What a Great State We Have!

Originally aired on September 21st, 2025. On this episode, Doug talks about Vibrio infections, and what to do if it happens to you. He also speaks to Captain James Plaag about catching tarpon, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's Doug Fike all right. Sunday edition of the
program starts right now. Second day of Teal season twenty,
first day of dub season. Holy cow, off we go.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hunh.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
I've got all the other opening dates, by the way,
if you're interested in something and upcoming, some upcoming specific
special season, maybe the youth only stuff or whatever. I
have it printed out and in front of me, so
if you want to ask a question about one of those,
feel free to do that, and I'll thumb through my
pages and look it up. I love Texas for so

(00:38):
many reasons, and yet another one of them is the
length of time we get to hunt something or another
in this great state of ours. If you are well,
first of all, if you like hunting that much, you
probably also like fishing, and that makes it very difficult

(01:00):
for you this time of year, because you've got to juggle.
Oh my gosh, the fall fishing is getting great. It's
it's getting incredible, stupid good. Oh wait, Dove season open
to win and I haven't been yet. Teal seasons and
it's just gonna tumble like dominoes for the next I guess, well,
until we get into November and then it'll all be

(01:21):
wide open. I think we'll lose doves around then sometime
I can't remember the exact date, but that'll be okay
because then we'll have deer and ducks and geese and
all sort of quail. Everything's going to open up. It's
it's just yet another day in Texas, Yet another season
in Texas, another winter, spring, summer, and fall in Texas.

(01:42):
When if you like the outdoors, there's no other state
in the country that can give you so many options.
I truly believe that I'm trying to think of one,
and I've tried many times. I've talked about this many
times on the show. What other state gives you as
much opportunity to hunt as Texas as far as the
inshore fishery, the offshore fishery, fresh water fishery, and then

(02:07):
all of the hunting that goes on. California is big
enough north and south that it has some a couple
of different species that we don't have. But that's really
about it. And it's California. There's no way I'd go
there to live. There is no way I'd go there
to live. First of all taxes, second of all restrictions
on darn near anything you want to do. Third of

(02:29):
all some of the cities over there, at least, I
don't know how it is out in rural California. I
suspect it is far more conservative than urban California, because
on far in far rural California, I got a hunt
that you couldn't just go pop a tent up in
front of somebody's house and tell them you're going to

(02:50):
be living there for a long time and have them
left with no legal remedy to get you off their property.
I don't think it would work out that way. It
certainly wouldn't work out that way in rural Texas. I
can assure you we have private property, we have barbar offences,
we have signs that say no trespassing, and if you
cross one of those, you can get in trouble. I

(03:11):
talked with we were talking with fouk Pro yesterday about
how he's been going out and taking advantage of the
public lands, or not public lands, but just state run
hunting opportunities on many private tracks where you can just
drive up if you pay you I think it's forty
eight bucks for an entire year, and you get access

(03:33):
to roughly two million acres. You're not going to see
all two million, but there are going to be places
close enough to you that you could at least drive
out there one day, park at the gate, and then
go walking around and just see what's out there. The
technology we have now enables you to see in real
time where you are on that property, to see electronically

(03:57):
boundary line so you don't cross over into private property.
It's just a fantastic program. It's not ideal for most
of us. It's not going to be not gonna be
lights out dove hunts or duck hunts or any kind
of hunts. But as folk Pro's pointed out, I think
he's gone to three different places now, maybe four, and

(04:17):
at least two of them, if memory serves, had some
pretty good bass fishing water on them, little ponds, bass fishing, sunfeit,
little perch, whatever you wanted to do to pass the
time between excuse take ten take ten minutes to quit
walking around the place and just throw a few lures
and see what happened. I really like that, I really do.

(04:38):
But let me go ahead and get to a phone
call to tea this up here. Brandon, what's up.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Man, Good morning, mister Pike were back in hunting season again.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Didn't take long, did it, No.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Sir, I sure didn't, that's for sure. The alder we get,
the faster it comes around.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Well. And one of the things I was pointing out,
I don't mean to interrupt, I'll do this then I
want to hear what you I wanted to say. One
of the things I was going to point out is
starting in September with duve season, we hunt really into March.
I think it is it just most of the year
there's some hunting season open and deer seasons. When the

(05:17):
calendar lays out just right, deer seasons sometimes touch six
months of the year. Nowhere else, nowhere else. So what's up?

Speaker 3 (05:29):
That's very interesting? Yeah, No, I was gonna say, we
are very privileged. If you have to honestly look at
it from a hunting standpoint and an economic standpoint, Texas
really could be a country upon itself.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
It wouldn't take really and truly, if.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
You honestly looked at it.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
It wouldn't take much.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
We already have an art at all, right, yes, sir,
But anyway, and I was gonna I wanted your opinion.
I don't I don't know how much times have changed.
But uh, I just wanted your opinion on Bridley chokes.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Still still very good, still quality brand. I knew Jess
Bridley when he was making chokes in his garage and
way back when, way back, way back when, and everything
that I've heard, everything that I've touched Briley is has
been really good, always highest quality. And I have no
no quarrel at all with anything they make. Right, well,

(06:27):
I had.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I had the privilege of meeting mister Mikes and Sammy
Myson over an Eagle agg and yeah he was he
was this I think he was World Champions steet shooter
or something like that, and it was he said, try
these chokes, And I mean, uh, that guy could shoot.
I'll tell you he could shoot a shot gun.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, Johnny Sports Shop, long time man. Oh man, You
do get around, don't.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
You, Yes, sir. I enjoy the country life. It's better
than being on a computer or an iPad or anything else.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
You know that the Good Lord show you.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Out here in the country.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
I am. I am interviewing a woman next week who,
along with several others, has started something called the Wild School,
and you certainly will appreciate this. In fact, once I
get the interview done, I'm gonna do it on fifty plus,
but I'm gonna rerun it probably next Saturday. Here. And
what they've done is created a curriculum. These are it's
not a real school schools, not reading, writing, and arithmetic.

(07:25):
When they get these kids met up where the parents
bring them to meet for two and three hour sessions,
they tell them bring a couple extra sets to clothes
for them now because they're gonna get dirty. And they
go they go out and they jump in mud puddles,
and they they pick flowers if it's if it's allowed, whatever.

(07:45):
They just they just get outside and learn to to
problem solve outside, learn to just learn what it's like
to be outside them. I get bit by a mosquito. Well, okay,
everybody gets bit mosquitoes. I'm sure they take very good
care of these kids. They don't just let them run wild.
They don't just go to a park and pop out

(08:06):
a couple of lawn chairs and say, y'all go have
fun for two hours. We'll see you back here. But
as they start them at three years old, three to
twelve I think is the is the age range. But
they have some very specific things that they encourage them
to do, to promote independent thinking, to promote working as
a group, just all these skills they're going to need
in life that they're not getting in school.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
No, that's you can you can beat that. And I
guarantee I hope, I hope they incorporate the Gospel and
the Bible or something, because I'll tell you what, that
we got to get this generation back on track.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
They're coming back. Actually, I've seen statistics recently that the turn,
the turn has begun, It really has. That's calm or
gentler nation, still very very strong, but just learning how
to have a conversation.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yes, sir, that's for sure great.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'm glad to hear that. I mean, I love it.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Get them out of the concrete, get them away from electronics.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh yeah, let them learn.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
There's even kind of like a side course for the
adults because you know, many of the adults who are
bringing their kids to this, the reason they're doing that
is because they can't take them. They don't know what
to do if they see a snake, they don't know
what to do if they you know, if they whatever,
something happens in the woods. So yeah, they try to
help the parents and that's that's really important too. These fish,

(09:31):
the little free fishing clinics they do every now and
then are fishing events for kids. The knock on them
for the longest time, and this goes back twenty five
years maybe more. The knock on those things is that
these kids get out there one time to fish, and
their parents don't like it. So the kids will get
all excited. Yeah, caught my first fish. You caught another fish.

