Bait casting reels and line weight. What are the pros and cons?

In this episode Doug talks about The Houston Fishing Show, some of the interesting people he has met, and the new products that are on display. Is it safe to say that in order to be competitive in the sport of fishing you need the new technology? You have to hear what Doug says about this. Which weight line is best for fishing? Well, that depends says, Doug. I would tell you but its best you hear it for Doug Pike. Doug, also taks putter fitting and club fitting when it comes to golf. Is loud music against the rules on the golf course? Doug, shares a story of a golfer who has to loud on the course. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now here's Doug Pike. Ready, A'm fire. You know, I
was laughing on my way between where am I? I
need that and I need this? I think I'm good,
kind of laughing on my way between my desk and
here into the actual studio. Hang on, I gotta go
move something here real quickly. And I was thinking about

(00:34):
a new game, Melvin, that we could play and it
would be is or is not the technology in the
studio working? And before I could even get sat down
in the chair, Melbourne let me know that our phones
currently are not working any luck yet none so great.

(01:00):
That's awesome right now? Yeah, get somebody on the phone.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I may test it. I've got my phone in here,
don't worry. I go through fifty plus every week basically
having to carry the entire hour. I'm going to see
if my phone will connect to our studios, just for
giggles seven one three two one two five seven ninety

(01:27):
and I'm calling it. I'm going to see what it does.
I'm kind of curious, A busy signal. That's just great.
If you also are getting a busy signal. If you're
trying to call, uh, let me know by email, I
guess or text if you have my cell phone number,
and we will relay that to the powers that be.
Let's see if we can't get this fix, it just

(01:48):
makes no sense. And I was kind of joking with Melvin,
half joking that I bet those phones will be fixed
before tomorrow morning. But I would like to be able
to to exchange some words with all of you. And again,
we can do it by email if we have to.
It's Dugpike at iHeartMedia dot com. But that is clumsy,
after all, it's not like a phone conversation. I wanted

(02:12):
to find out some more about how you fared out
at the fishing show. If you went, what you saw
that maybe I missed. I think one of the things
that I saw that was it was different. It was
just different. Is how many how many soft plastic lure
vendors there were there and still are for today? You

(02:35):
still got today if you haven't been out there yet,
and it's not the cheapest ticket in town, but you
get a whole lot for your money. I don't have
any problem at all justifying the ticket price for going
in there. Now you might want to circle the block
a few times to do better than thirty dollars for

(02:55):
parking in the garage down there. But all in all,
the fiftieth Annual Fishing Show lived up to the hype,
lived up to its golden anniversary above and beyond. I
think Don and Cindy Martindale did a fantastic job putting
people in there that all of us would like to see.
Oh look at that? Can you answer that? Ooh maybe

(03:21):
you can't. I can see the phone call coming in.
Can you see it? Or no? Oh wow? Okay, well
capm Scott hang up and call back. That's so close
to I can see it in here. I've got the
little I don't know what it's called, but I've got
it here. And unfortunately Melvin isn't able to answer the

(03:44):
call for some reason, but we are working on it
so it will happen. So back to the Fishing Show.
I went out there yesterday right very shortly after the show.
I had to hang around here and get a few
things buttoned up, but I went out there and just
met more peace, more people that I didn't know before.
I ran into some more people that I specifically was

(04:07):
looking for, and it worked out really well. I ran
into Chester more before he did his great white Shark seminar,
and he and I were talking about that and how
long they've been in the Gulf of Mexico and how
sophisticated the tracking is now on these things, and he
recalled one incident I can't remember from how long ago.

(04:28):
It probably pretty recent, though. There's a stretch of beach
he was on. I believe it was here in Texas,
I believe it was, And he and some researchers are
walking along and they've got very sophisticated tracking equipment on
these sharks. They've got tags on them that will tell
you exactly where they are and when and whatnot, and

(04:50):
just with little identifiable pings. And they were at one
place where there's a big sign on the beach, a
big sign on the beach it says, hey, there's great white,
great white sharks here. You better be careful, be careful
if you're going to get in the water here. Great
white sharks are around. And there were two young women

(05:14):
surfing at that spot, and right about that time as
he and whoever he was with were kind of discussing
that right about that time the little ping indicator bing bing,
And it turned out that within a couple of hundred
yards off the beach there was indeed a great white

(05:37):
shark that, according to its data when it had been tagged,
was probably about I don't remember exactly twelve thirteen feet long,
somewhere in there, and these two young women and just
oblivious to its presence, and it would have been probably
within a couple of hundred yards of them. Clearly potentially

(06:00):
bad situation, But the fact that it didn't become a
situation it confirms what I've said all along about being
in the ocean with sharks. If you get in the
water off the Texas coast, you're probably not very far
from a shark. Is it a shark that could eat you,
Probably not. Is it a shark that intentionally would bite you,

(06:25):
Probably not. Is it a shark with which you could
have an accidental or incidental encounter and maybe wind up
needing a few stitches? Eh, Still probably not. The odds
are overwhelmingly in our favor that we will not be
eaten by shark if we just step into the beach,

(06:46):
step into the water. At the beach, splash around, do
a little surfing, do a little fishing. Whatever we're doing.
Whatever we're doing in that surf, the odds are that
we are gonna come away just as happy and care
free as when we got in. Now, could it be,
could it be that something's gonna get you? Yeah, you're probably.

(07:09):
I would guess that the odds are greater for certainly
for being stung by a jellyfish. Possibly the I bet
the odds are almost about the same forgetting vibrio, and
then maybe stepping on a sting ray comes in still
more likely, I would think, than getting bitten by a shark.

(07:32):
It should. I've spent my entire life enjoying the surf,
enjoying the beach front all around the world. Actually, and
knock on wood, I've never had a serious encounter. I
was kind of laughing, who was it yesterday? I was
talking to somebody by sitting on my surf. I think
it was being Grimes and I were talking about this,

(07:52):
I believe, And I was sitting on my surfboard once
years and years ago. Typically muddy surf when the waves
get bit the siltan sediment and algae and everything else
in our Gulf of Mexico in the summertime, pretty pretty gnarly,
and you can't see through it. You just like look
it through chocolate milk. And I'm just sitting on my
surfboard waiting for another wave to come along, and something,

(08:15):
this was off surfside, something swam between my feet and
was touching both legs, the left leg and the right
leg while straddling a surfboard, so there's a pretty good
gap between the two. And it didn't just bounce off
in there. There was movement. I could feel the movement

(08:36):
of that whatever it was against both legs for about
I don't know what seemed an eternity. And as soon
as it finished being there and just disappeared, I just
kind of pulled my feet back up onto the back
of the board and paddled with my with my fingernails

(08:56):
in the water, and that was about it until I
got back on the beach, where I stayed for I
don't know, half an hour, maybe an hour to just
kind of let that soak in and let it be okay,
because nothing happened. But that was probably one of the
scarier things because I couldn't see what I was dealing with.
I've dealt with sharks in the water when I've been

(09:16):
diving and stuff like that, and when we were chasing
lobsters off Florida. If you saw a shark, the thing
we would do, if we had plenty of air and whatnot,
we just go to the bottom, Just go to the
bottom and kind of stay down there and be as
inconspicuous as you can. And we never were really bothered.

(09:38):
They would kind of come. I've seen all the videos
of people who actually study sharks and how close their
sharks come. I never did have one come that close
to me. Nothing that really nothing that really scared me,
nothing that made me super concerned. I found it more
fascinating just to see them in the water. They're amazing
looking creatures. They really are. Everyone of them, the big ones,

(10:00):
the little ones, uh nurse sharks are kind of goofy looking.
They're the they're the class clowns I think of shark.
Them the the sharks that have actually eaten people, though,
those are the ones that are the just their presences.

