Who Went to the Fishing Show?

Originally aired on February 22, 2026. On this episode, Doug and the callers recount who all they met at the Houston Fishing Show, along with diving into how fast dotted duckweed can spread. All of these and more, on The Doug Pike Show.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Sunday edition of the program starts right now,
Rise and shine. Okay, it's gonna be a beautiful day.
It's a little cooler outside than it was yesterday. Hey,
take that for what it's worth. Hey, it is what
it is, and I have no problem with that whatsoever.
I was back at the show yesterday, by the way,
the Fishing show, and I was figuring that at the

(00:23):
very least I wouldn't have to pay thirty five dollars
to park again after getting burned on Wednesday because the
meters around the GRB at that park in front of
it weren't working.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I didn't want to get my car towed.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
In hindsight, they probably probably might have ticketed it, and
I would have gone and wasted a half a day
standing there waiting for my turn to tell the judge
that the meters weren't working, and there would really be
no I don't know, it'd be hard to validate that,
except that I would probably be in there with another
fifteen or twenty people who got ticketed for no good reason.

(00:57):
But I went ahead and paid the thirty five on Wednesday,
just to make sure that I didn't have to go
through that hassle. My time is worth more than that,
to be perfectly honest. And so yesterday I left here,
I don't know about noon, maybe twelve fifteen, somewhere in there,
and thought it can't be too bad when I get there.
And I get there, and darned if there's not a spot. Wow,

(01:19):
here we go. This is great on the weekend, not
going to be a big deal. They, by the way,
they do want you to use that meter. It used
to be weekends we're free. Now it's only Sundays are free.
And I doubt that it'll be too long before only
Sundays after dark we'll be free when nobody wants to
be down there.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
In any event, I.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Get out of my car and turn to walk toward
one of the meters if I can see which one's closest,
and there's the close one.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's not as far as I thought it was going
to be. But I also didn't think that there was
going to be a big red cover over it that
says special event parking only must have SUD.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
I'm paraphrasing, but what it said was if you don't
have some sort of special event pass in you on
your dashboard, now we're getting your car, or we're gonna
ticket you at the very least. And I just threw
my hands up in the air and said, you know
what it's worth it. I'm gonna go ahead and pay
the money. I'm gonna go ahead and park in the
garage again, and it'll give me something to talk about

(02:21):
and give me something to kind of let the city
of Houston know. It's very disturbing when people are coming
down there. I talked to a lot of people in
that show yesterday who agreed with me that the vendors suffer,
the venue suffers, a lot of things suffer when they
try to gouge people on parking. And that's all that is.

(02:41):
Thirty five dollars to park your car. Thirty five dollars.
Now that's not the worst I heard. I did talk
to a friend of mine down there who had gone
to dinner somewhere downtown or that in that area, very
close to that area, whenever, wherever, while he was at
the show this week, by the way, and he paid

(03:02):
eighty dollars to park his car.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Eighty dollars to park his car.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
At least he got a valet, So you know that
that was worth it. That security you get when you
hand your keys over to a stranger. Yeah, anyway, I'm
out another thirty five bucks, but I did get far
more than that in value walking around that show and
talking to people yesterday, I ran into a lot of

(03:29):
people I'd missed on Wednesday, all of whom I'd really
really wanted to see this week. I got in a
great conversation, for example, with Brian Treadway. He called yesterday
and we talked a little bit. I talked to him
a little bit more in depth about some of the
threats to wildlife and outdoor recreation that are kind of

(03:50):
creeping into our worlds, including and we both kind of
laughed about this. I don't see it getting any real traction,
but it's scary to even think that there are that
many people who would consider putting on the ballot in
Oregon for November a bill that would prohibit It's something

(04:11):
the people for the.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
I don't know what the acronym is, but the bottom
line is what they want to do away with is
anything in everything you could do to harm any animal,
any animal, any animal.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Except in self defense.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Now self defense, can you defend yourself from mosquitoes? According
to this bill, as it reads as it's written, Nope,
you just got to let them bite you, as you're
not in any real danger unless they can get maybe
they can get themselves one of those special mosquitoes that
carry some horrible disease. Find one of those up there,

(04:53):
and then you'd have the right to kill them. But
I'll tell you who's going to be up in arms over.
This is the pest control people. If you're any one
of the if you're at the side of your truck,
says pest control, you might as well just sell the truck,
because once, if, when, and if that ridiculous, idiotic piece
of legislation stumbles through the ridiculous idiotic politics of Oregon,

(05:19):
and it might have a chance, who knows, if it
makes a ballot.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
If that happened, it would.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
The way I read it, and the way I've read
it two or three times from different sources, it would
eliminate the opportunity for you or me. If we had
a couple of mice get in the attic, can't do
a thing, just welcome them in. They're like squatters, and
then all of a sudden they've got rights and you
can't hurt them. If you've got anything going on like
that in your world, and they're targeting hunters and fishermen.

(05:48):
They're targeting hunters and fishermen, but the antlery, the collateral
damage is going to be anybody and everybody who works
with animals, animal research, no, working with animals in schools.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
No, you can't do anything. You can't do anything.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
And that's that's just how crazy in a nutshell some
states are that there are enough people that they're trying
to get signatures on petitions to put this on the ballot.
I don't see it making it through, and I haven't
seen any story yet that says it's got a chance.
But in Oregon, who knows, who knows had a good

(06:30):
visit also with Chuck Guzzle from over at Sabine Lake.
I hadn't seen him in a while. He said fishing
over his ways been really really good actually, and that
the water's in outstanding condition because it's been so dry
throughout the watershed that feeds that lake or that bay,
Sabine Well, Sabine Lake and then on down to the
coast all the way through there is as good as

(06:55):
he's seen it. He's talking about four and five foot visibility,
which is unheard of over there. Really, if that river's
flowing at all, you don't get four and five feet
of visibility.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
It just doesn't doesn't happen.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
You're catching good fish, he said, Just tell you people
they want to come fish with me, look me up
and I'll hook them up. Uh so I've got that,
got that taken care of. Wait a minute, I got
aheadle myself on this. I'm not changing, not changing where
I am. I just forgot to scratch something out.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Oh I got I met a guy too, a guy
named killian Doni and I believe that's his last name.
It could be something slightly different pronunciation wise, but I
think I'm close enough. Bottom line is he's with Fins,
the the braid people. And he picked up where my
old friend Dean left off on Wednesday in the story

(07:48):
of just how braided line came to be and how
the fibers that are used in it were being used
for something else for a pretty long time. And it's
been quite a few years ago that this originated. But
the bottom line is, I'm gonna I'm gonna get him
on the phone. Uh not today. I don't have it
scheduled with him today.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
And I don't want to rush him, but we're gonna
do probably two full segments on the evolution of braided
line and how the different fibers are made, why they're
made that way, what can be changed, what can't be changed,
and on and on and on there. They're really almost
every one of them is in some way uniquely different.

(08:29):
There are some manufacturers who there are well, I'll just
say there's shortcuts in this industry, in the braided line industry,
that some manufacturers take and some don't, and that's part
of the reason why some of them cost a lot
more than others, and why some braided lines. I made
the mistake of being in a really hurry, in a

(08:50):
big hurry one time, trying to grab a spool of
braid to refill one reel. That's all I needed to do.
I didn't and I had forgotten to bring my stuff
with me when I was out of town.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Ran in the store, grabbed.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
A spool of cheap that was a mistake, cheap braided line,
And when I got it out of the package and
tried to put it on the reel, it was like
I was rolling clothesline onto the reel. The stuff was
just so much thicker, so much heavier than what I
had become accustomed to, been buying quality lines for so long,

(09:27):
but that was all I could get, and I just
had to suck it up and put it on the reel,
and I got through the trip, and then I took
all that line off that reel and bought some decent
stuff and put it back on there.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
That was crazy, absolutely crazy.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
If you went to the show and you saw something
that you think we all ought to know about, don't
keep it a secret.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Just call me in, let me know.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
We'll get you on the line and figure out what
it was you found that you really really liked. I've
got a couple of more things I want to talk
about too, as we get into the program. I've never
seen so many soft plastics I saw out there at
the show. There's always a lot, but it seemed like
almost every other booth was soft plastics, depending on which

(10:09):
aisle you were going down, and there were. I started
asking some of my friends who were there which ones
they liked best, just because it's it's an overwhelming selection process,
and I think most of these guys sell They mark
it through word of mouth, and they also they send

(10:30):
boxes of lures to a lot of fishing guides. The
fishing guides throw them, The fishing guides put the people
where the fish are. Those lures catch fish, and that's
how they do it. That's how they market their brands.
But some of them do work better than others, no
matter how many people are throwing them.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
And I came across one of those.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
There was one name that kept coming up, and so
I finally went over to this guy's booth. The name
of the brand name is slim Groovy okay.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
And if you're at the show, as.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
You walk in, if you go straight to the back
and then take a left and then maybe go, I
don't know, one more aisle back toward the other side
of the show.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
He's somewhere down in there.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
I can't remember exactly where, but that place was jacked
up with people in it.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
And I walked over.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
And talked to the guy who kind of of is
in charge, and he showed me the bait they were
talking about. It's been red hot lately for big trout.
That was the word I gotten from a couple of friends.
That's that. Yeah, if you're gonna look at one, go
look at that one. So I went over there, and
I got the guy to show me what he's using
and what he's making, and it's actually quite similar to

