2-15-25 Ultimate Outdoors Radio Show

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
You're on board with Ultimate Outdoors Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
On a quest to bring the outdoors to.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
You once again.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Our resident guides to the outdoors the Captain and the
Wall Dog.

Speaker 5 (00:30):
Good Saturday morning. This is Wally the Wall Dog Bamfie
along with Captain Terry Fry.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Good morning, Captain, Hey, good morning everyone in the outdoor world. Well,
another Saturday morning, and you know, I guess if you're
out there fishing, be safe. There are so many vehicles
going in all over the place. It's crazy. I did
hear there was a death on Winnebago and that was
social media posts. But I know two people went in

(00:58):
and one like he didn't make it. But a lot
of trucks going in. So just because people say there's
twenty inches of ice, you know, be careful out there.
But we're talking all about fishing once again with these
two big fishing shows coming up, the Milwaukee Musky Expo
coming up and then the Wisconsin Fishing Expo coming up.
Dan Durban, owner co owner of the Wisconsin Fishing ex Bow,

(01:20):
will be our or no Lee Taushan Wally. I had
to get Lee in there. Lee Taushan from Today's Angler
will be at the Milwaukee Musky Expo Show. He's our
first guest, following him as Dan Durban, the Wisconsin Fishing
Expo co owner. And here's a little tease on our
four segment. People out in the jungle are going to

(01:40):
be depressed when Wally and I talk about this. But
it's called hanging up the headset. So you guys figure
that out and we will roll into the gearhead product.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Now, which time for the Ultimate gear Heads. This week's
Gearhead segment, it's Pallid five Middleton four, Middleton, Wisconsin. Before
you start spending all your money on outdoor gear, have
the Ultimate Gearheads check it out. They will set you straight.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Hey, folks, you don't see that Middleton Ford sticker, you've
paid too much. Wally and I had a chance to
visit with Chuck at Middleton Ford. Boy, he is stacked
up with some pretty cool sports cars, a lot of trucks.
So'll head on over there. They are ready to wheel undeal.
Wally yep.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
This week's really cool piece of gear is a pair
of warm boots. It's the Irish Setter Model thirty eight
ninety seven twelve inch ice Trek waterproof boots. These boots
utilize an ultra dry waterproof membrane and sixteen hundred grams
of perma loft insulation to keep your feet dry and
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(02:46):
helps support feed and calves. These boots also incorporate built
in ice grippers on the tread. The irishutter ice track
waterproof boots retail for around two hundred and fifty dollars
and they lace up really in a unique way. Captain.
Easy to get on and off with cold hands.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
There you go. Hey. In the last couple of days,
I had a chance to sit in on a zoom
meeting and this is pretty interesting and you guys need
to I didn't get the check where you could find this.
I'm guessing it's on the d n R website, but
basically it was a total zoom meeting about Green Bay.
They're trawling numbers, shocking numbers, Guide reported fish catch numbers,

(03:26):
commercial fishing numbers. It's really fascinating, but I'm just going
to hit on a couple of these. But they figure
that this year the guides registered well reported up to
forty five hundred perch harvested. They figured there's one point
two million adult perch in Green Bay, most of them

(03:48):
two to three years old, some five to six years old.
They actually did trawlling locations seventy five different trawling locations
on the Walleye and stuff. Commercial fishermen have reported their
daily catches. Also, they are capped. Commercial fishermen are capped
at one hundred thousand pounds for whitefish. They also put

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out pit tags on muskies in Green Bay. So far,
twenty seven fish have been caught with the pit tags,
and the neat thing is guides can now carry pit
tag readers to read what those pit tags, where those
fish have been and so on. The last thing is
that in the future the dn IR is looking at
possible spring whileye changes in rigs because of pressure, especially

(04:37):
on these river systems, so that might be coming. But
I would there's a ton of information. It's really fascinating.
Go check that out, guys.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
Cap I've got a couple events coming up. The fourth
annual Moon Valley Fishery will be held Saturday, February fifteenth
at h is placed from seven am to three pm
on Lake Wisconsin, and also the twenty second Annual Intermediate
and Advanced Muskie School be held at the Wanaque High
School Saturday, March twenty second, twenty twenty five. And might

(05:07):
as well throw this in the seventh annual mark Uzeki's
Casting for Kids will be held Saturday, May seventeenth at
the Alliant Energy Center.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Captain Hey, quick, quick story here before we get out
of here. Firearm found in Arizona determined to be four
hundred and eighty years old. The firearm discovered in Arizona
maybe the oldest ever found in the lower forty eight.
They're still obviously doing some research on this, but the

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gun was forty two inches long. Wait about oh, weigh
about forty pounds on what they were blasting with this,
But pretty cool story and wall if you remember, we
talked about one that was found in Nevada too, and
the rifle leaning against the tree found by one of
the park workers there. I actually stopped by and saw
that one year we were out cunning in Nevada and

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they have it in their museum. So pretty cool stories
finding all those little treasures out there.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
Fantastic. Well, stay joined. Lead Plcan will be coming up
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Speaker 1 (07:55):
If you're on board with Ultimate Outdoors Radio a quest
to bring the outdoors to you.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Once again, our resident guides to the outdoors, the Captain
and the Walldog.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
Hey Good Saturday morning. This is Wally the Walldog bamfeet
along with Captain Terry. Friday morning, Captain Warn.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Walldog tomoring to everyone in the outdoor world. Wally, the
best time of year because we get the talk fishing,
and maybe we've talked too much fishing, but boy, all
these shows are popping. Guys are now thinking about buying boats,
buying accessories. So we are down here at the Milwaukee
Musky Expo once again. Wally, we've probably been here what
four or five years, down here in West Bend. That's

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a wonderful show. I mean, anything in the musky world
is available here. Any custom lure that you've ever won,
and stuff's here you'll never see an other shows, so
it's pretty amazing. Well, Wally, when I walked through the
first Musky Export, I looked at all of bates, it
was like, oh my god, where would I start. And
let's face it, they're not the cheapest baits in the world.

