Reel Animals Sunday Fishing Show 11-23-25

Reel Animals Sunday Fishing Show 11-23-25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Tampa Bay ninety five to three w DA
and AM six twenty the Tamahony Company Real Animals Radio Show.
Gonna be talking fishing, Gonna be here until nine o'clock.
Good Lord Willing, and the creek don't rise. Put a
big shout out to our main man, Dereck Debo's the
man on the other side of the wall here now

(00:23):
firing things up for us here This morning weather looks spectacular.
Did I don't know what time you came across, because
you were here when I got here, But that sun
just peeking on the bay as I came across the
Howard Franklin the unbelievable, right, I mean, yeah, this is it.
It's well, it's just a I mean, I don't know

(00:43):
about great time of year compared.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean, I mean, how can you not now, let
me just go through this deer deer season, time of year.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Fair enough.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Hogfish are off the chain from north to south, getting report.
Duck season opened esday. I shot, would slipper repeat?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Over there on the lake by the Interstate is kind
of up against the bird sanctuary, And it's kind of
funny because every time you shoot, a light comes on
you know, like somebody's house, but you got bear season
opened up, black fin tuna are everywhere, snoke, redfish, and trout.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Just what better could it get?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Good boy killing and catching.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Love it, no doubt about it. And the weather looks
fantastic all the way through. Looks like Thanksgiving afternoon before
the wind gets crazy. Everything I saw today I checked
it multiple apps just to see what was going on,
and it looks like come Thanksgiving, it's going to get breezy.
Next weekend looks tough, but the first part of this

(01:45):
week today included looks really really nice. Five to ten.
You know, light winds. We're on the backside of the
new Moon, so we're going to come up on these
quarter moon tides, which aren't great great, but they're not
bad either. So I mean, you're gonna have, yeah, you're
gonna have some moving water. You're gonna have the opportunity
to get off shore if offshore is your thing. The

(02:05):
inshore bite's been really really solid. Talk to my guys.
On Fridays, I was coming back in from Georgia. Snook, redfish, trout,
they were getting slams. Everything was good. So, you know,
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(02:52):
I have a trip tomorrow. I can't wait to get
it back on the water and chase them up. And
sitting in a tree for a week which was amazing,
although to get a little warm up there which wasn't great.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, those afternoons weren't that good. It's you know, this
time of year up in Georgia. What I think and
what I end up doing is that's you know, a
four to five hours sit in the morning. You know
we're getting in there about six six fifteen. You can
start to see about six thirty Yeah, six thirty five
something like that. So you're you're settled in yep and

(03:24):
sit to almost eleven, was holding fifty degrees. But then yeah,
the heat comes in the afternoon, you end up only hunting.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well, you get an hour hour and a half. It's
weird too, And I don't. I don't. The one thing
I don't I love Georgia so much. I love the
mountains up there. I love Blue Ridge obviously, that's where
the deer property is. You know, we've had for years.
The bugs, they got a lot of problem. Oh we had,

(03:53):
we had some and it actually it just got really
bad my last my last night there and again, and
that was the warmest night. It just kept getting a
little warmer all week and the later it got plus
I sat in the bottom, I went down and got
kind of idio and gritty down there. It just yeah,
the bugs were bad. I finally had to break out

(04:13):
the thermoseelle. But you know, looking for a little more
action than I was seeing. It was funny because as
it warmed up, the action the deer just kept getting
less and less and less. Yeah. So but like you said,
beautiful time of the year, had our big fishing for hope,
food drive. Yes, Shamsot the Ministries was fantastic, big big

(04:36):
shout out to Old Salts, Tom Verdansky his bride. They
were there. They did a great job helping us out
at the King of the Beach. And then of course
I can't say enough good things about Jim Nassi Pro
Marine a big part of this as well. They brought
a big boat over a thirty sea hunt that was
there and we were working on sinking the boat and

(04:57):
everyone that showed up to donate. We had much bigger,
better participation, I thought, this year than we had the
year before. We stayed pretty steadily busy unloading cars. We
had one husband and wife, big listeners to the shows,
a big fan of Dylan's, a big fan of Bill Millers.
For years. They had nine hundred and twenty pounds of food.

(05:21):
They brought twenty pounds of food.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, make sure there wasn't rocks.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
No, it was all food. Man, we unloaded it. It
was a lot of frozen turkeys. They probably had yeah,
ten or twelve frozen turkeys, and I mean they just
they just did it up, stayed for a while, hung out,
talked to us. I had one of my buddies from
the softball team. Mark Williams came out and volunteered the
whole morning, helped us the whole time. It was it

(05:47):
was it was pretty pretty cool, pretty cool morning. So
you know, just to see. We had a guy roll
up in a I don't know, a Nissan something nothing fancy,
older Nissan. He had a check for five thousand dollars
and that's great. Got a check for five grand city
saves a little bit out of every check. And at

(06:11):
the end of the year he puts it in metropolitan ministries.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Great place to put.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, no doubt. They said they were going to they're
going to feed thirty three thousand families for the holiday.
It's awesome that they're doing it. It's pathetic that this
incredible country we live in, this big, beautiful city, millions
of people living in the Bay Area and thirty three
thousand families are going to be without food. That's just tragic.

(06:37):
That's a problem we should greatly spend a little more
energy on. You know, pretty sad.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Well, you know, and they do that all year.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
If you've been up there and that it's not a
holiday type thing. They really got it going on for
the community. And I was impressed when I was over
there and just what and it's an all year things
you missed it. It's not something you have to wait
till next year's stuff by there.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Talk to them well. And you know, with all the
stuff going on with the economy and snap and this
and that and the other, you know, there's more needy
families this year than ever. And you have Thanksgiving here,
which is going to be great again, lots of people.
There was a lot of people coming through the donation line.
They're going to feed a lot of people. And then
you turn around in a month and you got Christmas right,

(07:23):
you got another Holliday coming right behind it where a
bunch of families are going to be in need of meals. So,
like you said, you hit the nail right in the head.
It's not something you have to just oh dog one
and I wish I hadn't missed it. You didn't miss anything.
You can still go there and donate. The other thing
that's coming up is the toys. I mean, you know,
some of my great memories were the Christmas tree with

(07:44):
you know, toys around it on Christmas morning, and unfortunately
you got families in the Bay Area that aren't gonna
have that. Just and for whatever reason. You know, I
talked about this yesterday. You know, some people think, well,
you know, you got to go get yours, and I
get all that, but you know there's people that there's circumstances,
you know, ye a death in the family. Then the breadwinner,

(08:06):
something happens to you know, him or her, the leader
of the family financially, and the next thing you know,
you know, this family's out on the street. I had
a family I fished years ago when I was doing
Real dream Makers with Keith Overton and the Trade Winds.
Had a family on my boat from Metropolitan Ministries. A husband,
a wife, and a young boy that were living in

(08:26):
a car for three months. Metropolitan Ministries took him in,
gave him a place to live, got him some job training,
got his resume done, got everything done, got him a job.
They were not then living in their own apartment. He
was working again, everything was back on track, and he
had just lost his job. That's all that happened. The
company was working for went out of business and they were,
you know, a couple of months out. They were done.

