Fairways & Forecasts

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
And their guests.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
All right.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Saturday edition of the program starts right now. Well, I
thought I was going to be flying solo there for
a minute.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
Hm.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
That was a little scary, and I'll I'll tell.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
You why, because I don't know how to do what
these guys do. Brett and Callam are in here and
got everything up and running and.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
They're so comfortable with it all. But I'm not so thank.

Speaker 6 (01:11):
You guys for coming in here and rescuing me from
the dread of not knowing. I wouldn't know the first
button to push in there, but they do. Like I said,
so a lot of stuff going on around here. We've
got weather to deal with. It's gonna be kind of
a wet and wild and windy, windy Saturday across both
of Southeast Texas. A lot of what you get at

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your house is gonna depend on the path this big
old front takes moving west to east through here, and
it's already most of it's actually already through San Antonio.
I know there were some people wondering yesterday whether the
whether the tournament over there, the Valero Texas Open, was
gonna be able to get it Saturday round in. But

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from what I saw on the way channel, it really
shouldn't be an issue at all. Most, like I say,
of what was going through there is actually already gone
through there and headed our way, and.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
So those guys ought to be able to get out.

Speaker 6 (02:14):
It's only what is it seven o'clock in the morning
over there, I doubt they had seven o'clock tea times
on a Saturday, So they should be okay, and we.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Should be as well. Down I'd say south of I ten.

Speaker 6 (02:28):
I'm gonna knock wood when I say that, because this
thing could change and veer southward or northward or whichever way,
Move faster or move slower. There's clearly serious weather headed
our way. But it looks like, based on the weather
forecast radar I've been looking at most of the morning,

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it looks like the worst of it is going to
pass to the north of us, and significantly north of
us too. We'll get some stuff, there's no question about it.
You should be there instead of here. Oh, Captain Scott
weighing in already. Let's see what he's trying to scare
me by telling me let me get this.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Oh come on, mouse, where are.

Speaker 6 (03:10):
You see if I can pop this message out real quick?
Oh mercy, that looks pretty rough headed to the photo blind.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh good for him.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
Yeah, no wonder he's telling me I ought to be
here instead of where I am. He's going to sit
out and watch animals come to a little water hole
I'm sure, and take some awesome photographs, which is basically
what he does every time he sits outside and waits
for the sunlight. I do miss that part of my
job years and years ago. I do miss just sitting

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there waiting for something to happen. I spent I spent
the better part of a day on a trip up
into Colorado. Once up in the mountains, waiting for the
light to get just right.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I could see.

Speaker 6 (03:52):
I knew where the sun was going to go down
because we had been out there the day before, and
I could see this piece of light that I didn't
get to get the day before. And I sat out
there for probably an hour hour and a half in
the same spot, just making sure I was going to
be there.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I didn't. I didn't.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
I resisted the temptation to go somewhere else until it
got just right there for fear I would miss it,
because it was only about a little two minute sliver
of light that was coming through the trees at that spot.
And I got it and the photos somewhere around the house.
I don't know where it is. I have no idea.
I didn't save every frame I shot when I was

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shooting a lot of pictures that would have been kind
of crazy, but I did say some Oh, I have
enough to I have enough to make my way down
memory Lane if I ever choose to do that. I'm
going to lead this morning with by asking any of
you if you have ever experienced something like the crazy

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social media encounter that's been It's been going around the
country now for a long time, well all this week anyway.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, a fishing guy down in Florida who got a little.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
Overheated, if you will, when he felt like somebody got
too close to him and his clients one day last week.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
The videos all over the place.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
This guy's yelling and screaming at the folks in the
other boat, and he I think, kind of I disagree with.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
I'm glad he.

Speaker 6 (05:26):
Served our country and I appreciate his service, and I
would still shake his hand and tell him thanks for
doing that. But I think he used that the fact
that he was a military guy.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
He was playing that card.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
As if it were gonna get a get out of
jail free for being kind of a jackass card.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I don't know why he did that.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
He felt like this boat got too close to him,
I guess, and ends up yelling and screaming at the
folks in the other boat, at least one of whom
seems to be pretty young.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's hard to tell. I can't really see from the video.

Speaker 6 (06:05):
I don't know what flip that guy switch, but it
definitely flipped, and in a pretty big way. He even
wound up getting on the other guy's boat, which never
should have happened and could have turned out a lot worse.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Than it did for everybody that day.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
And I'm wondering if any of you has ever encountered
anything like that. I have once, I have once on
a tarp and fishing trip many many.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Years ago out of San Louis Pass.

Speaker 6 (06:35):
And I'm not going to go into the details because
the guy who was doing the yelling was known to
do that and back then, and I don't want to.
It just doesn't matter who it was. It doesn't matter
who it was. But it was really off putting, it
really was. I lost some respect for.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
That guy that day, the.

Speaker 6 (06:59):
One that I the best I've ever seen it handled.
Just I've never understood, honestly, why a charter captain would
go into a rage in front of his own customers.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
If he's out there.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
Fishing by himself, maybe and somebody does that, you get
on him a little bit, but not like this guy did.
So Anyway, the best I've ever seen it handled was probably, gosh,
a million years ago, Jimmy West and me in his
boat in Galliston Bay, back when we were both a
whole lot younger, anchored up at a little well head

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and a guy who's all by himself on his boat,
pulls up brand new boat too. You could just see
it might as well have had the sticker hanging off
the back of it. And there he was, maybe fifteen
yards fifteen yards tops.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
He might have been closer. It might have been ten yards.

Speaker 6 (07:50):
And he just heaves the anchor over the side, and
Jimmy looked at me, and I looked at Jimmy and
I'm like, okay, dude, you handle And he was very
calm about it, didn't say a word for a couple
of minutes.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Then he just looked over and.

Speaker 6 (08:07):
Kind of nodded at the guy, got his attention, made
eye contact.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Hey, man, new boat. Yeah, it's a new boat.

Speaker 6 (08:16):
Then Jimmy complimented the new boat, asked the guy a
few more questions about it.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Then he asked if the guy caught any fish from
it yet? No, no, not yet. I'm hoping, man, I'm hoping.

Speaker 6 (08:25):
Today's my day, and never never changing expression at all,
smooth as silk okay, didn't say a word for a
few minutes, and then as he retrieved his anchor, Jimmy said,
you know, for what you've got invested in that boat,

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you could probably fish with a guide a couple times
a month, probably catch fish every time you go. And
the guy would clean the fish, God, clean the boat.
All you'd have to do is catch fish and then
go home and eat fish. And this guy's just there
just staring at him, staring at Jimmy.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Deep in debt, deep in thought.

Speaker 6 (09:05):
He's just he's it's checkmate, and he realizes maybe he
shouldn't have bought, maybe he wasn't quite ready to be
a boat owner. And with our anchor back on board,
Jimmy told God, have a nice day, and just idled away,
just idle away. There's no reason at all, no reason

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at all for anybody to start yelling at other fishermen,
any especially a guy.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
I mean, I can see two. In fact, I saw
video again.

Speaker 6 (09:38):
I saw a couple of guys pre fishing for a
redfish event and just plowing right through. His guys up
on his tower and his buddy's on the on the bow,
and they're pre fishing, and they're going right past within
ten yards of a captain and his party out there,
and the guy saying, hey man, why are you ruining

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a charter? The best thing those guys can do, and
the best of them do it is, just ignore it.
They've got other places they can go. If you're a
good captain, ask any of these guys you hear and
see regularly whether having one guy mess up one spot
should ruin their day.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
No, it shouldn't. They've got other places they can go.
They get.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
All they have to do is explain to the client,
Hey man, this guy just blew a great spot. We're
gonna have to we're gonna have to move. We're gonna
have to get out of here and we'll go somewhere
else and hopefully we'll catch them there. And that's that's
all you gotta do is just stay calm. That's all
you gotta do. Just stay calm. Seven one three two

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Speaker 2 (10:51):
Thanks sir.

Speaker 6 (10:54):
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Speaker 2 (10:59):
How are well? We got about a minute or so.

Speaker 6 (11:01):
I don't know what I can get into it a
minute around here, I can't tell you what time it
is in less than a minute.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
I'm kind of bad about that.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
All right, let's go ahead and just take this first
break and settle in and see what. In fact, I'm
gonna go get a cup of coffee once I tell
you about El Cubano Cigars. This is Manny Lopez's place. Actually,
there are two places, ones in League City, ones in
Texas City. And the Texas City facility is one of
only about four dozen, four dozen cigar manufacturing places in

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the entire country. Not a whole lot of places do it,
a lot of them in Miami, and this is about
the only one down there in Texas City, anywhere near here.
And what it does is it gives you an opportunity
to buy your cigars straight from the person and the
people who are making them. There's no middleman, there's no

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wholesalers in between you and the one hundred and fifty
or so varieties of cigar, almost all from Cuban seed tobacco,
by the way, that's grown in Central America. He imports
his tobaccos, he ages it here, he gets it ready here.
Then he and three other people, all Cuban, all grown

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up in the cigar factories, sit down at a table
and they start rolling cigars and rolling cigars and rolling cigars.
You can choose from any of the varieties they have there.
You can sit there and smoke them in either of
those two lounges, or you can have them sent to
your friends, sent to your your golf tournament, sent to

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your charity event. Manny'll even come out and set up
a table and roll cigars right there in front of
those people that you've invited to your party, whatever it is,
and they can have a hand rolled cigar right there
in front of them and take it out and smoke
it on a golf course or wherever you.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Guys are.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
El Cubano Cigars, that is the website L Cubano's Cigars.
He'll ship them right to you wherever you are in
this entire country. Even you mark over in Georgia, They'll
ship you some cigars to Elcubano Cigars dot com.

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Speaker 6 (13:31):
On this it's potentially yucky Saturday morning.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
It shouldn't be too terribly bad.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
That could always be worse, and we have to remember
that when we've got weather coming our way, it can
always be worse than this, that's for sure. Let me
see if I can tee up, get to our day.
Figure out where he is, Dave, what's up?

Speaker 8 (13:52):
Man stays here the eight thirty boat launch or I'm
watching one boat cruising out there like he's doing about
uh fifty miles an hour.

Speaker 6 (14:02):
He's a slow poker, and he's a slow poke these
days Honday.

Speaker 8 (14:05):
Well, well, yeah, that boat I had it buried it
at fifty miles an hour, but you didn't want to
You didn't want to get up faster than now. That's
like a mosquito. If the water slipped like this, it's
like a mosquito. You're just all going around everywhere. But
uh no, and then here in the here in the
parking lot where the two boat launches are, there's one

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boat trailer, the one truck, and that's it. I'm sow.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
You know, well, the weather forecast.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
See once again it's a forecast, and I guarantee you
there are people who were gonna play golf today, especially
down a little farther south than Houston, down toward Timber Creek,
that area who canceled their plans because the forecast called
for devastation and deadly flooding basically, and it's it's frustrating

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for these guys. But yeah, there'll be another sunny day
coming up soon.

Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (14:59):
Well, I'm thinking about, uh run running to the back
to Houston early before that deal. I mean, I'll just
watch the game tonight with the cools. Not a bad idea, yeah,
but well I have to watch it over the phone,
you know, I'll I'll just be talking to my wife
over the phone because.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
She'll be here and I'll be there.

Speaker 8 (15:18):
But anyway, no, and then uh yeah, but no, right now,
I hadn't picked up my my Minuta trap down here. Okay,
but remember when I tell you I caught them two
turtles in there and open. I got something on here
where I can put a put a throw on that.
But I'm gonna I'm thinking, I think I'm gonna go
ahead and set up and finish right now. And then

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I got to run by Walgreens over here in Willis.

Speaker 5 (15:43):
Pick up a prescription. They're open twenty four hours a
day over there. Wow, that's cool. Yeah, that's good. That's
a good thing.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
That is helpful.

Speaker 6 (15:49):
Make sure before you drive all the way over there,
make sure the pharmacies open twenty four hours, because there's
a lot of drug stores that are up in twenty
four but the pharmacy might not be open, So be careful.

Speaker 9 (15:59):
You know what.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
I'll yeah, I'll call it. Well, i'll call him again.
I'll call him before I leave.

Speaker 8 (16:04):
But no, uh, right now, I'm gonna put out a
couple of poles here with the on bottom tight lining, uh,
with the two drop weights with some number ten hooks
on there. And uh, I been I bent the bars
by boy, but uh but uh yeah, and that was

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you know, that's a that's an arc to that was arcriters.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
That's a good point. I didn't think about that. I'm
sorry about that.

Speaker 8 (16:33):
Yeah, No, anyway, uh no, and then I'm gonna, uh
you know, keep them.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
Oh and I think I told you that. I used
to pieces of.

Speaker 8 (16:43):
Vacuum cleaner pipe and I cut it at an angle
in the top part of us bigger than the bottom,
and so that way my rod handles it right in there,
and then real quick on it I told you about
that time. Only guide, Remember when I told you Jamie
Penner took us out offshore and he uh oh. And
then three other four men were showed up over there

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on the other side of the causeway where we were
getting the bait.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
And then they just drive and wave at us, and
then they take off. And he's like, where do they go?

Speaker 8 (17:16):
Because I was riding with him in his truck with
his boat on there, and we're going back across the
causeway the Tiki Island. They thought we were doing that. Yeah,
And so then we go over there and I have
my cowboy hat and he rolled down my window and
he goes, hey, this, waver your hat at him.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
Tell him come on if they don't follow us.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (17:37):
And so so when we get there, he's unloading his
boat and I walked over there to the other boys
that I said, do not say anything.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
He got a ticket coming out of there. He's not happy.

Speaker 8 (17:49):
So anyway, when we got on the boat, he looks,
he looks at me and says, hey, sit down over
here on this cushion behind me. And they were sitting
up there on the on the what do you call
gun of the boat up there? Yeah, and it was
only about there, probably about it but a half half
a foot waves out there, and he was hitting every
one of them as.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Hard as hell. The pancakes man.

Speaker 8 (18:15):
He didn't say nothing to him, and then he hooked
into like a twenty pound.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
Well a big a big fish, okay, and he hooked
into it.

Speaker 8 (18:25):
He walks past them three guys and hans that pulled me,
Oh my goodness. He never said nothing to him about
getting the ticsket never said anything.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Only cow, you know. I just that kind of kept
his kept his counsel. That's all you gotta do, Just
get yeah.

Speaker 10 (18:40):
You know.

Speaker 8 (18:41):
And he, you know, he got it a lot, you know,
over the years from Ariic because I was I probably
went off shore like thirteen times in showing a couple
of times because you you get to go once a year,
you know, as a as a foreman. You know.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh man, good for you.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:57):
That Merrick brothers they treated us well.

Speaker 8 (18:59):
And I work really smart, and like Paul Merre told
me one time, Dave, don't work hard, work smart.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
All right, partner, I gotta keep man always audios all right,
let me click that. Thank you boys.

