Reel Animals Saturday Fishing Show 11-1-25

Reel Animals Saturday Fishing Show 11-1-25 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, Tampa Bay. Captain Dylan Hubbard here for the
bar tow Ford Real Animals Radio show, talking fishing this
morning on this beautiful Saturday morning. A little brisk out
there this morning. Excited for a good weekend of a
nice weather window. Got Captain Bobby Woodard of Fly Him
High Charters in studio with me this morning, and Captain

(00:22):
Travis Thompson of All Florida talking fishing.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
You guys ready, I'm ready, dude. Exciting if you're watching online.
We brought some flavor to the show this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
A man, We're going to start the show off talking
about these cowboy hats. It's crazy. You guys can't even
wear your headphones. Appropriate.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Taste makers is the term you're looking for, taste makers whatever.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Definitely exciting weekend. We've got some beautiful weather and some
great fishing. Things are really moving around now. We've got
our first strong cold front of the year. It's been interesting.
We had early cold fronts since September, cooled down a
little earlier than normal, but it was never really a
strong harden down front push the temperature around. Yeah, this

(01:09):
was the first, in my opinion, solid front of eighteen
twenty hours of a pretty stiff north wind and pretty
low temperature. And this week we got another cool front
here what looks to be around Monday afternoon Tuesday morning,
and it's going to be blown out of the north
for a solid maybe twenty four thirty six hours and

(01:31):
cool off again. So it'll be interesting to see as
we get into what I would consider winter in Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, you started to see kingfish. You're starting to see.
Tell us what you're seeing out there.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, we're seeing kingfish early. I mean we got into
the kingfish I would say maybe two weeks ago, two
and a half, three weeks ago, started seeing them, and
they're pretty thick, and we saw some big ones early
right on the beach. They showed up pretty close, I
mean like at the sea booy close. And then it
kind of backed off a little bit, got a little soft,

(02:03):
But it's been pretty steady overall. I mean, we're starting
to see commercial catches a kingfish that have been respectable.
We've got King of the Beach next weekend. Looking forward
to that. We've got Amy and Tommy Verdenski from Old
Salts joining the Live Show tomorrow night to talk more
about Old Salts. King of the Beach tournament looking forward
to that. The Monster Kingfish Tournament was last weekend over

(02:26):
at occ Roadhouse. They had some solid thirty pound fish
weighed in for that one interesting one. Our friend Captain
Hale over there from John's Pass. He weighed in a
fish that it looked like it had a head of
a forty eight pound kingfish, but it was only twenty
eight pounds.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Had a snake body.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Less than a snake body. It was like emaciated.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's like one of those spawning bass when you catch
them they've spawned out and it's got the head of
like a twelve pound bass.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
And it's like weigh six pounds exactly. You see that
a lot in bass, So that's a great analogy. I
have never seen that in kingfish before. It was a
really wild looking fish, but solid field of some pretty
respectable thirty pound and high twenty pound kingfish. And that
tournament had a really crazy boundary. I think it was
only like five miles from the beach. Oh I don't

(03:18):
know exactly off the top of my head, so don't
quote me on that, but it was very close to shore.
So it was cool to see so many nice quality
fish weigh in.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's exciting.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
It is. We got a lot of mackerel around. The
hogfish bite has been picking up pretty heavily. We had
a ten hour trip, recently had twenty three keeper hogfish,
a couple trips with fifteen, seventeen, eighteen keeper hogfish, so
things are going well near shore. All shore has been
a little tricky just because of the wind. It's been

(03:48):
difficult to find those weather windows. But this week you
got an opportunity, and really today and tomorrow look like
your best chances to get offshore and capitalize. Maybe no,
not really. I was going to say tomorrow morning, but
it's looking pretty stiff pretty early in the day wind wise, Tomorrow,
I mean, excuse me, Monday morning. So Saturday and Sunday

(04:11):
are really your two windows to get out there. So
hopefully you can capitalize on that. This time of year,
when you get those little narrow weather windows, you go.
The fishing can be so good it can be stupid, yeah,
because I mean the fish have that lateral line. It's
a barometer on the side of the fish, and they
know when that weather is going to get nasty and
they anticipate it and feed really heavily. So if you

(04:34):
have the opportunity between these fronts. When the wind calms down,
the waves calm down, things start to normalize before the
next front. Man, it can just be epic. And so
many people are like, what's the best time of year
to go fishing? All year is a good time to go.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
What's your motto?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
If you're too busy to go fishing, you're just too
darm busy.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
But it's true, like if you sit around waiting for
the perfect moment, Yeah, the perfect moment may not line
up with the weather, it may not la up with like.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
But the perfect moment this time of year is right
now these weather windows because it does not get any better,
because it concentrates the opportunities for these fish to feed.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's a really good way to put it. I remember
in shore when I used to guide insure Charlotte Harbor.
This time of year, when you get a front come
through and then you get that slight warm up back up,
let's fish would chew like it was springtime all day.
But it was like more aggressive then, and I think
they fought better because the water was a little cooler,
like particularly the snook. Like I feel like there were

(05:30):
longer fights and we just hammer the stoke, but you
knew exactly when that window was gonna be Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
And that's when like you get you get in the
spot and you sit in the spot all day, like
you don't have to move, Like you get on a
chew and they just chew.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Back then it was eighty nine cents in gas, but
like now would be four dollars a gas.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh man. It is definitely exciting, though so beautiful weekend.
The snook have moved quite a bit, definitely off the
beaches for the most part at this point. Uh, even
the passes starting to really thin outnoise. A lot of
these fish are back up in the rivers, and the
Bayous snook specifically, we're seeing this sheep's head start to
research and ask you, Yeah, it's pretty crazy behind that

(06:11):
cold front. As soon as that water got milky, they
were here starting to get up on the pilings doing
their thing. And the red fish have been so concentrated.
I would assume these coal fronts now that we got
a real strong one, I would assume we'll start to
see some of those schools flush. Yeah, and that'll be exciting.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
The other thing. Since we're doing the weather like we
Bobby and I here obviously representing the teal animal side
of the house. We'd be remiss if we did not
talk about the influx of migratory birds that we're seeing.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, it's pretty exciting. I saw your post on all Florida.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Man.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Dogs are blowing up right now. They're everywhere, and so
I'm a bird guy anyway. I don't know if you
guys saw this. I'm there's a yellow cardinal in Florida
that migrated down here. It's in Coral Springs and it's
like a one in a million bird.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
I was just about to say, what's a yellow cardinal?

Speaker 2 (06:57):
It's a yellow cardinal. It's exactly what I mean. That's
that's wild, right, so instead of a red one, Yeah,
it's yellow.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Okay, that's like that thing. There's a lot of them.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
No, no, there's a million.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
There's one in a million. So like if there's three
million cardinals, there's like three yellow cardinals in the world. Huh,
and one just migrated to Florida.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
And it's like tracked. I guess.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
No, I mean it's yellow, so people notice it. It
stands out.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
Is it a is it an actual species or is
it just like a It's just A.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
It's a.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's a it's like it's like an albino.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, okay, anyway, not to get too far off subject
on the weather, but like you lost us. Yeah, the
birds are moving, is what I'm saying. Like, that's exciting
for me. Over here on the tea animal side of
the house.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
And also on the bird side of the house and
our dolphin watching nature cruise side. There there's the white pelicans.
They're back.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
White pelican pelicans signaled eagles coming back.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Let's not get there in the bald eagles, but white
pelicans very cool. Are you seeing the big flocks of
them yet?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yes, yeah, the sandbars out there and bunce this pass.
Definitely good numbers of those white pelicans. It signifies that
it's happening.