(08:48):
So you know, it's a yeah, really great organization. They
do a lot of great things. So especially during the season.
It was interesting. We had so many people yesterday just
dropping stuff off, and some people literally dropped off a turkey,
two turkeys. You know, every little bit helps, so you
know what I mean, it doesn't It's not like you

(09:09):
got to show up and try to outdo the people
that brought nine hundred and twenty pounds of food. Just
whatever you bring is is a blessing to someone. And
if you're blessed, like I know Beth and I are blessed,
I know you and Paul are blessed. You know, feel
give back. I mean that's the good book say just
give back. Yeah, return the favor. So all good stuff

(09:31):
and again, weather's good. We're blessed right now. Thanksgivings right
around the corner. College football, NFL football today, life is good.
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(09:51):
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(10:12):
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Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, you know, I don't know about my wife being
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Speaker 3 (11:58):
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Speaker 1 (12:01):
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Speaker 3 (12:03):
Know, even make up stuff. You'd believe it, you know.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Just because right, no doubt, no doubt. So you are
getting ready to hunt or you're getting ready to fish.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
I'm thinking about the hunting, you know, the fishing. Something
that was unbelievable this week that someboddies of mine told
me about and that, you know, fishing. You can learn
all you want from radio shows and seminars, but you
got to get out there and you got to put
the time in. There is no substitute for time. And
of course along with that is a network, and I

(12:38):
know you have one, and all good fishermen have a network.
And talking to my offshore guys this week, I don't
even know if it's still there, but early in the
week they were south of the Elbow, probably in the
in the two thirties to two sixties, and there was
a rip out there that was unbelievable. It was green

(13:04):
Gulf of Mexico water on one side and dark blue
on the other and it just went for Miles talked
to Feewalks and a few of his guys that were
out there, and they loaded up on the tuna. I
talked to a customer that was out there, saw the
same rip. He didn't. He his luck wasn't as good.

(13:24):
He was trolling lures, didn't have live bait. Live bait
was a ticket out there for those black fin but
tons of dolphin out there.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
You know, Hi Mai, and I heard the same thing.
I didn't hear about the rip, but I heard unbelievable.
I'm shore guy said the tuna bite is like crazy good.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, out there, deep deep, but they had a you know,
they had a great time. And that's what I was
saying this time of year for everything. The hogfish bite,
Tommy large, he's going more. I think he's going out
of the north. He runs out of Clearwater and from
that area and clear Water all the way down to
Anna Maria here in all kinds of you know, Kevin

(14:04):
from the Coastguard called me in. They're, you know, the
biggest complaint I.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Hear the sharks.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, the sharks have been a nightmare for those people
in that shallow or water and and trying to figure
out something that will run them away. There's so many
of them, you know, once they stopped us from killing them,
it kind of you know, management is not don't kill, right,
it can be when you get to a point of

(14:29):
almost deleting them and nobody wants to see shark carcasses
and they're just sold for the fins and the rest
of it.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Ostem ecosystem is not good if they don't exist either.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
That's right. Yeah, I one hundred percent agree. But too
many of them is a problem.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well, it's gonna it's gonna hurt something else. They may thrive,
but something else is not thriving.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
We had a gentleman brought food in yesterday. Offshore guy
brought food in yesterday the Metrolityan Ministries to our Fishing
for Hope event. He got out of the truck and
was just talking to me and Bill and Dylan and
the rest of the volunteers and was talking about just
an amazing offshore trip they had, like got out to
their piece, machines lit up, everybody shoots down, boom boom boom,

(15:16):
they're catching fish. And like within twenty minutes, he said,
everybody was sharked up. We were just covered in sharks
and we couldn't get anything else to the boat had
to move, so and I keep hearing more and more
and more of that, and that's not great.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Well, and it's not just a you know, a problem shark.
It's not just one or two. You could, you know,
literally whack all five or six of them and you
would have five or six more on you.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
You know, it's a in a bad way.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Shutting it off and not doing anything has not helped
the fish whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
It's not the answer. I have a question for you
because you were talking, because you were talking tuna, and
that seems to be the big buzz offshore right now
is the tuna bite. Every every offshore and guide that
I talked to are talking about the tuna bite right now.
What if you what's your setup for tuna when you
go out with feewalks and all of them, if you're

(16:10):
taking your own rods, if you're running your own boat,
what would be for those listening that don't you know
that are like, hey, we need to target these because
I had something in my brain years ago, right and
then when I went out there filming with a couple
of buddies, they threw everything I knew kind of out
of whack. So what if you were putting together a

(16:30):
rig from scratch? You know, what, what are you thinking? Well?

Speaker 2 (16:34):
And you know, what I do is I like to
buy a rod that'll cover a rod and reel that
cover multiple fish.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Right.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
I'm not one that's going to buy a certain unless
it's a billfish.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
That's a different deal. Right.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
But even my big snow rods could be tarpain rods,
you know what I mean, mango snapper rods.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
You could use all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
I've never gone and targeted just blackfin. But what I
like to catch blackfin on if pretroll and you know
you're going to catch them, if you throw the flat
line out back a kingfish rod, you know, twenty pound mono.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Is all you really need.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
What do I prefer to catch them on a fifty
wide with fifty because there's no you get him in
the boat and catch another one.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
I mean the fight.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Blackfin are an awesome fish to fight, But once you've
caught so many of them, if you're out there to
catch them to eat, you know, we don't need a
thirty minute battle. But twenty pound test is all you need.
You can use spinning rods, you can use, you know,
something in a four or five thousand with twenty pounds.
I don't like braid for that situation. I'd rather have mono.

(17:45):
I'd rather have stretch on it. And then some people
will say, well, yeah, load up with the braid and
then put a top shot. Well why put a top shot.
The only reason why I'd put a top shot is
if I was using another rod and I wanted mono
on it, I wouldn't just peel off the the other.
But you know, most of my offshore trolling stuff is mono.

(18:06):
Fish hit hard, they pull hard, and that's what a
tune is gonna do. He's gonna do the same as
a kobia or any of them other kind of fish.
They fight and fight and fight after they run and
then they come to the boat and see the boat
and go oh no.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
And they take off again.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, and I like to have that give with them,
sharp hooks, whatever you do. You know they got super
hard mouse, that would be a good pick.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah. They really penetrate good, make a big difference.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
And I bleed them before I put them in. I
you know, go into the gills, I take the heart out,
pull it out. It's just something you can do real
quick without a knife. They bleed good. You can bleed
them in the water, bleed them. If I'm in my
Buddy's boat. I'm bleeding them in the boat like they
used to do me. Okay, all over the place, and
I'm walking from his tail all the way to the

(18:56):
front box, just dripping blood.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Act like I don't see it. Tamahoney Company, Real Animals
Radio Show. We're up against the break. We got Captain
Mike Perry and Big pine Key. Hopefully we'll hear from
you as well. Phone lines are open one eighty eight
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(19:43):
Let's go to the phones here. Phone lines are open
one eighty eight five four six four six twenty. Let's
see if we can get a report from the beautiful
Florida Keys here, Big Pine Key Captain Mike Perry, Michael,
how are you hey?

