital and it'll take you there.
It'll help you get there without having to get without
making wrong turns. And in a situation like that, time
is of the essence. I really I hadn't even thought

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about putting in taking advantage of navigation systems to get
you to the nearest hospital, but it makes perfect sense,
it really does. So think about that and I'll move on.
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Sports Talk seven ninety Thanks for listening, Thanks for hanging around.
I am not gonna waste any more time because LJ
has been holding on a long time. What's up, LJ?

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
Hey, Doug, thanks for taking the call. Talking about innovation
in the field. I was lucky enough to have a
friend of forty plus years who grew up in Orange
and this guy was should have been something other than
what he was, because he could come up with all
kinds of inventions, if you will. But he took me

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fishing down to Sabine Lake and we were back in
one of the bios you know, tributaries back there, and
sheared a pin. And this is unlike a tin horse motor.
We didn't have one. So we were paddling around and he.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Comes to a barbed wire fence.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
And he says, hold on. He hops out, clips out
about an inch and a half of barbed wire off
an old strand that wasn't holding up to the fence,
put it in there, and back four or five miles
to the launching pad. We went another time with this
same motor. Some little gas get somewhere in the line

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goes out, Well, he didn't we didn't have a replacement gasket.
The engine would run for about like ten seconds and
quipped and seconds and Quip goes ahead and he has
on a pair of old leather shoes. He takes off,
he cuts off the tongue, he cuts out a circle
and makes himself a gaskets would have been out there,

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they would have found the skeleton and the boat that
had come looking that I have. I'm an airhead anyway,
I just wanted to share how some people, Yeah, some
people could just see the solution to simple problems. That's
that's not me. Also, also maybe good news for duck

(01:02:45):
hunters next year hunt around Eagle Lake, Travis Lake Travis
is full.

Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
It's my.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
Opinion is they will allow the canal system on the
east side of the Colorado to function they better, and
that takes it a lot of land. Now around East Bernard, Yeah,
East Bernard towards the Bernard River, they've been on wells
and frother down towards Hungerford they've been on wells. But

(01:03:14):
everything from a little bit north of Eagle Lake and
all the way towards Lissi and bonus down towards Egypt
should be some right next year. It should be good
for duck hunter.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
There's more rice than you think down there.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
I took that. I took that tour with David Prout
from Riceland Waterfowl Club, and I was surprised at what
he's going to have water on that He's having to
pump a lot of his own water, and he's got
deals cut and whatnot. But to have that river water
available again, that's you're right. It's just gonna double everything
up down there.

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
That's awesome, it really will. It's sad that the lc
A kind of cut off everything south of the Court
years back in Bay City. But anyway, people have gone
to wells, and a man that has enough land can
make money off of well but it's electric. Well that's
a lot cheaper than having a diesel pump well. So anyway,

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on the Garwood side, now, when the guy that owned
that system laired was his name, everything to the west.

Speaker 4 (01:04:21):
Side of the Colorado through Garwood and.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
There they have big canals. And he put in his
contract when he sold the LCRA that he would have
a period of time. Some people say fifty years.

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
If it's that long to where the LCRA had to
provide so many thousand acre feet of water for his friends,
he wasn't going to cut his friends off. So that's
been going okay. Any of the excess water goes into
Sandy Creek and the Navidad River and runs into Lake Texana,

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and of course those folks sell water to Corpus CHRISTI
for the industry. A lot of times there's water going
down those canals when there's no rice, and I'm wondering
if LCR is somehow some way sending water down there.
But that's that's another story anyway. So some of these
people are very innovative and what they can do with

(01:05:16):
you know, with a used toothtick. So anyway, I enjoy
your show.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
Thank you, man, I appreciate it. I'll jay, we'll see
Oh man, yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:05:28):
I have.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
My greatest moment of innovation occurred a long time ago.
I was driving an MGB, one of the I think
it may have been the first car that I actually
paid for with my own money and nobody ever bought
me a car. That was just the first car that
I actually bought because I thought it was really, really
cool and it was. It was a little bit older

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model than I would have liked, but that's okay. It
was still a cool car, and it had a roll bar,
and it was red, and it was quick and it
was a lot of fun. And on a date one night,
long long and long, long and long ago, the old
fan belt in that old car gave out and stuck.