(11:43):
a bait I got almost thirty years ago an entire
shoe box filled with prototypes of a bait that I'm
pretty confident never really made it to mass production.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
I still have a few of them.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
I boy, I held onto those things because I was
going down to the surfside jetty a lot back then.
It was at the paper when I got them, and
i'd take them with me down there, and they outfished
everything else that everybody else was throwing on a regular basis.
And the I don't know, you'd have to look at
them but to understand.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
But it's just it's ribbed. Let's call it that.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Most of you will know what that means and in
whatever application you want to put it on. But the
bait is basically ribbed from head to toe and it
pushes a lot of water.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
It tracks well.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
And the ones I had had kind of just a
ball at the tail. These have a little split tail,
and he said, sometimes they work better if you just
snip off that slip that split tail and they run
more like a traditional like a little dart bait. If
you will, we have to take a break. Sadly, I'll

(12:55):
have to. I'd rather talk about fishing, but I have
to pause and take care of this, which I'm happy
to do because I get to tell you about Belleville
Meat Market out there on thirty six, fifteen minutes north
of Cely.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Fifteen minutes south of Hempstead.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
If you're driving out two ninety or I ten, respectively,
whichever you want. Once you get there, what you're gonna
find is a store full of beef, chicken, and pork
cut however you want it. Premium pecan smoke sausages. They've
got that full pecan smoke barbecue lunch served, lunch and
dinner every single day of the week.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
They're open today.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
They'll have the lunch and dinner ready today from ten
am to seven pm. They've got pecan smoked everything. They've
got pulled pork, homemade hot dogs, all of that on
the menu, and then all the sides that traditionally go
with a Texas barbecue meal, homemade stuff, pork tenders, gosh stuff,
pork chops, pan sausage, boot and labuchery stuffed chickens, on

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and on and on. It goes all the grabbing ghost
snack stuff, the jerkys, the dry sausage, dry stick. All
you gotta do is get there while game processing year round.
By the way, they've always done that call before you
haul something out there. But there's a good chance if
it walked on four legs before you harvested it or
you shot it, Yeah, they can probably take care of

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that for you.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
A lot of times people stuff things in the.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Freezer two full quarters of deer whatever, thinking yo, I'm
gonna butcher this myself this year, and then about now
they think, you know, I should have taken it out
to Belleville Meat Market. Well they'll still take it for you,
and they'll turn it into something you can eat the
next day. Belleville Meat Market the only meat market I
in processor. I endorse and proudly so. Bellville MeetMarket dot

(14:38):
com is a website. If you can't get out there,
at least go to the website and take a look
at everything they've got.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Belleville MeetMarket dot com.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Kind of a nice morning it is to maybe consider
going out to American Shooting Center sometime today and just
hone your skills a little bit. And if you didn't
knock down as many birds as you wanted to this year,
maybe you didn't hit the deer like you wanted to
and you had to track it for a long ways.
Get out and work on your skills. Hunting season is great,
but if you're not practicing between hunting seasons, you're doing

(15:08):
yourself and the animals you're chasing kind of a disservice.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Really.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
American Shooting Centers has great instruction in all the shooting
disciplines and plenty of room for anybody and everybody you
want to haul out there with you. More than two
hundred shooting stations on the largest non military shooting facility
in the entire state of Texas. Five let's see, we
got five stand pretty much all over the place.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
We got three sporting place courses.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
I'm looking around ten trap in skeet fields, a beginner's
wing shooting area, rifle and pistols starting at five yards.
That's the home defense stuff and self defense stuff, and
then it goes all the way to six hundred yards
and between the five and the six hundred out between
actually I think it's the three hundred and two hundred
and three hundred Maybe is a pop up silhouette range

(15:53):
where you can take the rim fire rifles over there
and just plink away to you and your famili's content
without spending a ton of money on AMMO. American Shooting
Centers is on West Timer Parkway between Katie and Highway six.
American Shooting Centers dot com. American Shootingcenters dot com. Hey
twenty one on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike
Show seven one three two one two five seven ninety

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seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm looking at the Saturday, well,
not the Saturday anymore, the Sunday Sunday Sunday. The seminar
schedule out there at the at the Fishing show.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Let me get to it. Wait a minute, there's something
wrong here. Friday Saturday. Where is the Sunday one? Let
me hold on there it is. I think that's gotta
be it. Yeah, this must be it. I think it
kind of fell off the page. That's kind of weird
that the early I think this might be it. So
this is Yeah, this has gotta be Sunday eleven forty five.

(16:57):
Captain Sally Black's gonna be there at twelve thirty Richard Tash,
the fish Dude on freshwater fishing techniques. By the way,
if you don't know who Captain Sally is, if you
like big trout and you like baff and bay, and
you like fishing with people who really know how to fish,
go to her seminar and then talk to her afterwards
about setting up a trip. One fifteen David Dillman gonna

(17:18):
talk about fishing Galveston Bay a little closer to home.
Two o'clock Marshall and then in quotes it says the
homeless fisherman.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
I don't know what that means. I really don't tackle shack.
It says here tackle shack, and I'm not sure about that.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Two pm.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Just like yesterday, there was a kid's fishing clinic where
they get free tackle and it's sponsored by Fishing Tackle Unlimited,
by the way, and Pure Fishing and the Texas Coastal Brigade,
all of which are at the show and proud sponsors
of that, which has been going on for probably the
better part of thirty or forty years, I don't know
how long exactly. And then wrapping it up, it looks

(17:58):
like at two forty five has a good guy to
rack it up or wrap it up with too. Sharky
Captain Michael Marquez out cash charters, blue water tips and tricks,
and man, has he been ripping the tuna lately?

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Holy cow.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
I walked by his booth on Wednesday and had a
good conversation with him and said, please leave some tuna
for everybody else. He has had some bang up trips offshore.
It's a long run to tuna water from up this
high our coast, but it's worth it, especially with your
if you're fishing with somebody like Sharky. He darned sure

(18:33):
knows what he does. I had a really good conversation
with him. He's a he's a very good, very business
minded young man who is really carving a niche for
himself down there in that galvescenario. He's got really good
captains working for him. And yeah, I would highly recommend him.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
I would.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
I haven't heard anybody say a bad word about the guy,
and I wouldn't either. Everything I know about him says
he's he's he's smart. He's very smart, and he knows
how to run a business. And that's a big important
thing when you're talking about being in a business where
a motor breaks down and it can't be fixed, and

(19:12):
you got to you got to find sixty seventy eighty
thousand dollars for a motor. Yeah, you got to know
what you're doing in business. I don't think he gets
many off days. That kind of works as hard as
anybody I've ever known. I mentioned yesterday that we were
out of the threat of freeze at least for this year, hopefully,
and I'm gonna stick to that prediction. I'm curious to

(19:35):
see if any of you disagree with me, though, if
I and I think Rick Biss might be able to
get me on a technicality because he tends to run
the roads farther north and so they might get a
freeze up that way in central Texas. But I don't
think we'll get one down here in Houston again.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
And I base that on.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
I might as well be using a Wiji board or
something like that. There's no there's no science behind it.
It's just a gut feeling. Frankie, do you agree or
disagree to you? Or do you think we're gonna get
another one?

Speaker 2 (20:08):
I don't know, it could be no. You gotta you gotta.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Pick a horse pick a horse, yes or no? Okay, no, okay,
So no freeze.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
We agree.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
That means it's unanimous actually for the Dug Pike Show
staff in entourage. Yeah, both of us. We don't think
there's another freeze, and I don't want one. Frankly, I
like the cool air we had this morning, I really did.
I enjoyed walking out into that. I came really close,
uh for I think the low and sugar Land was
like forty six, forty eight something like that, and that's

(20:40):
just cold enough to keep me and my son comfortable.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
My wife does. She has portable heaters and and she'll.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Turn on the air conditioner for an hour and then
this will turn on the heater and like the fireplace
for a little while. She she dictates what happens in
the rest of these But where we were, it's very
comfortable all the way down to about probably forty five.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Don't have to turn on the heater.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
But because well, my son over in his room, he's
like a blastper and he's eighteen years old, Okay, he's
the same incredible metabolism. He just generates heat so he
and he sleeps like I did when I was his age.
The covers on the bed are just like I would
have when I was his age. When I went to sleep,

(21:33):
I would have the sheet, the top sheet over my ankle,
over one ankle and that was it.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
That was it.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
I was just splayed out on there, hoping I didn't
get warm in the night and I have to turn
on the AC again. But yeah, we're very comfortable in
the conditions we have now, and I hope it'll stick
around a little bit, although it did see for next
week when I looked a little farther ahead, there was
an eighty on the board again, and that's bearable with
a little bit of a see a little boost of

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AC to cool it down to about seventy something anyway,
seven one three, two one two five seven ninety. Email
me Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. So the reason I'm
talking about this freeze thing is because I also have
been noticing that the migration back north for the ducks
that came at least this far down and any that

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went any farther, which wasn't a lot. And I'm going
to talk about that some in a minute too, about
why those ducks never came down here and why half
the country has kind of really ticked off at some
people and some organizations that are believed to be behind
all this.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
The bottom line.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Was I got divers, not not not widgeons, not gadwalls.
I'm talking about blue bills and just little little miscellaneous
ducks that migrate.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
I've seen buffalheads on that lake.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
We used to see a lot of widgeons and gabwalls,
and some shovelers too, but not this year. It's mostly
just a little black and white puddle ducks or diver ducks,
and they have plenty to eat in this one golf
course lake. On average, usually this time of year, in
a previous year, go back ten years or so, when

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I was first starting to go out there, it would
be a really nice bunch of miscellaneous ducks on that
lake this time of year.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Now it's it's not as many.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
It's still on a good day, one hundred and fifty
maybe two hundred ducks on that lake. And they don't
stick around long. They'll they'll come and go. They'll be
on that lake for a few days to kind of
red stock. There's a lot of grass in that lake,
so they get them get their bellies full. And then
when it seems like it's not blowing too hard out
of the north. They just point their noses back towards

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the nesting grounds and take off.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
You know, It's at least the.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Good news is most days lately there have been more
ducks than cormorants. So I'm very thrilled with that, especially,
And if somebody wants to start a petition to take
the federal protection away for cormorants, I'll be the first
one to sign it. I don't know how to do that.

