Reel Animals Saturday Fishing Show 11-15-25

Reel Animals Saturday Fishing Show 11-15-25

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to About bartow Ford Real Animals Radio show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Your weekly voyage into Florida Fishing, presented by Hubbard's Marina.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Hosted by Captain Mike Anderson and Captain Tylan Hubbard.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
Good morning, Tampa Bay. Captain Dylan Hubbard here for the
bartow Ford Real Animals Radio Show talking fishing on this
beautiful Saturday morning. Little chili to start out, but a
gorgeous day ahead. And man, do we have a beautiful
forecast for the upcoming week. We got a new moon Thursday,
and we've got a great stretch of weather leading into
that new moon. Got a little disturbance potentially kind of

(00:38):
a weaker cold front for us at the end of
the week end of the work week into the early
part of the weekend, but should be pretty much out
of our way by the weekend. And it's not looking
very strong, so it shouldn't disturb us too much, just
enough to keep us cool and dry. And man it
is this is this is the bragging week where we
get to brag to all our friends up north are

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dealing with shovel and snow and cold temperatures. Man, it
is picture perfect chamber of commerce weather. The next couple days,
a little bit of a slower moving tide, so a
little bit tougher on the fishing side of things with
those weak tides on the backside of this quarter moon.
But as we work into this work week that water
should start flowing more, get those fish moving. We had

(01:22):
a really big cold cool down and our inshore and
back bay waters, but things should be warming up and
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(02:06):
Travis Thompson from All Florida and Studios this morning, and
also Matt Idsen from Phillips. We had him join us
last week via phone, and this week he was able
to come and studio and join us and chat a
little bit about the Southland Water Project. And you can
correct me if I just said that.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
Thanks for having me. Hold on, just hold on. Yeah,
Like waita back up.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Travis is in a cowboy hat too, so.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
I hold the phone for a second. Here, go ahead, buddy,
what do you got?

Speaker 5 (02:39):
What did you say to me this morning? Matt? When
and there's no I. It's Matt, no I, no I
in team, no I in it. Yeah, that's it, that's it.
But what'd you tell me this morning to get you
out of bed?

Speaker 6 (02:51):
This so it takes a special group of guys to
make me get out of bed at four o'clock in
the morning, not go kill something shoots up their fish?

Speaker 5 (02:56):
And this is special. Did we talk about the freaking weather?
It's you said, flat, calm, beautiful, And I'm like, are
we idiots sitting here right now? Like what is going on?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
And it's the youth hunt right, this is left hunt too.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
What is happening? You're over here doing duck promotional stuff
like the world is upside down? Animals, the tea animals.
That's what I keep joking. I want to hijack this
when Mike's gone to turn into tea animals all ducks
all the time. But yeah, Stacey Wiitdhams said she may
call in this morning. She's out doing youth hunt stuff
all over the state. Nice hopefully, everybody. Everybody.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
You just got back from the FWC Commission meeting too, right.

Speaker 6 (03:31):
Yes, sir, it was in a bell Glade. Big city
of bell Glade is, big city of Blade.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
A lot going on down there.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
There's some great Cuban coffee. Oh that does sound fantastic. Yeah.
I found some good tacos and man it was awesome.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Oh you were worried about the food at this aptod. I, Oh,
you don't have to worry about the food and tricities.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
There's plenty of home cooking down there. You just got
to find it. You've got to know where to look for,
and sometimes you got to look past the sign.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
The Befo Brady's of the world.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
The Befo Brady's is not it. And I love Beifo Brady's,
don't get me wrong, But I'm just like that, that's
not where I'm looking to be. I hear that I'm
looking for something local, authentic.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
Well, yeah, I found a hand painted sign on the
side of the road, most off the wall place you
can find best food.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
It would be so cool.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
I've always thought about it and I was always aspired.
It would be so cool to have like a Yelp
style thing. But for those style restaurants, the holes in
the walls, the family places.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
Off the listen, this is off the rails already. But
there used to be a place inclused and called Big Mamas. Okay,
did you ever eat there? It was just and it
was a woman.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Name alone, I'm in you had.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
It was this old woman. She would just make She
used to have a food truck and she would just
make like she would have five meals a day, but
they were all like different things, and it was like
collared greens and fried okra and like just heaping it
on your plate. And I was like, okay, three meals
a day. I'm here, They're closed on Monday. What am
I going to do on a Monday? I'm like, this is.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Stressfuls naptime food, nap time taptime food like that. So
Matt with Phillips, you have been doing a lot of
different things across the state.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Before you were with Phillips. Were you in the Keys Yeah, yeah, okay, so.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
Prior life, So give us a little background on that.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yeah, the Keys project is really interesting.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yeah, we were down there. We started that one in
twenty eleven. I was with another company, Reynolds Construction at
the time and still good friends with them and still
work with most of them in some form or fashion.
That project actually started the first study in nineteen seventy eight, Wow,
and it took until twenty thirteen to actually start it.
Big septic to sewer, water distribution. It just totally infrastructure package,

(05:37):
so I think a little over time. I think it
was a little over two million feet of pipe we
put in the ground.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
So in thirty four years, it took from the study
to actually breaking ground thirty four years.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's crazy.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Ye, that's government for you. We were talking off a
little bit beforehand, but talk talk a little bit. I
don't know where we are on a break, but talk
a little bit about what you saw water quality improvement.
So you were talking you went from septic to sewer or.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
From septic to sewer down there, probably I want to say,
six thousand homes at the time we turned over between
you know, the villages of allum Rod all the way
done lower sugar Loaf, And by the time we got
halfway through the project in Lower sugar Loaf, the canals
were clear. Wow, no more sewer in the water, clear water,
grass was coming back. It was an instant relief on
the system.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
So if we have that sort of dramatic like, hey,
this worked so well, why are we doing that in
other parts.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
Of the state, It's crazy. It's a major lift. Yeah,
it is a.

Speaker 6 (06:26):
Major lift from a financial standpoint, a financial standpoint, from
a property standpoint, just homeowners, just trying to get everybody
converted to get it turned over. And because you've got
to go on private property and get private property and
homeowners and easements.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
It's a major, major lift to get it done. But
it's something that needs to be done.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
And there's plenty of that to be done all the
way up through you know, Marion County in South Florida.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
It happens everywhere. It happens here.

Speaker 6 (06:47):
Yeah, anytime you have a watershed and there's residences next
to a watershed on SEBJICT systems, it's never good. And
I would say, just my personal opinion. Probably half of
them don't work like they should and so they don't
get maintained, they don't stay up to you know, up
to standard where they should be, and that just puts
that out in the environment.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
It's not good. That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
So that was a big project that you took on
earlier in your career and now you're with Phillips working
on this Southland water.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, that's one of many. Yeah, we do some big stuff.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
I think right now we're probably the largest water contractor
in the state. I think we're probably the largest contractor
the district has outside of some of the other major reservoirs.
Right now, we've been eight or nine contracts with them
right now. Maybe water's our major focus. Water water in
the environment. We do a lot of the stormwater treatment
areas around the state. We've probably got fifteen thousand acres
in their construction right now.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
The stormwater treatment areas are interesting to me. I've tried
to learn more about them. Essentially, what the stormwater treatment
area is is it collects the rain water or storm
water and then treats it through vegetation. Essentially, right it
holds the water, the vegetation clears it filters it right,
and then that water's moved out of there.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
They're interesting to me for a different reason for daycause
they also hold ducks.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
Well that's the good part about these things once we
get through do them. If you're a big duck hunter.
Anytime an outdoorsmen, they all get turned over anyway. I mean,
it's it's something the public can use. They're doing it
down in the Everglade right now and it's a major
attraction there. The waterfowl is great on it. But yeah,
what you know, the b maps in the state, they
came up around the state and they said, okay, these
are the hottest areas in the state with the worst
water and the nitrogen phosphorus legacy you know, old legacylas

(08:22):
in management action plans. Yeah, I speak an acronyms, but
you know, we identify these really hot areas in the
state that don't have a solution, and so we go
around and we look at these hot areas and we
work with the different stakeholders and we say, okay, this
is we can come up with a plan for this
one and deliver faster.

Speaker 5 (08:41):
And so we've got one right now.

Speaker 6 (08:42):
It's five thousand acres north of lake Okechobe, and we're
doing one there and what it does is pulls the
nitrogen and phosphorus out and it's not chemical treatment, it's
all natural.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
How are you able to do them faster?