Speaker 6 (08:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, those big fronts up north, it's pushing everything around,
and it's making the bait move, making the fish move.
Everything's starting to happen.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Speaking of weather, like back one hundred years ago, you know,
your grandfather, my grandfather like birds and animal movements, how
they determined what was happening seasonally. Yeah, like you know,
they look at clouds as up but like the end
of the day, birds and animal movements. How they knew
it was changing.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Not only seasonally, but also like today, we know a
hurricane's coming nine ten days out right, and we can
watch the models. We have all this information. Back in
the day, they would just watch those those big war
birds come in. It's exactly right when they see them
start to school up on the beach. They knew frigate
birds were the indication that serious bad weather is coming. Yep,

(08:49):
it's pretty interesting.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
You see that the yellow cardinal is pertinent to the
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how you slice it, even if you're talking about yellow cardinals.
Things are happening.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
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Speaker 1 (09:38):
November yea, and it talks about Mike Anderson.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
This time of year, like everybody's just happy about the
fall because the weather changed, leaves change, you can hunt.
But in Florida fishing is so connected to the fall too.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a transition periods and that's I mean,
it's an exciting time of year because overlap things start
to change, yep. And it's a nice breath of fresh air.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, And there is just something about it when you're
fishing and you hit it right.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, like when you.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Hit it right. And sometimes in the summer, like you
got that consistency day after day, you can get into
some stale fish at least in Sure, oh sure, same
thing you get the summertime, doldrums midday and just there's
not a breath of wind.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
It's flat, calm and man it you have to do
everything in your in your toolbox to get those fish chewing.
And this time of year you don't see that.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, but like this time of year you can find it.

Speaker 5 (10:35):
Yeah, not to mention it's comfortable too. While you're doing it.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
That's true. It is nice.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
I mean you're not out there sweating your yeah, pail off.
You know, it's comfortable. It's like, it's nice. It's pleasurable
to go outside.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah, it's getting there more and more. We've got Alan
and Saint Pete on the other side. Hopefully we'll hear
from you as well. Remember one eight hundred and ninety
six nine nine three five too. If you have a
fishing question, fish and report, just want to say hello,
give us a call. One eight hundred nine six nine
nine three five two. Real Animals Radio will be right back.

(11:08):
We're back Bartow for Real Animals Radio talking fishing this morning.
Captain Travis Thompson from All Florida, Captain Bobby Woodard from
Flying High Charters in studios with me this morning, and
we've got Alan from Saint Pete on the line. We've
also got Jeff from Lake Alfred and Donald from Loots
coming up as well. If you'd like to join the conversation.
Remember one eight hundred and nine six nine nine three

(11:31):
five two. Alan, what's going on, buddy? How are you
this morning?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
What's up Alan?

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Gentlemen, it's good to hear your voice again, Trav, it's
been a long time, yes, sir, Yeah, it's a boy.
Happy h happy fall. Huh. It was beautiful this morning when.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
I got in the Truck's great.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
We'll nice to use those back the seat warmers in
my truck for a purpose other than therapy on my back.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, I agree. I thought about that exact same thing
this morning. I was like, I kind of need this warmer.
It's not just from my lower back today.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
You got you rich guys, go ahead and have a
conversation about seat warmer.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
I've seen your truck. You have seat warmers.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
Hey, what a great, great time. Tuesday night, I was
telling my wife asked about it because she couldn't be there,
and she's like, well, how was it? I said, it
was kind of like church, said, you know Dave. Dave
preached for about an hour and a half. Yeah, and yeah,
it was like snook gospel. It was. It really was

(12:33):
was pretty amazing. I was like, is this guy going
to take a breath? And he just kept on going. Man,
he definitely lives it. Yeah, it was really of fun.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
It was quite the dissertation on snook fishing. I really
liked the emphasis on being stealthy and how even how
you move in the boat and how you approach is
so important when you're fishing those doc rights. It was
it was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Have you ever fished with him?

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Have I fished with them?

Speaker 2 (12:57):
No fish before? It's a he's like that, like he's
it's not an act. He's really like that.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
I believe it. I believe it. So have you been
making it out there? Alan? Have you been making it
out there?

Speaker 4 (13:13):
I have not. Man, every time I get a free moment,
the wind kicks up so bad that I can't even
you know, even think about it. But yeah, it's it's
sad too. I gotta go. I was walking around the
boat the other day, I was like, oh, I need
to air my Trader Tylers. That's a bad sign.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
And luckily, I mean so often in the winter we
get these cold fronts and we get into that pattern
where each weekend is messed up. Right, this is one
of those times where we have the weather windy.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Inverted just a little bit.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Yeah, it happens to fall beautifully on Saturday and Sundays.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Why do the fronts come through on Thursday Friday?

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Right right? Well, I mean, you know, and every other
week and I'm working. So yeah, it's the timing has
been bad and I got I got one going and
getting ready to join the Air Force and one getting married.
So I've been pretty busy on the home front. Oh yeah,
well yeah, so you.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Know, I take back what I said about him back ridge.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah. Yeah, there's a reason why I'm still working every time.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Amen to that. Well, it's good to hear from you, buddy,
and I'm glad you could join us at OCC. It
was definitely a good time. I enjoyed it, and it's
always only a good time.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
It was one of the one of the very memorable one.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Amen to that. Definitely appreciate you man. Thanks for all
you do and thanks for your service.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
Yes, sir, we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
See you, buddy. Always the pleasure. We got Jeff from
Lake Alfred on the line too. What's going on?

Speaker 5 (14:34):
Heerial Po County?

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Good morning, Good morning. How are you Jeff? What do
you got for us?

Speaker 7 (14:41):
You're doing good. I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm
gonna hit this weekend. Like you said, the wind's been
blown or either I'm working so nice about to pull
up O'Neills and grab some bait and hit the water.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Oh, very cool. You know a great example. You live
in Polk County, but you fishing Penelas I get it.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, there's no salt order.

Speaker 6 (15:01):
Yeah, now I'm missing Ron.

Speaker 7 (15:05):
He finally got out and retired.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
So yeah, Ron is a great guy. We definitely added
a lot to the show and definitely a big loss.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (15:19):
He was a wealth of information when I would go
in there and get bait and I would fish the
lakes there and around Lake Alford. But that's okay. I
did get a bunch of buy one, get one when
he uh left.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Nice purple.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Did you get a bunch of purple?

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yeah, yep, yep, I got a handful.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Nice. What are you targeting today out there were?

Speaker 7 (15:44):
That's what I was going to ask you. I hadn't
been out in a while because of the winds. Like
you say, I'm going to probably run off between fifty
foot and seventy foot. What are you thinking?

Speaker 4 (15:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:54):
I mean I would start right there around fifty foot
and uh be using as many live shrimp and light
tackles you can to target those hogfish. If you get
closer to that seventy foot mark, you'll start to see
some more lanes seventy eighty ninety foot. You got a
better chance for a couple of mangroves and regular print.
But stayin shallow is going to be your better chance
for those hogfish. Once you get out past like fifty

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sixty foot, the hogfish bite's been a little bit tougher,
just not seeing quite as many of them.

Speaker 7 (16:24):
Yeah, very good, And.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Keep an eyepill. I appreciate it, Jeff. And keep an
eyepeel on your run out there. If you see the
birds and the bait, stop if you want to play
with those mackerel and kingfish. I mean they have been
absolutely inundated near shore, so you got a good chance
for running to some of those too.

Speaker 7 (16:44):
Chen four, I appreciate.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
It, No problem, man, Good luck out there today.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
Okay, what talk?

Speaker 7 (16:51):
What you said?