(09:52):
This was great, Let's do it again next weekend. Now
we're gonna stay here and watch football. And that's that's
how it goes for a lot of those kids. So
maybe some of the parents will jump back into yes sir.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
And I mean, don't knock the females out because my
daughter used to love the fish. So I mean, uh, my,
all my kids they love the outdoors when we go
on fishing, when we do this, when we do that,
I always dropped everything and say let's go same here.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Even my son. My son's almost eighteen years old. And
if he says, hey man or hey dad, you want
to you want to go fish a little bit this afternoon,
I don't care what I had on the table, it's gone.
We're going.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yes, sir, absolutely late, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
You mentioned the little girls in all of this. The
most recent video I got from someone who uh sent
me an email a long time ago, not that long ago,
but to kind of give him some pointers on getting
his little girl out fishing. Sends me a video of
her catching her first fish. It was awesome. That was great.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
She's probably right, guarantee. She's probably jumping up and down,
dancing around.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Oh yeah, he told She told him and has since
they went. That's about all she wants to do anymore. Oh,
I believe it. I believe it's just so fun and
so few kids, or so many kids get denied that opportunity.
That's why I like this. Like the Wild School, what
they're doing.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Man, I'm great though. I would love to listen to
that and see what they got in their curriculum.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, at some point, at some point it'll be on podcast,
so it'll all be there. Yeah, go to the website.
You'll be in prace. You really was just the Wild School,
either Wild School dot com or the Wildschool dot Com.
It's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
That's fantastic, Brando.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
It's great to hear from you, man.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Audios everybody out there, be safe.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Amen to that. Thank you. All right? Yeah, man, I'm
gonna have at some point today. I'm almost positive I'm
gonna put all my safety sam hat again. And there's
no real there's no real catalyst for it. There nothing
has happened that would make me have to do that.
But it's just you know what I do. I tell
you in the next segment. And by the way, at
eight thirty, we're gonna talk to Captain James Flogg. That's

(12:00):
the plan. If I can get him out of roll
out of bed and pick up the phone, that's the
plan I'm gonna give. I'm gonna give Frankie the phone
number here during the break, and when we get back,
I'm gonna talk about Uh, I'm gonna pick up on
where I left off yesterday about what is being The
media is talking about it a little bit as being

(12:21):
this big surge in vibrio magnificus cases over there, But
there's some there's some underlying factors that if you if
you have studied it long enough and know enough about it,
won't scare you any more tomorrow than you were yesterday.
So it's it's all about respect and about being very

(12:41):
aware of your surroundings and your own body. That can
keep you from being messed up by that stuff. And
it's it's very very bad when you get it. It
can it can kill you. I know people is killed.
And but then again, out of trillions of exposures to
salt water around the world world every year, the number
of cases actually reported are very few. We'll get to

(13:05):
that in a minute. On the way out, I'll tell
you about Bellville Meat Market. I love doing that, you know,
I do. Highway thirty six, fifteen minutes north of Sily,
fifteen minutes south of Hempstead or so. Can't find a
better place to go, grab yourself a lunch, a big
barbecue lunch while you hand off the list of things
you want to take home with you, and while you're

(13:26):
eating your lunch out there on their big patio, they
will be inside, boxing up and bagging up and doing
whatever it is they need to do with all of
those products you and your family found as you drove
out to Bellville Meat Market. It's an adventure, it's a journey,
and that journey ends at one of the most delicious
places to have a lunch or dinner you'll ever find.

(13:47):
They're open ten am to seven pm. For lunch and dinner.
They open before that and stay open after that for
just letting you buy whatever you want. But that ten
eight to seven p holds true seven days a week
for a delicious meal with very generous portions. Got these
big chuck Weddy chuck wagon patties. Speaking of big portions,
those are half pound beef patties, seasoned and loaded with

(14:09):
cheddar cheese. Wild game processing year round, of course, and
there's gonna be plenty of that going on as soon
as the deer season dinner bell rings. They devote an
entire building to sell or to processing in hunting season.
Entire building, it's all they do. You drive up, there's
two or three lanes where you can park next to

(14:31):
the other guy in the truck that's almost as big
as yours, and young people with carts will come out
and get that meat out of there, out of your
coolers or out of the back of your truck or whatever.
They'll haul it back inside. You go in there, they
hand you a menu. You get all these different choices
of what they're gonna do with your deer meat or

(14:51):
access meat or whatever, just as long as it's something
they process. Just make sure you check the list.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Don't being in.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Don't bring in something crazy and ask them to do
But as long as it's legal, though, you got a
pretty good shot. As long as it's legal as not
a bird, you got a fairly good shot. Belleville Meatmarket
dot Com. That's the website. By the way, They got
all the stuff you want to carry into the blind too.
The jerky, that dry sausage, dry stick. All that stuff
is delicious and makes the perfect thing to reach for

(15:19):
when that stomach of yours rumbles a little bit. That
deer purchase Head up Belleville MeetMarket dot COM's website, Belleville
meat Market dot com. Welcome back, Doug Pike Show on
Sports Talk seven ninety. I've got a lot of things
I've got to cover. I just got an email that
reminded me of something I wanted to talk about in

(15:39):
a minute. But before that minute comes, I am going
to tell let's see tell Rick Myce Hello.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
Good morning, Rick, Good morning morning.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
What's going on?

Speaker 6 (15:52):
I'm gonna give you a dove and a duck hunt report.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Bring it.

Speaker 6 (15:57):
I think I may have sent you a picture on
one of the son. He's had a bunch of people.
Let the ranch in big whells doves hunting, good hunt. Yeah,
they were having trouble with the habilina's getting their dust
before they could give to them.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh my word, that's interesting.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
I fins you a picture of one of them. Meanwhile,
he got in some number of two buckshot and he dispatched.
I think too, but he said, they beat you to
the doves.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, they could swallow.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
Them almost whole.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
That's crazy.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
Now, yesterday he had two guys with him, and my
son's got a place over has access to a place
in Columbus on those old fifty year old gravel pits.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Oh yeah, everybody knows where those are.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
Yeah, he's it's great fishing.

Speaker 7 (16:47):
I know.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
I've wanted to get in there so bad, I really have.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
He's got a boat ramp and he tied off here.
They're one mile long, yeah about I don't know, three
hundred acres of them, right and uh, And they went
in and tied them altogether. So if you're if you're fishing,
you don't have to fish them the same mile if
you don't want to. But anyway they went. He took
two guys yesterday, and so I called him yesterday and

(17:16):
I said, well, how'd you du you your teal? He said, Well,
he said, I shot, He said, not a lot of
till he said, we shot only when he saw two
blue wings. He said, but we did kill sixteen compon mouse,
water muccatsons, and some really big banded water snakes.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Why did they kill the waters focus? Yeah, he said.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
He said he had to carry his dog out.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, I've heard there have been some issues already this year,
and there's been also kind of an uptick in alligator
concern for dogs because there's apparently more alligators out there
this year. Yeah, we got to keep your eyes that too.

Speaker 6 (18:00):
I talked to Mink yesterday and he said they were
has had some issues on some of them. Don't know
these guys. I'm not sure where they were at, but uh,
he said they did have some issues. Uh, I guess
it was yesterday morning.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
You know what I find it, I'm a little bit interesting.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Rick.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
They'll send that if there's an alligator issue. They won't
send the dog, right, but they'll walk out there all
by themselves, slashing around in their rubber boots to go
pick up a duck. Who's gonna take care of the
dog when the alligator gets you?

Speaker 6 (18:29):
That's a true duck hunter, you know.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, Well they take a gun with you if you're
an alligator, if you're a hunter.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
Only thing only thing that I you know, when I
see which is very very rare, but but I have occasionally,
uh when I see a when I see a alligator,
or I start thinking about an alligator, the first thing
that comes to my mind was mutual of omaha, watching
them in that death it wild kingdom in that death row. Yeah,

(19:03):
up my back.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yeah, that's how they.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
Give me a great give me a great white sharky
ey day. I don't want no alligator.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
I don't want either one there if those are, and
I want to see whatever it is.

Speaker 6 (19:21):
I had. I had to kill one in self defense
a few years ago, two or five years ago, and
it was it was a very serious, quick fast decision
to do it. But it hadn't happen. Of course, I
got somebody right there with me, was fixing to get it.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Well, thank you, Rick, I'll see you, buddy. Audios. All right,
let's get David in here. A Frankie as asked Dave
to hang tight until we get back because I got
James coming up here. David, what's going on? Man.

Speaker 7 (19:54):
Yeah, real quickly, Doug, you got I got that article
I sent you about the two elk hunters who were
found dead up in Colorado.

Speaker 8 (20:03):
I've been tracking the story.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
Twenty five year old guys, so that you know these
are healthy guys found two miles from their vehicle. All
of their their their their heavy gear was in their vehicle.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
That's what got my attention. I think they got.

Speaker 7 (20:20):
I'm going to try They're going to do the autopsy tomorrow.
I'm gonna track it and get with you during the
week on via email. But somebody there was I've been
following social media. There was severe changing weather, right. Someone
said storms came through and the temperature up there can
go from seventy to below zero or just mean below
freezing in just a matter of hours. Right, So that's

(20:41):
what I'm thinking. But it's a very I mean what here,
you know, I guess we can have changes in weather.
If you're out on water, that can be very deadly.
That there's you know, you travel to places you don't
know what the weather can do. You're you're you can
end up in a very serious situation.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
My gut tells me, David, they parked, they thought, and
they had a couple hours of daylight left, and they
weren't really sure. They're on a big, big, wide open space. Okay,
so they as twenty four year old elk hunters, they
want to go scout the place before they haul all
their gear halfway up this mountain and don't see a

(21:20):
jack rabbit. So they probably went out. They didn't take
their camping gear, they didn't take any of that stuff,
revival gear, whatever they had with them, it was all
in the car. Like you said, they got out there,
that storm drops in on them, they can't find their
way out for whatever reasons, and they probably just huddled
up and ended up going to the temperature. You know.