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Good morning fellas. How are you're not doing this morning?
Not much? Not much, getting getting ready for the first
of the holidays here. And before I go on, I
want to wish all the listeners and everybody of the
real Animals family very happy Thanksgiving. A lot to be
thankful for every day, So happy Thanksgiving to.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
Everyone out there.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
I heard you talking about the shark issue, and it's
the same throughout the whole state. I'm sure Texas, Louisiana,
all the way up the coast of Carolinas they had
the same problem. I talked to fisherman all over and
basically what I do, and I shark bands. You know,

(20:44):
I don't get in the water without one on my
ankles anymore.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
But and they work.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
I went to the Moat Marine when they came down
to the keys, and they showed them off and how
they work. And the sharks would get about three to
four feet to you, which is still too close for me,
but they bug out. That mag that big magnet in
there just sends some kind of sensation in them. Well,
they came out with those bigger zeppelins, which were really

(21:12):
meant to be used at first as an inline weight.
They have three sizes of them. Well, I said, well,
why can't you put them on a little rope, put
one down the front of your boat, maybe down the
back when you're offshore fishing, And we use them, and
it has cut down my shark problem by about sixty
to seventy percent. Unfortunately, you know, one'll come in the

(21:38):
right area where it's not bothering them. But I've cut
it way down, so if anybody wants to try it,
I suggest doing it, and they work. We put them
big ones down. I put one all the way down
to the bottom and lift it up about ten feet,
and then we hang one about halfway down. And it

(21:58):
seems to kind of put a magnetic field kind of
around the boat. And it can be a pain if
your fish gets tangled in it, but it's sure well
worth preventing a shark attack in a great catch, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, it sounds like it does.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
For sure, no doubt.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
So they do, and they do work. You know, people
are always skeptical about stuff like that, but I've seen
it with my own eyes and they work, and they
don't advertise it. But they also work great with stingrays
because you know, I'd like to wait a lot, don't
do as much as I used to, But we put

(22:36):
them on Laurie and I get in the water, and uh,
we've had stingrays just bug out many feet before we
even get to them. So ray is in the shark family,
so it bothers them enough they bug out. So that's
something you all can try. So and I did the video.

(22:59):
It's getting edited right now. I did that video on
First Aid Kits and it's being edited right now and
it'll be out there for everybody to take a look at.
And the one thing I added this year after I
saw it at icast. It's called a Duker tool, and
it helps remove hooks from human being. Obviously, if the

(23:22):
hook's buried real deep, you just cut it and you
wrap it and take the person in. But if the
barb is buried under your skin, this tool can actually
help you remove it right there, you know, as long
as it's not close to it. You know, if it's
in the part of your arm or leg, that's just
muscle and fat, right there, you know, and you're not

(23:44):
bleeding too much, but be long the lookout for that video.
But the fishing's been great, Mike. The trolling has been fantastic, blackuna, wahoo,
a few mahi's still around. Kingfish, we got our run
of kingfish. Uh they're down more off of Key West

(24:04):
right now. You can tell by where which way the
commercial kingfish guys are going as to where the the
pods of kingfish are working. So and we're getting a
lot of kobea some definitely permit mixed in, which I know,
mister Anderson, you love the permit and uh yeah, great fishing,

(24:27):
and the bottom fishing continues to be snapper heaven. It
has definitely been the year of the mango and the
mutton for sure this year. And our yellow tails, you know,
can always get a bunch of yellow tails. So the
fishings have been great and a lot to be thankful
for in this family. Just a great, great year. And

(24:49):
thanks to all the real animals people and the people
come down and fish with me and are the ones
who wanted to fish inshore, and I've sent them to
some of my neighbors, some of the guides in the
are so thanks Thank you to everybody out there.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Good stuff, brother, good stuff. Have a great holiday, my friend,
and we will holler at you on the flip side.
Be safe, all right.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
I'll be talking to you before the next holiday. So
you guys, have a great day. God bless tight line.
And remember if you need a vacation and you need
to get away, now is the time to come to
the keys. You're not dealing with the heat as much,
no doubt.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Have a great day, guys, be good, good stuff, good stuff. Yeah,
there's something special about the Florida keys. There just is.
I don't know. I like the keys.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
I like the keys this time of the year or two.
But there's certain times like.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Going to go right, no doubt, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
But the fishing always it's just a caro when you go.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, it's a special place, but it really is just
some great, incredible fishing. We were down there filming and
even though it was August, it was hot. I mean
that micro tarpin thing, you know, it's great scenery, it's
so beautiful. Yeah, it's really special.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
Man.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Spend you know two days over there on the the
eighteen KO skiff and just doing some you know, tailing redfish,
and just crazy, crazy fishery. You know, the offshore stuff,
the sale fish, the permit, you know, the muttons. It's
just unlimited. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
It'd be a little scary running miles offshore there. Make
sure you don't have a bunch of garbage bags in
the front.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Get whacked.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Make sure they can see your fishing rock, no.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Doubt, no doubt. But uh, special place, special place. So
you were saying to go into the Costa Rica.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Huh yeah, I'm gonna take my wife there in January.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
That's very cool there before all right, Steve, Oh, you're
gonna like it well.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
And you know, back the first time I was asked
to go, and I won't say his name, My buddy
used to go all the time. And you know, he
was telling me a story where he trades rides and
reels for weapons to the Nicker roguill rebels.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
And you know that was.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Thirty five years ago, and he owned a tackle place
at the time. They don't own it anymore. But apparently
it was okay. I mean he didn't, he didn't when
he got the guns. He let him know when he
was flying what he was flying home with. So but
I just don't know about going you know. That was
what my thought was then.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
I'm not going to go in.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
The river with rebels on both sides and I'm tarping fishing,
you know. But since then, it's it's really changed it
in my opinion. At one point, the fishing has always
been great, but the country kind of had a little
bit of a bad name there. And I'm going back
to thirty thirty five years ago the stuff they allowed

(27:58):
and what I would hear people going there for. Well,
now it's more. You see a lot more families going
down there. The place you go is is Dynamite. My
buddy's right by there. He bought a house, Steve Cross,
great guy and good family, and I'm gonna go down
there with my wife and just relax.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
You know.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
He talks about monkeys and stuff. I ain't into wildlife,
you know what I mean Like that, I ain't feeding
no monkeys. I told him a monkey come near me,
He's probably gonna get kicked, you know, and hopefully he
remembers that where he doesn't keep coming back, right, you know,
I'm not. As a matter of fact, I even heard
a story about chimpanzees this week and I don't want

(28:36):
to be around.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
I've never seen a chimpanzee in.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Well, no, not there.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
I'm just talking about a story from Africa where this
guy went to and it wasn't good.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
But anyway, I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, it's a
tropical paradise.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's a beautiful place, man. The fishing is incredible, the scenery.
Even just while you're catching bait in the morning, you
know you're near shore and you know, eighty foot of water.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
But the yeah, and it's not that far a run.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Oh no, you're you're right off shore.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
It's I think their summertime, he was telling me, is
like right now, starts to start of their summer season.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well, I mean what you have to remember is that
you're you're you're on the equator, so it's hot when
you go, you know, certain times a year it's it's
blisteringly hot, you know what I mean. Our June imagine
June and July and August here and then get closer
to the equator. I mean, it's just yah, you know

(29:35):
what I mean. So this is I don't know that
I would verbalize it like this is summer, but this
is there you're going into season. Costa Rica's season is
you know, December January February is the peak season. That's
when the billfish, the tuna. Everything's just in Wales. I
mean everything absolutely giant kuberra's. I mean I caught it

(29:59):
four kubert on one trip, you know what I mean.
People target compares to just catch one and they're thrilled.
I caught four. Now, it took me seven trips to
do it, but my wife caught one on her first
trip down there. So the the inshore fishing is really good.
And when I say inshore, I mean you're you're just
near shore fishing. Really, you know, it's not like backcountry

(30:19):
fishing here. But it's incredible. I mean fishing the beach
and we sight fished rooster fish in the surf right
off these beautiful black sand beaches, and then just beyond
the beach are these giant cliffs that go up hundreds
of feet. I mean, it's it's incredible. It's just a