Speaker 6 (08:53):
Private private equity, private as private business going in and
get them done. You know, when the state goes through
their standard procurement process, it's five, ten, fifteen, twenty years
before these things hit the streets to get put out
for bid, and then five years more construction. We can
come in and we start designing engineering out of pocket
and we're off to the races. Wow, we get through
permitting in three to five years when the state would

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have to follow their standard process all the way through.
Nothing against the state. They get things done. But we
can do it so much faster.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
So you can do it takes and thirty years in
the state. Well, private equity're you're doing it in five years.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
And what is our biggest complaint? Always with state federal
agencies bureaucracy? Right, you want to you want to change
red Snapper or you want to change this, you want
to change that? How long it takes? And enemy in
twenty years, Florida is leading in that space. We're so
good at it. Yeah, but the fact is, like you
still get the bureaucracy of there are rules and they're
put in place to protect the people, right, Like a

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lot of that is transparency to protect the people, but
it just delays it so far. So having private private
interest able to get involved with it, and when you
get private interest in private land and you're able to
really stack and kind kind of super speed that well,
let's stay stratify it.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
Let's say it's kind of hamstrung. I mean they can
only buy land at market value. They can only do
so much. It's still but we're still more efficient than
they could ever be. I mean we spend the cash,
We spend the money up front. We make the investment
to make these things happen, and that's the only way
we get it done.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
I'll say, state can come in and partner with someone
like Phillips. Yes, and then the state allows you to
move quicker because they're partnered with your Essentially, once your
project is done, then you turn it over just handing.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
The key property.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yeah, we hand them the keys. I'll tell you. He
just said something that triggered something a little different. I
talked about land conservation a lot it's oftentimes an owner
would want to put their land into an easement or something,
we get an assessed value, and it takes so long
to get that easement done. The value has changed so
much you have to start the process over. Wow, it's
just a little example of it, but like it' and

(10:54):
the state's done a really good job of trying to
streamline that. But it's just a problem that you're going to.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Face, like with the Wildlife Corridor.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
Yeah, like if you had land and you wanted to
put it into an easement, if it took five years,
you're assessed value today versus your assessed value when you're
ready to close the deal. Your property might be worth
twenty five grand an acre today and it's worth forty
five grand an acre by the time. Well, you don't
want to that's bad business, especially in Florida especially.

Speaker 6 (11:17):
It's not like we're in central Nebraska somewhere where it
stays pretty leveled out Florida. Florida's got these peaks and
valleys that it's hard to keep up.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
It is really hard to keep up. So it's a
it's an interesting dynamic, and I think people don't realize,
like this is part of why This is part of
why the Florida stuff does work well, is because we
do bring so much private interest into these types of solutions,
and you've got a lot of private interest from developers

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to builders to contractors that actually do care about conservation.
I'm not saying all of them do, but I'm saying
a lot of them care. They hunt here, they fish here, They.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
For the most part, you know, all of them do.
They have some concern and some care for the environment
in Florida.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
They have to in order to be involved in it, right.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
I mean, you hunt, you fish, You grew as much
as I possibly can inshore, offshore both, okay. I mean
I was losing the keys for five years. I was
spoiled down there.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
At four o'clock in the afternoon, you get done with
work and you're twenty miles off shore by five o'clock.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
So catching mahi before dinner? Oh yeah, you were catching
for dinner.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Well, we got that and much more coming up on
the show today. So much to talk about. Hopefully we'll
hear from you as well. If you have a question, comment,
fish and report, bring it to us. One eight hundred
and nine six nine nine three five to two Real
Animals Radio will be right back. We're back bartow Ford
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Speaker 2 (13:20):
We've got Captain Van Hubbard on the line from Boca Graham.
What's going on?

Speaker 7 (13:24):
Man?

Speaker 5 (13:24):
The legend?

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Right? What's going on? Cap'n Van? How are you, buddy?

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (13:29):
What a beautiful day in paradise. Aren't we lucky to
live down here in Florida, especially South Florida.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Amen to that, buddy. How are you today?

Speaker 7 (13:38):
I'm doing good. I'm gonna go out a little bit
and poke around here. I'm so glad to say you
have such a good crew on there today. Oh yeah,
I'm interested in hearing more from that about the water
deals down there, especially Oobe, and more about what they
did down there in the Keys and how much change
it made and how much the improvement was helped literally

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save the fish on the insure fishing down there.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Did you see some of that, Captain Van.

Speaker 7 (14:06):
I paid attention to it.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yes, that's awesome.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
It's definitely exciting to see how just a little bit
of change in our approach to logistics or infrastructure can
have such a big difference on the environment. And I
think there's a lot more we could do around the state.
I mean, we've talked about it with doing some sort
of tax break or incentive for removing the Saint Augustine

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grass around the watersheds. I've always thought like within a
mile or two of a watershed, you should have some
sort of property tax break or some sort of incentive
to put that artificial turf. It's a pervious system. It
looks great and it doesn't require you.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
Know, I can remember my dad and you may know
about this, but I can remember my dad Capta Vane.
I can remember my dad saying that the water quality
in Tampa Bay used to be so bad. That's why
we had such a seagrass die off, like in the
late seventies and into the eighties and early eighties. They
invest like a quarter of a billion dollars in it
and brought it back just by fixing our ship to
can see.

Speaker 4 (15:05):
It turn it around? That does it every time? That's amazing. Yeah, sewage.
I mean, obviously I think within the watershed you shouldn't
be on septick and we should be making moves to sewer.

Speaker 6 (15:15):
But apparently that's a lot harder than it's a lot
harder than you think. Yeah, it's it's a major undertaking.
I mean you're tearing up neighborhoods and going into land
pipe and trying to connect homes and get homeowners to
agree and.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Just get everybody on the same page right now. And
who's paying for it?

Speaker 6 (15:28):
I mean it's taxpayer dollars. I mean it's the community communities,
the municipalities are paying for it.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
It's a major, major lift.

Speaker 6 (15:34):
But the improvement and the quality of the improvement is
so much and until you see it, that's what drives you.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yeah, I mean, and you said earlier in the Keys
it was night and day difference, like such an improvement
within three years in three years. But they fought you
so hard on it the full time. But then once
it was done, they were thanking you.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (15:50):
I mean, you get down there, it's big government coming
in and forcing this upon us, and you know, forcing
this down our throats. But then you get done, like,
oh we can swim in the canals again, the grass
is coming back, the fish are back.

Speaker 5 (16:00):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (16:00):
But it took years to get to that thank you
point to say, Okay, we've really made a difference. Can
we do more? And there's still more to be done.
You know, there's there's another thousands homes or several thousand
homes that can be turned over down there. But it's
I mean, it's and you only did six hundred homes.
I think we did six thousand by the time we were.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Six thousand apoies, so six thousand homes and it was
nine and day difference, Yeah, night and day, and there's
still thousands more to go yeah, crazy.

Speaker 7 (16:24):
Sorry, I remember doctor Brian Lapointe was the guy that
got you all started on that stuff down there.

Speaker 6 (16:29):
Yeah, that was one of the first major studies that
got done, that got to the you know, the driver
of that project getting going. That's what we were just
here talking about earlier. The first time they ever looked
at a problem down there was nineteen seventy eight. Wow,
the year before I was born. They looked at this,
and we didn't put a bucket in the ground until
twenty thirteen.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
It took that long.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
That's crazy, you know when.

Speaker 7 (16:47):
You're picking up that's the difference in private and government. Yeah.
And the other thing, like you were talking about, is
when the government pushed it out for bidness to that
and the other the time they get it around to
get it permitted and done have changed. And I remember
down here in Charlotte Harbor some of the stuff that
was twice as much. But the bottom line is very simple.

(17:08):
Either we take care of our waters or we lose
our fisheries and our quality of life and our property
value is.

Speaker 6 (17:13):
Yeah, I mean, you're surrounded by water. If we don't
have that in Florida, what do you have take care
of your one main resource.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
I say it all the time, Captain Van. I've sitting
on podcasts and stuff, and you mentioned Nebraska a minute ago.
I say, you know what makes Florida specials our natural resources.
You can pick up Disney World stick in Nebraska, people
still go. They buy jackets to go. You can pick
up some of these subdivisions, put them in Nebraska. They go.
But the fact is, our natural resources are what makes
Florida special. So we're going to keep growing and developing here.

(17:41):
That's part of the course of human civilization. But we
want to take care of those natural resources to make
sure they're here for all of us.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
And whether you hunt, fish, do anything in Florida, no
matter what, you're tied to the water in Florida, that's
exactly right.

Speaker 5 (17:55):
We don't care what you do.

Speaker 4 (17:57):
We are up against the break though, capt'n Van. We
appreciate it and appreciate your phone call as always, and
we got a lot to talk about this morning, as
you can tell. So thanks for joining the conversation.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Buddy.

Speaker 7 (18:07):
Let's go fishing, Yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Appreciate you.

Speaker 8 (18:10):
Man.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Have fun out there today, go get them bye, man.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Always a pleasure to hear from our buddy, Captain Van Hubbard,
Hopefully we'll hear from you as well. One eight hundred
and nine six' nine nine three five Two to join the,
conversation we Got Captain Travis thompson From All florida And
Matt edson From phillips In studio talking water and. More
we'll be right back after. This we're back Bartow Ford
Real Animals radio talking fishing this. Morning want to give

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go out and visit and play. Tourists AS i like
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south and north Of Panel's. County, man it is a
good time to go to the beach and just enjoy
sunny and seventy five and not a lot of. Traffic
And i'm playing you can go to dinner right now
without a.