(10:21):
Their presence commands your respect and commands a little extra attention.
There's video now and now that the beach patrols are
using drones to make sure everybody stays away from sharks.
I've seen bunches of videos where they they've sent out
They've got loud speakers on some of these drones, and

(10:43):
they'll flat out and tell you, Hey, you're you're paddleboarding
or you're surfing or whatever, and there are one, two, three, four,
five great whites around you. You might want to not
around here. This is all West Coast stuff, but you
might want to come in a little closer. You might
want to get back on dry saying I was I
almost said the phone number. Melboyne just out of habit

(11:06):
and we're still locked down. Huh, we're still locked down.
We got Ben. He's handling everything for us right now, outstanding.
I think I've talked to Ben before. Is he in
like the far away place that can handle all this?
Or is he in town? I don't know, we don't
know where he is. Hate it. The area code is

(11:27):
not close to here, Is that it. I'll tell you
what we'll do. We'll go ahead and take this break
and hope that Ben can patch this up. Yeah. Ben
is in Tampa, Florida. Oh my gosh, Okay, that's the
place I would I'm not gonna say, I'd rather be there,
but if I had time to spend and nobody'd missed me,

(11:48):
I'd go to Tampa again. I kind of like it
over there. I like that whole state. I really do,
I really do. And they build houses that with stan
hurricanes way better than ours. Well yeah, way better than ours.
I don't know why out our homes can't be built
the same way. There's a lot of cinder block construction
over there. Just I mean, this is if it's like
Goldilocks and the Three Bears or no, yes, no it's

(12:12):
not Goldilocks. Who's the one with the straw house and
the Oh that's the three little pang three little pigs.
Yeah that's them. Yeah, we've got we got twigs and
they got bricks said they're yeah, their houses from here
and beams maybe yeah, maybe.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
So we are Sports Talk seven ninety. Listen online at
sports seven ninety dot com. Now more Doug Fight.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
All right, welcome back does might show on Sports Talk
seven ninety Sunday vision of the program. And we've got
all we're we're firing on off all cylinders now and
I'm happy to do so. Let me get Rick on
the phone. What's up? Rick?

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Okay, okay, we still having a lip. I'll take care
of that part. But them was fine.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
We got the mojo working just like muddy water, so
I don't believe it yet. Come on, so so okay,
you're gonna take him back? Do I need to put
him on home? You need to put him on home?
My word? Oh my word?

Speaker 6 (13:12):
We go?

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Now there we go. I know, whistle a happy tune. Rick,
We're here. We finally got it.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
I just call and see if I can get a
busy signal. But eck went through, and I've been I
tried to send you and Melvin the video last night
and it went through to Melvin, but yeah, it won't
go to you. So your phone must be tied in
with Ben somehow. But anyway, I sent you. I get

(13:47):
Melvin to send you that video if you can. Anyways, Now,
last night I took my I took I take three
guns every year this time of year, and I have
them clean professional don Smith, okay, because I'm gonna put
them away for til next year. And I hadn't really

(14:07):
even shot this one gun. It's it's a two forty three.
And I went to check one more feet yesterday evening
and guess what was there?

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Oh, there's too many, too many choices, but it's certainly
it must be something rare, is it? Felan?

Speaker 3 (14:31):
There was six big souths. What was amazing when I
watched them for a long time. There's no babies, huh.
And I'm talking two hundred pounders plus.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
I mean, this is big that won't lasts on the
ground soon enough.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
For the first time, this one didn't because I cut
her open. But I wanted to know. But the first
time I've ever I was in a deer stand or
a hunting stand, and I for the first time, I
guess my life. I shot a rifle with one hand
pulling a phone in the other to try to video something.

(15:11):
And you'll probably figure that out pretty quick.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
You're you are man.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
But anyway, but I'll tell you what I got. I'm
told I'm holding a little mag light in the mouth. Yeah,
it was that dark. And I managed to get two
backstraps off of her. I don't get unless I get
something sure, and it was going out. And I'll tell

(15:36):
you what I measured them. I'll try to send you
a picture of that. They were thirty six to forty
inches long. Wow, Holy caw, you know, just just think
about that, these big hogs.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, there's no doubt anyway, pretty good man outside this morning,
this weather update, and I'll let you go.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
There's this this wind down here is about I think
it's about thirty five. That's when I looked on my phone.

Speaker 7 (16:08):
Wall go.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
I'll tell you what it's going.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, I'm with you anyway. Well, I know y'all are
trying to catch up. I called just down all right.
Well anyways, uh, I hope your phones work. You'll have
a great day.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Talk to you late, you bet, Thanks for tuning up
for us. Rick, I'll see you, buddy. I see man,
all right there that goes okay, Yeah, the phone's knock
on wood. They seem to be working.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
That's so good. I'm so glad. I don't I don't
expect anybody in this audience would just love to hear
me talk for two hours. I don't see that happening, okay,
but I would have if I had had to, And
I wouldn't have said a word to any of you
if I found out that you listened for a little

(16:55):
while and then went and played Putt putt or something.
It's just that's fine. I don't have a problem with that.
So back to the fishing show where I was yesterday afternoon.
After the show, I did get to run into Chestermore.
I talked to him for a little while, and then
I ended up I ended up spending a pretty good
amount of time with David Pruitt with Riceland Waterfowl Club

(17:18):
about the upcoming waterfowl season. We talked a lot about
how his season had gone, and he he's out on
the west side, southwest side, way down, didn't just neck
deep in what used to be all waterfowl hunting ground
and now with the changes in agriculture, not quite so much.

(17:39):
But he said his groups did better than average this year.
There were a lot of people who didn't do much
at all with ducks this year and scratching their heads
places where there had always been ducks. But I had
a good conversation with David and he explained to me
why his groups had a little bit better life. So

(18:01):
we're plotting and planning stuff maybe for next year. I'm interested. Also,
I wanted to talk about bait casting reels and some
of the things I saw out there in the show,
and not just if they look like something that belongs
on a spaceship. They are sleek and pretty, they really are.

(18:23):
All these brand new reels. Holy Cow spent time with
with Hughes Andrew from Shamano and he was explaining to
me what they've done to their new reels to make
them better and slicker and cooler and faster and all
that stuff. And what I'm seeing I'm talking about bay
fishing reels, not offshore reels, not fly reels, any of that.

(18:47):
But the bay fishing gear generally is surprisingly small, surprisingly light,
which is that's a beneficial byproduct. Really, I think of
braided line. Since braided line came onto the scene and
you could get twenty pound strength for what six pound
diameter and thirty pound strength for eight pound mono diameter,

(19:11):
you don't have to have a big giant spool to
have enough line. You just don't anymore. And that makes
it possible to build the frame smaller. It makes it
possible to build all of that smaller and better. You
can put one hundred and fifty two hundred yards of
twenty thirty pound braid on a on a fimble practically,

(19:34):
that stuff it's been a game changer, no question about it.
And then with the introduction of better technology and gearing.
That's something Hughes and I were talking about with Shamano's reels.
The gears have more contact surface area as they turn
then they had not that many years ago. And all

(19:56):
of that just comes down to a better experience. In
Stone Ages where I grew up, you couldn't you. There's
no way you couldn't chase big bayfish at all with
less than ten pound line. And that would be boy,
if you were fishing ten pound mono, you were a
brave soul when you were out there chasing big bull
reds or big trout in the wintertime. There are a

(20:18):
lot of guys using twelve and fourteen, and there were
I could name five or six friends of mine who's
fished seventeen because their contention was always, well, you never
know when something really big is gonna bite. Well, if
you're worried about that, you don't worry too much because
if you can't if you're throwing seventeen pound, mahno, you

(20:41):
can't throw it very far and a big fish is
probably gonna leave before that lure hits the water right
at your feet. Well, the bottom line is back there
in the Stone Ages, we had to. We had to
fish a little bit heavier line because it was gonna
get nicked up and dinged up too, dragging jigs over
shell reefs and whatnot where the big old trout and

(21:04):
reds hung out. You had to have something pretty strong,
and that strength carried diameter, and that diameter made it
harder to cast farther. It took a bigger spool back then,
which required a bigger frame, and there hadn't really been
any what's that melbourne, what's the word for when you're
trying to do something that's more comfortable. It made like