(21:43):
That's my guess.

Speaker 7 (21:45):
I'll stay in touch with you doing a week.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah, please do.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yeah, I'm watching it too, all right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Yes sir, thank you. Oh okay, let's take a break,
shall we. And when we get back, magically, Frankie's gonna
have Captain James Fogg on the phone. He sent me
pictures of that fish by the way, and yeah, that's
why we're going to talk about it. American Shooting Centers
out there on West Timor Parkway between Katie and Highway
six fantastic place to go. Tee it up and shoot

(22:13):
your guns before you get out there and try to
go hunting. If you're a deer hunter and you don't
cite in your rifle before you go deer hunting, shame
on you. You're just asking for trouble. If that thing got
bumped around a little bit, or maybe had a couple
of temperature extremes over the year where you store it
for whatever reasons, anything can and can knock a rifle off,

(22:35):
and it doesn't take much to put it back where
it belongs. You just got to go out there and
do the work. And it's I call it work, it's
fun work. I tell my wife, Well, she'll say, where
are you going American shooting centers, What are you doing
out there working? I'll be working, be working on my
sporting class game. I'll be working on my rifle shooting,

(22:56):
my handgun shooting. They've got it all out there, rifle
and piss still from five to six hundred yards, three
complete sporting clays courses, five stands setups here and there.
There's a beginner's wing shooting area. There's a rimfire silhouette
range that goes from about twenty yards all the way
out to two fifty something like that. I don't know
what the first target is. It's pretty close. It's easy

(23:17):
for the kids. American Shooting Centers dot Com is the
website instruction available in all those shooting disciplines, and good
instruction too. These are professional people, that's what they do
for a living. American Shooting Centers dot Com is a website.
American Shootingcenters dot Com. Hey thirty two on Sports Talk

(23:39):
seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. I just got an
email from Mark over there at Georgia. He and his
family celebrated their some thirty third family reunion, and on
top of that, it was his father's ninety ninth birthday
and they all played golf. How cool is that, Captain James?
You think we could play golf ninety nine?

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Man?

Speaker 8 (24:02):
I hope so, buddy, picking up a bird man. They're
eating me up out here this morning.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Well you, dov On or till On, Dove Honey had
a boy down on the item. You didn't even have
to go far, did you.

Speaker 8 (24:15):
No, I got a little place to be down here
for about twenty years.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh nice, wasn't very good the other day.

Speaker 8 (24:21):
And actually I came to I need to work on
the lot. Put a chain on there, and they fly
better out here right now.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Oh that's nice and good for you. Well, look, you
know why I called. And I don't care about doves
right now. I want to hear about this tarping you
caught this week.

Speaker 8 (24:37):
Oh dodgers. He ain't said big time, but it's pretty
big time for this year, because it ain't really been
no good.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
That's what I kind of heard. Yeah, what somebody said
that official was about one eighty. Is that right? Or
was that you they were talking about.

Speaker 8 (24:52):
No, Hey, now you put a gun to my head.
I mean, I don't like the overestimating nothing. He didn't
he didn't have the link. Okay, all right, to taft
him out. Had probably a fourteen and a half inch tail.
He's probably eighteen inches across the back, So conservatively I

(25:13):
call him one seventy five.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
That's close enough to one eighty. I'll call him one
eighty for you. If you don't want to do it yourself,
that's fine. It's not a product.

Speaker 8 (25:21):
And I told Larry, my guys man, you know, put
him on scale. This fish is this fish is heady,
it's big.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, it's big.

Speaker 8 (25:30):
Yeah, this guy can fish, man, and he he fished
for me a lot.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Man.

Speaker 8 (25:35):
I think we bought that fish like an iron fifty minute.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Oh, I understand that there's nothing else you can do.
They're just going to tug the boat around for a
little while until they get a little bit tired.

Speaker 8 (25:43):
So yeah, we caught him on casting rod.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Oh goodness, okay. And so not exactly where were you,
but generally where were you? Man?

Speaker 8 (25:52):
I've been fishing in Gallason this year and it really
hasn't been very good anywhere. Jamie Froightly caught more tarbor
than anybody on the planet. It got in Texas this year. Yeah,
and a lot of them fish were inside the piel
c jettys.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Oh wow, Okay, I don't doubt that at all, and
in there there every year.

Speaker 8 (26:15):
But they stayed a long time because you know, the
open beach. I mean there was some schools. Don't get
me wrong. These kids all call me and ask me. Yeah,
they kind of slow this year. I said, look, I've
seen it slow, I've seen it good. I said, you know,
y'all fish the last two years I didn't catch very
many because I spent most of my time driving away

(26:36):
from the boat. So no, I didn't do very good.
But as far as numbers of fish, really really good.
Hey there's a dove just laying in my dacoy right there.
And but this year is different. I've seen it like this,
and usually when it's like this, it's it don't last.
But one year, you know, I went to Louise Ana

(26:57):
because of this.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah, yeah, because.

Speaker 8 (27:00):
I taught to Brian. I taught to a lot of people,
and you know, I thought the Brian morri in southeast
is a lot probably every day because to get to us,
they got to come through him.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 8 (27:10):
And he found some fish yesterday and he's caught some
good ones. But overall it's been slow.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Okay, uh, let's let's let's just not worry about this season.
I want to get into something with you that I
don't hear talked about much. Uh James Flogg, by the
way on Doug Pike Show, talk about the gear you
use and how you rig it to fish for tarpa
in these days, man, we.

Speaker 8 (27:35):
Read just like he was gonna go bill fishing. You know,
we troll spread of four to five rods, and you know,
I got I got backing on it. I got thirty
pound main line. I use eighty foot petder, which what
we call a wind on, twenty four foot wind on

(27:55):
to a stamp Oa cross lock only certain kind I used,
and a six butt lead and that's my trolling set up,
and my cashing rods or they're they're heavy, they're let's
just pick a braid number sixty five to two hundred.
I think this one of them is. Yeah, And I
use the Stromano trunks, and there's probably other reels. I

(28:16):
don't work for Samana nothing, and they're all junk too.
I destroy them every year on sixty five pound braid.
And then I go to a twenty five foot a
power pro wind on, which is kind of thing, but
you can wire off of it. You just got to
be careful. You can't trap all up in it. Yeah,

(28:38):
and then on from there an FG not to about
a six foot one hundred pound flour carment leader.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
I don't work. I don't work. What's at the end
of all that?

Speaker 8 (28:51):
And I use several different hooks. I use a Mustad
three nine nine five oh hook and then I'll bounce
back and forth between a standard sixteen oh. The sixteen
old Mustads are built a little bit different they used
to that that point comes out real more. So I'll
kind of work on them. I'll file them a little bit,
you know, when I got time, so I'll file down.

(29:11):
You know, fifteen or twenty hooks, fifteen or twenty hucks
last me all year. Right now, I ain't going through
very many.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Can get you started next season, huh.

Speaker 8 (29:20):
I'll be ready for next year, man. But it's uh,
it's been tough. Yesterday we saw one school of fish
and there and this has happened the last old four
or five trips, and they're all in there with these bullreds. Yesterday,
the bull rids. You just had to reel everything in. Yeah,
I mean you can't even you can't troll up to

(29:40):
where you've seen the fish because you got a bull
red fish and everything. And we still caught twenty and
I try to reel everything in, and then I don't
see nothing else. Man. I got home at six o'clock.
I never saw nose school of fish. And that's why
it's been.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Is anybody today, does anybody throw live bait at these tarping.

Speaker 8 (29:59):
Not he in Galveston ran Doug, Yeah, but there's too
many sharks. Doug me about that. There's just too many
sharks to fish with any kind of bag you can.
I did it.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
I did it for years.

Speaker 8 (30:15):
One year I jumped ninety four tarping. I think I
caught sixty two. And this ain't no bragging. This summer
I went through twelve hundred circle hooks. So due to
mass go because I worked from my dad at that time,
they send you a sleeve of ten boxes, wrapped up
and celebrating. I went through them, and I went to

(30:36):
Smittyes and bought two more boxes.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Lord.

Speaker 8 (30:41):
And when I learned, and when I learned how to
really fish for tarking and Louisana, because I was going
over there fishing and then we're coming back doing what
we do, I said, man, why can't I do what
I do over there here? Because I can't catch any
more sharks. I can't do it, boy. And it worked
this year, and we were just talking about that, just

(31:01):
like I'm talking about Galveston. I fished South a little bit.
I ain't fish really fishing Galaston in three years. But
there again I had to get away from the boats.
I can deal with, you know, twenty thirty boats. And
so I fished.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Here this year.