(30:40):
breath takingly beautiful place. The water is beautiful. You know,
you're you're dragging gear and the next thing you know,
you got you know, marlin and yours. Yeah, it's unbelievable.
They you know, the spinner dolphin. If you run into
these acres of spinner dolphin, and when you do, you'll
watch your captain just get giddy like a little kid

(31:03):
because the tuna are running with those spinner dolphin and
all you gotta do. I'm literally the first time we
went there, that's all I heard. Javier just kept saying,
you know, look for the dolphin, Look for a dolphin,
Look for the dolphin. I'm like, what about the hell
do we want dolphin around this for? It doesn't even
make any sense to me. I'm like, this is weird.
And the first trip we never saw him, and we
caught fish, but we never saw the dolphin. So I

(31:25):
go back on the second trip, I take Beth, take
a bunch of listeners with us. I'm Scott Laura Patrick
when a bunch of people are with us, and we
get out there and I'm with Javier again, and we
kind of get out in the same area, and Javier
has bent over and he's putting together this big, you know,
spread so he can start trolling. And I look across
the horizon and I'm like, oh my god, look at

(31:47):
the giant There's like three acres of dolphin coming at
the boat. I'm like Javier, and he didn't say a
word about it on this trip. I'm like, am I
supposed to tell you when I see the dolphin again?
And he literally popped up and he goes, wait, I
went right there, and he looked at me and grabbed
my arm and his face was like a six year
old at Christmas. He was like, he looked at me,

(32:07):
he goes, it's on. It is on. And every time
we got in front of them drop back baits, we
had a tune on every single time, and he kept
waiting for a billfish because I guess the billfish run
with him too. The other thing about it was it's
just absolutely beautiful, Like these spinner dolphins are just cruising.
You seeing them come out of the water. They're just cooking.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
They're not feeding.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
I don't know what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
I mean, never hooked one.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
No spinner dolphins one. Yeah, it would be a heck
of a fight. But out of the middle of these
dolphins that are just kind of you know, greyhounding one
will shoot straight up in the air like ten twelve
fifteen feet, spinning in the air. That's why they call
him spinner dolphin. The gray spinner dolphins are incredible, Like
it's an incredible sight. I want to say, I had

(32:54):
just bought my fancy camera and I think I think
best shot like seventeen hundred picks of just the dolphins.
I mean they're up right next to the boat, you know,
and again we're catching fish the whole time. You're near shore,
you've seen all this this, you know, just incredible scenery.
It's a really really neat place, it really is. The
food is, yeah, the food's exceptional, especially there's Zankudo or

(33:19):
near Zankudo. You don't have a big city, so they're
making a lot of their stuff, you know what I mean.
I mean of the bread and all that. They're making bread.
You know, it's not like the bread trucks coming down
the road every morning, you know, dropping off fresh lows.
They're making that stuff. I came back from the first
trip to Coasta, Rican and I told Beth, I said,
I had the best peanut butter and jelly sandwich I've

(33:41):
ever had in my life. And she looked at me.
She's a little bit of a foodie. She was like,
you were in Costa Rica and you're coming home. I'm
talking about the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Really like,
she was like disgusted with me. And then we got
there and first day on the water, she reached in
there and grabbed a peanut butter and jelly sandwich out
of the cooler for lunch, and she looked at me

(34:02):
and her eyes were huge. She was like, oh my god,
I'm like, I told you, like, they make the jelly themselves,
the peanut butter, obviously they get brought in. But on
that homemade bread coming out of the cooler while you're
on a boat, I'm like, I told you that's a
ridiculous peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
You got me on that. I was thinking that was
code talk.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
So the peanut butter and jelly said, well, dude. And
then you know, because you're catching you know, we had
talked about it at the break. You guys are going
there and you're not bringing fish home, so you're catching
fresh fish to eat that night. Well, when you catch
those tuna, you'll have tuna that night and then the
next day on the boat, you'll have tuna sandwiches on
the boat. Incredible. And I will tell you this too.

(34:46):
If you like pineapple, make sure you eat the pineapple.
Have them bring a pineapple on the boat and pull
it out of the cooler and cut it up right
in front of you. I don't know what about the
volcanic soil, what it is there. I have no idea,
sweet unbelief, just ridiculous, and I like, yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
No normally and be honest with you for years and years,
if I got time off to go somewhere, I'm going
to the Louisiana bottom line, I don't. I've had places
in the Keys, I got offers to go anywhere, sure,
and Louisiana is my pick. But this is something you know,
I'm gonna take my wife out there. We're just more
or less relaxing. It's not a fishing I'm not focused

(35:25):
on fishing.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Right, you know.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Fishing is a little bonus part of it.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah, well, if I go.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
But if you go to Louisiana, I mean, if we're
being honest, vene Louisiana is there's one thing to do there?

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Well, it's just like you're around people like you.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Know, duck hunting, fishing well, and what the deal is here?

Speaker 2 (35:45):
You got a bunch of people that will tell you, oh,
you caught too many. You can't eat that. We should
close this season. We got Richard from South Shore that
never wants snook season open.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
You know what I'm saying. I like to eat fish.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
I don't catch fish and kill them and don't eat
them and east them and throw them.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
In the freezer. I eat them.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Well.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
When you go to Louisiana, there ain't none of that talk,
you know what I mean. I can't picture you or
c A or somebody like that being at the fish
cleaning table saying this is ridiculous because you'd probably be filleted.
I like being around those kind of people, you know,
the Ballets, the ross Barkers. I mean a lot of

(36:24):
guys over there. I've made friends with. And when you
put that time in with somebody in that area that long,
that's where you don't want to go to somewhere new.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
You know.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
I used to take a boat up there, two or
three boats, and we'd run them and I did it
for many, many years.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
And I just like the air.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Louisiana is a special fishery, yeah for sure. People and
the food another place where the dining experiences.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
When you go to a shack, yeah, and you'll have
the best food you ever had on the Mississippi. You know,
some soft shell crab that's hanging off the plate. That's
what I'm looking for.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yeah, no doubt about it, No doubt about it. Special stuff.
Let's go to the phones here real quick. Let's check
in with Richard on the South shore. Richard, how are
you this morning?

Speaker 7 (37:10):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (37:10):
I just sating here thinking mahoney, needs a little food
for the soul. You stand on the deck and you
see those you see those spinner dolphins coming out of
the water like that is amazing.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
It's amazing, breath taking.

Speaker 8 (37:25):
Yeah, what's happening is the tunas are driving the beta,
they're grabbing the beat. Dolphins are also then feeding. The
dolphins are also feeding on them surface. And you'll notice
is generally big flocks of birds and they're feeding on
the surface and the scraps too. But to see it
is pretty amazing. If you don't drop a lot in

(37:47):
the water, it's worth the trip.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
I agree, no doubt about it. Special for sure.

Speaker 8 (37:53):
This is over on the Pacific side. On the other side,
it's a it's a different story.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
You know.

Speaker 8 (37:59):
That's where the get most of the smoke and tarpet,
I believe.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Yeah, although they on the on the Pacific side. They
were telling me that the snook fishing, especially they're out
of Zankudo, used to be incredible, but they overfished the
locals overfish them because again they're you're in the jungle there.
It's not like you have a you know, Walmart on
the corner. You know, these people were eating the fish
and they just overfished them. The commercial guys just fished

(38:27):
and you can still you can still catch them. But
the guides that I talked to said, it's not like
it used to be twenty years ago inshore because it's
again easily accessible, the offshore stuff. You got to have
the boats and you got to get out there. And
they'd really do a good job too. The guides there
do a good job of like we never had a kuberra.
All the kuberra get released, never ate it.