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I don't know how I'm gonna get back, but my
date said, would this work? And she rolled down. She
was wearing hoes, traditional nylon stockings, and you said, think
you could jerry rig this and make it work? And
I said, we're gonna find out. And I got out

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and lifted the hood. Well, we had already the hood
was already up. We'd already figured out what had happened.
The fan belt had just given out. It was done,
and it blew off of there, and wrapped it around
the pulleys, snugged it as tight as I could, started
the car. It didn't fly off, it didn't break off,
and we drove very slowly and very carefully all the

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way back to where we were going. And at that
point I left it there till I could get a
belt the next morning. But in emergency, well of course,
that wouldn't work at all these days, now, would it.
I bet there. I don't know that you could even
find nylon stockings in the average department store when they

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used to have hundreds of different kinds. I can remember
being set to the store by my wife to go
buy certain colors of this and that and whatever. In
those old stockings. There's more than one used for pretty
much anything on this planet, more than one. I love
cutting that shoe tongue out and making a gasket out

(01:07:42):
of the leather that I would have not thought of
that in a hundred million years. That's genius. That's genius.
That would make mcgiver envious. I've got a guy in
my neighborhood, Jeff Cooper. Guys, he can sit there and
look at something and figure out how to make it work,

(01:08:04):
figure out how to make it turn, how to make
it stop turning, how to stop a leak, how to
open up something. He can just look at it and
figure it out. Bright guy. Love hanging out with him.
Always learned something I wrote a long long time ago
for the newspaper that anybody who's out there fishing and

(01:08:28):
playing by the rules, that we're all basically the same
whether you're on a seventy five foot sport fishing boat
one hundred miles off shore, pulling just slow trolling big
live tuna for bait, twelve to fifteen pound black fins

(01:08:49):
for bait, or you're sitting on the side of the road.
You've parked your old pickup truck, you got your lawn
chair and your bucket full of chicken livers and you're
just sitting there hoping to catch a catfish. You're both fishermen.
You're both fishermen, and as long as you keep things

(01:09:11):
in perspective, you both got interesting stories to share with
each other. I don't look at anybody who's fishing and
think any ill for them unless they're breaking the law.
That's where I draw the line, if you and man.
I called Operation Game Thief more than once over the years,

(01:09:33):
and with good reason every time. And on one particular
guy who was bragging about being able to drag bull
reds off the surfside Jettie one fall, and what he
was doing was taking them to the car and putting
them in an ice chest in the trunk, and he
had I don't know how many he had, but I
watched him drag another one illegally back to his car

(01:09:55):
and then start to drive away, and I got the
license number and called Operation Game Thief and they ended
up snatching that guy in his front yard. They just
went to his house and waited for him to get
home and busted him for I don't know how many
he had. I never really heard back.

Speaker 4 (01:10:12):
I knew.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
I got information that they were at his house and
had had started a conversation, and that was the last
I heard of it. But yeah, he got caught. Remember
all the trees that went down with Hurricane Barrel last year,
Well it's that time again. Are your trees ready? Do
they represent a danger? Are they weak or big dead

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Doug Pike here for Kobe Stevens golf apparel and outdoors
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really enjoy working with this guy and wearing his clothes.
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dot com Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank
you for listening in here whining to Franky about the
the AC in the studio, which usually can be set

(01:11:38):
nice and cool. It's fantastic when it's working. But somebody,
somehow I looked at the thermostep because I knew it
was it was off. It was not as cool as
it normally is when I pop in here, and somehow
it said cool and heat. Both words were on the
screen and the temperature was set to seventy something degrees

(01:12:04):
pretty much up there. It was seventy four seventy five.
I think it was when I came into the studio
originally this morning and it just didn't seem to be cooling,
and I didn't pay attention until just a minute ago.
I think I have it where it needs to be now,
which will benefit me greatly by tomorrow, because it usually
once once you hit it on cool, it doesn't take

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long to get down from where it is, but it
it certainly is not where it should be. Seven one
three two one two five, seven ninety. I've still got
time for a couple of more phone calls, and I'd
love to hear them. If you've got any kind of
ideas about anything you want to know about about the outdoors,
and if I don't know, I'll find the answer. That's
the first thing I'll tell you right now. And I've

(01:12:47):
said it a million times on this show. I don't
know everything. I certainly don't, but I know who to call.
That was something I used to tell people when they'd say, man,
you know you write about the outdoors for the paper.
That's all. You must know a lot about all of
those things. I said, I know a little about all
those things, but I also know who to call around here.