(21:29):
desk chairs and all that. Ergonomics, that's what I'm looking for.
The reels now are ergonomically correct for fishermen. And now
some of you guys out there with big old meat
hook hands might feel like you're trying to hold onto
a little spool of thread in your hands with the
newer reels, but it's still it's way more comfortable. The

(21:50):
rods are lighter, everything's lighter same with the new rods, Lighter, stronger,
and they don't require as much maintenance thanks to better
quality materials top to bottom. Who was somebody was telling
me just the other day they'd gotten a bunch of
old rods out and we're doing maintenance on them. And
I thought, today, if you're buying contemporary stuff, there's not

(22:11):
a whole lot of maintenance required. Back when line guides
were stainless steel, before they even became ceramic, which is
almost all that's practically gone now, you had to check
your line guides every now and then for little nicks
and scrapes that would damage your line on the way

(22:32):
out and back. You didn't want that happening because that
would cause that line to weaken, and then of course
you're going to break it on a big old fish.
I got more stuff I want to talk about from
the Fishing Show. I'll do it when we get back.
Got to take a little break. Here, your rockets and
astros live here. We are Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
The conversation continues this as the Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
What's today's theme?

Speaker 7 (22:58):
No?

Speaker 2 (22:59):
What did Jean? Are we in here?

Speaker 5 (23:03):
We are just doing some strict blues and zydecoe?

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Okay, some Marti grass music. Okay, we're doing I'm still
waiting until you get to the classical music.

Speaker 5 (23:16):
Oh y, don't want to get into that, you know,
I think we did something like that a while back.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
We played one I think when who was it? Trey?
I think maybe was here We would play one classical
song like the First Break. Okay, coming back. You know,
I'm not suggesting that you do it again because I'm
not so sure my audience can take it again. But yeah,
let me go get Dave on the phone and see
what's up. Let me try hold on, let me try it.

(23:42):
That didn't work, let me put him back on holding. Okay,
here we go, tag team. Yeah, we're here, Yes, sir,
what's the hey.

Speaker 6 (23:51):
Melvin put some step Riedo on man because he was
a haller at Merrick Brothers hauling sheet right back of
the day, and he made a pretty big insidico.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Step rito. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (24:05):
Yeah, Well, I mean, you know, when you're hanging around
radio and all that, you do everything. Now, everything's going good.
I was up and up and for the celebration of
life for my wife's sister and it was a wonderful
event and everything and everything went good, you know, but uh,

(24:26):
this morning, when I get over here to the parking lot.
I sent a picture to you on your Facebook page.
There's a it's a black and white duck it looks
like it almost could have been a millet or something.
It's walking around in front of the barbershop, and up
there's some brig Yeah, this turns turned her nose up,

(24:50):
and I don't know, you know, And then I think
they would wait at the barbershop to get his feathers
feather you know, and so anyway, but now uh no,
but no, uh and back to uh oh the fishery show.
I don't I ain't gonna be able to make it,
you know. And then the next time next year, we
all you got next year, and you know, I just

(25:12):
need to get back to uh Willis over there and
take care of and I want to go with the
sun shining over here right now, I want to go
back here and.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Go out a rod, you know.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Turnby chilly. You better grab a jacket before you walk outside.

Speaker 6 (25:26):
Man, Hey, I got a full body suit, you know.
And if it starts raining, now all serious. And if
it starts raining, I put the other one on it,
because you know, we talked before about sometimes laws that
ain't lightning, yeah, or you know, we should be okay, yeah,
it's just and and the fish don't care whether it's

(25:47):
raining or not. No, hey, and you know, one thing
I want to talk a little bit about, especially on
the Lake conrod Is, you know, and I got taught
a lot the bull kids. That's a good place around
the dogs.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:01):
But then when you if you can get out there
and figure out where a it comes off of one
end of the land and it goes down and gets small,
like what do you call that living or whatever? You know? Yeah, well, now, yeah,
kind of sort of you know, kind of like a sky.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
Island, mosquit island over there.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
Sometimes it's underwater and sometimes it am you know, any
kind of structure that you can find around here, you know,
hit upon it. And then like let's say if you
go out of a Cago boat launch, you make a
right and you're going towards that bridge on thirteen seventy five,
just you can string a tryline right there from one

(26:48):
end to the other and drop it down and you
probably catch that fish or go on the other side
of on seventeen fourteen seventy five and you get over there,
and then and down there you go over there and
string you a trout line and then you know, you know,
just be careful, make sure you tag everything and do

(27:08):
everything legal and everything's gonna be okay.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
You gotta be yeah, you know what you got it?
Dial in, you gotta doal then, Dave, you know you did.

Speaker 6 (27:17):
I tell you. What's the funnest thing is when you
pull up to a troll line over there and you
start looking at at the line and like my uncle Lewis,
you say, is it jacing? And man, you see that,
you see it pulling? And then you start running down
there and one guy's on the back of the boat
and one guy's in the front of the boat, and
you're making sure you're not going to get hooked. And

(27:38):
then all of a sudden, there.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
It is a calf here comes up out of the water.

Speaker 6 (27:44):
They grab them net grab the net. Oh, water department.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Hey, let me get out, all right.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Man, I'll see Dave. Is that what he was talking about,
That's what he was talking about stepping on? Yes, indeed,
what's that guy's name? Step roll step roof. That's close
enough for me, man, close enough for me too. Yeah,
log that one. We might have to come back to

(28:11):
it sometime. Who knows. Seven one three, two one two
five seven ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
Quickly back to the Fishing show, and then we got
we did out all kinds of stuff I could talk
about today, what I saw, what I kind of felt.
When I was out at the show, I was kind
of asking myself, what am I looking at here? Okay?
What am I saying? And what we're looking at at

(28:33):
every fishing show, all fifty of them now, and once
this one's put to rest, all fifty of these shows,
and every other consumer show really, because they're showing the
newest and greatest and hippos and coolest and all of
that stuff, they're just what they are is snapshots into
the future. Okay, and I don't mean just those products.

(28:54):
But what it is not everybody's gonna not everybody at
the show is gonna race out and by the latest
and by default almost the most expensive gear. But the
technology in the most expensive stuff there now is what's
going to be the affordable stuff in six or eight years.

(29:15):
And the technology is still going to be just as
good as it is today. It will just have been
replaced by something a tiny bit better that's going to
be shown it that year's trade show, that year's fishing show,
that year's whatever show, and it's just that's something that's
just been going on forever and ever it has and

(29:37):
all of these things. I've been to so many fishing
shows I watched, I watched Dacron get replaced with quality monofilaments.
Monofilament gave way to I guess now, you name it,
we come up with. The braid really is mostly fishing
line now. And then you've got leader materials that have changed.

(29:59):
You've got rod components that have changed. Everybody has different favorites,
everybody has different everything. But what's in there now, If
it's in your budget, it's great and glad to have it.
If it's not in your budget, though, start saving a
little bit of money in in a year or so,
maybe two, you'll be able to afford this technology, and

(30:23):
it's still going to be as good as it is today.
It will just have there'll be something behind it that's
kind of pushing it off the shelf. And that's the
way fishing is always going to be. There's always going
to be something a little bit better, a little bit better.
That's how everything that's cars, that's washing machines, that's clothes

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and shoes, that's everything, everything gets a little bit better. Boats,
outboard motors, all of that stuff, but it's all all
of the stuff that's brand new today, there's still going
to be perfectly functional. That's why if you take good
if you buy good gear, if you invest in good gear,
it will last you a very long time, and it

(31:06):
will it will be well worth holding on to and
well worth taken care of, because it's it's still gonna
be just as good as so long as you're taking
care of it and either maintaining it yourself or getting
it maintained every now and then. It's nothing unique. It's
just out with the old end with the new. Talk
to Josh Biles from Breakwater Electronics too about all this

(31:30):
forward looking sonar and and how saltwater fishermen took a
little while to come into the party, but now it's
it's it's almost to the point where if you don't
have it, you're you're backing up. And I'm not a
super fan of it. I really I still prefer to
fish and not just right around looking for something to

(31:55):
drop a bait too. But then again, that does it
for an hour or two in today. Yeah, I could
see doing that, but I don't have any problem. I'm
still old school enough that I don't have a problem
at all, just casting and just chunking wine, chunking wine
all day long if I have to just chunking wine

(32:16):
and hopefully get a bite. I don't know of any
of the bay guides down south who are using that now,
because the water's so skinny, you really, I don't think
it will function as well down there, But I know
Captain Scott's got it on his boat. He was one
of the first down there in the bays and along
the beachfront to use it. And he and I just

(32:39):
idled up and down the Port O'Connor jetty one day,
have my son in the boat with us, and it
was really fascinating to see what that technology sees. And now, man,
now as I'm talking to Josh about it, the transducers
are a couple to a few thousand dollars. I'mwhere in there.