(24:15):
I don't know where you start with something like that.
Maybe Treadway could help me with that. Maybe Brian Tredway could.
I'll have to talk to him. He seems to know
a lot about those types of things, a lot about him.
This whole mess though, with the elite hunting clubs in
the Midwest and flooding corn, which there was, it was.
It was put very well, and I'll paraphrase a couple

(24:37):
of weeks ago by somebody said, how come it's okay
to grow corn and then put water around it, but
it's not okay to take water and put corn in it.
You can put water around corn, but you can't put
corn into water. Two entirely different actions. They say and

(24:59):
one through a loophole, as far as I'm concerned, allowed
a lot of people up north to make it where
ducks just don't come down anymore. They don't come down here,
and something's got to be done about that. It really
does the problem.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
It's not.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
First of all, it's hurting the ducks because they are
being artificially enticed to stay in a climate that is
otherwise unfavorable to them.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
And if for any.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Reason that in addition to the corn being grown and
then the field's flooded without even being harvested. There's also
stories I'm hearing at least about how they're warming the
roost water. They're adding artificial warming elements to the water
in which these ducks roost so that the roost pond

(25:52):
never freezes, the food supply never ends, and they don't
come down here. Well, that stacks millions of ducks into
very tight quarters. And anybody who was around here when
the ab and collar broke out in Geese knows how
bad that is for the ducks. There's something else that
that's going to be a real problem at some point

(26:14):
that's gonna have to be addressed. And Senator Kennedy over
in Louisiana, and I believe Ted Cruz has jumped on
board here. They're gonna be bringing that up, I'm sure
to somebody. And I wouldn't want to be on the
receiving end of an argument put forth by those two
guys on the way out. Kobe Stevens Golf apparel, outdoors apparel, beautiful,

(26:35):
beautiful stuff.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Really, it makes you feel good. It makes you feel
like you.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Belong wherever you are when you're in the outdoors, makes
you feel kind of skilled.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
To have that good gear on.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Somebody will look at you, whether it's his fishing gear
or it's his golf wear, golf clothes, and they're gonna look.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
At you and go might be he might be a pro.
He just might be a pro. Look how good he looks,
all snazzy and sharp. I got a white, just a
a plain white. It's like a dress shirt almost except
the fabric. It's a fishing shirt. It's a button down
fishing shirt. And the fabric is just so light and
so soft. It's just like, I don't know, I've never

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worn anything that light and soft. I can't compare it
to anything. I love their golf gear.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'll be wearing that tomorrow it's gonna be a beautiful
day for golf, and I plan to take full advantage,
and I'll be in Kobe Stevens gear. I can guarantee
you that Kobe Stevens has been around a long time.
The brand has anyway. Now he's got a store up
on the North Side, up in Spring. Go to the website,
find out where it is, and go buy there to
try this stuff on men's and women's apparel, men's.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Stuff all the way up to four X guys.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Okay, that's gonna cover pretty much everybody in this audience.
I would bet you're gonna look good. They got kids
stuff too, and look good. And you're gonna be helping
a man who helps the community that serves him and
helps him. Almost every time I turn around, he's doing
something else for another tournament, a golf tournament that needs
some help, raising money.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
For a good cause.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
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and imagine being in a place in South Texas and
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miles or so west of Coal Spring. Imagine being in
the middle of this these rolling hills and you see
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Speaker 1 (29:36):
Pay thirty nine on Sports Talk seven ninety The Dougpike Show,
thank you for listening.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Wow that volume whoom just then. I don't know what happened.
I don't think I hit the volume nob.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
You know this chair, Frankie, this chair, actually the hand
rail gets just far enough up under the console here
that it might be bumping that volume knob a little bit.
So I'm gonna have to watch that because it's it's
an ear drum buster. It really really is. Seven one
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at iHeartMedia dot com. I'm kind of curious about some
of you, who I know a lot of people in
this audience live far enough out from the city that
you pass maybe some water, just kind of like at
the golf course where I play most over at black Hawk,
there's enough water to attract ducks that are on their
way back up to their breeding grounds. And I'm wondering

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what you're seeing and if it's the same as what
I'm seeing almost nothing but diving ducks and not really
as many of them as in years past. I'm kind
of curious, I really am, and I'm just trying to
gather information so that next time somebody asks me about

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how dangerous what's being going what's going on up in
the Midwest is, I'll have a little bit more, a
few more arrows in my quiver as they say, where's
there Just gotta be something done about this.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
I hate to keep coming back to it when it's
not hunting season. And I'll tell you.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Who's taking a lot of heat right now as d
u too. I'm gonna keep reading before I take a side,
like I said a little while ago, but I do
hope some of what I'm reading at least isn't true,
because I'm reading some unsettling i'll call it stories, and
they just kind of go all the way to the top.
It's it'll be interesting to see which way it goes.

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I mentioned earlier yesterday talked a little bit about the
trip Mike Caciotti, Captain Mike Caciotti, and give you credit
where it's due, Mike and I had with my boss
and his son on Monday this past or this past week.
Yah and Mike is of the He's kind of just
an old school fishing guid. He's gonna take you fishing.

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He's not gonna take you trout fishing. He's not gonna
take your red fish fishing. He's not gonna take a
sheep said fishing, drum fishing. He's just gonna take fishing,
and he's going to use in ninety percent of the time.
Unless you want to do something different, he will. He's
finally throwing lures all day, he and I. If he
and I got in the boat together, just the two
of us, there wouldn't be a live shrimp in the boat,
and we'd throw lures all day and just see what

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we could do. But he'll bring that shrimp for anybody
else who wants to get in his boat and just
go catch some fish to take home to eat.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
He's really really good at that.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
He's got so many different places he goes to and
even way up the ship channel, which it turned out
was really good for him for the kind of the
task we were trying to accomplish on Monday, because normally
when he's fishing in Galveston, it's a pretty good haul
of the boat to get it to the ramp into
the water where we were fishing over by the Fred

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Hartman Bridge on Monday. He says it's like a ten
minute drive from his house, which made me feel a
lot better about saying, Hey, man, I'd like to try
to get this magazine assignment done another time, maybe an
afternoon where we could just pop in for an hour
and go really sharp shooting at the places that he

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and I both looked at and are certain we could
get that task done. I've got this assignment that I
want to get done, but we weren't able to handle
it on on Monday, although in the end, uh, the
outcome was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Overall, it was a great day.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
It was beautiful day, nice and calm, just a little
bit of nip in the air, and we did We
did boat quite a few fish.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
We really did. What's up, Dave, what are you in
a hurricane?

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Well, I'm looking at I'm over here at FT and
I've seen one cood doug diving right now. So we've
got two four six eighteen eleven eight twenty five tood
ducks that are kind of blowing out of the north
wind heading south and they're drifting. And then you know,

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I got Wilver to Kirk through the Mallard Duck Sea
in the water.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Those are locals, Yeah, those are the year round residents.

Speaker 4 (34:07):
What about the coots, because I mean, I haven't seen too.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Many of them over Yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
But now I got a bunch of them here right now.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Can you turn your head just a little out of
the wind. Whatever you're doing now is perfect, yes, sure, okay, yeah, no,
it's okay. It's just sounds like thunder and lightning behind you.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
The Goods are an interesting bird.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
They first of all, they they're just a gizzard with wings. Yeah,
and they are among the highest migrators. They'll get up
thirty thirty five thousand feet somewhere in there, just up
there with the jet planes.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Man.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
I don't know how or why, but that's what they do.
It's very interesting. They're not I don't know, I've never
eaten one, but I've heard they're not that great, unless
you like they're kind of tough and nasty.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
You ever eaten one?