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Jeff? Thanks for the phone call. We appreciate it, buddy,
and always appreciate hearing from you guys. Remember one eight
hundred and nine six nine nine, three five two. Hopefully
a lot of you are like Jeff and heading out
there on the water. Give us a call if you
have a fishing question, want to bring us a fishing report,
just want to say hello. We'll talk at you one
eight hundred nine six nine nine three five two. Real

(17:13):
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forward to our event coming up as well. We've got

(17:58):
the Phishing for Hope event coming up Saturday, November twenty second,
from nine am to one pm over there at Metropolitan
Ministries on North Rome Avenue in Tampa. Really looking forward
to that. It's always a good time every year.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Tell me about that event.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, so it's a good time. Bobby came and Bobby's
been a couple times and looking forward to it. Again
this year, plus we've expanded our reach. This year. We're
partnered up with Old Salts Fishing Club and also Pro Marine,
and so this year you're not only I mean in
years past we've done different things, but the last couple

(18:37):
of years you had to drive to Tampa at North
Rome Avenue on the day of the event to be
able to donate food to Fishing for Hope, or you
could donate online monetarily, which we'll have that monetary link
set up here soon that we'll be able to share.
So if you're not around this area, you can still
support Fishing for Hope, But in years past you had

(18:57):
to actually drive to the event to donate food, which
can be a little challenging bringing over to tamp on
a Saturday morning. This year, thanks to Old Salts and
Pro Marine, the event has grown and expanded. So you
will be able to go to the Old Salts King
of the Beach Tournament next week and you'll be able
to bring your food donation there. Awesome. We're gonna have
a boat, a sea hunt boat set up from Pro

(19:19):
Marine with a yeah yeah with a big old banner
about sinking the boat fill and we're going to try
to bring as much food as possible, fill a bunch
of barrels, and sink the boat at Old Salts King
of the Beach tournament, so you can bring your food
donations to King of the Beach. Let's say you don't
want to show up to King of the Beach. Maybe
you're busy that weekend, maybe you don't like crowds. You

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also have the opportunity after the King of the Beach tournament,
that boat is going to get trailered over to Pro
Marine and Bay Pines and that boat's going to sit
out in front of Pro Marine shop and they're going
to be a donation location.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Oh that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
So during King of the Beach you can donate food there,
or if you miss it, anytime from King of the
Beach all the way till November twenty first, you'll be
able to hit Pro Marine and Bay Pines and donate
food there. And then on the morning of Saturday, November
twenty second, Pro Marine is going to trailer that boat
over to the event and you'll be able to come
to the event on Saturday November twenty second.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Don't we Llust'll be an online street dollar donation if
you will ask that we can all share on our
platforms and everything.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
That's amazing, Yeah, really really cool that Old Salts and
Pro Marine have come together to help Metropolitan Ministries and
the real Animals and Captain Bill Miller do this event
this year and expand our reach and hopefully double triple,
quadruple our food intake. And they need it, I mean,
Fishing for Hope. Metropolitan Ministries, their food pantry is already

(20:47):
really really depleted. They did a story recently that basically
they're almost going to be out of food by the
time Thanksgiving rolls around, so they're going to need a
huge amount of donations in order to make Thanksgiving possible.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I forget the number, so forgive me if I'm wrong,
but it was something like seventy percent of Americans are
three paychecks from I don't like not having their not
having food security. So like those types of ministries, those
types of yeah, those are near and dear because you
know somebody in your life it is three paychecks from that.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
And what's crazy is at the event at Metropolitan Ministries
Fishing Prope event, we have that donation lane and we're
working the donor lane, taking food out of people's cars,
putting them in shopping cars, weighing it all up and
all that good stuff. But if you walk away from
the donor lane and you walk into the back, that's
when that's where the rubber meets the road, where people

(21:38):
are actually coming in and shopping for their food. And man,
it is heart wrenching every year because I'll be in
the donor lane working and not really thinking about things
and just focused on what's going on. But then I
have to take a bathroom break and walk around the
tent and then all of a sudden you see that
line of people and the children and the families, and

(21:59):
it's just hits me hard. Every year. Man, it just
remembers or reminds us why we're there and why we
do so much effort to put in for fishing for hope.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
So it was very gratifying and fulfilling to be there
and help out with it.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
What's that date again?

Speaker 1 (22:14):
That is Saturday, November twenty second, from nine am to
one pm the Metropolitan Ministries Holiday Tent on North Rome
Avenue in Tampa. But again, if you can't make the
event that day, you can donate food at the Old
Salts King of the Beach Tournament on the tournament weekend
that's when donations open this upcoming weekend, or you can
hit Pro Marine in Bay Pines after King of the

(22:38):
Beach weekend, all the way up till November twenty second,
November twenty first, So good opportunities for Sureah, what a
great opportunity for the fishing community.

Speaker 8 (22:48):
Come.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
You know, I talk on the hunting community so much
about normalizing hunting in the vernacular, and fishing is more
popular than hunting. But what a great opportunity for the
fishing community to reach out to people that don't fish,
they're not outdoors and show, hey, old people, we want
to give back to the community we live in, into
those less fortunate than and man, that's an amazing program.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
And speaking of Fishing for Hope, we got Donald from
Loots on the Line who helps us every year at
Fishing for Hope. What's going on? Donald, how are you buddy?

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (23:14):
Good morning guys. Hey, A great show is always Hey.
I don't have an expensive vehicle. My little Mitsubishi that's
got heated seats.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Boom, Travis, you're getting owned a lot.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Do you have a cowboy hat? Donald, that's the question.

Speaker 9 (23:29):
I do have a cowboy hat and cowboy boots.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yet there you go, man, all right, he's got still
Hubbard's still out there on his own.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
I have boots, I just don't have the hat. I'm
halfway there.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
What boat ramp are you fishing out this morning? What
are you cooking? Donald?

Speaker 8 (23:44):
Okay, not today, next Saturday.

Speaker 9 (23:47):
I'm home today. I've got yard work and finishing up
the clubhouse for the grandkids today.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Smart man.

Speaker 9 (23:55):
Got the whole family coming from Texas on the twentieth,
so they'll be here all week for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Awesome.

Speaker 9 (24:05):
Yeah, And normally I do show up for fishing for Hope,
but so I've got plans with the daughter and the
grandkids that Saturday morning. So this will be the first
time in a very long time I will not be
able to make metropolitan ministries.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
But you got to pass though, buddy, You've put in
the work over the years.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
Man.

Speaker 9 (24:26):
I appreciate that. But there is a church literally five
minutes from my house up here in Loots on fifty
four that has a donation thing for metropolitan ministries.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
That's awesome.

Speaker 9 (24:38):
Yeah, so they do that every year. So I'll be
bringing a bunch of stuff during the week because they
set that up a couple of days before that Saturday,
so yeah, I'll bring stuff up there. But was see, boy,
I'll tell you that Dave Palmo he can yack up stories.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
And.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah he can. It was very entertaining. We had a
good time for sure.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (25:06):
Even Liz had a good time. And and I told her,
you know, you're sitting next to a legend right there.
She goes, you what a legend in your own mind?

Speaker 1 (25:16):
They always keep us on our toes, don't they.

Speaker 9 (25:18):
Yes, yeah, capt'n ray Mark, And so we had a
great table with cat Rick Gross, his wife Kelly, and Capt.
Mike Perry from Big pine Key. We're all hanging out
and drinking beers and eating good food and listening to stories.
That's one of the greatest things about fishing conversations, especially

(25:39):
you know, like when cap'n Mill was doing them and
been to so many others. Just the stories that you hear,
you know, about fishing and stuff, and then you know
that's I love. But yeah, next Saturday at Bavista Park,
I've got my outing, my DAUGHTERSU outing and doing the
uh we're gonna do a low country boy.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
WHOA that sounds like a good one not to miss.

Speaker 9 (26:04):
Yeah, it's gonna be a crab legs and shrimp and
dewy sausage, a little red potatoes and corn, and yeah, yeah,
it's it's gonna be good. I'll be uh starting it
up at about twelve forty five and hopefully, well we
usually procure a shelter and all hang out and uh,

(26:25):
that's gonna be a good one.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
That sounds like, Yeah, you had me at the and
dewey sausage and crab legs.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, that's where I was too.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, are we using spicy sausage? I think is always spicy?

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Is it always? I think I thought you could get
like mild versions, So like we're gonna have to fact
check this.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
I think that's from wishes where you get that.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
I'm all for the spicy. I want it spicier than not.
But sometimes you get a low country boil and you're
bite into the sausage and it's good, but it's not spicy.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
I think that's when they use like a que boss
or something like that. They're not using any and dewey.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Okay, learn something every day using the right stuff. We
appreciated Donald as always. Thanks for the phone call. My friend.

Speaker 9 (27:06):
Hey absolutely, Hey, guys, take care, stay safe in the
tight lines, and uh we'll go get Somerom up next Saturday.
Hopefully it's not fifty degrees all right, Donald.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Good luck on that one, buddy, see Man definitely home stuff.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, yeah, Tony Captain Woodard on that.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Bob the builder over here, he could whip together a
playground and no time. He's so angry.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Have you ever thrown Charisa sausage in your low country boy?