(09:01):
But one thing about Mike's show here, and Mike's going
to join us shortly, is he there's about every selection,
you know. And we'll talk a little bit more about
what's happening here once we get Mike on board.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
So yeah, and there's resorts here, there's boats available, custom
lure makers, guides. Everything in the musky world is available
here at the Milwaukee Musky Expo, which will be today
all day the fifteenth, and also the sixteenth tomorrow, and
joining us next will be Mike Vezerett. He's the owner
operator of the Milwaukee Musky Expo. Mike Veserette, Welcome to

(09:37):
the show.

Speaker 8 (09:37):
Hey, thank you very much, Wally, appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Mike. The Chicago Muskie Show took place recently, and how
did that go?

Speaker 8 (09:44):
The show went off great. We had actually good weather
for a change, that's like a first in the last
ten years that I've seen where we didn't have a
hic storm a snowstorm. We had some cold weather on Sunday,
but that didn't stop the crowds from coming out, so
it was like it was a great show.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
Was absolutely awesome. What are the dates and location for
the upcoming Milwaukee Musky Expo.

Speaker 8 (10:05):
Yeah, we call it the Milwaukee Musky Expo, just because
it's the actual oldest Musky expo in existence. It started
in Milwaukee and now it's actually up in West Bend.
We're just south of West Bend, right off a Highway
forty five, and it's a great location. It's a two
building facility. One of the biggest reasons why we moved
up there is just you don't have ten dollars parking.
It's all free parking. It's a very clean venue, very

(10:29):
safe venue, just great people that actually run that facility.
They allow us to bring in our own food vendor.

Speaker 9 (10:36):
We've got a.

Speaker 8 (10:37):
Great guy from the barbecue Company coming this year. They
actually do actually not goaluch with six dollars beers, which
is unheard of in any of these shows anymore. They're
all ten twelve dollars. Even like the parking being free
is huge because a lot of places are ten or
twelve bucks for parking, so it's a really nice clean venue.
We've got a great lineup of vendors coming per O

(11:00):
Neil favorites like Suick, Musky Innovations, Musky Mayhem, but then
we also got classics like Seuwick and we also have
classics like Bobby Bates. Just all sorts of variety of baits.
You'll see tackle, you'll see Rod's reels, you name it,
it's all there.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
I've been to the event there in West Bend and
Terry is also really very clean building. And again free
parking is great. You can spend a little more money
on lures. There's every Musky leur you could ever imagine
at that show, and some new ones. And roughly how
many boots are there, Mike, and how many seminars are there?

Speaker 8 (11:35):
Well, the boot totals there's one hundred and twenty boots
in the show. But I mean we probably only have
like seventy vendors just because some of these guys like
Thorn Brothers shows up and puts an incredible spread of
product out, they take up They are our biggest vendor.
But you know, even Team Reinolds takes up a lot
of space too, so they bring everything under the sun,
so that part of it's great. And then also every

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day we do have speakers. We start off on Friday
with John Betty, great, great tactical guy. Gus Manley Manny,
he's a he's a guy out of the North End,
north Woods, awesome talent. Saturday we start with Steve Jensen,
We've got Jeff Vanner Mortal, and then we do have
a panel speaking at two o'clock. It's kind of a

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broad based of questions and answer type people with with
some serious experience in these guys. And then of course
on Saturday we close up with Musky Insiders Josh Barrowsky,
who's kind of landed on the scene in the Musky world.
Since the end of Muskie Hunter, the Musky Insider has
really kind of taken a place for disseminating the information

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to the Musky world. So that's all on Saturday, and
then on Sunday we've got our very own veteran guide
Andrew Shira that, believe it or not, he's a part
time e MT guy too, and he actually saved one
of our one of our vendors a couple of years
ago at our Chicago show. So it's it's nice to
have a couple of guys that are trained medically a
new show.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
So awesome, awesome, what a great lineup of seminars. And
are there some family activities or things for kids at
the show?

Speaker 8 (13:08):
Well, you know, this is not really a kid's centric thing.
I mean, we give away one hundred T shirts every
show to the little guys. But you know, to say
that we've got like a fishing pond or any of
that stuff, now, I mean, Musky is musky, I don't.
Musky is a fish at ten thousand casts, and it's
it's not for it's not for small children. I mean

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they can do it, but throwing these bigger baits and
throwing these bigger things and then catching a forty inch fish,
I mean, it's it just it takes some strength. And
there's plenty of women in the sport too. But and
kids do show up, so it's not like it's terrible
for kids. It's just that's we're not a kid focused show.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
Ye website Mike where people can learn more and see
who some of the vendors are and stuff.

Speaker 8 (13:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's all on Muskyexpo dot com and
you just click on the Milwaukee page and everything is
on there. The speaker lineup, vendor lineup, everything's right there.
Our hours are on there. Friday we do one to
one to seventh, Saturday we do nine to five, and
then Sunday we do nine to two. So, barring good

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good weather weekend, which I hope we looks like we're
going to have with the forecast that we have in
front of us, I think we're gonna have another awesome show.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
So, folks, we're visiting with Mike Vezzarett, promoter for the
Milwaukee Musky Expo, which could be held in West Bend, Wisconsin.
The dates are February fourteenth, fifteen and sixteen. Free parking
and a ton to see Mike.