Speaker 8 (38:49):
Yeah, it's it's been a while since since I was
down there. But we would go down, you know after
a sailfish marlin yep. And when of course, when you
say the often like they have the same thing. They
drop out stuff and you catch those tuna and then
they cook them up for you. More of them. Things
are like fighting footballs they're tough.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
They are.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
I think you can get turtles there too. They don't
protect the turtles.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
You can eat them.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
There, I don't think.

Speaker 8 (39:15):
I don't think so. And uh, I've been diving along
notes cliffs that come up out of the Pacific Ocean there.
H And as I go right down to the water,
and so you get under the water, and you may
be then fifty foot sixty foot of water, but you've

(39:36):
got a sheer cliff right next to you, and the
and the breakers as they come in and they hit
they push you in and out. Uh from that wall.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Oh wow.

Speaker 8 (39:45):
So if you get too close to it, they'll slam
you into the wall. But you get them where they
push you right up next to it and then they'll
suck you back up from it. But yeah, it's it's
worth the trip just to stand on the deck and
watch that.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
I agree, Yeah, I agree. You know what else I
find when I was there, Richard, I thought to myself,
because of the cliffs, because of just in in town
towards Golfedo from Zancudo, where you're catching bait in the morning,
you're literally, you know, maybe two hundred yards from these
giant cliffs. Okay, And Gulfedo's in this little bay inside

(40:19):
there the city there, the main city that you fly into.
I was thinking to myself, a twenty five foot bay
boat with a powerpole, move trolling motor and some jigs
worked along all those rock edges with light tackling. You
would think it would be amazing. No one does it. Yeah,
I didn't see anybody doing it, but I was thinking, man,

(40:39):
and again I don't know what all some jacks and
whatever it is. I would think the fishing would be spectacular,
but I don't know. No it does.

Speaker 8 (40:48):
Yeah, there's there's no place to well, I say, there's
no place. There's lotch places, and there's local places, but
due launch a boat like that.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Oh good point. Yeah that's true too.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Well, and something else too. Richard all his buddies were
over there shooting fish. While they were diving. There's probably
ain't nothing there to keep.

Speaker 8 (41:08):
Actually, we we couldn't have any were again, so it
was just me and a Costa Rican GUIDs. We went
along on our nature trip once in a while. It's
it's nice to look. But yeah, the U the locals
down there, they launched their boats from the beach, but

(41:28):
they don't you know, sound like they got real nice
boats up. Some of them are decent, but their boats
are mostly launched on the tide. They'll shove them back
out there unless they're near a place for all right.
I just want to chime in. Tell mahoney, he needs
to get down there.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
We may never see him again. They might not let
him back in the country, but he's going to go
through it, and they want to keep me. You're one
of us. Have a great have a great Thanksgiving, Richard.
We appreciate you, my friend, all right, he thanks rich
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What an incredible day we have. We got a Packer

(42:54):
game at one o'clock Vikings at Packers. We've got a
big Buccaneer game tonight with the Rams. Great. Should be
a great football game. So sweet NFL football. I know
Derek's excited. I saw him in there. He's bouncing off
the walls. He can't wait.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
Yeah, that's why I got more than one TV in
the house. I don't have to watch that nonsense.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
The phone lines were open one eight eight five four
six four six twenty. We're rolling into our number two
here the Tam Honey Company Real Animals Radio Show. Let's
go to the phone lines here quick and if I
can find my cursor. I really don't like this setup
at all. Let's go to check in with Donald at
lou It is yeah, unless see old school. Yeah, what's

(43:40):
up buddy?

Speaker 9 (43:42):
Hey, good morning guys. Hey, I helped the event yesterday
Metropolitan Ministries was a great one and Pote was sunk.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
It was great. We don't. We didn't get I didn't
get a final tally from Bill Miller yet. I'm sure
we'll have that over the next couple of days. But
it sure felt quite a bit busier than it did
last year. Yeah, so, I mean we we we had
a great turnout. We had a great group of volunteers.
My buddy Mark Williams from my softball team came and

(44:11):
just hung out the whole time. We had obviously old
Salts and what they do for the community is is ridiculous.
Tom Verdanski and his lovely bride do a great, great
job with that organization. Jim Nassit Pro Marine just a
heart of gold, brought the boat over there the thirty
Sea Hunt. I mean, we had great signage, we had
just it was just a great event. Dylan was there

(44:34):
with Emily and Jack and Emma. Jack was helping us
unload six year old Jack was helping us unload vehicles
and all that with a big old smile on his face.
So it was a it was a cool experience, great
day as always. Metropolitan Ministries as a good job. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (44:48):
Yeah, I had you know players yesterday and hung out.
We went out to the malls and shopping and the
kids out stopped. So I fired my big griddle is
just now and making a big giant batch of pancakes
for all the kids.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Nice good chocolate chip pancakes.

Speaker 9 (45:11):
No, just regularly.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Oh, come on, Donald Chocolate, Yes they do. Donald. Come on,
everybody needs a little chocolate chip.

Speaker 9 (45:20):
Chocolate because Liz makes a homemade chocolate chip cookies. I'll
ask them why not?

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Why not? It's come on, listen, they're not They're not
your kids. They're grandkids. Okay, grandkids are supposed to be
spoiled kids. You can be like that's not good for you,
but when you get to your grandkids, like, hell yeah,
eat it all, it's all good.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
I'll go home.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. We got Rider, we got Kaylin, we
got Lincoln. Yep, we spoil that got him. You bet.

Speaker 9 (45:51):
That's awesome.

Speaker 8 (45:52):
Love it.

Speaker 9 (45:54):
So that's what I'm doing today. And today is my
grandson is his sixth birthday party, So I to get
the house ready and clubhouse is all done for them.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
There you go. Nice.

Speaker 9 (46:06):
Yeah, it's beautiful day, Tampa.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Day, good stuff football and birthday party for the grand kids.
Have a great day, buddy. We appreciate the call man
and hopefully we'll uh we'll hear from you next week
on uh on some good fishing this week. Weather's going
to be good early in the wee.

Speaker 9 (46:22):
You guys have a great Thanksgiving, and you guys take
care Stace Eve and tight Line.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
So thanks Donald, appreciate your buddy. Back at you. Happy
Thanksgiving buddy, you too, Enjoygia family. That's good stuff, good people.
Right there, let's go to Brock in Saint Pete Brock
on the tam of Honey Company Real Animals Radio show.
What you got for me?

Speaker 5 (46:41):
Yeah, well, let's just start off with I'm not the
Brock from down south, by the way.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Sure got sound.

Speaker 5 (46:49):
I'm sure I'm the brock Black more than Mike Mahone.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Oh yeah, what's up?

Speaker 1 (46:58):
How are you, buddy?

Speaker 5 (47:00):
What's happening guys?

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Man, it's been a long time. I've been good.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
It's been many years.

Speaker 6 (47:06):
Man.

Speaker 5 (47:07):
I listen often. But today I'm about to head out
for some hogfish. I got my twenty dozen shrimps, so
I should kill something anyways. But beyond that, the reason
I called was to say happy Thanksgiving to everybody, you
guys and everybody in your families. And it's been a

(47:29):
long time. But more importantly, I wanted to share that
once a year I go or maybe more than once
a year down to the Everglades and we go about
forty plus miles into the Everglades and camp out, and
Frank Jackson's a part of it. I'm not trying to
throw names around.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
You know, a bunch of friends.