Speaker 4 (27:32):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (27:32):
You know, we've done a lot of low Country boils.
We did a final Friday every month for many, many,
many many years. It was years. I would say it
was two years. But uh, we always use the same
kind of sausage. And to be honest with you, that
wasn't my area of expertise. I was the eater, the
not the cooker.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
You're more of a taste tester than the chef.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
I know my place, yeah, I know my lane.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
We all have strings, yeah, just like mine, Bobby's. We're
taste makers in fashion on the show.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
I don't even know what to say. You're not supposed
to have dead Arab radio, but that one, that one
got me. Yeah. But like you said, we all know
our place and my place was not behind the chef's table. Okay,
I was on the other side eating this.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Is it normal? Because I feel like you could probably
throw down behind a behind a grill.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Or behind a grill. I can throw down. I'm I'm
pretty good griller, but I wouldn't consider myself anywhere remotely
a chef if it involves meat, I got it.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
I look last night to see about having jerky left.
I was gonna bring you guys from my last batch,
but it was you made What.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Kind of crazy, disappointing story is this?

Speaker 2 (28:45):
That was the worst story?

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Like I had to hold back because I wanted to
say vulgar things to you. Why would you even bringing
to bring you beef jerky?

Speaker 2 (28:56):
But then I didn't that would be like this entire
show being Let me show you these fish pictures.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Oh there's fish.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Close fishing. Yeah, like that's what you just did to us.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
It was really good.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Seriously, he used this pillet knife to prepare that.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
He used this fleet knife.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
I used my meat only fill at knife, not the
one from the boat before.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Whatever. Man, Now we're going to get Dan the fishman
to call in again.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
From Relentless Knives.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Right, Yes, he does use a relentless knife for it's
crazy oh Man. Hopefully we'll hear from you as well.
Remember one eight hundred and nine six nine nine three
five too. If you want to call in and save
the show, or bring us a fishing question, fish and report, whatever.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Give us a shout fashion tips.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Real Animals Radio will be right back. I got to
make some new friends.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
I don't even know what.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Real Animals Radio. We're back. Captain Doing Hubbard from Hubbard's Marine,
Captain Travis Tominson from All Florida, and Captain Bobby Woodard
from Flying High Charge. I'm trying not to laugh over here. Bobby,
you are an interesting person. I just have to say that.
I mean, for those who aren't watching on the Facebook

(30:19):
live stream, we have a lot of questions about Bobby's
phone organization. I've never seen that before.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
If we're describing it. If we're describing it, there's a
page like you know how he gets swipe on an iPhone.
There's a page on his iPhone where you swiped too,
and the only thing on it is one app.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
And it's in It's not on the top left, like oh,
this is the last page and there's one app. It's
like in the dead center of the screen.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
It's like that app just lives by itself on a page.
There's room on the other pages so he doesn't have
to swipe it.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Yes, there is a front. I saw it. There's multiple Oh.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
My gosh, this is terrible radio. But I cannot believe.
I'm shook. That's what I'm at.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
I'm shook.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
No, you should be shocked that I even know how
to turn the phone along.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
I'm shocked that he was able to organize his apps
to begin with.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
It's surprising. And take it out, flip it and say
which'a's high score? Snake.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
It's not wrong, You're not wrong.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Someone please call us, please.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
So we do have an FWC meeting coming up next week.
CONTRAVERTI meeting this week. Yeah, and where's the f WC
meeting in Bell Glade? Bell Glade, Bell Glade. That sounds
like Polk County to me.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
It's a high school football hot spot.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
It is a high school football hot spot any great
football player.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
So I assume like Okachobe area.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
South, it's south of the lake.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
So the closest hotel the hotels were staying.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
In or included, do you find that interesting in places
where there's like nothing else to do. That's where football
is like really big on Friday night lights.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
I mean, do I find an interesting? I find it serious.
I'll tell you. The other thing that Cluston is definitely
missing is restaurants. So I'm a little concerned about what
I'm going to eat while I'm there. There's Roland Martinsbury,
which no lie is worse than Cockroach Bay when it
comes to mosquitoes and if you know what you know,
like that's bad. Yeah, And then there's a Beef o Brady's.

(32:10):
That's it. I'm not exaggerating, I'm gonna say. And there's
some other stuff that we don't know about. There's nothing.
That's it. That's what's there. Is there a hotel, Yeah,
there's hotels, and there's like Popeye is McDonald's and fast
food type places, but like there's nothing.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
So everybody's gonna be hanging out at Beef's.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah. But like you've been to commission meetings, like we
usually try to go to dinner somewhere like hang out,
like socialize, and I'm like, are we taking you know,
are we tailgating at the commission mediing?

Speaker 5 (32:35):
Is that what we're doing I forget what I I
think it was like a Philly cheese take something. It
was decent and rolland Martin's Dude.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
One of the best golf council meeting meals that I
ever had was in a parking lot.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Look, I'm not knocking the tailgating ideal.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
And it was in Louisiana. We were at did you have?
Normally in Louisiana, we always the golf council meetings always
happened in like the Quarter in French Quarter in New Orleans.
This one was at Baton Rouge and we were in
a weird part of Baton Rouge. There wasn't much around,
and it was a weird time of year, so there
wasn't much open.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
And man, there's this huge empty park heing lot next
to the hotel. And my buddy Troy knows the guy
who like operates LSU's like banned operation, so he drives
like the trailers for LSU when they go to different
different states to play football. And this dude showed up
with this trailer that was like tricked out. I mean

(33:31):
it was literally made custom made to cook crawlfish and
to do old country boils. And I have never never
experienced anything like this. This guy was like true Cajun.
I still I think I understood like three words he
said for the three hours we were hanging out, just
thick Cajun accent, and boy could he cook some crawlfish.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Man, crawlfish. I can make myself sick, E can crawlfish.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
I did make myself sick.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, and that's not a I mean that's I had
to be carried to my hotel room. There's nothing wrong
with it. I feel like you did a serve up.
When are you going to get that again? I'm never Yeah,
exactly and in that moment. So not to pivot away
from Crawfish, but Lake o Lakokachobi's on the agenda for
this week. There's an update on the lake. I don't know, Yeah,
we got off that round. How much you guys follow

(34:19):
what's going on with the lake. But the water level
was low. We were kind of in a drought almost
a drought condition, and so a lot of plants are
coming back in the lake. You know, as the water
level went down, we got new growth in there. So
there's an update on the lake. We're talking about reopening
the Oyster fishery and apple achic colo, which has some
mixed feelings, but I'm actually supportive of that. You know,

(34:41):
everybody complains about not you want to get Florida oysters,
and I think if you push those oystermen out of business,
we won't be able to get Florida oysters ever, So
like keeping a conservative harvest available is a good idea.
We're going to be talking about opening the Atlantic red
snapper or moving the Atlantic red snapper to state management,
which is a big deal for I mean a lot

(35:02):
of deal. We're statewide, man, this is not this is
real animals. They're worldwide. So people listening all over the state,
all over the country like they want maybe want to
fish Atlantic red snapper mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Anyway, and also it looks like there's discussions over specific
hunting regulations and WMAs.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, so the hunting rules package, because honting seasons are
more concise than fishing and they're's not the federal overlap
or the same way. Once a year we bring all
the hunting rules. It'll be like a thousand rules and
you get to review them all because you may only
care about chessawiskea WMA, and you may only care about
citrus w A and I may only care about green swamp.
So you get to kind of weighe in on the
rules in your specific regions or WMAs.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
WMA is a wildlife management yeah, area.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Public land for hunting. Anyway, it'll be it'll be a
really good meeting. I'm looking forward to it, looking forward
to seeing the commissioners.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
And and also there's the proposed rules on spotted sea trouts.
They're talking about moving trout to the same management style
as redfish and snook with these nine management regions, I believe.
And are they this is just a staff update on
the recommendation or are we getting closer to final I.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Think they're bringing a proposed rule. I think they're bringing
a draft rule forward for discussion. And if you're if
you haven't followed along on that, Dylan and I talked
about this on the show probably two or three years
ago when redfish happened. But really they're changing kind of
the dynamics of instead of having just one data point,
we're going to collect I think seven data points on trout, yeah,
so that we can we're not just looking at redfish.