Speaker 5 (19:35):
Reservation it's crazy, Well AND i don't know if you've
ever been to The Friendly fisherman like. It i've eaten there.
Before it's good, stuff And i've eaten there when it
was a limited menu and it was good. Stuff last
TIME i was there was last, year right after the,
storms and you guys got reopened quick and it was.
Fantastic so.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
Five days Behind helene we were back. Open, yeah we
actually opened and then had to close again From. Milton
so so wild busted with a great, team for. Sure
that was you can say that quite the mountain that
they climbed.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
For the destruction we saw up here and we were
doing the clean up here to turn around in five days.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Amazing, Yeah so you said you guys were up here
doing storm.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Debris.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
YEAH a big part Of phillips business is disaster and
we have some prepositioned contracts around the state that we
do so as soon as something, hits they can call
us in and there's a couple of us that do
that around the. State AND i think it was eight
million tons of debris that came out Of Panella's county And.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
St pete. Area i'm going to say that, again eight
million tons of debris that y'all. Removed. YEAH i think
we were on the ground twelve hours.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Later what's, crazy too is to think about like this
was said by in some of the county. Meetings i'm
blessed to sit on Our Tourist Development council for The
county Of panels and one of the panel's county, commissioners
the chair at the, Time Kathleen. Peters she said in
a meeting that we were lucky to get the second.

(20:53):
Hurricane and the way she explains, it obviously you hear
that and you're taken aback by, it but once she explains,
it it makes sense because that second, Storm, milton when
it was focused at our area and as A cap,
five the state mobilized these, resources.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
And we had to get the.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Debris, yeah THE feds mobilized. RESOURCES i mean look at
hur Kane ian And Fort. Myers it took them years
to get that debris out of. There, yeah our debris
was cleared In Panala's county in like, weeks not, months
not last it was.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Weeks. Now i'll never. Forget the army was. Here The
National guard was, mobilized and we had huge army trucks
on the. Beaches and they were not just one or,
two they were convoys AND fhp was uh esquite and
sirens escorting them up and Down Park boulevard in one
hundred and second to the. Dump And i'll never forget

(21:48):
remember when the dump.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Closed the Dump Panala's county dump was, like, oh we're, full,
sorry the governor.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Said the governor, went took the army and ripped down the.

Speaker 6 (21:57):
Gates they cut the. Locks we were standing. Outside we
had trucks. There we were standing, Outside our trucks were
sitting there and they're, like, no cut the, locks we're going.
In it was that, fast and you you would be
surprised you don't see them of how much state leadership
was actually here on the. Ground oh My, god.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
The santis was In, johns the.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
Governor was, Here we Saw Commissioner simpson, here, LIKE i, mean.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
We had chief of staff down here like you. Had
everybody showed up and it was all hands on. Deck
and that was the largest coordination effort in twenty four
Hours i've ever seen in my.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Life, yeah it was really.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
Wild and so it's it's hard to say and hard to,
fathom but it is kind of interesting to see that
effect of those two major hurricanes making landfall in such
a densely populated county in the difference between the response
Behind holleen And milton compared to Like. Ian, YEAH i
mean Obviously ian was impressive. TOO i mean they've rebuilt

(22:48):
a bridge in like a couple of. Weeks, yeah three
or four weeks they had the bridge. Reopened so that
was impressive. Too but it's just.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
Different, hey CAN i ask a south in? Question? Yeah
sorry to pivot and if we, had CAN i ask
a south of? Question, SO i know last week you called,
in can you give us just a little overview of
The southland? Project?

Speaker 6 (23:08):
Yeah, SO i mean three and a half years ago
back In, napkin you, know LIKE i, said we went
through THE sb ten and three hundred and sixty thousand
acre feet was what was. Needed so we got together
because of our work down there for so, long we
knew the area that we were, in we knew the,
impact it had perfect position of all and we have
to go work with these landowners and obviously for other
projects we work with them, anyway so we know how
to navigate to maintain their agriculture and maintain their business

(23:30):
and still build these. Projects good partners. There we're eight,
thousand over eighty six hundred acres of.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
What we're working.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
With both landowners are. Involved it's about fifty to fifty
a little sixty forty on the landownership. Side and we
developed a project that we could get this thing moved,
in build sales of, storage and give one hundred and
twenty thousand acre feet of, storage AND i promise the
state twenty thousand acre feet in under five.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Years and that's.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
Doable so with all the resources that were, there we
can give one hundred and twenty thousand acre.

Speaker 5 (23:57):
Fee so let me back, up and you said this last.
Week the original plans called for THE Ea reservoir to
be three hundred and sixty, thousand three hundred and sixty
thousand acre feet was what the study said was needed
to maintain water going. South the footprint of THE ea
reservoir is going to have how many acre feet of
one two hundred and forty thousand feet one hundred and
twenty thousand feet short that, finishes we say, finished And
southland would accommodate that an acre foot of water is

(24:21):
essentially it covered an acre a foot deep in. Water,
yeah at eight gallons eight eight gallons per cubic. Foot
think there you.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Go it's hard to fa.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
Them it's a lot of. Water like when you when
you think about, this when you say one hundred and sixty,
thousand eight one hundred and twenty thousand acre feet thousand,
feet that's one hundred and twenty thousand acres a foot
deep in water with eight gallons of water on each
if you look like.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
One, acre one hundred and twenty thousand.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
Foot, tall, yeah, yes, wow.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
Yes if you look at the global picture of where we're,
AT ce forty three loosely side coming into, play right
SOUTHLAND a coming into, play you GOT c forty four
coming in trying to get that one up and running.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
On the east.

Speaker 6 (25:04):
Side, okachobee you KNOW sta, projects storm water treatment area
to the. North that's the. Program that's that's the map
to get water back Into Florida. Bay stop the discharges
east and. West we live. Here we fight red tide
once every probably five. Years we have a really solid red.
Tide it comes that comes into. Play knock on. Wood
been a good, year but Since i've been, here it's

(25:24):
been bad a couple of. TIMES i mean we have
major fish. Kills, yeah, YEAH i mean this finishes the.
Program this gets us where we need to. Be and
then and then once you get those into, play you
start to fine tune and get the stas functioning, properly
and get the reservoirs functioning properly the water get water
back To Florida. Bay Florida, bay for, instance the, best
the Healthiest Florida bay That i've ever seen in my,

(25:45):
lifetime was right Behind Hurricane irma because all that flush
produce the salinity took the fresh water back Into Florida
bay and it.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Recovers i'll never forget the satellite images Behind. Erma it
looked Like florida was bleeding out of The Florida bay
because it was draining properly.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
So that it should.

Speaker 6 (26:00):
Be and that's always been the problem With Florida. Bays
there's not enough water going south into, it salinity gets to,
high grass dies, off and here we. Go we're back
in the cycle. Again and the grass does, off it
lets the nutrients go and and we're back to going fish.
Again crazy bone fish of return like it's all it's
it's coming back into.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
Play.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
Awesome, well we got some calls lined. Up let's rip
through some of these and see if they got some
questions for. You, matt we Got allen And Saint. Pete
what's going? On alans could to talk to, you.

Speaker 9 (26:27):
Buddy, HEY i just want to say thank you to
all three of you guys for everything you do to
advocate for. Sportsmen you, know those of us that are
lazy and don't get involved as we. Should we appreciate your.
EFFORTS i know you you hear, it probably a, lot
but we do appreciate you. Guys thank. You, HEY i
was just a quick. Question if you, Can, DYLAN i don't.

(26:47):
KNOW i know your in short game isn't as strong
as your off.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
Shore, game But, Matt matt AND i got.

Speaker 9 (26:51):
It i've been Having i've been out a couple of
times in the last, week And i've had it's one
of the deals where fine, bait really, easy weather's, good
wasn't too, windy it's going to be a good, day
and then don't catch a fish all. Day so my
problem is Is i'm real good at targeting fish in

(27:11):
the summertime WHEN i know they're just up in the you,
know you're up in the in the in the. Trees
but where do you find them this time of? Year
where are the red? Fish particularly this time of, Year.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
They're concentrated and on the.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
Move AND i know one easy out THAT i will
just add before these experts take it over as sheep's,
head especially around these coal. Fronts, man the sheep's head
are just.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
You want to go bend to.

Speaker 7 (27:32):
Hook, yeah even my go to, MAN i, couldn't you.

Speaker 9 (27:35):
Know and usually at the end of the, day whatever
BAIT i got left, OVER i go find a bridge
and you, know picked up Some spanish with some mangrove
snapper for the table and that saves the. Day BUT
i couldn't even get, that ALTHOUGH i did catch for baby,
grouper which was kind of.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Cool that's.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
Fun i'll tell you WHAT i like is this time
of year you chime, in but this time of, YEAR
i like dark water that holds.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
Heat. Yeah like like so if you find a river
way up in a, bay you'll find heat sometimes a
little bit. Lower AND i mean you got to work
a little bit to find those. SPOTS i knew where
some of them are In Charlotte harbor's it kind of.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
FLIPS i, mean we were red fishing earlier in the
year and the water got so hot they moved a
little deeper and started finding those pockets to go. Into
older when the water flips over and gets a little,
colder they go back to those one water pa that's
a good way to look At you have.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
To go look at.