Speaker 6 (19:19):
Yeah, he's talking about catching those two turtles in his
bait trap, and I got to think, and my mind
goes off at these little tangents. Sometimes I wonder if
if I were to take a live turtle and use
it for alligator bait and put a hook somewhere on
it and use it for alligator bait, I wonder if

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I would be the first person in Texas to do that.
I'm pretty sure I would not be the first in
Louisiana to do it, but I wonder if i'd be
the first in Texas to do it. And if anybody's
ever even thought of that or heard of that, I'd
be curious to hear from you speaking of turtles for
the first time. Over at the little golf course lake

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where I fish, I came across a legitimate snapping turtle.
It wasn't huge, it was about maybe maybe the shell
maybe fourteen sixteen inches front to back. But he was
an ornery little thing and he did not want to
be bothered, which is why I immediately picked up a

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stick in my camera and I was trying to get
a picture of him lunging at the stick. But he
wouldn't he wouldn't really even react. He would kind of
bow up a little bit. It was interesting to see.
He was on land, so he would kind of his
rear half would raise up like he was an NFL

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lineman getting into stance to just ready go, and he
would hiss and just make a little noise and like
get away from me, or I'll take your finger off.
And I'm trying to tell him back telepathically. That's why
I picked up the stick. I'm not gonna lose a
finger for a photograph, but I would have. I didn't
care if he'd bit through that stick or not. But

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it didn't bother him. The only thing that he really
reacted to was me tapping that stick on his feet.
He didn't like that at all. I tap it on
top of his head, Not a problem. He'd just look
at me tap it on his foot. Boy that then
he would snap at it and try to grab it.
And all in all, I got zero good pictures of

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the snapping turtle, but it was a pretty cool encounter.
Caught some fish out there with my son yesterday too.
By the way I took him out there.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
We played We played one, two, three, four, We played
five holes and then decided to go fish and we
were both playing pretty well in hindsight. The way fishing was.
It wasn't bad.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
I caught four, but he didn't catch one, so I
felt badly for him, and he's a good fisherman. He
just wasn't standing in the right spot. But we were
actually playing golf pretty well. In hindsight, we probably should
have kept playing someone three two point two five Steven
ninety Email me Dougpike Adiheartmedia dot com. I'm still looking
for somebody in this audience who's been yelled at by

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a fishing guide, and not not to the extent that
this This guy did it over in Florida this week
and is now there was a There was a lot
of Facebook chatter about this, A lot of the video
is out there for the world to see, and the
most recent post I saw in relation to this was

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I think it was a statement from the guide's attorney.
So now lawyers have been dragged into it, and I
hate to see that. But something had to something had
to happen to settle all that down. I just I
feel really badly that anything had to happen like like
it did, and maybe maybe all of us will just

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learn something from it. That's that's the only good that
can come from something like that is that we all
learn from it. Really, I've seen my closing encounter, like
I said earlier, but I'll never understand why somebody's gonna
yell at another fishman. There's a lot of water out there.
And I get it, man, I get it. You worked
really hard. You invested a lot in your boat and
your rods and your reels and your bait and all

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of that stuff. Man, But fishing, fishing is supposed to
be relaxing. And if it gets to a point where
you're enraged by the actions of someone else on the
water and maybe try pickle ball or something. I mean,
I love to fish and I've had people pull up

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on me before. I've had people waded right up to
where I was waighed fishing in the surf before. And
it's just like, okay, So let's say both of those
boats end up fishing right side by side, and maybe
one of them catches fish, maybe both of them catch fish,
maybe neither of them catches fish. But that's part of fishing.

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It's just part of fishing. Now, Do I like feeling
crowded on the water, No, I don't. I don't like
it at all. I don't like that feeling but I'm
not gonna get worked up over it either. I might
say that the most aggressive I might be would be
to say something like come on, man, and then that'd
be it. And if if somebody bowed up and said

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what what, I never mind. I just walk away and
not let it get out of control, because once once
the heat's turned up and on the wrong guy, you're
not gonna you're not gonna get him to stop, no
matter what you say, no matter how polite you you remain.
That guy's he's he's going to the other side. Whoever

(24:41):
that that guy might be a mercy?

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Uh? Where am I?

Speaker 6 (24:47):
Oh, I've got some bass news. I'm gonna get to
not not my personal bass fishing, but the the exploits
going into the final days of the share lunker program
of some fisher on two very well known lakes and
what they did.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
I'll tell you about that when we get back. Uh,
who is this Brett.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
Let's see if we can catch it before we go
to the break. I can't get the wrong button. I
can't hear you.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Oh he's talking. He's still talking to the guy on
the phone. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 6 (25:17):
I'll go to the break and let them know Calin Brett,
if you would that, I'll catch him as soon as
we get back. How's that shooter's corner Palmer Highway twenty
nine Street in Texas City. Oh, I know who that was.
I know who that was now, Palmer Highway twenty nine Street,
Texas City. Oh, buddy of mine, Jerry t k owns
that place. Great man, great man Jerry TK. He and

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his son Jay, Jay. By the way, he set pictures
last week pretty much live from his musk Ox hunt
almost well, I think he said within five hundred miles
or something like that of the North Pole, or maybe
five thousand miles. No, it wouldn't have been five thousand.
That would have been down this way a little way anyway.

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Jerry and Jay when they are in the store, two
of the most fascinating men to talk to I've ever
been around when it comes to shooting sports and Honey,
everybody in that store is very well equipped mentally and
physically to take care of any gunsmithing need. You have
to find just the right gun for you, whether you
need a shotgun, handgun, rifle, whatever.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
It might be. And they'll have plenty of ammo.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
They'll have plenty of Camo Optics, reloading supplies, anything related
to the shooting sports. While you're in there, there's a
good chance somebody else is going to come in there,
and then a conversation is going to start about something
related to the shooting sports. And then after you've listened
a minute, just tell your story and everybody will stick
around and listen. They're not going to abandon you. If

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you've listened to their story, they'll listen to your story.
That's the kind of place it is. It smells like
a gun store if you've never been. If you don't
know what a gun store smells like, go to Shooter's Corner.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
You'll figure it out.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
These shooters cornerx dot com is a website if you
want to use that family own and operated for forty
plus years.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
And if you wear a badge for a.

Speaker 6 (27:06):
Living, you get a discount at Shooter's Corner, which I
think is very very cool.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Be prepared when you go down there.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
You say, I'll just tell your spouse, I'll be back
in thirty minutes. I'm gonna go grab some ammo at
Shooter's Corner and you'll be back in an hour and
a half.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Tell it like it is.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
D shooters Corner TX dot com.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety, breaking sports news on
Facebook twenty four or seven.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
We'll get that information to them. This is The Doug
Pike Show.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Seven thirty five on Sports Talk seven to ninety The
Doug Pike Show. Thank you for listening. An update.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
I didn't realize this. I hadn't looked at it since yesterday.
And lo and behold, not either one or yeah, both
of them. Low and behold. This guy's been arrested, forty
year old Guy Charter Captain. This is from a Fox
News Tampa Fox thirteen Tampa Bay story out of Punta Gorda.

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I fished over there before. The man at the center
of a boating rage incident in Puna Gorda was arrested
Friday night.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
On April one.

Speaker 6 (28:25):
Horner was captured on video screaming at a young boater
it doesn't matter what his name is in the Peace River. Ironically,
I added that word. He's seen pulling his boat alongside
this other person's boat without permission and unlawfully boarding it.
According to a joint news release by the Punta Gorda

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Police Department, the US Coast Guard, and the Florida Fishing
Wildlife Conservation Commission. Incident was captured on video recorded by
the person who was running the boat that this guy's
captain got into, threatened him, and at that point, according
to this story, it escalated into a criminal offense. According

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to the investigators, it's really sad, honestly, And what the
officials over there are saying is that Punagorda Police Chief
Pam Smith said, and I quote this type of behavior
will not be tolerated in our waterways or anywhere else
in our city. We are committed to ensuring the safety
of our residents and visitors, both on land and on

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the water.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
End quote.

Speaker 6 (29:33):
Yeah, that's kind of how it should be, and like
any other city ought to ensure the safety of its citizens. Now,
this is kind of an isolated thing that, thank goodness,
doesn't happen that often.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
But if they just let it go, it would have
been that would have been wrong.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
This guy did cross the line, is if I believe
he did, and that's just my opinion.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
He's innocent until proven guilty. I'm not saying he he's
going to be convicted of anything, but he was arrested
on those charges and we'll let the courts play it
out how they will. It's a shame, though, because that
that kid's.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
Gonna remember that every time he's anywhere near any other boat,
and it's probably gonna put a little sense of dread
in him.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
I hate that. I do hate that part of it.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Email
on me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. Promise a
little bass news. I'll give it to you out of Athens, Texas.
The Freshwater Fishery Center is up there and that's where
they take all the share lunker fish that are caught
during the share Lunker season and in the waning days

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of the twenty twenty five Toyo to Share Lunker Collection season,
it says here Talid have been in OHIV put an
exclamation point on the season with a combined four.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
You can put him on hold.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
I'll talk to him a combined four legacy class share lunk.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
You know what I got to get to this first,
sky Mike. If you're calling me, that's got to be important.
What's up, man?

Speaker 11 (31:08):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (31:09):
I'm good?

Speaker 11 (31:09):
Yeah, I heard you talk. I just talking about anger
on the water and I just thought i'd share a
quick story. Sure, man, okay, I was up fishing in
Pacas well, the Pacas River coming down backside of Santa
fe Uh.

Speaker 12 (31:25):
We took a bunch of young.

Speaker 11 (31:26):
Men out there to go backpacking for a week.

Speaker 13 (31:28):
Yeah, and we were up in there there.

Speaker 11 (31:30):
Of course, my my goal was to do some fishing.
So I brought my f and my my wife had
brought me a brand new uh portable fly rod. It's
made by Orbits I forget what it's called, about two
hundred two hundred fiftele rods. I was really excited to
use it. So went out on the river and went
out with one of the other young men. One of
the other men not young men, this is a man

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went out fishing and piada spinning rod. And I'm always helpful, right.

Speaker 9 (31:55):
With my with my sharing my shirt.

Speaker 11 (31:57):
And I said, I said, if you ever used the
fly and he said, yeah, have me. I go, well,
this is a brand new and I got it for
our birthday. Why don't you take it for about thirty
minutes or so and play with it and then I'll
throw your spinner here and then I'll take you back.

Speaker 13 (32:12):
That's today.

Speaker 11 (32:13):
He said, sure, So he goes out. If I come
back to the truck, he was waiting for me. I
walked up the river, come back and I go, how's
it going? He goes not very good? I said, what happened?

Speaker 12 (32:23):
He goes, I broke your rod?

Speaker 14 (32:24):
I go, yes, sure you did.

Speaker 5 (32:26):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (32:27):
He goes, no, seriously, I broke your rod. Came in right.
I was kidd because we're in the middle of nowhere.
I got a fly rod, I got a chance to
pick fish the peak Us River for a week, and
he broke my rod. So I go, that's okay, you're
gonna buy me another one? He goes, well, yes, okay,

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I go. I go, not now, tomorrow. And so the
next day we went in and we drove into Santa Fe.
Went to a fly shop. Got fly He goes, Joe.
I thought, I want for myself my daughter.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Well, okay, well that ended well.

Speaker 11 (33:05):
I didn't get tissed. I got I got this stuff,
and I thought, no, you know, and it was my fault.
Should I let him borrow the rod?

Speaker 14 (33:12):
My right?

Speaker 11 (33:13):
My wife gave.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Me no, no, you should not have done that.

Speaker 11 (33:18):
That was stupid on my part. But anybody who go
fly fish and knows when you're walking in the reeds
and stuff, you you hold that rod with a tip back.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (33:28):
Yeah, that way it won't break the rod.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (33:35):
Yeah, he'd seen a fly rod before. He just didn't
know a whole lot.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
About him exactly. All right, well, all's well that ends well.

Speaker 6 (33:43):
So you ended up getting two new rods in the
period of what a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 9 (33:49):
He was good.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Did you catch any fish?

Speaker 10 (33:53):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (33:53):
I did?

Speaker 9 (33:54):
Yeah, yeah, I did.

Speaker 11 (33:56):
He that great and catching big browns or anything like that.
But I had a good time, you know, walking the stream.

Speaker 12 (34:02):
Well, of course, not much more enjoyable in.

Speaker 11 (34:05):
Walking the stream.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, beautiful stuff.

Speaker 10 (34:10):
Waiting to bay.

Speaker 11 (34:11):
Yeah, thank you, great show.

Speaker 12 (34:14):
Take care, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah, audios. Yeah, that was pretty good there man, Okay,
where'd I gotta find that mouse?

Speaker 5 (34:21):
There?

Speaker 11 (34:21):
It is?

Speaker 2 (34:22):
All right?

Speaker 6 (34:23):
So back to the bass fishing, oh ivy okay. Finished
twenty twenty five with six of fourteen legacy class entries.
Remains the unders I'm reading from a Parks of Wallach
department news release. Remains undisputed leader with fifty nine boys.
Twenty years ago. Nobody in Texas who knew anything about

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bass fishing would ever have bet against Lake Fork being
the forever record holder for giant bass. But oh Ivy
has really jumped up and coughed up these fifteen fish
or twenty nine fish I'm talking about, all weighed better
than thirteen pounds. Those are huge and they've done great

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service for the for the re stocking program and the
hatchery program up there. More recently, Curtis Melvin Guy from Lumberton,
caught a thirteen twenty four on Sheryluncker number six hundred
and eighty. Got a lot of fish we've had, still
we don't have a twenty pounder. He caught that fish
on March twenty fifth at Toledo Bend. Kevin Robertson of

(35:33):
Lubbock a thirteen sixty six Thursday at Ohivy. Then Terry
Scott from mick Miidland, not Mickland, Midland kicked off Saturday
this past Saturday with a thirteen oh four by the
hair of his chinny chin chin. And then on Sunday
Mickel Dechriswell of Hobbs, New Mexico caught a fourteen fifty six,

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which it sounds huge, but once again our state record
is Barry Saint Clair's old drag it out and dust
it off eighteen eighteen from thirty years ago, and we're
still three states.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
We got three states.

Speaker 6 (36:14):
Ahead of us as having caught twenty pounders and we
don't have one yet. And I still do not understand
why that is. I just don't understand why we can't
get one of those. Very frustrating. Natalie Goldstrom, the program
Toyota Sharelunker program coordinator, said, this season's finale perfectly showcases

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the dedication of anglers and the incredible fisheries Texas has
to offer, ending with back to back catches from repeat
legacy class anglers as a testament to the lasting impact.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Of this program.

