Unusual Lures

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I just wanted to mess with everybody. We're back, Frankie. Okay,
Frankie wes Mooreland just spent an entire hour of his
life working to get us back on the air. He
has talked to people all over town, all over the country,

(00:20):
all of whom probably should have been able to get
this fixed earlier. Frankie, I'm gonna give you all the
credit I have to. It's just it's all you, man,
Thank you you could. Oh you're still talking to people,
are you? You're still busy? No? No, we're good now.
I just want to make sure your michaerophone's working too.
Holy cow ho, holy cow. We were supposed to actually,

(00:44):
we were supposed to be talking to Don Martindale now,
but unfortunately because we lost an hour. I send him
an email or a text message to just let him
know that we will get to him as soon as
we can, and as soon as I can get the
number to Frankie. Hey, Frankie, if you could pop in here,
just maybe, just maybe I can give you this number

(01:05):
and maybe we can call him and see if he
could go. Now, well, I don't even see it. Hold on, yeah,
I'm gonna get Frankie in here and give him Don's
number and let him go calling stand by Frankie. I
had it on a whole piece of paper. I have
a big piece of paper that I was going to
do this on. Okay, here it is. I got to
go to details. That's what I want, and there it

(01:27):
is right there. TikTok, TikTok, TikTok. We were going to
talk to him about the fishing show. And I'm actually
kind of wondering how many of you, how many of
you have been to more than five fishing shows, more
than ten fishing shows when I started thinking about it

(01:48):
this morning, I'm betting that I have attended at least
forty and maybe more of the fifty one this will make.
And it's like on a it's like, if you like
fishing and you've never been to one of these shows,
you'll feel like a kid at a candy store, an

(02:08):
expensive candy store, mind you, but nonetheless a place where
you'll want to try everything you see. And there are
lots to see at this show, I can assure you.
I'm hoping we can get Don on the phone and
he and I will go through our chit chat. Oh,
I've got to refire my compute there it is. Okay,

(02:28):
that's up. That's good boy. It was just a kind
of a bizarre, weird thing that happened. We don't know
why these things tend to always happen to us too, Frankie,
I know they do. Now, somebody's in here late in
the evening, maybe doing a Rockets post game. Maybe it
was the A team that was last in here. And

(02:48):
I know these guys aren't doing anything to sabotage the equipment.
When they leave, it's it was as good as new.
And then when I get here sometimes it's not out
their fault. Who knows. Oh good, this is awesome, Don Martindale,
what's going on?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Man?

Speaker 1 (03:07):
It's like it's like everything's just going fine for you.
If you just woke up, you missed a whole hour
where we couldn't get this studio working. I didn't know
if I was going to be able to talk to
you at all.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Man. I want to say, you know, good good mans.
Just think alike, Doug. That's all.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, that's exactly right. So I want to get to you,
and I want to start talking about the show. And
first of all, can you believe we're in the fifty
first edition?

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Of this thing, not really, Doug. I mean, you know
we don't we do one show a year, but it
don't seem like it's been over fifty years.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Gosh, yeah, it's and and you're as soon as this
one stops, you'll be you'll start working on the fifty second.
Actually you're preselling the fifty second the whole time this
show is going to be going on, aren't you.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well yes, sir, you know, we we have people coming
in at the show and we take their information and uh,
you know, go from there, but go back. Luckily I
got I got some real law exhibitors. Yeah, come back
every year just about.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Well why wouldn't they They're they're dealing with the best
fishing audience in the entire country. I know that went
every think back to the first one, okay, back in
the early early early days when there was just almost
no space at all. But all that space was filled
with something pretty new and exciting. And that's never changed,

(04:37):
has it.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
No.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
I mean it's uh, you know, every year people come
out with with new lures, new rides, and uh, you know,
it went from bank fishing to kayak fishing to fly
fishing to you know, there's there's always some somebody coming
up with new ways to catch fish.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, isn't that's the truth?

Speaker 3 (04:59):
You know?

Speaker 1 (04:59):
That's funny you say that because I was going to
ask that at some point in this show, and then
then the wheels fell off right as we were trying
to get on the air. And I don't even know
where my notes are right now. But just something unusual,
something different that you and I and anybody else has
used to catch a fish. And mine was when I
was teaching my son to fish for a little panfish.

(05:19):
There was a lake where we could go catch a
bazillion of them if we wanted to, And I actually
showed him how to take just a little sliver of
a blade of grass and work that onto a little
tiny hook and you just kind of dabble it at
the surface. And he was just so amazed that he
could entice a fish to eat his lure, if you will.
It was so exciting. So back to you, back to

(05:41):
your show. How many first timers you think you've got
this year exhibitors?

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Uh? Probably probably close to fifty.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I had I had several new people. We had some
people drop for one reason or another. Couldn't you know
couldn't get their supplies together and stuff. But uh, uh
a lot of different GUIDs, Uh, a lot of new
people with new lures. So I mean it's, uh, it's

(06:15):
gonna be.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Exciting, you know, I expect I expect more guys now
that you mentioned that's kind of a category that's refilling itself,
because for the last four years or so, not a
whole lot of people had hire a guide money to
go fishing. But things seem to be turning around. It
makes sense that the GUIDs would come back and want
to get right back in front of all these people

(06:37):
as there as their economic recovery continues.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right. Well, yeah, I mean it's uh, and and people
I think are wanting the experience of the guid and
you know, the better chance to catch fish, and and
uh you don't want to learn something from them, So
uh it's you know, it's place to do that.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, it is. And I've been talking for ever since
I started covering this show professionally, even in the paper
and on radio. Here. My contention is that if you
go into that show and you walk around, and you
don't walk out of there with either written notes in
a little notebook you brought in there or maybe something
you dictated into your phone. After talking to all those

(07:22):
fishing guys, you're missing out on probably at least half
the value of that ticket.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
You know, at least between talking to the rip groups
and the GUIDs and the seminars, you know, with people
telling you how to flounderfish you know what the good
spots are on Galveston Bay and that type of stuff.
You know, there's always something learned, even if you're the old, experienced,

(07:49):
you know, best fish here you are.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
So, you know, I just looked over at the seminar
schedule on and Thursday at one o'clock, you've got Aaron Mauser,
this long distance casting guy, and yeah, I may come
and just kind of sit and listen because I used
to do some of that, not not long distance casting,
just to be doing that, but I was trying to
sling baits off the end of that ninetieth Street pier

(08:13):
as far as I could and making my own rods
and it was really it was really it seemed very
sophisticated then, and I just I want to kind of
pick this guy's brain and see what it's like. Now.
I think that'd be a good one.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well, you know, there is an art to it, and
you know, I'm not any good at it, but you know,
it seemed like you are to be able to walk
up there and just tell that thing about but that
it don't always work that way.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Not really doesn't. But they're I mean, they're just casting
farther and farther, and that that's opportunity even bass fishermen,
well bass fishermen, more more structure in the bay, the
farther you can cast, probably the more fish you're gonna catch,
because there's boat, there's hole, slap from the from the
little waves, somebody's got the stereo going too loud. All

(08:58):
these things that close up can spook fish. But if
you sling it out there a little ways, you're going
to catch some more fish, aren't you.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yes, sir, that's you know, that's a fact. Suh. You
know there there again. That's that's why they call it
fishing catching.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Offhand, this is just kind of a funny question to
ask you offhand, done, how many soft plastic baits do
you think will be in the George R. Brown Convention
Center next week? Quarter million? That's my guess, uh.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Easy, I mean, you know, they they all bring the
best and whatever and they bring, you know, buckets of them.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
You know what, it makes sense. It's a it's a
great place to find bargains on anything from rubber worms
all the way up to a big old boat. What's
the biggest boat you're going to have in there?

Speaker 2 (09:44):
You think, uh? Texas Uh Sport Fishing usually brings a
big one. They brought uh seventy eighty footers before. But lord,
you know, it's it's it's it's something to watch that
big boat. They'll have them, you know, from sixteen seventy
foot up to you know, fifty sixty seven foot.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
So whatever you can afford, they'll they'll get it in
there somehow.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Huh. You know what with huge motors?

