What's Your Batting Average for Swatting Flies?

In this episode, Doug talks about who to watch out for in the PGA's third round, Texas snook fishing history, and much more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
How many fish on our stringer? How many points are
I here too? How many feathers in our bag? That's
how we keep score around here. Sportsmen and women of
all skill levels, let's disconnect from the day to day
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(00:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
And their guests.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Now here's dog Fike. Alright, let's try this again. I
just got a nine minute vacation, That's what I got,
and I saved everything because apparently the was dead and
we don't know why, but we've got it fixed. That
happens around here. Sometimes it's early in the morning and

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there are so many buttons. I have no idea if
it's a good thing. Frankie's in there, because if it
had it been me, it might have taken two or
three hours to get this done. So welcome to Saturday. Finally,
I think we've got live air now. I couldn't hear myself,
and that's a dead giveaway that there's dead air when
we started. But I plodded through hoping that that was

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just me, hoping I'd made a mistake. And we still
don't know where the mistake was made, how it was made,
who left the board the way it was and shouldn't
have been, doesn't matter. We're here now, and Saturday's here now,
and if you're headed to Galveston, it's jeep weekend. Jeep weekend.
Gals County has said, okay, no more playing around. We're

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not gonna have big, rowdy crowds. We're not gonna have
people drinking. We're not gonna have big problems down there,
and law enforcement is going to make darned sure that happens.
They have closed a six and a quarter mile strip
of beach on which there are new rule By the way,

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if you're headed to Galveston now and you're not quite
past the south loop on forty five, expect between forty
five and the island some pretty considerable delays. There are
a lot of people wanting to be down there. A
lot of people went down last night I'm sure and
early early early this morning hoping that they could find

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a great cool place to park on the beach in
that cool area that's about six and a quarter miles
only there's gonna be no parking on the beach for
that six and a quarter miles. If you want to
drive through there, that's great, but you got to do
fifteen miles an hour. There's no unloading anything on the beach. Well,
maybe an ice chest or something. It says no unloading

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trailers on the beach. No golf carts, ATVs or dirt
by mass gatherings are prohibited. No glass containers or littering.
Stay off the sand dunes. For what our sand dunes
are worth up here, it's more like just somebody swept
a sand into a pile relative to South Texas sand dunes,
which are really pretty cool. Driver's license required to drive

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on the beach, just like on the road that got either.
I mentioned the speed limit about fifteen miles an hour.
That's all you can do. If you do eighteen, you're
probably gonna get a ticket. They're not playing around. Law
enforcement has made it very clear, and they used all
the media outlets in town to do so, that this
jeep weekend is going to be controlled. It's going to

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be fun for everybody. Nobody's going to get punched in
the face, nobody's going to get screamed at, yelled at. Hopefully,
if you've got an animal with you, it's got to
be on a leash at all times. Bonfires prohibited, and
all of that goes on. It started at six am
and it goes through tomorrow night at not tonight at midnight,

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but all the way through Sunday at midnight. So have
fun in Galveston, or find a different place to go
if you don't like big, big, big crowds. Is it
going to be big, big, crowded down there, And it's
a fun weekend for everybody who's involved in it. They
just want to make sure it stays safe. A lot
of the homeowners on the island down there actually have
turned their homes over to law enforcement that's been asked

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to come in and help patrol the beaches and make
sure everything stays a one okay, And thanks to those
people for taking care of the law enforcement people. Who
who knows if something like that gets out of control,
maybe somebody's house gets damaged, maybe it gets broken into whatever.
But for this weekend, at least, anybody who tries to

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break in a house that looks vacant, might trip over
four or five police officers, and that probably wouldn't work
out for him. So on to the better stuff. Let's
do speckle trout for a minute, okay, and I'm gonna
call Cliff Well in a little while. I've been hearing
through the week that down where he is is outstanding
right now, huge top water bite, huge top water byte.

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And if anybody's going to be in the middle of it,
it would be Cliff. Uh. He's he made a believer
out of me. What is it thirty years ago almost now,
twenty five, twenty six years ago, something like that, when
we had a trip that just just was off the charts,
absolutely off the charts. I think I think our trip

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may have been eclipsed by the one he did Monday
with some guys down there. And I'll ask him to
compare the sizes of trout he caught this week with
the ones that we caught one hundred years ago when
we were both a lot younger, and I suspect that
our trip goes to second place. Of course, he's he

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is the kocat well, he's the he's the captain on
both of those trips, so it doesn't matter to him,
and I'm and more power to him. That guy has
been fishing for so many years down there in Corpus,
from Corpus all the way down into Baffin Bay and
beyond by the way, and it couldn't happen to a
better guy. It couldn't happen to a better guy. After

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this first break of the program, we'll go ahead and
get him on the phone and see if we can
figure out exactly what he's doing. And then I've got
a couple of technical questions I'm gonna ask him about
about throwing top waters and see if I can get
see if he and I are on the same page.
I suspect we will be. We've both been at it
for a very long time. He's got a lot more

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hours log than I do, but we both understand at
least what you're supposed to do with those top waters.
Let's go ahead and get a first break in on time,
actually well close to one time for the way we
started out. Timbercreek Golf Club gets first nod. That's on
FM fifty three no on FM twenty three fifty one
in Friendswood twenty seven holes all fantastic easy, but well,

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golf's never easy, really, but it's enjoyably fun. That's almost
redundant because it doesn't really. The course won't beat you up.
You're not gonna feel like you've just come out of
a war. You're not gonna feel like you've had to
crawl through underbrush to get around Timber Creek. It's it's
right there in front of you. If you stand on

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the tea box for five seconds, you'll see where you
need to hit the ball to give yourself a good
second shot. And then it just goes on from there
all the way to the green into the cup. If
you know where you're supposed to hit it, but you
never hit it there, then rather than waste all your
time on the golf course chasing balls and dragging them

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out of lakes and rooting around in the bushes, swing
over to JJ Woods and his crew in that big
metal building next to the driving range. Let them knock
the iron like, knock the rust off that swing of yours.
They're good. They're very good at what they do, very
good at what they do. Great food, great people. Everybody
in there. The name tag On just wants you to

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have a good time at Timber Creek, and you will,
you will. I get down there as often as I can.
It's not often enough, but as often as I can,
I'll go down there and tee it up. Maybe with
a friend, just maybe go make three new friends and
jump in with somebody who's got room in the group.
Timber Creek Golf Club dot com is website. You can
make your own tea time right now. Timber Creek Golf
Club dot com.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
The coolest thing, though, Doug, these fish up. The water
is still seventy nine eighty degrees and these fish are
very active, and we'll have some incredible aerial shots where
I've burned a whole battery up on the phone. Shoot.
These seven pounders are jumping out of the water like
the word stupid. But catch them on top water suspension baits,
and uh, you know, then we try to go back

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the next day. Of course, it's going forty miles an hour.
You can't get in there in the center of the bay,
you know. So when you fish deep structure, you got
to have the right wind. But yeah, talk been blowing
down here, Doug.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Talk about fishing deep like that because the standard ops
it didn't happen you and I stayed in the boat,
and you stayed in the boat on Monday. From what
I understand, So talk about fishing those trout deep versus shallow?
What are you trying to figure out when you pull in?

Speaker 2 (09:09):
Well, you know, this is what's so cool is no
everybody thinks those fish are on the shore. You know,
you're going to think how much water's not on the shore,
like how many fish you have that deep structure? And
what these fish are doing now? Since we have so
much pressure with burn boats and people running the shore,
it's pushing the fish out to four to five foot
of water. But this time of year, what they're doing.
The piky perch have come in. The fish are now
around the bait is now around the structure and being

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an ambush fish like a big trout. It's so much
easier for you to lay around the rock and jump
out and need something, then chase it twenty feet down
in the flats and eat it. You know, so good
point the big fat Yeah, these big fat lazy trout
after they spawn us s uf they'll pull out on
these big rocks and eat mullet, perch, dog fish, shrimp,
and the cool thing is is when I use a

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lot of electronics like size scanners and stuff in the frocks,
and you can tell what depth these fish are in.
So if you're dealing, if you just if you scan
five hundred yards, you're shoreline and deep rocks, and you
see everything's on the bottom. You know you want to
start with plastic. Sure, But when I when I scanned
it scanned the water on Monday, everything was up at
the top and it was like stupid top water fishing.

(10:14):
It's fast. I mean I sit there from from daylight
till till three o'clock in the afternoon. Doug, there was
never a break. My man picked up my rod one
time it caught five fish. Other than that it was
snapping on the lips of the trout, you know, taking photos.
It was just one of those incredible days. And of
course we try to go back on Tuesday, the windstrowing,
we totally fish somewhere twenty miles different. You know, we

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still caught fish. But I told those guys, you guys
are spoiled because we have not had many days we
could get on opening.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Kid.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Now we're sorry, mister Webb, You've used up your entire
quota of big drop week on Monday, and.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
You know, and then when you when you fish a
big area of rocks and it's calm. You know, Doug
and I didn't have the electronics we have now, so
we depended on the bait to show us where the
fish are. Now, you've got several piles of big rocks.
These rocks will come within a foot two foot of
the surface. When those Mullet bayfish are on top of
that rock, the predators are circling it on the bottom,

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and you have several rocks with no bait on it.
Don't waste your time. Concentrate on where the sheep are.
The sheep are there, the wolf are there, So you know,
concentrate on those those rocks that have suspended bait around
the top of them and stuff. That's where that's where
the fish are if you're not using electronics.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
So was this one of those occasions where it really
didn't matter what you threw.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
It just had to hit the water. It just didn't
make any difference. I had one of my guys calling
a tequila sunrise Quirki. It was orange and all these
bright colors under my breath. I say, man, you're killing
them on top water. Why are you doing? He catches
them almost every cast on that ran. He dished it
until the quirky was so bent up he couldn't stretched
out again, you know. But one of the coolest fish, though, dog,

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I got to send you this picture. This big fish
about seven pounds eat a super spook and he comes in.
He comes in real hot. He's up near dancing on
his shoulder stuff. And when he comes to my boat,
he hits that super spook on the side of the
boat and bangs it all the way down the side
of my boat, kind of beat it out of his mouth,
and I got it on slow mo and it's just
like banging my boat. I go, man, that thing's so awesome.

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Then he goes out about ten feet and does a
triple Indy like free flips in the air. You know,
I'm going, man, these fish are so hot. Now, when
the water timper gets hotter, you know, around ninety, they're
not gonna do this air back you now. But right
now it's it's incredible fishing right now. And just you know,
we got a ton of fish down here. Just the
weather's holding us back.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, let me ask you a technical question, because I
got a lot of audience that doesn't do a lot
of trout fishing but wants to do a lot more.
When you're throwing top waters, and I do this, and
I'm pretty sure you do too. Instinctively, when you see
that big bouche in front of you out there twenty thirty,
forty yards whatever, fifty yards, you don't just yank back

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real quick with the braid. Do you got to give
it like a half a second or so? Do you
feel fresh?

Speaker 2 (12:57):
People? I tell people when you fish top top water
fish a lower rod tip, and then when you see
the blow up, immediately look at the air and see
feast of your plug, because a lot of times they missed.
Your plug is still there and you're you know you
want to leave it there, but with braid you do
they have to wait a second. You know that's so true,
you'll drunk it out of their mouth. And and this
is what I see so many people do with big trout.

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Is too stiff a rod on top water with braid
and not a long enough leader. If you shortly to
this fish with a foot leader, there's no stretch in
that braid. There's no stretching out leader. You want a
two or three foot leader. So when he shakes his head,
that cushions the hook in his mouth with with the
with the mono instead of the braid ripping it out.
That's another key, is how you're rigged, you know.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
So okay, so now here and I'm gonna ge I'm
gonna climb up on my soapbox for a minute. So
we're trying to protect all these big trouts so they
can get really bigger and bigger and bigger, right, masher barbs,
that's all you gotta dosh barb.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, I know, but you know we have one nd yeah,
one hundred and twenty six fish we caught. I think
we may have got one down because my guys are
throwing big plug yeah, and they're good. When we started
throwing salt plastic, we may have hooked a couple of
things that you know, we didn't feel them and we
got them. But mostly we didn't kill any fish this week.
It's not Friday. Yesterday I had a guy that wanted
three dings for savici. We kept the little ones for fecici,

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and we had a hard time catching fish under I see,
that's not a problem. I don't want to hear nobody whine.
Oh the fish or too big.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
You know that's yeah, no kid, Well you mentioned you
mentioned the savicci fish. So what what's the status of
the smaller age classes are? Are they good?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Numbers like you like see under unbelievable. Unbelievable, you know,
just an incredible amount of all size fish. You know,
and see normally when you start catching some thirteen fourteen
inch fish severed in a row, we move. This is crazy.
Those big trotter in there eating all that. We had one, right,
we had one come up to the boat. We had
a fourteen inch trout on and this monster comes up.
He's starting to like a shark and he bites in

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the head, Doug. And when we the fish goes away,
we don't get him. We're really the little one in
there's two punchers on top of his head. The fish
is dead. He killed it. I mean he struck it
like a snake. It was just incredible how rested they are.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
But yeah, they when they want to eat, they're just good.
They're going to eat anything gets in front of.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
The eat anything. But we have our numbers of fish
are way up, and uh, it's so great. This three
fish limit is just incredible. What it's done to our
base system, you know, and we have so many more
breeders now because of this, you know, if so everybody's
on board with this. Down here, you know, the the
guys are fishing bait, which is awesome. They're back in
by nine o'clock.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
I'm sure they are. Yeah, how could you like it?
You count?