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But the money, he said, is in those screens. The
money can go from a few thousand dollars to twelve
or fifteen if you want a really big screen and
get that super sharp, clean look and be able to
tell everything about the fish, starting with species. It's just
you can tell exactly what you're looking at. That's why

(33:22):
these bass GUIDs are using it. They can they can
tell the difference between a big catfish and a big bass.
They can tell the difference between white bass and crappie.
And if you're a bass fisherman, and if you're a
tournament bass fisherman, everything you can figure out about what's
down in front of you and behind you and next
to you and whatever, everything you can figure out just

(33:42):
puts you better in better position to maybe win a tournament.
I don't really like it for tournaments because and it
certainly it eliminates it. It's so effective that it just
eliminates anybody else's chances who doesn't have it on their boat.
It really does. There's no way that it competitive fishing
with and without that technology can can be considered to

(34:08):
be on equal footing. We got to take a break.
We are sports Stock seven ninetyes.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
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Speaker 2 (34:22):
By, Welcome back you. Sports Off seven ninety Sunday morning,
final day of the fiftieth Annual Fishing Show. It's it's
still it's still very fresh in my mind from yesterday's
walk through the aisles again and like I said, earlier
that One of the things that really caught my attention
most was how many soft plastic dealers there are in

(34:45):
that show, which makes it kind of a buyer's market really,
if you want to if you want to get some
stock up, stock your tackle box and the garage too,
for before we really get deep into fishing time here,
now'd be the time to do it, because they really
don't want to take all that. They don't want to
have to ship them back, they don't want to have

(35:06):
to drive them back. And I think a lot of
those vendors out there, if today is anything like the
previous forty nine fishing shows, they'd rather sell it to you,
and possibly even a little discount if you're going to
buy a good amount of it. They'd rather sell it
to you than have to pack it up and haul
it out of there. So just keep that in mind

(35:28):
and be respectful, though, don't try to bamboozle them out
of something for nothing, because there is value and everything
in there, and they do have hard costs associated with
making these lures, though they're not going to just give
them to you. But you could probably cut a deal
if you were going to If there's a favorite color

(35:49):
you have or a favorite style or brand or whatever
it's represented. I'm pretty sure at that fishing show and
they'll work with you. I bet. I'm I'm almost positive
of that. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com. I met
a guy named Tim Kretchie from Slicksticks Too. It's their

(36:11):
trailer lights, and he told me the story of how
the company got started, and it's an interesting story if
you if you happen to see this thing they're called
slick sticks, you'll you'll recognize them. He's got a pretty
good display out there, and he said he just kind
of started it because he wanted something for his own
trailer to do what Slicksticks do. And it's just one

(36:34):
of these genius ideas that came out of somebody's head
and he fine tuned it once he went from aluminum
housing to plastic and started getting it molded and lo
and behold a whole lot of people apparently like those things.
If you don't have them, you might want to take
a look. He's kind of where you where you first

(36:56):
go into the show. He's either on the urged or
second aisle, going deep into the show and all the
way toward the back, almost all the way toward the back,
and you'll you'll find him. And you can always go
over to the show office that's at the kind of
the caddy corner to the main entrance. You have to
go all the way back there to find out where

(37:17):
something is, but you can find out where it is
if you do that. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety email and Medugpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
We only got a couple of minutes more in this Melbourne.
You want to have it just for giggles and the
audience can play along at home or wherever, driving around
whatever you want to. Take a swing at the Texas
temperature map. Yeah, why not? Think you're tough enough. Yeah, okay,

(37:40):
so you know you you drove in. You know what
the weather's like outside, right, Yeah? Okay, Melvin, for let's
see if I got any money in my pocket, not
enough to not enough to wow you. So let's don't
worry about that. Yeah, Lynn, God, probably probably more of
that than money these days. All right, So, what do

(38:02):
you think is the current low temperature in the state
of Texas right now?

Speaker 5 (38:06):
Low temperature in the state of Texas. Let's go thirty one,
thirty one? Okay, what do you think is the current
high temperature in Texas?

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Current high temperature? I would say, let's do sixty three.
You're way better at high temperatures than low tempts. I'm
just gonna tell you straight up. Okay, so my blood
pressure sixty sixty three for a high you only miss
by two. Woo, sixty one is actually the high? Okay?

(38:39):
Then that didn't you just just start walking? Okay? What
about the low? Let's oh yeah, you said thirty one
the actual low temperature. And this is I don't know
exactly when I snapshoted this map, but it's no. Actually,
I think I just did take it up. Let me
make sure it hadn't changed, because that might help you
a little bit. No, too bad, same temperature up in

(39:00):
You gotta remember it's a tall state and there's a
big old coal front coming down. It's blowing out twenty
five miles an hour out of the north and all
the way up in Dalhart, the current temperature is ten
what it's ten degrees in Dalhart. One more reason I
don't live in Dalhart. That in the nine hour drive

(39:22):
to the beach. I'm not making that either. Oh boy, yeah,
I can't. I can't even I can't even fathom living
in the interior of the United States more than about
maybe eighty miles from a coastline somewhere. That'd probably be
my limit, because if conditions along the coast are right,

(39:44):
I'll still get in my car and go. I'll see
as long as that. My rule is, if I have
a chance to go fishing and conditions say that, I
should go fishing, if I can squeeze out at least
as much time as the tall will drive down and
back to be there. For example, it's about an hour

(40:06):
and ten minutes for me to drive to the beach
from my house either Gallison or surf site. It's about
the same same distance. So if I can get two
and a half hours of fishing time out of the
deal before dark or whatever time is before I have
to come racing back for a baseball game. That used
to be an issue sometimes. But the bottom line is,

(40:27):
if I can get twice, or if I can get
the total amount of drive time down in back time
on the water, I'm going and just let the chips
fall where they may, and every now and then when
I would go down to the jetty so often every
now and then, it might not turn out to be
as good as I had hoped it would be. But
still just being down there is just that's medicine for me. Man.

(40:50):
That's salt air and just being just listening to the
waves and being around people catching fish. Maybe everybody's getting them,
maybe nobody's getting them, but we're all down there fishing.
We're all chilling. You don't see a whole lot of
fistfights on the jetties. These people are just kind of chilling.

Speaker 7 (41:07):
Now.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
I've seen people kind of get in start yelling at
each other and almost somebody crossed your line or somebody
got in your way or whatever, and there'd be guys
kind of get their feathers ruffled a little bit. But
for every one or two guys who had their feathers ruffled,
there were about thirty going, hey, chill out, we're fishing.

(41:28):
You know, we're all just down here trying to catch fish.
If that guy's throwing over your line and he won't move,
why don't you move. The jetties like seven or eight
hundred yards long, it's not like you can't find another spot.
And if you fished it long enough and hard enough,
and knew it as well as I used to back
in the day. You knew exactly where to go stop.