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Oh my gosh, what are those big the biggest outboards? Now,
what do they cost? Do you have any idea.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
More than the boat?

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (10:27):
You know, that's a good point they run. I really
don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
That's exactly why I was going to say thirty forty
grand a pop. And some of these guys are throwing
four and five of them on the back of the boat.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Well, you know, I saw the other day that they've
come out.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
With a new eight hundred Oh no, man, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, oh well, okay.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
You know, just let that, just let that sit there.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Done.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
So I got a better question for you. So I
had a guy called a week ago, maybe two weeks
ago talking. I was talking about the show, and he
called asked if there were any Alaska guides going to
be here next week based on past shows? I said, yes,
was that right?

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Oh yeah, I've got probably uh, I don't know, eight, ten, twelve,
Oh wow, different Alaska and probably very four from Canada.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
What about going south?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, go down south. We've got uh Costa, Rican Bolice
and uh, you know, all up and down the Gulf coast,
so we we've got it covered. And then go inland
to the lakes.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
So is there is there anything coming in that really
kind of made you go, wow, I've really never heard
of that. I've really never seen something like that. You
got a couple of those in there?

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Uh, I'm sure. Uh it's you know, every year we
get something new. And to be honest with you, and
until I get there and it's set up and I
walk around and say, damn, look at that.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
You know it's yeah, never seen one of those before?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, or you know that's that's neat. I never thought
of that, you know, yeah, stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
I so like that aspect of the show because there
are so many vendors there and there's so many uh,
like you talked about a minute ago. The people from
the factory, the factory reps are the guys you really
need to pick the brains up for maybe a maintenance
question or something like that, or what's what's new? Why
is this real better than last year's real? That kind
of thing, and and yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
They'll tell you and they'll show it, you know, and
they'll be punished with you about the how works, and
you know what kind of durability it's got. Yeah, you know,
we we've got people in there that will put new
line on your reels and and uh that type of
stuff for you know, sale prices.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
So yeah, nothing wrong with that. This is really I've
been talking about my friend Bred schwat over at Houston
Gold Exchange for the last few weeks. I've been telling
people because gold prices are so high. Now you go
over there, you got a little just a little thimble
full of gold, you might be able to get yourself
enough money to buy two kayaks at that show. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
I know, it's gone way up. Trust me, it's you
know how much it is announce now?

Speaker 1 (13:20):
I watch it for fifty plus and just just because
I'm in the habit. Now, guess what it's selling for
an ounce? Just guess a couple of grand how about
five thousand dollars an ounce?

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Now it doesn't dig in and see what I got you.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
They can want to dig out one of one of
your old teeth in the bag or something, you know,
pull out a moler and go buy a kayak with it.
Yeah all right, Hey, so I gott to wrap it
up in twenty words or less. Don how would you
describe this year's show?

Speaker 2 (13:54):
It's just like a wrot the show douges. It's you know,
it's a family affair. Yeah, we all have a good time.
I'm uh, you know, we see the people that that
are good people once a year and everybody enjoys it.
I mean it's uh, you know, the fishing family is
one big family and uh they all come out and

(14:15):
talk and smile and tell lies and yeah, uh it's
it's just a it's just a fun atmosphere. Ye.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
I call it the unofficial opening of fishing season in Texas.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's what, Well, that's true. This time of the year,
it's uh, you know, you got uh, it's already starting
to get a little warm, so people are starting to
get to it.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, it's like the robin's coming through. It's you know
what season it is. If you if you go to
the g r B and there's a fishing show, you
know it's time to get your stuff out and go
to work.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, you know, it gets your blood pumping a little bit, so.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Sure, don Martindale, Thank you man, I really appreciate your
time this morning. Sorry about that. Well you didn't you
didn't even experience the delay, but thank you.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
I missed all that.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
So all right, Well I'm glad you came on board.
I'll see you in that week, you know I will. Yes, sir, yes, sir,
thank you. All right, we got to take a little break.
Oh boy, do we ever. We got a lot of
catching up to do, Freddie, here we go. First off,
Leading off, I just mentioned the guy's name, Brad Schweiss.
He texted me earlier this morning before we had all

(15:17):
the difficulty to let me know that he's once again
he's taken kind of the day off of fishing. Now,
this is kind of a nasty day to be fishing anyway,
but he was gonna do that so that he could
hear from one of you, two of you, five of
you whatever I just told you. If you've got any
any scrap gold around the house, if you've got any
old gold coins that you bought a long, long time

(15:38):
ago and just tucked them away for a rainy day, Hey,
today's a rainy day. Call Brad. Let him talk to
you about the prices of gold, the price of silver.
How much you can get for whatever you've got, even
if it's just a little bit of gold content, it's
gonna be worth a lot of money. It's gonna be
worth a lot of money. And if you, like I said,

(15:59):
if you can rustle up maybe a fimble full and
probably get enough money up for that to buy yourself
a couple of kayaks, buy yourself a few more rods
and reels than we all need those. Of course, Houston
Gold Exchange has been around a long long time. Brad
schweis the guy who's owned it the whole time. It's
his companies, his baby is one of the best conservationists

(16:20):
around here. He was on the he's been with CCA
forever and he's been a member of Cca forever, and
he was on the board for a very long time,
raised a lot of money for that group. Keep those
redfish coming, get yourself a kayak, go catch one of
Brad's redfish. He can take your call right now. He
does coins, he does buoy, and he does scrap gold.

(16:41):
And if we were from fifty bucks up to half
a million bucks, rolexes too. He likes buying rolexes. So
if you've got one of those laying around, go take
care of that business. Here's his cell phone. He told
me to give it to you. Use it, okay, seriously,
talk to him. Get an idea of what you can
get for whatever you've got. Two eight one eight five

(17:02):
one three nine five five two eight one eight five
one three nine five five. You can't be the first
to call him, because a couple of people already have
I know that, but you can be next. Get yourself
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I'll go back to my yeapity app and Rick your
first Kevin standby Rick, what's up man? Good morning, Doug,

(20:37):
feels good to be back on. It was close. It
was close.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
Yeah, I was driving down the road and we have
a problem.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
You known.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Anyway, I even had to check my calendar make sure
it was Saturday.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
So am I like, yeah, go ahead, man.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
It's hard to believe that it's that time of year already, Doug.
We have general conversations about this subject every year. It's
hard for me to fathom already how many years that
I've had this conversation subject with you. So, but it

(21:16):
is that time of year. January and February are the
most active months of the year for people getting off
of hunting leases and for people getting on hunting.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Alter leases are most of them are annuals. Generally they
start January one, February one, maybe even March one on
the mlds because the last day of MLD is February
twenty eighth, which is a Saturday this year. So, but
what I'd like to point out, you know, the business

(21:51):
I'm in, I'm not a lawyer. I can't give legal advice,
but I deal with the hunting leases and i'm as
you know, farming ranch, longtime farming ranch, real estate broker.
But I kind of focused more on the hunting side
of the property than ranching. I want to kind of

(22:13):
put something out there if you're whether you're buying a
property and meeting with some of this right now. If
you're buying a property or you are going to lease
a property, you always want to have questions. But here's
one I'm wanna I'm gonna throw out there you might
want to make sure you ask. I would ask this question,
among many does the property have electrical Does the property

(22:37):
have electrical power?