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Most of Texas deer hunting is in a cooler season,
but it's not below freezing many mornings, so it's not
really that big a deal. The one thing I will
tell you, though, is when you cite in your rifle,
bring at least three different boxes of AMMO, and boxes

(01:13:30):
that you can get more of if you need them,
to see which one your rifle really likes best, because
rifles have preferences for certain ammos after the other, and
I've talked about it. When I got my seven mag
that was the first thing I did. I took to
the range and I bought three different boxes of AMMO,
different bullet weights I think, and different loads that were

(01:13:52):
recommended to me by the guy who who handed me
that rifle, and I went out and shot them, and
luckily for me, that rifle was absolutely ravenous and thrilled
to accept the least expensive AMMO of the three boxes
I bought. So I immediately once I determined that, I

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went right back into the store and I bought I
want to say, four boxes of that AMMO from the
same lot. That's something else that's important. If you're going
to do that, try to it's good to get the
same load from the same manufacturer, and if you can
get it from the same lot number, that's even better.

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Now you know that you're going to have a consistent load,
as consistent as commercial loads get. If you really want
to get picky, you can go into reloading and just
use up all the rest of your free time that
you've ever had in your life and a lot of money.
It's actually it's much more or much less expensive really

(01:14:59):
than buying commercial limmo in most cases, depending on what
you're shooting. But it's also time consuming and it's also addictive.
You'll be out there loading in the middle of the night.
I want to go try this tomorrow morning, and I
have to get it done tonight before I go to bed,
And you get two hours of sleep and go out
there and you can barely keep your eyes open look

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it through the scope at that target at six hundred yards.
It's a lot of fun. All of the outdoors is fun.
Fishing is fun. There's no limit to the number of
lures you either can have or need to have. And
I throw that need to have in there just in
case somebody's listing who doesn't think you need any more
fishing tackle. There are things that we as fishermen need

(01:15:42):
to have. Things that's hunters. We need to have to
enjoy our experience more. If you have somebody in your
family who loves clothing and likes to buy a lot
of clothes, man or woman, doesn't matter. They love having
that stuff and it makes them feel better, it makes
them enjoy going wherever they're going more. That's the same

(01:16:04):
with everything we use in the outdoors. The only difference
is you don't have to buy a whole lot of
safety equipment. As clothes go. You don't have to buy
a lot of safety equipment to go with your new shoes,
But you also get to buy safety equipment. If you're
an outdoors person, you're going to need a first aid kit,
a little one that you can maybe put in your backpack,

(01:16:26):
and a bigger one to carry in your vehicle in
case whatever's in that little one doesn't have what you
need and you can crawl back to your truck. That's
something that a lot of people don't carry, and it
doesn't take up a lot of room, and you probably
should get rid of it after about two years and
buy a new one.

Speaker 5 (01:16:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
There's probably expiration dates on them. I don't think band
aids go bad, but some of the stuff in some
of those kids might I don't carry a survival kit either.
I don't carry a spool of thread and a number
six hook. Well, that's usually because I've got rods and
reels at about two hundred lwers in my car at
any given time, and golf clubs and golf balls and

(01:17:09):
extra gloves. I need to order some new gloves, by
the way, I'm down to three, and that's not good.
I buy gloves by the dozen, by the way. And
this is no they don't give me anything. This is
just who I buy my gloves from. It's a company
called MG Golf. They are excellent quality gloves, Cobretta leather,
and they are also only like seven bucks apiece as

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compared to fifteen twenty depending on where you're buying them
and what you're buying. And so I've been buying them
probably for the better part of I don't know, ten years.
When I first started buying them, they were five dollars.
That's how long ago. I think it was pretty sure
there were five might have been six, but I think
there's seven maybe eight dollars now and last as long

(01:17:56):
as any other glove I've ever had. And it's nice
to be able to to go ahead and ditch one.
But when I was paying fifteen eighteen dollars for gloves,
back when I was doing that like an idiot because
I didn't know about this place it was, it would
drive me crazy. I just want to squeeze a little
more life out of glove before I replaced it, because

(01:18:16):
the money meant that much to me. Now I'm getting
them much less expensive, and they last a long time.
And when it looks like it's time to go, it's
time to go, you just toss it away and not
worry about it too much. Here ends that lesson seven
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Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot Com. Took a run down

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the hall to get a fresh cup of coffee during
the break, So I'm gonna see what I got here,
Dan Wade in Oh, this is interesting, Holy cal this
is old school improvisation of the mechanical kind. I'm gonna
start with Dan. Years ago, Dan writes, I had to