Speaker 10 (14:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Absolutely, Hey Mike, thanks for filling everyone in. Looks like
there's a full lineup for all the attendees down here.
It'll be fun to talk to some of the local
vendors and such. But Wally, we have kind of a
legend coming on board here. Him and his dad, Jake Smith,
and you know Russ too. Wally up from the north Woods.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
Yeah, they're from the Monocua area, and definitely they're both
staples in the muski industry. They've got a lure Come
that's been around forever and they're both guides and wonderful people.
Russ and Jake Smith from Anaqua, Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Well, I think Smitty's getting up there pushing eighty and
I know he's still guiding. The neat thing is Walden.
You don't see it is they build all their I
called family baits. You just don't see that a lot
where guys are have their little shop up in the north.
What's building their own baits. I think that's cool. And
my recommendation if you need a guide up there, that
those are the people to go to. Good morning, Jake,

(15:29):
Good morning, Well Jake, I was always good to talk
to you. I love interviewing people that have the small
family businesses that produce their own baits and come up
with new baits for our listeners. How long has Smitty
Baits been in business, Jake.

Speaker 11 (15:51):
It's been since nineteen seventy. My dad started the business
and he's still working with us every day and it's
fifty five years now that we've been we've been going
in business here, so it's been a it's been a
good run.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, it's I always like to check out the small
family business baits because those are the guys that are
out on the water. You guys, uh, and you guys
do a full time guide business in conjunction, right Jake.

Speaker 10 (16:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (16:17):
So we're guiding you know, all the open water season
and making the baits in the wintertime, and you know,
we just try to make all of our inventory up
in the winter and you know, try to guess that
what we're going to be needing for the year to
keep the stars supplied and you know, and then we'll
also be going to go onto the shows who are
coming down to Milwaukee, and then we're gonna be also

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and whilst so we're just doing two those this year,
so that keeps us pretty business, Jake.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
For our listeners, what waters are you guiding on up there?

Speaker 11 (16:47):
Mostly oneid of Violence County, a little bit of Price County,
and a little bit of Iron County, So I get
around a little bit as day in those four counties mostly.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah. Before we jump into the Milwaukee Musky X. But
what's your how's the overview for how the musky looking
in northern Wisconsin as far as quality numbers and so on,
what's your thoughts.

Speaker 11 (17:08):
From my own fishing. In the last year, we had
a really good year, uh you know, high number of muskies,
but also really some really nice muskies. I had four
over forty eight inches and one was forty nine and
a half was the biggest for the year. And a
lot of times I'm not chasing big fish. I'm taking
you know, first time fishermen out, so you know, during

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the fall, I get to chase bigger fish, but a
lot of my my summer is just getting you know,
kids and families, first time yfkw fishermen their first muskies.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Still yep, join me. Dane Altiman Outdoors Radio, Jake Smith
from Smitty Baits and Jake I got to say, one
of my favorite trips was fishing with your dad many
years ago because he had a couple of those muskies
named and I happened, Oh that's one of them. I
always remember that. Hey, let's jump into the musky act. Well,
you've been there quite a few years. What kind of

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baits can people expect to see in your booth? Anything unique?
And what what you guys been working on.

Speaker 11 (18:10):
Yeah, I've been coming down to the Milwaukee Musky experts.
You know, I turned and my Dad's would bring me
down since I was probably four years old and I've
been there since. But we're yeah, we're gonna have our
whole line of citty baits and you know we're famous
for our jerk baits. We're gonna have all that there,
and we're gonna have we have tony rizzles baits now too.
We have these wiz which we've rented as the Wizard

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and the Wizard Spell, which is you know, really good
springtime baits. We're gonna also have all of our hook sharpeners,
sucker rags, leaders, you know, top water baits. We have
you know, pretty full booth there, so we really have
everything that you need in one spot.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, Jake, with the amount of I call it bait pressure,
because there's not a lot of secrets in the fishing
world anywhere anymore. Do you see the musky preference changing
to maybe a different bait or a specific bait, or
is it still still just a good selection works for

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most of them.

Speaker 11 (19:13):
I think when you have really high pressured fishing areas,
throwing baits like bucktails and things like that are are
not as good usually because that's what the majority of
people are throwing. So when you have high pressured lakes,
it's better to throw jerk baits. I do it better
with stopping gold baits, things that look more erratic, and

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you know, people are throwing less of slow really slow
top waters can be good too. You know, everybody's buzzing
their top waters, you know, fast, and if you work
one slower that seems to help. Then high pressured lakes.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, as far as you know, specific seasons, do you
like to switch up baits, you know, whether it's you know,
warm weather, fall weather, cooler water, Uh, do you like
to switch up to specific baits?

Speaker 11 (20:03):
Yeah, warmer water, you know, on spring and in summer,
you know, especially July and August. You want baits that
are typically running faster. It seems that they like the
speed at that time of the year. And you know
early in the season and and fall they like, you know,
you got to slow it down and and work your
baits floor and that's when the jerk fits are really

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really good in that slow water. H you know, cold water,
you can slow it down a little bit with that,
give them a you know, give it a pause, give
them a can't stay.

Speaker 10 (20:33):
Sa eat it?

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, hey, Jake. For people that might not make the
Milwaukee musky X. Well, how can they find your bait?
What's the easiest way, the best way?

Speaker 12 (20:43):
We don't sell on uh on. We do have a
website at Smittybait dot com. We are not selling on
there as best if you would go to one of
the retailers, or you could shop online Must be Shop
dot com or Team Rhino Outdoors dot com. They both
have our products on there.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
That was great to talk to Jake Smith Captain. Have
you ever fished musky's up in Monocua area?

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Well, you know, Wally, I'll tell you a quick story.
And I got to fish with Jake's dad, Russ one
time and we were popping around all these little local
lakes that he knew of, and we were actually just
pushing boats out, and he had this one musky named
this one lake we were on, and I forget how
many times he said he caught that and it was
a private lake so there was no pressure whatsoever. And

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so I caught that musky whatever his name was, I forgot,
and Russ and I just laughed at every time I
think of Russ, I think about that fish and whatever
he named it.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
But ossy back.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, you know, It's pretty cool because you're fishing with
these guys have been in the industry all their life.
Building baits, have their shop and Schmidty Baits up there
in Monocua. And I suggest if you're going to the
show to definitely stop buy. And I know Jake will
be there for sure, and he's carrying on the on
the business. So good stuff there, Wally.