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
Now, the most two common answers you're gonna get from
a property owner or a seller or a seller's representative
is yeah, we got electricity, we got access to it, Yeah,
sure are. The other word is oh, it's available, okay,
great whom Okay? The question is that's great, sir. But

(23:07):
my question is is there a hot pole inside the
fence on that property? And too many times to not
too many times, too often that person is gonna say, well, no,
there's not power right here on his property. However, it
is right over there on Joe's property on the other

(23:28):
side of bills. You can get it from there over
to here. Well, guess what both Bill and Joe are
gonna have a little say so about that, and it
gets very convoluted. But the here's my suggestion. If you
want power on the place where you're minding or leasing

(23:48):
before you lease and by it and and that and
they and they tell you what I just said, I
would put that burden back on that leaseholder or that
landowner say look, I'll buy or release your property, but
I want you to get the fire over here. That's
one this week. One quick QUICKI here please. I went

(24:11):
in took shoulder rash this week. I do not represent
the seller or represent the buyer. We go into the house.
It's got lap boats, it's got stoves, it's got everything electric.
But the first thing I noticed is there was no
electrical power to that house.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Wow they run it off the generator.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Wow. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
I will tell you my guy would have would have
bought that property not knowing that. And I said, hey, man,
you think twice about that. He may not can get
fire here. That's why he brings in generators or another seasons.
That's my story.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Today, Rick, Thanks man, I'll see Hey audios. Kevin, thanks
for hanging on, buddy. What's up?

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Not much? How you doing?

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Does well?

Speaker 1 (25:00):
I'm back to well anyway, Frankie got me out of
the out of the fire.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
I tried to call earlier and check on y'all, but
I guess Frankie was busy trying to get everything.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
And I can't. I can't answer the phone here in
the studio. So what you got, man?

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (25:17):
Not a lot.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
Hey, A beautiful morning out here in the morning. This morning,
driving around between my parks, I think I've seen about
eighteen or nineteen deer, a couple of rabbits hopping around.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
This weather is beautiful right now.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, it is, temperature is gray, nice little breeze blowing.
But back on the fishing show, I've gone at least
fifteen years that I know i'll be. I'll be going Thursday.
As a matter of fact, I'm gonna have to come
by your studio Thursday to pick the tickets up that
I'm wanting to Texas to.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, just driving right down there and they'll take them
at the door.

Speaker 5 (25:53):
Okay, Is that all I have to do? I know
last time I parked and I had to come up
to like the fifth floor seven four.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, you can't miss it. When you get out on
seven you'll see a big red Entry and that's us.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Yeah, okay, is that where I need to come again?

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yeah? Yeah, same place. And if I'm here, if I'm
not on the air, I'll pop out and say hello,
ninety nine chance I'll be here.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
Okay, sounds good, Yeah, man, looking forward to it all right.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Other than that, the Harvest for the Hungry Tournament where
we raise money for Hangler education for the kids, is
coming up and getting everything lined up on it. It's
March twenty first, and looking forward to it. They that's
always a good event. Oh sure, I think I tagged
you with the link for the.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
For the tournament.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
I believe so. Yeah, I was looking at it the
other day as a matter of fact. Just stay on
me about that. Just calling, we'll talk about it.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
Oh well, I'll remind you when it gets.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
A little closer, all right, Kevin, I got and I look.

Speaker 4 (26:58):
I look forward to seeing a.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Third absolutely idios. That's a good man right there, that's
a good man. We got to take a break. Imagine
that we're gonna make up for lost time. Frankie's already
reshuffled everything. He stays on top of it when it's
something he can deal with, and he gets on the
phone when it's not and he got us back on
the air. So hats off to you once again. Frankie

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Just go out there and eat lunch and then ride
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(29:13):
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welcome back, Doug Pike Joe. That was it was long

(30:01):
awaited one hour delay. It wasn't because of jet lag either.
It wasn't because of whether it was just technical difficulties.
We should have you know how TV has Frankie, that
little thing that comes on and they'll have a crawl,
or used to be in the old days, it would
be just this weird symbol. I don't even remember what

(30:22):
it was what it signified, but that let you know
that there was a problem and they were working on it.
We need to find I wish there was some visual
way we could do that. It's pretty obvious when you
tune into the radio station, though, and there's just nothing
or something you didn't expect. Anyway, I gotta go talk
to Martin. He's been hanging on forever. Martin, Sorry about

(30:42):
the way man, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (30:44):
Hey, Doug, I always wanted to ask you about the
fishy show. Yeah, the Coastal Conservation Organization will be there.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
I was wondering if you know what board members will
be there? Do you know that?

Speaker 1 (30:59):
I don't know. I don't know which board members will
be there. You're looking for somebody specific to talk about
or talk to.

Speaker 6 (31:07):
Not really, I've just want to talk to them. But anyway, Okay,
that's it.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Thanks, Yeah, okay, my pleasure. Thank you for hanging on.
That was easy. I don't know, and I haven't heard.
I know they'll have a good presence there, and there
should be either someone on staff or one of the
board members, and there'll be probably three or four people
at that booth all the time because they don't want

(31:32):
to let anybody go by without getting a chance to
share the CCA story, which I remember very well. I
was around way way way back when and was certainly
fairly well versed with the work they've done since. I
edited their magazine for ten years, and I started writing

(31:52):
about them in the paper for Boyd. Not that long
after they got started. I came along, I came in.
And it was some years but not a lot of
years after the original g CCA, the Gulf Coast Conservation
Association was formed by a handful of guys who who

(32:12):
really were visionaries and really took all that stuff seriously.
We were losing redfish hand over fist to gil netting,
we were losing speckled trout handover fist to gil netting.
To the red fish and the golf the spawning reds
were being sucked up into big giant vessels. They'd run

(32:33):
a mile and a half or two mile long net
around schools of spawning sized red fish and just scoop
them up and throw them on ice. It was and
killed a lot of other animals too. So they got
in and took care of that problem, and now they're
tackling problems all over the country quite literally. It's just

(32:54):
about coast to coast all the way up to up
the east coast, all the way down around the Golf Coast,
and then back over to the west coast and all
the way up. CCA has come a very long ways.
When I was editing Tiede magazine, I think the organization
was in maybe seventeen states. I think that was about it.

(33:15):
When I changed over and went full radio, I think
that's what it was. I enjoyed editing that magazine too.
I had a really good group of people around me
and had some really really good writers back then as well,
and it was fun. It was fun to be the
first one to read their stories and tinker with them
just the least little bit if I had to. I
had some good people, though they knew what they were doing.

(33:37):
Holy cow, we're gonna start catching up here. And speaking
of catching up, I want to get this one in
for my buddy Brad Schweiss. I'm going to keep telling
you about him until you guys all call him and
just let him tell you the story about how how
much value you might be sitting on right now with
things that you really don't think about every day because

(33:59):
you bought him a long time ago and they didn't
cost very much money, and how much more could they
be worth. Honestly, and just like Don Don said, he
didn't think it was. But a couple of thousand dollars
announce gold is skyrocket. These are historic prices for gold.
And if you need some historic jingle in your pocket
when you go to the next fishing show, when you

(34:20):
go to a gun store somewhere, gun show somewhere, whatever,
some outdoors thing that you really want and you don't
want to you don't want to dip into the family money.
You got to pay your rent, you gotta pay your bills.
Call Brad, take a little bit of gold over there
and watch your bank well you're folding money anyway. He'll

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write your check. I don't think he's gonna swap out
a bazillion dollars for a big chunk of gold. You
two can figure that out and you can call him
on his cell phone. His store, by the way, is
over at West Timer and Darry Ashford been there thirty
something years, I think. And he's just very mild and
very low key, very straightforward, honest as the day is long.

(35:03):
He'll tell you exactly what your stuff's worth based on
the daily prices of those precious metals. Anything from one
hundred dollars up to half a million dollars. He'll take
care of you, you really will. Good Cca guy too.
Here's his cell phone number. And like I said earlier,
you can't be first, but you can be next to
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up and running Doug Pike Show. It took us a
while to get ahead of steam, and it had a
lot of help Frankie was on how many people did
you end up talking to altogether? Frankie about three people?