Speaker 6 (36:51):
It goes on and it goes on, and there's just
so much good coming out of this Sharelunker program, which
was started what six hundred and eighty teen pounders ago.
It's been been around a long time, and it's encouraged
fishing for these big fish. Nothing more, nothing more though
than live scope, forward facing sonar. And I may dabble

(37:14):
in that when we get back, let this get that
break knocked out, and then I'll come back.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
And I hadn't.

Speaker 6 (37:18):
I didn't really have it on the sonar or the
radar for today, but I'll put it there when we
come back. Timber Creek Golf Club down there in Friendswood
not a bad place to try to maybe get in
an afternoon round. I've been watching the radar, and I'm
gonna take another look during the break. But all in all,
hopefully we will be spared the worst of this front

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as it comes through. And by we, I mean most
of us, maybe south of it ten and even maybe
all the way up as far as Montgomery County.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
We'll see.

Speaker 6 (37:50):
But Timber Creek Golf Club, if you can get out there,
and if the forecast looks right for you, I would
imagine it would be very easy to make a tea
time pretty much at any golf course around here today
after the forecast looks so gloomy and dismal. Timber Creech
got twenty seven holes, and if you're down there feeling
like you're all by yourself and nobody in front of you,

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you could probably get twenty seven holes in today. Got
a great teaching staff under a roof right next to
the big practice range. If you want to go ahead
and spend some time fixing your game instead of just
going ahead and making the same swings you've been making.
Timber Creek's been down there a long time. I've played
it a lot of times, and I love it every
time I go. Timber Creek Golf Club dot com. You
can go set a tea time. I guarantee it. You

(38:34):
could right now, set a tea time. Get yourself on
the track. Maybe tomorrow, tomorrow, for sure it'll be better.
Timber Creek Golf Club dot com ninety.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
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Speaker 6 (39:10):
On Sports Talk seven ninety. Got Brett in there working
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send me an email.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
I'll tell him. Uh you just did you get called
in late for this?

Speaker 5 (39:23):
Brett? We got it?

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yes, yes, yes, very last minute.

Speaker 6 (39:29):
Well yeah, well you scared of talking that microphone? Why
are you backing away from that thing?

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Man?

Speaker 6 (39:37):
You don't have to back away from there. So how
far do you guys have to get home without flooded roads?
Twenty minutest? That's all, you know, That's all I've got
actually out all the way from Sugarland to hear everybody
thinks sugar Lands so far away, It's really not and
I don't want anybody else to move to sugar Land.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
We're full.

Speaker 6 (39:54):
Thank you for playing. But yeah, it's not a bad drive,
although I had, I had more than usual this morning.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
And you tell me, do you do you do freeways
on the way in Oh? Absolutely so? How many times
did you get You may be one of those lead
foot guys, I don't know, but how many times you
get passed by doing somebody ninety or more? This morning?

Speaker 9 (40:14):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (40:14):
This morning seven seven, you may have beat me. I
had at least four or five. Honestly, what what freeway
are you driving? Six to ten on the way? Oh? Okay? Yeah,
well that man, that just that's been a racetrack since
it got built. Yep. Oh yeah, actually on that road
back when the pandemic started, and it's basically back there now.

Speaker 10 (40:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (40:40):
Fewer cars early in the morning, there are fewer cars,
and Sundays usually pretty good. But that seems only to
be a reason to drive faster for a lot of
these young people.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
And you and I just gotta we gotta stay out
of the way of them. Man, just move over and
let them go.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
I just I told my son, I said, if you're
on the freeway, driving and somebody you can see somebody
in your rear view mirror coming up really fast.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Don't try to move out of their way. Just stay
where you are. They'll go around you.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
And if you try to move out of the way,
even to be nice, they will make your life much
much harder. Yeah, I like the guy in the boat. Maybe. Golly,
what a mess that was. Holy cow, just unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (41:25):
Another quick Florida story that I think everybody will appreciate.
And I wish more of this were happening over here.
I don't know if you know where Okalusa County is,
but it's basically just east of the var through Fort
Walton Beach, then over to Miramar Miramar Beach. And I

(41:45):
fished that area more than once, and most of Florida
more than once, really, and a lot of Florida many times.
But the bottom line is Okalusa County is about to
add another artificial reef to its current count of more
than five hundred artificial reefs.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
And this one is This one's the showstopper.

Speaker 6 (42:07):
The SS United States, when it was built in the
early fifties, was among the fastest ocean liners.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
In the world. It's gonna be cleaned up.

Speaker 6 (42:19):
It's gonna have all the glass, all the plastic removed
from it, all the chemicals and oils and whatever they
can find in there that might not be good for
the bottom of the Gulf of America. And then they're
gonna sink it right out there to become the largest
artificial reef in the world. Thinks one thousand feet long,
three football fields. There's gonna be room for more than

(42:42):
one person to fish there. That's gonna be pretty cool.
Let me go talk to Mike real quick.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
What's up.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
Mike walked outside to get the paper earlier this morning.
The winds blowing the trees or you know, leaning over. Yeah, buddy,
mind it reminded me of opening day on dove hunting
one time. Of course, it was a little warm Septemberran sure,
I get out there and the first bird I see

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go by is about three hundred miles an hour, and
I'm going I didn't bring enough shells.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
I got the wrong gun.

Speaker 6 (43:18):
Yeah, dose are hard enough to hit anyway. They rarely
fly more than about ten or fifteen feet a straight line.
And man, when when they've got wind on their wings,
it's just it's almost impossible.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
It was a nightmare. I went back into the motel
that afternoon and I'd got one dove and gone through
two boxes of shelves, and I'm going I am one
dissillusion hunter.

Speaker 6 (43:44):
Yeah, you thought you were good because and here's what honesty, goodness,
here's the way you deal with that, Mike, if you're
gonna you Everybody wants to go out and shoot a
few rounds of sporting clays or trap or skied or
something like that before the season, and they call their buddies, Hey,
let's go Thursday.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
No, it's gonna be really windy Thursday.

Speaker 6 (44:04):
Let's wait until Friday when it's nice and calm, when
we go out there and really hone everything in. And
ninety percent of practice shooting gets done under ideal shooting conditions.
And you and I and everybody else who's ever dove
hunted knows opening day most days during hunting season it's
not gonna be ideal conditions.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
You've got to learn to shoot in the rain. You
got to learn to shoot in the wind. You got
to learn to shoot when you're a little cold with
a jacket on. It's just it's all.

Speaker 6 (44:35):
It's all about how you practice if you practice under
practice golf. Same way, if if you'll only practice and
like to play on sunny days, you're not gonna be
worth a darn when it's windy and cold, wet.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
In my old age, I have found out that city
birds are a lot better than country birds are.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Just let that hang there, Lord man.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
Somebody must be feeding these birds, you know, bird seed
all day all night around here. These birds are huge.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Well, they don't have to run.

Speaker 6 (45:05):
Well, maybe what you might be looking at is either
white wings or those collar doves. Those erasied collar doves
are about size and a half of a morning.

Speaker 4 (45:14):
Even the white wings are big, and they're big. They're
bigger than the morning does I know, naturally, But these
birds are huge, And I'm going, why don't you get
out in the country where I'm shooting.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
A little easier to hit?

Speaker 6 (45:29):
They have to take four or five steps to just
get a running start before they can fly their bellies
off the ground.

Speaker 14 (45:34):
Yeap, Oh my god, all right, I bet you.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
I bet your topic of bushwhacking fishermen around Yeah, I
got to tell you, being nice is a lot better
and keeping your cool is a lot nicer fishing.

Speaker 6 (45:49):
And it it just there's no reason to ruin a
perfectly good fishing day by screaming at somebody.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
There's a whole lot more water out there.

Speaker 13 (45:57):
Yeah, you know to go around, You know you can exactly.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
And here's a little tip.

Speaker 6 (46:03):
If somebody starts screaming at you, just just start the
boat and idle away until you can't hear them screaming anymore,
and then start fishing again.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
I came out here for a little piece and relaxation.

Speaker 6 (46:16):
Yeah, really, all right, pardon, I gotta run man, take care, Yes,
sir audios all you gotta take a little break here.
On the way out, I'll tell you about American shooting centers.
Speaking of practicing your shooting. Out there on West Timber
Parkway between Katie and Highway six. They have got every
it got more than two hundred shooting stations, three complete
sporting place courses. They've got five stands all over the place,

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ten track and skeet fields.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
They have a beginner's wing shooting area.

Speaker 6 (46:43):
They have rifling pistol from five yards all the way
to six hundred yards. Now, I don't know if they'll
let you go out there when it's pouring down rain,
but come closer to dove season. The best thing you
can do for your dove hunting and your skills, well
two things. Number One, go out there and shoot a
couple of rounds of clay targets, preferably sporting plays, because

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that's kind of like, that's far closer to real hunting
than trapper skeet will ever be.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
And do it on a windy day. Do it on
a windy day.

Speaker 6 (47:14):
Man, if you get out there and in September one
turns out calm, what a bonus that will be for you.
And if you're not, If you if you're practicing on
windy days and not hitting anything, and you just throw
in the towel and practice on a calm.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
Day and you're not hitting anything, then get one of
their instructors to help you. That's what they're there for.
That's what they'll do.

Speaker 6 (47:34):
They'll you'll whatever you spend in lessons, you'll get back
over a season or so in shells. You'll save so
much money on AMMO. I used to see that as
a waterfowl guide. I'd send those guys to the range
after the hunt. Man, you guys can't shoot, you're gonna
be here three days. Go get some lessons, right now,
and they'd come back and they'd actually be better for

(47:55):
a day or two. Get out of there with some birds.
American Shooting Centers West tim Or Park Quay between Katie
and Highway six. Very easy to find and one of
the safest places on the planet. One it's the biggest
non military shooting facility in the whole state. American Shooting
Centers dot COM's website American Shootingcenters dot com s.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
This is the Doug Pike Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 2 (48:32):
To members and their guests.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
All right, second out, the program starts right now.

Speaker 6 (48:39):
Thank you all for listening, starting to appreciate it, watching
this radar and let's see. Yeah, later in the afternoon,
it does look like we're gonna get kind of banged
around by some heavier thunderstorms. But not what is gonna
get not what's going to pass a little north of

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it gets worse the farther north we go.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Let me stop this thing. Right about there.

Speaker 6 (49:06):
It looks like about eleven eleven thirty twelve o'clock when
things you're going to start to get wonky around here
and then moving on. Yeah, it's just we're going to
train some thundershowers through here till about mid afternoon, and
then it should clear on up and get out of here.
That's what we can hope. It doesn't look like San

(49:27):
Antonio is going to get beat up at all. Really,
everything that's coming toward us is fact is already almost
pass them in the next hour.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
They're going to be high and dry.

Speaker 6 (49:39):
So if they didn't get too much stuff overnight, they
should be good for the Valero Texas Open, which I'll
talk about a little bit more in the nine o'clock hour.
I had a good conversation. Well, first of all, let
me go back to forward facing sonar for just a minute.
I'm it's out there and nobody's going to be able
to unring the bell.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Now.

Speaker 6 (50:00):
In competition, I think all these major fishing competitions are
gonna have to do some real soul searching, and they're
gonna have to to gather up some committees to decide
exactly how to deal with with forward facing sonar, because
it is a very clear advantage so long as the fish.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Are in a little bit deeper water.

Speaker 6 (50:26):
And there are we're professional fishermen out there now who
are making a living, professional guides making a living guaranteeing
people ten pound bass guarante people guarantee an eight pounders
at least, no catch, no pay, because they can just
idle around.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
Now, you're not gonna get the fish all day.

Speaker 6 (50:48):
You're just gonna you're gonna be watching TV all day
waiting to see that big old bass on the screen.
And then if you can get a lure right down
there and watch the fish eat it and you can,
then maybe you're gonna end up having to pay that guide.
But that to me is just I'm still old school
enough that I don't consider that fishing. And when one

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of the pros at the Classic set out loud into
a microphone that if you can't see them, you can't
catch them, I think that was the tipping point that
made everybody realize that just letting that technology get too
deeply entrenched in professional fishing might might be the end

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of it as we know it. And this is one
this is one piece of change that for the amateur fishermen.
That's fine. For the amateurs, that's fine. But for professionals
who are are earning their livings from all of their

(51:54):
sponsors and from all of their prize money, I think
they should have to know how how to fish. If
the battery dies in their little TV, in their forward
facing sonar, they should they should.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Know where to look.

Speaker 6 (52:10):
And the fact that old school fishing is still winning trophies,
is still winning money in tournament fishing, is testament to
the importance of it to the sport. I don't think
that just allowing everybody to use the technology is a
level playing field.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
It's really not. You either have it or you don't.
And for a lot of people who are very.

Speaker 6 (52:35):
Good fishermen, very good fishermen, they can't afford that stuff.
They just can't afford that stuff, and so they, under
the right circumstances in the right time of year, have
almost no chance to outfish the guys who can actually
tell whether there are bass on that sunken tree, whether

(52:59):
they're a bass that drop off or around that over
that grass.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
Halfway down to the bottom, whatever it's it's I don't know.

Speaker 6 (53:08):
I just have a really bad feeling about where this
could take professional fishing, if professional fishermen allow it to happen,
Because if it ever becomes a competition among the people
with the biggest.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
Screens or the most screens, or some of these.

Speaker 6 (53:27):
Guys are putting technology on their boat where they can
see three hundred and sixty degrees around the boat. I've
got all these transducers, transducers under that boat, letting them
know exactly what's down there, where it is, and how
big it is and what it is. Very easy to
tell the difference between a bass and a catfish on

(53:47):
the right technology, with the right screen, bass, crappie, catfish,
white bass. They don't all look alike. They're not just
all blips. You can see in great detail. The first
indication I got of that was years ago with Scott
and All. Scott's got it on, had it on his
old boat. I'm sure he's got the same technology on
the new boat, because when he's idling down those jetties

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down there at Port O'Connor, he's looking for tarping and it.
The trip we used it on, it saved us a
lot of casts into empty water. I'm not gonna lie,
but dog gone, man. It just for competition. I think
you have a division. Either you either have forward facing
or you don't. And if you don't, let's have a

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division for those guys, and maybe they can win enough
money to get it. But whoever's winning those competitions doesn't
want to go get it because they know they can
win money against other people who are fishing on a
level ground with them. It's going to be interesting to
see how all that goes.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
It really is. I've talked on this show a lot.

Speaker 6 (54:52):
Of times about different innovations, different introductions into fishing, all
the way back from fibergl to graphite, from from monofilament to.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
Fluorcarbon to braid.

Speaker 6 (55:08):
Which is kind of just old Dachron when you get
right down to it, and all of that is. All
of that has helped fishermen catch more fish.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
There's no question.

Speaker 6 (55:18):
The improvements to the reels, and we went from knucklebusters
to to smooth, the original five thousands and the Abo
Garcia Ambassador five thousand.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
Boy, that was a total game changer, total free school reel.