Speaker 10 (21:57):
Coming up.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
Coming up is Steve Herback, who's a living legend. He's
fun to be around. And uh, stay tuned, folks, we'll
be back with another great interview.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
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Speaker 5 (22:52):
Hey, welcome back, folks, and thanks for listening. This segment
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or sportswomen in your camp. Joining us next is a
terrific angler. As a muski guide, Lee guided many anglers
to their fish of a lifetime with many catching trophy

(23:13):
muskies over that magic fifty inch benchmark. Lee co owns
a fantastic web based phishing show on YouTube called Today's Angler.
Lee also owns and operates a custom Musku lure company
called Lee Lures. Lee Tolkiin, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 14 (23:28):
Good morning, Wally, thanks for having me.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Welcome Lee. You have a great YouTube channel. I love
watching your videos. You do some great filming. What's it
called and how many years you've been doing that?

Speaker 14 (23:39):
It's called Today's Angler And I was trying to figure
it out the other day. I believe it's seven years
for coming up on here?

Speaker 5 (23:48):
How many films have you made in seven years, We've got.

Speaker 14 (23:51):
Over eight hundred videos out there on the channel.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Well, that is a lot of work, and you use
multiple cameras and have underwater stuff and that's what I like,
releasing big muskies and stuff.

Speaker 14 (24:01):
Well, the problems muskies, they don't give you a much
chance to film anything, So we thought it would be
a good idea to run a bunch of GoPros at
the same time, so we could capture different angles of
a catch, and especially if a camera ends up failing,
we've got backup shots as well. So yeah, that's definitely

(24:22):
definitely made it interesting trying to capture a musky on camera.

Speaker 5 (24:26):
Oh, As you guys do have a fantastic job. Also.
You own a custom muskie lure company musky Baits. What's
the name of it? Tell us about that.

Speaker 14 (24:36):
Lee Lures Custom Baits. Been doing it since basically nineteen
ninety nine, just out of my garage here, and I
make smaller numbers of kind of higher and more custom
typet musky baits that utilize theater and white pine, so

(24:58):
kind of more old school lure making techniques with more
refined paint schemes and finishes and actions. And such. So
it's it's been a hack of a journey. But I
love waking up every day and coming out to the shop.
So in between fishing trips, you know, most of my

(25:19):
time is spent building baits in the shop.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
Well, your paint jobs are amazing. You're definitely a master
of that. And I have had good luck with one
of your baits called the boiler Maker buck taal, I
got two sizes. I heard there's a new size coming out,
is that right?

Speaker 14 (25:33):
Yeah, that's probably probably my best selling bait. The fact
it's a bucktail everybody can use it easily. But so, yeah,
the boiler Maker is based on half buck tail and
half wood bodied bait, which allows it very unique action
where you can run high in the water column at

(25:55):
a lot slower speed if desired, and to be able
to not have that bait sink down in the weeds
right away is definitely a new twist on a buck tail.
But the new size, Yeah, the mid sized boiler Maker
in the new six to nine blade combination was our
number one bait of the year this past season, and

(26:18):
looking forward to getting those in more people's hands this
coming season. And here's the results.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
That's gonna be awesome bait. I'll definitely be getting one
of those. You also have a really unique buck tail
were called a ninja. Talk about that a little bit.
What does that do.

Speaker 14 (26:33):
Well, It's definitely a unique blade pattern, where most bucktails
have a clevice where the blade revolves around the wire shaft,
where this one is basically a pinwheel style blade, which
it's basically like a ninja throwing star shaped metal blade

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that has a hole through the center and it revolves
around the wire shaft like a pinwheel, so there's no
clevice on it, and definitely has a very unique sound vibration,
you know, something they haven't felt before. And the results
have been pretty awesome on it. We've caught quite a

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few twenty five pounds plus fish on it. So I've
made it for a couple of seasons now and it's
definitely caught on. But you know, there's always room to
expand more.

Speaker 5 (27:30):
So you have someone i'd like to buy some of
your custom baits, can they order from your website and
can you ship them out to them?

Speaker 14 (27:37):
Absolutely? Yeah, we actually do worldwide shipping and at lee
Lures dot com And if you get to the site,
you'll see that we're often out of quite a few
of the items. Basically we're a really small independent operation,
so you know, basically custom made, so sometimes you'll let

(28:00):
wait to get to get something you're looking for. But
the more bucktail type lures we usually have the majority
of those in stock.

Speaker 5 (28:10):
Well, the Lee lures are definitely worth the wait. Lie.
If someone wants to talk to you personally and learn more,
can you give your phone number?

Speaker 14 (28:20):
Sure, you can reach me at six o' eight four
four four eighty, or you can message me across the socials, Facebook,
Instagram at Today's Angler.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
Fantastic, Lee, Thank you so much and have another great
fishing season.

Speaker 14 (28:38):
Sounds good, Wally, thanks for having me on. Look forward
to seeing you again.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
Okay, you're welcome, folks. That was Lee Tolkin. Stay tuned,
we'll be right back.

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the Waldorf.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
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But we have been talking a lot of fishing, and
we're still talking fishing. Co owner Dan Durbin from the

(30:33):
Wisconsin Fishing Expos joining me. We're gonna give a rundown
on that. It is Saturday, the twenty second and the
twenty third, and Dan, good.

Speaker 9 (30:44):
Morning, Good morning.

Speaker 10 (30:46):
How are you doing.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
We're doing good. So fish Expo still Saturday and Sunday.
Yet here right off the beltline, Madison, Wisconsin, that is
the location of that. So Dan, should we kick it
off with ticket options for the folks.