Speaker 6 (28:20):
Them so they're always going to target those steady areas
every time you get in. There if you can find
those pockets, again that's where they. Are and we were
just talking about. This we were killing the snooke this,
week just just a little farther the north of, here
Snook or they.

Speaker 9 (28:30):
Were that's and that's. PRIMARY i was way up in
a in a shallow bay THAT i can get to
that most people. Can't lets you have a, kayak you.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
Want to drop us a. Pin what's these? Numbers if
you drop us a, pin we'll check it. Out get.
Back we're going to find them for.

Speaker 7 (28:45):
You it's not a.

Speaker 9 (28:46):
SECRET i was somewhere around the ankle power, plants but,
okay but, yeah the fish just, wet weren't, there AND
i just you, know it was in front of the,
front last stick, front AND i thought this is gonna
be a great, day and it just didn't. HAPPEN i
was just maybe SOME i still have to fine tune

(29:06):
this time of. YEAR i have a hard. Time but
Now i'm shifting gears And i'm heading To wisconsin this.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Week so you're going up for general GUN i.

Speaker 7 (29:13):
Am i'll be flying out Of, thursday come back On.

Speaker 6 (29:16):
Monday the nine is what they call it In. Wisconsin
it's funny how we always flip head of the. Woods
that's the.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
Best that's the best plan for fishing right now is
to go to the.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Woods, YEAH i can't find the red fish and shoot
the four legged fish rep in the. Woods that's WHAT.

Speaker 7 (29:32):
I like about is having family In wisconsin IS i
can just go up there for a weekend and shoot
as many deer AS i want to, shoot and come
back and fish On. Tuesday it is.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
AWESOME i love.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
It not a bad. Life have a safe, trip my.
Friend hopefully have a good.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
Hunt, yeah good luck.

Speaker 9 (29:49):
Again we appreciate all your.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Efforts see, you, Buddy take Care. Allan he's a good. Dude,
yeah he's a good. Dude real good dude for. Sure
and as far as the red fish, goes, man it's.
Interesting we've seen the like the last couple of. Months
they concentrate and they move up into the bay and
they follow that flush north up into the back, bay
and now it's like they reverse that process and start
moving back. Out we're seeing a lot of red fish

(30:10):
in the pass and not big schools of them, yet
BUT i mean they're on their way out to do
their spawn things near, shore so it's really from the
back bay to the pass you can find. Them it's
just they're, concentrated so they're hit and.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
MISS i MEAN i WOULD i would think if they're
coming back out of there going to the, spawn that's
gonna be some quality fish.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
Too quality, fat, yeah, fat they fattened.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
Up they're fattened up To it's been a minute SINCE
i guided full time this time of, year but used.
To if we got into a stretch like we're going
into now eighty sixty eighty sixty eighty sixty flat calm every.
Day at some point those fish will start chewing just
like it's. Springtime like they will just get fired. Up, snook,
redfish trout will just get fired. Up, yeah if you

(30:51):
can find.

Speaker 6 (30:52):
Them, oh you have those days where you're dead all
day long and at four o'clock or whatever that time,
is ye goes off and then switch flips and you
kill it for two.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Hours.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
Yeah we're coming up on the new, moon so it
should be a better incoming tide.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Bite we got those really low lows.

Speaker 4 (31:04):
In the, morning so those fish are sliding off those shallow.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Areas, yep that might be some of your.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
Problem malling is just that early morning low tide gets
cold and that shallow water, disappears so those fish are
sliding into deep water to hide out and staying.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
There the water temp is something you pay attention to
a lot off shore because of your thermals and where
YOU i think we underestimated inshore sometimes like three degrees
can really change where the fish.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
Are this past, WEEK i MEAN i live on The
Manitee river and this past week is probably some of
the strongest Tides i've seen as far as.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
Up and down just.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
Flush, yeah it's it's rare THAT i see the islands
come out of The Manitee river Where i'd be worried
about getting in and, out and they've been.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Extreme, yeah that's a big part of. It two this, Week,
yeah that New moon's gonna get even. Worse we Got
john From tampa on the other. Side we also Got
Captain Bobby woodard as, well and hopefully.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
We'll hear from.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
You remember one eight hundred and nine six nine nine
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Speaker 2 (31:59):
Radio we'll be right.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
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we Got john In tampa on the. Line what's going?

Speaker 1 (33:15):
On?

Speaker 2 (33:15):
John how are?

Speaker 5 (33:16):
You?

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Buddy all?

Speaker 10 (33:17):
Right i'm going just getting used to this damn.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Cole that buddy right there with.

Speaker 10 (33:24):
You, man it was thirty four to Grease tuesday, morning
And i'm, like oh my.

Speaker 7 (33:30):
God, yeah a little.

Speaker 10 (33:32):
BRUTAL i wanted to ask you. Something what's the number
that the tackle shop that, uh the guy that comes,
on he's got that tackle shop on.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
Sixty oh, man are you talking About Ron Ron?

Speaker 5 (33:46):
Soul?

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Buddy, Yeah ron's tackle, box but unfortunately.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
CLOSED i can tell you what he's gonna say if
you were to call, him is you need a purple boo?
Y'all that's what you're gonna catch, back.

Speaker 4 (33:54):
Royalty Purple, yeah oh, Man.

Speaker 10 (33:59):
Yeah unfortunate trying to net needles, well and that they
had net. Needles but you, KNOW i make cash. Mats
i've actually got a YouTube, channel.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
Gotcha, YEAH i. Knew Captain Bobby woodard is on the,
line and he might have an. Idea he has another tackle.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
Shop he used to own a tackle.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Shop, yeah so he could probably help you out if
you stay tuned in after you hang, up BECAUSE i
don't know where you'd get in that needle myself other
than just like searching On.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Google But Captain bobby.

Speaker 10 (34:30):
Might be able to help you out a lot of
THE us places that manufactured in that. Needles there was
a guy that had a main. Company he was supplying.
Everybody he passed. Away His sun was supposed to take,
over but then The sun decided not, To so it
kind of screwed everybody that was getting net needles BECAUSE

(34:52):
i didn't right away to hawaiis try to find net? Needles?

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Wow, Wow, yeah that's.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Crazy let's Ping bobby and we'll ask.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Him, Yeah, john hold on the.

Speaker 7 (35:01):
One it's hard to find them all right.

Speaker 10 (35:03):
Now So i'm trying to find the number six and
number twelve and something some other, ones but they're hard to.
Find the four and the sixth is the, hardest all, Right.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
Buddy well hold, On let's listen to the rest of
the show and hopefully we'll be able to get a
caller to call in and give you some of.

Speaker 10 (35:19):
Radio so you, KNOW i was listening WHILE i was on.
Hold but what about the? Mullet how are they moving right?

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Now mullet flush behind these coal, fronts so you get
a big coal front and they are going to group
up in the back bay and Upper bay waters and
then flush out behind the col. Front when the weather
is the, nastiest, coldest, windiest that's.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
When the mullet are.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Moving and that's when our poor poor mullet fishermen go
out there and target them before. Sunrise so it is
they're starting to move pretty.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
Heavily now you'll see the mullet guys and the duck
hunters on the bay the same.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Days, yeah that's.

Speaker 5 (35:53):
Big, olaugh glutton for.

Speaker 7 (35:55):
Punishment we Hate i've been doing commercial fishing for quite a.
While so you, know LIKE i, SAID i make handmade.
Nets So i'm actually working on two handmade and two
custom nets right.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Now that's awesome.

Speaker 10 (36:08):
Man, WELL i you don't see handmade.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
Anymore, No, no it's definitely a dying.

Speaker 10 (36:14):
Art, HEY a lot of work put into. It but
if you want to see what my stuff looks, LIKE
i can give you my YouTube.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Channel what is? It shoot for.

Speaker 10 (36:23):
It it's under my full. Name It's John Jena Chan
paul P A. U.

Speaker 7 (36:28):
L G O O. C. H.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Junior there it is all, right.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Buddy, well good luck with the net thing and listen
up to the. Show hopefully we'll get a caller or
a comment to help you find those. Needles, Buddy thanks
for the.

Speaker 10 (36:40):
Call, Yeah, hey can you keep them down hold SO
i can listen to the.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Show just tune into nine seventy WFL a or join
us live on The Real Animals.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Facebook, Oh, John.

Speaker 10 (36:51):
UNFORTUNATELY i don't have AN am. Radio, Well Iris arson
during the.

Speaker 7 (36:57):
Summer, hold you're going.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
To be on.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Hold we JUST jb has got. You Jason barons are
our Producer extraordinary is going to help you.

Speaker 7 (37:06):
Out.

Speaker 4 (37:06):
John we appreciate, it. Buddy we're gonna hear from Capt'n
Bobby woodard on the other. Side we also Got Captain
Mike perry and Also stacey on the other side. Too
Stay Stacey, widham The Stacey. WIDHAM i CAN'T i, LIKE
i love all those. PEOPLE i can't wait on as coming,
Up so don't go. Anywhere Real Animals radio will be.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Right back after.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
This we're back Bartow, Ford Real Animals radio talking fishing this,
morning Myself Captain Dylan. Hubbard we've also Got Captain Travis
thompson From All florida in studio And Matt Edson. Phillips
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rip through some of these phone. Calls we've got some
long time holders and a full board. Here so let's
go first to our, Buddy Captain Bobby woodard down there
In Boca. Graham what's, up, buddy how are?