Speaker 2 (15:28):
It's just stupid, you know. And the thing the problem
we're having though is the dolphin. And so we have
these guys catching their fish and then they're just keep fishing.
Let fish go. All these fish you're letting go when
these dolphins around your boat they're eating them. You're better
off when you get your fish, just pick up and move,
you know, a couple of miles and reset where there's
no dolphin. Because even though you're you've only taken six

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fish out of there, everything you're letting go is being easy.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, you released, but they all got eaten by it.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, dolphins eating Yeah, and that's happened a lot. So
I to tell people, look, man, when those dolphin get
around your boat, they're trained so well, just hit and
pick up and move. There's plenty of fish to find
him in other areas.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, okay, one more one more question. I'll let you
go color. Does it matter?

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Well?

Speaker 2 (16:08):
In some days when they're on fire, doesn't make any difference.
I mean, like like Monday, I don't care what you threw. Yeah,
if you wanted to, if you wanted to make a
bait look good, you don't throw it while they're chomping.
But normally, normally the clear water down here is you know,
you got to go with more subtle like pinks and
stuff like that. Uh, you know, like I tell you
what works really good here is uh watermelon red and

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clear water because the round stripper are now coming in
stuff like that open night clear like that. And then
of course in the dirty water, I use a darker top.
Water's like sheet dogs, you know, something like that on
the in the darker water. But the fish has been
so good, Mickey. I have people pull stuff out of
the out of their box and none of My brother goes,
you ain't gonna catch nothing on that, and they throw
it out there and catch them.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
So okay, one more quick question. What's the surf look like?

Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's rough. It's been real windy right now, but my
buddy Greg has been catching them when it was calm.
Last money Tuesday costs them five and six pounds there,
but we're getting beat up by the surf.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
One.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
It's good, but different than this year than last year.
We have more soft asso weed and which really brings
our fish up.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
So, I'm expecting a really good surf here.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
I'm looking forward to it. I'm gonna I may call
you in the next day or two. I need a vacation,
I really do.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Man, come on down.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
I'm going all right, man, Thank you, Cliff web A, Doug,
thank you, buddy. Tell them your phone number because somebody's
gonna call you.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, I'm going there. We go three six to one
nine nine zero seven zero seven. Hey, thanks for having
me on, Doug, thank.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
You, Cliff audios man, all right, yeah, it's boy. He
and I go way back. And I've tried desperately to
get down there at least once a year for the
last thirty years. And I've managed to get down there
most years at least. And I can't wait to go back.
I can't wait to go back. And now that now
that I've gotten the green light from the Guru, uh yeah,

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it's gonna happen. We need to take a little break
here on the way out. I'll tell you about American
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the century, somewhere a year or two on either side
of that, I believe. And I was actually there for
the groundbreaking of that. I was a younger, much younger
cub report. Well, I wasn't a cub reporter. I'd been

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there for about ten years by then. But the long
and the short of it is, I was there for
that groundbreaking, and then I've just watched that facility over
the years just get better and better and better. Man
named Edarigie took it over, I want to say, eight
or ten years ago now and really improved an already
superior shooting range. They now have three complete sporting place courses,

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There's a beginner's wing shooting area, there's rifle and pistol
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it out. American Shootingcenters dot Com. Seven thirty seven on
Sports Talk seven to ninety The Dougpie Show. Thank you
for listening. Certainly we do appreciate it. Oh, we've got
a birthday boy. Really, we've got a birthday boy on
the phone. Let me go kick that in Happy Birthday,
Dave sixty three, Get out of Lee seventy three. Only

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cow man, I knew how to ride a bicycle when
you were born.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
And this is this.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Hey, I'm sitting here old Lake Conrod. The water's barely
ripped and rippling, and I'm right here to eight thirty
boat launch. You know, I got my buying set up.
I done got bit off one time on some shrimp
over here that I was working on. I got some
corn over here too, doctored up with a nil extract,
but I'm gonna.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Put that on next.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
I got a clet or turtles around here?

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Oh, man, Yeah, we seem to have had there must
be new restrictions on turtles, because there's it's kind of
like the speckled trout. Man. They shut down the five
fish limit and went to three, and all of a
sudden we got all these more and more and more trout.
I think the same thing's going on with turtles, man.
Either that or they're they're firing up the candles and

(20:59):
the fle pedals and all that. Man, a lot more
often than they used to, because there's turtles everywhere that
I fish now.

Speaker 6 (21:06):
Hey, Oh and playing second fiddle behind Cliff Webb Captain
Cliff Webb, well that's really cool, man, I'll be I'm glad.
I was glad to hear you know. Yeah, he's a
good dude.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
He's a very good dude. I've known him for more
than thirty years and we've had more than one or
two good fishing trips.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
We have.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
Well, when they were burning out of here this morning, uh,
I didn't really get a good look at everybody, but
I see some There was one boat over here fishing
on a point. But they're practicing. I think I was
told hearsay says Willis High School is getting ready for
a bass tournament out here.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
Okay, so that's going to be a good thing.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Is that going to be a fundraiser for them or
is it actual the high school kids fishing?

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Do you know?

Speaker 6 (21:51):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 7 (21:52):
I just said.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
They just said it's a tournament for the Willis High
School kids.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Oh okay, for the kids.

Speaker 8 (21:58):
You know that?

Speaker 3 (21:58):
That that sparks something in me, David, And I'm glad
you brought that up, because I'm gonna give this some
more thought after the show maybe or even during the show,
if anybody's got ideas. We have golf tournaments for high
school team to to support the teams. Uh, and and
for all good causes, we have golf tournaments. Then came
sporting clays events, and now why not have bass fishing

(22:22):
tournaments or beach fishing tournaments as high school and you know, smaller,
smaller charity fundraisers. I think that's a great idea, man.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
I'm in there with you, brother.

Speaker 6 (22:34):
And now I was telling your producer older, Uh, we're
gonna go to the restaurant over here on the lake
tonight and there's a seventies man playing there.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Get down.

Speaker 6 (22:44):
So we're playing hard earlier and they got a girl
singer that could seem just like it sounds you close
your you close your eyes and it sounds like heart
was there.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Wow. Yeah, it's gonna be a it's.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
Gonna be a lot of fun, my wife, and then oh,
my line's starting to tear out here. Oh something's on.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
You got a fish?

Speaker 6 (23:05):
I think I got a cap.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
For God's sakes, Well, hang on, man, don't let the
thing take your right away from you. Dave, we interrupt
this program for a live fishing What do you got?

Speaker 9 (23:21):
Man?

Speaker 6 (23:21):
Really?

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Then, Dave, I can hear you give us a blow
by blow? Who's winning the fight?

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Both hands? Oh?

Speaker 3 (23:31):
No, no, all right, hang up, focus on your fish,
and then calls back, okay, yes, sir, all right, man. Thanks.
Oh my gosh. You know, when you got bait in
the water, you never know what's gonna happen. And apparently
it happened right then. He's already calling him back. Are
you kidding me? He lost it? He broke it off.

(23:52):
I bet find put him on hold, Frankie, I'll pick
him up. Oh my gosh, what happened? Birthday boy, Dave. Oh,
he must have accidentally dialed as this time. He's panicking.
He may have a really big fish on I'm gonna
go ahead and hang this one up and we'll see

(24:13):
if he doesn't come back here in a minute or two.
I got a couple of minutes before we go to
the break. I want to go back to what Cliff
and I were talking about with the barbles hooks. And
I know a lot of you think it's silly, a
lot of you think that you need that barb on
your hook to keep the fish on there. But I
will go back to what I've said forever, and that

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is that the barbs were never intended to help keep
that fish on the line. The barbs were put on
hooks to keep the bait on the hook. That's the
only reason barbs came about. And if you think they're
helping you in a lot of cases, that'll actually hurt you,
especially with really hard mouthed fish, because when you set
that hook that barb, it hinders the penetration of that

(24:58):
hook into that bony mouth off Whereas if you're using
completely smooth hooks back there where the barb should be,
it's just mashed down flat. Or you can actually get
online and buy barbleous hooks, so just about any size
and shape and configuration, and that helps them a lot
of tarpin. The fly fishing crew who fish for tarpin

(25:21):
prefer barbleous hooks because that big bony mouth of tarpin
is really hard to set a barbed hook in. But
if you have a barbleous hook, you can wedge that
hook point deeper into the fish's bony old mouth and
hopefully keep it on the line a little bit longer.
So and if you're doing that, one of the things
I had kind of a little safety sally point to
make on that when Cliff and I were talking, but

(25:42):
I didn't get around to it. Because I wanted to
let him talk as much as he needed to. When
you're fighting a fish with barbleous hooks, especially, make sure
and with any hook really, when you're getting that fish
fairly closed and the line's really tight and you're trying
to maintain all that pressure, lean your rod tip a
little to the left or a little to the right,

(26:03):
so if that lure or hook does come out of
that fish's mouth, it doesn't come flying back at your face.
At about ninety miles an hour. It's okay, nothing's gonna
hurt you if it's goes shooting by four or five
feet off your left, four or five feet off to
the right, or even six inches left or right of
your face. But if you've got that rod straight up,

(26:24):
that means all that tension is pointed right at your nose,
and that'd be a bad place to bury a hook
unless it was a barblous hook.

Speaker 9 (26:33):
Right.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
We do need to take a break here, Dave still
fighting his fish. I'm sure of that. I bet you, Michael,
come back to after the break. On the way out.
I'm gonna tell you about l Cubano cigars. Manny Lopez
and I were talking yesterday. I called him and said, hey,
what have you been doing. There's all kinds of different
events he's been doing up to it, including this is
something I've never gone to, but there are apparently these

(26:54):
little Havana Knights parties going on. And what better thing
if your host being a cool Havanah Knights type party
where everybody dresses up like they're and down there in
Cuba and having a whatever you're gonna have for dinner
and cocktails and whatnot, why not have an actual Cuban

(27:14):
down there rolling cigars for your guests. That's something Many's
doing pretty often lately. He said, he's been doing these
Havana parties for the better part of eight or ten
years now, something like that. And whether it's that, or
whether it's a fundraiser you've got going on and or
it's got its clients, you need to schmooze a little

(27:37):
bit and make them happy. They're cigar smokers. Many can
help you with that. He's the manufacturer of these. He's
not a distributor of cigars. He's the manufacturer of the cigars.
And he's got a full time staff of people who
roll those cigars all day, every day. One hundred and
fifty something. I think it is varieties of cigars from

(27:59):
Cuban seed to back, most of which has grown in
Central America. He gets that stuff sent up here, he
ages it, he cures it, he makes sure it's ready
to go, and then he'll come to your party, come
to your business whatever, and your golf tournament, your sportingclay's event,
your fishing tournament, and roll cigars for your guests. Or

(28:21):
he can just provide them. He buy a couple of
boxes and get them banded with a good client's business logo,
get them banded with your whatever, your company logo, and
make people happy with their fine, cool cigars from El
Cubano Cigars. He's got two smoking lounges, ones in Texas City,

(28:42):
ones in League City, and it's that Texas City facility
that is only one of about I think a couple
of dozen, maybe four dozen tops cigar manufacturing places in
the entire country. And we got one right here, and
it's really cool and fun to go to. Elkos Cigars
dot Com is his website. He'll mail them to you,

(29:03):
he'll drop ship them pretty much anywhere you want to
send him. El Kubano Cigars dot Com seven fifty on
Sports Talk seven ninety the Doug Pike Show. Thank you
for listening. I truly do appreciate it. I got a
tea up, two calls in about eight minutes, and I'm
gonna start with Aaron. He was first in this time. Mike,
hang on your next, buddy. What's up Aeron.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Morning, Doug.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
I'm doing all right, man.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
How are you well? As they say, because it could
write a country song about me right now? But as
they also say in poker, a chip and a chair
of my friends.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
So yep, you're in there, You're in the game.