(36:36):
It was a statement, right, that was the number that
always drove redfish population and redfish catch and keep, and
we started doing water quality. We started doing habitat like
like mangrove or estuaries or whatever. We started looking at
other factors. We started looking at environmental environmental factors like
a piney point type situation or a spill or a
sewer spill, like the ability to shut it down for

(36:58):
a period of time to review it versus this kind
of executive order. We go into a freeze, we go
into a degraded period. There was no mechanism to manage
the fishery outside of escapement or spr spawning potential ratio.
So sea trout, we're moving to consistency with redfish and
snook based off the sea trots species. There is a
little bit different there. And FWC did a sea troll symposium. Yes,

(37:20):
it was about two months ago. FGA was down there.
Well represented it that.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, a lot of board members showed up, a.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Lot of board members. If you guys aren't following Kenny Mullins, Like,
Kenny joined the FGA board after icast and is just
absolutely killing it. He's in the big band area.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Really good dude, and so been. I met Kenny for
the second time at that event. But it's really cool
to see some of that stuff come in. So excited
about what we're seeing. I think is really progressive. I
think it's really interesting. Yeah, and I think fwc's leading
the way as usual. Yeah, we all like to critically.
I call him like the umpires in a baseball game.
You only yell at them when they make a back call,

(37:54):
but they do a lot of stuff really really really well.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, and they're going to be fighting for us at
the Golf Council meeting that's happening this week in Biloxi, Mississippi,
and FWC is going to be fighting the fight, trying
to hold back some of this stuff that's coming on
Red Grouper, so reg Grouper's being discussed and a lot
of other things at this Biloxi meeting too, So we'll
have a lot to talk about next weekend. You got
the backside of the FWC meeting and this Golf Council meeting,

(38:19):
so stay tuned for more updates. We got our visit
Saint Pete Clearwater Safe Boating Tip of the Week coming
up next with Captain Jim Fogel. Hopefully we'll hear from
you as well. Remember one eight hundred and nine six
nine three five two to join the conversation Real Animals Radio.
We'll be right back. We're back bartow Ford, Real Animals

(38:39):
Radio talking fishing this morning. Definitely looking forward to a
great little weekend weather window and hopefully you're going to
be able to get out there and take advantage of
this beautiful weather we have this weekend. It's really looking
great for an opportunity to get out there on the
water and capitalize on the hot kingfish and macrobite near shore,

(39:00):
the hogfish bite that's heating up near shore and offshore.
Finally a nice opportunity to actually make it out there
to the deep water and get some of those fat
red grouper, triggerfish, yellowtails, muttons, some nice mangrove snapper action
and the plagics have been nuts with pretty consistent wahoo opportunities,
a couple of those blackfintuna, pretty steady kingfish. We even

(39:22):
got a big mahi this past week which was pretty cool,
and then inshore man fishing is real good all the
way around. This opportunity this weekend should be nice. We're
coming up on the full moon, some good flushing water
full moon outgoing tide is generally a little bit better.
Seeing those snook move up into the bay rivers, bayous

(39:43):
starting to really heat up as water temperatures cool down,
redfish are starting to flush a little bit, Sheep said.
Coming back flounder has been crazy. Just remember if flounder
or closed for a spawning season. Protection and yeah, things
are hot all over. It's good times.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Question, Yeah, when's our selfish season?

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Sailfish are around potentially all year. I think we see
the most of them around the Kingfish runs. We start
to see a lot of them.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
Reason reason I asked.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
A couple of years back, I fished the fall King
the beach and on our run back in it was
rough kings serment. On our way back in, we see
a sailfish surfing a wave and we stopped and made
a couple passes by put a bait run in front
of them. He lit up a little bit, but never,
you know, never took it.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
But most of the time when you see him sunning themselves,
they're not really that hungry. They're just up there chilling.
It's when they're greyhound and you can sometimes get into feed,
But most of the time when you see them it's
a little bit tougher.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
He seemed like really the largest, like we actually kind
of assumed maybe somebody else in the tournament had already
hooked him and fought him and released them. He was
just kind of sitting there, just kind of.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Chilling sail up. So it makes it a little bit
tricky sometimes, but we do see kingfish a lot, and
when the kingfish run is kind of in full swing
of that April May early June time frame is a
really good opportunity. Well, a lot of times April we
see a lot of the like Blackfintuna April May. It's
real good even near shore, but a lot of it's

(41:08):
dictated by the currents as well. If we get that
water temperature right, we get the bait right. I remember
when I was real young, eight nine, ten, twelve years old,
somewhere in there, I don't remember exactly when we had
a like a loop eddy or change in the loop
or we essentially had really blue water really close to

(41:28):
shore and we had like flying fish, which normally you've
got to get out there quite a way is forty
fifty sixty seventy miles to get that like deep purple
looking water and a lot of flying fish. For some reason.
We had that in like forty foot of water. It
was crazy flying fish, really deep blue water color and man,
we had sailfish like on the beach trolling for mackerel.

Speaker 5 (41:52):
That's where we were. We were like three miles off
the dawn. It was right there.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
You know, it happens, It happens. I mean, we've seen
pelagic fish. There was that one time. I don't remember
when it was, but there was a yellowfin tuna cotton
a net by mullet fishermen in Tampa Bay.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
I don't remember that, but I do remember tuna in Egmont.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
H Yeah, So you never know. Fishing is one of
those things. It's crazy. We've got Cap Jim Fogel on
the line with our visit Saint Bete Clearwater Safe Boating
Tip of the week. What's going on, Camp Jim? How
are you, buddy?

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Hey, Camp Jim?

Speaker 6 (42:24):
Morning, Hey, good morning Captain doing Bobby and Travis. Good
to hear you guys back at it. When I first
tuned in here on Facebook, I wasn't sure if I
had the Ponderosa leftover group here.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Jim, do you have a cowboy hat? Just curious? I
do Okay, everybody except Dylan has a cowboy hat, just checking.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Bobby's just happy.

Speaker 6 (42:48):
Someone else, well, one of these days, you know, maybe
somebody will you don't donate one to him or something
like that.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
We're working on it.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
You know.

Speaker 6 (42:59):
This this morning, the Tampa Bay is about sixty eight
sixty nine degrees in the water Egmont's about seventy seven.
So you do not want to get wet. This cool
weather is nice, but when you combine the weather, the
temperature of the air and the temperature of the water

(43:21):
can be not good. You know, when your body temperature drops,
your heart, your nervous system and other organs just can't
work properly. They had to treat a couple of guys
just a few weeks ago that the boat was going
down and they got wet and they were being towed
back in. Then they had to get treated for hypothermia.
So you know, it can happen this time of year.

(43:44):
Even of course, most of the time it's because you
got too wet. You know, even in the morning, when
you guys are out there getting bait, you really ought
to have your foul weather gear run because once you
get wet, it's hard to get dried out, you know
what I mean, when you're moving around a lot. Yes,

(44:06):
if your boat goes down, you want to try to
climb back up on it, even if it's on the
back of it, if it's upside down or whatever. You
want to try to get out of that water. Another
good reason to have that epurb or PLB so you
can get them in there and get yourself out of
there quick. Good good foul weather gear is you know,

(44:29):
that's the best stuff you can get. I mean, you know,
for this type of year, most of the year, Ashley.
You know, even in the summertime sometime if you get
really wet and you're moving, you know, twenty five to
forty five miles an hour, it can get chili. Cotton
clothing is not nearly as good as gortex and polyester

(44:51):
and some of the other fabrics that will wick the
water away from you know, wick the perspiration and the
what are away from you. So you want to make
sure you've got good foul ware of gear. You want
to keep it on the boat all the time. They
make those emergency ponchos you know that you can buy
you buy them one. The first time I was almost

(45:12):
like at football games or something. You know, they're smaller
than a pack of cigarettes, and you know, they fold
up pretty pretty small, and they're easy to keep in
your ditch bag or your first aid kits. So you
want to have some of those, you charter guys, if
your people are not bringing foul weather gear, you might