Speaker 10 (31:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (31:01):
Sure, I mean, you know, you can definitely pay cash
at the door. That's that's actually your cheapest way to
get in, you know, twelve bucks, and then the parking
that's that's the county. But you can do it online
and it'll speed up the process a little bit, not
a ton, but then you do you know, suffer the

(31:22):
dollars fifty ticket increase with with with ticket Master. But yeah,
so it's still a cheap date, right, It's a lot
cheaper than checking out a movie for two hours. You
get a full day of entertainment here.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Well, you know, I talked to people last year day
and they really liked it electronic because they did get
in quicker. And you know, for a buck and a half,
I'd rather skip the line and shoot right into the
show because the lines do tend to get long, and
I encourage people to, you know, either get there early
because you're you know, the line does get long, especially
on Saturday, so get there early. There is a also

(31:59):
there's a charge for parking.

Speaker 9 (32:01):
Correct, Yeah, there is a charge for parking. That's I think,
I gosh, because we don't do it. I think it's
seven to fifty. But yeah, buck fifty for a big
radio host. You know, I know, you're you and Wally.
That's not a big deal, you know for you guys.
But if you want a cheaper deal, just pay cash
at the door and you're still going to get in
really quick.

Speaker 10 (32:21):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
And you have a military and first responder discount. People
just go to the website all the infos there. Hey,
let's jump into seminar speakers. You have probably one of
the best lineups. I'll mention a couple of them. Tommy
Kimos again, he's always great. Steve Hrbeck legendary mussel ring
muskie angler. Tom Win's going to be there with his
electronics seminar and folks, I don't care what seminar or

(32:44):
what electronics you run, you need to attend this. I
was there last year and you can learn a ton
and apply it right into your boat. Greg Karch has
his kids, and I guess Larry Smith and Ishmann Row.

Speaker 9 (33:00):
Yeah. Man, we got twenty five seminar speakers this year.
We've we've definitely done a little bit of a turn
in terms of seminar speakers because you know, we unfortunately
the bass Master lead series stuff blankets both sides of
our show, so we have to our our fix for

(33:21):
that is that we you know, we can't get a
lot of the you know, some of the big speakers,
but we did find some major ones anyway, in terms
of Fishman Row and and twenty five different speakers that
will we'll teach about everything you need to know. And
like you said, you know I'm just talking bass. But
Tom Hoyn Ni Kemos, you know, two of the biggest

(33:43):
walleye guys going and both you know for Tom Hoyn
and Ishman row Die was one of our sponsors. And
if you attend both seminars, you go, you come on
and catch one and there's going to be a part
two seminar that's completely different from both guys. And I
was going to donate a couple you know, riding real combo.

(34:05):
That's two three hundred dollars combo. If you if you
attend both so and our lucky winners, so.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Well, that's great. How about we got a couple of
minutes left, Dan, how about kids? I call it kids
fun man. You have a whole lineup of kids own trout,
pond fish, Bengal bumper bolts, mintal races. H Wow, I
want to touch on all that good stuff.

Speaker 9 (34:28):
Yeah, I mean it's a ton of fun for everybody
with like you said, with the bumper boats and the
trout fishing and our trout fishing. You if you if
the kid catches a fish with the tag trout, you
actually get a prize as well. And and the gear gang,
whether you're a kid or an adult you could win
a fantastic trip to northern Wisconsin and just for showing up,

(34:50):
you know. So there's a ton of stuff to do
and it's a it's a super family friendly event. You
could spend the whole day. Not a problem.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yeah, we should match the patrol a wander the show,
giving out stuff. It's really a cool IDEA last thing,
Dan forty five seconds or so three hundred and three
and thirty boots, three fifty What do you have this year?

Speaker 9 (35:12):
It's over three point fifty. We're approaching four hundred booths,
eighty different boats. And just so you know, the prices
has come down a bit in financing, so it's it
dropped a couple points. So people can come there and
enjoy the whole day and see lures and baits. The
most important thing. It's baits and stuff and tackle that

(35:34):
you're not going to find on Amazon. It's you're going
to talk to the people that build the baits because
they built them because they want to catch fish and
they want.

Speaker 8 (35:42):
You to catch fish.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Right, And now we should mention, as Dan said, full
lineup of boats, many different dealers. It's fun to wander that.
So I would Dan just suggests going to the website
Wisconsin Fishing expot website. We'll let you.

Speaker 10 (35:56):
Get sounds good.

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Okay, right Expo dot com.

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One look at these two guys and you can see
why they're on your radio and not your TV. Let's
get back to the high power half hour. It's awesomeate
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Speaker 5 (37:18):
Hey, welcome back, folks. We're at the Milwaukee Musky Expo
where there's a ton of talent here joining us. Next
will be Doug Wagner, who's fishes at Green Bay Waters
and Lake of the Woods, Canada. Captain, did you ever
fish Green Bay?

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Yeah, a couple of times. Yeah, But you know, Wally,
just a couple of weeks ago, I listened to a
zoom call about from biologists and they were talking about
all the trawling and tracking efforts for muskie and walley
on Green Bay and it was fascinating. I suggest anyone
go to the I hope you can find it on
the d n R website. But basically it's a wrap

(37:53):
about you know, all their pit tags, tracking tags, stocking
and the muskie population and walleye population holding up very well, Wally,
just because everyone is really practicing catching release up there,
and to me, it's a real treasure. Wally. I know
the biole just talked about doing something on walleyes. But

(38:15):
it seems like the muskie populations holding well throughout that
and we're lucky to have that that close by.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
I've fished Green Bay about a dozen times, six for muskie,
six for walley. But I recalled me in with Bruce
Finness and we had a guy, Brett Alexander at that
day and we got a fifty three and a half
inch and man was that exciting we caught for that day.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Well, Wally, you know you fished enough. I think really,
unless the person has some experience, you almost really need
to hire a guide for a good experience. It's such
big water, it changes all the time. These fish are
on the move, and that's why it'd be nice to
have a Doug on here. You know these guys that
spend many, many days on the water. It's just yeah,

(38:56):
you spend a little money, but you have a really
good trip. You don't go home and you're tired of
casting for nine hours. So he's a great interview.