Speaker 10 (29:41):
Than Yeah, sir, I wanted to thank you again for
making time at that fly fishing deal down there in Galveston,
for for having that early dinner with us.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
That was heck, yeah, I enjoyed that.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
I enjoyed meeting Heather too.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Absolutely, thank you. I've got confession.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
I've never fished with Braid, so, oh my lord.

Speaker 10 (30:02):
Yeah yeah. So I've got a gift card here to
one of the big outfits down here in San Antonio,
and I wanted to see what you suggest on how
much backing I should put it on with Mono as
opposed to Brave of course, you know, using a twenty

(30:23):
to thirty pounds liter at the end there. I'd like
to get them all set up and ready, and man,
you got my blood going.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Good.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yeah, that stuff down in Corpus when the wind dies
down there, it's just stupid, it really.

Speaker 10 (30:39):
Yeah, I was looking, I was looking at the wind
all all the past two weeks. I really could have
used a trip down there. But both man, it's yeah,
well as soon as it lays down.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
God, we gotta get down there.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
So well, briefly hang up and listen. Yeah, briefly, you
don't have to hang up Briefly. What you're trying to
do is just figure out how much money you want
to spend on brave your whole real with braid if
you want to. But a lot of people don't, because
once you get down to about half a spool, you've
got ample braid on there to probably catch whatever you're

(31:13):
gonna catch. And one way to do it if if
you want to just try and figure it out, is
go someplace where you can throw onto into into the water,
somewhere just anywhere, and make the longest cash you can
with a couple of the lures you like to throw,
and then just kind of visualize how that emptiness looks
on the spool, and that'll give you an idea about

(31:35):
how much to take off of take the mono off
of there, or refill with mono up to there, whatever,
if you're gonna dump it all and start over and
leave a little extra spool showing so that when you
finally roll all that stuff on there, you've got plenty
of more than enough braid than you're gonna need if

(31:55):
you get to the mono. Man, you've hooked moby dick. Okay,
for bay fishing, that's you don't have to worry too
much about that. And then just be prepared for more
sensitivity than you've ever felt. Be prepared for when you
actually set a hook on something. It's set right now
because there's just almost zero stretch and braid. And like

(32:17):
I was talking about with Cliff, too, give use that
good two or three feet at lead. I'd say three
to four feet of leader mono or fluorocarbon. Yeah, just
to give it a little teeny bit of give when
that fish starts shaking that head. Okay, And which knot
should I use to couple those twos? You know, there's

(32:40):
a dozen them. All I do because I'm always in
a hurry. I just do like a triple surgeon's loop
and just just kind of lay them across each other,
one facing east, one facing west, your leader facing whichever
direction is more comfortable. I'm left handed, so everything I
talk about is backwards. But anyway, you just use loop
the two of them through. You've got the short tag
end of your of your braid coming out to the right,

(33:04):
and then you got that long piece of mono or
floor carbon and just one two, three, and then wet
it and sent it down. Actually use about four loops.
It's easier. There's some really fancy nots you can tie,
but under pressure, you don't want to have to sit
there and entire a fancy not. You just want to
get back to fishing.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
That's why I am all right, I'll look it up,
take care of that, all right.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (33:28):
See here?

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Boy, Yeah, I'm gonna have to call him back probably
after the show or send him an email, because that's
that was pretty basic. Hey Mike, what's up man?

Speaker 11 (33:38):
Are you doing?

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Young man?

Speaker 3 (33:39):
I'm good.

Speaker 11 (33:40):
Well, turned on the radio, listen to dead Space. All
I could think about was a quote from cool Hand Luke,
and uh I got to thinking, Uh, what am I
gonna Oh, I know what it was. I was gonna
call and thank you very much for that Prince toast recipe.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Oh did you try it?

Speaker 11 (34:02):
I had that with three patties of venison sausage and
a hot cup of coffee and I was ready to go.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
So ice cream, melted ice cream as the wash for
the bread and it was good.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
Huh.

Speaker 11 (34:17):
Yeah. I had it on two thick slices of homemade
bread and I was all cotton.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Oh, buddy, that's awesome. Man.

Speaker 11 (34:24):
I wanted to tell you also that I had spent
the week loading up for Dove season my seven and
a halfs and nine.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Oh, good for you.

Speaker 11 (34:34):
And this is the first time I was loading twenty
eight instead of twelve. It was a different kind of
approach this time.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah, it's pretty small. That's not a good late late
season load out, I wouldn't think, but early season that'd
probably be all right.

Speaker 11 (34:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (34:52):
The other thing that after I heard Cliff talking, I
got a problem. I don't know where to go to
the shooting center or go.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
I know, man, he's living the dream down there. He
has for thirty something forty something, however old he is
he's been living the dream.

Speaker 11 (35:08):
I was going to ask Kyle, old is he? I've
been listening to him.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
For he and I are probably close to you. The
three of us are probably within a couple of years
of each other. I would guess. I'm not sure exactly
how old Cliff is where.

Speaker 11 (35:19):
He's still showing a lot of enthusiasm to catch a fish,
isn't he.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Well, if you're catching, if you're catching dozens of trout
from five to ten pounds in a day, yeah, I'd
be pretty stoked too.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (35:32):
I had to live to go home shore armed.

Speaker 9 (35:34):
You know.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Isn't that the truth? Well? Thanks for calling, all right,
you got to go by, all right, audios, All right,
let me catch up with Dave real quick. Dave, I
got about a couple of minutes for you. What what
ultimately happened up there?

Speaker 2 (35:47):
It's been my hook. It was must have been a turtle,
could have been. It was on a piece of shrimp.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
So what I did was I went to the old
corn with the vanilla airstrip trick and I got it
down on the bottomless he was gonna happen there?

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Oh you got it out? Okay? Yeah, Yeah, I got
it out there.

Speaker 6 (36:04):
But them turtleheads are they're all around.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
They'll goblell they'll gobble at corn fast too. You gotta
be careful with them.

Speaker 6 (36:11):
Hey, I didn't know ducks eat hot dogs, you know,
I didn't know that. Hey, I'm looking at to my right.
Over here, there's a cab over for eighteen wheeler cable
and the guy come over here with rod real and
he's up from north somewhere up there, and he was
over here bashing and he goes, hey, is there any

(36:33):
place around here that I can fish? Uh, you know,
off the bank? And I didn't know he was in
that eighteen wheeler thing. But he's driving around a dance
company that uh they're having a dance thing. I guess
they're filming for TV over and the woodlands over there
have big time celebrities. He's the driver and he's over

(36:57):
there with his fishing rod.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
He's having fun. He is having fun, for sure.

Speaker 6 (37:04):
Man, imagine that.

Speaker 5 (37:05):
All right?

Speaker 6 (37:07):
Is there any other places around here? And I'm like, well,
stubble fill lake, I said, get that down in there,
you know, go over there and dab around over there.
Good for heavy, thank you? Yeah, I know, man, all
the way up from New North up not New York,
but up North.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Okay, So right, I gotta bounce. I'll say audios, Holy cow.
All the way out Belleville Meat Market, all the way
out to the west, a little northwest of town, out
to ninety actually to Highway thirty six or out I
tend to Highway thirty six, and then somewhere between those
two points around the middle is Belleville Meat Market in

(37:45):
the little town of Belleville, bulk pricing all the time
on fresh ground beef and all their pecan smoke sausage.
There's more than two dozen flavors, and of course that
full menu pecan smoke barbecue served Monday through Sundays ten
am to seven pm. Delicious pulled pork, comade, hot dogs,
traditional barbecue, all the sides that you would imagine would

(38:07):
come with that as well. They've got hamburger patties, they've
got stuffed pork tenderloins, they've got stuffed peppers and stuffed mushrooms.
Bellville truly can be your backyard barbecue and block party
headquarters if you just let them. And they've got those
new chuck Wagon patties out there too, which are pretty cool.
Half pound beef patties, seasoned and loaded with cheddar cheese.

(38:31):
You're just a ready made cheeseburger. Just add fire. That's
all you need. While gating press processing of course all
year round. Just call them out there first to make
sure that whatever you plan to bring in there is
something that they will process for you. You got all
kinds of things to drive you out there, and of
course that meal when you get there. That's the reward

(38:52):
that you get to have while you're sitting out on
the patio eating your lunch or dinner, and inside the
store they're packing up everything you want to bring home
for the next couple of weeks. Belleville MeetMarket dot com
is the website. If you can't get out there, and
some people can't, well fine, go ahead and just get
them to send it right to your door. Bellville MeetMarket
dot Com. All right, eight o'clock hour starts right now.

(39:14):
I'm making a little note here. I got another phone
call I may want to make a little bit later
in the show. Seven one three, two one two five
seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot Doug Pikett,
iHeartMedia dot com. Let's go talk to David shall we
what's up, David?

Speaker 5 (39:32):
Yeah, Doug real quickly tell Dave to get him a
pair of earbuds. So those things work great, but don't
do like I do and take them out and set
them down and then get your just.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Walk away from Oh my gosh, you know, every now
and then it's as stupid as it sounds. I have
earphones at my desk, the ones I'm wearing right now, headphones,
and they just just a little small plug in and
I'll make a phone call to somebody on my phone
and have it plugged in from a previous phone call,

(40:00):
and then hold the phone up to my ear with
the cord still hanging down and the headphones on my
desk and wonder why I can't hear the person talking
to me?

Speaker 5 (40:09):
Like, okay, it goes with age what I thought about, Doug.
I'm usually I'm often the last to get on the latest,
but this new, I say, new to me generation. I'll
call them aggressive top water lures.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
You know.

Speaker 5 (40:25):
I came back to when we had the hula popper
and the thing that had spinners on the front and back.
These things have I mean they if you can imagine
a torpedo going across the top of the water. That's
what they're like. Yeah, and do they work or are
they just a fad or a gadget or something.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
Us lures work. I think any lure that's produced commercially
and avail in available in retail shops are they're going
to work really well because they've been tested somewhere. But
they don't work everywhere. And there's not a lure on
the planet that works every day. So you just you
just have to know what you have to kind of

(41:03):
ask the fish when you get there, Hey, what do
you want to see today?

Speaker 4 (41:07):
And it just.

Speaker 5 (41:10):
Well, a lot of these again I'll call them aggressive.
I mean they they throw water. It seems when you
put them across the water. Why do fish hit them?

Speaker 3 (41:19):
I mean because of them. Well, it's because they look
like a wounded baitfish. That everything that you're trying to
do with these fish, especially in the spring and summer
when they're they're pretty aggressive and they're trying to put
a little meat on their bones after a long winter. Uh,
you want something that they have to it's a reaction

(41:41):
by they're they're ambush feeders and they they see this
thing kind of coming across their nose and Wow, that's
close enough. I can grab that, and they just launch
out and grab it. The dog walking plugs, I don't
consider them terribly aggressive because you don't normally bring them
back super fast. But I have seen lures, especially offshore stuff,

(42:05):
when you got guys with big spinning rods throwing big
top waters at tuna and stuff like that. Those things
you just real them as fast as you can, and
you cannot turn that handle fast enough to keep a
big tuna or something like that from chasing it down,
or a king mackerel. Even I've done that with kings,
and it's it's crazy, stupid, good fun.

Speaker 5 (42:26):
All right, I appreciate you that.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Yeah, thank you my pleasure. Yeah, top waters they don't
have to be super aggressive in a lot of time,
especially going to fresh water. A lot of times they
just want you twitch, twitch, twitch, and then stop. And
the rule of thumb back when I started learning, when
I was learning to fish, is when you're for bass fishing,

(42:49):
when your top water hits the water, let it sit
until all the ripples are kind of gone. Like, oh,
that sounds like it sounds almost like fishing a worm.
It's so boring. But what it does is it kind
of lets, the splat of that lower hitting the water
kind of go away. Everything's chill again. And then you

(43:09):
twitch it a couple of times, and I couldn't tell
you how many times I've had a fish eat it
right then. And what's happened is when that lure hits
it gets a bass's attention. The bass comes over to
it and sits underneath it, and then.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Like what is that?

Speaker 4 (43:24):
Something?

Speaker 3 (43:25):
Is that dead? Is that a stick?