Speaker 5 (47:52):
Yeah, those guys we all take. Yeah, we take our
flats boats. But what I want to say was on
the shark conversation. This is what prompted me to call.
Other than saying hello to everybody who's in years, even
down there in the Everglades, I think these sharks are

(48:16):
attracted to the electric trolling motors, and just like offshore,
my personal opinion is that the sharks off shore, they
hear the noise, they feel the whatever they feel, and
then they come attack all the fish. After you know,

(48:37):
a couple of fish are caught down there. I have
experienced catching snook, redfish, et cetera. And the next thing
you know, I got a big old tug on my
line and you know, you got a freaking shark in
their puppies. They're not they're not the big dogs. But
it's really interesting we I say all this to say,

(49:02):
Dylan's the man, and I hope that, you know, maybe
there's some sort of conservation that doesn't need to be
happening on these sharks. That's that's the reason for my call,
you know what.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
And I appreciate it. I there's no doubt he's onto something.
I just you know that that crazy word that Dylan
has come up with. The boys use it all the time,
that charismatic megafauna. You know, look at what they're doing
with with Shark Week. I mean, think about how much
money is involved. I mean, do they they try to

(49:33):
create this whole crazy buzz around this species that you know,
it's just like the manatees, like we should just pull
them out of the water and give them this giant
love hug, you know what I mean. The pelicans. I mean,
it's like and again I'm I'm as outdoorsy and as
appreciative as any person you'll meet. I absolutely, you know
what I mean. I appreciate it, But there has to

(49:56):
be a line between you know, those of us at
the top of the food chain and everything else. There
just has to be a line there, you know. So
it's I don't know that I just don't know if
that's a battle we're gonna win anytime soon. I certainly
hope and I believe. I think as you do, Brock,
that you know, we're blessed to have a voice like

(50:17):
Dylan doing the things he's doing. He's got a young family,
he spends a lot of time at these Marine Fisheries
meetings working on this stuff for the fishing community, the
inshore guys, the offshore guys, the commercial guys, for everybody.
And obviously I've heard people say, you know, whose family's
in the fission business for under two years, blah blah blah,
he's just looking up for himself. But that's not true.

(50:37):
He's covering all of it. You know, Dylan and I
have become very very close. He's one of my dear friends,
and he really really has a passion for, you know,
doing things right across the board. So you know, we're
blessed to have we're blessed to have him fighting, and
we need, you know, we need that fight to get started.

(50:58):
I don't know how we started. I don't know how
we you know, I don't I don't know if we
can get through to people on that one or not,
just because it's such a the sharks are you know,
they get this. You know, the poor sharks are going away.
They're dying. We're not heapy. There won't be any left.
I don't know whether your people are counting, but you're
not counting. Well, take your shoes off, you know, because.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
In the in the Everglades though, like in the back country,
well it depends where you're at, but literally there are
so many sharks that you cannot almost get a fish
to the boat.

Speaker 1 (51:34):
I'll tell you. I'll tell you I can second, I
can second it. Brock. I've been down there tarpain fishing, okay,
flamingo on the outside edges there seven eight foot of water,
you know, fishing mullet under corks and hook a tarpin.
The sharks are bad there and seven eight foot of
water and they're not puppies them seven eight foot of

(51:55):
water sharks in there of them tarpin are big and
they're they got a shark problem on that side of
the too. Not just you know, you went forty miles
back into the Everglades, which, by the way, I would
love I would love an invite. I'd like to know
how that all works, because that sounds amazing. You want
to do that. I do want to do that. I
do want to do that. I got the eighteen ko skiff.
I'd like to I'd like to reach out to me

(52:17):
and let me know how we do that, because that
would be a cool trip.

Speaker 5 (52:20):
So that would be really neat normally in February, and
it's it's called the campsite is Willy Willy.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Okay, I'd like again the idea. I'd like to reach out. Yeah,
let me know, dude, that sounds really really cool. That
would be uh, that would be a neat adventure. So
but again, I think you're onto something there. I think
that you know it. It's something we need to do
more barking from the tree tops about, you know, because

(52:52):
it's it's an issue. There's no doubt. Both coasts.

Speaker 5 (52:57):
Yeah it's an issue. But yeah, that's the reason I called.
But even in the Abacos, the Bahama Island southside, I mean,
you know, I go over there about once a year
and I can't even reel in a fish hardly without
a shark killing it unless I'm trolling. Anyway, Long story short,

(53:17):
you guys are all on page. You guys do a
great job, and I just want to say hello, it's
been many years.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Could hear your voice, could hear you? Appreciate you?

Speaker 5 (53:30):
Like what to the two of you? Man, have a
great day.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Thanks, let's talk. Let's talk soon. I want to hear
about that, tru. Thanks.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Thanks for calling in broad from you.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
I appreciate you. Thanks, good stuff right there.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
I think he was a highlight player, was he? I
think so?

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Yeah, the only one I've ever known. I wouldn't challenge
him in a game A highlight that is.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Probably pretty good at racketball.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
There ain't probably a lot of people around that even
know highlight anymore as a game. I mean, we don't
even have it here locally. We used to get.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Away from us, right.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
It used to be right there on that loop coming in.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Yeah. Yeah, and Dale Maybury. Yeah for sure.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Fun time, Yeah to watch. I wouldn't want.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
To play it. No, it looked a little crazy, no
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Speaker 1 (55:35):
Yeah, I love it, no doubt. Well, look we got
you know who we have. It's a buccaneer Sunday, a
buccaneer Sunday night. I like the Bucks game on Sunday night.
I think, can we get somehow can we get cleanness
to just have all the Bucks games on Sunday night?
That'd be great. No, there you got. I think you'd
be kind of cool. Buccaneer John. All right, all right,
buccaneer John, how are you, buddy?

Speaker 3 (55:56):
Who's winning?

Speaker 8 (55:57):
I'm doing time.

Speaker 6 (55:59):
We're going to take care of those rams.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Yeah, what's your prediction, my friend?

Speaker 6 (56:06):
I'm getting Okay, I get it.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
I get it. Well, the Bucks have been a little
beat up. They've had some injuries, so you know, I
mean it's it's uh, it's a working probably. Here's the
other thing I don't ever hear people talk about. And
I was listening to the great Chris Mathis yesterday. I'm
my way out of here. He's a really good Yeah,
no doubt, but I don't hear anybody talking, even T
Kraz and the boys. I don't think it's great to

(56:33):
peak too early. I think teams can peak too early.
I don't think you want to be playing your best
football right now. I mean, obviously you have to win
enough games to make sure you're in the hunt, you
know what I mean. Because you lose a bunch now,
you can get to a point where you're just not
going to make the playoffs. You're out of it. So
you got to be playing pretty good. Okay, we're good,
We got to work on some stuff. I think you

(56:54):
want to peak a little later towards the end of
the season. You want to be playing your best football.
You want to be healthy down towards the end. She
can kind of get some momentum towards the end of
the season. Maybe you got to have some games where
you have to win, you know what I mean, Hey,
we lose this one, we're out. So you get on
that playoff mentality early, you get on a little bit
of a roll. You get healthy. The Buccaneers could be dangerous, yet,

(57:17):
I think everybody needs to stay tuned because I think
if they get healthy, they could they could do some damage.
Buccaneer John.

Speaker 6 (57:24):
Correct, thirty seven to twelve.

Speaker 1 (57:27):
Thirty seven to twelve thirty seven to twelve. You think
the Rams are gonna go twelve.