Speaker 4 (34:56):
That's no, I've heard the same thing that you talking about. Yeah,
But I just come over here just to kind of
check everything out. And I'm gonna step in the vehicle here. Yeah,
no everything, but it's looking Yeah, it's a lot now,
it's just it ain't it's not white capping or anything

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like that. Just breathe it that slow ripple something out
of the north.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Well, but there's nobody fishing on the bank over here.
But there's like fifteen to twenty twenty five boats.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
And traders over here.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
So now there's somewhere doing something out of the wind.
I'm sure counting, you know, it's kind.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
Of lefting when you got to getting a cold.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
It's kind of funny when you were counting your ducks.
I was thinking about, like when I'm trying to count them,
just get a loose count on that little lake I'm
monitor as my small laboratory. It's kind of like playing
whack them mole because they're going they're diving to get grass,
and you don't know whether you counted one or not
every time you go back and forth.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Ballparking, how you know, I mean like me playing in
the band. You know at the Tombo VFW, i'd count
by tables. You know, you got seven, seven hundred and
fifty people to make sure we got our money because
we were getting.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Half the door.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Oh okay, but yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
Yeah, hey, and last night I wanted I want to
put a shout out to the crawfish. Cougars are uh
the drinking crawl daddy. They uh there there there they
worked at the Huntsville Penitentiary up there in Huntsville, and
uh they said that there, Uh they do a lot
of stuff of doing crawfish and everything for benefits for

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the veterans and everything.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
That's good man.

Speaker 4 (36:38):
Man, it was well. And then one more thing. The
dude told me to get my guitar. I went and
played about three or four songs and the guy came
up to me and gave me twenty dollars and said,
don't play no more. First day. That's the first time
I ever got paid twenty dollars.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
I hope he was joking. I know he was joking.
That's here, I'll give you there you go. Yeah, that's good, Dave.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
That's always from you, man. Okay, thank you, yes, sir, audios.
Oh Frankie, am I late for a break now? Yeah,
we'll take it right now, I promise Shooter's Corner. How
about that Palmer Highway twenty nine street in Texas City.
Owners of old hunting buddy of mine, Jerry T. K
probably probably at least one of the top three gunsmiths

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that I know, and two of them's last named are TK.
I know some other guys who are good different parts
of town if you need guns taking care of but man,
if you're anywhere near the south side of town.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Every time this is no lie.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Every time I have sent somebody to Shooter's Corner to
get a gun issue fixed, even when they say, you know,
I've had two other gunsmiths tell me this can't be help,
This can't be done without spending a ton of money.
Every time I've found I've heard back either from the
listening or from Jerry and Jay that they were yeah, yeah,

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we got that taking care of it. For the guy,
it was no big deal and didn't cost him much money.
If any and all of a sudden, their gun's working
like it's supposed to. Again, they're magic down there. Plenty
of guns, plenty of AMMO, plenty of optics, plenty of
Camo reloading supplies, you.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Name it, they've got it if it has to do
with the shooting sports.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
And there's always time for either them to listen to
your outdoors stories or you to listen to their outdoor stories.
There's even places to sit down if you try to
standing up listen to somebody's story. If your story is
taken too long to tell, to stand up and tell it.
Great people. One other thing they do that I really
really like. If you wear a badge for a living,
you get a discount at Shooter's Corner. I think is

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pretty cool. I've been doing that for more than forty years.
The Shooters Corner TX dot com. The Shooters Corner TX
dot com. Now I'm going to tell you about Barry
Hill because that is where well I can't go today.
Barry Hill's closed on Sunday, but the other six days
of the week they serve up the best. Oh man,
it's just so good, best text mech stuff. The two

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men who are primarily in charge of what comes out
of that kitchen have been in that kitchen for more
than ten years apiece. They are masters of the Everything
that's on that menu board is going to be as
good as you've ever had. It's traditional names on it, seafood, enchilada,
fish taco, what a chicken taco is? My wife loves

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those and whatever it is. Yeah, you're gonna get those,
but they're gonna be just a little bit different than
the ones you've had anywhere else. Barry Hill's been around
a long time, more than thirty years, family owned and operated.
It's just a very casual, friendly restaurant, very welcoming to
anybody who walks through the door, and once you're in there,

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you'll want to come back. They do catering all over
town too. If you've got a big group needs to
be fed all at once, just let them know, give
them a little notice and pick out your menu and
they'll bring it all up there. They've done that for
us here at iHeart many many times now, and every
time when they leave, about the only thing left would
be the foil containers that everything came in. Berryhillsugar Land

(40:09):
dot com. They're right on the access road of fifty
nine at Sugar Creek Boulevard. You cannot miss that place.
It's a really cool looking fun it's even outdoor dining,
and that's going to be kind of cool for the
next few days. Berryhillsugarland dot com. Go check it out.
A fifty three on Sports Talk seven to ninety The
Dugpike Show. Thank you for listening. I ran a little
long in that last segments. Only go I gotta have

(40:32):
five minutes I can talk here. I want to go
back to what I was talking about with Captain Mike
and how all these captains really I talk to a
lot of them at the show.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
This time around, I try.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
To do that with all of them, just kind of
take the pulse of the fishing industry, because just like
the tackle industry, which actually is doing very well right now,
the guide business, the tackle business, all of that is
a big indicator on how we're doing as a country
and whether people feel like they've got expendable income. Because

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if you can't buy bread and milk and eggs, and
you're certainly not going to spring for a high dollar
Roden reel. But walking through that show, walking through that show,
I saw and I've been to I don't know, forty
five forty seven of them something like that out of
the fifty one that are almost in the books now,

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I don't know that I've ever seen more people walking
around carrying tackle that they've bought, carrying fishing rods that
they've bought, carrying something that they've bought at that show.
And that's money that's going into recreational stuff.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
It's not like this not groceries.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
It's not rent, it's not insurance, not mortgage, payment's not rent,
none of that's it's money that if you didn't have
it to burn, you wouldn't be buying new gear. And
it's exciting for me to see that.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Like I said, I've attended I don't know how many
of these things, and it's just it really caught my attention.
How many people were. They weren't just walking around. They
they had bags in their hands and they were still looking.
And that stuff costs money and they'd probably paid thirty
five dollars to Part two like I did. I'm really
optimistic about the future of this country if we can

(42:20):
just maintain a sane and truthful course, uh long enough
to get back up to full speed after being dragged
into a pit for four years seven one three, two,
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iHeartMedia dot com. By the way, I got the chance
to meet one of a long time caller. This guy's

(42:40):
been calling the show for quite some time. He won
tickets to the Fishing Show and I think he went
yesterday as a matter of fact.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
But that was Andre Johnson. You remember Andre Frankie, Uh no, no,
he just he.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Calls every now and then, and we talked and he
finally was here, and Rob Skinner came out or came
back into the back there and said, hey, Doug, this
guy's here to pick up fishing show tickets. And you
know we always we usually give away four packs, but
this is a six pack. It says here to give
him six tickets? Is that okay? And I said, of
course it's okay. I said, in the show, this is

(43:12):
a fishing show. It's not a it's not a I
don't know, it's not anything else. And I said, a
four pack of ticket. That sounds like something. That's that's
white claws. That's what how you buy white claws is
four at a time. These are fishermen. They they're more
familiar with buying things six at a time, as in
six packs. So I said, yeah, give Andre six tickets.

(43:32):
He said, well, he'd like to meet you's in the
lobby right now, if you want to come out, absolutely
I do. I put everything down and walked out there
and we sat and talked for about I don't know,
ten minutes or so. If you're ever up here to
pick up something like that, it's something you want from
us and from my show especially, or if you just
want to meet me whatever.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Let whoever's out front know that.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
And if I'm in the building, and if I'm not
in front of a hot microphone, I'll come out and
talk to you for a little while. I'd love to.
I want to meet every one of you at some point.
I don't know how we can pull that off, but
I would love to do it. By the way, speaking
of running into people, I ran into a guy named
Art right too. I hadn't seen him. I've known him
for probably thirty five years. He's selling boats for Ron
Hoover Marine down in Galveson now and he told me

(44:16):
to kind of confirm what I'm what I just said
about the fishing show. He said at the boat show,
the Auto Boati show a while back, what two weeks ago,
I guess it was now, he said, they just knocked
it out of the park. They sold a ton of boats,
which something else that wouldn't be selling were it not
for a great economy.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
He's doing good at the fishing show too.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
If you go out there, tell him my set hell
hello today as you walk in, go all the way
to the back right, and that's kind of coincidental.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Lend.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
His name is Art Right, so remember that.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Go to the back right of the hall and then
ask one of those Ron Hoover guys where Art Right is.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
He'll be.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
He'll be looking about old, kind of like me my age.
We're almost the same age. And another great guy in
this industry, and somebody who I know will tell me
the truth when I ask him how's business. If it's great,
he'll say great. If it's terrible, he'll say terrible. I've
known him long enough to trust him. And everybody else
I talked to it gave me all the information I've

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just passed along in this first hour.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
It is time to.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Take the break at the top, and on the way out,
I'm gonna remind you that if you had if you
have gold laying around, and some people have more than
they think, some people have less, some people have none,
some people have a lot, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
But whatever you've got.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Bred Schweis from Houston Gold Exchange and I have been
talking for the past several months, almost six months or
so at least, about how crazy the price of gold
is right now. These are historic prices five thousand and
change of an ounce. So if you've got a little
piece sized piece of gold and just think, well, that
can't be worth much, that probably would be worth more

(46:04):
than a thousand dollars somehow. I don't know how all
that works. I don't know why Brad does. And I'm
gonna give you his cell phone number. He's he's so
just dare him to call me. I'm gonna pick it
up the phone, just say if they got any questions
about buying or selling precious metals, buying or selling where
he loves Rolex watches. He buys a lot of those,
and he's got a lot of them on sale to

(46:24):
for sale. Uh yeah, he's really good with the precious
metals though, And no better time at all to be
either buying or selling goal. That's something I learned from
him a long time ago. As long as you're looking
at it long term, there's no better time than now.
Whenever now is to buy it or sell it. Get

(46:44):
some cash in your pocket. Need do you want to
go get something really nice for somebody you owe a
big favor because you did something stupid.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Take that scrap gold you got and turn it into cash.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
He's a good guy. He's life member of CCA served
on their for a long time. A plus rated with
the Better Business Bureau too, So you don't have to
worry about any hard sell or any other nothing's gonna
go wrong when you're talking to Brad Schweiss. I've known
him long time. I've had a lot of conversations with
him about business. He is all business when it comes

(47:16):
to business. If you want to stop and talk fishing
for a while, a little while, he'll he'll do that
with you too. All right, here you go. Here's his
cell phone number. Call him now, I dare you two
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it out. Welcome back. Second hour of the Dugpike Show

(47:41):
starts right now. Thank you for listening.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Let's go to the PGA Tour, shall we just for
just briefly. I'm not gonna linger because it is early
in the season, and there's just these guys are all
kind of knocking the cobwebs off their games. The big
guys are anyway, and then there's Jacob Bridgeman. Jacob Bridgman
goes into today's final round with a six shot lead.