Speaker 6 (55:34):
When you cast it just went round and round and
the handle didn't go with it, and man, that was
a that was a big deal back then and now
that's a dinosaur.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
Let me go catch, Let me go catch John, see
what's on his mind?

Speaker 5 (55:46):
What's up?

Speaker 7 (55:47):
John?

Speaker 16 (55:48):
Well, I was explaining to your screener. I normally drive
a two thousand and seven Tundra, and I love the thing.

Speaker 13 (55:55):
Yeah, my wife just got big. My wife just got
a new car.

Speaker 5 (55:58):
I'm driving it.

Speaker 13 (55:59):
I try to make a phone call and it decided
it's going on Bluetooth the car, and I can't undo that.
The technologies, and I know you don't like people on bluetooth.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
No, you're fine, man, it sounds fine. You're good, You're good.

Speaker 13 (56:13):
But I'm like, I'm in the.

Speaker 16 (56:16):
Apollo thirteen capsule here. Actually, actually, I'm quite certain it
has more technology.

Speaker 7 (56:22):
Than that had.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Oh there's no doubt. There's no doubt.

Speaker 9 (56:25):
Man.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Our phones have more technology than it took to put
men in space.

Speaker 13 (56:29):
That's crazy, right, more computing power, that's for sure.

Speaker 16 (56:32):
But anyway, I apologize if this is not the good
quality sound.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
It's perfect what you got anyway, I'm listening to.

Speaker 16 (56:40):
I don't know about form facing sonar. I used to
bass fish a lot. That's how I cut my tooth fishing.
Now I almost don't care to bass fish. I love
the saltwater sure wayfish.

Speaker 13 (56:49):
And that's about it. It's just so much better. Anyway.

Speaker 16 (56:55):
So I'm listening to talking about four facing sonar and
you know, guys guaranteeing ten pound bass, and I thought, well,
that sounds an awful like guaranteeing you know, a two
point fifteen boonea Crockett in a high fence place.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
It does.

Speaker 16 (57:09):
And so at what point does the record books for
fishing go the way if Boone and Crockett say you
you can't put a high fence you can't put a
high fits deer in the Boone Crockett record book, nor
can you put a forward facing sonar fish in the record.

Speaker 6 (57:30):
Books on the IGFA book. That's an interesting point. Nobody's
brought that up yet. That's a good thing to think about.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
I mean that only.

Speaker 13 (57:37):
I mean the analogy to me is pretty darn close.

Speaker 16 (57:41):
It's not perfect, but goodness, you know, it's like, you know,
we've all talked about.

Speaker 13 (57:49):
You know, what fun is it to go out and
look in the book and.

Speaker 16 (57:53):
See number seven Oa who comes out to the feeder
at four seventeen every day and shoot him. Walk out
to the bay, wait five minutes, shoot him you don't
get your hands dirty. They do everything. You never fill
a feeder, you never scotted the ranch, you know. Yeah,
that's getting in the boat and let the guy put

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you on ten pound bass. I mean go down and
buy a replica.

Speaker 6 (58:18):
Yeah, yeah, really, just you can get if you want
a seventeen pounds speckle trout, you can get one on
your wall in about four weeks.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
And it exactly Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 6 (58:29):
See what you mean now, I really I've hunted a
lot of high fence places and I've hunted a lot
of low fence places, and that's a kind of to
each his own thing, and I think the forward facing
sonar is gonna end up being that. But when it
comes down to competition, you're right, that's that's an age
that the the traditional.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
It's not the old school, it's not the the I
don't know that. Traditionals, I think is the best word.

Speaker 6 (58:54):
A traditional fisherman doesn't have that, and that give the
person with it an advantage. The boona crockett doesn't accept
high fence animals. So that's that's already been addressed. Yeah,
and maybe the eyes you want to start looking at that.

Speaker 13 (59:13):
Yeah, yeah, Then to be fair. I shouldn't, I shouldn't
pooh pooh off the high fence.

Speaker 16 (59:18):
There's a high fence ranch, and then there's a high
fence ranch that's winning simply commercial punts.

Speaker 13 (59:24):
I have a good friend.

Speaker 16 (59:25):
He's got an eighteen hundred acre ranch that he runs
the density at natural like a deer for twenty eight years. Yeah,
doesn't supplemental feed. Doesn't you know you might not see
a deer on three consecutive punts.

Speaker 14 (59:38):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 13 (59:39):
They are wild and they are tough, and it's a serious.
All he has it is so they can get old enough.

Speaker 10 (59:46):
You know.

Speaker 13 (59:46):
That's the only reason he has a high fenced you know.

Speaker 16 (59:50):
But then there's a place where you know, the dinner
bell goes off and forty seven deer come out and
you can't get a shot because they're all lined up
and if you take a shot, you're gonna hit three.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
You know, I'm never out of that place.

Speaker 13 (01:00:04):
Oh I did. I did with friend of mine.

Speaker 16 (01:00:06):
Another friend took me to his place and he, you know,
he it's one of these places where they've got to
shoot three hundred dos. This year we went in one
hour month shot five dos. Yeah, you shoot one, it
drops me. I'll come running back and it's just crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
You know, I got you.

Speaker 13 (01:00:24):
But anyway, not my cup of not my cup of tea.

Speaker 14 (01:00:27):
But I needed to tell the.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Freezer all right, John, Thanks man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (01:00:31):
Keep going.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
We'll see audios.

Speaker 6 (01:00:34):
Oh Mercy. Yeah, the phone call was fine. And he
makes a good point about the record books for fishing.

Speaker 5 (01:00:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:00:41):
If we're going to use that stuff and it's not
accessible to everybody then and it gives people an advantage,
then that needs to be considered.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
I think I really do. We got to take a
little break here.

Speaker 6 (01:00:56):
If you were on hold a minute ago, give me
a few minutes to get through the break and then
call back.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
I'll bring you right back up. I promise. I want
to hear what you wanted to talk about. I guarantee you.

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
Black Horse Golf Club. Let's go to the northwest side. Now,
out go two ninety to Fry Road. It's gonna gonna
be bumpy this afternoon out there. Okay, So maybe just
take today to make yourself a tea.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Time for tomorrow. I think it'll be fine. By tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (01:01:21):
Everybody will be back out there teeing it up and
banging it around. Black Horse which has been changed now.
It used to be thirty six holes of daily fee golf.
They took the South Course private at the beginning of
the year and that's working out very well for everybody.
There's still plenty of room to get the daily fee
play done on the North course, which is it's actually

(01:01:41):
a little bit easier. I hate to use that word
about a golf course, because no golf course is easy,
but it's a little more user friendly to the average golfer.
In the average daily fee guy wants to go out
and have a little fun with his buddies, not worried
about trying to break the course record. Get out there,
have some fun. If you want to get better golf,
then take advantage of the teaching facility at the far

(01:02:02):
end of the range. Go down there and get with
one of the instructors and help your game become better.
If you're interested in the South Course membership option, there
is information at the website, and there is information. Certainly
if you drive out there, they'll take you down there,
drive you around a little.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Bit, whind you dining you well.

Speaker 6 (01:02:20):
I don't know if they'll do all that, but they'll
make sure you understand your options and One of those
options includes access also to both courses at Golf Club
of Houston and to Blackhawk Country Club out there where
I play and fish a lot. Blackhorse Golf Club dot com,
Fry Road, just a little way south of two ninety

(01:02:40):
two fantastic courses, one for everybody, one for members only,
and both of them You're gonna love them. Blackhorsegolf Club
dot COM's website black Horse goolf Club dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
We are Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 14 (01:02:55):
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Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
Listen online at sports seven ninety dot com. Now more
Doug Fike.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Age twenty.

Speaker 6 (01:03:33):
It is on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thanks for listening, Certain to appreciate it. I pulled up
a story here a minute ago because I saw this
guy's name earlier in the week, I think, for catching
another big alligator guard a guy named Art Weston, and
the story I saw said something about him holding all

(01:03:55):
the line class records. Since we were talking about IGFA
stuff and whatnot on Largemouth Bess and I remembered seeing
this story about this guy, Art Weston.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
He's actually from Kentucky, but he.

Speaker 6 (01:04:07):
Comes over here and fishes with Kirk Kirkland up on
Sam Rayburn who and by the way, Kirk Kirkland apparently
the guy to fish with for giant alligator gar on
his boat, which is aptly named the Garship Enterprise, which

(01:04:27):
I think is pretty cool. I don't know who thought
that up for him, but that's pretty darn good anyway.
The most recent record that Weston claimed, according to this
is a story out of the Smithsonian magazine by a
woman named sarahl Kuta, who I doubt knows anything more

(01:04:48):
than what is in this piece about alligator gar. I
bet she was pretty fresh to the subject in any event,
that back in September a year and a half ago
twenty twenty three, west did and caught a gar that
weighed two hundred and eighty three pounds and was I
don't know if it was a water body record. I
don't know what record it was, but it had to

(01:05:09):
be something. Thing looks big as a horse.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
It's just huge. And he apparently has.

Speaker 6 (01:05:16):
Caught all kinds of gars on all kinds of tackle,
and this one may be his biggest. I did see
when I was just kind of casually looking at alligator
gar records that there are some fish bigger in other
parts of the world.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
But I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:05:34):
It might take a day or two to be at
a two hundred and eighty three pounder in Texas. That's
pretty impressive. I gotta say, by the way, if you
guys are going to if you guys are going to
the kitchen, a minute ago, when I was in there
freshening my pot of coffee, that iced water machine sounded
like it was having a baby.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
Oh my god, man, did you hear that in there?
Did you miss that cow? Did you? It wasn't making
any noise. I guess it was a success. Then it's
congratulations you've had an ice cube. I guess. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:06:08):
Seven one three two five seven ninety Email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com. I I have seen more gar
and I think it's because of a recent little kind
of a high water event down there where I fished
the most. And it just it reminds me that gars, boy,

(01:06:28):
if they've got enough water to suspend them, they'll go
wherever they can to find more food.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
And right now I caught a really calm day.

Speaker 6 (01:06:39):
Out there at that little lake or two I've been fishing,
and the water was it is finally cleared enough that
you can see more than two inches into it. And
I was quite surprised actually at how many gar are
in there.

Speaker 5 (01:06:54):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:06:55):
There are a lot of gars in these two little lakes,
and I'm talking of out can't walk ten steps down
the shoreline without seeing one. They're They're all over the
place in there. So I'm considering, strongly considering rigging up
at least one rod.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
With something I think that they might they might eat.
And I'm not going to do it with bait. That's
just too easy.

Speaker 6 (01:07:20):
And I don't want to have to unhook that many
of them, but I might. I might just kind of
dangle something in front of a really big one. Let
me go see what's on Dave's mine up here in
spring day.

Speaker 12 (01:07:31):
What's up man, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
How are you doing very well?

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
How are you You've got some more studies to tell
me about?

Speaker 12 (01:07:38):
I hope, yeah, yeah, absolutely. But first I wanted to
say one thing. I actually grew up with a father
who couldn't fish with her okay, And one of the
greatest things when you're a little kid and you don't
know how to catch fish is actually finally starting to
catch fish and finally realize it. Having more than ten

(01:08:01):
feet on a line on your fishing reel makes a
different stuff. So you know, everybody's talking about all the
technical aspect that some of the greatest joy you'll ever
have is actually learning how to fish without much help
from anybody else. You know, it's such a wonderful learning

(01:08:22):
experience it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
To be worthwhile, yes, sir.

Speaker 12 (01:08:26):
Anyway, seafood industry, yes, sir, shrimp industry. This time last year,
when I think we started talking, the process has said
they had over a year's worth of inventory in the
freezer and the season's opening in about four weeks, and

(01:08:48):
the process are basically restricting the map of shrimp they
sell because they're running out. And it should be a
great improvement this year compared to last year. So wow, okay,
I thank everybody who actually decided that they're going to

(01:09:09):
ask about where the shrimp comes from. So I really
appreciate that the tariffs that are in place right now,
if they stay in place, will also have a positive
effect on the industry. And things are looking a lot better.
Authenticity in restaurants are still not particularly good. Shreeport and

(01:09:32):
about a sixty inauthenticity rate, which is good. New Orleans
had an inauthenticity rate of only thirteen percent, which is
really good.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
That's very good.

Speaker 12 (01:09:43):
And Savannah, which is the place I guess that most
people know about, add an authentic inauthenticity rate of about
sixty percent. An awful, awful lot of work to be done.
But we need to support commercial vision, We need to

(01:10:04):
support the communities that depend on them, because there is
no point going down to the coach if the coach
is day.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Yeah, that's a very that's a very good way to
look at it.

Speaker 6 (01:10:14):
And I think that the awareness that your investigation, if
you will, your research has has laid bare, is gonna
really once you guys have got a lot of traction.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Now, when when word gets out more and more and people.

Speaker 6 (01:10:32):
Do start asking, hey, where does shrimp come from, they'll
they'll be surprised, I think, and hopefully, hopefully they'll be
pleasantly surprised.

Speaker 12 (01:10:42):
I hope so. But one of the things that you
might want to get your viewers to look at is
Inside Edition basically didn't expose a using our technology. And
if you go into YouTube and just type inside Edition
and shrimp, you'll see how uh deceptive restaurant can be. Yeah,

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but you know, it's it's a rainy, nicety day, so
talk about fishing and shooting rather than doing it today.

Speaker 6 (01:11:17):
I think, yeah, I'm gonna pass on. I'm gonna pass
on golf today. I think I really am all right.

Speaker 12 (01:11:26):
Who described golf as a good book spoiled?

Speaker 6 (01:11:31):
You know, it must have been somebody from Great Britain somewhere,
somebody in your own lineage.

Speaker 12 (01:11:37):
Perhaps I'm English, so I'm not. I love Thank you
very much.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
You're from England, sir.

Speaker 12 (01:11:44):
You're You're a Texan and I'm English. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:11:47):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Yeah, well, I do appreciate the work you're doing to day.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 17 (01:11:52):
Man.

Speaker 12 (01:11:52):
I want I won't keep you any longer. Have a
great day, everybody staying this weather.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
You are always welcome here, my friend. Thank you. Audios.

Speaker 6 (01:12:01):
Yeah yeah, This man and his company have been methodically
going from town to town and going into seafood restaurants.
They have a technology that enables them to dig down
to the genetic level of shrimp that are being served
there and in places where the It's a truth and

(01:12:23):
advertising campaign essentially to make sure that places that purport
to be selling locally caught locally sold bought and sold
shrimp are indeed doing that, and they they have found,
just like he was talking about over in Savannah, Jordan,

(01:12:44):
sixty percent inauthenticity. Sixty percent of the places that said
they were selling local shrimp weren't. They were selling imports.
And that's that makes it hard on the local commercial fishermen.
Do we need what we had twenty thirty years ago,
several hundred boats in the bays shrimp And no we don't.