Speaker 8 (31:19):
And man, there's just there's no bio mass of nothing.
I mean more red fish, and they're hard to find.
I say hard to find. I'm not looking for him,
but I am because the tarpents are with them and
it's hard to You just don't see no sharks jumping.
I saw they go bowl sharp and middle of red
fish yesterday.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (31:37):
It's just like, I don't know, something's different. The currents
are different. Something's different. But it's coast wide, it's not
just Galveston.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, something something's different.

Speaker 8 (31:48):
I talked to my buddy Coon Sweat, probably want the
best turbon fish in my note in Louisanna. He said
there's no fish on the west side of the river.
He said, there's millions of them on the east side
of the river, and he knows. He said, they're not
here yet. I'm like, it's like August to twentieth. Yeah, really,
he said, he said, I'm just telling you they ain't here. Well,

(32:08):
I noticed. I didn't talk to him, but I saw
maybe like three or four days ago, they had a
couple of big days. And I know where he's fishing,
and that is on the west side of the river. Okay,
so you know, I fishing this year, out fishing late.
I'm going miss still like over the fifteenth, so we'll see.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, I think that's a good idea. What was it,
there's a sea monster.

Speaker 8 (32:29):
There's a steam monster out there.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Oh you know it. That's exactly what everybody's looking for.
I don't care where you're fishing, you're looking for the
sea monster. Man that's been looking for him. Buddy, how's
your boy doing? Speaking of sea monsters, he's got bigger
fish and both of us combined, I.

Speaker 8 (32:43):
Think, man, he's caught more billfish and ice catching. Try out, man,
they blew an engine last trip. I got thirty miles
from Pa. Ain't blue an engine. So they're shutting down
for the season. And he was I think he was
leading big game deal and he was kind of you know,
he don't ever say nothing about that, but I know

(33:04):
what he wanted to win it.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, I'm sure he did.

Speaker 8 (33:07):
He was kind of saying when they went down. So
they'll probably be back end of October probably, I mean
back back running.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Give me two more minutes. What do you think of
the three trout limit?

Speaker 8 (33:23):
Ah, Doug, you don't make me a hill of beans.
This is just my opinion. It doesn't.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Okay, but from.

Speaker 8 (33:29):
Three to two, I mean from from five to three,
who cares? I mean, that's it's minuscule, and it's and
I've said this before. I think five of anything is sufficient.
I don't care what it is. Yeah, yeah, I think
it's fair. It doesn't hurt the resource. Uh three, don't

(33:50):
make me there? Half My guys don't even keep no fish.
Yeah you know.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
And so I'm so glad you hit. You said that
because most of the guys i'm talking to now that
I grew up riding around with and fishing with you
and Mickey and Blaine and man, I don't have time
to name all the guys who are nice enough to
let me fish with them. But we've caught enough fish,
and now the people who are coming up behind us

(34:15):
are saying, you know what, the resource is more important
than my belly, and I'm gonna let them go. And
I'm glad to see that.

Speaker 8 (34:24):
We talked about this on your show maybe a couple
of years ago, when this thing first happened, and I said,
you can't regulate yourself into no fishery.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
You can't.

Speaker 8 (34:33):
Yeah, you have to change the mindset. And I use
this example. You tell me how many dead dog shots
you see a bass?

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Yeah, that's exactly right. None, buddy, you don't you better
not put you better not put one up there. They'll
come looking for you.

Speaker 8 (34:47):
They're gonna come get you. And when you have that
mindset and it changes, it makes everything better.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (34:54):
But I'd be a fool to say it's not helping.
I mean, I mean, three's less than five.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Yeah, yeah, it's helping.

Speaker 8 (35:02):
In the grand scheme of things, it won't matter. And
you're coming off of that freeze in twenty twenty one.
It knocked these fish in the dirt. Nobody believes it,
but I saw it.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Oh, I don't doubt it at all.

Speaker 8 (35:12):
Yeah, it'll be good with our fish in this spring,
in this summer, or the winter through the spring summer.
When I quit, it was really good. And I gazed
my trips by this. We just played the game. Okay,
there's our five. We've caught fifteen, all right, let's go
old limit. Okay, we've caught thirty. And I did that
a bunch. Yeah wow. And I told my guys, I said, look, man,

(35:36):
we still call thirty. They just standing in there dead.
They're like, well, you're right, I said, I'll go a
fish to eat.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, yeah, it is that. If you want more fish
to eat, then go fishing again. What better excuse? You
know that it come back.

Speaker 8 (35:50):
Or we'll catch it wounder or whatever. You know. But
it's been good the fishing, the trap fishing. Will it'd
be really good this fall. I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
I am too, all right, it's been way too long, man.
We need to figure out a way to at least
sit down and just shoot the breeze at the dock. Sometime.
I'll drive down there. I see you.

Speaker 8 (36:08):
Now, let's do it. We're gonna go for the fifteenth,
so I'm gonna catch a day. What's a good day
for you?

Speaker 1 (36:14):
I'm off Mondays, Okay.

Speaker 8 (36:18):
If I got a weather wind on a Monday between
nine and fifteenth, I'm gonna call you. Iall want you
to go with my guy Larry to fish.

Speaker 5 (36:24):
With me a lot.

Speaker 8 (36:24):
Oh great guy, you betty. We'll have a good.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Time, all right, man, Thank you Captain Hi Douglas audio friend, Yes, sir,
thank you audios. A lot of trolling, huh, A lot
of trolling for tarping. That's something that we never did
when when all of this started in earnest after it
was either eighty three or eighty nine. Freeze just knocked
the speckled trout off the map, and the guides had

(36:50):
to find something to do, and they started tarping fishing,
and it's evolved here to something really, really good. When
it's right, it's one of those things. It's almost kind
of like bill fishing. You're not gonna get one every
time you go. You're not, But when it's hot, it's
hotter than bill fishing, So it's cool. Shooter's Corner, Palmer
Highway twenty ninth Street in Texas City owners nod buddy

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of mine, Jerry TK. He and his son have been
there for more than forty years now. Jay's in his
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ever met. They've taken care of so many of my
listener's gun issues over the years. I just plenty. Every
time I send somebody down there, they either call me
or I called down there to the store and asked

(37:33):
Jerry and Jay, and it's like, yeah, they took care
of me and didn't charge me half as much as
the other guy said they were gonna do. So, if
you've got a picky gun problem. That's the place to
take it, for sure. They've got plenty of guns, plenty
of Ammo, plenty of Camo optics, reloading supplies, everything you
can imagine it would be in a gun store, and
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(37:56):
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Speaker 4 (38:11):
Good.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
He's fifty on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening. Welcome back as promised, poor old Dave.
I hope he didn't fall asleep over there. That's wherever
he may be. Let me get my mouse over here,
and there we go, Dave, what's up, buddy? Thanks for
hanging on.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
No I no, I enjoyed it. And boy, it's great
to play second toodle behind Captain James blog about that
and then and then uh, and now I want to
tell his son, uh, Captain Kate camera, do not never
give up, keep going and trying, just readgear everything. And

(38:47):
then get back and then jump up and do it again.

Speaker 8 (38:50):
You know.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
That's all I got to say about it.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Yeah, yeah, I just don't keep going.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
Hey will you can't give up and like never give
up as one of those things we talked now. Oh uh,
yesterday my wife, Uh, she got a windfall and then
she's like, all right, we're going to Belleville. Yeah, we went.

(39:14):
We broke the back bed, and so we went and
got a big old giant. Ice said she got a
freezer coming in there between ken and something tomorrow and
I'm at the lake right now. Yeah. So so we
got all that in a brand in a brand new
one of them seven day Coons or whatever. Thank god.
Yeah I can. I can take that with us when

(39:35):
we go camping or something. But anyway, uh we we
said we spent a plethora of money in there. But
I tell you what the best hay, the best money
this Doug was uh on that barbecue sandwich with sausage
with the hallopeen of cheese, and yeah, oh man, you

(39:58):
don't even you really don't need the barbecue sauce. But
when I take you to the barbecue sauce, it's got the
onions in their main.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
Hey, I don't know what they're doing. It been there
like thirty five forty years. You can't. You can't mess
up if you're going to be in business that long.

Speaker 5 (40:13):
Oh hey, I'm telling him. Give it to that guy
over there. He taught a big catfish over here right
now where one of the holes that I bade it
up nice telling him hold on, hold on, let me
go down to win. Hey, give it to him over there,
all right, yeah, because I mean, man, it was it
was a big well see now that's what I liked

(40:34):
about over here. We were all elbow to elbow kind
of sort of.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
The guy that the guy that I told him to
go give it to, he was here with his wife
and then my two buddies their fish here, and I've
been teaching him about throwing the range steams out and everything. Yeah, man,
and uh and then uh, I said, man, I already
got that I play Oh, I use that play knife
on that catfish I caught, and I got it all done.