Speaker 2 (43:27):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (43:28):
And then you twitch it again, Oh it's moving, I
need to eat it, and bam, there on it. I
saw that happen a lot. I saw that I was
fishing off of a platform over end. I think it
was on Lake Calcushu. Water super clear. We're on the
north end of the lake in wintertime. I think it
was winter, maybe fall, but anyway, the water was very clear,

(43:49):
and I was throwing a corky and I could actually
see the lure coming back, and I would watch these
trout come up under it and then just kind of
track it as I just I wasn't moving it faster
or anything else. I was just moving it back like
you would normally fish a quirky You gotta get back
to your rod tip sometime and I'd watch these fish
come up and just follow it all the way back.

(44:10):
And then when they'd see the boat, they didn't panic
and break out of there. They would just lower themselves
and then kind of slide off to one side and disappear.
And that that really taught me something. And what I
learned that day was that if I would if I
would just change something about the way that lure was moving,

(44:31):
a lot of times that drew a strike. It's instinctive,
you know. They don't want to let an easy meal
get away. And if they've come over there and they're
looking at it and you make it move just the
right way, they're gonna smoke it. They're gonna absolutely smoke it.
Because when they make up their mind to hit, there's
nothing gonna keep them. You could put a wall of
bricks between the fish and the lower and it'd just

(44:53):
blow through the bricks and eat the lure. Let's go
see what's on Rick's mind. Well, saw Rick, I saw
your pig farm and now your video you sent me.

Speaker 7 (45:02):
Well, that's the same bunch that came across there last year,
in fact, to one in fronts of the.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Same bold Oh wow, holy cow.

Speaker 7 (45:09):
Yeah. Anyway, when I was calling about you probably already
knew this because you're a lot smarter than me. But
I've been trying to keep up with you, you know,
the last couple of weeks. You know, I've been out
trying to learn how to work my camera.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Yeah, you're doing good, doing well.

Speaker 7 (45:27):
And uh, of course the mugs are out, the genders,
the red mugs, the wash everything. And so anyway, you
ever flung at a half live start swinging, hitting with
your hand and you missy.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
Yeah, that's a hundred times, a thousand times.

Speaker 7 (45:52):
How come you think you, missy?

Speaker 3 (45:55):
I'm not really sure. I've caught not as many. My
my batting average, if it were a batting average for
swatting a flying flies within reach, it's probably about two hundred,
about one in five i'll catch. Actually, well, I learned
something this, Okay, I want to hear it.

Speaker 7 (46:13):
And I know there's I know there's some people listening
that knew the answer, and I know there's something after
that don't know the answer. When you swing or your
hand a swat and a.

Speaker 9 (46:24):
Fight or a net or a lop or beer or whatever,
all you're doing is creating wind underneath their wings.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's pushing air in front of your
hat is pushing.

Speaker 7 (46:36):
Air, Yeah, exactly, that's the reason.

Speaker 9 (46:39):
So that's why, drum roll, that's why there are holes
in a flash water exactly right, exactly right now.

Speaker 7 (46:51):
I ain't carrying the flaskwater with me, but I I
was tearing up the barn a wretch a couple actually,
about a month to go, and there was a I
don't know what it's like a tennis racket for a kid.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Oh yeah, the little electric one. No, oh okay, So I.

Speaker 7 (47:14):
Cut the handle off, real sharp, stick it in my
back pocket because I tell you what, Mumblebee ain't got
a chance against that.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah you can. You can
send him into another count that.

Speaker 7 (47:27):
You'd be surprised how many I'm out around animals, cows
and horses out here. I got my trucks. Little flies
right now, left my door open, and you'd be surprised
how effective that dude is on them. Just just a fly.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
Oh I bet it's just damaging.

Speaker 7 (47:45):
Well, I mean, well, it's only about a bigger, bigger
round than I'll tell you, Uh, grapefruit or candle or
something like that.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
That's the perfect size. It gives you a little wiggle room.

Speaker 7 (48:00):
Yeah. Anyway, I just thought that I liked that. Man,
I'll often wondered, I mean, man, I can't.

Speaker 9 (48:06):
Be that slow.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
No, you're not that slow. You're just pushing them. You're
pushing them out of way when you swing that thing
over there.

Speaker 7 (48:12):
Yeah, you're just pushing me in right beneath their wings.
They're trying to get away from you. Anyway, They're not
slow either.

Speaker 11 (48:18):
No.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
That reminds me very much of when Joe Dogg and
I used to fly fish for grasscarp in Bray's Bio
and we'd use these little floating spiders or little popping
bugs and stuff, and these big old, the big fat
lips on that carp would come up and they in
their head and all just that big bulbous nose coming
up out of the water pushes awake up in front

(48:39):
of it, and they would try to eat that thing,
and they kept pushing it farther and farther away from them,
and that really made them mad. After a while, it
was kind of fun to watch.

Speaker 7 (48:49):
I think I have fished over there for you all. Uh, well,
we'll talk about it some other time.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Anyway.

Speaker 7 (48:56):
I think I've done that full spot. You have a
good with Thank you all right?

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Yeah, thanks Rick, I'll see buddy. Yeah, he's exactly right.
If you're if you're trying to catch flies in your hand,
and most most of us have done that. If you haven't,
it's an experience and it's not easy. You can be
very proud if you can catch those things. I'll tell
you what I catch in the house sometimes is mosquito hawks,
those things that are about the size of a half

(49:21):
dollar and eat mosquitos. And I'm very gentle with them too.
I don't even close my hand until I feel the contact,
and then just close my hand quickly but gently, and
then I kind of shake it a little bit, because
if that thing's in there, they're so delicate, you're really
they have no weight to them, and you just have
to figure out whether he's still in there. And then

(49:43):
you take him to the door and you crack the
door just enough that you could get your forearm and
your wrist out, and you sling him on out there,
and then you're challenged to close the door faster than
it gets back in. And if you've if you've never
done that, you have you haven't found the ultimate way
to test your reflexes. That's a pretty good one. We

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gotta take a little break here on the way out
black Horse Golf Club. Out Fry Road or not Fry Road,
to Fry Road on two ninety and then hang a
south and come down Fry Road a couple of miles,
and that's about when you're gonna start seeing golf course.
Then you'll see the gate. You turn west into the gate,
and pretty much from that point forward you're gonna have

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a good time. Unless you just don't know how to
have a good time playing golf. If you're whining about
your game, if you're all upset with your golf game,
by all means, go to the far end of the
range down there and get some instructions. They've got great
professional instructors down there just waiting to help you out.
You get to drive all the way down there. It's
a pretty good hike. You go down there, you get
your lesson, you come back for your tea time, you're

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ready to go, and you're gonna have a great time.
That North course is still daily feed public, open to
the public seven days a week, weather permitting always. The
South course was taken private this year. Back in January.
I believe it was start of the year, and that's
going very well also for the people who want that
different level of golf experience, and they're doing a fine

(51:11):
job of it. I know there's a lot of work
to be done on it over this year and probably
into next year, and they're doing it in increment so
that everybody can still enjoy the golf out there. You
want to put on a tournament, not a better place
in the world than some place. It's got thirty six holes.
You can work with big tournaments I'm talking about, and
I've played in a bunch of them over the years,

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always fun. That range is big enough as well, so
that you can get almost all your players, even if
it's more than one hundred and fifty or so, you
can get them all warmed up in time to still
be warm when they go play. Black Horse is a
really unique, beautiful facility. I've been playing up there for
a better part of thirty years and love both courses. Actually,

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black Horse Golf Club dot com is the website, great people,
great golf course instruction, top of the notch all the
way around black Horse Golf Club dot com. Hey twenty
on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show. Thanks
for listening, certainly do appreciate it. I told Frankie I
was gonna tell him something about words when we got back,

(52:14):
but I'm gonna talk to faux pro first and see
what's up, Hey, Forrest, what's up, my friend?

Speaker 4 (52:20):
What's up? Mister Pickerel?

Speaker 3 (52:24):
You know I was gonna try tom I told Frankie
little while ago, I was gonna try to make it
through today with no coffee. And I made it till
about like seven thirty.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
That was it.

Speaker 8 (52:32):
That's never gonna happen to my my I promise you
so that, like y'all need to get your eight team
in there to show y'all this button is too broadcast.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
This fucking is to talk.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
That's bold talk, right.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
I don't know if you.

Speaker 8 (52:47):
What's up, but I was thinking Angie Andrew was kind
of curious how much Spanish? You know. She always gets
a little giggle every time you hang up with somebody
to say AUDIOSI is there, he goes Spanish.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
I have no clue.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Back when I was up the paper and traveling to
Mexico a lot, I got pretty pretty decent. I could
find my way around. I knew how to get to
the marina. I knew how to get to the restaurants
and hotels and could do it, and not just saying audios,
but my my inflection, in my the way I spoke,

(53:24):
it was better than average. And it's just because I
try to mimic the sounds i've heard and say it
exactly right instead of como, say yamas. You know I'm
not going to do that and sound like a Texan uh.
And so I would say something to a cab driver
like hey, I need to get to the marina in
a hurry or something like that, and they just immediately

(53:46):
think I'm some fluent Spanish speaker, which I absolutely was not,
and I just got to like, pump the brakes, man,
I don't know what you're saying, but it was fun.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
It was fun.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
I don't use it.

Speaker 8 (54:00):
Lot Oh yeah, yeah, I tried, because I have a
really good accent Mexican.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
But I try not to. I let him know real quick,
I know something, but I don't.

Speaker 8 (54:07):
We're not going to have a conversation here today, Okay, yeah, yesterday.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (54:14):
Old boy lives here, lives right by me here. He's
tired of catching these throwback crappie. Ius man, I got
a spot we're I was supposed take him catfishing trip today,
and I said, would you rather go crappie fishing?

Speaker 4 (54:24):
You go shoot, yeah, I rather go crappy fish. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (54:27):
So I took him up there to the lake X
which I'm just go ahead and said, it's Lake Tingston.
It's up in the middle of nowhere, but it's it's
a beautiful hooded habited body of water pretty much.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
But it said happened.

Speaker 8 (54:38):
There are like three boats on the lake all day.
We got off the lake at four thirty, were the
only boat on the lake and we caught he.

Speaker 7 (54:46):
Luckily he didn't want.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
To go out there. Let's catch all we can catch.

Speaker 7 (54:49):
We can't.

Speaker 8 (54:50):
We kept, Uh, we kept a solid dozen crappie satisfied
him and they probably average down and a half to
two and a quarter.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
You may have seen, I don't know if you got
to see him on Facebook. He I'll sent you a
couple of it.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
I saw him.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
There was a slab boy, you know, and uh, we
got the thing.

Speaker 8 (55:09):
I saw something I never seen if I've always seen
like at ravers see pretty good schools of crappie, you know,
thirty forty crappie in a tree.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Sure, and we pulled.

Speaker 8 (55:16):
We pulled up to a tree to h crap you
not that had one hundred and fifty croppies almost perfectly selectrical.

Speaker 10 (55:24):
Ball at it.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
I said, dude, it's about to get it's about to
get stupid. Just just get ready. And so I get
up there.

Speaker 8 (55:31):
The wind's blowing thirty three hundred and thirty two miles
an hour. I get the I get the boat, I said,
we gotta get the boat set up. So I get
the spot, like the boat set up.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
Everything right.

Speaker 8 (55:38):
He dropped down there, and I taught him to stay
above the crappie. You catch him off, you stay above
and don't get in them. So he pulled about a
two pounder out of there. I pulled about a path
and three quarter out of there, and then uh, I
flipped out there again, and I didn't quite get to
the school. So I let it drop down beside the
school because a lot of times they'll run out and
grab it. I got to the bottom of that school.
I was getting ready to pick it up. Here comes

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this five pound bass out from under that school. Grab
my minto, I said, to hook He shut up through
that school and blew that whole school apart. I was like, oh,
it was fun to catch that bass. But he blew
that whole I guess he was just sitting down there
figuring if he.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
Got hunger, he'd get up there and eat one every
now and then.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
But he had a blast.

Speaker 4 (56:21):
He'd never I was teach him how to use live scoop.
He was looking at the screen. He goes, I need
to throw to the left.

Speaker 8 (56:26):
I said, no, the arrow says everything you're looking at
it straight out front of the boats. It was hard
for him to learn that, but he got the hang
of He goes, man, I'm just having fun watching this sad.

Speaker 4 (56:35):
Yeah, it's pretty cool. It has it has it's placing time.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
So it does. It does.

Speaker 8 (56:41):
But but right before we went in, I told him,
I said, hey, man, I know we're out here for
your craffee trip, but but it's sacrilegious for me to
come to this lake and not bashes. Even though I call,
you know a little bit, I said, I got one
thirty literally thirty foot stretch of cat tails.