(48:08):
Jacob Bridgman, not exactly a household name, but he's lit
it up all week sixty six, sixty four, sixty four
to find himself now six shots clear of Rory McElroy.
So even McElroy, I would venture to guess, probably doesn't
think he can win this tournament because Bridgeman's just playing

(48:30):
lights out. He almost birdied eighteen yesterday. He would have
gone in with a seven shot lead, but two full
sleeves of ball should be enough to get him into
the winter circle unless he just trips over his shoelaces.
McElroy at thirteen, Aldridge, pott Geiter or pot Geeter excuse
me at twelve by himself in third, Aaron Raye in

(48:54):
fourth place, all alone at eleven under par, and the
ten unders, all of whom have zero shot of winning
the tournament, would be Kirk Katayama, Sander Shaffley, Max Grazerman,
Marco Pinge, and that's it so well, no, I take
that back, Grazerman and Pinge only at eight under par

(49:16):
or nine under par. Pinge messed up, he walked himself
out of it. He was in the final group yesterday
along with Oh gosh, I've already forgotten the man's name.
He's so household Bridgeman. I apologize to him. He's a
great player, clearly, But anyway, Pinge kind of fell apart
yesterday and ended up shooting seventy four. Took him to
he shot three over yesterday and just worked his way

(49:39):
right off the front page.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Unfortunately. Let me go see, just out of curiosity where
Scotty Scheffler, who, by the way, has see Let's go
by player, Come on, click, there we go. He he's
just got to be working on something. It's it's very unscottylike,
very un scotty like. Let me get down to where

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he is and tell you where he finished. Scheffler, Scheffler, Scheffler.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
There he is tied for twenty second place, five under par,
shot three under on let's see why he shot three
over on Thursday, three under to get to even and
make the cut, and then sixty six yesterday which is
five under par on the par seventy one layout.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
At Pacific Palisades.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
Well, it's actually yeah, in any event, I think he's
working on something. I don't think he's anything less than
the Scotty Scheffler he's always been, But there was something
there's got to be something in his head, something in
his swing that he's trying to map out before things
start really getting heated up.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
It's not that long, really, not that far out of.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Out ahead of the windshield right now, looking at the Masters,
looking at the the Houston Open. It'll be interesting to
see all these tournaments coming up. I need to get
over him Memorial just kind of take a look at
it and see what's going on. I'm sure it's in
great shape, no question about that. I'm gonna make a
phone call and see if I can't get over and
make a lap before the big event comes to town.

(51:11):
I like, I wasn't sure I would like going to
Memorial for the tournament. But they've done a good job
logistically shuttling media to wherever we need to be and
helping us get around to wherever we want to see,
whoever we want to see and whatnot. And they they

(51:32):
really have done a good job in that. In that world,
I wonder how you feel as spectators, those of you
who have been going to the tournaments, how you feel
like it's being handled. I'd be curious seven one three
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At iHeartMedia dot Com. I'm gonna lean back into yesterday's

(51:53):
brief conversation about snakes. It doesn't look like Brian, well, well,
Brian's getting ready for the show. He's Brian Tredway. He
sent me something a little while ago.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
I'll read the email, and I was hoping that he'd
have time to call maybe this morning and visit about it.
But it doesn't look like he's going to because he is,
after all, working at the show. The subject line in
this email of his said, you want a TPWD issue

(52:23):
to get mad about, and that piqued my interest. Brian's
good about that. He can he can get my attention.
He knows what he's talking about. Says they want to
allow a private company to grow an exotic duck weed,
to which I responded, where, where and when? And I
want to know when this is going to start. I

(52:44):
got a lot of questions, but I'm just this is
the front end of all of this, okay, the front
end up up provisions for dotted dotted duck weed.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
It's called Brian continues.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
They had a guy from the company come talk to
the tpd WD commissioned from the company and sold them
on this. It doesn't take an educated man to see
what would happen in twenty years after this company's gone
out of business. In five could happen, And he continues,
let's ask Florida how those pet pythons and pet iguanas

(53:18):
are working out. I can tell you how they're working out.
Not well on either on either mark. The iguanas, they
when they had that horrible, cold, cold, cold, cold weather recently,
literally thousands of iguanas that aren't native to the area,
by the way, literally thousands of these things fell out

(53:40):
of trees and were I'll wrap quotes around harvested. The
iguana tail is supposed to be pretty good to eat.
I've never eaten it. I'm not so sure I want to.
But the bottom line is they found out how many
they really had when that cold stunned them all and
they couldn't hide up in the trees.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
And it's a lot.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
It's very similar to what the pythons have done to
the Everglades. They're an invasive species. They shouldn't be there,
and the Everglades now you'd be hard pressed to find
a four legged animal in the Everglades unfortunately, and Brian continues,
Does the State of Texas even care to recall the
effect of zebra muscles in our lakes? Yeah, I can

(54:27):
tell you it's still affecting our lakes. Those things are horrible.
They grow quickly. They tear up all kinds of equipment.
They just affix themselves to things that are supposed to
turn and smoothly rub against each other in pumps and whatnot.
These zebra muscles get in there and attach to all

(54:48):
of that stuff, and it just breaks down the equipment.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
It shuts it down. He said.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
My comment to them was not PC and I encourage
your listeners to make their voices heard.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
That's from Brian. I read it cold.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Because I knew that he would. He held it together.
But it's clear that this is on his radar, and
if it's on his radar, it's gonna be on mine too.
I'm gonna do some more research on this and see
if we can't figure out exactly why the Parks and
Wildlife Department got excited enough to allow permitting somewhere.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
I want to know it's.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
I don't know if it's gonna be fresh water or
salt water, because I'm gonna guess it's fresh water. It's
some sort of exotic duck weed whatever it's called dotted
duck weed. I'm gonna do some informent or some research
on that in this break. As a matter of fact,
I'll see what I can find out. In three minutes
or less, after we go to this break, on the
way out, I'm gonna tell you about El Kubano Cigars.

(55:49):
This is Manny Lopez's baby. He and his dad started
it in two thousand and six. They use only the
finest Cuban seed tobacco. They import it from mostly from
Central America, and it comes up here and then it
gets processed and cured for I want to say, he
told me early on it's like six weeks or maybe

(56:09):
a couple of months. That stuff just sits and waits
until it's time to be rolled. And then once they
start rolling, they don't stop. Many and his crew. That
his crew, He's got three people who roll, all three
of them Cubans, by the way, including Manny, and they
roll cigars and roll cigars and roll scars and ship
out of their smoking lounge and manufacturing facility hundreds and

(56:32):
occasionally thousands of cigars a week and make more than
one hundred and fifty varieties in every level of robustness
or mildness. And they will even come to your facility,
come to your company picnic, your golf tournament, your whatever,
shooting clays, whatever it is, sporting.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Clays, not shooting clays. That was a mess, and hand
roll cigars for your guests, wedding reception, whatever it is.
Make an impression, company picnic, make an impression. Cigar smokers
love it. He's got two smoking lounges too, one right
there at the same place where they make all the cigars.
That's over on Main Street in Texas City, and then

(57:11):
there's another League City smoking lounge for El Cubano Cigars.
It looks more like a it's a havana style thing.
It's I'm sure his dad had a hand in that
to make it kind of look like home.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
And it's a it's a really neat thing. It's big
roll up doors, big garage doors on either end. The
the temperature is controlled by how high or low the
doors are rolled up or down, and it's just a
really relaxing place to go, maybe have a business meeting,
even or maybe well it's certainly the next card game
that breaks out won't be the first and watch some

(57:43):
sports whatever. It's a smoking lounge and it's wonderful friendly atmosphere.
El Cubanos Cigars dot com. Go to the website, find
Manny's number and call him and just talk to him.
If you're a cigar lover, you know somebody who is.
This is a good guy to know. You're getting these cigars.
Number one fresher than you can probably get them anywhere else.
And number two no middlemen, so less expensive than anywhere