(37:34):
Oh my god, it four? Yeah, probably four.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Ed.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
I'm surprised it didn't take more than that. At least
woke up one or two of those four too, didn't you?
Absolutely rise and shine boys, something's amiss in the studio
and Doug is ready to get to work. Yeah, that's
what I was doing. I got a or Frankie got
a call from Cameron who didn't want to go on

(38:01):
the air. He just want to say, Man, I want
Doug to talk about this if you will. Most of
you probably know that there were Senator Kennedy from over
in Louisiana opened wide a door that should have been
well that it has been opened, but it didn't get
any real attention until he talked about it about how

(38:24):
the Midwest is essentially hoarding ducks by altering water bodies
up there to stay open all winter, by flooding unharvested
but ripe corn fields. They just they go in there
and they cut a little take many many, many, many,

(38:45):
many many acres of corn throughout the Midwest, and they
I don't know whether they have to put levees around them.
I don't know whether they just build berms on the
low end whatever they do, though, what they're doing is
flooding those cornfields and cutting little openings inside where hunters

(39:06):
can get in there and hide and whatnot, and just
keeping the ducks happy and satisfied because they're getting plenty
of food, they've got open water, and they're not coming south.
Last few duck seasons, in case anybody didn't notice, have
been pretty tough. Now, that doesn't mean that guys like
David Prue at rice Land don't have good opportunity. The

(39:32):
guide services are struggling, but don't give up on them,
because they're still working to make it as good as
they can. Meanwhile, up in the Midwest, there are accusations
now that a lot of what's going on up there
should should fall on the shoulders of groups like Ducks Unlimited.

(39:54):
They ought to be more involved in restoring the natural
flyway than in and putting up these and some they
placed some places, called them micro refuge refuges. Well, I
couldn't spit that out to save my soul. Just then,
there are these little, small, protected and and very managed habitats,

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and by that I mean bunch of food just growing
right and in the middle of it, never got harvested.
Put a little water around it so that ducks can
swim to corn, from cornstock to cornstock. And that's okay
up there.

Speaker 7 (40:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
One of the one of the phrases I heard that
made real sense is why is there a difference between
throwing corn into water and throwing water onto corn? It
seems to me and that both are examples of baiting waterfowl,

(40:51):
but by federal law that goes back quite a few years, actually,
it's not baiting now Again, Cameron wanted to know about
DU's involvement in this and Ducks Unlimited. We've all known
how much good work they've done over a very long time,
but there's kind of some increasing focus on how involved

(41:15):
du is.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
That.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
I'm not accusing of them, accusing them of anything here,
I'm just I'm just talking about what I hear and
what I read that there's a little too much emphasis
on politics and on taking care of wealthy, sometimes private
landowners and hunting clubs that the average hunter can't get to.

(41:39):
And by making those high profile places so much better,
they've actually stepped over a line somehow, And and not
just du but anybody who's practicing all this. What they've
done is made it where the ducks aren't coming down
here anymore. One of the biggest numbers I saw that

(42:03):
Senator Kennedy talked about was that the duck, that the mallard.
He was focused on a mallard number. And that's fine,
because mallards are kind of a big indicator. We don't
we don't get many mallards down here. And unless it
gets super cold, and I guarantee you now that that
what's going on up there is going on, we won't
ever see another mallard. They don't need to come this far.

(42:25):
They only fly as far as they have to go
to get what they need, and that's food and shelter,
food and roost water. Open water in the winter time
gets super cold up there, all of that water freezes.
The ducks come down here. It gets snowy up there,
covers up all the food. The ducks come down here.
That's not happening anymore up there. It's been artificially changed,

(42:48):
and not just by du projects, but by a lot
of people up there, and and I consider that a problem.
I really do. Once again, I'm not accusing anybody of
any doing of doing anything. But I would like to
know why it's okay for them to do that up there,
And it wouldn't be okay for you and me to
go out there and throw one hundred pounds of corn,

(43:09):
throw two big fifty pounds sacks of corn out in
the middle of the middle of the spread. And why not.
They're doing it up there. They just do it a
different way. It seems it seems unrealistic to think that
changing an entire fly Actually, the Mississippi and the Central
flyways have been altered by this change of strategy up north.

(43:34):
Kennedy said that the mallard numbers from like maybe ten
years ago, or it's either ten or twenty years, but
however many years ago it was. It's pretty significant because
the mallard numbers are down like ninety something percent. Ninety
something percent of the mallards aren't coming down here, which
means a whole another big percentage of the rest of

(43:55):
the ducks aren't coming down here either. They just counted
the mallards. I gotta take a break here at the top.
We can talk about that all you want. I'd love
to hear some more opinions about that too. It's very frustrating.
The first time I read what Kennedy said and saw
him delivering it to Congress, it really opened my eyes
to just how bad this must be. We've had bad

(44:19):
duck seasons in the past, but only for natural reasons.
Maybe it was too warm and the duck state up
there because it did stay warm. Maybe the food down
here wasn't what they wanted. But nothing like this, and
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then put your company's logo or your charity's logo on
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they have a smoking lounge in Texas City that's also
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making fresh cigars every day there that they ship out
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lounge in League City if you're a little closer to there.
Either way, you're gonna have a fun experience just going
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your buddies and just having a smoke and maybe watching
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(45:45):
They also don't have one or two middle men in
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Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you for listening.
I certainly do appreciate it. We had an hour long
delay getting in this morning getting on the air, and
thank goodness gracious for Frankie for getting us here. He

(46:53):
was on the phone with three or four different people.
He woke two or three of them up, I'm sure,
and insisted that they get this show up and running
because the alternative would have been just me sitting here
talking for an hour two three maybe, I don't know. Uh,
let's do a quick rundown of the AT and T
Pebble Beach pro am on going out there in along

(47:18):
the California coast. Ok Shae Batilla and Rio hits Satsuni.
He is his name is hit Satsuni. That's his Satsuni.
It's a little bit complex, but I've got it now,
I think. Anyway, the two of them at fifteen under
par Akshae Batilla. I've been watching him for a long time.
I like the way he plays, and he's left handed,
which gives him higher points for me. Anyway, Hi Satsuni

(47:43):
came out of nowhere almost this year. I don't I
didn't know anything about him until he started popping up
higher and hire on leaderboards, and clearly he's got game.
So we'll see how he turns out across the whole season.
Ricky Fowler and Sam Burns at four Team min Woe
Lee he is at Yeah, he's at twelve along with

(48:06):
Jacob Bridgman in scept Straka. The list goes on from there,
all the usual suspects playing. There's Zender Shawfley, There's Jordan
Spieth at ten. There's Chris Gottter up recent winner. He's
at nine right now. Who knows what he'll do the
rest of the Over the weekend, Tony Feen nowad eight.
It just goes on and on. There's a good, good

(48:27):
field out there, best players in the world, most of
them anyway, and we'll see what happens. The win. By
the way, the wind over the last few days, the
last couple of days was ridiculous absolutely ridiculous, and some
of these guys were having to hit four and five
clubs more than normal just to produce the distance they

(48:51):
needed out of those shots. I saw one kind of
a I'm sure it was an amateur or it had
to have been an amateur who did this. A good amateur, certainly,
but whoever it was, hit the ball he was near
the green and to hit his next shot, whatever it was,
on that hole. He actually aimed one hundred and eighty
degrees away from the hole, hit a big high lob

(49:15):
wedge and watched the ball come down and then dribble
back to within a few feet of the hole. And
I mean he was thirty forty feet from this thing,
and he hit the ball away from the hole, almost
straight up, and the wind blew so hard it blew
it back. It just bounced just off the green, then
got on the green and rolled down close. Uh, shifting gears.

(49:35):
I'm gonna go talk to faux Pro. I don't want
to leave him hanging there forever. What's up, faux Pro.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
Plus air mister do parent master? See y'all finally got
online there?

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Finally, Yeah, it's it wasn't my fault or Frankie's fault.
I'm not I don't know what caused it, and I
don't want the technical explanation because when those guys get
started talking like that, it just it just zooms over
my head.

Speaker 8 (50:00):
I was blame it on Matt Thomas and here I
don't think he fishes.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Yeah, you're you're you're thinking right. I'm pretty sure he's
a good dude. But I don't know. I don't know
how what kind of a stick he'd be on in
a program or something like that. What's on your mind?

Speaker 8 (50:17):
I don't know about that. So I'm kind of kind
of glad I came out of the garage and talked
to you because I realized I didn't have my sight
fishing tackle box in my boat, and that's a critical
box I have in my boat.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
This time it is.