(41:49):
There were some pretty sneaky ways to figure. That's kind
of funny that I'm thinking about this right now, because
there were guys I knew, and maybe or maybe not,
I did it every now and then. There was at
one point there was this handrail all the way out
the jetty, that great big project of the Corps of Engineers. Fantastic.

(42:10):
Oh man, I'm gonna have to do that when we
get back. I got to finish that story when we
get back. I'm almost running out of time for Melvine.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
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Speaker 2 (42:26):
Now here's Doug Pike. Second hour of the program starts
right now. Melvin and I were just talking off the
air about how it's ten degrees in Dalhart and I've
been in colder places. I've been in colder places on
elk hunts. I've been in colder well mule deer hunts.
We didn't see it l A couple of us had

(42:47):
permits for but this one particular trip, it was sub
zero stuff and not anticipated. But the front came through early,
as they sometimes do. And anybody who talks about how
it is in Minnesota or Wisconsin or Michigan or any
any state along our northern border needs it to just

(43:10):
try to remember that there's an entire nation of people
who live north of the United States, and it's just
that's just way too cold, man. It feel was up
to me and you, Melvioyn, there probably wouldn't be anybody
living north of I twenty. It just be desolate land.

(43:32):
I can't hear you. I said, you got that right? Yeah, amen,
I have no desire to live. I'll go visit the snow.
I'll go visit ice It's someday i'd be cool to
see at Iceberg. That'd be interesting at least, But I
couldn't live in that. I couldn't live in Alaska. I
as beautiful and awesome and amazing as the terrain is

(43:55):
up there, just the landscape, the fisheries, all it has
to offer, the hunting it has to offer, all of that,
I couldn't live in that cold.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
I'll do the Iceberg as long as it's in a cup. God,
it's a tiny iceberg, a little baby iceberg, just like
what a lett octane on it in it start melting
it down. Are you a fan of those ice balls
that people are using now to cool their cocktails? No,

(44:27):
I'm like whatever, you know, it's just gimmicky. Man, It's
a piece of ice. It's no different than a cube
really in function and purpose. But it's it's hip and chic.
So now even refrigerators can make ice balls that you
can put in your I'm I'm not gonna touch that one.

Speaker 6 (44:46):
Now.

Speaker 5 (44:47):
Is this sort of like a like a what they
call it a the hot ice to where it creates
the fog and make it looks No, no, no, we're.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Just talking about special ice makers that make balls of
ice about the size of a golf ball or maybe
a little bit bigger, to drop into your your cocktail. Glass. Man.
That's fancy. It's very fancy, you know, but it's still
it's ice. Yeah, it's ice.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
There's some refrigerators that'll make those for you now, and
you can get ice trays and little there's these little
molds that you can get their rubber molds and you
just they kind of pop apart. But there's a hole
in the top and you just pour water into that hole.
Then drop that thing into the freezer. Well, set it
in the freezer. Don't drop it, the water will fall out,

(45:36):
but you set it in the freezer. And then a
couple hours, three hours later, I don't know how long
it takes that stuff to freeze. But later you go
back and you open it up and you can drop
that ball of ice. It's a snowball with no air
in it. Look at it that way. Seven one three,
two two five seven nine. Email me Dugpike at iHeartMedia

(45:59):
dot com. Let's go talk about the Genesis open Genesis invitation,
will excuse me, ongoing at Torrey Pines out west out
there in San Diego. Beautiful part of the country. Great
weather out down there. That water is still too cold
though any place you always have to surf in a wetsuit.
No uh. And we talked, you know what, We talked

(46:20):
about surfing quite a bit yesterday with the the unofficial
the private opening yesterday of the Galveston Surf well, the
Texas Surf Museum in Galveston. And once they get the
doors officially opened, I want to say it's about on
the eighth or so or the fifth of March. I'm
gonna I'm gonna run down there. I might be able

(46:42):
to sneak in. I may have to call Ellis Pickett
back and do it. See if I can do that.
Back to the Genesis for a minute. Patrick Rogers looking
to do something he hadn't done yet and win himself
PGA Tour event. He's at eight under par going out
this afternoon, uh, leading only by one shot over Denny McCarthy.

(47:03):
Ludwig Oberg at six under par, is in alone in
third place. And then you got Tony Fenaw at four,
Patrick Cantley, Tommy Fleetwood, there's another guy who needs to
win on the PGA Tour and is bound two, we
just don't know when. And then a guy named Davis Thompson,
with whom I'm not terribly familiar. They're all tied for

(47:25):
fourth at four under par. I think any of those
guys has a shot. Anybody from T four back up
to the top got a good shot. There are a
lot of guys at three at Chavaria mcneee, Todd, Justin
Thomas's three under Roy McElroy, three under Scotty Scheffler, three

(47:45):
under after shooting seventy six yesterday. That I heard some
guys on the PGA Tour Network talking about that this morning.
Scheffler is seventy six yesterday kind of follows a trend
where on Thursday he went out and wasn't playing to
Scheffler like standards, but he got a lot of breaks

(48:07):
and he hit some really good shots that ended up
not getting close but going into the hole. So he
caught up with himself and scored better than he played
on Thursday, and then yesterday he had caught up with him.
That's what the announcer I was listening to on PGA
Tour Network said this morning. It just kind of caught

(48:29):
up with him. He shot seventy six, which isn't good.
Ry McElroy didn't do much better. He shot seventy four yesterday,
So those guys find themselves only five shots off the lead.
That's not an insurmountable lead for anybody. And for a
guy who's there feeling potentially uncomfortable or anxious about sitting

(48:52):
there at the top of the leaderboard walking out today,
who knows what could happen to him. I hope he
does well. I hope he plays runs the table, go
ahead and win, kid, Good luck man.

Speaker 6 (49:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
It's a very limited field event, by the way, and
there weren't but I want to say fifty four players
who made the cut, and they only cut sixteen or
seventeen people. I don't know why. I don't know why
they didn't just go ahead and leave it full field.
They're doing these kind of limited field events for a purpose,

(49:28):
but that purpose I don't think is being served by
by having a cut when you've only got seventy people
or so in the start, and the only people I
think who might benefit from the cut are the people
who let me see who it was this time. Yeah,
maybe ra Rasmus Hayguard he was plus fifteen, Sepstraka and

(49:51):
Byong Hunaan both well yeah, and one more Adam hadwin.
Those three guys were ten over through two rounds, and
maybe maybe they woul maybe that you make it voluntary
as to whether you want to play over the weekend
or not, but if you're in that cut line area,
Jordan Speed didn't make the cut. He finished plus six. Man,

(50:12):
these guys are these guys are not off to great starts.
Some of the household name guys, they'll come around. Jordan
Speak's played a little bit better last week than he
is this week, or than he did this week since
he missed the cut. Yeah, I think you could have
kind of a mercy killing for the guys who are
plus fifteen plus ten after two rounds. They're not gonna

(50:32):
win anything substantial, and the only thing that does is
is say the PGA Tour, what fifteen guys at that level,
whatever it was, and maybe fifteen twenty thousand dollars a piece,
which is what the guys who barely make it through get.
But they still get money, and it's still the PGA Tour,
and that money is better than better than most places

(50:55):
they could be playing golf. I admire those guys because
it's a very difficult lifestyle. I've known over the years
quite a few younger and older guys who still make
a living at golf, and they'll be the first to
tell you being on the road as much as they
are is very tough. If they're gonna go play somewhere,

(51:16):
they're gonna probably have to play in a qualifier, which
means they got to be there long before Thursday. They're
gonna have to play in that Wednesday pro am not
a qualifier, but a pro am. They're gonna have to
play in that Wednesday pro am or they're gonna have
to subject themselves to what I used to get to
host when Michelle Houston Open was a thing up there
at Golf Club of Houston, and that was a night

(51:37):
when the club members, the people who were giving up
their golf course for a week, club members were able
to meet a few of the PGA Tour players and
hear them answer my questions. And I think we had fun,
I really do. I think the people enjoyed that. They
told me they did. Anyway, I tried to keep it
pretty light and I tried not to just ask golf

(51:57):
related questions, and it made it pretty exciting, I think,
and pretty interesting because I took these guys out of
their comfort levels a little bit and ask them questions,
not personal questions, but just things that they weren't asked
at every venue they went to. And if you if
you subjected yourself to that two or three hour ordeal

(52:17):
and that included about twenty thirty minutes of questions, you
didn't have to play in the Wednesday pro am. You
could sleep late and maybe get in a little practice
round later in the day, A mercy another break time already,
Holy cow.