Speaker 6 (57:32):
No, thirty seven PRIs six for them six if we
can take care of that quarterback.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Yeah, Stafford's good. Stafford's good. Yeah, he is all right.
Buccaneer John. We appreciate you chiming in here, buddy, you're
the man. Appreciate you. It's out there. Thank you, buddy.
Thirty seven to six.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
And this is my take on what you're saying. And
I'm not big sports guy, right yep, I mean I
understand it. I'll like it, but you can if it's
hunting or football, you know where I'm at. If it's
fishing or football, you know where I'm at. I do
like watching the last quarter of a good game. But
when you say about being strong too early and that

(58:14):
kind of stuff, that's unacceptable in my eyes. I want
you to be one hundred percent every game if I'm
paying you.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
But you can't like a fish realistic. It's the football
where injuries happen if I.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
Was a fish, right, And my expectation of the fishing
day and we're going to fish, let's just say eight hours,
which I know you don't fish eight hours. I'm filming,
so we're eight hours fishing. And my expectation on you
as well. For probably four or five hours, we're going

(58:49):
to drive around. We're going to just look at fish
and not buy.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
You know.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
My expectation with a guide, and the same with a
football player basketball, if I was the owner, is one
performance the whole year, because you're already getting a few
months off. And I understand football, you know, it's it's
a contact sport, and you're gonna get hurt and you're
and you gotta get through that. I understand all that.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
The other thing you're talking about being you're talking about
being on for a day. Your experience with a guide
is for one day. Yeah, Okay. The NFL season is long,
playing seventeen games now, it's a long season.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
Just hard a short year.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
Yeah, but that way hard to be peaked for seventeen
weeks in a row. Almost nobody ever is one team
in the history of the game's been undefeated.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
What the best there's ever been? Never get injured?

Speaker 1 (59:49):
Well, that's true, good point, you.

Speaker 3 (59:51):
Know what I mean? Some of them? What do they
get injured?

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Yeah, he had some bad games. Bro Brett had some
bad games. Taken from a pack of fat. You had
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(01:02:23):
been fishing with me for years. Actually, a guy who
went to Costa Rica with us, joined us on a
Costa Rica trip as well, So gonna be good to
see him tomorrow. Get on the water, try to catch
him up a little bit. Should be a good week.
I'm looking forward to this week.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
We've just started the campaign of all the sales.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Oh Black Friday, Yeah, well.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
They call it Black Friday. I don't even think we're
opening that Friday.

Speaker 6 (01:02:45):
But.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
Every day is Black Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
Starting right away. We got one hundred and ten inch
power pole, move troll and motor. I think there's seventy
four hundred dollars retail. We're giving a five hundred dollar
credit if you buy that we got and you can
use that if you want to install it yourself, that's fine.
You can use that five hundred bucks to go to

(01:03:09):
Lithian Batteries regular batteries, you know, towards labor if I
need to install it. And also got some electronics there
we've only got four pieces. I saw a twelve inch screen,
a nine inch screen, and something else and all those
are well below lists. All our sunglasses starting at I
think twenty percent off on Maui Jim, thirty percent off

(01:03:32):
on Coasts, forty percent off on Behea.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
So you know sales throughout. That's all I can tell you.
To stop by the store.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
It doesn't have to be Friday. We're putting it all
on sale. I'm planning actually a different look for that
showroom come first of the year, about springtime. I'm working
on it now and getting rid of some stuff and
then bringing other stuff in so it should be a
whole new look.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
Love it, love it. Let's go to the phones here,
Let's get a Fisher important check in with a good friend,
Cat Ray, Markham Ray, how are you, buddy?

Speaker 10 (01:04:07):
Good morning guys, and I actill. Just wanted to call
and wish you guys that are very happy Thanksgiving and
just tell you guys that I am so thankful for
guys like yourself, that especially the veterans that we have,
that we can sit there and call a show like

(01:04:27):
yours or any other show and tell them exactly what
you think.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
No doubt. Thank you freedom and free, there's no doubt
about it. And during the holidays we tend to just
kind of immerse ourselves and our own families and our
own thinking and all. That's great, and it's it's a
great time to relax and be around family. But you
need to remember that not only just here, but abroad,
we've got men and women's service members serving this country

(01:04:52):
that are not with their families. They're out there doing
what they need to do for us to enjoy this freedom.
So don't forget to think about those veterans when you're
praying over your big Thanksgiving meal, your Christmas meal this year.
Throw them veterans from love because they they definitely.

Speaker 10 (01:05:07):
Earned it, for sure, that's for sure. And as far
as the fishing is concerned, I hope there's a great
game on every day because I know it keeps guys
at home and it ken and I can find a
little piece in quiet on.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
The water, no doubt, no doubt. Did you hear yesterday,
Did you hear Justin Moore? When Justin called? Because I
hadn't heard about that big, that big push of mullet
that came up from down in the glades.

Speaker 10 (01:05:40):
I did hear him. And you know, I hadn't talked
to Justin to talk to Scottie about it, but but
I think I might have mentioned to you guys, I
don't know, a month or two ago out behind Shelle Key,
I mean, I saw acres of the mullet, more mullet
than I've seen in years, I mean, ever since all

(01:06:02):
the red tide and everything. And they were there for
just a couple of days and then gone. But I'm
telling you, this last week is there back. They're here
and I don't know how long they're going to be here,
but probably until well end of the week when when
the next front comes and it really pops some nice

(01:06:25):
red fish with that. And I think some of the
guys I was with probably didn't really relate to that.
They were kind of like, we don't care about mullet,
you know, we didn't mullet, And I'm like, what's the
matter with you?

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
They're pretty they're pretty instrumental. I mean, if even in
talking with Justin yesterday, you know he said that the
guys that were fishing those mullet schools, Bill Miller was
saying the same thing because Bill had heard about it,
that the people that were actually fishing those mullet schools.
It was reminiscent of the big mullet on the East
Coast where they were catching tarpaul and catching sharks and

(01:07:04):
catching snook, and all kinds of fish were in with
those mullets, just like they are on that big push
a mullet that goes up the East Coast, the legendary
mullet run.

Speaker 10 (01:07:12):
I get it that they have, so I have never
seen a mullet run like I have on the East Coast.
I mean I remember times when this is probably going
back twenty five or thirty years ago, when I was
wadefishing in just inside the Saint Lucie Inlet with Mark Nichols,
and we were sitting there looking at acres of mullet

(01:07:34):
swimming towards us, and all of a sudden, apparently there
must have been some kind of a big attack with
snook and whatnot hitting these things. These fish were coming
out of the water and just charging. And Mike was
probably about one hundred yards up to the east of me,
and the sun was just barely coming up over the horizon,

(01:07:56):
and you could see all these mullet jumping. I mean,
they were haul and buggy, you know, and he he
put his hands up in front of his face because
he was getting hit. These mullet were just whacking him.
And it's like, but I'll tell you something, those were
the days because we were you know, four or five
pound trout was nothing over there. Ever since all of

(01:08:19):
that okachobee stuff started dumping out, it really has changed
the fishery. You know. The sea grass had pretty much
gone away. It's just beginning to come back. And and
the guys over there like Blair Wiggins and a bunch
of other guys, the CCIA and all planting grass and
putting in all kinds of mangroves and and clams and

(01:08:43):
that kind of thing to help improve the fishery. It's
been a huge boom to the business over there for fishing.
And slowly, slowly we're getting getting under the program over
here and things are maybe improving.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
At least, I hope so. So a lot of people.

Speaker 10 (01:09:01):
Growing up they've never seen it that way, and they
want to, you know, they want to experience it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
We want them to experience. A great call is always ray,
have a great holiday season. Always good to hear your voice,
great reports and great content. You always add to the show.
So have a good Thanksgiving and we appreciate you my friend.