(01:13:05):
But for the people who are out there still trying
to make a living at it, I think it's only
fair that we do try to source as many shrimp
as we can, being from the Gulf of Mexico, being
from our bay system, and I have no problem at
all with that. If you want shrimp from halfway around
the world, flash frozen and being fed things that would

(01:13:28):
freak you out if you realize what those little shrimp
are being fed to fatten them up for us, more
power to you. And honestly, if you laid ten shrimp
in front of me and five of them were from
the Gulf of Mexico and five were not, I don't
know that I could tell you which was which. But
if you're going to tell me that they're from the golf.

(01:13:49):
That's what I'd prefer, because I grew up on golf
caught shrimp. We didn't have imports back then, and I
remember them tasting a little sweeter. I remember them tasting
a little better than some of the ones I've eaten.
And I've written it off to a cooking processes a
lot of times, but maybe it's not that. Maybe it
is just that they're coming from different places, and they've

(01:14:09):
been frozen for a week or two or three or
a month, and all of a sudden, here they are
in my I don't eat shrimp cocktail anymore. I'm not
that fancy unless it's available somewhere. I'll those little trays
of shrimp that you can buy in the grocery stores.
The next one of those that I buy and eat

(01:14:30):
the entire thing just by myself watching a football game
or a basketball game won't be the first. It's kind
of like how I used to eat bags of Oreo cookies,
or not Oreos, but chocolate chips, the chips a hoy.
I used to be a whole bag of chips of
Hoys and not gain weight. I'm cured of that, though,
I'm able to gain weight almost at will or at

(01:14:52):
the bottom of a full bag of cookies. Don't usually
I stop at about a third. Right now, you have
those two rows he's that you get in most of
the packages.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Now I'll eat like a third of them and then
put it down and make it last three days. But
that's about his long sale. Last in front of me
Phoenix Knives. Let me tell you what's going on this weekend.

Speaker 6 (01:15:14):
Today, maybe a little bumpy trying to get out to Belleville,
but also tomorrow you can go out there and see
at the Austin County Expo Center right there in Belleville,
more than one hundred and fifty knife makers from all
over the country, the best of the best, including Cowboy Zemanski,
the guy who hosts this show and has since it

(01:15:36):
was started.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
Out there.

Speaker 6 (01:15:37):
He's one of the original contestants from Forged and Fire,
and he really took that notoriety. He takes it very
seriously and he takes it to heart, and he's trying
to just gather more and more enthusiasm for custom knife making,
which for a while there weren't that many people doing
it anymore. And now I interviewed him just recently talked

(01:16:00):
about how more and more young people are getting into
that seriously and making it their profession. And you can
meet a lot of those people out there at the
Austin County Expost Center this weekend. Wait till this afternoon,
the rain's going to pass on through here. If you
can just ride out there and take a look. If

(01:16:20):
you can't, then after this weekend anytime, go out there
to Belleville, Go out there to Main Street. Right on
Main Street in Belleville and go to to Phoenix Knives.
See their showroom. Go in there and first come, first serve.
You go in there and say, hey, I'd like to
build my own knife, and they will have one of
their apprentices in there walk you through the entire process,

(01:16:43):
and you will leave there with your own handmade custom knife.
It's a really fascinating experience, it really is. It's fun
kind of a group experience too.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
Take the whole family out there, get everybody involved.

Speaker 6 (01:16:56):
Can meet all these people this weekend out there at
the Expost Center and bell they'll free parking by the way,
which we don't get much here in Houston. Or you
can wait until wait till the weather clears up. If
you want to do that, and I certainly understand. I'm
not asking to drive all the way out there in
the pouring down rain. But you can do that tomorrow
and it's not going to be raining or next week.
Go out there to Phoenix Knives, meet them, tell them

(01:17:19):
hello for me. By the way, this whole show is
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Your Rockets and Astros live here. We are Sports Talk
seven ninety. The conversation continues. This as the Dog Fight Show.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
That Blue Man Group, that's what it sounds like. That's
a big Floyd Oh now okay, now I get it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:18:22):
At first, it sounded like Blue Man Group beating on drunk,
their faces all painted up. Holy cow, oh my words.
Uh yeah, thank you for that. It sounded like something
out of a Vegas show. I bet they do this
song they Maybe that's what it is, that's impossible. Maybe
they cover it do you know Brett or would you

(01:18:44):
be guessing.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
I would be guessing. Okay if it would be Gilmore
not Rogin Water is doing it these days, so so
ah going, I'm strolling through emails. Wow, holy cow, Captain Scott,
who would know? Doesn't matter what he how I know this,

(01:19:08):
but he would know?

Speaker 6 (01:19:11):
Explain that that captain down in Florida and one of
those charges is pretty serious.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
It's felony. And he's yeah, it looks like looks like
he's a little bit of a hot head. And if
you do some research, you'll find out it's just scary.
It's scary. And people with short fuses don't need to
be in in.

Speaker 6 (01:19:38):
Occupations where they come in contact with a lot of
the general public because the general public.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
Might not know better. They might run into another hot
head and it could get even worse. A lot of things,
a lot of things.

Speaker 6 (01:19:53):
Mike Mike Ways in talking about trying to get rigged
up for garfi fishing, sees, that's where it starts. One
rod for bass, one rod for gar and before you
know it, you'll be bringing several rods and reels with
different baits that they're ready.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
What do you mean, before I know it I true confession.

Speaker 6 (01:20:16):
Typically I have at least three, if not four, rigged
rods in the back of my vehicle, at least three,
if not four, and at present, actually it's just four,
and I've had more, but that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
Was I don't know, that was my.

Speaker 6 (01:20:36):
Weirdo phase. I just I don't carry that many anymore.
I try to travel light, but I always have at
least two rigged up.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
Usually if it's two, it's either.

Speaker 6 (01:20:46):
Going to be one of them's something with a blade
on it, either a chatter bait or a spinner bait.
And actually I caught all my fish yesterday on a
spinner bait, and the other is going to be a
crank bait because there's another place that I fished.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
I don't fish those two baits in the same place.

Speaker 6 (01:21:02):
The chatter bait and spinner bait are for shoreline fishing
down one particular lake, and then that crank bait is
reserved for over by a little spillway where I'm throwing
into a little bit deeper water and I need to
need something that'll get down there and kind of bounce
off the little rocks on the bottom. Most of those

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fish are sitting down there, can't what do you mean,
someday it might lead to that more several rods and
reels with different baits at the ready. Yeah, that's just
maybe I might have been a professional bass fisherman in
a previous lifetime. I would like to think that I
was more of an offshore guy in a previous lifetime,

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because I, oh, I so enjoyed fishing offshore until I
watched a refrigerator fly across the salon in front of
me in pretty rough water and just said that's enough.

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
And I was not young when that happened either.

Speaker 6 (01:21:57):
I'd been banged around and beat around off shore by
pretty rough seas more than once and endured.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
But yeah, I'm not into taking beatings anymore that I
don't have to take. Kevin wade in.

Speaker 6 (01:22:15):
Yeah, about practicing or shooting in adverse conditions, bum Phillips,
he says, reminds me of what bum Phillips said when
asked how he was going to prepare the oilers for
cold and freezing rain and snow weather conditions in Pittsburgh
for the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
Um, let's see what hold on.

Speaker 6 (01:22:34):
I've got to open this up because I'm kind of
curious what he said now got me off thinking about it,
to which he said, you can't practice being miserable. I've
used Zach's excuse many times to avoid practice. No, if
you're going to be the best at something, you got
to be ready to go in any conditions, in any conditions,

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and the only way to practice for those conditions is
to practice in those conditions, I believe.

Speaker 10 (01:23:04):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
Am I going to get all.

Speaker 6 (01:23:05):
Excited today about maybe going out in the rain this
afternoon and shooting around a sporting clothes to get ready
for September one?

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
Nope, not going to do that. I'm old enough and
I'm I'm.

Speaker 6 (01:23:18):
Still comfortable enough with my shooting ability to not do that.
I'm not trying to break a record. I'm not trying
to shoot twelve doves with twelve shells. I'm out there
to have a good time now. Mike and I did
a lot of competitive shooting when I was younger. A
game that's yeah, some people like it, some people don't,

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but it's the hardest shotgun game there is and I
did Okay, I actually did.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
I made some money doing that and it was fun.
But I'm not in that sport anymore, and I'm not
worried about having to prove anything to anybody about the
way I shoot. I did that du duck hunt and
missed it. I missed one, just a layup. It's just
like I was.

Speaker 6 (01:24:04):
I was the only guy on the court and I
missed a layup on a goose coming over us. And
I was out there with my peers and guys who
could shoot, and was pretty embarrassed by that miss. I
must say seven one three two one two five seven
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Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
I'd come.

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
David weighed in.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
He said, I have to believe that if that had
not been a younger guy, but someone older and maybe
fifty or one hundred pounds heavier, that fishing guy would
not have said a word. That's possibility.

Speaker 6 (01:24:36):
But I'll tell you what, if you watch that video,
I think he was gonna say something, no matter what,
No matter what. Rudy sent me a record about a big,
brand new croppy and I'll tell you it was caught
on April one. No, never mind, Rudy, Come on, man,

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come on, Rudy, We'll take a little break here on
the way out.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 6 (01:25:01):
Let's just go to this one dry I've got I've
got one for each of the breaks in the nine
o'clock hour, and I want to leave them right where
they are because I'm actually saving a really good one
for the final break of the program, and I want
to make sure I have plenty of time.

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
But talk about it. We'll take a little break here.
We'll be right back to The Doug Pike Show on
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
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Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
Eight fifty on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.

Speaker 6 (01:25:45):
Thanks for listening. Find musical selections made by Brett this morning.
By the way, who man you?

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
You and Cal come sliding insideways on me one minute
before we go into air. I wasn't scared at all.
So you're you're getting to pick all the music, right Brett?

Speaker 17 (01:26:01):
So far?

Speaker 8 (01:26:02):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:26:02):
Okay, good, Yeah, you're doing fine. And whatever you like
is what you get to play. I've told every producer
has ever been in that room. Play stuff you like.
It's fine with me unless it's unless it has obscene lyrics.

Speaker 2 (01:26:14):
Then you cannot do it. Oh damn, Oh well, I
gotta dump this next thing. Oh god, all right.

Speaker 6 (01:26:20):
I like the way you think I was looking at
Rudy's email that he said about the record croppie coming
out of Taleda Bend on April first, and it almost
makes me feel like I may never fish on April
first again, because if I were to catch a giant fish,
a potential record, nobody would believe it. Now this particular fish,

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there's a picture this guy holding up a bass and
a croppie, and allegedly Bo Thibodeaux from Deritter, Louisiana has
set a new Texas state record for Taleda Ben Reservoir
with a four point six to two pound croppie. A
couple of a couple of interesting things from the story

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that make me still wonder. First of all, it says croppy,
and it would either be a black crappie or a
white crappy. It wouldn't just be a croppy record, it
would have to be one of the two. Secondly, there
are a couple of references in the story to Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department officials saying this or verifying that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
If that were if I had.

Speaker 6 (01:27:34):
Written a story and attributed to quote to some unnamed
Texas Parks and wildlife representative. I would have had that
story back when I was at the newspaper thrown back
at me and say, name your source, and that is
what I'm looking for here, I'm not seeing. I'm not

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seeing what I want to see. It's well written, and
it's very it very cleverly dances around a couple of details,
but I'm not one hundred percent sure. And another thing
that makes me a little bit suspicious of this sus
for you younger people.

Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
Is that it doesn't It doesn't show up anywhere else.

Speaker 6 (01:28:20):
It showed up on one site on Facebook, but it
doesn't show up anywhere else in any news feed that
my search engine can find. I checked, I searched the
guy's name. I searched to lead a Ben Croppy record
with his name without his name, and this fish doesn't

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come up. And if it's real, and if it's the truth,
then more power to him. But the fact that it's
a shred Finn site and he's wearing a shred Finn
cap also kind of makes me wonder just exactly how
real it is.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
Somebody can reel in the truth on this when that
would be just fine with me.

Speaker 6 (01:29:05):
I'd love to hear it but I don't think that
the current records for black and White and or white
Crappie on Taleda Ben are currently threatened at all seven
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Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. I had interviewed yesterday,

(01:29:25):
interviewed yesterday Sid Miller, the Texas Department of Agriculture Commissioner,
and asked him about a lot of things that I
thought would be important to not only that audience, but
this audience. And as it turned out, as it turned out,
the audio just wasn't that good. He was driving from

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hitherto Yan. He was on I don't remember what interstate
he said he was on, but.

Speaker 2 (01:29:51):
Unfortunately we were only getting a percentage of his responses
to my questions. And I'm not sure.

Speaker 6 (01:30:01):
I'm not sure how it translated on the other end,
on the receiving end out there on your radios. But
what I've done is I've asked Sid by email to
maybe give me another shot at this when he's sitting.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
Down and not moving at some point in the next
week or two.

Speaker 6 (01:30:18):
And I've saved that list of questions and when I
can get back with him at a time when he
can answer these questions. I think it'll be interesting for
all of us to really hear his full answers and
what he said, because I even I wasn't getting much
of it, and I finally I let it go because
every time I felt like, Okay, we've just got to

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hang up and calling back. And bear in mind, this
is only about an eight minute interview, So if I
give up thirty seconds to a full minute of it
to try to hang up and call back and hopefully
get a better connection, it kind of it breaks the
authenticity of it, It breaks the cadence of it. And
so I just let it run through and then let

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him know at the end that it hadn't worked out
very well. And then I emailed him yesterday and he
seemed like a nice enough guy. He seemed like he
would do that for us. I just don't know when Forrest.
Forrest weighed in, I was I figured if anything would
wake him up and get him to respond, that would
be it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
And he said, nah, not real fake news, fake news.

Speaker 6 (01:31:21):
Lol, That's kind of what I thought, and especially and
once again it goes back to fishing on April Fool's Day,
that's what you get.

Speaker 2 (01:31:29):
Even if it's real, nobody's gonna believe you.

Speaker 6 (01:31:33):
And they didn't make it so preposterous that it seemed
instantly unreal.

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
I had to think about it at four sixty two.
That's not out of the realm of possibility. But it's
not real.

Speaker 6 (01:31:49):
Kind I kind of knew that, but I didn't know it,
so I went ahead and confirmed it. I went ahead
and confirmed it. Huh, mercy, let's go ahead and take
this break a little bit early so nobody has to
get into a hurry rush and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
On the other end.

Speaker 6 (01:32:04):
When we get back, we're gonna talk a little golf.
We're gonna talk about the Valero Texas Open, and if
you want to make a prediction, and I'll write these down.
If you want to make a prediction of one and
two at the Masters next week first and second the
Masters next week, I'll write them down.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
And we'll see if anybody gets it right.

Speaker 6 (01:32:26):
And if you do, maybe I'll take you to go
play golf out at Blackhawk with me sometime. That'll give
me another excuse to play, and I'm I'm always in
favor of excuses to go play golf. I don't know
that we'll stick around and fish afterward.