(58:08):
else you can get such fine quality cigars. El Kubano
Cigars dot com. The Fishing Show has been around. This
is the fifty first edition. I promised you tons of guides.
I promise you tons of equipment, boats, kayaks, is all there,
everything as planned, and especially all the information you can
get from not just the guides, but from some of

(58:29):
the representatives, the factory reps, some of the people who
use this stuff every day, some of the people who
are involved in developing and testing and making this stuff
and then bringing it to market. Ask them questions, get information.
That's the biggest resource available to you at that show
is information. Gather it up as much as you can

(58:50):
and you'll be a better Fisherman starting tomorrow morning.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
The Houston Fishingshow dot com. Well, Houston Fishingshow dot com
is a website if you want to check the seminar
schedule for today Houston Fishingshow dot com. Oh man, you
tempt me every week. I like that.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
I love keyboard stuff that was fascinated me, and I
dabbled a long time ago. I couldn't play anything now. Sadly,
the keyboard on which I stored some original compositions, the
batteries went out one time and I didn't know it,
and so it had been unplugged a while and I
saw that. I thought, well, at least the battery backup

(59:26):
had it, and no, it didn't. So it's been a while.
I still I'll still sit down and tinker a little
bit every now and then, but it's faded from my brain.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
So I looked up.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
I looked up dotted duckweed, and I did a little
bit of research, and I've got three tabs I want
to touch on in this segment. One is kind of
like what is dotted duckweed? That's the intro to dotted
duck weed. Here we go, tiny free floating right out

(01:00:00):
to shoot. Here's this word invasive aquatic plant native to
the Old World, now common in North American ponds and
slow moving waters.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
It forms dense mats.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Remember giant selvenia appearing as one and a half to
three millimeters wide, bright green shoe shaped fronds with a waxy,
sparkly surface and two to five roots. So that's what
the plant looks like. Key facts about dotted duckweed. I
love AI for stuff like this, often found in clusters

(01:00:35):
of two or more leaves, sometimes with.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
The reddish Nobody cares about that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Habitat thrives in nutrient rich quiet water like ponds, swamps
and ditches. Invasive behavior rapidly reproduces, remember giant selvenia via
vegetative butting, forming dense mats that can can deplete oxygen
and kill fish. Remember giant celvinio.

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
Control.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Manual removal is possible, but difficult due to fast growth.
Pop quiz on dotted duckweed, Frankie, you're ready, Oh yeah,
what's up? Approximately how long does it take dotted duckweed
to double its size of coverage on water?

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Ah? Maybe two days, three days? Oh, three days.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
If you've got half your pond covered in dotted duck
weed on Monday, it will be completely covered on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
How about that? How about that?

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Chemical treatments are effective but require caution to avoid fish
kills from sudden oxygen depletion. Difference from native often confused
with native giant duck weed, which is generally larger and
has a distinct red dot. Nobody cares about that. This
is interesting. The management tips for dotted duckweed skim from

(01:02:03):
the surface to reduce nutrient levels. Although this requires consistent,
repeated efforts. No nobody wants to have to skim their
ponds to get rid of this. You can use aeration
to help mitigate low oxygen levels caused by infestations. That's
an added expense that nobody really wants. And to prevent

(01:02:24):
the spread. Oh, never release aquarium or water garden plants
into natural waterways.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
What the Parks and Wallets Apartment wants to do, as
a continued reading, is allow this product to be grown.
And it is being grown I think in some either
somewhere in Texas or somewhere else because it helps sewage
plants use it because it can kind of treat that water.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
There's all kinds of stuff going on there. The treatment of.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
This stuff says all water byproducts and plant remnants must
be treated to render them non viable, using a macerater
pump to reduce particle size to one hundred micrometers or smaller.
In other words, if you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
Just just.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
Grind this stuff up into dust, you're in trouble. Permits
will not be issued for facilities in high risk hurricane
prone areas, and it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Gives the the.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
South of Highway twenty one and east of I thirty
five not going to be around here.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
That's good news.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
The bad news is it could get out and say well,
and the reason they have those high risk areas says
to prevent catastrophic escape. That's a word you don't want
to see in something you're about to get done. Now
that the way they've got it set up, according to
what I read in my third tab that I have open,

(01:03:52):
is what they would do is put it in very
controlled areas. They're not going to just grow it in
a chunk of lake fork or something like that. It's
going to be enclosed and not anywhere near any other
water bodies. But kind of like what Brian said in
his email, what happens twenty years from now after that

(01:04:16):
facility has gone out of business and just packed up
and walked away without turning that stuff down to less
than one hundred micrometers or whatever that is. It's something
something to worry about, it really is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
And I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Yeah, there was talk that giant Salvini was going to
take over the world.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
It was a little bit easier.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
To control, we found out than I think this stuff
probably is.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
And I would like for the Parks and Wildlife Department.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
To give us more reassurance than we're not going to
grow it close to the coast on how they're going
to manage this stuff. Who's going to be in charge
of managing it. That's another thing. If the people who
are running the company decide to cut a corner somewhere
or decide to that they have to get rid of

(01:05:10):
some of this stuff somewhere, and they don't want to
chop it all up, who's gonna monitor that disposal. Who's
gonna monitor whatever effort they have to do to keep
it from getting into the creeks and streams and ditches
or whatever around where they're growing this stuff. I'll be
curious to see how this turns out. I'm gred, I'm

(01:05:31):
Glad Brian brought this to my attention. This is just
something else I've got to lose sleep over now for
the great state of Texas and its natural resources.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
We're so blessed in this state. We really are.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
We are so so far ahead of most other states. Oh,
by the way, if you like fishing eastern Florida. I
got some good news from two different sources. One the
woman who's at the show and works for Danko Pliers,
and the second from Mark Nichols, founder and owner of

(01:06:02):
DOA Leures. And he's having a really good year too.
That's he's a good barometer. He's a good barometer, because
that's truly those are lures made for fishermen. And he's
bye guy. She's one of the best that ever walked.
And in any event, the long actually from the guy
at Finn's line too. I talked to him about that

(01:06:24):
their grass is coming back. They went through a grassless
phase where they lost from say, from West Palm down
to Stewart or West Palm up to Stuart. They just
lost all their grass, all of it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
Several years ago. And it's coming back. It's coming back.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
Mark said, it's not thick yet, it's not nearly what
it was, but it's coming back. So if you like
to fish over there, more power to you. Next time
you go, you might see me over there too. I'm
plotting trips with two different people to get back there,
so at least one of them I'm hoping will come true,
and sooner the better. That's one of my favorite places
on the planet. I could retire there, if I ever

(01:07:04):
get to retire, I could. I could live in southeast
Florida and for the fishing and any I can tell
you right now, if you've never been over there and
you want to go test it out for yourself, either
drag your boat or your kayak or don't. But even
if you don't have any boat at all, there are
many many places along up and down A one A
where you can just park your and walk into water

(01:07:25):
and probably on the right day wadefish for a little while.
And there's not a lot of people wadefishing over there
actually right now. But if you do and you get
into the right spot, you can trip over a mangrove
roote and hook yourself a big snook, maybe a giant trout.
The guys over there rarely even fish for big trout,

(01:07:45):
but they used to have a ton of them, and
they're kind of getting them back. Good days for fishermen
all over the country really, except in Oregon, of course,
where by November, if the nut jobs get their way, unfortunately,
they're going to have no fishing allowed. I don't see
that happening. I bet money that they can't get that passed.

(01:08:06):
There'd just be too much outcry. There's too many outdoorsmen
in every state right now. Still, Thank God that we
can manage our resources and not subject them to the
potential catastrophic failure of a no hunting, no fishing law.
Back to golf for a second, Timber Creek, I gotta
take this break. Twenty three point fifty one FM in

(01:08:29):
Friends would very easy to find about four miles west
of the golf freeway, and once you get there, you're
gonna find twenty seven holes that are very, very enjoyable.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
They're not super hard.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
You don't have to be Roy McElroy, you don't have
to be Scottie Shuffler to be able to play these holes.
You just get out there and ding it around and
have some fun. Play from the appropriate tea box for
your skill level and you'll have a lot of fun
playing timber Creek. I've enjoyed every round I've ever played
down there. Some scores better than others, but I didn't
feel like the course beat me up. These were all

(01:09:02):
self inflicted wounds as I went around there. Teaching staff's
great if you want to get better. JJ Woods Golf
Academy at Timber Creek been there now for several years
and they are definitely doing a good job of helping
people play better golf. They're located in ten building right there,
adjacent to the practice facility. Can't miss that. The grill
has some of the best food you'll ever eat at

(01:09:23):
a golf course. I can promise you that from being
in there and eating it more than once. Timber Creek
Golf Club dot com is the website. Go to the
website right now and make yourself a tea time for today, tomorrow,
pretty much any day this coming week. Timbercreek goolf Club
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elbow room, and peace and quiet, you can get a

(01:09:45):
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(01:10:07):
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(01:10:27):
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going to be as many after yesterday's one day sale
as there were before it, but there are still plenty,
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(01:10:50):
on how much elbow room you need to do what
you want to do.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
You can walk out on your back point. With an
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Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
On your back porch any morning you want and do
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I got to cover some ground right now, Doug Pike Show,
Thanks for listening. Nine to thirty six on a Sunday morning,
final day of the Fishing Show. And I see a guy.
I never found him out there. I heard there was
a rumor he was around there, but I didn't see him. Scottie,

(01:11:17):
where were you?