Speaker 4 (56:56):
By the damn, it's the only stretch of cat tails.
Because I went over to my beaver and my flo
throd fifty pounds. Breid fourth flip Boom calls that biggest bass.
I sent you a picture.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Okay, we go now, Holy Cad, we can go there. Yeah,
I need to try it. I'm trying. I'm trying, man,
I want to get up there with you. It's just
it's schedules on pt O.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
Man, if you want to if we got if you
we have to go on a Monday. I got pt O.

Speaker 8 (57:19):
Well go up there and yeah, you try to catch
them before we go. Trying to catch a catch a
phrase for your for your team or your model or
whatever it is. And I was telling and I said,
what about pipes, uh, pipes, piscatto posse?

Speaker 3 (57:32):
Oh my gosh, you get a bit more Spanish in there.
Yeah yeah, okay, all right, my lady.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
I'm on Blady to Houston. I forgot your jigs, so.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
Sorry, that's all right now. I suspect you're on higher
calling than bringing swim jigs to me.

Speaker 4 (57:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (57:51):
I'll be at Grandpa here in about a month or two.
So I'm delivered five hundred dollars shoulder to my daughter.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
I want to call it my word. Yeah, it's they
just put us on a hip. When I was growing up.

Speaker 8 (58:02):
Man, I know it.

Speaker 4 (58:04):
Man, that's fishing money.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
Yeah, that's a lot of fishing money. You can buy
a lot of swim baits with that. All right, thanks man,
save travels buddy, all right, but I appreciate you. See
it folk pro idios. Yeah, that's grandfather, holy cow. Good
for him, Good for him. Oh, I got a couple
of emails. I want to kind of go over. I
was gonna do that, I was gonna do this. I'm

(58:28):
gonna do that. Oh yeah, I did see. I saw
a video. I'll talk about this first and then I'll
go to my emails. I saw a video just a
little while ago, actually a trail cam video that was
taken by a man who is an outdoor photographer in
Lithuania and had not seen one of these animals apparently

(58:51):
the area he's in there hadn't been one spotted in decades,
And now a couple of times a big, old, fully
grown brown bear has just wandered through the through the
scene and then wandered right out of the scene. So
there's at least one, and where there's one, there's probably

(59:13):
going to be another, and maybe another. They have they
have pretty big ranges, These big old bears. Do they
have to because they have a lot to eat and
they need all that stuff. You have to have food,
you have to have shelter. The shelters easy for a
brown bearry. You just stop wherever you want to, basically
and curl up in a ball and take a nap.
But they do have to have a lot of food.

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There's a beautiful animal, absolutely beautiful, big old, big, old,
thick nose and head and just a very healthy looking bear,
which is good to see anytime. Oh okay, I got that.
I got that taken out that cap'n Scott. When we
were talking about speckle tro out a minute ago, capt'n
Scott waged in, and I'm laughing with him because I

(59:58):
think he and I were both on the same page
for this. To quote him. I'm waiting on all the
apologies from those who gave me trouble for speaking in
support of the trout limits and suggesting the tag. Lol.
There were a whole lot of people in the state
of Texas. It doesn't And actually there were people who

(01:00:23):
were kind of on both sides of the current or
the previous limits and whatnot who just didn't think three
was enough. Just didn't think three would do any good.
Didn't think three would help this fishery recover, which it's
still doing based on historic information. Because of the way

(01:00:43):
that the base shorelines had been developed over the years,
I don't think it can ever get back to where
it was when even when I was young, there just
weren't that many homes. There weren't that many beach houses
on the bay, and that changes everything. Every time when
you build another subdivision along the bay shore, the things change.

(01:01:06):
But the system we've got going now for us at
three from fifteen to twenty and leaving the record book
open with one a year tags, that's showing tremendous benefit already. Already.
We're not even we're barely a year into it. This
thing went into effect in May of last year, and

(01:01:29):
we're a year removed from it now. And everybody I
talk to who has a real finger on the pulse
of trout fishing on Texas Coast, yeah, it sure is working.
When you're releasing all the trout longer than twenty inches,
well all, but you're one a year if you want it,
and only keeping three from that little runt class fifteen

(01:01:53):
to twenties aren't big fish. They won't be big fish.
They won't be considered big fish within a year or two,
fifteen to twenty. You caught little dink keepers. Oh that's cute.
We went out and caught a bunch of twenty fives
to thirties. It'll happen if we get a chance to
we get past you know what's in the wintertime. I'll
tell you what Travis wrote me a minute in a

(01:02:14):
minute when we get back, and if it's exactly what
I think it is, he probably knows more than I
do about this. I'll be impressed, and I'll have learned
something that I'd been told differently for the past one
hundred years. We'll talk about that when we get back.
On the way out. Phoenix Knives. This is Cowboys Emanski's
place out there in the middle of Belleville, right there

(01:02:35):
on Main Street. He moved into a bigger space last
year early last year actually, and has just the place
is just bloomed and blossomed and is turning out more
amazing knives now than ever before. He typically tries to
keep about a thousand knives in stock. Now they're not
all going to be laying out on the counters in there.

(01:02:56):
But they are available. And then, of course if you
want some deluxe, super custom, you can commission a knife
from Cowboys Emanski himself. It's gonna take a while to
get that built for you, but it'll be a want
of a kind a gift, maybe a gift to yourself
if you've done something you love. Cool knives, and that
goes for skinning knives, it goes for filet knives, it

(01:03:19):
goes for kitchen knives, it goes for pretty much anything
with a sharpened blade. They can and will for you
make it right there at Phoenix Knives in Belleville. That
great new space gives them more opportunity also to welcome
people in almost just come as you are, Come when
you can, and walk through here, and we'll show you

(01:03:40):
how to build your own knife. That's them talking, not me.
I don't know how to do that. I need to
get out there and do that. I'm gonna go out
there and forge my own knife one time, just to
see how it works. Great place, great people, been around
since nineteen seventy nine. That's all Cowboys done for what
those many years eighty forty five forty six years. He

(01:04:02):
has been a professional knife builder and is one of
the best in the entire country. Phoenix Knives dot com
is the website. Go there and check it out. Phe
nix Phoenix Knives dot com. Hey thirty six, Welcome back
to Doug Pike Shaw on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thanks
for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Okay, I learned
something and I am so I feel so.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
So fooled.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
For not knowing this. Even Frankie sah, yeah, I knew that.

Speaker 7 (01:04:32):
Did you know that?

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
For sure?

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Frankie, you did, didn't you? I did. I didn't know that.
I've been told most of my all of my life,
and the people who first told me this probably are
are all long gone, because I've been hearing this since
I was a little kid, that these mosquito hawks eat mosquitos. Well,

(01:04:54):
as it turns out, no, that's not what's going on,
and they are are actually where is their more common
name that crane flies. They're crane flies. They don't eat mosquitos.
In fact, they don't even have mouth parts to really
eat anything in their two week lifespan. That's something else

(01:05:16):
I didn't know. Whatever they ate, what they do maybe
as adults is sip a little nectar. According to this
story I was looking at and their sole purpose as
adults is to just breed more larval crane flies, which,

(01:05:36):
by the way, can can remain in that larval stage.
I learned way more than I knew about these things
just during that break, during that larval stage, they can
they can survive until conditions are just right, for as
long as three years. I bet you didn't know that, Frankie.

(01:05:57):
I know, he's on the phone. He's on the phone.

Speaker 8 (01:05:59):
Never mind.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Yeah, no, that's all right. So they look like big mosquitos,
they're not. And if you open the door, they will
fly in, but they're not gonna hurt you. They're not
gonna bite you, and unfortunately, they're not gonna do anything
about your mosquitoes. Typically, the mosquitoes show up a little
bit behind the crane flies, and that's just how nature works.

(01:06:22):
So even if they did eat mosquitos, by the time
the mosquitoes show up and the poor crane flies are
already gone, they're dead. They die two weeks, that's all.
They've got two weeks to do everything they do to
perpetuate the species. And so good for them. And yeah,

(01:06:45):
it says here an adult crane flies sole purpose is
pretty much to just mate in order to reproduce new
larvae and continue the cycle of life. That's what every
animal on this planet's doing. Just a quick sidebar I
read and talked about. I don't know if I talked
about it on fifty plus this week or not. I
can't recall, but it was. It was on on tap,

(01:07:07):
but I don't think I got to it. According to
the most recent calculations and and based on how the
human population is going, we the average woman on the
planet during her lifespan needs to produce two point seven

(01:07:29):
offspring to keep humanity from going its extinct. That has
nothing to do with hunting or fishing. But what it
what it tells me is that my the people who
come behind me and are and who are so devoted
to teaching kids to fish, are gonna have a lot,
a lot of work to do because they're gonna be

(01:07:52):
there should be. If if humanity's gonna survive, there're gonna
be a lot more little kids who don't get to
go fishing unless we take them. And I'm hoping that
at some point, somehow, some way, everybody in my audience
will try, at least this year, like I've asked for
the past twenty five years since I've been on the
air with this show, at least take one little kid fishing.

(01:08:15):
If you don't have children of your own, it's going
to be a little more awkward and difficult to make
that happen. But over the course of a year, there's
bound to be a way that you can take a
little kid fishing. Maybe it's a neighbor's child, a neighbor's grandchild,
and by all means, don't be creepy neighbor and say hey,

(01:08:35):
I want to take your kid to a lake. Now,
say hey, if you guys are going out sometime for
a picnic or whatever and your son or daughter wants
to learn how to fish, I'd be happy to go
there with you and hang out for about an hour
or so and see if we can't get that little
kid a fish. And if you go to the right

(01:08:55):
place and you do it right, you'll be able to
make that happen. It just won't be that hard. There
are so many places around town, so many places even
even within the city limits of Houston, that you can
go and lawfully walk up to the edge of the water,
put a bait in the water, maybe get a little

(01:09:16):
cane pole. That's Robert I believe his name is very
graciously volunteered last week and I've made contact with him
and put him in contact them with Greg Burlock or
the man who's putting together this kid's fishing event in July,
and uh, he offered to buy two dozen cane poles.

(01:09:36):
It's gonna go make make that happen. Two dozen cane
poles for those kids to fish with. They're also going
to need some smaller hooks than what typically come with
those cane poles. I don't know what those the people
who make those cane poles think you can catch on
one of those little things. But the hook in there
is big enough what they'd be okay for crappy. Let's
put it that way. I wouldn't trust those hooks with

(01:09:58):
anything much bigger or st longer than a crappy though.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. It just had an
email pop in, Oh Okay, Mojo ways in spouse grew
up in Florida and they're mosquito hawks are dragonflies. Now
we all know what a dragonfly looks like in Texas

(01:10:21):
and that makes sense because they do eat mosquitos, unless
somebody emails me evidence to the contrary. Yeah, those dragonflies
are very cool and one of the best bass baits.
As a fly fisherman, I was able to by the
beautifully tied flies that look just like a dragonfly. And man,

(01:10:42):
when those dragonflies are out and when they're just kind
of cruising across the top of the water trying to
eat little bugs coming out of the water, they're deadly
on bass. Bass love dragonflies, they absolutely do. All right,
let's take a little break. We're getting fast fast coming
up on the nine o'clock hour when we're going to

(01:11:03):
talk about the ongoing PGA Championship over at Quail Hollow
in Charlotte, North Carolina. And it's going to be a
good run to the finish that there are some names
moving up. There are some disappointments after yesterday. I don't
know that I've ever seen so many short putts missed

(01:11:24):
in a PGA Tour event. Now that's not to say
that they show all of those, but among leaders of
big tournaments, it's very rare that somebody misses two and
three foot putts. But it happened more than once yesterday
on the way out. I'll tell you about Shooter's Corner
Palmer Harway at twenty ninth Street down in Texas City,
that is owned by Jerry and j TK. They've been

(01:11:44):
in that same little corner spot for forever. Company's been
around forty something years. I'm not exactly sure forty what,
but it's forty something now. And all they are is
an old school gun store, exactly how you would picture
one of those in your mind. There is a place
or a couple of places in there to sit down
and take a load off while you're having a conversation

(01:12:07):
with somebody else who's doing the same thing about the
shooting sports, about self defense shooting, about competitive shooting, about hunting,
about target shooting, whatever it is. You listen to their story,
they'll stick around and listen to yours. Usually some first
responders in there. A lot of law enforcement shopping in there,

(01:12:28):
because anybody who wears a badge for a living gets
a discount at Shooter's Corner, which I think is pretty nice.
Palmer Highway, twenty ninth Street in Texas City. Guns Ammo
Optics Reloading supplies a little bit of Camo cool mounts
from around the world, collected by Jay and Jerry in

(01:12:49):
their travels and hunting. Just a fun place for a
shooter to go in there and know you're in good company.
Know you're in the company of people who like the
shooting sports as much as you do. The Shooters Corner
TX dot com. The Shooters Corner TX dot Com eight
forty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. I

(01:13:11):
had a couple of notes here that I wanted to
go over. I got that, I got that taken care of,
got that taken care of.