Speaker 8 (50:30):
Didn't meet it yesterday though I went out to UH.
I don't know how many of your listeners are familiar
with Ratcliff Lake, and I want to say Davy Crockett
National wrong on that National. It was just it's just
east of Crockett went out the ninety acre lake, beautiful clear,
a bunch of coontail moss. UH saw a lot of

(50:52):
fish cruising. Uh, you know, I tried to shallowboy, I
tried to actually fish like a fisherman for the I
laughed them twice, just still methods, and finally had to
turn on that scope just to get a sense of
what was going on. Yeah, and I've never seen bass
so spooky. Ended up catching a pretty good one on

(51:12):
a drop shot and on and on a sinko. I
had to go to a really really super finesse. But you
would see these fishing fifteen feet of water suspended about
ten and I throw ten feet past them, and when
that bay hit the water, those fish went straight to
the bottom of disprit of the tunet. I've never seen
bass that spooky.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Is that water typically as clear as it is now?

Speaker 8 (51:35):
Or do you know last time I was there, grand
it's been a couple of decades, but watching video on it, yeah,
it's more of a living collar usually, but yeah, it
was unusually clean.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Yeah, that might be clear. That'll spook them as fast
as anything that they're used to swimming around with blinders on,
or at least with sunglasses on. And you take those
sunglasses off, man, and everything looks like something that's about
to eat it.

Speaker 8 (52:00):
Exactly. That's probably why I had to go to Finesse Tactics. Yeah,
drop shot, waiting to sinko with Later in the day,
the bucks got up there, cruises, you know, cruising in
the dirt. You know, we can catch a few bucks
up there, shallows, but no signs of betting yet. But
the water chipture was sixty sixty five sixty six later
in the afternoon. That's the surface the bass of the deep.
Still don't know that water is that warm up there?

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Yeah yeah, yeah, ten feet a long ways to go.
There's usually at least one little break in temperature before
you hit ten.

Speaker 8 (52:31):
Oh yeah, but I will be probably going to the
boat show. I generally go. He is the first day.
I go the last day hoping guys just you know,
looking for better deals on the Sunday stuff for guys
don't want to pack up.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
Yeah, you can't get some deals on a Sunday when
those guys are looking around it. They brought a half
a million soft plastics and now they got to pack
them all up again, half of them innute exactly.

Speaker 8 (52:54):
I will not as a bash fisherman, I have been
disappointed in the show as far as bass re presentation.
I understand Houston.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
Oh hold on, hold on, let me get my little
violin for you for ust.

Speaker 8 (53:06):
I got some cheese here. I'm about to cut. But
you know it's not sad. I go for real deals,
Rod deal.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
Sure.

Speaker 8 (53:14):
Surprisingly, I generally go there looking for clothing. People don't
realize howbody gets on clothing like the Columbia type fishing
shirts for five dollar not good.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Heavens glad that.

Speaker 8 (53:26):
I'd love to see more bass fishing stuff, but yeah,
as you know, I got plenty of that. I'll look
for the alternate deal.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
I'm actually curious to see how much bass stuff there
is this year, and I'll bet you there's a little
bit more than you're thinking there will be this year,
because I know I watched the trend when the fishing
show started, when the boat show started, when all of
these shows started, it was about a fifty to fifty mix.
It really was because bass fishing was super, super hot
back then, and it was about a half and half.

(53:54):
It really was the boat show. There'd be bass boats
on in one big area and bay boats in the
other big area, and it went the other way almost
It went almost like eighty twenty or ninety ten in
the boat shows and in the in the fishing show
with its smaller number of boats, but still the percentages
were the same. It was mostly salt water for a

(54:16):
long time, because a lot more people were catching on
to it, a lot more people were finding out about it.
And now I think there's a little bit more interest
in the bass fishing with the advent of all the
TV shows on it.

Speaker 8 (54:30):
Oh yeah, for sure. And I noticed a seminar schedule.
There's a few more freshwater seminars trickled in the hotel
obviously heavy lads and saltwater in a little bit of hunting.
But there's like a catfishing seminar on the early years
and some stuff. So I always try to catch least
catch one of those seminars. So, but I said, I've
been out to I don't think. I can't remember the

(54:51):
last time I missed the fishing show. But I don't
know how many I've been to.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
A bunch from there. I may have been to more
than forty. I don't no. I just it's just such
a it's a it's something I do. It's just a habit,
and it's like getting up and putting your clothes on
and brushing your teeth and putting my contacts in. For me,
that's just something when it's time to do that. If
it's open, I'm going. I got to see that stuff.

Speaker 8 (55:16):
Yeah, you can't be so keyhole like you know, right
I said about the bast stuff. But to me, it's
a it's an event to go to once a year,
regardless if you buy anything. It's just cool to do
and see all the new products. Look at boat you
wish you could have.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Well, and like I was talking to Don Martindale about,
it's also important to go in there and learn from
all these people who do this for a living. Learn
why you're not catch as many fish as you want
to know exactly.

Speaker 8 (55:45):
Another thing I'm going to be looking for this year
is I want to find me and you a pike
fishing trip in Canada.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Some Yeah, we just might have to do that. We don't.
I don't even know that we have to go all
the way up there to catch him. We might be
able to get him, like in Minnesota or somewhere up
that way. In Minnesota, you would think with ten thousand
lakes and one of them's got some pike in it,

(56:10):
I'm sure it does.

Speaker 8 (56:11):
Oh, yeah, I don't need to catch forty inches all day.
I'll take thirty inches.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Yeah, yeah, I don't want to go all that far
and catch twenty inch pike. So I'm looking for a
big one, and I don't mind making a lot of
cash to get a couple of big ones versus going
up there and catching a bunch of dinks. I got
no interest in that.

Speaker 8 (56:30):
Part for sure. All right, get back to it, man, Yeah,
thank you today. I'm all right, boss, all.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Right, great to hear from you. Forrest. I'll see at
the show man, let me know when you're coming down
more likely, Okay, all right, I see. Yeah, that's a
good guy right there. He's a good fisherman too. Got
a chance to fish with him once, only just one time.
I've gotten to fish with him, and pretty clear from

(57:02):
what we did that he knows what he's doing. Phoenix Knives.
Speaking of knowing what you're doing, how about cowboys and
mask you huh? Since nineteen seventy nine, he's been building
and making custom knives out there in the middle of Belleville,
right there on Main Street. He moved to a bigger
space last year, and now he has hired more journeymen
under him to help keep his stock of knives of

(57:26):
all kinds. I'm talking about everything from little bitty folding
knives up to big chopped down a tree if you
had two knives, pretty much anything with a blade that
can be sharpened and that should be sharpened. That's what
you're gonna find at Phoenix Knives. By the way, speaking
of bring a couple of knives with you if you
want to want to get your own knives sharpened, they'll

(57:46):
do that for you. Not a problem. They don't bring
one hundred of them, but a few. Be respectful of
their time and their energy. That great news space has
allowed them to do more. Seminars allowed them to do more.
Learn to make a knife, little deals. Oh my goodness,
m Erica just brought me breakfast tacos. Thank you so much.

(58:09):
Erica from over on k t r h's newsroom. We yeah,
now I owe her a favor. God these oh they
look so good. Phoenix Knives dot Com is the website.
If you go out there and just say, hey, by
the way, we brought my family out here and we'd
like to learn how to make a knife. They will
one of the journeymen when there's time. If there's a

(58:30):
line maybe, and you got to deal with that. But
one of the journeymen will bring you or will help
you actually make a knife while you're there. Phoenix Knives
dot com. If you want one of cowboys really truly
custom knives, that takes a few months, so plan accordingly.
If you've got somebody you know who you care enough
about to get them something like that, Phoenix Knives dot com.

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P H E.

Speaker 7 (58:53):
N i X.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
Phoenix knives dot com. If you are interested in some
of the best traditional text max food you will ever eat,
Berry Hills sugar Land is where you need to go
get it. Berryhill's been out there in sugar Land for
I don't know thirty something years whatever it is. My
wife and I have been going almost since they opened up.
It didn't take us long to find it. And I'm

(59:15):
not gonna quit going back there. I'm not gonna quit
because I love the fish tacos, I love the seafood enchiladas.
I love just their plain vanilla cheese cheese enchiladas. They're
super good. Mix them up with little beans, a little rice,
anything and everything in there has a special twist too.