(40:59):
It's like a loaf of that this afternoon. But then, uh, yeah,
I tell you, you know, it's just a lot of
friends here, and it's better than somebody hogging up the
whole side over here, you know, uh, you know, like.

Speaker 8 (41:13):
Two or three people.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
But other than that, you just had some wisty little
clouds out here, the waters rolling a little bit.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you how much wind you
got up there?

Speaker 5 (41:24):
You think, well, the trees are not. The trees are not.
I'm looking to see pine trees. They even hardy doing.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Anything more of a breeze.

Speaker 8 (41:36):
Than a wind.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Wait, hold on, Yeah, just a little bit of tom
rom out the core here. Yeah, just a little bit
of breeze. But uh yeah, we uh go. And last
night there was a dad with his sons out here
and they were going out at dark Man and they
were jagged out and everything, and they were doing bass
fish Man. And they may be listening this morning, you know,

(42:01):
because I know the list pike on you know seven.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Seven you bet, you bet?

Speaker 5 (42:07):
Now I tell you what. And I told them about
the top water and then the the firetail purple firetail
worm with a chat the brig after that. If they
don't this time.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Of year, you can you can cover a lot of water.
You can cover a lot of water with spinner baits
too this time of year and do pretty well. You
really can.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
I told them about that always. There was a couple
over here that I well, I gave them for their tears.
I gave one of them, uh spinner bait with a
black and yellow it's eight and eh little oh yeah, sure, yeah,
that's that's classic there around. Sometimes you got to work
it slow, slow, and then sometimes you need to do

(42:47):
it fastened and stop, let it drop and pick it up.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
The fish will tell you if you if you have
a lure you like and you're pretty confident that it's
going to be on their menu that day, they'll tell
you how they want it. They may want it super fast,
they may want it super slow, like a hop and
stop thing, kind of like you were talking about. But
they'll let you know. And then once you patter them out, buddy,
you're gonna start catching more. Thank goodness.

Speaker 8 (43:13):
Hey.

Speaker 5 (43:13):
One of the one of the young men over here says, man,
I'm go fishing on golf courses. I never heard of it.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Does I have no idea what he's talking about. I
haven't fished on a golf course in two days.

Speaker 5 (43:30):
He goes there because they were talking down the line
over here where we were fishing, and he's like, man,
I'm go fishing on this golf Then they started talking, Hey, man,
if you ever been fishing over at this place or
that's what I like about the camaraderie yep of good fishermen,
you know, and otherwise people that just want to If

(43:50):
you go to somewhere where they tell you where to finish,
you don't know if you're going to catch nothing.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
No, you never do nothing. And a good fisherman will share.
The better they are, the more information they'll share because
they know that. And the average newcomer kind of doesn't know.
The good fisherman knows that he knows a whole lot
more than they're going to ask him about, even spots.
The best fisherman in the bays. If somebody says, oh, yeah,

(44:19):
I heard you fished over here yesterday. I'm going there tomorrow.
Look fine, because I got forty other spots I can
go to. It doesn't it just it shouldn't bother you
at all. It's flattering. If somebody asked me a question
about fishing, I feel and I feel very responsible about
the answers I give them.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
You know, oh I know, and you know, be honest
and be true and do the best you can with
what you've done. And you know, if it's two inches,
don't say it's fifteen inches. No, and then uh, and hey,
when you go with the captain plugg or they're fishing,
tell him I said, hey, give him my handshake from me.
I mean, I know I'm mad a bunch of times.

(44:57):
It's fishing.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Oh yeah, I'm sure. Can Let me ask you this,
when you and James Flogg are standing there talking, how
long before either one of you takes a breath? Because
I know the two of you standing there talking together,
that's a lot talking.

Speaker 5 (45:13):
I got another one here, yeah, hang on, yeah, put
that in my bucket over here, just a big cats
I can play out.

Speaker 1 (45:25):
You're gonna start running guide trips out of your pickup truck.
Is that what you're doing? Lord, Hey, I got a run. Man,
I'm at the top of the hour. It's been a
hoot talking to you again this morning. I'll see buddy, Yes, sir, audios,
God bless oh my word. He is. He's like the

(45:47):
conductor of an orchestra. Frankie, you can relate to that.
He's got the horn section over here, he's got the
the strings over here. Man, Uh, what's in that cup?
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(46:09):
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cigars are hand rolled and made. He's got a couple
of other Cuban people in there helping him and working
with him make sure they get all those cigars out.

(46:30):
They do about one hundred and fifty different varieties, every
one of them slightly different in the tobacco that you
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He'll take a phone order. All you got to do
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(46:51):
and he'll pick it up and he will he will
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messing with Mark over there in Georgia. He sent me
that note about his ninety nine year old dad. All
of them out there, all of them out there playing golf,
would have been cool to have some happy birthday dad
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(47:13):
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Lopez can make them for you, and they're not going
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(47:33):
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(47:55):
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(48:18):
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Now here's Doug Fike. All right, second hour. The program
starts right now, second and final on a Sunday. Three
hour Saturdays, two hour Sunday. That's that's good. This gives
me a little extra sleep on a Saturday night, which

(48:39):
is welcomed after being in here as many days as
I am. I want to before I talk about golf.
I know we've got the Ryder Cup coming up at
the end of the week, and I don't want to
I'm not going to ignore that. But I also want
to go back to something that we talked about briefly
yesterday when the story popped up about outbreak a bibrio.

(49:03):
It's not an outbreak. It's just a higher number of
cases than usual, which is how averages are made. Some
years more, some years fewer. And I don't want anybody
to get overly concerned about this, but they have had
some cases, and several people have died over it. I
believe the number is six over this summer, and that's

(49:28):
six too many. Obviously, I don't want anybody to succumb
to this horrible, horrible, fast moving problem that is it's there,
this bacteria is there in warm salt water around the world,
and that opens up potential exposure to a whole lot

(49:49):
of people who enjoy their summers and springs and falls
and winters. For a lot of us in the water somehow,
some way shape or form warm salt water Vibrio magnificus.
They go hand in hand. But all of that warm
salt water isn't just absolutely inundated with the stuff. I

(50:09):
would dare say that around some parts of the world
there's a lot there's stuff that's almost equally nasty in
the water to go along with the vibrio. But Vibrio works.
It finds its way into our systems. Let's just kind

(50:30):
of define it and say what it is and what
it does. It finds our way into our systems, usually
through cuts or scrapes. Now, there is also the chance
that you can contract it from eating raw or undercooked seafood,
but don't let that scare you. And raw oysters have

(50:50):
been every now and then somebody contracts vibrio of vibrio
infection from raw oysters. But again, it's it's a it's
air condition, it really is, and I don't want I
don't want you to take it lightly. What I want
to do is make sure that you know enough to
know how to deal with it. If you, or anybody
else you know, suddenly shows flu like symptoms, redness and

(51:15):
swelling at that site where the little wound or scrape
or cut might have been, there's gonna be a little
bit longer, and not long, not that much longer, maybe
a day or two, there's going to start. There will
be an appearance of some necrosis, a little kind of
black looking basically dead tissue. And if any of those

(51:39):
things pop up for you, if you're enjoying a week
at the beach, having a blast, and suddenly somebody feels
just feels horrible for no good reason. You haven't been anywhere,
you hadn't been around anybody else, take them to the hospital.
Tell them that whatever this is potentially could have come
Fromsure to Salt Water. And look there's a little scrape

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they had on their leg and that's piers. That's the
reddest part, and it's all swollen up and starting to
look nasty. As I mentioned yesterday, a surgeon that I
talked to who was really on the forefront of vibrio
b twenty five, thirty years ago, when I was still
writing about it a lot for the paper and for
several magazines. That guy said, if you go to a

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hospital and tell them that this is a salt water
born infection, pretty you're pretty sure that you contracted it
in salt water, and you feel horrible, and look there's
this big nasty looking spot where the stuff got into me.
If they don't rush you into a room and hook
up a half a dozen IV bags, just get up

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and leave. If they say just sit here, we'll get
with you in a minute, just get up and leave
and go somewhere else and keep going until you find
somebody that will that will put you into bed and
get you started on it anibiotics. It's that serious once
the infection takes hold up until then. Again, the best
defense if you get a scrape and you're well, If

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you get a scrape, a bad scrape and you're weight fishing,
get out of the water and like I said yesterday again,
in your car, in your boat, wherever you have a
gallon jug of water, still water, and you duct tape
to that a little pump bottle of soap or a
bar of soap still in its package. Soap and water