(01:19:02):
use the bottom of a KFC bucket to make a
gasket for a transfer case in an old Ford four
by four. That's pretty dog one innovative right there. That's
that's that's next level stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:19:22):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
Here's Kevin Wayne in something he did with a pool noodle.
Let's see what he did, slice it right down the middle.
Oh No, I'm gonna leave that one alone. But I understand,
I get it. I'm just trying to keep it totally
totally innocuous around here. And I don't have a problem

(01:19:45):
with high fence ranches at all, because I understand their place,
I understand their purpose. But but dog on, when when
the deer are being so genetically altered that they grow
things that never never would have grown in real life.

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They're doing things to those deer that I think alters
them genetically, and I'm just not a big old fan
of that. I guess I'm just not a big old
fan of that. I love big bucks, I love beautifully
managed ranches. I don't have a problem with that fence. Now,
if it's one hundred acres and it's got a fence

(01:20:32):
on it, I got a big problem with that. Those
deer need they need room to run, they need room
to live out their lives potentially if there's enough acreage,
never even seeing the fence, kind of like what happens
on the Somburrito. I've been on really big, high fence ranches,
even bigger than that, and I've been on some very

(01:20:55):
small ones, and the very small ones I typically won't
return to. And if that's what you like, and that's
what you do. Once again, if it's if the Parks
and Waldlife Department of the State of Texas is okay
with your game management process, I got no problem with that.
I have no problem with it. The more deer we
can grow, the better. The more deer we have, the

(01:21:16):
better we have so many that we allow feeding and
baiting deer right through the hunting seasons. Most states don't
do that. Most states don't give you that option. If
you get caught baiting deer, you've got big trouble in
most states around here. If you don't have a pickup

(01:21:37):
truck bed full of corn sacks in the next couple
of weeks, they're going to wonder whether you're even a
deer hunter. I know, man, everybody I know who hunts
deer very successfully in Texas has been complaining about the
high cost of corn, since the corn got more than
about a buck and a half a bag for fifty pounds.

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When I started buying deer corn, it was two bucks
a back. That was about it. And then it went
up and it went up, and it went up, and
I'd be scared to even go look at it right now.
Now if if somebody's gonna offer me a hunt somewhere
and say, hey, man, can you bring ten bags of
corn down, I don't care what it costs. I'm bringing
those ten bags of corn down because that's that's It's like,

(01:22:24):
it's like bringing an apple pie to the wife of
a farmer up in Canada who's letting you hunt there.
They don't have to let you hunt, but they do.
In fact that I take that back in Canada, well,
they don't have to allow just anybody to hunt, but
they have to have it open. If you're a jerk,
they don't have to let you on their property. But

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if you're a conscientious hunter. In Canada, at least the
rules were this when I was up there. Latest Uh,
you can't accept money for hunters to be on your property,
and as hunter, you can't offer the landowner money. So
it's all public land basically in Canada. And if you're

(01:23:09):
lucky enough to know the guy who knows the guy
who knows the guy you didn't hunt wherever the geese are,
wherever the ducks are. It's pretty amazing, it really is.
Let's go back to Let's go back to boy where
I've been all over the place today. Let's go back
to hunting licenses, because that's important. You have to have

(01:23:31):
your hunting license, you have to have your fishing license.
And I'm gonna ask all of you who only dabble
in one side or the other of that equation, I'm
gonna ask all of you this year to buy a
combo license so that you're supporting all of the state's
wonderful wildlife and fisheries resources and the safe keeping of

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all of them, because if we ever let one side
go and enough people aren't contributing to make sure that
we have enough god not guides, we have enough game wardens,
that we have enough biologists, that we have enough people
to do all the infrastructure work, the little administrative work

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that goes along with managing so many millions and millions
and millions upon millions of animals and fish and birds
and ducks and geese and quail and all of them.
They all deserve the same level of care, and that
should be the best care of any animals in the
United States. We have it, We have it all in

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this state, and it's nothing to sneer a snicker about.
Invest in the future of our resources in that way
many generations to come, or we're going to be able
to have as much fun as we've had. I'm trying
to look for one more thing I could maybe tell
you that's interesting about the outdoors. Oh well, there you go, Frankie,

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solve that problem. That's it for today. Thanks so much
for listening. I genuinely appreciate it. Audios.