Speaker 8 (01:13:17):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
By the way, Frankie and I were talking about words
a little while ago, and yesterday on fifty plus I
brought up something with Will Melbourne, my producer for that show,
about the Frank's Quick Pop Quiz here And if you
don't know, it's fine. But what I'm looking for is
the English word, a very common word that has the

(01:13:38):
most definitions according to the Oxford Dictionary. Interesting, okay, it's
a one syllable word, one syllable, three letters, and it
is the word single word that has the most definitions
in English. This will be something you can row out

(01:14:00):
at the Dungeons and Dragons party later or whoever, anybody
who played do you ever? Did you ever play that game?

Speaker 7 (01:14:08):
I have not.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
I haven't either. I have no idea what it's about.
So no idea. Let's don't. Let's don't just dawgle on
this too long? But where to set? Set?

Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
It has?

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
It's either four hundred or more than four hundred different
different meanings. And on top of that, if you really
want to go full Nerd experience at a party and
just shut down the room, you can add and I'm
not talking about you, I'm just talking about anybody Frankie

(01:14:40):
who wants to just throw this at him. On top
of that, the actual entry for set in the Oxford
Dictionary is sixty thousand words long. How about that? So yeah,
let's get set, game, set, match, set that on the table.

(01:15:04):
And that's three of four hundred. Okay, I had a
lot of them, and way more than I want to
get into. You know what, I may challenge myself at
some point. I'm still writing magazine columns, and I might
try to write a magazine column that has at least
two dozen different uses of set in it. Set, a trap,

(01:15:27):
set back, and listen, which is probably more sit back
and listen. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm diving into the weeds
and I got to pull myself out seven one three,
two two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike at
iHeartMedia dot com. Uh. Before we actually get to the PGA,
there was a golf story I want to pass along

(01:15:49):
from this past Monday.

Speaker 9 (01:15:51):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
I was invited, as was my brother in law, to
play golf with the person who manages our accounts, both
my and my brother in laws. And that man's in
my account guy's son, Chase, Chase Ambrose. This guy's name
is Rodney Ambrose. Good guy been watching over my money

(01:16:11):
for a long time, and I really appreciate that. Doesn't
take him long to watch over mine, but he's been
doing that for me. So we're out there and Chase
hit a drive and it just the sound didn't sound
really really right, and even he looked at his driver
and he kind of started fiddling around with the head
of it and he said, you know, this thing's been

(01:16:33):
kind of sounding funny. It looks like it's a little
bit mushy here. And Steve, who's been playing golf even well,
he plays a lot better golf than I do. He
makes fewer swings than I do, always, and has for
most of his life. He went through college and became
an attorney on a golf scholarship, and so he pays

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attention to these things, probably more so than I would.
And he pointed out to Chase that he heard that
same sound and a couple of times more it sounded perfect.
Then it sounded bad again. And then I want to
say it was on about the ten eleventh hole, maybe

(01:17:17):
swings driver love it at the twelfth. I think it
was the twelfth when this finally happened. The eleventh sounded
really bad, like, oh, that doesn't sound like it's gonna
last long, And there appeared a visible crack. Okay, there
was something we could see that was definitely wrong with
that club. And on the ten eleven, twelfth tea box

(01:17:39):
it finally happened. Contact was made with the ball, and
then if you can picture a driver head as having
a bottom and a top, that top cap above the
club face and everything from the heel to the toe
just lit off like one piece and went sailing off

(01:18:02):
in one direction while the club head continued or the
club the bulk of the club, went back around and
over Chase his shoulder, and sure enough it was that
one was done. It was cooked. We did salve it
because of the new technology, it didn't ruin the club
and he certainly he had a really good chaeft put

(01:18:24):
in that driver head and so he just unscrewed it
and we'll regroup later, I guess for Chase. And then
immediately he's grown man, and he's got a good job.
He's working with his dad, but he was hitting around
that his birthday was coming up, and he was wanting
his dad to buy him a new driver, like, man,
you need to get something that. Yeah, his swing speed,

(01:18:48):
he's a pretty young guy, pretty strong. His swing speed's
a little bit higher than mine these days. I'm still learning, though.
I had a good session with a really good session
yesterday with Tommy O'Brien out at Blackhawk. He was kind
enough to give me a little bit of his time
toward the end of his day and fixed not one,

(01:19:09):
but two fangs in my swing. And now all I
have to do is hit a couple of thousand balls
doing exactly what he said, and I'll be dialed in
and who knows, maybe someday I'll shoot some scores in
the low seventies. Again, I've had a few. I've had
a few. I had a chance to break seventy once
and to if you've already heard the story, I won't

(01:19:30):
go through the whole thing anymore. Up at Golf Club
e Houston, I made it to eighteen and had maybe
a ten foot or uphill on the member course for
Bertie to shoot sixty nine, and just like someone scared
of scared of improvement would do, I left it two
feet short because I was scared that if I hit

(01:19:54):
it too far past the hole, I was going to
have a really tricky downhill putt and I didn't want
to face that. So I wimped out and unintentionally laid up.
At least my putt was ten or twelve feet whatever
it was. Some of the ones that were missed yesterday
by people on the leader board at the PGA. It's

(01:20:15):
just crazy to watch those guys do that. But the
fact that we did see them do that should be
should be a sign for all of us who struggle
with amateur golf to realize that even the best players
in the world don't perform perfectly on every shot. We've

(01:20:37):
all gotten used it. We're almost numb to it now,
where these guys just bomb drives one hundred miles down
the fairway and miss the fairway and then they just
pull out a wedge or a nine iron or maybe
an eight iron if they're one hundred and seventy five
yards out and bang it up onto the green. Somehow,
the bombing gouge era is still alive and kicking. But

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to see them miss three and four foot putts and
even shorter putts, Yeah, it's Johnny Vegas missed a missed
a tap in basically, and it cost him and he's
got I think it rattled him a little bit. He
slipped back a couple of shots yesterday from where he

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was during the peak of his round. We'll talk about
that when we get back. Let's go ahead and get
this break out of the way so we'll have a
little bit more room for that. If you've got questions
about the PGA, if you've got questions about the golf course,
I'll try to answer them. I've not played quill Hollow,
but I'd like to do it. I would like to
get onto one of those courses while they're still in

(01:21:42):
tournament shape too, and just see whether it's true or
not that golfers of certain handicaps will shoot ridiculously high scores.
I'd like to think that I could manage my way
around one of those golf courses without just totally boogering
it up and making a fool of myself and shooting
a two hundred. But according to the people who can

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really play the game, amateurs just can't do that. Now,
do I want to play with the giant crowd out
there and lining the lining the edge of the tea area.

Speaker 7 (01:22:16):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
In fact, there's kind of a funny little I guess
it's a meme on on Facebook. I've seen a few
times somebody it's a real video, real somebody teeing it up.
It's talking about how this is what would happen if
if an amateur teed it up at the Masters or whatever,
and this guy just dead slices one into the right

(01:22:38):
side of the crowd, and there's a superimposed little person
over there that gets hit by the ball and just
totally falls over. It's kind of funny unless that was you,
and unless it was real, but it wasn't, thank God.
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All right, Third and file out of the program starts already.
And before I get to the BGA Championship, which I will,
I will. I have two phone calls that need to
take longest on hold is Joe. Will start with him,
then I'll get to you, Kevin. Hang on, Joe, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 12 (01:26:24):
Hey man, I'm skating over her Mother's Day. I hope
all the moms had a Mother's Day. But listen, I
was calling in regards to the old rollover pass.

Speaker 3 (01:26:35):
Okay, yeah, long gone, rollover pass now.

Speaker 4 (01:26:38):
Yeah, long gone.

Speaker 12 (01:26:39):
Have you heard of any you know, changes over there
or the building appears make any big difference, didn't make
any big difference, or.

Speaker 3 (01:26:47):
It made a huge difference. It greatly impacted the EBB
and flow of water into East Bay, and unfortunately it's
it's not I don't think taking away passes is for
the better. You know, we're we're plugging them up up
here to make room for more real estate and whatnot.
And down south there they're opening passes. Packery Channel is

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a good example. And and every time we have a storm,
nature to provide health to its coastal resource opens up
tons of passes that that flush water back and forth
through them so that those based systems can say, stay
clean and healthy. And we plugged one up. Now there's
nothing good. There's gonna be a pier there, and that's cute,

(01:27:32):
but that's not a pass nothing, there's no comparison. It's
gonna be a pier on the gulf side. Yeah, gulf
side on yeapside.

Speaker 4 (01:27:40):
Oh wow, Okay, yeah, all right, man, well I appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (01:27:43):
Yeah, as soon as they get that pier built, I'm
gonna drive down there and just walk out it. And
and there's nothing wrong with fishing piers.

Speaker 7 (01:27:51):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
I was a peer rat for thirty years and loved
going down there. I'd fish all night on the pier
and then half a day or half a day and
all night. But there were some friends of mine and
I we used to bring a toiletries kit to the
to the pier because we were gonna be there all night.
And if you fall asleep or whatever, you wake up
when it's time for the big jacks to start moving through.

(01:28:13):
You got your big rides out. Just go to the
cleaning table because they ran fresh water out to it,
and just brush your teeth and get on back after it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:23):
All right, appreciate that?

Speaker 3 (01:28:24):
Yeah, thanks, Joe, I'll say you appreciate the call. Yeah,
that's a that's an easy one past gone bad pier, okay,
but not a pass. Kevin, what's up man? What's going
on Doug this weekend? But I'm doing all right? Yeah,
I wanted to talk.

Speaker 13 (01:28:44):
I got started myself, came pull of fishing probably sixty
years ago. I remember hearts jerking and catching brim and stuff. Sure,
as I got older, whenever I used to just move
down here to the coast of saltwater fishing. We would
go out to the jetties and Quintina Jetties used to

(01:29:04):
have a concrete wall before they extended it and made
nothing but crap granite rock, right, But you could take
a chair down and sit on that on that concrete wall,
and just down below it, the flounder used to come
lay up, and oh, baby, yeah they did. There used
to always be a couple of old ladies that would
come down there with with cane poles, yeah, and they

(01:29:25):
would sit there and they'd either have dead shrimp or
if they catch a croker, they'd cut a little strip side,
a little strip bait, yeah, and put it on there.
And they just sit there on that wall, dabbling that
pole back and forth all day long, catching flounder after flounder.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
Oh my gosh, something to watch, no doubt. You know,
you're talking about cane poles. Most people today, if they're
familiar with cane poles at all, are holding something that's
two pieces and it's got a little feral in the
middle and you couldn't lift You couldn't lift a brick
off the ground with it. When I was fishing as

(01:30:02):
a very small child. Down in Florida at my grandparents' place,
there was a corner where the canals met where there
was an undeveloped lot. In this big subdivision of waterfront
southeast Florida is just intricate miles and miles of relatively
narrow canals that all ebb and flow with the tide.

(01:30:22):
There was two two and a half feet of tide
movement all the way up where they were in Pompino
Beach and down there where those where that vacant lot was.
Every morning there would be I don't know, six, eight, ten,
twelve people who'd parked on the lot and then had
these cane poles that were about I want to say,

(01:30:42):
twelve fourteen feet long, and the bases of them were
almost as big around as baseball bat grips, the handles
of baseball bats. And what they would do it was
really kind of cool. They would put a big dough
ball on a treble hook, and then above that treble
hook there would be a smaller dough ball or a

(01:31:03):
smaller treble hook, maybe a like say two, somewhere around
the size two and or actually it was excuse me,
it was below the bread okay, and they were catching mullet.
And what they'd do is would until those mullet came
around and started pecking on that big dough ball that
was about three or four inches above that treble hook.

(01:31:24):
And as soon as they saw that that cork bouncing around,
they would just yank up as hard as they could
and tune a boat these big old bull mullet then
just flop them behind them and the kids would be
playing in the yard in that in that vacant lot,
and they'd run over and get the fish off and
put it in the bucket and then go back to playing.
And the it was, it was fascinating to wash. They

(01:31:46):
were so efficient with that got that big dough ball
and then that big treble hook underneath it, and they'd
yank it up and catch those things right in the
chin every time. Yeah, totally snagging them, man. Yeah, there
was no no catching them on hooking line, uh that
I remember.