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best defense at all that surgeon and several others in
his after interviewing him and starting to interview other people.
You don't have to use hydrogen peroxide. You don't have
to use alcohol. In fact, this good old soap and water,
a good scrub and kind of like the singing Mary

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Had a Little lamb twice or the Happy Birthday Song twice,
which are both about the most anybody can do that,
And just keep scrubbing those bubbles into that wound. Just
keep scrubbing and scrubbing and getting that soap in there,
prints it very thoroughly, and then put an airy bad
like some gauze on it or something like that, tape

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that on there so the air can still get to
it and dry it up, but the bad stuff ought
to be gone. If you're going to the beach, have
fun at the beach, Just keep your eyes open for
the next twenty four hours or so and make sure
you don't develop anything. Again, I'm not trying to scare anybody.
I just I want you to be respectful of the

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things that are out there, because there's all kinds of stuff.
When I was doing all these stories on vibrio, I
was talking to one doctor and he said, if you
think that's crazy, you ought to see the stuff that's
in fresh water. Oh great, Now I can't get in
the lake, right, No, you can get in the lake.
Just be very careful and cautious and proactive. If suddenly
some unforeseen symptom pops up, especially if it has to

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do with fever or aches and pains flew like symptoms,
that's enough of that, it really is. And oh, by
the way, if you've got minor cuts and scrapes and
you are going to be going to the beach or whatever,
grab a bottle of that liquid bandage stuff and seal
it up. Just cover it with that stuff, use it liberally,
make sure it's good and dry before you get in

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the water, and that'll keep that stuff from getting out
getting into your body as well. And as I said yesterday,
almost covered with that stuff isn't the same as covered.
Don't feel like you got a scrimp on that stuff,
and it just barely go to the edges of whatever
the problem is. Goly safety. Sam on patrol every day

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gun safety for hunting season. I can't emphasize that enough
and knock on wood. Haven't heard of anybody having any
trouble here in Texas this year so far, all those
dove hunts that went down between September first and now,
somebody got sprayed with pellets. I can guarantee you, especially
on the more birds are in the field, the more

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likely somebody's gonna get sprayed. Because you're gonna be out
there walking around, walking out from where you've been to
go pick up a dove that you shot. And if
you don't announce that you're getting up, hey man, I'm
gonna be out here in front for a couple of
minutes looking for a bird. You're out there and that
person doesn't know you've left where you were where he
knows it's not safe to shoot, but it used to

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be safe where you're poking around in the brush and
leaning over and maybe not plainly visible because you're in
full camo. That might encourage, That will not encourage, but
it might allow that person to feel comfortable swinging that
gun freely through what was a safe zone while you
were sitting in your chair, your little rocking chair in

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the shade. If you're going out and I'll tell you.
Something else that I've seen guys do is bring two hats.
They bring a camouflage cap to where when they're sitting
there in their little stool, on the stool or in
the chair, in the shade, or wherever they're hiding, and
then they bring in an orange cap for when they go
looking for birds. And anybody that tells you to take

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that off because it's scaring birds, tell them, no thanks.
While I'm while I'm looking for birds, I want to
make sure you knuckleheads know where I am. That's that's
a very simple fix. Even just anything that will draw
attention to you and make sure that they know you're there.
They could save you, save some skin. Who knows, save

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an eye. I have a very good good friend, a
longtime friend. Haven't seen him in a long time, I'll
confess to that. And that's that's both our faults. I
don't know why. We both love the outdoors. We both
had enjoyed it together for many many years. But he
he took a pellet to an eye and lost sight
in that eye a long time ago, long time ago,

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on a quail hunt. And I don't know what the
circumstances worse surrounding it, But it seems like anything like
that probably would have been avoidable. And I'm just making
sure that you know as best I can. I'm gonna
keep planting these seeds in your head to make sure
there's you take advantage of every opportunity you can to

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stay safe when you're out there around guns, because there's
no It's not like you get to get a hook
in the arm like I did a couple of days ago. Now,
oh that's too bad, and got a barble's hook. I
just push it out and I'm done. That's not how
hunting accidents end up usually seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot
com when we get back. I'm gonna talk about a

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conversation I heard this morning on the PGA Tour Network
coming in about the different motivations and the and the
different UH reasons people take private golf lessons, and some
of them might surprise you. It was very interesting on
the way out speaking of golf. Black Horse Golf Club
up there off two ninety and Fry Road. Go to
that intersection and hang a and then go two two

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and a half miles, hang a west and that'll be
the gate for a black Horse Golf Club. You can't
miss it. You'll know it when you see it, and
once you get in there, you'll realize that everybody on
the property who's wearing a little name tag, whether they're
in the pro shop or in the grill, or at
the far end of the range working lessons or riding
around in a cart full of delicious fun things to

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make your round a little more enjoyable. Whoever that person
is that that's the reason they're there, is to make
you happy, to make sure you get your full experience
out of that North Course still daily fees, South Course Private.
Now for the better part of what is this the
ninth month for nine months? Black Horse Golf Club dot
com is the website. You can make a tea time

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there right now. I guarantee you're going to have a
good time. Black Horse Golf Club dot com. Riceland Waterfowl
Club waterfowl season opened yesterday, like it or not, and
most of the people out there liked it quite a bit.
There was plenty of water to hunt, plenty of birds
flying around. Pretty sure they all had a pretty good time.

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Riceland's been around for fifty years, five zero years. That's
a long loan, that's longer than most of you guys
have been around. And David Pruitt has made sure over
those fifty years that he does the absolute best job
he can to get people into the all they're groups
of hunters, up to six man groups, and if you

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have say three of your group who want to go
tomorrow but nobody else does, well, then you can bring
three friends no extra charge. So what he does is
he has a fantastic system where everybody knows where everybody
sends in where they want to hunt. First, I think
it's first six choices of all the blinds they're going
to have during the regular season, and then he goes

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through there and somehow he's got some algorithm somewhere now,
probably in the twenty first century, but he makes sure
that everybody over the course of the season gets about
an equal number of first, second, third, four choices, whatever
it was, So everybody ends up getting a lot of birds,
having a lot of fun and enjoying the experience. At

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Riceland Waterfowl Club, plenty of lines at least a quarter
mile apart, plenty of water out there, and no guided hunting.
That's something I really appreciate about his his business model,
because that's something that kind of messes up a lot
of a lot of groups over the years that have
had a little bit of both going on. Ricelandwaterfowl Club

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dot Com is a website. Go check it out. He's
still I talked to him yesterday, talk to him on
the show. You can go back and listen to the podcast.
He's still got a little room for a few more members,
but it's not going to be there forever. Riceland Waterfowl
Club dot Com nine twenty three on Sports Talk seven
to ninety just sharing some interesting outdoors news with Frankie.

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Not really, but it's nothing of the show. Where do
I want to go from here? Oh yeah, I promise
going back to that. It was interesting Jeff Warren. And
there was a guy from Oh gosh, I wish I
could remember his name. I'm so so sorry about that
because he's one of like Tommy O'Brien to whom we
talked yesterday from out at Blackhawk. He was named by

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Golf Digest one of the up and coming young Well,
Tommy was named one of the top teachers in Texas.
This guy's up in the northeast and he was named
one of the top young guys coming up in golf instruction,
and that guy and Jeff and I'm sure Tommy would
say the same thing. We're talking about some of the

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different reasons and motivations people have for taking private lessons,
And there was some surprise for me in knowing that
every now and then these guys will get a player,
a golfer, especially some of the country club members who
really want little more than to just kind of stand

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there and hit balls in front of the instructor and
talk about how the world's going and maybe maybe sneak
in one or two little tips to work on. But
it's almost like therapy for some of these people. And
if I'm if I'm getting a lesson, I want to
hear that guy talking about what's wrong with me and

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my golf swing, and that me and my golf swing thing.
By the way, that's I'll throw that in because a
lot of times the two of them agreed to a
lot of times some of what's wrong with your golf
game might be part of maybe the stresses of everyday
life for you, maybe your work, maybe your there's some

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family issue or whatever. And again, these these instructors aren't
supposed to be therapists, but they hear a lot and
they have to. They have to put that into the
backs of their minds when they're trying to sort out
what's wrong with the guy's game. Maybe you suggest I
don't know what they suggest, but the bottom line, because

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that's why they're instructors and I'm just a hopeless hack
on the golf course. But the bottom line is it
was interesting to hear that. And the instruction that the
better golfers tend to get and tend to want is
very specific points about little things in their swings. It's

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one thing to be a brand new golfer and out
there just trying to figure out what the stance looks like,
what the grip looks like, what posture looks like, all
of that stuff. Make sure I've talked about this long enough.
I am no golf instructor, okay, but I've listened and
interviewed enough times really good instructors, some of the best

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in the world. And the one thing I can I've
taken away from that and can add and share for
anybody who's thinking about taking up the game. Number One,
you don't have to buy the most expensive clubs and
clubs aren't going to give you a game. If you're
super super good and you understand exactly how golf clubs

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work and what your swing and your body type and
all of that bring to that bag of clubs, then
you might want to choose one club over another. If
you're new to the game, you don't need to go
out and buy new clubs. First of all, you can
go to a lot of places and get pre owned
clubs that will serve you well through your first few lessons.