Speaker 5 (39:04):
Stay tuned. We'll have Doug Wagner coming up in just
a minute, joining us next. Is a terrific angler and
very successful multi species fishing guide. Doug specialized in trophy
muskie walley and bass. He loves catching big fish on
the waters of Green Bay, Minnesota and Canada. Doug Wagner,
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 10 (39:24):
What a wal.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
Doug tell us, where are you from and how long
have you been a fishing guide?

Speaker 19 (39:30):
Oh? I originally grew up in southeastern Wisconsin. Moved to
Green Bay in twenty eighteen and I've been I think
six full seasons all going into seven.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
And how was your season last week? I know you
travel a lot, you fish hard. How is your season?

Speaker 10 (39:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (39:49):
Season was good. I can't complain. I love traveling, I
love duncing around. It started in Green Bay and ended
up in Canada and took about three hundred pit stops
in between.

Speaker 10 (40:00):
It was good.

Speaker 19 (40:00):
We had a good season for walleys, cut somewhere, had
two of the biggest fish, the biggest longest walls I've
ever had in my boat this last year, and did
really good on muskies, had a bunch of really nice
ones and it was a great season overall. I can't
complain at all.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
Speaking of modulation in Green Bay and surrounding area there,
and is there a lot of fifty inch fish in
the system.

Speaker 19 (40:22):
Yeah, Green Bay's it's definitely Wisconsin's best chance for a
fifty incher. You know, we're doing good. We've got a
lot of fish in the system. There are some really
big fish in the system right now that are more
into that mid fifty inch raine, but we do have
some some up and comers as well. Our stocking program
is still putting fish in. We're not where we were

(40:43):
ten years ago with our stocking numbers, but we're still
doing a lot better than most places in the world.
So we got no complaints. We got a great fishery,
that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (40:54):
I was watching some of your videos the other day,
got some awesome stuff on YouTube where because we're trolling,
and caught two fifty inchers at the same time, Edman
and that that was incredible.

Speaker 19 (41:05):
Yeah, that's uh, that's happened. I think twice we've had
that happen now, and it's always interesting. The bigger one
always bite second once the boat slowed down.

Speaker 10 (41:12):
I don't know why that is.

Speaker 19 (41:13):
Maybe I'm just going too fast, but it uh. Yeah,
We've got lucky a couple of times with that. But
it is a incredible fishery. And you know, muskies, when
they turn on, you generally have a five to fifteen
minute window to capitalize and sometimes he capitalized places.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
What brand of electronics do you like to use on
your boat and how do you like what you're using nowadays?

Speaker 10 (41:36):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (41:36):
Great, So I'm I'm a huge Hummingbird fan, have been
for a long time now. The side imaging is hands
down the most important part or feature in my boat
as far as technology, you know, just seeing fish, seeing structure, beadlines.
Their mapping is really awesome. I love their auto chart feature.
I love their you know, standard maps. You can buy

(41:56):
the map chip cards, the lake Master chips, but wherever
I go in the country, those things are definitely the most.

Speaker 10 (42:03):
Important tool.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
We'ren Hummingbirds. Also, they are quite easy to use, aren't
they user friendly?

Speaker 10 (42:10):
They are, Yeah, they really are.

Speaker 19 (42:12):
And they just came out with a couple of new
units right now and able to get an early look
at them. And the new Explorer series has got a
new interface and it's going to be even more simple
to run. And now they're going to all touch screen too,
so kind of get rid of some of the button
pushing and scrolling through stuff. It's all gonna be touch
screen right at your fingers. There's not even an option
for an old key pad or you know, they's a

(42:34):
keypad on the side, but you have touch screen now
with all the new units as well.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
Oh that makes sense. Then the resolution on them is
just getting incredible. You can see fish with their mouths
open times and fins and everything.

Speaker 10 (42:48):
Yeah, it's pretty wild.

Speaker 19 (42:49):
It is pretty pretty wild where it's going, that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
You do a lot of filming, have some amazing videos.
How can people find and watch your video?

Speaker 19 (43:01):
YouTube's probably the best place to start. YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram,
all of them. We upload videos there. In the class
year we uploaded one hundred and four clips or one hundred.

Speaker 10 (43:09):
And five clips, something like that.

Speaker 19 (43:11):
But we do have a ton of backlog history of
YouTube videos over the last eight nine years. But just
Doug Wagner Fishing is the easiest way to find any
of my social media channels, and there's a ton of
good stuff on there. If you're looking for some action
pack content, Muskies, there's a bunch of walleye stuff on
their pass stuff and a lot of lake trout stuff too. Actually,

(43:32):
through the ice I was out lake trout fishing yesterday.
But yeah, there's a lot of really cool stuff on there.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
Now your wife Jesse. She also is a guide, which
is pretty amazing. And between the two of you, you
guys put a lot of fish in the boat. How
long has Jesse been guiding people?

Speaker 19 (43:50):
So Jesse's parents on a resort. I believe they've had
it for twelve years now. But yeah, jess As she's
a heck of an angler, that's that's for sure. Her
home lake, she's she knows it better than anybody I can.
I can probably say that, but she's a wizard and
she she ticks my button most days. I hate to

(44:10):
admit it, but it's what I get for putting her
in the front of the boat.

Speaker 5 (44:16):
That's like my wife, Kate is a good angler and
out fishes me a lot. But I don't like to
talk about it too.

Speaker 19 (44:20):
Much, all right, my wife?

Speaker 9 (44:24):
Man, have you got to know it?

Speaker 5 (44:26):
Have you got a phone number where people can reach
out to you? Or how should we call you to
get a guide trip?

Speaker 19 (44:31):
Yeah, you can give me a call. My number is
two six, two seven nine.

Speaker 10 (44:36):
Five three three.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
Fantastic. Well Doug, thanks for joining us and have another
great fishing season.

Speaker 19 (44:44):
Awesome thanks for having me.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
That was great getting a chance to visit with Doug Wagner.
He would be great to fish with Captain over there
in Green Bay.