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Friends.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
You've got to try. The conversation continues this as The
Doug Pipe Show nine twenty on Sports Talk seven ninety
The Doug Pip Show. Thank you for listening. I certainly
do appreciate it. Before I get to Mike real quick,
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(52:57):
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(53:21):
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(53:43):
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from a position of somebody who's a lifelong Houstonian who
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it's represented and who represents it. And and I take

(54:06):
good I take my job here seriously when I'm talking
to clients. I really do. So if you want to
want a piece of this pie, you just jump right in,
jump right in with me, and I'll take care of you.
What's up? Uh, it's not gonna work, is it. Try
and help me out, Melvin. There we go. What's up?

Speaker 7 (54:23):
Mike morning, young man?

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Good morning.

Speaker 7 (54:26):
We got to stop meeting like this. Why I want
to edge of Makatia on adult beverage consumption, Yes, sir.
Uh for those people that like to sip cold drinks
instead of gulping them down, there's a product called ice

(54:46):
rocks r O c K. S Okay you're keeping the fridge,
uh and drop them in your uh.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Containing hocktail glass.

Speaker 7 (54:57):
And uh, they don't dilute, they don't melt really, they
stay cold forever. And you can reuse them forever. I've
been doing it for years. I haven't had ice in
a drink and I can't remember how long.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Holy cow, where do you find these things? What planet?

Speaker 7 (55:18):
They're on the internet? Look up ice rocks, ice rocks
and you should be able to find them. Other than that,
That's about all I got.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
No, don't you jump off now? What are they made of?

Speaker 4 (55:31):
You know?

Speaker 3 (55:31):
To me?

Speaker 7 (55:33):
I got to tell you I haven't had one of
the packages for a long time because I've been using
them for so long. Yeah, they feel like an absolute,
perfectly round rock that's so smooth. You know, it feels,
you know, smooth in your hands.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
And then you just leave that in the freezer and
that thing maintains its cold temperature even if you put
it in something room temperature.

Speaker 7 (55:57):
You bet they and they're dishwashing the Lord, and they
last forever. I've got the same, you know, walls I've
been using now for probably twelve years.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
We'll be darned.

Speaker 7 (56:11):
And you know, I like to enjoy my bourbon when
I sip it, I like to taste it. I don't,
you know, drink more water at the end.

Speaker 6 (56:21):
Of the yea.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
That's a good point bottom.

Speaker 7 (56:23):
As a glass, right, I mean, right, that's all I
got here.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
All right, man, Thank you, Mike enjoy I'm enjoying as
we speak. Thank you, Yes, sir, Well Melboyne, there's your answer.
I'm looking it up right now. Yeah, I mean, I
don't drink a lot of bourbon. I hadn't. I can't
tell you the last time I did. Matter of fact,

(56:47):
I'm not a drinker. Every now and then I'll have
a glass of wine or something, but I'm talking like
going a year, two years, right, whatever, doesn't. I just
don't anymore. And I grew up all my bartending days
I watched so many grown men do stupid things just

(57:08):
because they didn't stop when they should have, get in
fights over pretty girls and just end up both of
them with bloody noses and getting thrown out into the street.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
And.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Then for what you know. So anyway, I'm thinking it
would be good for my cranberry juice. Yeah, there you go,
cranberry juice. You hold your little pinky app when you
drink it. Good heavens, Actually, cranberry juice is pretty good.
I'll give you credit for that. I wouldn't turn it

(57:41):
down if I was at your house and you said Hey,
you want some cranberry juice. I'd say, yeah, let's go.
But it's just right out of the fridge. That'd be
fine with me. We don't have to put a rock
in it, right and be okay. It is interesting though,
all that stuff that's out there. Man, little things come
people come up with, kind of like kind of like
Tim's trailer lights. Okay, that's it was an idea that

(58:04):
he had and he I just sat there and listened
intently to his story because I love to hear the
stories of successful small business people. That's something else I
can do. I love doing that for my sponsors. I
got to make a couple of phone calls, in fact,
and get a few more of them on the air.
I got some new guys. I need to get Mike on.
That's what I'm gonna do, is get Mike Mercado and

(58:24):
I'll get him to do his interview on this show,
maybe not fifty plus or maybe fifty plus or maybe both,
and let him tell his story about how he got
into the jam and jelly business, because that's not that's
not something that just rolls off the tongues of lots
of people. But he's a good guy. He's an avid outdoorsman,
and he just he had a talent for doing that.

(58:49):
He had a talent for doing that. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Email me Doug Pike
at iHeartMedia dot com. Back to golf for a couple
of minutes. Something else these guys were talked talking about
on the PGA Tour Network this morning was club fittings,
and specifically putter fittings, which are they're very popular now

(59:11):
you can go into these the club fitting places and
get fit for putters. But what these two and between
these two guys, they've probably got seventy five or eighty
years of teaching experience. And one of them said, and
the other kind of agreed that with the putter, if

(59:31):
you have the wrong one in your hands, you're not
going to have as much difficulty overcoming a bad swing
as you are with any other club in your bag.
Anything you're full swinging. If you have the wrong one
in your bag and you're not tightened up to it,
it may take you off into the woods. It may
keep you out of the fairway constantly. You might be chunking,

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you might be all kinds of things that can go
really bad. You lose distance, you lose accuracy, and it's
magnified by fifty eighty one hundred, two hundred three hundred
yards for you young guys who can whip it around
like that. But the putter is it's subtle and you're
not gonna hit. What they were saying, and I understand

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what they're saying, and I kind of go along with it.
If you have a petter that you absolutely love and
for a short time or all of a sudden, you
just can't seem to make a putt with it, it's probably
not the putter. It's something that's going on in your head.
It's something that's going on. You might have moved your

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hands slightly on the grip and whatever it is. If
you still love that putter, you can probably work your
way out of it. You can probably regain whatever control
you had lost with it. So I like the idea
of getting clubs fit. Don't take me wrong. I love it.
The irons that I'm hitting I was fit for several

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years ago, actually, and I've been so comfortable with them
and so confident with them that I really haven't I
haven't thought about gidding them changed. I'm kind of now
starting to think about doing that, about maybe going ahead
and getting fit again, because thanks to my buddy Tommy
O'Brien out there at Blackhawk, my swing to him and

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on video is almost unrecognizable from the swing I was making,
say four or five years ago, when I got those irons,
and it's still it's a better swing now, there's no
question about it. My ball flight is one hundred percent different.
I used to hit everything low. I just I couldn't
get the ball in the air. Couldn't figure out why.

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But I could get it from the tee to the hole.
And I wasn't playing badly. I had a pretty decent handicap,
and for a while it kind of got away from
me and I couldn't figure out why. And I got
some help from Tommy and Lo, and behold, I'm hitting
the ball higher and farther and straighter than I was

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four or five years ago. And that I didn't think
was going to be possible, because I haven't gotten any
younger in those five years. I haven't gotten any stronger
in those five years. That's my own fault, but I haven't,
and in fact, I've probably lost a little more clubhead speed.
But what he showed me incrementally has been. It's invaluable.

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It really has. I picked up. And that's the way
a good teacher will teach you too, his little bitty things.
I caught myself the other day. He said, now, once
you get this done, i'm gonna I'm gonna show you
one more step, and I said, I want to know
that step now. I want it. I want it all.
I want to get it all in my head so
I can start practicing it all. He goes, no, you

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gotta wait until you get this part done before I
introduced the other part, because it's it's gonna be too
much if we try it, and so sure enough, I
just kind of backed off and we stuck with one thing,
one thing, one thing that day and then I've practiced
it a couple of times. I don't get to practice
as much as I would like to. I work a lot,
and that takes up much of my former golf practice time.