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Make sure the grips are good. Make sure there's no
visible rust on what you're buying, because rust on golf
clubs pretty much comes from the inside out. So if
there's visible rust on the outside of those clubs, there's
a snap into just waiting to happen. So you get
your clubs, you make sure they've got good grips on them,

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and you can You can DYI golf grips easily. You
don't even have to have special tools. There are a
couple of special tools that will help, but you don't
have to have them. So do that. Make sure you've
got good grips. Then find someplace somewhere, somehow, a group setting,
maybe or an inexpensive maybe half hour lesson. Just say, look,

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set me up, tell me how to stand, tell me
how to start the club back, tell me how to
start it through, and then hit a bunch of golf balls.
And you're not going to hit very many of them.
Well that's an impossible dream, but you'll start to make
some contact anyway. First objective is to get the ball
in the air, and a lot of times that's not

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the easiest thing in the world to do because people
just don't understand the instruction they're getting. But once you
get a little bit of an idea of how to
move the club through the ball and get the ball
up in the air, then invest a little bit more
in lessons. You still don't have to Oh lord, I
bet I know. Man, Yeah, hold on, I can't do that.

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I would love to answer that phone, but I can't.
It's a golf pro. It's a golf pro trying to
call me, and I'd love to talk to him, and
I'll probably do it after this break. I'll tell you what.
Then let me shut my mouth because he's probably gonna
tell me I'm all wrong, and I'll try to get
him on the phone. And then in this next segment,
and when I do, I'll let him explain it way

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better than I probably would. All right, timnesssy, let me
tell you again about Shooter's Corner. I wanted to hit
it again this week and let you know that in
addition to the guns, the AMO, the hunting stuff, all
of that, you can get your license at Shooter's Corner.

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That's where I got mine last year. I did my
OWD by this this year, I actually did it online.
Hang on one second, hey, Frankie, can you grab that?
Thank you? Oh he's busy, he's got so much going on.
Jerry and JTK down at Shooter's Corner, they run and
have run for forty years or more, an old school
gun store. If you don't know what one of those

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smells like, if you've never been in any gun store before,
and you want to experience that because you're fascinated by
the shooting sports, but you really don't know where to start.
Start at Shooter's Corner if you're on the north or
the south side down there, and they'll make sure you
get what you want. Everybody in there is qualified to
help you if you ask for Jerry or Jay, and
if neither of them is there say okay, well here's

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what I need anyway. And all the guys who work
in there are great. They'll take care of you new guns,
pre owned guns, all them for anything you shoot, reloading supplies, optics,
everything you know. Forty plus years and if you wear
a badge for a living, you get a discount. These
shooters Corner TX dot com the Shooters cornertx dot com.

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If you're anywhere on the south Side and thinking about
golf today, think about Timber Creek f M twenty three
point fifty one, about two three miles west of the
Gold Freeway in Friendswood twenty seven holes, which makes it
easier to get more people out there themselves. Every single
morning that they do that, which is seven days a week.
They have great food and the grill. Get yourself a

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little breakfast taco or something like that before an early
morning round, or maybe come in and get a little
more refined meal out of them. That have a great
staff in there. They'll take care of you from soup
to nuts. Teaching staff's great. That's JJ Woods and his
crew over in that building next to the next to

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the practice range. They've got a nice facility for people
to meet after a tournament where they've been out there
four or five hours, raising money for a great cause
and having a good time. Everybody there like any good
golf course, fantastic teaching staff, fantastic pro shop people. I've
been going down there for since they opened. I was

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on the actually I was on the team when Eddie
Sefco and I went down there, played all twenty seven
holes the same day, played the first thir eighteen and thought,
you know, this is really good. We really should we're here,
Let's go ahead and play the other nine. And we did,
and we liked them all. And I can't remember exactly
what he wrote about the place that was before I
was doing the reviews, but whatever it was, I can

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assure you it was. It was favorable, great place, a
lot of fun, very playable too. You don't have to
be you don't have to be Scottie Scheffer to play
well and have fun at timber Creek Timbercreek Golf Club
dot com. You can set a tea time right now,
right there, timber Creek Golf Club dot Com, nine thirty
six on Sports Talk seven ninety I kind of figured

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he'd figure it out for himself. When Lane Rix called
me on my cell phone. I'd start talking about golf instruction,
and I'm sure he was just going, Oh, dear God,
make him be quiet. Let's go see what he's got
to say about it. Lane, what's up.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Many, Good morning, Doug, buddy.

Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
I'm all right. Was I even close to write about
what I was saying?

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
Oh? Yeah, you think I got to have a good
quality golf instruction? Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
I take lessons.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
I mean I've been a PGA member now for like
thirty eight years, and I when I when my stuff
starts going bad, I go see somebody. I usually go through,
maybe Brian Smith over at Longwood. He's got, you know,
really good stuff over there. And and yeah, it's it's
such a hard game. If you don't get started, if
you don't get started right too, you could spend years

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toiling around on the reins, just never making any progress.
I always tell everybody, Oh yeah, I always tell everybody,
you know, take six or twelve lessons over a three
month period and when you're getting started, just to just
to get some learning momentum going, because it's it's such
a I mean, you know, it's a hard game.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
It really is, well and something that I learned from
my brother in law who he went through Rice on
a golf scholarship and still plays. He's close to my
age and your age, and he's still like a two
or something about some somewhere in there and complaining about it.
But every time he's taking a lesson, and he's taking
a lot of them from a lot of good people.
He takes lessons every now and then from Jim Murphy

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down there at Sugar Creek. He takes notes. Yeah, he
goes home and takes notes and files them away and
refers to them often.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
I've got two of these books that I've had in
my golf bag for about thirty years, these little books,
and I've got lessons in there that I've I mean,
I've been fortunate, you know, to see some pretty world
class instructure, and I've got notes in there, and maybe
older than that. They may be like moleskin books. Keep
them in my bag, chisel table, keep notes. Yeah, and

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I've got notes in there dated who I.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
Mean, I've taken lessons from you name it, man.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
I've got notes in there from Dick Harmon. I've got
butch Harmon.

Speaker 4 (01:12:45):
I've got you know, back in.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
The old days, I was, you know, Jaya Bear. I mean,
I've got some notes in there. You know, people told
me some stuff, and I go back, I look at
that book. I look at those two books probably once
a year while I'm on the rains, just filling through them.
And what I always find, what I'm always find is
it's amazing how consistently I'm making the same mistake and
making the same note that I made twenty years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
That's incredible, it really is.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
I'm still I'm still struggling through the same thing I
was struggling through twenty years ago. And a lot of
a lot of golfers are like that. I mean, I yeah,
you know, uh okay, yeah, I mean, good instruction.

Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
Answer me this? Uh is it? Is it fair to
say that if people are taking their first couple of
lessons from a friend who's a twenty handicap, that's what
he's teaching them to be.

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
Uh well yeah, because you they're not.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
They somebody like that's not going.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
To get right?

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
What the most you know, Claude Harmon used to say, look,
if you got cancer and a cold, I'm gonna treat
the cancer first.

Speaker 1 (01:13:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:13:55):
Yeah, And it's the same thing in.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
A golf swing. If you've got you've got a bad grip,
that's really hard to overcome. Good that's really hard to
overcome with anything else. If you've got a good grip
to start with, I mean, you're way ahead of the
curve man, You're ahead of the game. So and it's
just so critically important. So I'm just, uh, I mean, obviously,

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I've done that for a living, so I'm yeah, you know,
but but I but I believe, you know, I believe
you've just got to do it, you know, absolutely, just absolutely.
Have you talked to.

Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
Faux pro lately or not talked to him yesterday? Talk
to him yesterday, said go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
I haven't talked to him in a month and a
half or so. Oh wow, But it's I haven't been
up there but once in the last two months. I've
been too busy at work.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Now. I think he poked a little flag into his
yard and got a piece of astro turf or something
and he's been hitting balls at it. But I don't
know how that's.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
I got him hooked up with a set of clubs
the hotel.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
He's using them, so fingers cross, he probably got line
tied one of them using him to catch catfish or.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
Something that would not surprise me at all.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
Just dunk tape a ZEPCOA two O two onto.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
One of them was that that actually be pretty funny, funny.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
So probably probably better use to the equipment you gotta go.
It sounds like, yeah, you're a busy man. I know that.
I'm great to hear from you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
I'm running back. Good. Good to hear from you, buddy.
I'll let's get together soon.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
And I'll talk to you, yes, sir, audios?