Speaker 7 (38:22):
You?

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Hey good morning.

Speaker 11 (38:24):
Guys how's it?

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Going, Hey, bobby another day in, paradise, Brother, hey.

Speaker 11 (38:28):
Just wanted to give a quick call and say thank
you To matt for you, know being on this morning
and kind of helping inform everybody more about that. Project
and you, know obviously thank you for what you do
for thank the environment and everybody down. There you, know
it's a huge, thing and you know it's a team
effort and appreciate you being part of.

Speaker 6 (38:46):
It it is it Is and anytime we can get
out and talk about the projects that we're doing that
make an impact and let people really understand what we're,
doing that's that's hugely important to.

Speaker 5 (38:54):
Me. BOBBY i think you AND i actually talked offline
at one point about like having hard conversation and the
conversations aren't that hard if you're just people sitting down
having talks about.

Speaker 11 (39:03):
Stuff so, yeah really really THAT'S i, mean you, KNOW
i would be lying IF i, said you, know my
mind hasn't been changed on things. Before you, KNOW i
THOUGHT i knew what the facts. WERE i made a
decision and had WHAT i thought was a hard, line
and then you, know the open mind enough to actually
have a conversation and oh, CRAP i actually didn't know
WHAT i WHAT i THOUGHT i, Knew so you, know
things were changing my mind on, it you. Know so

(39:24):
and then that's that's what we need more.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Of amen to that good old. Conversation amen to.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
That and The Southland Water project essentially is completing that
that three hundred and sixty acre feet that were sixty thousand.

Speaker 5 (39:38):
Acre feet of Lotter, bobby you mind IF i ask
him a question real quick while you're on go for.
It so a lot of people cred. IT i saw
a lot of comments last week where they were, like,
well somebody's making money on. This obviously somebody's making money on, this,
Right like this is how the world.

Speaker 6 (39:54):
Works it takes payroll to build. JOBS i hate to
tell you that my guys don't show up with out of.
Paycheck the land owners not going to give up their
land for.

Speaker 5 (40:02):
Free they're not gonna like there's there's got to be
benefits to all, this, right look at it anyway you
want to.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
It.

Speaker 6 (40:07):
Somebody the land's going to be for, sale no matter.
What if the state has to buy, it if we
have to buy, it no matter. What we look at
the end. Goal we are a water. Company that's what we,
do and it's it's hugely important to us that we
succeed in these. Projects so we have to make, payroll
we have to buy, equipment, fuels not. CHEAP i, mean
we have to make this. Happen but even in that,
respect nine times out of, ten we're still more efficient

(40:30):
and much more valuable to the taxpayer than any other.

Speaker 5 (40:32):
Project you're going to exactly, right that's WHERE i was.
At or you're.

Speaker 6 (40:36):
Gonna get situations where the state puts it out to
bid or municipality puts it out to bid and Low
bitter gets it and can't finish it.

Speaker 5 (40:42):
Right and.

Speaker 6 (40:44):
We just had that problem that we had to step
in and fix another project because it went To Low. Bitter,
yeah and that's the major. Issue cheaper is not always.
Better you finish the job as the. Goal good whiskey costs,
money that's.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
Right we were just talking about.

Speaker 11 (40:56):
That, hey real, Quick, travis you mentioned cast nets In Plant.
CITY i believe it Was carter cast nets off for thirty,
nine wasn't.

Speaker 5 (41:05):
IT i don't remember that.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Name and also A Captain Dan hubbard chimed in on the.
Chat he, Said Lee, Fisher.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
Lee FISHER'S i was thinking.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Of rob was gonna, Suggest.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Yeah Lee fisher would be a good place find your.

Speaker 11 (41:19):
Tomorrow and AND i are heading out with some. Buddies
we're doing a, quick little near short trip out to
about one hundred feet one of Those hubbard near.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Short trips about. Right that's deep near. Shore that's that's
right on the. Border good luck to, You. Bobby we appreciate.

Speaker 11 (41:32):
It, yeah, Man i'm rigged up with some of Those angler.
Kodjigs gonna go give it a, shop all.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Right, buddy good. Luck good to send me some.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
PHOTOS i want to see, it see, You, Bobby thank,
you you.

Speaker 11 (41:42):
Guys take.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
Care Captain dashbobby dot com for those. Interested he's terrible
at giving out his, website.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
But he's the best At target and he's a really good.
Dude he's a great. Targeting we Love.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
Bobby we've Got stacy with him on the line From.
Brooksville how you, Doing stacy D stacy wham The.

Speaker 8 (41:58):
Oh, GOSH i feel a lot of pressure being on,
here but oh it should.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
Be i've heard all about, you SO i need to. Understand,
yeah that is.

Speaker 6 (42:05):
Prepared he's a little scared talk to be. Honest they've
built you. UP i need to know what this is.

Speaker 8 (42:09):
About, yeah, YEAH i don't. Know it's like this whole
hot dog influencing thing Is.

Speaker 5 (42:18):
That was the first STORY i. Heard. Stacy what are
you doing this? Morning So i'm.

Speaker 8 (42:23):
Actually in My i'm at my storage unit right now
rating it to get a bunch of raffles for the
kids up At Orange. Lake so today's one of the
best days. Ever it Is. Florida you hunt so really.
Excited My Santa fe chapters up there with about ten
or twelve. Kids took them out early this. Morning i'm
going to be meeting them at the ramp for lunch and.

(42:45):
Raffles we got a shotgun to give, away a bunch
of other goodies and some some Bast pro. Cards but
also you guys were talking about the store the stas
earlier And we got Our Palm beach chapter down there
AT sta One west and they're going to be having
an after hunt celebration again today. Too, also so really

(43:07):
proud of my chapters and my volunteers getting out. There
really important to get the kids out and get them
involved in the.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Outdoors, yeah stay.

Speaker 6 (43:15):
THAT sta One west is probably the most active One i've.
Seen oh my, god there's a line getting Their saturday Morning.

Speaker 5 (43:21):
Stacey when you did your end of the season hunt last,
year how many kids did you guys have that good
one for that?

Speaker 8 (43:25):
Hunt oh my, gosh, yeah so Tm. Goodwin they also
have a youth hunt. Today we don't do a big
celebration at the beginning of the. Season the end of
the season is the big, party and this year.

Speaker 7 (43:36):
That's going to Be.

Speaker 8 (43:37):
November i'm, Sorry. February this sounds. Right and we had
one hundred and thirty three, kids that's all that's A february.
Seventh february seventh is the end of season. One we
had one hundred and thirty three. Kids all the kids,
hunted got, breakfast came, back they got, lunch they all
got they all got to leave with. Something and part

(43:59):
of that why we could do that is the local
chapters At Delta waterfowl when they, fundraise they actually keep
a percentage of it called The Waterfowl Heritage, fund to
where we're able to fund these types of events directly
from community.

Speaker 5 (44:11):
Support they funded wood dog, boxes they funded youth, hunts
they funded UH dna. Studies. Stacey if people want to
learn more About, delta where can they find out more about?

Speaker 8 (44:22):
It So deltawaterfowl dot org is the best. Way or
if you want to go ahead and just message me Directly.
Instagram I'm Delta Waterfowl, Florida. Georgia Facebook Delta Waterfoul.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Florida Delta Waterfowl. Georgia also have to give a.

Speaker 8 (44:37):
Shout out To georgia today BECAUSE i got MY edawacusa
chapter taking out three veterans that have never hunted before
on Their veterans weekend.

Speaker 6 (44:45):
Today that's your, Hometown oh your home?

Speaker 5 (44:50):
State, okay, Okay MAT's From georgia to. DOGS i might
get run out of town For. YEAH i don't THINK
i got. IT i got my plug. IN i could
be done. That we could talk About southlands and everything.
Else we cannot talk about college. Football that's a. Problem
she's supporting my. Homes, stacy thank you for all that

(45:11):
you're doing out, There like we really appreciate you being
up and down the. ROAD i see how hard you work.
Out everybody knows you, yet but like we really appreciate
all you're doing out.

Speaker 8 (45:19):
There oh, no and thank you guys always for being
a steward of the outdoors for fishing and. Hunting always
look forward to doing conservation things with my friends WHEN
i get to see you guys at the commissioner. Meetings
so really looking forward to it and hoping to get
back out With dylan And hubbards and get some fishing on.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Again let's do.

Speaker 8 (45:37):
It nephews have been asking about.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
It you took your boys out, there, Right, yeah she
did a whole. Charter she's done a couple of trips
with the. Nephews they're catching them.

Speaker 5 (45:44):
Up she's all about those nephews and putting them on
like the nephews And stacy are the. Outdoorsman, steve but,
HEY i can't say.

Speaker 8 (45:53):
Anything i'm sitting in a warm truck right, now and
those guys are sitting down in the marsh AT Tm,
goodwin so of course they.