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But the next time I saw him, we added that
last element and it's it's really helped, it really has.
I can't tell you. I'm pretty excited. I'm gonna play tomorrow.
That's the plan. Anyway, I'm gonna play tomorrow with the
same group of older guys, and hopefully, hopefully I'll hear
from from Jason Fordenberry from over at Primo Doors. He
said he might be able to play tomorrow, and if

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he can, I'll call another client and see if I
can get somebody to join me. And fingers crossed, if
I can actually get out there, it's gonna be kind
of chilly. If I can make that swing that I've
learned from Tommy, and I can make it repeatedly, That's
the key to any golf swing. You got to it's
got to be repeatable. One good swing doesn't help at all.

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You got to do the same swing every time, and
then you can dial in whatever you want with that
same swing. We'll take a break.

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at sports seven
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Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Now the more Doug Bike nine thirty seven on Sports
Talk seven ninety The Dutch Pike Show pads forward. I
feel like I ought to be cutting a slice of King.

Speaker 5 (01:04:25):
Cake right now. That makes sense, lots of sense. Yeah,
you know Mardi Gras is right around the corner, is it?

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
When? Is it exactly? Do you know when it is
here versus when it is in New Orleans? Or are
they saying this, hold on, let me double check. Yeah,
take a quick look. Let's see what we got from
Marty Gurraw, like the end up eating a few seconds,
and what Marty Gras is for Galveston, Marty Gras represents
a time when you don't want to try to drive
down there to go fishing because you'll never get there.

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And on top of that, I hope they do something
about the construction on the causeway or the whatever it
is that's been causing lane closures alternate lane closures on
the causeway, because I have heard some real horror stories
about trying to get down there and trying to get back.
Occasionally people talking about it taking hours, not an hour,

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but hours to navigate. And honestly, from where I am
and on the west southwest side of town, pardon me,
it makes a whole lot more sense to just go
to eighty eight all the way to Surfside and then
hang a left and go across the bridge and just
at least keep moving the whole time. I would rather

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circumvent the straight line route to anywhere, and maybe it's
gonna take me even a little bit more time, but
just keep moving. I'm really bad about that. If there's
a plug on the freeway somewhere where I can't, I
know it's going to take a while to get through.
I will get on surface streets and I will drive.
I know this town pretty well, I dare say, like

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the back of my head, I really do. I've lived
here most of my life. I can. You can drop
me in anywhere in town, and I can find my
way home without ever getting on a freeway. You're ready
for what I forgot? We got the Mardi Gras.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, Well you know every day
in New Orleans is Mardi Gras.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Well, that's a good point.

Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
So but officially, let me see, I think it starts
February twenty first, okay, and it goes on for two
weeks and then we hit Mardi Gras Day, so next week, yes,
holy cow, here we go. And then we have this
weekend in Galveston, same thing, February twenty first, way too,

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March fourth, and uh yeah, lots of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
Interesting story about Marty Gras in New Orleans. Okay. There
is someone I know who used to work for a big,
a big national chain of stores that has locations in
New Orleans, in and around in Louisiana, up and down,
all over Louisiana, all over the country really, And when

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Marty Gras came along, the stores tried to remain open,
but the employees gathered up and said, nah, we're not
coming until Marty Grass over, We're not coming to work.
And they wrestled with that for a long time and

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considered booting all those people. But when they were interviewing
trying to get some of those people replaced who wouldn't
come to work for Marty Gras, and they asked the
applicants about their feelings on Marty Gras, you know what
they got. Yeah, we're not showing up. Yeah, Marty Gras.
Now we'll be Marty grawing or whatever they call it.

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I guess what do you call it? If you're participating
in Marty Gras, were you called other than drunk spectator? Spectators?

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
You ever watch cops? Yes? You ever seen the poor
New Orleans policeman trying to keep order in the French Quarter.
It's on Bourbon Street, it's embossis, Yes, it is exactly
at that point. I just you know, well, I'm never
gonna find myself in that position. I wouldn't put myself
in that position, because it's potentially dangerous.

Speaker 5 (01:08:24):
In order for them to actually patrol on Bourber Street,
I would think that they need to be drunk as well,
just to actually be in the same mind state.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
That's not gonna work out well, Melvin. You might want
to rethink all that, you know, just a little bit
of it. I have a lot of friends in the
New Orleans Oh my gosh. Uh. All right, back to fishing.
I did a lot of fishing in Louisiana. I really
have everywhere from pretty much, i'd say, from New Orleans
south all the way to the mouth of the Mississippi

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River and beyond well into the Gulf of Mexico. I
spent a lot of time over there. When I was
at the paper. I'd make at least one or two
trips a year over to Louisiana somewhere, and i'd either
drive or fly into New Orleans and then drive south.
That was the best way to get all the way down,
because if you're trying to drive from here and then

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get all the way down to the river mouth somewhere,
what you end up doing is getting tired by the
time you get to New Orleans. And then you realize
you've got a lot more ground to cover, So we
just fly over there, and the people in Louisiana fish
kind of the same way we do. So you didn't
have to worry about the equipment you were going to
get when you got there. It would be just like
if you were borrowing from a good guide or somebody

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like that. It would be just like the equipment we
have here. Florida is a different story. I've told the
story on Martin Nichols, the guy who runs who founded
DOA Lures and has had it down there in Florida forever.
He grew up here. He grew up here in Texas
and got into Florida, and they converted him to a
spinner spin fisherman as soon as he got there. I

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guess because I actually called what was going down there
for a media trip one year and I called Mark
and I said, hey, man, I don't want to have
to bring a rod case again. Can you find me
just at least one decent casting rod and I'll bring
my own reels. That's fine, I don't care. But if
you can find me two, that'd be great. If it's
only one, that's okay. And I got down there and
he said, oh, yeah, yeah, I found one in my garage.

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One casting rod was all that a former Texas fisherman
could find in his garage in Florida since he'd been
down there so long. And that thing would have been
suitable to catch any king mackerel that swims and tuna
up to about fifty pounds. I could have handled on
that rod. So the little reels I brought it looked like,

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I don't know, it looked like a spool of thread
on a broomstick basically, and that didn't work out. So
I thought, you know, I figured out a way to
do that. If you're gonna ever do that and you
don't want to take rods with you, pack your reels,
you have to. You can't bring them on board, believe
it or not, because the line on the reels is
considered dangerous. Now anybody and everybody can have a belt,

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but you can't bring fishing line on there because that's dangerous. Anyway.
The long and the short is what I've done on
many trips to places where I didn't want to have
to carry rods, is get in town early enough to
go to a sporting goods store, buy a very inexpensive
casting rod and then leave that as the tip for

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the guide. And by inexpensive, i'm not talking about junk,
just kind of an entry level decent rod. And so
you get a couple of three days out of it,
however long you're down Therefore, and the guy gets something
that he can hand to customers that's a legitimate rod,
he may have to put his own. I didn't buy reels.

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I brought my own reels. But that's still that's a
pretty nice tip. And as long as, like I said,
as long as if it's if it's not junk, they're
going to appreciate that. And the guys that I did
that with certainly appreciated it. They said, yeah, then we
got guys coming here all the time wanting to use
casting stuff. But I don't have any rods, and I
don't want to have to go buy a bunch of
casting rods. And I said, well, here's one, and just

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tell any maybe find yourself. Another one said, that's a
great idea. I'll just buy a couple of rods and
tell these guys to bring their favorite reels. And it
worked out well for everybody. Everybody catches fish. That's what
it's about right. All right, we got to take one
more break in this program. We'll come back then to
wrap it up on the final day of the fiftieth

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Annual Fishing Show. If you haven't been out, I want
to say they close up a little earlier this afternoon
so the vendors can start packing up and baling. So
get out there when you can go see what I've
seen twice since the show opened, and you will not
be disappointed. I can promise you. We'll take a little

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break here, we'll come back and sum it up The
Doug Pike Show on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:13:01):
This is Sportstock seven ninety, Facebook dot com, slash sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
Back to the Doug Pike Show. This has been some
good It's not toe tapping music. It's just kind of
head bob in music. Does that make sense, Well, yeah,
co tappings I think is a little more upbeat, but
head bob and that's just that's chill music. Lean back, relax.