(59:36):
If you go in there and you think, oh, I
know what, I know what cheese enchiladas tastes like. Well,
they're a little bit different at Berry Hill because the
two people in the kitchen who have been there the
longest and who are in charge of what goes out
of that kitchen have been there more than ten years apiece.
So they put little little twists, little subtleties into these
recipes that make them kind of Berry Hills own. They

(59:58):
do catering all over town if you like that, or
you can just go to the restaurant Sugar Creek Boulevard exit.
Go over there. There's a big, big shopping center there.
They are the closest of the properties. Two fifty nine.
Actually at that exit. Berry Hill got family dining. It's

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tables and booths. On one side, there's outdoor dining you'll
see that when you go in, and then right smack
in the middle of all that where you place your order.
It's kind of a sports bar area where if you
want to make a new friend, just go in there
and say, hey, I'm new to Sugarland, I want to
learn about it. Somebody will probably holler over at you
say come on over and join us. I've seen it happen.

(01:00:40):
I don't go in there looking for it to happen.
But I actually did see that happen once. Very very
comforting to know that they're that truly friendly and they
are Berryhillsugarland dot com Berryhillsugarland dot com, nine twenty three
on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show. Thank you
for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Even though we got
off to a late start. We've covered a lot of ground.

(01:01:02):
Talked a little bit about the ducks being held hostage
basically well of their own free will, though because they're
getting all the food and food and rest water they
want to stay up north. We've talked about the fishing show.
What else. It just kind of we talked with Rick
bis about and this is something I hadn't thought of,

(01:01:24):
but it makes good sense. If you're gonna lease a
place or you're gonna buy a place out in the country,
one of the questions you need to ask and have
answered to your liking is does that place have electricity?
And if they say yes, it's it's already installed, it's
all ready to go, then consider that a pretty good,

(01:01:47):
pretty good shot. If they say yes, electricity is available,
then you need to find out where and because just
like Rick was talking about the nearest, the nearest hot
line might be a mile away. It's available, but you're

(01:02:09):
gonna have to get the electric company out there to
run a mile a wire. It's available, but the closest
pole is on another guy's property, and he might have
something to say about that. Oh yeah, there's a lot
of a lot more to buying and buying some of
these places that are just chunks of in That's one

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of the reasons I kind of like treaty oaks so much.
They take care of all that everything's going to be there.
I be talking about them again in a little while.
And that's unless you're trying to buy it now. If
you're buying a big old ranch, you're buying a big
old ranch and caveat m tour as they say, that's
why you want somebody like Rick on your team trying

(01:02:51):
to find out if they've got everything you need, because
you don't know what you need until you get out
there and realize it's not there.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
We talked to Don about the fish and show I
wanted early on. I talked a little bit about I
asked what you guys have ever used that was a
very unusual bait to catch a fish, whether that was
a lure that's not supposed to catch that kind of fish,
whether it's some sort of natural bait that nobody really

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thinks of to catch a certain kind of fish, whether
you had to adapt to the size of the fish
with an appropriate bait to catch it. And that covers
both the extremes. I get a kick out of watching
these guys who like to chase those goliath groopers down
in Florida. These things have taken up residents in some

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cases in some relatively innocuous looking places like marinas. If
there's deep water access to that marina, and that marina
is there long enough and there are enough fish swimming
through there, enough mullet schools or jackfish schools, whatever, those
goliath groupers will show up. Same with bridges. A lot

(01:04:05):
of the South Florida bridges now are home to very
big fish. And by very big, I'm talking two three
four hundred pound goliath groupers that are in suore be
like I don't know it would be like having goliath groupers.
I guarantee you if the Galveston Causeway was lifted up
and airlifted all the way down to South Florida and

(01:04:26):
dropped in somewhere. They're big goliath groupers around it too.
That'd be kind of scary. These guys are using eight
to ten pound jackfish for bait live, and it doesn't
take much for one of those goliath groupers to get
coaxed out to eat one, and then well, good luck,
good luck. Watch some of the videos of these things

(01:04:48):
being caught in Marinas, and if you get the right ones,
you'll see the expressions of people's faces first when they
see the tackle these guys are bringing out. They're bringing
all out eight at and twelve ought reels, these big
giant reels that hold a whole lot of line. These
are bill fishing reels, basically offshore billfishing reels, and they're

(01:05:10):
bringing them in because nothing else will will stop these fish.
And every now and then it takes two guys to
just hold back and work them in. And then at
the other end of that extreme is stupid stuff. Well
it's not stupid. It was innovative. It was genius. Actually,
I thought. When I was a little tiny kid fishing

(01:05:31):
in my grandparents' backyard there, I noticed one day I
was sitting on the sea wall just waiting for the
next school of mullet to come by so I could
snag one and use it for tarp and bait or
snook bait. That night and I noticed these little tiny fish.
Maybe it turned out they were between an inch long
and maybe two and a half three inches long would

(01:05:54):
be a monster of these species. There are several different
ones living in and amongst the oyster shells on the
as wide as I thought it was, but nonetheless I
wanted to catch some of those little fish. And I
got my grandfather to take me up to the tackle store,
and I came home with I think they were size

(01:06:16):
like eighteen or twenty hooks, teeny tiny things. And instead
of we had shrimp around there all the time, he
kept frozen shrimp in the freezer for me because he
knew i'd be fishing every day. And I'd get a
couple of them out and quite literally would cut would
peel off one of the legs and then cut that

(01:06:37):
little leg in half and then use that I'll wrap
quotes around meteor looking part of the leg, put that
on the hook, drop it down there in front of
their noses, and it was it was almost like Livescote fishing.
You'd just be able to watch the fish come out
and eat the bait, and I'd just pick them with
just hand lining them and real necessary. These fish literally

(01:07:02):
two inches long was average if they were if they
were to put some sort of size restriction on them,
they would have to do it in millimeters. But it
was still fun. When you're seven years old, eight years
old and there's water and you love to fish, you're fishing.
Oh yes, that was unusual. Something one of the neighbors,

(01:07:26):
I think told my grandfather to tell me about catching
catfish down there. And I'm hardhead fishing. I don't care,
I want to catch fish. And one of the best
baits for that turned out to be the skin off
of Kentucky Fried chicken. The skin off those chickens was
so greasy and so yeah, it was so greasy, and

(01:07:50):
the hardheads absolutely loved them. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Email me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
I know some of you have you some really weird
stuff for eight and I'm kind of curious. I'm kind
of curious. Fess up, confessor, Well, that's not a scind
of whatever you use for bade as long as it's lawful.
As long as it's legal, use it all right. I'm

(01:08:11):
gonna tell you again about Treaty Oak and it's newest development.
It's called Whitetail Ranch. Whitetail Ranch is a place where
you're gonna find space, You're gonna find freedom, where privacy
and possibility comes standard. It's a new gated community right
kind of in the middle of Texas, just a few

(01:08:32):
miles west of Cold Spring. And there you are going
to find oversized acreage home sites starting at one and
a half acres and go into four plus acres. You're
gonna find beautiful amenities. You're gonna find paved roads, which
is a big plus. There are no mud taxes, also
a big plus. And there is early pricing available, which

(01:08:55):
stands to reason. They want people who really want to
enjoy a place like this to build a weekend home,
a retirement home, whatever you want to build there, or
you just want to buy one as an investment. It's
going to be a darned good investment. I feel like
it will be anyway. There's a one day only sale
event on February twenty first, one week from today. You

(01:09:19):
might want to get online, go to the website, take
a look at what they're doing up there, and then
let them know you'll be there to take advantage of
that sale. Whitetail Ranch TX dot com is the website
Whitetail Ranch TX dot com. Shooters Corner Palmer Highway at
twenty nine Street in Texas City. Been there many many years,