(45:33):
have a few backups ponchos or something like that. Doesn't
have to be expensive, just has to trying to keep
them dry if you can. Also, you know, we want
to have blanket or two on the boat, those sword
blankets and just they fold up just as small as
those ponchos do, so you can get you know, a
couple of those, and I mean they're cheapest dirt. You

(45:55):
can order those online. They're really really really small and
they work real well. So consider those things in your
first aid pack, Amen, and try to stay drop.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
You know what I was thinking about it. I was
thinking about you yesterday, Captain Jim. I was talking to
a guest who fishes with us. We are loading up
for that thirty nine hour in this gentleman and I
got talking about firearms and firearms training and stuff like that,
and he said he was an instructor, and then he
started talking about how important it was to not only
be proficient there but also in first aid. And he

(46:28):
started talking about this thing called Stop the Bleed and
apparently it's like a it's like a whole organization deal
where you can just look up Stop the Bleed and
they have all these courses all over and we started
talking about tourniquets and trauma care. It was it was
really interesting. So, yeah, it was cool to hear that
trend and that theme and he was all about a

(46:48):
huge proponent of stop the bleed and getting proficient in
tourniquet use in trauma care, so it was cool. It
made me tell him about our efforts to get that
Charter Captain's meeting coming this February and going over all
that trauma care stuff with Charter Captains in case we
run into that kind of thing while on a trip

(47:09):
or while driving around town, or just the importance of
knowing that information. He even went so far as to
say he felt like something like that should be required
before you get a driver's license, and I thought that
was interesting just being it is interesting, Yeah, just being
knowledgeable on what to do if you run into it and.

Speaker 6 (47:28):
You have to, you'd have to probably read English, but
we won't talk.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
About that slight.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
I remember about first aid, yeah before like it's a
it's another huge.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
I mean, after what happened down there in Panama. It's
just it's a huge reminder that you have to know
what you're doing and be able to handle yourself in
a high stress situation like that.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
Yep, exactly right, by the way, Dylan, I don't know
if I told you and Mike yet. The day before yesterday,
I'm made contact with a flight surgeon right out here
at Clearwater Coast Guard Station, and he and a couple
of other docs are stationed out there. So I was
at first I had been told that they were all

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down in Miami and that they that's where they rotated from.
But no, he told me that they rotate up here too,
So we should be able to get a flight surgeon
slash whoa er trauma surgeon you know, from our local
area that can talk to us at day.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
That'll be awesome.

Speaker 6 (48:30):
Yeah, yeah, I'm excited about that.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Thanks Captain Jim.

Speaker 6 (48:34):
Yes, sir, keep up the good work. St. Pete Jim
Fogel be safe out.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
There, appreciated Captain Jim. With our visit, Saint Pete Clearwater
Safe boating tip of the week always a pleasure looking
forward to a great weekend. Here reminder as well, if
you're out and about, stop by the Friendly Fisherman's Seafood
Restaurants waterfront restaurant inside John's Past. The Friendly Fisherman is
back under the management of the Hubbard family, the same

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the Friendly Fisherman and taste the difference with the freshness,
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Come see what's new at the Friendly Fisherman and try
one of those cat putters. Cat putters. Yeah, we're gonna
talk about that on the other side.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Awesome that and more.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Hopefully you'll hang around. Remember one eight hundred and nine
six nine nine three five two if you want to
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We're back bartow Ford, Real Animals Radio talking fishing this morning.
If you want to give us a shout and bring
us a fishing question, fishing report, whatever you want, give
us a call one eight hundred and nine six nine

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nine three five two. If you want to join the conversation.
We've got Cat Mike Perry from Big Pine Key on
the line. What's going on, Cat Mike? How are you?

Speaker 2 (49:58):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (49:58):
Cat Mike, Mike, Hey, guys, Hey guys.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
Excuse sounds sounds like me over there.

Speaker 10 (50:08):
I got a little sinus issue going on, so, you.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Know, speaking of staying in your lane, Bobby, I got
the stream. Okay, don't don't try to correct me on
what's going on?

Speaker 2 (50:22):
What's happening here? Heaped stand, He.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Snapped at me, thinking I had the stream wrong.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Obviously, streaming technology services.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
Now the guy just talked about staying in your lane,
so you just focus on you over there, all, remember
to hit the right button. Okay.

Speaker 9 (50:38):
Well, first of all, I like the hats, Thank you,
thank you.

Speaker 10 (50:44):
They're good enough. If they're good enough for Grady Judd
to wear from time to time America, sure enough for anybody.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
I love that guy.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
I was in I was in Key West two weeks ago,
three weeks ago, Mike, and I definitely had my cowboy
head on a key West like you I.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
Was.

Speaker 10 (51:09):
That's a that's a that's a call for the Sunday Show.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
The Mahoney Show. Uh huh. That sounds about right.

Speaker 10 (51:18):
But anyway, we're battling the rain right now, what's left
over from a big storm that was south of us.
So there'll be no fishing today. Even if I was
one hundred percent, there'd be no fishing today. It's a
it's going to be a rainy, stormy day through the Keys.
If you look at the radar, it's it's coming from
the south and it's almost as long as the Keys are.

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The whole big blobber rains. So we're actually going to
get a good soak in today, which which we need.
We need some rain over the Keys to kind of
stay and just instead of passing. Of course, it's easy
for me to say that when the boat's going to
stay on the trailer today. Sore. But the fish has
been good, the bill fish and the sailfish. They're blowing

(52:05):
up right now. Snapper, uh, plenty of snapper, plenty of fishing.
And I wanted to say thank you that fish and
talk the other night listen to Dave Palmerloo. That guy
is funny. So about fifteen minutes before it was over,
I leaned over to Rick Gross and I said, hey, buddy,

(52:28):
if you get invited to do one of these, you
better up your entertainment game. And our whole table just
cracked up laughing, and he looked at me, he goes,
I can't follow that.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Yeah, yeah, man, it was definitely pretty cool.

Speaker 10 (52:43):
It was good to see everybody.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
So it was good to see you too, by guys.

Speaker 10 (52:47):
Sorry about sorry about the voice, and I'll.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Be better man, go rest those vocal cords. My friend appreciated.
Count Mike Perry over there in Big pine Key. Definitely
Melissa Man, it was Melissa right, Yeah, that was right,
am I right? The name of the storm?

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Oh, I was like I have I didn't know where
you were going a single man, like when you start
the one women's names a brain.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
I'm talking about the hurricane that our caller was just
talking about. Travis, Welcome to the radio show. But that storm, man,
it put a hurting on Jamaica. I was watching some
of those I was watching some of the drone video
this morning from that weather chasing thing, Mike's weather page
shared and the photos are bone chilling. Yeah, man, it

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is crazy. It was a violent storm was tied for
the storm to ever make landfall.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
It was eight ninety two millibars. What was the wind speed, like,
what was it to twenty five? I thought it peaked
it like they were gusts up to like two twenty
It was over two hundred.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
But the one eighty five was the official Like, I
don't know if they call it sustained winds or whatever,
but that was the landfalling wind speed. They called it
one hundred and eighty five mile an hour With eight
one hundred and ninety.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Two millibar, that's like a giant tornado at that.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Point, like an e five. Yeah, it's like crazy.

Speaker 6 (54:07):
It is.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
The other the other thing I heard was rain as
long as the keys. Yeah, so it was about three
and a half hours of rain.

Speaker 5 (54:15):
Exactly what I thought.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
That's hilarious. We've got Richard on the South Shore to
give us some correction on the other side. Looking forward
to chatting with him, and hopefully we'll hear from you
as well. Remember one eight hundred and nine six nine
nine three five two to join the conversation. Real Animals
Radio will be right back, Bobby. Please stop throwing your
cowboy hat around the studio.

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Richard from the SouthShore on the line. What's going on, Richard?
How are you this morning?

Speaker 8 (55:32):
Rich I'm just sitting here respooling. Just change the plug
into the respooling Dylan. What's that hat?

Speaker 2 (55:43):
Do you?