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
But yeah, we can. We can go out there and
tee it. I think I could pull that off. I
think I could get a little golf set up for somebody.

Speaker 6 (01:32:47):
Now, if you want to come out on Wednesday and
play with an old man group and throw in twenty
bucks in the pot for the fun part, we could do.

Speaker 2 (01:32:54):
It that way too.

Speaker 6 (01:32:55):
Se one three, two, one, two five seven ninety email
me dougpick at iHeartMedia dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
I'll go through my.

Speaker 6 (01:33:00):
Emails again as we go into this break and until
we get back see if I need to respond, and
if I do, I will, and if I don't, we'll
tee it up when we get back.

Speaker 2 (01:33:09):
More of the Doug Pike Show right after this shit.

Speaker 1 (01:33:13):
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Speaker 3 (01:33:31):
Now here's Doug Pike.

Speaker 5 (01:33:35):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 6 (01:33:37):
We are back, and I'm going to go to the
leader board of the Valero Texas Open. It's kind of
being overshadowed right now by the weather that's coming our way,
and by the Masters, which will start next week.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
And we'll start and finished next week. Over there in
San Antonio on the tpc Oaks.

Speaker 6 (01:33:58):
Course, they're at the beautiful hyatt Man. I've stayed there
a few times, played golf there several times, and that's.

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
A nice experience. I had, true confession.

Speaker 6 (01:34:10):
I got hired by a magazine years ago to write
a story about the place, and they said, yeah, we'll
take care of accommodations for you, and I said.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
Great, I appreciate that, and he said, bring your family.

Speaker 6 (01:34:22):
So my son very young at the time, maybe four
or five years old, and my wife and I drive
over to San Antonio and we walk in and I
walk up to the registration desk and I tell the
woman my name, and when I said my name, they
knew about what time to expect me. And when I
said my name, this guy comes walking over immediately says, I'll.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
Take care of you, mister Pike. Like, oh, okay, this
is going to be different than checking in anywhere else
that I've ever been. So this guy says, I'll be
taking care of you all weekend. I'm We're happy to
have you all that stuff. He takes us up to
the room. When we open the door to the room
and I'm looking at I don't know, sixteen hundred square

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feet something like that. Got rooms, a got an automatic fireplace,
got automatic pulls on the drapes.

Speaker 6 (01:35:13):
We're up on the top floor overlooking the whole property.
It's pretty nice place. And we settled in. We thank him,
and I took good care of him. And thirty minutes
later there's a knock on the door, like, who could
this be? Maybe it's this guy coming back. Maybe we
forgot something, maybe I have to sign something. Whatever it is,

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it's fun.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
Opened the door to room service and room service. Cal
are you hearing this?

Speaker 7 (01:35:42):
You hearing this?

Speaker 14 (01:35:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
So room services at the door, you too, bruh, room
serves at the door.

Speaker 6 (01:35:49):
This guy has got in one hand a bottle of
champagne and in the other hand a tray that is
loaded with big beautiful cookies and three glasses of cold
milk and my cook cookies for my son, and the
milk for my son and me and my wife, I guess,
or champagne if we wanted it, And he said, this

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is courtesy of your.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
The guy who's taken care of you. I can't remember
his name, but that's who.

Speaker 6 (01:36:18):
That's who'd sent it up to the room for us, like,
holy cow, this is gonna be pretty fun.

Speaker 5 (01:36:22):
Indeed it was.

Speaker 6 (01:36:23):
That was and my wife to this day talks about
that as being one of her premiere hotel experiences from
being married to me. And that's I'm straight up, that's
about the only way we were gonna get that kind
of treatment.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
I don't. I don't. I'm not that fancy. I'm really not.

Speaker 6 (01:36:40):
I'm comfortable about anywhere, but comfortable there sure was different
than comfortable in a lot of places I've stayed at.

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
The other end of that spectrum. Before I get to
this leaderboard. By the way, at a beachfront resort in Texas.
It doesn't even matter what town. I don't want to.

Speaker 6 (01:36:56):
I don't want to burn them because it was a
long time ago and maybe it's better now. But I
went down there to cover something I don't remember exactly what,
and I and I was doing live broadcast down there too,
and I am my producer. That was I believe that
was Michael Connor down there. I and my producer gets
shown to our rooms. He's on the first floor. I'm

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on the second floor in what they called a.

Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
Suite, and it was it was two rooms, all right,
but the only way that the air conditioning from the
main room got into that second room they had drilled
like an eight inch hole in the wall and.

Speaker 6 (01:37:34):
Puts some like dryer vent through there to get the
cold air from Room A into Room B. And so
Connor comes up kind of complaining about how his room's
kind of rough, and I said, yeah, I've been around
mine once or twice here too, and it's not not
my favorite.

Speaker 5 (01:37:53):
Ever.

Speaker 2 (01:37:54):
I said, have a seat on that couch, and he
goes over and sits down. I was getting ready, we
were going to go do something.

Speaker 6 (01:38:00):
You play some golf, I don't know, but I said,
swatch your hand on that couch and he said why,
I said, just do it, And when he did, just
this cascade of sand comes rushing up out of the
couch and the capper on the whole thing was the
towel that was hanging in the bathroom and ready for

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me to take a shower. And I noticed some writing
on the bottom kind of toward the end of it there,
and I pulled it off the rack and I held
it up and it said pet area only.

Speaker 2 (01:38:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't go back to that hotel,
And that was actually supposed to have been one of
the finer facilities in that area of the Texas coast,
which is.

Speaker 6 (01:38:49):
Much it's much more developed now. And that's all I'm
going to tell you about where it was, because I
don't want to. I don't want to bad mouse something
that I personally know is a lot better now than
it was then. So over to the Valero, where it's
always been a fantastic experience. Every time I went over there,
it was fantastic over there. Brian Harmon just said, get

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out of my way. Brian Harmon's on a roll. I
would not count him out. Next week. Brian Harmon is
twelve under par through two rounds, four clear of Keith Mitchell,
who said, hey, I'll ride along with you for this
these Saturday and Sunday tea times.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
He's at eight under par.

Speaker 6 (01:39:31):
Sam Ryder, Matt Wallace, Rio Hitsatsuni all at seven under
par and with a good shot maybe in two rounds
of catching and potentially passing Brian Harmon. But that guy,
he's hot as a pistol. He's hot as a pistol
at six under par. Wow, this may take a minute.

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Daniel Berger, Carson Young, Emiliano Grio, Andrew Novak, Patrick ca Ant, Lay, JT. Posting,
and Twin Rosner. They're all like six under par, which
means the closest. After that, the fives are starting with
twelve people in front of them, so they're not gonna

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run off all twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:40:16):
Of those people.

Speaker 6 (01:40:16):
I don't think anybody at five is gonna get up
there and make any noise. They might pick up a
fourth or fifth place finish out of it if they
get hot for two straight days.

Speaker 2 (01:40:29):
But yeah, I got a hunch that it's either.

Speaker 6 (01:40:31):
Gonna be harming maybe Rider just on a that's a
gut gut thing I'm feeling. I don't really have anything
to back that up. He shot two over yesterday, though,
so he shot sixty three on Thursday, which may actually
may have been low round. Let me double check real
quick if I can get this thing, dude, it doesn't

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want to work. Never mind, he shot sixty three, and
I don't see anything that even remotely looks like sixty
three any farther down the leaderboard and that, so yeah,
I'm gonna go with that. Being low round on Thursday,
which means he he's got a little burr in his
saddle right now, overshooting two over yesterday, and maybe he

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will just come up and do something spectacular today to
make up for yesterday and find himself right in the
hunt going into Sunday. But this is this is Brian
Harmon's tournament to loose. There's no question about it. Brian
Harmon's tournament to loose, and I hope he doesn't. I'd
like to see him win this. I really would, I
really truly would.

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
Let me check these emails real quick, make sure I
didn't miss anything again. I know it looks like the last.

Speaker 6 (01:41:35):
Ones from faux Pro confirming the the silliness of a
new Lake record Crappie I had, Mike, that was my gut.
Oh and here, oh, here's an email I neglected earlier.
Hold On, I have to type a two word response
real quickly. There you go, and make sure I did
not misspell the person who's going to receive this. Please

(01:41:57):
please ignore the all caps.

Speaker 2 (01:41:59):
That's how I do my research and how I do
my prep is in all caps, which makes it a
lot easier on me from start to finish. As a writer,
and that's that's that.

Speaker 6 (01:42:10):
Uh seven one three two five seven ninety email on
me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. My son and
I played five holes yesterday down there in a brutal wind,
he having not played in a very long time, and
I was I was a little bit concerned for him
because the last time he played with one of his buddies,
he said he just sprayed it all over the yard,
and that's not how he was when he.

Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
Was playing for his school.

Speaker 6 (01:42:34):
So we got out there and he flared his first
tee shot pretty far to the right. I pulled mine
to the right, and we both just agreed to take
one breakfast ball since we were just right fresh out
of the parking lot. We didn't hit a single practice ball.
Both of those balls were much better. My son flew

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the green.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
It was downhill or down wind, and you know how
the wind was yesterday.

Speaker 6 (01:43:00):
My son blew his all the way off the back
of the green on number one, and then so he's
in two out three, hitting four and hits his chip shot.
He's always had good touch around the greens and still
does apparently because he hit his pitch. Actually, he's probably
twenty yards had to take it straight up and straight

(01:43:22):
down and laid it in at about three and a
half feet and made the putt for bogey.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
I also made no, actually I made a par on one.

Speaker 6 (01:43:30):
We both parted two, we both parred three, and then
we both kind of scratched our heads after hitting our
t shots on four. But he once again up and
down from the middle of nowhere with those soft hands
of his, So hats off to him.

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
Let me go catch faux pro four. We have to
go to the break here, foux pro. What's up?

Speaker 14 (01:43:52):
What's up?

Speaker 9 (01:43:53):
Buddy?

Speaker 5 (01:43:53):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
Not a four point five six pound crappy, that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (01:43:57):
Yeah, definitely fake news on that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:59):
Yeah, it's not.

Speaker 6 (01:44:01):
Worth fishing on April first, because if you do catch
a monster, nobody's.

Speaker 2 (01:44:04):
Gonna believe you.

Speaker 18 (01:44:06):
Yeah, he needs to get with being on photoshop a
little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:44:09):
Better make teen fish la grill when that small.

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
Yeah, there's a way, isn't there. Oh, I'm actually enjoyed
watching Major League fishing to day. So actually up there're
sight fishing, so they know. Oh yeah, yeah, FOURD face
and sona or doesn't work in a foot and a
half of water, does it. That's not very good.

Speaker 18 (01:44:27):
You didn't have a golf thing to share. Yeah, come
on you barrow open. Okay, just give give props to
my local legend. Eventually, I want you all to get
together a Chandler Phillips is actually yeah for thirty seventh
at my own degree.

Speaker 2 (01:44:40):
Yeah, good for him, and shot a seventy.

Speaker 5 (01:44:42):
Two the first day.

Speaker 18 (01:44:43):
But he shot a sixty nine yesterday, so he's trending
rock solid.

Speaker 5 (01:44:46):
Yeah, what is the cut?

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
What is the cutlight on that turn? Let me go see.
Hold on, I still have it up here, troll it
down down, down to minus two. So he made it. Yeah,
that's good.

Speaker 6 (01:45:02):
Yeah, he's in, man, he's in for the weekend. He's
gonna make some money. There's a bunch of twos there
he is. There's your boy right there. Good for him, man.

Speaker 18 (01:45:10):
Yeah, I think you'll be a great interview if I
could ever get you all together. As much as he
hunts duck bass fishes and golf and me, he kind
of covers everything you talk about on the show. So
hopefully one day our schedules can combine and get him on.

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
Hey, give me give me a Monday, we'll go play golf. Hey,
go play golf.

Speaker 6 (01:45:27):
You know what though he's yeah, he's gonna be teeing
off from about fifty yards behind us for us to
have a chance.

Speaker 2 (01:45:35):
Yeah, we're moving up, We're moving. I did have a
my nephew. My nephew plays on her team and they
actually made State Outstanding.

Speaker 18 (01:45:44):
But uh, the five guys on his team and they
took the top four scores and was the lowest, and
he's just so destroyed about that. So I'm hoping maybe
one day me, you, him and my nephew can get together.
My nephew son and uh, I think I think he does.
He don't have the middle, middle part of it down.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
And I know that's just like fishing.

Speaker 18 (01:46:05):
I got huge, But if you get spun out on golf,
imagine it's worse than getting spun out in fishing.

Speaker 14 (01:46:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:46:11):
Yeah, if you get If you get twisted off in
your head with golf and you start thinking too much
out on the golf course, you're done. You watch those guys,
If you watch enough golf, you'll if you go to
the tournaments, especially, you'll see these guys hit some horrible shots.
Or just go look at bloopers from the PGA Tour
and you'll see, man, they shank them, They chunk them.

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They they do everything we do, they just don't do
it so often. That's the big key right there. They
And and the other thing is they just let it
roll right off their backs. Most of those guys, if
they hit a really bad shot, they don't show a
lot of emotion because they've done it so many times.
They realize that that's just one shot. It counts just

(01:46:54):
as much as a drive, it counts just as much
as a two inch putt.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
But it's just one shot and they can make it
up on the next hole. And that's what they try
to go do.

Speaker 18 (01:47:06):
And I think another another part of his game that
might be a little bit of work. Get he gets
in some rough or some kind of trouble like that. Yeah,
in his mind he thinks he has a swing like
Tiger Woods to get out of it. Instead of taking
his normal stroke to get back into get back into play,
he's thinking he's got to wear it back, like you know,
like Mark maguire swinging out of baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:47:24):
Well, he could get it back into play. He's kind
of partly right.

Speaker 6 (01:47:27):
In certain rough you do have to give it a
little more oomph and or otherwise that club's just gonna
stick going through there, and it's gonna decelerate too much.
I'm all, man, I just jokingly think about taking a
file out and and shaving the bottom of my wedge
to a razor's edge, where if I miss it, I'm
gonna cut the golf ball in half.

Speaker 2 (01:47:49):
But it's sure makes it easier to get through that rough,
wouldn't it ain't little golf club?

Speaker 6 (01:47:54):
Yeah man, fire, oh man, well, folk, pro I gotta
go take a break, man, But it's always good to
hear from you.

Speaker 2 (01:48:02):
House fishing on Livingston, Uh, levisaid.

Speaker 18 (01:48:05):
I don't know. We went to uh we went to
my favorite gated lake yesterday and leftkin yesterday. I had
a buddy mine real quick that lives eighteen minutes from
this lake and never had a tag, so I took
him yesterday. He got only a fish till noon. Seven
and noon we caught forty and he's getting a tag monday.