(01:09:41):
like thirty something years. To be perfectly honest, that place
is owned by my friend Jerry TK and his son Jay,
also a friend. Probably two of the best gunsmiths I've
ever met. Well they are that they're not probably that,
they absolutely are that. They build amazing custom rifles as well,
and knock on wood every time I've seen. I'm a
listener down there to get a problem solved with a

(01:10:03):
firearm when other gunsmiths have said that can't be fixed,
or it can't be fixed at a reasonable price, just
replace the gun. Whatever they tell them when they go
to Shooter's Corner. The outcome so far has always been
a good one. They've got guns Ammo ammo and all
the boutique calibers. They have optics, Camo, reloading supplies, you

(01:10:24):
name it, they've got it, and it's a great place
to just go here and tell shooting sports stories. If
you like telling stories, if you like hearing stories among
people who are like minded about the shooting sports, Shooter's
Corner is a great place to go spend a little time.
Every time I've gone down there, I've told my wife a,
I'm just going to go run over and get my

(01:10:45):
hunting license, or I'm gonna run over there and get
some AMMO and then end up being there for an hour.
It just happens. It will happen to you too. Family
own and operating for forty plus years. If you wear
a badge for a living, you get a discount at
Shooter's Corner, which I think is pretty dog on D
Shooters Corner t X dot com. D Shooters cornertx dot
com nine thirty seven on Sports Talk seven ninety The

(01:11:07):
Doug Pike Show, thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
It's like Dave's stuck around. I'm gonna talk to him.
Anybody that's hung on through that first hour of technical difficulties,
hats off to you, and thank you so very much
for being patient and sticking around so we can talk
about the outdoors. Dave, what's up.

Speaker 9 (01:11:25):
Man, Hey, man, Hey, let me tell you what Rick
called me. He said, hey, you mean call in and
tell him about your pacemaker lure? Hey off, Hey, But
the buddy mine George, he plays steel guitar. And my
wife says, you're gonna take us there, I think on
that Saturday, the last Saturday, Yeah, for the fishing show.

(01:11:47):
And she's gonna drop us off and we'll go go around.
And I'm glad. I'll remind me about fishing lures because
I believe I told you before my first pastemaker it
lasted nine years. And I'm gonna take a picture and
seen it to you and it uh, And it's the
Saint Jews pastemaker. And I put a treble hook on
the back and a swivel on the front. And that's

(01:12:09):
probably about a thirty thousand dollars fishing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
Really, that's a good point.

Speaker 9 (01:12:15):
Yeah, and and and and uh and I keep it
hanging on underneath some of my other stuff on my.

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
Rear view mirror.

Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 9 (01:12:23):
Just remind me how it kept me alive for all
those years. My other one in you know, and and
and you know on your fifty plus show, you know
what I mean? And and and all the our doctors
and all the doctors that help us do what we do.
You know, keep keep alive, you know, and everything, and

(01:12:44):
you know what, and fishing teach us alive, you know
if you think about it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
So you haven't. You still haven't told me whether you
caught a fish on that lure.

Speaker 9 (01:12:53):
No, I ain't throwing it out, you know, thirty thousand
dollars a lure.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
Yeah, Marry died.

Speaker 9 (01:13:01):
Man, Well let me tell you this. Uh, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna put it in. I got a little case
and I'm gonna I did years ago when I first
had it done. I'm gonna and when I go over there,
like old Seaman Kremen he had his uh ron coal
fishing rod, wow, and ron Coe and he had it
and that we were rolling him around in a wheelchair

(01:13:23):
and he was showing it off. Man, the old ron
Cole fishing reel and and the fishing and the fishing show.
It is such a cool thing. And you know, and
I mean so, uh, my wife's gonna take me and
me and George down there. And like I said, he's
ninety years old. He's fired than I am. And you know,
we're gonna get down there and go I'm serious and

(01:13:46):
uh he plays steel guitar and banjo and all kinds
of stuff and he lives right down the street from
me here in Willis, and uh, so we're gonna go
down there and we're gonna walk around and visit with
everybody and go.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
So that sounds good.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
That sounds good, all right, David?

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
I thanks, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
All right, David. Dave wins the prize for the most
expensive lure. I thought some of those chatter baits and
and crank baits were getting expensive, and the big swim baits,
but they're not thirty thousand dollars. Holy cow. I would
have to make one cast. I would. I would put

(01:14:29):
very heavy line on. I'd do all it took to
make sure i got that lure back fish in someplace
where there's absolutely no cover on the bottom so you
can't snag it up. That would be interesting. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety email and me
Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Let me go grab
Brandon here before we have to go to the break.

Speaker 10 (01:14:50):
Brandon, what's up, buddy, Good morning, Doug.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
How I'm doing okay?

Speaker 10 (01:14:55):
How are you I'm okay, I what happened?

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
Oh boy, yeah, it was quite a mess here this morning,
and we don't know what happens that everything worked yesterday
and then this morning it didn't work, and that's all
we knew. And Frankie had to just unpeel the peel
all the layers of the onion back to get to
the problem. And he found a way. He got everybody
on the phone and they all gathered around and it
all got done. Yeah, what's on your mind?

Speaker 10 (01:15:24):
I was telling him, if you if you need some help.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
Okay, thank you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:32):
I do.

Speaker 10 (01:15:33):
I'm happy to help out.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
You know some stuff about these these whatever this electronic stuff.
I don't even know what to call all these parts.

Speaker 10 (01:15:43):
Then then does oh.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
Okay, good, well I appreciate that. So what do you
think about the Astros this year?

Speaker 10 (01:15:50):
Hey? Spring training? Someone was there?

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
Mm hmm, yeah, there are They're they're down there getting
ready and getting.

Speaker 10 (01:15:57):
Up about the audio.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
Okay, oh good for you. You know what day?

Speaker 10 (01:16:06):
I think? Monday? March second?

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
Oh wow, okay, Now who's going to be playing that night?

Speaker 9 (01:16:14):
Mom?

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
Do you know.

Speaker 10 (01:16:17):
Who's buying that night? Monday?

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
We Oh, that'll be great. Man, that'll be a great show.

Speaker 10 (01:16:27):
Brandon, can you can you do the like the ething?

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Does this?

Speaker 10 (01:16:36):
And somebody calls in when the tickets for opening day for.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
Radio?

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
I haven't gotten any rodeo tickets yet to give away.

Speaker 10 (01:16:48):
No, can you mention that or can?

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
He mentioned that he might be able to, but I
don't know that I can. Yeah, I'll have to check
and see what's available. Sometimes I get some of it,
sometimes I get other things.

Speaker 10 (01:17:04):
Yeah, eighteen does it?

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
Okay? I'll talk to them. I'll talk to Clanton. See
what's up, Brandon. It's great to hear from you again. Man,
thank you for calling.

Speaker 10 (01:17:15):
I was gonna ask you you going on Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
For No, I won't be out there that day. I
haven't been to the rodeo in a while. I end up.
I'm working so much right now. It's I got to
take care of my work first.

Speaker 10 (01:17:30):
Tell you what after you get down with Mark, I
was gonna ask you can you can just watch it online.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Oh that's a good idea.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
I like watching I really do. I covered the rodeo
for the newspaper for several years and was down there
four or five six nights at least maybe more. And
that was a lot. It was interesting to be behind
the scenes too, and behind everything back in the shoots
and all that it was. It was really fun and
I got to meet some amazing people. I really did it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
Amazing the audio announcers, I believe I did one year.

Speaker 1 (01:18:07):
Just a glancing blow. We exchanged pleasantries and then we
were both we were both working, so we couldn't just
stop and ship chat. Hey, I got to catch this break, Brandon.
I'm right at the end, man, I'm getting a little
bit late. And Frankie's tapping his foot.

Speaker 10 (01:18:22):
Okay, all right, I will I will try to come
up and okay, if you have an issue.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
Again, okay, all right, Well, thank you. I appreciate that, Brandon.
All right, we'll see you, buddy.