Speaker 13 (01:32:03):
The first cane poles were used, were actually just a
cape piece of cane and wasn't any grammts or not
two pieces to them. They were and they we would
have the line that would wrap around the ride yep
and down to the base until when we stored them
in the storage closet, break them out and go go
at it again. And that's kind of the same thing

(01:32:25):
that the little old ladies would have as they I mean,
there's cane can groves all around over here.

Speaker 3 (01:32:31):
You know they go down there. I passed a cane grove.
It's not actually a cane grove. What it is just
the barrier around a big estate. I think it is
uh in old sugar Land, and there's signs of private
property and all this, but they have built a wall
of cane around there. And I was when I drove
past that yesterday, I thought, you know, those kids at

(01:32:51):
Greg Burlocker's tournament could use some cane poles. I'm sure
I'd get thrown in jail if I started cutting that cane.
And but I wish I knew who it was, because
I could cut two hundred canes out of there and
there this stuff's ten twelve feet tall easy. I could
cut two hundred of them out of there and they'd
never be missed. There must be two thousand of them

(01:33:12):
around there.

Speaker 13 (01:33:13):
One of the parts that I take care of in Liverpool,
Albert Finkel Park on Sakoleabayou.

Speaker 3 (01:33:19):
As you're driving to the main part of the park
on the right hand.

Speaker 13 (01:33:22):
Side of the road, that almost whole road for about
one hundred and fifty yards is nothing but overgrown, overgrown cane.
And it's probably it's probably twelve to fifteen foot thick. Wow,
creating a barrier on that property. It'd be hard to
get through that stuff, wouldn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
Oh yeah, it would you know. Wow, It's so many
fish to catch and so many cane poles to cut
and cure it. They have to be dried for how
long do you know how long you have to dry
a piece of that cane before you.

Speaker 4 (01:33:50):
Can use it?

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
Know it?

Speaker 13 (01:33:52):
I would think you'd probably have to drill it, have
to be cutting and set aside for months.

Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just leave it out in the bake
and son and just and just let it, let it
do its thing. Oh man, go ahead.

Speaker 13 (01:34:06):
Years ago I had a buddy that would make surf
rids out of Calcutta cas Oh yeah, great, big peak cane.

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
And I've actually got one of those that I've got to.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
Drive hold on.

Speaker 13 (01:34:19):
Go ahead, But I have I have one of those
that that's a collector's item that this guy is no
longer with us.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
I just leave it up for display.

Speaker 3 (01:34:29):
Yeah, that's what those people were using over there in
Florida's Calcutta. Just big old, heavy, thick cane. Man, you
could you could have lifted anvil out of the water
with one of those things. Yeah, all right, Cardie, I
got a bounce, man, Thank you. I appreciate always a play. Yeah, audio, sir,
all right, we got to take a break on the way.
In case you didn't know, Frankie pushed us out. That

(01:34:53):
was so cruel, Frankie, you're you're a tough, tough task
master man. Yes, that was that was not so subtle.
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You'll be glad you did it. Welcome back nine to
twenty on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Let's get to
the PGA Championship leaderboard, shall we whar? The weather actually
looks good today six percent chancellrain nine six seventeen percent,
which shouldn't be an issue around two or three this afternoon,

(01:37:04):
and then it goes down from there, so it's gonna
be a little bit cloudy maybe certainly good golf conditions
at sixty nine miles an hour with a fifteen percent
chance of rain kind of to start the day, they
should be okay. Johnny Vegas looked good yesterday, got it
all the way to ten I think it was, and

(01:37:25):
then misses some putts and is at eight under par
currently all by himself in the lead on this par
seventy one layout at Quill Hollow Over in Charlotte, North Carolina.
He has followed two shots back by Matthew Pavone, Matt
Fitzpatrick and Seawoo Kim. They are all at six under par.

(01:37:50):
The guy who made the best move yesterday, I think
in that group is Seawoo Kim. He shot one over
on Thursday and then laid in a little seven under
or seven under on yesterday to find himself at seven.
The hot breath on the back of Johnny Vegas's neck, though,

(01:38:10):
I don't think he's coming from any of those three guys.
I don't think it's coming from anybody but Scotty Scheffler,
who is actually tied with Max Homer at five under par.
But if I was, if I was in Johnny Vegas's
shoes and worried about either one of those two guys,
it wouldn't be Max. Not to take anything away from him,

(01:38:31):
He's playing very good golf. He's he's currently tied for
fifth in a big tournament. But Scotty Scheffler is the
guy you got to watch for. He's been steady, he
didn't light it up. He's only shot He shot two
under on Thursday, he shot three under yesterday, and it's
just kind of humming along. And to be only three

(01:38:53):
shots off the lead, which is only held by one
guy going into third or into set, uh, isn't not
isn't a bad place for him to be. There are
ten players at four under par, and I don't think
Scotty Scheffler or Johnny Vegas or anybody else who's up

(01:39:16):
there in that top six or seven, are worried about
any of those guys. I gotta I gotta hunch the
leaders gonna come.

Speaker 2 (01:39:23):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:39:24):
You can't really write them off. There there are four
shots just four shots off the lead, ten of them
just four shots off the lead. It would be premature
to just totally dismiss any of them from having a
chance at winning. But as difficult as that golf course
is playing, and as increasingly difficult as it's going to

(01:39:46):
be going into Moving day and then tomorrow, it's gonna
be tough to shoot good scores, and there are gonna
be some There're gonna be some frustrating mistakes that will
uh if they're gonna get the issues with that golf
course are gonna start to creep into some of those
players' heads. And when they do, we'll find out who's

(01:40:09):
got the best site coach. Because anybody who plays golf
at the level these guys do is relatively immune from
mental mistakes. Most of the mistakes they make are physical.
But if you let anything that happens on that golf
course get under your skin, you just set yourself up

(01:40:31):
for more problems. If you start second guessing shot selection,
second guessing club selection. You chunk a shot in the
rough and it only goes forward ten twenty feet, or
it goes or you blade a wedge and it goes
sailing across the green into the water. All of that
can happen at Quail Holla this weekend, and most of

(01:40:53):
that will happen to somebody, and it'll be the somebody
who can manage to get through that without out just
totally losing is cool. That's who's going to be higher, higher,
higher on the leaderboard when we look at tomorrow afternoon.
Let's go talk to Brandon, shall we. Then we'll come
back to some more golf stuff. Brandon, what's up, buddy?

Speaker 11 (01:41:15):
I argue you were talking about golf.

Speaker 3 (01:41:17):
I was, But now I want to talk about do
you want to talk about golfer baseball?

Speaker 6 (01:41:23):
I want to do golf.

Speaker 11 (01:41:24):
Person, I want to do bab Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:41:25):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:41:26):
What do you think about the golf tournament?

Speaker 11 (01:41:29):
It was good?

Speaker 8 (01:41:31):
I like it.

Speaker 7 (01:41:33):
Who was board?

Speaker 3 (01:41:34):
Johnny Vegas? I was, That's what exactly what I was
just talking about. Johnny Vegas is at eight, Jonathan Vegas
at eight under par. Then Matthew Pavone and Matt Fitzpatrick
and Seawoo Kim at six, and then three guys at five,
including Scottie Scheffer, which that's the guy everybody else in
that field's got to watch for every week. Basically, he's

(01:41:56):
the world's number one player. He's not going to go away.
He'll be in contention somewhere. I would bet on Sunday.
It just it's it's inevitable. The guy is that good
right now. He's he's playing very well and steadily right now,
which is he's not a streaky guy at all. He's
just steady ad He gonna shoot three four, five hunder
par every time he goes out, maybe a little bit

(01:42:19):
more if he gets hot and make some birdies. If
they can get their puts to start falling, all of
these guys are going to go a little bit lower.
But I think the pen positions are going to be
a little bit more difficult this weekend, which they typically
are in these tournaments, and that'll that'll make it just
as difficult to make them as it has been all week.

Speaker 11 (01:42:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna done on the golf game here.

Speaker 1 (01:42:40):
In the room.

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
But okay, good what's going on here?

Speaker 7 (01:42:47):
And I can head up.

Speaker 6 (01:42:49):
I could head it far good.

Speaker 3 (01:42:50):
Yeah. You gotta swing hard, man, you gotta make a
good swing.

Speaker 4 (01:42:54):
Though.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
That's more more importantly in golf than swinging hard is
hitting the ball so that you can hit it straight
or at least kind of straight every time.

Speaker 1 (01:43:03):
Oh either, which I'm in conra a.

Speaker 7 (01:43:06):
Nice day, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:43:09):
So let's shift gears to the astros for a minute, Brando,
what do you think is going on with them? How
are they doing?

Speaker 4 (01:43:14):
Got?

Speaker 2 (01:43:15):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (01:43:15):
Did you hear the good name?

Speaker 6 (01:43:17):
What's that we're gonna get?

Speaker 7 (01:43:19):
Uh? Do you think who's coming Backdon's coming back?

Speaker 6 (01:43:22):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
Yeah, it's about time. We need that bat in that lineup.
Holy go, we need a lefty for having sakes. You've
got Keratina. He can go from both sides. But having
Jordon back in there gives Joe a spot, a lot
more options because we with one switch hitter in the lineup.
That's not I mean, teams can really plan around putting

(01:43:45):
a picture out there who is very effective against right
handers and count on count on beating us more often
than not. But with Jordon coming back, that's good. Is
he gonna play today or do you know today?

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
Or I think it's today or Toma.

Speaker 3 (01:43:57):
I hope so. Yeah, the sooner the better, Holy ca.
I don't want him to end up like Kyle Tucker
did last year and be gone for three months of
the season or whatever it was. That was crazy, all right,
Brendo bad Oh, Yeah, yeah, you know they they're hitting better.
I don't want to jinx them at all. But as
a team, they are hitting better. They still leave way

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too many people on base, they leave way too many
people in scoring position. But there the batch are starting
to heat up finally, and I just hope they don't
cool down.

Speaker 11 (01:44:33):
It was on Apple TV.

Speaker 3 (01:44:34):
Did you watch that? Where it was?

Speaker 4 (01:44:35):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:44:36):
I couldn't find it. I don't have Apple TV. I
don't think my son probably could show me where I
could have watched it. I didn't know where it was.
I just gave up and listened to the radio.

Speaker 6 (01:44:45):
I can come there.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
Well, Well, now our stuff here is all messed up.
It's it's so, it's so. There's so many wires. There's
probably thirty miles a wire in our ceiling here, and
I don't know what's hooked up to. And even sometimes
when our office manager is here, he has a hard
time getting games on TV, so I'll just listen to

(01:45:08):
it on the radio when I have to do. I'm
sure we had it here last yesterday, but I wasn't here.
I was at the house. Hey, I got a run.
I'm at break time, Brando. I hate to do it
to you, buddy, but bottom of the hour time, all right, man, Yeah, okay,

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sounds good. Audios all right, we got to take this
break at the bottom of the hour. And on the
way there, I'm going to tell you about Berry Hill.
Berry Hill is a family friendly, relaxed half sports bar,
half restaurant in sugar Land, right at Sugar Creek Boulevard
in fifty nine on the inbound side that happens to

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turn out some of the most consistent, delicious Mexican food,
traditional text mex food that you're gonna find anywhere in
this region. It's a very humble looking place. Outside, it's
a it's it's busy. You're gonna see some people eating
outdoors when it's not one hundred degrees. You're gonna see
people enjoying themselves inside. And the kind of the sports

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bar side, which is to the right. As you come in,
you're gonna see families and couples sitting over there in
boosts and at tables on the left hand side, and
then what you're gonna see straight between the two up
high is a menu of things that are all absolutely
delicious and have been prepared pretty much as the ranking

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members of the kitchen that those two men have been
in that same kitchen for the best better part of
more than a decade, I think, and continue to turn
out some of the best fish tacos on the planet period,
bar none. I don't know what it is that makes
them so different, but they are absolutely outstanding, and I
think I want to say Tuesday is taco Day and

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where you can get a those, But even I don't
care what day you go in now they're closed on Sunday,
so don't go by there then. But any other of
the six days of the week that you go to
Berry Hill, do you owe it to yourself at some
point to try the fish tacos because they're just to
die for. I also am a fan of the seafood enchiladas.
I tried one of the seafood burritos once. I can't

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eat it all. That's the only complaint I had. And
I tried, and I paid a price for it. Because
every bite was delicious. But it's just it's it's too
much for me now. I couldn't do it well. I
had eaten a bunch of chips first, and that was
my mistake. I think everything there is absolutely delicious, the tacos,
the tamalies, the enchiladas, the everything, everything on the menu

(01:47:43):
up to and including the the piez del stones, the
tres leches. Oh my god, they do it in chocolate
or vanilla, both of which are we had. We had
very Hill cater a meal for us a while back,
and somebody, when I was telling them about the trace letches,
asked me whether I like chocolate or vanilla best, And

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of course my answer was just yes, yeah, you got.
You owe it to yourself if you have the opportunity
to get a chunk of both, if you have guests
with you, if you have more than two or three people,
just get a big old chunk of both and then
work through it yourselves. Berryhillsugarland dot com is the website.