Speaker 1 (55:43):
We thank you?

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Richard? You have a cowboy hat?

Speaker 4 (55:46):
Right?

Speaker 1 (55:47):
Oh? Yeah, see listen to his voice. He has to
have a cowboy hat. He's probably got a couple of them.
I believe it.

Speaker 8 (55:54):
Well, no, no, I've just got one.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
We get him squared away, buddy, We'll get him squared away.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (56:01):
The problem is it's just been in a box up
on the shelf here for about ten years now. I
haven't seen it.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
He knows how to stow and looked.

Speaker 8 (56:09):
That's why. That's why I'm wondering what size dealing with.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
I honestly could not tell you what size mine.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
We'll find out.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
This is listen, that's like a thing. Are you supposed
to know your hat size?

Speaker 4 (56:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Size offline? Just just all the listeners know offline. We've
taken this as a project like we're standing up a team.
We're gonna c Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna get dealing
in a hat. Don't don't worry.

Speaker 5 (56:30):
When you swing by Metropolitan Ministry extra Yeah, you don't
even need to.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Because we're gonna have it. We'll have him in a
hat by then. What are you fishing for? Richard? As
I bring this back to fishing. Clearly, I'm the voice
of reason here.

Speaker 8 (56:43):
Well, I'm I'm a tempted, tempted snoof fisherman.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
Chasing him around in the kayak.

Speaker 4 (56:51):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
It's not called a catcherman. It's called a fisherman.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
True.

Speaker 8 (56:54):
Well, we'll actually doing. I've got a kayak, and then
i got a little motor canoe, and then I've got
my bay boat. So I got a variety there.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
We got a fleet going.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
An Admiral's an at this.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
Point sounds about right.

Speaker 8 (57:06):
Admiral Richard, Yeah, you know, asked dealing about his new moniker.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
I don't recall what you're talking about, sir.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
To get the dum anyway, I said, we'd have to
get the dump button ready.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Oh yeah, I'm I'm my fingers on the trigger over here.

Speaker 8 (57:27):
Oh no, no, no, it's his family safe. I'm sure
his kids is loving.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
So you're you're chasing the snook hum back into the
bay where you're going.

Speaker 7 (57:40):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (57:41):
Mostly, what I'll do is either take my gas canoe
or preferably my little paddle canoe, throw it in my
bay boat and then go park somewhere and then going
shore there and hit the little canals and backwaters and
such that.

Speaker 4 (57:59):
Mm hmm huh.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
You're gonna outpost it. You're gonna kinda stage up and
then and then go out.

Speaker 8 (58:03):
From there right right, and you know, I'll generally get
hard yards off shore on the edge of the flat
and then row across the flat, maybe fish the flat
on the way in, then hit the canal or backwater
somewhere back in there, you know, where other people don't
go much.

Speaker 6 (58:19):
So uh.

Speaker 8 (58:23):
I normally throw a top dog jr. But classic recently
I've been doing it. What's a little zara.

Speaker 6 (58:35):
Pup?

Speaker 8 (58:36):
Well, but it's it's a little one.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
It's like, yeah, I think it's a pump, you know, in.

Speaker 8 (58:43):
A white collar and been doing as good as that
as anything else. Snuk hadn't really been that cooperative this
year for me, but a lot of think I've caught more,
uh hooked more sharks on blogs this year than I
have a uh snuff sharks are getting up in the shallows.

Speaker 4 (59:00):
Huh quite a bit.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
I always feel like I catch more red fish on
the mirrorlures than I do on the spooks. I feel
like the mirror lures are more For some reason, I
feel like redfish you're able to hit.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
It better, dude. What I saw on a Salt Strong
Thing one time that I've always wanted to try. I've
loved back in the day when I fished inshore a
lot those top water plugs in the morning, especially this
time of year when it gets cold and they get shallow.
So top water plugs were always a passion because it's
just so exciting when you see those fish blow up.
You might catch more using a soft plastic, you get

(59:32):
more bites, but those top water blow ups are just
so worth it. But I saw on a Salt Strong
Thing using the idea of using a top water plug
as a popping cork. Yeah, yeah, that was a cool idea. Yeah,
And have you tried that, Richard?

Speaker 8 (59:49):
Well no, But what I do do is I use
the top order in very very shallow water where you
can't throw us have a sinker in there, so the
top order you can fish six inches of water. People
say there's no fish in there, about that time it
blows up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
Yep, Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
I remember back in the day you could ask page
in those guys, Rick Murphy, Jeff Page, any of those
guys about they would use a top orter all day
to locate fish and then follow it up with a
spoon or a salt plastic On the red fish tour.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
That's what they were talking about. How they pre fish
is just bomb shorelines with that top water until they
find the fish.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
They get the fish to boil at it, and they
didn't care about catching it with the top orter. They
just use as almost like a fish finder.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
And you always have like a jig or something tied
on as a back ready to go. So if you
get a blow up, you'd literally just drop that rod
and then or you what.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
A lot of those teams would do, like Gary and
those guys, They one would have a top water rig
and the other would have and they would just literally
as that blow up would happen, they go in behind
it with the jig.

Speaker 8 (01:00:47):
Interesting, Yeah, my second Paul has a spoon on it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Johnson Silver minute.

Speaker 8 (01:00:57):
A sprite go about what I forget the size of it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
Corner out.

Speaker 8 (01:01:03):
What I'll do, ye know, when I'm going to a
canal or a little area that's got a little bit
of depth to it, or around o oyster borg, I'll
take it toll of that uh uh top water plug
out a couple of times and then I'll go down
the canal again with the uh spoon. That's when he
typically you get red fish. Yeah yeah, but uh gentlemen,

(01:01:27):
you guys are plugged into the uh fishing community, environmental aspects.
That's pretty much figured. I throw this at you, asked
dealing this, but he kind of kind of equivocated on it.
This new project that they got going on down there,
Big Sugar is wanting to dig a uh a rock
line in the Everglades. You gotta familiar with that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Oh, I'm very with it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
How are you saying I equivocated on him. We we
came back and we brought information and he joined the
show the next week.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
Did Matt did you ever talk to them?

Speaker 6 (01:01:59):
Matt?

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
No, we didn't talked to Matt. We had Chris. Chris
called the show the next week and filled us in
on the rock mine, the whole situation. We worked hard
to bring you the question or the answer you are
looking for, Richard, So Travis has the best answer.

Speaker 8 (01:02:12):
Now they be fair bring me in and I appreciate that.
But when we first talked about it, it was you know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
I know, hey, Richard, here's where here's where I'm at
on it. The difference between the difference between the EAA
reservoir that everyone loves and the South and Rock Rock
Mine as they call it. When they're both finished as
six inches of water, they're going to be within six
inches of each other in water level. Second thing is

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the A reservoir. We didn't sell any of the dirt
out of the South and Reservoir. We're selling the dirt
out of which seems kind of like a not bad
idea from a taxpayer perspective or a capitalistic perspective of
what we're going to do with with the dirt that
we take out of the hole. That's going to end
up built water stores. So I'm pretty supportive of that project.
I like public private partnerships. I like I like the

(01:03:04):
idea of more water storage in the Everglades. So, and
I've talked to the engineer's mind.

Speaker 8 (01:03:09):
But that's not dirt, that's a limestone, the simestone rock
YEP exactly right. So they're going to be big and
or blowing a big hole right next to a existing reservoir.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
Uh, the same the same engineering firm is going to
do that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
So the same engineering firm that's building that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Yeah, So if there's a risk ye, if there's a
risk of the blasting one, there's a risk of the
blasting the other. Like that doesn't that doesn't, no pun attended.
That don't hold water.

Speaker 8 (01:03:38):
Now are they still attempting to get public funds for this?

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
They're attempting to get public permitting for this, And there
is always.

Speaker 8 (01:03:47):
Funding they call it an environmental project.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
There's always stacking of fundings. Stacking of funding that occurs
whenever you look at projects like this. I mean, it's
no different than if you look at the easement's or
things like that. Like there's always opportunities for stacking of funding.
Whether they're getting public funding for this or not, I
don't know. I can find out.