Speaker 10 (01:18:41):
Have a good day.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
Audios. All right, time for this last break of the program.
I can't believe we made it through. Frankie. We're doing
really well. We've made up a lot of time and
made up a lot of work that had to be done.
And I am going to tell you one more time
in case you haven't heard me yet. And if you
got anything around that house years or maybe a coin collection,

(01:19:05):
maybe maybe somebody a long time ago gave you a
little gold coin that you thought, well, that's cute. That's
probably worth about one hundred bucks. It might be worth
more than a thousand right now, even a little tiny
gold coin. You'd be surprised when the price hits five
thousand dollars an ounce. Doesn't take much. Think of how
little a one ounce sinker is a one ounce sinker

(01:19:29):
if you can round up that much, whether it's in coins,
whether it's in boullion. Maybe somebody for a significant birthday
gave you a little ounce of gold a long time
ago as an investment. Well, it's earned its keep, and
it's earned its spot wherever you were keeping it. That's
gonna be worth a lot of money for you. Brad

(01:19:51):
Schwice at Houston Gold Exchange will buy that gold from you.
He'll buy silver as well, and precious other precious metals.
And he also buys rolexes if you've got one of
those hanging around there that you don't really wear anymore.
For whatever reason, Houston Gold Exchange has been where it
is at West Timer and darry Ash for for thirty
something years, a very long time. Brad's a great guy too.

(01:20:12):
He's cca guy served on the board for a long time.
No hard sell either. He's not going to try to
talk you into anything. He's going to explain to you
exactly what's going on with gold prices and silver prices,
exactly what's going on with the value of selling it,
and then let you make your own decision. He'll also

(01:20:35):
probably tell you a few fishing stories while you're on
the phone with each other. Coins, bullyon, scrap gold, whatever
it is, a few bucks to half a million, he'll
take care of you. Two eight one eight five one
three nine five five. That is his cell phone. He
wants me to give that to you because wherever he is,
he wants you to be able to contact him and

(01:20:57):
start a conversation. That's all he wants you to do.
Just start a conversation and wherever it goes, it goes.
He'll help you. Though. He's gonna with the fishing show
right around the corner. It's next week. If you want
to get a little extra money, and literally half a
thimbleful of gold would probably buy you two kayaks at
that show. Think about that. Houston Gooldexchange dot com is

(01:21:20):
the website he's at. West Timer and Darry Ashford again
his cell phone number two eight one, eight five one
three nine five Timber Creek Golf Club FM twenty three
fifty one in friends with what about three or four
miles west of the golf Freeway. That's where you'll find
the entrance at a light where across the street you'll

(01:21:40):
see a high school on the on the side you're on,
you will see a convenience store. And right on the
other side of that convenience store is the gate that
takes you into Timber Creek, where you will find twenty
seven fantastic golf holes. I've played all twenty seven of them,
I don't know three four five dozen times over the years.

(01:22:01):
They've been around a long time, and I've known the
guy who runs the show over there for more than
two or three decades. It seems like place has been
there a very long time, and I've always enjoyed the experience.
It's a very playable course. All twenty seven holes not
gonna beat you up. There's no such thing as that
easy golf course, but this golf course is enjoyable even

(01:22:24):
if you're not the best golfer on the planet. I
got a great teaching staff, by the way, at the
JJ Woods Golf Academy at timber Creek. If you want
to become the greatest player on the planet, might take
you a walk, but have fun while you're doing it.
Go into the grill before or after you play, get
something to eat, get with that teaching staff, take advantage
of that big range, and hit some golf balls. Make

(01:22:45):
your game more fun. That's what golf's supposed to be,
and timber Creek makes it that way. You can set
a tea time right now just by going to the
website Timbercreek goolf Club dot com. That's Timbercreek Golf Club
dot com. Nine fifty three on Sports Talk seven to
ninety final five minutes or so of the Doug Pike
Show this morning, this abbreviated morning. It was like we

(01:23:06):
lost an hour, Frankie that I hate that, but I
feel like we made the best of the time we
had the two hours we had left. I really do,
and I hope that everybody out there who's listening feels
the same way. I wondered while I was in the
middle of that break, just how I wanted to kind
of wrap it up and with the Fishing Show next week,

(01:23:29):
I'm gonna and I've never done this before, but I'm
gonna very patiently go through the seminar schedule for that show,
just to let you know exactly what you can learn
and who you can learn it from. If you get
out there, grab Pete. I'll take a quick call from
him if I can get him. Yeah, we've got a
little bit of time, but tell him, just telling him,
he's gonna have to be brief. I'll start with Wednesday,

(01:23:53):
February eighteenth. That's this next Wednesday. Four o'clock Kyle Bucholtz
Tackle Shack Throwback with Baits. Five o'clock. Daniel Hayes Kayak
Freshwater Fishing. Six o'clock. Captain Jetty James from Outcast Charters
the Inshore Edge. I like that. That's kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:24:14):
Thursday one o'clock Aaron Mauser, Texas Surfmasters, long Distance Casting.
Two o'clock Captain Billy Koshin. Everybody's heard her voice, fishing
the flats and wadefishing with art officials. Kick that yellow
bucket to the curb. Man, let's get with the program. Boys.
Um there's something at three or four, but it didn't

(01:24:35):
print out for some reason. I'll have to get that
tomorrow five o'clock. Corey Vincent Live Bait Striper Fishing five
point forty five. David Dillman fishing Galveston Bay On, And
I mean it keeps going on and on. I'm gonna
keep reading six thirty brow. There he is. I gotta
go catch him now. Oh what is that little box?
Get that out of there. Hey, Pete, I got just
a minute for you, buddy. What's up?

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (01:24:59):
I would say that, Hey, you got me?

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
Yeah, you're good.

Speaker 7 (01:25:02):
Hey, I'll be cleaning to day. But anyway, the last
two weeks of the duck season, Yeah, the bird showed
up on the remnants of the Katy Prairie.

Speaker 1 (01:25:11):
How about that? I like that, the remnants of it.

Speaker 7 (01:25:13):
Yeah yeah, Wait, wall you have some excellent shoes. You
gotta have access to the right place.

Speaker 3 (01:25:18):
Sure.

Speaker 7 (01:25:19):
I just want to tell people if they want to
go out and see, uh the drakes and their full
breeding pluma.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
Oh yeah, they're.

Speaker 7 (01:25:27):
Beautiful out there right now. They're starting to pair up
to go home, and I'll get out your hair.

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
I appreciate yeah, thank you, Pete, I appreciate that. Okay,
I'm gonna shift gears in with whatever time I've got left,
which didn't much just waiting for the music. Bottom line is, yeah,
I'm so glad that he called and confirmed what I
pretty much figured. When it gets cold enough up north,
those ducks will come down, and they did.

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
I don't know whether they ate up all the flooded corn.
I don't know whether the ice finally got solid enough
to get them out of there. I don't know whether
snow covered up some of the food. But whatever it was,
the ducks did what the ducks do and what they're
supposed to do earlier. They're not supposed to wait until

(01:26:13):
early February or even late January to get here. They
should have been here somewhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas, okay,
And they were artificially held up north by some very
high falutin if I may call them that, hunting clubs,

(01:26:35):
that where farmers grow acre upon acre of corn, and
then they flooded. And I don't know about you, but
if I could flood fifty seventy eighty acres corn down here,
maybe one hundred, and have five or six places where
that was going on, and just let the ducks come

(01:26:57):
and go as they wanted to, and if I could
to officially freeze that water up north Man, I do that.
Let us have the ducks for a few years. Nebraska,
and in Kansas and Iowa. I don't know where all
these places are, but I know that they have literally
changed these Central and Mississippi flyways, and not for the better.

(01:27:20):
We may talk about this a little bit more tomorrow.
I'll do a little digging. I'll finish off that seminar
schedule too, because there's something for everybody. Go to the
website Houston fishingshow dot com and look at all of
it and then plan your trips accordingly. That's it for today.
Thank goodness, we made it through. Thank you Frankie for
getting us back on the air. However you did it,
I don't know. It's magic to me. See tomorrow, Audios.

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