Speaker 5 (45:59):
Are of, course her, Husband steve is an incredible. Friend
yeah go, Ahead.

Speaker 8 (46:03):
Oh, yeah, Yeah SO Tm. GOODWIN i want to mention
because not a lot of people realize not only DOES
Tm goodwin do the beginning of the season and end
of season youth. Hunt november twenty third And january eleventh
is Also, sundays and they offer the kids to come
in and hunt those days.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
As only kids can hunt those. Days that's awesome. Stuff
Delta Waterfowl Dot. Org we Appreciated. Stacey thanks for the phone.

Speaker 8 (46:25):
Call thanks, guys have a great.

Speaker 7 (46:27):
Weekend send us.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
Pictures, yeah we want to see some pictures for. Sure
we got Cat Mike perry on the line as. WELL
i want to squeeze him in. Here he's been on
hold a. While what's going, on Cap?

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Mike hello from the Beautiful Florida Keys.

Speaker 7 (46:39):
Sollas, hey good morning there it is.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Magic, yeah how's the fishing, going?

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Buddy listen real quick on What matt. Did what all
those guys and gals did to get rid of our
septic tanks and hook us up the sewer and The
Florida Keys and that tells you how Long i've been
coming and or lived in the.

Speaker 11 (47:01):
Keys.

Speaker 7 (47:02):
Matt NOW i know who's.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Responsible and this is a good Responsible so From big
From Sugar Loaf key all the way, north which Includes
Big Pine.

Speaker 7 (47:12):
Keys we.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Appreciate we appreciate. It and uh we even uh several
years later we even actually paid a company Because Monroe
county gave you a tax break on your county taxes
if you had your septic tank physically, removed which even was.
Better in our whole neighborhood chipped in and we split

(47:35):
it up and we had all our septic tanks removed
that which made it even.

Speaker 7 (47:41):
Better so.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
That's. Right it takes everybody pulling together though THAT i,
mean that's a good. Example you got private, industry but
you've also got homeowners landowners pulling together and once your.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Impact if there's a county In florida that's very watchful
over their, WATER i mean we all, are don't me,
wrong But Monroe county and The Florida keys is extremely
tight about their water and their water. Quality so thank.

Speaker 7 (48:09):
You but the fishing, fantastic.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Yep catching them. Up give us a quick. Report what.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Plenty of sailfish right?

Speaker 7 (48:18):
Now?

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Plenty uh that cooler water with that with that chop
on the, water it's like a. Kingfisherman uh the choppier
not not six seven, footers but you want a little
chop on the, water a little, wind and these cooler
temperatures got them balled. Up we, had we had them
around a bait ball just like you see down in

(48:40):
uh done In Central. America we had about eighteen or
nineteen and they were on the forty to eighty pound,
range just lit, up beating on all kinds of.

Speaker 7 (48:50):
Bait it WAS i was.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
EXCITING i just, Yeah.

Speaker 6 (48:53):
I'm sitting here looking at the clock LIKE i could
be there bot about two. O'clock, yeah can we.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
That's. Crazy you're welcome to so.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
Anyway but that in the snapper fishing continues around the,
bridges AND i want to give real quick a shout
out to a fisherman who came down from up up.
There his Name's Keith. Polter he stayed in The North
keys and he has knocked off apparently knocked off a
ten to twelve fish off his bucket list jump from

(49:21):
doing land and kayak. Fishing he didn't make it to
The South, key WHERE i am so way to go.
Keyes good, job, buddy thanks for reaching. Out and that's
about it from The.

Speaker 7 (49:32):
Florida.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
KEYS i could go on talking, forever but you guys
have a great. Day god bless and tight.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Lines thank You Captain. Mike we appreciate, you.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
Buddy we Got donald From lootz And Captain Jim fogel
with our safe boating tip of the week on the other,
side and looking forward to talking To Matt edson a
little bit more about The Southland Water. Project hopefully you
are enjoying the. Show don't go, anywhere we got.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
A lot more. Left we'll be right back after.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
This we're back Bartow Ford Real Animals radio talking fishing
this morning and Myself Captain Dylan, Hubbard Captain Travis thompson
From All florida And Matt edson From. PHILLIPS i want
to give a shout out to our friends over at
The Friendly Fisherman's Seafood. Restaurant The Friendly fisherman At John's
pass is back under the management of The hubbard, family
the same family serving up the best fishing and dining

(50:16):
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of room around the beach is great time to come
visit for. Sure want to get over to our, Buddy
Captain Jim. Fogel he's been holding on the line for
our Safe Boating tip of The, week brought to you
by our friends over At Visit Saint Pete. Clearwater Captain,
jim how are you this? Morning sorry for the long, wait, Buddy.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Sorry was on the speaker. There, Yeah i'm. Good guys
are sounding good as.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Usual thankfully appreciate, you.

Speaker 7 (51:03):
Buddy, yeah thank.

Speaker 12 (51:05):
YOU i want to remind everybody that the primary primary
cause of boating accidents is operator in attention and.

Speaker 7 (51:17):
No proper lookout and end to.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
That AND i mean that is much. Greater there were twenty.
Four there were two hundred and fifty three compared to
the next lower one is ninety. Three SO i mean
that's that's. Significant that's, radical you. Know and the three
the three Accidents i'm going to report on right, now

(51:42):
thankfully we're not in our. Area the first one was
off Of Charlotte. Harbor an experienced voater fisherman twenty seven
year old crashed his boat into a rock jetty in
the nine o'clock at night and he was ejected from

(52:04):
the order and did not SURVIVE i. Could the second
one was a. Sailboat this is almost. Funny a sailboat
north Of Flagler beach ran aground on the beach because
the captain dozed off and the other person on the

(52:25):
BOAT i guess wasn't paying attention or they were dozing.

Speaker 7 (52:27):
Off, wow that's.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
True the last, one the last one is another terrible
one collision On Biscayne. BAY a thirty Four intrepid and
a thirty four Midnight express on operator.

Speaker 5 (52:40):
Died all because no look.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
Out we got.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
PAID i don't know for, sure, guys But i'm you,
know if if if there were lookouts on, there let's,
say there would be a lot less chance of those things.
Happening you, know until there's a significant. Investigation that can't
can't really, say BUT i would IMAGINE i had to
have something to do with, it, unless you, know unless
something went wrong with steering or something like. That but generally,

(53:06):
speaking we need to make sure that that somebody's paying.
Attention and if we've got people on the, boat and you,
guys you charter, captains you, guys especially with a six pack,
group you know you can you can assign look. Out you, Know, Hey,
john would you please take the port, Side, jessie would
you take the starboard, side And herman you take the

(53:28):
rear and let me know if anybody's coming around, us
or just just point out a boat if you see,
it point out a aton if you see. It you
don't have to yell at, me but just point it.
OUT i MIGHT i might be looking at the chart
plotter or. Something so unless their, HELP i. DON'T i
don't think y'all would mind, that would, You.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
No, Sir no teamwork makes the dream. Work that's a.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Fact that's a. Fact all, right, guys good show as.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
Usual appreciate you too much of the time for the.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
Coast Stuard Offzerian Saint, Pete Jim fogel be safe out.

Speaker 5 (53:59):
There Thanks.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Jimie appreciate.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
You The Saint Pete Clearwater Visit Saint Pete clearwater safeboating
tip of the. Week appreciate you Cap'n jim as, always
definitely looking forward to hopefully having some time to see.
Everybody next weekend, too we got the Big fishing For
hope event coming, up and next weekend we're going to
have Cap'n Bill miller on in the studio with us

(54:22):
With Cap mike talking about That fishing For hope. Event
if you can't make it over To tampa next weekend,
again That's, saturday nine am to, eleven nine am to one,
pm North Rome, avenue The Metropolitan Ministries Holiday. Tent if
you can't make it over To, tampa you can donate
food this week at The Bay Pines Pro Marine, Location
So Bay Pines Pro Marine. Location they got the boat out.

(54:44):
Front they're accepting food donations or join us This, Saturday
november twenty, second nine am to one pm at the
North Rome Avenue Holiday tent And Metropolitan. Ministries really looking
forward to The fishing For hope event and hopefully we'll
see everybody out. There Real Animals radio will be back after.
This we're back Bartow, Ford Real Animals radio talking fishing this.

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us to get linked up with their great. Team appreciate
them a lot keeping us up and. Running speaking of
up and, running we Got donald On donald From loots
on the.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Line what's going? On? Donald how are, you? Buddy i'm doing.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Great good morning.

Speaker 7 (56:27):
GUYS i hope all is well with.

Speaker 13 (56:28):
Everyone, yes sir, Man i'm loving this, weather nice and
cool in the, morning and you, know even being out
on the water when it when it's, cool it just you,
know it feels. Vibrant you know a.

Speaker 4 (56:42):
Lot amen to. That, well we're stacked up, Here, Donald
what do you got for us this?

Speaker 14 (56:46):
MORNING i don't really have a, report it's only been
it's been a couple of, weeks but just calling to
say hi and everyone and hopefully everybody gets out there
To Metropolitan. MINUSTRIES i unfortunately this, year cannot make. IT
a got a house full of people, Coming my daughter
and all the grandkids are coming This. Thursday so but

(57:07):
there's a church right up by the road by, Me Keystone,
church that accepts, donations So i'll be doing that and
they bring them To Metropolitan.