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
Man? And when I was all over the place, I'll
say that kind of free agent this year. You know,
I didn't have a specific booth I had to be
tied to.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
Well, no, that's not a bad thing, really, Yeah, I
just I did.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
A little fish tackle and limod a little over at
Angler's animos. Sure you know Angler, you was in that booth.
Good bit.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
Well, so, so what was your vibe for the whole show?
What do you think the level of optimism.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Is for this year?

Speaker 3 (01:11:49):
Overall? It seemed pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
Yeah, same here.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
Wednesday and Thursday were busier than I can remember him
in a long long time.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Yeah, that's what Don with Don Martindale, the producer of
the show, was telling me that yesterday when I was
out there. I was there Wednesday and yesterday. I feel
like it was more crowded than Wednesday. And Wednesday was crowded,
There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
Oh yeah, yesterday being a Saturday, you know, you know
it's going to but sure. I always use Wednesday Thursday
as a barometer, yeah, because you know, sometimes that's dead,
it's been nothing, and this time it was. It was
rocking and rolling. We all were kind of looking around there.
Some of the guys that were new, you know, some
of the Florida guys I know, had never been there before.

(01:12:31):
They were looking around, going, man, Houston work.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
What's up when there's a fishing show in town?

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
Are you kidding more?

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
That's Oh? Kevin was East Kate Boats. Yeah. We were
talking for a while. He said, is school out?

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Well, that's a good point the school.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
There were a bunch of little kids in there, weren't you.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
M Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
I saw one of the guys who was it Dean
over there, kind of Hawk and some of that fins
Line and a couple of other brands over by ft
you and there was a little kid down there and
I was talking to It turned out to be the
kid's mother and somebody else was standing there with me
and said, who who are you with or something like that,

(01:13:17):
and she said, the guy in the in the orange shirt,
he's the fisherman in the family. And I look down
and there's a dad standing there in kind of an
orange shirt. And there's a kid who turns out to
be like in the sixth grade, and he's the one
who's doing all the quiz and talking to Dean about
braided line and what he should get, and his dad
just staying there, was his arms fold and he didn't
know anything.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
It's funny, man. Now.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
I ran into several kids that had good questions. Yeah, yeah,
they listened to the podcast you know all that. They're
just excited to beat you, you know, kind of the
ose fun. Sure, they came up with some really good
questions where I had to stop and think, Yeah, they
threw the answers before.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
You opened your mouth. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
Yeah, Well they're very intuitive now, and they've got so
much coming at you from let's say a high school age.
They've already watched a thousand YouTube videos, They've listened to
a ton of podcasts. They they already come to the
table with some really what used to be pretty high
level knowledge.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
You know. Well, think about it. We used to get
what one, two, three magazines a month. Yeah, we'd read
them cover to cover. Yeah, and they'd have what maybe
four or five articles? Yeah, pertain Yeah, so say you
know you did that? You got one or two a
day out of that? Yeah, they did one or two

(01:14:40):
a minute. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:41):
There used to be outdoors coverage in newspapers too, what.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
In uh you know?

Speaker 3 (01:14:45):
Yeah, holy coll So here you were there, but I
never could never could.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Get up one more. I'll give you one more question.
So what was I going to ask you? Hold on?

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
Man, it fell out of my head, dad coming hold on, No, no, no,
I don't know what it was.

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
Do you recall since you were there those days that
were super busy that well, they were all busy, But
do you recall seeing any more people carrying around product
that they had bought, rods and big bags, lures and
stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
It just snuck out with me.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
Yeah. We call it in the industry, you know, we
we say there's there's some years it's a looking looking show,
and there's some years it's a buying show. Yeah, And
the guys who are there on the Wednesday Thursday, Friday
early Friday tend to be the buyers. Yeah, that's and
and then the weekends it's you know, the families come
out and it's you know, it's family day something white

(01:15:38):
as much buying because I think the wife is there,
although one of them yesterday it was the wife that
was doing the buying and the husband was there. Are
you sure about that?

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
There you go, yeah, yeah, yes, I'm sure. Any questions, Yeah,
I'm sure. That's hilarious.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
Man. He looked at them, she said, and I don't
want you touching this.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Oh my gosh, heard that before.

Speaker 3 (01:16:01):
All right, man, it was pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
It's great to hear from you with.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Ducks on the duck side. Yeah, something that hit me.
You know, we all know there's no Dutch down here.
I mean, I'm in I'm in Duck Paradise and I'm
not seeing them. But I got buddies that hunt down
in Mexico and they're covered up.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
How's that work?

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
Yeah, that's another that's a good question, wires.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
I mean, the Dutch that doesn't seem to be faltering
down there.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
That's interesting. I wonder where they're coming from, because they're
not coming through here.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
You know they would have to be.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
Man if if they're they may not be overflying, but
they may just be short stopping for a day. And
and in Mexico, who knows what they're doing to hold them.
There's no telling what they're doing. They can do whatever
they want to hold them, and they probably do. But
we're we're just kind of this region is kind of
stuck in the middle. Because now they're being babysat in
Nebraska and Kansas and Iowa, and they're being babysat in Mexico.

(01:17:01):
There's gonna have to be some changes made, and these
flyways are gonna end up triggering some horrible disease.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
It's gonna wipe those ducks out bad.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
Yeah. Well, I've still got my plans from my wetlands.
In the back of my place is my Neighborhoo does
that that place a deer hunt on. He's got about
sixty acres that he manipulates and make wetlands out of
nice And he holds a lot of ducks.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
I'll bet I bet he don't.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
He holds good numbers. Yeah, and he's not far from
me as crow flies, He's about a mile and a half.
Oh wow, if I build me a wetlands back there.
MNE's gonna be for photography or more than shooting them.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
Well, i'll help with the other head. I'll help with
either side of that if.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
You need somebody to do any kind of work down
there on a wetland habitat like that. There's a place
I used to hunt on that had maybe twenty acres
set aside, kind of like that, down on the Brass River.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
A friend of mine had that property, and.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
God, it was just so amazing because it was just
farmland around there, and then you you kind of step
over the you know, take ten steps into the woods
and all of a sudden you're in flooded timber and
just it was beautiful, man.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
Just beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
Yeah. Mine's just you know, it's gonna be a toastal
wetland stuff. Yeah, get with a whooping crane foundation and
they're they're going to do a costs here kind of
deal on it, helping me get a get a well
put in. It's not going to have to have well, yeah,
a pond right now seven feet below Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
My word, not much pout left, huh.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
Now. We had had a significant what i'd call significant
rain in months.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
Yeah, yeah, I'm getting up here where I am. It's
not I don't have near the water need that you do.
But up here we had one good hour long period
where it rained either a little bit or a lot
for a whole hour in the last few weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
And that's it. That's just it, man, little dude droptal months.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
Oh god, since we've had it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Oh it's a is corpus still as dry as it's been.

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
Oh yeah, like the they're they're in real trouble because
their their legs are in the in the low teens,
if not single digits a percentage of all the capacity.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Yeah, something's got to give somewhere, all right, Pardner.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
We didn't well, we didn't get the tropical storm this
year that we normally true.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
You know, well, okay, I'm I'm cool with that. Let's
just take it in a little small doses.

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
Yeah, you know, yeah, but that's usually what puts us over.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
Yeah, that's true. That's what refills everything quick.

Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
And and we didn't have any hurricane, just just one
of those you know, tropical depressions moves in since for
a day or so and and we get filled up.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
Well, if only we could choose like that, hu's good.
We want some rain, but not too much rain. We
need some rain but not too much.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
Hey, what do you think real quick about what I
was talking about with or that Brian Treubway sent me
about this dotted duck weed plan?

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
Have you heard of that?

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
I looked real quick, and I'll finish you some stuff
in case you couldn't get to it. But uh, yeah,
I don't know. And that's play with fire.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
Yeah, it really is. It really is.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
I don't know what you read off. What the use
is more the Yeah, the plant that it seems like
you could you could use something else.

Speaker 2 (01:20:20):
Yeah, there's got to be something I really need to do.

Speaker 3 (01:20:23):
We really need to play with that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
Something that replicated that doubles its size in three days.
We don't need that.

Speaker 3 (01:20:28):
Yeah, that seems a little a little sketchy.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
For me anytime they started.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
Well, there you go. Yeah, that's a good point. Okay,
I'll take it for that, all right, Scotty out of
bounce Man. All right, Yeah, thanks a ton from yes,
sir you. Oh my goodness, Kevin, I'm gonna ask you
to hold on so I can jump through this break
real quick and then you'll have all the time we
have left. When we get back Houston Gold Exchange, I

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want to tell you one more time about Brad Schweiss
and how how dedicated he is to help and put
money in people's pockets or to get you something really nice.
Maybe you can swap out you've got some old gold
that you wore in your disco days, or maybe you'll
want something really nice from work, or you've got a
chain from way back in the day when you had

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your polyestra shirts and your platform shoes. All that gold
that you have, whatever it is, booyon coins, whatever is
worth a ton of money. Now gold is at historic prices,
never been higher than it's been in the last six
months or a year or so. And it's still there,
and you've got an opportunity to turn that stuff into
cash if you'd like to.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
Then use it for whatever you want. Dash down to
the well.