Speaker 10 (44:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
I want to remind everyone we are at the twenty
twenty five Milwaukee Musky ex Well down here in West Bend, Wisconsin.
Three thousand, Pleasant Valley Road, easy on, easy off off,
free parking, and Wally, the amount of muskie baits that's
always at the Milwaukee Muskie Show, it's fantastic. I think
if you're a muskie fisherman, you're going to find him.

(45:12):
And also a lot of seminars coming up. I would
say go to the website. Early bird tickets twenty percent off,
so a lot of good things, good place to spend
a weekend. It's that time of year, Wally, when it's
kind of cool out and everybody wants to talk fishing
and cap'n.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
There's a lot of new muskie rods and reels, line leaders,
there's so many of the new products available. This is
the type of show you want to go to to
tune up your muskie game. Stay tuned. We're going to
have Michael Hanson coming on board next. He is a
awesome musky guy joining us next is a fantastic angler.
Mike has fished for multi species all over the country,

(45:49):
but he is best known for his musky success and
timely tactics. Mike started musky guiding around Madisonarya lakes and
rivers and soon moved to northern Wisconsin north of Hay.
Michael Hanson, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 10 (46:03):
Hey, thanks for having me. Guys appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (46:07):
Michael, how is your guiding season for muskies this past year?

Speaker 20 (46:11):
You know, up in northern Wisconsin, it was pretty fantastic
pretty much throughout the whole year. September and October we
a little difficult because we weren't having that normal cool
front scenarios that we are typically having during that time,
but we made up for it and did really really
well in November.

Speaker 10 (46:30):
But yeah, it was good year.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
I know you are hardcore and fish late into the season.
How was the late fall and early winter muskie season
for you?

Speaker 20 (46:41):
You know, it was a lot shorter than it was
last year, that's for sure. I know I put my
boat away last year in December thirty. First we fished
really really hard, but mother and nature kind of kind
of put that to rest. This year, I know, it
got really cold down south and I didn't feel like
pulling the boat down out cast in below freezing conditions.

Speaker 10 (47:04):
But it was good while it lasted.

Speaker 20 (47:06):
But it was a lot shorter of a season than
what I was used to it last year.

Speaker 5 (47:11):
I saw a lot of great photos of big muskies
you caught, and you do some work with Today's angler,
also with Robbie and Lee. You guys caught some big
ones this past year.

Speaker 10 (47:21):
Yeah, yeah, it was awesome.

Speaker 20 (47:23):
We typically do like a ten day deal where we
try to get out ten days in a row as
late as we can in the season up here and
see how many muskies we can put in the boat.
And I think we were like six for ten. Yeah,
I believe it was six for ten. It was just
pretty good late in the year. You know, those fight
windows get really short, so anytime you get bit that

(47:45):
late in the year.

Speaker 10 (47:47):
It's a good day.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
Those are generally some really fat fish at that time
of year. And did you have any new favorite baits
or tactics?

Speaker 10 (47:57):
You know, the baby beaver.

Speaker 20 (48:02):
Was an extremely good bait for me to toss late
late in the year. It just has an awesome pull
pause action. It's it's pretty much a giant castabile fly.
So when that bait wasn't moving, when you're pulling it,
it was still.

Speaker 10 (48:16):
Moving because of the hair.

Speaker 20 (48:18):
You know, it kind of breathes in the water, if you.

Speaker 10 (48:21):
Will, So that that was a great, great bait for
late late fall.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
Are you still chunking those giant medusas th big rubber
chewy things.

Speaker 10 (48:31):
Yeah, no, absolutely, we were. Didn't throw them a lot
late in the fall. I just you know, it was
kind of a thing that where.

Speaker 20 (48:40):
They were almost working too fast, and whereas that baby beaver,
I could throw that thing weightless and have it kind
of hang a lot longer in the straight zone when
it gets that cold in the air, I like to
have bas it'll hang more so than drop really really quick,
just because those muskies are they're a little bit slower

(49:02):
every day that goes by late in the year, so
give them more of an opportunity to grab that date.

Speaker 5 (49:08):
You know, earlier you talked about the fall. It was
so warm in October he had seventy degree temperatures. So
that kind of changes the water temp and profile of
the lakes, doesn't it.

Speaker 20 (49:18):
Oh yeah, no, absolutely, it just put a giant you know,
or a big standstill. You know, nothing was telling those
fish that winter was necessarily coming. I mean, they know
that it's coming, but when those water temperatures are that warm,
their metabolism, you know, I believe it or not, it
doesn't change it. So they weren't necessarily told to feed.

(49:42):
So it was one of those deals where in oct
pretty much all of October, you just had a pound
all day long as hard as he could until his
fish decided to bite.

Speaker 5 (49:53):
Mike, you will be at the Milwaukee Muskie Expo. It's
February fourteen, fifteen and sixteen in West Bend, Wisconsin. That's
quite a show coming up, isn't it.

Speaker 10 (50:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, no, it's awesome.

Speaker 20 (50:05):
I mean between the Chicago and the musk here and
the Milwaukee Expo. I love those expos. They'll be up
both of those, and yeah, it's it's fantastic. He got
dealers from all across Midwest, especially anywhere from big bait makers,
guys that make baits out of the garage, and it's

(50:27):
a fun it's a fun way to break up the
winner in between the seasons.

Speaker 5 (50:31):
How can folks reach you, Michael if they want to
book a trip and fish with you? Oh?

Speaker 20 (50:36):
Absolutely, you can reach you at my cell phone which
is area code six oh eight six nine five nine
zero seven three or my email which is Hanson h
A N S O N dot Michael and my c
h A E L six O eight at gmail dot com.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
Fantastic, We'll have another great season. It's always fun to
visit with you, Michael.