Speaker 4 (57:15):
Ministry so awesome, locations, yes, sir and remember The Bay
Pines Pro marine. Location if you can't make it To
Metropolitan ministries next weekend nine am to one pm at
The North Rhone Avenue Holiday temp for fishing For, hope
you can join us at The Bay Pines Pro Marine
location to donate food, Too so really excited about.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
That thank You. Donald we appreciate, it.

Speaker 14 (57:37):
Buddy, absolutely you guys take care of stay saved In
tyland out. THERE i appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
Guys you as, well my, Friend thank, you. Buddy we
Got Captain Dave, Palmer Lou Parmer, lou the Mad, snooker
the Mad, snooker The Count. Snookyla if you, will what's going, On?

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Dave how are?

Speaker 1 (57:53):
You?

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Buddy?

Speaker 15 (57:55):
Lood good, evening.

Speaker 7 (57:56):
Gentlemen that.

Speaker 15 (58:02):
The Count snuokiler on the average angular ventures. Man he,
goes you got to talk like a. Vampire GO i
can't do. That and THEN i looked at him AND i,
go good, evening and he was, like oh my, god
that was.

Speaker 7 (58:14):
UP i. Was i've been out all night.

Speaker 15 (58:15):
FISHING i just got home a few hours. Ago but
we caught about fifty five snook last, night a bunch of.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Easy it had been on.

Speaker 15 (58:24):
Fire BUT i was on the phone With Captain Van
hubbard yesterday evening and we were discussing BECAUSE i had
so many comment On. Facebook they, said oh look at,
you mister hotshot out picking On colt stun snook AND i,
went what they're Not Colts dunn the water fluctuator last
night between about seventy three and then the tide started
to go, out AND i saw it almost in the same.

(58:46):
Air it went seventy, four seventy, five seventy, four seventy.
Five so that, warmer that water that sits in the back,
there heating up all, afternoon comes out a little warmer
than the.

Speaker 6 (58:57):
Incoming, hey that's not picking on. Them if they back the,
hook it's on, them that's.

Speaker 15 (59:01):
Right, well, YEAH i mean WHAT i, mean it's got
to be a. POINT i was kind of wondering what you,
know you guys thought your thought, was at what point
with water temperature is? It you, know do you feel
like for, me it seems like maybe sixty four or Sixty,
YEAH i, have, okay stopped fishing for.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Him, YEAH i would. AGREE i agree with you. Too
we're far from getting cold stunned snook right.

Speaker 15 (59:23):
Now oh, Yeah But i'm just, wondering at what point
with water, temperature would you gentlemen just, say, hey let's
leave the snook, Alone because you, know that's a good.

Speaker 4 (59:31):
POINT i THINK i Think matt hit the nail on the.
HEAD i, mean if they're still, chilling they're. Hungry, yeah they're.

Speaker 15 (59:37):
Moving they were knocking the bottom out of the boat
last night for like three hours on that out going.

Speaker 6 (59:44):
Time tell you that's What i've been here all. Week
everybody That i've talked to all the week long has killed.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Them, wow time to get out get.

Speaker 15 (59:51):
THEM i just sent you a couple of pictures from
last night in a little goofy.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
VIDEO i blocked your phone. Number, yeah.

Speaker 7 (59:58):
What's?

Speaker 2 (59:59):
THAT i, SAID i blocked your phone. NUMBER i knew.

Speaker 7 (01:00:02):
It that's WHY i got a.

Speaker 15 (01:00:04):
FIX i got that fixt from you yesterday to.

Speaker 7 (01:00:08):
Get on board with.

Speaker 15 (01:00:09):
That but, yeah it was just you, know what a
great show you guys got going on this. MORNING i,
mean this, is this, is it's it's a little it's
a little strange When mike's not, there but it's this
has been a really good. Show AND i DON'T i
want to let some other calls get in, here AND
i just wanted to say it's really been a fantastic.
Show AND I, i you, KNOW i WISH i fished
The Manatee river. More AND i know somebody in there

(01:00:31):
and knows.

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
It really, well great spot that.

Speaker 15 (01:00:35):
HAPPENED i fish it for, fun BUT i don't fish
it as a guide AND i just find it too
inconsistent at.

Speaker 6 (01:00:42):
Times, YEAH i don't have to be there every. Day
it's not my.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Job.

Speaker 15 (01:00:49):
Awesome, yeah, yeah, well well, again great, Show dylan and the.

Speaker 7 (01:00:52):
MAN i, mean you.

Speaker 15 (01:00:53):
Guys are just picking it's it's it's a great. Show
And i'm gonna let some of the callers get. On
but thank you so.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
Much appreciate, You Cam, dave thanks for calling the mad.
Snooker if you want to go check him, Out, yeah
you go check it. Out and everybody needs to go
on a mad snooker trip at least once in their.

Speaker 5 (01:01:07):
Life when do you say fifty five last? Night that's
what he. Said that's slow and he counts him like
he keeps. Track, yes that's not, it that's Not there
wasn't fifty, Three there wasn't fifty.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
Seventy he averages at it the occ roadhouse. Thing he,
said he averages eight to twelve thousand. Snooker yere.

Speaker 5 (01:01:23):
D eat up with Snook that does?

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Work, yeah, dude eat up with snoo punishes.

Speaker 6 (01:01:27):
THEM i mean he'll catch other, stuff but he's not
targeting anything.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Else it's by. Catch, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:01:32):
Tarping that's a by catch red, fish that's a bye.
Catch If i'm catching, it that's my.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
TARGET i must do that if it.

Speaker 6 (01:01:40):
Bites here for how you feel about, ladyfish because that
could put you on a bike that, Kid, hey you,
know to a, kid a lady, fish that's exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
Right, acrobatic that's a baby. Tarpin, yeah, yeah a big
ladyfish is always. Exciting but let's get back into The
South fland. Thing we haven't had a lot of chance
to chat about it this. Morning we've been eight up
with phone, calls so we've got a few minutes. Here,
essentially what you guys are working on is you've you've
built the inlet canal for THE eaa. Reservoir, yeah and

(01:02:10):
you've built other stas around the. Area you've got six
eight contracts open right. Now but this one specific contract
that is actually fulfilling the full three hundred and sixty
thousand acre feet that's kind of required to solve the
problem is somehow getting a bad, name and it seems

(01:02:31):
to be tied to this whole mining, thing when in,
reality even THE Eaa, reservoir from what we found, out
is using a mining company to build.

Speaker 5 (01:02:39):
It, yeah same mining, company different mining. Work it's not.

Speaker 6 (01:02:43):
Miney that's what it's been labeled as mining because that's
the that's the, keyword that's the phrase of the.

Speaker 5 (01:02:48):
Day that's a. Buzzword that's the. Buzzword that's what. Happens
i'll say, it so y'all don't have. To that's the fundraising.
Word that's the fundraising. Work that's. So CAN i ask
a couple of, Questions like something you told me the
first time we met was when this thing's, done the
water level between THE eaa and this will be the
difference of what less than a foot less than a
foot from the on the, bottom on the.

Speaker 6 (01:03:08):
Bottom, yeah there's this big misconception out there that we're
digging one hundred ft deep hole and we're blasting down
and you, know the lower echelon of the aquafer and.

Speaker 5 (01:03:15):
Doing all this. Thing and that was one of those.
Things not that that's the furthest thing from the.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Truth so they're almost the same. Depth.

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
Uh and then that was another thing that comes up a,
lot the whole blasting. Thing but THE eaa reservoir is
being blasted, too, right.

Speaker 6 (01:03:28):
Twenty five twenty four million cubic yards of rock or
blasted out of that thing to build.

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
It and we know the guy blasting, It Charlie. Phillips
he works.

Speaker 5 (01:03:35):
For the company that is.

Speaker 6 (01:03:36):
It, yeah they're blasting Other you're not going to work
in that region without. Blasting you. Can't and the funny
thing is we're going to pick on. BLASTING i want
to talk about this church From i'm gonna get on
my pedestal for just a. Second we're talking about hating
blasting for these. Projects mm. Hmm, well most of the
photos that are put out there that they're excited about these,
projects the blasting is in the background.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
Right the governors they are doing impressing conference and they
blasting the fact you do.

Speaker 5 (01:03:56):
Not build in this region without. Blasting you.

Speaker 6 (01:03:58):
Can't The tenna intake can, know THE a TWO s T,
a the reservoir South land can now widening.

Speaker 5 (01:04:04):
Projects it's all. Blasted it's All i'm. Wrong the cost
to do it with you couldn't do. It the cost
to do it without blasting would be so can't you
can't Do it's, impossible it would be. Impossible we've got.

Speaker 4 (01:04:13):
A good caller on the line THAT i think we
should go To richard from The south. Shore he's the
one who actually brought up this whole.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
Conversation he kind of asked me some question Because richard
From SALSHORE i remember a couple of weeks, ago was,
like the permit goes one hundred feet. Deep SO i
forget what exactly HOW i. Freeze so let's let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
To richard and see what what some questions. Are what's going?