Speaker 10 (01:09:18):
Thank you, buddy, same to you.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
Thanks very duck soon, good call, good call. Love that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
I think about that mullet run and the problem with
it is by the time it gets to this area,
the outlaws drop them gill nets well and bust that
nod up. The biggest problem we have with the fishery
is they still sell guill net, you know what I mean. Like,

(01:09:43):
we look at stuff and we've changed the law right,
And I'm not saying I was for it. I was
not for eliminating the net because it's you know, it's
just something people have done forever generations. But I will
say it's done good.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
But you still got the track.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
You still got the place right locally here that sells
guild net. Now, if you don't think their guild net
and you don't think they're gonna bust those mullet up,
I mean you're crazy, because that's what happens is you know,
do your research.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
No doubt. Let's go to Gary in Inglewood real quick. Gary,
what's up, buddy?

Speaker 7 (01:10:24):
Hey man, I want to talk about two weeks ago
Cold Front because I couldn't talk to you last week
about it, uhar we talked about that that Brohmer dropping
down and uh man, I tore them up that day.
I got out there on Sunday and uh tore them up.
I was only out for about an hour and a half.

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And then Monday I went out and it was blowing
so hard. I was drifting truss the grass last with
the wind, it was all I could do to retrieve
my bait. You know, before the boat running over, you
know your race, and I only I only literally went out.
I made one trip across the flat and I was like,
I'm going back in. I mean, it was fighting whitecaps

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all the way back anyway, but uh, you know, it's
it's it's it's always strange that that barma drops. You
might you might have a bunch a big, big bite,
or you might have nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
But it was it was good there. Yeah, it was
good there. Usually that moving barometer, it can be a
can be a godsend. It can turn the bite on,
especially if it's dropping that you know, they fish feel
that that front's coming, so you know, that's usually when
you get your best bite.

Speaker 6 (01:11:31):
Tuesday, the bite was it was done. Nothing I couldn't.

Speaker 7 (01:11:34):
Yeah, I got out there and got blown cold, and
it was like, yeah, I'm done here. Yeah, you're talking
about the mullet. Yeah, well, talking about the mullet. They
haven't been good down there since, uh since that super
bad red tide. I mean, I'd be laying in I'd
be laying in my bed at night, have to shut

(01:11:55):
the windows because they'd maake you up from slapping on the.

Speaker 5 (01:11:57):
Water so much. They were that thick hind the house.

Speaker 7 (01:12:01):
I'm serious.

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
Yeah, it's like clapping.

Speaker 7 (01:12:03):
Yeah, and uh, now we get excited, but we see
mun jump. Oh there's one.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Yeah. Well hopefully hopefully we got a big push that
came up from the Everglades. Hopefully that will help everybody
out a little bit and uh, you know, we'll get
some more of it. We saw some schools, like Ray
Markham was just saying, we saw some schools here this
fall where you know, there was there was some areas
I saw where the mullet were pretty thick, and we've
missed that a little bit here the last year or two.
So I'm hoping that we're trending in the right direction here.

(01:12:30):
Just hope mother nature leaves us alone and we can
get a break.

Speaker 7 (01:12:35):
Well, on a brighter note. I mean when we throw
the cast out for some bait, it's there's a lot
more finger mullet out there, so we know there's a
lot more juvenile fish.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
That's a bonus. Yeah, that's a bonus.

Speaker 7 (01:12:45):
Oh yeah, no, no, I am I don't even use
those for bait. I'm like, grow up, grow up, free,
grow up.

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it anyway, I get it right, man.

Speaker 7 (01:12:55):
The fish is good.

Speaker 6 (01:12:57):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:12:57):
I'm really excited because in four more I get out
of Medicare and that's gonna give me like another thousand
dollars a month.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
There you go, buddy, good stuff. Happy Thanksgiving number, Happy Thanksgiving.
I hear you, I hear you. We're not there yet,
but we're chasing your brother. We appreciate you calling the show.
You and you and your family have a great Thanksgiving
and h catch them up.

Speaker 7 (01:13:25):
All right, you guys, take care of tailines.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
All right, buddy, good stuff. There. We had another caller,
but hey dropped off.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
So what you got going this week? You got one?

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Yeah, I just got one day. I got one day
of fishing. Then I got a crown. I gotta go
sit in the dentist chair. Yeah, it's great, really fired
up about it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:45):
Always look forward to that.

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
Yeah, exactly, wake up that morning all cheery.

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
Yeah, I can't be there early.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Yeah, Hey, good to see you guys. Know, not really
not really happy about that, but it is what it is.
Got to take care of your chompers, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
I think I got you know, James Baggs. Yeah, James,
great guy taking him alligator hunting him and his song.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Are you Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
And I think next.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
Weekend it's supposed to be a little bit cool, right
going in and that is the best time, you know,
for the area I'm hunting, because I'm telling you it
hits sixty seventy degrees with the sun out. They come
up on the bank and kind of pick the one
you want. So I've had some bad luck recently with
some of the hunters, not me, I mean, but just

(01:14:35):
not being able to shoot a target, you know. And
it's hard when you think about it. You're shooting an
eyeball at seventy five yards. It's not the easiest thing
to do, but we've tried it. And then you've got
to go out there and try to snatchook them and
that kind of thing. But there is a monster on
this property I saw last time, and of course, you

(01:14:56):
know how sometimes your mind kind of plays games with you.
But I couldn't see his whole body, and I couldn't
see his head, but I could see his back legs
and where the tail was. And he had to be
a foot and a half with eighteen inches of tail
right there at the base, with a height of about

(01:15:16):
eighteen or twenty inches. Wow, because I could see that
coming up on the bank. So I'm hoping to you know,
thirteen footers or far and few between. Sure, I've gotten one.
Out of all the hunts I've done, I've gotten one.
Lots of twelves, twelve five's, twelve eighths, twelve six with

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the bobtail.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
That ain't thirteen. Thanks, Hopefully i'll bang another thirteen.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
A little Thanksgiving gator hunting.

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
Huh yeah, the day after and it's enjoyable.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
Good stuff, I'll tell you that. Yeah, good stuff, good stuff,
good stuff. I want to thank everybody who called in today.
Want to thank everybody who joined us on the Facebook
feed as well. We appreciate you guys. Want to thank
the great Derek Duobo's wish him and his family a
happy Thanksgiving. You and your family a happy thanks getting upstairs.
It's a little boozy. We all enjoyed that. I'm gonna

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listen to.

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
It on the way.

Speaker 1 (01:16:12):
Enjoy your football today. If you're headed for the water,
the fishing should be pretty good. The weather's good, man
really good, especially that nearshore stuff. It's setting up really
really good for that stuff. I want to put a
shout out to our good friends at Reese Windows and Doors.
If you're looking for new windows and new doors. They're
a company that's been in business for over fifty years.
That should say just about all it needs to say

(01:16:34):
here double lifetime warranty. Visit reesewindows dot com for more information.
Make sure if you're getting windows and doors, you give
recent opportunity to give you a bid. There, great company,
good people. So hope Jim Fogel feels better. He said
he was sleeping in today. I'm guessing he probably doesn't
feel all that well. So putting a shout out to
Bush Light and our good friends at Pepin Distributing. Also

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a great partner here at the Real Animals and the
team of Hony Company Radio show So tight Lines. Everybody,
have a great week. Enjoy your families, enjoy the football.
We will catch you on the other side. Catch them
up tight lines. We're out.