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
All right, Steve bud uh huh.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
That's laying ricks out there at Meadowbrook Farms. That's a
fun track to play too. That's a good one right
off out there off of ninety nine, between between I
ten and south of there wherever uh off off ninety
nine and Fray Road, that's where it is. I could
remember the exit there just for a minute. I used
to live off Fray Road, much much farther north than

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where Meadowbrook is, though north of I ten many years ago.
First house I bought that was a fun little neighborhood too,
back then seven one three, two, one two five seven
ninety Email on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Ryder Cup. I'll talk about that a little bit when
we get back, and it just kind of discussed some
of the things that unfortunately, kind of like the discussion

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I had yesterday with Chris Hodge about it. Uh, the
the European team this year may have an edge over us.
We've got the ultimate weapon. We've got the world's number
one Scottie Scheffler, but we can't make him play twelve
rounds a day. That won't work. On the way out.

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for sixty plus years. I was I was very proud
to call Bill Carter, the man who created that company,
a friend of mine, A very good friend of mine.
For many years when I was writing at the paper,
and and as I came into doing what I'm doing here,
I could always on Bill for words of wisdom, always

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count on Bill to help me understand a certain change
in whatever gun or ammo or something that was going
on in that world. I knew that he knew his stuff,
and his family is carrying on that legacy of providing guns,
ammo and hunting stuff all over Houston. There's no Snorkels

(01:17:24):
in there. There's no footballs. There's no beach balls, just
the stuff you need to enjoy hunting and shooting and
the great outdoors. They've got a full service range and
gunsmithing available at that flagship store up on Treshwick. Two
more locations around town to make sure anybody and everybody
wherever you are, there's one in Pasadena's one all five

(01:17:45):
ten can get exactly what you need before we get
any deeper into hunting season. Got red tag sales going
on all over the stores now and at the online site.
The red tag sales show up there as well, stuff
that you you probably need and for sure are gonna
want when you see what's on sale and what those

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prices are. And by the way, they've got a range
day coming up next weekend on Saturday up at the
Trash Week store where there will be representatives from a
lot of the major gun makers out there giving you
a chance to test fire some of their new stuff.
Carterscountry dot Com. Go to that website, check it out.

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This is a great family of great people who have
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Welcome back. Nine forty eight on Sports Talk seven to
ninety at Doug Pike Show. Greatly appreciate your presence wherever

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you may be. Hopefully you're driving to go do something
fun somewhere in the out of doors. That's what I
plan to do this afternoon. I've got a couple of
things I have to do around the house. Must do well,
there should dos. They're not must does, but there should does.
And my wife and I are uh are working now

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toward just doing some stuff for ourselves and for the
house after for the last seventeen years doing mostly for
our son, and we're not gonna stop doing that, but
it's just time to time to change a few things up.
Time to well, there's a lot of things we need
to do. There's a long list. And yes, my garage

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is still on the list. For those of you who
are laughing and shouting at the radio right now, clear
out your garage. Man. You've been saying you'll do that forever.
It's like I'm like any other man. If you want
me to do something, I'll do it, and you don't
have to remind me every six months. It's gonna happen, Okay,
seven one, three, two, two five, seven ninety email me

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Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I mentioned the Ryder
Cup which will go on up there at Bethpage Black
this coming week. Well this week, we're already at the
end of the last week, so tomorrow is starting tomorrow morning,
it's officially Ryder Cup time up there at Bethpage Black,
where my buddy Chris Hdge lives, probably seven iron distance

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from the border. He'd had to hop over the fence
to get onto the property, but I was kind of
laughing with him yesterday. He said, it's really frustrating because
security is very tight, as it should be for something
like this, and the problem is that the streets around
there are blocked to make sure that people aren't sneaking in,

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make sure they're not coming in and parking in areas
that they just don't belong in public streets of public street.
I don't know what their laws are on parking in
particular neighborhoods and whatnot. But he lives there. It's his
address is on his driver's license, says I live here,

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and they've been giving him a little bit of a
hard time, even earlier than now on getting back to
his own home when he drives out of there. The
European team, and I've heard this discuss beyond just what
Chris and I talked about yesterday. The European team. Anybody
who grows up playing golf in Europe grows up playing

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a ton of match play. Anybody who grows up here
ends up playing an overwhelming percentage of stroke play rounds.
And they're two entirely different things, really, And the unfamiliarity

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with match play for the Americans. It's been talked about
every time the Ryder Cup comes up, but for whatever reasons,
I've heard it mentioned more this year than I have
in some years past, And it really is something to
think about because their match play makes up so much

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of the the the Ryder Cup format. Now, the singles
events come Sunday, that one on one stuff. Everybody knows
how those things work. Uh, they can. They can turn
on a dime, one up with four to play, and
then suddenly you turn around and you're two down with
one to play. And that's that's something that these guys

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are gonna have to They're gonna have to kind of
shift their their brains into a different gear, I think,
to get through. If if the Americans are gonna have
a chance to win. I gosh, I'm not gonna root
against my own team. There's no way. I want our guys.
I want Scheffer at all two and and Keegan and
all those guys to to win this year. And we have.

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There's talent there. There's talent on both teams. There always is.
It's the Ryder Cup, for heaven's sakes. But these guys,
the European team. And I heard it explained yesterday actually
on the radio on the way home, when when Europeans
are talking about the best golfers in the world and
comparing records and whatnot, it was it was said that

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if you asked, say Tiger Woods and Jack Nicholas, how
they did when maybe not Nicholas, he would probably have
paid more attention Jack Nicholson, say Phil Nicholson how they
played in Ryder Cup competition. The answer might be something like,
according to this person who was talking, oh I want
about half my rounds, or I wan this or one that.

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It would be a very vague accounting of it. But
if you asked somebody from Europe who had similar credentials
how they fared in Ryder Cup play, it would be
I was I was seven and five and we won
it three times. They would know exactly what had gone

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on in their Ryder Cup history, because the Ryder Cup
in Europe carries far greater weight than tour victories. How
you play for your country carries much more weight and
is of more importance to the Europeans than it is

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to us. So hopefully, hopefully we'll come through and surprise
the betting world. The betting world is also on Europe,
and we'll see how it works out. We'll see I
would like to play more stroke play, I mean matchplay,
I really would. I find it fun and it actually
moves the game along a little bit more because if

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somebody's having a really rough hole and they're clearly out
of it, if you're on the green in two and
your buddy just hit his third shot, ob can you
can march on to the next hole. If you're playing
match play stroke that poor guy has to endure every

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embarrassing swing he makes until he gets it into the hole.
And he may be he may go from dead even
after four, to it down by six if he makes
a what would that be? I don't even know. Let's
just take it down to four and call it a
quadruple bogie and you make a par Well, now he's
down a bunch. But in match play, just you've just

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lost that hole, You've lost that one hole. I kind
of like the format, I really do. I'm gonna suggest
maybe to the Monday crew that I play with out there,
try and find some way that. And actually I think
it's it might be that Friday's are match play. I
think there is a day that the Monday Wednesday Friday crew.

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I think Friday may be match play between the groups.
Your best two scores against their best two scores. And
however many groups we have, it's on a given day.
Either way, it'll be over on Sunday afternoon. And I
just hope, I just hope that cup stays here, but
I'm not so sure. All right, let's summarize, shall we.

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We know that two elk hunters, young, strong, experienced elk
hunters somehow managed to lose their lives up in Colorado
this week. My guess because all of their their overnight
gear and survival well not survival but camping gear, let's

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call it, was still in the car. They were found
a couple of miles away. My guess is they wanted
to make a quick afternoon scouting trip to see if
they could find a bunch of elk to go take
a look at the next morning before they packed all
that stuff in there and set up camp. Because if
they packed it all in and set up camp and

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then made a little scouting trip and didn't see any
animals at all, they'd feel pretty silly. That's the only
logical explanation I can come up with. But there are
going to be autopsies performed on those two guys. There's
no indication whatsoever a foul play. And I think the
weather just got to there were bad storms coming. They

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got in there and they couldn't get out around here.
Dove seasons open till season's open. I guess I think
it's gonna be BO season opening up next, and that's
not gonna be far away either, only a couple of
weeks for that. All kinds of good things happening in
the outdoors around the great State of Texas as usual.
I will be back next Tuesday on fifty plus over

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on KPRC. That starts at noon live Tuesday through Friday
and will puts a good best of together for Mondays.
I'll be back in here next Saturday, God willing, and
I hope you're all back here with me. Stay safe
out there, please get out have some fun with your family.
Safety first. Oh, by the way, I survived a puncture
with a hook because my bar was bent. Platt might

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want to think about for yourself. That's all for now,
Thank you so much, idios.