Speaker 15 (01:04:30):
On?

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Richard how are?

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
You?

Speaker 16 (01:04:31):
Buddy, hey, buddy bird did you eat or use it?

Speaker 4 (01:04:35):
FOR i safely released that bird that, was.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
But we appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (01:04:44):
Watching But, richard we got the man here From phillips
with the South wind, Project so fire, away.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Buddy what's your?

Speaker 16 (01:04:52):
Questions, okay but my question is IS i was told
that it was originally they applied for.

Speaker 7 (01:04:58):
Like something to under feet on the.

Speaker 16 (01:05:00):
Permit what is it permitted?

Speaker 7 (01:05:03):
For and is that?

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Guaranteed, no it's it's definitely.

Speaker 6 (01:05:06):
GUARANTEED i mean there's stipulations with the county and the.
State we can only go to. It and, now if
you're going to talk survey, level it's a minus. Fifteen
it's a minus. Fifteen but if you're going to talk
standing on the ground foot, level we're about sixteen feet.

Speaker 16 (01:05:16):
Deep, okay so that's that was my turn to maximize
the profit off the rock that they might try to
blast to take fifty feet or.

Speaker 6 (01:05:26):
Something, No, no there's there's one adjacent there's one adjacent
mind in the region that's been there for god knows
how long out on twenty Seven. YEP i think that's
the only deep pit out.

Speaker 5 (01:05:35):
There that's the only ONE i know, of and so
us and the deep deep pit is sixty sixty feet. Maybe,
Yeah like you're not going to go downe hundred feet down?

Speaker 16 (01:05:42):
There, yeah, right BECAUSE i have tried in the past
to look it up AND i couldn't find.

Speaker 6 (01:05:47):
It, well you've got the man here who wrote the,
permit actually wrote the permit language for, us AND i
actually constrained that permit more than what we should. Have
we were actually at the county commission meeting and one
of the commissioners spoke. Up he's, LIKE i can't believe
you actually put these rights on. Yourself, Well i'm WORKING
i work on a hit by a truck. Theory what
If i'm not here one? Day, Right so somebody else
has got to follow stay by these. Rules so we

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didn't apply for anything to go below that minus fifteen
at all because you care about. This, yeah this is
this is this is my, baby this is my legacy leaving.
Behind this is something we we deeply care, about and
this finishes the job and us as a water, company
that is our. Reputation so this is what we stick. By,
Oh i'm, Sure i'm sure everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
Will richard's good at.

Speaker 5 (01:06:29):
That i'm, Sure i'm. Sure, Listen, RICHARD i appreciate you
being willing to call in and ask questions and stuff
and being respectful about that conversation. Too i'm always available
to answer. Questions and this is What dylan will tell.
You this is one of the things That i'm most
passionate about is if we if we can't sit down
and have the, conversation what good is us even talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:06:47):
It i'm not asking anybody to it and they just
understand the. Truth that's exactly, right.

Speaker 4 (01:06:56):
As always keeping us on our. Toes so, essentially it's
the same depth within a foot of THE eaa. Reservoir
it's being built the same. WAY i just failed to find.

Speaker 5 (01:07:09):
The i'm gonna ask some dumb, questions all. Right it's
being built on, privately built on Privately any used today.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
On, It, no not at all to.

Speaker 5 (01:07:18):
Day so at some point, though at some point it
will be transitioned as a water management project to the. State,
Correct so the district whoever what it'll the keys are
handed to the. State it BECOMES.

Speaker 6 (01:07:29):
Dp you know that the county could step in if
they wanted to op yet the water district whoever district
that the intent right now is the water management district
because it will feed that OTHER sta five six that
we know is dead all the, time right that was
the intent of the. Project and we started working on this.
Thing so it's private dollars going. In we're spending the,
money our group is spending. Them AND i can tell
you it's a lot of. Money this isn't a cheap

(01:07:50):
endeavor for us to come in there and get this
thing off the ground.

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
Where we said it's like two hundred million dollars right.

Speaker 6 (01:07:54):
Overall to open the doors to this project and actually
start making material to build a, reservoir getting in places
about two are a million. Dollars so what happens in the
end is AND i will never say there's no state
dollars because what happens in it they have to pay
for a pump, station they have to pay for water
control for exactly how they want to operate the project
and use that water is on them to tell. US
i can't tell the state how to operate their. Water
the schedule that you're talking.

Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
About a very small percentage of comparison.

Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
And well, end AND i think that's being very. Transparent
fifty years from, now the state's going to be paying
for maintenance and everything else because they're going to have
a water storage, facility no different than they would THE
eaa or. ANYTHING a little.

Speaker 6 (01:08:33):
Bit different with this one is we realized along the
way in the district and the state and, everybody you
can't continue to build these projects and strap the state
with ON m at. All so for, us there's different
paths that we're looking for for that ON. M maybe
it's us continue to own one for the twenty years
that we're. There operations and. Maintenance we would continue that right.
There when the state takes it, over it's handing the,
keys like everything's. Functioning we're done handing the. Keys so

(01:08:56):
what they what they pay for is the usable storage
and the function of the reservoir, structures pump, stations. Telemetry,
however they want to operate that. System that's what the
state pays. For we have to leave you a hole
that holds water as a, reservoir cut off, walls that's
part of the, permit THE rcc that the revetment that's
around the, reservoir the mitigation areas that go along with.

(01:09:16):
This we have to mitigate our own. Site we're building
a one hundred acre.

Speaker 4 (01:09:19):
Wetland we got to go to break but we got
some more on the other. Side and hopefully you guys
are enjoying the.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
Show don't go. Anywhere we'll.

Speaker 4 (01:09:26):
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appreciate you joining us this morning From phillips and filling us.
In is there anything you want to add before we
wrap up? Here we got another two minutes if you
want to give a quick.

Speaker 6 (01:11:09):
Overview, no we're excited about moving this one forward and
we're going To it's a good project for the.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
State private, land private, dollars same, depth made the same. Way,
yeah and it's faster. FASTER i mean it's coming to
fruition in three to five years compared to thirty five.

Speaker 7 (01:11:26):
Years.

Speaker 5 (01:11:26):
Yeah, yeah first twenty thousand acre feet in five. Years
i'll give. You i'll give you this prompt for the last.
Word talk about how much you love this, place not
just from that, standpoint but from, hunting.

Speaker 6 (01:11:36):
Fishing it gets in your, blood you, know starting down
on the keys WHEN i first came down, here it
gets in your. SOUL i, mean this is an amazing
place to be and water quality is you, know one
of the things That i'm passionate. ABOUT i saw the
difference we, made tangible difference that we made on those,
projects and to continue to be able to do these And,
phillips Thank god for, him gives us the leeway to
go do projects like. This most companies don't do. That

(01:11:57):
they won't step out like this and do these. Projects
thank god they do because there's not. Many so for
us to be able to make these advancements and do
something that's really good long term for the, state makes an.
IMPACT i like to make, impact make an. Impact that's
what we're here. For leaving, legacy that's, it that's. IT i,
mean our kids are going to be. Here our kids are. Here,
YEAH i mean restoring the, restoring just restore it like it.

(01:12:18):
Was and we've seen what a difference is. Makes like
we were talking about earlier that the best water quad
it was After Hurricane irma came. Through that was just
because of flow In Florida. Bay so we get this
water back like it should, be get it going, south
stop the east and, west stop the, dischargers and we
still have to have fresh water coming out of.

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
Absolutely, balance, Absolutely but if.

Speaker 6 (01:12:36):
We can maintain that, balance we've made an. Impact and
all these projects together as a.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Whole making impact working.

Speaker 7 (01:12:43):
Together.

Speaker 6 (01:12:43):
Yep you have to and you have to have conversations
like this. Exactly this is the biggest part of it
is people aren't willing to sit down on, top but
they'll sit down and put you, know point the, finger
give up Your saturday morning drive up here in the
middle of the, night, when like you, said we should
have been in a tree stand or on a boat something.

Speaker 5 (01:12:57):
Charge of your special four a. M on A saturday.
Morning we're not fishing for, something are shooting something that's special.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Day, yeah welcome in my, Life.

Speaker 6 (01:13:03):
MATT i really appreciate you guys having me, There and
LIKE i, said anytime anybody wants to talk about these
projects or anything we're, DOING i mean even our conservation
efforts around the.

Speaker 5 (01:13:11):
State we support a lot of.

Speaker 6 (01:13:12):
People oh, yeah we're big Supporters, Cca we're big supporters of.

Speaker 5 (01:13:16):
Those that go do. Work, yeah like that's what we're here.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
For that's awesome. Stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
Travis how would someone get a hold of you if
they wanted to chat more with you, Too?

Speaker 6 (01:13:23):
Buddy allfla dot org or all fla oorg on social.

Speaker 4 (01:13:27):
Media Captain Travis Thompson Matt edson From. Phillips appreciate you
guys joining me this. Morning appreciate You Jason barringer behind
the glass making a sound pretty this. Morning hopefully we'll
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