Speaker 8 (01:04:10):
Yeah, well I'd like to know if they're still pursuing that,
because well, it just seems to me that there's enough
problems down there now that we don't need to be
great and anymore, and especially at public expense. But again,
I'm not the expert on this. Sounds like you know
quite a bit more about it than I do, or

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you're associated.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
With Am I associated with it?

Speaker 6 (01:04:33):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
But if you want to get my number from Dylan,
I'd be happy to talk to you about it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
And Essentially, what Travis does is he's associated with landscape management.
So if you have a question about literally anything in
the state of Florida, the first question or the first call,
I make case two Travis. So he's talked to the
engineers that are building this project, and that's the source
of information that's providing.

Speaker 8 (01:04:56):
Yeah, I got just one more question on that. Do
you have any idea what the depth of it is
supposed to be.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
I don't remember the depth, but what I was saying
a minute ago is when they are both done, the
EAA and the Southland, there will be six inches of
water table difference between them, right.

Speaker 8 (01:05:17):
Because I heard that they had applied for a permit
that would allow them to go a couple of hundred
feet down, which is quite a bit I have.

Speaker 4 (01:05:23):
Not heard as well.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
If it went that far down, the difference of water
table would be much greater.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
I'm not sure that.

Speaker 8 (01:05:31):
Well, you know, the water level would still relatively be
the same because of the hydrology, whether it's ten foot
or two hundred foot.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
I tend to agree with that, Okay, I tend to
agree with that. I don't know, but there's no scenario
I know if we're they're going one hundred foot deep.
I thought it was like twenty two feet or something
like that.

Speaker 8 (01:05:51):
Yeah, where I'm getting this two hundred feet for them?
Apparently it's the type of permit that they applied for
would allow them to go that deep. Yeah, like you
were making a rock querry. And I do not know
that for a fact, because I can't find out from
the information online how deep they're talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
I don't know the rock quarry that deep down there.
But like I say, if you want to get my
number from Dylan or message me online, I'll be happy
to you. Give me some specific questions. I'll go back
to the engineers and ask him.

Speaker 8 (01:06:17):
Yeah, now, dey la in this cowboy hat I got here,
it ain't black, it's tan, but I could take a
can of spray thing to it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (01:06:26):
It's a nice felt since. So find out what size of.

Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
The head the boys got.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
It's large.

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
I know you.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
We'll get a kid in here measuring.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
Thank you, Richard. We appreciate you, buddy.

Speaker 8 (01:06:38):
We'll talk to you all later about it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
Always a pleasure. I just want to say that I
made it through that whole segment with him without him
bringing back up the name so I'm pretty happy he
was trying to get there.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Danced around that and it never came back.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
I feel pretty proud of myself right now.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
But I didn't know I was going to get Southland
Reservoir questions this morning. I would have brushed up a
light my intel.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Yeah, you know, you never know, you never know what
we're going to talk about. But definitely an interesting project,
and more water storage seems like possibly a good thing
as long as you're not affecting. There's so many question
if there's more questions about it, Like me, what's that
intric hit situation down there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
I listened to Chris's interview with you guys like and
I thought it was I thought you guys did a
really good job with it. And he and I don't
agree on that, but I like Chris a lot. The
I think it'd be interesting to have a conversation with
the engineer on the other side, like if you wanted
to provide that, because then you could ask straight to the.

Speaker 5 (01:07:33):
Source versus me just parroting interpretation.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
Yeah, like, which is something I'm always passionate about.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
It is like, let's get to the expert, let's do it,
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Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
Listen, have we got just a second here? We don't
mean on the line, we have a second brother, and
what's going on? Bacon raps collps? Is that what you said?

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
Yeah, bacon wraps cops. Yeah, they've got a parmesan shrimp
and scallop special right now. That is amazing. And that
the Captain's Platter, or as my dad calls it, the
cat Putter, is Mike Okay, the cat putter? Yeah, yeah,
he's he's really bad at voice to text and just
flippantly sends these messages without proof reading, and half the

(01:10:14):
time I have to like break out.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
My Hubbard yeah Hubbard dictionary.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
Yeah, it's very tricky, and a lot of people will
come to me like, hey, your dad texted me, what
does this mean? You have to interpret it for him?
Uh So, Yeah, the flippant of voice to text hit
me with, oh, don't forget the cat putter when he
meant the Captain's platter. But yeah, it's a big old
chunk of grouper. It's got scallops and shrimp and there
it comes with some wild rice and you have dirty

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rice as they call it, and veggies.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Man, it is cueor I've not had to hit up
the the Friendly Fisher.

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
And yeah, Friendly Fisher and Seafood Restaurant they've got fried,
broiled or blackened options to the Captain's platter. I prefer
the blackened. But it's all good, really really cool stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
Love it. I just to do you need to jump
in here real quick, Bobby. Some phones have an app
where you can talk into it and it translates into text.
That's what he means when he says voice to text. Yes,
just so you know, to clarify that for you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
And the Don's Dock seafood market is stocked up on
stone crab. Have you guys had stone crab yet? This
is yeah, yeah, oh yeah. I ate so much stone
crab the other night that I got a little sick.
It was awesome. I crawled into bed and like had
a burp of just like butter. I almost threw up.
That's a good size. It's a good sign when you
get full on stone crab. Do you remember a great

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time of.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Year at Eldred's and Placida They used to they would bleat,
they would not bleached. They would cook their stone crabs
right there at the dock, and you can buy them.

Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
Oh my god, nothing better than catching a crabber boiling
up his fresh catch. Because what people don't understand about
stone crab is when they're caught, the crabber has to
legally cook them on the boat before they're sold, or
they can bring them back to a cook house if
they're selling them out a seafood house. But they have
to be cooked immediately after being caught, and so when
you purchase stone crab and a seafood market, they're already cooked,

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so you can immediately purchase them and start cracking them
and eating them right there, so you can eat them cold.
Some people like eat him cold, some people like to
eat him warm. But it's all good whichever way you
slice it. Stone crab is the best.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
I love it. I love stone crab. I did listen.
I'm a seafood junkie, me too. If you if it's seafood,
I'm in.

Speaker 1 (01:12:24):
Yeah, all about that life. You're staying awful quiet over there, mister,
not seafood eater, non seafood. I nothing better goes better
with stone crab than a flaming But in my case,
I'm gonna go rib.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
I see, I'm a fat guy. When we're talking beef.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
It's got to have fat, got to be a fatty piece.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Yeah, I'm a fat guy. Yeah, In fact, I went
to the farmer's market last week and bought a New
York strip that's got like a big fat cut on it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
I don't even like New York trips, Ribbi, until I go,
I prefer he didn't have any, so I would have
walked out.

Speaker 5 (01:12:54):
Did you buy the New York Ship steak or the
whole like strip?

Speaker 4 (01:12:57):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
Ya, the strip steak, the New York Trip steak, Bobby by.

Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
Well, first off, I, being a normal American, have a
knife for trimming meat that is not a full at.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
Knife, being a normal American.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
The other day I cooked salmon. I about some salmon,
or as I like to call it salmon, and as
I'm cutting that to cook.

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
Never trim your salmon.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
No, I used a file a knife to do that
because it's a fish.

Speaker 5 (01:13:23):
But then I wereing it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
Or when I trim the fat off a roast that
was cooking. We're at the end of the show. How
would someone catch up to you, Travis if they wanted
more of your comedy?

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Antics at Travis Thompson or at all?

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
F L A O r G. What about you, capt'n Bobby.

Speaker 5 (01:13:38):
I've an apple on my phone, doesn't know which app.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Believe it or not, he has a website. Guys, Captain
Jabby dot com. Uh huh, emphasize the dash, don't spell
it out, just put the little dash in there, Captain
Dashbobby dot com. Don't forget Real Animals Sunday seven to
nine am on six twenty w DAE. Tune in tomorrow
for that Tomorrow night, seven thirty p m. The live
stream show. Don't forget November twenty second, Fishing for Hope.

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We hope to see you there. And also don't forget
if you're too busy to go fishing, you're just too
darn busy. Thanks for being a part of our Real
Animals family. We'll catch you next week.