(01:48:25):
Very fun, very family friendly place to go any day
or night except for Sundays. Barryhillsugarland dot com nine thirty
six on Sports Talk seven ninety the Dougpike Show. Thanks
for listening, certainly do appreciate it. Let me get these
emails up here. See what's up, Damn wade In. I
had one of those big poles. It was two six
foot pieces that screwed together in the middle, Holy cow

(01:48:50):
with a piece of all thread.

Speaker 9 (01:48:52):
M M.

Speaker 3 (01:48:54):
Now that's a serious cane pole right there, Matt wade
In on cane poles. My father learned how to snook
fish in Corpus from a gentleman named Louis Raywalt. Mister
Raywalt did some commercial fishing and also holds the Texas
state record snook used a large caw, cut a pole
and would work a plug like a jointed creek chub pike.

(01:49:18):
That's an old lure, a real old lr creekchub pike
along with it. I don't know. The certainess did the
lord sum of fifty seven and a half pound snook.
He says he's betting it came on a cow cut
a pole.

Speaker 4 (01:49:33):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
That would be a serious cow cut a pole with
serious line on it, And that would have been back
in the days when there were serious snook in this state.
We had a commercial snoo fishery in this state for
a very long time, had a commercial stripe bass fishery
in this state also for a very long time, all
of which was going on in the early nineteen hundreds.

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Commercial fishing for snook was a real deal in Texas.
We had both loads of them, boatloads of them seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. Email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. That is so cool too.
We have enough snook now if you go far enough
south in Texas and starting around Corpus Christy, uh and
continuing on down well into Mexico. Actually I'll fish for

(01:50:18):
them down there as well.

Speaker 7 (01:50:19):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:50:20):
There are enough snook that you can go target them
and have a better than average chance if you know
how to fish, of actually catching one, which is really good,
a better than average chance of catching one if you
give it a chance. Now, you may have to change
your strategy a little bit, you may have to change
your lure a little bit. But actually, especially in the

(01:50:42):
surf around Corpus there is there's a better chance that
what you're gonna catch is gonna be a speckled trout.
But there's also a chance that what you're gonna catch
standing there and maybe knee deep water, could be a snook,
could be a little tarpin as well. I've hooked both,
landed both down there over the years. Very fun place

(01:51:03):
to go do that, by the way, Go back to
when when Chase Ambrose blew the top off of his
driver with a big swing on number ten eleven twelve
at Meadowbrook Farms this past Monday, The first words out
of his mouth he realized that the club had just
blown up in his hands. He realized that, and the

(01:51:25):
first words out of his mouth, where'd the ball go?
And we none of us was really sure, but when
we went on down the fairway there it was out
in the fairway and he ended up parring that hole
despite the self destruction of his driver. If you play
golf long enough with the right especially if you play
with the right guys, somebody's gonna do something that will

(01:51:48):
be memorable for years to come. It probably will be
something a bad shot that that person hits. If they're friends,
you want you try not to remember their great shots,
the ones that are better than you hit, but you
always remember their bad ones so you can rub it
in next time and try to get in their heads.
When when the betting starts. That's how fun groups play golf.

(01:52:09):
We always this group I play with on Mondays, we're
always kind of poking fun at each other and laughing
along with each other. We've all made horrible shots, we've
all made terrible swings, we've all been disappointed by an
easy putt that didn't go in. Me more often than
not lately it's driving me crazy. But that's kind of

(01:52:30):
what makes golf fun. And it's it's just as fun
when you especially for me a lot of times, like
I've said, I'll go jump in with three other people
I've never met, and you can you can size them
up pretty quickly and know whether it's going to be
a group of super serious guys who even if they
don't play all that well, they're they're marching around the

(01:52:52):
course like it's the the US Open, or you look
in the cart and you see it's it's ten o'clock
in the morning, and the behind where they sit the seats,
behind the seats is that little trash bucket. Basically, there's
already four empty beer cans in there. There are beer

(01:53:12):
cans at various levels of full or not full in
each of the two can holders up front. The the
ice bucket or the ice chest, the little baby ice
chests on the cart is not quite able to close,
because yeah, then you're going to have a good time.

(01:53:34):
They're gonna be fun.

Speaker 4 (01:53:35):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:53:35):
I don't drink when I play golf. I don't drink
really at all anymore, and I haven't in years. It's
just a choice I've made. It's not a big deal
if you do. As long as you can compose yourself
and have fun with a little aiming fluid, I'm all
for it. I don't have a problem with that.

Speaker 4 (01:53:50):
It's just me.

Speaker 3 (01:53:53):
But it's still when you get into a group and
you can tell if they're joking with each other, just
let them know right up front. Hey, man, if I
mess up, feel free to criticize me too. Feel free
to laugh at me. It won't hurt my feelings at all.
It'll just motivate me to play better. And so you
take yourself out of the Gee, we don't know who

(01:54:13):
this guy is, we don't know whether we can tell
jokes around him. Just infuse yourself and get yourself into
the group as fast as you can. And if they're
dead serious people say, man, hey, I like playing like this. Man,
I appreciate that. I take my golf seriously. I'm not
very good, but I like to really work on my game,
and they'll appreciate that too. Every now and then you

(01:54:36):
get sideswiped, though, because you hit you get into a
bunch of guys who are really quiet and they don't
talk much, and they're really not joking, and you hit
a bad shot and then they just pounce on you jokingly,
of course, but they pounce on you for it. Then
you get to bring out your lines. The Toyota Share

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Lucker program is something I want to I'll go back
to it when we get back from this last break
of the program, which is coming on us like a
freight train. I want to go back and kind of
recap how that program went this year and just reassure
anybody who thinks we don't have very many big bass
in Texas, mostly because I talk all the time about

(01:55:16):
how we still don't have a twenty pounder. We still
can't break Bury Saint Clair's eighteen point eighteen pound basset
right now seems like it was caught back in the
covered wagon days. We'll talk about all that when we
get back. We will take a little break. We will
come back to wrap up this boy. It's PGA National weekend.

(01:55:37):
It's get outside and have some fun weekend. It's great
trout fishing weekend. It's great bass fishing weekend, Great crappie
fishing weekend, redfish, of course, that's every weekend with them.
They don't go anywhere, they don't care what the weather is.
They're just gonna eat. You put something in front of them,
they'll probably eat it. We'll be right back more than
the Doug Pike Show after this. All right, welcome back

(01:56:00):
talk seven to ninety The Duckpike Show. Thank you for listening.
I do appreciate it, Believe me, I do. That's why
I dragged myself out of bed in the morning to
come down here. I like visiting with you. I like
hearing your stories. I've heard my stories enough times. I'm
ready to hear all of yours. And everything that goes
on in the outdoors eventually turns up a story, just

(01:56:21):
like that guy over in Lithuania got his trail cams out.
Professional photographer, got trail cams everywhere just to kind of
see what's around so he can go back and try
to get pictures of it. First, Brown Bear sighted in
that area in decades, but there he was, big old boar,
good looking bear too. So back to what I promised,
which is kind of a wrap up of the Toyota

(01:56:43):
Share Lunker program for this season. The twenty twenty five
Toyota Sharelooker program fourteen legacy class bass this year. That's
thirteen pounds or bigger from nine different public reservoirs across state.
New Water Body got its first. I'll tell you about

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that in the second oh Ivy kind of the raining
water Body Champion for the past five years finished twenty
twenty five with six of the fourteen total legacy class entries.
It just goes on and on. This is really cool, Ohivy.
By the way, in the past five years, fifty nine

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legacy class fish and that's not a coincidence. Really, the
fish were there for much longer. But sidescan forward facing.
All of this new technology has made those fish a
little bit easier to find and a little bit easier
to catch. And as it turns out, with anybody who

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knows anything about ford facing sonars, a lot of information
now about how many big, big bass are just out
in the middle of nowhere trying to stay away from
all kinds of things that would keep them from or
would maybe get them caught. They're not hanging out around structure,
they're not huddling up on the shorelines. They're they're just

(01:58:12):
out there on bare bottom, all by themselves, not entirely
unlike what big red snapper will do. In the Gulf
of Mexico. All you go around a lot of offshore
drilling platforms, you go around pipe stands and rock piles

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and all this stuff, and you'll find snapper. You'll find
lots of them. There's plenty of snapper in the Golf
of Mexico. Now we've got a big, long season ahead
of us to show that. But the really biggest ones
are out there just on the what the captains tend
to call hardspots, and they're not There's just nothing there

(01:58:53):
but maybe a little depression or maybe a little bump
and then one or two giant red snapper. So back
to the bass. Nine reservoirs delivered the legacy class bass.
Like I said, they are Ohivy Richland, Chambers, Ladybird Lake, JB. Thomas,
Alan Henry Lake, Towakene, Sam Rayburn Lake, Tyler, and Toledo

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Bend Lake. Towakene got its first with share lumber. That
doesn't say which number that was, but anyway, that was
its first share Looker program. Bass ohivy again ahead of
the class, just like I said with six. A guy
named Willie Pipkin set a new water body record on

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February fifth with a fourteen to oh five out of Ladybird. Lake.
Four anglers caught their second Legacy Class lunkers this year.
That would be Brady Stanford, Ross Gomez, Terry Scott, and Michelda.
Chriswell ross Gomez, by the way, caught that same bass

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two years earlier than he did this year from the
same place in the same spot, and that's a first
for public water. And then Lake Tyler and Sam Rayburn
combined for a double lunker day on March twenty second.
It's almost like they're keeping as many stats in facts

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and figures about share Lunker as they are with Major
League Baseball, all the acronyms of statistics in Major League Baseball.
It's pretty impressive with what they know now about pretty
much everything involved in the game. And you almost have
to have a technology degree to keep up with it anymore.

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I liked it a little. It was simpler when I
grew up. But I do like hearing all the statistics.
I just wouldn't want to get caught up in all
of it, trying to make all my decisions. There's still
something still something about, hey, so and so has got
a hot hand right now moving Jeremy Pinya. He was

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kind of struggling at first. Now he's up at the
top of the order and all of a sudden he's
lighting it up. It's a good time to leave him there,
I would say. Mojo weighed in. I got an email
a minute ago that said, enjoying the fishing stories, and
I don't fish, but hearing how much fun they are
is infectious. And then I responded, if I recall because

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Mojo and I have corresponded for a long time, you've
caught a fish or two, right, And then it came
back yep. Mom encouraged Daddy to take us all up
to the Iowa Great Lakes to fish, not the Big
Great Lakes, but the Iowa Great Lakes. I was about
five caught bullheads. Mom worked on her embroidery. It was

(02:01:53):
definitely a one time thing. Unfortunately for her dad. Oh man,
you know, and the way I responded to that, since
it was a one time thing. I said, it's okay.
You're just you're an angler. You're a fisherman who just
lets too much time pass between trips. What you need

(02:02:15):
to do is rekindle that flat. Well, maybe some people
just don't like fishing that much. My wife's one of them,
and I don't falter for that. It's just it's my passion,
it's not hers. She has other things that that that
light her up, and so that's that's fine too. And
we just accommodate each other. We've been together thirty five years,

(02:02:38):
so we're planning on sticking around. Told her that last night.
I just said I love you. She said really, I said, yeah,
I'm still here. Kind of makes sense. Uh, we got
time if you want for another call, if you got
one of something you want to add to the program
real quick. Otherwise I'll walk it out. That won't be
a problem. Oh holy cow, it's getting earlier in wh Aly.

(02:03:00):
Franky swear man. You got a lot of stuff to
stack in before the top, don't you. Yep, Okay, we'll
do that. I'll get out of here. We got lots
to talk about tomorrow. The tournament's gonna be one more
round through over there a quail hollow the PGA Championship.
I can't help. How can you not pick Scotty Shuffer.
As long as he's number one in the world and

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he's on the top page of the leaderboard on Friday
afternoon and on Saturday morning, you gotta pick him. We'll
be back. Get outside, have some fun with your family.
I'm gonna call David Pruet and see if I can
get him on soon to talk about what he and
his crew are doing out there to make all waterfowl
hunting better. Think it'll give you a better understanding of
how much goes into doing what he does, and it's

(02:03:44):
a lot of hard work. We'll be back tomorrow at
eight o'clock. Thanks for listening, Stay safe, Get outside, Audios