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
So wow, oh man, Yeah, all right, pardon everywhere? All right,
I appreciate, Yeah, thanks, I'll see you audios. So my
buddy Forest, all right, tell Rick, just tell Rick, I'll
catch you. My eye hung up. I got to take
a little break. He'll call back. He's got something important.
I think he does.

Speaker 6 (01:48:39):
He tried to call me just a second ago while
I was talking forest Rick. Yeah, there you are, Just
sit tight, get him on the line.

Speaker 2 (01:48:46):
We'll get him. When we kept back.

Speaker 6 (01:48:47):
Rice Land Waterfowl Club out of Eagle Lake. This is
guy is owned by a guy named David Pruitt. He's
not only a champion duck caller, but he's been in
this business of helping water fowlers get more shots. Basically,
that's what he's doing, making sure you have a fun
experienced duck hunting or goose hunting. He's been doing this
for fifty years. This is his fiftieth year in business

(01:49:10):
out there in Eagle Lake. And he's got access to
properties all around there. He's got a ton of water.
All of his blinds except for one, he'll jokingly tell you,
and it's true, all of his blinds are a quarter
mile apart, except for one that some guy came out
and shot with a rangefinder and said told him to say,
hey man, this was four hundred and thirty yards, just

(01:49:31):
not a quarter mile, Like, okay, we get it. That's
the only one that's closer. The rest of them are
spread out. All of the club members, and only club
members in their guests have access to all those blinds.
He's got a great way, a system of making sure
that nobody gets favoritism in blind selection.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
He can explain all that to you when you call him.

Speaker 6 (01:49:53):
If you didn't have a great duck here last year,
you might want to think about signing up with rice
Land Waterfowl Club out of Eagle Lake, one of the
finest waterfowl operations in Texas. Great people. Ed David's a
really good guy. We had a lot of conversations. I
finally got him to sit down and talk a little business,
and I am thrilled to have him on board. Give

(01:50:14):
him a call, go to the website, whatever it takes,
start up a conversation, and see if he can't make
your hunting better next year than it was this year.

Speaker 2 (01:50:22):
He's already talking.

Speaker 6 (01:50:23):
About adding like a thousand acres of water or something
like that out there. It's crazy what he's doing, but
he's doing it for waterfowl hunters because that's who he
takes care of. Riceland Waterfowl Club dot com, Ricelandwaterfowl Club
dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:50:37):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety on the go with
iHeartRadio friends, You've got to try. The conversation continues this
as the Doug Fight Show.

Speaker 6 (01:51:11):
Nine on Sports SAW seven ninety man. The next time
I hear that song won't be the second time. I
used to listen to that all the time. I was
fascinated by keyboard players.

Speaker 2 (01:51:22):
That just all of that.

Speaker 6 (01:51:25):
There's a whole that was just a whole probably eight
or ten years where keyboards dominated even over the big
guitar guys, excepting the real heavy metal guys, heavy metal bands.

Speaker 2 (01:51:36):
Uh Reck Bice. We'll tee it up with you, then
we'll go to Martin and ten.

Speaker 14 (01:51:39):
What's up, Rick, Okay, let's tea out there. This won't
take long. I don't think he's talking about golf.

Speaker 11 (01:51:46):
I was.

Speaker 14 (01:51:47):
He was talking about the difference between hackers like you
and me and the pros. Yes, sir, and this is
a very true statement. I think this applies to the
difference between you and me and the pros.

Speaker 19 (01:52:00):
We were at a junior golf tournament my two boys
for five years apart while they had them, and they
mixed it up and they made the cut in a
pretty serious junior tournament.

Speaker 14 (01:52:13):
And they're in a foursome. But they're in the same force.
But so we're going down the faraway. Me and mom
are are following them, and my son that takes everything serious,
he hits one, he shanks one off into the woods,
and I don't can tell you he was on a
pretty big bad okay. And my other son, who doesn't

(01:52:33):
take anything, sir, serious, work serious, anything in his vocabulary,
but has more talent than the other one, we're walking
down the fairway and of course they're starting to make
eye contact. Okay, And my my son that doesn't take
anything serious, looked at his older brother and said, you know,
the key to this game is don't make too bad

(01:52:56):
shot center roads.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
Yeah, that's pretty good, pretty good, all right, yes.

Speaker 14 (01:53:01):
Sir, the difference they'll make a bad shop, but it's
pretty rare. See the pros make two in a row.

Speaker 2 (01:53:08):
They tend to.

Speaker 5 (01:53:11):
Go ahead.

Speaker 14 (01:53:12):
The other thing is, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna
pick on you. You're gonna be my guinea pig here. Okay,
this is golf related. Let's just say you and I
are playing golf and you slice one off into the woods,
and so we jump in the cart and we drive

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down there, and you are on a really you know,
a real boil you you are hot man. And then
I say to you, and I actually heard this sit
on a golf course one time. I've never heard it since.
Maybe it's been around, but I say to you, Doug,
you are not good enough to be bad.

Speaker 2 (01:53:54):
Yeah, I've heard that more than once. I've said it.

Speaker 14 (01:53:59):
I heard, yeah, ago, Yeah, it really.

Speaker 2 (01:54:03):
It kind of puts things in perspective.

Speaker 6 (01:54:05):
You know the line that I used once with somebody
who actually works here doesn't play golf anymore because he
hurt his back.

Speaker 2 (01:54:12):
But I told him, when you hit a shot like that,
and instead of doing what he did.

Speaker 6 (01:54:19):
Afterward, which was curse real loud and throw a tree
or throw his driver like over a pine tree, a
big pine tree, I said, just carry your business card
with you, and if you hit a shot like that,
grab it real quick, pull it out and look at it.
And if it doesn't say PGA Tour player under your name,
just put it back in your pocket and play on.

Speaker 2 (01:54:38):
That's that's as simple as I can make it. You know,
you got to That's all you need.

Speaker 6 (01:54:41):
Hey, thanks, Rick, that's good stuff, man, appreciate it, buddy, Yes, sir,
we'll talk again to my audios.

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
Martin you're up next. What's up, Bud?

Speaker 20 (01:54:50):
Hey, I just want to say before I get into
the golf man, goar, how about that?

Speaker 2 (01:54:56):
Yeah? Off, I believe. Don't get me the line.

Speaker 6 (01:55:03):
I get my trusty research department in there to figure
it out. They'll know in just a second.

Speaker 20 (01:55:08):
Go ahead, yeah, and announce it. I think it's around nine.

Speaker 2 (01:55:12):
Sure, Yeah, it's a late game. There we go. Yeah,
Brett just found it for us seven thirty, So don't
wait till nine. You'll miss a whole lot of seven thirty.

Speaker 12 (01:55:23):
Okay.

Speaker 20 (01:55:25):
I want to ask about the Shell Texas Children's Hospital
Houston Open.

Speaker 2 (01:55:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:55:30):
Now, admittedly I admit I don't know very much at
all about golf. I never watch it. That's okay, but
I respect it, you know, I would like to start
to learn. Sure, is there any way possible to make
this Houston Open a major PGA event equivalent to the Masters?

Speaker 11 (01:55:51):
What?

Speaker 20 (01:55:52):
What are the dynamics needed to be done to do that,
or if it's even.

Speaker 6 (01:55:57):
Possible to do that At this point in the golf
I think that would be virtually impossible because there are
there are four very well established majors, and then the
PGA Tour Championship, which was held earlier several weeks ago,
is kind of the the unofficial fifth Major already. And

(01:56:20):
once it's kind of like having great ideas. Once you
have more than two or three of them, they're not
great ideas anymore. They're just ideas. And we're not gonna
The Houston Open is not going to be elevated to
anything near a major, especially the Slott it's in right now,

(01:56:41):
two weeks before the Masters. You can't have a major
tournament two weeks before another major tournament. I don't think
that's been done before. They're usually about at least three
and usually four or five weeks apart. So as much
fun as it might be to have a major here,
the only way they could do it you make first
prize one hundred million dollars and and then then it

(01:57:04):
might get some people's attention.

Speaker 2 (01:57:06):
But the best players in the world always are.

Speaker 6 (01:57:09):
Going to go to those four majors first and then
kind of work their schedules back from those.

Speaker 20 (01:57:16):
Well, does the USAID open the infrastructure of the golf
course itself?

Speaker 8 (01:57:23):
Can that be?

Speaker 20 (01:57:24):
Do they have enough with the infrastructure golf course itself
to be a major?

Speaker 6 (01:57:29):
Just the infrastructure the golf course itself could be tricked
out a little bit more to maybe be more difficult,
to maybe be more user friendly. Uh, it's not a
horrible place to have a big golf golf tournament, but
maybe a hard place to have a major because you

(01:57:50):
still have to there. There has to be some pedigree
to a tournament before it's going to become a major.
You know, the Masters is its own thing, the the
US Open is its own thing, the Open Championship over
in Great Britain its own thing, and then later on,
well we'll play the.

Speaker 2 (01:58:11):
Gosh, my mind's bothered me right now.

Speaker 6 (01:58:14):
But the bottom line is there's really no room on
the schedule for another official major. Otherwise they just all
become five, six, seven, eight nine, big tournaments with big prizes.
And the big prize money's already out there, so it's
not gonna be money that's gonna lure these guys. Even
the more I think about it, it's just it's just

(01:58:34):
some sort of pedigree which none of the other tournaments
has just yet.

Speaker 20 (01:58:40):
Now what type of pedigree would that be?

Speaker 5 (01:58:42):
You think?

Speaker 6 (01:58:42):
I don't honestly, I don't know. I don't know what
you what you do to a tournament to suddenly make
it a major. You can't just wave a magic wand
and turn something into a major. You know, the US Open,
that's a big deal. That's a big deal. It's one
of the hardest challenges in golf, the Open champion ship
over in Great Britain, hardest challenges in golf. The Masters

(01:59:04):
Augusta not a pushover at all, A very difficult place
to play four rounds when you're walking. And so you've
got all of those things against all the other tournaments,
and somehow, Yeah, I just don't I don't know how
it would happen, Martin, I really don't. So I wish
I had an answer, and maybe somebody can email me
or talk about it elsewhere. I'm at a loss right now.

Speaker 2 (01:59:27):
I'll think about it. If I come up with something,
I'll talk about it tomorrow. I really will. That's that's
a really good question. It's a very legitimate question.

Speaker 20 (01:59:34):
Yeah, it'd be great. I mean, obviously great for the
city is using with the financial part of the commerce
and all that stuff and the economy. That'd be great, obviously.
And that's what I'm that's what I'm really looking at,
and being a prestigious, you know, major, but so so
what so the Houston Houston Open is basically just just

(01:59:57):
another tournament. It's in the US, I guess, yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:00:02):
Yeah, it's like the Valero. The Valero is the first
before the Masters.

Speaker 6 (02:00:06):
We used to have that slot and san Antonio had
it for a while, then we got it away from
san Antonio. No, san Antonio has it back. And that's
the only claim to fame we have right now is
that we're two weeks before the Masters, and this year
we happened to get the world's number one in two
and that was great. Neither one of them won it.
Scotti Scheffer made it really close. But yeah, it's just

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it's gonna be It's gonna be a while before any
tournament has any right if you'll want to call it that,
to declare itself a major, I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:00:40):
I just don't see.

Speaker 6 (02:00:41):
We don't need Honestly, golf doesn't need more majors because
every time you add something like that, it dilutes the
others and that's not what golf is going for.

Speaker 20 (02:00:51):
Well, it's at the Harris County. What are the agencies
involved that would have to be involved directly to elevate
the Houston Open even more?

Speaker 10 (02:01:05):
Uh?

Speaker 20 (02:01:05):
What agencies are would be involved to do this?

Speaker 6 (02:01:09):
The Astros Foundation is is the is running the show
right now. The City of Houston runs Memorial Park, And
those would be the first two people you'd have to
negotiate and talk to. And then the PGA Tour. The
PGA Tour is gonna just flat tell you no that
this is not gonna happen. Hey, I got to run

(02:01:30):
catch Tim. I'll bring this back up tomorrow, really, will Martin?

Speaker 20 (02:01:34):
Thank you? What time you'll come on tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (02:01:35):
I'm eight to ten tomorrow. Let's let's bring it back up.

Speaker 20 (02:01:39):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (02:01:39):
All right, See, let me get to Tim here. Tim,
what's up?

Speaker 9 (02:01:43):
Man?

Speaker 17 (02:01:44):
Hey, Doug, I got a question for you, since you're
a tactful person. These are the worst two leagues. These
are the worst two leagues to play in a golf
in the world San Antonio or the Texas opening in
the mass or if everybody wants to go play. When
you got people in front of you here playing from

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the tips and they're spraying it everywhere and you ask them, naturally,
hey can we play through. We just want to go play,
and they say no, just follow us.

Speaker 2 (02:02:18):
How do you respond if there's an open hole?

Speaker 6 (02:02:21):
In front of them, which and you'll be able to tell,
you know, if you've played enough golf, you know, if
the people in front of you are really slow and
the people in front of them are already back at
the bar, you can call the pro shop and have
them send somebody out and tell those people to either
let you through to or to play faster. And those

(02:02:43):
are the only two options they should be given. The
option isn't to slow down every tea time behind them.
It's really not, man, that's yeah, you just got a
call and kind of force their.

Speaker 14 (02:02:55):
Hand perfect, get the marshall involved.

Speaker 9 (02:02:58):
Yeah, I mean, you know, you know they're they're they're
you know, they're they're from the tips and a little
bit older than I'm a little bit older than you.
If they let me drop it at one hundred and
fifty yards, you know on every goal that's where I
play from.

Speaker 2 (02:03:14):
Sure, why not?

Speaker 10 (02:03:15):
Huh?

Speaker 14 (02:03:16):
I have no ego that golf.

Speaker 2 (02:03:19):
Is supposed to be fun.

Speaker 14 (02:03:19):
Okay, Yeah, good idea called the Marshall.

Speaker 5 (02:03:23):
Yeah out there, the Marshal. And if it's.

Speaker 2 (02:03:28):
Yea, thank you?

Speaker 9 (02:03:29):
Hey, hey, hey what one thing? Yeah, the weather's blown
the weather's blown through here.

Speaker 6 (02:03:36):
Okays, yeah, it's already gone.

Speaker 17 (02:03:40):
Yeah, it's gone. It's not going well.

Speaker 2 (02:03:43):
Now you can fishing.

Speaker 9 (02:03:46):
I wish it.

Speaker 17 (02:03:46):
I wish it one of you know where we have
some water in the rivers.

Speaker 6 (02:03:53):
But yeah, all right, man, Well thank you, Jim, I'll
see man. All right, all right, Jeff, I need you
to I need you to hold on just a second.
I promise you as soon as we get back, I'll
take care of you. On the way out, I'm gonna
tell you about Berry Hill out there in sugar Land,
Sugar Creek Boulevard at fifty nine. You can't miss it.