Speaker 1 (01:21:40):
You can't get it in time for the fishing show,
but I'm sure you can find the right deal on
the right stuff if you walk in with the right
amount of money. So do that, get something going for yourself,
and either take that cash and invest it somewhere else,
or maybe use it for whatever you want. I guess
I don't know. There's no bad time, there's no good
time to buy. It's always a good investment, and it's

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as long as you're working long term. Anything you do
with gold is a good investment. Same with silver. Really,
silver's price is not quite as what gold's is right now,
but it's still at a good value to consider selling
off some of those old silver quarters and dimes and
half dollars you got around.

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
Brad's a good guy too.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
He's got a triple A plus rating with the Better
Business Bureau, has been for a long time. He's been
in business like forty years, forty something years, and he's
just a real straight shooter. He's not gonna he's not
gonna hard sell you. He's just gonna give you the
details on what you have and what it's worth. And
if you like the price he offers you, which you
will in this in this circumstance, I guarantee it. Just

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sell it to him and if not, hold on to
it for a little while. He likes Rolex watches too,
he buys and sells a lot of those, as a
matter of fact. And some beautiful jewelry pieces. If you
want to go into the store, sometimes the store is
at darry Ashford and West Timer. The website is Houston
Gooldexchange dot com and his cell phone and I dare
you call him right now because he said, look, I'm

(01:23:06):
gonna be listening, and I'm gonna be I have my
phone with me. I might be fishing. I might be
sitting on the back on the dock at the beach
house or a bay house. He's got a bay house.
He might be sitting out there. But wherever he is,
he will pick up that phone for you, unless he's
on the other line with somebody else, and then he'll
get right back to you. Two eight one eight five
one thirty nine fifty five two eight one eight five

(01:23:29):
to one thirty nine fifty five. If you've been toying
with the idea of maybe getting an electric bicycle and
e bike, as they say, go up to four Corner
shopping Center in Tomball and talk to Wayne Errington. He's
the guy who owns air ride bikes up there, and
he will give you the rundown on anything and everything

(01:23:50):
to do with those vehicles there.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
They're fun.

Speaker 1 (01:23:53):
They're small models that are great for the kids to
ride around the neighborhood on. Make sure they got helmets on,
and if you one, make sure you're wearing a helmet
two keep your head intact. But once you get on
them and start riding, there a lot of fun. I
got a chance to try one out this past October
over in Stafford at the there's a senior expo that's

(01:24:14):
going on there. Another one coming up on March fourth.
Actually I'll be broadcasting live from there. But at Air
Ride Bikes. When Wayne was down there for that, he
let me ride one of those big monster had really
heavy duty powerful bikes, and he said, look, I'm going
to put it on power level two because if I
put it up any higher the things that's going to

(01:24:35):
jump out from under you. And I was like, sure, Wayne, whatever,
And I got on this thing and I started pedaling.
I hit the pedals pretty good a couple of times,
and all of a sudden, I'm zooming across the parking lot.
Not out of control zooming, but just a really fun speed,
safe speed. And realized how much fun that would be
on a deer lease trying to get back to a

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stand early early in the morning. You don't want to
leave scent on the ground. The only scent coming off
is a rubber tires and deer don't know what those are.
That's not gonna bother them. You can take it to
the beach, he talked. We had an interview a little
while back, a while back about how did properly maintain
that bike so you can ride it up and down
the beach, chasing trout on North Padre Island, or maybe

(01:25:18):
even up here at surfside.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
You could do it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:22):
Just ride to where the fish are park your bike,
jump off, make a few casts. If it works great,
stick around if it doesn't, go to another part of
the beach. These bikes are very reasonably priced as a
matter of fact, and the especially the entry level once
the others get up a little bit money. But when
you consider the advantages you gain from the stealth, advantages
you gain from no exhaust fumes, no nothing getting you

(01:25:44):
around that lease years and it'll make a lot of sense.
There are also three wheeled e bikes. I didn't know
those that even existed. But that's for the member of
the audience who might be a little bit less balanced
as they used to be and got it up a
little in age, may a little week something's going on
with you where you need a three wheeler to feel
safe and comfortable going to pick up your prescriptions.

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
Maybe go get a bag of groceries. He's got those two.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
He'll let you test ride one if you go up
there to the four corner shopping center and Tomba. Go
up there, tell him I said hello, he's a good
man and he'll sell you a good e bike. Get
it all set up for you, and you are gonna
absolutely love them. Air Ridebikes dot Com is the website
a R R I d E. Air Ride Bikes dot
Com nine fifty four on Sports Talk seven ninety has
promised to Kevin. I'm gonna go to him right away

(01:26:30):
and we'll we'll have several minutes to talk.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
Kevin.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:26:33):
Man?

Speaker 5 (01:26:35):
Man out riding around in this beautiful sunshiny, bluebird looking day.

Speaker 2 (01:26:41):
Yeah, that's a winter day.

Speaker 5 (01:26:42):
Man went by Loot, went by Loot's marina and out
driving toward my county park out here in Alvin.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
Good for you. What's on your mind? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:26:51):
Hey, you were talking about Brian Treadway. Me and me
and me and Treadwave been buddies for probably twenty five
years and more. Wow, ad Man's on a fishing website
that we started together kind of a long time ago
to it was a sight to go to to help
people learn how to fish that that didn't know how.

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And we would ever now and then write articles for
Saltwater Angler magazine. He's a good guy.

Speaker 3 (01:27:19):
Every now.

Speaker 5 (01:27:20):
Whenever I hear him on the radio or he hears me,
we'll call and touch the face with each other. Just Yeah,
I was watching Texas Bucket List yesterday afternoon and this
this coming Saturday, Cowboys, Semansky is going to be featured.

Speaker 2 (01:27:35):
On the.

Speaker 5 (01:27:37):
Next episode that's coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
What what networks?

Speaker 5 (01:27:42):
It's on channel two, which is NBC or yeah, yeah,
I'm NBC up here. Yeah, five o'clock in the afternoon,
generally on a Saturday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
He comes on and plugs.

Speaker 5 (01:27:56):
All of our local area eateies and and this nice.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
Yeah, I have to watching the show.

Speaker 5 (01:28:03):
It's yeah, but I figured some of your some of
your listeners might like to put a name to the
face and come try to tune into it to see
what it's all about. Seane McCollum, the host is talking
about going and making a knife there, So yeah, that'd
be interesting to see.

Speaker 1 (01:28:20):
Anybody who wants to go out there. They'll make a
knife for them. They'll they'll let them make a knife.
That's kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:28:27):
Walking around the show Thursday, there were a lot of
people spending spending money. Out of the six people that
I was with, I think there were three or four
j H. Rod's bought. Have you seen seen the Baits reels?

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:28:42):
Got the body made all of one casting. I think
they bought two or three of those things. And they're
not cheap, No they're not.

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
They really are.

Speaker 5 (01:28:51):
And then the fans booth years ago won several reels
and fence line and fell in love with it and
ended up picking me a couple up while I was
there at the show.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
Not a bad plan, man, that's the place to get them,
it really is.

Speaker 3 (01:29:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:29:05):
I know you're getting tight on time, but man, have
a great resky weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
All right, Well, keep me posted on these tournaments coming up.
I want to help these little kids. Any chance they
can get to fish, I'm gonna give it to them,
all right, partner.

Speaker 5 (01:29:17):
Okay, thank you Kevin for some more information next weekend, Buddy,
good weekend, all right, audios.

Speaker 1 (01:29:23):
Yeah, that's a good dude right there. He does a
lot of stuff for kids in the summertime. He's the
way master of probably more tournaments than even really competitive
fishermen fishing. He's just an all round good guy. Checks
those parks out down there close to the coast. It's
going to be a beautiful three or four day stretch here,
So please get out and take advantage of it, will you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
I really encourage that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
And like we were talking now, it's kind of cooled
off a little bit, but don't drop your guard when
it comes to snakes. We talked for a few minutes.
I'm not going to dwell on them. We've only got
about half a minute left. But I want you to
make sure that when you're walking around in the woods,
when you're walking in the dunes on the coast. A
lot of the areas of there's certain areas of even

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Galveston Island that have a lot of rattlesnakes. So just
make yourself aware of where these snakes are and just
keep yourself out of harm's way. There's only like we
talked about yesterday, there's only half a dozen venomous snakes
in Texas that you have to really worry about. A
couple of subspecies of a couple of them. But other

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than that, get out and have some fun. Okay, I'm
gonna go play golf tomorrow. Might even work in a
little bit of fishing in the afternoon if I get
a chance to. And I hope you all get the
chance to do something outside yourself. The fishing show is awesome.
If you can get down there today. There's still time
open until I think about three this afternoon, something like that,
And if you get a chance, you can get down
there and probably find yourself a really good deal on

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something that the vendor didn't want to take home.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
I can't wait to get outside.

Speaker 1 (01:30:57):
I want you to have that same feeling that we're
really in a good time to be a fisherman, a hunter,
anything outdoors in Texas. We've got about four or five
more weeks of this, maybe six, and then we're gonna
start seeing those eighty fives and nineties, and then we'll
get to one hundred, and then we'll make the loop
and come right back to these beautiful temperatures. Stay outside

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as often as you can,