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I could see listening to that song sitting in a
chair on a beach maybe, but listening with headphones on
or earbuds because I'm not gonna blare my music all
over the beach. That that's another place that I don't
think it's I don't think I need to hear somebody

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else's music. And that makes two places now that in
the golf course. I'm not a big fan of music
on the golf course. You if you want to have
it in your golf cart, and that's great. But if
I can hear it, and you're on a different hole
than I'm on, then turn it down. Just turn it
down and have your fun. I don't mind it. And

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I played with a lot of guys who like to
bring music onto the golf course and I never say
a word about it because I don't. I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna bother their experience. If they want to
have the music, that's great, but just not so loud
that it can be heard, can be heard all over.
It's not an air raid siren. It's just music, you know,
It's just music. And to each his own. There's one guy,

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there's one guy out there at Blackhawk, where I play
a lot, who listens to it's either books on tape
or or some it's just a lecture series. I don't
know what it is. But he turns it up enough
to where he can not miss a single word, even
if it's card path only and he hit it on

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the other side of the of the place, he can
hear it. I can hear hear it. Everybody can hear it.
They might be able to hear it in the pro
shop when he's way back out in the back of
the property. I don't know. It's it's It reminds me
of the old There's videos from back in World War
Two where when when air raids were before the air

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raid sirens were in, they would have these megaphones on
trucks and just drive around, or politicians would drive through
neighborhoods and try to gather voters to work with them.
And yeah, that's too loud. No, he's not deaf at all.
He's not. He is not hard of hearing. He has

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no impairment whatsoever. As well as his swing, there's that,
but as physically, no, he just he's just out there
and he usually is playing by himself. Chie I wonder why.
So he's a he's a look at me guy. He's
a look at Yeah, that's exactly what he is. He's
a look at me guy. And I'm gonna do what

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I do, and I'm gonna listen to what I want
to listen to, and I'm gonna turn it up as
much as I want to turn it up. And the
good news is it doesn't take me long to get
away from him. He's, like I said, he's usually out
there by himself, and so he plays quickly, at least
he does. He's not a slow player. That would make
it worse, but he does play quickly, and so it
works out pretty well for everybody. Seven on three two one, two, five,

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seven nine. He's still got time for one call, maybe,
I guess, and we could do that. Who was it?
I can't sit down here. Already moved it out, But
somebody was asking me what those things where Mike was
talking about to cool your cocktail? And it's ice rocks?
Is that what we determined? Melvin? That is correct? Ice rock? Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:16:43):
And you said they just look like a rock, Well,
there are some that looks like a rock, some look
like crystals, some are look like they're like metal balls
that are you just freeze and reuse.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
And then there are the trees that you could fill
up you up. Oh okay, So there are variations on
the theme. Basically, uh, interesting, inter resting.

Speaker 5 (01:17:06):
I would be curious to see what brand he has
that holds that coolness for a long period time, especially
over that alcohol.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
Hey I got something, Mojo just threw something at me
in an email. That might not be a bad side
hustle for somebody who wanted to start a business that
could eventually actually grow pretty big. You probably haven't heard of,
but every golfer in this audience, I'm sure has heard

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of Shipsticks. Okay, that's a company that guarantees safe, on
time delivery of your golf clubs two And it's such
a hassle to drag them through the airports and stuff
like that, and Shipsticks gets them out of your go
to your place and delivered to the golf course where

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you're going to be playing, and they guarantee that they're
going to be there when you get there and need them.
Why not something like that for fishing rods. That sounds
like a pretty interesting concept. I don't think there would
be as much as much interest, but there probably would

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be enough, Say for if ship six decided to do this,
since they already had the infrastructure infrastructure of the shipping
of sporting equipment, and they could they could put together
the right way to ship these things that might be
something they could make a little extra money off of.
At least I'd use that service. A lot of the

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trips I've made, I would have used that service to
get them there and not have to worry about them.
I've talked about it before. It's kind of funny. Back
years ago, when I was at the paper, I did
a column about a big, thick walled PBC rod case
that I had built for myself and to get some
rods up to Baltimore because I was gonna go fish

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Chesapeake Bay. And when I got there, that thick wall,
I mean, this wall is like a quarter inch thick
in this PVC. I think it's called Schedule forty maybe
something like that, but it I mean, you could drive
a tank over these things. And I'd built several of
them in different links, depending on which types of rods
I wanted to carry. Well, when I went into baggage

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to pick mine up, it came around, but that thing
had been crushed. It's just snapped somehow, And all they
could determine was that when it came down one of
the conveyor belts and was supposed to make a turn,
it bogged in that turn and a thousand pounds of
luggage stacked up behind it and just kept pushing and

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pushing and pushing until it gave. And so I wrote
this column about that and somebody who worked I think
it was at NASA maybe at the time, or maybe
in the military, I'm not sure, maybe down at Ellington,
I don't know. But anyway, this person had access to
and and had reason to ship highly sensitive stuff around

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the country and whatnot, and sent me a stack of
stickers to put on my rod cases moving forward so
that they would get special handling. And they said stuff
like satellite parts cautioned, missile parts property of US Air
Force or something like that. And Buddy, I never had

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another broken rod case again. And I got some really
weird looks in the airport too, You walking around with
something and says missile parts on it. There were some.
There were some at the baggage claim or baggage check areas.
I was asked more than once to could you just
wait here for a second, And they'd bring in whoever
was checking luggage for security and whatnot, and they would

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just say, can we see what's inside this case? Because
I also locked them, and that it was a simple
lot just to know if it had been tampered with.
But I drilled a diagonal hole through the top and
the screw at the top of the case and the
screw in lid and the PBC pipe, and I'd just
run a little zip tie through there, just to know
if someone had actually popped that ceial and opened it.

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And they would make me, they would make me open
it up and pull out what's in there, I'd say,
just fishing rods, That's all it is. Well, then, why
do you have those stickers on there to keep them
from getting broken? And well, that's that's kind of deceptive,
maybe a little, you know, I guess, But man, you
could put a you could strap a rocket to a
fishing rod and call it a missile. I guess. I

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don't know. Anyway, it worked out very well for my
fishing rods. I still I think I still have one
or two of those cases too, and they that I've
never had any of them ever come out busted up again,
with or without stickers on them. That was so long ago.
It's such a weird deal. Holy cow, we're almost out
of time. Melvin. What was your favorite part of today?

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I know what it should be. It was the technical directing.
It was not the technical problem. What it was was
the solution of the technical problem. Boy, that was a relief,
wasn't it. It was? Oh, well, man, how bored would
you'd have been? You fall asleep if you'd had to
listen to me talk for two hours? It'd be I
could have watched you on the monitors, curl up in
a corner and just wash your head, just kind of

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start nodding. Yeah, there's one pill away from a good nap.
It's about where I am right now too. All Right, everybody,
thank you so very much for listening. I really truly
do appreciate it. If you want to be a part
of this show, just email me. I'll take care of you.
Doug Picket, I heart meia dot com. I will be
back Tuesday. I guess it is Monday's presence day. I'm

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off on Mondays. Anyway, I'll be back Tuesday on fifty
plus Live and Kicking, and then i'll be right back
in this seat next Saturday. God willing to help talk
about the outdoors and get all of us fired up
about getting out catching fish and chasing birds and deer
and all that good stuff we love. Stay safe, get
outside I'll see you next week. Audios