Speaker 2 (02:04:14):
It's on the inbound side there.

Speaker 6 (02:04:16):
It stands right out at the just as close to
the freeway as anything in that big shopping center. And
there you will find some of the best Mexican food
you'll ever eat, in a very family friendly atmosphere. It's
not pompous, it's not pretentious. It doesn't have fancy names
on stuff. But what it does have is excellent Mexican food,

(02:04:37):
traditional recipes that have been kind of tweaked over the
years by the same people working in that kitchen. There
are a couple of people in that kitchen who have
been there twelve, fifteen, twenty years, They've been there a
long time and they put out a beautifully, deliciously consistent product.
My wife is a fan of the Baja chicken tacos.

(02:05:01):
I'm kind of a seafood enchilada guy myself. With the
cream sauce, I love those. Their fish tacos are their
biggest claim to fame, really, and those are available actually,
there's kind of a deal on them on Fridays as
a matter of fact, and they are absolutely great. We
had some of those delivered here to the office along
with fajitas about a week and a half ago. Now

(02:05:23):
I can't remember exactly what day it was, but holy cow,
everything was an extreme hit and just everything they make
is delicious, up to and including the vanilla and chocolate.
You can pick whichever one you want. Trees letches, that is. I.
When I was at I kind of teased with Wendy Brooks.
I had her on the phone, the owner of the

(02:05:44):
place last week on fifty plus this past week, and
I told her when somebody asked me we were standing
around the table where the whole setup was, I said,
and I told them that I'd already eaten at Berry.

Speaker 2 (02:05:57):
Hills a thousand times.

Speaker 6 (02:05:58):
We eat my wife and I ate there at least
once a week, and they said, which is your favorite,
the chocolate or the vanilla trace letch is? I just said, yes, yes,
that's all I had to say. Berryhill dot com is
a website. If you've if you've never been there, you
walk in, you'll you'll feel at home.

Speaker 4 (02:06:15):
Man.

Speaker 6 (02:06:15):
People they'll turn around, the people at the borrow turn around,
look at you see if you're already a regular, and
then if you're not, they'll they'll welcome you over there.
Just walk up to somebody and say, hey, you mind
if I sit down. I'm brand new to this, and
nine times out of ten, maybe ninety nine times out
of one hundred.

Speaker 2 (02:06:31):
Sure, sit down. Who are you, where are you from?

Speaker 6 (02:06:33):
What are you doing here? They'll welcome me into their
little club. Or you can just go sit on the
side with the tables in the booths and enjoy your
meal a solo if you want.

Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
There'll be a sporting event on, there'll.

Speaker 6 (02:06:45):
Be a little bit of music playing, and there'll be
a lot of people there to make sure you have
a good time. Barryhill dot com is a website. Berryhill
dot com.

Speaker 1 (02:06:54):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety online at Sports seven
ninety dot com.

Speaker 3 (02:07:00):
Now there are more Doug bite.

Speaker 11 (02:07:19):
Nine.

Speaker 2 (02:07:20):
You're kind of an old rock and roll guy, clearly,
aren't you, Brett. They're not old, but you're a rock
and roll guy. I only like good things, and it
happens to be a lot of that as classical. Well
that's a very good point. Yeah, that's some of the
best music ever.

Speaker 4 (02:07:34):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:07:34):
Yeah, I like all of that. Alright. Let me get
to Jeff. Harry hung pretty much through the whole even
I think he's been on hole since Biden was in office.
What's up, Jeff?

Speaker 10 (02:07:46):
Since the beginning of your this week in military history?
And I probably just put you that I listened in.
No matter what you put out, is that Truman a
retired or a former president Truman talking about South Vietnamese
forces in va? Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:08:00):
Yeah, you Tom, I think so. I think it is.
And don't get me the line.

Speaker 6 (02:08:05):
I would have to check with Mike Bobie and he's
our imaging guy who put that together for me a
long time ago.

Speaker 2 (02:08:10):
And I love that. It really good man.

Speaker 10 (02:08:15):
As you know, Vietnam goes back way all the way
to World War Two, if you want to take it
back that far in terms of complication. Very glad to
hear it. You always you never ceased to surprise me
on what you're able to to come up. Can I
put a request in for a campaign or battle in
World War two and forty five?

Speaker 2 (02:08:33):
Yeah, let me get okay, go ahead. Northern was on,
oh okay, about what time.

Speaker 5 (02:08:44):
It would be fall It.

Speaker 10 (02:08:45):
Would be after the invasion of Lady, which was October,
so it would have been Fall of Lady was fall
of forty four, so it would have been early forty five.
And Corregator was picked up, including the golf course. And
I think we've talked about that before.

Speaker 2 (02:09:00):
Yeah, yeah, I take it.

Speaker 10 (02:09:02):
Courses right up on top.

Speaker 5 (02:09:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:09:04):
If you know anybody who who calls himself a big
supporter of our military and might be interested in supporting
these things and having them air more. I was just
telling Bread this thing can air on any station we
have in any city in the country. All anybody has
to do is pay for a sixty second spot and

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a little bit of production costs for me during the
week and for the week, and off we go.

Speaker 2 (02:09:35):
It's it's not.

Speaker 10 (02:09:36):
Listening to it when they're on. They're off hours at lunch, sure, yeah,
break time to be hearing this stuff over the speakers somewhere.

Speaker 3 (02:09:44):
Yeah, that's sure, the old hat.

Speaker 10 (02:09:45):
But this is that important.

Speaker 6 (02:09:48):
Yeah, there's a Flagpole company we have on the air,
and I've been trying desperately to get them to do something,
and I don't know, I don't know where the disconnect is,
but I think that would be a really good, good
tie in to what they're selling.

Speaker 10 (02:10:01):
Well, thank you, sir, Thank you for thinking, for thinking
so broadly about this and not doing the same same
well that everybody else is doing. That's that's been my
compliment from the beginning.

Speaker 2 (02:10:10):
I appreciate that, do man, I really do. Thank you
so much.

Speaker 10 (02:10:14):
Have a good week.

Speaker 6 (02:10:15):
And once it changes, oh yeah, afternoon about two thirty
three o'clock, it's going to look a whole lot.

Speaker 2 (02:10:20):
Better than it does now.

Speaker 6 (02:10:21):
Thank you, Thank you dot Man. Yes, sir, yeah, I'm
I'm not kidding. If and this goes, we've been talking
about this. Everybody who's on air here has been talking
about how we can help you get on the air,
help your business, and that that this week in US
military history is a great way to brand your business

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as in agreement with what we're doing and and appreciation
for what our military has done throughout history. I go
all the way back to the to the Revolutionary War
with my bits and pieces that I grab.

Speaker 2 (02:10:56):
From week to week.

Speaker 6 (02:10:58):
And if any of you you have a business that
would benefit from showing your support for our military, I'd
be happy to work with you on it.

Speaker 2 (02:11:06):
Personally. That's I'm kind of a unique.

Speaker 6 (02:11:08):
I'm a bit of a unicorn and that I can
handle my own little list of clients and you don't
have to go through anybody else in this building except
me to get from wherever you are on the air,
whether it's an endorsement campaign, whether it's commercials on any
of our stations anywhere in the country.

Speaker 2 (02:11:25):
I got a client all the way.

Speaker 6 (02:11:26):
Up in New York that I work with a lot,
and in just whatever you want you want to do
the military appreciation, I'll help you with that as well.
Just shoot me an email. It's that simple to get
the conversation started. Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot Com. We're
gonna tell you a little break here on the way out.
I'm going to tell you all about what's going on. Boy,
I'm going to be there for this too. April twenty

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sixth and twenty seven down there in Galveston at Moody Gardens.
It is the fourth annual fly Fishing Film Festival, and
I actually I can't wait to get down there. It's
gonna be so much fun, so much fun. Oh wait
a minute, is that right? Says Oh no, I'm gonna

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have to double check that date because the top of
this thing and I don't know where this came from.
The top of this thing says, Oh yeah, this is right,
April twenty six and twenty seven. I'm almost positive we're
gonna have films from all over the world. There are
actually two different film festivals, the International fly Fishing Film
Festival and the fly Fishing Film Tour. They're gonna air

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all of them. We're gonna put all of that on
that giant's green right down there at Moody Gardens. There
is there are options to stay down there and take
advantage of the whole weekend at Moody Gardens. Maybe do
a little beach time during the day, Maybe go play
golf at Moody Gardens golf course during the day, Maybe
go fishing, whatever you want to do, and then come

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in both nights to see those films.

Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
And I promise you every year I've done this. I've
done it both nights, and on the second night I
see things in those films that I totally didn't see
or didn't really appreciate the first time through.

Speaker 6 (02:13:07):
Maybe I blinked. Man, if you blink in some of
those films, you're gonna miss something really cool.

Speaker 2 (02:13:12):
It is a lot of fun.

Speaker 6 (02:13:13):
The film festival tickets are just fifteen bucks and there
are one and two night packages available.

Speaker 2 (02:13:19):
You get big discount those.

Speaker 6 (02:13:20):
Those tickets are discounted by the way, and the packages
at the Moody Garden's website. That's where you need to
go for details on this whole thing. Moodygardens dot org.
Go to Moodygardens dot org. And I really truly do
hope to see.

Speaker 2 (02:13:33):
You down there. It's gonna be a lot of fun,
as it always is.

Speaker 1 (02:13:37):
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Speaker 3 (02:13:43):
Back to the Doug Fight.

Speaker 7 (02:13:44):
Show spun the morning yesterday.

Speaker 9 (02:13:59):
Up.

Speaker 6 (02:14:00):
Oh, I got a big update here before as I
was talking about the Moody Gardens Film Festival and I
said it was in late April. I just knew something
in my gut told me that was wrong, and it
was wrong. It's the eleventh through the thirteenth. Friday, the
eleventh Film Festival gonna start up about probably about seven o'clock,

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I can't remember exactly what time we tee it up.
And then on Saturday, the twelfth, we'll have that same
two incredible sets of films. They truly are amazing. And
I just misspoke because I somehow had reached deep, deep,
deep into the archives of my paperwork here and this

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thing did not have the corrected dates on it for
some reason.

Speaker 2 (02:14:50):
I have no idea why I will be there April
eleventh through the thirteenth.

Speaker 6 (02:14:54):
I'm gonna be doing both shows, the Saturday and Sunday
shows from down there, and I truly do hope all
of you get down there.

Speaker 2 (02:15:00):
We're gonna have some good prizes to give away.

Speaker 6 (02:15:02):
There will be vendors out in the common area in
that building where that theater is, who are all interested
in conservation and in fishing and fly fishing. You can
sign up in advance for fly fishing lessons if you've
never done it, and I promise you if you take
a couple of lessons, they're just that one, just that one,

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fifteen to twenty minutes that you might spend with somebody
down there. You will you will have a whole different
way to fish opened up for you, and you'll be
instantly It's kind of like taking a golf lesson. You're
gonna be instantly better than a lot of the people
you know who have been doing it for years, just
from getting a little bit of personal instruction and learning

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how to let the tools in your hand, that rod
in your hand and the line.

Speaker 2 (02:15:52):
Do the work rather than you trying to do it.
Especially for guys, we're so hard headed.

Speaker 6 (02:15:58):
And all of the instructors I know will tell you
straight up that women are better students than men when
it comes to fly fishing because they'll actually listen to
what they're being told to do, and then they'll do
that and it'll come to them very easily, you and
me and most every other guy in the world. First
couple of times they're told, I just take it easy,

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just relax, just let the rod do the work for you.
You take the rod back, don't bend your wrists, just
very easy and smooth motion. And they're out there cracking
that thing like a bull whip, and it's throwing these
big figure eight weird old loops and hanging things in trees,

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and boy, you'll just make a mess of things pretty
quick if you try to teach yourself how to fly fish.

Speaker 2 (02:16:45):
I had a very good friend years ago.

Speaker 6 (02:16:48):
He was more of a golfer than a fisherman, and
one time I went over there to fish where he
was working, and he had his fly rod out. He
told me to yeah, bring the fly rid man, they're
eating up on top right now. We can throw bugs
and catch some pretty good baths.

Speaker 9 (02:17:02):
And I did.

Speaker 6 (02:17:03):
And as I walked over there, I was watching him
and he looked like he was trying to beat a
team of oxen into plowing the field.

Speaker 2 (02:17:11):
He's just backing boom and backing boom, and the line's
going everywhere. I said, man, doing any good? Uh No,
not really. I don't know. It's just I don't know.
They're not eating right now.

Speaker 6 (02:17:22):
And I'd had some instruction from some very good coaches,
a couple of them actually, and knew I had a
little bit better idea than clearly than he who was
self taught new And it made all the difference in
the world. I could just lay that little flyers or
it just laid it into a little spot and let
it land like a butterfly with sore feet. And then

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then when I got into saltwater fly fishing, I realized
I had to throw it a lot further and it
made a lot of difference. But I still I took
the same the same lessons with me into that, and
just just have to amp it up just a little
a little bit. And fly fishing goes a long way
if you get that rhythm right and get that rod
working for you.

Speaker 2 (02:18:03):
So join us down there, take a little fly fishing lesson.

Speaker 6 (02:18:06):
You can pre schedule that early on't gonna cost you anything,
I don't think. Just get a few minutes with somebody
to let them help you figure it out, and then
join us for those films. And by the way, when
you're in there, when you're in that theater, don't be
scared to make noise. Last year, the first night Friday night,
there were a lot of this going little golf collaps.

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Oh yeah, just the most amazing footage you've ever seen.
And nobody's going wow, nobody's going Holy Macro, look at that.
Nobody's ooing and eyeing.

Speaker 2 (02:18:37):
Feel free.

Speaker 6 (02:18:38):
You don't have to be quiet in there, And I
don't make a fool of yourself. There is that cash
bar after all, and don't over and bibe and be
the guy we have.

Speaker 2 (02:18:47):
To drag out of there. But man, if you see
something awesome, fish wise.

Speaker 9 (02:18:51):
Go after it.

Speaker 6 (02:18:52):
Holy cow, already, man, you're running out of me early,
you're running me out of here.

Speaker 16 (02:18:57):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (02:18:57):
All right, here's the deal. I will be back tomorrow
morning at eight o'clock. We'll do it all over again,
eight eight to ten a under much better weather circumstances.
I am sure everybody kind of hunk her down this
afternoon until about.

Speaker 6 (02:19:08):
Three, and then peek outside and see if that sounds
not trying to come out again.

Speaker 2 (02:19:13):
I'll be back tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (02:19:14):
All of you.

Speaker 6 (02:19:15):
If you're going outside today, be careful. If you're gonna
be on the road, be super careful. And however, whenever,
wherever you get the chance, get outside and have some
fun with your family. Okay, nice, safe fun, whatever it is.
Don't yell at people at other boats either. We'll talk
more tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:19:31):
That'll do it. I'll see it then, Audios