Speaker 20 (50:58):
Take careppreciate Waldodd.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
That was great to visit with Michael Hanson. I've had
a chance to fish with him and he is a
hardcore Musky Angler captain. What else we got going to
That guy.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Fishes like twenty four hours a day. Wally, just want
to remind people the grand prize giveaway down here at
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You want to do a search that's in Kentucky. It
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(51:32):
one day of guided fishing, so you either can purchase
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a lot of people from especially up here, that are experienced,
they pull their boats down there. But pretty cool to
have an option to go to Kentucky in the fall.
The fish Muskies.

Speaker 5 (51:48):
Wally Captain coming up next, Lee Talcon, who's a lure
manufacturer and an excellent guide. Stay tuned, We'll be right back.

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(53:09):
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the web at Peter Valley Preserves dot com?

Speaker 10 (53:17):
Does it bear really? You know?

Speaker 13 (53:18):
In the woods you can bet the Ultimate out to
Ours Radio, guys do let's get back to the high
power half hour. It's awesomeate out to Ours Radio.

Speaker 5 (53:28):
Hey, welcome back, folks, thanks for listening. You know, people
do some incredibly stupid things outdoors, and now it's time.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Now it's time for the Ultimate Dumas segment.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
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Speaker 1 (53:50):
Captain Yea on this week's UDA. It's a short one,
but now people are now getting their boats back out
on the Mississippi River system. Go to Facebook. I posted
up a picture of a about ten foot from the
gates on the Mississippi below the dam. That is about
what I call instant death to get sucked into those gates.
So people, it's all about safety, whether it's ice, water

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or whatever. Wally, Dakota Sunset Resort still has openings for fishermen,
so good place to visit. What else you got, Wally.

Speaker 5 (54:22):
Well, Captain, we've got an announcement to make. Oh, after
fifteen great years, we're hanging up the headsets, Captain, We're
going fishing. And I gotta say it's been great working
with you. You're hard working, organized and always on time. Captain,
It's been fun.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Yeah, we are hanging up. We're closing down the show.
Our last broadcast is the Wisconsin Fishing Expo February twenty second.
People out in the jungle and all over the world
are going to miss us on iHeart. But I got
to throw a couple things out here. You know. The
nice thing about being partnered with iHeartRadio. We reached a
quarter billion listeners in the world, thirty two million monthly

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listeners and up to thirty one million podcast listeners. That's
some pretty good numbers. Also, Wally, we won some numerous
awards for media and photography, especially from the writers group
and as far as trips Wally, looking back, I would
say the Kentucky trip was one of our best ones.

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We caught giant crappies and drank some moonshine.

Speaker 5 (55:30):
That was good memories. And also thanks to all of
our guests, we have interviewed over fifteen hundred guests, some
of the best sportsmen and sportswomen in the country in Canada.
That's been a pleasure. Captain.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Yeah, and we could have done it with all our
twenty eight sponsors and please our websites up till the
end of the month still support those big shout out
to Benyont thirteen years as our producer and he bailed
us out of many things. Was always traveling with us
for live broadcast. Dave McCann is on board. He's actually

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listening right now. He has picked up the reins while
he also we did a lot of live broadcasts all
over the place. That was a lot of fun.

Speaker 5 (56:12):
Those are great times and at some of those we
met some special guests like El Linder, Kevin van Dam
and of course Steve Herbick and so many more. So
the live broadcasting was always exciting. Also, we should give
a shout out to Tim Scott who liked our idea
and helped us launch the show. So shout out to

(56:32):
Tim Scott, thank you.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Yeah, there was many people in the station there that
kind of helped us get going. But we did broadcasts,
actually live broadcast many places, obviously the Wisconsin Fishing Expo,
the Open Season Sportsman Show, the National Professional Anglers Association,
we did that several times, the Milwaukee Musky Expo, and

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so we had fun with the guests that doing the
live broadcast, especially being it was lot, we just kind
of winged it and the other thing Wally, you know,
I look back and if I had to pick one
thing out that really jumps you know you and I
did a ton of kids kids fishing events and I always,
I always, you know, when you're standing there and kids

(57:15):
are fishing, you cannot replace the smiles and the giggles
when a kid has a fish on you just there's
nothing else you could give a kid when he's getting
his first fish. His parents are flashing, you know, their camera,
but the excitement on his face is just it's it's
just a treasure.

Speaker 5 (57:33):
So those are some of my best memories to all
the kids fishing events we helped organize and the tendancies
were great and we put smiles on a lot of
kids' faces. The family fishing day at the Cleary Pond
was always special. Parents showed up with their kids and
some had never caught a fish ever. Their first fish
was caught there and so we were making memories for

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a lifetime there. The Taking ad All fishing tournament at
Wilderness Fishing Game had as many as one hundred both competing,
So you know, you're talking three hundred people out there
fishing in our event. That was pretty fantastic.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Yeah, and we developed a lot of friendships because a
few of our sponsors. We did trips with float trips
down the Wisconsin River, we fished the Madison Chain, we
did some hunting and the fun part there. There was
always a little bit of competition that went on and
a couple of beers afterwards. Wally, you know the one
the one thing that kind of got us, I think

(58:28):
kind of got us kicked off. Remember when we used
to do some TV with with Day from Northland Adventures
and we were doing the Wisconsin River one we had
the helicopter out filming over top of us. That kind
of kicked things off.

Speaker 10 (58:41):
I always thought.

Speaker 5 (58:42):
That was a great event. With Dave Carlson from Northland Adventures.
Every year he'd reach out to us and we'd help him.
Another one, real quick was when Ppe Professional pest Elimination
rented some capins on Castle Rock. We went up and fished.
We all caught fish, all ten of us, and we
played cards and had a coldage after.

Speaker 10 (59:00):
That was awesome.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
So folks, yeah, fifteen years goes fast, but make sure
you come and visit us. We will be at it
till February twenty second. Once again. That is our last
live radio show, and Wally and I are gonna I'll
be sitting on a stump in the woods. Wally's gonna
be guiding, and we'll see it at the upcoming show.
Thanks for spending a Saturday morning with us.